Just when Zhu Tongjing was showing off his might in front of the Empress Dowager He, Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses were taking advantage of the night to continue to rush in the direction of Jinling, in the starry moon, it was the darkest time of the night, Zhu Tongjing rode on a horse, and all he could see in front of him was the winding firelight, which was more than 20,000 cavalry led by him.

At this speed, it will take less than eight hours to reach Jinling. But Su Tingxia's march was ready to stop, because until now, he had not received any news that Han Jian had sent troops to cross the river, and as for why Han Jian had stopped his plan to march into the army, there was actually no news to him, and by this time, he seemed to have cut off contact with Yangzhou City.

The closer he was to Yangzhou City, the more Su Tingxia could feel the pressure on his head, Su Tingxia didn't want to rebel, but he knew that if he couldn't win his most basic power now, after the world was calm, he would be a useless chess piece. He couldn't be an extremely human minister like Lin Zhan, because he was a pawn that Han Jian called when he was in danger, and he would only be entrusted with a heavy task when Han Jian was unavailable.

Su Tingxia is the latest to rise among the commanders with heavy troops in Jiangdu, he gradually rose in the two battles against Xianbei, for which he would rather endure the world's scolding of him, and bear the charge of Han Jian's "war to feed the war" to plunder the people, and even after the battle against the West Palace, he was forced to hand over the military power and live idly in Luoyang City...... At that time, Han Jian still needed him, because at that time, Han Jian's enemies were still Xianbei people, Yuzhou, and Southern Dynasty people, but now that Yuzhou and Xianbei have been leveled one after another, and even the Southern Dynasty people have become history, then his career as a horse will come to an end, and Han Jian will take every defense against him and will find an opportunity to kill him.

Rather than waiting until the birds are exhausted, it is better to start in advance.

In the First World War against the South Korea. Su Tingxia twice disobeyed Han Jian's strategic deployment, and at the same time recruited soldiers and horses in Chu and Jiang and Jiangxi, in order to form soldiers and horses that could compete with the main force of the Chinese army in the Northern Dynasties. What he wants to fight for is not a head-on battle with Han Jian, what he wants is for Han Jian to give him enough authority to go south. Even if he is allowed to be the king of Lingnan, he doesn't want to fall deeper and deeper into the quagmire of Jinling City.

He thought that after Han Jian learned the news of his unauthorized transfer of troops to Jinling, he would understand his position, and would send him to the south, and no longer let him participate in the battle around Jinling City. But now it seems. Han Jian seems to have other plans in his heart, or Han Jian is more determined to get rid of him, and he can't wait for the end of this war.

Finally, on the fourth watch, Su Tingxia ordered soldiers and horses to be stationed.

At this time, the cavalry he led was less than a hundred miles away from Jinling City. With the speed of the light cavalry he trained, he could reach Jinling City in three hours, and if Han Jian launched a battle to cross the river, it would not be possible for him to complete it completely unprepared. He's going to do it. It is after dawn that fortifications are built on the ground. I'm waiting to see this good show of the battle of Yangzhou crossing the river. If Han Jian didn't issue a warrant for the transfer of troops, he wouldn't leave easily, and if Han Jian really wanted to force him to rebel, he would not hesitate to rebel, because in this world, he was the only person he once cared about. Now he doesn't even remember.

Lin Xiaoshu is now Han Jian's concubine and has a son for Han Jian. Su Tingxia is a person who can afford to let go, even if he had some feelings for Lin Xiaoshu at the beginning, but now. He didn't feel anything in his heart anymore.

In the early hours of the morning, when Zhu Tongjing was still enjoying the treatment of an emperor in the fat powder pile, Shan Lin hurriedly passed in the military report he had obtained.

Zhu Tongjing suddenly woke up after hearing the news, and at this time, the Empress Dowager He, who was humiliated by him last night, just wore her palace clothes and knelt on the bed and shivered.

Zhu Tongjing has lost interest in this old woman, he just wants to let the Empress Dowager He watch in front of the bed, so that she can know what is here and there. But when he learned that Su Tingxia's light cavalry had arrived in Jinling City a day earlier than he expected, he still did not maintain the "demeanor" he maintained in front of the Empress Dowager He.

Zhu Tongjing hurriedly got up and got dressed, he wanted to go back to the main hall of the palace overnight, and gather his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

Although the news came from Jiangbei before that Han Jian did temporarily cancel the plan to cross the river because of Su Tingxia's rapid advance, it was difficult to guarantee that Su Tingxia would not be connected with the soldiers and horses in Jiangbei, if this was the case, Jinling City would be besieged on all sides. There is an army of Han Jianyu in the north of the river, a generation of Suzhou in the east of Jinling City, and there are soldiers and horses led by Zhang Xing personally from the sea, and the south of Jinling City is the headquarters of Sima. Now with the addition of Su Tingxia's department in the west of Jinling City, Zhu Tongjing feels that he has completely lost his strategic initiative, and can only retreat to Jinling City, a bit of a resignation.

But in Yangzhou City at this time, it was far from being as calm as Su Tingxia and Zhu Tongjing imagined.

Externally, Han Jian still stayed in Yangzhou City, but Han Jian secretly marched two days in advance, and did not cross the Yangtze River from Yangzhou to the south, but chose Jingjiang, which is closer to the mouth of the Yangtze River. Han Jian took advantage of the fact that he had dispatched troops and horses to cross the river after nightfall two days ago, and he actually concealed the eyeliner of Jinling City, because Su Tingxia's rapid advance lacked intelligence support, and even Su Tingxia did not expect that Han Jian would come to hide from the world.

After Han Jian, Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er also crossed the river with the boat, Han Jian's soldiers and horses immediately began to advance in the direction of Suzhou. At the same time as the soldiers and horses, there was also grain and grass transported from the north, and Han Jian's Chinese army camp was also moved from Yangzhou to Suzhou, and from Jiangbei to Jiangnan.

Zhang Xing was the generalissimo of Jiangdu, he was very experienced in marching and fighting, after Zhang Xing's troops conquered Suzhou, Zhang Xing strengthened the city many times, which was also in line with Han Jian's mind.

With the arrival of the soldiers and horses led by Han Jianqin, the soldiers and horses in Suzhou now are equivalent to inserting into the throat of Zhu Tongjing's territory, making Zhu Tongjing unable to advance or retreat.

Originally, Zhu Tongjing also had the land of Jiangjiang as the rear, even if he lost Jinling City, he could still use the Jiangjiang region as a backing to deal with the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, it was Zhu Tongjing who played with fire and set himself on fire, and gave Jiang Jiangxi to Su Tingxia, thinking that Su Tingxia could "rebel", so that Su Tingxia led the troops to fight with the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty in Yangzhou City, and both were defeated.

But Zhu Tongjing ignored a problem. Even if Su Tingxia's main force of soldiers and horses are all from the Northern Dynasties, most of them are soldiers and horses around Luoyang and Jiangdu, even if Su Tingxia has a high prestige in the army, he does not dare to talk about rebellion easily. Because the generals that Su Tingxia can rely on are also generals under the Northern Dynasty system, at such a time when he uses troops against the south. Su Tingxia also knew that rebellion was tantamount to self-destruction, so Su Tingxia led his troops into Jinling City in order to get an order, so that he could smoothly move his troops south, and achieve his ambition of separating one side and becoming the king of the local domain.

However, Zhu Tongjing lost Jiang and Jiangxi because of this, which made the magistrates and guards of various parts of the Southern Dynasty lose confidence in him.

On October 25, two days after Han Jian arrived in Suzhou City, the news of Han Jian's people in Suzhou became known.

Zhu Tongjing and Su Tingxia were both a little caught off guard.

On the contrary, the most calm is Sima Yu, who is in Guangde. Sima Yi initially learned that Su Tingxia had transferred troops without authorization. It seems that he has sensed the end of this generation of heroes. Although the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty were invincible, the more so, the more Su Tingxia felt that the lower his role in the Northern Dynasty system was, and the greater the possibility of being liquidated after the war.

Sima Yi learned that Han Jian had canceled the wave of troops to the south on the surface, but Han Jian would never stay in Yangzhou and wait for death, after analyzing all the results. thinks that the best way for Han Jian to choose to deal with it is to ignore Su Tingxia's department. At the same time, Lin Zhan's troops were ordered to quickly send troops from Shuzhong to take over the Chu land and Jiangjiang generation occupied by Su Tingxia's department, and about two months later, Su Tingxia did not dare to stay around Jinling City for a long time without receiving any order to transfer troops, and was forced to withdraw to Jiangjiang. At that time, Han Jian could send troops to Jinling City from the two directions of Yangzhou and Suzhou to complete the siege of Jinling City.

As for Han Jian's arrival in Suzhou, in Sima Yi's initial opinion, it was unnecessary, but since it was because of Su Tingxia's unauthorized troops. Turn a blitzkrieg into a protracted war, and the Jiangdu soldiers and horses in Suzhou will feel that they are abandoned, and for a long time, the heart of the soldiers will be more and more serious, and it is easy for him Sima or Zhu Tongjing to take advantage of the situation, but if Han Jian personally goes to Suzhou to take charge, the situation is completely different, and the soldiers and horses in Suzhou will feel that they are the emperor's personal followers, and they will also fight bloodily on the battlefield.

The soldiers and horses of Jiangdu in Yangzhou City will feel that since the emperor has crossed the river to the south, this war is imperative, and they themselves are not far from Jiangdu, so they can better defend the defense line of Yangzhou City.

Han Jian used himself as a fixed army stone, and Han Jian could have stayed in the rear, but Han Jian chose to go to Suzhou in person, which was the most ingenious step for Han Jian to use troops in the Battle of Jinling.

It's a pity that Su Tingxia and Zhu Tongjing both realized it later, Han Jian was completely secretly marching, and it was only after Han Jian arrived in Suzhou and deliberately released the news that Su Tingxia and Zhu Tongjing came to their senses. At this time, Su Tingxia was already on his back, he thought about the fact that Han Jian did not issue him a warrant to transfer troops before, and also secretly marched without him, it seemed that he had already seen through all his thoughts, and now he only had two choices, either to go to Suzhou City in person to "ask for guilt" to Han Jian, or immediately withdraw his troops back to Jiangjiang, otherwise after Lin Zhan returned to take over the land of Chu and Jiangjiang, the results of the war that belonged to him before would also be obtained by Lin Zhan. After he was worthless, Han Jian would eradicate him without mercy.

When Su Tingxia was still thinking about whether to withdraw his troops, at this time Han Jian had already found someone to pack up his "palace", he entered Suzhou City, and did not live in Suzhou Taishou Mansion, because in the previous war, Zhang Xing used artillery against Suzhou, and Yangzhou Taishou Mansion was seriously damaged, and even many places in the city were on fire. Han Jian rarely came to Jiangnan, and the place where he lived was the garden residence of a large family in the city who had fled south, and Han Jian was also able to feel the delicacy of Jiangnan in Suzhou City with peace of mind in the two months before the New Year.

Han Jian is preparing to transfer his naval army into Taihu Lake, so that the entire area around Taihu Lake will form a position that can be attacked, retreated and defended, even if Zhu Tongjing has a million troops and blocks Taihu Lake and even occupies Suzhou City, Han Jian can quickly withdraw to Yangzhou. Han Jian was completely complacent in Suzhou City, because he had completely gained the upper hand before this battle was fought.

Isn't Su Tingxia willing to transfer troops without authorization? Look at me ignoring you, what can you do, you have the ability to use your 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jinling City, even if you conquer it? What you rely on is the supply of grain and grass from Chu and Jiangjiang, but as long as you don't dare to rebel under the banner, Lin Zhan will take the banner of the generalissimo of the Wei Dynasty to receive Chu and Jiangjiang, you will have no way at all.

Han Jian suddenly entered Suzhou City, in fact, even the people in Suzhou did not expect it.

Before Zhang Xing led his troops to attack the city, he first used artillery, and after entering the city, he drove the defenders in the city to the west gate and drove them out of the city, and even the people fled a lot. The rest of the people were even asked to hand over their grain deposits, and every household thought that it would be a great disaster.

But what followed was a steady stream of grain sent to Suzhou by the Northern Dynasties, and the soldiers and horses left by Zhang Xing outside the city also urged to harvest autumn grain, and soon the people in the city received feedback according to the grain paid by each household before, which made the people in the city feel very surprised. And now, even the emperor of the Northern Dynasty has personally entered the city, and even made two public appearances, saying that he would set up a palace to reassure the people in the city.

The people of Suzhou City have been accustomed to the rapid replacement of power around Jinling City, they wanted to hide in their homes, no matter who is in power, as long as they obediently obey the people, but the arrival of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty this time, they feel as if the sky is different from before, the people who led the troops in the past are trying their best to exploit the people, and now these Northern Dynasty soldiers who have entered the city, not only have not had a single incident of robbery and murder, but even when they want to build the city defense, they took out a large amount of cash, food, and materials in exchange for the manual labor of the people. This is very different from the previous days when soldiers went directly to every house to arrest them.

After Han Jian entered the city, the city of Suzhou actually "opened the market" normally, the materials that initially opened the market were all military materials, it was Han Jian who felt that it was useless for the people to have money in their hands, and it was best to let the money in the hands of the people be exchanged for real things, and the materials sold in the city were very cheap. Subsequently, Han Jian allowed the east gate of Suzhou City to be opened in a short period of time, opening the city gate for an hour a day, and also allowed local materials to be transported to Suzhou City, which was even more puzzling.

Although this will allow the lives of the people of Suzhou to gradually return to normal, when the war is going on, it will also cause many small works to fish in troubled waters and sneak into the city. (To be continued.) )