The lieutenant surnamed Liu, who was guarding the north city gate, had long been familiar with the Kang family's convoy, and greeted Kang Renjie warmly: "Instructor Kang, you want to send supplies to the Peking University camp again!?" When will you also help those of us who are poor guards of the city gates? ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, it will be delivered tomorrow!" Kang Renjie jumped off the horse, casually agreed, and uncovered the wooden box on the first car, revealing the neatly stacked pastries inside, and said politely, "General Lao Liu checked!" ”

Liu Duwei was overjoyed, and immediately waved his hand to let him go, and said in his mouth: "On behalf of my brothers, I am Instructor Xie Lu Xie Kang!" What are you checking, I can still trust Instructor Kang and Kang Zhonghai Kang Dashan?! Let's go, let's go! ”

In the past six months or so, Kang Renjie has ignored any miscellaneous matters, just concentrated on leading the team to train the elite troops of the Peking University Battalion, and has won more trust and respect with his hard work, and his status in the Kang family in Quanzhou has also increased dramatically. After entering mid-February, Kang Renjie found the patriarch Kang Zhonghai and proposed that the Kang family had now caught up with a good opportunity, and if they wanted to go to the next level, they must have a good relationship with the Quanzhou army. Kang Zhonghai came forward and united several gentry to continue to carry out a consolation operation, sending some supplies to the northern and southern camps every once in a while. Kang Renjie often set off with these cars to the barracks, so he naturally became familiar with the guards at the north and south gates.

The team went for half an hour, and Kang Renjie rushed back with the family members pushing the empty carts, and there were more than 20 more fierce soldiers behind the team.

Liu Duwei looked at several dark-faced men in the team curiously, Kang Renjie grabbed Liu Duwei's hand, pulled it aside, and revealed softly: "General Chen sent me and these Beidaying brothers to enter the city for a confidential matter, don't ask more." ”

Liu Duwei nodded again and again, waved his hand and let him go.

After Kang Renjie led the team to leave the city gate for a distance, he ordered the family members to leave on their own. Seeing that there was no one left and right, Zhang Jiao, dressed as a peasant woman, rushed over from the back of the team, led these brothers disguised as Quanzhou soldiers to hurry a few distances, turned into an alley, and came to a house. After knocking five times in a row, Luo Yufeng, a special soldier dressed as a maid, appeared behind the door with a pretty face and led a group of people in.

Ge Chang, who was the leader, tore off the white military uniform of Quanzhou, said hello to the special brothers who arrived in the early stage, turned to Kang Renjie and said with a smile: "Kang Da Xiucai, you are not bad in Quanzhou, you can eat very well!" ”

One hundred and ten elite special soldiers had rushed to the mountains west of Quanzhou City three days ago to hide, waiting for Zhang Jiao and Kang Renjie to introduce them into the city every day, and Ge Chang was the fourth group of people to enter the city.

Kang Renzhuo grimaced and said, "Alas, I envy your great achievements even more!" Besides, these relationships are basically laid out with money, and I have to let Lord Lin compensate for the losses of my Kang family when I go back! ”

Ge Chang laughed happily, revealing his white teeth: "Don't worry, haven't you found out that our Lord Lin is actually also a God of Wealth?" Wherever he goes, money will be sent to the door, and you will definitely not be missing! Lord Lin specifically said before he came, your treatment for this period of time is the same as that of us desperate soldiers, and I will make up for you exactly what I will do! By the way, is this Quanzhou City usually inspected so strictly? ”

Kang Renjie shook his head and said: "No, after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a group of vicious pirates appeared on the sea in the northeast corner of Quanzhou, robbing boats, killing people and setting fire to Wuyue and Quanzhou. Liucongxiao has already sent a number of ships to patrol the sea, and has also stationed troops in five cities and towns along the coast that can be berthed. ”

Ge Chang didn't point out that these pirates were Lin Feng's foreshadowing, and asked, "How many troops have you sent?" ”

"Not much, only about 500 people per place." Kang Renjie replied while leading everyone around the house.

"Okay, hard work Brother Kang! Sixteen brothers have not yet arrived, bring them in as soon as possible! In the future, we will not be able to see each other unless necessary! Ge Chang looked through the piles of clothes, bedding and food in the room, and commanded with satisfaction. The house was originally an old house where the Kang family in Quanzhou had not lived for a long time, and Kang Renjie asked for it privately, and these materials were secretly accumulated by Kang Renjie and Zhang Jiao in the past half a year.

"Yes!" Kang Renjie glanced at Zhang Jiao, who was chatting with Luo Yufeng and Zhang Hongling, and turned to leave.

At noon on March 4, the Southern Tang Dynasty's declaration of war was sent to Wu Yue's national capital, Hangzhou, the western province, and the unexpected battle that fell from the sky immediately made Wu Yue's court noisy.

As one of the Ten Kingdoms, Wu Yue Kingdom can also be regarded as a rare paradise in this era.

The founder of Wu Yueguo was Qian Biao, who was known as a scoundrel in the township when he was young, and once worked as a "glorious smuggler of salt"; After being recruited as a soldier, a partial general gradually took charge of the army of a state, because he successfully eliminated Liu Hanhong, Xue Lang, Dong Chang and other divisions, thus occupying the land of Liangzhejiang. In the second year of Tang Zhaozong Tianfu (902 AD), he was named the king of Yue. In 904 A.D., he was renamed King Wu. When Zhu Wen established Houliang, he was named the king of Wuyue. After the Later Tang Dynasty destroyed the Liang, Qian Biao was a vassal to the Later Tang Dynasty, and not only got the title of King Wuyue and Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses, but also got the golden seal of the jade book to show his favor. With this name, Wu Yue can be regarded as effectively defending against the intrusion of the surrounding separatist forces.

In the third year of Changxing in the Later Tang Dynasty (932 AD), the eighty-one-year-old Qian Bi died, and his seventh son, the 45-year-old Qian Yuanjun, took over; Ten years after the reign of Qian Yuanjun, his sixth son, only 14-year-old Qian Hongzuo took over his father's class in the sixth year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty (941 AD), but only six years later, that is, in the fourth year of Kaiyun (947 AD) died of illness, however, it was also during this period of time, because of the capture of Fuzhou in Fujian, Wu Yue's territory reached its peak, under the jurisdiction of 13 states, that is, occupied today's Zhejiang Province, southwest Jiangsu, northeast Fujian.

Later, Qian Yuanjun's seventh son, 18-year-old Qian Hongliang, took over his brother's class. He was even more unlucky, only half a year after his reign, the internal government unified the army to make Hu Jinsi launch a coup d'état, and helped Qian Yuanjun's ninth son, also 18-year-old Qian Hongyu, to ascend to the throne. In history, Qian Hongyu successfully ended the short-lived king's anger of the two elder brothers and became the last king of Wu Yueguo. In the second year of Taizong Taiping's rejuvenation of the Song Dynasty (978), Qian Hongyu was ordered to enter Bianliang, was detained, and had to sacrifice his own territory to the Song Dynasty, and was successively named the king of Huaihai, the king of Hannan, the king of Nanyang, the king of Xu, and the king of Deng. On his sixtieth birthday in 988, Song Taizong sent an envoy to congratulate him, and Qian Yu died violently that night.

Hearing the sudden attack of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Cheng and Yuan Dezhao, the two major ministers of Wu Yue, led the two groups of courtiers to argue for a long time, and finally came to a basic judgment: the strength of the Chu and Tang naval forces exceeded their own, and their main attack direction could only be by sea, and the early attack by land could only be countermeasured, but if the enemy made progress at sea, the land route would probably change from a virtual attack to a real attack.

In response to this, Wu Yue Chaotang formulated a set of coping strategies:

Yan replied to the Southern Tang Dynasty, reprimanded this unjust war, and demanded that the Southern Tang Dynasty immediately rein in the precipice and stop repairing the army;

sent an envoy to rush to the Zhou State from the water, asking Guo Wei to uphold justice and prevent the Southern Tang from sending troops; At the same time, the secret sent an envoy to the south of the Qingyuan army, asking to stay in Congxiao to send troops to help;

At the same time, the whole territory of Wuyue carried out a general mobilization for the war, urgently ordered the five armies of Zhongwu, Zhenhai, Wusheng, Jinghai, and Zhangwu to be on alert, send soldiers and horses, guard the border, and report the battle situation at any time;

More than 300 warships were mobilized from all over the country, and a small number were set aside to garrison Chongming Island in the north and Jingjun (Zhiwenzhou) and Zhangwu Army (Zhifuzhou) in the south, and nearly 200 ships were stationed in Hangzhou Bay to prevent enemy ships from raiding Xifu and Dongfu (Zhiyue Prefecture, now Shaoxing, Zhejiang)......

After the government made a decision, Qian Hongyu, who believed in both Buddhism and Taoism, led the important ministers of the court to run to the West Lake, threw a silver slip into the West Lake water, and prayed sincerely for the peace of the country and the people, the wind and rain, and by the way, the Southern Tang army returned in vain.

On March 6, when Wu Yueguo's rescue documents were handed to Quanzhou, the Qing Yuan Army, Liu Congxiao was receiving the messenger from the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yan was full of emotion, and reprimanded Liucong, as a minister of the Tang Dynasty, who must act in accordance with the will of the Tang Dynasty, and dared to assign a soldier to cross the border of Quanzhou, and blame the Tang Dynasty for not being polite!

Liu Congxiao did not dare to have the slightest look of disobedience to this Geng Zhong old man, and comforted him with kind words, patted his chest and said that he would definitely obey the will of the Tang Dynasty, and instructed his subordinates to prepare a lot of precious gifts, and personally sent the old man out of the city to return to the will.

As soon as he got out of the city gate, Xiao Yan saw the gifts that had been sent, and he was immediately furious, beat all these things under the horse, and scolded angrily and walked away.

After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion with an embarrassed face, he split several pieces of furniture in a row, and only then did his anger subside for a while, and convened an emergency military meeting of the important civil and military generals of Quanzhang and Changzhou.

Early in the morning of March 7, the civil and military forces of the Qingyuan Army gathered in the study room of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The people present were silent, and quietly read the documents of the Southern Tang Dynasty asking for Wu Yuwen and Wu Yue's request for soldiers, and Chen Hongjin, the deputy commander in charge of the Beida Battalion, couldn't help but scold: "Isn't Xiao Tang Li Jing just lucky to get Chu Land?" Watch his tail wagging to the sky! It seems that he has forgotten the pain of the fiasco in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. With the 30,000 elite soldiers of my Beida battalion, Xiao Tang dares to enter my Quanzhou, and they will be defeated again! ”

"You can't say that. I look at the measures of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Chudi, and the more I look at it, the more frightened I become. The fact that the Southern Tang Dynasty can accept the land of a country without damaging its vitality is really not to be underestimated. And Wu Yue responded to the battle in a hurry, this battle is not easy to say! Zhang Hansi stroked his beard and shook his head and said.

Liucongyuan, who served as the assassin of Zhangzhou, glanced at his brother who was frowning, and said uncertainly: "Recently, there are many things that I can't understand. Why was the Northern Han able to easily take Zhouzhi Jinzhou? Why would the Southern Tang Dynasty suddenly attack Wu Yue? Could it be that there is something hidden behind this? ”

Staying with this wish, the topic of controversy in the study immediately focused on the true intention of the Southern Tang Dynasty to send troops to Wu Yue.

At this time, Kang Renjie, who had been sitting in the corner, suddenly said: "Leave the envoy, the subordinates have something unclear. Why didn't the Jianzhou Army, which was closest to Fuzhou, move? According to the vassals, I am afraid that the focus of this war will be Fuzhou! ”

Everyone looked at the special forces instructor who had defected from the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Hongjin raised his eyebrows, and was about to refute, but was stopped by Liu Congxiao by raising his hand, and motioned for Kang Renjie to continue.

Kang Renjie got up and saluted, and said in a loud voice: "The subordinates have been with the forest thief for a while, and they found that this person is extremely cunning and good at concealing his true intentions. The subordinates speculated that Xiao Tang's attack on the entire territory of Wuyue by land and water was all a pretense, which was to cover up his true strategic intentions - Fuzhou! ”

Kang Renjie approached the map on the wall of the study, pointed to the location of Fuzhou, and continued to explain: "If the purpose of the forest thief is Fuzhou, Xiao Tang's military arrangement is very easy to understand.

According to the vassals, the Tang and Chu joint naval forces will sweep all the way from north to south, and finally reach the sea off Fuzhou; Xiao Tang's land attack was also all a false move, only Chen Xu's Jianzhou army was a real move, they would gather the elites from all over the country who came to participate in the big competition, and rushed to attack Fuzhou by land, striving for a land and water attack, and taking Fuzhou in one fell swoop. The subordinates even suspected that the pirates operating in the northeast of Quanzhou were all dressed as Xiao Tang soldiers, and they were Lin Feng's secret sons, intending to attract the troops scattered in Fuzhou! ”

Kang Renjie's judgment suddenly woke up all the people in the room.

Kang Renjie's palm covered the position of Fuzhou, and then further explained: "If Xiao Tang uses all his strength to obtain Fuzhou in one fell swoop, it will completely turn its southwest coast into a live chess move and firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield!" The north can surround Wuyue, and the south can encircle my Quanzhang, and advance and retreat calmly. One south and one north will be dangerous! This is the opinion of the subordinates, and it will provoke you in vain! Kang Renjie said in a sonorous tone.

After Kang Renjie finished speaking, he thought about it for a long time before he ordered all the two places in Quanzhang to be under martial law, and the whole army to actively prepare for war and wait and see the changes on the battlefield.