In September, the situation of the Jianghuai generation was suddenly grim, Yangzhou City was trapped by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the north, and Han Jian personally led the soldiers and horses to besiege but not attack, which was exactly the same as the situation when Su Tingxia attacked Jiangling City before.

If it is changed to any war, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army for a long time, but the soldiers and horses led by Han Jian are basically the children of Jiangdu, and they have an almost blind loyalty to the Dongwangfu.

When Zhu Tongjing swept the old department of King Hui around Jinling City, he was still very cunning, and sent an envoy to "talk about peace" with Han Jian, Zhu Tongjing said that he wanted to support Xiao Su, the king of Minxiang of the Southern Dynasty, as the emperor, but in fact, this King of Minxiang was not orthodox of the royal family of the Southern Dynasty at all, and he had nothing to do with Xiao Zhan's eight poles, and even the title of King Minxiang was cut six years ago.

Zhu Tongjing seemed to be helpless in the face of politics, but whether it was Han Jian, Sima Yi, or some people with a heart, they all knew that Zhu Tongjing actually held the Empress Dowager He and Emperor Min in his hands, and he could show his trump card at any time.

Han Jian chose to avoid the envoys sent by the Southern Dynasties, and the envoys would cross the river and go north almost every day, saying that they were here to talk about something, but in fact, they also knew about the situation in the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties. When these envoys found that the Northern Dynasty army was quite neat, and even the large machinery for the siege had been arranged, even besieging the city without attacking, they themselves were surprised, and Han Jian did not detain these people, they could go back to Jinling City to report to Zhu Tongjing.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out. Han Jian was still calm, because Han Jian was still waiting. He was waiting for Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses to march from Chu to Jiangjiang, and then from Jiangjiang and Jiangxi down the river to the direction of Jinling City.

Han Jian gave Zhu Tongjing the periphery of Jinling City, making Zhu Tongjing the target of the political struggle in the Southern Dynasties. But in fact, Han Jian used the method of encroachment, first attacked Chu and Shu, and then used warships to carry landing soldiers and horses from Suzhou to the west, and at the same time cut off the three grain and grass supply places of the Southern Dynasty, whether it was Zhu Tongjing, or Xiao Yang and Xiao Ling, who were at the end of the road, they could only rely on the only grain and grass to maintain the operation of soldiers and horses.

The army did not move the grain and grass first, and Han Jian's biggest concern in the First World War against the South was the supply of grain, grass and materials, after several years of war. In the past, Han Jian let Su Tingxia's subordinates have the power to feed the war with war, and now Han Jian is preparing the whole army to feed the war with war, but he can't make things too obvious, so he simply stirs up the internal disputes in the Southern Dynasty first, and even uses warships to help Zhu Tongjing, who is a "thief", so that the Southern Dynasty falls into strife. Then send troops to march from the three grain and grass heavy areas of Shudi, Chu and Jiangnan Fish and Rice Township, and grab the grain and grass before the autumn harvest.

This is also the reason why Han Jian has been slow to move his troops. Han Jian is most afraid of the Southern Dynasty coming to a strong wall, in the case of the lack of grain and grass in the Northern Dynasty, this kind of war is the longest time to drag on, when there is chaos in the Southern Dynasty, even if Zhu Tongjing realizes that he may be robbed of grain by the north, he can only collect the soldiers and horses of the imperial court first. There is no time to take care of the safety of the grain and grass production areas.

As for Sima Yi in Xuding City, as well as the empress Xiao Zhan who arrived in Xuding, and even King Hui, who was about to arrive, they had no time to take care of themselves, and they were beyond the reach of the troops from all walks of life in the Northern Dynasties. If so, just before the autumn harvest of the Southern Dynasties, the mighty Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses were killed at this time, and the grain was still immature in the fields, and the army that came to kill was either the Su Tingxia Division, which was known for its fierceness, or the generalissimo of the Northern Dynasties, Lin Zhan, who was known for its offensive and defensive capabilities, or the naval troops and warships carrying new artillery from the sea, and the local defenders of the Southern Dynasties either shrank and did not dare to come out, or simply surrendered the city, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight at all.

This made the grain all over the mountains and fields become the bag of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty.

Han Jian has very high requirements for this war to feed the war, that is, he must not go to the localities to grab grain in the name of the army, and if he needs to collect the grain, he must wait for the people to collect it, and then "pay" it from the hands of the people.

The people of the Northern Dynasty were neatly organized, and the people of the Southern Dynasty were exploited by corrupt officials and the court in order to seek partial peace, and now they were coerced by the army of the Northern Dynasties, and they could only admit that they still had enough rations to hand over the grain that should be handed over, which was the lesser of two evils, and the people were all for their lives, and they paid for the grain.

After the beginning of the autumn harvest in early September, the grain from all parts of the Southern Dynasties began to flow northward, Han Jian had more than 40,000 people transferred from Yuzhou to the south, and at the same time, plus the local people of Chu who were requisitioned, a total of more than 100,000 people transported grain for the Northern Dynasties, after the grain was harvested, it was directly used by Su Tingxia and Lin Zhan, and the surplus part was transported to the north, across the river and transported to Jiangling City, at this time the soldiers and horses of Han Cui's and Han Zhao's clans stationed in Jiangling City were mainly responsible for escorting grain and grass, transferring grain and grass to Yangzhou in the east, or transferring them north to Beiguan, Solve the dilemma of lack of food and grass for the army of the Northern Dynasties.

On the ninth day of September, Xiao Ling, the king of Hui, who had been in charge of the military and political power of the Southern Dynasty, arrived in Xuding City with more than 100 followers and personally entered the city to meet the empress. Once King Hui said nothing in the court, the power of the empress was hollowed out, but after arriving in Xu Dingcheng, the situation reversed, and the empress fully controlled the military power with the support of Sima Yi and Sun Lin and Li Fangwei.

Sima Yu knew that the truth of the long delay will be defeated, and now the surrounding area of Jinling City is gradually leveled by Zhu Tongjing, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty patronize and grab grain, and have no intention of fighting head-on with Zhu Tongjing's department, Sima Yu realized that this is the best opportunity for a counterattack, if the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty get enough grain and grass, the loss of Yangzhou City is only a matter of time, in the case of a large number of warships and troop carriers, the Northern Dynasty wants to cross the river without much effort, and so on after the Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses defeat Zhu Tongjing's department to capture Jinling City, even if he Sima Yu has the ability, It was no match for the hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened armies of the Northern Dynasties.

At present, there is only taking advantage of Zhu Tongjing's unstable foothold. Before the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties launched a substantial attack on Yangzhou and Jinling, they marched north with their soldiers and horses and fought to the end with Zhu Tongjing on the Jinling line, which was the most crucial condition for the Northern and Southern Dynasties to continue to oppose each other.

On September 16, after nearly a month of preparation, Xiao Zhan, the empress in Xuding City, personally issued a proclamation. He said that he wanted to "drive the expedition in person", with King Hui leading the troops as the vanguard, Sima Yi as the generalissimo of the Qi Dynasty's soldiers and horses, Sun Lin and Li Fangwei as the generals, and at the same time sending out three soldiers and horses to defeat the rebel Zhu Tongjing. Xiao Zhan claimed in the report that there were 300,000 troops sent this time, but in fact, the soldiers and horses from the surrounding counties contacted by Xu Dingcheng and Sima Yi before were less than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Three hundred thousand is a completely imaginary number.

After Sima Yi sent troops from Xu Ding, he did not immediately send his troops and horses north, but first stabilized the rear of Fujian and Zhejiang. Sending people from all walks of life to collect the remnants of the defeated army in Fujian and Zhejiang, Sima also realized that just relying on the "300,000 horses" declared to the outside world, let alone competing with the army of the Northern Dynasties, even if he fought against Zhu Tongjing, there was no chance of winning. At present, there are two signboards of the empress and the king of Hui, and it is also the best opportunity to gather the local garrisons in Lingnan and Fujian and Zhejiang.

Just three days after Xu Dingcheng launched the Northern Expedition of King Qin. On September 19, Xiao Su, the king of Minxiang in Jinling City, held an enthronement ceremony in the palace, announcing that the name of the Southern Dynasty would be changed to Long'an, and Zhu Tongjing would be the national teacher and general in charge of the government. Only then did the people of the world know that Xiao Jie, the former king of Minxiang, had died three years ago, and Xiao Su, the king of Minxian County, who ascended the throne as the emperor at this time, was still a fourteen-year-old boy. In the final analysis, he is also a "child emperor", and the power of the Southern Dynasty court still falls into the hands of Zhu Tongjing.

Zhu Tongjing is still sending troops to collect the local military power of Jinling and Jiangjiang, and he is also integrating people. After all, Zhu Tongjing only had less than 20,000 troops in the Linjiang Wang's department when he was in Jiangjiang at the beginning, and by the end of September, he had gathered people from all walks of life. The number of people and horses in Zhu Tongjing's department has exceeded 150,000, but most of them are scattered places with soldiers and horses on their backs, and they are still doing their own thing, only nominally obeying the "imperial court", that is, Xiao Su's "pseudo-imperial court".

In the absence of external interference, Sima borrowed half a month to expand the original less than 10,000 soldiers and horses to 30,000 soldiers and horses. Originally, after another month or two, Sima Yi could mobilize more than 50,000 or even 70,000 or even 780,000 soldiers and horses, but Sima Yi realized that if he didn't hurry up and send troops north, he didn't have to wait for Zhu Tongjing to send troops south, and the army of the Northern Dynasty would already be coming.

With 30,000 soldiers and horses, Sima Yi was already very content, and if he fought with Zhu Tongjing, there would be insufficient soldiers and horses, and he could only replenish the troops from the Northern Expedition.

So at the end of September, after a short period of adjustment, Sima's soldiers and horses began to move north.

On September 29, Han Jian was still in the army camp outside Yangzhou. Han Jian's way of stationing troops is no stranger to many people, what Han Jian likes to do is to give people a maze, and the troops will be sent quickly, but the soldiers and horses will seem to be very procrastinated in the middle, when everyone thinks that Han Jian is unintentionally in love, there will always be an amazing outbreak.

In the battle against Xianbei, Han Jian used the same routine. At that time, Han Jian's personal expedition was very decisive, but on the way to the north was not only slow, but also closed the city after arriving at Beichuan City, and even called it sick, as a result, a few days later, Jiangdu's soldiers and horses captured Yuzhou City, and then Han Jian continued to lead his troops north, and the two cavalry of the Xianbei Left Khan and the Right Khan launched a fierce battle, and finally ended in a complete victory.

Han Jian can be said to have the best cards in his hand, but he is not in a hurry, but waits and sees.

Originally, in Han Jian's plan, if Zhu Tongjing captured Jinling, after Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhan died, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty plundered the grain and grass from the south at the fastest speed, and then sent troops to attack Jinling from Chu and Yangzhou.

But the current situation is different, after Zhu Tongjing captured Jinling, he let Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhan escape at the same time, Sima Yi also rose from the troubled times and became the right-hand man of Xiao Zhan, the empress, Zhu Tongjing did not pity the emperor to come out and ascend the throne again, the empress Xiao Zhan and Huiwang Xiao Ling are still alive, even if Han Jian captures Jinling City, the Southern Dynasties can still unite under the political system with Xiao Zhan as the core, and this war still has to drag on, which is not what Han Jian wants to see.

Originally, Han Jian was not in a hurry, but now that the internal fighting in the Southern Dynasty has just begun, Han Jian is even less anxious, Han Jian hates to let Sima Yi and Zhu Tongjing fight for three hundred rounds before he makes a move, as for Sima Yi's worries about the Northern Dynasty's soldiers and horses going south, it is limited to Chu and Shu. At least Han Jian was in Yangzhou, and he was not prepared to lead the troops to cross the river to the south immediately.

On the evening of 29 September, Han Jian met with Da Nishiyanagi, who had just returned from the front line, and learned some specific information about Jiangnan.

Zhang Xing's own naval division has occupied the entire river, and there are still some naval forces in the Southern Dynasties, which have been disintegrated by Zhang Xing with the power of thunder, and the landing soldiers and horses in the naval army have also plundered the rich land around Taihu Lake under the condition of occupying Suzhou. Zhu Tongjing was in Jinling, and in the face of the looting of the Northern Dynasty's soldiers and horses under his nose, he didn't see it directly, at this time, Zhu Tongjing's whole mind was on how to compete with the empress's descendants led by Sima Yi, and the Northern Dynasty army was selectively ignored.

After Han Jian saw Daxiliu, he sent a letter to Chu and Shu that night, and explained to Su Tingxia and Lin Zhan, the commanders of the two soldiers and horses, mainly in terms of measures to calm the people, because this time it is to unify the rivers and mountains to establish an immortal dynasty, if the measures to calm the people are not done well, even if the city is occupied, the local people's hearts are still unstable, and the empress of the Southern Dynasty is still there, and the people of the Southern Dynasty are eager for the Xiao Dynasty, which is extremely unfavorable in the war.

Su Tingxia's department can be said to have not encountered much difficulty in Chudi, Su Tingxia was originally fighting to raise the war, the city either surrendered, or could not hold out, even if it was a closed city, Su Tingxia did not have the heart to attack, but first handed over the grain from Chudi, and where his department passed, the place was silent.

However, Lin Zhan's attack on Shu encountered difficulties.

It is difficult for Shu Dao to go to the blue sky, even if Lin Zhan has the support of the naval army, he is still struggling on the way to attack the country of abundance. (To be continued.) )