A small abandoned temple in Luoyanfeng, West Mountain, Quanzhou, has become a temporary base camp for special fighters. Lin Feng led all the special soldiers lurking from the mountain path to "temporary office" here.

At noon on the 20th, Lin Feng, who hadn't closed his eyes much for two days, was cheering up and sorting out the information from the special forces from everywhere:

The garrisons of Quanzhou Xiagong and Shaxiang are about 10,000 people;

The number of defenders of the four gates of Quanzhou has been determined, and they are all about 5,000 people;

The defenders of Zhangzhou and other places closed the city gates, and there was no sign of rescuing Quanzhou......

Lin Feng took out a piece of paper, on which was the military intelligence of Quanzhou confirmed by Kang Renjie, Zhang Jiao and the special soldiers who arrived in the early stage: the total number of troops in Quanzhou is 75,000, of which 60,000 are in the north and south camps, 10,000 troops in Quanzhou City are left in Quanzhou City under direct command, and there are 5,000 garrisons in other places.

Now, removing the known defenders of Quanzhou in various places, there should be 10,000 guards in Quanzhou City, and the guards on the city wall within a radius of nearly 20 miles will not be less than 6,000 people, so in this way, the number of defenders in Quanzhou City should not exceed 4,000.

Lin Feng thought about it for a while, and ordered again and again:

The elite of each army intensified their attacks on the periphery of Quanzhang, divided into small groups and took turns to attack, without interruption or rest until the ugly hour (one o'clock) in the early morning; At the same time, the attacking troops must carry leaflets and scatter them inside the enemy camps.

All elite troops, before three o'clock in the early hours of tomorrow morning, must rush to the west gate of Quanzhou City;

Urgently contact the Chutang joint fleet, order the fleet to attack in the direction of Quanzhou day and night, if necessary, to rush the beach and grab land, and be sure to entangle the defenders of Xiagong and Shaxiang;

Urgently contact the Jianzhou army in Nan'an, attack the city day and night, and strive to break through the city before midnight and kill under the city of Quanzhou.

Zhao Tianba, Zhao Zanting, Zhao Chengyu, Zheng Yucong and other special soldiers who were originally from the guards of Zheng Wangfu have turned into heralds and have been ordered to come out.

Looking at the small temple that had become a little empty, Lin Feng sighed in his heart, if it was in the era of telegraphs and telephones in later generations, it would definitely be much easier to coordinate operations, but in this era of closed information and poor communication, the probability of accidental factors being affected was too great, and it was really impossible to control how likely these orders could be fully conveyed and executed!

What Lin Feng didn't know was that there were more or less accidental factors on several battlefields involved in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which caused unpredictable changes in the situation on the battlefield:

In the Guiguan area, Ma Jiwei, who detected the news of the invasion of the Southern Han army in time, immediately transmitted the news to the chiefs of the various ethnic groups of the Yihan Alliance, asking them to immediately gather the elite soldiers of all ethnic groups and prepare to fight to the death with the Southern Han army. However, as of noon on 18 March, the overall number of ethnic minority soldiers who had arrived in various places was relatively small, which had little impact on the overall war situation, and Ma Jiwei had no choice but to lead all the defenders of Guizhou to rush to Hezhou, and at the same time, he ordered all the supporting soldiers to reorganize the army in Zhaozhou and be ready to support Hezhou at any time.

In Wuyue Hangzhou Bay, the situation has also changed:

Qian Yuanjun's eleventh son, Qian Hongyi, the envoy of Zhendong Jiedu, had a deputy general named Qian Yun who led troops to garrison Wanghai Town, which was just halfway between Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan Islands.

A few days ago, Qian Yun received a report from the patrol soldiers, saying that he had found a large number of Chutang warships quietly leaving the sea overnight and heading south. Qian Yun was not convinced, and for several days, he sent a small boat at night, loaded sailors with outstanding water characteristics, and secretly sneaked to the gathering place of Chu and Tang warships to conduct reconnaissance, and after repeated confirmation, he found that there were really only more than 100 enemy warships left, and immediately reported the situation to Hangzhou, Xifu.

Wu Cheng insisted that we should take advantage of the enemy's ships to divide the troops, and when the enemy and us were evenly matched, a decisive battle at sea should be carried out to break the passive situation as soon as possible; Yuan Dezhao still insists on being safe, and now there is no further military information from all over the country, so he should insist on waiting and seeing, besides, what if it is a trap for Chu Tang to lure his own side to attack?

Wu Cheng was annoyed and yelled in the court: "Wait and see what happens!" Watch and see what happens! When it really changes, it will be too late to regret it! The enemy ships are divided into troops to the south, what if it is a joint Jianzhou army to attack our Fuzhou? What if it was a sneak attack on Quanzhou? If there is an accident in one of these two places, I, Wu Yue, will be completely surrounded by Li Tang, and the country will be in danger from now on! ”

Yuan Dezhao is already sixty-one years old, two years older than Wu Cheng, and he was yelled at by Wu Cheng like this, he couldn't hang up, and said angrily: "If Fuzhou and Quanzhou are easy to get down, I, Wu Yue, will not own Fuzhou, and the Qingyuan Army will not be de facto independent!" Soldiers, treacherous ways, can't be arranged by imagination! ”

Wu Cheng was so angry that he stomped his foot fiercely, and roared in a louder voice: "Li Tang is ambitious, and his plans must be big, and he will definitely win this trip to the new land of Chu!" In the past, would we believe that Li Tang could subdue Chu Di within four months? But the hard facts are in front of us, and we can't help but believe it! Now, Chu Tang has joined forces, and with people like Lin Feng who don't play cards according to common sense, they can no longer look at Li Tang with the old eyes of a few years ago! Don't be three days, you should be impressed! ”

Yuande Zhaoping Suri is known for his wit and changeability, and when he heard Wu Yue's words at this time, he suddenly calmed down, and after a deep groan, he said loudly: "Wu Xiang's words are reasonable, and Dezhao admires!" Li Tang did have a few more Chu warships, but I don't believe that their infantry will make much progress, not to mention, the most elite soldiers of their various armies have already been singled out to participate in what competition, the old man thinks that it is better to first go west and then east, first real and then virtual and then real, and attack in a series to break Chu Tang's victory! ”

Subsequently, Yuan Dezhao explained his plan to break the enemy, Wu Cheng and other ministers were impressed, and Wu Yue immediately reached a consensus and acted quickly.

These battlefield changes are far away, and they have little impact on the situation in Quanzhou for the time being, but the battlefield changes that follow are not trivial - the infantry army of 10,000 soldiers stationed in the north of Dehua in Quanzhou is commanded by Su Guanghai, who is one of the 25 dead soldiers who stayed with Chen Hongjin to capture Quanzhou City, and the deputy commander of the infantry army is Chen Hongjin's son Chen Wenshan, both of whom are known for their bravery and ruthlessness in the Quanzhou army, especially Chen Wenshan, who has often participated in the special training organized by Kang Renjie since last year. They became more vicious.

When they learned that Dachun County in the rear had fallen, they immediately arranged for the soldiers of the Beida Battalion to be stationed in Dehua to prevent the Jianzhou Army from attacking them from the north and south. But what they didn't expect was that the Jianzhou army actually ignored them and went all the way east to Yongchun, and the two immediately felt that something was wrong.

On the evening of 20 March, after Su Guanghai, who had been on the front line for two consecutive days to observe, returned, he secretly summoned Chen Wenshan and other senior generals to the camp tent for secret discussions.

Su Guanghai pointed to the north and said in a cold voice: "Since the beginning of this battle, I have always had a doubt, the Xiaotang Jianzhou Army does not exceed 30,000 soldiers every day, why can Lu divide Fuzhou and my Quanzhou this time, and each road is claimed to be 30,000 people?" Our spies had not previously found any signs of Xiao Tang's transfer of forbidden troops from Jinling, nor of Jianzhou's transfer of troops from neighboring Xinzhou (present-day Shangrao, Jiangxi), Zhaowujun (present-day Fuzhou, Jiangxi), and Tingzhou (present-day Changting, Fujian).

In addition, in the past few days against us, the 20,000 enemy soldiers in the north have the upper hand, and they have not taken the initiative to attack, which is even more puzzling. After several days of observation, I found that there were very few soldiers who went out of the camp on the opposite side to practice, and a large number of soldiers never seemed to leave the camp. ”

Chen Wenshan immediately jumped up, rubbed his palms and shouted: "Then we will swear to fight tomorrow, annihilate the other party, and then return to Quanzhou to help!" ”

Su Guanghai glanced at Chen Wenshan inadvertently, shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate." There were many changes in the decisive battle with the enemy in the north, and the situation in Quanzhou was already very critical. My idea is that we should withdraw our troops from the border now, and urgently withdraw from the city of Dehua. Then, led 5,000 troops to the south overnight, the soldiers were divided into two roads, of which 3,000 people killed Nan'an, raided the Tang soldiers who were attacking the city overnight, and after defeating the enemy, they swore to defend the city, blocking the retreat of the Jianzhou army, and the other road was obliquely inserted under the city of Quanzhou along the mountain path, guarding the envoy! ”

Chen Wenshan immediately shouted excitedly: "There shouldn't be anything going on under Quanzhou City, I want to lead the army to raid Nan'an!" ”

Su Guanghai secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and responded: "Then I will take people straight to Quanzhou to protect the envoy!" ”

The plan was agreed, and the crowd immediately dispersed and prepared for action.