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On the night of the 19th, Cao Ziang and Zhou Tong led the main force of Chaishan soldiers and horses into the territory of Lishan, and the Lishan guard Luo Wenhu surrendered, and the general Zhou Gou ran to Suizhou at night to deceive the ......

That night, Sun Zhuang led the main force of the Third Brigade of the Cavalry Battalion to run past the southern foot of Baiyun Mountain in the south of Suixian.

Five or six thousand people, seven or eight thousand horses rushed to the aid of Fancheng, and it was urgent to rush to the west, such a huge and rapid march naturally shocked the big weir slope at the southern foot of Baiyun Mountain, and the chickens and dogs of the villages in Junchuan jumped up.

Sun Zhuang also didn't have time to send scouts and scouts to block the channel between Baiyun Mountain, and the northern slope of Baiyun Mountain was close to Suizhou City, and it was the central area controlled by the Suizhou Army.

That night, the news about the passage of a large force of cavalry from Baiyun Mountain, from the Shannan Zhuzhai letter cavalry have been transmitted into Suizhou City, but Zhuzhai did not dare to send people close to visit, only said that the scale of the cavalry is very large, but how many soldiers and horses cross the border, the saying is very different, no village can be specific.

It is said that tens of thousands of cavalry crossed the border, and there are words that one or two thousand cavalry crossed the border, so that Ma Zhen, Luo Xianyi and other civil and military leaders assigned by Luo Xiancheng to stay in Suizhou City are difficult to distinguish.

Ma Zhen, Luo Xianyi and others who stayed in Suizhou, although they were suspicious of Wang Xiang, but they couldn't imagine that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of unknown origin would suddenly appear in the hinterland of Suizhou, on the one hand, they sent people to Liulin at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain to report to Luo Xiancheng, on the other hand, they sent people to Tiemen Mountain, Huangpi, Shicheng and Fancheng to ask if there was a large force of soldiers and horses who had not notified Suizhou and crossed the border from Suizhou. asked Lishan Luo Wenhu to send troops and horses to Chaishan to reconnoiter and be vigilant against Chaishan's movements, but he didn't expect that Luo Wenhu had descended to Huaidong at this time, and he didn't expect that Luo Wenhu's troops would ask for help in the future to trick them out of the city......

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On the night of the 19th, the messenger of Xiangyang crossed the Han River and entered the stone city.

At that time, the night was still light, and Su Tingzhan had not yet gone to bed, but had a private banquet and drinking with Suo Chengdong, the cavalry general sent by Ye Ji Luorong to Shicheng, and also found a few beautiful women from the brothel camp to accompany the banquet.

Suo Chengdong is a native of Yandong Hu, born in Suo Sui Luo, and the Emperor of Heaven changed the Han surname of Suo Sui Luo to Suo.

As the most important support point after the defense line in eastern Hubei Province, Shicheng not only undertakes the heavy task of transporting grain and grass to Huangpi, Hanjin and Tiemen Mountain, but also the second line of defense after Huangpi, Hanjin and Tiemen Mountain.

In Shicheng, Su Tingzhan was the main general, with 8,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 sailors; Suo Chengdong was the deputy general, and there were 5,000 cavalry stationed in Shicheng.

The messenger from Xiangyang entered the city, saying that Fancheng had been attacked, Su Tingzhan was so shocked that he was in a cold sweat, the wine glass in his hand slipped to the ground, and the officials and generals who accompanied the banquet were startled.

Suo Chengdong's beard is curled, and there are several scars between the horizontal flesh on his face, he is a brave general who fought on the battlefield - Su Tingzhan was so shocked that Suo Chengdong saw that he was not suppering in his eyes, and said secretly: Prince Mu called Su Tingzhan a wise general, and called three or five thousand attacking soldiers to be scared of chaos, how can he be worthy of such praise?

Suo Chengdong said: "I said that thieves can't be relied on, but Prince Mu is not guarded, and this mess is born at this juncture......"

Yanhu conquered and established the country, still martial and brave, and there was no strict hierarchy among the generals of his own clan, so if Suo Chengdong and these generals were dissatisfied with Ye Ji Luorong and other prince-level princes and ministers, they would also say it quite casually, without too many taboos.

Suo Chengdong obviously agreed with the judgment of Azige, Shen Haobo and others in Xiangyang, thinking that some of Luo Xiancheng's subordinates secretly defected to Huaidong, so that Huaidong had the opportunity to send three to five thousand elite soldiers to infiltrate the hinterland of Jingxiang to sneak into their grain routes.

The cities of Nanzhang, Zhongyi, Jingmen, Changlin, Dangyang, and Yiling, which were occupied on the west bank of the Han River, have been relatively intact in farming and farming over the years, and have not been seriously damaged, while Hu Wenmu's field work in the peripheral areas of Jingzhou before the war was not very thorough, relying on local expropriation and looting, as well as grain stocks in Jingmen and Xiangyang, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses besieging Jingzhou can still support for a period of time, and will not immediately fall into a desperate situation of running out of grain because of the fall of Fancheng.

But for Shicheng and the Eastern Hubei Defense Line supported by Shicheng, it is very fatal - Shicheng is responsible for transporting grain to Huangpi and Hanjin, and Shicheng's grain and grass are directly transported from Fancheng by Han water.

In particular, Hao Wenzhuang led the Shicheng reinforcements to build the Baita River defense line between Huangpi and Hanjin, confronted the Huaidong Army, and strengthened the grain and grass consumption of the eastern Hubei defense line, so that the grain and grass transported from Shicheng to Huangpi and Hanjin were lost and eaten. Now there are 110,000 soldiers and horses between Huangpi and Hanjin, and the grain storage is only enough to support ten days, and there are more than 30,000 stone grain and grass left in Shicheng that have not been transported over, and the grain and grass reserves from Huangpi, Hanjin to Shicheng are only enough for half a month on the whole......

In this case, for the generals of Shicheng, the decision to make is very clear: one is to send people to ask Ye Ji Luorong for help, so that the west bank of the Han River can temporarily transfer a batch of grain and grass to Hanjin and Huangpi through Changlin, so as not to run out of grain in the eastern Hubei defense line, and the other is to immediately send reinforcements to reinforce Xiangfan, recapture Fancheng, and restore the grain route.

If it were just three or five thousand strange soldiers from Huaidong sneaking in and trying to cut off the grain road, the problem would not be serious.

Due to the sectional grain transportation method under the auspices of Shen Lan, the grain was stored in many cities between the grain roads, rather than concentrated in Fancheng, and Fancheng was carelessly lost, as long as it was recaptured in time, it would not cause major problems.

In addition, Ye Ji Luorong could take Jingzhou with more effort on the west bank of the Han River, and Hu Wenmu cleared the fields on the periphery of Jingzhou before the war, but there was plenty of grain and grass in Jingzhou City, as long as Jingzhou City was taken, two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses on both sides of the Han River could still support it for another two or three months - Suo Chengdong was not particularly nervous about the careless loss of Fancheng.

Su Tingzhan thought more deeply than Suo Chengdong, he thought that when Luwenzhuang crossed the Han River into Shicheng, he suspected that Lin Lianqin led the main force of the Huaidong Army to attack Huangpi with the intention of luring the soldiers and horses of Shicheng to the south, thinking of this, a chill from Su Tingzhan's back went straight up from the tail spine: things will never be as simple as three or five thousand ambush soldiers.

Su Tingzhan was frightened and panicked, but after all, he was a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and he regained his composure after a while, seeing that Suo Chengdong had a disdain and contempt in his eyes, he knew that he didn't think so deeply - Su Tingzhan wanted to say the doubts in his heart, but after thinking about it, he no longer explained in detail to Suo Chengdong, and only said: "Prince Mu must have a decision in Jingzhou, but when Prince Mu's military order comes to Shicheng, it will inevitably be delayed for a day, and when the day dawns, General Suo will lead three thousand cavalry to aid Fancheng first, and I will wait for further instructions from Prince Mu in Shicheng, General Suo thinks this arrangement is good? ”

Shicheng has 15,000 water infantry troops and cavalry, but Shicheng is the most important support point after the defense line in eastern Hubei, and it also has the effect of blocking the second line of defense.

Su Tingzhan sent Suo Chengdong to lead three thousand cavalry first, he stayed in Shicheng to wait for further instructions, there was no problem with this disposition, Suo Chengdong had no opinion, and thought: Although Su Tingzhan was a little out of shape just now, the disposition was not bad, and said: "Chengdong is ...... ordered."

"General Suo, after you lead the reinforcements to Fancheng, don't rush to approach the city," Su Tingzhan said, "Xiangyang will ask for help, not only to Shicheng, Jingmen, Nanyang, and Wuyang will send reinforcements over." At this time, although I don't know how many reinforcements they sent, most of them range from thousands, and if they attack Fancheng separately, it is easy to attack the enemy separately, so after General Suo enters the periphery of Fancheng, he must join up with other reinforcements and General Azig's troops and horses in Xiangyang, and then attack Fancheng......"

Su Tingzhan was serious about this, Suo Chengdong thought for a while, nodded and responded: "Lao Suo, I listen to General Su!" If you are not at ease, send me an overseer. ”

"This is not necessarily," Su Tingzhan said, "It's about the safety of the grain road, and it's not good to be in a hurry, and I can't help but say a few more words." After briefly discussing the matter of reinforcements with Suo Chengdong, Su Tingzhan urgently sent his cronies to Huangpi on a fast horse overnight to report to Haowenzhuang.

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In order to quickly deliver the news, no one spared a few horses to run and die on the road, whether it was Xinye, Nanyang, Wuyang in the north, or Jingmen, Shicheng in the south or the camp outside Jingzhou, the news obtained on the night of the 19th was still that 5,000 Huaidong troops attacked Fancheng and Fancheng carelessly fell......

Since the Xinqi from Xiangyang to Jingzhou did not need to cross the Han River, Ye Ji Luorong was almost at the same time as Su Tingzhan to know the news of the fall of Fancheng.

Ye Ji Luorong's vigilance against Huaidong and Lin Jian naturally did not have the luxury Wenzhuang and Su Tingzhan who had suffered enough from Huaidong over the years, and Fancheng was attacked and carelessly lost. In order to calm the morale of the army, when he summoned Zhou Fan, Tian Chang and other generals to discuss the matter, he even deliberately weakened the current bad situation in Fancheng, in addition to sending messengers to Jingmen, Shicheng and other places to send reinforcements to support Xiangfan, he also asked Zhou Fan and Tian Chang to capture Jingzhou within three days - in his opinion, as long as Jingzhou is taken, Fancheng will be careless for a while, and it will not have much impact on the overall situation.

However, when the news of the fall of Fancheng reached the Xiongjiagang camp set up by Haowenzhuang in the north of Huangpi in the early morning of the 20th, Haowenzhuang was paralyzed and his face was like ashes......