On the ninth day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Jingtai, Zhang Ting, the deputy envoy of the Huaiyou Right Army, led the Ninth Army of the Huai Right Left Army, the First Army of the Huai Right Right Army, and the Second Army of the Huai Right Right Army to land on the shore of Huaishui in the north of Zhaoyi.

On September 11, he entered Yongyang.

On September 13, under the leadership of He Guozhen, the Ninth Army of the Huaiyou Left Army and the Second Army of the Huaihe Right Right Army entered the Qingliu City of Chuzhou Prefecture.

On September 16, the rear battalion of the Second Army of the Huaiyou Right Army was stationed in Quanjiao, announcing that the entire Chuzhou would be under the jurisdiction of the Huaiyou.

When Qin Heng stepped into the big tent with the Hundred Killing Dragon Slayer Knife on his shoulder, he felt that the atmosphere was a little different.

Lin Ru and Sun Dao were there, these two guys had a strange face, and the atmosphere in the big tent was a little stagnant.

"Big brother?" Qin Heng was a little apprehensive.

Today's battle has not made much progress, that Xu Wenzhi is really powerful, the arrangement of troops is virtual and real, so that he has also suffered a lot, and finally climbed the city tower, never thought that the other party would sneak out of the water gate, and cut his commando into two sections, if it wasn't for his quick reaction and proper response, I am afraid that even I may not be able to come back today.

"Sit down, did you miss again?" Qin Quan was expressionless, his bald cheeks were accompanied by an indifferent voice, more like a dried corpse sitting there.

"Uh, eldest brother, that Xu Wenzhi is really powerful, worthy of being the first general under Li Yu, he really feels like a god with soldiers, seeing that he has already broken into the city, and a certain person here has also arranged people to intercept him, but I didn't expect this guy to hide a group of people and horses from the water gate, which caught us off guard,"

didn't have much of the heart to listen to his brother's explanation, of course Qin Quan knew that Xu Wenzhi was not so easy to deal with, if it weren't for that, how could Li Yu let Xu Wenqi take Shanyang City?

It's been more than half a year, and this is the third round of the siege of Shanyang City, but it has always been difficult to win in Shanyang City.

Xuyi City has been taken, there is no longer a barrier to the west, and Yancheng fell into his hands three months ago, the entire Haizhou Yanchen is already surnamed Qin, and the entire Chuyang land, Li Yu is already a little unable to resist his own offensive, but this cannot satisfy Qin Quan.

Shanyang City can't take it, like a needle pierced in the heart, but Gaoyou City is under the full protection of the Yangzhou Navy, and Gaoyou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it can't be done, which is like another needle pierced into his waist, making him extremely uncomfortable.

The fools of Baishuitang, Fanliang Lake, and Baima Lake kept saying that it would be easy to cut off the Cao Canal, but what was the result? The Yangzhou Navy Army had already fought more than 10 battles, but it was never able to gain the upper hand.

Their own men and horses have already hit the first line of Tianchang and Lingting in Yangzhou, but Shanyang and Gaoyou are like two nails that have always been nailed to the deadly waterway of Caoqu, and these two nails are connected by Caoqu, and they become a sharp light Lu, which can be cut horizontally from left to right at any time, so that people dare not move forward again.

"Yan Shun, what do you think?"

"Quan Shuai, even if Heng Shuai breaks into the city today, it will not help, maybe the loss will be greater, Shanyang's difficulty is not that its city walls are solid, nor is it that Xu Wenzhi has many generals and generals, and uses soldiers like gods, but that we have no grave to cut off the supply of its grain and grass and people and horses, Cao Qu is continuous, Gao You is not restrained, we never want to lay down Shanyang!"

Everyone's eyes were like torches looking at the thin old man standing next to the desk, and the cup, shame, and resentment looked like they wanted to roast the old man, but the old man was not afraid.

"I said a long time ago that we can't fight Shanyang, and we don't need to fight Shanyang, unless we have the absolute ability to cut off the Cao Canal, but if Li Yu and Jiang Feng collude, we can also supply Shanyang through Huaishui!"

"But Jiang Feng can't supply Li Yu!" Sun Dao retorted.

"Yes, it is impossible for Jiang Feng to supply Shanyang, but the people of Baishuitang and Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake are not capable of cutting off the Cao Canal at all, the Yangzhou Navy is not as weak as we imagined, and the people of Baishuitang, Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake are not as strong as we predicted or they boasted!"

Sun Dao had nothing to say in a word.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the water bandits in Baishuitang plus Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake had thousands of people and horses, and there were a lot of boats, and the strength of these bandits was not weak, because Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake were connected to the Cao Canal, and they were also very familiar with the situation of the Cao Canal, so everyone was very confident.

They even personally "inspected", several water bandit leaders are all masters of the Heavenly Realm, and the water nature is even more outstanding, even some middle-level leaders have the strength to approach the Heavenly Realm, and the mobilization ability is also very strong, intercepting a canal that is not too wide is not a problem, but it is not the case when they actually engage in battle.

Whether it is in terms of organization and discipline, or in terms of tactics on waterways, or in terms of command ability, the combined water bandits are obviously incomparable with the regular water army such as the Yangzhou Water Army.

Especially in the tactical offensive, the Yangzhou naval army showed a lot of superiority in the level advancement, formation conversion, and weapon use on the Cao Canal, so in several battles, although the water bandits were able to rely on the advantages of ships and personnel to gain the upper hand, but as the war advanced, it would gradually turn to the downwind and eventually lose.

Fortunately, the Yangzhou Navy also seems to know that it is too expensive to kill these water bandits, and every time it is based on the principle of breaking and repelling, it is safe to paralyze themselves, so the water bandits can maintain their strength, but such battles have been fought for many times, which also made Qin Quan and Sun Dao gradually lose confidence.

From the very beginning, the old man clearly expressed his opposition to the capture of Shanyang, and also to Qin Quan's idea of taking Chuzhou as the base of the righteous army, thinking that the righteous army took advantage of the opportunity of the great war between Li Yu and Yang Pu to go south, breaking through from the weakest Haozhou to the south, from Haozhou to Chuzhou and then to Hezhou, so that the Xuanzhou Han Baling Department, which was still staying in the south of the Yangtze River, echoed it from afar, and went south along the Yangtze River to directly seize Ruizhou and Runzhou, even if it could not take Yangzhou, it could also seize Runzhou and gain a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River.

The old man's point of view is that in Jiangbei, whether it is Li Yu or Jiang Feng, they have strong military strength, and the righteous army wants to fight against Li Yu or Huaiyou, and if they can loot Haozhou, Chuzhou and Hezhou, which have not been war-torn states and counties, grab enough military materials, and then go south along the river and then plunder in Yangzhou, if the situation is good, you can take advantage of the situation to seize Ruizhou City, if it is unfavorable, you can cross the river and gain a foothold in Runzhou, and if it is unfavorable, you can also rely on Xuanzhou to rest and recuperate, and try to conspire in Jiangnan.

It's just that this opinion was vetoed as a matter of course, Qin Quan had already determined the idea of using Chuzhou as a base, and naturally he would not choose Haozhou, Chuzhou, and Hezhou, a line that was easily attacked by Huaiyou and Li Yu, and seize Chuzhou, so that he could gain a foothold in Jianghuai, this is Qin Quan's dream, but this dream is still quite far away.

"Now Sanyang City is actually very difficult,"

"Yangzhou can continue to transport all kinds of heavy equipment and materials into Shanyang, and soldiers can also be transported into the city by water, the last time the fools in Baishuitang and Fan Lianghu intercepted the Yangzhou naval army, sixty boats, at least to Shanyang City to transport 5,000 soldiers and a large number of equipment, 5,000 soldiers! We may have to pay tens of thousands of brothers' lives to consume these 5,000 soldiers, and it is not even enough for the next Yangzhou side to break the blockade and send 10,000 soldiers to Shanyang? Are we going to spend 30,000 brothers' lives? Do we still have so many brothers, so many supplies?"

The old man's hoarse voice jumped in the big tent, stimulating everyone's endurance.

That's right, Baishuitang and Fan Liang Lake and Baima Lake can't cut off the Cao Canal, and every time they break through, the Yangzhou Navy can send so many soldiers and materials to Shanyang City, and they can't even figure out how many soldiers there are in Shanyang City now.

This kind of war of attrition made the rebel army, which was originally strong and strong, a little unbearable.

The rebels did have more than 100,000 people when they crossed Huai, but in the war for most of the past six months after crossing Huai, the losses were not small, and the old brothers who lost were not immediately made up for by recruiting the husbands.

What especially disturbed these leaders was that the situation in Chuyang Erzhou was completely different from that in Huaibei, the gentry here were powerful, and the ordinary people were still living a decent life, and they were basically resisting the recruitment of ant thieves, which made Qin Quan, Sun Dao, and Lin Ru also very frightened.

If it is difficult to obtain sufficient troop supply in Chuyang Prefecture, this battle will consume some and only rely on the capture of the husband to make up for it, and if this kind of war continues, something will really happen.

"Yan Shun, what do you mean?" Qin Quan took a deep breath, his face was still calm.

He has always been a little dislike of this Confucian student, so he once snubbed him for a while, but he had to admit that some of this guy's views and ideas are correct, even if they are inconsistent with his own views, which makes him very unhappy in his heart, but he is the commander, he needs to be responsible for the entire rebel army, and he can't let his own preferences decide big things.

"Either do your best to take Shanyang in one fell swoop, or abandon Chuzhou, go straight to cross the river, and order Han Baling and them to go east from Xuanzhou, and we will learn from Jiangning!" the old man said in a deep voice.

Qin Quan and Lin Ru both had bright eyes, and they made a good move to avoid the real and attack the false, avoiding the East Fox on the line of Caoqu, and also abandoned Yangzhou, a city heavily guarded by the Yangzhou Navy Army, and instead crossed the river from the first line, and this line is Jiang Kou's sphere of influence, even the Yangzhou Navy does not dare to come to this line easily.

"But it will take time to adjust, and Han Baling's side also needs to arrange deployment" Qin Heng hesitated, he knew that Han Baling's side might not be so easy to command.

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