At the end of February of the third year of Yongding, the tripartite alliance of Chen, Xia and Slang people left the Jian'an army and went north, and before leaving, Han Zigao appointed a staff general under his command to lead more than 1,000 Chen troops to stay in Jian'an County, plus the local re-recruited 3,400 county soldiers, as long as they trained for a month or two, they could completely hold Jian'an.

Han Zigao, Wang Ze, and Feng Fu jointly marched northward with nearly 20,000 troops, and quickly surrendered to the king with a dignified division of Fujian and Zhejiang prefectures.

Han Zigao had 8,000 soldiers and horses before, although 1,500 people were left behind in Jian'an County, but because Jian'an Haoqiang Lin and other families contributed a large number of family children to join the army, in addition, Han Zigao also recruited some young people in Jian'an to form another army, but the number increased to more than 10,000 people.

The infantry army under Wang Ze was still 2,000 people, led by Cao An, and a cavalry captain of the White Wolf Battalion led nearly 100 light horsemen as scouts.

Feng Fu let his Uncle Niu take four thousand slang people to follow Cao An's wolf battalion, but he was with Wang Ze all day long, riding a batch of war horses sent to him by Wang Zexin with great pride.

Han Zigao, Wang Ze, and Feng Fu advanced on the road, while Gu Bin led the navy and Chun Yukun to march by sea, except for the doctor who followed the army to follow Wang Ze, the other non-combatants followed Gu Bin.

In order to ensure safety, even Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing were forcibly driven to the ship by Wang Ze, and the fleet went all the way north from Jian'an County to the very smooth.

The county guard of Yongjia County, which is close to Jian'an, is a small local tyrant, with only three or four thousand people, and he barely traveled among Chen Baxian, Wang Lin and other forces before.

Neither wanted to completely defect to Chen Baxian, nor did he explicitly defect to Wang Lin, the fate of the wall grass was that he was decided by Hou Baoying and Liuyi before, and now he has to face the army led by Han Zigao and others.

Originally, the Yongjia county guard still wanted to defend the city, but the soldiers and generals under his command quit, why, everyone follows you to live a good life, and the imperial army didn't come, so let's just be local tyrants.

Now that the imperial army has come, you still want everyone to resist the imperial army, it is you who is promoted and rich, and it is our own brothers who die, so how can you do it, haven't you seen the lesson of Hou Baoying of Jian'an County?

So as soon as Han Zigao's troops approached the city, the Yongjia county guard was beheaded by the generals under his command and sacrificed the city, which made the sons of Jian'an Haoqiang, who were ready to show their loyalty, depressed.

After occupying Yongjia County, to the north are Huiji County and Linhai County, which are adjacent to the land of Sanwu, the most important of which is Huiji County.

These two places are different from Yongjia and Jian'an counties, which are all in the hands of local heroes, and Huiji County and Linhai County still have part of the territory in the hands of Chen Jun, but because the central government is unable to reinforce and the local government is weak, a situation has been formed in which the government and the powerful coexist.

Han Zigao raised the banner of the military governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and ordered the two counties to still obey the official government of the imperial court and cooperate with him to pacify the powerful in various places.

Because Han Zigao has always rewarded and punished clearly, and never spared money, the officers and soldiers of those local prefectures and counties were also willing to follow Han Zigao to fight, and successfully suppressed and pacified many powerful people who tried to divide the localities.

It's just that when the last division of Fujian and Zhejiang was pacified, and Dongyang County (Jinhua, Zhejiang) was divided, it was a little troublesome, and the difference was the closest to Chen Baxian who was attached to Wang Lin.

Liuyi was originally a prominent family in Dongyang County, and his family was very wealthy, but this person was not a good person since he was a child, and he bullied the villagers with a group of evil teenagers all day long.

Later, when Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos', Liuyi led the people to follow Dongyang Taishou Shen Xun to support Jiankang, and after the imperial city was broken, Liuyi was the Lincheng Duke Xiao Dalian Sima, and then took the initiative to defect to Hou Jing's general Song Zixian, and betrayed Xiao Dalian to Song Zixian.

Since then, Liuyi has become the county guard of Dongyang County.

After Chen Baxian and Wang Seng Bian pacified Hou Jing, Liuyi held the power of Dongyang County at that time, and on the one hand, he and Chen Ba Xianxu and the Snake, and on the other hand, they secretly took refuge in Wang Seng Bian and Wang Lin.

Last year, before Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition, he sent the general Shen Ke to lead the army to secretly attack Liuyi, but Shen Ke was defeated and returned, and was finally pursued by Liuyi all the way to Qiantang.

Because Chen Baxian was in a hurry to recover the land of Jianghuai during the Northern Expedition, and Liuyi was also afraid that Chen Baxian would be the first to cut him and put on a table, so Chen Baxian temporarily let Liuyi go.

This time, Han Zigao's army came to attack, and Liuyi began to 'quite look down' on Han Zigao, the governor who was more beautiful than a 'woman', so he led the army to take the initiative to prepare to teach Han Zigao a lesson.

As a result, with the close cooperation of Wang Ze, Feng Fu and Han Zigao, Liuyi was defeated and returned, and only three or four thousand people remained in the more than 10,000 troops he led.

Liuyi, who fled back to Dongyang, learned the previous lesson and prepared to rely on the steep terrain of Dongyang to block the attack of Han Zigao's army, and held on until Wang Lin conquered Jiankang.

However, the steep terrain could stop Han Zigao's army, and it couldn't stop the two thousand soldiers of the Wolf Tooth and Blue Wolf Battalion, not to mention the Lingnan slang soldiers who were better at fighting in the jungle and mountains.

Soon, Liuyi was attacked from front to back and continued to flee, preparing to flee back to Dongyang County to hold on, probably because Liuyi has never done good deeds and loves to do bad things, and was attacked by a group of mountain people on the way back to the city and cut off his head.

There were thirty or forty mountain people in this group, all of whom were hunters in the mountains, and Han Zigao tried his best to invite them to join the army, but except for the three young men who were moved to participate in Han Zigao's personal guard, dozens of other mountain people refused Han Zigao's invitation.

According to a young man who joined the army, Na Liuyi had bullied the father of one of the mountain people a few years ago, and finally died, and another person was the murderer of the sister in the family.

Listening to the lack of virtue done by Liuyi, Wang Ze sighed, and said to Feng Fu: "Seeing the fate of Liuyi, it's better to do less bad things, 'Sao' year!" ”

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Jiangnan in March already makes people feel that the sun is a little scorching, and this is Wuxing County (Huzhou), where Chen Qian served as the Taishou back then.

The endless fields are full of rice, and the tender green goose yellow seedlings are like a newly woven sheep 'feather' carpet under the sun's rays'.

The yellow-green 'color' is clean and there is no miscellaneous 'color', these are the new 'planting' of rice not long ago, and the earlier rice has long been emerald green and green, and experienced people know that this rice has no 'fault' at a glance.

From time to time, you can see farmers weeding the rice fields, and children carrying fish baskets to catch loaches and eels on the ridges.

Mulberry trees are planted on the embankment of the ditch or on the ridge of the field, and the tender green branches sway with the wind, and you can vaguely see the young 'girl' picking mulberry leaves in the bushes, as if you can hear the soft words of Wu Nong coming with the wind.

There is a road five or six zhang wide in the middle of the farmland, although it is a dirt road, but it is compact, and there is a row of willows on both sides of the road, and now it is the branches and leaves are luxuriant, and it also brings a 'shade' coolness while protecting the roadbed.

More than a dozen cavalrymen rode over on horseback, which was to give a notice to the government in front of them, to avoid panic and chaos in the place, and to make the government ready to receive them.

Nearly 20,000 soldiers walked on the road in a neat line, and Wang Ze, Feng Fu, and Han Zigao dismounted and looked at the scenery in the distance on the side of the road.

In fact, the main reason is that Wang Ze likes to see the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, Feng Fu saw a lot on the way north to Jiankang last year, and Feng Fu, the age of this little kid, doesn't know what beautiful scenery is, as long as there is food and fun for him.

Han Zigao has lived in the Southern Dynasty since he was a child, and he is accustomed to the beautiful scenery in front of him, and he doesn't think it is so unusual, he pointed to the road under his feet and said to the two: "Xiahou and Feng Taishou look, this road was still built by the people when the King of Linjiang served as the county guard of Wuxing, and it is still good." ”

Wang Ze carefully watched the road, so the road in front of him has been at least five or six years, you must know that there is a lot of precipitation in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is really not easy to maintain such a good road surface after five or six years.

Looking at the original road, the middle of the road is high and the sides are low, and the outward is the street tree that protects the road, and then there is a drainage ditch with a width of two zhang on each side of the road, which is usually a water channel for irrigation of farmland.

The middle of the road is at least a foot higher than the sides, and on such a steep slope, the rain will quickly flow away, and the road will not accumulate water on the road, and the road will be used much longer.

In addition, the local government also organizes conscription every year to organize the people to maintain the road, so even after five or six years, the road is still intact.

Looking at the road in front of him, Wang Ze sighed: "If you want to get rich, build more roads!" ”

Han Zigao laughed and said: "Xiahou is really funny when he speaks, but it makes sense, although this Wuxing County was also the land of fish and rice back then, there were not so many merchants, and now just look at the wild shops on both sides of the road to know how prosperous this road is." ”

Hearing Han Zigao's emotion, Wang Ze noticed that there were some small shops tied up with bamboo poles and straw not far from both sides of the road, and these small shops generally sold some tea and cakes and rice wine brewed by the villagers.

Looking at the village in the distance, Han Zigao muttered: "When Hou Jingzhi was in turmoil, the 'chaos' army killed people everywhere, and most of the people in Hou Jing's army were from the north, and there were many exiles who were plundered and enslaved, and they had a lot of resentment towards the local people, so they killed people everywhere, and there were many acts of slaughtering villages and cities. ”

Seeing that Wang Ze and Feng Fu were both interested, Han Zigao smiled and said: "At that time, the King of Linjiang had just been appointed as the Taishou of Wuxing County and led the army to take up the post. ”

However, because he was in a hurry to return to Jiankang, Han Zigao did not stop in Wuxing County, knowing that Chen Qian was still mobilizing troops to resist Wang Lin's eastward advance.

Since the end of the year, Wang Lin personally led a large army down the river from Huancheng, until he was strongly blocked by Chen's army in Beijiang Prefecture, and he failed to continue to 'press' towards Jiankang.

But everyone must know that Beijiang Prefecture (that is, Wuhu) is only a few hundred miles away from Jiankang, and it will take a day or two to go down the river, so Jiankang is always under the threat of Wang Lin.

From Wuxing County to Jiankang City across a Taihu Lake, there are two routes to go in the east and west, although the road in the west of Taihu Lake is closer, but because of the mountainous road is inconvenient for the army to walk, finally from the east through Wu County and then to Jiankang.

Wang Ze was also willing to follow Han Zigao to understand the richest prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, although Hou Jingzhi's 'rebellion' was very harmful and less than one-third of Xiao Liang's, but it was still a very wealthy place compared to the rest of the Southern Dynasties. Along the way, Wang Ze's caravan has used Han Zigao's identity to open up a lot of checkpoints.

Many state and county officials looked at Han Zigao's face but gave a lot of discounts, although many wealthy 'family' families didn't look up to Han Zigao very much, but after all, it was a minority.

Han Zigao's backer was Chen Baxian's nephew Chen Qian, the king of Linjiang, and Chen Baxian's son Chen Chang was captured to Chang'an after Yuwenhu's army broke the city because he stayed by Emperor Liang Yuan's side as an official seven years ago.

Later, Chen Baxian asked the Western Wei and Northern Zhou several times for it, but the Northern Zhou Dynasty refused to agree to release him, and under such circumstances, Chen Qian, who assisted his uncle Chen Baxian in founding the Chen Dynasty, became the only successor of Southern Chen.

Chen Qian's status is so high, Han Zigao is Chen Qian's confidant, and there is still a trace of inexplicable ambiguous relationships in it, so many officials are still very polite to Han Zigao at least on the surface.

Han Zigao ignored Wang Ze for taking advantage of himself to open the checkpoint in a big way, as if he didn't know such a thing, and cooperated intentionally or unintentionally.

When the group arrived at the Yangtze River estuary 'Yin' County, the two national naval armies led by Chun Yukun and Gu Bin had been waiting here for a long time, so the army turned to take a boat and went up the river.

The Yangtze River is worthy of being the southern dynasty to rush, standing on the bow of the boat and looking at both sides of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that there are more than 20 miles wide, the water and the sky are boundless, as if they have returned to the vast sea, under the protection of this natural danger, it is no wonder that Jiangnan can become a place of secession since ancient times.

There are many ships coming and going on the river, and although most of them are ships carrying supplies for the army, many merchant ships can still be seen passing on the river.

The closer you are to Jiankang City, the more ships there are on the water, and when you cross the Jingkou River the next day, you can also see the Qinglong ship unique to the Southern Dynasty naval army.

After coping with the inspection of the Southern Dynasty naval army, it was Jiankang City not long to go forward.