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Just when Mrs. Xian was waiting for the official army of the Great Sui, an army of 50,000 people and tens of thousands of people in Shi'an County, west of Nanling, were slowly advancing.

This army traveled up the Yangtze River, from Baling into Dongting Lake, and then through Changsha, Hengshan, Lingling and other counties into the Lingqu, as long as it crossed the back of the river.

"Boss! Most of our grain baggage has not yet crossed the Lingqu, and now we will take the army to Nanhai County, in case these grain and grass baggage are unexpectedly delayed on the road, wouldn't it be bad if our army will lack food halfway through the expedition to Rinan County? ”

A general said uneasily to Wang Shiji, the former Qizhou assassin Shiji, "Since ancient times, the army has not moved the grain and grass first!" We've gone fast enough along the way, so let's wait a little until we're halfway over! ”

Wang Shiji knew that this general was also thinking about himself, but he still smiled and said: "There is no need to be so troublesome, Lingnan is no longer as wild as it used to be in recent years, and we are guaranteed to have endless food when we arrive in Nanhai County!" Hurry up and urge the teams behind them to hurry up and keep up, let's go down the water first! ”

Lishui is also the famous Li River in later generations, in the Sui Dynasty without any pollution felling, this river is even more beautiful and picturesque, not only the mountains along the way are picturesque, the wide and flat water surface makes a group of people almost intoxicated.

"It's really picturesque!" Wang Shiji stroked his long beard and smiled at the people around him, "You all said that the army marched too fast along the way, but if we didn't march so fast, wouldn't this great river and mountain suffer a war?" ”

Although the water speed of the Li River is not fast, but the boats down the river still move fast, only about ten days, Wang Shiji led 50,000 troops along the Lishui and Yushui (Xijiang) smoothly to the outside of Nanhai County (Guangzhou).

It is said that if you take the waterway, go all the way down the Li River, reach Cangwu County and then trace the river up until the position of Nanning in the later generations, and then turn to the land route to go south to Jiaozhou The distance is the closest, but at this time, from Nanning to Jiaozhou you have to go through the mountains and mountains, it seems that the distance is not far, in fact, it is better to go to Jiaozhou from Nanhai County by sea.

Wei Xun, the governor of Lingnan, had been waiting here for a long time, and had already prepared a good banquet for Wang Shiji and others, and even the 50,000 soldiers who had just arrived actually had a pound of sugarcane wine and a pound of fat pork.

This can make the soldiers who have never seen anything in the world happy, because in ancient times, productivity was extremely low, except for officers above the middle level, those who were not soldiers, and even the most basic commanders and team leaders would not be rewarded with any wine and meat.

In order to stimulate the soldiers to insist on moving forward, Wang Shiji promised that as long as he arrived in Nanhai County, he would let the chief administrator Wei Xun give them wine and meat.

Unexpectedly, he had just come to the outside of the city with the army, and everyone gave out a pound of wine and meat, seeing Wei Wei giving himself face like this, Wang Shiji was also very happy, after all, this was also related to his own prestige in the army.

What Wang Shiji didn't expect was that in fact, these wines were all low-grade spirits made from the residues that could not be used after the local plantations pressed sugarcane, and they were all purchased by the Xia Kingdom on weekdays and sold to the north and sold to those grassland Hu people.

Those delicious pork are also fat pigs raised by local plantations and people using sweet potatoes gradually promoted in Lingnan, and the fattening method is also the castration method passed down by Wang Ze.

In the unique advantageous planting environment of Lingnan, the cost of raising these pigs is not as big as that in the north, and the locals like to eat those buffalo meat, but the pork is eaten less, so the price of these pigs in Lingnan is only less than half the price in the north.

After all, Wang Shiji couldn't delay here for too long, after settling with Wei Xun, he divided half of the 100,000 troops under Wei Xun, plus the 50,000 troops he brought himself, there were 100,000 troops, after all, Wei Huan, as the governor of Lingnan, was also responsible for the safety of other places in Lingnan.

However, Wang Shiji was not worried, before leaving, His Majesty had already explained to him that he had written a letter to Mrs. Xian, so that with Mrs. Xian's 50,000 soldiers and horses, there would be 150,000 people, and there were only 450,000 people in the entire Jiaozhou.

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Shiji was excited, although he was also the general manager of the road when he destroyed Chen in the past, but in front of He Ruobi, Han Baohu, Yang Su, these bright generals, he could only be inferior, and now he led the army alone, which was also an excellent opportunity.

Looking at the bustling Nanhai County, Wang Shiji didn't have time to sigh too much, so he set off by boat with an army of 100,000 people, and nearly a thousand warships went west along the coastline, and arrived at Gaozhou Port where Mrs. Xian was located in less than two days.

After seeing Gaozhou Port, Wang Shiji finally knew that Wei Huan's previous sentence that Nanhai County was not a big city in Lingnan was not modest at all, and the Gaozhou Port in front of him was much more prosperous than Nanhai County, even if the army came now, the dense ships in the port in front of him would not panic.

"Ship ahead, get out of the way! This is the fleet of the king of the Jiaozhou marching army! Seeing that the dense merchant ships in front of him did not give way for a while, the soldiers on the ships had to shout in unison, and at the same time, they also hung up the handsome flag on the order of Wang Shiji. Jin Yong Chinese

The merchant ship on the opposite side also shouted: "This is the fleet under the command of Mrs. Xian Guo (the title of Mrs. Xian of the Sui Dynasty), my master will come to greet me soon, but it will take some time for the fleet to dodge!" ”

Hearing that the fleet of Mrs. Xian's family was on the other side, Wang Shiji blocked the soldiers who wanted to expel the merchant ships, after all, this attack on Rinan County would depend on Mrs. Xian and their locals in many ways.

After waiting for a long time, the merchant ships on the opposite side moved back and forth and never moved out of a road, but some ships quarreled with each other because of the collision in the process of moving, and there were even people who started beating people, which was simply a mess.

Just when Wang Shiji was impatient, a small boat finally rushed over with a young man on board, "Gaozhou Thorn Shi Feng Ang has seen Chief Manager Wang!" ”

Wang Shiji greeted Feng Ang and was surprised by Feng An's youth, but he had also heard about this young man, who was only fifteen years old when he was ordered to go out on an expedition and defeated the rebellious Wang Zhongxuan general Chen Fozhi, and finally defeated Wang Zhongxuan and other rebellious leaders together with Wei Wei and Mrs. Xian.

With Feng An's opening of the way, all the merchant ships are not in chaos, although the army is still a little slow to land, but after all, it can already be landed!

When Wang Shiji met Mrs. Xian under the leadership of Feng An, Wang Shiji suddenly became a lot more polite, compared with the slang old woman in front of him, he really didn't necessarily match, and there were many places to rely on Mrs. Xian this time.

Although Wang Shiji said a lot of good things, how could Mrs. Xian go out in person, she said weakly: "The old woman is old and weak, and she can't bear the pain of the war, but my three grandchildren can lead the army to fight and help the chief manager as much as they can!" ”

After all, Mrs. Xian is old, and it is impossible for Wang Shiji to force her to fight with her, it is already very good that people can send three grandsons to help her, thinking of this, Wang Shiji had no choice but to thank her and leave.

When Wang Shiji came out, he found that Mrs. Xian and the mobilized 50,000 troops outside Gaozhou City were already in place, but what made him frown was that except for the 5,000 Lu Yuan Army trained by Mrs. Xian in the past, the other 45,000 people were actually raged ordinary people.

These people don't say that they don't have uniform clothing, they don't even have unified weapons, most of them are carrying tattered weapons, and there are even hundreds of people who come with the ploughs they plough for the family's farming, uncle, do you think this is going to Jiaozhou to work?

Feng Ang was the most clever of the three brothers, and he stepped forward without waiting for Wang Shiji to ask: "After the imperial court pacified Wang Zhongxuan's rebellion, my grandmother said that since there was a large army of the imperial court stationed in Nanhai County not far away, it would be bad to keep too many troops, so the family has only kept a few thousand people of the Lu Yuan Army, and the other armies have been dismissed, these are the elite divisions recruited during this time!" ”

Hearing Feng An's words, Wang Shijie's heart suddenly cooled by half, the five thousand deer army looked like it was not much different from his own army, but the other more than 40,000 troops still said that the elite division, it seemed that they could only be used as people!

In this way, it is said that the slang people gave themselves 50,000 reinforcements, but at most they can only be used as 10,000 people, but they can be used to transport grain and grass.

Thinking of this, Wang Shiji didn't want to say anything, so he had to nod and accept Feng An's reasons.

After the Sui fleet joined up with Mrs. Xian's fleet, there were thousands of large ships, and after setting off from Gaozhou again, they headed for the Qiongzhou waterway.

However, after arriving here, the army had two different differences, and some of the generals under Wang Shiji advocated going to Jiaozhi County first, which was relatively close to Ningyue County in Guangzhou, and could escape back by land if the attack on Jiaozhou failed.

However, Feng Ang and others suggested that they directly attack Rinan County, the southernmost county in Jiaozhou, by sea, and this proposal made many Sui generals feel a little drummed in their hearts, in case their army failed, wouldn't there be even a place to escape at that time?

After some consideration, Wang Shiji finally chose to attack from Jiaozhi County, in addition to the opinions of his previous subordinates, but also because Jiaozhi County was not completely controlled by those powerful people who intended to rebel, and it was still under the control of the local government.

In addition, he didn't know enough about the strength of the local heroes in Ninan County, and he was afraid that he would suffer a big loss if he started a war rashly, and he always felt a little frightened these days, so he would rather delay some time and continue to attack Ninan County after he was ready.

Anyway, at this time, the weather is just entering winter, although the weather in Jiaozhou is still relatively hot, but because it is the dry season at this time, there is not much rainfall, and the army is still convenient to move.

Under the leadership of Wang Shiji, an army of 150,000 soon reached the mouth of the river in Jiaozhi County.