Wei Ran had already led the army to surround Xiakou at this moment, but the terrain of Xiakou was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Wei Ran's attack for three consecutive days could not be overcome.

And Zhang Zemao in Xiakou City was also very afraid, although he resisted the Jiangling army with his geographical advantage, but he was cut off from internal and external contacts, and he also knew that if the imperial court did not come to reinforce Xiakou, he would lose it sooner or later, so he sent many people to fight out of the siege and go to Jiangzhou for help.

Hengxian keenly noticed this situation, and then said to Wei Ran: "On the way to Jiankang, our army is stubborn, although Xiakou is stubborn, but Jiangzhou is an important military town, if Jiangzhou is captured, Xiakou and Wuchang can be captured." The three cities of the five states were compressed on the Yangtze River, and at this time the reinforcements were cut off, the grain and grass were not enough, and the three cities could collapse without attacking. ”

Wei Ran was indeed very hesitant when he heard this, because his current strength was very limited. If the troops are divided to attack, I am afraid that they will not be able to do it.

After pondering for a moment, Wei Ran muttered: "Jiangzhou has 50,000 armor, our army currently has a total of 120,000 people, and at the same time, we have to divide our troops to besiege Xiakou Wuchang, and the total strength of attacking Jiangzhou will not exceed 70,000. ”

"Jiangzhou is too protective of Du Min, I have dealt with him, and he is looking forward and backward, but he is very happy. I have a plan. Or it can break Du Min. Heng Xian didn't care after hearing this, smiled at Wei Ran, and then planned carefully with Wei Ran.

In the city of Hefei in Northern Qin, Zhao Youzhi, the concubine, couldn't help laughing when he looked at the news from Jiankang at this moment, and then called Yuwenzhi and said: "Princess Zhaoyang sent a letter from Jiankang, saying that Lu Ke had agreed to let us cross the river to assist in defense. ”

Yuwen Zhi silently read Princess Zhaoyang's letter, but he was still very puzzled: "Lord Zhao really wants our army to work for the Southern Dynasty?" Besides, the land of Southern Xuzhou is now an enclave of the Southern Dynasties, and if we directly attack Southern Xuzhou, what can the Huainan Army do? ”

Zhao Youzhi looked at Yuwenzhi in front of him, then raised his long sword and pointed to the map, and said with a smile: "Nanqi is now very obvious, Xiao Ju occupies Jiangling Xichuan Xiangfan, according to the information I have got, Xiakou is currently besieged, once Xiakou is captured, he only needs to occupy Jiangzhou, and Xiao Ju will have the initiative to march, because the land of Sanwu is not currently in Xiao Luan's hands." ”

Then Zhao Youzhi pointed his sword in the direction of Xiangfan: "If our army crosses the river, camps in the east of Jiankang, and cooperates with the Jiankang defenders, the number is no less than 200,000, and when Xiao Ju's army comes to Danyang County and threatens Jiankang, the troops will inevitably be insufficient, and it is necessary to continue to draw troops from the direction of Xiangfan. What does Yu Wenxian's nephew think? ”

Hearing this, Yuwen couldn't help but clapped his hands and shouted: "Lord Zhao's plan is very exquisite, but if Xiao Ju doesn't transfer troops, what should he do?" ”

Zhao Youzhi shook his head: "I will ask Nanqi to send troops to fortify with me in front of me, and consume the troops in Jiankang City, if Xiao Ju does not transfer troops, the frontline battlefield will inevitably be defeated." At this time, our army has crossed the Yangtze River, if Xiao Ju is defeated, I will order the army to surround Jiankang, and then send cavalry to plunder the surrounding grain and grass wealth, and fight on the spot. When the time comes, Jiankang Jingkou and Huainan will be connected, and the big thing will be done! The land of southern Xuzhou had become an enclave at this time, and the Huainan army under the Yangkan Department had no other way to go, but to surrender or abandon the city and flee to eastern Zhejiang along the coastal road. ”

After listening to Zhao Youzhi's words, Yu Wenzhi was also Ling Ran in his heart. He didn't expect that Zhao Youzhi had never thought of a real alliance with Xiao Luan from the beginning, and all he had been thinking about was how to use the war between Xiao Luan and Xiao Ju to play a game.

Jiangzhou Taishou Du Min was entangled in the camp at this time, he had received a letter from Xiakou Taishou Zhang Zemao asking for help, but he chose to stand still, now Jiangling County is powerful, Du Min does not want to fight with the Jiangling army.

However, in recent days, Du Min was told that there were ships moving east along the river every night, and the number was increasing more and more, and then Du Min asked, "Do the defenders in the direction of Huangkou know that they have seen ships?" ”

Later, after learning that the defenders in the direction of Huangkou had also seen ships marching eastward every night, Du Min was even more puzzled.

Du Min scratched his head and asked the staff around him: "What does Wei Ran Hengxian mean by this?" Do you want to secretly transport troops from Gangneung to Jiankang every night? ”

"In this way, Wei Ran should be like this. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night to cross the defense line of our army on the Yangtze River, the defenders of our army did not know why and did not dare to intercept it easily. ”

Du Min pondered in the city for a long time, and at this moment, someone suddenly came to report: "General, rebels have been found on the river, there are many of them, and there are no less than 100 warships. ”

"It seems that the first few days were all temptations, Wei Ran saw that our army did not move, and he must have thought that we were cowardly, so he wanted the army to cross the river tonight."

Thinking of this, Du Min shouted, "Fetch my armor!" ”

"The general must not be moved." Seeing this, the staff hurriedly dissuaded: "The number of thieves is unknown now, the total strength of our army is only more than 50,000 people, and there are still 10,000 troops stationed in Huangkou, let the Huangkou army intercept in front, and the soldiers in the riverside camp can prevent the rebels from coming ashore." If this fails, the rebels will naturally retreat, and the general will not need to be in danger. ”

Du Min hesitated, and suddenly someone came to report again; "Report to the general, news is coming from the direction of Huangkou that the rebel front army is storming Huangkou."

Du Min was shocked when he heard this, stood up in a hurry, and then asked, "How many people are there?" ”

"The thief army is large, innumerable, and the offensive is particularly fierce, I am afraid that there are quite a few people."

Du Min's heart was in turmoil at this time, if the mouth of the river fell, he would even be cut off from retreating. Jiangzhou is located between Wuzhou and Huangkou, once Wei Ran's army captured Huangkou, Jiangzhou became an isolated city, the waterway to the east was cut off, to the west, Xiakou and other cities are now surrounded.

Thinking of this, Du Min immediately drank: "Come on, follow me to rescue Huangkou." ”

Du Min then led his army out of the city and headed straight for Huangkou.

At this time, on the surface of the river, Wei Ran led the army to storm Huangkou, and at this time, a constant strategy appeared in his mind: "Order the ships to cross Jiangzhou every night, and then order most of the soldiers to disembark between Jiangzhou and Huangkou, and then order the soldiers to ambush between Jiangzhou and Huangkou, and so on for five days." Then the army stormed Huangkou, and Huangkou must have sent people to Jiangzhou to ask for help, taking advantage of the night, the ambush soldiers quickly went to the direction of Huangkou to attack the nearest camp from the rear."

At this time, the guards of Huangkou were also in turmoil, and they never expected that Wei Ran would attack Huangkou at night, which was not conducive to the battle of the naval army at night.

At this moment, he saw that Wei Ran had already led the army to land from the east side, and the defenders of Huangkou were even more panicked, the defenders of Huangkou were already small, and the enemy on both sides was even worse.

At this time, Zhang Gui had already led thousands of people to attack the camp west of Huangkou, and launched an attack directly from the rear. In an instant, the west camp of Huangkou was on fire, and the soldiers in the camp never thought that there would be soldiers coming from the rear, and they broke up one after another, Zhang Gui took the opportunity to seize the camp, and then sent someone to inform Wei Ran.

Wei Ran was commanding the battle on the ship at the moment, and when he heard that Zhang Gui had conquered the camp, he was instantly overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to land from the west, and merge with Zhang Gui to launch an attack on Huangkou from the west.

At this time, the sky has turned white, the fog is filled, at this time, the defenders of the mouth of the mouth looked at the river, only to see the river is faintly seen Wei Ran's fleet as far as the eye can see, the defenders of the mouth of the mouth suddenly frightened.

Just as he was struggling to resist the attack from the front and the east, he suddenly heard that another army was coming from the west, and it was attacking the city.

The defenders of Huangkou were horrified, they had no heart to fight, and Wei Ran broke through Huangkou, the defenders committed suicide, and the rest of the soldiers surrendered.

However, Wei Ran did not enter the Huangkou to repair, but ordered the general Roufu to defend the city, and ordered Zhang Gui's department to select more than 2,000 elites, not to do repairs, but to change into the clothes of the defenders of Huangkou, and go to the Du Minshui military camp outside Jiangzhou.

Wei Ran himself led 10,000 elites and went to Jiangzhou along the official road.

At this time, outside Xiakou City, the Gangneung army had been besieging but not attacking for seven days.

Xiao Ju had also rushed to Xiakou, and seeing that there was only one person, Xiao Ju exclaimed: "Where is the Zhongwu Gong?" ”

Heng Xian smiled slightly, then pointed in the direction of Jiangzhou and said, "If there is no mistake, Wei Dashuai should have surrounded Jiangzhou." ”