In Gaoyoucheng, the forbidden army group headed by Bai Qi has completed the initial transfer of power, and the military management of local government affairs has been handed over to Kong Mingchen, who has been secretly managing Qingzhou's government affairs, and the previously appointed Dachu officials can finally come to the fore without wearing the hat of the forbidden army.

Because it began to be arranged a few years ago, this time the full handover was very smooth, but a part of the subordinates of the Shuai Tent was separated, and then directly stationed in the Yamen of various places, due to the previous military management, it can be said that most of the governance power of the three southern provinces of Qingzhou is in the Shuai Tent, and the original set of Yamen of the empire is in a semi-paralyzed state, under the protection of the army, everything is going smoothly.

Kong Mingchen was temporarily appointed as the governor of Hebei Province and the leader of Huainan Province, because today's Huainan Province is actually under control only the former Huainan Province, and Jiyang Mansion is a war zone where the enemy and our forces are intertwined.

Gaoyou City Marshal's Mansion, although it has given up a dry government right, but it is still the busiest place in the entire Qingzhou, with the announcement of the Qingzhou forbidden army to change banners, into Dachu, internal, external began to become turbulent, although before this, under the auspices of Zhang Liang, the army was purged, but no one can guarantee that the generals under their command, soldiers and horses will not choose to invest in the Tianlong Empire.

After all, this army is a forbidden army, an army with the highest loyalty to the emperor, so after returning from Vermilion Bird City, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei and other generals have rushed back to the army to sit in the town, and Bai Qi is deployed in the middle of the house.

Shuaifu, operational staff officer, En, that is, staff and strategist, but Leng Zhuo gave him a new name based on his time and space, and now at the division and regiment level, there will be three or five operational staff officers to give advice to the main general. Give your opinion and also take care of some menial chores.

Ximen Xin, who is still the cousin of Princess Ximen Wan'er. A few years ago, he went south to Chuzhou with the second elder of his father's family to protect Ximen Bao'er, the next head of the Ximen family, who had high hopes. Later, he joined the Chu army and was assigned to the intelligence department, responsible for intelligence collection on the ground in Qingzhou. Served as a war staff officer and was responsible for reporting on war affairs.

"Report, the emergency military information sent back by Huaishui Xiachuan County, the fourth brigade of the Tianlong Army, more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the independent sixth battalion attacked my Xiachuan defenders from the east and west, and the defender battalion captain Wang Dao took the initiative to attack and severely damaged the fourth brigade halfway, but the county town of Xiachuan was captured by the sixth independent battalion of Huaishui. Our department has withdrawn from Shimokawa. Cross the river and return to the south!"

"Got it! Go down!" Ximen Xin finished listening to the letter, stood up, picked up a small flag from his hand, found the location of Xiachuan County, took down his own small red flag in Xiachuan, and planted the black flag representing the Tianlong Dynasty.

Ximenxin's eyes quickly glanced at the big sand table in front of him. Almost all the counties north of Huaishui were attacked by the Tianlong Army to varying degrees, and the soldiers and horses used had almost exceeded 100,000. According to the weaving of the regular army of the empire, a legion has 125,000 soldiers and horses. However, the Huaishui Legion rebuilt by the Heavenly Dragon Empire obviously cannot be calculated according to the norm.

According to the efforts of the Intelligence Department in the past two years, the intricate situation on the Huaishui line is extremely clear in his mind, and this is also reflected in the big sand table in front of him, the entire Huaishui, the upstream belongs to Qubu, the middle section belongs to Jiyang Prefecture, and the downstream section belongs to Huainan Prefecture, and along the Huaishui line, there are 36 counties, of which there are as many as 22 counties in Jiyang Prefecture.

There is an independent kingdom in the upper reaches of Yandu, and its strength is not weak, and then it incorporated most of the original Huaishui Army, the Salt Gang and the Boat Gang, firmly occupying the seven cities and twelve towns around the Yandu, about a county of more than one territory, and it is also a place that cannot be touched for the time being.

And then there are the five counties of Jiyang Mansion that are intertwined, in the north of the Huai River, they occupy the territory of three counties and six towns, but although they are occupied, there is only one county that can really be fully controlled, Tongshan County, Tongshan County is where General Zhang Feizhang's father-in-law is located, and the thousand-year-old Sima family can be said to be deeply rooted in this place.

Now most of the six towns in the three northern counties have fallen, leaving only Tongshan County, Linshui Town, and Sangshang Town, the two towns of the county are still in their hands, but only with this palm-sized place, they can't stop the Huaishui Army on the north bank of Huaishui, after all, there are too few soldiers and horses here.

And the same counties in the south of Huaishui, almost all of them are under their control, separated by a Huaishui, it can be said that this Huaishui has become a natural dividing line between the two sides, as for whether the other party will attack, Ximenxin is really not worried.

On the north bank of Huaishui, the other party can be said to occupy the right time and place, the Tianlong Dynasty to govern the local place, to the local to clamp down on the South Qingzhou abacus Although there are many disadvantages, but the benefits are not small, these have the power of the army, and become the family gate valve of the emperor of the soil is quite hard.

If you want to take the north shore, you have to use a large army, but obviously in this sensitive period, the marshal government does not want to make a big move, and the transition of peace is the primary task at the moment, otherwise once there is a change in the army, the impact will be more far-reaching, after all, Qingzhou is not as shallow as Chuzhou, Yangzhou, and the foundation of the Great Chu Empire here.

"Ximen, now there are only one county and two towns left on the north bank that are still holding on, the situation is not very optimistic, Linshui Town, Sangshang Town has repelled the invading enemy, but these two places are surrounded by the Tianlong Army on all sides, they themselves have only one battalion of formation, not to mention the few soldiers, and there is also a lack of room for maneuver, the fall of these two towns is almost a certainty, but this is a mountain?"

Ximenxin looked at Zhang Shibin, who was also a combat staff officer beside him, and said: "Tongshan County must be defended, it doesn't matter if you lose the other two counties and six towns, if you lose it, you will lose it, anyway, we haven't completely occupied this place, but the situation in Tongshan is very different, not to mention the in-law relationship between the Sima family and General Zhang, but the influence of the Sima family up and down the Huai River, we can't help but keep the Sima family!"

"And we also need to have a bridgehead on the north bank to ensure that we can recapture the north bank of Huaishui in the future, I will suggest that Bai Shuai send several battalions of soldiers and horses stationed on the north bank to Tongshan to ensure the safety of Tongshan!"

"There is almost a brigade of soldiers and horses, and it shouldn't be a big problem to garrison Tongshan County, but whether to transfer some earth spirits and middle and low martial artists to the past, after all, there are many strong people in those private armies on the north bank!"

While the two were talking, a messenger suddenly hurriedly ran from outside: "A few adults, an urgent secret letter from General Zhao on the Western Front!"

"Western Front?" Ximen Xin took the information sent by the other party, quickly opened it, and quickly glanced at the content on it with a glance and ten lines, and his face suddenly changed: "You stay here, I'll go find Bai Shuai!"

"Could it be that the Tang Army on the Western Front has moved!" a combat staff officer couldn't help but ask as he watched Ximen Xin rush out of the room quickly.

"It's not just moving, you can see for yourself, damn it, these white-eyed wolves who can't be raised are hidden deep enough!"

The operational staff officer quickly took the information and scanned the information, and the Tang army suddenly moved on a large scale on the western front, and the generals of the defending army in Qixian County defected to the Tang Dynasty, resulting in a big hole in the western defense line of Heze! The forward of the Tang army had already stepped through Qixian and rushed towards Zicheng!

"This Tang Army's reaction is really fast enough, the Tianlong Army in the north is still just a small fight, but his side is making a big move, I can't wait!"

"I'm afraid that the Tang Army has already made preparations, and the Tang Army's big move this time is not so simple!"

"Oh?"

"I'm afraid the Tang army is going to move troops against Shuzhou!" Dongfang Ying speculated.

"How do you know?"

"Don't forget, I just came from Vermilion Bird City, before this I was in the Military Intelligence Department, responsible for sorting out the intelligence gathered from all over the country, and from a piece of news from Yongzhou before, the Tang Army has hoarded a large number of soldiers and horses in Yongzhou, and it seems that it intends to go south from the Sword Pavilion in the north of Shuzhou!"

Dongfang Ying said that the pair of eagle eyes were even more shining: "The Tang Empire now occupies Zhongzhou, Liangzhou, and most of Yongzhou, accounting for half of the empire, greatly expanding in depth, and the land in Zhongzhou is fertile, but after all, it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and it is not a few years to restore the prosperity and wealth of the past, and Liangzhou, Yongzhou is even more flustered, Dongliang is not bad, but it is not as good as Yun, Qing, and You, not to mention Chu and Yang, whether it is population, resources or others, the Tang Empire is still the most inferior among the three major forces. ”

"And Shuzhou, whether it was the change of dynasty hundreds of years ago, or the rebellion of the kings a hundred years ago, there was not much impact here, plus it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, creating Shuzhong Tianfu, which is not only densely populated, but also has a lot of wealth, if Li Tang occupies here, it can be said that it is like a tiger with wings!"

"What's more, Shuzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Tianhe River, once the upper reaches are occupied, the Tang army will be able to go down the river and coerce me Chuzhou and Yangzhou, when the time comes, the national strength of the Tang Empire will definitely increase, and over time, the Tang Dynasty, which occupies the land of the four states, will definitely change the role of the bottom and become the most powerful one!"

"And compared to Shuzhou, we are simply a chicken rib, occupying this place is equivalent to facing the attack of the Tianlong Empire in the north and our Great Chu, and the southern part of Qingzhou is flat, it is the land of four wars, and Tang Junyan can spend a lot of strength here!"

"What do you mean, the Tang Army's drunkard does not mean to drink, but to plan to attack the west!"

"There should be a seventy or eighty percent possibility, but the problem is that the Sword Pavilion is not something that can be fought at will, even if Shuzhong is now in a big war, the defenders of the Sword Pavilion have not been reduced, if the Tang Army can't solve this problem, going south to Shuzhong is an empty talk!"

"Don't think so far, we can't go there, even if you are right, but the Tang Army will definitely stir up trouble on the Western Front, and with the oppression of the Tang Army, the Tianlong Empire in the north will not stand idly by, after all, this time there is a big loss!"