Chapter 923: Recovering Yangzhou

Suzaku City, Chuzhou, Chu Palace.

Although the newly completed Chu King Palace does not have the grandeur of Wanlong City, it is also quite atmospheric, and on the side of the main hall, it is the daily office of Chu Ding, and the inner study.

Chuzhou in July, can be described as hot and sweltering, but the study room is extremely cool, Leng Zhuo sat on the bamboo couch, a little lazy and couldn't lift his spirits, and in the lower position, on the left hand side sat Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang two cabinet ministers, and on the right hand side sat Sun Wu, Guo Jia two military ministers.

"Your Highness, so far, the summer harvest has entered the final stage, although there is a great disturbance of the northern plague this year, but because of the timely control, the local patrols actively responded, coupled with the protection of the vitality pill refined by His Highness, all the people have returned to their hearts, and they are more diligent in farming, this year's summer harvest, not only will there be no bad harvest, but it is also possible to get a bumper harvest!"

"Is there still an outbreak of plague in the local area?" Leng Zhuo finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news, food is fundamental, as long as there is no shortage of food, Chuzhou will be as stable as a cornerstone.

"Back to Your Highness, although there are still death-dead plagues in the local area, most of them have been dealt with properly in a timely manner, and some that cannot be saved have also been burned and buried, and evolved by the light spirit master, and now there has been no epidemic with more than ten people in the thirteen prefectures and three counties under the rule of my Great Chu!"

The thirteen prefectures and three counties mentioned by Jiang Ziya include Jinfeng Mansion, Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and the two counties in the west of Yangzhou Prefecture, as well as Huangshan County in Ningbo Prefecture.

"En!" "Finally, it was not in vain, the plague was rampant during this period of time, and Leng Zhuo was busy with his hands and feet not touching the ground, there was no way, refining the Vitality Pill, there was really no way to find someone to replace it, the alchemy Ding in the Baijiang alchemy space was unique, and the aura in the Baijiang space was strong, so it had a high rate of knotting, and it was taken outside to refine, just to master the heat, plus the time spent refining a furnace of pills, it could not be delayed.

Leng Zhuo needs to be in charge of the ten prefectures of Chuzhou, the three prefectures and three counties occupied by Yangzhou, and the other four prefectures in the south of Qingzhou occupied by Bai Qi, and the population under his jurisdiction is not less than 10,000,000, although in these places, extremely strict lockdowns have been implemented, and the plague has finally not spread.

But in April spring ploughing, in order not to waste agriculture because of the plague, so on the ground of Chuzhou, the lockdown order has also been lifted to a certain extent, but the villages, towns, and cities still can't walk, but from home to the field, naturally it is impossible to isolate as in their own house, there will always be people infected with the plague, so the need for vitality pill is naturally a lot.

But these are not much, what really worries Leng Zhuo is Yangzhou, compared to Chuzhou, which is good for prevention and control, as well as the three prefectures and three counties of Yangzhou, the rest of Yangzhou can be regarded as full of mourning, countless prosperous cities were destroyed by the riots after the plague, and even now several mobs have formed in Yangzhou, these people are under the threat of the plague on the one hand, and they have to face the lack of food on the other.

As the plague continues, the desperate people of Yangzhou have become a tiger out of the cage, biting in all directions, and this tiger is still a tiger with a plague, the harm can not be ignored, and if you want to pacify these mobs, and even reorganize those towns that have fallen into the plague, vitality is indispensable.

Everything was in order in Chuzhou, Leng Zhuo comforted a little, turned his head, looked at Sun Wu and Guo Jiadao: "How is the preparation over there in Yangzhou!"

"Back to Your Highness, the Xuanwu Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion have all formed a team of soldiers and horses to enter Yang, in view of the current situation in Yangzhou, these two soldiers and horses are all composed of samurai and psychic divisions, and now they have been assembled in the waters of Taihu Lake, the north of Songjiang Mansion, and the east of Jinfeng Mansion!"

"In addition, the forbidden army has also dispatched 30,000 soldiers and horses, and they are already on the way to Yangzhou, and it is expected that after half a month, all of them will arrive at the front line in Yangzhou, counting the local temporary patchwork of Yangzhou, 140,000 soldiers and horses that can enter the plague land have been deployed!

Leng Zhuo sighed, but he didn't answer immediately, but after muttering for a while, Leng Zhuo said: "It's also time, herald, since you're ready, let's go, but this time I hope to clean it up!"

In the middle of July of the second year of the establishment of the Great Chu Dynasty, Leng Zhuo, the king of Chu, issued an order to march towards the plagued land of Yangzhou.

At the mouth of Taihu Lake, on the calm and waveless surface of Taihu Lake, there is a water fleet of considerable scale, although the Xuanwu Corps has eight major water and land divisions, but only three have completed the full formation, and although the rest have some scale, it still takes two or three years to complete the reorganization.

However, this time, except for the 1st Land and Water Division that stayed in Xiangyang, the 5th and 7th Land and Water Divisions patrolling the Tianhe waterway, and the 6th Land and Water Division, which was responsible for connecting Qingzhou, the remaining four land and water divisions were all assembled.

A letter eagle hovered in mid-air for two weeks before landing on the largest of the ships, in the middle of the countless ships.

The super building warship, the hull of more than 40 zhang long, the hull of up to 8 zhang, which makes this tower warship like a moving fortress, this super building warship, there are four floors of bilge, five floors of ship, the ship's side is like a city wall-like battlements, hundreds of archers can be arranged, and in the hull, there are dozens of large bed crossbows.

On the highest floor of the ship, there was the center of the entire naval division, and the hurried guards took the military order from the feet of the letter eagle, looked at it, and quickly went down to the cabin.

"Division commander, His Royal Highness's military order from the Military Aircraft Department!"

Sitting in a rattan chair, fanning a fan, holding a book full of pictures and reading with relish, hearing what the guards said, he immediately threw the book aside and jumped up from the rattan chair: "Huh, I finally don't need to bask in the sun here, pass on my military order, and the whole army leans towards Yancheng and prepares to land!"

"Division commander, haven't you read the content of the military order?"

"Didn't you order us to send troops?" Gan Ning was stunned for a moment and asked.

"That's right!"

"Then where did you get all that nonsense, hurry up and give me an order!" Gan Ning was aggrieved, from the very beginning, Gan Ning was a painful trick.

Thinking that year, Gan Ning was appointed by the young master as the commander of a battalion of water divisions, but only under his command had an appearance, the Holy Sect took advantage of the situation and chaos, Yuxi battle, in order to transfer a large number of craftsmen in the city, Gan Ning's department, most of the loss, and finally had to abandon the water village and go north to Xiangyang.

When he was in Xiangyang, there were many sailors in Xiangyang, and there were many warships, so he was also the focus of being relied on, so when there was a big war, it was also the limelight, and he could only play soy sauce and drink leftovers.

Although his Fourth Marine Division is still not fully established, it is now seventy percent of the establishment, which is considered to be the beginning of combat effectiveness, and this is his first independent battle.

Gan Ning was assigned the task of recapturing the big city east of the mouth of Taihu Lake, Yancheng, and after cleaning up Yancheng, he then went south along the official road and cleared the places one by one.

Thousands of warships moved in the wind, heading towards Yancheng, dozens of miles away.

Yancheng, a city located in the hills, although it is surrounded by the Tianhe River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, it is not cool at all, and it can even be described as a large steamer.

"My lord, there seem to be many floating corpses on the water!" As the waters approached the southern part of the Yancheng Wharf, countless corpses appeared on the surface of the lake.

Yes, innumerable, along the pier area, there are half-sunken and half-floating corpses everywhere.

"Damn, they're all plagued!" he picked up a few corpses with his oars, and saw that although the corpses were decomposed, the withered faces could be faintly seen.

"Damn, I'll never eat fish again!" A soldier suddenly vomited, and the other soldiers on the boat looked towards the lake, but saw that there were many big fish with small arms around them gnawing on the corpses, and their faces suddenly turned purple.

"Girl, it must have been done by the mob that occupied Yancheng, and all the people who got the plague were thrown into the lake by them!

"Damn, can these guys burn people to death by making a fire, and actually throwing them into the lake! It's not like there's nothing to do!" said the Flying Fish captain with a very unhappy face, these corpses in the lake, they must have to work hard to salvage, and then burn them completely, and those who do this are likely to share their heads.

"My lord, they seem to have run away! It is estimated that the mob in Yancheng will soon know of our arrival!"

"Let them come, my knife is already rusty, ready to go ashore!"

Gan Ning's sailors are not all, but some, and only 10,000 people can go ashore to attack, and only part of these 10,000 people are his marine brigades, and some are elite warriors and psychics drawn from the White Tiger Legion.

The landing of 10,000 people is obviously not something that can be done in minutes and seconds, and while landing, Gan Ning divided part of the fleet and began to use fishing nets to salvage the dead bodies in the lake, and then dragged them ashore and burned them uniformly, and in the army, there are also three light earth spirit masters, who will be responsible for purifying the dead qi around them.

"It's so heavy, ten miles away, you can see the clouds of death over Yancheng, how many fucking people have to die!"

"There must be a lot, there are many people from other places who have fled to Yancheng, thinking that they plan to cross the river north from here, but the ships near Yancheng have long been pulled away by those wealthy families in the city, plus our blockade of Tianhe, so that a large number of people have gathered here, and every day people want to cross the Tianhe River and escape from this place!"

Gan Ning snorted: "Let's go ashore too, three thousand people have already gone ashore, let's take a look at Yancheng first, I heard that it has now been occupied by a few powerful figures, and the mob below has been organized, if you want to take Yancheng, it's not easy!"

At the same time that Gan Ning landed at the wharf south of Yancheng, at the west wharf of Yangzhou, there were also Chuzhou troops of the same scale landing at Nanhu North Town and other places, and at the same time, Songjiang was adjacent to the line of Yangzhou Prefecture, and more than 20,000 elites also crossed that defensive line and rushed to a town not far away.

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