After two days of busy work, De'an received the first batch of cloth armor and grain and grass from Xinyang and Yingshan.

The number totaled 5,000 pairs, all of which were given to the eastern part of Cao Mang's troops, so that the soldiers could shed their shabby and heavy clothes and let their military rations be brought with them.

Yang Kai took advantage of the three days when Yin Zuochan deployed armaments in Xiaogan City, and brought his own soldiers to inspect the direction of Yingcheng, and when he returned, he caught up with the eve of the departure of the army, and took the opportunity to let the army of Huixing De'an take away the pestering Qin Nange, and then ordered to discuss and arrange De'an affairs, and rushed to Xiaogan.

Early the next morning, Yang Kai first went out of the city to see off Cao Mang's front army, and then went out of the city to the east was Hu Shahu's front army.

Both sides brought the siege and defense equipment that Yin Zuochan asked De'an to process and manufacture, and a total of two battalions were distributed to the east and west battalions, and each battalion was divided into more than 100 planes, which was regarded as an advance drill of the Wuchang Campaign, and they were familiar with the armament.

After sending off the two battalion generals, Yang Kai asked the soldiers to complete the main road leading to Yingcheng in the west of Xiaogan City, every time the river is crossed, it is necessary to prepare the passing ships, in the end, he still cares about the pressure of Yingcheng, they fight on a long line, and the defense of the flanks is particularly important.

Prepare in advance, once there is a military situation, you can pass the military report and command the frontline battle at will, once the invasion of the Hanyang side begins, it will be impossible for him to want to patrol again.

"How's the situation in Hanyang these days?" In the few days since Yang Kai left, Yin Zuochan alone could not handle many things, so the "hostages" brought from Xinyang to De'an and then to Xiaogan were used.

The two people who were hired were Fang Zuoshuang, who had previously offered the strategy of Fucheng, and Xu Zhouling, who was selected through discussion. In the same way, an anti-thief department was set up in the city, and those who disobeyed the control and violated the strategy of governing the city were thieves, and were responsible for governing Xiaogan County and surrounding villages and towns to ensure that there was no chaos.

Before the discussion came, the two of them would assume the governance of the city, and Yang Kai's more thoughts should still be placed on the military, and it was Fang Zuoshuang who was standing in front of him at this moment, and he said with sincere fear:

"What Mr. Qin said and the information of Mr. Chen coincided, and Mr. Yin was not at ease, so he also sent a cavalry into Hanyang to inquire about the local natives, and did not find anything wrong.

On the Hanyang side, it was generally thought that our army came to attack the city in the south, so it has been busy preparing and has no intention of leaving the city. Now it has been made panicked by the general's speech. ”

Yang Kai was slightly relieved, about the east and west marches, let the pro-soldiers and Tanma pay more attention.

Xiaogan is only more than 100 miles away from Hanyang, and it will not take more than two days for the whole army to be launched.

According to the previous agreement, early tomorrow morning, Cao Mang would attack Chadian Town, west of Hanyang, as a base for them to enter Hanyang, and then quickly send a thousand households to lead troops to the south of Hanyang Mansion City to intercept passing ships.

Because, what is foreseeable is nothing more than two outcomes. First, the Hanyang army was in danger, and Wuchang got the news, and immediately sent troops to guard the north and south banks to prevent the Liukou from further invading eastward, and the other took the initiative to send troops to cross the river to the west to help, and the Liukou had not yet established a stable root.

In either case, the work of intercepting ships was very important, and once the war began, it would be difficult for them to intercept a large number of passing ships, which would greatly delay their plans to enter the southern part of Wuchang and the northern part of Yuezhou.

The text spread by Chen Yu's main reconnaissance camp will continue to ferment and stir people's hearts. As long as they maintain a fierce enough offensive, they will definitely be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort. The people who know the house and leak are in the world, and the people who know the government are in the grassland, and the officials and soldiers can't catch the people's heart disease, so they can't prescribe the right medicine, the people's hearts are in chaos, and no matter how strong the defenders in the city are, they are just paper tigers.

According to the reconnaissance battalion, Hanyang Mansion City has to gather troops for a few days, and its scale is only two or three thousand people, Wuchang does not dare to rush to help, Cao Mang's troops send Hanyang Mansion City, in Yang Kai's view, it is a sure victory, and there will not even be too large-scale bloody battles.

Regarding the plan of Yuezhou Mansion to go south to Changsha Mansion, Yang Kai did not issue it for the time being, this needs to wait for them to capture Wuchang, and then make judgments one after another, anyway, the iron mine itself can't run, and the small rebel army may still come to surrender to them.

The Ming court wants to transfer troops and send generals, first to collect food and wages, draw troops from the Shaanxi war situation, and suppress the banditry in Henan and Hu, which is tantamount to demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall.

Zuo Liangyu in northern Henan was led by the Eight Kings and Cao Cao, and the task of leading the troops would probably fall to Sun Chuanting, who was sent to Beijing to be executed, and it would take at least a month to complete the work of transferring troops, levying food and wages, and sending troops to Henan.

The station of Yang Kaibu, to say that the geographical location is the northernmost is Xinyang, Xinyang is separated by the Huai River to the north, and there is a thick defense line that breaks through the Tianbui, and on the east side, there are old Hui Hui who are fighting in the two counties of Dabie Mountain and the east of Nanzhili to cover up.

As long as their position removes the threat to them from the lake, it is the safest, even if they are accused of trapping the domain, they may still fall on the head of their new camp in the end, but Yang Kai's head, there is also a Gao Yingen who can help him bear all this.

This was also one of the reasons why Yang Kai kept Gao Yingen's life, he wanted to seize this important time.

For three days in a row, Hu Shahu was already under the city of Hanchuan, and on the fourth day, the horse sent to the direction of Huangzhou Mansion finally returned, but what he brought back was the news that He Jin had spent a lot of time crossing Dabie Mountain.

After entering the Huangzhou Mansion, he was nostalgic for looting, tired of delaying the speed of the march, and it would take at least six or seven days for the whole army to cross the northern part of Wuchang, the shield army of Xinzhou.

This is exactly what Yang Kai was worried about before, calculating the time, it took six days for the garrison Xiaogan, and two days to attack Hanyang, about two more days, to be able to stabilize the victory, and wait for six or seven days on the He Jin side, and more than half a month is enough time for the officers and troops on the Chengtian side to complete the mobilization.

At this point, there is no other way. Whether he did this on purpose, and wanted Yang Kai to lose the battle in the lake, and then let his troops merge into his left battalion, or whether he was really greedy for looting, it didn't matter how long he was.

Yang Kai could only urge the direction of Xiwang Yingcheng and Hanchuan to scatter the rangers, control the main arterial roads, occupy the high ground and set up a sentry post for ten miles, and repair it all the way to the two cities, so that the information could be transmitted more quickly and conveniently.

There are still two mountains in the direction of Yingcheng to cover, but the terrain can be skillfully advantaged, and the ambush of self-interest is created, and this place in Hanchuan is a flat river, which is a position that can be advanced and retreated, but now the Hushahu Department is only stationed and feints, and cannot retreat, which is very difficult.

Yang Kai asked them to take advantage of the time when the official army sent troops, to attack instead of defending, and Yingcheng side, forming a two-front response from the north and south, first, to continue to create the illusion of a large-scale invasion of Chengtian, and secondly, to make them tired of coping, unable to figure out the true situation of their own side, and did not dare to attack easily.

But this can only deal with the urgency of the moment, after a long time, the enemy will definitely react, plus their attack on Wuchang, it will definitely not be small, it cannot be blocked, once the officers and soldiers know their movements, it is a matter of time before the soldiers crush the city.

Deng Fang's department was stationed in Yingcheng, and the execution of Yang Kai's orders was clear-sighted, he was not stupid, at most he had poor experience and ability to destroy the city, since Yang Kai took over the new plate in Xinyang, he first wooed him and Liang Guang, and then showed his mind in De'an.

Whether it was a general or a soldier, they all saw it in their eyes, and slowly, Yang Kai's image in their hearts also changed from a bold young man to a living leader.

His emphasis was always on burying the dead, caring for the wounded, distributing food, soothing the people and conscripting soldiers, rewarding soldiers, dreaming of sleeping at night to formulate strategies, and painstakingly analyzing the battlefield.

Compared with the previous experience of following the crowd, semi-voluntary, and half-forced to join the army, now there is one more person who is willing to do his best for their life and death, victory or defeat, and there are almost no descendants or side boundaries, which makes everyone more at ease to integrate into the army and think about things on the battlefield.

In addition, Deng Fang, Liang Guang, Cai Qian, and Zhao Hu are either leaders in the army, or well-known veterans, and their respect for Yang Development from the bottom of their hearts is also imperceptibly infecting their soldiers.

Time passed day by day, the city of Hanyang was conquered, Cao Mang did not cross the river to the east, but turned south, took the interception ship, and swept through Quankou Town and other places. On the Wuchang side, the king of Chu became more and more anxious.

After Cao Mang crossed the river, Yang Kai called Zhao Hu and Su Fu'an, and asked him to bring 5,000 soldiers from his headquarters and make up for the old troops left by Cai Qian, Wei 13, and Yanhou, totaling more than 8,000 soldiers.

The old soldiers all changed into cloth armor, brought 300 trench-filling chariots, dust-raising vehicles, and inverted boats, and brought all the firearms collected by the three-eyed guns, thunderbolts, shotguns, five thunder god machines, swarm bees, antique backhall howitzers, general cannons, mines, and earth-shaking thunderbolts that they collected when they came in.

After ordering the main army to enter Hanyang, first get in touch with Cao Mang's guards stationed in the town, follow the route of Cao's army, use their previously intercepted boats, capsize the boat to find a place where the river is narrow and the river flows slowly, and can also be used as a small boat, and march across the river to the south, shield the two towns of Wuchang Quankou and Zhifang.

Then he ordered the old department left by Yanhou to bring half of the firearms into the city of Hanyang, dispatch the southern ships to complete the carrying task and go north, transport the firearms to the big ship, and the small boat planted the flag Yang Fan followed behind the big ship, only to carry out a long attack, as a feint to cross the river, and cover the battle of the army in the south of Wuchang.

Early this morning, Yin Zuochan Army reported from Hanchuan: Feint attack from far and near, Chengtian did not react much, most of the officers and troops shrank to the area of Jingling County, and wanted to be aware of our army's tactics, according to the villain's observation, the officers and troops still wanted to attack in the direction of Yingcheng. In addition, Hu Qianhu brought new soldiers with veterans, practiced for several days, and the battle formation was initially formed, and it was feasible to attack the enemy.

After reading the letter, Yang Kai frowned, called his own soldiers and asked, "Where is the left battalion now?" ”

Xu Youyou's arrival in front of the map, pointed to the location of Xinzhou above, and said, "According to yesterday's report from Tanma, Zuoying Fangke Xinzhou." ”

Yang Kai's face changed suddenly, and he scolded: "Why are you still in Xinzhou?!" ”

"According to what King Zuo Jin said, the Zuo battalion is short of soldiers, and it takes a day to rest to capture Xinzhou, and at the same time, it has been sent to the riverside to intercept the boats, and it will take two days to enter Wuchang Mansion to pose a threat." Xu Youyou's startled and reported truthfully.

"Swallow it slowly, it's a big deal for me! Sooner or later, this account will have to be settled with you. Yang Kai stared straight at the map and softened his tone.

"The herald should be ordered to the Deng Fang Department of Yingcheng, immediately withdraw the layman's feint attack team, hide the forest with guns and bows, ride swords on the road, and strictly defend it, at least for five days."

As soon as the pro-soldiers came out, the messenger of Yingcheng rode horses and filial piety, and another pro-soldier rushed in, knelt on the ground, and reported: "General, Yingcheng is in a hurry, outside Jingshan County, next to the county river, a large number of officers and soldiers are now camped. ”

"Pass on my military order, and the whole army of Hanchuan will press to Jingling."