Huarong Road, bordering the Yangtze River to the north, is at the apex of a triangular area.

To the east, you can enter Dongting Lake, thus threatening Yueyang and overlooking Jiangxia.

Crossing the Lishui River to the south to attack Changde, cutting off the passage to the west of Changsha City.

To the west, you can hold Shishou and public security, which is a key point in the defense of Jingnan.

Because of this, there is a fold in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that "Zhuge Liang is wise and Huarong, and Guan Yunchang interprets Cao Cao".

Wang Wenyao led less than 1,000 subordinates, and the first stop was to rush to Huarong Road in the east, because from here you can cross the Yangtze River north to enter Chuyang.

It is the southern gate of Zhongxiang and Anlu Mansion under the rule of Li Zicheng, the "Generalissimo of the Fengtian Initiative", and it is also the east gate of Jingzhou Mansion.

Chuyang was a strategic location, and Generalissimo Li Zicheng specially arranged for the resourceful Li Yan to guard here.

Wang Wenyao rushed to Huarong Dao non-stop, just to get the assistance of the general Li Yan.

There are 3,600 elite troops directly under General Li Yan, and 2,400 female soldiers under his wife, Red Lady.

The most important thing is that Li Yan can coordinate the defense of Jingzhou Meng Changgeng and Yin Zhang Yuji of Jingzhou Mansion to increase a group of soldiers.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered Huarong Road, Wang Wenyao saw a person he didn't want to see: Helangen.

"The river has been blocked here, and outsiders are not allowed to enter Dongting Lake in the east, and General Wang can only go west along the Yangtze River to find a way out. ”

Helengen did not send a large army, and behind him were three hundred and sixty horsemen.

This road was impassable, so Wang Wenyao had to rush west to Shishou with the remnants of the defeated army, and arrived at the destination without sleep for two days and two nights.

This road is also impassable, because there is a big flag erected on the city tower: "Tangda, the right vanguard of the garrison of Changde City".

This time no one came out, but the gates were closed, and the towers were full of swords and guns.

There was no way, Wang Wenyao could only continue to run west to the public security.

There is no merit and hard work, this sentence is the most boring excuse.

Just because you've endured hardships along the way doesn't mean you'll be able to fulfill your good wishes.

When he saw the Public Security City, Wang Wenyao almost fell off the horse: he was fooled, the Shishou City in front of him was an empty city!

The basis for Wang Wenyao's determination that Shishou City is an empty city is that Tang Da, the right vanguard of the garrison of Changde City, is now blocking the east gate of the Public Security City, and behind him is the 2,400 cavalry with a strict rank!

This road is still impassable, and it seems that it is more difficult to cross the Yangtze River north into Jingzhou City.

Continue to run west towards Songzi, which is the only path Wang Wenyao can take now.

Is there a road in Songzi?

There is a road in Songzi, but it is even more difficult to walk.

Because there are also people blocking the road outside the east gate of the old city of Songzi, and it is 2,400 elite cavalry: the left vanguard of the garrison of Changde City, Chang Delin!

"General Wang, don't come unharmed!" Unlike Tang Da, Chang Delin also spoke: "This place can't be passed casually, because there are our people raising war horses in Bailizhou." If General Wang wants to cross the Yangtze River north, I am afraid that he needs to rush to Yidu County and then cross the river from Yaoting. ”

Wang Wenyao was so angry in his heart that he didn't mention it.

Are you going to let me go? You are obviously playing tricks on me! We have been running wild for nine days along the way, but all the places where we can cross the river have been occupied.

Can Yidu County cross the river? Wang Wenyao has no confidence at all.

Unexpectedly, Chang Delin on the opposite side was so understanding: "General Wang don't worry, I was ordered to personally escort you to Yidu County until I saw you cross the Yangtze River!"

Wang Wenyao was so angry that he trembled: "Escort? Use 2,400 cavalry to escort these remnants of the defeated soldiers around me? Is this an escort? It is clearly an escort, it is simply unreasonable!

The shape is stronger than people, even if Chang Delin wants to be escorted, Wang Wenyao has no choice.

Actually, Guan Datou and Helangen really didn't think about playing Wang Wenyao, because the two of them didn't have the idleness.

Let Wang Wenyao go around in circles in Jiangnan, the key is that Guan Datou arrived in a hurry, and the strategic points to defend Changde City have not yet had time to be established.

This will take time, and it will require a huge mobilization of troops, and it will not be visible to others.

For example, Tang Da's task is to guard the public security, but Shishou is also his defense area, but the infantry defending the city has not yet come up, so he can only set up a false flag in Shishou City, and then set up a formation outside the east gate of the public security city to scare Wang Wenyao.

The old city of Songzi has been decided to be the former enemy headquarters of Helangen, which is in the direction of public security and Yidu.

But now Helangen is still rectifying the infantry army in Huarong Dao and improving the raising of ordnance, grain and grass, so he can only let Chang Delin, the left vanguard, make a false shot in Songzi County, and then press Wang Wenyao to feel that his defense area: Yidu County.

There is also a crucial issue, which is to clean up the original court officials along the way.

If you want to clean up the officials originally placed in the imperial court, you need a reason: the suppression of bandits is not effective!

Let Wang Wenyao march along the road with the remnants of less than 1,000 defeated soldiers, just to create momentum.

This series of conspiracies and tricks, Guan Datou and Helian Gen couldn't think of, all of them were a plan specially formulated by the old master Miao Sanguan after receiving the report.

The military advisor Wan Lian let Miao Sanguan let go of his hands and feet to do a big job, which means that it has reached the last moment.

In particular, the main male Xiong Chu strictly ordered not to cross the Yangtze River, so Miao Sanguan believed that the first step in a big fight was to build a complete Yangtze River defense line.

Releasing Wang Wenyao is a strategic step that kills three birds with one stone, and of course it must be cautious.

The last step was to let Wang Wenyao spread the news that "Jiangnan is full of officials and troops who are strictly guarded and will definitely not be able to fight" to Jiangbei, so that Li Zicheng can dispel the idea of going south.

To do this, that is, the result of Chang Delin's mouth saying "I was ordered to watch you cross the river with my own eyes".

I think that at the beginning, Miao Sanguan was in a hurry to pass a 50,000-word long letter to Xiong Chu, because Li Yantun was in charge of Yang, so it was inferred that Li Zicheng's army was about to go south.

Regardless of whether others know it or not, Miao Sanguan knows anyway: all the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is neither in the imperial court, nor in the hands of the common people, but in the homes of those vassal kings.

After the king Gao Yingxiang was killed, Li Zicheng, the general of Chuang, was able to quickly become the number one force, Li Yan and the red lady took the initiative to join them, and even Cao Cao Luo Rucai was willing to throw himself into the account and let him be driven, there is a heavy reason for this.

"Cut off a vassal king, and an army of 100,000 will eat for three years!"

This rumor is not false, but the real thing.

Although Li Zicheng did not read much, he was very active in his heart and eyes, and he analyzed the relationship between success and failure of the Ming Dynasty very thoroughly.

King Gao Yingxiang was killed, and Li Zicheng's opportunity finally came.

As Gao Yingxiang's son-in-law, Li Zicheng took over the banner as a matter of course, and then adjusted the main goal of the operation.

Many people wonder why millions of rebel armies wander around, instead of painstakingly running a piece of territory like the rebel armies in history.

There is no doubt that there is no anti-king who does not want to have a piece of territory that is completely their own.

However, if you want to have a piece of your own territory and get the people to support you, the first thing you have to do is to be able to give the people something to eat.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty was just the opposite, no matter who occupied what territory, it was impossible for the people to have food in a short period of time!

Many people haven't figured out the key point in this, but Li Zicheng has figured it out, and Miao Sanguan, Wan Lian, Li Yan and others have long understood the mystery.

All the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the vassal king, and only by defeating the local vassal king can the people of this place be able to eat on the same day!

The richest prince of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Changxun, the king of Luoyang, who had no less than 60 million dollars in silver!

Because of this, all the major forces in the previous stage were laid out around Luoyang, and Miao Sanguan and Li Yan were the first to start the layout.

It's a pity that Prince Xiong resolutely disagrees to tear his face with the imperial court, and Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying secretly plan another territory.

This land is the land of lakes.

The princes of Huguang include the kings of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Zhongxiang, Wuchang Chu, Changsha, Hengyang, and Dong'an, which are one of the areas with the highest concentration of princes.

Because Prince Xiong was always hesitant and indecisive, as a result, Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying's strategic plan to take the king of Xiangyang and Jingzhou failed at the earliest, and they were forced to take the lead in seeking the king of Hengyang Gui.

Xiong Chu didn't do anything, but Li Zicheng didn't have the slightest scruples.

In the past three years, Li Zicheng has defeated the six princes of Luoyang, Kaifeng, Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and Zhongxiang, and the wealth in his hands has reached almost one-sixth of that of the Ming Dynasty.

Sai Cao Cao Luo Rucai, such a scheming person who has never been willing to be inferior, finally discovered the mystery from Li Zicheng's actions, and led more than 70,000 of his men to surrender.

After that, Li Yan and the Red Lady, Song Xiance, and Niu Jinxing all saw the dawn, and then rushed to Li Zicheng's account.

When the news of Li Yan and the Red Lady Tun Bing came to Weiyang, Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying didn't have to think about it to understand that the next target of their couple was Zhu Huakui, the king of Wuchang Chu on Gaoguan Mountain (now Wuchang Snake Mountain).

Since entering the Huguang region, Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying have already regarded the wealth of the King of Chu and the King of Changsha as their own, and now Li Yan and the Red Lady want to pull out their teeth, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Miao Sanguan wrote a lot of things to Xiong Chu Rory, which was to deliberately mislead Xiong Chu's sight, and then let Xiong Chu come up with a general opinion to agree, which was enough.

In fact, Xiong Chu was misled by Miao Sanguan and Wan Lian, and he didn't expect that Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying were now preparing to tear their faces with Li Yan, and then take advantage of the situation to win the king of Wuchang and the king of Changsha, so as to expand their treasury to recruit troops and buy horses, and completely do a big job.

Li Yan didn't know about the various changes south of the Yangtze River, and the information he had was still the three forces of the king of Wuchang, the king of Changsha, and the king of Hengyang.

Li Yan didn't pay attention to the abilities of several princes at all, and it was a strategic plan to send Wang Wenyao, a handsome and mighty general, to lead 6,000 troops to capture Lizhou and Changde City.

Li Yan's purpose is very clear: if he doesn't move, he will take the Wuchang Mansion and the Changsha Mansion at the same time, and then attack the Hengyang Mansion on both sides.

Unexpectedly, Wang Wenyao was never heard from after he left, and there was no news for three months in the blink of an eye. When the news came, Li Yan was dumbfounded.

Wang Wenyao was wiped out!

This news is not false at all, because Wang Wenyao has led less than a thousand remnants of the defeated army back to Chuyang, and then recounted what he saw and heard in detail.

"How can this be?" Li Yan was a little confused: "General Wang is saying that the power of Zhu Youlang, the king of Hengyang, has extended to the south bank of the Yangtze River and occupies all strategic points. How is this possible? Zhu Youlang is just a teenager, how can he have such a majestic talent?"

No, this matter is really weird, Li Yan decided to personally cross the river to reconnoitre.

A scene that made Li Yan puzzled suddenly appeared.

It turned out that after Guan Datou and Heligen completed their tactical tasks, Peng Wuying, who was in charge of people's livelihood and administrative management, immediately organized 200,000 laborers and began to build a levee on the south bank of the Yangtze River to prepare for this year's flood control.

Li Yan and the red lady put on makeup to become a fisherman couple, drove a small fishing boat across the river, and saw Peng Wuying and Guan Datou in the busy crowd!

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