Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

Time passed quickly, and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

That afternoon, Zuo Wangfeng, the first general under the Crown Prince, finally led a large army to Dujiang Town.

As everyone in the Jiangnan area now knows, the Crown Prince has sent an army of 100,000 south to clean up the Second Prince's party and completely control the Jiangnan area.

So naturally, everyone in Dujiang Town was very scared and did not dare to provoke these tens of thousands of soldiers easily.

Zuo Wangfeng had no intention of dealing with the common people at all. After leading his army to Dujiang Town, in order to avoid causing panic among the people in the town, he ordered his soldiers to camp on the plains outside the town. He then took a team of personal guards and rushed to the town to find an inn to stay in.

In the evening, when he was having dinner in the lobby downstairs of the inn, Shuiyue came into the inn alone and sat at the table opposite him.

Prince Zuo didn't even raise his head, just focused on eating.

Shuiyue whispered, "General, may I ask what instructions the Crown Prince has now?"

"What a bullshit order. The Ninth Prince is making trouble at the border, forcing the Emperor of Diyue to send envoys to Kyoto for peace talks. Right now, he is so worried about this matter that he doesn't have time to care about Jiangnan." Zuo Wangfeng said unhappily.

"Then what should we do now? My people have been floating on the Tiancang River for more than twenty days. Is the waterway still blocked?" Shuiyue said dumbfounded.

She really didn't expect that the Ninth Prince Xuanyuan Qing was so powerful. While the Crown Prince was targeting Gu Chan in Jiangnan, he was causing trouble on the border, forcing the Emperor of Diyue Kingdom to send people to Kyoto for peace talks.

Now that the crown prince is temporarily in charge of the government, he naturally has to put the peace talks between the two countries first. And to put it bluntly, if the peace talks go well, it will be fine for the two countries. But if the talks don't go well, there's no telling if the Diyue Kingdom will make a comeback, and if the two countries fight again, that will be another headache for the crown prince.

Therefore, Xuanyuan Qing's move directly helped Gu Chan share a lot of pressure.

Zuo Wangfeng was not in the mood to eat anymore. He threw the chopsticks on the table, then reached out to wipe his mouth and sighed, "It's really not easy for the crown prince to sit firmly on the throne! Forget about the Ninth Prince, but now the Seventeenth Prince suddenly appeared. It's hard to deal with these two. One in the south and one in the north are causing trouble for him. He can't take care of either of them. I don't know what to do now."

"The general is right. I have fought with Gu Chan before. This kid is also extremely powerful. He has spirit beasts to help him. We dare not really attack Jiangnan City. Otherwise, once we cause civil unrest, the emperor hiding in the dark will definitely order Nanxing Kuang to send troops to stop us." Shuiyue said helplessly.

Zuo Wangfeng nodded quietly.

Shuiyue added, "General, when I fought with Gu Chan before, he destroyed more than a dozen warships, which was a big loss."

"It's good that there are no casualties. The warships don't matter. What I'm concerned about now is that you've been blocked for more than 20 days. The border relief silver raised by Gu Chan has not been transported to the border by water, and I came all the way here by land, but I didn't see any convoy transporting the relief silver on the road. Where did he send the border relief silver?" Zuo Wangfeng said with a stiff face.

He and Shuiyue led their troops here from land and water respectively. Their first priority was to intercept the 3 billion taels of silver raised by Gu Chan for border relief. But until now, they had not seen even half a copper coin, let alone the silver. This made him feel puzzled.

Shuiyue speculated to herself, "General, is it possible that because of our blockade, he has not been able to send such a large sum of money away in time, and now the silver is still stored somewhere in Jiangnan City?"

"If this is true, then the most likely place to hoard the silver is the Jiangnan camp. After all, Nan Xing Kuang only obeys the emperor's orders, and it is safest to keep the silver there." Zuo Wangfeng also guessed secretly.

"So what's the next plan?" Shuiyue asked.

Zuo Wangfeng thought silently for a while, then sneered and said, "If we don't want to cause civil unrest, if we want to take over the Jiangnan area, Gu Chan is the second, and Nanxing Kuang is the first. For now, we can only temporarily let our soldiers stay on the Tiancang River and at the Dujiang Town, or cut off both the land and water routes, and then the two of us will go to the Jiangnan camp first to visit Nanxing Kuang."

"General, how powerful is this Nanxing Kuang?" Shuiyue asked curiously.

During this period, she had been leading more than 20,000 soldiers under her command, occupying the waterway and floating on the Tiancang River. She had no time to go to the Jiangnan camp to visit Nanxing Kuang.

The most important thing is that she had never met this great general from Jiangnan before, so naturally she didn't know how powerful he was.

Zuo Wangfeng said solemnly, "This man is extremely powerful, intelligent, and quite strategic. It can be said that he combines all the advantages of the Crown Prince and the Ninth Prince in one person, and his methods are also extremely powerful. Otherwise, the Emperor would not trust him so much."

"Oh! It seems that if the prince wants to sit on the throne, he must first subdue Nanxing Kuang!" Shuiyue said with emotion.

"Okay, stop feeling sentimental and let's go! It's getting dark soon. We will be heading to the Jiangnan camp in secret now and won't be back tonight. This is a good opportunity for me to catch up with him." Zuo Wangfeng waved his hand and ordered.

Shuiyue nodded without comment.

Then the two of them said no more. After Zuo Wangfeng ordered the guards to rest and wait in the inn, he and Shuiyue left the inn together and took a boat across the river to the Jiangnan camp.

On the way there, Zuo Wangfeng saw the ships on the Tiancang River decorated with red and colorful decorations, showing a festive atmosphere, and couldn't help asking, "Is there any happy event in the Jiangnan area recently? Why are all the ships decorated with red and colorful decorations?"

"To the general, the Jiangnan Poetry Festival, an annual grand event in the Jiangnan area, will be held in three days, so all the ships passing by are decorated with red and colorful flags to celebrate the upcoming event." Shuiyue Huibing said.

"Hmph! This Gu Chan is really smart! She has held a poetry gathering at this critical juncture. This way, it will be even more difficult for us to lead troops into Jiangnan City. Otherwise, if the poetry gathering is disrupted, she will go to the Jiangnan camp to complain to me, and Nan Xing Kuang will be forced to send troops to stop it! She is quite shrewd." Zuo Wangfeng snorted coldly and muttered unhappily.

Shuiyue smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.

Anyway, they are now in a dilemma. Without the order of the prince, they dare not retreat. They want to lead the troops into Jiangnan City and take over the Jiangnan area, but they dare not enter rashly.

For a moment, she didn't know what to do.

After that, the two of them just stood at the bow, both feeling embarrassed and silent.

On the other side, in the Jigong Temple, Gu Chan was sitting in the Buddhist hall, looking at the memorial paper in his hand with a confused look on his face.