Lord of the House

The Zhejiang-Fujian Army marched northward and divided into three routes, all the way to the west of Huzhou to block the northward advance of the Huaidong Army.

Yue Lengqiu led the Jiangzhou soldiers very slowly, and even worried about food and grass. For the luxury family, the biggest threat was still on the left wing, so the Zheng Ming Jing Department on the left wing was almost all the Bamin elites who were resentful. On the contrary, a considerable number of soldiers and horses who were besieging Liyang in the middle route were recruited from Zhejiang County, represented by Tian Chang, Fang Heshan, etc., and they were also representative generals from Zhejiang County.

In order to make up for the lack of strength, the Huaidong Army continued to incorporate the troops and brigades into the troops, horses and camp troops under the jurisdiction of the Infantry Division.

Ten years of war in East Fujian has cultivated a large number of veterans and grass-roots officers for East Fujian, but in the past few years, they have also been recruited into the army one after another. The plight of a serious shortage of males.

According to the information obtained by the sentries and scouts, the Huaidong Army's final strength in Xiaoshan is likely to be as large as 60,000; in order to make up for the lack of strength, only 12,000 soldiers on the right wing of Su Tingzhan are the troops. Ma, Shewenzhuang also incorporated the 20,000 imperial battalions captured in Daqingxi, Yulingguan, and Huizhou into it, and the imperial battalion army who surrendered at Feihuangchai commanded Luo Wenhu as a lieutenant. Expanded to 30,000 people, becoming the largest army in the Shejia North.

The She family went north to the right wing. In fact, the combat effectiveness was the worst, but the right wing was also the least threatened. The She family also needed to further damage the morale of the Jiangning defenders in terms of the number of soldiers and horses.

Su Tingzhan led the troops on the right wing, and on the 17th day of Ningguo, the soldiers divided their way and took the cities of Xuanzhou, Yangjiang, and Lishui. On the 21st, they were blocked by the heavy snow on the upper reaches of the Rouge River.

Xuanzhou, Yangjiang, and Lishui all belonged to Jiangning, and they have not been attacked by troops for more than two hundred years, and have no experience in fighting against the enemy. After the fall of Huizhou, the entrance to Jiangning from the west of Zhejiang was opened. Although the imperial battalion still had 40,000 troops, they were all concentrated in the city of Jiangning, and even the navy also retreated into the city to strengthen the city defense.

Meng Yishan led the Hanghu Army into Liyang, blocking the opening between Maoshan and Taihu Xiling and preventing the rebels from going north. However, from the west of Maoshan to the Yangtze River in the northwest, in the counties, except for the three classes of yamen, knives and archers, and a few county soldiers. Outside the brave, only some of the rebels who had withdrawn from the south had collapsed.

It would be better if there were no rout of these chaotic troops. The crossings were all arbitrary burning, killing and looting; the destructive power of uncontrolled chaotic troops was comparable to that of the most ferocious bandits and thieves.

People like Dong Yuan are also unique, and not every place is lucky enough to meet them; Xuanzhou, Yangjiang, Lishui and other cities have at least three or five hundred soldiers, as many as a thousand or eight hundred soldiers, facing extravagant soldiers. How can the master of tigers and wolves come from the family to have the power to parry?

Although there are cities to defend, the city walls are dead. There are hundreds of ways for the enemy to attack the city. If the defenders do not know how to deal with them, it is useless to have a heroic city. In just a few days, Xuanzhou, Yangjiang , The three cities of Lishui fell one after another.

In order to prevent the captives and the generals of the former imperial camp from repeating, and to indulge the brutality of the soldiers' killing, and to raise food and grass during the heavy snow to reduce the logistical pressure, Su Tingzhan stopped him in Lishui because of the heavy snow. After receiving a secret order from Shewenzhuang, he carried out a three-day slaughter of the three cities of Xuanzhou, Yangjiang and Lishui.

Lishui is only a hundred miles away from Jiangning. Within the territory of Lishui, the Rouge River, which originates from East Lushan Mountain, is the source of Longzangpu. The news that the rebels will control the Rouge River reaches Jiangning on the 21st. cause a panic.

After Su Tingzhan left Ningguo, the marching speed was extremely fast, and there was hardly any reaction from the people in Yangjiang, Lishui and other counties, including many ships in the Rouge River that failed to withdraw. After taking control of Lishui, Su Tingzhan quickly dispatched troops and horses to force ships everywhere while plundering the city.

Jiang Ning withdrew the navy into the city to increase the defense of the city. He learned that the rebels were gathering ships upstream of Longzangpu. In addition to worrying about gains and losses, he dispatched more than 2,000 navy troops out of the water gate to go south along Longzangpu to test the enemy's situation.

In order to attack Jiangning, Shewenzhuang took out half of the troops of the navy in Nantai Island and eastern Zhejiang, and all of them were controlled by Su Tingzhan's right wing.

Su Tingzhan had a navy in his hand, but from west Zhejiang to south Jiangning, there were no rivers and rivers connected. After arriving in Lishui, there were naturally no warships available, so he hurriedly dispatched troops and horses to collect civilian ships, and wanted to restore the part of the navy outside Jiangning as soon as possible. prepared by.

If Jiang Ning was determined to send out the main force of the navy, Su Tingzhan could only retreat three times on Longzangpu. No more, no less, Jiangning sent two thousand sailors out of the city to spy on the military situation, and Su Tingzhan naturally wanted to eat it.

In the shallow waters of Bailu Lake, Su Tingzhan lured two thousand navy troops in Jiangning into the river, and used force to bring in more than two hundred fishing boats, carrying four thousand soldiers on the side to fight. The Egret Lake was dyed red.

In winter, the water is very shallow, and when it emerges from Bailu Lake, it is the Zhengshui of Longzangpu. The soldiers who died in the fierce battle and the people who were slaughtered because of the plundering of the city, the corpses descended along the water, and the river was against the backdrop of the bright white snow on both sides of the river. Next, the color is so green that it makes one's heart chill.

Longzangpu is divided into two parts in the south of the city, one flows from the west of the city, merges into the Yangtze River, and enters the Chaotiandang in Zhoubaili from the west entrance; The Jinchuan River enters Chaotian again.

There are iron gates blocking the water gate, so the floating corpses naturally cannot enter the city, but even if the river water is hundreds of miles away, the color is very different from usual.

Sun Wenbing took a boat from Dongshuimen into the city to see Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian.

Huang Jinnian sighed: "The She family is slaughtering and looting in the south. It seems that the She family intends to destroy the city, and has no intention of occupying Jiangning for a long time..."

"Even if Jiangning City was taken away by the She family without damage, it would be difficult to defend, but the She family could see clearly," Lin Xuwen said, and felt very sorry for the destruction of the Jiangning Navy's 2,000 troops in Bailu Lake. He has experience in military and defense, but it is only limited to this. It is hard to make people have high hopes for him! We tried every means to evacuate the ship from the periphery of Jiangning. of……"

Sun Wenbing followed with a wry smile. If he didn't have the determination to fight, it would be better to defend the city, no more or no less, and send one or two thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to test, as if he was afraid that the luxury family would be choked, and called Sun Wenbing and other bystanders to watch He was also quite speechless-whether Cheng Yuqian would fight, from the ninth year of Chongguan, he led the Jiangdong reinforcements to the north, and it was exposed.

Sun Wenbing also went to Qin Wang with Lin Fubei that time, and he was more aware of Cheng Yuqian's performance than others. At that time, Cheng Yuqian led the Jiangdong reinforcements to always stay in the safe interior. It is not too much to say that he was greedy for life and fear of death. In the end, he still shared some of the achievements of the Jiangdong left army, and Cheng Yuqian had some exaggerated capital.

However, in Jiangning City, after Yue Lengqiu, who really knew the military affairs, left, Cheng Yuqian seemed to be the only one to pick up the lead above the temple. This may be the most important deficiency in Jiangning City's defense.

"This is a letter from Xiaoshan," Sun Wenbing took out the secret letter from his arms, handed it to Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian, and said, "The She Family's right wing soldiers and horses seem to be blocked by heavy snow in Lishui, and they cannot go north. In fact, they are waiting for the battle in Liyang. The result. As soon as Liyang is broken, the She family's troops will move very fast. As it stands, Yue Lengqiu has no intention of leading Jiangzhou soldiers to enter Jiangning's outskirts to fight the She family recklessly. Although Jiangning has a waterway connecting Chaotian Dang , but the She family soldiers and horses are surrounded, and the waterway is not safe. Now the emperor has the last ray of hope for the Hanghu Army to resist the rebels in Liyang.

The She family's right-wing soldiers and horses are only more than a hundred miles away from Jiangning. Although Jiangning has not completely closed the city, it is exactly the same. Every day, a large number of refugees flee into the city to seek refuge. It means that more and more refugees are pouring into Jiangning. Once the city is besieged and the connection with the periphery is cut off, the food in the city will soon be exhausted by more than one million people.

From Sun Wenbing's point of view, Jiangning City was already in jeopardy, and the reinforcements did not come. I am afraid that Emperor Yongxing's heart was beginning to shake.

Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian had no intention of coexisting with Jiang Ning. After reading the secret letter sent by Lin Fu from Xiaoshan, Lin Xuwen said to Huang Jinnian: "I see this, Lord Huang and I immediately went to the palace to ask for an order, and Brother Jinnian followed Wen Bing out. Dongcheng went to Zhao Hu’s army, and the old seventeen said that if someone wants to see Yue Lengqiu, it’s better for me to go!”

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Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian entered the palace, went to the Wenhua Hall to face the saint, and rushed to Zhang Yan and Chen Xiyan.

Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian had long thought of an excuse, and they played together: "The reinforcements have not arrived yet, and they are hindered by the wind and snow. The court should also send important officials to help them to boost the morale of the generals. In addition, Jiangzhou, Huaidong, the First Army Coming from the southwest, an army from the southeast, there are mountains and rivers in the middle, and there are rebels blocking the channel, communication is not smooth, naturally cannot cooperate with the tacit understanding to come to attack the rebels, the minister is willing to help, the supervisor is fast..."

Yuan Jianwu's face was gloomy and uncertain. The reinforcements from all walks of life came so slowly, and he did gradually lose his patience. Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian came at the same time to ask for an order to leave the city. Of course, he would not believe that he had any good intentions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Chen Xiyan said: "Lin Xiang and Lord Huang are for the sake of the imperial court, and it is very good that they are willing to take up this position. The old minister also urges the emperor to enshrine Lin Xiang and Lord Huang to work in the two divisions."

Zhang Yan would like to think that Chen Xiyan would stop Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian from leaving the city. Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian's sons stayed in Chongzhou, and only brought their wives and concubines to Jiangning to take office. A few days ago, both his wives and concubines went out of the city to avoid entering Hekou Prison Island. , Huang Jinnian went out of the city at this time, didn't he clearly want to smear the soles of his feet before slipping away?

Zhang Yanzheng secretly wondered why Chen Xiyan was so unwise, to have lied to Lin Xuwen with such a simple lie?

Chen Xiyan added: "In addition to the heavy snow blocking the road, the Jiangzhou Army sent personnel to Jiangning to report the lack of food, so they had to raise enough food in Chizhou before leaving. Now that Jiangning's food cannot be wiped out, it can only be temporarily called from Dongyang Mansion. We need Xiang Lin to coordinate!"

It was only at this time that Zhang Yan understood Chen Xiyan's subtext, Yue Lengqiu was slow, but he would never want to see Jiangning City being broken by the rebels. First, the Jiangzhou army hurriedly launched, which was indeed a lack of food; second, and the main one, Yue Lengqiu was worried that Huaidong would be pitted, and was afraid that he would first enter the periphery of Jiangzhou and face the rebels alone.

At this time, Yue Lengqiu didn't care much about the court's promise, but more about Huaidong's promise.

Now Lin Xuwen went to Jiangzhou Army to work as a teacher, urging Yue Lengqiu to hurry up, and in disguise as a hostage in Yue Lengqiu's hands; Lin Xuwen couldn't trap himself, so that Yue Lengqiu could feel more at ease with the Huaidong Army.

The heavy snow at the moment can prevent the rebels from quickly approaching Jiangning, but it cannot be dragged. Even if Huaidong delays, Zhang Yan, Chen Xiyan and Emperor Yongxing hope that the Jiangzhou army can go faster. It looks a lot better, but I can only let Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian go out of the city. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter