Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 564

At the end of April, Murong Nobunaga commanded seven thousand fine riders into Yangzhou, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

In this way, the Zhou army in the city reached a scale of 10,000 people, and it was the most elite 10,000 people in Zhou State.

In addition to the 5000 people around Zhang Zhao, Zhou Guo personally defended the six armies, and the elite of the seven towns in the four directions were all here.

So Murong Nobunaga was very cautious. Thanks to Li Cunhui's stabilization of the situation in Yangzhou, Murong Nobunaga directly divided the 10,000 people into three parts.

The left and right armies were stationed outside Yangzhou City, and the Chinese Army was stationed in the north of Yangzhou City.

As for the security of Yangzhou City, Murong Xinchang simply let Yangzhou's original Nantang County soldiers be responsible, but most of the officers of these county soldiers were replaced by Zhou Guo's own soldiers.

Moreover, they are only responsible for law and order, not city defense, which also reduces the possibility of betrayal.

As for how to arrange the city defense, eh!Murong Nobunaga didn't make any arrangements at all. These [-] cavalry are in Yangzhou, and they still need to defend the city?
Soldiers are here to fight field battles!

Not long after Murong Xinchang entered Yangzhou City, Bai Congxin also led a rear army of [-] cavalry to capture the Southern Tang Jianwu Army.

At this time, the army was not the same as the Junzhou in the Song Dynasty. The army at this time can be regarded as the backup of Jiezhen, or the Jiedushi with less power.

Originally, the Jianwu Army also had a Tianchang system envoy here, and the Jianwu Army also had thousands of people enough to defend the place.

But the tragedy is that after the Jianwu army took refuge in the Southern Tang Dynasty in Hucile, they were transferred to Xuzhou, and then, together with Liu Yanzhen, they all fell to the edge of Mengzhuze.

Therefore, the Jianwu army at this time is basically an empty shell, unable to resist Bai Congxin's attack at all.

The fall of the Jianwu Army was fatal to Southern Tang.

Because this military state located in Tianchang, Anhui in later generations, has the last hilly area north of Yangzhou. Once the enemy crosses Tianchang, it will immediately be flat.

What's more terrible is that Gaoyou Lake at this time is only a small water pond and cannot play the role of stopping the northern cavalry. Therefore, the Jianwu Army is currently an important barrier from Huainan to Jiangnan.

Together with Chuzhou in the southwest, one is the north gate of Yangzhou, the eastern capital, and the other is the north gate of Jiangning, the western capital.

Bai Congxin's occupation of the Jianwu Army is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Yangzhou and Huainan Haozhou and Sizhou, so that the power to assist Yangzhou can only come from Jiangning in the south of the Yangtze River.

And after Murong Nobunaga finished these, the loyal courtiers in Chuzhou and other places in the Southern Tang Dynasty, who were actually the beneficiaries of Juntian and Bozheng, arrived outside the city of Yangzhou crying.

This is really not because they are slow, but because the Zhou army, which was born out of the Guiyi army, mobilized and assembled too fast.

It took only one day for the Zhou army who entered Chuzhou to complete the three tasks of the battle plan, mobilization, assembly, and selection of elites.

They still have enough tall horses to attack Yangzhou at the speed of one person, two horses to three horses.

On the other hand, the "loyal ministers" of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Chuzhou and other places dared not walk on the big road, and secondly, they did not have good horses. They arrived a day later than Murong Nobunaga, and they were considered fast runners.

Poor these guys, who ran from Chuzhou to Yangzhou to report and beg, but when the gate opened, good guy, Yangzhou also belongs to Zhou State!
For such people, Murong Xinchang unceremoniously went up and greeted them with swords and guns. Almost all dozens of people were killed, and only a few were left to let Yangzhou go, and he was specially asked to report to Li Jing.

And Nobunaga Murong, who had killed several people, quickly began to discuss with Li Cunhui, Yao Yuanfu and others how to lure the Southern Tang army across the river as soon as possible.

After all, their current rule is not stable. The sooner they defeat the Southern Tang Army, the sooner they will be safe.

At this time, the proposals of the heads of the Han family and the Chen family were reported by Jin Yi's personal guards.

Among them, the head of the Han family was bought by Jinyi's personal guards long ago, and he has persuaded the entire Han family and the fishermen in several nearby villages to follow the emperor Zhou to the death.

The background of the head of the Chen family has also been investigated.

His son was killed by a big boat owned by Li Hongji, the son of Li Jing's Nanchang King, and his daughter-in-law was also thrown into the water.

Patriarch Chen's six daughters had only one son, but he didn't even leave him a queen.

The head of the Chen family was extremely sad, lost all motivation to live, and wanted revenge in his dreams, very believable.

Li Cunhui nodded in satisfaction and said: "Taizhou is only [-] miles away from Yangzhou, cavalry can reach it in a day and night, as long as someone opens the door, it is a breeze to capture.

Moreover, Yang Wu's clan is all in Yongning Palace, Hailing, Taizhou. If someone doesn't believe that we have won Taizhou, Li Jing dare not be nervous. "

The corner of Murong Xinchang's mouth curled into a smile, Yang Xingmi's descendants are actually of little use to Zhou Guo.

Because Zhang Zhao founded the country as a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, holding the two great righteousness of returning to the country with loyalty and expelling the northern captives, there is no need to grasp the descendants of Yang Xingmi to obtain the name.

And although the people in the south of the Yangtze River are indeed grateful to Yang Xingmi, the country of Wu, for bringing them peace, they have not reached the point where they will be desperate when they hear about Yang Xingmi.

Therefore, neither Zhang Zhao nor the generals below had any intention of using the Yang and Wu clan in Taizhou.

But at this point in the matter, Murong Nobunaga found that although he didn't need the weak legal authority and appeal of Yang Xingmi's descendants, he could use it to severely hit Li Jing and even the reputation of the Southern Tang royal family.

The reason is that what Li Min, Li Jing and his son did was really disgusting.

Let's not talk about Li Min treating Yang Wu's lineage as a puppet. Normal kings would do this. It is reasonable to poison Yang Pu, the last emperor of Wu who had never had even a little power.

But after all the Yang and Wu clans were moved to Yongning Palace in Taizhou, what Li's father and son did was too wicked.

You can either kill them all cruelly, or dismantle and resettle them, and then choose a few honest titles to raise them to wear down their will, and let them slowly accept their fate.

However, if you lock up hundreds of people in their family in a small palace, prevent them from going out, prevent them from having normal marriages, and try to raise them into livestock, that would be too much.

Over the past few decades, the Yang Wu clan has begun to reproduce itself in Yongning Palace because it has been unable to communicate with the outside world. First, cousins ​​matched cousins, and cousins ​​matched cousins, and later even brothers and sisters began to reproduce.

Up to now, there have been a bunch of deformed and demented children.

This kind of thing that completely exceeds the limit of human civilization, challenges the bottom line of human morality, and makes any normal person feel disgusted is all caused by Li Min, Li Jing and his son.

Even the civilian officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty felt sorry for the descendants of the Yang family, and felt that Li Min and Li Jing's father and son were too much.

But now, only a small number of officials and some local people in Taizhou know that if it is exposed, the Li family in the Southern Tang Dynasty will be killed immediately, and even the Southern Tang court will be killed.

In history, as soon as Li Jing heard that Zhou Shizong Guo Rong had the idea of ​​moving the Yang family, he immediately asked Yin Yanfan to kill them all, and then cut Yin Yanfan at the waist to cover up people's eyes and ears.

It was the same at this time. Although Nobunaga Murong didn't know what Li Jing did in history, he knew very well that as long as he caught Yang Xingmi's descendants, Li Jing could only cross the river to grab them.

"Sanlang, why don't you go to Taizhou?"

Murong Nobunaga looked at Li Cunhui and asked, this is the first time he called Li Cunhui in the order of Zhang Zhaoyizi.

Li Cunhui was stunned for a moment. As he got older, the competitive spirit he had when he was young seemed to have been extinguished a lot.

Many of the painful pasts of being "bullied" by Murong Nobunaga in the past seem a little funny now.

"Then please give me 2000 people horses, brother! When I take Taizhou, I will move all the property in the treasury and the Yang Wu clan."

Murong Nobunaga nodded, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

. . . .

Li Jing feels numb now. Just a second ago, he was still discussing with the courtiers to move the Tianchang system envoy of the Jianwu Army to Chuzhou, and then set up a festival town in Chuzhou as a way to resist the Zhou army's southward stronghold. .

Immediately afterwards, I received the news that Yangzhou, the eastern capital, had been captured, so Southern Tang was at a loss. Where did this enemy come from, and Yangzhou was captured so quickly?
But now, the answer to the mystery was solved, because the crying Haizhou governor and other Huainan officials appeared in front of everyone.

In an instant, the news of Chuzhou's fall spread throughout the Southern Tang Dynasty, and everyone was shocked beyond words.

Only now do they know that Xuzhou was taken without bloodshed, and that Beidu stayed behind, Wuning Army Jiedushi, and Xu Guogong Hu Cile died after drinking poisoned wine.

Only then did they know that the emperor of the state of Zhou actually led the army himself, and after only three days of repairing in Xuzhou, he suddenly attacked the city of Chuzhou, and successfully took Chuzhou by abolishing Bozheng and Juntian.

At this moment, how many officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty looked ashen, without Juntian and Bozheng, this is killing them!
Moreover, the outrageous news that Dongdu was captured turned out to be the worst possible outcome of speculation, Zhou Guo's iron cavalry really rushed to Dongdu.

The terrified atmosphere didn't last long, Prime Minister Feng Yansi suddenly jumped up, ran to Li Jing regardless of etiquette, and reminded in a low voice.

"Saint, Chuzhou has fallen, the eastern capital Yangzhou has been breached, and the most important thing on the north bank of the river is Taizhou."

Li Jing suddenly felt a dull pain between his legs, and immediately understood why Feng Yansi jumped up.

well!If I knew it earlier, I should have listened to the advice of the people below, and brought the Yang family to Jiangning to manage them, or let them loose their restrictions while they were almost fools, this would be troublesome.

And Bian Hao, who had just been transferred back from Xinzhou to serve as the commander of the Guards of the Imperial Army, stretched out his hand to grab the official who had escaped from the river and asked, "How many people are there in the Zhou army in Yangzhou?"

The official quickly replied: "The vanguard of our department is no more than three or four thousand, and the total number of soldiers is no more than ten thousand."

Bian Hao immediately went up to play Li Jing, "The Zhou army is rampant, and thousands of people rushed four hundred miles to destroy our big city. Although there are many warriors with fine armor, they are already blunt and have become a weak army.

Moreover, the hearts of Jiangbei are in my heart, and there are elite soldiers in Xidu, Runzhou Township, Jiangyin Army, and Jinghaizhiyuan (Nantong).

I ask your majesty to mobilize the elite and cross the river quickly, and don't let the Zhou army gain a firm foothold. If the emperor of Zhou came to Yangzhou with the whole country, the court would be in danger. "

Bian Hao had already begun to emerge at this time, and he made great contributions in the battle of destroying Wang Min, and because he was honest and did not speak out for his achievements, he was regarded as a famous general by the Southern Tang court.

If it was in the past, Li Jing would not have dared to take out the last of his troops, but now that the society is about to die, he can't care so much.

He decided to send troops across the river, right in front of his house, to show his strength.

(End of this chapter)