Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 565 Who is the fool

The heads of the Han family and the Chen family were specially invited in front of Li Cunhui, because Taizhou could not be fought for the time being, and the two carefully planned plans to sacrifice the city gate could not be implemented yet.

Therefore, in order not to dampen others' desire to serve, Li Cunhui condescended to meet Han and Chen, and gave each of them [-] bolts of white cotton cloth as a reward.

As for why you can't fight?The reason is very simple. Li Cunhui and Murong Nobunaga agreed to use Yang Wu's clan in Taizhou as bait to attract the Southern Tang army to cross the river as soon as possible.

But who would have imagined that the action of the Southern Tang court was too slow.

Li Cunhui sent people across the river to remind him, but when he slowly gathered his troops, he would be able to take Taizhou immediately, and the Southern Tang army hadn't arrived yet.

This... directly embarrasses me, Mr. Li Dajun. If he takes Taizhou now, the Southern Tang Army will probably give up on themselves and cross the river, or they will not cross the river in such a hurry.

So Li Cunhui reported to Nobunaga Murong, advising to give up the plan to conquer Taizhou, and at the same time tried his best to appease the subordinates who wanted to conquer Taizhou and make contributions.

Murong Nobunaga saw Li Cunhui's report and immediately understood what was going on.

So he deliberately mobilized those state and county soldiers and fishermen who had already taken refuge in Yangzhou City, pretending to want the whole army to attack Taizhou.

Sure enough, these actions of Murong Nobunaga immediately 'woke up' the Southern Tang court, and they began to speed up the movement of crossing the river.

At this time, on both sides of the river, those who are loyal to and loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty are still the mainstream.

In addition, the southerners are good at boats. Although the Zhou army occupied Yangzhou, it was impossible to maintain strict control for a long time. After a little relaxation, the Southern Tang court on the opposite side of the Yangtze River could easily obtain information about Yangzhou.

So Murong Nobunaga simply came up with a strategy.

In early May, Murong Nobunaga forcibly conscripted about 10,000 people from Yangzhou. Together with the [-] Zhou Guo defenders in Yangzhou, the so-called [-] army began to slowly approach Taizhou.

Yangzhou is guarded by 3000 people led by Zhao Kuangyin, which seems to be very empty.

Li Jing immediately activated his clever brain. He felt that he must have caught Zhou Jun's mistake.

hum!Unexpectedly, so what if you occupy the Eastern Capital?Thousands of righteous people have tipped me off.

So when Murong Xinchang led the army to leave Yangzhou, and the soldiers and civilians loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty inside and outside Yangzhou City frantically reported the emptiness of Yangzhou to the Southern Tang court, Li Jing was arbitrary and accelerated the pace of dispatching the forbidden army.

Two days later, the Southern Tang Jiangyin military system envoy led [-] troops and [-] warships to Jiangning.

One day later, Yao Yanhong, the commander of the Nantang Jing Navy who was planning to go overland to support Taizhou, also arrived with [-] soldiers and [-] warships.

Li Jing sent out all the forbidden troops in Jiangning, even the prefectural and county soldiers in the upper reaches and prefectures, barely gathering 20,000 people.

The Forbidden Army and the Jiangyin Army and Jing Navy who came up against the current have a total of 1000 people, plus more than 50,000 civilians and fishermen, and the scale is close to [-] people.

And these 50,000 people gathered on the river near Jiangning, people shouting horses, soldiers in various armors jostled each other, and hundreds of warships on the river were connected end to end, Li Jing finally felt a lot more at ease in his heart.

The officials of the Southern Tang court were also coaxed by this posture, and all of them seemed to be high-spirited.

Only Bian Hao was hesitating to speak, because Zhou Jun's actions were too abnormal!

There is no one who penetrates hundreds of miles into the enemy's territory, lays down an important town, does not stand by and wait for reinforcements, or loots and leaves.

This doesn't look like he wants to control Yang Wu's clan, but it seems that he deliberately sells a loophole to attract his side to cross the river.

Bian Hao really wanted to suggest that Li Jing wait until the [-] soldiers of Wei Jian, the Wuchang Jiedu envoy of Ezhou, and the [-] elite soldiers of Chen Jue, the privy envoy and Fuzhou Zhaowu Jiedu envoy, arrived before crossing the river.

However, Bian Hao opened his mouth. At this time, he is not the Southern Tang general who destroyed Ma Chu in history, but an officer with some military achievements who was promoted to the central government by leapfrogging.

He is not the confidant of Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, so how dare he speak in frustration at such a time.

More importantly, it was his proposal to cross the river as soon as possible to prevent Zhou Jun from gaining a foothold in Jiangbei.

Now that the emperor has followed your advice and will send a large army to cross the river, if he says to delay or be cautious about crossing the river at this time, wouldn't it be playing tricks on the emperor?
So Bian Hao, who clearly saw the problem, didn't try to persuade him. He could only comfort himself in his heart. The others were fake, but Zhou Jun only had 10,000 people, which is definitely not fake.

And they are indeed going to attack Taizhou, even if there is a fraud, after they return to the division for more than a hundred miles, maybe Yangzhou will change hands.

Therefore, Li Jing built an altar on Bailuzhou in the upper reaches of Stone City that day to pay respect to his generals. Deployed left and right, commanded an army of [-], claiming that [-] crossed the river to recover Yangzhou.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin, who was on his own for the first time, couldn't help feeling a little nervous. Nobunaga Murong had thought about keeping him in Yangzhou.

Because considering the enthusiasm of Yangzhou people to inform Nantang, the strength of one's own side must not be kept secret, so Zhao Kuangyin is the most suitable one to show weakness.

Among the top generals of the Zhou army, Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui, and Yao Yuanfu were not easy to mess with at first sight.

Although Gao Huaide was as young as Zhao Kuangyin, the reputation of Gao's father and son, especially his father Gao Xingzhou, resounded throughout the north and south.

Even people from the Southern Tang Dynasty knew that no one would treat such a general as a persimmon.

Only Zhao Kuangyin, not only is he the youngest, he is only 19 years old now, and he is white and tender, and he is a little fat, and his beard has not yet grown up. From this point of view, he does not know who will come to gild and not learn from it. Unskilled.

Therefore, leaving him, a general who looks like a waste like this, to guard Yangzhou City, can arouse the desire of the Southern Tang Army to attack.

The fact is also the same. Before the Southern Tang army set off, they received a large number of reports from Zhou Jun's Yangzhou coach, who was a white-faced scholar.

Li Jingda was very proud of this, and felt that the strategy he proposed, regardless of Taizhou, first conquered Yangzhou, and then blocked the Zhou army's retreat in Taizhou, was very successful.

However, the generals below were not as confident as Li Jingda. They still knew that the Yongliang iron cavalry was powerful, and if Zhou Jun quickly returned to the division to attack halfway, it would still be quite threatening.

However, when Yuhou, the former capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, led 2000 people to land in Guabu without resistance, the generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty on the ship all smiled happily.

When the army landed smoothly, dozens of Yangzhou righteous people came to report that Zhou Jun's white-faced commander was conceited. He didn't stay in Yangzhou city, but led his army west to Yizheng.

This shit can't keep up with the hot ones!
If Zhou Jun came quickly, it might have caused some trouble for the army to land, but he didn't even get to Yizheng.

Not to mention that Yizheng City is small, and the city walls are not complete, it is not at all a strong city like Yangzhou, the eastern capital.

It is simply impossible for 3000 people to defend such a small town under the attack of 50,000 people.

I'm afraid it's because Yizheng City can't accommodate 3000 people, right?
After Li Jingda heard it, he suddenly felt that the sky was wide and wide, and couldn't help laughing three times.

"How quickly the Zhou army came, and how quickly it went!

Hearing that Murong Nobunaga claimed that Xue Youzhou was alive, he didn't expect that he would be so ignorant and send a general who was less than a weak champion to guard the Eastern Capital. Do you really think that anyone who is just a champion is a champion?Ha ha ha ha! "

The surrounding Southern Tang generals all grinned loudly, feeling more confident in defeating the Zhou army.

Bian Hao was hesitant to speak again, he was almost sure that Murong Nobunaga, Duke of Qinghai County in the state of Zhou, must be cheating.

The shadow of a man's famous tree, who can reach such a prestigious reputation from Hexi to the Central Plains, certainly cannot be the fool that Li Jingda thinks.

But?What is Zhou Jun waiting for?They originally only had 10,000 people, and they were divided into two groups, but now they even gave up Yangzhou.

Once the imperial soldiers and horses entered the city, relying on Hangou and the surrounding rivers leading to the big river, they could deploy troops at will and attack everywhere, and the Zhou army would be finished sooner or later.

Did they really just want to take away the Yang Wu clan?
The more Bian Hao thought about it, the more confused he became. He hadn't considered the possibility that Murong Nobunaga might surprise them.

However, Taizhou is two hundred miles away from Guabu or Yizheng, surrounded by righteous people who have finally come to the court, and there is no way to hide their whereabouts.

Unless their war horses can run the two hundred miles quickly without sleep, and then have the ability to fight.

In other words, Zhou Jun believed that the 3000 people in Yizheng could block ten times as many enemies for several days.

Thinking of this, Bian Hao, who has always been cautious, thought that Zhou Jun was too arrogant.

He walked towards Li Jingda, he was going to suggest His Royal Highness King Yan to reward the righteous people around Yangzhou and let them come to assist in the siege of the city.

It is necessary to eat up the 3000 people of the Zhou army in Yizheng as quickly as possible, and at the same time send people to recover Yangzhou, so as to block the retreat of the Zhou army along the canal.

(End of this chapter)