Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1374 Jinling
Jiangdong, Jinling.

Shen Faxing's face turned ashen.

The eldest son Shen Lun stood in front of him with a gray face.

A series of failure news came like a snowflake.

Shen Faxing, who has been in control of Jiangdong for ten years, originally thought that although the Jiangdong court could not go north to fight for the Central Plains, it could still secure a corner of Jiangdong.

But who knows, Qin Huang Luocheng patrolled the border for five years, and as soon as he returned to Luoyang, he issued an edict to Ping Jiangdong at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting in the 13th year of Kaiyuan, counting the evidence of Jiangdong Fan's disobedience, and then ordered the prince to take command and name the generals to go to the expedition .

The imperial court also sent Shen Lun, the eldest son of Shen Faxing to Luoyang, back to Jiangdong, ordering him to persuade Shen Faxing to surrender.The emperor dared to send Shen Lun back at this time, so he was already convinced of Jiangdong.

The Qin army's offensive was very fast.

Prince Jiawen took command of the Southern Expedition and quickly arrived at Guangling on the other side of Jiangling to set up the Grand Marshal's camp.

Immediately afterwards, Kan Leng, the general of the Qin army and the prince's righteous brother, took the lead in crossing the Yangtze River to attack the Shen army. With powerful treasure ships and fierce cannons, the pioneer Kan Leng took the important town of Jingkou in the east of the Yangtze River that day.

Shen Faxing's long history, Jiang Yuanchao, was defeated. He was defeated in Jingkou in the first battle, and then in Qiting again. This time he was unable to escape again, and his troops were surrounded. drop as much as possible.

Once the Jingkou was lost, for Shen Faxing, the defense line of the Yangtze River was also declared to be lost, and Jiangling City was no longer safe to speak of.

"Pack up quickly, let's go."

"Where?"

Shen Lun asked.

Ten years as a hostage in Luoyang, Shen Lun, the son of Jiangdong, actually had no confidence in Jiangdong Town for a long time. The longer he stayed in Central Plains, the more he realized the huge gap between Central Plains and Jiangdong.To be honest, if the emperor hadn't thought of trying to Pingnan sooner, Jiangdong Town would have disappeared long ago.

Just pick a few generals from the court, order one or two elite troops, and they can wipe out Jiangdong.

"Father, why don't you surrender."

Shen Lun persuaded again that when he just returned to Jinling, he had already told his father that Qin Zhiqiang was strong, hoping that his father would surrender.But Shen Faxing was not reconciled, and worked hard for ten years. He went to the emperor title and then the king title, accepted the canonization of the imperial court, became the Jiangdong Jiedu envoy of the Great Qin Dynasty, and became a county prince, which was already the bottom line.

If he was asked to hand over Jiangdong to Luoyang, he would not be reconciled.

He thought that with the Yangtze River defense line and his ten years of management, Jiangdong would be able to resist it. Who knows, the Yangtze River defense line fell without the general Jiang Yuanchao even defending it for a day, and the important town of Jingkou was also lost.

Jinling has lost its door.

"Go back to Wu County."

Shen Faxing gritted his teeth, still unwilling to surrender.

Wu County is the ancestral land of Shen Fa. He was king in Wu area back then, but later moved his capital to Jinling. Now that the situation is not good, he plans to return to Wu County first to avoid the Qin army's sharp edge.

"Father, we can't beat the imperial court."

"Surrender now, and my father still won't lose his title as Marquis."

"My Jiangdong Shen family can also be preserved."

But no matter what, Shen Faxing couldn't let him admit defeat.

Shen Lun had stayed in Luoyang for ten years, and he already had a deep sense of identification with the imperial court. However, Shen Faxing, as the prefect of the Sui Dynasty, raised troops at the end of his career. Now this territory was won by him in countless battles, so how could he give it away casually.

If he had given up so easily, how many times he was defeated and panicked when he was fighting for hegemony at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and he would have surrendered long ago, how could he be the person he is today.

"My boy is willing to stay in Jinling."

Shen Lun didn't want to go to Wu County.

Shen Faxing looked at his son, hesitantly, and finally nodded, "If it's impossible, you can lead your army to retreat south and come to Wu County."

Shen Faxing's family is known as a prominent family in Jiangdong, and there are thousands of families in the same clan. Back then, he took advantage of the situation as a prefect and took advantage of the momentum to occupy Jiangdong after hundreds of battles, with more than [-] troops.

The ten years of separatism in Jiangdong was also a relatively stable ten years, but the ten years of stability has also seriously weakened the strength of Jiangdong soldiers and horses. Especially in recent years, the Central Plains court has comprehensively developed foreign trade, and maritime trade has become an important part. Jiangdong County has a long east coastline, and the imperial court has reached many trade agreements with Jiangdong Town.

Jinling, Yuhang, Ningbo, Yongjia, and Jian'an in Jiangdong have all become prosperous commercial ports. The officials, nobles and powerful families in Jiangdong Town are busy with business and trade.

The people in Jiangdong even planted a large amount of mulberry trees and cotton. Many big ports in Jiangdong Town even had to rely on imported grain. Jiangdong, which was originally rich, was unable to support itself in food. It was all due to the boom in trade. Tea, etc., and even many Jiangdong people entered the workshop to work.

Beneath the prosperity on the surface, there is actually a huge crisis in Jiangdong Town.

A feudal town that can't even be self-sufficient in food and relies on the imperial court's maritime trade to maintain its prosperity on the surface, once it turns against the imperial court, it will inevitably be stuck.

Even their army has not fought for ten years and is busy with smuggling all day long. In fact, it has been seriously corrupted and weakened, and it is unbearable to fight.

This is the root cause of Jiang Yuanchao's so-called elite Jiedu Yamen led by Jiangdong, relying on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, but still unable to hold the important town of Jingkou, and was defeated in a day.

Shen Faxing led the officials and generals in Jinling City to flee south, and had just passed through Piling when a huge bad news came.

Shen Lun, the eldest son who had invited himself to stay in Jinling, surrendered to Kan Leng immediately.

It was Shen Lun who sent people to Jingkou to ask for surrender, and then led the Qin army into Jinling City.

Shen Faxing left [-] troops for Shen Lun.

As a result, Shen Lun didn't stand up for him for a day, and directly surrendered to Qin.

Knowing the news, Shen Faxing almost vomited blood angrily. He was even a little scared. It would be even worse if Shen Lun directly staged a mutiny and captured him alive and dedicated him to the Qin army.

But no matter what, if Jinling is lost again, the entire Jiangdong County will be truly opened up.

The defense line in the south of the Yangtze River completely collapsed.

Shen Faxing didn't dare to stay in Piling any longer, and ran to Wujun overnight.

On the way, another bad news arrived.

Cheng Mingzhen, the prefect of Liuqiu and the admiral of the East China Sea Fleet, divided his troops to attack various counties in Jian'an County. The Jian'an garrison and local officials all surrendered without a fight.

Jian'an, the southeast gateway of Jiangdong Town, is gone again.

Although Jian'an was poor, the terrain was dangerous. Even in Shen Faxing's plan, once Wu County could not hold on, he would retreat to Jian'an. There were dense forests and difficult roads, so he could be his last hope.

But who knows, now Cheng Mingzhen has directly snatched it away.

"Those damned fellows!"

The furious Shen Faxing yelled and cursed. After a while, after calming down, he could gradually understand what happened in Jian'an. Jian'an is very poor and mountainous, but it also has a good port along the coast.

Especially in the past few years when the imperial court set up the East China Sea Fleet, and then occupied all the coastal islands of Jian'an after suppressing pirates, and began to establish trading points on the island, he knew that Jian'an had changed a lot, trade increased, and the tyrants in many places in Jian'an They all got rich because of it.

And they can't get around the local officials and garrison generals in Jian'an, but Jiangdong is no different from the imperial court. The local officials and garrison in Jian'an County are actually local powerful families who raised troops at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and were later incorporated by Shen Fajiang. Nian was also very loyal to Shen Faxing, but secretly flirted with the court.

Obviously, now that the imperial court sends troops, these guys will fall to the imperial court.

"Damn it!"

Shen Faxing cursed, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible to happen in the imperial court, there is no place where the powerful can do this.Shen Faxing, of course, was aware of the hidden dangers of this situation earlier, but he relied on the support of Jiangdong's powerful people to separate one side, and he was unable and impossible to deal with these people.

(End of this chapter)