I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 144
Hezhou, with the great river on the right, Zhaoguan on the left, Tianmen standing on the south, and Hao Chuan on the north, has always been a place of contention for the confrontation between the north and the south.

Beginning in July, Yuan Hezhou Sima was first captured by the tooth soldiers sent by the governor's mansion, and then Zhao Deyu's autographed letters were found in his house.Immediately afterwards, a large number of reinforcements, as well as a large number of ordnance and defense materials, began to arrive in Hezhou City Liyang.

Not long after seeing the change on the other side, the governor Wu'an Hou Fu Jinchuan also rushed to Hezhou City to inspect the defense.

Hezhou governor, Sima, don't drive.And the county magistrate of Liyang went out to greet him.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Fu Jinchuan declined the banquet, and instead let the new Hezhou Sima Liu Keming lead the way, looking at Hezhou's defenses, ordnance, grain and grass, and various key passes outside the city.

"Liu Sima." Fu Jinchuan, who was walking ahead, suddenly called out.

"The end is here." Liu Keming immediately responded behind him.

"Can Hezhou City be held?"

"Go back to the governor, the city exists and the people exist."

Liu Keming was appointed Sima of Hezhou after the Jiangnan King Wu rebelled.He was also a frontier general, brave and good at fighting, and good at defending the city. He once defended a garrison fort with 300 men in Longyou, resisting the five thousand troops of the Qing and Tang Dynasties for ten days.

He originally worked in Chuzhou. After the original Sima of Hezhou was killed because of collaborating with the enemy, Fu Jinchuan immediately recruited him to Hezhou because he was good at defending the city.

"People are in the city, and people are dead, and the city must be there." Fu Jinchuan looked at the river not far away and said without turning his head.

"Promise, the last general will keep the peace!"

The location of Hezhou is very important, and may even be related to the strategic situation of the entire JAC.Therefore, in addition to the original state troops in Hezhou City, Fu Jinchuan transferred the strength of the Anguo Army's three capitals, 500 people to strengthen the defense of Hezhou.And let the Anguo army envoy Tan Hun lead the other two capitals of the Anguo army, stationed in Wujiang behind Liyang, as a reference.

Then more than [-] martial arts defenders of the Imperial Army were ordered to station at the eastern foot of Hanshan Mountain between Luzhou and Hezhou, so as to form a corner.

Du You, the commander of martial arts Zhongwei, is known as "Du Dadao". The ability to use soldiers has also been taught by the old man.

The martial arts center guard under his command has three well-trained heavy armored infantry, which is a rare elite in the imperial army.

"Don't worry, Governor, as long as the rebels dare to come to Hanshan camp, I will definitely let him know how powerful I am Du Dadao!"

Du You patted his chest directly and said.

Fu Jinchuan said seriously, "Please, General Du."

"The governor is very polite, just give orders if you have anything to do." Du You was less than fifty years old, with a medium build, and the hands that held knives all the year round seemed to belong to the Lian family.

After deploying these, Fu Jinchuan went to the Jingnan Army camp to check the training of the new army.

The commander-in-chief Lu Qing presided over the training here. In more than a month, the various ministries have initially mastered how to identify the drum horn flag.

But there is still a long way to go.

At the end of August, Fu Jinchuan had just returned to Yangzhou. Goro and Liulang took three men from the north, A Shulie, Pugu Huaian, Wusi Duji, and hundreds of army horses to Yangzhou by boat from the canal.

After Fu Jinchuan came to Yangzhou, he saw that the military horses were too useless, that is to say, he took the mounts of six hundred forbidden soldiers, which was not bad.

Most of the military horses are used as draft horses in Hexi.

So Fu Jinchuan asked his two brothers to take three men who grew up on horseback to the military horse farm in Shuofang to pick out hundreds of military horses, and also brought a batch of ordnance from Shangjing by the way.

Fu Jinchuan came to the Yabing camp, took a look at the army horses in person, and swept the ears of the horses with his tail finger. He was very satisfied with the horses' sensitive response.

These military horses are all prepared by Fu Jinchuan to form a heavy cavalry.On the battlefield, the role of heavy cavalry is unquestionable, but the requirements for the quality of soldiers and horses are also very high.

Now the horses have arrived, and hundreds of good riders have been selected from among the Jianghuai soldiers, and they are also the tallest among the dwarfs. After all, this is not Guanzhong and Longyou, nor Hebei.

"By the way, third brother, when we arrived in Bianzhou, the Hebei army reported that the Hebei rebellion had been quelled, and Aye rode out of Lulongsai alone to meet King Yan, and forced back tens of thousands of Yan Fan's troops. "

After hearing Goro's words, Fu Jinchuan was stunned, "Has the Hengzhou Rebellion been settled?"

"It's the third brother. Cheng Jintang led an army of [-] in Lingshou, defeated more than [-] bandits, and beheaded more than [-]. I heard that the army is already on the way."

"It's a good thing"

The news of Hengzhou's pacification is definitely good news, and the fact that the British princess has eliminated a tens of thousands of people's rebellion within half a year as the coach is simply boundless merit.

If the military disaster lasts for a long time, it will be the common people who will suffer.The Hengzhou Rebellion did not spread too widely, it was only limited to a few states, and depending on the number of months, the expenditure of the imperial court was relatively much less, and less taxes could be collected.
When Fu Jinchuan was very busy, Zhao Yuanshu was not idle either. Through the hidden piles arranged in advance, the intelligence of the Jiangnan rebels was continuously gathered from Jianye City, such as Yangzhou City.

A clear marching arrangement of the Jiangnan rebels, as well as information about the division of troops came across the river, which also revealed the second round of fighting between the southern army and the northern army, that is, the official army and the rebel army after respite.

"The rebel army is now divided into two groups. Among them, Wu Ni has led an army of more than [-] people. They have already set off from Jianye and are ready to cross the river at any time. The other group with more than [-] people, led by the rebel general Xue Julin, has already arrived. Xuanzhou, it should be to stop the army of the imperial court from Jiangzhou."

It was Xie Anchi who introduced the military situation to everyone. This is the son of the Xie family in the south of the Yangtze River, Yu Fu Jinchuan, who became the staff of the Dudu Mansion after some secret talks.

Several other staff members speculated that the governor should have taken a fancy to this Xie Langjun's background and his understanding of the situation in Jiangnan.

Of course, after a few days, even the arrogant Xu Yinglong had to admit that this Xie Langjun did have some real talents.

"I have to mention here that Wu Ni has nearly a thousand boats in the navy in his hands. When Wu Ni stayed behind for Jianye, he raised a fleet of ships and often went to sea to do business. Therefore, Wu Ni was as rich as a country and Wu Ni After the incident, he bought many water bandits and pirates from the Jianghuai generation with a lot of money, so Wu Ni had at least hundreds of ships in his hands, and the sea ships were so huge that they could even compete with the large ships of the government and the army. .In addition, the imperial court also had hundreds of thousand-stone ships transporting grain in Yuezhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou and other places.”

"The good news is that there are not many arrows in the rebel army, and there are few hard crossbows"

"Most of the court navy is concentrated in Jiangzhou. Although I have one in Yangzhou, but there are only more than [-] boats, it is difficult to fight the rebels in the middle of the river. Therefore, the battle with the state can only wait for the enemy to come ashore. First use Hezhou Jiancheng to consume the enemy's vigor, and then order the Wujiang and Hanshan armies to attack and drive the rebels down the river."

Xie Anchi was not stage-frightened, he spoke with great eloquence in front of everyone, and his words were handled lightly, with a personable demeanor, quite a bit of a gentleman from the south of the Yangtze River.

After he finished speaking, both Fu Jinchuan and Ma Wei stared at the map and said nothing.

After a while, Fu Jinchuan said: "Uncle Ma can sit in Yangzhou, and I will go to Hezhou to meet the enemy."

Ma Wei said: "Are you kidding? Of course I am going to meet the enemy. You are now in Yangzhou. Are you the governor of Yangzhou?"

Fu Jinchuan thought for a while and smiled: "Since I am the governor of Yangzhou, the seven states under the jurisdiction of the governor's mansion of Yangzhou are naturally dominated by me. Uncle, please stay and listen to my arrangements."

Ma Wei frowned and said: "You are the governor of Yangzhou, and I am the commander of the guards and the commander of the imperial army. I have a higher authority than the governor of the imperial army. Naturally, I will listen to me."

Fu Jinchuan said: "Uncle, don't forget, I am the deputy marshal of the Jianghuai Road Army. If the generalissimo is not here, the war in Jiangbei will naturally be controlled by me."

Ma Wei suddenly realized that what Fu Jinchuan said was true, and that they really had a relationship of affiliation. He, the commander of the guards and military division, was useless in Yangzhou.

(End of this chapter)