I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 154

Chapter 154
The Battle of Hezhou in Jiangbei was over, and Fu Jinchuan was busy dealing with post-war affairs. Zhang led the navy back to Jiangzhou, but also wanted to see the situation of the Battle of Xuanzhou.

Counting from the confrontation stage of the war, the battle of Xuanzhou was actually started with the state first, but the duel between the famous generals was not as wonderful as imagined.

More than 20 troops from the north and the south confronted each other around Zhide County and Dali Mountain.

The Northern Army has a superior force and is on the offensive.

Although the strength of the southern army was inferior, after several months of fighting, the army had more combat experience. Relying on the front line of Zhide County and Dali Mountain, it was inseparable from the northern army's killing.

As for the northern army, Wei Guogong Li Shizhong led his own army to confront Xue Julin at Dali Mountain, and dispatched Tao Qing's Zhenrong Army and Chen Shizhong's Shannan Army to attack De County.

More than [-] troops from Tao and Chen attacked the city for more than ten days, but failed to conquer it.

On Zhide City, Li Zichun, the governor of the Southern Army, watched Mingjin withdraw his troops, and the officers and soldiers who quickly retreated frowned.

Li Zichun was also from the frontier army, he was single-handedly selected by Xue Julin, and he followed him for many years.There is also a way of running an army. When dealing with soldiers, he is a soldier who does not eat, he does not eat, and a soldier does not sleep. When he goes into battle, he treats his generals and school, he can also undress and push food, and then rewards and punishments are clearly defined and used fairly.

Such a person should have been a famous general, but when Xue Julin was imprisoned, he couldn't break away from his relationship.He was demoted directly from a military envoy to a garrison master.

Later, after Xue Julin was released, he was transferred by King Wu to serve in Jiangnan. Later, through King Wu's relationship in the court, many generals who had failed in the frontier army were transferred to Jiangnan.Li Zichun is one of them.

It was Zhide City, a small county town, but Xue Julin gave Li Zichun [-] soldiers, and before dividing the troops, he urged ten thousand to guard Zhide.

Li Zichun knew that although Zhide was not the main battlefield of this war, it was very important.Zhide is at the northern foot of Dali Mountain. Once Zhide falls, the Northern Army's cavalry can quickly cross Dali Mountain, outflank, attack the Southern Army's rear, and even cut off the Southern Army's food road.

"Captain, Jianye Secret Report."

Li Zichun, who was watching the battle, took the military newspaper, opened it, his face was expressionless, after reading it, he put the secret letter back into the envelope, and said with a smile: "Hezhou City is about to be taken by the prince. "

When the generals heard that Hezhou was about to be won, they were naturally happy and excited. "If Hezhou is won, the next one will be Yangzhou, and going north to Beijing is just around the corner."

"Great"

Walking to the crenellation of the city wall, Li Zichun put his hands on the crenellation walls on both sides, slightly lowered his head, closed his eyes, and frowned.

If you look closely, you can still see that his hands are trembling slightly.

He never imagined that the southern army would be defeated so badly, only more than [-] people remained in the [-] army, and even the navy army lost most of it.

This is Zhide City. Under the attack of the government army, it is not easy for news to come in. Even this news was sent by flying pigeons.

But this kind of news can't be kept for a long time. When the northern army who attacked the city finds out and spreads it wantonly, the city won't have to defend it.

Thinking of this, he quickly stood up, and returned to his previous capable appearance, ordered several generals to be careful, and then went down to the city to write a letter, and then selected a skilled and clever soldier in the army to go there at night Sending letters to the Great Lishan Camp.

In fact, before his letter arrived, Xue Julin at the southern foot of Dali Mountain also received the news of Hezhou's defeat.

The situation Xue Julin was facing at the moment was much more difficult than Li Zichun thought.

Xue Julin led [-] cavalry against Li Shizhong's nearly [-] army, which can be said to be difficult.

Li Shizhong is worthy of being a famous general in the Jin Dynasty whose reputation is second only to Feng Shenji, Duke Dingguo.Holding the superior force in his hand, he fought steadily, but Xue Julin didn't leave a single chance.

The two sides even broke out several battles involving tens of thousands of people, but none of them ended up in a desperate situation.

One side retreated a little, but the other side did not dare to push forward aggressively.

But now under such circumstances, such a big thunder directly blasted down, which directly made Xue Julin lose the will to continue fighting.

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King Wu's defeat was so miserable.In a few days, even the northern army on the opposite side may know.

If the Northern Army knew about it, the Southern Army would also know about it. This kind of news cannot be concealed.
The morale of both sides ebbed and flowed, and the Confederates would lose if the battle continued.

Therefore, Xue Julin immediately gathered all the generals and prepared to withdraw.

"Fight the enemy at the foot of Hezhou city. The deputy marshal Wu Anhou led the four-horse raiding array alone? The last five returned together and their morale was greatly boosted. They won, beheading more than [-] people and capturing more than [-] enemies. The deputy marshal Dingnan Hou led his troops to intercept the river, burned [-] enemy boats, warships, and other large and small ships, and killed more than [-] enemies. When a strong wind rose, the enemy fled with the wind."

In the commander's tent of the Northern Army camp, Li Zhaoxin read the military report to Li Shizhong who was lying on the sickbed.

"Sanlang is so brave, but something bad happened in this wind. Otherwise, Wu Ni wouldn't be able to escape this time, what a pity, what a pity, what a pity, cough, cough, cough cough."

Li Shizhong was pale, short of breath, out of breath when speaking, and looked extremely weak.

"Aye, let the doctor take a look!" Li Zhaoxin was in no mood to marvel at Fu Sanlang's feat that was enough to be recorded in the annals of history.

Because of his Aye, Grand Marshal of the Jianghuai March Wei Guogong Li Shizhong is lying on the sickbed at the moment, and it is already difficult to get up.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, doctors cannot even be allowed to come in and out frequently.Only a few cronies could secretly take the medicine.

"I've already drank the medicine, so it's useless to ask him to come, and I know my body, at this point, the medicine stone is hard to cure."

After hearing the battle report, Li Shizhong's face suddenly became a little more rosy. Obviously, the news of the victory of the army is more effective than any medicine at this time.

"Help me sit up."

After hearing this, Li Zhaoxin immediately took a step forward to help Aye up, and then took several cushions for him so that he could lean on.

"Since I arrived in Jiangnan, I feel that my body is getting worse day by day. The winter in Jiangnan is more difficult than the winter in Beijing."

Li Shizhong's voice was a little weak and hoarse due to his serious illness, but Li Zhaoxin's heart felt like a knife was twisting in his ears.

"Aye, why don't you wait for Marquis Dingnan to come back to preside over the overall situation, and you can go back to Pengze to recuperate."

Li Shizhong shook his head, "I can't hold it anymore."

"Listen to me, let Mr. Sun, your uncle Guo, your fourth uncle, and the fifth general and deputy general Yuan come over, don't disturb others, and let the wind leak."

"It's Aye." Li Zhaoxin answered, but couldn't stop crying.

Li Shizhong reprimanded: "Master, why do you have to act like a child, cough, cough, cough. Go quickly!"

This famous general of the Jin Dynasty felt like a candle in the wind at this moment, and the light might be extinguished by death at any time.

But the current situation is extremely dangerous.

It has been more than a month since the confrontation with the rebels. It stands to reason that the morale of the officers and soldiers will be greatly shaken after the battle of Hezhou.

However, Li Shizhong, who is the general marshal of the march, has been in rapid decline these days, and he looks a little terminally ill.

But it turned out that he had a hidden illness for a long time, and he was not acclimatized when he arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, so his health has not been good.When the king of Wu rebelled, he was worried, and he worked hard day and night for the battle, and now he finally fell ill.

He felt that he might fall into a deep sleep in the future, so he had to arrange the follow-up matters of the army when he was awake.

Originally, if Deputy Marshal Zhang was present, these matters could be handed over to him directly.But Zhang Ji was expelled by Li Shizhong because he did not advocate sending troops.

Later, Fu Jinchuan sent someone to contact the Marshal's Mansion to discuss whether the land and water armies could attack the rebels.Since Zhang went to Hezhou, although Li Shizhong felt a little unwell before leaving, he didn't think much about it. He didn't expect that he was already terminally ill in less than ten days.

A few days ago, I was able to support my sick body and call the generals to discuss matters, but now I can't even sit up.

But his safety is too important. If he can't take things seriously, even though there is Guo Kan as the deputy marshal, Guo Kan's ability will definitely not be able to face Xue Julin, a veteran general with military skills.

Fortunately, the battle with the state was won.

Such news will definitely increase the morale of the Northern Army, greatly reduce the morale of the Southern Army, and even shake the morale of the army.

If he can still see things, he will naturally go into battle and command the whole army to attack and kill Jiangnan in one battle.

But now what he has to consider is not a quick victory, but to return the whole army to Jiangzhou safely, and wait for Dingnan Hou Zhangji to come back to preside over the overall situation.

And the reason why he had to fight this battle despite his physical discomfort was also because he had a premonition, fearing that his body would not be able to hold on, and he would lose Jian Ye's face if he couldn't find it
Looking at it now, I really can't hold it anymore, but this move seems to be wrong for the country.
It's really unpredictable, and people have misfortunes and blessings!
(End of this chapter)

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