I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 159
The autumn rain continued, and it kept falling.

Fu Jinchuan, who had just returned to Yangzhou City from the Jingnan Army camp, stood in the lobby of the Dudu Mansion, staring at the rain in front of the court in a daze.

Behind him, several staff members were still busy busy.

After the war, the losses of each army were not small, and they all needed soldiers and ordnance to replenish.These all require the unified dispatch of the Governor's Mansion.

"Great Governor, Duke Wei's coffin has arrived ten miles outside the city."

Fu Jinchuan nodded when he heard the words, and then went out of the city to meet him in person.

Those who came to help the spirit were Li Zhaoxin and Li Zhaoyi.The two brothers, dressed in linen and filial piety, entered Yangzhou City against the rain.

A group of officials in Yangzhou, including Fu Jinchuan, Marquis of Wu'an, and Ma Wei, Marquis of Pingbei.Jinglue envoy Liu Jingming and other civil and military officials all went to offer sacrifices in person.

After stopping in Yangzhou, the Li brothers took a boat to help the spirit go north again.

Born in Shangjing and buried in Mangshan, that is the destination of the great Jin dignitaries.

After Wei Guogong's coffin passed, the rain in Yangzhou City stopped.

The messengers from the imperial court also arrived, and the news that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the Grand Marshal and led an army of [-] troops to the south to suppress the rebellion also spread to Jianghuai.

"Brother Tang is coming?"

"Ah."

Zhao Yuanshu looked at Fu Jinchuan who had become more and more taciturn recently and asked.

"You have been restless these past few days. What are you worrying about? Jiangzhou?"

Fu Jinchuan nodded, "There are nearly [-] troops stationed on the front line of Peng Ze, and there are three deputy marshals. Xue Julin will not miss this opportunity. Moreover, the death of Duke Wei has a great impact on the morale of the army."

The two of them walked on the city wall of Yangzhou and looked over from a distance, just in time to see the rolling eastward flow of the great river.

Zhao Yuanshu sighed, "I have some news here, but it's not good news."

Fu Jinchuan said with a smile: "Good news and bad news are all news, which is better than nothing. Listen early and listen later, not all of them."

"The first one is that people from Honglian Dao met King Wu in Jianye City a few days ago. Some conditions have been met, and Honglian Dao will start trouble soon."

"The second one is that someone in the Prince Wu's mansion deliberately leaked the news. The location of the incident is Wuling Mountain in Jingchu and Dabie Mountain."

Fu Jinchuan immediately frowned upon hearing this expressionless face, "Dabie Mountain?"

The Dabie Mountains span Huainan, Gyeonggi, Jingchu and dozens of prefectures.It is easy to hide tens of thousands of people.

Fu Jinchuan knew why Sizi said it was not good news.

Because even if you know it, there is no defense that can be done in advance.

It will take a month at the earliest for the imperial army to arrive.

And within this month, whether Jiangzhou is still there or not is a matter of debate.

Fu Jinchuan has a total of less than 5 troops here. Excluding the necessary troops for defense and Yangzhou, the number of troops that can be mobilized is more than [-].

There are more than 500 people and [-] people in the new army.

"Really."

Fu Jinchuan didn't even know how to describe his mood.

annoyed.

very annoyed.

Compared with the battle of Shule, the battle of Baiting faced the tens of thousands of troops of Qingtang and Jinzhang with an absolutely weak force. The current situation seems to be much better.

But the complex terrain, the criss-crossing waterways, and the endless mountains all made me feel helpless.

Most importantly, now he can only wait.

Nothing can be done.

In Jiangzhou, there are three deputy marshals of the [-] army. It is conceivable that these people will fight because of different strategies.

But Fu Jinchuan could only watch where they were fighting.

Because even if he passed, it would become a battle of up to four people.

Everyone is a deputy marshal, and they all command the troops of the headquarters. There is no such famous general as Li Shizhong who can suppress everyone.

Fu Jinchuan could even imagine what Peng Ze was going through now.

In fact, the situation was worse than he thought.

There are more than [-] imperial troops stationed on the front line of Pengze.

Among them, Cao Guozhong's Hengye Army and Chen Shizhong's Shannan Army were subordinate to the Governor's Mansion of Zhao Huaijiang, King of Chu, Yang Pu's Changping Army, and Ma Lin's Jianchang Army were subordinate to Guo's Uncle Guo Kan, the Governor of Anzhou, and Tao Qing's Zhen Rong The army and the navy are under the governor's office of Hongzhou, Zhang Ji, the Marquis of Dingyuan.

In addition, there are Fifth Chongyi and Li Shiying's left and right Tengxiangwei, which are part of the forbidden army.

It would be fine if there was only one deputy marshal here.

But now these three deputy marshals are all there, and the qualifications and prestige of any one of them cannot suppress the other two.

This led to extreme chaos in Peng Ze's army.

Guo's uncle Guo Kan advocated the attack and avenged the ambush.

Zhang Ji, Marquis of Dingnan, advocated defense and waited for the court's order.

The King of Chu, Zhao Huaijiang, did not help each other, and did not get involved in the discussion of offense and defense, but he was not satisfied with Guo Kan's use of his Hengye army to attack after Li Shizhong's death.
It wasn't until Xue Julin led an army of more than [-] people to kill them again that they barely reached a consensus.

Zhang Ji, Marquis of Dingnan, was in charge of dispatching the entire army to meet the enemy, while King Chu returned to Jiangzhou.

Who knew that Xue Julin seemed to know the inside story of the officers and soldiers, instead of attacking Pengze, he went down the Changjiang River, first captured Xinchang, and then sent troops to Raozhou.

Now Zhang had no choice but to lead his army to help, and fought against Xue Julin under Xinchang City, but lost three battles in a row.More than ten thousand soldiers were lost.

Zhang Ji, who was not good at attacking, could only lead his army back.

Then Xue Julin divided his troops to the governor Liu Taiqing to attack Raozhou with 3 troops, and led [-] troops to attack Pengze.

The officers and soldiers were newly defeated, and their morale was fluctuating. During the war, the various ministries were suspicious of each other, so that Xue Julin seized the opportunity to defeat each other.

The battle of Peng Ze also became Xue Julin's famous battle all over the world.

In this battle, Xue Julin's [-] troops faced Zhang Ji's [-] troops, not only defeated them head-on, but also conquered Peng Ze in one fell swoop.

The officer army lost more than [-] soldiers in this battle, while Tao Qing, General Xuanwei of Zhenrong Army, Ma Lin of Jianchang Army, and dozens of generals were killed.

Then Zhang Ji led his army back to Duchang, and Guo Kan led his army back to Jiangzhou.

If it weren't for the desperate fight of Cao Guozhong of the Yokoye Army, the entire army might be in danger of being wiped out.

Then Xue Julin took advantage of the victory and pursued, storming Duchang.

In mid-October, Duchang and Raozhou fell one after another.

Zhang Ji was defeated again by Xue Julin, but fortunately there was a navy to meet him at Poyang Lake, so he fled all the way back to Hongzhou.

In less than a month, the officers and soldiers lost the four cities of Pengze, Raozhou, Duchang, and Xinchang successively, and lost more than [-] soldiers.

But the rebel army became more and more courageous. At the end of October, Liu Taiqing, who conquered Raozhou, led an army of [-] to the north, joined forces with Xue Julin, and a total of [-] troops went straight to Jiangzhou.

On the other hand, Wang Tingshan, the commander of the Southern Army Navy, also reorganized the navy, went up the river, entered Poyang Lake, and started a water battle with the Northern Army Navy.

On October [-], the two armies encountered each other on the Kanglang Mountain Lake.At that time, the giant ships of the government and army were deployed in formation, spread out for dozens of miles, "looking at it like a mountain", and the momentum was overwhelming.Wang Tingshan divided his own ships into two teams, each team was equipped with rockets, fire thorns and crossbows, and ordered each team to bow and crossbow first when approaching the enemy ship, and then when approaching the enemy ship. Fight with short weapons.

The next day, the two sides fought fiercely.Chen Jiao, the general of the southern army, took the lead and led the fleet to attack bravely. He defeated the vanguard of the northern army, killed more than a thousand enemies, and captured a giant ship.

Many Union soldiers were killed and drowned.However, the southern army also suffered a lot of casualties, and the battle was stalemate.From morning to dusk, the two sides call for money to withdraw their troops, and the battle has come to an end. Both sides have casualties, regardless of the outcome.
On the 22nd, Wang Tingshan personally led the navy to fight.However, the northern warships were huge, while the southern warships were too small to attack, and they were frustrated one after another.At this time, Wang Tingshan followed the advice of general Liu Menglong in time and switched to using fire to defeat the enemy.At dusk, a northeasterly wind blew on the lake. Wang Tingshan selected warriors to drive seven fishing boats. The boats were filled with kerosene and firewood. They approached the enemy ships and set fires with the wind.All of a sudden, the flames soared, and the lake was completely red. In a flash, more than a hundred giant ships of the Northern Army were burned down.

On the 23rd, the two sides had another confrontation. In order to boost morale, Zhang Dingnan led a large ship to attack. He drove straight in and took Wang Tingshan's ship. Wang Tingshan also moved quickly. As soon as he left, the original ship was rammed by the Northern Army Broken.

And the final decisive battle also started on the 24th.
On the 24th, Liu Menglong, Chen Jiao and other generals of the Southern Army led six marines to break into the Northern Army fleet.

The morale of the southern army was greatly boosted and they launched a fierce attack.In the end, the Northern Army retreated without defeat, and the abandoned flags, drums, weapons and battles floated to cover the lake.

Zhang Ji had no choice but to gather up the remnants and turn to defense, not daring to fight any more.

That night, Wang Tingshan took advantage of the victory and entered Zuoli in the northwest of Duchang to control the upper reaches of the river. Zhang Ji also retreated to protect Zhuji.The two armies held each other for three days, and the Northern Army was defeated repeatedly, and the situation became increasingly unfavorable.

Two days later, Dingnan Hou Zhang Ji died of vomiting blood because of repeated defeats.

Hongzhou then fell.

(End of this chapter)