After Ling Su, Xue Wei and others left, Shen Yi would not stay in Jiankang for long.
In fact, at this time, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office had already discussed the section of the Huaihe River that the Coastal Governor needed to let go of.
That is the Huaihe River section in Huai'an Prefecture.
This section is relatively advantageous for coastal cities because it is close to the sea.
When one end is close to the sea, it will not be caught in the middle by the Huaihe Navy. In this way, Mr. Shen's cost of defending the Huaihe Navy will be reduced a lot.
But relatively speaking, there are some disadvantages, because this is the estuary of the Huaihe River, and the width of the river is relatively gentle, and...
Once Beiqi breaks through the Huai'an Prefecture, after crossing Huai'an Prefecture, they will only need to go south a short distance to reach Shen Yi's hometown of Jiangdu.
If Shen Yi cannot hold on and allows Qi people to break through this section of the defense line, then his hometown Jiangdu may even fall, and then he will really have no face to face Jiangdong's elders.
After Ling Su and Xue Wei left, Shen Yi stayed in Jiankang for another five or six days. During these five or six days, Shen Yi was pulled in by various yamen for questioning.
Among them are the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office, and of course Zhongshu.
Most of these yamen told Shen Yi how important this section of the Huaihe River was and that he must guard against it...
Master Shen naturally responded one by one.
On the seventh day after Ling Su and Xue Wei left, Master Shen finally packed up and left Jiankang.
This time, because he was in a hurry, he did not take the carriage again, but took Jiang Sheng and several other entourages, as well as nearly thirty personal guards selected by the emperor from among the inner guards, on the road together.
After leaving Jiankang, it was natural to say goodbye to many people. It was not until noon that Shen Yi and his party actually left Jiankang and ran on the official road.
Songjiang Mansion is about 600 miles away from Jiankang. If you ride a horse normally, you can get there in four or five days. However, Shen Yi did not rush to Songjiang Mansion so quickly because he only walked halfway on the road before catching up. Ling Su and others who set off seven days in advance.
After all, their group, with dozens of carriages, couldn't move very fast.
Ling Su and Xue Wei had been on the road for a while. After seeing Shen Yi's horse, they were both very happy. They stood on the roadside with dozens of soldiers from the coastal capitals and greeted Shen Yi respectfully. Salute with clasped fists.
"I've met Mr. Shen!"
Mr. Shen jumped off the horse and waved to everyone to show no need to be polite. He glanced at the huge convoy, then at Xue Wei and Ling Su who were escorting the convoy, frowned, and said, "It will take more time for this convoy to reach Songjiang Mansion." How long?"
The two commanders looked at each other, and then said: "Back to Mr. Shen, these armors still have gunpowder, and the ordnance is very heavy, so the speed is really difficult. We have already changed horses at the stations along the way. Even so, it is estimated that it will not be fast." It will take about twenty days to reach Songjiang Mansion."
Hearing this, Shen Yi snorted: "Then you two are going to follow the convoy and escort supplies to Songjiang Mansion for more than twenty days?"
Mr. Shen was a little unhappy.
"Are you two commanders or logistics officers escorting supplies?"
The two people looked at each other, a little confused.
Ling Su wanted to be able to speak better. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Mr. Shen, you said these things are very important. In addition, after the two of us returned to Songjiang Mansion first, they were of no use, so we just..."
"alright."
Mr. Shen was a little impatient and said, "You choose one of your subordinates to escort the car. You two will ride horses and follow me to Songjiang Mansion!"
"We will switch defenses with the Huaihe Navy at the end of July!"
"The days are getting tighter and tighter day by day. Where can I find the time for you to roam freely here?"
After hearing this, the two people looked at each other, nodded, and turned around to give instructions to their subordinates.
It only took about half an hour for the two of them to arrange the convoy, get on their horses, follow Shen Yi, and ride towards Songjiang Mansion together.
The speed of riding on horseback was naturally much faster. On the sixth day of Shen Yi's journey, to be precise, it should be mid-June of the eleventh year of Hongde, Master Shen finally arrived at Songjiang Mansion.
At this time, Songjiang Prefecture was still a relatively ordinary and even crude prefecture, far from the atmosphere of an international metropolis in another world.
However, the geographical location here is very good, so it was designated as one of the five municipal shipping ports by Shen Yi. At present, the Songjiang Prefecture Shipping Department has been operating smoothly and has begun to make money for the court.
Because of the appearance of Shibosi, Songjiang Mansion was much livelier than before, and it felt a little more prosperous.
The Songjiang Guards are stationed outside Songjiang Prefecture City, not far from Songjiang Prefecture City Ship Division.
However, at this time, the Songjiang Wei camp had been magically modified and became extremely large.
Because... the Songjiangwei Camp, which originally accommodated 5,000 people, now has a capacity of 21,000 people!
This made the entire Songjiangwei camp almost full of tents. Some of them couldn't be squeezed in, so the tents were all set up outside the camp, making the entire Songjiangwei camp expand a lot.
Fortunately, this is the hinterland of Dachen, and they are only here for training, not for fighting, otherwise problems would arise if they camped like this.
Shen Yi, who dismounted at the gate of Songjiang Guards, frowned as soon as he saw these tents.
Ling Su, who was following Shen Yi, keenly noticed that something was wrong with Shen Yi's expression. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Mr. Shen, these are temporary camps, because they all have to be training near Songjiang Guard, or training. It’s not advisable to stay too far away. There is no other way but to let them set up their tents together..."
Mr. Shen narrowed his eyes, snorted, and said: "Although I have never led an army directly, I have read a lot of military books. If you set up camp like you, the enemy does not need to attack the camp. With a fire, he will I can burn you all to pieces!”
Xue Wei opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally lowered his head and said nothing.
Master Shen walked into the Songjiang Wei camp with his hands behind his back.
Songjiangwei Camp was the original residence of Songjiangwei. Therefore, there were not only camps but many houses, as well as offices for the Songjiangwei commander, commanding officials, and commanding colleagues.
Although these positions are all vacant in Songjiang Wei, the necessary office space is still available.
Soon, Shen Yi, led by Ling Su and others, sat in the Songjiang Wei hall. He sat on the main seat politely, then turned to look at Ling Su, and said slowly: "General Ling, Go and call all the thousand households, generation thousand households, and generals above the thousand households in the army."
"I...meet them."
Mr. Shen said slowly: "Lest we meet in the army and not know each other."
Ling Su quickly nodded in agreement, then he took Xue Wei with him and called for someone to go.
About half an hour later, the Songjiang Wei Hall was filled with people.
There are more than twenty people there.
Because there were so many people, there was really no way to sit down, so we had to stand in the hall.
When everyone was almost there, Ling Su lowered his head and clasped his fists at Shen Yi and said: "Mr. Shen, in addition to the two thousand households escorting the supplies, there are other nineteen thousand households and three commanding officers who are acting as commanders. All of them are turn up."
After he said this, more than 20 people in the hall bowed to Shen Yi and clasped their fists in unison.
"My subordinates pay their respects to Duke Shen!"
These people vary in age, the oldest is about forty years old, and the youngest is only twenty-four or five years old.
Mr. Shen sat on the main seat, waved his hands to everyone, and said calmly: "No need to be polite, find a place to sit by yourself."
"If there is no place to sit, just sit on the ground. Brothers are all from the military, so they don't think about it."
Most of the thousands of households in these coastal cities recognized Shen Yi.
After all, Mr. Shen has only been away from Southeast for more than half a year.
After hearing Shen Yi's words, everyone laughed and then found a place to sit down. Some sat on chairs, and some simply sat on the ground.
After everyone sat down, Mr. Shen glanced at everyone, then looked up at Ling Su and Xue Wei, squinted his eyes and smiled.
"There are more new faces."
These new faces are the "newcomers" who have only been promoted to Qianhu, or have replaced Qianhu, in the more than half a year since he left.
His words made Ling Su and Xue Wei take a deep breath, lowering their heads and not daring to speak.
Because without exception, these "new faces" were promoted by the two of them.
And most of them were stamped by Mr. Shen, the military commander, when they reported to the Ministry of War.
Seeing the two people lowering their heads and saying nothing, Shen Yi smiled faintly.
"Don't be so nervous."
Shen Yi glanced at everyone, and the expression on his face became amiable.
"It's a good thing to have a fresh face."
"It means we are the coastal capital."
Mr. Shen said with a smile.
“There are new people coming up all the time.”
