The Golden Purple Gate was closed again, and Zhang Feng came to see Zhu Chaoshi and said thankfully: "Zhu Sima, if you were one step later, Jiangzhou City might not be able to defend itself."
Zhu Chaoshi said: "When Yu Shen arrived in Dianjiang, he learned that Li Qiang, a thief, planned to surrender the city. He didn't dare to delay, so he led his army directly."
The two of them walked towards the city wall as they talked. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Under Li Qiang's deliberate drive, nearly 500 Yong soldiers were killed or wounded tonight.
Standing on the golden purple gate and looking across the river, you can see the lights on the imperial ships joining together and stretching for four or five miles.
Zhang Feng reminded: "Li Qiang is rebellious. We must guard against him using false pretexts to seize Zhi County, Linjiang and other places. We must send people overnight to notify Linjiang counties to strengthen their vigilance."
Zhu Chaoshi nodded and said, "Yes, there is no need to delay this matter. We need to send someone to deliver the letter now."
Boating at night is extremely dangerous, but the situation is so urgent that we don’t care about it. Zhu Chaoshi selected people who were proficient in water properties from among the accompanying navy, and promised them a heavy reward so that they could take the tokens and go down the river overnight to Zhixian, Linjiang, Nanpu, Quren and other cities to inform the governor of Bajun that Li Qiang had rebelled. Let cities be prepared.
On the other side of Jiangzhou City, the imperial troops were stationed, and Gao Jinzhi brought Li Qiang to see Liu Cui.
After the failure, Li Qiang was very depressed. The offer to Jiangzhou was unsuccessful, and Gao Jinzhi's original promise to him was probably in vain.
Liu Cui welcomed them into the tent and asked about the reason for the defeat. When he learned that Zhu Chaoshi and his army had arrived in time, he sighed and said: "People plan things, and God makes things happen. This is not the fault of the two princes."
Li Qiang breathed a sigh of relief. It would be unlucky if he "didn't eat the mutton and got all messed up."
Although he was still young, Liu Cui still ordered a banquet to be held in honor of Li Qiang. This was the largest official surrender of the Yong army since the beginning of the war. Its influence was far-reaching, and Song Gong knew that he would attach great importance to it.
After taking two bites of food, Liu Cui asked Li Qiang whether Yong's army was strong or not and whether there was any way to capture Jiangzhou City.
Li Qiang shook his head and said: "Jiangzhou City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is difficult to break the city without internal support. Now that Zhu Chaoshi has arrived with reinforcements, it is almost impossible for the imperial court to break the city without reinforcements."
Liu Cui nodded. Back then, Lu Kang attacked Yong'an (i.e. Jiangzhou City) with ten times the strength of the city's defenders and still couldn't win for half a year. It was really hopeless to capture Jiangzhou City with just his own troops.
Li Qiang thought that his dedication to the city was unsuccessful and that even if he surrendered, he would not achieve much. He said: "Jiangzhou City is difficult to capture, but cities such as Zhixian County and Linjiang are easy to capture. General Liu might as well send a navy to Yu, and Yu can take advantage of these cities. Before we get the news, we can pretend to open the city gate and take the city easily."
Liu Cui smiled and said: "Yu Zheng is going to discuss this matter with General Li. It can be said that heroes have the same views."
Li Qiang said: "It won't be too late, the sooner the better."
Liu Cui stood up and said, "I will order some troops now. General Gao, you go with General Li."
With Li Qiang's new surrender, Liu Cui must be on guard against him, and Gao Jinzhi is accompanying him both to assist and to guard against him.
At the end of Yin Dynasty, white fish belly appeared in the east. Eighty imperial ships removed their flags and headed for Zhi County (Fuling) under the leadership of Li Qiang and Gao Jinzhi.
The boat was going down the river at a very fast speed. Gao Jinzhi and Li Qiang were standing side by side on the bow of the boat, watching the green mountains flying by on both sides of the strait, and asked with a smile: "Hongzhi, how does the Imperial Navy compare to the Yongzhou Navy?"
Li Qiang responded gloomily: "I heard that the Yongzhou Navy has wheels on both sides of its hull, and you can use your feet to pedal them. It can move quickly and advance and retreat freely."
When Gao Jin heard this, he immediately asked, "Hongzhi, do you know the details? Please tell me in detail."
Li Qiang was so focused on capturing Zhi County that he had no time to explain the carriages and ships. He said feebly, "You only hear the name, but don't see it in person."
Gao Jinzhi stroked his beard and thought about what Li Qiang said about the ship with wheels. The more he thought about it, the more important it became.
At Maozheng time, the morning sun rises, and the sun shines on the river, making the floating light shine like gold.
Li Qiang stood at the bow of the ship, his heart was up and down. Yesterday he was the prefect of Ba County under the command of Yonggong, and today he started to serve Songgong. But this time he didn't know whether the bet was right or not.
Fuling City was already in sight, Gao Jinzhi squinted at Fuling City bathed in the sun. Fuling City is built along the river. From the boat, you can see the Yong flag fluttering in the wind. Li Qiang signaled the boat
The ship docked at the dock.
Some soldiers got off the boat and went to the city. They shouted loudly: "Prefect Li of Bajun is coming. Quickly open the city to meet him."
Flying rocks flew into the sky from the city head and hit the ship hundreds of steps away. Huge flying rocks hit the side of the ship, and the ship's planks shattered and sawdust flew. The warship was so frightened that it hurriedly left the dock.
Li Qiang stamped his feet. No need to ask, the Zhi County defenders already knew that he had surrendered to the imperial court.
Now that Zhi County is on guard, Linjiang, Nanpu and other cities must have learned the news. Li Qiang and Gao Jinzhi discussed it and decided to return to the south bank of Jiangzhou.
Liu Cui learned that the plan to defraud the city had failed and that it was impossible to seize Jiangzhou City, so he prepared to return to Yufucheng.
Gao Jinzhi suggested that Liu Cui go to Jiangyang City and work with Tan Daoji to deal with Yin Ji. It would be a great achievement to seize Chengdu Mansion.
Seeing the imperial navy sailing away from the south bank towards Jiangyang City, Zhang Feng said bitterly: "It's a pity that we don't have many warships. Otherwise, how could we allow Li Qiang and the dog thief to leave calmly."
Jiangzhou City was in chaos for the first time. General Li Qiang rebelled against the enemy. Next, he had to appease the morale of the army and mobilize some generals. Zhu Chaoshi was so busy that he naturally had no intention of dealing with the imperial navy. …
On May 2, Wang Zhen'e led 4,000 light cavalry to the north of Luoyang; on May 5, Yang Anxuan led Yu Fei and Shen Qingzhi to lead a hundred cavalry across the Han River to Shicheng; on May 7, Yang Anxuan led 2,000 troops to Yunshe, and fought with Yang Siping's soldiers and horses gathered together, and there were more than 12,000 soldiers and horses in Yunshe City.
On May 8, the news of the loss of Yufucheng was reported to Yang Anxuan. Yang Anxuan was deeply anxious. If the Yangtze River waterway was occupied by Liu Yu, the situation in the southwest would be uncontrollable. He was in Jiangxia and could not send troops for reinforcements. He could only hope for negative results. He and Zhu Chaoshi can stabilize the situation and deal with it after they defeat Wang Zhongde and Liu Yu's army.
After carefully analyzing the intelligence sent back to Wang Zhongde's army, Wang Zhongde occupied Anlu City and sent Shen Tianzi to lead 6,000 troops to seize Nanxinshi City (distinct from Xinshicheng and called Nanxinshi City) 68 miles northeast of Yunshe. There were 8,000 imperial soldiers and horses in Anlu City, 5,000 troops were stationed in Quling, and Yu Qiujin led a navy of 6,000 troops stationed in Jingkou.
After Wang Zhongde captured Anlu, he was not in a hurry to go north to join Liu Yu, because although Yong's army was defeated, it still had strength. Once he led his army north to Yang Siping, it was likely to cut off his retreat, or even counterattack Xiakou.
Liu Yu learned that Wang Zhongde had captured Anlu City and Yang Siping had retreated to Yunshe. He asked Wang Zhongde to temporarily secure Jiangxia County and try to eliminate the Yong army's combat power. He also ordered Peng Tao, the prefect of Yiyang, to send troops to Xi County in Runan to contain the north of Yongzhou. of soldiers and horses.
Wang Zhongde took Anlu as the center, Nanxin City was to the west, between Yunshe and Anlu; Quling was to the south of Anlu City, and the Jianshui River connected Anlu and Xiakou. Wang Zhongde had twice as many troops as himself. If It would be difficult to lead an army to attack the city by force, so Yang Anxuan stood in front of the map and thought hard about good strategies.
It was getting late, and Yang Anxuan was still standing in front of the map. Yu Fei came in with his bodyguards to bring him noodles - noodles. Yang Anxuan remembered that Yu Fei was from Xiling, Jiangxia, and asked: "Zizhuang, do you have any good ideas to defeat the enemy?" ".
Yu Feipan sat next to Yang Anxuan, eating noodles with chopsticks. Hearing Yang Anxuan's question, he wiped his mouth and said, "Jiangxia County has many rivers and lakes. If the navy can participate in the battle, it will be able to advance and retreat freely."
Yang Anxuan was reminded by Yu Fei. He finished the noodles in the bowl in two mouthfuls and stood in front of the map again. Yu Fei didn't care so much. After finishing a bowl, he took the noodles out of the pot and ate them happily.
To attack Anlu by water from Xiangyang, it is nearly a thousand miles from the Han River through Yangkou, Zhukou and Jingkou. The journey is long and it also has to pass through Jingling, which has the imperial water fortress.
However, Qian Lei's defeat at Zhangshan was so great that most of the ships in Yangkou Village of the imperial court were burned, and the remaining more than a hundred ships were no longer able to compete with the Yong Navy for supremacy on the Han River.
On the contrary, Qian Lei captured more than 60 ships of the Imperial Navy, increasing the number of Xiangyang Navy ships to more than 600. There are ships, but the number of troops seems insufficient.
Yang Anxuan stroked his beard and thought about it. After Zhangshan's defeat, Liu Daolian did not send the navy to replenish the Yangkou stronghold, but actually took the risk of sending the navy to capture Yufu. Losing Yufu was not good for him, but it also made the Jingzhou navy unable to send reinforcements. Go to Yangkou.
In this case, Qian Lei was asked to lead the navy to attack Yangkou Village. After defeating the enemy, he made an effort to attack Jingling. At the same time, he ordered Sima Xiuzhi of Dangyang City to launch a counterattack and attack Jiangling City.
Liu Daolian is timid and afraid of death
, if Yang Yang's troops advance towards Jiangling, Liu Daolian will definitely summon Yanzhi to return to Jiangling City, and the Yangtze River waterway will be able to flow unimpeded.
The Xiangyang Navy cannot go out in full force, and half of the 600 ships must be left to respond. The 300 warships can carry more than 10,000 soldiers. The modified warships have an advantage over the imperial navy.
Although it is nearly a thousand miles from Xiangyang to Zhuangkou, a wheeled warship can travel at least 350 miles in one day, and at most three days, which is a very fast battle.
By the time Yu Fei finished eating the noodles, Yang Anxuan had already smoothed out his thoughts, stopped Yu Fei who was about to go out, and said with a smile: "Zizhuang, just now you said we would defeat the enemy by water. After thinking about it, it makes sense."
Yu Fei was stunned and said seriously: "Master, this servant is just talking nonsense."
Yang Anxuan laughed and said: "Zizhuang is rough but subtle. Although he said it casually, it triggered Yu's idea. Don't leave yet. I will rely on you to defeat the enemy this time."
Yu Fei stood still, cupped his fists and said, "Please give me your orders, my lord."
Yang Anxuan said: "Yu Fei was the head of Langlijiao back then. Now Chen Yu is the commander-in-chief of Luoyang Navy. Do you, the head of the army, have any ideas?"
Yu Fei said nonchalantly: "My lord, I know that my servant is lazy and doesn't like officialdom. I'll just stay with you. After the war, I can find a place to spend my time leisurely."
Yu Fei is a prodigal who wants to leave after staying in one place for a long time. She married a relative for him and gave birth to a son and a daughter. She was able to keep him in check, and he had not been clamoring to leave for the past few years.
Yang Anxuan did not want to let Yu Fei go, and said: "Zizhuang will return to Xiangyang tomorrow with five thousand people, and together with Qian Lei, attack Yangkou first..."
Yu Fei took note of Yang Anxuan's instructions and led 5,000 soldiers and horses to leave Yunshe and return to Shicheng the next day. Soon Shen Tianzi, who was stationed in Nanxin City, got the news. Could it be that the Yong army retreated because they wanted to recapture Yufucheng? Calculating that there were still seven or eight thousand Yong troops in Yunshe City, it was better to stay quiet and not move.
Shen Tianzi made up his mind that if Yong's army came to attack, he would defend the city and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. If Yong's army did not leave Yunshe City, then there would be a stalemate. Anyway, the war would be beneficial to his own army. I believe that when the time comes, it will be Yong who cannot hold back. military.
Yu Fei arrived at Shicheng and sent someone to notify Qian Lei to lead the navy. Speaking of Yu Fei being Qian Lei's senior, Qian Lei greeted Yu Fei respectfully.
Although Qian Lei's temperament was completely opposite to Yu Fei's, Yu Fei liked Qian Lei very much and said with a smile: "Okay, you know that I don't like these false etiquettes. My lord has faith, let you lead the army to attack Yangkou, and then follow the trend to attack Jiukou, you can make your own decision whether to attack Anlu or Xiakou."
After reading the letter, Qian Lei said: "Yu already knows my lord's plan, and I need General Yu to help me on this trip."
Yu Fei said lazily: "I'm too lazy to use my brain. Just tell me what you want to do, and I won't miss you."
