A deserted small temple on Luoyan Peak in Xishan, Quanzhou has become a temporary base camp for special forces soldiers. Lin Feng led all the special forces soldiers lurking from the mountain path to "work temporarily" here.

At noon on the 20th, Lin Feng, who had not been in close contact for two days, was cheering up and sorting out the information sent by the special forces from various places:

In the Xia Palace of Quanzhou, there were about 10,000 troops stationed in Shaxiang;

The number of guards in the four gates of Quanzhou has been determined, all of which are about 5,000;

The defenders in Zhangzhou and other places closed the city gates, and there was no sign of rescue of Quanzhou...

Lin Feng took out a piece of paper, which was covered with the military intelligence of Quanzhou that had been confirmed by Kang Renjie, Zhang Jiao and the special forces soldiers who arrived in the early stage: the total number of Quanzhou soldiers was 75,000, of which 60,000 were from the north and south camps, and the army left in Quanzhou City was 10,000 directly commanded by Congxiao, and a total of 5,000 defenders from other places.

Now, if we remove the known Quanzhou garrisons in Quanzhou City, there should be tens of thousands of guards in Quanzhou City, and the guards on the city walls of nearly twenty miles will not be less than six thousand. In this way, the guards in Quanzhou City should not be more than four thousand.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and ordered repeatedly:

The elite troops of each army increased their attacks on the periphery of Quanzhang and divided them into groups to attack in turn. They must not be interrupted or stopped until the early morning (for a while). At the same time, the attacking troops must carry leaflets and disperse the leaflets into the enemy camp.

All elite troops must arrive at the west gate of Quanzhou City before the ugliness of 3 minutes tomorrow;

Emergency contact with the Chu-Tang joint fleet and ordered the fleet to attack in Quanzhou day and night. If necessary, rush to the beach to grab land. Be sure to entangle Xiagong and stay with the Shaxiang army;

Emergency contact with the Jianzhou army in Nan'an, siege the city day and night, and strive to break through the city before midnight and kill to the city of Quanzhou.

Zhao Tianba, Zhao Zanting, Zhao Chengyu, Zheng Yucong and other special soldiers who were formerly guards of the Zhengwang Mansion have transformed into command soldiers and all of them have been ordered out.

Looking at the little temple that became a little empty, Lin Feng sighed in his heart. If it were the era of telegraph and telephone in later generations, it would be much easier to coordinate combat. In this era of information blocked and poor communication, the chance of accidental factors being affected is too high. It is really impossible to control how likely these commands can be transmitted to the position and executed in place.

What Lin Feng didn't know was that accidental factors, big or small, appeared on several battlefields involved in the Southern Tang Dynasty, causing unpredictable changes in the situation on the battlefield:

In the Guizhou area, Ma Jiwei, who promptly discovered the invasion of the Southern Han army, immediately passed the news to the chiefs of the Yihan Alliance, and asked them to immediately summon elite soldiers of the various races to prepare for a desperate battle with the Southern Han army. However, as of noon on March 18, the overall number of ethnic minority soldiers arrived in various places was relatively small, which had little impact on the overall situation. Ma Jiwei had no choice but to lead all Guizhou defenders to rush to Hezhou urgently. At the same time, he ordered all support soldiers to reorganize the army in Zhaozhou and ready to support Hezhou at any time.

In Wuyue Hangzhou Bay, the situation has also changed:

Qian Yuanguan's eleventh son, Qian Hongyi, a deputy general named Qian Yun, led his troops to guard Wanghai Town, which happened to be in the middle of Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan Islands.

A few days ago, Qian Yun received a report from the inspectors, saying that a large number of Chu-Tang warships had quietly left the sea overnight and headed south. Qian Yun was not sure. He sent small boats to the gathering place of Chu-Tang warships for reconnaissance for several days. After repeated confirmation, he found that there were only more than 100 enemy warships left, and immediately reported this situation to Hangzhou, Xi Prefecture.

In the Wuyue court, the two prime ministers Wu Cheng and Yuan Dezhao once again argued on the spot. Wu Cheng insisted that the decisive battle at sea should be carried out while the enemy ships were divided and the enemy and us were in equal force to break the passive situation as soon as possible; Yuan Dezhao still insisted on being safe, and there is no further military information from all over the country, so he should insist on watching the changes. Besides, what if it is the trap of Chu and Tang tempting their own attacks.

Wu Cheng was annoyed and shouted in the court: "Watch the change, watch the change, wait until it really changes, it will be too late to regret it. The enemy ships divided their troops to go south. What if they join forces with the Jianzhou army to attack Fuzhou? If they attack Quanzhou, an accident occurred in one of the two places, and Wu Yue will be completely surrounded by Li Tang, and the country will be in danger from then on."

Yuan Dezhao is already sixty-one years old, two years older than Wu Cheng. When Wu Cheng yelled with a thorny face, he couldn't stop it. He also said angrily: "If Fuzhou, Quanzhou can be easily transferred, I, Wu Yue, would not have Fuzhou, and the Qingyuan Army cannot be independent in fact. Soldiers are insincere, and they cannot arrange troops based on imagination."

Wu Cheng was so angry that he stomped his feet hard and shouted in a louder voice: "Li Tang is ambitious and has great plans. This trip will lead to the new return of Chu, and he will definitely win. In the past, would we believe that Li Tang can conquer Chu within four months? But the iron-like facts are in front of us, and we can't help but not believe it. Now, Chu Tang joins hands, and Lin Feng, who is not playing according to common sense, can no longer look at Li Tang from the old eyes of a few years ago. The scholar should look at him with admiration for three days."

Yuan Dezhao was known for his wit and change. At this time, he heard Wu Yue's words and suddenly calmed down. After pondering for a while, he said loudly: "Wu Xiang's words are reasonable. Dezhao admired that Li Tang did have several more Chu warships, but I don't believe how much their infantry will grow. What's more, the most elite soldiers of their armies have already been selected to participate in a competition. I think it's better to start with the west and then the east, first the real, then the virtual and then the real, and attack in a series of ways to break the victory of Chu Tang."

Afterwards, Yuan Dezhao revealed his plan to defeat the enemy. Wu Cheng and other ministers were all impressed. Wu Yue immediately reached a consensus and took action quickly.

These battlefield changes are far away and have little impact on the battle situation in Quanzhou for the time being, but the subsequent changes in the battlefield are quite significant.

The commander of the infantry commander of the 10,000 soldiers stationed in Beidaying north of Dehua, Quanzhou was Su Guanghai. He was one of the twenty-five dead soldiers who followed Liu to seize Quanzhou City. The deputy commander of the infantry was Chen Wenshan, the son of Chen Hongjin. Both of them were known for their bravery and ruthlessness in the Quanzhou army, especially Chen Wenshan, who has often participated in special training organized by Kang Renjie since last year, and his behavior has become more and more vicious.

When they learned that Dachun County in the rear had fallen, they immediately arranged for Beidaying soldiers to station in Dehua to prevent the Jianzhou army from attacking them from north to south. But unexpectedly, the Jianzhou army ignored them and headed east to Yongchun. The two immediately felt something was wrong.

On the evening of March 20, Su Guanghai, who had been on the front line for two consecutive days, came back and secretly summoned Chen Wenshan and other military generals to the camp to discuss secretly.

Su Guanghai pointed to the north and said coldly: "Since the beginning of this battle, I have always had a doubt. The daily daily soldiers of the Tang Dynasty's Jianzhou Army are no more than 30,000 soldiers. Why can we divide Fuzhou and Quanzhou this time? Each of them is known as 30,000 people? Our spies have never discovered that Xiao Tang has transferred the imperial guards from Jinling, nor have they found that Jianzhou has transferred troops from nearby Xinzhou (now Shangrao City, Jiangxi), Zhaowu Army (now Fuzhou City, Jiangxi), Tingzhou (now Changting, Fujian) and other places.

In addition, in the past few days of fighting with us, the 20,000 enemy soldiers in the north had the advantage, and there was no active attack at all, which was even more confusing. After several days of observation, I found that there were very few soldiers on the opposite side who were training in the camp, and a large majority of soldiers seemed to never leave the camp. I suspect that these Tang soldiers were simply played by civilians."

Chen Wenshan immediately jumped up and yelled, "Then we will vow to fight tomorrow, wipe out the other side, and then return to the army to help Quanzhou."

Su Guanghai glanced at Chen Wenshan inadvertently, shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate. There are many changes in the decisive battle with the enemy in the north. The situation in Quanzhou is already very critical. My idea is that we will withdraw troops from the border and urgently withdraw Dehua City. Then, we will lead 5,000 troops south overnight, and divide into two groups, including 3,000 of which killed Nan'an. We will raid the Tang soldiers who were siegeing the city overnight. After defeating the enemy, we will swear to defend the city and block the way for the Jianzhou army to retreat. The other route will slant along the mountain path to Quanzhou city, and protect the envoys."

Chen Wenshan immediately shouted excitedly: "There should be nothing under Quanzhou city. I want to lead my army to raid Nan'an."

Su Guanghai let out a sigh of relief in secret and nodded in response: "Then I will take people straight to Quanzhou and keep the minister."
Chapter completed!