At the same time when Zhufeng, Yang Ye and Hao Shi successfully stopped the Liao cavalry from expeditioning the land of Ci, Jiang and Xi, the situation of the world's war situation was also changing dramatically.

At the southernmost point of the battle, the Champo soldiers who continued to arrive were all war madmen. They all survived and attacked day and night, breaking through the two lines of defense in the north (now Hue, Vietnam) and Nha Trang in the south, completely compressing Jia Yuhang's expeditionary force into Danang; at the same time, hundreds of Champo warships of all sizes completely blocked the port exit, trapping Jia Yuhang and the others from both water and land.

Jia Yuhang was also forced out of his ruthlessness. Before retreating, he plundered all the surrounding Zhanpo people, their property and food into the port, and forced them to build a temporary defense line around the port. If anyone disobeyed, he immediately waved his sword to kill him and piled his body into the protective wall, suppressing the unruly Zhanpo people and temporarily stabilizing the defense lines. However, more and more Zhanpo soldiers arrived outside, and the situation was critical.

Going slightly north, in fact, Qiongzhou, Wan'anzhou, which declared independence, also encountered trouble.

At first, Yi Wuhen gave a policy of not prosecuting, sharing money and food, and joining the army freely was extremely attractive, and quickly expanded his team to 6,000. However, a month passed, and the number of people coming to join the army was decreasing, while the news of trouble continued to increase:

The Han and Li people in the Tang Free Army were constantly in conflict during training, and it became common for both sides to gather to fight and conflict;

Zhenzhou in the south is gathering troops, and the target is Wan'anzhou;

Qiongzhou and Danzhou in the north have frequent exchanges, and southern Han soldiers have gathered in Qiongzhou. Needless to say, the target must be Wan'anzhou.

In a word, Wan'anzhou will face joint attacks from the surrounding four states in an internal situation of unstable internal situations.

According to investigation, the total strength of the above four prefectures is about 12,000, which is exactly twice the current strength of Wan'an Prefecture. However, because the four prefectures are all facing the water and have many warships, they can mobilize at least more than 10,000 sailors to fight. In this way, the comparison of the forces between the two sides is about one to four.

Yi Wuhen, who was facing a war for the first time, dared not neglect. First, he accelerated the selection of experts mainly Li people in the army, quickly formed and cultivated his own special forces, and spying on the situation on the periphery became one of their main training directions; second, he selected three commanders from the original team, and temporarily promoted to deputy generals, leading the thousand-man troops to station in the south, north and west directions, and began to actively deploy defense; third, he sent ships to the south and north to try to contact Jia Yuhang's troops who were attacking and Quanzhou in the Tang Dynasty. It would be best if he could contact Shouzhou. Although Yi Wuhen knew that the distant water could not quench the near thirst, the situation in those places was not clear, it was at least a psychological comfort.

Going northward, the battle situation became even more chaotic. At the junction of Southern Han and Quanzhang, Chaozhou City, which had been struggling for eighteen days, fell.

At noon on October 18, after Zhang Yunkai, deputy general of Southern Tang, led 6,000 Southern Tang soldiers to bravely resist for eighteen days and nights, the East Gate of Chaozhou was first to be captured, and tens of thousands of Southern Han troops poured in like a tide, sweeping over the only two thousand defenders left in the city.

Zhang Yunkai, who was besieged, fought to the death and died bravely. In the end, only dozens of soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty escaped from the chaos of the city and sneaked into the vast mountains around him. More than 300 soldiers who surrendered in the battle were also killed by the uncontrolled riots. The six thousand defenders in Chaozhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty were wiped out at this point.

The deputy commander of the Southern Han Dynasty, Li Tuo, quickly cleared the remaining soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Chaozhou City, leaving only 3,000 soldiers to defend the city, and 10,000 soldiers swept the surrounding area, and led all the remaining army of more than 60,000 to return to the north.

On October 19th, the army on the South Han Road all rushed to Zhangzhou City. Nearly 100,000 soldiers from the South Han land surrounded Chaozhou. They recruited envoys to the east of the South Han Dynasty. The Minister of Eunuch Pan Chongche personally carried Zhang Yunkai's head to the city and persuaded Zhang Hansi to surrender on the spot.

Zhang Hansi was the only junior Zhang Yunkai, who was usually regarded as his own, and immediately burst into tears on the top of the city. However, when Nan Han persuaded to surrender, the old general shot an angry arrow in tears, announcing his determination to never surrender.

Pan Chongche no longer talked nonsense and left as he plucked his horse. The sound of war drums under the city was rising, and the siege in Zhangzhou officially began.

At the same time, Pan Chongche divided 10,000 elite troops to help Xipushui. Facing a total of 18,000 elite troops from the Southern Han Dynasty, Chen Wenshan, the deputy commander of the Southern Tang infantry, who had only 5,000 subordinates, could only take the initiative to retreat and quickly retreat to the northernmost mountain ridge of Taohua Mountain, guarding the last mountain defense line.

In Jianzhou, which commanded the Southern Tang War, Chen Hui, the governor of Zhangwu, naturally would not wait for the enemy to surround him. He gathered 100 warships in Quanzhou, 200 merchant ships, a total of 8,000 naval troops. On the evening of the 19th, he gathered southward to attack the Southern Han naval troops outside Zhangzhou.

However, the Southern Han Navy has been waiting for the battle since its arrival in the north. Quanzhou in the upper reaches is the top priority of defense. The small boats cruising outside discovered the sneak attack fleet in advance, and the sneak attack turned into a melee.

From the evening of the 19th to noon on the 20th, the two sides had been in a tumultuous war and chaos outside Zhangzhou Bay for nearly seven hours, and each lost nearly thirty ships. Finally, the slightly inferior Southern Han Navy retreated while fighting and retreated to the mouth of Zhangzhou Bay, and took the stance of joining the land infantry to attack. After a long battle, the exhausted Southern Tang Navy had to take the initiative to retreat north to Quanzhou, break through the water route and rush to Zhangzhou to aid failed.

Zhangzhou has officially fallen into an isolated situation.

Going northward, Qian Hongchu, the governor of Jinghai of Wu Yue, led a 100,000 army and 50,000 surrounding people. He used the methods of piled up earth mountains, blocking river channels, building floating bridges, etc. to attack the city for three consecutive days. He built several floating bridges on the circle river channel and built two slope climbing slopes. He rushed to the top of the city several times, but they were all defeated by Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua, deputy generals of Southern Tang, personally led troops to repel them. However, it was not easy for 18,000 people to deal with the attack of more than 100,000 people. The Fuzhou defenders felt a little stretched for a while.

In Chuzhou, located in the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin, the governors of Wusheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty outside the city, were not too busy. They attacked each other overnight today and attacked each other at a designated location tomorrow, which shocked Chuzhou City three times a day.

For a time, except for the King of E Li Jingda who led his army to temporarily stand stalemate with Qian Wenfeng, the governor of Wu Yue Zhong, Wu Jie, under the city of Wuxi, all other battlefields were at a disadvantage, and the situation was extremely critical.

The news reached the Southern Tang Dynasty. Emperor Li Jing, King Li Jing of Qi, and a group of important officials held emergency military meetings in the imperial study every day, but no magic method was discussed every time. The Tang Dynasty had to deal with three life-and-death enemies in the three directions. All the troops that could be mobilized were mobilized, what else could they do?

At this time, someone suggested that he would learn from Lin Feng and then transfer troops from Chu.

This suggestion was immediately rejected. Chu territory was newly collected soon. If all the troops were transferred, what should I do if there were any changes in the local area? Besides, Chu territory was too far away and the water could not relieve near thirst. If it was adjusted, it would only be possible to transfer barbarian soldiers. What should they do if they disobeyed the slander?

A group of generals surrounded the world map every day to argue, moving the small flag representing the troops around, which always made them too frustrated. Now they realized that their troops were too few.

At this time, some civil officials came out to propose that it would be better to temporarily quit the army with Wu Yue and Southern Han and fight with all their might to deal with the northern Zhou Kingdom. This view was rejected by Li Jing himself. It was obvious that the three countries were united, and they would not withdraw the army without defeating the Tang Dynasty. How could it be possible for the Tang Dynasty to suddenly become a horse? Under the current circumstances, how much price would the Tang Dynasty have to pay to convince these two ambitious countries?

Finally, in helplessness, Li Jing followed Li Jing's advice and issued a war order across the territory, summoning all males aged 15 to 55 in the Tang Dynasty to join the army, train urgently, and prepare to join the subsequent war.
Chapter completed!