The situation in Fuzhou City, which is 300 miles north of Quanzhou, is also as dangerous as a dangerous egg.

Under the leadership of Qian Hongchu, the governor of Jinghai of Wu Yue, a 100,000 army and 50,000 surrounding people successively attacked the city. At the end of October, they successively captured Yingxian Gate in the west of Fuzhou and Ningyue Gate in the south, and the outer city of Fuzhou was broken.

Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua, the deputy general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who had been mentally prepared, personally led their troops to cut off the rear and successfully retreated the defenders into the inner city. They relied on the waterways around the inner city to resist the enemy and continued to defend the enemy.

Earlier, General Chen and Zheng had moved all their food and equipment into the inner city, and now they gave up the outer city. The army of 12,000 people guarded the dangerous land, which became much easier. However, this action completely turned them into "hidden islands". Without external assistance, there was only a dead end.

Going northward, 10,000 elite reinforcements from Wuyue rushed to the city of Wuxi, Changzhou, Southern Tang in late October. The troops under the Central Wu Jiedushi Qian Wenfeng immediately remained on the same level as those of Li Jingda, the King of E of Southern Tang. No one had to eat up the opponent's strength at once, and could only continue to stand up and stalemate.

Going northward, the southern Tang River was full of panic:

Because it happened to be between the eastern capital Yangzhou City and the western capital Nanjing City, the Zhenhai Army, which was in charge of Runzhou, was temporarily divided into three parts. Part of the most elite rushed to the Xidu to support the Xidu, and the remaining military power was divided into three. One was recruited to the Dongdu, and the other crossed the river to defend it, and was in the middle to support the east, on the north bank of the western capital, leaving only a few soldiers to defend the city.

From Runzhou to the west to Hezhou (now He County, Anhui), and on the south bank of the river upstream and downstream of the Nanjing section of the Xidu, there are Ding Zhuang who is temporarily urgently recruited from various places. In name, a large camp was set up along the river every twenty miles, which is actually a way to carry out the most basic training. Most Ding Zhuang did not even have the most basic weapons and military uniforms, and could only train with bare hands or wooden sticks and wooden knives every day.

Under the harsh reprimand of the leader, these young men were still energetic and shouted to kill each day. However, once the training stopped, their eyes were always unliberate to look north, hoping to get a little good news from the north shore.

Due to the extremely strict policy of sealing the river, Ding Zhuang and the people along the coast could only see small boats shuttle back and forth on the river, but as soon as these people who reported the news crossed the river, they would be immediately protected by heavy troops, head straight to the central army camp, or escort Nanjing directly.

But in the dark, the rumors kept going. Sometimes Qingliu Pass was broken, sometimes Chuzhou was surrounded; sometimes Haozhou was broken, and sometimes it was heard that Haozhou was still holding; sometimes Shouzhou was broken, Lin Feng died, and sometimes it was Shouzhou was fine again. Lord Lin was still holding on. These conflicting news made Ding Zhuang and the people were cold and hot, depressed and panicked.

However, compared to the south bank of the Yangtze River, which is at least considered to be watching the fire from the other side of the river, the north bank of the Yangtze River is even in chaos.

Especially Chuzhou, the northern throat of the western capital Nanjing, is at the forefront of the war. However, the generals in the army are quarreling about the war almost every day and doing nothing.

Wang Shaoyan, the governor of Chuzhou, was a hard-core conservative. He counted over and over again, from the importance of Chuzhou's defense to the comparison of military strength between the two sides, insisting that the army should not stick to it, as long as it defended, it would be a victory.

Wu Qing, who was influenced by Lin Feng's special offensive ideas, naturally disagreed with this turtle-style defense, and believed that Chuzhou was not enough to defend at all. Chuzhou, in fact, has become an isolated city like other cities in Jiangbei and Huainan. If it is trapped for a long time, even the existing food of the military and civilians cannot be solved. If it wants to break the deadlock, it must rush out and defeat the enemy. He believes that Chuzhou should not defend. Now it has nearly 40,000 troops, and with thousands of people in the city, there is no need to guard the isolated city hard.

Because the north camp support envoy Huangfu Hui, the governor of Fenghua, was captured by Zhao Kuangyin, and the chief supervisor Yao Feng had to temporarily take charge of the military and political affairs of Chuzhou. He knew that he must be a transitional figure, so naturally everything was seeking stability. His attitude was swaying back and forth between Wu Qing and Wang Shaoyan factions, and hesitating.

As early as when Qingliu Pass had just fallen and the Great Zhou Wusheng Jiedushi Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin disturbed the city one after another, Wu Qing suggested concentrating elite troops on anti-night attacks. After defeating the enemy, he would find a way to recapture Qingliu Pass. Not only could Chuzhou be stable, but it could also effectively support the war in Shouzhou.

However, because of Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin's repeated harassment, Chuzhou City was shocked three times a day, and Wu Qing's proposal was not supported at all.

When Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to retreat and prepared to join forces with Guo Wei to attack Shouzhou, and Hou Zhang led the remaining Zhou troops to retreat in sequence, Wu Qing asked for an attack again. Wang Shaoyan insisted that this was the Zhou army's plan to lure troops and should not act rashly. Yao Feng, who could not make decisions, did not speak silently, which was considered to be Wang Shaoyan's statement.

Wu Qing was so angry that his face turned black. He sneaked out of the city himself and lurked on the mountain on the east side of Qingliuguan along the mountain road. He found that the enemy troops inside and below Qingliuguan were just bluffing. The overall defenders should not exceed 3,000. He immediately returned to the city, claiming that he dared to issue a military order, requesting to lead the army to attack, attack from the east and south directions, and take the opportunity to retake Qingliuguan.

This time, Yao Feng was also moved, but he insisted on such a large-scale military operation and had to report to Nanjing City before he attacked after receiving instructions from the emperor and the King of Qi.

Wu Qing was so angry that he almost vomited blood and could only roar towards the sky. This time, many fighter planes would be delayed.

Three days later, on the second day of November, the Qi King Li Jing, who had finally sorted out a military and national affairs, finally escaped and led 5,000 imperial guards to Chuzhou City and ordered another exploration of Qingliu Pass. After leading 20,000 imperial guards out of Chuzhou City at noon on the third day of the lunar month, he was preparing to attack Qingliu Pass and found that at least ten thousand Zhou troops had emerged from the pass. The big flag in front of his head was the "Zhao" flag that made his soldiers frightened. Li Jing had to lead the army to retreat quickly and return to defend Chuzhou City.

Of course, Zhao Kuangyin, who failed in Shouzhou City, was killed back again.

Zhao Kuangyin, who was full of evil spirits, took the opportunity to win the battle. He first led 20,000 soldiers to surround Chuzhou City, which had more than 50,000 defenders, and then threw some dilapidated Southern Tang army flags and heads under the city, claiming that the Emperor of Great Zhou was in charge of the army, and Shouzhou City was defeated, Lin Feng surrendered to the Great Zhou, and was immediately appointed as deputy prime minister. He had been escorted to Tokyo City, the capital of Great Zhou. He ordered Chuzhou City to open the city immediately to surrender, otherwise, when the Great Zhou army arrived, no one would leave any living.

The whole city of Chuzhou was shocked, so Li Jing urgently convened a civil servant and military general discussion.

Without waiting for others to speak, Wu Qing was the first to jump out, insisting that this was the enemy's trick, Lin Feng could not surrender, and Shouzhou City would not be lost. At the same time, he drew his sword on the spot, cut his palm, and pressed a bloody handprint on the white paper, saying that he could make a military order, and he secretly sneaked to Shouzhou to explore the truth and reality.

Li Jingsui of course hoped that Lin Feng was fine and Shouzhou City was fine, so he stabilized the overall situation of the Jiangbei war, slapped the table, walked over to bandage Wu Qing, and asked him what he had to ask for.

Wu Qing glanced around his eyes and whispered to His Highness King Qi: There are many soldiers in Chuzhou now, and there are many powerful generals, and he is also optional here. If he finds Shouzhou safe and returns, please allow him to pick a thousand elite soldiers out of the city as a mobile force on the battlefield in Jiangbei, Huainan, and capture fighter jets by himself. Regardless of life and death, the consequences are at your own risk. If there is any disagreement, he will definitely serve his country with death.

Li Jing then held Wu Qing's still bleeding palm, stared silently at his big red face, and found that his eyes were full of perseverance and sincerity. He felt warm in his heart, gritted his teeth, and nodded.

Wu Qing knelt down gratefully, knocked heavily, and retreated and slipped down the city when it was dark and disappeared.

After a meal of unfamiliar supper, Yao Feng hurried to the place where King Qi was staying, asking if there was any issue of giving Wu Qing a temporary resolution to the imperial edict.

Li Jingsui raised his eyebrows and asked carefully about the detailed story of the incident before Qingliu Pass. In the end, he waved goodbye to Yao Feng without comment.

One day later, another 20,000 Zhou troops drove out of Qingliu Pass and joined the siege of the city. The visitors played the victorious drums all the way. The cheerful drums continued to keep coming, accompanied by fireworks. Then, Zhao Kuangyin and several generals threw a large number of Southern Tang battle flags and heads under the city. Finally, they set up a banquet in front of the camp under the city, drank wildly, and laughed wildly.

Could it be that Shouzhou City was really broken? This question slowly turned into an increasingly larger shadow, slipping between the eyebrows of King Qi Li Jingsui and the soldiers and civilians in the city, and covering them with their hearts. The uneasy emotions continued to ferment.

At the same time, the entire Yangzhou area of ​​the eastern capital was also shrouded in uneasiness.
Chapter completed!