In late March, Zhang Shuo came to the city of Hefei.

As the spring plowing ended, more and more dying soldiers arrived here, and the offensive became more and more fierce day by day.

Starting from the 25th, the rural families of two counties in Huainan and Lujiang surrendered one after another. Under Zhang Shuo's strict orders, they were forced to recruit Ding Zhuang, transfer to Hefei, and join the siege of the city.

Of course, there are also those who cannot come, so we have to settle the score after autumn.

The Jianghuai River and Huai River were already in a tug-of-war zone, and it began since the Three Kingdoms period. Many places even became unmanned areas. After the destruction of Wu, the population of counties and counties marked by Huainan began to rise.

But the good times did not last long. Pu Mowen fell into war, with a large number of casualties and fled to this day.

There was no one at all, and Zhang Shuo didn't care anymore. He wanted to fight in wars, even the elderly and young men, as long as he could charge towards the city wall.

Today is another tragic battle.

Zhang Shuo only looked at it for a while and left the battlefield, heading south to Wankou, and the Silver Spear Camp was with him.

Looking at the rows of tiger and wolf men walking south in neat steps, Zhang Shuo was slightly stunned.

This is the old army he once led. He started to lead the recruits and then went to various places to make them a powerful force in the world. Now they have been handed over to Yang Qin, a rising star.

"It's almost April, and the south of the Yangtze River is getting hotter, and the cavalry may be unfavorable. Don't blame me for being cruel. If there is no elite to suppress the formation, chaos will inevitably arise frequently and fight each other. After you cross the river, you must coordinate the overall situation. Reward what you should be rewarded and punish what you should be punished. Don't be embarrassed." Zhang Shuo said, "Can the emperor give you a name?"

"Your Majesty ordered the construction of Xuancheng camp, and I was appointed as the envoy to recruit the envoy and the governor of the Jiangnan war, and I remain under the tent of the governor Zhang." Yang Qin replied.

"Recruiting the envoy—" Zhang Shuo chewed these three words carefully.

Another vocational position. Recruiting the siege is to recruit and attack.

As the name suggests, it is not only necessary to fight, but also to surrender and accept rebels, and even the latter is even more important. In fact, Yang Qin brought a lot of official uniforms and seals, and he would have the right to appoint and dismiss on the spot and have the heavy authority at that time.

However, the Xuancheng camp was still under his command, which shows that the emperor still attached more importance to the situation in Jiangbei and vowed to take over Hefei, Dongguan, Liyang, Guangling and other places.

While the two were talking, a group of ships went downstream and stopped to the entrance of Chaohu Lake, building a water village on the spot and stockpiled supplies.

The war in Huainan was quite smooth. Juchao County had been taken down and Dongguan was close to him. According to scouts, the Jiangdong Navy, who had once stationed in Ruxuwu, had already moved south and entered the Yangtze River. Now only Luzhai is left, and there are few naval forces.

However, more than 200 ships transferred from Heyang and Bianliang were still very cautious and took every step, for fear of encountering the main force of the enemy.

There is actually no shortage of ships, but what is lacking is people.

If these thousands of navy soldiers were killed in battle, no one would be able to make up for them in a short period of time.

"After you leave, I will order to attack Hengjiang. When Lipu and other places are in a position to cross south, you will go straight to Lujiang." Zhang Shuo said again: "Half of Xuancheng is already in your hands, you can just cross south at the right time. Don't worry, no one will block it when you get ashore. Just pay attention to the epidemic."

"As for the order." Yang Qin clasped his fists.

"The better the Jiangnan fights, the faster the progress of Jiangbei." Zhang Shuo smiled and said, "It's almost April. In the past, when he besieged Hefei, Shanxia had already crossed Chaohu and headed north. The boat troops crossed the river and shot our army to no avail. Reinforcements and resources could easily be transported into Hefei city, and even the wounded were taken away. In this way, when can we conquer Hefei? Now, we haven't seen half of reinforcements since mid-March. I think He Chong is also very desperate. Hefei will definitely defeat sooner or later."

"The governor still has to surrender. Has the old house of He clan in Lujiang taken down?" Yang Qin asked.

"It's surrounded." Zhang Shuo said, "I think the He clan will surrender first than Hefei. At that time, the He clan members will be driven to the city of Hefei. I think He Chong will guard it."

Yang Qin couldn't help laughing.

With no reinforcements outside, it is clear how Hefei will end up in the end.

This is true for Hefei, and there is no other way around Liyang and Dongguan.

It is said that if you guard the river, you must guard the Huai River. If the Huai River really cannot be defended, at least you must be in the Huai River like the Eastern Wu.

If the Yangtze River controls an area. If you really push the front line to the north bank of the Yangtze River, there will be no room for mistakes. It is impossible for one person not to make mistakes.

Now that the Liang army smuggled everywhere, the Wu people were already unable to defend themselves.

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On the river outside Wankou City, ships were gathered.

It seemed that they were completely unexpected to be seen by the Wu people. They even had the leisure to turn some ships upside down on the shore and carried out repairs and maintenance work in a swagger.

The reed marsh had long been cut off to prevent pirate ships from stolen and they were still unaware of it.

Some camps were built on the banks of the river.

The Qiang family had already left, swept the Lujiang River, and searched the county and county, and replaced it with a group of Ding Zhuang from Henan County.

The emperor said that in order to prevent the people around Luoyang from getting used to war for a long time, a group of men and women were allocated to come here and cross the river to fight south.

However, these Ding Zhuang had no smile on their faces. To be precise, they were somewhat expectant, and even more nervous. Huan Yi and Huan Wen and his son were still in Wankou. What they saw was such a scene.

"I used to occupy only one Tang Dynasty, but I didn't have many places to cross. Now, not only did I take it, but I have also taken over Xuancheng on the other side, so I can no longer defend myself." Huan Yi said, "But I think this group of people will probably be bad."

"Grandpa, the stone city has been occupied by Wang Bin. Will it be attacked by thieves after crossing it?" Huan Wen asked, looking at the shimmering river in the distance.

"Who knows?" Huan Yi shook his head and said, "It depends on their luck. If he bumped into the Wu soldiers who were waiting for him, it would be their bad luck. Didn't the emperor move their family to Xiangyang? It would be better to exchange his own life for the soldiers of the mansion than to be a patrol customer for others in his entire life."

In order to inspire morale, the court established Longxiang Mansion in Gucheng in Shunyang County and Longxiang Mansion in Lexiang in Xinye County.

The Long Mansion of Fancheng was established in Xiangyang County, with a total of 3,600 military quotas and rewarded the soldiers who crossed the river from Wankou.

The first batch crossed the river three times in total, with a total of more than 1,800 people. According to the news sent back last time,

In the end, 1,400 people successfully arrived in Xuancheng. But regardless of whether they succeeded or not, even if they were buried in the fish's belly on the river,

You can also be a military soldier. You have begun to migrate the families of these people and give them the troops.

The second group of people who cross the river can still be the soldiers in the palace, which is what they are in front of them.

As for the third group of people who crossed the river that may be able to come later, Huan Wen tends to think that it is not possible because it is no longer so dangerous.

The opportunity to accumulate family business for your descendants is fleeting.

"Grandpa, the military soldiers in the palace are doing their best. Are they good and bad to the world?" Huan Wen asked.

"Who can tell whether it is good or bad?" Huan Yi shook his head: "However, the emperor cannot turn the whole world into a land of the government soldiers. Half of the south of the Yangtze River will not be used for land. Then we will compare it. Is it better to have equal fields in the north or the south with manors and forts?"

"Huainan, are you going to pass the fields in Lujiang?" Huan Wen looked around and said, "Clean up these places well,

In fact, it is not worse than Henan, but it is in Jiangbei, which is easy for the imperial court to control."

"The emperor probably won't be willing to take the fields between the Jianghuai River and Huai River." At this point, Huan Yi glanced at his son and said, "Don't think about these things. Is your wife's idea of ​​Huainan again? Let her think of a solution in Xuancheng. It's not a simple matter for the gentry from the north to go south to enclose land. Where do the grain, seeds, oxen, farm tools and even equipment come from? You can't transport it from Henan, right? If you go to Xuancheng to establish land, it will be much easier with Ji's help."

Huan Wen's face showed his retribution.

In this husband-and-wife relationship, Fu Bao definitely dominates and is extremely strong at home. However,

If she is in public, she pays great attention to her own face, just like a little girl, which makes Huan Wen look shining.

"What official position can Duke Ji get?" Huan Wenwen asked.

Huan Yi pondered for a moment and said, "As far as I know, the emperor personally gave the post of the prefect of Xuancheng."

What is one step to reach the sky? That's it.

Xuancheng has become a breakthrough in the strategy of Jiangnan. Ji's family has made great contributions, so it is normal for such a reward.

On the first day of April, just as the Huan family and his son left Wankou and returned to Bianliang, a large number of ships suddenly sailed out from the reed marsh of large and small near Wankou, and took advantage of the night to head towards the opposite shore.

The Jiangzhou Navy, who had just moved from Chaisang to Shicheng, launched a large-scale operation to intercept it.

That night, another fleet crossed the river from 30 miles east of Ankou, and a total of 2,200 people arrived in the mud on the other side.

They spent a whole night and half a day transporting all the personnel, equipment and livestock to the dry land.

At this time, if someone shoots with crossbows from a high place, the local soldiers in the camp will have to be seriously injured, but unfortunately they are not.

The northern expatriates who were settled along the river did not stop the Liang army from landing. Instead, they were all indented into the fort, looking as if they were strictly neutral.

On the afternoon of the second day of April, an army finally arrived from other places, but the number was not large, so it was easy to repel the entire team of silver guns.

From this we can also see that the Pu Army actually had surveillance personnel nearby, but they were not sure which direction Liang Jun would come from.

The river bank is so long that it is impossible to set up defenses everywhere, and there are not so many soldiers. Therefore, we can only focus on the traditional ferry with good landing conditions and complete dock facilities, which is the so-called catching the big and letting go of the small. The large army is stationed in places with high probability of landing, and the low probability of landing sends a few people to monitor it, report it whenever there is any situation, and then mobilize troops to encircle and suppress it.

This is actually very passive.

Intercepting the river surface, surveillance along the river, and mobilizing the army to encircle and suppress the enemy, it seems that there are three measures, but they are actually bullshit.

There is only one way to overcome this dilemma: establish a buffer zone in Jiangbei, that is, "to guard the river, to guard the Huai River."

"Let the people of the Ji family go and find food." Yang Qin poured out the accumulated water from the cowhide military boots and ordered.

Everyone only brought dry food in their bran bag for five days, and they carried some with them, but not much, which was only enough for eight or nine days to eat.

If they cannot get enough food in eight days, they will likely go hungry.

"Let the guide find a few more forts and give them the fort commander to see if anyone picks them up." Yang Qin asked someone to find luggage and took out the official uniform, seal and letter of appointment made of honey-scented paper.

The letter of appointment is mostly a kind of person who has almost disappeared from the north, from the ninth rank of the san official: the general of the san tribe.

There are also higher-level officials such as county magistrates and chief magistrates, but not many.

If the name on the letter is vacant, you can fill in it temporarily.

After accepting these letters of appointment, receiving official uniforms and seals, he will be an official of the Daliang Dynasty. He will definitely escape the disaster during the Great Purge in the future.

The official positions are limited, first come first served, and it depends on whether they are better than the Tao.

That night, the guide brought a middle-aged man with a vulgar appearance over.

Yang Qin saw it and smiled: "With your appearance, you will never want to be an official in your life. Where are you?"

"Right people."
To be continued...