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Chapter 8 Jumping into the River

Perhaps because early spring has passed, spring has gradually become more comfortable.

Since Huan Qi visited Yang Lin, most of the month passed quickly. During this half month, Huan Qi almost lived in the Southern Tang Embassy Hall, accompanying Yang Lin and the great merchants of the aristocratic families to treat customers and business every day.

After obeying Yang Lin's instigation, Huan Qi quickly found his sixth uncle Huan Tai. After saying some tricks, Huan Tai looked to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue. Soon, a blank document appointing Huan Qi as the General Office of the Jiangdong Militia Corps returned to Huan Qi.

According to the words of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, as long as you don’t ask them for money every day, everything will be easy to talk about. Especially, things like raising self-financing supplies are still worthy of encouragement and recognition.

I received the letter of office from the General Office of Military Forces, that is, all militia armed military supplies in the Jiangdong area, as well as purchases from the Southern Tang or other parties, must be approved for purchase after the Governor General's Office's review.

Especially, there is also a famous one. If you supervise the adults without approval for purchases, you will not be able to purchase them from the Southern Tang Embassy Hall. In other words, even if you have two thousand gang members under your command, you only allow you to buy one thousand people on the approval for approval. Then... Congratulations, the remaining half of the gang members are still a group of rural bullies holding broken sickles!

Military supply tax, regiment defense tax, tax collection, etc., a bunch of famous and grand taxes soon followed. In general, these taxes were not many, that is, in terms of the average military supply division, an additional 30% of the amount was added to deal with the Governor General of Jiangdong.

The white silver rolled up quickly. Under Yang Lin's gradual temptation, Huan Qi was unconsciously tied up on the warship of the Southern Tang Dynasty and drifted with the flow.

During this period when a large number of military supplies were sent across the river, a lot of things happened in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Meng Yi's left-road army, who was dragged by Li Jian on the wild horse field, completely retreated to the radius around Yonglin's outer mansion and stagnated.

As for the right army of Chu Jie, deputy envoy of the Tianyu Army on the other side, was suddenly blocked by the cavalry battalion while preparing to join Meng Yi to attack Hengyang. After several consecutive battles of no victory or defeat, Chu Jie, who was afraid that Yang Yi had other plans, simply stopped the army and confronted each other with the cavalry battalion.

At this time, Xue Yue, who was still on the Linjiang line and firmly suppressing the tens of thousands of Tang troops who were constantly serving the kings in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, did not dare to act rashly, finally began the second plan to act. On the third day of March, Xue Yue's 80,000 imperial guards advanced along the Linjiang area. In the battle of the Wild Horse Origin, Gaoyang King Li Jian fled and retreated for hundreds of miles and returned to Hengyang Prefecture to rectify the army.

Immediately afterwards, the Chu Jie right-road Army, who was supported by seven thousand imperial cavalry, immediately turned against the attack. The army chased the Southern Tang army on the Hewangpo for two days and two nights, and then rushed the cavalry battalion for a hundred miles before the steady army surrounded it and slowly headed towards Hengyang.

At this time, when he saw the commander Xue Yue personally inspecting the Qi army, all the troops, were magnificent, as if they were thunder. And when more than 100,000 Tang troops who had gathered to serve the king in various parts of Jiangnan were planning to detour Jing Xiang's support, the Qi army navy, who was leaping in the Jinshayan area, suddenly landed along the coast, and 30,000 naval troops fought desperately towards Yong'an City in front of Hangling, which was so scared that they had originally planned to reinforce Yang Yi that the Jiangnan army paused again and began to divide the troops again.

The delay of time and geographical factors have created a difficult situation in Hengyang, the capital of southern Hunan. Xue Yue's imperial guards can reach Jingxiang from Linjiang, but the inland army in Jiangnan has to bypass several counties and border prefectures in a mess and pass a few bridges along the river to reach. The fastest distance of this is half a month.

For more than half a month, Xue Yue's plan was very simple. He attracted the main force of the Tang army with the sweeps of the two vanguard troops. Then the army immediately arrived along the river directly along the river. When the Tang army in Jiangnan had not yet reported it, or the support had not arrived, he quickly defeated it with the most superior force, and even annihilated the main force of the Jingxiang Army under Yang Yi.

Although this method is simple and old-fashioned, it is very practical. According to Xue Yue, sometimes, old-fashioned methods are often more effective.

The river wind blew, and the waves were scattered on the waters of Jiangdong. Yang Lin sat in the cabin with a dizzy head, vomiting and vomiting.

Ouyang Qian was so anxious that he kept ferrying back and forth in the cabin: "Hey, I have told Commander Naqi that it would be great to ride a horse from land to sedan chair, and how to walk well? The little marquis has suffered a cold recently, and the boat is bumpy, so why isn't it bad for the health?"

"Mr. Ouyang, there is nothing to do about this." Huan Qi, who seemed to have rarely boarded a boat, looked pale at this time, and was almost as bad as Yang Lin, said with a bitter face: "Recently, the rebels have strengthened their looting of various places along the Jiangdong line, and many areas have moved closer to the rebels. If you go to Guanzhong by land, unless there are a large number of military and horses escorts, even if you are the commander-in-chief, you will not dare to take this responsibility."

Ouyang Qian spat, "Are the several great scholars in Luoyang stupid? At this time, the envoys were going to enter the court to send an envoy? He thought that the noble court was now in the Celestial period and all the nations came to pay tribute?"

Yang Lin vomited a few mouthfuls of light yellow water and waved his hand helplessly: "Forget it, Mr. Ouyang, what's the use of complaining about these with General Huan? Jiang Sima is still in charge of discussing matters in Jiangdong. At present, the matter of the instructor can only be handed over to this marquis to replace him."

Ouyang Qian hummed and wanted to complain a few times. Suddenly, a riot outside the cabin interrupted the conversation between several people. Yang Lin was stunned and muttered in a low voice: "The river is calm, can there be anything else wrong?" Speaking of this, Yang Lin's expression changed: "It's not the Jiangbei Navy of the Qi army, you have come to Jiangdong?"

"How is that possible..." Huan Qi hurriedly left this sentence, and just walked outside the cabin and was about to ask about it, but suddenly he was shocked by the scenery in front of him. He saw waves surging everywhere, and countless small fishing boats gathered around the six or seven Jin army's giant ships. Many rockets had even shot to the sails of the tower and burned violently.

After grabbing a sailor who was panicking and putting out the fire, Huan Qi almost roared against his face; "Damn, what's going on? Where did these people come out? Why didn't there be a warning from the ship in front of you?"

It turned out that hundreds of fishing boats along the way were the commander of the Qi army's Jiangbei camp. After learning that Yang Lin, the eldest son of Zhennan Marquis Yang Yi, was about to take a boat in Luoyang, he sent countless fishing boats in the Daying navy overnight, traveling day and night along the river along the east side of Jiangdong, trying to ambush the Southern Tang delegation on the water.

On the way from Jiangbei to Jiangdong, these fishing boats were scattered in the river for six or seven days. The patrol navy of Jinting saw that they were just ordinary fishing boats, so they did not interrogate them, which caused such a shocking moment in front of them.

The allusion of many ants bite to death is fully utilized in the current scene. Countless rockets are constantly flying like locusts on the devouring and burning on the platform of the building. It is just half a stick of incense, and three building ships have sank.

Ouyang Qian's face twitched so much that he almost cursed: "General Huan, you, you..., your country's navy is like this???"

With a sword, Huan Qi slashed the fire-drift arrow shot towards the head, and he shouted angrily: "Mr. Ouyang, what are you doing now? Why do you do? Protect the little marquis. We are going to abandon the ship and jump into the river!"

"Jumping into the river?" Yang Lin cursed: "Although I know how to water, I'm going to dive in the river. Could it be that I'll feed the fish?"

Huan Qi hurriedly held a wooden board and threw it to Yang Lin's feet, and said anxiously: "Little Marquis, change your clothes quickly. There are still several ships in front of you. It's only a hundred feet away from the shore. If we don't jump, it's too late. You either fall into the hands of Qi Jun, or be burned to death by fire, or jump into the river, choose yourself..."
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