Since the downgrade of Nanzhili, the three chariots have been responsible for its defense. The so-called three chariots are the Minister of War, the guardian general and the guardian eunuch. The three of them form the highest institution of Nanjing's actual power.

Later, after the civil and military despised, Governor Yingtian also had a great say in this regard. Although Yingtian's palace was stationed in Suzhou, its influence in this area was still very great.

In the early days, Nanjing had a total of 100,000 troops, but then it was continuously reduced, and it had become only tens of thousands. The number of troops decreased and the number of people increased, and it became a super prosperous metropolis.

In terms of its political status, Nanjing certainly has no way to compare with Beijing, but in terms of the total economic and prosperity, it is even more prosperous than the capital. After all, the prosperity of Beijing comes from the worship of the whole world, while Nanjing's prosperity is the output value that can be generated by itself.

It is because these cities led by Nanjing City have continuously produced output values ​​and transfusions for the Ming Dynasty that the Ming Dynasty has continued to this day.

The Liu family army also discovered such a problem. If you fight with the Ming Dynasty, soldiers will come and stop and go back and forth, the Liu family will eventually collapse and will be ruined, because the Ming Dynasty has the entire world as a supplement to resources, and there is also continuous support from grain in Jiangnan, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi. It can afford to lose and consume. Shandong has become a war zone, and its grain output and manufacturing industry will drop greatly. Relying on the local area, it cannot maintain its huge military power. Although it wins for a while, it will definitely be crushed in the end.

In the words of later generations, fighting wars is about comprehensive national strength. People's comprehensive national strength is stronger than you, and it is okay to delay for a few years, but you can't afford to delay. If the Liu family wants to replace the Ming Dynasty, they must break this deadlock.

That's why they temporarily withstood the first wave of counterattack from the court, and began to consider starting from the Ming Dynasty's granary. Only by taking down the Ming Dynasty's granary and leaving him without food supply can the Ming Dynasty decline rapidly.

It can also be said that Jiangnan has become a new battlefield for the Ming Dynasty and the Liu family, and it has also become a key point for both sides to conquer the world and compete for the world.

Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who first took over the Jianghuai land, was the fish and rice land, and then waited for an opportunity to take over Nanjing. Then, relying on the wealthy place here, he developed silently, watched the heroes in the world, fighting against the dragon and tiger, and finally won the victory.

The Liu family also had the same plan, which was to occupy a super huge and prosperous place, continuously produce production value for themselves, and then they could transfusion blood on this place, and then they had the ability to fight continuously with the Ming Dynasty.

After Liu Bu took Yangzhou, his eyes were on Nanjing. In fact, they were in the north and had already been on Nanjing. They planned to develop their hegemony here and start their journey to dominate the world. In Shandong, they could only say that they were a foothold and saved their lives. When they fought out the Jianghuai River and stole Nanjing, it was the beginning of their dominance.

The Liu family is very rich, with generations of foundations, and has accumulated amazing wealth, especially in the battle of Liu Bushi's silver, which has allowed them to accumulate huge wealth, which is the key to their rapid outbreak.

In this era, if you have food, you can recruit soldiers, and if you have enough food, you can work hard for you. There are very few people who provide such good welfare conditions like them. Every soldier is willing to work hard for them. The 100,000 Liu family army is their confidence to fight for dominance in the world.

In the past, every time the Liu family army expanded its army, it would have a bad consequence, that is, its combat effectiveness declined, and more people's combat effectiveness declined. This is because there are too many new recruits and few veterans.

Liu Family Army and the others took out a lot of pensions every year, which was very amazing. If Liu Bu hadn't gotten so much gold, silver and treasures from the battlefield, they would probably have died long ago.

Speaking Now they have finally walked out of Shandong and a key step in fighting for the world.

Since it was a key battle, Liu Bu, the most powerful Liu family army, led his army to set off in person, and his elite troops were also dispatched in an empty group.

In addition to leaving enough troops to defend the north and southern Liaoning, they mobilized all elite troops, not afraid of risks or the severe cold, rushed day and night, and headed south in large numbers.

The soldiers were rushing day and night in the wind and snowy weather, which was actually very hard and dangerous. However, they heard that they were going to attack Jiangnan and attack the richest Jiangnan area in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, their vanguard troops had occupied the world of flower and flower, and everyone's heart was warmed into fire.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, every soldier of the Liu family army is a small boss and a small landlord. Every time they go to the battlefield, they will bring some wealth. These wealth is often something that many ordinary families cannot earn in their entire lives, or the property of ordinary families for their entire lives. Therefore, a routine has been formed. Every time the Liu family soldiers send troops, they will return with a full load. The local people call it "Fa Qiu Gu" and "Fu Qiu Harvest".

It is because of this that although these soldiers were very hard and tired, their morale was very high and their hearts were as warm as a ball of fire.

This kind of heroic and proud scene of thousands of troops heading to the south of the Yangtze River shocked and frightened many local people. Many people felt one thing, that is, the country was afraid that it would change color and the dynasty would change.

The Liu family army had already completed control of Yanzhou Prefecture. After controlling Yanzhou Prefecture, they then looked at Jianghuai.

More importantly, Liu Bu's backyard policy during his tenure as General Fengyang and his implementation allowed them to have many military presences in the area, which provided convenience for them to enter this area.

When Liu Zhongyong led the main army from Jining to attack Xuzhou, they were unimpeded and moved quickly along the way.

The Xuzhou magistrate has always colluded with the Liu family. As early as when Liu Bu was the General of Fengyang, they had already colluded with each other. The reason why this magistrate colluded with the Liu family was quite simple. This is because the Liu family had enough money to buy him. He is a typical role of a mother who had milk and was a mother who recognized money but not people. When the white silver was placed in front of him, his black eyes almost turned white.

On that day, the Liu family army returned northward, and Fengyang Prefecture began a trend of sending the Liu family army away from the country. Only Xuzhou Prefecture actively welcomed them, and also handed over the best location and the most important strategic location to the Liu family army and let them station.

Xuzhou, a strategic location that is famous all over the world, had already completed control before the Liu family controlled the three prefectures in Shandong and East China. Of course, this kind of control refers to strategic points and transportation points, and is not a comprehensive occupation.

Of course, with the Liu family's army's strength, they can only control strategic points and transportation points. They have no interest in these remote prefectures and counties. If they occupy all these prefectures and counties, their troops will be expanded to more than one million, and they will not have enough troops.

Liu Zhongyong's army moved south quickly entered Xuzhou Prefecture, entered their Jiulishan Camp outside the city, and took a short rest and went south quickly again.

Xuzhou City's strategic position was also built on the northern gate of Fengyang Prefecture. Although the bandits bypassed Xuzhou Prefecture, they still captured Fengyang, and the captured royal family's hometown dug out his ancestral tomb.

This time, the main force of the Liu family army was also like this. They claimed to be leading 100,000 troops and attacking Zhongdu, which made Fengyang prefect, officers and officials extremely frightened.

The last time Fengyang Mansion fell, all these officials were killed, and most of them were transferred from behind. However, everyone was still vivid in the tragic situation at that time. Although the governor was not here and the general was not here, everyone immediately mobilized everyone to go up to the city wall to defend.

The Fengyang Prefect issued an order to transfer all the troops in the surrounding county towns to defend Fengyang Prefecture. He knew very well that even if the surrounding prefectures and counties were lost.

If he could defend Fengyang of Zhongdu and the imperial tomb, he could survive the disaster and escape. If Zhongdu was lost and other cities were safe, he would be dead.

Moreover, after he heard that after Liu Jun arrived, he began to implement the policy of strengthening wall cleaning, sending troops to move the people of nearby prefectures and counties and rural people to the county town, and the people near Zhongdu moved to Zhongdu.

This time they were all very smart. They implemented sectional contracts on the four walls, and designated generals to be responsible for guarding relevant paragraphs, and punished whoever had any accidents.

The families of these officers and generals who guarded the city were detained by the prefect. If they were not good at defending themselves or were in a mixed manner, they would execute the hostages and deal with them.

Moreover, he personally went to lobby for the wealthy and powerful people in the city, asking them to take out some money and food to reward the army, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the city could wear warm clothes and eat enough to fight for everyone.

These powerful and wealthy families also know that it is a critical moment of life and death. If Fengyang is captured, they will not be able to get it well and most of them will be killed.

It has to be said that the Fengyang Prefect's method is still very stable and the measures are very effective. To do this, even if Fengyang Prefecture is captured, they will have nothing to say.

But what they expected was that when they were ready to face the attack of the Liu army, the Liu army passed Fengyang without entering, heading south and heading straight to Chuzhou on the Yangtze River. To put it bluntly, their target was not Fengyang at all, but to echo the army advancing westward from Yangzhou.
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