This is an issue that concerns everyone, but it is not a secret.
Due to the dense population from Yangzhou to Taizhou and the relatively dense water network, Murong Nobunaga's headquarters can be said to have been under the surveillance of the Southern Tang Army.
However, many people don't know that this was actually Murong Nobunaga's intention to let the Southern Tang army know his movements, mainly in order not to alert the enemy and scare the Southern Tang army back to the other side of the river.
Their families knew their own affairs, and both Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui knew that their adoptive father, the saint, and this newly minted Da Zhou had to face and deal with too many things.
For example, the nominal war with Meng Shu was not actually over.
After the Shu army was defeated, Meng Chang closed all roads. The road for Hexi merchants to enter Shu had been blocked for a long time. The tens of thousands of Meng Shu's captives were still being raised by Zhou in Guanzhong.
Of course, what's more important is that although Meng Shu was defeated miserably, the main force of the Forbidden Army was still there, and it was not as damaged as in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The terrain was even more critical.
Zhang Zhao couldn't swallow Meng Shu for a while, so Shu's envoys were already on the way, waiting for Zhang Shengren to return to start negotiations.
The same is true in Nanping. Gao Congjie's health is declining, and he had evil intentions some time ago. Now he is frightened and is waiting for Zhang Zhao to go back to meet the envoy.
Ma Chu's Ma Xi'e arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo years ago. However, given that Ma Xi'e is a shameless person in history, even people like Zhang Zhao who have only a little knowledge of history know about it.
So I just received him indifferently and then sent him away. The second group of envoys from Ma Xifan, who was probably frightened, was also on the way.
Qian Yue's was similar. The envoy to Tokyo last year was too low-level, and Zhang Zhao sent troops to Songzhou before he arrived. He simply asked Zhang Xichong to drive Qian Yue's envoy back.
These guys who care about eating rather than fighting, if Zhang Shengren didn't find an unlucky chicken to show off his strength, they wouldn't know how to be afraid.
You must know that when Qian Yue sent people to meet Shi Jingtang, he would not send officials of this level.
Okay! These people plus Liu Zhiyuan from Hedong means that all the countries in the world have not actually established a relatively solid relationship with Zhang Zhou, and Zhang Zhou's status as the dynasty of the Central Plains has not been established at all.
Such a chaotic situation has caused Zhang Zhao to have no time to tangle too much with the Southern Tang Dynasty in Jiangnan.
Liu Zhiyuan has not moved until now, but it does not mean that he will not take action after the autumn weather is clear and the horses are fat and fed.
Therefore, this is the reason why Murong Nobunaga was afraid that the Southern Tang army would shrink back, because the Zhou Kingdom did not have the time and capital to cross the river to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The best outcome for them now is to eliminate a large number of elite infantry troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty, then force Li Jing to surrender, extort a large amount of money and food, and capture Chuzhou and other places at the gateway to Huainan.
After Liu Zhiyuan is dealt with and there is no scruple, then we can deal with the Southern Tang Dynasty.
As a result, a situation emerged. It seemed that a hundred thousand troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty surrounded Yizheng City, which was extremely critical.
Murong Nobunaga, who was supposed to return to the army for rescue, brought more than 10,000 forcibly recruited men from the Southern Tang Dynasty, and also robbed tens of thousands of Taizhou people. It was said that an army of 50,000 returned to the army to rescue, but it moved extremely slowly. In two days,
After getting up, I walked less than seventy miles.
It is a full two hundred miles from Taizhou to Yizheng. According to this speed, Murong Nobunaga will need at least four days to reach Yizheng.
This operation immediately made the Southern Tang Dynasty doubt Murong Nobunaga's strength. Reinforcement was like putting out a fire, but he still walked so slowly.
During Li Cunhui's time, the Zhou army had strict military discipline, but as soon as Murong Nobunaga arrived, the Zhou army immediately began to forcefully conquer the people and plunder the surrounding areas. No matter how you look at it, Murong Nobunaga was not a qualified commander.
However, this commander-in-chief, who was rumored to be unqualified by the Southern Tang Dynasty, received the two pieces of information he had been waiting for.
One is that Li Jinquan on the other side of the Yangtze River moved.
After this former military governor of the Anyuan Army in Anzhou of the Later Jin Dynasty defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he reappeared several times and now found himself in the high position of the military military governor of Runzhou Town who defended Jiangning.
As an important town army that defends the capital, the Runzhou Navy has very good combat effectiveness. In addition, Li Jinquan brought a large number of war horses and armor with him when he ran south. Therefore, it is considered to have the best combat effectiveness among the towns in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Li Jinquan led 6,000 people across the river, which meant that the Southern Tang court had indeed played all its last cards.
The second news is that three of the wealthy families controlled by the Jinyi Guards in Yangzhou have finally been selected to lead the country soldiers to look after the beacon tower set up by Bian Hao on the riverside.
This news is extremely important, because now it seems that Murong Nobunaga is still more than a hundred miles away from Yizheng, but in fact, Murong Nobunaga is confident enough that he can lead the seven thousand cavalry and arrive in four hours.
And this is not just arriving, but arriving within four hours, and the troops and horses still have the strength to go into battle immediately.
Thousands of top-quality BMWs, fried soybeans with salt, black beans boiled with salt water, egg whites mixed with oats, and semi-dried alfalfa from Hexi were fed for several months. They are better than what humans eat. What I want is the effect I have now.
Although the speed of the war horse's attack is definitely not as fast as the spread of the smoke, as long as it can destroy the transmission of a few beacon towers, it will be enough to cover the army.
This news was delivered personally by Zhang Liecheng, who had not seen Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui for a long time, because he was busy planting spies in Huainan before the army attacked Songzhou.
This can also be regarded as one of Zhang Zhao's golden fingers. Spies followed the trade routes and were deployed to various places in advance. They had special skills. Before the army arrived, the Jinyi guards had already gotten a rough idea of the information.
"Erlang, the beacon towers bribed by the Jinyi Guards, there is one thirty-seven miles ahead, another one sixty-four miles ahead, and another one hundred and ten miles ahead, a total of three.
The most critical thing is the distance within a hundred miles. A certain person has mobilized two hundred Huainan water bandits and bandits. Tomorrow at nine o'clock, the surrounding beacon towers will be cleared, and Erlang can set off at nine o'clock."
Murong Xin was overjoyed. As Zhang Liecheng said, this place is about one hundred and thirty miles away from Yizheng. It only takes one hundred miles, no! The beacon towers within eighty miles can be cleaned up. Even if there is a beacon notice in the last thirty or fifty miles,
The Southern Tang Army was unable to react.
He held Zhang Liecheng's hand with great joy and said: "This battle is won, and my brother should be the first to take the lead. When I return to Tokyo, I will invite the sons of the Jinyi Guards to have a drink to celebrate."
Zhang Liecheng also held Murong Nobunaga's hand with his backhand and laughed, "Well, it's a good relationship. Erlang's family is rich, so he has to go to Guiyi Tower!"
After that, amidst the laughter, the awkwardness between the two brothers who had competed with each other in the past seemed to have disappeared.
After laughing, Murong Nobunaga said to Li Cunhui: "Tomorrow at Mao hour, I will bring my own cavalry to raid Li Jingda. Sanlang, you stay here and give rice and grain to the more than 10,000 men recruited from Yangzhou, and let them return to Yangzhou and forcibly detain them in Taizhou.
Thousands of young men were given a hundred coins each, which was called labor money.
Let others do it. I am afraid that they will be greedy for money and ruin the reputation of our army, so I can only let you, Saburo, do it."
Li Cunhui immediately raised his hand and said, "Brother, don't worry, just leave me a hundred horses. I will definitely get this matter done."
Of course Li Cunhui knew the importance of this matter. The Zhou army had always had a rule of not looting, not committing adultery, and not killing without reason.
This time, in order to paralyze the Southern Tang Dynasty, Murong Nobunaga violated the rule of not looting, but now that the play was over, he had to comfort these strong men who were raped.
The first is to maintain military discipline, and the second is to let the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty know the benevolence and righteousness of the Zhou Dynasty.
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Outside Yizheng City, the Southern Tang Army camp was waiting for Li Jinquan's 6,000 men to arrive. The soldiers were neatly dressed, equipped with sword and shield bearers, spearmen, black cloud swordsmen, crossbowmen, and You Yiqi. Li Jingda and
Bian Hao felt much more at ease.
It was getting late, the soldiers were having a feast, and the senior officials of the Southern Tang Army in the camp were holding a reception banquet for Li Jinquan.
Compared with the troubled Central Plains, the Southern Tang Dynasty enjoyed long-lasting peace and abundant products. Banquets and banquets were very common in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Even the people at the bottom had the custom of inviting friends to have a few drinks every ten days.
Therefore, banquets, which were strictly prohibited among the Zhou army, were common among the Southern Tang army. The Yuan Cong sect officials such as Man Xiong and Dunzhu around Zhang Zhao endured the itching and dared not drink. But around Li Jingda, there was not only wine, but also
The dancing girl adds to the fun.
During the banquet, the generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty mingled with each other and drank happily. Li Jingda raised the rhinoceros horn glass cup and said to Li Jinquan: "There are six thousand warriors from the Taiwei here. I am not afraid of the Zhou army."
Li Jinquan's face was full of joy and he had a drink with Li Jingda. After he fled south, he was not allowed to be reused because everyone in the Southern Tang Dynasty saw that he was defeated too easily by Jiao Jixun and felt that he had no ability.
However, it was not until the Southern Tang Dynasty sent General Zuo Jinwu Li Chengyu to replace Li Jinquan in guarding Anzhou, and then the Southern Tang Dynasty's five thousand soldiers and horses were easily defeated by Jiao Jixun's thousands more men that we realized how powerful the sharp soldiers in the North were.
Therefore, from then on, Li Jinquan was reused by the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Li Jingda drank his second glass of wine and paid tribute to Bian Hao, "Deploy the strategy of setting up beacons along the river to set fire to enemy towers. Murong Nobunaga, who is watching, can only return to the rescue in a disciplined manner. There is no loophole to find. The deployment of the envoys should be the first priority!"
Bian Hao was also very proud. He found that the most powerful thing about Zhou's cavalry was its high maneuverability, so being caught by his beacon tower was equivalent to losing half of his martial arts skills.
Bodhisattva Bian said, "Don't dare, don't dare." His face burst into laughter.
But just as he was about to drink, he saw black smoke suddenly rising into the sky in the distance. This was designed by Bian Hao. The last beacon tower was opposite the coach's camp, so it could be seen at any time.
Bian Hao didn't panic, because even if the smoke ignited, he would have enough time to deal with it, but the next second, the secret whistles around the camp rang the gong in unison.
Immediately afterwards, the warning drum on the high platform on the hill beside the river suddenly sounded, and the loud sound shook the hearts of the generals who sent troops to the Southern Tang Dynasty.
"How is it possible? As soon as the smoke started, the enemy cavalry was already around the camp?"
Bian Hao screamed, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Li Jinquan, an old man from Daibei, jumped up immediately, "What a Murong Baipao. This cavalryman is almost as good as Zhuang Miao. Please ask King Yan to move to control the navy."
As soon as Li Jinquan finished speaking, everyone at the banquet knew that something was wrong. For a moment, the dancer screamed and ran around, and the actor disappeared in an instant.
"Go to suppress the navy? What should we do with these tens of thousands of troops? Please sit in the king's command and control the central army. The Zhou army is no more than 10,000 people, so they may not be able to break the camp."
Bian Hao immediately disagreed, because Zhen Hai had just arrived, and not only were they stationed on the riverside, but boats were also ready. Going to Zhen Hai meant taking a boat trip.
Li Jinquan rolled his eyes. He knew how powerful he was. He could defeat the Khitan army and kill the cavalry of the Khitan Lord Yelu Deguang. How could he give you a chance to defend?
Moreover, Gao Xingzhou and his son knew that such powerful people were under Murong Baipao. How could Murong Baipao and his ten thousand cavalry be ordinary people?
If you don't hurry up at this time, you'll be waiting for your head to move!