Jingnan and Yueyang are in full swing.

It has been more than a month since the outbreak of fighting in Jingnan. Just as Bai Minzhong and Ding Ci feared, the soldiers of Jingnan Chengping for a long time were far from being the opponents of the Pseudo-Liang army that had been tempered by war for a long time. When the Jingnan soldiers faced the puppet Liang army with Gunhai as the main force, they were defeated and retreated, lost a large area of territory, and the situation was extremely critical. Now it has retreated to Dangyang, and Xinye is struggling to support it.

"Can Ding Jian hold on?" Looking at these military reports, Li Ze frowned.

"It should be said that the most dangerous time has passed." Gongsun Changming seemed more relaxed. "Whether it's Bai Minzhong or Ding Ci, they understand that since they are on our ship, it is definitely a disagreeable thing for them to go down halfway to take the ship of the pseudo-beam, so they also tried their best, and even took out the old book. Now stationed in Dangyang is Bai Minzhong's eldest son Bai Qian, who leads the core force of Jingnan's most Jing Rui. In Xinye, the armed forces led by Ding Wei and Ding Xiong with Ding's private soldiers as the core, although they are still struggling, they still stabilize the battle line, plus the Jingnan Naval Division is still dominant, and can be transported to land along the Han River at any time, strike at Dai Chao's rear, attack their supply lines, and contain a lot of Dai Chao's energy, so it has now entered a stalemate stage. ”

"What is Dai Chao doing now?"

"Dai Chao has realized that without a force that can contain the Jingnan Water Division, it will be difficult for him to go further, so now he is preparing to build a water division, and some ships have been gathered, of course, there is still a period of time before the formation of combat effectiveness." Gongsun Changming said.

"What is the situation inside Jingnan?"

"In this regard, Ding Jian is still doing very well." Gongsun Changming said: "At present, Bai Minzhong has devoted all his energy to the military, and the civil affairs have been entrusted to Ding Jian to be fully responsible. The first thing Ding Jian did was to reduce rent and interest, and the big landlords led by the Bai family and the Ding family reduced the land rent in the territory from 60% to 30%, which greatly enhanced the support of the local people. Ding Jian even burned all the people's IOUs under Ding's name to ashes. According to the spy of the internal guard, the situation at that time was extremely spectacular, and the IOUs were piled up like a mountain, and all the fires were turned into nothing. ”

"It looks like the Ding family has suffered a lot of losses this time!" Li Ze said with a smile.

"If you are willing to give up, you will not be willing to give up!" Gongsun Changming said: "Now Jingnan needs everyone to work together, Ding's move still makes the people's support for them to a new level, and it is estimated that the Bai family will follow up next." After all, in Jingnan, the Ding clan and the Bai clan occupy an absolute dominant force. ”

"The Ding family, the Bai family is doing this, and the other landlord class in Jingnan are afraid that there are not small opinions, right?"

"Of course, as the front line continues to suffer defeats, different voices in Jingnan have also sounded, and there are more and more people who secretly collude with Dai Chao." Gongsun Changming sneered: "But in this regard, the work of the internal guard is extremely good. Ding Jian after experiencing the incident in the river, this time he was also ruthless, for such a thing, he was completely ruthlessly crushed with the power of thunder, and found that together, it was to kill together, in the past two months, five families have been destroyed, and hundreds of people's heads have been killed. ”

"There is no way to do it if the means are ruthless, will the people have a backlash?"

"Liu Jing, who is in charge of public opinion control in Yixing Society, has successfully exaggerated the brutality of the pseudo-Liang in Jingnan through various means, and now in Jingnan, ordinary people are very afraid of the pseudo-Liang, so they still support Ding Jian's relatively strict wartime policy in Jingnan for the time being." Gongsun Changming said: "Of course, all these things are implemented in the end, and they still have to reflect the victory on the battlefield." If Dangyang and Xinye are defeated again, then it is still possible to waver. ”

Li Ze nodded, "What about Yue Yang?" ”

"The overall situation in Yueyang is much better than that of Jingnan." Gongsun Changming said: "After all, Yueyang Qian Biao only wants to protect Yueyang, the territory is small, he has gathered a large number of soldiers, and more importantly, he has the strong support of Zheng Wenchang, Zheng Wenchang swept several counties around West Dongting, looted a large amount of grain, grass, wealth, all concentrated in Yueyang. Liu Xinda's main attack on Yueyang, in the process of attacking Yueyang, was attacked by Zheng Wenchang many times around the back road, the loss was great, and he had to retreat, Yueyang is very powerful, and currently relies on the water division, and still maintains a strong influence in the entire Dongting Lake Basin, although Zhu Youzhen has controlled other areas except for Yueyang, but these places do not dare to go too far with Yueyang, because Zheng Wenchang's water division can attack this area at any time. Overall, Yueyang's situation is much better than Jingnan's. ”

"What will Zhu Youzhen do again?"

Like Dai Chao, he was preparing to build a water division in Ezhou. After the death of Eyue Tiefeng, the remnants of the Eyue Sailor surrendered to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen because of the lack of sailors, still attaches great importance to this surrendered sailor, and now with this remnant sailor as the core, nearly 100 ships have been assembled, and the next step is to enter the Dongting Lake basin to compete with Zheng Wenchang. Gongsun Changming said.

"Zheng Wenchang can still spare his strength to support Jingnan in such a situation?" Li Ze was a little worried.

"Li Xiang, Jingnan Naval Division, in fact, there is not much of a problem now, but the land force is a little precarious, so the military department hopes to transfer a force from Yueyang to support Jingnan. Now Yueyang Qian Biao has gathered nearly 30,000 people, and the area they are defending is not large. You can draw one out and go to Jingnan. ”

"For Jingnan, if reinforcements arrive, it can greatly boost morale and strengthen their determination to resist to the end." Li Ze pondered for a moment: "For Yueyang, we don't need them to launch a counterattack at this time, we just need to hold the nail of Yueyang." This matter should be arranged as soon as possible. ”

"Yes! In addition, is it not to transfer some troops from Yangzhou? Gongsun Changming said.

"Yangzhou is quite far away from Jingzhou, and all along the way, there are all enemy-occupied areas, and it is not easy to transport troops across such a long distance, even if we have an absolute advantage on the water!" Li Ze got up, looked at the map on the side, and said.

"Lee Sang, but considering the political significance, it's very different. Even a small loss is a thing that outweighs the loss. Gongsun Changming said: "Now we have eight sailors in Yangzhou, and there are eight special inland river warships, plus the Huainan sailors captured earlier, there are nearly two hundred large and small warships, even if the number of troops transported is not much, but the symbolic meaning is extremely obvious, not only declaring our absolute control over the Yangtze River waterway, but also giving the Jingnan people unparalleled confidence." ”

"What is the current state of Huainan Gong Yunda?"

"Although this person is still gathering a large number of troops around Yangzhou, this person is neither fighting nor making peace with Yangzhou, and his son is still in our hands, although Zhu Youzhen repeatedly urged him to do it, he turned a deaf ear. Interestingly, in addition to entering the army, he did his best to meet Zhu Youzhen's other requirements, just for grain, in the past few months, Huainan has sent millions of stones to Zhu Youzhen's army and Guanzhong, causing Huainan grain prices to rise sharply. ”

"How much water division strength does Huainan still have?"

"Less than a hundred! And there are fewer experienced generals and sailors. Gongsun Changming said: "Are you worried that once Li Hao and the others leave, Gong Yunda will take the opportunity to attack Yangzhou?" ”

"You can't fail to take that into account. And Cao Bin, who was stationed in Wuning, was also likely to launch an attack on Yangzhou. Li Ze said: "Send someone to talk to Gong Yunda." ”

"I think so too, Gong Yunda must have regretted plunging into Zhu Youzhen's arms when he saw the current situation." Gongsun Changming said with a smile: "If you can make this guy fight back, then the situation will change greatly." ”

"That's true." Gongsun Changming said: "And Li Xiang, where we are in Zhu Youzhen, we also buried a big nail, if the situation in Yueyang and Jingnan is really critical, you might as well let them move." ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Changming laughed: "This is the winner and loser." Once activated, the entire Yangtze River basin can be reversed. ”

"Do you mean Tian Guofeng and Chen Changfu?"

"Not bad. The two of them won Zhu Youzhen's trust, led 10,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in Tongshan, originally Zhu Youzhen probably wanted them to enter Jiangnan and compete with Xiang Xun for Jiangxi's territory, now Yueyang has been unable to attack for a long time, and Dai Chao has been blocked in Jingnan, maybe Zhu Youzhen will send them to Yueyang or Jingnan, after all, Jingnan, Eyue and other places are more important than the current Jiangxi. If he completely takes down Eyue and Jingnan, not only can he control these grain producing areas, but he will also slap his eldest brother hard, increasing his weight in Pseudo-Liang. ”

"This chess piece is very important, and when it is not a winning hand, it must not be used lightly!" Li Ze said with a smile: "Of course, if the interests are big enough, if it is really like what you said, their army has arrived in Jingnan, then it might as well be used to defeat Jingnan's Daichao Department in one fell swoop, so that the Zhu brothers will be completely opposed." ”

"Under the banner of Zhu Youzhen, I went to do Daichao, this is a wonderful idea!" Gongsun Changming laughed.

"But before doing this, I must inform Xu Xiang's people that they will completely disappear from Zhu Youzhen's sight, they are great heroes, and they must not be allowed to fall into Zhu Youzhen's hands."

"This is natural."