Compared with the heavy army gathering and bustling around the upstream fort, Le'an, which is located in the north of Qingzhou, is much more lonely, so that the battle of the Wang division crossing the north and attacking Leling in southern Hebei is unimpeded all the way, except for the intrusion of some township mansions and cross-border rogues, there is almost no decent resistance.

The people responsible for attacking Leling were Xu Ning, the governor of the Guanggu Military Government of Qingzhou, Xu Mao, the governor of the naval army, and Mo Zhong, the general who was sent to Le'an earlier. Although these three people are based on Xu Mao as the main general, there is no obvious master-slave relationship between them, and it can also be said that they are fighting separately, and the governor Shen Mu has given them different combat tasks.

Xu Mao's water army was originally a part of the river water army, but with the opening of the sea route, especially after the increasingly frequent cross-sea contact with Liaodi, it gradually became resident in Le'an Port.

Originally, Xu Mao was supposed to return to reinforce the Qiang, but with the loss of the Fortress and the resumption of war, he was ordered by Shen Mu to stay in Le'an directly and wait, and there was no need to rush to return to the west.

After Shen Mu formally determined the overall strategic idea of this battle, Xu Mao's naval army became the most important force to attack many defensive strongholds along Leling across the river.

Although there are more than 20,000 troops in the name, more than half of them are either shipwrights, servants, or soldiers who follow the escort of sea ships in Le'an, and the troops that really belong to Xu Mao's command are even less than the number of the three armies, which can reach more than 8,000 people.

However, the defense forces along the Leling line were even weaker, and the state did not even have a formed naval force to garrison here, mainly relying on some local heroes and villagers to organize fishing boats to resist the approach or landing of the Jin army along the river and sea.

On the one hand, the reason why defense is so lax is naturally because the country does not have enough strength, and it is simply unwilling to invest a large amount of money in building river and coastal defense lines. On the other hand, there are covert constraints and obstructions from these powerful people in the local area.

These powerful people in Leling are reluctant to insert too much of their hands into the countryside from the center of the country, which is naturally due to the nature of the strong and strong, and there is another reason, that is, they are reluctant to give up the high profits of mutual trade with Qingzhou in the south.

This kind of smuggling is not prohibited by the officials stationed in Qingzhou, but is very privately encouraged. Therefore, Leling can be said to be the largest window for the large-scale influx of goods and goods into Hebei in the south.

Leling is close to the sea by the river, and these local heroes themselves have the benefits of fishing and salt, which can be described as wealthy, and now they have the huge profits of trade with the south, which can be said to be the most comfortable group of people in the Hebei realm today.

Shi Hu naturally will not turn a blind eye to this, but the reason why he can still hold it is naturally because the various goods that poured into Hebei through Leling have indeed solved the urgent needs within the country from all aspects. If he controls this realm in his hands, the Jin people may not be able to trade, which is equivalent to cutting off a channel for external supplementation.

Moreover, Leling was controlled by Shao Xu, a Jin man, in the early years, and it was not until very late that it was under the rule of the Jin Kingdom. In the old years, Shao Xu controlled the disgust, and even became the last stronghold of the Jin State in Hebei for a time.

The perennial war and attack have already made Leling Township languid to the extreme, because of the current strong people who are entrenched in the realm and reap the benefits of trade, some of them are the military leaders stationed in the old year, and some of them are from the Donghu people of Xianbei Duan and the like, and there are not many Jin people in Leling.

So even if they want to turn their backs on Zhao and join the Jin, with the always arrogant Jin temperament, they may not accept them. Of course, Shi Hu will not let these people help Nanguo to loot Hebei's wealth and paste and ignore it completely, and extort huge amounts of money from these powerful people every year, so that they will be a little indulgent and leave a place outside the law.

And this part of the wealth has also become one of the few items in the current country, except for the poor countryside.

Xingtai had previously focused on the western front, and there were no large-scale development plans on the eastern front, so the past few years have been peaceful. But now, not to mention that the western front of Xingtai has gradually been decided, and it is possible to take out a hand to look eastward, just the fact that Shixuan of the Kingdom of China lightly started the war and rashly attacked the fortification, Xingtai will never stop.

The so-called harmony and wealth in the past were suddenly torn apart, and Wang Shi's hideous minions suddenly poked out mercilessly. After Xu Mao led the navy to cross the estuary, he swept along the line and uprooted dozens of garrison strongholds along the Leling waterfront in one day.

These strongholds are called garrisons, but in fact, there are not many military operations, more like warehouses and warehouses for the collection and distribution of goods, when the king's army and navy are surging and killing, some of them are still drying parallel goods, and even fishing along the water, and there is no concept and awareness that the war has begun.

Following the navy, there were 3,000 elite cavalry of an army originally stationed in Taishan County led by Mo Zhong. With the early uprooting of the naval army, these cavalry were sent by ships to the land of Leling County without hindrance. After a short rest, they slaughtered the inland of the territory with great momentum, and all those who dared to resist in the garrison strongholds along the way were surrounded and annihilated.

At present, Leling County, both on the outside and inside, is extremely empty, and the county soldiers and powerful troops who were originally stationed in the local area, all of whom have a little scale, have been requisitioned to Pingyuan County to assemble and wait for battle, and then they were recruited by Shi Xuanhuo to fight in a hurry.

Even if there are still some guards left in the county border, the number is not too much, and they were caught off guard by the Jin army, so they didn't dare to take the lead at all. Therefore, after Mo Zhong's army entered the country, he killed hundreds of miles away from the county within one day, and directly arrived outside the county city.

The city is still the old city left by Shao Xu when he was in the realm. In recent years, Leling County has been abundant, and after repairs, the city is also deep, wide and tall, and there are still thousands of soldiers stationed there.

But these guards are naturally difficult to call elite, and when they saw the Jin army coming so aggressively, they didn't dare to poke their heads out at all, and they just wanted to rely on the strong city to stand by and wait for defense.

Mo Zhong's cavalry did not reluctantly attack the city, but went around the city, focusing on attacking those surrounding counties who dared to show their heads to reinforce the tired army, as if entering a no-man's land, invincible.

Not to mention whether the local guards in Leling were requisitioned or not, even if they were still on standby in the plains, Mo Zhong would not dare to be so unscrupulous with three thousand cavalry.

But he knew that most of the Karma army in the plain had also advanced westward, and in the current Karma country, if he wanted to emerge again with an army strong enough to resist and shake him, it would be at least five or six days later.

For the fighter situation that the lord Shen Mu tried his best to create, Mo Zhong naturally did not dare to waste it, changed horses all the way and ran, killing for two days and one night, and waited until nearly 10,000 soldiers of the three armies of the Qingzhou Military Government led by Xu Ning arrived outside the city of Yici, Mo Zhong led a group of tired cavalry to return to the military camp outside the city of Yici for rest.

The city is deep and tall, and there are more than 5,000 guards in the city, so it stands to reason that it will not be conquered in a short time. Moreover, the Wang Division is not very strong on this battlefield.

After all, the north and the south have been facing each other for many years, and the two sides actually have some understanding of each other's military deployment, and the gap is not too big. Shi Xuan was able to gather nearly 60,000 troops to defend the fort, and if Shen Mu wanted to have enough strength to encircle or even break through, the troops he needed to raise would definitely not be less, so there were not many troops that could be thrown into the side battlefield.

If there is a slight difference in the comparison of the strength of the two sides, that is, the remaining forces of the Qianguo State in southern Hebei are basically scattered among the powerful people in various townships or the leaders of the Hu chieftains, and it is relatively difficult to carry out overall recruitment in a short period of time.

The Jin army is a well-structured military government, especially around Qingzhou Guanggu, which can also levy nearly 10,000 troops in a very short period of time, which has become an additional force that Shen Mu can flexibly apply in the overall layout, and it has also become the most important force for him to solve the current situation.

After Xu Ning arrived at Yanci, Xu Mao, who had completed the task of uprooting and sweeping the outlying strongholds, also withdrew, and with a group of 2,000 people, he increased his troops to Yanci City three times in a row. In this way, nearly 20,000 Jin troops were gathered outside the city.

The five thousand defenders in the city were lonely and helpless, but they saw the Jin army outside the city increasing their troops again and again, and soon the enemies outside the city exceeded the number of people in the city several times, and they didn't know if there were reinforcements on the back road.

Especially when Xu Ning's general artillery began to bombard the city, in a very short period of time, the originally unbreakable city was blasted out of a small gap, and outside the city, there were constantly shouts from the powerful family members captured by Mo Zhong when he swept the county before, so after surviving a difficult night, the defenders in the city put up a white flag and surrendered out of the city.

After taking the city of Yici, Xu Ning and others can be said to have completed half of the task in this battle. Xu Mao followed into the city, seeing the familiar city style, the gray-haired veteran, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and he just sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it......'s a pity."

Xu Mao was a subordinate general of Liu Yao in Xuzhou in the old years, but because he was ostracized by his colleagues and had to seek assistance from Jiangdong, he became acquainted with Shen Chong, and thus embarked on a completely different path from his former comrades.

Liu Yao was Shao Xu's son-in-law, and after the last stronghold of the Jin State in Hebei was attacked by the Jin State, he led Shao Xu's old army to the south, and was soon caught up in the internal strife in Jiangdong.

It can also be said that in this tired city, Xu Mao also fought bloody battles here in the old years. Now he has revisited the old place, but he is no longer the lonely and terrified defender of the city, but an identity as a conqueror and reconquistalist. My heart turned a thousand times, and at this time, I couldn't tell whether I felt sorry for the two generals who had followed him in the old years, or I felt happy for myself.

After staying overnight in the city, Xu Mao said goodbye to Xu Ning, who was going to stay in the city: "People are old and sad, I have been in tears when I heard the news of the death of the second year of high school, and I don't want to stay in my hometown now, so I led my troops to continue to the north." ”

Xu Ning did not stay, and sent Xu Mao and Mo Zhong, who also had to leave the country and continue north to the Bohai Sea, away from the city of Yici, so he returned to the city of Yici and seized the time to repair the city defenses.

The task that Shen Mu gave to this Wang Shi was first of all that Leling County had to get into his hands, and as for the Bohai Sea further north, it was during this period of time that he could grab as much as he could, disrupting the rare money and grain center in Hebei, and striving to make the Shi family father and son have no money to survive this cold winter!