Outside Pengcheng, the armor is stumbling, and the flag is fluttering.

This is the army sent by the imperial court to the south, commanded by Xu Shiji, set out from Luoyang half a month ago, and when passing through Yanzhou, he eliminated the remnants of Xu Yuanlang's rebels, and reorganized here in Pengcheng for a few days, and after getting supplies, continued to go south.

It is about to cross the Huaishui and enter the Huainan area.

In the land of Huainan, there are Suzhou, Jiangdu and other big city towns, the land is rich, the products are abundant, in the time of the Great Sui, it belongs to the hometown of fishermen, and provides millions of stone of grain for Chang'an City and Luoyang every year.

Therefore, Huainan here, the status is important, Xu Shiji led 150,000 troops this time, to defeat the rebels here such as Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou, Shen Faxing, etc., and recover Huainan and Jiangzuo.

However, in the face of the three heroes, Xu Shiji felt his heart surging and at the same time, he also felt pressure.

Of the 150,000 troops, only 60,000 or 70,000 were veterans who had participated in the Battle of Jinyang, some of them were supplied from Luoyang, and there were new troops recruited in the Pengcheng area.

Xu Shiji was also aware of this problem, during the march, as soon as he had time, he ordered all the troops Yu Hou and Du Lieutenant to strengthen the training of new recruits in the headquarters, and it was impossible to greatly improve the martial arts in the short term, but at least they knew how to use horns, drums, order flags, phalanxes, etc., and they could not mess with their own formations.

Bing Yuanzhen arched his hand and said: "General Xu, to the south of Pengcheng, there is Fuli City, Xiaqiu City, and then the north bank of Huaishui. ”

Xu Shiji analyzed: "Yes, now Jiangbei, the land of Qilu, and even Luoyang, have successively become under the rule of Dahua, and the states have been thorned in the imperial court, and the city is attached, which is the general trend, and now there is only Huainan, the south bank of Huaishui, is Huainan County and Zhongli County, there are both Du Fuwei's people and horses, and there are also some county commanders and clans who want to belong to the imperial court, unite these heroes, and echo each other, then it will be easy to take these two counties, but Jiangdu County, there is Du Fuwei's army, and the hard battle will start there." ”

Around him, followed by several generals and military affairs chiefs, including Fang Yanzao, Wang Junyi, Wei Yijie, Cui Jun and others, and the commander Xu Shiji chatted about the situation while riding horses.

"Our army has already sent scouts to pass through Huaishui, to contact some county commanders and city lords, and those who intend to belong to the imperial court will respond one after another, and it will be much easier to take Huainan County and Zhongli County when the time comes."

Wei Yijie said worriedly: "General Xu, there are three roads in Huainan, Du Fuwei is the strongest, stationed in Liyang County and Jiangdu County, with a force of 200,000, there are grain and grass reserves in Shanyang Warehouse, strong soldiers and strong horses, plus Fugongyou of Danyang, Shen Faxing of Biling County, there are rebels on three sides, once we arrive in Jiangdu County, we will face attacks in the southwest, due south, and southeast, and we will be overwhelmed!" ”

Xu Shiji nodded, this is also a problem he has been feeling thorny recently, here is not just Du Fuwei's team, but Shen Faxing, Fu Gongyou two help, Jiangnan also has Zhang Shan'an, Lin Shihong's team, and everywhere occupy the mountains as the king, bandits are rampant, you must pay attention when marching, in case some rebels cut off the grain road, or create some trouble.

Of course, if we can clean up these chaotic troops and bandits along the way, or encircle and suppress them, or recruit them into the army, it will play a very good role in stabilizing the Huainan area.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiji said with a firm expression: "This general already knows, and orders are sent to the scout battalion and patrol guards, send more scouts, secretly cross the Huaishui, closely inquire about the situation in Huainan, and report back at any time." ”

"Order!" The surrounding generals and captains clasped their fists and obeyed orders.

………

Jiangdu City.

During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he sent ministers to expand the Jiangdu on the bank of the Yangtze River, adjacent to Guanyin Mountain, Slender West Lake and other areas with good scenery, and established Dongcheng and Luocheng, between the two cities, the best location of feng shui, and established the palace city.

There are gates on four sides of the palace city, among which the north gate is "Xuanwu Gate", and the east gate is "Fanglin Gate".

A number of palaces, towers, and gardens have been built inside and outside the palace city, which are completely in the style of Jiangnan gardens, with small bridges and flowing water, and beautiful scenery.

At the beginning of the Sui Yang Emperor Yang in the last years of the great cause, seeing that the situation in various places was hopeless, disheartened, with the palace women, officials and the Praetorian Guards, etc., went south to Jiangdu, intending to avoid the limelight here, the Central Plains rebel army melee, the situation of the self-reliance of the heroes, turned a blind eye, had no intention of talking about state affairs, did not think of going north, which led to the generals and ministers around him to be completely disappointed in him, by Yu Wenhua, Sima Dejiao and others launched a palace mutiny, strangled him to death, and ended the dramatic life.

However, after Yu Wenhua and gained power, in order to fulfill the promise of returning Beijing to the forbidden army, he had no choice but to lead the troops to the north, gave up the Jiangdu City, and on the way back to the north, he suffered a double blow to Dou Jiande and Li Mi's army.

This Jiangdu city was originally guarded by thousands of people, but now it has been occupied by Du Fuwei and his troops, and has become a garrison for him in Jiangdu County.

"When will Xu Shiji's soldiers and horses arrive on the shore of Huaishui?" A burly middle-aged man, standing on the top floor of the Linjiang Palace by the Yangtze River, looked at the north direction by the railing, and asked the general behind him.

This person is none other than the head of Liyang, Huainan Xiaoxiong Du Fuwei!

"Father-in-law, according to the report of the spy, this Xu Shiji has set out from Pengcheng, with 150,000 troops, and there is enough food and grass, but half of them are new troops, plus the long journey, once they cross the Huaishui, the supply line will rely on water transportation, and there will be problems." Wang Xiongdan stood behind and replied respectfully.

Du Fuwei nodded, turned around, his face was solemn, and said: "The Central Plains has been collected into a bag, only this Jianghuai land is not within the jurisdiction of Dahua, the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains Imperial Court will come sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, Li Tang just calmed down, and the Dahua Imperial Court divided its troops into two routes, attacking Xiaoliang all the way and Jianghuai all the way, and I don't take my Jiangnan people in my eyes." ”

Wang Xiongdan arched his hand and said: "Father-in-law, we can divide the river and rule, follow the example of the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu divided power, or the Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, with the Song Qi Liang Chen in the south, opposing each other, as long as we can eliminate this Xu Shiji's soldiers and horses, let the Dahua court know that we are powerful, and it is not impossible to divide the river and rule." ”

Du Fuwei sighed: "This time is different from the past, our Jianghuai land is not a piece of iron, in addition to Shen Faxing, you assistant uncle, it seems that you also have the intention to divide power and establish yourself as the king." Moreover, south of Jiangdong, in the land of Wuyue, there are also Zhang Shan'an, Wang Hua, Li Zitong, Wenren Sui'an and other forces, this time they united several people to resist the imperial court, and in the future, it is easy to be divided by the imperial court, and each is eliminated! ”

"So what do we do?"

"Let's get through the current hurdle first, if the general trend is irreversible, we can only return to obedience in the end." Du Fuwei sighed lightly, planning to resist first, see what the situation of the battle situation is, and then make a final decision.

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