In late June, the Jiangzhou army Wang Xuan crossed the river to attack Liyang, and Mao Bao attacked Zuyue from the south with Mao Bao, and most of the Yuzhou army was defeated, and Zuyue fled north. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Su Jun of the Liyang Army and the Jingzhou Army fought a decisive battle against Yu Gu, fought for three days, and beheaded Saijiang! In the end, Su Jun was defeated and led the remnants to flee to Xuancheng.

The counterattack of the rebels in Stone Town, which Shen Zhezi used to threaten Taichen, did not happen after all, and he was stationed in the south of Da Truss for a few days, and his main job was to collect a steady stream of guards who came from Stone City to cross the city. Although there is no instant communication technology these days, Gu's distance from Stone Town is not very far, and the corpses, shipwrecks and various damaged ordnance floating in the upper reaches of the river all indicate the tragic situation of the battle in the upper reaches.

When the army under Shen Zhezi's command reached more than 5,000 people, Su Yi, who was trapped in Stone City, finally stopped insisting, and the crowd had a counteroffensive that was almost farceful, and his subordinates had not yet rushed through the fence outside the city, and had already shouted to raise their hands in surrender. When Shen Zhezi led his elite troops to rush into Stone City, the city had already been emptied, and Su Yi led the only remaining men and horses to flee south.

Next, Shen Zhezi welcomed a total of 5,000 reinforcements from Jing and Jiang in Stone Town, and since then, Jiankang City has finally been able to settle down.

With the arrival of reinforcements from all walks of life in Jiankang, although the traitor Su Jun has not yet been captured, and many rebel troops have not been wiped out, everyone knows that the results of this counterinsurgency have become clear, and there will be no more variables. The atmosphere in the city, which had been dormant for a long time, finally became lively, and a large number of surviving people living around the garden city were moved out. Looking at the war-torn homeland, which has long been devastated and unrecognizable, Jiankang City is full of miserable cries from white to night.

Long before the reinforcements arrived in Stone City, Shen Zhezi gradually loosened his control over Taicheng, and some of his men and horses were transferred to Zhoushan, and the other part followed him to Stone Town. In the entire Taiyuan, only the king of Chen was left, leading a guard to defend the emperor. As for the guards who were recruited, they were also handed over to the Protector's Mansion.

Although Yu Yi, the nominal governor of the Protectorate Mansion, was still in Jingkou Xingtai, there was still no shortage of senior commanders of the Protectorate Mansion in Taicheng, and Shen Zhezi had unreasonably usurped their authority earlier. As soon as they took over the military power, these people began to prepare for a counterattack on the rebel Zhang Jianbu, the closest to Jiankang, and worked up many battle plans all night, but when they were about to send troops, they suddenly found that they didn't even have basic food and grass!

With the lifting of the control of Taicheng, many of the ministers who were eager to take root in Taicheng not long ago also regained their vitality and left Taicheng one after another as if they had ended their hibernation. Since the day the city was broken, these people were driven into Taicheng, almost isolated from the world for almost half a year, and finally freed at this time, and more importantly, a large number of messages swarmed in, which really made them feel like they were separated from the world.

With the completion of information, these people can also intuitively feel the rise and fall of various forces in the current situation. Although the rebellion has not yet been completely quelled, anyone with a basic understanding can already realize that the turmoil brought about by this war is far greater than that of the Wangdun Rebellion in the early years.

One of the most eye-catching is the sudden emergence of Dongyangzhou, although they have heard the news earlier, but because they know too little, the lack of a large number of details makes it difficult for them to make accurate judgments. But now, they clearly know the whole story of this matter, how to discuss the matter of dividing the state, how to operate, how to realize, and even the brilliant performance of the Dongyang army in this chaos!

In this process, the kind of heritage and cohesion shown by the group of Sergeant Wu led by the Shen family is astonishing. Of course, they have long felt and recognized the rise of the Shen family, but they regard it more as a special case, and their attention is more focused on the father and son of Shen Chong and Shen Zhezi. In their impression, the Shen family was still just a new gateway promoted to the rank of a wealthy martial artist, and did not have the background to compete with the northern and southern high sects.

A family can stand for a long time, in addition to its own strength, each generation has a qualified heir, more important is the sense of identity that the family as a whole has gained in the entire situation and cultural inheritance. For example, these families who fled south, their ancestors enjoyed a high reputation, even if they were penniless, but compared with those who were fortunate enough to enter the poor, the people of the time were naturally more willing to believe in this kind of family children with blood and family heritage.

It is true that the Shen family is Xuan He for a while, but it is only the current position. But when it comes to that sense of identity, even Tao Kan has the heavy responsibility of dividing Shaanxi, and the children of the family are ashamed to belong to him, let alone a mere Shen Chong!

Of course, in the eyes of the people of the time, the Shen family is stronger than the average new door, in addition to the emperor's family, it is because Shen Chong has a successor, and he has a good son who is enviable, so he doesn't have to worry about the problem of extinction. But even so, when the people said that Wuzhong Gaomen, they subconsciously thought of the Gu Lu family, and the Shen family was still not comparable with these old surnames.

And the Shen family also has one thing that makes people criticize, that is, they are overly keen on accumulating money. Of course, this kind of thing of accumulating wealth is what every family is doing nowadays, greedy for ink and land, clever and robbing, and it can also be said that it is doing everything. But there are few people who are as powerful as the Shen family, and the world knows it. Although there is no lack of envy in the hearts of the people of the time, but in the final analysis, such behavior is harmful to the name after all.

However, such a big thing as Huiji Division, it can be said that Wu people have grabbed a foundation for their lives in the current situation! The Shen family was able to occupy a dominant position in such a big matter, and was widely supported, and it was promoted with all their might, as if they had become the leader of the new generation of Wu people!

Such a performance, not to mention those overseas Chinese who were surprised, even many Wu people were puzzled by this, how could they be inexplicably represented?

Jiangdong Liding has also been in power for decades, and the people of the time have already summed up a set of rules on how to deal with the Wu people as landlords, and they are very skillful in using the means of pulling or fighting. Although there are also many contradictions within the overseas Chinese family, they defend a great righteousness, and they have the pressure of living in a foreign land, which allows them to always reach a temporary alliance when the situation is critical.

But these advantages, the Wu people do not have, they are originally a group of people who have lost the country, and there is no righteous name that can be widely recognized. Qingwang Gaomen like Gu Lu, and powerful sects like Zhou and Shen below, are always ready to take their place. And those strong martial arts sects with deep roots in the countryside also have deep resentments against each other, and there is no lack of feuds, and they will put each other to death when they get the opportunity!

Therefore, in the past, the overseas Chinese dealt with the Wu people by wooing one faction and suppressing the other faction, and they themselves didn't even have to bother, and the powerful Wu people would rack their own efforts to kill their local opponents.

For example, in the process of Yixing Zhou's three determinations in the south of the Yangtze River, the local enemies were cut off, and after Wuxing Shen's power came to power, he took the Zhou family's nest in one fell swoop. There is no need to do anything, the Wu people themselves played themselves to death. Moreover, after the Wang Dun Rebellion, although the Wuxing Shen clan was preserved, it was almost buried by the villagers who united to dig a pit!

But now, the Wuxing Shen clan has actually done something that even the Gu Lu family can't do, and has attracted a large number of villagers to separate from Wuzhong in one fell swoop and create a military state! Even if the Shen family had many bad deeds before, just this feat, for the Wu people, the Shen family is enough to become a well-deserved leader among the Wu people!

It was not until this time that those Taiwanese ministers who had been besieged for a long time understood why Shen Zhezi dared to be so tough after attacking Taicheng. The strength he fought was not because of his exploits in recovering Jiankang, nor because of his identity as the emperor's son-in-law, but because he was the eldest son of the Shen family. And the greatest merit of the Shen family is to win a foundation for the Wu people, a square town with its own standing army, so that the Wu people have the confidence and qualifications to compete with the overseas Chinese!

It is foreseeable that for a long time in the future, absolutely no one in the current situation will dare to blatantly deal with the Shen family or Shen Zhezi. If someone dares to do this, the opponent he will face will not only be the Shen family and the Shen family's relatives and friends, but a group around the entire Dongyang Prefecture, and will be subjected to a strong counterattack!

How strong is the Wu people's sense of region? Although Gu Rong, who supported Dingli Jiangdong as the leader of the Wu Dishi people, has passed away, but now there is a lot of scolding in the countryside of Wuzhong, and there are even many people who threaten to dig up Gu Rong's broken monument and expose the coffin to apologize to the villagers, so scared that the Gu family will arrange guards around Gu Rong's tomb all year round.

Overseas Chinese coming to the south, whether in politics or in terms of local real capital, will undoubtedly infringe on the Wu people. If this contradiction is not resolved, but becomes more and more intense, then the position of the Shen family, which has made great contributions to the villagers, will become more and more important in the current situation! In other words, whoever wants to deal with the Shen family must resolve the contradictions of the conflict between the north and the south, or disintegrate the foundation of the Shen family to unite the villagers, otherwise it is very likely that there will be another military disaster!

Once they understood this, these ministers had different feelings in their hearts, but no matter what their mood was, it had become an indisputable fact that the Shen family was powerful, and they could only accept it now. Thinking deeper, it is that such a variable has been added to the current situation, and what attitude should they take to face it.

Although Shen Zhezi left Taicheng and transferred to Stone City and handed over the power of defense, he was not left out in the cold because of this, and from time to time there were Taichen who came to visit him, and there were some Taichen who moved directly into Stone City, in order to show their support for the Shen family.

Of course, in such a complicated situation today, it is impossible for the Shen family to make everyone cheer and sincerely wish. Although some Taichen also came to Stone City, the purpose was not to visit Shen Zhezi and make friends, but to borrow a boat to travel far away.

Earlier, the boats near Jiankang had been looted by the Liyang Army and hoarded in the lower capital, and then they were burned clean by Xu Mao.

Although these people have their own excuses for borrowing boats, Shen Zhezi knows very well where they are going, going to see Tao Kan in the west, and Wang Shu and Xi Jian in the east. Shen Zhezi didn't deliberately make it difficult for him, after all, his family is now a big man, and it's not interesting to lower his body to embarrass these little shrimps, and the real competition in the coming day will still have to wrestle with the candidates who these people go to meet.