Because the pressure of this change is too great, not only the Jiangbei slaves are pressed down on the whole line, but the Cheng Han in the west is also ready to move, and the southwestern border prefectures and counties such as Xiangnan and Ningzhou have frequently made moves, so Taicheng does not dare to slack off this time, and once it is decided, even if the edict is carried out, the envoy will be sent directly to Huainan to announce the reward for the Huainan generals.

At the same time, Taichung did not ignore the rest of the towns, and took the opportunity of this time to send the confessors to the towns, half to spur and encourage, half to encourage and half to exhort.

Now among the towns in Jiangbei, except for Huainan Shouchun, who is the first to take the army of the middle road, the tasks of other military towns are not easy.

Jingzhou, as an important town in Jiangdong, began the war much earlier than Huainan, and it can even be said that the fighting has never stopped since the recovery of Xiangyang. Although Guo Jing, the assassin of Jingzhou on the Qianhu side, lost Xiangyang, he did not retreat far behind, but reorganized his army in Fancheng, Xinye and other places, and repeatedly made spurs. At the same time, Shi Sheng, who was sitting in Guanzhong, led the army of Guanzhong out of the pass to help, and there were many Hu Yicong in Guanzhong such as Di and Qiang in the army to help in the war.

The two sides surrounded Xiangyang and attacked several fortresses on the left, and each other won and lost. Although the Jingzhou army did not have a significant victory at the beginning, it still had an advantage. Previously, Tao Kan was mostly constrained by Taichung, and it was difficult to use Jingzhou's military strength to the limit, but now there are not too many constraints, and Jiangzhou is used to make up for it, so several important forces in the Jingzhou army, such as the Xiangfan Haozong led by Huan Xuan, the Jingzhou Shijia led by Jingling Taishou Li Yang, and the barbarian Yicong led by Tao Zhen, the captain of the Southern Barbarians, are all around Xiangyang and have always been active defensive postures.

However, as Cheng Han was ready to move in the west, he crossed the border several times to provoke the customs defense, which restrained part of the Jingzhou army's energy, and Tao Kan even returned to the town of Baling from Wuchang, and at the same time withdrew from the front line to Jiangling to deter the Shu people. Although the Xiangyang front line was supplemented by Sima Wuji, the king of Jiangxia, who went north, the dispatch still gave the slave army some opportunities to take advantage of, and the battle line was pushed to the Fancheng line.

However, although the Jingzhou Army fought on two sides, its heritage and strength were there, and it could still be maintained.

Unlike Jingzhou, which fought on two fronts, and the Huainan Army, which had just experienced the Battle of Yingkou and then invested in the war in Runan, Xuzhou at present ushered in a short period of calm.

Of course, the calm is relatively speaking, Xuzhou is also a two-front battle at the moment, one focus is on Xuyi, where Xi Jian personally sits, because there is a vortex, which is not inferior to the Huaishui entrance of Yingkou, so many forts such as Luojian and Matoushu near the shore are also the focus of defense. However, thanks to the previous victory of the Huainan Army's city father, the Qianjun Shi Cong who had suffered heavy losses on this road, the advance of the slave army on this road was not smooth, so there was no major battle.

Another key point in Xuzhou is Huaiyin, which was originally used by Xi Jian as a key target for a breakthrough earlier, but because when Shen Zhezi Liang County went north to recover Huainan, he took advantage of the situation to pull the Xuzhou army, so that Xi Jian was able to take Xuyi, so the war in Huaiyin was temporarily slowed down and handed over to the siege of the heads of the armies in Xuzhou.

But these people are already unruly and mutually restrictive, and without Xi Jian's command, there is no unified banner to command, so there is no breakthrough in the war in Huaiyin.

Of course, this is not because the Xuzhou army is weak and unbearable, although these military leaders have their own private plans, but the combat effectiveness of their cronies is really not weak, if there can be a unified and thorough reorganization, the combat effectiveness will exceed the Huainan army in Xincheng military town.

In Huaiyin, Zilai was also the focus of the slave army's southward raid, so there were a large number of slave troops stationed here. The Xuzhou army itself is full of contradictions, fighting for itself, and the opponent is by no means a weak person who is unable to fight, and it is already commendable to maintain the current situation of encirclement but not attack.

Long before the outbreak of the Battle of Yingkou, Xi Jian received a letter from Shen Zhezi about the military situation of the slave army. However, Xi Jian still had some doubts about Shen Zhezi's guess that Shi Kan had already left the town and that Huaiyin should be an internal void, and he was a little unsure whether he should organize a large-scale attack on Huaiyin.

Xi Jian did not have the exuberant adventurous spirit of Shen Zhezi and the Huainan Army, and even for the great victory of the city father achieved by the Huainan Army under the pretense of his defense area, although he had some envy in his heart, if he faced that situation, he should not have made such a risky move. It's not that I'm timid and afraid of war, but I'm already past the age of rushing forward to seek special merits, and whenever I encounter war, I still focus on being thorough, first seeking no fault, and then seeking merit.

The slave army is coming south, and a big battle may start at any time. In such a situation, not to mention that Shen Zhezi is only a guess based on a small amount of intelligence, even if it is certain that Shi Kan is no longer in Huaiyin, we must consider whether the slave army is using this as a suspicious tactic, in order to contain part of the military strength of the Xuzhou army in Huaiyin and let him fall into the dilemma of fighting on both sides. If he falls for the opponent's tricks, not only Huaiyin will not be able to defeat him, but even Xuyi will change hands due to the lack of defensive forces.

But if Huaiyin is taken, the strategic significance for Xuzhou is also obvious. Under Huaiyin, the water went straight into the hinterland of Xuzhou to threaten Guangling, because the important town here was not in hand, so a considerable part of the Xuzhou army needed to stay in the town and not move lightly, so as not to be attacked by the slave army.

Moreover, Huaiyin is also connected to the mouth of the Huai River. Because this place is not in the hands of the Xuzhou army, the Xuzhou army, which is much stronger than the Huainan army, is also difficult to pass through the Huaishui unimpeded, so it is difficult to fully control this section of the Huaishui artery.

If Huaiyin can also start, then with the strong control of the water army over Huaishui, all the slave troops south of the Huai River can be surrounded and annihilated, and then the main forces will be invested in the Huaishui line, so as to obtain the same defensive situation as the Huainan army. It was able to give full play to the heritage of the Xuzhou Army and become the main defensive force of the entire Huaishui Theater, and the role it could play was far from being comparable to that of the Huainan Army.

On the one hand, it is a trap of two-front combat, and on the other hand, it is the temptation to be able to completely turn passivity into initiative, so after Xi Jian got the letter, he was also uneasy and hesitant in the past few days. During the time when he was hesitating, Shi Hu's army had officially come south to station in Huaibei, and the Battle of Yingkou broke out!

The result of the Yingkou battle, Xi Jian learned faster, he even personally traced the battle from a distance, and even in the next pursuit, he even sent a naval army to rush out of the vortex and go north to cooperate with the pursuit of the Huainan army, which can be regarded as a small gain. But if it is judged by merit, it is equivalent to the Huainan army holding the barbecue in his hand, and the Xuzhou army is picking up broken bones on the side to taste deeply, no matter how you look at it, it is difficult for Xi Jian to become cheerful.

Although the cooperation between the two towns is quite good at the moment, the relationship is also quite harmonious. The Huainan Army provided the Xuzhou Army with a breakthrough in Huaishang, and the Xuzhou Army resisted some of the pressure from the east for the Huainan Army. But the problem is that the commander of the Huainan Army is a good person, although Xi Jian does not have the stubborn temperament of relying on the old and selling the old, but every time he thinks of being compared with the results of the debate with the children, he is a little unhappy after all.

In addition to Xi Jian himself, the other generals of the Xuzhou Army actually have no lack of resentment in their hearts. You must know that in the Huainan Army today, there are quite a number of generals who dig up the wall and dig the past from the Xuzhou Army, such as Cao Na and the like. It's just that these people are thriving in Huainan, but they often get in the way of the vortex, which will inevitably make people feel a little unbalanced.

Whether he wants to or not, even if it is just to stabilize the feelings of the army and the army, Xi Jian can't help but take action. Otherwise, he is still taking stability as the first priority here, and as a result, all the generals under his command may have to sneak to Shen Wei to show their loyalty.

Therefore, as soon as the battle in Yingkou ended, Xi Jian immediately gathered the generals and prepared to launch an attack on Huaiyin. Of course, this decision was not completely forced by Huainan's great achievements, and after this heavy setback, it is conceivable that the army of Qianhu will be chaotic for a considerable period of time, and it is difficult to organize and launch a strong attack on the vortex mouth in a very short time. Therefore, there is no imminent danger in Xuyi at the moment, since Huaiyin has an opportunity to take advantage of it, you might as well give it a try.

Sure enough, when the Xuzhou Army was still adjusting its defenses and mobilizing troops to gradually approach Huaiyin, the news of the Huainan Grand Award had spread all over Jiangbei. A full number of generals have been crowned marquis, which is already the heaviest military use in the past few years, except for Su Jun's rebellion! And the Xuzhou Army, even Su Jun's rebellion earlier, did not get too many opportunities to advance because the Wu people were too enthusiastic, although Xi Jian had a position, it was just to balance the situation.

After learning about this, even Xi Jian's heart was a little sour, not to mention the generals under his command. Although most of them are fictitious titles, for these military leaders, they have all the money and goods, and what they owe is this fictitious title recognition! Taichung has always been strict about the awarding of knighthoods to border generals, and there are only a handful of such large-scale conferral of Zhongxing. Especially Cao Na, who was only ranked in the middle of Guangling earlier, has only been in Huainan for more than a year, and now he is also a marquis for merit!

Therefore, Xi Jian also had to be glad that he saw the opportunity early, and if he remained in Xuyi, it would be even more difficult to restrain the generals. Now that the arrow is ready to fly, with such a thick seal incentive in Taichung, it is conceivable that the Huaiyin battle will be more certain.

Xi Jian was happy, but Shen Zhezi was bitter. Yingshui forced back the Shihu army in a battle, but there was no respite at all. The affairs of Runan have not yet come up with a response plan, Xi Jian is in a hurry to attack Huaiyin, and as soon as the focus of the Xuzhou army is shifted, the Huainan army must increase troops to defend at the vortex.

Even if Shi Hu does not dare to come south in a big way for the time being, and the vortex mouth is temporarily worry-free, the situation in Runan is still not optimistic. Runan was originally a hasty defense, and originally hoped to get the response of Sima Wuji, the king of Jiangxia. However, something suddenly happened in the west, and King Qian was transferred to Han Cha, and immediately put Runan alone under the slave army Taobao soldiers. If you want to hold on, you will have to pay a much greater price than before.