The fame of Zhoushan is not small, but in fact it is not a majestic peak, just Jiang Mountain is a hill that is not high in Zhongshan, it is only a few miles back in the week, but the location is extremely dangerous, it reaches the river in the north, Taicheng in the south, Qingxi in the east, and the west pond is not far from the mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOnce you control Zhoushan, then Taiyuan will have no danger to defend and can attack at any time.

Hundreds of miles apart, it is difficult to agree on a unified time to launch. Moreover, the river near Jiankang City is deep and the waves are high, and it is even more difficult to control the time of launch. Therefore, as soon as Shen Mu received Shen Zhezi's summons, even if he led the boat master to go up the river, he actually arrived at Zhoushan more than half a day earlier than Shen Zhezi's launch time.

Although the Zhoushan Mountain is not high, it occupies the commanding heights because it is located on the bank of the river, the iron lock crosses the river, and the bamboo and wood are the fences, so it is really difficult for the big ship to get close to the past. After putting down the small sampan and trying to attack several times to no avail, Shen Mu retreated slightly and followed the embankment to the Qingxi Ferry to temporarily station, while looking for a suitable landing site.

Although the defense facilities of Zhoushan are perfect, the defenders are not much, most of the Yuzhou army stationed here have been transferred, the people's hearts are scattered, and the help is fruitless, when the Qian Wang Department stationed in Xichi launched an offensive in Yuancheng, Shen Mu took advantage of the situation to lead the army to land strongly, almost did not encounter much fierce resistance, easily occupied Zhoushan, and at the same time conquered Jiangling, and captured the materials and ordnance left by the Yuzhou army.

After taking control of Zhoushan, Shen Zhezi's envoy also came here, and Shen Mu went to Taicheng with King Qian to meet Shen Zhezi and report the results of the battle. It's just that they didn't go through the main gate of Taicheng, but climbed over the wall at the foot of the mountain to enter, because the battle was going on in the south of Taicheng.

After negotiating with the ministers, Shen Zhezi didn't have time to rest, and immediately rushed to the head of the city where Lu Yong was located earlier in Xuanyang Gate. At this time, the soldiers responsible for defending Xuanyang Gate have been replaced by Kuangshu's troops, and Lu Yong's more than 1,000 troops have withdrawn, and Lu Yong is cooperating with Xu Su to reorganize.

It was not the rebels of Stone City outside the city who attacked Taicheng, but the guards in the south of the city who mutinied last night. There were more than 3,000 guards in the south of the city, and according to Xu Su's estimates, at least more than 2,000 were involved in last night's rebellion. These guards are also pitiful, they were not trusted after returning to the rebels, and they were already trembling, and they mustered up the courage to go to captivate Nanyuan, but they didn't expect that Nanyuan was only an empty shell left, and there was almost nothing to gain.

The empty joy was a scene, and the mood of the guards could be imagined, but after the fire burned Nanyuan to vent, they finally had a feeling of fear in their hearts. When even if some people wanted to flee from Gyeonggi, but when they wanted to escape, they found that several gates were garrisoned by Stone City defenders, and Gyeonggi had been besieged.

Fortunately, there seemed to be chaos outside Stone Town, and although the defenders held the way out, they did not launch an attack for a long time, which gave the guards a time to be safe for a while. Some of them took advantage of this period of stability to flee from the south and east of the city, but found that the Qingxi rose sharply, and the original pontoon bridge had long been submerged and broken, and the south of the city was even more flooded, and there was no way out.

As it approached dawn, the guards trapped in the capital began to attack each other, annexing or cooperating with each other, gradually forming several relatively large forces, and of course, there were also people lurking in the already chaotic city to watch the situation. With the initial integration, the guards are no longer headless flies, and they are starting to find ways to turn the situation around, hoping to win a glimmer of life.

On the one hand, in their concept, the Liyang rebel department is now the controller of Gyeonggi, and on the other hand, the image of the Liyang army's courage and good fighting is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that they dare not give birth to the heart of resisting hard shock. Although they were guilty of mutiny, after all, the law did not hold the people accountable, and the Liyang Army also needed to rely on them to control Gyeonggi.

Therefore, after the situation calmed down a little, the leader of the guards sent an envoy to the defenders of Stone Town to plead for their guilt, but the envoy did not respond after sending it. This inevitably made the hearts of those guards even more annoyed and hesitant, and there were many people who were vicious and brave, hoping to survive in death, so the soldiers pointed to Taicheng. Probably in their opinion, as long as they can break through Taicheng and capture and control the emperor and Taiwanese, they will have bargaining chips in hand against the Liyang army, whether they are fighting or surrendering, it is better than doing nothing, trapped in the city and waiting for doom to come.

When Shen Zhezi arrived at Xuanyang Gate, the battle had already begun for half an hour. But in fact, it is a battle, and it is more like a confrontation between the two sides.

The guards flocked to the walls of Taicheng in large numbers, with neither a unified deployment nor an unwavering tactical goal. Earlier, although they still maintained a basic establishment in the city, it was impossible for the Liyang army to give them too well-armed equipment, and most of them were either a ring-headed knife or a spear, and even bows and crossbows were very few.

And the Taicheng city wall they attacked was itself tall, and it was reinforced by the rebels, and there was no siege ordnance and long-range attack means, so the battle began with the city wall scolding each other from the top and bottom of the city. Although Kuang Shu had fully communicated with many middle-level troop leaders in his department, the soldiers at the bottom were still a little confused by the sudden change in their camp position, and they denounced each other as traitors.

When Shen Zhezi arrived at the head of the city, the battle was still going on in chaos, and just near the Xuanyang Gate, it could be seen that the guards were obviously divided into several parts, some of them threw their heads up and threw sparse arrows into the city, some built rudimentary arrow platforms and ladders behind the battlefield, and some piled up wood under the city wall as if they were about to set fire.

The defenders on the city wall maintained a basic force suppression, and on the other hand, they were also shouting loudly to persuade them to surrender, saying that Taicheng had been recovered, and persuading these guards not to insist on rebellion again. But since they were rebels in the first place, they were embarrassed by the shouts, let alone convince the guards.

After perceiving that there was no danger of breaking the city, Shen Zhezi was not in a hurry for the time being, and after getting off the city, he asked people to go back to Taicheng to invite Cai Mo and some of the ministers who had a subordinate relationship with those guards earlier.

As for Shen Zhezi himself, it is not appropriate to come forward, those sergeants are not good at fighting, they are good at making trouble, not only did they set fire to the Shen family's Nanyuan, but several other places in the city were damaged to varying degrees. If Shen Zhezi, the bitter master, comes forward, it may make those people be thieves and add more variables.

Not long after Shen Zhezi left the city, Shen Mu and King Qian hurriedly came. After seeing these two people, especially Shen Mu, Shen Zhezi's heart was a little more stable, covering Zhoushan is not only an important stronghold for defending Taicheng, but also the Yangtze River waterway connected to it is an impossible way to retreat. Shen Mu's boat division totaled more than 2,000 people, but there were seven or eight large and small boats, which themselves carried a batch of rice and grain, and they were able to evacuate important personnel in an emergency.

"Qingque, do you want me to send troops over and destroy those guards?"

Hearing the commotion outside the city wall, Shen Mu frowned and said. The loss of his capture of Zhoushan was not much, and the soldiers still maintained sufficient combat effectiveness.

"No need, second brother, it is the first priority for you to guard Zhoushan and Jiang Ling. As for those rebels, it's not too much of a problem. ”

Shen Zhezi first led Shen Mu to a remote place, handed him a warrant for the requisition of his own army, and instructed: "Those remnants of the Yuzhou army, second brother, don't treat them too harshly." Earlier they were each doing their own thing, but now that they have succeeded, there is no need to be hostile. I have to open the mansion now, and later the second brother, you will return to the army and hand over this order to Du Daohui, and ask him to join the army for the time being to appease the surrender of those Yuzhou. ”

Although the Yuzhou army was easily defeated, Shen Zhezi also knew that this was not a problem of combat effectiveness, but that the Yuzhou army was not very firm in its fighting spirit, and Zu Yue himself did not have the spirit and reputation of his brother. Moreover, no matter what the combat effectiveness of the Yuzhou army is, their experience of stationing in Yuzhou for a long time alone is the manpower that will be used later. For Du He to come forward to appease people's hearts, it was also Shen Zhezi's plan for a long time.

Shen Mu took the warrant and nodded down, and after discussing with each other, Shen Mu hurriedly returned to Zhoushan, preparing to transport a batch of materials to Taicheng to meet the enemy, and by the way, Lu Yong and his troops were taken away. It is a sensitive issue to deal with the general, Lu Yong took refuge in Wang Dao earlier, Shen Zhezi does not favor one over the other, and transferring him out of Taicheng is also a good arrangement for Lu Yong himself.

Next, Shen Zhezi met with King Qian again. Although the clan was rampant in the Middle Dynasties, it became a rare material after crossing the river, not to mention anything else, just crossing the river and five horses, counting the king of Xiyang who had just been cut down by Shen Zhezi, there was only one king of Pengcheng Sima Xiong, who surrendered to Su Jun earlier, and he was still in the Liyang army, and he was going to die sooner or later. As for the kings of Emperor Yuan's lineage, except for Sima Chong, the king of the East China Sea, the others are still unknown.

Sima Wuji, the king of Chen, is not a close relative of the imperial family, but at a time when the power of the clan is not in charge, he is a rare person in charge, of course, this is also thanks to Su Jun's blessing, otherwise King Qian is still sitting on the cold bench now. Whether Director Wang did anything against the defenders of Zhoushan Mountain, Shen Zhezi did not know. But if you want to do it, it must be better to start with King Chen, but unfortunately King Chen's feud with his family is too deep.

It was probably because of the help of heaven and earth, Su Jun asked King Qian to guard the west pool of Yuancheng, but it made it much easier for Shen Zhezi to capture Zhoushan, which can be regarded as picking up a leak.

After several years of being alienated and suppressed, King Qian appeared to be more mature than before, and he grew a short beard just before the weak crown, with a sense of vicissitudes on his face that ordinary families did not have. When Shen Zhezi came up, he leaned down and bowed: "The last general will see the horse, the horse is alone, and the horse is far away, recovering Taiyuan, rescuing the king, and saving the country." It is a great honor for the last general to be able to attach the tail and live up to the humiliation of a traitor! ”

Seeing King Chen's humble attitude, Shen Zhezi was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but remember that when he first met King Chen in his early years, he was scolded by this guy for a bloody squirt. Sure enough, reality is the best teacher, once you are unwilling, no matter how sharp the edges and corners are, they must be polished and smoothed.

Now King Qian is so deferential to himself, probably because he casually cut down King Xiyang earlier. The surrender of King Qian before the battle, although it is a meritorious service, but the suspicion of rebellion is really said to be there. If someone close to the royal family returned to attack Gyeonggi, King Qian might not dare to surrender so simply.

"Why should the king be polite, in private terms, you are still my elder."

Shen Zhezi stepped forward with a smile and helped King Chen, looked at this slightly decadent young man, and as soon as his heart moved, he spoke directly: "Now the situation in Gyeonggi is still difficult, and the younger generation is lucky to have the trust of the public to temporarily supervise the military affairs of Gyeonggi, I don't know if the king is willing to deign to be my long history?" ”