Now there are more than 40,000 soldiers and horses from all walks of life in Suzhou Mansion, and these troops are really stretched thin to deal with Zhao Kai and Zhao Gou, so it is understandable that Ning Guoxiao wants to transfer Xiuzhou soldiers and horses to help Suzhou Mansion. Peng Xin just thought about it for a moment, then shook his head, "General Ning, according to Peng, it is not necessary to transfer soldiers and horses in Xiuzhou, and the various salt fields in Xiuzhou are also very important, if there is no protection of soldiers and horses, I am afraid that something will happen." Zhao Kai is menacing, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with, but Zhao Gou, don't worry too much, you and I need to keep Suzhou and the hinterland of Wu County. General Ning, don't forget, Wang Xiaoniang is still in Mantuo Villa, as long as Wang Xiaoniang is here, His Royal Highness will definitely go south with all his strength to block Zhao Kai, what we have to do is to hold Suzhou and not give Zhao Kai a chance. ”

What Peng Xin said is not unreasonable, the number of troops is limited, so he can only garrison important places, especially Zhao Kai in the north. Although Zhao Gou seems to be the most direct threat, Peng Xin is not worried about Zhao Gou, this young His Royal Highness King Kang may not have the courage to fight the world, but Zhao Kai is different, Zhao Kai's scheming methods are mature, and he can use any means in order to win. As for Zhao Gou, he is moving forward all the way now, because he has not encountered any obstacles, and when he encounters difficulties, it is not certain whether he can move forward.

The young Zhao Gou commanded an army of 40,000, but there were no outstanding generals, and the test soon came, and Zhao Gou went all the way unimpeded, and soon reached Wujiang. At this time, there were only more than 4,000 defenders in Wujiang, and according to the expectation in my heart, Wujiang County would only take half a day, but Zhao Gou's troops and horses surrounded Wujiang for two hours, and still failed to shake the small Wujiang. Gai because there is a Meng Zexu in Wujiang City. For Meng Zexu. Not many people know about it. Because this person was born in the Taicang Righteous Army, that is, a bandit in the eyes of the imperial court, what can a bandit do? Since the disaster was eliminated a few years ago, Meng Zexu surrendered, and Zhao Yougong remembered his loyal temperament and good ability, so he was exceptionally selected to join the national army. Stay in Suzhou Mansion to listen to it. It was an act of knowing people back then, but it has brought countless benefits to today. Meng Zexu is not from an orthodox background in the imperial court, and he has no loyalty to the monarch in his bones, he only admires the courage and strategy of King Qin in his life, and fights for him, that is, it is worth dying. As for King Kang Zhao Gou? I'm sorry, but who knows this little kid?

Meng Zexu fought bravely, personally stood on the city wall and fought with all the soldiers, and beat the rebels besieging the city several times. After Tian Fangkui, the commander of the infantry in Wujiang County, was killed, Meng Zexu held the highest position. At this time, Meng Zexu was even more burdened. He asked Wujiang Zhixian to mobilize the people in the city, claiming that King Kang's rebels burned, killed and looted. Under some publicity, the people in the city consciously acted as the backup of the soldiers and horses defending the city, and the rolling wood, bricks and stones were constantly sent, which caused a heavy blow to the soldiers and horses of King Kang.

Outside Wujiang City, Zhao Gou had a cold face, his face was blue and blue, and no one in the tent dared to speak, everyone knew that His Royal Highness King Kang had infinite anger in his heart at this time, a small Wujiang County, he had not been beaten for so long, and no one would be angry if he was replaced.

"Bai Yi, didn't you say that you are strategic in the art of war and are good at everything, why is it that a small Wujiang County makes you unable to get half a point?" Zhao Gou looked directly at the so-called general Bai Yi, and Bai Yi trembled in his heart. Don't look at the age of His Royal Highness King Kang, but he is also a ruthless person, King Kang is a person who is unkind, as long as you make a mistake once, he will forget all the good things before. Of course, Bai Yi was a little unhappy, Zhao Gou was able to sit firmly in Lin'an and take half of Hangzhou, he Bai Yi had made great contributions, and now he was holding a little difficulty, why did he put all the responsibility on his head Bai someone? If he is unhappy, he has to think about how to deal with it, he doesn't want to be a victim of King Kang's anger.

"Your Highness, the soldiers and horses in the city have been prepared for a long time, and they have more things to defend the city, and Meng Zexu is even more ferocious, and our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties. If you want to take Wujiang as soon as possible, you must wait for General Man Rutao's soldiers and horses to arrive, and there are enough siege equipment to better attack the city" Bai Yi said this, in fact, he complained in disguise that Zhao Gou didn't understand how to lead the troops and command blindly, according to common sense, he should rest for a day first, and attack the city when the soldiers were strong, and he came in a hurry, the rear baggage did not arrive, there were not enough ladders and siege vehicles, and he only relied on manpower to attack, and the consequences can be imagined. just ran into a Meng Zexu, and it would be normal if he didn't suffer a loss. It's just a small defeat, isn't victory or defeat a common thing in soldiers? But His Royal Highness King Kang couldn't accept it, and could only say that he was too anxious to enter Suzhou.

"Meng Zexu? It's just a grass bandit, I didn't expect that you would wait for a general school, but it was not as good as a grass bandit, and it really disappointed the king, okay, don't talk about it, all the departments will rest and recuperate, and when the soldiers and horses full of waves arrive tomorrow, they will attack the city again! ”

With a wave of his hand, all the generals in the tent ran out as if they were about to be amnesty, looking at the empty handsome tent, Zhao Gou was a little distracted. Although he rarely reads the art of war, Zhao Gou also knows that it is not good to attack the city in a hurry, but who knows his Zhao Gou's suffering? There are so many sons of the father, everyone knows that Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, is suave, both civil and military, and they all know that the prince Zhao Huan is the prince of the country, and he is loyal to others, but who knows that King Kang Zhao Gou? All along, he has been holding back a lot of energy in his heart, to let the world know that he Zhao Gou is by no means an unknown person, and he also has the courage and determination to win the country. And defeating Suzhou is the best way to prove it, you can't let the three Zhao Kai fight Suzhou first, so that the people in the world only know Zhao Kai and don't know King Kang Zhao Gou.

He doesn't want to be a dispensable person, let alone be ignored, perhaps, Chai Keyan and Zhao Kai raised troops for the high throne, but he Zhao Gou is not completely like this, more than he wants the world to prove himself, even if the price is death. I also know in my heart that the throne will not be my turn in the end, unless Zhao Yougong is destroyed, the Qin Wangfu will fall apart, and the prince of Qin will be turned into white bones, unless Zhao Xiang dies, unless the third brother Zhao Kai dies in battle. There are too many conditions, and it is so difficult to meet one, let alone meet all of them? That throne, there is little hope, but he is fully capable of shocking the world, that ninth prince Zhao Gou, is not incompetent.

Zhao Gou was blocked by the small Wu Jiang, and Zhao Kai at this time was also facing the same problem, that is, the Dingguo Army came over. The marching speed of the Dingguo army was unexpectedly fast, and Haozhou had not yet stabilized. Wu Jue led 5,000 troops to attack Hongxian County, Suzhou. The First World War took this inconspicuous small county in Huainan. Usually no one pays attention to this county. In Huainan, this place is not rich, even a little poor, the population is not large, the materials are not abundant, and it is not a strategic place. But when Wu Jue sent troops to seize this place, Zhao Kai and Wu Yong and others discovered that this place was so important. Because from Hongxian County, it is possible to attack Huaiyin directly to the east, and then seize the canal ferry. Straight into the hinterland of Huaiyang, Yangzhou City. Jiangnan is a beautiful armor in the world, three points in Hangzhou, three points in Suzhou, and four points in Yangzhou. Rich Yangzhou, who is not tempted? If the Dingguo army first took Yangzhou City along the canal, it could not only control this rich land, but also quickly organize a defense in the southeast and attack the soldiers and horses of Haozhou on both sides. After attacking Suzhou Mansion, whether you can protect yourself or not is a matter of two things.

Zhao Kai is known as both civil and military. It's by no means fake, Wu Yong is known as a talent in Liangshan, and his advice is not fake. But the two of them all ignored Hongxian and the canal, just because they didn't have a navy, so they took it for granted that the Dingguo Army would not have a navy. But in fact? Zhao Yougong had already ordered Li Bao and Hu Cheng, who were stationed on Shamen Island, and three days ago, the two led 4,000 sailors south along the Grand Canal, and at this time they were about to kill Huaiyin. Four thousand sailors, combined with Wu Jue's soldiers and horses, to take Huaiyin is simply trivial. Sure enough, only half a day after the fall of Hongxian, the news of the fall of Huaiyin came. Huaiyin fell into the hands of the Dingguo Army, and Li Bao and Hu Cheng's troops pointed directly at Yangzhou, which directly disrupted Zhao Kai's original deployment.

Originally, Zhao Kai still wanted to rely on Haozhou and the surrounding soldiers and horses to lead the national army, so that he could lead the army directly into Yangzhou to attack Suzhou Mansion, but now, there is no time to arrange any blocking plan. It is to fight for time, to see who will fight Yangzhou first, and if you want to change the consumption of the Dingguo army without hurrying or slowing, you have to let the Dingguo army be trapped to death. There is only one way in front of Zhao Kai, that is, to quickly defeat Yangzhou and turn around to respond to Tianfu? What are you kidding, is Zhao Yougong's 40,000 army vegetarian, and he hasn't been beaten into a sieve by the cavalry of the Dingguo Army along the way?

Li Bao's army went down the river, its speed was much faster than Zhao Kai's soldiers and horses, and Song Xi, the prefect of Yangzhou, happily welcomed Li Bao's soldiers and horses into the city. Song Xi is not a fool, he can still see the general trend of the world clearly, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has more than 200,000 elite soldiers and horses, and has the support of the vast land in the northwest and the northern Siberia and Mongolian ministries, plus His Royal Highness the Prince Regent is already heroic and extraordinary, and it is a matter of time before he controls the Great Song Dynasty. King Yun and the Chai clan were not the opponents of the Dingguo Army in the end. Song Xi made a choice, and Li Bao naturally would not blame Song Xi for not sending troops to attack Haozhou early at this time. People, they are all selfish, at least Song Xi did not change his flag, and it is already good to surrender Zhao Kai, after all, Zhao Kai is Zhao Ji's own son, and his identity is there.

There are still Hua Rong and Qin Ming's armies in Zhoukou County, and this was originally the beginning of the battlefield, but I didn't expect the largest battle to break out in Yangzhou first. On August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the first day of the month, the day of family reunion, singing and laughing, but there was tension inside and outside Yangzhou, and it was solemn. Meng Lian, the former squire of the military department and the current commander of the horse army of the palace captain's mansion, personally commanded an army of 20,000 and began to threaten Yangzhou City. Li Bao is not a fool, these thousands of sons and daughters under his command are water warriors, and if he goes to the shore to fight the rebels, isn't that self-defeating? In the prefect's yamen, Li Bao sat on the main seat with a golden sword, and he was a Yangzhou civil and military official below, "Song Governor, you also know the current situation, Meng Lian led the troops to come, that is the mad dog who was forced to be anxious, if you can resist it, waiting for the regent's army to come, it will be a great achievement." I also hope that you will spare no effort to fight the enemy together, if you let Li find out which person is two-faced and three-knifed, when the wall grass, don't blame the knife in Li's hand for not recognizing people. ”

After that, the cold light flashed, and there was a bang, and the heavy and quaint table turned into two halves, and the officials of Yangzhou Mansion were all in a daze, good guys, the people who came out of the Dingguo Army were really strong enough, and they were also very unreasonable.

Yangzhou is not better than other places, other places can hold the city, but Yangzhou city waterways extend in all directions, especially at the north and south ends, because the canal is located, there is a water gate outside the city gate, and the water army in Yangzhou city is insufficient. Meng Lian is very smart, he has long studied the defense map of Yangzhou, and he knows the weaknesses of Yangzhou City well, although Li Bao's army has entered Yangzhou, but the water gates on the north and south sides are still the defensive weaknesses of Yangzhou City. The first 10,000 troops, with the small boats requisitioned, stormed the water gate south of Yangzhou. By the evening of August 15, the golden drums outside the city could be heard, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the rain of arrows fell like a curtain, causing great damage to the soldiers defending the city.

Most of the soldiers and horses of Meng Lian's department came from the south of the Yangtze River, so the water was very good, and these people quickly rushed to the water gate under the cover of arrows in small boats. They also did not face the sailors of the Dingguo Army, jumped directly into the canal, and swam to the sluice with a saw blade.

Li Bao ordered the soldiers to also enter the water to block the water army, and for a time many corpses floated in the canal, and the red blood water flowed south along the canal.

In order to take Yangzhou, Meng Lian also gave a death order, and he must take the sluice gate before the time of the day. Doing this, it's not that Meng Lian is loyal, it's just because he knows that he has no way out, if the Dingguo army fights, many people can surrender, even His Royal Highness King Yun can surrender, but he Meng Lian can't. Due to the fact that the people and the bloodline of the same clan may be imprisoned, which is also the result of the royal rebellion in the past, but those cronies of the civil and military ministers who rebelled with the prince of the royal family have no good results, and they directly cut off their heads and connected the nine clans. Meng Lian didn't want to die, so he had to take Yangzhou City. I don't know if I can attack Suzhou Mansion, but as long as there is Yangzhou, there is room for maneuver, Yangzhou is rich and prosperous, and the waterways extend in all directions.

Yangzhou in the evening is shrouded in red, just like the river outside the city, which is heartwarming. One by one, the rebels jumped from the boat into the water, accompanied by the soldiers of the Nationalist Army. There are more and more corpses floating on the water, and there is a tendency to block the river, Li Bao's expression is getting worse and worse, and the pressure on his body is also increasing. As time passed, it was already approaching night, and after three quarters of the hour, it was completely dark, but the rebels did not stop attacking at all, but attacked more and more fiercely. (To be continued......)