The guards gently lifted the curtains of the carriage, and the first rays of sunlight in the morning poured into the carriage, bringing in a cold morning breeze.

Shen Luoyan, who was asleep on the table, woke up suddenly, the cloak on his body fell into the carriage, Shen Luoyan rubbed his red eyes, looked at the female guard and said, "Where are you now?" Is there any news of Jiankang? ”

Starting from Jiangxia overnight, the army had already arrived in Qiupu City in Xuancheng County overnight, and it was only a day's distance from Jiankang. The guards looked at the princess, who had not slept for several days, and had slept for more than an hour only after she was too tired to read the military situation yesterday, her eyes were red and bloodshot, and her whole person was extremely haggard.

"Your Highness, I've arrived in Qiupu, and there is no news of Jiankang City yet."

Shen Luoyan frowned: "I mean, Chen Dang and Sun Shihan, they have no news back?" ”

The guard bowed his head and said: "Now there are many Chen Army spies in various parts of Jiangdong, I heard that they are all agents of the Northern Chen Special Service Division, these people are elusive, and they are specifically looking for our scouts and messengers. Many of our Messengers have been poisoned by those agents these days. The messengers and scouts we sent out are gone, and the news between Jiankang City and the other two vanguard soldiers has been cut off. The situation between Jiankang City and the two pioneers, we don't know anything about it now. ”

Shen Luoyan gently rubbed her temples, only feeling a burst of headaches.

Chen Jun's move was too powerful, so that she suddenly became a blind and deaf person, and she didn't know the battle situation ahead. If she can't figure out the situation ahead, she can't make arrangements for the battle situation, so she can only fight on her own. But the combat effectiveness of the Wu army was too weak, and if there was no numerical superiority, it would simply not be able to confront the Chen army.

Damn, how many people did Chen Jun come? And how can these agents be so powerful, they are actually all over Jiangdong, completely isolating the information between them. Regarding Chen Jun's actions this time, Shen Luoyan felt a little confused.

In fact. She always felt that it was impossible for the Chen army to attack Chen in a big way at this time, and at most she would only send some small troops to harass them. Because at this time, the Chen Dynasty made every effort to deal with the Turks, and the army was transferred to the north, and it was impossible for the Chen army to have the strength to destroy the Wu State in one fell swoop at this time. And if the state of Wu cannot be destroyed directly, then the Chen Dynasty will attack Chen in the south at this time, wouldn't it be to put itself in the realm of fighting on two sides? Such a thing, how could a person like Chen Pojun, who is known as the god of war, not understand?

Irrationality. Everything is always so unreasonable.

As far as he knew, in the entire area south of the Yellow River, all the troops of the Chen Dynasty now only barely add up to about 100,000, and some of them are second-line reserve village soldiers.

But in fact, with such a small number of troops, in Shannan, Lu Shishen and Zhang Zhongjian went south in one fell swoop, seizing the important town of Jiangling and the four counties of Jianghan and Badong County. As soon as the fighting over there stopped, Hu Hai immediately jumped out and attacked Jiangdong and attacked Jiankang.

At this time, Chen Jun not only did not switch to the defensive stage. On the contrary, a large number of troops were dispatched, this situation. It is simply stronger than Chen Jun three years ago.

If something goes wrong, it is a demon, but Shen Luoyan can't understand the reason. She is a person who plans everything and then acts, and before doing anything, she has to take one step and see three steps. will never be impulsive and chaotic, he thinks that Chen Pojun is also such a character, but the current situation makes her not understand.

What is Chen Jun's purpose? Chen Kefu wanted to really seize Jiangdong. Or did he just want to break through Jiankang and rescue his father Chen Shen?

Thinking about it, Shen Luoyan felt. The only reason for rescuing Chen Shen makes sense. But such a large-scale southern attack, and even instigated a north-south war, just to rescue Chen Shen? The opportunities are worse now than they were at any time three years ago. Why did you go south at this time? …,

"It sucks, everything seems to be messed up." Shen Luoyan shook his head, turned his head and said, "Where are the three marshals Du Fuwei?" ”

"The three marshals have already arrived in Jiujiang, and they seem to have suffered a little loss from Chen's army when they retreated, so they were delayed for half a day. I'm rushing to the scene. ”

Shen Luoyan cheered up, thought for a long time and said: "Okay, don't wait for them, pass the order, let's change direction and don't go to quarrying." We went straight to Jiankang and first relieved the siege of Jiankang. Then give orders to the three marshals to speed up, and then divide the troops into three routes, respectively to reinforce quarrying, Jiankang, and Jingkou. The Yangtze River defense line must not be lost, and if the Yangtze River defense line is lost, Jiangdong will really be lost. ”

Shen Luoyan had the heart to recover the quarrying town, but the situation was unclear at this time, and he was not at ease with Jiankang. Although Jiankang can be recaptured if it is lost, Chen Shen and the Chen family in Jiankang City will not be able to find it if they are lost. In the past few years, Chen Kefu has not gone south in a big way, firstly, the Chen Dynasty has the intention to unify the north first and then the south, but it is not that Chen Pojun has some stolen weapons, and when he was worried that he would really tear his face, he forced the Shen family to kill Chen Shen and the Chen family.

If Chen Jun rescued the Chen family this time, he would not even have the last tool to blackmail Chen Kefu.

In the morning breeze, the Jiankang garrison, the Praetorian Guard, and the iron-blooded guards led by Shen Luoyan combined with more than 80,000 men and horses rolling eastward. The 30,000 most elite cavalry of the Iron-Blooded Praetorian Guard escorted the army along the two wings, and when the army passed Qiupu, the Wu army saw a shocked scene.

On the road along the Yangtze River to the east, there were countless people who rushed to the west and fled in a hurry. These people have no end in sight, supporting their families and helping the old and the young. Some people drove the carriage full of large and small boxes, some were panting and resisting all their belongings, some were empty and carried nothing, and the poor old man drove two sheep and staggered; A woman with a child in one hand and a heavy luggage in the other hand trudged the cold snow, falling, the child was crying in her arms, the mother was sobbing, people kept passing by, but no one reached out to help, the deep suffering of the war made people's hearts become selfish and numb, and their eyes were dazed and sluggish.

In these fleeing crowds, there were even many Wu soldiers who were still wearing armor and holding swords.

Shen Luoyan's eyes widened, but he didn't expect that here, at this time, he actually saw the scene like a few years ago when the Central Plains was in turmoil. She stopped the carriage and personally got out of the carriage to ask a lot of people. When the people saw such a large Wu army coming from the west, and saw that it was under the banner of a princess, many people were much more relaxed, and even some aristocratic families and officials stopped fleeing and gathered behind the army.

After inquiry, I learned that most of these fleeing people were people from Jiankang, Xuancheng and Yuhang counties. Now several Chen armies are gathered near Jiankang, especially the fierce wolf soldiers in Lingnan, and the countless headless corpses and human heads in the two battlefields near Yuhang and Jiankang have made the local people all frightened. None of them dared to stay, and they all fled westward. In particular, many people near Jiankang City saw with their own eyes the scene of Chen Jun breaking through the eighteen outer cities of Jiankang in just one night, and the firelight in the sky and the huge explosion made them all remember it deeply.

"Has Jiankang City been breached?"

"It's broken, it's broken, Chen Bing only took one day to break Jiankang City!"

"Chen Bing did the Fa and invited Lei Gongdian to go down to earth and help him split Jiankang."

"Many Lingnan barbarians went north, they saw the city and slaughtered the city, and they saw people robbing people. Jiankang City has been slaughtered by them, and hundreds of people have been piled up on the head mountain! The river is red! ”…,

Most of the people did not see the battle situation in Jiankang in person, but they had already heard countless rumors, and they were all irresponsible to say it at this time. There are even rumors that the wolf soldiers on the edge of Zhejiang annihilated 40,000 Wu troops and Lijingguan on Jiankang, saying that Jiankang has been slaughtered.

"Quarrying and Jingkou have long been taken by Chen Bing, these days there are countless warships on the river every day, sailing the river, every day there are countless Chen soldiers crossing the river and landing on the shore. It's over, Jiangdong is North Chen Bing's. And the irresponsible people shouted.

All kinds of gossip have been circulating, and some people say that Jiankang City was broken and slaughtered by Lingnan barbarians. Some people say that Chen Bing has captured the two major Yangtze River ferries of Quarry and Jingkou, and now countless Chen soldiers are crossing south every day. Others say that Chen's army has captured Yuhang and Huiji, while others say that Wujun and Piling have also been breached. Of course, some people say that Jiankang City has not been broken, and some people say that Chen Bing has returned to Jiangbei from quarrying.

Shen Luoyan convened his subordinate officers to discuss for a long time and analyzed the many rumors he had obtained. In the end, I felt that the quarrying must have fallen, and as for Jingkou, it must still be in the hands of Wu Jun. And Jiankang should still be in the hands of Wu Jun, but the outer city may have been lost. And the number of Chen's army, in addition to the 20,000 barbarian army in Lingnan, should have about 350,000 regular Chen army, which landed from quarrying.

In the end, it was analyzed that there may be about 50,000 to 80,000 Chen troops under Jiankang City at this time, and the four quarrying cities have fallen into the hands of Chen Jun. It is possible that Chen Jun will have more troops crossing the river from Jiangbei to land quarrying in the near future. And Jiankang City may have lost the outer city, which is the most critical time.

Immediately, Shen Luoyan ordered the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Iron and Blood Guards to take a step forward and immediately rush to Jiankang. And she led the 20,000 infantry units of the Praetorian Guard to reinforce them later. He immediately dispatched the Jiankang garrison and other soldiers and horses, totaling 50,000 infantry, to rush to the quarry, recapture the quarry, cut off the passage between the Chen army and Jiangbei, and prevent the Chen army from increasing its troops again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in this battle, Chen Jun caught us off guard and knocked us off the beaten men. Previously, we had recovered Jian'an and cut off the retreat of the Lingnan barbarian army. Now, we need to recapture the quarry, cut off the retreat of the Chen army back to Jiangbei, and prevent the Chen army from continuing to reinforce. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chen's army only has 50,000 to 80,000 horses, while we have more than 300,000 horses. This time, we will completely surround and annihilate these 80,000 Chen troops, and behead them all to avenge this! ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" The 100,000 Wu troops roared in unison, and for a while they were also unparalleled