"Shen Faxing is dead, but the Shen family still has a Shen Luoyan. Shen Luoyan sits in Jiankang and supervises the country, commanding an army of 300,000 and covering dozens of counties. In addition, there are generals such as Du Fuwei, Li Zitong, and Shan Xiongxin under his command, and the strength is still not to be underestimated, and we still can't take it lightly. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji, Xiao Yu, the eldest grandson Shunli and other ministers who hurriedly listened to the announcement of entering the palace also nodded in agreement.

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "But no matter what, Shen Faxing's death at this time is still an irreparable loss for the Shen family. Although Shen Luoyan is indeed stronger than her father in terms of using troops to fight, and she is more capable of fighting, she does not have the skilled political skills of her Shen Faxing, nor does she have the prestige of the clan that responds to all calls. Shen Faxing is dead, Shen Lun is also dead, the Shen family has no parents, no legitimate heirs, and no veteran figures with enough qualifications and prestige to mediate, the military power and power are all scattered in the hands of a few careerists, the brothers are infighting, and there are many clans in Nanchen who are suppressed by them, and the cracks within them will only get bigger and bigger. Now the only one who has the ability to make up for this split and quell this civil strife is Shen Luoyan, and we have to find a way to give this mainstay of the Shen family now-" Speaking of this, Eldest Sun Wuji waved his hand vigorously: "Eradicate it!" ”

In the early morning, the fog had just lifted, and in the east, a red sun was rising, and the light was becoming more and more fiery red, brighter and brighter, and the world frozen by the autumn frost was waking up, and a new day was beginning.

For several days, a group of messengers galloped and rode across the city gates. Even the most ordinary people in Jiankang can see a trace of unusualness from the fast messenger and frequent procession.

"On October 3, the fifth prince Shen Yu led 50,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jiangling City. The prince Shen Lun led his troops to fight with the five princes, and died under the sword soldiers, and His Royal Highness Wu was seriously injured and died. ”

"On October 5, the third son, Shen Wei, and the fourth son, Shen Xi, swore in Jiangxia. Under the banner of the rebel division, and recruit troops. ”

On October 6, Shen Yu deposed Chen Shen, the emperor of Southern Chen, in Jiangling City, changed the name of the country to Wu, established himself as the Son of Heaven, named Chen Guoren, Sun Shihan as the marshal, and moved the capital to Jiangling. Dafeng civil and military soldiers, reward the three armies. ”

"On October 7, Dong Chun led an army of 50,000 to cross Jingmen Mountain, breaking through the three cities of Yidao, Songzi and Zhijiang, and the soldiers and horses approached Jiangling City."

On the night of October 7, the second son, Shen Yi, borrowed 30,000 troops from Lu Shishen, the general of Chen Xiangyang in the north, and secretly marched all the way to the south. Shen Yu, who had just been the emperor for two days, was sleeping soundly in Jiang Ling's palace. In a dream, he was cut off by the Xiangyang soldiers. Jiang Ling originally had 150,000 soldiers and horses, and he was in the midst of civil strife and purges in the previous days. There are more than 120,000 people. But most of them were old and weak women, and there were not many real soldiers. In the dark night, he was slashed and killed by the elite Northern Chen Jingcai, the emperor Shen Yi was beheaded, and the generals Chen Guoren and Sun Shihan led the army to surrender after seeing the emperor's head. With more than 1,000 injuries, Lu Shishen captured Jiangling City, the first important town in Jianghan, and captured more than 100,000 prisoners. Establish the state of Wu for two days. The country is destroyed. ”

In the early morning of October 8, Dong Chun led his troops to the outside of Jiangling City in a wooden cutting warship, but was ambushed by 20,000 Yangtze River sailors in ambush on the river 20 miles west of the city. Iron cable barricade. Battleship Saijiang. Although the old handsome Dong Chun attacked all the way, he was sitting on a miscellaneous fleet at this time, and he couldn't fight with the professional sailor fleet at all. Tens of thousands of troops were ambushed, and from morning to dusk, the corpses of the Dong army's dead soldiers filled the Yangtze River, and countless broken logging boats were burned by the fire, and the flames burned the clouds in the sky. The sailor ambushed, the Xiangyang army in the city came out again, and the 50,000 Dong army was annihilated, and only Dong Chun fled with dozens of horses. The Northern Chen Naval Division took the opportunity to go all the way upstream, effortlessly, and captured the four cities of Zhijiang, Songzi, Yidao, and Yichang in one day. And then invaded Badong County, and controlled the cities of Zigui, Badong, Wushan, Renfu, Yun'an, Nanpu, Wuning, and Linjiang along the Yangtze River, basically controlling the entire territory of Badong County. ”…,

None of the news for several days was good news, and every time he received a message, Shen Luoyan's brows would be furrowed.

Jiang Han's situation was ten times worse than she had imagined, and she never imagined that although her five brothers were stupid, they could be so stupid. At present, there is Dong Chun's army in the west, Xiangyang and Chen Jun in the north are eyeing the border, and the Shen family's Zhitianzhu is falling.

Now it's good, in a blink of an eye, my father died of anger, the eldest was killed by the fifth child, and the fifth child was killed by the second child with foreign enemies, and the second child himself was captured after being used by the Northern Chen Army. Although the remaining three and four are hiding in Jiangxia, they can't become the climate.

In the chaos of the Shen family, not only three were killed, one was captured, and what was more serious was that the four counties of Yiling, Jingling, Nanjun, and Junyang were lost at once. More than ten counties in Jianghan, the strategic towns of Xiangyang and Jiangling are now in the hands of the enemy, and more than 200,000 troops have lost most of them in Sanba, and now the last point has also been captured by the Northern Chen army. And what made Shen Luoyan even more headache was that the idiot-like fifth man died when he died, and he abolished Chen Shen two days before his death and proclaimed himself emperor. Such behavior can be said to have brought many clans in Jiangnan to the opposite side. In the past, although Shen Faxing expelled other clans from the imperial court, he still treated those clans very favorably in other aspects, and on the surface, the clans still supported the Shen family.

In the palace of the princess of Chu State, all the generals and commanders attending the meeting were sad and worried. No one would have thought that things would come to this point, they had always thought that Bei Chen's army had been transferred to the northern front, who would have expected that they would suddenly send troops this time, not only captured Jiang Ling City, which had more than 100,000 people in one fell swoop, but also wiped out Dong Chun's 50,000 army in one battle.

Thinking of this, the generals were even more shocked. At this time, everyone felt that Beichen was not as simple as everyone thought, when everyone thought that Beichen was empty in the south, a Xiangyang suddenly took out 30,000 elite soldiers, not only captured Jiang Ling but also destroyed Dong Chun, and defeated more than 200,000 people before and after. Although there is a lot of water in it, it is enough to make everyone frightened.

Yang Xuan's Sui army fought a big battle with the Han army of Southern Chenjiang, which caused the head of the Shen family to be seriously injured and the Shen family to be in civil strife, but in the end, it allowed Northern Chen to take advantage of it. Beichen not only captured such an important town as Jiangling, but also captured four counties of Jianghan and one Badong county at once. The combat strength of the Northern Chen Army is simply shocking.

Du Fuwei, the marshal of the Huainan Army, said in a deep voice: "Princess, what now?" King Wu is dead, and so is the son. Even the fifth prince who seized the throne died. The court must not be left without an owner, now that the Shen family is in civil strife, and the hundreds of officials and soldiers inside and outside the court are also panicking, how can it be good now? In such a situation, is the princess just watching like this? ”

"Even if the princess wants to, what can she do? Although the princess is wise, she is a daughter after all. As long as there are still men in the Shen family, the position of King Wu will not be touched by the princess no matter what. And now the princess wants to care. However, Jianghan is thousands of miles away, and it is blocked by Jiangxi. It is difficult to solve the fire in the far water, but I am afraid that we have not yet arrived in Jiangxia, but I am afraid that Jiangxia has fallen into the hands of the enemy. Moreover, in case the princess rushes to the aid of Jiangxia and Jiankang is unmanned, who can guarantee that Beichen in Jiangdu will not go south, or who can guarantee that those clans in Jiankang City have no ill intentions? In case we go on the front foot, it is possible that the back foot Jiankang will change the banner. Don't you forget, is this the emperor of Nanchen still Chen Shen? Li Zitong immediately retorted to Du Fuwei.

Shan Xiongxin said: "Jianghan is the guarantee of Jiangdong. If Jianghan is lost, then it will be difficult for me to protect Jiangdong. As far as I know. Although the major clans in Jiangdong are not in the court now, they have a lot of private soldiers in their hands, or thousands, or hundreds. As long as the princess recruits these soldiers, and then sends troops to reinforce Jiang Han and recover Jiang Ling, she can solve the weakness of the insufficient forces. It can also take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. This is a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle! ”…,

"It's too late." Shen Luoyan shook his head: "Once the four counties of Jiangling are lost, Jianghan's army has lost eighty percent, and the remaining soldiers and horses in the hands of my two brothers are only tens of thousands. And neither of them is a soldier. In the face of famous generals like Lu Shishen and Zhang Zhongjian, they are by no means opponents. And they are not the kind of people who dare to fight to the end, as long as the situation is unfavorable, they will run faster than anyone else. What's more, although there are many Jiangdong manors, most of these clans are some wall grass, and it is too late for them to wait and see now, how can they honestly take out the private soldiers who save their lives to us. ”

The generals talked for a while, and the hall was noisy.

"There's no point in talking about that now." Shen Luoyan interrupted the generals' chat: "Since the situation is like this, we don't need to discuss why it is like this now, we only need to discuss one thing, Beichen is approaching step by step, how should our Shen family respond?" ”

"If the name is not right, the word is not good. Princess, at present, the Shen family is in turmoil, and the government and the opposition are also in chaos. Although the princess is the superintendent designated by King Wu, now that King Wu is dead, the fifth prince has abolished the state of Chen, and now the government and the opposition have no leader. In my opinion, the third and fourth sons have nothing to count on, and if they follow them, the government and the opposition will have no morale. On the contrary, Her Royal Highness the princess has always performed well and felt that the people and soldiers are supportive. It's better that His Royal Highness will succeed King Wu, so he commands hundreds of officials and commands all the armies, which is also straightforward. "All the generals are under the command of Shen Luoyan, and at this time, they naturally hope that the top can be promoted again, and they can be promoted to the top by the way.

Du Fuwei's eyes lit up when he heard Li Zitong's suggestion, but he was unwilling to agree with the words of his old opponent, his eyes rolled, he slapped the table and shouted: "What King Wu will succeed to the throne?" Where is there any King Wu now? Shen Yu's son has abolished Chen Jianwu, although the fifth prince is dead, but the prince established by the fifth prince is still there. Now the prince is in Jiankang, but it is only a three-year-old child who is too young, I think that we can support the prince to succeed the Son of Heaven, and then take the princess as the regent, supervising the country and auxiliary government, until the Son of Heaven becomes an adult in the future. ”

There was a sudden silence in the hall, and everyone turned to look at Duvoway, shocked by his proposal.

Shen Luoyan was also shocked, but there was a contemplation in his eyes, as if he had gained something.

After a long silence, Shan Xiongxin first broke the silence, he slapped the old case heavily, and shouted: "Okay, Shan Xiongxin, the marshal of the Zhennan Army, supports Her Royal Highness the princess as the regent with 100,000 brothers from the Zhennan Army, and the ministers meet His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”

The generals also reacted at this time, knelt down in unison, and congratulated: "The ministers meet the regent, the regent Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

Shen Luoyan smiled, bowed his head slightly, supported his jade hand forward, and said in a clear voice: "Zhuqing is flat!" ”