The moonlight is good, Zilang Mountain is shrouded in the night mist, like a bathing clothes, Qin Zitan and Cheng Yiqun, the leader of the Taihu Lake pirates, take advantage of the night to dress up as ordinary pilgrims to take a fishing boat to Zilang Mountain, and under the guidance of the monks, climb to the top of Zilang Mountain.

Pushing the door was about to enter the mountaintop Zen Temple, he heard a person in the middle of the room say: "If Gu Wuchen can be assassinated in Chongzhou, Jiangdong County will be forced by the Chu Party to move the troops of the Western Front eastward......"

Qin Zitan pushed the door in, I am afraid that no one would have imagined that the Hou Shizi of Jin'an was wearing a green shirt, and he was standing on a mountain rock in the Zen courtyard with a good demeanor and looking into the distance.

Qin Zitan followed his line of sight and looked over, the outline of Xisha Island was clearly floating in the sparkling river, and he could even see the shadows of busy people under the reflection of the campfire.

"Grand Prince, Master Cihai......" Qin Zitan saluted to the Luxury Flying Bear and the middle-aged monk beside the Luxury Flying Bear.

The middle-aged monk standing beside the extravagant flying bear has no beard under his chin, a red round face, and an unusually strong figure, he is the abbot of Guangjiao Temple, Cihai, looking at his nose, nose and heart, and solemn appearance, it is hard to imagine that he was talking about the assassination of Gu Wuchen just now.

"Zitan and Cheng Dangjia are here, are you still working hard along the way?" Extravagant Fei Xiong wore a Confucian shirt, which lacked a lot of killing spirit when commanding troops in battle, but also gentle and elegant.

"How can the eldest prince take the risk of coming to Chongzhou?" Qin Zitan didn't know that the eldest prince was in the temple beforehand, so he asked.

"Gu Wuchen suddenly inspected the place to Chongzhou, but he didn't come, how to observe the situation in Chongzhou?" Extravagant Fei Xiong said nonchalantly.

"Master Cihai suggested assassinating Gu Wuchen in Chongzhou?" Qin Zitan asked, and then said: "It's good to be able to assassinate Gu Wuchen, but this matter is not easy, and it should not be taken lightly." ”

Qin Zitan knew that Gu Wuchen would most likely land on Xisha Island, but the strength of the Ninghai Town Water Division of the Israeli Army's Shanshui Village, plus Gu Wuchen's accompanying guards, and Lin Lian's Jiyun Weiyong and township private soldiers on Xisha Island, there were almost 1,500 or 600 people.

Qin Zitan also just learned that the eldest prince sent elites to lurk into Chongzhou today to attack and kill the Chongzhou gentry, if he had known earlier, he would definitely dissuade him, with Lin Tie present, where could he easily succeed? The facts also proved that it did not play a big role, and only lost more than a dozen good hands in vain.

"It's just a casual remark, it's really not easy," Yu Feixiong said, assassinating Gu Wuchen in Chongzhou is to further disrupt the military deployment of Jiangdong County at the smallest cost, if the price is too great, the wise man will naturally not do it, and said with a smile, "Gu Wuchen is newly appointed as an envoy to the inspectorate, and he has the right to supervise the army, I think the generals of Ninghai Town will probably have to avoid his edge......"

Qin Zitan saw that the eldest prince retreated, so he no longer dwelled on this matter, he frowned, thinking that the strategy of attacking the east and the west may not work, and said: "Gu Wuchen suddenly came to Chongzhou to inspect this time, I am afraid that he will vigorously promote the local organization to train the village brave, after the Chongzhou trip, he should cross the river to Pingjiang." Chen Xiyan rushed back to Jiyang for him, and the first stop after he crossed the river should be to Jiyang, which could just ridicule Chen Xiyan. The eldest prince does not aim at Gu Wuchen, and he can indeed use Gu Wuchen's trip to succeed. ”

"Xiao Tao is far away from Jiyang, and we really can't help him," Fei Xiong said with a smile, "I don't think he will want to give the newly appointed Inspector a head drink." It seems that we have to step up our withdrawal from Taihu Lake, and we can leave some stragglers......"

"It's okay to eat a few defeats," Qin Zitan said with a smile, and then he was silent and didn't say anything, the eldest prince has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and it can't be regarded as a good thing for the second son, and said: "In addition to Ninghai Town's camp in Jiyang, Xisha Island is also a big nail, if there is a chance, the eldest prince is still a good ...... to pull out in time."

"Zitan is still worried about Lin Tie this son?" Extravagant Feixiong's eyes turned to the south, across the bank is Guanyin Beach, and he can see the outer walls of the two enclosed buildings of Guanyin Beach, and said, "The will to resist on Xisha Island, Zitan, you have also tried, at this time, the cost of attacking is too great, Lin Jian will not be able to stay on Xisha Island all the time, and the local vigilance and rejection of the displaced people will not be eliminated." It's a nail at this time, and over time, this nail isn't as much of a headache as you're worried about......"

Qin Zitan still didn't take the threat of Xisha Island's blockade of the Yangtze River Estuary in his eyes when he heard the meaning of the eldest prince, and he couldn't persuade anything.

Last time, Qin Zitan took advantage of Lin Tie's detour to the sea, and Cheng Yiqun led more than 1,000 elites of the luxury family and lake pirates to attack Xisha Island, wanting to pull out this nail, and when he was about to succeed, the reinforcements transferred from Jiangning Yuan to Lin Tie attacked from behind from behind, and the success fell short, and the loss was not small.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Zitan is worried that if the time drags on, the nail on Xisha Island will be more difficult to remove, and their access to the Yangtze River will be severely restricted in the future.

Although there are more than 400 elite people led by Lin Lianqin, and there are more than 300 people in the newly formed township camp of the displaced people on Xisha Island, and the combat power should not be underestimated, but the thirteen Donghai Kou have not encountered an opponent in Taihu Lake for more than a month, and their morale is flourishing, and the prestige of the eldest prince incarnated as the East China Sea Harrier Yuan Tingdong has also reached its peak, leading the group of Kou from Jiyang Lake into the Yangtze River, taking advantage of the situation to storm Xisha Island, breaking the military landscape village and then breaking Chongzhou, even if it has to pay a large price, it is worth it.

Qin Zitan looked up and saw the eldest prince's eyebrows slightly raised, knowing that this was his attitude of having made up his mind and not allowing others to persuade him, he sighed slightly in his heart, knowing that talking too much would make everyone unhappy, he pondered for a moment and said, "This is the case, I will go back to Jiangning." ”

"It's okay," Fei Feixiong nodded, and said to Cheng Yiqun behind Qin Zitan, "After this destruction of the provinces along the Taihu Lake, Jiangdong County is first and foremost to prevent the sea, and the pressure on the inner line of Taihu Lake will not be great, and it is impossible for Ninghai Town to take measures to clean up Taihu Lake in the short term, if Cheng Dangjia feels that the pressure is still great, there is a place for you in the Shengsi Islands......"

Qin Zitan shrugged his brows, dissatisfied with the eldest prince's wooing of Cheng Yiqun, and did not say anything; It's not his turn to interject in this kind of thing.

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Gu Wuchen is not very senior in his career, and he wasted a lot of time in exile for several years. Thanks to the Chu Party's return to the imperial capital, it took Gu Wuchen less than three years to rise to the rank of Zhengsanpin.

Gu Wuchen still wants to have further development in his career in the short term, and even sits in the phase that everyone in the world looks up to.

It is an eventful autumn, and the state affairs are difficult, and it is also the time when the military generals of Wenchen have made meritorious contributions to the knighthood and left their names in history, and Gu Wuchen is also ambitious. When the Donghai Kou had not completely withdrawn from the Taihu Lake Basin, he took more than 400 guards to inspect the place, which naturally made Wang Tian have more vigor and enterprising ambition than Xuanfu, who was cowering in Jiangning.

Gu Wuchen really wanted to promote the coastal prefectures and counties to train the township to prepare for trouble, in addition to this is a feasible strategy at the moment, it is also a very important reason for the inspection department to have the responsibility of supervising the local military equipment.

Li Zhuo initially led the horse infantry and townships of Jiangxi Zhufu County to march into Eastern Fujian to fight as an envoy from Jiangxi, and then controlled the military and political power of Eastern Fujian. With such a clear lesson from the past, it is impossible for Gu Wuchen not to see it.

On the 24th, 25th, and 26th, for three consecutive days, Gu Wuchen, the inspector, ignored the situation that the countryside of Chongzhou County might disturb the Donghai Kou landing at any time, and inspected the township camps in Dongshe, Matang, Gaocheng, Yuxi, and other places.

Chongzhou county is not long, originally belonged to the Huainan salt field, millions of acres of tidal flats in the east of the county are still the salt field and grassland of the Huainan Salt and Iron Division, there is no noble clan in the territory, but there are not a few people who smuggle salt to make a fortune, and then buy land and build a house to become a big family, and there are not a few people who privately raise village soldiers.

If the number of troops in Chongzhou County is calculated, there are almost four or five thousand people, which is by no means a small number.

With so many troops, they were the privately raised township warriors, county pawns, Ding pawns of the Salt and Iron Division, and the garrison of Ninghai Town in Chongzhou. Although there are many troops, they do not belong to each other, sometimes there is friction between each other, and even fighting each other, the level of training is different, and the general situation is relatively low.

Under such circumstances, even if four or five hundred pirates landed, it would be difficult for Chongzhou County to establish an effective defense.

In the past few days, Lin Jian and Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou County, accompanied Gu Wuchen to inspect everywhere, and they were also very worried when they saw the flawed defense system of Chongzhou County.

The problem of piracy will become more and more serious, in addition to the coastal villages to strengthen their precautions, in addition to the invasion of the pirates at the mouth of the river to set up a beacon tower, the county also needs to train a elite soldier. Although he had a gap with Chen Kun, he didn't want to see Chongzhou slaughter Donghai Kou, and the newly transferred county lieutenant Hong Changji was still a brave person.

Pirates are in trouble, Chongzhou has become a top priority, and the county department and the imperial court will no longer set up obstacles, but the money and salary need to be raised by the local government.

Gu Wuchen discussed with the local officials of Hailing Mansion and Chongzhou County, the local gentry donated a part, the prefecture and county raised a part, and the county department allocated a part.

Among the coastal provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, Pingjiang Prefecture belongs to Jiangdong County, and Jiahang Prefecture (now Jiaxing, Hangzhou) and Mingzhou Prefecture and other prefectures and counties in the south belong to Zhejiang. After inspecting the defense of Chongzhou County, on the 28th, Lin Jian accompanied Gu Wuchen to cross the river to Pingjiang Mansion to inspect the local military garrison, and the first stop was Jiyang County.

After the Qu family bandit case, Chen Xiyan pleaded for guilt, and then resigned from the lectures of the Xixi Institute and returned to Jiyang Lake to live in seclusion. Although Chen Xiyan's prestige has plummeted, his prestige among the official gentry of Jiyang Lake is still high.

Lin Jian accompanied Gu Wuchen to land from Yushan on the other side of Xisha Island, and went to Jiyang by land. When he arrived at the Changting on the outskirts of Jiyang County, there were only a dozen Jiyang officials and gentry who greeted him, and in addition to the officials in the county, the local squires almost did not come forward to greet Gu Wuchen.

"What about the generals of the water division, why didn't anyone come over?" Lin Jian looked at the team that greeted Jiyang County without the generals of the Ninghai Town Water Division, and was very puzzled, he couldn't care about the violations, and asked Meng Xinshi of Jiyang Zhi County, who came out of the city to greet him.

The main camp of the water marshal of Ninghai Town is on the north shore of Jiyang Lake in the north of Jiyang City, controlling the Donglai River waterway where the Yangtze River flows into Taihu Lake. According to the Inspectorate has the authority to supervise the town army, even if Gu Wuchen goes to the Ninghai Town Defense Area, the generals of Ninghai Town do not need to go as far as Chongzhou to see him, but Gu Wuchen has gone to the main camp area of the Ninghai Town Water Division, and the generals of the Ninghai Town Water Division have avoided it, so they are too ignorant of promotion.

Although Meng Xinshi was tired of Lin Tie not understanding the rules, Lin Tie was also a Zhengbapin recruiter and a confidant of Gu Wuchen, and he also saw that Gu Wuchen was a shunned general of the water handsome, and his face was displeased, and he hurriedly explained: "General Xiao Taoyuan is not avoiding Lord Gu, in fact, there is another news of bandits coming from Jiyangnan, and General Xiao and the generals have led the naval warships to fight......"

"When?" Lin Jian asked tightly.

"Even today, it's only been half a day since I received the report from the water master!" Meng Xinshi said.

"It's not good," Lin Lian scolded Xiao Taoyuan in his heart, this stupid man, who had been a shrinking turtle for so long, actually tricked the extravagant flying bear at the last moment and poured out of the nest, and hurriedly explained to Gu Wuchen, "General Xiao probably thought that the remnants of the East China Sea Kou who could not stay were the remnants of the East China Sea Kou, and the truth could never be so!" ”

Gu Wuchen also instantly understood why it was not good.

In the past two months, the East China Sea has ravaged the shores of Taihu Lake, and Xiao Taoyuan and the generals of the Zhushui Division have passively avoided the war, and today they are actively fighting, mostly because of the pressure on him to go to Jiyang County as the new envoy; Although Gu Wuchen couldn't transfer Xiao Taoyuan from the position of commander of the Sixth Battalion Naval Division in Ninghai Town, he did have the intention of reprimanding Xiao Taoyuan in person to avoid the battle.

In the past ten days, the Donghai Kou have been withdrawn from the Taihu Lake basin one after another, and there are not many Donghai Kou stranded in Taihu Lake, and they seem to be some stragglers.

Xiao Taoyuan went to war at this time because he wanted to take advantage of these stragglers, not only to avoid Gu Wuchen, but also to make up for his previous responsibility of passively avoiding war.

Gu Wuchen has long been sure that there is a luxury family behind the Donghai Kou, how can the Donghai Kou who is stranded in Taihu Lake at this time be the remnants?

Gu Wuchen hurriedly took off the tooth card on his waist, handed it to Yang Pu, and said: "You take my tooth card over, catch up with Xiao Taoyuan, and ask him to be careful for the ......."

"Let's go over with me, I'm more familiar with the situation in Jiyang." Lin Tie took the initiative to ask Yingdao, he couldn't wait for Xiao Tao to die early, but the sailor warship under Xiao Taoyuan's command was the biggest reliance of the coastal provinces at this time.