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Sizhou, Linhuai.

Late at night, the Linhuai Wharf of the Bianshui Canal, about 300 Bianchuan ships slowly arrived at the Linhuai Wharf in the dark night, these Bianchuan boats that specialize in the transportation of the South Canal are from the north to the south at this time, each cabin is covered with black cloth, and it is impossible to see what kind of goods are loaded inside, but each ship has a very deep draft, reaching the maximum load.

The silent dock is brightly lit tonight, and the soldiers and horses in Linhuai City are already patrolling and guarding the distance, and no one is allowed to approach.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The fleet had not yet docked, and a light boat had already approached the pier first, and several people jumped out of it and rushed directly to the pier.

Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the left army and the commander of the Huaisi camp, stood like a mountain in an iron armor cloak, and when he heard this, he hurriedly led a group of generals behind him to move towards the dock, while asking, "Which general is coming?" ”

The Huaisi Xingying led by Zeng Yuanyu went smoothly in the capture of the four prefectures of Mi, Yi, Hai, and Si.

He didn't think in advance that Daxingtai actually planned to swallow the probation army, so when Li Jing ordered to attack Xuzhou, it was really unexpected by the Huaisi camp. waited for this side to start moving, but unexpectedly, the Huai army made the first move, attacked quickly, and took Haozhou in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Shi Pu in Xuzhou City also had an ambiguous attitude, and under the coercion of the Qin army and the Huai army, he actually wavered.

For Zeng Yuanyu, attacking Xuzhou was no longer the first priority, but the top priority was to prevent the Huai army from moving north to cross the Huai River.

A series of urgent reports to the Songzhou Daxingtai. Li Jing quickly replied. Since Shi Pu has no intention of surrendering. Then Xuzhou can postpone the attack and stop the Huai army south of the Huai River first, so as not to attack Xuzhou, and the Huai Si Xing camp, which does not have many troops, will be attacked by the back of the Huai army. At the same time, Li Jing also explained in the letter that he would immediately transfer troops to the south.

The one who arrived today was the first unit, disguised as a merchant ship, and came directly through Xuzhou. But let's be honest. Shi Pu of Xuzhou may not know that the fleet of Lu Dao may be the Qin army's southward reinforcements, but even if he knows Lu Dao, with only 10,000 people in his hands, he can only retreat into the city of Xuzhou, and dare not act rashly.

There are 300 boats, these are all grain ships, and these boats that run the canal are actually more carrying capacity than sea ships, and there are no big winds and waves on the inland river, so the carrying capacity is very large, and even more than 10,000 stones. This time, Li Jing also concentrated the ships collected in Songzhou, Caozhou, Huazhou and other places. Three hundred ships were gathered to transport troops south. Zeng Yuanyu estimated that three hundred boats. At the very least, tens of thousands of reinforcements can be transported.

"General Hui, it was King Qin who personally led his troops here."

Hearing that Li Jing was there in person, Zeng Yuanyu was stunned in his heart, and his feet hurriedly sped up a little.

The fleet has begun to dock, and the first to disembark is the secret service guards led by Tie Qiang, the king of iron eggs, who quickly disembarked, and after a quick inspection on the dock, they were on guard, except for Zeng Yuanyu and other officers, they did not let anyone else approach.

After the Secret Service had done all this work, Wang Tieqiang sent a few signals to the ships on the dock, and the signals flashed on the five identical ships, and the attendant Zhao Jiang on one of the ships entered the cabin to report to Li Jing: "The dock is safe, please disembark from the ship." ”

Although Li Jing didn't like the current set of security measures, he also knew that the current situation was not as good as before, and he sat in the cabin and waited for them to get ready before getting up.

As soon as he got off the boat, Zeng Yuanyu immediately led twenty or thirty officers to catch up to greet him.

"It is a dereliction of duty to fail to take Xuzhou, and I ask the king to punish him." Zeng Yuanyu immediately pleaded guilty as soon as he came up. He originally joined the Qin army halfway, and he did not have a long time in the Qin army, but he was extremely relied on by Li Jing, and in a few years, he had become the rear military governor of the five armies. Although it is said that when he was in the imperial court, he was already a high-ranking servant of the left scattered cavalry, but it was just an idle position. Although when he joined the Qin army, he still brought 5,000 Shence Army guards, but his current status in the army is still far beyond the status of Li Jing's henchmen such as Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Juyi, etc., and he is also too cold and cautious.

This time, although his Huaisi Xingying took four states in a row, he failed to take Xu and Hao as required by Daxingtai, and he was still very worried in his heart.

Li Jing patted the shoulder of this brave general very kindly, although he was not from a descendant's background, his strength in leading troops could be ranked in the top ten of Li Jing's subordinates, otherwise, Li Jing would not have relied on him so much.

"General Yuanfeng is bad, this time General Yuanfeng only used a partial division to connect the four states of Mihai and Yisi, which can be described as a high level of hard work. As for Xu Hao's matter, it was originally not well thought out by Daxingtai. Li Jingha laughed.

Zeng Yuanyu felt much more relaxed when he heard this, and with Li Jing's attitude, his heart became more and more excited. Although this young lord is a bit excessive, he is really admirable in terms of employing people and things, and just relying on Li Jingken's trust in him and delegating power is enough to make him die for it.

"How many soldiers and horses did the king bring with him?" Zeng Yuanyu asked softly.

Li Jing smiled lightly and looked back at the troops who were constantly boarding the dock to gather, "Twenty thousand elite cavalry!" ”

As soon as he heard this number, Zeng Yuanyu was shocked, and then overjoyed. With 20,000 elite horsemen, the Huai army is not afraid, and Xuzhou will definitely be able to go down.

"Where is Huai Jun now?"

Returning to Linhuai City, Li Jing did not rest, and immediately summoned the generals who went south to discuss with the generals of the Huaisi camp.

A man in black standing on the side immediately replied: "Our military intelligence bureau has investigated, and there are currently two Huai troops on the south bank. One of them is the Gao Jie Department that has just captured Haozhou, and its troops have just captured Haozhou, and the soldiers and horses are stationed in the important towns of Huaixi, Haozhou Zhongli and Shouzhou Shouchun, and its troop deployment is very obvious, and it wants to enter Yingzhou and Maozhou from Yingkou and Vortex along Yingshui and Vortex. ”

And the Huai army currently opposite Linhuai is not Gao Jie's department, but Gao Yu's other nephew, Gao Yu, Forty Lang, under which there are generals Lei Man, Feng Shou, and Chen Qi. At present, the department is stationed in Xuyi, an important town in Huaidong, and the second town of Shanyang, and its situation is directed at Sikou, intending to cross the Huai River and go straight to Sixu along Sikou. ”

Li Jing groaned: "Is there any news from Hu Shuzhou?" ”

The man in black is the fifth in Langzhong of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Supervision Department, born in the special operations battalion, and took over some of the positions of Li Wei in the past. At the moment, he is in charge of the entire Military Intelligence Agency. Responsible for military intelligence.

According to the message. The First Fleet of the Lingbo Army on Hu Tuozhou. The Ninth Army and the Eighteenth Army of the Township Soldiers have been completely annihilated. Wu Qian, Lin Song, and Deng Huan did not survive the news. Before the Jianghai Town garrison was destroyed, it inflicted great casualties on the Liang Zhangbu of the Huai army, killing three times the enemy with 11,000 troops. It's a pity that the Huai army started suddenly, and our army was not in a hurry to rescue for a while. ”

Hearing this news, which confirmed the annihilation of Hu Zhuzhou's defenders, Li Jing's face was very ugly. This is the first time that the Qin army has been completely wiped out by a force, even if it is a township army. But there were no two armies at once, which also made Li Jing clench his fists angrily. I still underestimated Gao Biao before, thinking that Gao Biao would not do it at this time.

The fifth Shu also lowered his head, Gao Biao shot this time, and the Military Intelligence Bureau also received a little bit of wind in advance, but it was not vigilant and did not pay attention to it, which led to the destruction of the Hu Tuzhou garrison and the loss of Haozhou, it can be said that the Military Intelligence Bureau bears great responsibility. Previously, the fifth concubine had already asked for resignation and guilt. However, in the end, Li Jing punished the main official rank of the Military Intelligence Bureau with a downgrade and severely punished. However, the fifth and other members of the most Lu are still retained.

Zeng Yuanyu asked with some doubts: "Gao Yu asked Gao Yu to also go north, so what about the number of soldiers and horses led by Gao Jie and Gao Yu?" ”

The fifth Shu said with some uncertainty: "According to the information we have obtained, Gao Jie has 20,000 soldiers in Shouchun, Zhongli has 30,000 soldiers, Gao Yu Xuyi has 20,000 soldiers, and Shanyang has 30,000 soldiers. ”

Li Jing glared at the fifth Shu coldly, "Are you trying to tell me that Gao Yu just sent 50,000 soldiers and horses to fight Hu Tuzhou, and sent 50,000 soldiers to fight Haozhou, and now he has gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou?" ”

If according to what the fifth Shu said, then Gao Yu mobilized 150,000 soldiers and horses at this time, Huainan territory is so large, there must be left-behind troops in other places, especially Yangzhou must have a heavy army. In this way, isn't there two or three hundred thousand people in Gao Yu?

But according to Li Jing's knowledge, a year ago, Gao Yu had only 60,000 people in his hands, and almost 20,000 were eaten by Huang Chao. And in the past year, Gao Biao has not recruited troops on a large scale, how can the Huai army expand to two or three hundred thousand people at once?

There is no need to analyze, Li Jing also understands the dereliction of duty of the fifth concubine, and their information is not accurate at all. This time, Li Jing really already had the idea of adjusting the position of Langzhong of the Fifth Military Intelligence Bureau.

"There are absolutely no two or three hundred thousand people in the Huai army, according to my estimates, the number of soldiers in the Huai army is about forty thousand, even if he recruits a large number of auxiliary troops, the number of the entire Huai army is only more than 150,000. We killed and wounded 30,000 Huai troops with 10,000 township soldiers and 1,000 sailors on Hu Tuzhou, and this was after Gao Yu's general Liang Zhang. It can be seen from this that the 50,000 Huai army under Liang Zhang's command may only have about 10,000 real soldiers, plus more than 10,000 recruits who have not been trained for a long time, and then the remaining 30,000 are newly recruited auxiliary soldiers. ”

Li Jing analyzed lightly: "According to this calculation, Gao Jie's 50,000 soldiers are almost the same, maybe better than Liang Zhang, but not much better." As for the new arrival Gao Yu, I don't think he has more elite soldiers on his hands. ”

"The king's meaning, we are facing a group of paper tigers?" Zeng Yuanyu said.

"Pretty much." Although this is just his speculation, sometimes, seeing is not believing, and speculation is not unreasonable.

Zeng Yuanyu lowered his head and pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said with some surprise: "What the king means, could it be that the Huai army has secretly come to a plan to transfer the bag, and Gao Jie's department in Huaixi has become a suspicious soldier, and the real main force of the Huai army has been transferred to Gao Yu's hands?" ”

Li Jing nodded, it is very likely that this is the case.

Gao Biao made a move, obviously to fight for Xu Si, but the current situation outside was that after Gao Jie had just captured Haozhou, he stationed his troops and horses in Shouchun and Zhongli, pointing directly at the vortex and Yingkou, and made a posture of attacking Maozhou and Yingzhou.

But in Li Jing's opinion, these are just illusions, because Yinghao Erzhou is now occupied by Huangchao, even if Gao Yu is crazy, it is impossible to provoke Li Jing on the one hand, and fight Huangchao on the other hand, and start a war on both sides, which is not a wise move.

What's more important is that if Gao Biao wants to go north, Xu Si is the place to fight. It is impossible for a generation of famous generals of Gao Biao not to know this.

So to sum all this, Gao Yu's true intention is about to come out. Gao Biao made a plan and sent Gao Yu to the north, but in fact, Gao Jie's soldiers and the soldiers brought by Gao Yu were exchanged, and Gao Jie in Huaixi must have been just a suspicious soldier all the way, and it is estimated that all the soldiers in his hands are auxiliary soldiers. On the surface, Gao Yu is just a group of auxiliary soldiers, but now he is an elite army in his hands, he is stationed in Huaidong, which seems to be inconspicuous, but it is a real attack power, and Gao Yu's real target is still Xuzhou, Sizhou.

It's just that looking at the current situation, Gao Biao does not plan to attack Xuzhou directly, but plans to attack Sizhou first.

"Fifth Langzhong, this king gives the Military Intelligence Bureau another chance, you immediately go to investigate and verify the speculation just now, and investigate the truth of the Huai Army. If you make a mistake again this time, you don't need to order this king, you can do it yourself. For the first time, Li Jing shouted to the fifth in a stern tone.

The fifth lady sweated on his forehead, his face was purple, and he felt extremely ashamed, gritted his teeth and nodded, and bent down to withdraw.

But after a while, the fifth concubine hurriedly walked into the hall again.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he looked hurried, Li Jing asked.

"Report to the king, the military intelligence bureau has just received an urgent report from the secret agent in western Zhejiang, and Zhou Bao suddenly sent troops to attack Hu Zhuozhou on Liang Zhang's department, Liang Zhang was caught off guard, defeated, the whole army was annihilated, and only a few troops fled from the island. At present, the town navy has occupied Hu Tuozhou! ”

Unexpectedly, Li Jing didn't expect that Gao Yu did it, and Zhou Bao actually did it this week. Hearing that Zhou Bao blatantly sent troops, he suddenly attacked Liang Zhang and took Hu Douzhou, Li Jing, who had never had a good face, couldn't help but upturn the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly. (To be continued......)