The night was very bleak, as the last night of the battle of Lindu River, Han Jian's heart was still a little fluctuating, he wanted to calm this fluctuation in his heart by writing, but this was in vain, because when the dawn came, it would probably involve a key battle for the unification of the world.

Han Jian didn't think about being a young and promising monarch, what he used to do was just a peaceful and self-serving king of the East, but the time could not help it, and after he ascended the throne, the situation was pressing, and Han Jian also had the last chance to dominate the world, if he couldn't grasp this opportunity, the land of China would still have to experience a long confrontation between the north and the south.

After late at night, Mrs. Luo was temporarily invited to rest in the courtyard, and while Han Jian was on the expedition, Mrs. Luo would also take her mission to Xiliang. This can be regarded as Han Jian's reward for meritorious officials, Mrs. Luo was used by him at the beginning, and was coerced by him, but now Mrs. Luo is alone, if she doesn't even give her the power she wants most, Han Jian will feel a little cruel. Before parting, Han Jian will still see her again, maybe after this side, there will be no day to see each other in eternity.

Fa Yi has always been by Han Jian's side, and when Han Jian was writing, Fa Yi, who could only hold a sword, could also be a slim girl with red sleeves and fragrance gentlely, until Han Jian felt a little tired, so he asked Fa Yi to accompany him out for a walk.

"Today, the soldiers in the city will definitely not be able to sleep at night, so you might as well go with me to the city defense to stabilize the morale of the army." Han Jian was very gentle when he spoke to Fa Yi, and when he set out on the expedition the next day, Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er would follow him as his personal guards. But in the midst of the chaos, once there is a rout, even if there is protection from two women with high martial arts, Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er, Han Jian still can't escape.

At most, it's just a comfort, a feeling of life and death. Han Jianjian's other women don't know martial arts, and they pin their hopes on Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er. I hope that the two daughters can protect Han Jian instead of them.

When Han Jian walked out of Yangzhou Taishou Mansion, the soldiers and horses in the city were still frequently mobilized, and the soldiers and horses everywhere, after receiving the order, had begun to go out of the city one after another, and launched an attack at dawn from the former army. When the rear army crossed the river after noon, and even left 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard Yangzhou to stabilize the rear, the next day's plan for sending troops was very complete, and Han Jian did not need to worry about the transfer of troops and horses.

Soon, the guards led Han Jian's horse over, and along with the horse came Ke Qu'er, who looked heroic in military uniform.

Ke Qu'er was rarely willing to change into a military uniform, because she never thought she was a sergeant in the Northern Dynasty, she was just Han Jian's woman, and the simple purpose of coming out this time was to follow Han Jian. She doesn't care about who wins or loses this war, she just needs Han Jian and Fa to be safe.

"It's so late, if you're tired, just go back and rest." Han Jian said to Ke Qu'er with a calm face.

"You go out, I sleep, can I sleep?" Ke Qu'er showed a slight annoyance between her eyebrows, she hated Han Jian for not even calling her out. She also thought that Han Jian was going to lead the troops south and not come back until dawn. And let her stay alone in Yangzhou Taishou Mansion.

Han Jian sighed lightly and said, "Inspect military affairs, daily trivial matters." I don't need you to accompany me in everything. ”

That being said, but since Ke Qu'er is here, Han Jian still likes two Valkyrie-like women, one left and one right to accompany him.

On horseback, there are guards in front to open the way, and soldiers and horses behind them. Wherever Han Jian went, he would personally dismount and inspect, and he would not disturb the soldiers who were resting in the army, because there would be a tough battle the next day, and it would be bad to disturb the rest of the soldiers. But in the face of those soldiers who were on vigil. Han Jian will still personally come forward to offer condolences and sort out their military appearance.

Han Jian has been from Yangzhou Taishou Mansion, walked several military camps in the city, until he climbed to the gate tower of Yangzhou South City, looking into the distance, the night was confused, and the sky was getting colder and colder after late autumn, Han Jian could feel a solemn atmosphere when he stood on the city wall. There are still soldiers and horses outside the city, this is the last tranquility before the war, until dawn, the mighty soldiers and horses will cross the river and break the cities around Jinling City one by one.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the south of the town."

When Han Jian was about to return, a guard suddenly sent Su Tingxia's secret letter.

Han Jian opened it, and immediately a guard came over with a torch to illuminate it, Han Jian read the above content, and knew that Su Tingxia had occupied a place in Zhennan in just two days, Zhennan was lost, and the entire Jiangjiang land was within the field of vision of Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses. Han Jian calculated the time, if Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses advanced eastward at this time, they could meet up with the main force of his Chinese army within four days.

But this is not what Han Jian imagined before, Su Tingxia seems to be a little too anxious, at the moment Su Tingxia is advancing too fast, but it is easy to drive the remnants of the Southern Dynasty to the south, the soldiers and horses of the Chu army and Jiang Zuo are all ownerless soldiers and horses at the moment, if these soldiers and horses go south, they will be gradually accepted by Sima Yu, which is equivalent to gradually increasing the power of the empress of the Southern Dynasty.

Su Tingxia still came to a "cut first and then play", went south to Zhennan, did not continue to fight steadily, but directly took advantage of the fact that Yangzhou soldiers and horses had not yet crossed the river, and personally led the cavalry to move closer to Jinling, which would disrupt the plan arranged by Han Jian before.

"Go back to the Taishou Mansion." Han Jian did not immediately order to block Su Tingxia's eastward advance, but returned to Yangzhou Taishou Mansion to urgently convene a military meeting.

There are only two explanations for Su Tingxia's rapid eastward expansion, either Su Tingxia is eager to make a contribution, or Su Tingxia has a conspiracy behind him, no matter what, this is a manifestation of Su Tingxia's ambition.

In the military system of the Northern Dynasties, Su Tingxia is a very special existence, Zhang Xing and Lin Zhan were the generalissimos of Jiangdu soldiers and horses, one was born as a headhunter and the other was born as a captain of the guard, and his skills are very good, and he has the temperament of a leader who leads the troops to charge ahead. But Su Tingxia was only a weak scholar from beginning to end, known for his wit and ruthlessness.

From the beginning, Su Tingxia was in Luoyang as a staff member of the Northern Palace, taking the imperial examination for others, and surviving with his talent, but he was able to go against the Northern Palace, which was in full swing at that time, and resolutely went to participate in the imperial examination in his own name, and won the champion, which shows that he has a betrayal in his bones. Then he was liquidated by the Beiwangfu, and even his relatives in his hometown were killed, and he even went incognito, and he wanted to take revenge on the Beiwangfu with his meager strength, which shows that he is not only ambitious, but also must be compared, even if he knows that it is an egg touching a stone. He also dared to take advantage of the situation.

With the current trend of only the last battle left, Su Tingxia, a person who has no relatives and no reason, naturally knows the truth of rabbit death and dog cooking, he either doesn't want to be a blood-spattered Han Xin after the world is decided, but wants to attack Han Jian in advance.

Of course, this was just Han Jian's speculation, and Han Jian was still unsure of the main reason why Su Tingxia sent troops eastward. But it is expected that Su Tingxia is basically afraid of being directly cut off from military power after the war, so he responds in advance. Even if Su Tingxia would not rebel directly, it would be enough to form a force that would be divided against him, so that Han Jian could not attack him, so that he could become a warlord like the four kings who once defended the territory for the Wei Dynasty, but in fact he was a warlord on one side.

The convening of the emergency military division meeting broke the brief tranquility in Yangzhou City before the war.

Many of the generals and strategists got up from their sleep, thinking that Han Jian wanted to launch the battle of crossing the river in advance. But after seeing Su Tingxia's emergency military situation, these people were also guessing the tricks, but none of them summed up the matter to the point, that is, Su Tingxia's ambitions.

In the eyes of most generals and strategists, Su Tingxia's eastward advance was just to complete the rendezvous with the soldiers and horses of Yangzhou and directly attack Jinling City.

Now most people in the army still don't know Han Jian's advance plan, and Han Jian has no intention of directly attacking Jinling City. This matter has long been conveyed by Han Jian to Su Tingxia, Lin Zhan and Zhang Xing, the three coaches appointed by him, and others do not know. These three people should be clear.

Su Tingxia came with troops this time, and he attacked with light horses, and did not accompany him with siege baggage, saying that he was here to strengthen the momentum of the Wei Dynasty's soldiers and horses, but Su Tingxia disobeyed the military order without authorization, and violated the date of Han Jian's capture of Jiangling before Su Tingxia. The capture of Gangneung Castle one day ahead of schedule, and the large-scale recruitment of soldiers and horses when crossing the river later, seemed to be very unusual.

If Su Tingxia still advanced eastward with the 20,000 soldiers and horses that originally attacked Jiangling, Han Jian would not be too worried, although these soldiers and horses were Su Tingxia's subordinates. But also for the Wei Dynasty soldiers, Su Tingxia wants to rebel, and many generals below will not agree. But now, after Su Tingxia recruited soldiers and horses, plus the remnants of the Southern Dynasty who gathered Chu Di and Jiang Jiang's generation, the number of soldiers and horses has exceeded 50,000, and these soldiers and horses have no loyalty to the Northern Dynasty.

The people who fought with Su Tingxia all had a characteristic, that is, they were wolves like the steppe people. Because Su Tingxia's department has very few military supplies since then, almost everything is looted, if he does not use force, let alone a wealthy family, even ordinary people will not hand over the materials to him, Su Tingxia's "notoriety" in the north is obtained through looting, and the number of ordinary people killed by Su Tingxia's department is also beyond the reach of other people in the Northern Dynasty.

The military meeting was a little solemn, and some strategists were still talking about how the two armies would cooperate to attack Jinling City on the issue of Su Tingxia leading the troops eastward.

Han Jian's gaze fell on a red mark on the sand table, which was Zhu Tongjing and Sima Yi's subordinates, who had been standing still.

After Han Jian issued the deadline for advancing south, Sima Yi did not rush to lead the troops north, in Han Jian's previous opinion, it was Sima Yi who felt that his strength was insufficient and could not compete head-on with Zhu Tongjing's troops and the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, so he chose to avoid the war. And Zhu Tongjing chose to retreat into the cities and not go out, which seems to have the intention of avoiding war.

Originally, uniting the weak to defeat the strong was the best way for Sima Yi and Zhu Tongjing's troops to deal with the southward movement of the Northern Dynasty's soldiers and horses, but Zhu Tongjing himself relied on stealing authority to seize Jinling, which determined that it was impossible for the two weakest forces to unite in one place. This kind of war avoidance will seem meaningless, because sooner or later it is better to attack the weakest side first, and then turn the head to deal with the strong enemy.

However, this kind of war avoidance, according to their prediction that there would be disputes among the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties, and if they wanted to sit back and enjoy the results, all explanations seemed to make sense.

Su Tingxia's sudden eastward advance, even Han Jian did not expect it, because Han Jian did not expect that the Jiangjiang defense line arranged by Zhu Tongjing would be so "fragile". It was only a few days before and after Zhu Tongjing sent troops to Jiangjiang, and the defenders of the Southern Dynasties on the front line of Jiangjiang and Jiangxi had been completely defeated, which was obviously Zhu Tongjing's deliberate relinquishment of territory to make Su Tingxia's ambitions bigger.

From the beginning, when Zhu Tongjing decided to cooperate with the Northern Dynasties, he may have expected that he would suffer from the enemy, and the strategy he set was to provoke the most unstable factor in the Northern Dynasty army first, that is, Su Tingxia, so that there would be a gap between Su Tingxia and the Northern Dynasties, and the Northern Dynasties would fall into civil strife. This trick Han Jian seems to be familiar, in the battle of Jinling 21 years ago, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty also successfully killed the Yangtze River, and the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Wangfu completed the siege of Jinling City, the soldiers and horses of the Qin King of the Southern Dynasty were holding a wait-and-see attitude at that time, and the policy set within the court of the Southern Dynasty was also a divisive strategy, provoking the relationship between the East Wangfu and the South Wangfu, so that the soldiers of the South Wangfu returned to the Yangtze River, making the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Wangfu in the Battle of Jinling form an isolated state, at this time the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty Qinwang rescued Jinling, and the first battle of Jinling made the soldiers and horses of the East Wangfu completely damaged, Even the old East King Han Qi "died" after that war.

"The battle of crossing the river after dawn will be postponed for the time being." While the generals and strategists were waiting for Han Jian to give orders, Han Jian made the decision he least wanted to make and postpone the battle to cross the river. This was also quite surprising to the generals and strategists present.

If it is withdrawn, not only will the morale of the officers and soldiers in the army be damaged, but even Han Jian's prestige will be affected.

If the Southern Dynasty laid out a very strong defensive line on the south bank of the long sword, the soldiers below could still understand it, but now the Southern Dynasty seems to have given up the defense of the first line on the bank of the river, and fully retreated to Jinling City and the surrounding cities, waiting for the Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses to attack the city after crossing the river.

The soldiers are in a kind of spirit of making meritorious contributions, and Han Jian is doing this a bit by digging his own grave.

But Han Jian felt that this was the only way at the moment. He couldn't let the soldiers and horses fall into danger after crossing the river, he would rather let the soldiers in the army hate him, than let the soldiers die on the south bank of the river for no reason, and they couldn't even get their bones back.

"Your Majesty, I suddenly stopped marching into the army, I am afraid that it is a soldier in the army...... There will be a noise. ”

"It's just a delay." Han Jian said, "In the past few days, the wind has risen on the river, and it is quite difficult to cross the river, if the Southern Dynasty takes advantage of the fact that our army has not yet gained a firm foothold on the south bank and suddenly sends troops from the south of the city to attack, our army will suffer heavy losses." After three days, after a number of troop carriers were requisitioned, the army could move south in one fell swoop before it could win the battle. ”

Han Jian couldn't tell the real reason, if he told the whole army that it was now to prevent Su Tingxia from rebelling before he didn't enter the army, there might be chaos in the army.

Han Jian could only use this way of postponing the war period to temporarily alleviate the complaints of the officers and men in the army, but it is still unknown whether it will be suitable to cross the river after three days. (To be continued.) )