Chapter 646: Confidence

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Huainan Town actually belongs to the southeast financial source type of feudal towns, and the biggest difference from the other three types of feudal towns of Heshuo secession, Central Plains prevention and containment, and frontier royal border type is that the army is weak and rich.

At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, the nine towns of Huainan, eastern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, Xuanshe, Jiangxi, Eyue, Fujian, Hunan, and Jingnan were collectively known as the Southeast Domain Town, also known as the Southeast Caiyuan Domain Town.

As the only remaining source of wealth for the imperial court, the southeastern towns are few soldiers and are not well armed.

Because of this, since the beginning of the Yizong Dynasty, it has experienced the Qiu Fu Rebellion in eastern Zhejiang, the Pang Xun Rebellion in Xuzhou, and the Wang Ying Rebellion in western Zhejiang, and then Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao swept the southeast several times. The imperial court had to transfer generals like Gao Biao and Zhou Bao to the southeast, and a large number of landlords began to appear in the local area.

Gao Biao's replacement of Liu Ye in Huainan was the reaction of the imperial court after it began to lose control of the southeast.

As a famous general of the Yizong Dynasty, Gao Biao is naturally not in vain.

As long as you look at the generals under Gao Biao, you will know that Gao Biao is extraordinary.

Huainan generals gathered, all of them were momentary shows.

Generals such as Liang Zhang, Zhang Huan, An Zairong, and Ren Conghai were all generals who had experienced countless battles in the imperial feudal towns in the northwest and southern Xinjiang.

The generals Lei Man, Zhang Lan, Chen Qi, and Feng Shou were all pro-generals who followed Gao Biao to the successive towns.

In addition, Wang Xianzhi, who was newly recruited, and Huangchao generals Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan, Li Hanzhi, Zheng Hanzhang, Xu Qing, Xu Yue, etc., are also fierce generals.

In addition, there are Gao Jie, Gao Yu, Gao Ba, Gao Chang, Zhang Xiong, Shen Ji, Han Shide, Yao Guili, Yu Gongchu and other clan generals.

There are not only the Wuling barbarians who were recovered when they were stationed in Jingnan and his Wuling barbarian army, but also the Shatuo army of Li Guochang, Li Youjin, and Li Quanzhong.

Gao Biao to Huainan. Not only the admirals are like clouds. And although Huainan has always been a small soldier. But he didn't come empty-handed.

3,000 Gaoling barbarians, 3,000 Shatuo cavalry.

In addition, there are also the tooth soldiers he brought to the towns of Qinzhou Thorn History, Annan Jinghai Jiedu, Tianping Army Jiedu, Xichuan Jiedu, Jingnan Jiedu, Zhenhai Jiedu, and Huainan Jiedu Envoy. Although Gao Yu's tooth soldiers are only 10,000 people, they are extremely elite, and they are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

10,000 tooth soldiers, 3,000 barbarian soldiers, 3,000 Hu cavalry, plus the original more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Huainan Town.

Gao Yu held 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands. It doesn't seem like much, but if you count the unity army and township soldiers in various places, you can still make up to 20,000.

It was originally the richest town in the Tang Dynasty, Huainan Town, the land of ten states, with tens of thousands of soldiers and dozens of generals.

This is Gao Yu's confidence all along, and it is also why he is not convinced by Li Jing.

Lu brought back the phase, and the two opponents of Zheng Zi and Wang Duo in the DPRK went into the field again.

Wang Duo was defeated in Jiangling, Tanzhou, and finally let Gao Biao regain the position of capital commander.

After becoming the capital of all the provinces again, the first thing Gao Biao did was to issue an order to Li Jing to unify the capital. Let Li Jing send troops to Huainan.

Huainan Town itself has 60,000 soldiers, plus the summoned Zhaoyi, Yicheng, and Probation armies. There are already 70,000 troops gathered, and it doesn't matter if there is a Zhenguo army or not. Gao Yu actually just wanted to use this order to disgust Li Jing, so that Li Jing knew that even if he was crowned king, he still had to listen to his military orders.

In his mind, Li Jing received this order to affirm the seven points of anger.

He never thought that Li Jing would send troops south.

When Gao Yu, who was inspecting the military parade horses in the camp of Liuhe County in the west of Yangzhou, suddenly heard an urgent report of the military situation, saying that Li Jing should be ordered to transfer the army to the south, he still couldn't believe it.

"The Zhenguo army marched south to camp 40,000 troops, including two naval fleets, six land horse infantry troops, 4,000 naval troops, 28,000 infantry troops, and 5,000 horse troops. Among them, 1,000 naval troops and 80,000 horse troops were stationed in Donghai County, Yuzhou Island, Haizhou Prefecture, Taining Army. The remaining 26,000 men and horses have already reached the mouth of the Yangtze River. ”

Gao Yu's face darkened suddenly, because the Zhenguo Army came from the sea, so Huainan didn't even notice the slightest news in advance.

Nearly 40,000 horses were dispatched at once, and they also seized Yuzhou Island in Haizhou, the Taining Army, and stationed 11,000 men and horses, including naval troops, infantry troops, and horse troops. As soon as he saw this arrangement, Gao Yu already felt a very bad feeling.

And now, nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses have appeared directly at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there is no notice in advance. Gao Biao wouldn't think that Li Jing really sent troops to support, the comer was not good.

General Zuo Xiaowei and Huainan Town are all subordinate to Gao Yu, who is Gao Yu's subordinate, and Gao Piao's other subordinate, General Zuo Jin Wuwei and Gao Jie, are regarded as the handsome men of the Gao family. In the Gao family, these two servants are the most valued by Gao Yu.

In Huainan Town, the most brave and capable fighters were the Duzhi soldiers and horses Zhang Lan and Liang Zhang.

And the most trusted by Gao Biao are the two generals of Gao Biao's relatives, Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu.

Of course, the real most trusted by Gao Yu is none other than his two nephews, Gao Jie and Gao Yu. Gao Yu and Gao Jie can stand out under the tent of Gao Biao, who is like a fierce general, in addition to being Gao Biao's subordinates, the more important reason is that these two are also very talented. The two in their early thirties are both cronies and generals who have followed Gao Biao for more than ten years, and most of the big battles are on the front line.

Today's Huainan Town, there are soldiers and horses in the left and right of the leading offices, and they are divided into tooth soldiers.

At this critical time, Gao Biao sent Gao Yu to the naval camp in Hailing Town, which in a sense, was a choice to reassure Gao Biao.

The intention of the Zhenguo army to camp south can be said to be completely unpredictable.

Gao Yu led the headquarters to ride 1,000, plus 3,000 Wulingman led by Lei Man, and 3,000 Shatuo rode led by the three brothers of Li Guochang, and rushed to Hailing with a fast horse and whip. There has been a return from the horse in front, and more than 20,000 troops of the national army of Nazhen have landed on Hu Tuzhou a day ago.

Hu Tuzhou originally belonged to the navy of Zhexi Town, and there was a wolf mountain town on it. A few years ago, Wang Ying, a rebel army rampant in western and eastern Zhejiang, was originally the envoy of Langshan Town, and in the second year of Qianfu, he was accompanied by 69 people to launch an uprising, and once conquered Suzhou, Chang, Taiwan, Wen, Ming and other prefectures.

After Zhou Bao was appointed to the town of the navy, he re-established Langshan Town on Huduzhou, with more than 100 people. However, this point is closer to nothing than nothing for the Zhenguo army with an army of nearly 30,000. The Zhenguo army had already landed directly on Hudouzhou, and then the naval ships closed the whole island. The thousands of homeless people on the island and more than 100 Zhenhai soldiers have also directly become members of the Zhenguo Army.

Hearing that the Zhenguo army did not go directly down the Yangtze River to Yangzhou, Gao Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. But I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, Li Jing sent this army thousands of miles south, if it wasn't for Huainan Town as an enemy, then could it be that they really came to encircle and suppress Huangchao?

However, he quickly shook his head and drove away this thought in his mind, Li Jing did not have a good relationship with the Huainan army, how could he send so many soldiers and horses to Huainan to help in the war. In particular, everyone knew that Li Jing had already waged war against the Goguryeo people in Liaodong. At this time, how could he still send tens of thousands of valuable troops south?

Gao Yu rushed all the way to the shore north of Hu Tuzhou, stationed 7,000 soldiers and horses on the shore, and then sent people to take a boat to the island.

At Gao Yu's request, the Zhenguo Army sent several warships to the shore to pick up Gao Yu and others to the island.

The soldiers of the Zhenguo army were hostile to them, and only allowed Gao Yu to go to the island with a team of less than ten people. On board, they 'guarded' him in the cabin, watching him to death. When they went ashore, they were deliberately sandwiched in the middle, holding flags high on both sides to block their view. These actions show their naked hostility.

As soon as he stepped ashore, Gao Yu knew very well in his heart that they were definitely not here to help the soldiers suppress the bandits.

Neither went to Yangzhou, but it was not ordered, but it was thousands of miles south, and the army was stationed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Gao Yu had a feeling that it was getting worse and worse.

However, Gao Yu remained silent, cheeky on the surface, and landed on the island with a calm expression.

On the island, he asked to see Pei You, the commander of the Zhenguo Army on the island.

But Pei You didn't see him at all, and only one of Pei You's personal guards came to see him. He is the general of the left Xiaowei in the imperial court, the capital of Huainan Town, and the soldiers and horses in the ya, and when it comes to official positions, he is far above Pei You. But now, on this island, Pei You only asked a small team leader to talk to him.

Zhenguo let a big general tie with a team leader!

It's almost a public humiliation!

Gao Yu tried to fight, but what he got was a blunt reply, and the young team leader who had obviously not yet won the championship said coldly: "If you are not satisfied, you can go back." ”

Gao Yu was very angry in the face of an eighteen-year-old team leader who had not yet grown a beard on his mouth and claimed to have just graduated from the Beisha Non-commissioned Officer School. He already knew that the national army of Lu Dao Town was not good, and he was ready to return.

But at this time, the hairy boy sent him a message that Sima Wangpu wanted to see him.

Gao Yu looked at the long-known Wang Pu, who was once the city lord of Duli Town in southern Liaoning, the marching Sima of the current camp, and at the same time the defense envoy of Dengzhou. Moreover, he also has an important identity, the father of the third lady of Andong County, Li Jing.

He was in his forties, with a sturdy physique, a square face and a short beard, and a very clean and tidy white shirt.

Gao Yu knew that the caftan on Wang Pu did not have wide sleeves, and it was cut very slim, and the front and back hems were not very long, but they were very separated. The part covered by the placket of the robe is called the "placket", and there are pockets on the placket to store handrolls and other items, which is much more convenient than putting it in the left cuff, so you don't have to carry your left hand when walking.

This new style of robe is not only convenient for riding and archery, but also the small pocket is very convenient, and it saves a lot of fabric, which is even cooler in the summer.

Wang Pu's robe is also made of white folded cloth, although I heard that Li Jing planted a lot of cotton spinning cotton yarn weaving cloth in Liaodong, and now the white folded cloth is not as expensive as it was at the beginning, but cotton cloth is still priceless in the market. (To be continued......)