Chizhou is located between the two rivers, near the river and the mountains, the terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest, so it is dangerous and difficult to enter Chizhou from Jiangning and Xuanzhou, and it is relatively easy to enter Chizhou from Jiangzhou and Pengze, and Yicheng, an important town in Jiangbei, faces each other across the river.

On the eve of the extravagant Feihu abandoning Jiangning and fleeing westward, and the remnants of Zheng Mingjing were besieged after the rate was broken, the Zhejiang-Fujian army withdrew its troops and horses to the west and entered Qingyang County, on the outskirts of Chizhou......

In the city of Qiupu County, Chizhou Prefecture, in the face of a large number of enemy troops, the wind is loud, and the current wall is clear and the city is firmly defended.

Before the night of the second day of December, a small group of rebels had crossed Qiupu County and marched westward, to the Qiupu County Yali, which was temporarily requisitioned for the trip, the pine resin torch beeped and peeled, exuding the fragrance of pine resin, and the county government hall was changed to a public hall.

Lin Xuwen was wearing a python robe, sat on the left side of the long case, and said to Yue Lengqiu: "Break the way of the extravagant rebellion to flee westward, annihilate its main force under the city of Chizhou, and the remnants of the extravagant rebellion in Jiangzhou will naturally be difficult to support alone; If Prime Minister Yue leads his troops to recover Jiangzhou, Yuzhang, and Ganzhou, it will be easy to turn back, and the work of Sheji can be expected......"

"Lin Xiang's words are ridiculous," Zhang Yan walked into the public hall wearing a four-clawed golden dragon python robe, and directly refuted Lin Xuwen's words, saying, "Really good hounds can't catch up with the cunning rabbit who escaped, Jiangzhou fell suddenly, people were panicked, and the society was the most important, so they couldn't ......fight in waves."

"If you easily discard Jiangning, what face do you have to talk about whether to fight or not?" Lin Xuwen watched Zhang Yan come in, he was angry, his muscles flared up, and he grabbed Zhang Yan's sore spot and asked, "Why do you abandon Jiangning and leave, is it because of the community?" ”

"Why did Lin Xiang make such nonsense," Zhang Yan was killed to the sore spot, and asked sharply, "Where was Lin Xiang when we waited for the emperor to guard Jiangning?" ”

"I came to Chizhou and advanced and retreated with Yue, but I didn't retreat to Luzhou......"

Lin Xiang said that the luxury family has reached the end of the mountains and rivers, and if the luxury family is really exhausted, it is an opportunity to send envoys to surrender. If we can rest and recuperate as soon as possible, it is better for the people's livelihood to benefit than to use the army and use force! ”

"Shameless, shameless," Lin Xuwen trembled with anger, pointed at Zhang Yan's nose, and scolded, "Do you have the face to speak to the people of Jiangning who slaughtered them?" ”

Lin Xuwen came on behalf of Huaidong, and used the grain and grass of Dongyang Mansion to aid Chizhou for the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Jiangzhou army, intending to urge Yue Lengqiu to lead his troops eastward and encircle the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels who entered Jiangning.

Zhang Yan arrived in Chizhou only before yesterday afternoon, and when he came to Chizhou by boat, the imperial naval army and the imperial horse prison guards had already escorted Emperor Yongxing into Juchao County, the capital of Luzhou.

In addition to asking the Jiangzhou army to hold Chizhou and enter Jiangning in the east, Zhang Yan's more important intention here was to hope that Yue Lengqiu could cross the river and serve the emperor.

What kind of bad consequences will the emperor go out of Jiangning to patrol Huaixi, Zhang Yan and others are naturally very clear in their hearts, but if they do not leave Jiangning, they are afraid that the city will fall into the army and die, and there will be a disaster of overthrowing the nest - the lesser of the two harms, even if they know that the emperor's abandonment of Jiangning will shake the foundation of the imperial family and will lose the prestige of the world, Zhang Yan and others finally supported Emperor Yongxing to flee from Yangtze Jiangxi into Luzhou to avoid disaster. In the final analysis, including Emperor Yongxing, Zhang Yan, Cheng Yuqian and others have a strong distrust of Huaidong.

Luzhou is sandwiched between the Jianghuai Mountains and Pu, although it is not the foundation of imperial power, it can also ensure short-term tranquility. After temporarily avoiding the military disaster, Emperor Yongxing, Zhang Yan and others had to think about how to go forward?

Obviously, if the matter of abandoning Jiangning and Xiqian can get the understanding and support of Yue Lengqiu, Dong Yuan, Jinghu Liu Wenmu and others, even if there will be serious sequelae, it will not immediately induce the crisis of abolishing the establishment. Therefore, as soon as the emperor entered Luzhou, Zhang Yan came to Chizhou to see Yue Lengqiu, Yu Xinyuan went to Shouzhou to see Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou, and sent envoys to Jinghu to see Liu Wenmu, and Emperor Yongxing only left Zuo Chengmu, Cheng Xueqian, Wang Xueshan and other ministers to guard......

When Zhang Yan arrived in Chizhou, the news of the fall of Jiangzhou and Huang Binghao's surrender came to Chizhou, and the news of the advance of Huaidong's soldiers and horses on the periphery of Liyang had not yet reached Chizhou in time because the road was a little far away and there were rebels in the middle. On the 28th and 29th, the Zhejiang-Fujian army continued to have a large number of soldiers and horses marching west from Jiangning, in the name of chasing and capturing the fleeing Yongxing Emperor, and even called the wind and noise in Chizhou, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

In the early morning of this day, Ge Cunxin sent a pulp sail clipper from Jiangning rushed to Chizhou City and reported that the imperial city was not lost.

At this time, the situation of the entire battle situation was basically clear, and a large number of soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army entered Chizhou under the pretense of fleeing and chasing, in essence, they did not dare to leave Jiangning and fight to the death with the Huaidong army, but wanted to cross the border from Chizhou and enter Jiangzhou......

Lin Xuwen's attitude was naturally more and more resolute at this time, and asked Yue Lengqiu to lead the Jiangzhou army to block the remnants of the Zhejiang-Fujian army to the west of Chizhou, and wait for the Huaidong soldiers and horses to come to encircle and annihilate after recovering Jiangning.

As long as the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels who invaded Jiangning from Huizhou north after the winter are completely annihilated, the luxury family will basically be disabled, even if the luxury flying bear captures Jiangzhou, the luxury family's soldiers and horses everywhere add up to seventy or eighty thousand, but it will not become any climate.

The Huaidong Army's recovery of Jiangning is just around the corner, and the more it sets off the stupidity and lack of virtue of Emperor Yongxing to abandon Jiangning and flee westward.

If Huaidong deposes Emperor Yongxing and establishes another king of Lu, and let Lin Jian and the officials of the Huaidong family, including Zhang Yan, Wang Xueshan, Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, Yu Xinyuan and other ministers who fled with the emperor to the west will not have good fruits to eat......

At this time, instead of calling the Jiangzhou army to fight with the Zhejiang-Fujian army, Zhang Yan hoped that Yue Lengqiu could preserve his strength, and even at this time, it was far better to negotiate peace with the luxury family and ask the luxury family to preserve a certain amount of strength than to call Huaidong to completely gain power.

Lin Xuwen and Zhang Yan tore their faces on the public hall, spoke evil words and looked at each other angrily, almost taking off their robes and making a big move, Yue Lengqiu stood up and dissuaded him as a peacemaker: "What about the two adults, where is the private friendship of the court, why bother like this, after all, they are not all for the sake of the court society?" He waved his hand and withdrew all the generals in the hall, lest the jokes here fall into the eyes of the people below and shake the morale of the army.

Lin Xuwen said angrily: "The extravagant family surrendered and rebelled, and the army slaughtered the southeast, and the faith and virtue were all lost-if the emperor has a secret decree to allow Lord Zhang to negotiate surrender, Lord Zhang can go and not stop!" He threw up his sleeves and left, leaving Zhang Yan and Yue Lengqiu in the public hall.

Regarding the surrender, Zhang Yan also said it to stimulate Lin Xuwen. At this time, Zhang Yan hoped that the luxury family could still preserve a certain amount of strength to contain Huaidong, and asked Huaidong to act with scruples, but if he really wanted to openly send someone to the Zhejiang-Fujian army to negotiate peace, it would only make Huaidong more honest and abolish the emperor and set up another - I used to think that the Empress Dowager Liang was a trouble, and she would not let her return to Jiangning, which was even more of a headache at this time. In the matter of Huaidong's rise and abolition, Empress Dowager Liang is the biggest chess piece in Huaidong's hand.

There was no one else in the public hall, and Zhang Yan spoke without scruples, and only said to Yue Lengqiu: "If Lord Yue believes Lin Xuwen's words, he can fight all the soldiers and horses in Jiangzhou." Thinking about it, with the merit of Chizhou, Lin Jian may not compete with Lord Yue for the position of first assistant, but what is the use of this first assistant......"

In the past, although the power of the feudal towns in various places was strong, they were basically able to obey orders and be controlled, and many prefectures and counties were also under the direct control of the court, and Jiangning could also control the dispatch of most officials and generals, as well as the transfer of soldiers, horses, and grain, so the position above the court was worth fighting for. But the court gave complete control to the officials of the Huaidong family, including the soldiers and horses who garrisoned Jiangning, all of which were in Huaidong's hands, not to mention the first assistant, no matter how many and dazzling titles were added to the head, they were all ornaments - how could Yue Lengqiu not understand this truth?

"Lord Zhang doesn't need to be so excited, it is also the responsibility of the ministers to encircle and annihilate the remnants...... " Yue Lengqiu said with a thin mud, but when it came to substantive issues, he never made a statement, and he didn't have much patience with Zhang Yan, so he sent Zhang Yan away first under the pretext of patrolling the city.

After Zhang Yan left, Deng Yu came to meet him and said: "The main force of the thief army has almost entered the territory of Qingyang, and a large number of people will flock to Qiupu ......City tomorrow at the latest."

Daqingxi was defeated, Deng Yu led the remnants of Yishan to Pengze County to defect to Yue Lengqiu, 20,000 elites of the southern Huinan army, and finally escaped with Deng Yu less than 2,000 remnants.

Deng Yu led the remnants to merge into the Jiangzhou Army, Yue Lengqiu treated him seriously, and allocated another army and horses to his command, but the Huinan Army ceased to exist.

"Deng Yu, tell me, the Zhejiang-Fujian army is crossing, should I intercept or let it?" Yue Lengqiu invited Deng Yu to the front of the case and asked.

Deng Yu's face changed and struggled, and he pondered for a long time, and said: "If you don't fight, you won't work; If it is a hard fight, who knows when the Huaidong Army will be able to pack up the situation in the east and come to help, and it will be faster for Hao Feixiong to lead his troops from Jiangzhou...... If Prime Minister Yue can trust Deng Yu, Deng Yue is willing to lead the troops to Shicheng! ”

"How could I not believe you?" Yue Lengqiu said, "The Huinan Army has come this far, I can't blame you. If I have responsibility, I have a bigger responsibility. But if you really want to go out of Chizhou City to fight, I won't send you there, there is another candidate! I'll let Chen Zishou go! ”

"Huang Binghao surrendered, Chen Zishou is the old Huang Ministry, his family and relatives were all captured in Jiangzhou, and he was sent out of the city, the consequences are unpredictable!" Deng Yu exclaimed.

When Jiangzhou was besieged, it was Chen Zishou's department who wanted to come back for help; After the fall of Jiangzhou, Chen Zishou and other generals also put the blame on Yue Lengqiu's failure to return in time, full of complaints, and made a lot of trouble.

"If Chen Zishou falls, I will always have to take some responsibility, but as long as you don't abandon me and leave, it doesn't hurt to take some responsibility......" Yue Lengqiu said.

Hearing Yue Lengqiu say this, Deng Yu suddenly understood.

Chen Zishou has surrendered, Yue Lengqiu just has an excuse to hold on to Chizhou City, Yue Lengqiu is responsible for Chen Zishou's surrender to the enemy, then the responsibility is, and there is no need to transfer to Jiangning to serve as Shangshu, Xiangchen and other false positions to be vacated, you can continue to stay in Chizhou to master the military power - in the upcoming Ninglu dispute, Yue Lengqiu has resolutely decided to give up Emperor Yongxing, but he doesn't want to lead Huaidong by the nose, the only way is to master the military power and raise Kou self-respect!