On 11 April, Liu An'er's subordinate led Wu Shiyi to lead 20,000 exiled troops to the south, and then trapped Haozhou and Sizhou.

Although Lin Tingli led the Dongyang Army to guard Shiliang and block the hilly valley road from the south of the Wandering Army from the west bank of Hongzepu, the news of the loss of Haozhou Mansion again was undoubtedly an earth-shattering thunder for the people of Jiangning.

At this point, hundreds of thousands of wandering people's troops spread out along the north bank of Huaishui (the confluence of Huaishui and Hongzepu between Sizhou and Huai'an).

In the middle of April, Jiangdong has entered the rainy season, a few days of drizzle and lewdness, the whole river is shrouded in hookah, rain and fog, the new willow branches on the riverside are verdant and fresh, the forest is bound in the pavilion in the middle of the mountain at the southern foot to read the pond copy, Song Jia, Xiaoman next to the stone table to serve.

The red new emerald thin shirt is bright and moving, and it seems that the emerald color of the rivers and mountains is not as pleasant as the two women.

A big boat went down from the stream, leisurely breaking through the mist, seeing that the style of the ship looked like the official system of Jiangning, Song Jia put down the scroll in his hand first, and stared at it. After a stick of incense, the official ship approached the Nanya Wharf, retracted the sails and slowly approached the wharf, and there were people standing at the bow of the ship, shouting to the guard general on the wharf: "Ning Wangfu sent an envoy to summon Lord Lin Binlin, the envoy of Jinghai Capital!" ”

The sound was loud, and it was faintly heard halfway up the mountain, so Lin Jian put down the pen in his hand and looked into the river. More than 30 zhang apart, the bow of the boat was as small as an ant, wearing a green robe, as if he was an official envoy, Lin Jian frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about what the envoy sent by King Ning's Mansion to see him do?

Yue Lengqiu led the Changhuai army to retreat to Xuzhou and became a lone army, and the intention of the imperial court to establish King Ning as a vassal of Jiangning was to make King Ning play the role of sitting in the southeast at a critical moment.

King Ning directly sent an envoy to summon him, indicating that in the eyes of the people in Jiangning, they also believed that the situation was eroded to the most critical juncture.

Lin Jian didn't care about what the envoy sent by King Ning and the dock guard post were talking about, he raised his eyebrows, beckoned a guard outside the mountain pavilion, and ordered: "You go down the mountain, just say that I will go to Shengsi to patrol the army, I don't know when I will come back, just ask King Ning's envoy to leave the edict ......."

The guards walked down the mountain on the stone path, Song Jia raised his hand to pick up his hair, and Meilai glanced at Lin Jian with a fixed look before saying: "The people of Jiangning think that the Jiangdong Left Army is a god general, Yue Lengqiu retreated to Xuzhou, and he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Liukou, but he was counting on you to lead the Jiangdong Left Army to cross the Huai to the north!" ”

"Do you guess that King Ning wants me to cross the Huai to the north?" Lin Jian looked at Song Jia and said with a smile, "How can you be sure that the edict doesn't want me to guard Huaidong?" ”

"If you defend Huaidong, will you let King Ning's envoy block Chongzhou?" Song Jia glanced at Lin Tie, dissatisfied with Lin Tie's test of her intelligence.

Xiao Man couldn't guess why Lin Jian and Song Jia both guessed that King Ning was summoning the Jiangdong Left Army to cross Huai to the north instead of guarding Huai'an, seeing that the two of them looked at each other with a tacit understanding outside the words, he was still unconvinced and said: "There is a name for Zuo to participate in politics here, and it is justifiable to go to guard Huai Zuo, but crossing Huai to the north has nothing to do with this side, I think you all guessed wrong......

"We'll know when King Ning's edict is brought up." Lin Jian said.

"Why don't we make a bet?" Song Jia had the intention to tease Xiaoman.

"What kind of ability are you two bullying me?" Xiao Man was not convinced, but he would not be fooled and bet with Song Jia, so he leaned over to watch the movement under the cliff, waiting for the guards to bring up King Ning's edict.

Between the Jianghuai River, it is divided into Huaidong and Huaixi with Hongzepu and Gaoyou Lake. Huaidong contains Huai'an, Weiyang, Hailing three prefectures, Huaixi contains Dongyang, Haozhou, Luzhou three prefectures.

Song Jia saw that Xiaoman was not fooled, and analyzed it to her with a smile: "The people in Jiangning don't cry when they don't see the coffin, although Haozhou and Sizhou are lost, but Yue Lengqiu can still retreat along Surabaya to Suyu and Huai'an, how could Jiangning let the Jiangdong Left Army go to guard Huai'an?" Besides, if King Ning really wants to edict Lin to guard Huai'an, Gu Wuchen's messenger will most likely go to Chongzhou to report the news...... Gu Wuchen didn't move, didn't he imply that this side was also standing still? ”

"What do you mean by standing still?" Lin Jian asked rhetorically, "The main force of the Liumin Army is in Huaibei, advancing the Surabaya River, can the three or five thousand people of the Jiangdong Left Army reverse the situation?" ”

"I'm not the only one who thinks so," Song Jiayan smiled and said, "At the beginning of Liu An'er's army in Hongzepu, he trapped Sizhou, Wuhe, and Shiliang counties. Haozhou, the famous capital of Huainan, was destroyed in this way. Yue Lengqiu went south to reorganize the Changhuai army, just when the Huaishui broke the embankment, and there was no chance to rebuild Haocheng, so the Dongyang army could only defend Shiliang, but could not enter Haozhou. In the eyes of some people in Jiangning, the loss of Haozhou and Sizhou is somewhat taken for granted. Although King Ning sent an envoy, in their eyes, they even hoped that the situation could be reversed...... You took a broken excuse to block the messenger back, didn't you just stand still? ”

Lin Jian smiled, and did not argue, waiting for the guards to take the edict of King Ning, open it and take a look, sure enough, he led the soldiers and horses left behind in Chongzhou to cross the Huai to suppress the Pingliu Kou.

Lin Jian casually rolled up the edict of King Ning into a paper basket made of bamboo strips, and ignored it, and he really couldn't pay attention to this kind of lucky edict.

A little later, the sentinel of the Jiangdong Left Army in Huaibei sent an urgent message, and Liu An'er led the main force of the Liumin Army to cross Surabaya, and the troops were stationed at the foot of Yucheng.

Suyu only had 4,000 soldiers and horses of the Changhuai Army left, and the situation was critical.

If Liu An'er rushed to attack Suyu, even if Lin Jian decided to raise troops to cross Huai and go north, it would take eight or nine days to reach Suyu, and it would have no effect.

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On the 14th, the soldiers and horses sent by Yue Lengqiu to receive Suyu were ambushed by Chen Hansan in Suining, and fled eastward, and Suining fell on the same day. Seeing that Suining was lost, the Suyu defenders contacted Xuzhou to cut off the Liumin army, worried about the encirclement, abandoned Suyu on the 15th, retreated to Shuyang in the east, and the Linyi defenders were horns to keep the passage for the Changhuai army to retreat eastward into Qingzhou.

Suyu is in the south of Xuzhou and the north of Huai'an, blocking the passage of the Changhuai army from Xuzhou to Huai'an along the south of the Surabaya River.

The source of the Surabaya River is out of Quanlin County, Luxi, and the economy flows into Nansi Lake, flows through Xuzhou and Suyu, and joins the Huaihe River in the north of Huai'an.

Suyu fell, and the main force of Changhuai'an, which retreated to Xuzhou, in addition to the border of Linyi in the east, was almost a lone army, and the Huai'an Mansion on the mouth of Huaisi was also in danger.

On the afternoon of the 17th, the Jiangning official ship docked at the Nanya Wharf again, and the person who came was no longer sent by King Ning, and Zhang Yubo, who was wearing a scarlet official robe, boarded the wharf in the drizzle.

Zhang Yubo's relationship with this side is extraordinary, and Li Chai, the sentry on duty at Nanya Wharf, recognized Zhang Yubo when he was in Jiangning, and he didn't waste time to report it, and directly led him to climb the mountain from the narrow stone path to the forest.

Lin Jian held his only son Xin'er in the grass pavilion on the top of the mountain, and watched Zhang Yubo go up the mountain wearing a crimson official robe that can only be worn by a five-rank official, and said with a smile: "Brother Yubo has been promoted, rushed to Chongzhou to ask for my congratulations?" ”

Liu Yue'er got up to salute Zhang Yubo, Zhang Yubo gave Liu Yue'er a salute back, and said with Lin Jian with a wry smile: "Brother Lin Xian, don't make fun of me, I'm a duck who catches up with the shelf, and I am sent by Huai'an Mansion to be judged," paused, and then said, "I was born in bitter cold, and I can have today and the imperial court cultivated, the imperial court used me in danger, and I didn't dare to regret this body, so I had to go to Huai'an alone." I came to Chongzhou because I thought that there were orphans, widows and old mothers behind me and no one to take care of them, and I wanted to entrust Brother Lin Xian! ”

"Your bitter trick is of no great use to me," Lin Jian said, "You smell the smell of me, you just urinated on this kid, and you haven't had the idea of being loyal to the court for a while!" ”

Liu Yue'er took her son away from Lin Lian's arms, and the front of Lin Lian's purple official robe was really wet.

Zhang Yubo couldn't cry or laugh.

The third grade wears purple, and Lin Tie is only from the fourth grade, but he is given the reward of purple, and he has become a dignitary at a young age, but the purple robe that is so cherished is given to Lin Tie to wear and hug the urine every day, if the Qingliu generation knows about it, I don't know how many annoying words it will cause.

Liu Yue'er went back with her son in her arms, Lin Tie was dressed in bullet clothes, asked Zhang Yubo to sit down in the grass pavilion, and asked, "Is it me who controls Liu Tingzhou, or Liu Tingzhou who controls me?" ”

Liu Tingzhou is the prefect of Huai'an.

"The situation is so critical, if Huai'an is lost again, there will be no obstacle for the bandits to go south, and those people can no longer know what to do?" Zhang Yubo said, "Besides, you are Xuanfu Envoy Si Zuo to participate in politics, since the founding of the dynasty, it is okay to participate in politics and control the prefectures and counties, how can there be prefectures and counties to participate in politics in moderation?" This is the edict of King Ning and the letter of the Jiangning Military Department......"

The situation was critical, and there was no time to ask the central government for advice, so King Ning and the six departments of Jiangning could jointly handle the military and political affairs of the southeastern counties, which actually made Jiangning the political center of the southeastern counties.

Lin Jian took the letter and opened it to see that his official title of left participation in politics finally played some role, and he served as the envoy of Huaidong Jingkou with his left participation in politics, not only the local soldiers of Huai'an Mansion were controlled by him, but the local government and county troops of Hailing and Weiyang were also temporarily controlled by him - Shi Zhang Xi, the head of King Ning's mansion, was also sealed on King Ning's edict, and in the face of the situation, he had to bow his head.

At the same time, Lin Tingli served as the Huaixi envoy, in charge of the local military garrison of Dongyang and Haozhou, due to the loss of the entire territory of Haozhou Prefecture, Lin Tingli, the Huaixi envoy, only had a good name, and did not return the local military garrison of Luzhou Mansion (Anzheng Hefei) to him.

In fact, Lin Lian, the Huaidong envoy, is also somewhat worthy of his name, and Shen Rong, who knew that Weiyang Mansion had a deep grudge with him, how could he listen to him? Hailing Mansion also basically relied on Chongzhou to send troops.

After seeing Lin Tie's brows frown slightly after reading the official letter, Zhang Yubo asked: "I will go to Huai'an today, Jiangning's official ship will not listen to my allocation, and I will send a ship to Huai'an." In addition, I asked rudely, when will Chongzhou send troops? ”

In the past, they made friends and got along casually; Lin Jian received the edict and was the boss, and Zhang Yubo called him an adult according to the rules.

"The soldiers are very fast, if you delay for three or five days, it may be difficult to enter Huai'an City, and I will leave today," Lin Jian saw Zhang Yubo's surprise and said with a smile, "You also think that I am not moving with those people?" On the twelfth, King Ning sent an envoy, and Chongzhou began to make preparations, just waiting for you to come and send troops...... Chongzhou wants to defend Shengsi, there are not many soldiers that can be used, 3,000 foot soldiers, 1,000 cavalry battalions, 1,000 water battalions, plus auxiliary soldiers and workers, a total of 7,000 people, barely able to defend Huai'an! ”