After receiving the letter from Jiangning and the secret letter of Gao Zongting, it had been two days and one night since Emperor Yongxing left Jiangning late at night on the 25th.

Liyang, Jinshan fell on the 24th, and the right wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army soldiers and horses also gathered in Liyang, the upper reaches of the Rouge River as early as the 21st, after the Yongxing Emperor left Jiangning, the city fell into uncontrollable turmoil, the Zhejiang-Fujian army at this time should have about 40,000 soldiers and horses rushed to Jiangning City, and its left wing is shrinking to Liyang, the intention is very clear, in order to ensure Jiangning and Huizhou, shield the right wing at the same time, but also delay the speed of the main force of the Huaidong Army to the north.

"Our department is in the forefront, Zhang Jiheng has also been raising fat in Changxing for several days, my lord, let's go to Liyang first!" Chen Yan couldn't wait for Zhou Tong, Ao Canghai and others to come over, so he came over to ask for battle.

The battle deduction of the Battle of Jiangning, the generals of Huaidong don't know how many times they have done it, so there is nothing to discuss in the military discussion, and they have been waiting for the main force of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army to attract Jiangning City to rush to the battle.

"It's different from what I imagined," Lin Jian said with a breath, "The emperor is running too fast......"

At first glance, when he heard that Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and fled on the 25th, Lin Jian was disdainful when he spat out foul language.

Song Fu laughed, laughing at Emperor Yongxing's self-destruction of the foundation.

The northern land fell, Emperor Chongguan broke through and died on the battlefield, and also saved some people's hearts for the imperial family, but this time Emperor Yongxing abandoned the capital and fled first, what is the foundation of self-destruction? As long as there is no chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, especially Danyang and Pingjiang Mansion east of Jiangning, what can Emperor Yongxing do even if he goes to Huaixi?

After Huaidong recovered Jiangning, he could naturally ask Emperor Yongxing to return the capital.

Emperor Yongxing stubbornly didn't reply, or Dong Yuan stopped him, so Huaidong swaggered and occupied Jiangning and didn't leave, and respected Emperor Yongxing from afar. The imperial camp army is eroded, the Hanghu army is only left, and the Yongxing Emperor abandons the capital by himself, who can prevent Huaidong from turning the land south of the Yangtze River into his own defense area?

All the generals are crawling up in the sea of corpses and blood, and their temperament has become iron-blooded, and there is little tenderness, Emperor Yongxing abandoning the capital and fleeing west will make Jiangning's millions of people fall into a huge disaster, and the generals have no time to take care of it, and they will not take care of it, they only see the upcoming conference battle in their eyes, and they are different kinds of excitement.

Zhejiang and Fujian have many lofty mountains and mountains, and the war between Huaidong and the luxury family is between the mountains, which seems to be fragmented, and there is rarely a chance to fight on the flat ground. On the periphery of Jiangning, there are mountains, but the highest is only more than 100 zhang, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gather on such an open terrain to fight, which is exciting to think about.

Tang Fuguan, Chen Yan and others didn't know the plan of the luxury family's golden cicada to get out of their shells, and only hoped to arrive in Jiangning one step earlier.

Chen Huawen led his troops to accompany Huaibei to make preparations with both hands.

First, the main force of the Hanghu Army led by Meng Yishan was destroyed, and Jiangning was weak and could not refuse the full penetration of the Huaidong forces, so he abandoned the Wu Party on behalf of the Chen clan and joined Huaidong to ensure that Chen's local interests would not be greatly damaged.

However, even after the loss of Liyang, he still hoped in his heart that Emperor Yongxing, with the assistance of Chen Xiang, could inspire people's hearts and morale, and lead the tens of thousands of imperial battalion troops, janissaries and Jiangning government troops who stayed in Jiangning to fight a beautiful battle to defend the city. Huaidong's ambitions will inevitably be curbed, and it will not be difficult to force Huaidong's forces out of Taihu Prefecture after the war.

Who would have thought that Emperor Yongxing would run so fast, so how could the gentry and people in Jiangnan support the imperial family?

Hearing the news that Emperor Yongxing had left the city and fled westward, Chen Huawen was full of disappointment and frustration.

Emperor Yongxing went to Huaixi, what is the use, and can also prevent the Huaidong forces from penetrating into the Jiangnan region in an all-round way?

Song Jia took a car to accompany the northern expedition, she sat in the carriage, listening to the news that Emperor Yongxing abandoned the city and fled westward, and sighed in her heart: This chestnut is finally cooked.

Ao Canghai, Zhou Tong, Sun Wenyao and others who were with the army in the back will soon rush over.

I couldn't wait to enter Deqing County to discuss the matter, so I surrounded a wind-sheltering fence with lacquered cloth in the field, and Song Fu, Song Jia's father and daughter, as well as the generals, including Chen Huawen and others, were all convened to discuss the matter.

"In the afternoon, the limelight began to get bigger, which was a good thing, which meant that the fields and roads would soon freeze after dark, and Zhou Pu led the cavalry first, spreading out between the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain and the southern foot of Xiling, heading towards Guangde and Liyang. Tang Fuguan led the troops to follow, only bringing three days of military rations, and the baggage was left behind, leaving the team behind to accept. The distance between your two divisions should not exceed fifty miles, and you must ensure that there is no possibility of a large force of enemy troops within thirty miles of Tang Fuguan's headquarters! You must strive to make contact with the troops and horses of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army retreating to Liyang before the afternoon of the 29th, but after reaching the area of Qiantang and Shahe on the outskirts of Liyang, you must not advance north without authorization, and wait for further military orders......"

Chen Huawen was stunned, the Huaidong army crossed the river from Xiaoshan to the north, and after four or five days, it had not yet passed through Hangzhou Mansion, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Jian asked the front to walk more than 200 miles in two nights and one day to reach the periphery of Liyang.

The two thousand light horsemen led by Zhou Pu were all Lin Bin's followers and Lin Bin's guards.

However, there are 20,000 strong soldiers on the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Liyang, and it is necessary to ensure that Tang Fuguan leads the front to spread his feet and advance quickly, and does not give the soldiers and horses of the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army a leisurely ambush to ambush.

Even in an ambush, the distance of thirty miles could give Tang Fuguan plenty of time to rest and recuperate his troops and construct some simple defenses.

Tang Fuguan and Zhou Pu led their troops into the periphery of Liyang, so as to test the true intentions of the left-wing soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army retreating to Liyang, and then test the true thoughts of Haowenzhuang about Jiangning City, otherwise everything would be delayed for at least two days when the news came from Jiangning.

Two days is too long for a rapidly changing battlefield.

Chen Huawen has never had the opportunity to observe the Huaidong Army at close range, and after joining Lin Jian from Hangzhou, he went north, and he only got along day and night for only two days. In the past two days, he was trapped in the disrepair of the post road and the rotten snowmelt road, and he only traveled less than 70 miles, and he could not see any difference in the Huaidong Army.

After the military discussion, Song Jia took a carriage under the escort of more than a dozen horses, separated from the army, and went directly to the northeast, and the rest of the soldiers and horses rested on the spot.

As soon as night fell, the fields and roads were gradually frozen under the howling north wind. The cavalry battalion was the first to march, and a group of two or three hundred horsemen scattered to the north, and did not go in groups at all.

Although the wheat fields will be trampled hard, they will spread out and move much faster than in groups.

The cavalry walked in the wilderness at night, which was not a difficult task, after all, it was not difficult for the Huaidong Army to make up three or five thousand of the strongest elites.

Next is Tang Fuguan's leading department. The stars and moon are dim, and the light can only allow you to see more than ten steps away. Each team only holds a torch at the front, and the middle and rear parts are hidden in the night, so the light is so dim that they can only walk forward in the way of people staring at people. However, the Huaidong generals did not panic, they had long been trained for this, and in the quiet night, in addition to the sound of soldiers and armor clashing each other, there was occasionally the sound of people talking, which was also used to remind the advance of words such as "there is a ditch, pay attention".

A procession of tens of thousands of people drove out of the road almost in the time of a stick of incense, and disappeared into the vast night.

Next, Lin Lian personally led the main force of the Chongcheng Army to pull out, the 3,000 Haiyu Army stayed at the end, and another general led it, which was also handed over to Ao Canghai in the rear formation, and Chen Huawen followed Lin Lian and the second echelon of soldiers and horses.

The situation has developed to this point, and Chen Huawen can only show greater sincerity and loyalty as much as possible. Chen Huawen wanted to lead the 3,000 Haiyu army to the front to show more performance, but the night march was really not the director of the Haiyu army, so he could only stay at the rear, but if Chen Huawen followed and stayed at the rear, he was afraid that the Huaidong people would suspect him of playing tricks to preserve his strength. simply separated the pawns and handed over 3,000 soldiers and horses to Ao Canghai to show his sincerity.

The second echelon of soldiers and horses also only carried a small amount of baggage forward, and the baggage and ordnance abandoned by Tang Fuguan's troops on both sides of the post road, including a large number of shield carts, bed crossbows, and scorpion crossbows with wheels, and other combat equipment that affected the marching speed, were all thrown away and left for Ao Canghai to send people to receive.

After a night of hurrying speechless, before the afternoon of the 28th, they rushed to Meixidu between Anji and Changxing, and the army stopped at Meixikou to rest. In the early years, Lin was bound to Meixi Lake, and fought with the Shu family army who secretly invested in luxury here.

Meixi Lake is the largest lake in the central part of Huzhou, and Meixi, which is connected to Taihu Lake, is also as wide as a hundred zhang at its narrowest point.

The post road extends here, and there used to be a nine-hole stone bridge connecting the two banks, and after the collapse in the early years, the river has been crossed by ferry.

However, after Zhang Jiheng led his troops to Changxing earlier, he had already built two pontoon bridges here, and Tang Fuguan also crossed Meixi at sunrise early, and should stop forty miles away to rest at this time.

Counting the time, Tang Fuguan's department took a little more time one night, and actually traveled one hundred and thirty or forty miles in a hurry, which was really frightening people's front teeth. If it weren't for the sun rising at this time and the temperature warming up, the road would be rotten in the afternoon, and Tang Fuguan had to stop and rest, otherwise he would be able to enter Liyang tonight.

Chen Huawen couldn't help but think, if Meng Yishan led the remnants of the Hanghu Army to stick to Liyang, would the Huaidong Army march so fast and thunderous?

The current situation in Jiangning, even if it is not all contributed by Huaidong, must also be attributed to Huaidong.

Of course, before Liyang fell, the Zhejiang-Fujian army had more than 50,000 soldiers and horses on the front line of Liyang and Guangde, and the regiments were together, which was far better than spreading out at this time to call the Huaidong Army an opportunity. It was the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army that took the initiative to attack and entangled the anxious and tired Tang Fuguan Division, and there was not enough time to annihilate it, but the left wing and the middle road of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army were on the front line of Liyang and Guangde.

After Lin Lian arrived at Meixikou, he received a message from Jiangning on the 26th.

It has been determined that on the 26th, the right wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army and the soldiers and horses on the middle road were gathering in Jiangning, while the Huaidong water camp was affected by the siltation, headwind, and countercurrent in the river, and the speed was very slow, so it entered the territory of Moling. Fortunately, the Zhejiang-Fujian army did not have the conditions to storm Prison Island, and Gao Zongting and others led their troops to take over the imperial city completely.

The army stopped at Meixidu to rest, and Lin Jian waited for further details in the direction of Jiangning on the one hand, and waited for the news that the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army had taken the initiative to come out to engage in the battle by Zhou Pu and Tang Fuguan in the front.

In the afternoon, three warships came from the direction of Taihu Lake, and the mast of the ship was hoisted with the flag of Su Pinxiao's general - this side was trusted, Lin Lian personally went to the ferry to greet him, Song Fu, Chen Huawen and others accompanied him, and saw that in addition to Su Pinxiao, the eldest brother Chen Huazhang was also standing at the bow of the boat.

Chen Huawen knew at this moment that the Chen family had no other choice, and the eldest brother also rushed over to welcome the new master. If it is really delayed until the Huaidong Army recovers Jiangning City and then makes a choice, the Chen family may not be able to have good fruits to eat.