(The second update, as promised, although I wanted to sleep when I wrote it)

In the early morning drizzle, the wet curtain hung down heavily, and Song Jia sat in the darkly closed carriage, listening to the sound of ruts rolling over the paved road paved by charcoal slag.

Wanting to lift the curtain to see the person riding on the side, but afraid to let the little goblin sitting opposite see through, Song Jia sighed faintly, leaning against the wall of the car, and her cheeks were against the slightly cool siding - this is a delicate and luxurious carriage, with delicate wood texture, like human skin, and a faint fragrance.

The carriage stopped, Song Jia lifted the curtain and looked outside, before he reached the ferry, two boats came in the distance, and when he saw Lin Jian looking over there, Song Jia thought to herself: Are you waiting for someone to go to Hecheng together? When the boat docked, an old man with white hair and a white head with iron cuffs in his hands was brought ashore and walked this way.

When he saw the old man's face clearly, Song Jiaduan was taken aback, what kind of old man is it, it is obviously Du Rong who killed Lin Jian in Meixi Lake last year! Lin Jian didn't kill him, but imprisoned him, no wonder his body couldn't be found afterwards.

Du Rong is not over fifty years old, when we met in Jiangning last year, he was still full of black hair, but I didn't expect him to lock Lin Tie in Xisha Island for a year, and it was already full of frost and snow on his temples.

"Du Rong to meet the young lady?"

Song Jia saw that Du Rong came to salute, and there was no difference on his face, and through the car window, he asked in surprise: "Du Dangjia knows that I am detained in Chongzhou?" ”

"Don't say it so badly, when am I going to force you to stay?" Lin Jian rode on horseback and said with a smile.

Song Jia raised his head and glanced at Lin Lian, and felt that this look had an ambiguous meaning, which was inappropriate in Du Rong's eyes.

"Du Rong is confined to Xisha Island, and the Governor of Torin is generous, reading and writing, and he can know something about what is happening outside," Du Rong said with a wry smile, "The Envoy of Lin also promised that no matter what the war with Jin'an will be in the future, Du Rong will be free in ten or eight years, and he will be able to be an idle cloud and a lonely crane." ”

Song Jia heard Du Rong, who was the sole leader of the luxury family, say this, and sighed with emotion, looked at Lin Lian, and said: "You use me to humiliate the luxury family, I can understand; Since Du Dangjia has disappeared from the world for many years, why do you bother to drag him in again? ”

"It's none of the matter of the Lin Du Envoy," Du Rong shook his head and said, "It was me who took the initiative to say to the Lin Du Envoy that I wanted to go to Hecheng." ”

Song Jia was slightly stunned, seeing that Du Rong didn't look like he had switched to Lin Bin, how could he help him go to Hecheng to surrender?

At this time, a fast horse galloped from the west, trampled on the mud and water, and handed an official letter to Lin Lian.

Song Jia was able to look at Lin Tie's cold side face generously, the rain was sticking on his face, the sideburns exposed outside his pocket were wet, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and he had a calm bearing, but he didn't want to send a fast rider to catch up with him.

"Luxury, Wenzhuang is a good means," Lin Jian handed the letter to Song Jia through the window, and said, "The Luxury family divided troops to attack Xianxialing in eastern Zhejiang, ten years ago, the Luxury family was blocked by Xianxia Pass, and they could not go out of eastern Fujian into western Zhejiang, but today they first captured eastern Zhejiang, and took Xianxia Pass in western Zhejiang, which can be regarded as a long-cherished wish for many years - I think there is also a strange army to attack Shanguan......"

East Fujian and the Central Plains region of the mountains and mountains are blocked, in addition to the sea detour, into the west of Zhejiang must go to Xianxia Ridge, into Jiangxi must take the Shanguan Road, Xianxia Pass and Shanguan is from the east of Fujian to the north of the land must pass through, but also the Central Plains region into the East Fujian land must go the way.

Eight surnames enter Fujian, and they take the two roads of Shanguan and Xianxiaguan. Going down the Min River, passing through Shaowu, Jian'an (now Nanping City) and Jin'an (now Fuzhou City), it is the earliest developed area in Eastern Fujian, and it is also the area with the highest degree of development in Eastern Fujian today.

The luxury family raised the flag of rebellion, that is, they went up against the Min River, occupied Jian'an and Shaowu first, and blocked Xianxia Pass, and Li Zhuo rose in Shanguan, so he rebelled for ten years, and none of the Fujian soldiers could get out of Fujian.

The luxury family surrendered and returned to Jin'an.

In order to suppress the extravagant family, the imperial court took Jian'an Mansion in the upper reaches of the Min River as the capital of Eastern Fujian, and placed an elite one, which was personally led by Yu Wangao, the governor of Eastern Fujian, and was known as the Jian'an Army. In the town of Shaowu in the north of Jian'an, with Lu Jingyan as the general, they guarded the Shanguan and Xianxia passes on the north side and the northeast side of Shaowu, and were known as Shaowu Army.

Last winter, Yue Lengqiu transferred Shao Wujun to the north to Qinwang, Lu Jingyan died in battle, Shao Wujun more than 10,000 generals bravely, and Yue Lengqiu won over half of it, becoming Yue Lengqiu's descendant, and the remaining half were almost killed in battle, leaving only hundreds of remnants of the army into the Jiangdong Left Army, so that only the Jian'an Army led by Yu Wangao in Eastern Fujian was left to deter the extravagant family.

The war in eastern Zhejiang has not yet been decided, and they are not in a hurry to seek the Hangjiahu area, but instead send surprise troops to attack Xianxia Pass in western Zhejiang (Lin Jian guessed that there must be a strange army to seize Shanguan), not for the long-cherished wish of many years, but to cut off the connection between the Jian'an army led by Yu Wangao and Jiangxi and western Zhejiang, and trapped it in the hinterland of eastern Fujian.

Jian'an Mansion is mountainous, only the middle reaches of the Minjiang River have alluvial plains that can be turned into fertile land, Dingkou of one prefecture and seven counties is even inferior to Chongzhou County, and the fertile land is not as good as Chongzhou County, and the people's livelihood is withered after many years of war.

The 20,000 elites stationed in Jian'an, the grain and grass supplies were all transferred from Jiangxi and western Zhejiang by land, once Shanguan and Xianxia Pass were sealed, and the food source of the Jian'an army under Yu Wangao was cut off, they were in danger, and they could not be expected to directly use troops to relieve the pressure on eastern Zhejiang.

Of course, if western Zhejiang, Jiangdong or Jiangxi can draw out elite troops, and attack them with troops at the same time as Yu Wangao on the inside, and take Xianxia Pass and Shanshan back, the crisis faced by the Jian'an army will naturally be eliminated invisibly - will the key Jiangxi, Jiangdong or Jiangxi draw out elite troops in time?

Lin Jian became more and more sure that Jinan Mansion, which had not reported from Tang for three days, had fallen into chaos, but the communication route was blocked, and there was no definite news for a while.

The situation is becoming more and more critical, once Yu Wangao does not resist the pressure, sees that he cannot recapture Shanguan and Xianxia Pass, and gives up Jian'an to evacuate to the Quanzhang area in the south, then the luxury family will be able to connect northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang.

At this time, the thoughts and patterns of the luxury family are also revealed to the world.

Jin'an and Jian'an, where there are few soldiers, after ten years of war, the people's livelihood has withered, and there is no strength to fight again.

Although the two Zhejiang regions are also the pattern of "seven mountains, one water and two fields", these two fields are concentrated in Minghui and Hangjiahu.

"Hangjiahu" refers to Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, "Minghui" is the south bank of the Qianjiang River Mingzhou Mansion (Ningbo), Huiji Mansion (Shaoxing), separated by the Qianjiang River, are rare in the southeast, fertile and rich land of fish and rice, commerce, workshops are also very developed.

Now that the luxury family has won Mingzhou and Huiji, and then make northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang integrated, it is enough to make the luxury family recruit another 100,000 elite drinking horses and Qianjiang and enter the Central Plains.

Song Jia leaned against the car window, read the letter carefully, sighed faintly, and said: "The Song family has the heart to protect themselves, will the adults blame Song Bo?" ”

"It should be punished for the pirates slaughtering the people," Lin Jian laughed suddenly, "It doesn't hurt to meet on the battlefield, whoever dies and who swords, what is there to complain about?" Du Dangjia, what do you say? ”

Du Rong smiled bitterly and did not answer Lin Lian's question.

If Yu Wangao really forced the luxury family to leave Jian'an and flee south, the eight surnames of Eastern Fujian, including the Song family, would follow the luxury family and raise the flag of rebellion again, and there was no other choice, otherwise the Jiaocheng Ao family of the Tu clan would be a precedent.

Song Jia looked back, in addition to the horse team, there was a long array of foot soldiers in the back, she knew that Lin Tie could not tolerate the situation in Chongzhou to drag on any longer, the people trapped in Hecheng would not fall, and Lin Tie would not have the heart to do any more water grinding work, and a strong attack was inevitable.

Xiao Man was quite excited to prop his head and watch the majesty of the army.

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In the cold rain of early winter, the Jiangdong Left Army still maintained a fast speed on the avenue in Chongzhou, and rushed to Hecheng before dark to enter the camp for repair.

Lin Jian entered the Hecheng camp and first met with Zhang Yan, the salt and iron envoy who had personally supervised the army on the north bank for more than a month, and Mao Wenjing, the cavalry captain of the salt protection army, and learned about the sudden civil rebellion on the Yellow River embankment from Zhang Yan.

300,000 people rebelled, led by Ge Ping, with the support of Chen Hansan's troops, defeated the Pingji town army that supervised the repair of the river, and killed the governor and the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, Chen Zhongnian, the governor of Jinan Prefecture, and others. On the 23rd, the rebels captured Linqing and Jinan.

Due to the lack of access to the communication route, it took three days to get the news to the south.

Ge Ping, the leader of the rebel army, proclaimed himself the marshal of the Heavenly Jacket in Jinan, and named the Great Kou Chen Hansan as the left protector of the Heavenly Jacket, and the 300,000 rebels of the Yellow River called themselves the Heavenly Jacket Army.

Ge Ping led the Chinese army of Tianyuan according to Jinan, claiming to directly attack Yanjing in the north and overthrow the imperial court......

Lin Jian was distraught, and after a brief greeting with Zhang Yan, he returned to the camp on the south bank. In the current situation, he can only settle down in Chongzhou, unable to manage the overall situation of the world.

In the past month, the Jiangdong Left Army has requisitioned civilian husbands and imprisoned prisoners to continuously strengthen the moats and barricades outside the Hecheng fortress, and the number of normal workers has been maintained at more than 3,000.

Now, the moat wall has been built more than a zhang high, up to 12 feet thick, and Cao Ziang even had people dig a brick kiln on the south bank and start laying green bricks on the outside of the moat wall. The four prismatic camps were embedded in the four corners of the moat, and while reinforcing the overall structure of the moat, a small number of elites were also stationed and supplemented by the villagers, so that the 2,000 Kou regiments in the inner Hecheng Seri were completely surrounded.

Lin Jian took so much painstaking and invested so much, that is, after the surrender of the Kou soldiers, he directly used the moat wall as the outer wall of Hecheng, expanding the scale of Hecheng into a large city of 2,600 steps per week, and becoming the largest foundation of the Jiangdong Left Army except Chongzhou.

"Let's all go and prepare," Lin Jian said, "Send the arrow book over, give them another day, and if they don't fall tomorrow, they won't be allowed to drop ...... again."

Lin Jian said calmly, but his tone was extremely cold, and his mood disturbed the sudden civil unrest in Jinan, and he had murderous intentions.

Cao Ziang, Zhao Qingshan, Ao Canghai, Zhao Hu, Wang Chengfu, Hu Zhicheng and others all agreed awe-inspiringly, and Song Jia, Du Rong and others, who were inconvenient to appear in public, were also shocked to hear it behind the screen, Du Rong stood up and said: "If the envoy can believe me, let me send the letter in, and there is no need to send an arrow book......

"Okay," Lin Jian said, "I don't bother to persuade him to surrender in the book, Du Dangjia will go in directly, and tomorrow the twilight will be the time for me to attack and destroy the enemy." Although the head of the Donghai Kou is not as valuable as that of the Dongyu, the record of the Jiangdong Left Army really needs two or three thousand heads to set off! ”

"Then let me go too, I'll be more sure." Song Jia, who was wearing a scribe's green shirt, also came out and said.

"You can't do it......" Lin Jian shook his head categorically.

Song Jia felt a little melancholy, so she stopped talking, thinking: Don't you want me to take this risk? So what should I do with me?