If it weren't for Fu Qinghe sneaking back to Chongzhou with Lin Tie's warrant, if it weren't for Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, and Sun Jingxuan going up the mountain together to tell their story, Gu Junxun couldn't believe that Huaidong was still preparing for King Qinwang in the north yesterday, and today he would suddenly turn his head and go south to fight Zhejiang and Fujian!

The Huaidong Army went north to King Qin, and it was a holy decree, and it was not against the order to suddenly turn around and go south to fight Zhejiang and Fujian? If Huaidong had planned to do so from the beginning, wouldn't the husband go to Jinhai this time to bully the king?

Gu Junxun has been trained to be loyal to the monarch since he was a child, and he has his own opinions about things, and it is difficult to accept such a result for a while, and he is stunned and doesn't know what to say.

Liu Yue'er felt surprised, but there was nothing difficult to accept. For a long time, the world is big, and in her heart she is not as big as Lin Bin, and whatever decision Lin Jian makes, she naturally thinks that it is the most correct truth, and there is nothing to question.

Xiaoman has a grudge against the imperial court, which is very unimaginable, and he has the greatest opinion on King Qin of the north. It's just that in such a matter, there is no room for her to express her opinions, at this time, Fu Qinghe and Lin Mengde ran over and said that they would not go north to King Qin, and they would go south to fight the luxury family, if she hadn't cared about her identity as a little lady, she would have applauded a long time ago. In her heart, I wish Fu Qinghe and Lin Meng had to leave quickly, so that she could go to Su Mei to talk about it.

The biggest loss in Gu Junxun's heart may be that she didn't expect such a big thing, and she can't know a little bit in advance. Gu Junxun looked at Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman who were sitting beside him, looking at their expressions, he didn't know anything about it beforehand.

It's no wonder that Liu Yue'er hasn't cared about military and politics all these years, Xiaoman still has a little girl's heart, and she can't hide things in her heart - it's just that the woman who lives in the city, and the woman who followed Lin Lian, didn't know the news beforehand?

Thinking of this, Gu Junxun couldn't help but feel a little jealous in her heart, but she still knew the measure, even if Lin Jian chose to go down the road of bullying the king, she could only marry the chicken and follow the chicken, and said to Fu Qinghe and the others: "The husband trusts you, and you also have the husband's warrant in your hand, you obey it - what can we three women do, and ask Mr. Fu and Uncle Mengde to give instructions!" ”

"The subordinates don't dare to be rude, according to the orders of the adults, there are indeed some things to ask the three ladies to work hard," Fu Qinghe had almost no contact with Gu Junxun, but he respected Gu Junxun as the main mother of Huaidong, and said respectfully, "The lord will lead the main force to choose the opportunity to go straight to the enemy's belly, and there is no time to return to Chongzhou to mobilize follow-up troops." Although the luxury family transferred troops from Mingzhou and Huiji to the west, its troops in Wuyuan, Chun'an, Tonglu and Xiaoshan were as many as 100,000, and they were not far from the eastern front, and they were very quick to return to the aid - in this battle, Huaidong had to bet on the fortune of the next few years or even more than ten years, and it was impossible not to use all his strength. In addition to the cavalry battalion in Jinhai and the Fengli battalion in Huai'an, Huaidong not only has to press all the active forces to the southern front, but the Haidong battalion will also be ordered to rush to support in the later stage; Most of the workers' battalions must assemble in Hecheng, Jiangmen, and Chongcheng from now on to make preparations to support the front line; It is also necessary to requisition all the merchant ships that can go to sea in Chongcheng and Hecheng for the purpose of transporting troops...... Including Chongcheng, Guanyintan, Hecheng, and Jiangmen, all civilian workshops must be requisitioned for military use. There will be a vacancy in the Chongzhou garrison, and Feng Siniang will be appointed as the deputy general of the women's battalion to lead the women's battalion to assist in the defense of Chongcheng...... If there are officials in Hailing Mansion and the county yamen who refuse to cooperate, they will not hesitate to put military management first, and they will not hesitate to detain or behead. With such a big turn in the matter, it is inevitable that there will be discussions in urban and rural areas, and the morale of the generals and the army and the people may be frustrated, and the three ladies need to come forward to comfort the soldiers and the people! ”

Although Huaidong has long had the basis for separating itself and standing on its own, in the hearts of many people, there are more or less such thoughts, but this kind of thinking has always been obscure and has never been openly revealed. In the hearts of more people, Huaidong and the imperial court are regarded as one.

In order to deceive the needs of the extravagant family, Huaidong previously publicized the matter of going north to King Qin, and all the work was prepared for King Qin in the north. knew the real plan in advance, only Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang and a few others. In order to hide the eyes and ears of the luxury family in Chongzhou, everyone else, including Gu Junxun and others, was kept in the dark and devoted themselves to supporting King Qin in the north.

Suddenly, abandoning the edict of the king of diligence and mobilizing all forces to turn around and fight the extravagant family, it is difficult to predict how much impact and chaos it will cause in Chongzhou and Huaidong.

Even if he wanted to suppress all the troops as much as possible, Fu Qinghe sneaked back this time, and he still transferred a thousand armor soldiers from the Chongcheng infantry battalion to bring them back—in the north, Cao Ziang led a thousand armor soldiers into Huai'an City, intending to use force to forcibly suppress all possible chaos if necessary.

At this time, only Liao Liao, who knew about it in Chongzhou, was a few people who were present. In particular, the contents of the Lin Tie warrant presented before and after are diametrically opposed, and if any officials or generals question the authenticity of the secret order, there will be unnecessary confusion.

Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, and Sun Jingxuan came over to ask Gu Junxun, Liu Yue'er, and Xiaoman, as the main mothers, to assist them in conveying Lin Bin's secret orders layer by layer, so as to ensure that Chongzhou's military potential was mobilized in the shortest possible time.

Fu Qinghe explained, Gu Junxun could understand, and said: "Everything will be arranged by Mr. Fu...... and then went down the mountain with Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman to Dongya to meet Huaidong officials and generals......

Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, Zhou Guangnan, Zhou Guangdong, Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Wang Chengfu, Chen Lei, Ge Siyu and others were the first to summon and circulate the secret order. Even after they saw Lin Bin's secret order, they were also surprised, suspicious, and happy.

But no matter what, they are all core members of Huaidong, and they deeply understand where Huaidong's core interests are, and with a little explanation, it is easy to accept the secret order to turn around and fight the extravagant......

More than 1,000 cavalry officers who stayed in Chongzhou and some of the sentinel ships of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion were also dispatched to do everything possible to block Huaidong's channel to other places, especially to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Then came the more peripheral officials, generals, ordinary officials, and reserve officers of the War Training Academy—in the middle of the night, the Chongzhou squires, the southward maritime merchants, and the representatives of the Dongyang Township Party in Chongzhou were all notified. However, on the third day, that is, on the 21st, the officials of Hailing Mansion and the counties represented by Wu Meijiu received a warrant from Lin Jian regarding the government and the county yamen accepting military control for general military mobilization.

On this day, from Changshan Island and the beacon pier deployed on Zhusha Island in the sea area between Changshan Island and Hecheng, the beacon fire was transmitted all the way to Chongcheng - ordinary people did not know what this beacon fire message meant, and thought that there was an enemy army attacking from the east sea, but Fu Qinghe and others knew that the main fleet led by Lin Jian had returned to the front line of Changshan Island from the north. Waiting for Ge Cunxiong to lead the main fleet of the third water battalion of Jinghai to go to sea from Jiangmen, and together with the momentum of thunder, they rushed to the heart of the luxury family in eastern Zhejiang!

At the same time, Li Shutang sailed to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and he would persuade the Chen family on behalf of Huaidong to agree to transfer the Haiyu army to participate in the later war......

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On the 21st, it was drizzling in the waterfront sky, and the sky was gloomy and the light was dim.

More than 1,000 corpses at the west gate of the county were lying down in all directions, and before they had time to clean up, the blood flowed out of the corpses that had not yet stiffened, and gathered in low-lying places, mixed with rainwater, forming a larger pool of blood and flesh.

Everywhere are broken halberds, the city wall is full of arrows, dense like a hedgehog, luxury flying bear, accompanied by Tian Chang, climbed the west city gate tower of Linshui County, looking at the battlefield inside and outside the west city gate, it is not difficult to imagine the fierce battle in the afternoon - at this time, there are still some voices of resistance in the east city by borrowing streets and alleys.

A sturdy middle-aged man in dark iron armor climbed the city gate tower, his hair drenched in the rain under the steel hood, wet on his forehead, eyes as big as copper bells, and a beard. He was wounded on his left arm, he walked with a limp, and his leg was also injured, but he was very energetic, and he pushed the mountain and bowed down after three or five steps, and said in his mouth: "Zhenhe greets Lord Dudu." Zhenhe Ghost lost his mind, and was ordered by Lord Tian, and only today did he know the master, he was really stupid and stupid as a pig, and please punish him! ”

"What is the responsibility, what is the responsibility?" Extravagant Fei Xiong walked over, picked Fang Zhenhe up from the ground, and said, "General Fang, hurry up." Previously, in order to keep it secret, I did not ask the Dadu Governor's Mansion for General Fang's credit in time, but from today on, you are the first meritorious general and the first meritorious minister of the Zhejiang and Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. It is common for the marquis to be rewarded on a different day, General Fang should not dislike today's small power and ......"

"To be able to serve Zhejiang and Fujian and serve the governor, Zhenhe will be satisfied," Fang Zhenhe said, "It's just a pity that I failed to completely annihilate the Linshui garrison, please allow me to lead my troops to the south to pursue the remnants of the Linshui army, and make another contribution to the governor!" ”

"Good!" Extravagant Fei Xiong laughed, "General Fang has the heart to make meritorious contributions, that's really good......"

From Fangjiabu to Linshui, the road is narrow and dangerous. Fang Zhenhe joined the luxury family, and the luxury flying bear first sent more than 1,000 elites to sneak into Fangjiabu lightly, even if there were clues exposed, the news would not reach the water at all.

In the past few days, more than 2,000 elites have been sent to take dangerous paths in the mountains, lurking in Fangjiabu, waiting for an opportunity to act, and the defenders of Linshui County have not noticed the abnormality of the western front from beginning to end.

This morning, Fang Zhenhe led the Fang family caravan to cover hundreds of Zhejiang and Fujian elites to enter Linshui City under the pretext of transporting mountain goods, and captured the west gate of Linshui City in a surprise attack.

Dong Yuanzhi army does have a set, Linshui County to belong to the inner line, 3,000 defenders, less than 800 old soldiers, when the West City Gate to the surprise attack, immediately organized a counteroffensive, inside and outside the West City Gate and the surprise attack of the Zhejiang and Fujian elite and Fangjiabu rebels engaged in a fierce battle. Almost after the elite fought out, and the reinforcements in Hangzhou could not go to the aid in time due to the rain and the river network to infiltrate and blockade the eastern Zhejiang water division, the remnants of the defenders of Linshui County were forced to abandon Linshui County.

In addition to the Zhejiang-Fujian elite lurking in Fangjiabu in advance to quickly support the battle outside the Xicheng Gate of Linshui County, Luxury Feixiong personally led the elite to clear the defense wall between Chun'an and Fangjiabu a little in advance. Before Dong Yuan sent reinforcements from Hangzhou, not only did the 2,000 elites who infiltrate in advance cooperate with the rebels in Fangjiabu, but also led his troops to forcibly open up the passage from Chun'an to the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain into Linshui.

Although it is said that more than 500 people were killed in the battle of the elite of Zhejiang and Fujian, but after attacking Linshui, it can respond to Su Tingzhan to besiege Fuyang to the south, threaten Hangzhou to the east, and protect the flank of the road from the northward entrance to the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain to the west - the trail of the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain, to the north can enter Huzhou Mansion, to the west Qianqiu Pass can enter Huizhou, sweep Deng Yu's back road, and go northwest to Dusong Pass and enter Ningguo County to attack Jiangning......

After capturing Linshui, and then capturing Fuyang in the south, the situation will be more favorable-

The materials will be traced from the east of Zhejiang to the Qianjiang River and the Xin'an River to Chun'an, and then turn to the north of the trail at the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain, which will go around a big circle; It is far less convenient than after the capture of Fuyang, the materials in eastern Zhejiang will go directly to the north through Fuyang, and then go west to Fangjiabu or north to Huzhou or west to Qianqiu Pass and Dusong Pass.

In addition, the trail at the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain is too dangerous, and a small number of soldiers and horses can pass, but it will be very difficult for a large number of soldiers and horses and grain supplies to take this road; And from Fuyang to Linshui there is a gallop road to communicate, only Linshui City to Fangjiabu less than 20 miles is a dangerous road.

If Fuyang is in the hands of the Northern Zhejiang Army, Linshui County will always be an isolated city, and there is a danger of recapturing Dong Yuan at any time. The capture of Fuyang, Fuyang and Linshui can be integrated with the control area south of the Qianjiang River, completely suppressing Dong Yuan to the east of Hangzhou, and will also provide convenience for the advance army to enter Huzhou and surround Hangcheng in a roundabout way.

After occupying Linshui City, Lu Feixiong sent more than 1,000 elites to take the trail to capture Qianqiu Pass, Dusong Pass and Huzhou Prefecture Anji County, and even more so to lay down Fuyang and completely open the gap from the middle road to the north......

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The defection of the Fang family and the fall of Linshui County were undoubtedly a head-on blow to Dong Yuan. He didn't have time to regret anything, he was more concerned about whether Fuyang could keep it at this time.

As long as Fuyang is not lost, the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels can only leak in from the trail at the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain.

Dong Yuan had already sent people to Anji to strengthen the defense of Anji County. As long as the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels do not have many soldiers and horses, there is still a lot of hope for holding Anji County. As long as the county seat of Anji is defended, it will be able to block the entrance of the Zhejiang-Fujian army north into Huzhou Mansion - as for whether Dusong Pass and Qianqiu Pass can be kept, Dong Yuan can't take care of it.

Dusong Pass and Qianqiu Pass were lost, and perhaps Jiangning could only transfer troops from Dangtu, Luzhou or Dongyang to the south and rush to Huinan to seal the mouth. Similarly, as long as Fuyang is not lost, the number of soldiers and horses that the Zhejiang-Fujian army can enter the Huizhou Mansion from the eastern and northern foothills of Fuyu Mountain will also be very limited, and the supplies that can be transported into it will be even more limited - the soldiers and horses who enter by surprise attacks will not have a strong long-lasting combat ability, and once the capture of the city is blocked, it will be extremely difficult to penetrate deeper. As long as Jiangning dispatches reinforcements in time, it will not be too difficult to defeat the Zhejiang-Fujian army that has infiltrated into the south of the tube.

If Fuyang is taken away by the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels, from Fuyang to Linshui will be connected, and a big gap will be formed in the entire middle road, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels will be able to pour in from this gap - Huzhou Mansion is already on the inner line, and the garrison soldiers and horses in Huzhou Mansion and the counties are limited, with a total of less than 8,000 people, and most of them are mainly new pawns, how can they resist the Zhejiang-Fujian Tiger and Wolf Division that poured in from the gap in the middle road? It is obviously too late for Hangzhou to adjust its deployment.

If Huzhou Mansion falls, it will not only make Hangcheng and Jiaxing copy the back road, but also the passage from Huzhou Mansion to Huizhou Mansion and Jiangning Mansion will be more and more spacious - in fact, as long as Fuyang is captured, the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels can also go from Fuyang to Linshui, and then go west to Dusong Pass or Qianqiu Pass to enter Huizhou Mansion -

Considering the loss of Fuyang, it was also possible to organize a strong defense line in Linshui County. After Linshui in the north was first attacked and seized by the luxury family, Dong Yuan really couldn't imagine how bad the situation would be if Fuyang was lost again.

The only way to do this is to draw the elite from Hangzhou, and he can't care about the approaching night, so he personally leads his troops to aid Fuyang to ensure that Fuyang is not conquered by the rebels of Zhejiang and Fujian.