Fuyang faces the river on one side and is surrounded by hills and mountains on three sides, so it is not easy to walk.

Under the condition that the waterway was controlled by the water division of eastern Zhejiang, Dong Yuan led his troops to aid Fuyang from Hangzhou, from Gudang Town in the north of Xihu Lake to the west, and then divided his troops into two roads after leaving the town: all the way to Longwu Village, to take the hole between Wuchao Mountain and Xixiang Mountain, to aid Fuyang, all the way through Zhuantang Town to take the valley road between Xixiang Mountain and Lingshan to aid Fuyang......

In order to gain time for attacking Fuyang, Su Tingzhan not only controlled the waterway with naval warships, but also sent a number of elites in the east of Fuyang County to intercept the reinforcements coming from Hangzhou; He also divided his troops to attack Shangyanwu in the north of Fuyang City, in order to establish a more stable interception position in Shangyanwu.

Shangyanwu is the last and most critical way to approach Fuyang City from the north.

It is about 100 miles from Hangzhou to Fuyang, and the valley road between the hills and ridges is also a post road, but Dong Yuan did not lead his troops until noon on the 23rd to advance to the Yanque Ridge north of Shangyanwu.

Standing on the Yanque Ridge, which is more than 40 zhang tall, you can not only see the tile wall of the house in the upper Yanwu, but also clearly see the north gate building of Fuyang City - presumably the Fuyang defenders can also see that the reinforcements from Hangzhou have rushed to Yanque Ridge, after all, Yanque Ridge is only the last ten miles away from Fuyang City.

A puff of black smoke rose from the upper swallow dock and rose into the cloudless blue sky. Dong Yuan finally came a step slower, and went to Yanwu to give Su Tingzhan a first step to capture. A small number of remnants fled to Yanque Ridge in a hurry, and the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels did not chase after them, but only entered Shangyanwu, or on both sides of the periphery of Shangyanwu, taking advantage of the hilly terrain that was conducive to defense, digging trenches and building fortifications, and guarding against this side's counterattack and capture of the village.

Dong Yuan's face was gloomy, the sentry had just come from the area controlled by the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels, and he learned from the sentry that the west gate of Fuyang County had collapsed, and the extravagant soldiers were frantically snatching the west gate.

The 6,000 defenders of Fuyang County, mostly newly recruited, have been holding the city for eight days - in these eight days, Su Tingzhan led the main force of soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang to attack Fuyang in turn, regardless of casualties, and has exhausted the defenders of Fuyang.

The defenders of Fuyang still had the will to resist at this time, and they did not collapse, but they saw that reinforcements were approaching from the north, but if they wanted to be able to support Fucheng, they must first capture Shangyanwu.

Dong Yuan looked at the armor behind him, and his mood was heavy.

In the past two days, they have rushed to seize the road, and six interception teams of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels have been defeated along the road, and the casualties have also been heavy. What was more fatal than the casualties was the fierce fighting and hurriing for two days and two nights in a row, and the generals were very tired.

Most of these six or seven thousand people were recruited by Dong Yuan during his trip to Weiyang Mansion, and most of the generals were old robes recruited by Dong Yuan from the Eastern Fujian Army, and they were not newly recruited. But they are also facing the army of tigers and wolves of the luxurious family, and their combat experience and will to resist are extremely strong, and this will be a bloody battle.

During the ten-year war in Eastern Fujian, Dong Yuan had fully understood the strength of the Eastern Fujian soldiers.

Dongfu is located in a corner, and it is extremely difficult to seek the world with a corner of Dongfu, but it is even more difficult for the outside world to break into Dongmin.

During the ten-year war in Eastern Fujian, the East China Sea was rampant, and the imperial court sailors were unfavorable, and the strategy of harassing Jin'an by sea did not work, and to attack Eastern Fujian by land, the only way to go east was to take the Sanxi and Minjiang waterways to the east.

Unlike ordinary rebels, the eight families of Eastern Fujian have the same spirit.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were only more than 2,000 people from the eight-surnamed clan Dingkou, but they multiplied and lived for more than 200 years, and married with the local Yiyue people, and the clan power expanded sharply in Jian'an and Jin'an, almost reaching the level of four out of ten families with eight surnames.

In other words, if the eight surnamed Zonghao, led by the luxury family, fought hard, the imperial court had no possibility of recruiting peace and dividing the localities, and could only carry out repeated tug-of-war along the narrow passage of the Min River. The tug-of-war has been fought for nearly two years, and the two sides have filled in the flesh and blood and lives of countless generals.

Li Zhuo also went from the deputy envoy of the supervising army to the supervising military envoy and then to the supervising of Eastern Fujian, and it was not easy to conquer the entire territory of Jian'an Mansion in the middle reaches of the Min River in Chongguan for seven years; There are only a few steps away from the pacification of the war in Dongmin, and perhaps the luxury family will not be able to hold out for another year or even less.

It was also the heavens that helped the luxury family, and the border army was defeated by Chentangyi at this time, more than half of the 200,000 border troops were wiped out, Liaoxi was completely lost, and Gyeonggi was in danger. The temple was also turned upside down, the Chu party replaced the Qin party, and Chen Xinbo was idle to seize power - the Chu party would rather give the luxury family a chance to breathe, and could not allow Li Zhuo, who belonged to the Qin party, to make a contribution to pacifying the southeast, and it was also urgently needed to transfer elite troops from the southern front to support the northern front.

It was under this background that the luxury family surrendered and surrendered, Chen Zhihu led his troops to the north, and Li Zhuo handed over the power to resign the army to Jiangning to serve as the secretary of the Jiangning Military Department.

After all, the commander refused to disobey the king's orders, and there were too many ties in his heart, if he insisted on fighting the last battle in Dongmin back then, maybe the situation would be very different.

Dong Yuan sighed secretly in his heart, he didn't know the current affairs in the past, and it was useless to regret it, but now he must take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels to knock down Shangyanwu as soon as possible - after the luxury Feixiong captures Linshui, he will inevitably transfer elite troops from the western front to reinforce Fuyang - counting the time, the western front soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels may be halfway to reinforce Fuyang.

From Wuyuan, from Chun'an, from Tonglu down the river, the speed will not be too slow; In the early stage, there were a large number of wooden boats from eastern Zhejiang to the west, and I think that from that time on, Luxury Feixiong had a plan to break through from the middle road, and then transfer the soldiers and horses of the western line down the river and transfer to the north of the middle road, right?

The Zhejiang-Fujian rebels have nearly 50,000 elites on the Western Front, and they have lost in Linshui, once Fuyang is lost, let Xufei Xiong transfer the 350,000 elites to the middle road......

There is no need to waste any more time to deduce the bad situation after the fall of Fuyang, and now it is necessary to capture Shangyanwu and hold Fuyang City, and then wait for the Haiyu army and Meng Yishan's old Ning Navy to go south for reinforcements......

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From the news of the loss of Linshui County in the early hours of yesterday morning, the emergency of Fuyang, and the attack on Anji by the Zhejiang-Fujian army reached Haiyu, Haiyu was also embarrassed and caught off guard.

The middle passage of Fuyang and Linshui was opened to luxury families, and the defense of Huzhou Mansion was very weak, and it was impossible to resist the influx of tens of thousands of luxury elites. From Huzhou Mansion to the northeast along Taihu Lake, there is Pingjiang Mansion - including Chen Mingzhen and others, everyone in Pingjiang Mansion did not expect such a big leak in the middle road.

The defense of Pingjiang Prefecture has always been centered on the eastern coast, and the southwest is located behind Jiaxing, Hangzhou, and Huzhou, which is the inner line, and the defense has never been paid attention to, whether it is the garrison of soldiers and horses or the walled city, it is far weaker than the east.

Although the Haiyu Army is named after Haiyu, it is actually the local military equipment of Pingjiang Prefecture, and neither Yu Xinyuan nor Chen Xiyan will tolerate the Chen family only caring about the safety of Haiyu County. After receiving Dong Yuan's warrant from Hangzhou, Chen Huawen immediately ordered Su Pinxiao to lead the Haiyu Navy to take the Dongjiang River into Taihu Lake and reinforce the Huzhou capital.

Chen Huawen also personally led the Haiyu army to go south by land, planning to go to Nanxun first and respond to Huzhou and Hangcheng.

In order to protect the capital city of Huzhou, we must calmly mobilize reinforcements from other places - but where are the reinforcements available?

Chen Zhihu led his troops to the north, most of the Changhuai Army also went north, and the Huaidong Army also went north - when Tu and Luzhou's troops wanted to guard against Luo Xiancheng taking the opportunity to advance eastward, the Jiangning garrison army was the general reserve of soldiers and horses, and it would not leave Jiangning easily, and there were less than 8,000 soldiers and horses in Meng Yishan's department who went to Weiyang Mansion to rest and recuperate a few years ago who could cross the river to the south for reinforcements!

The transfer of Meng Yishan to the south will have to wait for Jiang Ning's order, but it is difficult to say whether Meng Yishan will lead his army to cross the river immediately after receiving the order, and whether he will delay waiting and seeing.

Fuyang was in an emergency, and the situation could not be delayed at all, Chen Xiyan, who was recuperating in Haiyu County, decided to go to Weiyang and personally do Meng Yishan's work, at least Meng Yishan led his troops to cross the river and enter Pingjiang Mansion first.

Chen Mingzhe left for Chongzhou even earlier, in their opinion, the main force of the Huaidong Army had already gone north to Qinwang, but there were always some reserve troops on the Chongzhou and Shengsi defense lines that could be urgently transferred to support one or two.

Chen Mingzhe met Li Shutang halfway through, and urgently sent someone to stop Chen Xiyan from the middle of the road, and when they met in Haiyu City, it was already early morning on the 23rd.

"What, the envoy of Lin Zhizhi has returned to Huaidong!"

After knowing from Li Shutang's mouth that Lin Jian had quietly moved south and that the main force of the Huaidong Army had not gone north to King Qin, Chen Xiyan could no longer hide the shock in his heart.

Chen Mingzhe was also surprised and delighted, surprised that Lin Jian actually pulled such a big pretense, the main force of the Huaidong Army actually lurked after leaving Chongzhou, and without the reinforcements of the Huaidong Army, what should the situation in Yanji be?

At present, the luxury family wants to come in from the middle road, and the whole line of northern Zhejiang, Pingjiang, Danyang, Huinan, and Jiangning is in an emergency, and no one is in the mood to pay attention to the situation in Yanji anymore!

The main force of the Huaidong Army had already lurked in the northern waters of the Shengsi defense line at this time, and adjusted the deployment of the back road to the south, and the south would have a great chance to turn the corner - this was something that made Chen Mingzhen overjoyed.

"My family has already received a secret report and knows the critical situation on the southern front. When the north and the south can't take care of each other, Huaidong can only protect Jiangning first, and my family secretly returned to Huaidong from Jinhai to supervise the war! Li Shutang explained.

Li Shutang's clever explanation naturally couldn't deceive Chen Xiyan.

Someone in Fangjiabu defected to the luxury family, opening the gap of the luxury family's surprise attack on the water, which was beyond everyone's expectations. This is also the key to the emergency in the middle, and it is impossible for Huaidong to know the news in advance.

The main force of the Huaidong Army left Chongzhou on the 12th and went north, and at this time it was able to sneak into the sea area north of the Shengsi defense line to make preparations, which shows that Lin Jian was using King Qin as a guise to carry out his plan of repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chencang at the beginning!

Even if he covers up for Huaidong again, Huaidong is also a big crime of bullying the king. In the past, Chen Xiyan would never be in the company of a traitorous minister like Lin Lian, but at this time, what choice could he have?

Yanji is in danger, but it is more important to keep Jiangdong.

"When my family first returned to Huaidong, I didn't know much about the situation in Zhejiang and Zhejiang; It was only after I arrived in Haiyu that I learned the news that Linshui had fallen and Fuyang was in an emergency," Li Shutang said, "and ask Lord Chen to reluctantly go to Shengsi to discuss the rescue plan with my family!" ”

Even if Huaidong can establish miraculous achievements this time, he is not afraid that the court will investigate the crime of bullying the king, but it is always a loss to use King Qin as a disguise. Li Shutang invited Chen Xiyan to Shengsi to meet with Lin Lian, so that he could not get anything to do with this matter, at least he could block the mouths of some Wu Party officials and scholars in the future.

Chen Xiyan hesitated again and again, although he knew that the imperial court was unable to investigate the charge of Huaidong bullying the monarch afterwards, but he did not want to be with Lin Tie, let alone have anything to do with it, but at the same time, he was worried that the Huaidong army did not know the situation in Fuyang and delayed the fighter - once the soldiers and horses of the luxury family leaked in from Fuyang and Linshui, it would be the children of Sanwu who would suffer.

As long as Meng Yishan knew that the main force of the Huaidong Army was not going north, he would decisively lead the army to cross the river south and compete for military merits, so Weiyang Mansion no longer needed Chen Xiyan to go in person.

However, the Yuan Ning Navy crossed the river and then went south by land to the territory of Huzhou Prefecture, to say the least, it will take three to five days, and it is difficult to say what the situation will be after three or five days, and it will not be worse after all.

In the end, Chen Xiyan had extremely complicated feelings and took a boat with Chen Mingzhen and Li Shutang to Daheng Island to see Lin Bin.

From the 21st, the main force of the Huaidong Army assembled, adjusted its deployment, and made final preparations before the attack. Chen Xiyan and Chen Mingzhe followed Li Shutang to Daheng Island, and the twilight was heavy. The advance fleet is moving southward to borrow the wind, and under the cover of night, it will quickly pass through the inner sea area of Daishan and Changguo Islands, and go straight to the heart of the luxury family in eastern Zhejiang!

Due to the luxury family in Daishan, Changguo Islands, as well as to Mingzhou, Huijifu have established a complete beacon dun village system, after the main force of the Huaidong Army passed the Shengsi defense line, the time to sneak to the inner line without being detected is only one night at most, and it is too late to directly attack Fuyang, which is located in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River and has twists and turns in the waterway, and the first step for Lin Tie is to fight Mingzhou!