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The Luoxiao Mountains are more than 1,000 miles longitudinal and horizontal, lying between Hunan and Jiangxi, but the terrain of the Yuanzhou area in the middle of the Luoxiao Mountains is low, which naturally forms the gateway to Hunan and Jiangxi.

Yuanzhou City is located on the north bank of Yuanshui, the center of the gateway to the west of Jiangxi, the upper reaches of Yuanshui are also known as Luxi, Luxi County of Yuanxi County is named after this, together with the lower Yuan County in the direction of the downstream of Yuanzhou City, the three cities will be between Hunan and Jiangxi this big channel, the artery blocked a tightly.

If Yuanzhou is not under the control, Jiangxi can only borrow from Ezhou, Jiangxia and other places under the control of Jinghu.

This also means that Zhang Han, the head of the Tanzhou camp, wants to cut Xiangtan and other places to stand on their own and get rid of Jiangning's control, and the best way is to secretly support Huang Binghao to resist the Huaidong soldiers and horses entering Yuanzhou.

Zhang Han was originally the prefect of Tanzhou and supervised the preparation of the army, and when the Liumin army was in Xiangtan, the officers and soldiers of the other prefectures were defeated and all defeated, but the situation of the army in Tanzhou was better. In the later period, when the southern government was in charge of the local military and political affairs to settle the chaos, Zhang Han was able to rise to the post of Tanzhou and actually control the military and civil affairs of the prefectures and counties along the Dongting Lake.

However, Xiangtan, under the auspices of Zhang Han, is difficult for Yang Xiong and other water robbers to effectively suppress, and in the feudal towns, Tanzhou can be said to be the weakest party.

After Yang Xiong led his troops to withdraw from Dongting Lake and defect to the luxury family, Xiangtan could not breathe a sigh of relief, and Huang Binghao sent troops from Yuanzhou to attack Tanzhou.

Although Yuan Tan and Tan have stopped their troops, the Tanzhou soldiers under Zhang Han's command are only 40,000, and they have not had a chance to grow their power; In addition, the local forces of the Xiangtan Prefectures are also quite complex, and they are not fully controlled by Zhang Han.

If Huang Binghao drove Huaidong away from Yuanzhou, Tanzhou directly bordered Jiangxi, Huaidong coerced the imperial court to order Tanzhou, Zhang Han only had 40,000 soldiers and horses, and he could not control all the Xiangtan places, so he would not dare to confront Huaidong openly.

Therefore, after the Huaidong soldiers and horses entered the hinterland of Jiangxi, Zhang Han did not care that thousands of people from Tanzhou had died in the hands of Huang Binghao, but quickly stopped fighting with Huang Binghao.

As long as Huang Binghao occupies Yuanzhou and does not let it, Zhang Han will be able to maintain the position of "nominally obeying Jiangning's orders and actually ceding Xiangtan to stand on his own".

Huang Binghao was also very clear about Zhang Han's thoughts, and after the troops were stopped, only 3,000 defenders were deployed in Luxi and other cities west of Yuanzhou and bordering Tan, and the main force under his command, about 35,000 soldiers and horses, were concentrated in Yuanzhou City and the lower Yuan City downstream of Yuanzhou City, so as to prepare to resist the westward advance of the Huaidong Army.

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Huang Binghao took the Yuanzhou Mansion as his line, and there were many soldiers inside and outside the line.

After entering August, the atmosphere in the city of Yuanzhou became more and more depressing, Chongguo Gong had given the final time limit in Yuzhang, before the middle of August, Yuanzhou did not accept the conditions of the Privy Council's surrender, and the matter of surrender was stopped, which meant that there was only one battle left.

Although Yuanzhou had nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, the elite of the invincible Zhejiang-Fujian army on the Western Front beat the Huaidong soldiers and horses like dogs, and the generals of Yuanzhou did not have the confidence to dare to compete head-on with the Huaidong soldiers and horses.

As the deadline approached, there was also controversy in the city of Yuanzhou.

Although there are many people who are worried that Huai Dong will not believe in his words, and they will still be liquidated afterwards, there are also some people who are afraid of coercion at the beginning, and they have no ambition themselves, and they hope to get rid of the charges of rebels at this time.

To descend or not to descend, this is a topic of endless controversy in the city of Yuanzhou after May; Of course, even if it falls, the vast majority of people still hope to have more protection, which means that Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou and others continue to control the situation in Yuanzhou.

"Since the establishment of Huaidong, Chongguo Gong has not broken his promise, and it is very unwise to delay it and anger Huaidong."

In the Xingyuan Gong Hall, the Yuan Zhou officials were arguing over whether to accept Huaidong's terms of surrender, and a middle-aged man in a green shirt stood in front of the hall, advocating accepting Huaidong's conditions and surrendering. He was the former Jiangzhou Mansion Army to join the army in Zhoucheng, Jiangzhou fought a war, and was forced to follow Huang Binghao to surrender to the extravagant flying bear, but the old department of the former Jiangzhou Army, how many people carried the charges of the rebels and willingly went to the black with the luxury family?

As early as during the control of Jiangxi by the luxury family, Zhou Cheng advocated that Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses should remain independent, avoid a blood feud with Huaidong, and cut off the way to retreat. At this time, Zhou Cheng was naturally the main descending faction.

"," a bearded general in a battle robe almost spit on Zhou Cheng's face, he said, "If words count, how could there be so much blood in the previous battles between the Western Qin Party, the Chu Party, and the Wu Party?" Now that Huaidong saw that Yuanzhou was difficult to attack, he made conditions to lure us to relax our vigilance, only you scholars who read books and read stiff brains will be fooled? ”

"Chongguo Gong promised Yuanzhou to keep 20,000 soldiers and horses, according to the three counties of Yuan, Yuanzhou, and Luxi, and make up another 100,000 taels of silver every year...... Zhou Cheng said, "According to General Zhang, how can Huaidong deceive?" ”

Zhang Xiongshan blew his beard and stared, and he fought on the battlefield to make his trip, but the argument of the tongue was not what he was good at.

Huang Binghao sat in the hall and was silent, in addition to Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou, who had the heaviest military power in Yuanzhou, also kept silent with a black face, but a yellow-shirted scribe next to Huang Binghao stood up and said: "Lord Zhou only knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other. The conditions given by Huaidong seem to be favorable, but there are traps in it step by step......"

"Mr. Tang, please speak." Zhou Cheng said politely.

The yellow-shirted scribe Tang Shide did not have an official position in Yuanzhou, but he was Huang Binghao's staff and Huang Binghao's personal official.

"First, Huaidong bites Xinyu City and refuses to let it, nothing else, just because Xinyu City is based on the lower reaches of the Yuan River, when the road of Heshan and the Huaidong army are based on Xinyu, it can block the way out of Yuanzhou to the east," Tang Shide said, "Huaidong must take Xinyu City, which shows that Huaidong fundamentally does not trust us, how can we trust Huaidong without reservation......"

"Second," Tang Shide didn't give Zhou Cheng a chance to debate with him, and then said, "Yuanzhou has 40,000 soldiers and horses at this time, Jiangzhou soldiers and Yuanzhou soldiers live in half, Huaidong wants us to cut half of them, may I ask Lord Zhou, are we carrying Jiangzhou soldiers or cutting Yuanzhou soldiers?" ”

When Huang Binghao lowered his luxury, including Chen Zishou in the later period, he pulled out the team, and the soldiers and horses he led were all Jiangzhou disciples. After the reduction of luxury, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou led their troops into Yuanzhou and attacked Tanzhou from Yuanzhou, and the additional troops were recruited from Yuanzhou. Therefore, in the Yuanzhou army, the soldiers of Jiangzhou and Yuanzhou are almost half of each other.

Tang Shide said: "If the army is cut off Yuan Zhou's generals, and the vast majority of Jiangzhou soldiers stay in Jiangzhou, the war will be stopped, and the soldiers will think of returning, and the remaining 20,000 Yuanzhou troops will soon fall apart and be difficult to maintain; If Xu Jiangzhou's children return to their hometowns and only keep Yuanzhou's soldiers, when will the Jiangzhou generals ask Yuanzhou soldiers to use their lives? ”

After all, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou were accused of rebels and recruited soldiers from Yuanzhou, most of them were strong, and the Yuanzhou army almost had no generals from Yuanzhou, and ordinary soldiers had no sense of identity with the Yuanzhou army at all.

Similarly, among the Jiangzhou generals, only the general's family sent to Yuanzhou at the last moment, and it was naturally impossible for ordinary soldiers to receive such good treatment, and the family still stayed in their hometown.

This makes the 40,000 soldiers and horses under Huang Binghao's command unable to talk about the guest army or the main army in Yuanzhou. The reduction of troops was originally to reduce the weak and retain the strong, and to retain the elite, but Yuanzhou soldiers and horses had to carry out large-scale reductions, and only 20,000 troops were retained, and the combat strength would only be seriously weakened, and the army's morale was unstable.

Even if it doesn't matter what Huaidong's thoughts are, Yuan Zhou is opposed to recruiting a series of people, and of course he will bite this point to show Huaidong's sinister intentions.

"Mr. Tang said it well," Zhang Xiongshan said with a grin, "No matter how strong the Huaidong army is, the soldiers are also flesh, not iron, I don't believe it, the Huaidong army can still collapse Yuanzhou City when it comes!" If we want to surrender, Xinyu City must be grasped in our hands, and none of the soldiers and horses must be cut, and then Jiangning must be asked to make up for our lack of salary! ”

Zhou Cheng was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and secretly said that these martial artists only wanted to be happy in front of him, and he said directly to Huang Binghao: "There are only five days left in the time limit given by Huaidong, and the adults can't delay any longer, and if they delay any longer, there will be a big disaster!" ”

Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou glanced at each other, and then looked at Zhou Zhizheng, who was sitting there on the right and had been silent: "Lord Zhou, what do you think?" ”

"It's true that you can't take Huaidong lightly, Lin Jian is a guy who even dares to deceive Emperor Chongguan."

Zhou Zhizheng, who was formerly sentenced by Jiangzhou and gave Huang Binghao to Xiangtan to recruit envoy Shi Shi after the extravagance was lowered together, has always held a neutral attitude in the debate between the two factions of personnel who surrendered or not, but mainly advocated vigilance against Huaidong.

At this time, he also said that the matter of surrender was not serious, as if the time limit given by Huaidong was still very generous.

At this time, a famous man hurriedly walked in from outside the hall, and there was no announcement, looking at his ordinary mountain man's dress, his face was dusty and tired, as if he had just returned from a long journey.

Zhou Zhizheng didn't recognize this person, but when he saw Huang Binghao coming in, there was an eager look in his eyes, thinking that he should be Huang Binghao's henchman who went out.

The man walked directly to Huang Binghao's side and whispered, the look on Huang Binghao's face was happy and suspicious, and he even made Zhou Zhizheng believe that the person had just returned from the north.

After the man finished speaking, Huang Binghao immediately said to everyone in the hall: "Today's deliberations are here, you all go back first, Zishou stays......" He hesitated for a while, and said to Zhou Zhizheng, "Lord Zhou, you can also stay." ”

Zhou Zhizheng said without moving: "Yes." ”