Late at night on the 22nd, the heavy rain was pouring down, the world was like ink, and several horses rode fast horses and boats to land, galloping along the official road on the north bank of the Chang River.

The road was slippery in the rain, and the rider on horseback did not know how many times he fell down before he arrived at Fuliang City, and his nose and face were bruised.

The movement of the fast horses galloping in the rain alarmed the generals defending the city, and watched the horsemen come straight to the city gate, and picked out the wind lanterns to look at their faces.

The black-clothed rider on horseback carried a fast horse that was panting, took out a token from his bosom and threw it at the head of the city, and shouted impatiently: "There is a secret letter from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to the generals of Fuliang, so please open the city gate as soon as possible!" ”

The sky and the earth are like ink, and it is dark when it is covered a little far, and now the Qimen rebel army is approaching from the east, who knows if these horsemen are dressed up by the chaotic army, and who knows if there are ambushes hidden in the darkness behind these horsemen?

Huang Biaozi listened to the movement on this side of Xicheng, walked over, looked at a few familiar faces under the wind lamp outside the city poured the heavy rain like a dog in water, and hurriedly asked people to put down the hanging basket, and the people in the future pulled up to the city, and asked: "Zhou Meishan, what is the order of the metropolitan governor?" Did you order the defenders of Fuliang, Ganzhou, and Yuzhang to immediately go to Shangrao's aid? ”

Zhou Meishan and Huang Biaozi were both lieutenants of the attendants beside Luwenzhuang, and when he heard Zhou Biaozi ask like this, he just smiled bitterly and did not answer his question, but asked, "Where is Vice Governor Su and Han Li?" The Governor has a secret letter to show them......"

Huang Biaozi's back was cold, and the rain seeped into his clothes and armor from the grass, and he was unaware of it, and asked in surprise: "The Metropolitan Governor really wants to give up Shangrao and not save it!" ”

"What a!" Zhou Meishan also had an evil fire burning in his heart, and his tone was rough and irritable, urging Huang Biaozi to lead him to Su Tingzhan and Han Li.

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Su Tingzhan heard that a special envoy from Jiangzhou entered the city overnight with a secret letter, and his heart was as calm as water when he tidied up his clothes.

He had too much blood on his hands in Zhedong, and there was no room for relaxation with Huaidong, but it didn't mean that he would definitely lead his troops to Shangrao to die.

By this time, the situation was clear.

Jiangzhou was attacked from both sides by Jinghu and Chizhou, and it was impossible to transfer the main force of the infantry battalion to aid Shangrao.

At this time, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Yuanzhou, but how could they continue to hang themselves with the luxury family on this tree at this time?

In the hinterland of Jiangxi, in Ganzhou, Yuzhang and Fuliang, there are more than 10,000 people loyal to the luxury family. This is probably the last bit of infantry battalion combat power that Haowenzhuang can mobilize to aid Shangrao at this time, and it is not enough to fill in Shangrao.

The fact that the Jiangzhou Navy can block the Chizhou Navy and Huaidong's Yijiang Navy on the periphery is not how strong the Jiangzhou Navy is, but more depends on the special terrain of the lake.

At the mouth of Poyang Lake on the east side of Jiangzhou City, when the water rises, the water surface is only twenty or thirty miles, and a large part of it is still a shallow water swing that is not conducive to the passage of large warships, and the waterway that can really enter Poyang Lake from the Yangtze River is only three or four miles wide.

The topography of the mouth of the lake is conducive to the blockade of Jiangzhou's naval army, so it has the reputation of Jiangzhou as the danger of Jiangxi's throat.

Once Haowenzhuang transferred the Jiangzhou naval army south to Xinjiang to aid Shangrao, it also meant that the blockade of the mouth of Poyang Lake was lifted.

The naval forces of Chizhou, Yijiang, and even Jinghu Lake will pour into the mouth of the lake on a large scale, and will form an absolute naval superiority on the water surface of the vast Poyang Lake, so that they can calmly encircle and annihilate the Jiangzhou naval army.

Even if the Jiangzhou naval army can smoothly take the remnants of the eastern front back to Ganzhou and Yuzhang from Shangrao, the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Jiangxi will be completely divided into isolated and helpless pieces of lonely chess, and completely lose the strategic initiative.

For the Zhejiang-Fujian army, the situation in Jiangxi has completely collapsed, and it is more important than receiving troops and horses on the eastern front to avoid all the chips falling into Jiangxi for the Huaidong army to eat.

If the Zhejiang-Fujian army wants to put itself to death and survive, there is only one feasible strategy, that is, before Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu may have reacted, they will decisively abandon Jiangxi, cross the river and flee north, and jump out of the encirclement of the Huaidong Army.

If the news of the collapse of the Shangrao defense line reached Chizhou and Ezhou, Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu reacted and completely blocked the river crossing channel of the Zhejiang-Fujian army on the north bank, it would be completely finished for the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

If they can't cross the river, the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Jiangzhou can only sit and wait for the main force of the Huaidong Army to come over and encircle and annihilate them.

Su Tingzhan walked into the Ming Hall with a heavy face, Jiangzhou's envoy Zhou Meishan had already asked Huang Biaozi to lead him in, and Han Li and Tian Weiye also rushed in. Han Li impatiently rushed straight in front of Zhou Meishan and asked, "If the Yuzhang faction doesn't send reinforcements, and if the Ganzhou faction doesn't send reinforcements, how can the Jiangzhou Navy cooperate with us?" ”

Seeing Su Tingzhan come in, Zhou Meishan took out the secret letter wrapped in lacquered cloth from his arms and said: "This is a secret letter from the Metropolitan Governor, and I want General Su to open it in front of the generals of Fuliang......"

Su Tingzhan took the secret letter, opened it, and handed it to Han Li without moving: "General Han, please see the secret order of the Metropolitan Governor......

Han Li saw it, kicked the sandalwood chair beside him apart, and roared angrily, "Why? ”

Huang Biaozi, Tian Weiye and other generals have all read the secret letter in turn, such as mourning and examining. Although everything was told to Su Tingzhan yesterday, it was still difficult for the generals to accept this moment.

Although there were many disadvantages in the battle between the Eastern Front and the Huaidong Army, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was invincible on the Western Front, annihilating tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and before the Shangrao War, the strength of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was still 1670,000 giants, how could the situation fall to this point? Reduced to the point that even Jiangzhou dare not defend it?

This is something that middle-level generals such as Han Li, Huang Biaozi, and Tian Weiye can't figure out.

Su Tingzhan ordered in a gloomy and terrifying voice: "Han Li led his troops to Nangang, Tian Weiye and Huang Biaozi led their troops to loot Fuliang, with grain, iron, salt, and medicine first, and there is no need to be too restrained in military discipline, but remember that if you withdraw before nightfall tomorrow, you must not delay for half a moment......

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Under the night rain, the waves of the Yangtze River are dangerous and huge, and a ship from Qiupu sails in the direction of Zongyang on the north bank.

In the southwest of Zongyang, Yangui Lake, which is dependent on Xiaocang Mountain, is the main village of the Chizhou Navy on the north bank. The mouth of Yangui Lake is a shallow water swing, the fence wood is like a wall, and there are several water buildings on both sides standing in the water swing.

The wind lantern of the water building is lonely, and it seems to be a distant star on a rainy night.

On a rainy night, the mouth of Yangui Lake seems to be an undefended place, but if an uninvited guest breaks into the vigilance circle on the periphery of Yangui Lake, several fast paddle boats come from the shallow water.

"The privy envoy has a secret letter and should immediately forward it to the Jiangxi envoy and the generals of Chizhou to read it!" The messenger stood at the bow of the ship and said in a loud voice.

The ship was accompanied by people from Chizhou, and this side did not dare to delay, so he connected the messenger to the fast-oared warship, and sailed to the west bank, and immediately sent him to the main camp of the Chizhou army in Xiaocangshan to meet Yue Lengqiu.

Yue Lengqiu got up in his clothes, and after reading the secret letter sent by Lin Jian through Quzhou and Huizhou's inner line fast horses, he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and asked General Deng Yu: "In this way, the Huaidong Army pierced the defense line that the luxury family had been operating in Shangrao for nearly a year?" ”

Deng Yu also couldn't press the shock in his heart for a long time, and they also thought that the Huaidong Army could not break through the Shangrao defense line before the autumn - the defenders of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army in Shangrao, Luxury Feixiong and Deng Yu are all veteran generals who have experienced a hundred battles, and they will not show too many flaws in Shangrao.

To the east of Shangrao, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and it has always been a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Zhejiang-Fujian army had 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses to defend several key passes, and even if the Huaidong army was strong, it would be difficult to give full play to its advantages.

"Will Huaidong deceive Chizhou?" Yue Duming asked, if Lin Jian hadn't sent someone over, they wouldn't have known what had happened in Shangrao, everything was too fast, and the news hadn't come yet.

Yue Lengqiu and Deng Yu have been in contact with Huaidong for many years, and they have always been shrouded in the aura of Huaidong, and there is almost a shadow in their hearts, but Yue Duming's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and subconsciously questions the authenticity of what was written in the secret letter.

"How?" Yue Lengqiu asked.

"Based on the situation described in the letter, Huaidong should urge our navy to entangle the Jiangzhou navy and prevent it from coming to Shangrao's aid, instead of reminding us to guard against the Jiangzhou army crossing the river." Yue Duming has been fighting with the army for many years, and he also boasts that his experience and strategy are not comparable to those in the past, and his words reveal an overflowing self-confidence.

Yue Lengqiu looked at Deng Yu.

Deng Yu shook his head and said: "As stated in the letter, the situation of the luxury family in Jiangxi has been completely out of control, and the luxury Wenzhuang drove the Jiangzhou naval army to aid Shangrao, which will only fall deeper and deeper in the hinterland of Jiangxi, and will eventually be completely difficult to extricate itself." In the case of the last general, he can endure the pain and cut off the stump, or he may be able to get a glimmer of life. "The matter of abandoning a son to save his life is nothing in the eyes of Deng Yu and them.

"It depends on what Lin Jian said, but just look at the movements of the main force in the Yijiang Water Camp." Yue Duming said.

Yue Lengqiu nodded and said: "Huaidong really wants to prevent the Zhejiang-Fujian army from crossing the river and fleeing north, and the Jinghai Third Water Battalion stationed in Yijiang in Huaidong will inevitably go all out against the river and westward - maybe wait and see for another three or five days, and the situation will become clear." ”

The shadow left by Lin Tie was too deep, and he couldn't fully adjust the military deployment of the Chizhou Army on the periphery of Huangmei County because of a secret letter from Lin Tie.

The main force of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion started from the Yijiang River and went up the river to the outskirts of Jiangzhou, which would take about three or four days. In addition, three or four days is enough for the Chizhou army's spies in Shangrao to send back more accurate news.

Yue Lengqiu spread out the map on the long case, invited Deng Yuzhu to come over and watch, and said: "Now there are 30,000 soldiers and horses in Jinghu who directly threaten the west flank of Jiangzhou from the direction of Ezhou, and even if Luxuryzhuang has the heart to give up Shangrao and not save it, Huang Binghao may no longer be ordered by the luxury family to defend Yuanzhou alone, but the luxury family still has nearly 10,000 elites in Ganzhou and Yujiang, and they also need time to withdraw to Jiangzhou." If the Zhejiang-Fujian army abandons Jiangxi this time and crosses the river from Jiangzhou to the north, it will take 10 days and 8 days at the earliest, and perhaps another three or five days, and the situation will be clear. Deng Yu, what do you see? ”

Deng Yue thought about how much the situation changed in three or four days, and he also felt that he should wait and see, and should not hastily change the military deployment because of Lin Bin's secret letter.

Yue Lengqiu thought about it for a long time, and decided to delay it for another three or five days to see how the situation changed, so as not to fall for Lin Lian's tricks - Yue Lengqiu has always been known for his stability, so it is not surprising to make such a decision.