Opening the order letter sent by Yue Lengqiu, Lin Jian looked at it quietly, glanced at Zhang Yan beside him, and said: "Governor Yue is determined to recruit the bandits, and intends to withdraw from Xuzhou first to show his sincerity in surrendering-Lord Zhang, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"Local military and political affairs, it is inconvenient for this official to intervene." Zhang Yan said, secretly saying in his heart: Lin Lian didn't move, threw the ball to Yue Lengqiu, what choice could Yue Lengqiu have? Taking advantage of the situation, Yue Lengqiu can not only keep the backbone of the Changhuai Army, but also keep his official position. It's just that it is too eager to let Xuzhou out so easily, right?

Zhang Yan couldn't think through it for a while, and he wanted to know what Yue Lengqiu wrote in the letter, but he didn't want to be so fooled, he smeared it with shit at this time, and when he poked out the basket in the future, his butt couldn't be wiped clean.

Seeing Zhang Yan's indifferent look, Lin Jian did not chase after him, and said to Liu Tao beside Liang Wenzhan: "Governor Yue wants me to assemble 100 ferries and transfer them to Xuzhou for use, so I will trouble Lord Liu to deal with this matter...... In addition to ferries, boatmen should also be recruited, sooner rather than later. ”

Liu Tao replied in a sullen voice, he knew that he was not welcome to stay in Shanyang, so he recruited ferries, and he would probably go to Xuzhou with these boats.

It's okay in this way, as long as the recruitment can be carried out smoothly, and he personally leads the boat to the north, it can be regarded as a meritorious service in front of Yue Du, and there is a way to advance.

Thinking of this, Liu Tao walked out first to do this.

Lin Jian called another guard and instructed, "You go to the east of the city to find General Tao Chun, who is recuperating from his wounds in Xishi Street, tell him that Governor Yue is going to transfer a ferry to Xuzhou, and ask him how he is recovering from his injuries and if he can go to Xuzhou to serve in front of Governor Yue again......"

"Governor Yue also wants me to go to Suining to sit in the town, maintain pressure on the enemy of Longquan Mountain in the west of Suining, and ensure that the matter of recruiting peace can be accomplished—is Lord Zhang willing to go to Suining with me?" Lin Yan asked.

Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Then let's go to Suining, the bandit matter will be decided early, and the Huaibei salt matter can also be on the right track as soon as possible......"

Lin Jian only smiled and said, "When everything is ready, I will send someone to inform Master Zhang......" and then got up and took Sui Hu to leave the county capital pavilion where Zhang Yan temporarily stayed, and returned to the Inquiry Garden.

Yue Lengqiu wanted to use a boat in Xuzhou, and Lin Jian naturally would not transfer a warship from the water camp for him to use, so he asked Liu Tao to requisition a civilian ship from Shanyang County to go north. Tao Chun has been recuperating from his injuries for more than ten days, although he has not fully recovered, his life is unhindered, and there is no problem in going north by water, so he has to stay in Shanyang to get in the way.

Song Jia learned embroidery with Xiaoman and Mingyue by the pond in the garden, she knew everything, but she had never learned to work as a female worker, and now she was bored in her spare time, so she learned to play, and when she saw Lin Lian coming back, she asked, "Zhang Yan is easy to deal with?" ”

Hao Mingyue couldn't forget the identity of the prisoner, so she got up and retired, unwilling to be in the same room with Lin Xuan.

"The matter of cracking down on smugglers, without waiting for Zhang Yan to express his position, the messenger sent by Yue Lengqiu from Xuzhou came into the city and broke the matter...... Lin Lian said, taking out Yue Lengqiu's letter from his arms and showing it to Song Jia.

Song Jia carefully read Yue Lengqiu's letter, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he was very beautiful, and said: "Yue Lengqiu is simply - Liu An'er has been plotting for Xuzhou for a long time, and he has not beaten it down for three months, Yue Lengqiu gave it up at this time, and he really can't help refusing!" What are you going to do? ”

"Yue Lengqiu ordered me to go to Suining to take charge, what can I do?" Lin Jian said.

"That's really wronged you!" Song Jia raised her forehead and glanced at Lin Lian, which was extremely amorous.

Xiaoman was not happy to see it on the side, thinking that it was only a few days together, and he wanted to separate, he was even more unhappy, and said to Song Jia: "If you want to learn embroidery, you can learn it by life, and you can't learn anything half-heartedly." ”

Song Jiayan smiled and said, "My aunt and grandmother are really difficult to serve, am I studying hard?" ”

"Maybe there will be a war, but it is also to defend Suining, there is no need for an expedition of labor troops, do you stay in Shanyang, or go to Suining with me?" Lin Jian asked.

"Can you go to Suining?" Xiao Man asked happily.

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The Huaisi war was chaotic, but it was not difficult to collect more than 100 civilian ships in Shanyang.

On the 28th, Lin Jian walked with Zhang Yan, crossed the Huai from Shanyang to Surabaya by boat, went up against Surabaya, and entered Suining.

Liu Tao, the Cheng of Shanyang County, and Tao Chun, the general of the Changhuai Army, continued to the north with more than 100 ferries and headed for Xuzhou.

The Liumin Army suspended its offensive against Xuzhou and opened a hole in the southeast of Xuzhou City, so that Yue Lengqiu could lead the Changhuai army to withdraw from Xuzhou.

The Liumin Army was also eager to get Xuzhou City, and even temporarily gave up the Yunlongshan camp on the west bank of Surabaya and the southeast corner of Xuzhou to the Changhuai Army, so that the Changhuai Army could withdraw from Xuzhou faster and more at ease, and then sit down and talk about Zhao'an.

As soon as Tao Chun arrived in Xuzhou, he was ordered to set up camp in Damiaogang on the other side of Yunlong Mountain.

In early August, the Changhuai army began to withdraw from the city of Xuzhou. On 10 August, more than 12,000 soldiers and horses of the remnants of the Changhuai Army, and more than 20,000 officials and civilians evacuated from the Chu Wangfu and Xuzhou East, all of them withdrew from Xuzhou and stationed in the Damiaoshan camp on the east bank of Surabaya.

The Wandering Army also entered Xuzhou City on this day.

For the time being, the Liumin Army did not have the ability to block the Surabaya embankment of Yanshan, but they dug a trench between Yunlong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain in the southwest corner. The Surabaya River, which poured out from the Yanshan embankment and roared and raged in the low mountains of the Xuzhou Plain, was able to flow away from the low-lying area in the southwest of Xuzhou and join the Bianshui River 60 miles to the southwest.

The flooding in the city of Xuzhou was able to slowly fall, and after a day and a night, the streets and alleys with thick silt were fully exposed.

The city of Xuzhou is a mess, no different from the abandoned city, it takes some time to renovate to recover the vitality, but it has been soaked in water for three months, and the city wall is still immovable, which shows that the city of Xuzhou is solid, and it can be called the head of the cities of the Central Plains.

The change of ownership of Xuzhou City can be regarded as a substantial first step for the two sides to sit down and talk about Zhao'an, but the Wandering People's Army is still strongly wary of officers and soldiers.

After Yue Lengqiu retreated eastward, tens of thousands of civilians remained in Xuzhou City, refusing to leave their hometowns and abandon their homeland.

After Liu An'er led more than 10,000 elite soldiers into Xuzhou, the first thing he did was to drive the civilians out of the city. It reoccupied the Yunlong Mountain camp and stationed an elite army to confront the Changhuai army on the east bank to prevent the Changhuai army from returning to Surabaya and attacking Xuzhou.

Of course, under the current situation, the greatest threat to the Xuzhou Liumin Army is not the Changhuai Army that withdrew to the east bank, but the Jiangdong Left Army that is recovering in Suining.

After paying such a large number of casualties, the Changhuai army was able to hold Xuzhou for half a year, and its will was already rare firm. After crossing the river to the east bank of Surabaya, the will to fight was slackened, and it was extremely necessary to have time to rest and recuperate. Whether it is physical strength, or the will to fight, or material preparation, there is no ability to cross Surabaya to counterattack Xuzhou in a short time.

Liu An'er is also a person who knows the soldiers, and unlike the Changhuai Army, which has become a tired army, the Jiangdong Left Army is the real cutting-edge division.

If it weren't for Lin Tie leading the Jiangdong Left Army to peek into Xuzhou from Suining, how could Liu An'er easily accept Zhao'an?

It is not difficult to accept Zhao'an, but it is not without conditions, and it is impossible to lead the court by the nose under the guise of Zhao'an.

Liu An'er's condition was to establish a feudal town in Xuzhou, and divide Yucheng and Huaiyang in the west, Haozhou, Sizhou, Suining, and Suyu in the south, Peixian, Tengzhou, and Jining in the north, and Pixian, Tancheng, and Shuyang in the east, and other 21 counties, from the original county government and under the rule of Xuzhou.

The so-called sky-high asking price, sitting on the ground to repay the money, and opening this price code, must have such strength to achieve.

The area demarcated by Liu An'er almost included the four prefectures in the Huaisi region, and its geographical center was not Xuzhou, but Suining, which was occupied by the Jiangdong Left Army.

Previously, Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou withdrew the main forces of the southern line from Siyang and Suyu, and set up camp in Qinglonggang, northwest of Suining, to build a new defense line, with more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and more than half of the elite soldiers.

In early August, after occupying Xuzhou as he wished, Liu An'er freed up his hands and continued to transfer the troops and horses on the periphery of Xuzhou to the south. By mid-August, the strength of the Wandering People's Army at Qinglonggang had increased to 80,000. Almost all of the main forces of the exile army besieging Xuzhou were transferred to Suining.

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Suining City is still dominated by Gu Siyuan's department, and the large camp of the Jiangdong Left Army is located outside a yellow mud hill in the northeast corner of Suining City.

The Wandering People's Army continued to make small moves, and Chen Hansan also withdrew his troops from the narrow bridge south of Shuyang one after another.

More than 20,000 soldiers and horses of Chen Han's three troops withdrew to Tancheng north of Shuyang, and Shuyang, which had been besieged for three months, was finally relieved in early August.

The personal guard battalion stationed at Shukou south of the narrow bridge was also able to divide its troops to Feixiaji on the north bank of Shanyang, and Lin Jian was able to transfer Ning Zechen to lead Feng to leave the camp and march north to strengthen Suining's combat strength.

In addition to Gu Siyuan's headquarters, the Jiangdong Left Army gathered more than 12,000 elite troops in Suining, including the Fengli Battalion, the Changshan Battalion, the remnants of the Duhuai Army, the cavalry battalion, and the Jinghai Third Water Battalion.

The flow of Surabaya through Suining is a large river meandering to the northeast, so that the section of the river that flows through the north of Suining actually flows in an east-west direction, the river surface is open, and the water flow is slow.

The water battalion warships of the Jiangdong Left Army stopped like clouds, covering a large area of water upstream and downstream.

The military affairs of the Jiangdong Left Army in Suining have been handled by Qin Chengzu since mid-July.

Lin Jian returned to Suining, and did not directly come forward to deal with military affairs, except for occasional discussions in the city, he stayed most of the time on the Jinhai boat on the bank of the Surabaya River.

On the Surabaya River, the night is pervasive, and the Jinhai is brightly lit.

Xiaoman and the two daughters of Hao Mingyue sat in the elegant room on the top floor of the tail cabin and played chess for fun, but they were happy.

Although you can't go ashore to play, on the boat, you can see the scenery of the mighty Surabaya, rivers and mountains, and you also feel that the mountains and rivers are magnificent, and it is worth the trip.

The command cabin for Lin Bin's deliberations and military affairs is on the outside, and the wooden platform in the middle is a Huaisi topographic sand table made of gum and river sand, and the Wandering Army is marked with a small blue flag, and the small blue flag around Suining almost fills this small piece of sand table, in comparison, the small flag in Xuzhou is not even denser than Tancheng.

"Liu An'er wants to be greedy for the land of the four mansions and set up a feudal town for herself, she is really insatiable!" Song Jia, who was wearing a scribe's green shirt, looked like a handsome scholar, standing beside Lin Lian, staring at the situation between the two sides on the sand table, and said with emotion.

"It's just a matter of asking for a price all over the place, just sitting on the ground and paying it back," Lin Lian chuckled and said, "He keeps gathering troops on the periphery of Suining, just to increase his bargaining chips." ”

Zhang Yan has been on the boat with Lin for several days to watch the situation in Huaisi.

Although Zhao'an has taken a substantial step, it is impossible for the imperial court to assign a large area of Huaisi to the bandits, how to talk about it next, whether to fight two more wars and then talk about it, it is really incomprehensible.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves on the north bank was urgent, and in the night, several horses galloped to the water's edge, and called the sentry boat across the water: "The Beijing has a decree, quickly send a boat to meet the Huaidong Jingkou envoy Lin ......"

The two armies stopped fighting, and one advantage was that the road was temporarily unblocked, otherwise the road from Linyi to Xuzhou would not be too peaceful, and it would be impossible for a post horse to ride directly from the north to Suining.

Hearing the call, this side quickly sent a boat to pick up the envoy from Beijing.

Zhang Yan only made up his mind at this time to allow Yue Lengqiu to work cheaply in Xuzhou, and the special message was to ask Lin Tie to fully cooperate with him, wanting to quell the Huaisi war as soon as possible, and it was impossible to cooperate with Yue Lengqiu without Lin Tie.

To suppress the contradiction between Yue Lengqiu and Lin Bin, it is not a strange thing that Jingzhong specially gave Lin Jian an edict.

When the ministers came to the ship with the decree, they saw that the holy decree turned out to be a gold shaft, and Zhang Yan was startled before he listened to the decree.

Zhang Yan was born as a minister and was very clear about the use of palace objects.

The holy decree shows the imperial power, the most sloppy, the texture of the shaft handle according to the official grade of the decree have a strict difference, the first grade official is the jade shaft, the second grade official is the black rhinoceros horn shaft, and the gold shaft holy decree is used by the four officials.

Look at the unfolding of the holy decree, it is woven with silk brocade, and the two sides are flying silver dragons, which is indeed a holy decree that will only be used by officials of the four grades.

"The system said: Huaidong Jingkou system envoy, Jiangdong County Xuanfu envoy Si Zuo participated in politics, knew Chongzhou county affairs, Jinghai Metropolitan Supervisor Si Lin Jian led the troops to defend Huai, since the meritorious service, special entry from the four products of Huaidong system envoy, as an encouragement ......"

Lin Jian was only slightly stunned after the decree was announced, Yue Lengqiu refused to give it, and Liu Tingzhou pressed the Huaidong envoy who did not let go, so easily?