Governor please stay

At that time, His Majesty will go to Wuxing and other places to gather troops and horses, and it is not impossible to fight back to Jiankang.If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. "

Yang Kanyan said some meaningless words insincerely, Xiao Gang also nodded helplessly, and did not get the "good solution" he wanted in his heart.

Xiao Gang originally thought that Yang Kan could "outrageous tricks" to defeat Xiao Yi, but he didn't expect that the other party had no eye-catching ideas, and they were all clichés.

What's the point of talking about health preservation with terminal cancer patients?

"Forget it, General Yang, let's go on inspection. I still have something to do, so I'll go ahead."

Xiao Gang left disappointed, without turning his head back.

After he left, Yang Kan also got up and went to inspect the city wall of Taicheng.As he walked, he secretly speculated in his heart.

Was Liu Yishou too calm?Now at this juncture, it's time to raise troops, right?

Chapter 400 The Iron Fist of Love Between Brothers

Xiao Yi's army did not waste much time in Wuhu.After a short rest, Wang Sengbian ordered Fan Yi and Fan Meng brothers to be the vanguards to build bridges across mountains and rivers. They first broke through the defenseless Jiangning, and then made their way to the south bank of the Qinhuai River.

The military situation was urgent, and Liu Zhongli could no longer care about the defense of the important town of Jingkou.He ordered the governor Zhao Bochao to guard Jingkou, and he took the only field force under Xiao Gang's command to garrison on the north bank of the Qinhuai River.

And built a camp on the north bank, facing the Fan brothers' army across the river.Behind Liu Zhongli is Taicheng. If he retreats again, he can only retreat to Taicheng to be with Yang Kan and others.

The Fan brothers were short of troops, so they sent someone to ask Xiao Yi for help while building the fence: There are no enemy troops along the way, and the general attack can begin!

After receiving the news that the front is unimpeded, Xiao Yi made a decisive decision and asked Wang Sengbian to march on land, while Wang Lin took warships into Xuanwu Lake from the waterway, landed in the north of Jiankang, captured Jiming Mountain and Tongtai Temple, and threatened Taicheng flank.

A fierce battle is about to start.

However, at this critical moment, a certain "brother" who has been forgotten by Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi does not seem to intend to watch the play from the sidelines.

……

After Liu Zhongli's retreat, Xiao Lun, who had been persecuted by him to the point of helplessness, did not stay in Hailing all the time. Instead, he led his troops to Guangling (Yangzhou) southward, facing Jingkou across the river.

When he learned that Xiao Yi arrived outside Jiankang City and marched into Taicheng from the two directions of Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake, Xiao Lun knew that his chance had finally come!

This means that the threat on the Yangtze River does not exist for the time being, and the threat on the land of Jingkou, an important city, also temporarily does not exist.

That night, the river was filled with thick fog, except for the faint light of fire, it was almost impossible to see.

A fleet of ships quietly sailed through the Yangtze River, starting from Guangling, heading all the way to Jingkou on the south bank of the river, with a very clear goal.

In the slightly shaky cabin, Xiao Lun was drinking with Wei Zai and Xiao Lun. The drunk Xiao Lun laughed and said: "Deji (Wei Zai's name), you are the lucky star of this king! This battle, we must Can win the important town of Jingkou!"

"What Your Highness said is that Jingkou's defenses are empty, and this battle is not a big problem."

Wei Zai nodded slightly, just took a sip.When he was about to command a battle, Xiao Lun could get drunk, but he couldn't.

"Your Highness, it is indeed not difficult to capture Jingkou, but... are we really going to Jiankang?"

Wei Zai asked in a deep voice, with an extremely serious expression.

Why did they occupy Jingkou?

Because they want to attack Jiankang!

Wei Zai understood very well that Xiao Lun was always staring at that position.Only by occupying the important town of Jingkou, can we calmly send troops to Jiankang, and take chestnuts out of the fire!

Xiao Yi and Xiao Gang fought in full swing, and when both sides were exhausted from fighting, it would be beautiful to think about sending troops from their own side.

Of course, this is just Xiao Lun's idea.Wei Zai thought that Xiao Lun was playing with his life!If you really want to survive, it is best to go south to Guangzhou and dominate there.

Sure enough, Xiao Lun took a breath of alcohol and said indignantly: "Of course we have to go. I have said it many times before, you don't have to come to persuade me anymore."

Xiao Lun waved his hand, signaling Wei Zai to shut up.

This is a persuasion that cannot be listened to.It seems that several vassal princes of the Xiao family have such virtues.

Wei Zai let out a long sigh, cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, drink slowly, and I will go to the bow of the ship to have a look at the end. Now Liu Zhongli has already confronted Xiao Yi's troops on the Qinhuai River outside Jiankang City. I believe the Jingkou defenders are not worth mentioning."

The truth is indeed so, Xiao Lun nodded slightly, leaning on the wooden board of the cabin, squinting his eyes and thinking about the problem.

Hehe, Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi, these two idiots, must have never imagined that someone would dare to come to Jiankang at this time, right?

Xiao Lun thought proudly in his heart, he seemed to have foreseen the outcome of this war.

An hour later, the fleet docked at Jingkou Ferry, which had been burned into ruins. A large number of soldiers boarded the city under the cover of night and thick fog, and instantly occupied Jingkou City, which was extremely empty of troops.

Zhao Bochao, the governor who learned that the city wall was lost, not only did not organize resistance, but opened the city gate wide, and galloped away with the remaining soldiers and horses, heading in the direction of Sanwu.

After dawn, Xiao Lun was already drinking in the government office of Jingkou City.After occupying Jingkou, Xiao Lun didn't make any public announcements, but lurked secretly, waiting for the opportunity.

……

Knowing that Jingkou was occupied by Xiao Lun, Xiao Gang was so distraught that he turned pale with shock.The occupation of Jingkou means that the back road is occupied.If Jiankang City cannot be defended, they will have no place to run.

And Xiao Yi's army didn't know that Jingkou had changed its master.Now the one-eyed feudal lord only has Taicheng in his eyes. For him, if he can occupy Taicheng, he will have everything. If he can't occupy Taicheng, what if he can get Jingkou?

Xiao Yi is not hindered by any external factors now, and calmly ordered.Order Wang Lin to lead troops to sweep Tongtai Temple and Guishan Temple north of Taicheng, as well as many bureaucratic mansions and Beishi, which has been closed.

The reason why Wang Lin was asked to carry out this task was because Wang Lin's subordinates were full of fearless and greedy people.That area is where Jiankang's wealth is located. Whether it's the major royal temples or those fat officials' children, they are all rare fat sheep.

Let Wang Sengbian do those things, this guy may not let go, but let Wang Lin do it.

For a while, Jiankang City was in chaos!Xiao Yi is deliberately indulging Wang Lin to rob, after all, the emperor and the courtiers.It's time for these central courtiers to change.He has no mercy for it.

However, what Xiao Yi didn't expect was that Wang Lin not only sent people to rob, but also recruited slaves around Jiankang to join the army, and the scale of the army expanded rapidly.

If there are too many people, it will be difficult to manage. Immediately, some people under Wang Lin's command disobeyed the military order, crossed the cordon "Chaogou" stipulated by Xiao Yi, and robbed the banks of the Qingxi River and the surrounding areas south of the Chaogou.

All of them came with empty pockets and left with a lot of money.

The east bank of Qingxi River is full of royal gardens and fields, these people are the ones that Xiao Yi wants to fight for when he ascends the throne!Wang Lin stabbed a hornet's nest, and immediately some members of the clan went to Xiao Yi's camp to file a complaint.

As a last resort, Wang Sengbian sent a team of supervisors responsible for maintaining military discipline, and it took several days to calm down the situation.Wang Lin had no choice but to withdraw his troops to Tongtai Temple, where he set up his troops, and began to cut down trees around Jiankang to build siege equipment.

This back and forth, wasted a few days.When Wang Sengbian was about to start attacking the city, he found that Taicheng was waiting in full battle. Wang Lin was beating, smashing and looting around, which had frightened the wealthy households who had to migrate to the interior of Taicheng!

The group of people who were originally dissatisfied with the mandatory "robbery" to Taicheng, now seeing the tragic situation outside the city, all of them help Commander Yang Kan's Forbidden Army to strengthen the city's defenses. .

Under Wang Sengbian's command, the Fan brothers led troops to try to cross the pontoon bridge on the Qinhuai River several times, but were stopped by Liu Zhongli.

The war on the southern front is unfavorable, and Wang Lin's situation on the northern front is also worrying.Since Stone City has not yet been captured, the defenders of Stone City often take advantage of the night to attack Wang Lin's siege equipment.After making a fuss, they withdrew back to Stone City, causing Wang Lin to burn out.

In order to boost morale, Wang Lin also disregarded Xiao Yi's military order, and once again ordered the soldiers to cross the tidal ditch to plunder the wealthy households in Jiankang.

Liu Jin's previous "insidious tricks" and "damaging tricks" did cause a lot of trouble for Xiao Yi's army. The most important one was that they transferred all necessary materials such as food to Taicheng.

As a result, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Xiao Yi's command could not get effective supplies, and he could only grab some military rations from Wang Lin to maintain morale.In order to appease Xiao Yi's anger, Wang Lin handed in all the food that he had grabbed, so she was not punished.

At this time, Xiao Yi suddenly discovered that many local feudal towns fell under Jiankang City in the last years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, and it seemed that they were not completely stupid and unable to fight.

Jiankang is too big. Although it is called a city, it is actually not smaller than those small counties including the surrounding areas.Tens of thousands of troops are a lot, but scattered around Jiankang City, the density has become very scarce.

In order to fight, one must concentrate the absolute superiority of troops, first destroy Liu Zhongli, who is the most obstructive, and then pull out the annoying strongholds such as Stone City, Xizhou City, Dongfu City, etc., and finally encircle Taicheng with the army, this will be effective.

Xiao Yi originally wanted to be opportunistic, hoping that Jiankang's troops were weak and could directly attack Taicheng.Sure enough, he still thought too simply.

……

In the backyard of the Shouyang City Government Office, Liu Yishou had nothing to do and was playing Go with Mao Xi.After all, inheriting Chen Qingzhi's mantle, Dudu Chen is not only good at fighting, but also a good player at chess.

Liu Yishou improved his chess skills while looking at the chess records left by Chen Qingzhi, and now he has no problem dealing with Mao Xi and his ilk.

"My lord, there is an urgent military situation on the front line."

Wang Wei glanced at the chessboard, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and carefully delivered a letter to Liu Yishou.

"Xiao Lun succeeded in attacking Jingkou, Wang Lin's troops plundered in Jiankang, Xiao Yi's siege was unfavorable..."

Seeing one unexpected military situation after another, Liu Yishou fell silent.

"Xiao Lun's move is so subtle that he used his weakness to show off his strength."

Liu Yishou said with emotion.

A fool who thinks a lot will gain something. Although Xiao Lun is a pig brain, but this time he used his courage in the right place.Conquering Jingkou can be regarded as a stroke of genius, and Xiao Lun, who was almost eliminated in the "Battle of the Kings", was miraculously brought back to the same starting line.

Now for Xiao Gang, Xiao Yi, and Xiao Lun, it is still an effective truth that the one who enters Jiankang is the king.

"However, it's a bit incomprehensible for Wang Lin to plunder Jiankang with her arms so open."

Liu Yishou frowned slightly, Wang Lin did this, wouldn't stepping on a horse be as virtuous as Hou Jing?

"Under a heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Wang Lin let his subordinates plunder, perhaps because of low morale, or insufficient military rations."

Wang Wei said in a deep voice.

Of course, it doesn't matter to Liu Yishou whether these things are there or not. What needs to be paid attention to is how to act next.

"Notify Yuwentai that it's time to fight. Send troops from Xuyi and fight all the way to Guangling!"

Now that Xiao Lun has left, his territory is naturally empty of troops. At this time, don't be polite to these "cheap brother-in-laws".

"What is Xiao Xu doing now?"

Liu Yishou suddenly remembered this Luther who had withdrawn from the battle for the throne.Elite soldiers need to be trained, and they need money and food to support them.After Xiao Xu was defeated by Lan Qin, his vitality was seriously injured, and this wave of "Battle for Jiankang" could not keep up.

"There is no movement, I don't know what they are doing. But it is certain that Xiao Xu and the remnants of his troops are now repairing in Pancheng (Jiujiang). There is no doubt about it. The scouts we sent have made a very clear investigation."

"Well, ignore this crab for now, and use his later."

Liu Yishou sighed softly, although Xiao Xu was ruled out, the three crabs Xiao Gang, Xiao Yi and Xiao Lun could not be rashly dealt with.Otherwise, you won't be able to eat the crab meat, but you will pinch your fingers instead, then the loss outweighs the gain.

"Order Webster's navy to send Yang Zhong's troops to the mouth of the Yangtze River and station them on the other side of Wuhu. If there is a change, let Yang Zhong conquer Wuhu immediately."

Liu Yishou continued to give orders, his thinking was very clear.

"My lord, these two routes are intended. However, the main force of Shouyang will not send troops?"

"Oh, by the way, you reminded me to ask Hu Sengyou to take the troops of our headquarters to farm around Pengcheng to support Wu Mingche. I don't want Gao Huan to send troops to Pengcheng to make trouble when we are fighting to the death in Jiankang. gone."

Not only did they not deploy Pengcheng's soldiers and horses, but they also had to farm around Pengcheng!

Wang Wei's heart tightened, and he asked suspiciously: "Master, in this way, is our military strength enough?"

Xiao Yi's wave of soldiers and horses is [-] to [-], which can be regarded as a mobilization!

According to the current deployment of troops, the maximum number of troops sent by Shouyang is between 1 and 2.

"The victory or defeat of this battle lies in the timing of sending troops, not in the number of troops.

Xiao Yi has 4 troops, Xiao Gang has 2 troops, and Xiao Lun has slightly fewer troops than Xiao Gang.If these people form a joint force, there will be an army of [-].

No matter how many soldiers and horses I have in hand, can I make up 10 people? "

Wang Wei was silent for a while, because what Liu Yishou said was right, if the timing of sending troops was wrong, no amount of troops would be enough.

"And don't forget, the tyrants on the Sanwu side have not moved yet. We must wait for them to join the battle before we can make a move!"

Soldiers and horses in the Sanwu area!

"Is it Xiao Ying...?"

Wang Wei muttered to himself.

Xiao Ying posted a hero post in Wu Xingguang, summoning soldiers from all walks of life in the Three Wu Kingdoms and Ma Qinwang. Naturally, Liu Yishou could easily send someone to inquire about such news.

However, that's all there is to it.

It is true that Xiao Ying and Chen Baxian led the soldiers of the Three Wus, but when they will send troops, what route they will send their troops, and who they will fall to in the end, it is actually unknown.

What if the soldiers and horses of Shouyang sent troops to Jiankang at this time, and Xiao Ying of the Three Wus picked the peaches?

"Go ahead, even if this wave cannot enter Jiankang, Xiao Huan will lose the most. What have we lost?"

Liu Yishou asked with a smile.

Only then did Wang Wei realize that he, like Xiao Yi and the others, was confused when he cared, so he hurriedly bowed his hands and apologized.

"In the past in our hometown, merchants often offered [-]% off, [-]% off, [-]% off, and bone fractures when selling things.

In fact, the real secret is that as long as you don't buy it, you will immediately save all the money in your pocket, and you don't have to spend a penny. "

Liu Yishou waved his hand to signal Wang Wei not to panic.

Discounts are nice, but you can save [-]% if you don't buy them.Liu Yishou is not in a hurry right now, anyway, he missed this wave, and the next wave, none of the vassal kings can sit firmly in Jiankang's position, let them fight each other first.

Chapter 401

In order to reverse the stalemate in the battle, Xiao Yi ordered Wang Sengbian to throw his arms and fight. No matter what kind of bad strategy can be used, it doesn't matter even if everyone in Jiankang is killed.

And Xiao Yi's brother-in-law Wang Lin and his brothers must obey Wang Sengbian's command unconditionally.