. In the main hall of Wuhu County Government, Huan Wen, who received the battle report, spit out old blood and fainted with a loud shout.

Everyone rushed to rescue him, slapped cold water and pinched the people, and then woke up the Grand Sima. Huan Chong rushed to the army to diagnose the imperial physician. Before the imperial physician could come, Huan Wen had already stood up and returned to his position. Except for his slightly pale face and hedgehog-like stubble stained with some blood, his expression was so calm that he looked extremely calm.

"Everyone, the defeat in the first battle greatly damaged our army's strength. The responsibility for this battle is with me, and I have nothing to do with everyone." Huan Wen's slightly hoarse voice rang in the hall.

"I am too arrogant, so that my son Huan Xi sacrificed his life for the Great Jin Dynasty. It is also a place of death. However, our army still has nearly 70,000 main forces, and there is no loss of siege equipment, horses and food. The 50,000 Northern Palace Army still cannot escape the fate of destruction, so we need to muster up all our courage to put all this out and prepare for the battle with all our might." Huan Wen's tone became excited, and a hint of red appeared on his cheeks.

All the generals admired him. This was a sixty-year-old man. He had just experienced the pain of losing his son, but he didn't expect to recover so quickly. It was really Jiang Gui's nature, and it became more and more stingy.

"Now I have adjusted the system and re-established the vanguard army of the army, with 30,000 troops led by General Huan Chong, and fully managed all matters. I will lead the remaining 40,000 troops as the central and rear army, responsible for the support and logistics supply."

"I urgently ordered the navy governor Yao Cuo to lead 218 warships of the Dajin Navy to come to reinforce, follow the Ruxu Hebei and enter Chaohu Lake, and cooperate with our ground army to advance."

"The surrounding counties such as Yiyang County, Poyang County, Jiangxia County, Yuzhang County, Xin'an County, Xuancheng County and other surrounding counties will be dispatched to join our army quickly. If there are any disobedience and obstruction, the three clans will be punished."

"After all prefectures and counties quickly mobilized food and grass. The 20,000 troops left by the capital ordered Huan to lead 10,000 troops to Wujun Kuaiji and other places to supervise food and grass. If anyone shirked the blame, he would be killed."

Huan Wen gasped and made continuous orders, and all the generals were ordered with a stern voice. The Grand Sima was so angry that he was beaten too hard by the Northern Mansion Army. It was so heartbroken that if he didn't flatten the Northern Mansion Army, how could the Grand Sima eliminate his anger?

The jade seal is carried with you, and the imperial edict is extremely easy. In fact, there is no need for an imperial edict. The words of Huan Dasi, who is the minister of the Nine Tin, would be trembling a few times. Of course, it would be more natural to follow the imperial edict and do everything, and it would be spared a lot of quarrels.

Within the next fifteen days, Huan Wen's army remained motionless, and was like a wounded lion, lying on the south bank of the Yangtze River. With the wounds, the prefectures and counties in various places had no choice but to pull out the originally few guards from all over the country and bring food and horses to Wuhu City to reinforce.

The troops in the city soon exceeded 100,000, and the navy's more than 200 warships, the strength of the entire army was stronger than when they first arrived in Huainan County.

Huan Chong's front army also increased to 50,000, and the rest was controlled by Huan Wen. Huan's Grand Sima followed the principle of nepotism under any circumstances, because he knew deeply that only by holding the army in his hands, he was the real Grand Sima. Otherwise, he would be Xie An, Wang Tanzhi, and many ministers who died in his hands. He seemed to have high officials and generous salaries, but in fact he was not a name for himself.

Huan Chong was rigorous in his military management and was quite talented as a general. What is rare is that although this person has many plans, he never advances rashly and is very careful with any one.

In military discipline, Huan Chong was not as harsh as Huan Wen. He patrolled the camp twice a day, chatting with the soldiers about food and clothing and family with a smile, which seemed quite approachable. Therefore, the soldiers had a very good impression of Huan Chong. The psychological shadows and fear of the enemy that the army had suffered from the defeat some time ago gradually faded away from this kind of strengthening strength and calm healing strategy.

Huan Chong would rather use stupid methods to cross the river than to take risks, so his suggestion was that the army would transport it across the river little by little with ships, and the soldiers who transported it first immediately set up camp in Xiaogu Mountain, seven miles away from the north of the river.

This is very unusual. Xiaogu Mountain is in the east direction of the north of the Yangtze River. In other words, the army does not land on the other side at all, but goes downstream to the dangerous shoal of Jiangxinzhou ten miles away. This is definitely beyond the expectations of the Beifu Army. No one would have thought that more than 100,000 troops of Huan Wen crossed the river and were transported over in such a steep place, and it was transported by ants little by little.

Facts proved that Huan Chong's strategy was correct. He could only transport about 4,500 soldiers across the river every day. After quietly transporting troops day and night, it was said that on the seventh day of the sixth month, more than 100,000 troops had transported nearly 80,000. Since the supply still required ships to transport, the capacity decreased as it came. When it reached 90,000, Huan Chong finally stopped crossing the river. The 90,000 army drove out from Xiaogushan, and suddenly appeared in the Jiangbei Plain, and firmly guarded the ferry on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

This move was really concealed from Han Mu's Northern Mansion Army. The scouts came to investigate every day, but they did not notice Huan Chong's secret move to transport troops. They only saw the busy soldiers cruising down the every day, and no soldiers staying in the cabin could see.

The scouts could not completely block the river bank of hundreds of miles along the river, so they could only observe from a distance, because although the enemy had not landed, dozens of warships were patrolling along the north shore. Several scouts were entrusted to the river and provoked the warships, but were bombarded by a catapult. After the incident was reported, Xie Xuan, who was in charge of the scout, ordered only three miles away from the river to investigate.

When Huan Wen's 90,000 army drove towards Chaohu City in a mighty manner, Han Mu was really shocked. How did this guy come? He ordered people to keep an eye on the ferry crossings downstream, and even set up ambush everywhere in some places, which actually allowed Huan Wen to transport so many soldiers across the river.

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As a result, the Northern Prefecture Army had nearly 80,000, which was extremely powerful, but at the same time it was also a huge burden. The consumption of food, grass, horses and materials made Yuan Gang look worried. He could only supply 50,000 soldiers to the summer grain market, but now he has so much more mouths all at once, so he can say that there are too many monks and less porridge.

But under the current situation, wars are trampled on a lot of land, and summer grain production is certain. Even if you have money, you are surrounded by enemies and have nowhere to buy it.

Han Mu's opinion was very clear, not only to ensure the supply of the army, but also to ensure that the market's grain prices should not soar, and the people should not go hungry; they should use the money at will, but Yuan Gang thought about it.

This is called Yuan Gang, but as the deputy commander of the Northern Army, the problem of being the top leader in logistics and finance cannot be solved, which is simply too failure; so he found Junjie and talked about his difficulties.

Junjie has been shrinking recently. The intelligence network he has worked hard to establish not only did not help his second brother, but also almost killed his life. He also felt that he had no shame to see others. Fortunately, Xie Daoyuan, Liu Rumei, Wang Yurun and other sister-in-laws were thinking about the old friendship and blew a lot of pillows in Han Mu's ears. Han Mu did not publicly punish him, but just told him to think about his past life and not be allowed to participate in military affairs and government affairs for half a year.

Yuan Gang's distress Junjie really wanted to help him, and this was actually his opportunity to show his role. After thinking hard for a night, he suddenly remembered someone, Wang Xianzhi, the father of Wang Yurun, who was far away in Wujun.

The Beifu Army naturally knew that the prefect of Wuxing, Wang Xianzhi, had been blocking the city without being ordered by Huan Wen, but Han Mu and Huan Wen were not busy. Both sides were staring and gritting their teeth and trying to fight. These little things could only be handled after the war. Junjie thought that he was not because he had a way to resolve Wu Xing's embarrassing situation, but he had the idea of ​​fighting a large amount of food and grass in Wu County.

Junjie decided to go to Wuxing in person. If this matter is done, he can wash away his previous shame. If this matter is not done, he will not plan to come back. He just finds a place to do this for the rest of his life. He told Yuan Gang that Yuan Gang was really unsure of the success of this matter. Besides, Junjie's appearance is not successful and he will be able to become a good person. If there is a little mistake, he and Han Mu may lose this third brother forever.

Yuan Gang knew that Han Mu was actually refrigerating this hero. "The experience was too little and not mature enough was the biggest problem of the hero. Only after experiencing a blow could he be reused." This was Han Mu's original words, so Yuan Gang secretly told Han Mu about this matter. Han Mu made a decision: "Let him do it, I know he will do his best this time, and this matter is definitely worth a try. It not only can solve the problem of our Northern Army without food, but also cut off a grain channel of Huan Wen. Our army needs food, and he also needs food. The victory or defeat of this war seems to be concentrated on the dispute over food and grass."

So one morning in June, Junjie stepped on the road south in a simple costume.

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Huan Wen's 90,000 army arrived at the east gate of Chaohu City on June 12, and built a solid camp five miles away. What a huge number of army 90,000. The entire area was densely filled with soldiers. A radius of seven or eight miles was trampled by noisy horses and soldiers. The trees on Qingtai Mountain ten miles away were cut down to the mountainside, and various siege equipment was built day and night.

At the same time, subsequent horses, food, grass and other supplies were also continuously transported here. Huan Wen became scrupulous and transported as much as he ate to ensure that the army's three-day food rations were all stored in Wuhu City. Han Mu would never give Han Mu any chance to destroy food. Even if it was not supplied for a while, he would not give Han Mu the opportunity to cut off food.

Huan Chong's plan was extremely vicious. After camping, he only strengthened the camp and trained soldiers every day, but did not attack. Instead, he sent dozens of thousands of people to destroy the fields and ditches five miles away from the city every day. The summer grain that was about to be harvested and the rice that was growing well after planting was destroyed by it.
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