Ruan Yan and Yin Peng rushed to Linhuai. Feng Liao, Guo Rong and others would not make things difficult and arranged for them to meet Han Qian immediately.
Facing Ruan Yan's questioning, Han Qian stood on the city wall, looked at the Huaihe River, which had become mighty after entering March, and calmly explained:
"On the 26th, Tangyi sent scouts to the north of Xuzhou and accidentally intercepted a secret message from Liang Jun. He was convinced that King Zhu Rang of Liang He and Liang Privy Councilor Liang Shixiong were plotting to launch a rebellion while Emperor Liang was leading his troops to conquer Luzhou.
.I know that Chen Kun of the Hejin Army and Han Yuanqi of the Caizhou Army are generals who are close relatives of the Liang Emperor. After hearing the news, I will send troops to Bianjing as soon as possible to resist the rebels and wait for the main force of the Liang Army to return south.
Then all the soldiers and horses peeped at the opportunity and took over Haozhou. It was not that I forgot to speak to Huaidong. I just thought that even if I sent someone to Huaidong to report the news, His Highness King Xin would not accept it, so I was too lazy to do so.
This is unnecessary. Mr. Ruan, do you think this is true?"
Ruan Yan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.
What kind of bullshit reason is this?
"The Marquis of Han knows that if Tangyi can report to Huaidong in time, our two armies will entangle Liang's Hejin Army and Caizhou Army, causing Bianjing to fall into the hands of the rebels, and Liang will fall into unprecedented chaos.
.And our Chu soldiers and horses wield their halberds and attack the Central Plains, it will be just around the corner! Han Hou became famous as a young man, and he is our number one adviser in Chu. Why do you make such a big mistake just for the petty profit in front of you?" Ruan
No matter how good-tempered Yan was, at this moment he couldn't help but burst out in a sad voice.
Han Qian's face suddenly turned cold, he stared at Ruan Yan, who had frosty white temples, and said rudely: "Master Ruan, I am an elder of Chu who is as famous as my father and ancestors, but I don't have to allow you to act recklessly."
Accusation. You said that I have lost my righteousness for petty gains. Then please return to Chuzhou immediately, Lord Ruan, and ask King Xin to open the Hangou waterway. If our Tangyi navy warships can go north from Hangou to the Huaihe River, I would like to marry you.
Leading the Jia soldiers and joining forces with the Huaidong Army to annex Xu Si to our territory of Chu is not just a waste of words! Lord Ruan just moved his lips, but it was easy!"
Ruan Yan was rebuked by Han Qian, and his tone was stagnant. For a while, he didn't know how to answer the question.
"Feng Liao, please invite Master Ruan and General Yin to go down and rest. They are also tired from the journey!" Han Qian said to Feng Liao with a cold face.
"Master Ruan, General Yin invites you." Feng Liao motioned to Ruan Yan, and Yin Peng went down the city wall first.
Yin Peng glanced at Ruan Yan, who had an ashen face, and silently walked up the city road and down the city wall.
At present, the Tangyi navy does not have direct access to Hongzepu and the Huaihe River, which is the biggest limitation of the Tangyi army at present. Otherwise, even if Han Qian does not attack Xu Si first, the Tangyi navy can try to cut off the Huaihe River after entering it.
The Shouzhou Army's connection with the North Bank may lead to the opportunity to join forces with Li Zhigao to defeat the isolated and helpless Shouzhou Army first.
However, will Your Highness agree to the Tangyi navy borrowing the road from Hangou (Shanyangdu) to enter the Huaihe River?
Yin Peng croaked and knew that His Highness would do everything possible to prevent the Tangyi navy from entering the Huaihe River, so there was really no excuse to accuse Han Qian of blocking such important information.
Of course, Yin Peng didn't believe that what Han Qian just said must be the truth.
After only intercepting a secret letter from Liang Jun, he firmly believed it all and rushed to the front before the Hejin Army and Caizhou Army made any changes.
Mobilizing and deploying the Tangyi Left Army on the Eastern Front overnight, when did the use of troops become such a trivial matter?
Linhuai was the seat of the old rule of Haozhou, and the city was quite open. However, over the years, it was no longer prosperous. There were collapsed houses everywhere, muddy streets after the continuous spring rain, and frightened households.
There are not many households in Haozhou City, less than 1,000 households. Most of them are small families of officials and civilians who were threatened by the Anning Palace and fled north across the Yangtze River after the Jinling Incident.
Even if they were not from the family of the core generals who later integrated into the Shouzhou Army - these people were either concentrated in Shouzhou City or moved to Bianjing to settle down - they were either rich or noble in Jinling City at the beginning.
Therefore, after crossing the river, they were still able to move into Linhuai City and buy houses, while leaving their slaves and dependent tenant farmers to cultivate fields outside the city. They were already luckier than tens of millions of people, but they could continue to be lucky.
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These people have no idea where their cruel fate will take them.
Currently, the city allows grain and oil shops, charcoal shops, medical clinics, medicine shops and other street shops that maintain people's livelihood to continue to operate. The curfew is not enforced until after dark, but the streets are full of soldiers wearing armor.
Who dares to take to the streets casually?
Ruan Yan and Yin Peng, accompanied by Feng Liao, went to the post house. The dilapidated houses along the street were all closed tightly. Except for the generals patrolling the street, no pedestrians could be seen on the long street.
The post house is also very simple and dilapidated.
In such a short period of time, Han Qian temporarily moved in, and the office building that served as the general's tent had not been cleaned up, so it was impossible to take care of the post hall and other ancillary buildings.
At present, only a few courtyards have been selected for Ruan Yan, Yin Peng and their entourage to settle in. Then an official from the Military Intelligence Staff Department will be selected to serve as a postmaster, with some manpower to settle Ruan Yan, Yin Peng and the others, and also be responsible for keeping an eye on them.
their movements.
No matter how simple it is, the table is at least complete.
Ruan Yannai is a civil servant and is very old. He was very tired from the non-stop journey from Chuzhou to Linhuai City, and his bones were shattered. However, when he arrived at the post house, he did not show any signs of being raped on the city wall just now.
Han Qian was so angry that he looked like a Buddha ascending to heaven. He called Yin Peng into his room and asked: "On the city wall just now, there was a young civil servant behind Han Qian. My old eyes are dim, but he looked familiar. Is he Wang Wen?"
Wang Yan, an expert?"
Wang Wenxing is Wang Wenqian's cousin and Wang Jixiong's nephew.
He was good at calligraphy and calligraphy. In his early years, he served as an official in the Jiedu Dynasty in Shengzhou. After the Shengzhou army was destroyed, Wang Wenxing retired to the countryside and did not enter the official position again. He fell ill and died before the Jinling Incident.
Both Wang Yan and Wang Che were the sons of Wang Wenxing. They studied hard and studied hard since childhood. Firstly, they were influenced by their father Wang Wenxing. Secondly, they were concubines with low status in the family and did not enter official positions even in Huaidong.
Yin Peng recognized Wang Yanwai just after he climbed up the city wall, but he could only pretend not to know. Unexpectedly, Ruan Yan, an old fox, had already recognized Wang Yan without making a sound just now.
"Ruan Gong has such a beautiful look. I haven't seen him for a long time. Wang Yan has changed a lot. He stood there without saying anything and I didn't even dare to recognize him." Yin Peng said.
"From what you can see, why did Marquis Qianyang confirm that Liang was in turmoil? General Yin doesn't really think that Tangyi just intercepted a secret letter and dared to believe it?" Ruan Yan didn't want to worry about Wang Yan's question at this time.
He continued to struggle and asked.
"Perhaps the Marquis of Qianyang had an informant who penetrated deeply into Liang Jun, just like Wen Ruilin penetrated into Duke Chang Guo's side.
Like this, so that Marquis Qianyang can firmly believe that the news is correct." Yin Peng guessed.
"It's not that simple," Ruan Yan shook his head and said, "Hejin Army and Tangyi Army retreated and advanced in an orderly manner, which cannot be explained by an intercepted secret letter or a spy lurking in Liang Army; unless
Chen Kun, the commander of the Hejin military capital and the governor of Haozhou, is this secret spy..."
Ruan Yan guessed like this, which made it difficult for Yin Peng to answer the question.
"Regardless of how the Marquis of Qianyang learned about this, if Liang He Wang Zhu Rang and Liang Shixiong really conspired to rebel, they must have been planning for a long time, and maybe they also colluded with the Jin army - this turmoil in Liang State is probably short-term.
If it doesn't calm down in time, Xu Mingzhen might not be able to hold on for long on the south bank of the Huaihe River?" Ruan Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Yin Peng and asked.
Ruan Yan didn't have any more sources of information, so he couldn't imagine how deep it was at the moment, but he could also guess that Liang Shixiong and Zhu Rang would not act rashly when Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang was about to capture Luzhou.
The reasonable explanation he could think of at this time was that in order to avoid the fate of destruction, the Jin State sent secret envoys to persuade Zhu Rang and Liang Shixiong to rebel.
However, this can initially allow them to deduce subsequent changes in the situation in the Hehuai River.
Yin Peng looked at the tea cup in front of the case in silence. Rather than guessing how long the Shouzhou Army could hold on to the south bank of the Huaihe River, Ruan Yan was more worried about how much benefit Tangyi would gain this time, right?
Even if the chaos in the Liang Kingdom does not spread to the southern region in a short period of time, Xu Mingzhen and the Sima family in the Xu Si area can still sit back and watch.
The difference is that the Sima clan can also obtain sufficient military supplies from Xu, Yi, Mi, Si, Hai and other states, which is more than enough to maintain more than 30,000 troops and horses, and even has the remaining power to further expand military equipment on a large scale. This is actually
This restricted the Huaidong Army from crossing the Huaihe River on a large scale and expanding to the Xusi area.
However, Xu Mingzhen's previous ability to support himself on the south bank of the Huaihe River mainly relied on bulk material support from the hinterland of Liang State. For a long time to come, Xu Mingzhen will no longer be able to obtain supplies from the hinterland of Liang State, and Haozhou has completely fallen into
In the hands of the Tangyi Army, with more than 500,000 troops, how will Xu Mingzhen feed 90,000 soldiers and reach the front of the troops flanked by Han Qian and Li Zhigao?
The best result for Xu Mingzhen may be to withdraw the main force to the Huaihe River and obtain food from Ying, Si and other prefectures on the north bank, while only controlling a few solid cities such as Shouxian and Huoqiu on the south bank of the Huaihe River to ensure the stability of the Liang territory.
There is a possibility of retaking Huaixi.
No matter who wins the chaos in Liang State in the future, Xu Mingzhen can explain it and can ensure that the interests of the Shouzhou Army are not damaged to the greatest extent. No one in Liang State will later accuse him of taking food from the north bank of the Huaihe River.
However, in this way, most of Shouzhou, Huozhou, and Guangzhou on the south bank of the Huaihe River will be divided between Han Qian and Li Zhigao.
In other words, the worst result for the area controlled by Tangyi is to add another half state.
And because the Tangyi Army is mobilizing at full speed, if the Shouzhou Army boldly penetrates and penetrates into Shouhuo territory, the Shouzhou Army will be able to shrink back to the cities along the Huaihe River as quickly as possible if they don't want to be entangled.
There was not enough time to drive the households in central Shouzhou and Huozhou northwards.
This also means that at least 100,000 and 200,000 Dingkou in these areas will fall under Tangyi's control.
By then, excluding Xuzhou, the population and area controlled by Tangyi will not be lower than that of Huaidong.