Tang Yishun left Li Xingchen's mansion in a daze. He didn't even know how he got out step by step. He just knew that he had to mortgage his life and even the future of the entire Wanchuan Tang family before all the families made a statement.
Up.
As for whether this gamble is a victory or a failure, that is no longer his decision. All he needs to do is to wait quietly for the final result, or the final verdict.
Of course, Tang Yishun still believed in his heart that it was impossible for the devil to lose.
Subconsciously, he reached out and touched his waist. The seal and ribbon of the Wanchuan Prefect, symbolizing the identity of the first person in Wanchuan County, was still hanging there. Just now, Tang Yishun had handed the seal to Li Xingchen, but Li Xingchen weighed it in his hand and returned it again.
I gave it to him, and the meaning was obvious.
He is still the governor of Wanchuan County, but compared to the promise Li Xingchen made to him, this governor of Wanchuan County is far behind, and it is incomparable to what Li Xingchen wants, so Li Xingchen is not interested at all
Who is this Governor of Wanchuan County?
However, Tang Yishun didn't know that Li Xinchen didn't have that many people in each county, so he continued to be the prefect of Wanchuan County because Li Xinchen didn't have any additional candidates.
Looking at the back of Tang Yishun leaving alone, Li Xingchen shook his head slightly. Although he did not expect that the Tang family would really be able to provide much vital help in his next series of conquests, but by adding up a small amount, a small amount would make a big difference.
The more help from local aristocratic families, the more the better for Li Xingchen.
Trading the position of the head of the Tang family in exchange for the strong support from the Tang family is a fair and reasonable transaction for both Li Xinchen and Tang Yishun.
"The general has really grasped Tang Boxian's weakness." Dai Cai quickly walked into the meeting hall. Just seeing Tang Yishun's expression when he left just now, he already knew what happened.
Apparently Li Xingchen made an offer that Tang Yishun could not refuse and successfully bought his soul and future.
Li Xingchen smiled self-consciously. In fact, he knew more about the specific situation of the Tang family in Xiajiang through hearsay, otherwise he would not have waited for Tang Yishun to explain the situation clearly before making a judgment.
But now it seems that his words were the most important straw that broke his psychological defense.
After introducing Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai to each other, Li Xingchen did not give them more time to greet each other - in fact, with Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai's completely different personalities, it was strange that they could exchange greetings - he just stretched out his hand to knock on the map
Knock on:
"Zidong, please introduce the situation in Bajun."
Dai Cai did not refuse. He took a step forward and said in a deep voice: "Two generals, please see, Ba County is the seat of Chuzhou Prefecture. Down the river is Fuling County. You can reach Luzhou by going up the river, and you can reach Luzhou by going north along the Han River.
You can reach Dianjiang County in Hezhou and continue north to Jiange."
(Author's note: During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, today's Han River was called Mianshui. This is why the Xiangyang area was called Hanmianshui. And the Jialing River was called Hanshui.)
Seeing that Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian were looking at the map attentively, Dai Cai did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly continued: "Fuling County (now south of Fuling, upstream of Wujiang River) is located in the southeast of Ba County, so it can only block the enemy coming from the southeast, and Fuling County
There are not many defenders in the county and it is difficult to pose a threat to us, so taking Linjiang County can actually lead directly to the city of Bajun."
"How many defenders are there in Bajun?" Xiao Shilian directly asked the question he was most concerned about.
"About two thousand. If you include the men in the city who may be mobilized and the defenders in several camps outside the city, the number will be doubled or even quadrupled." Dai Cai said with concern.
, "What's more important is that I own the three Linchuan counties and Baidi City. It's not that easy to hide it from the defenders of Bajun."
Xiao Shilian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Defending the city was not as good as attacking. Some civilians and young men in the city could be mobilized to push against the city wall. After all, defending the city did not require the soldiers to be able to follow orders and prohibitions, as long as they could do their best to block the city.
Just the enemy.
Therefore, although there are not many defenders in the city, once these strong men are added, the number is no less than that of Li Xinchen's attacking troops.
According to the art of war, this attack is absolutely unrealistic. However, Xiao Shilian also knew that it was impossible not to defeat Bajun.
Almost subconsciously, he turned his head slightly to look at Li Xinchen, and Dai Cai's eyes turned towards him at some point. Obviously, both of them knew that the only one who could really make a decision was Li Xinchen.
"It's getting late. Let's get ready to leave after lunch. We can't move forward slowly like the army behind us. We must get to the southern county first." Li Xingchen said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid Chen Zhishen will be fast.
can not wait anymore."
Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai looked at each other and nodded slightly.
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It was not only the two generals Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai who rushed to the southern county with Li Xinchen, but also the more than 200 soldiers and several navy warships who stayed behind in Baidi City. Now that there were troops arriving later, Li Xinchen
There is no need to worry about the defense of Baidi City. He can even deploy another four to five hundred soldiers to garrison Wanchuan County to ensure the safety of the road from Baidi City to Nannan County.
"Linjiang County has been captured?" Li Xingchen stood on the flying cabin of the building ship. The strong river wind rolled up his sleeves, causing him to subconsciously squint his eyes slightly.
"The news I received when I passed Wanchuan County is that this guy Chen Zhishen was taken advantage of." Xiao Shilian sighed with emotion. In fact, Chen Zhishen did not use any commendable tactics to win the three counties of Linjiang. He simply used
The prisoners called for the door in front, and the army followed up with a sudden attack, and easily broke through three cities in a row.
In fact, this is mainly because the three counties of Linjiang are close together. Relying on the advanced ships of Nanchen Navy, Chen Zhishen can travel between the two places within half a day. Therefore, before the defenders receive the news, Chen Zhishen has already led
An army disguised as a defeated army appeared outside the city.
Most of the prefects and generals in these prefectures were people who had never experienced a real war. Of course, they were as unprepared for this sudden army as Tang Yishun and Huang Zhanzhu had been. Naturally, they were easily succeeded by Chen Zhishen.
Except for the governor of Linjiang County who died in the rebellion, the rest of the county guards and the Northern Zhou generals simply chose to surrender.
They only had one or two hundred soldiers in total, and most of them were from local aristocratic families. When Chen Zhishen led his army to surround the mansion, they had no choice but to surrender.
After all, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not give them many practical benefits. For example, for Tang Yishun, the prefect of Wanchuan, his status as the prefect did not help him become the head of the Tang family in Xiajiang. Even if he was not the prefect, no one would dare to do it in Wanchuan.
The territory challenges the dignity of the Tang family in Wanchuan.