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Sizhou, Linhuai.

Late at night, about 300 Bian ships arrived at Linhuai Wharf in the Bian River Canal slowly reach Linhuai Wharf in the dark. These Bian ships that specialize in transporting the South Canal are from north to south at this time. Each cabin is covered with black cloth, and it is impossible to see what cargo is loading inside, but each ship has a very deep draft, achieving the maximum carrying capacity.

The silent pier is brightly lit tonight, and there are already soldiers and horses patrolling and guarding in Linhuai City in the distance, and no one is allowed to approach it.

"Here, come!"

The fleet had not yet reached the port, so a light boat had already taken the lead to approaching the dock. Several people jumped off the above and rushed directly to the dock.

The commander-in-chief of the Left Army and the commander-in-chief of the Huaisi Camp, Zeng Yuanyu, was wearing an iron armor and covered with a cloak, and he quickly led a group of generals behind him to move to the dock, asking, "Which general is coming?"

The Huai Sixing Camp led by Zeng Yuanyu was progressing smoothly.

He had never thought in advance that Daxingtai planned to swallow the Rebellion Army, so when Li Jing ordered the attack on Xuzhou, it was beyond the expectations of the Huai Si camp. When he started to move here, the Huai Army took action first, and the attack was quick, and in a blink of an eye, he scooped Haozhou down.

At this time, Shi Pu in Xuzhou City also had an ambiguous attitude. Under the threat of the Qin army and the Huai army, he was in a state of sway.

For Zeng Yuanyu, attacking Xuzhou was no longer the top priority, and the top priority was to block the Huai Army from heading north to cross the Huai River.

Several letters were reported to the Songzhou Grand Tour Station. Li Jing quickly responded. Since Shi Pu did not intend to surrender, Xuzhou could temporarily postpone the attack and block the Huai Army south of the Huai River to avoid the troops at the Huai Army when attacking Xuzhou, the Huai Si camp, which had a small number of troops, was attacked by the Huai Army. At the same time, Li Jing also stated in the letter that he would immediately mobilize troops to go south.

What he arrived today was the first unit, disguised as a merchant ship and came directly from Xuzhou. But to be honest, Shi Pu from Xuzhou may not have known that this fleet might be a reinforcement force from the Qin army to the south, but even if he knew that even with only 10,000 people in his hands, he could only retreat to the city of Xuzhou without daring to act rashly.

Three hundred Bian ships, these are grain transport ships. These canals actually carry larger ships than sea ships. There are no major winds and waves on the inland rivers, so there are extremely large ships with a capacity of more than ten thousand stones. This time, Li Jing also gathered ships collected from Caozhou, Huazhou and other places in Songzhou, Caozhou, Huazhou and other places. He gathered 300 ships to transport troops south. Zeng Yuanyu estimated that 300 ships could transport at least tens of thousands of reinforcements.

"Return to the general, the King of Qin personally led his troops."

When Zeng Yuanyu heard Li Jing coming in person, he was stunned and quickly accelerated his feet.

The fleet had already begun to dock, and the first one to disembark were the Secret Service guards led by Tiedan King Tieqiang. They quickly got off the ship, quickly checked on the dock, and were on guard. Except for officers such as Zeng Yuanyu, no one else could get close.

After the Secret Service completed all this work, Wang Tieqiang sent several signals to the ships on the dock. The five identical Bian ships flashed signals. Zhao Jiang, the attendant on one of the boats, entered the cabin and reported to Li Jing: "The wharf is safe, please get off the ship."

Although Li Jing didn't like the current set of security measures, he also knew that it was no better than before. He sat in the cabin and waited for them to prepare before getting up.

As soon as he got off the ship, Zeng Yuanyu immediately led twenty or thirty officers to come to greet him.

"It is a dereliction of duty to fail to scoop down Xuzhou, so I ask the king to punish him." Zeng Yuanyu immediately apologized as soon as he came up. He originally joined the Qin army halfway and was not in the Qin army for a long time, but Li Jing relied heavily. In a few years, he had become the governor of the rear army in the Governor's Office of the Five Army. This time he went south to Henan and became the commander of the Huaisi camp. Although he was already a high position as the attendant of the Zuo Sanqin, it was just a idle position. Although he was still in the Qin army with five thousand Shence Army guards when he joined the Qin army, his current status in the army is still far beyond the position of Li Jing's confidant such as Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Juyi, etc., and he is also very cold and cautious.

Although his Huai Sixing Camp took four states in a row this time, he failed to scooped down the Xu and Hao states as required by Daxingtai, and was still very nervous.

Li Jing patted the brave general's shoulder very cordially. Although he was not from a direct line, his strength in leading troops was among the top ten under Li Jing's subordinates. Otherwise, Li Jing would not have relied on him so much.

"General Yuanfeng is a mess. General Yuanfeng only had a partial army to join the four states of Mihai, Yi and Si. It can be said that he worked hard and made great contributions. As for Xu Hao's affairs, it was originally a matter of poor consideration in the Daxingtai." Li Jing laughed.

Zeng Yuanyu felt much more relaxed when he heard this. With Li Jing's attitude, he became more and more excited. Although this master was a little too young, it was indeed admirable in terms of employment and handling. Just because Li Jing was willing to trust and delegate power to him, it was enough to make him die for him.

"How many soldiers have the king brought?" Zeng Yuanyu asked softly.

Li Jing smiled gently and looked back at the troops who were constantly climbing to the dock, "Twenty thousand elite cavalry!"

When Zeng Yuanyu heard this number, he was shocked and then was overjoyed. With these 20,000 elite cavalry, the Huai Army should not be afraid, and Xuzhou will definitely be able to get out.

"Where is the Huai Army at present?"

When he returned to Linhuai City, Li Jing did not rest and immediately summoned the generals to go south to discuss with the generals in Huai Si camp.

A man in black standing on one side immediately replied: "Our Military Intelligence Bureau investigates that there are currently two Huai Army troops on the south bank. One is Gao Jie's troops who had just captured Haozhou. His troops have just captured Haozhou. The troops are stationed in Zhongli, Haozhou, an important town in Huaixi. Their troops are arranged very clearly, and they want to enter Yingzhou and Haozhou from Yingkou and Wokou.

"The Huai Army currently opposite Linhuai is not Gao Jie's troops, but Gao Pian's other nephew, Sushilang Gao Yu, with Lei Man, Feng Shou, and Chen Qi under him. His troops are now stationed in Xuyi and Shanyang, the important towns in Huaidong. Their situation is directed to Sikou, with the intention of crossing the Huai River and going straight to Sixu."

Li Jing pondered: "Is there any news over Hu Douzhou?"

The man in black is the fifth councillor of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Supervision Bureau. He was born in the Special Forces Battalion. He took over some of the positions of Li Wei in the past. He is now in charge of military intelligence.

"According to news, Hu Douzhou, the first fleet of Lingbo Army, the Ninth Army, and the 18th Army have been wiped out. None of the three military leaders, Wu Qian, Lin Song, and Deng Huan, survived. Before the garrison in Jianghai Town was destroyed, the Huai Army Liang Zhang's troops were greatly killed and injured, and they killed three times the enemy with 11,000 troops. Unfortunately, the Huai Army suddenly took action, and our army was not in a hurry to rescue it."

After hearing this news, Li Jing's face was very ugly when he heard the news. This was the first time that the Qin army had troops beaten to annihilate, even if it was the village army. However, the two troops were lost all at once, which made Li Jing choked his fists. He had underestimated Gao Pian before, thinking that Gao Pian would not take action at this time.

The Fifth Sect also lowered their heads. Gao Pian took action this time, and the Military Intelligence Bureau received a little news in advance, but was not alert and did not attract attention. As a result, the defeat of Hu Douzhou's troops and the loss of Haozhou, it can be said that the Military Intelligence Bureau bears great responsibility. The Fifth Sect had previously asked to leave his post and apologize. However, in the end, Li Jing fined the main positions of the Military Intelligence Bureau and reduced the salary and ranks, and severely punished them. But in the end, the Fifth Sect and others were still retained.

Zeng Yuanyu asked in confusion: "Gao Pian asked Gao Yu to go north too, so what about the number of troops led by Gao Jie and Gao Yu?"

Wushu said with some uncertainty: "According to the information we have received, Gao Jie had 20,000 soldiers in Zaochun, 30,000 soldiers in Zhongli, 20,000 soldiers in Gao Yu and Xuyi, and 30,000 soldiers in Shanyang."

Li Jing glared at the fifth son coldly at the hearing of his eyes, "You are going to tell me that Gao Pian had just sent 50,000 troops to attack Hu Douzhou, and another 50,000 troops to attack Haozhou. Now he has gathered 50,000 troops in Chuzhou?"

If the Fifth Sect said, then Gao Pian mobilized 150,000 troops at once. Huainan is so large that there must be left-behind troops in other places, especially Yangzhou. In this way, wouldn’t Gao Pian have 200,000 to 300,000 people?

But according to the information known to Li Jing, a year ago, Gao Pian had only 60,000 people, and was eaten by Huang Chao. But in the past year, Gao Pian did not recruit soldiers on a large scale. How could the Huai Army expand to 200,000 to 300,000 at once?

Without analysis, Li Jing also understood that the Fifth Crown's dereliction of duty was not accurate at all. This time, Li Jing had the idea of ​​adjusting the position of doctor in the Fifth Crown Military Intelligence Bureau.

"The Huai Army definitely has no 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers. According to my estimate, the Huai Army's combat soldiers are only about 40,000. Even if he recruits a large number of auxiliary troops, the number of the entire Huai Army is only more than 150,000. In our Hu Douzhou, we will kill and injure 30,000 soldiers and 1,000 naval troops. This is after the lead of Gao Pian general Liang Zhang. From this we can see that the 50,000 Huai Army under Liang Zhang may have the real combat soldiers of only about 10,000. In addition, the more than 10,000 new soldiers who have been trained for a short time, and the remaining 30,000 are newly recruited military men and auxiliary soldiers."

Li Jing analyzed lightly: "Based on this calculation, Gao Jie's 50,000 soldiers are almost the same. It may be better than Liang Zhang, but it is not much better. As for the newly arrived Gao Yu, I don't think he has more elite soldiers."

"The king's intention, is there a group of paper tigers opposite us?" Zeng Yuanyu said.

"It's almost the same." Although this is just his speculation, sometimes, seeing that it is not true, speculation is not unreasonable.

Zeng Yuanyu lowered his head and pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "What the king meant is that the Huai Army had already secretly transferred the package plan. Gao Jie's troops in Huaixi have become suspicious soldiers, and the real main force of the Huai Army has been converted into Gao Yu's hands?"

Li Jing nodded, it is very likely that this is the case.

Gao Pian took action, obviously trying to compete for Xu Si, but the situation outside was that after Gao Jie captured Haozhou, he stationed his troops in Zachun and Zhongli, pointed directly at Wokou and Yingkou, and made an attack on Haozhou and Yingzhou.

But in Li Jing's view, these are just illusions, because Yinghao and the other states are now occupied by Huang Chao. Even if Gao Pian is crazy, he will not be able to provoke Li Jing while fighting Huang Chao and start a war on both sides. This is not a wise move.

What’s more important is that if Gao Pian wants to go north, Xu Si will be the place to compete for. It is impossible for Gao Pian to know these things a generation of famous generals.

So based on these, Gao Pian's real intention was about to emerge. Gao Pian made a plan to transfer Gao Yu and sent Gao Yu to the north. But in fact, Gao Jie's soldiers and the soldiers brought by Gao Yu had been replaced. Gao Jie in Huaixi must have only suspected soldiers all the way, and they were probably all auxiliary soldiers. Gao Yu, who was just a group of auxiliary soldiers, is now an elite force. He is stationed in Huaidong, which seems inconspicuous, but it is a real attack force. Gao Pian's real target is still Xuzhou, Sizhou.

But judging from the current situation, Gao Pian did not plan to attack Xuzhou directly, but planned to attack Sizhou first.

"Fifth Doctor, I will give the Military Intelligence Bureau another chance. You can immediately go and verify the speculation just now and find out the reality of the Huai Army. If there is another mistake this time, you don't need to give the order, you can do it yourself." Li Jing shouted to Di Wushu in a stern tone for the first time.

Wu Shu's forehead was sweating and his face turned purple. He felt extremely ashamed. He gritted his teeth and nodded in response, bent down and retreated.

But after a moment, the fifth son hurried into the hall again.

"What happened?" Li Jing asked when he looked hurried.

"Report to the king, the Military Intelligence Bureau just received an emergency report from the secret agents in western Zhejiang. Zhou Bao, the governor of Zhenhai Army, suddenly sent troops to raid Hu Douzhou and attacked Liang Zhang's troops. Liang Zhang was caught off guard and was defeated. All the troops were wiped out, leaving only a few troops to flee to the island. At present, Zhenhai Army has occupied Hu Douzhou!"
Chapter completed!