Chen Long was opening his mouth and found that he had nothing to say.

That's right, that's the reason. No matter whether these people can recover Nanjing and Zhenjiang Prefecture, as long as they don't destroy Jiang Dahai's navy, Jiang Dahai can cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal waterway at any time, and their food channels will never be stable.

Not to mention that Chen Lin and Li Wenyuan in Guangdong are now attacking Fujian, Zheng Ying is threatening Zhejiang, Xiao Ruxun's main force is steadily advancing in Huguang, Sichuan is also winning streaks, and the overall situation of the entire southern battlefield has been decided. Even if Li Hualong has three heads and six arms, he cannot save Jiangnan.

The only thing worth worrying about is that the conflict between Xiao Ruxun and Shen Yiguan is irreconcilable, so the conflict between him and the gentry in the southeast is also irreconcilable. If these gentry do not support Xiao Ruxun, it will be difficult for Xiao Ruxun to gain a foothold here. If you want to use troops to shock them, how many soldiers will you need?

Chen Longzheng reminded Xiao Ruxun to introduce some soft-hearted policies as soon as possible to calm people's hearts, but Xiao Ruxun said that he had other ways to tell Chen Longzheng not to worry. Chen Longzheng didn't know what Xiao Ruxun was trying to pay attention to.

There is also the servant around Xiao Ruxun who was recently recruited, the poor scholar named Xie He, who doesn't look good. Chen Longzheng doesn't like him, but he seems to be very close to Xiao Ruxun and often talks to Xiao Ruxun, which makes Chen Longzheng a little puzzled.

Chen Long can't understand what Xiao Ruxun has done recently.

But there is no doubt that everything is moving in a direction that is beneficial to them.

On September 17, Li Hualong led the main force of the imperial army to Yangzhou Prefecture. When he first came to the first battle, Li Hualong's goal was to lift the siege of Yangzhou City.

Li Hualong asked the spies to find out that the Zhennan Army had only more than 10,000 troops attacking Yangzhou, so he wanted to wipe out the entire battle. He ordered his main troops to divide into two groups to encircle the Zhennan Army's rear route, and the vanguard of the three thousand cavalry were responsible for rushing to the battlefield and entangle the Zhennan Marines, so that they would not board the ship and escape.

As a result, the Zhennan Army seemed to be prepared, and it lined up with warships back to fight against the Jizhen cavalry. The crossbows and fired fired fires fired fires at the same time. The cannons roared, and the Jizhen cavalry was defeated and fled in a panic.

As a result, before Li Hualong's main force arrived, the Marines boarded the ship and returned to Zhenjiang Prefecture along the canal.

The Zhennan Army attacked Yangzhou Prefecture for more than ten days and did not conquer Yangzhou Prefecture. After Li Hualong led the main force to come, he retreated in a hurry. Although the Jizhen cavalry was defeated in the first battle and lost five or six hundred troops, the Zhennan Army retreated.

Li Hualong seemed to have won a battle and lifted the siege of Yangzhou. The Yangzhou prefect led the bureaucrats out of the city to welcome Li Hualong and praised him, but Li Hualong felt that the situation was not that simple.

"Damn it!!"

Li Hualong slapped a flyer from the Northern Expedition manifesto of Zhennan Army on the table: "How many such things are there in the entire city? I searched them and burned them! This is simply a rebellion!"

Li Hualong was very angry at the manifesto of this stern wording bombarding Shen Yiguan and not recognizing the Taichang Little Emperor, let alone the manifesto was written quite literary. At first glance, it was written by the literary scholar, and the other party was not an ordinary person.

He actually has fans, but he is still a literati! The son of a saint is actually a mess with a mere military general, which is simply a shame for scholars! He is not worthy of being a saint's child!

The Yangzhou magistrate quickly agreed and immediately asked someone to do it. Then he asked: "I don't know how the supervisor plans to defeat the enemy?"

Li Hualong took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it.

"It is not difficult to defeat the enemy. How to eliminate all the rebel bandits. There are more than one rebel bandit. It is said that there are Ningbo Prefecture, Yunnan, and Guangdong and Guangxi, and there are the main force of Xiao Thief!"

The prefect of Yangzhou swallowed.

"Supervisor, can you say that Xiao Zhe is really alive? How did he escape from the capital?"

Li Hualong glared at the Yangzhou prefect: "Don't ask if you shouldn't ask. I want to know the reason! A mere military general actually caused such a big thing! You can imagine how much military preparations in the entire Jiangnan have been sluggish! Let me ask you, how many do you know about the counter-band on the other side?"

The Yangzhou prefect wiped the cold sweat from his face.

"This... there are indeed many people sent to inquire about the news, but not many came back. There are sporadic news that this team is a navy, and there must be about hundreds of warships, covering the sky and the sun across the river. The scale is really large. We can only defend ourselves and cannot fight at all.

Their firearms are particularly sharp and numerous. Whether it is the infantry on the road or the ship, there are a large number of firearms. We always suffer a lot of losses. Some of the defense facilities on the north shore were destroyed by their firearms."

Li Hualong's face was very bad.

"I just know so much? I don't know who the lord is the identity of the gangster, what is the name of the lord? "

"The chief general is said to be named Jiang Dahai, and he doesn't know where he is from. He suddenly emerged from where he is. He is the commander, the subordinate... the subordinate..."

"Enough!"

Li Hualong shouted angrily: "What's the point of asking for you!"

After saying that, Li Hualong stood up.

"Supervisor?"

"I will check the enemy's intelligence in person!"

Li Hualong decided to do his own things and have enough food and clothing. It would be better to wait for the group of people below to find out the news, so he would wait for the other party to give him his weaknesses.

Li Hualong left Yangzhou Prefecture with a cavalry unit, went south along the canal to check the situation, and arranged outposts and alarm points along the canal, preparing to once the Zhennan Navy head north, so that they could react faster and prepare for the battle.

At the same time, within the camp of Li Hualong's troops, Chai Guozhu was alone in his tent and sighed.

He never expected that the enemy he was facing was the Zhennan Army of Xiao Ruxun's troops, and he did not expect that Li Hualong would say to him that Xiao Ruxun was not dead but ran away.

So before, Shen Yiguan was bluffing, Xiao Ruxun was not dead, and his coup was not successful. Now, Xiao Ruxun is fighting back.

Chai Guozhu knew that Xiao Ruxun was powerful and did not want to be an enemy of Xiao Ruxun at all, but he was in a difficult position to get rid of the tiger and had no choice at all. He had not yet thought of any good idea. The Ji Zhen soldiers had already gone to the front line to face the Zhennan Army.

He is a little envious of Li Rusong for having a dad as awesome as Li Chengliang.

Li Rusong did not come because of the excuse of the Jurchens invasion in Liaodong, and he foolishly brought all the main forces. There is no doubt that he will become the biggest loser.

Before, Liu Guoxiang took away the most elite sprint under his command, saying that he would rush to Nanjing to detour, but in Chai Guozhu's view, how could those few thousand people be sure of victory?

The cavalry under his command, who had been in a hurry to fight with the Zhennan Army, suffered a great loss in front of the Zhennan Army's artillery and fired in a panic. They were beaten and fled. They watched the Zhennan Army board the warship and leave the battlefield calmly, but they continued to lose a lot of troops that did not need to be lost.

More importantly, Chai Guozhu didn’t want to be an enemy of Xiao Ruxun at all!

If he knew, he would have been using the excuse of Mongolia's southern invasion to directly lead troops north to patrol the border. He would never lead troops south and make such unnecessary sacrifices in places like Yangzhou Prefecture.

It's really bad...
Chapter completed!