Chapter 140: The fog seals the city
According to Yang Tian’s original plan, he also wanted to build an affiliated temple in Jiuzhou City, but since it was not yet certain whether the Jiuzhou Alliance could withstand the attack of Cao Cao’s army, he did not tell Fengyunjihui about this matter for the time being. Perhaps after the Jiuzhou Alliance showed enough strength, Yang Tian would exchange the incense stove for Fengyunjihui.
The current Jiuzhou League has increased its strength by at least 50% compared to a few months ago, so half a month ago, Jiuzhou League had already begun its expansion path.
The Jiuzhou Alliance was located in Yanzhou. Although it is likely to be subject to Cao Cao, it has to be said that the Jiuzhou Alliance, which is now on the road to expansion, is more smooth than Yanhuang City. After all, Yanzhou is still in the raging Yellow Turbans, the expansion of the Jiuzhou Alliance only requires attacking the Yellow Turban Army, which is much easier than Yanhuang City and Kong Rong.
When Cao Cao began to march south, the Jiuzhou League had already taken nearly half of the land of Shanyang County. It seemed that the speed of the Jiuzhou League seemed to be faster than Baiyun City's attack on Yangzhou, but in fact it was not the case. The reason was that the area of Shanyang County was small, probably only half of the size of Wu County. It would be normal for the Jiuzhou League to be able to win half of Shanyang County within half a month.
Now the Jiuzhou League can only compete with Cao Cao at the speed. If it can occupy enough land and have a strong enough army before confronting Cao Cao, the Fengyunjihui will have the ability to challenge Cao Cao and at least negotiate with the other party.
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The subsequent war between Baiyun City troops in Yangzhou was very smooth, and they almost didn't take much effort to push it to the south bank of the Yangtze River. At this point, the entire area south of the Yangtze River in Yangzhou became the territory of Baiyun City. Dong Ming, the name of Yangzhou's governor, was even more famous. As for Chen Wen, there are only two counties in his hands, and the area is not very large. They are Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, both of which are from the Huainan area. However, from the current situation, Chen Wen never thought of relying on the Yangtze River natural barrier to resist the enemy. There is no way, the Sea King transport ship in Baiyun City is too perverted. For them, the Yangtze River natural barrier is just a smooth road.
Without Chen Wen's army's obstruction, the Baiyun City army's crossing the river was extremely smooth. In less than two days, millions of troops were sent to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
During this process, people responsible for monitoring outside Shouchun City heard from time to time that the main legion of Yangzhou was constantly gathering in Shouchun City. Chen Wen seemed determined to fight a decisive battle with Baiyun City in Shouchun City.
In this way, Baiyun City also gathered the nine main forces together and entered the territory of Jiujiang County where Shouchun was located. Not only that, Sun Ce also led a million troops across the Yangtze River. You should know that Yang Tian had passed by Sun Ce before, and this Jiujiang County would be handed over to the Sun clan. In addition to the due taxes, Baiyun City would not interfere in the affairs of Jiujiang County. Therefore, Sun Ce burst out with great enthusiasm at this time, and even if the troops under his command suffered losses, he would not hesitate to do so.
After the Baiyun City army successfully crossed the river, it continued to advance north without any rest. In fact, it was better to say that it was going to take over the town. Because most of the troops in the towns along the way had withdrawn, the remaining two or three kittens were scared by the Baiyun City army, and the army surrendered directly as soon as it arrived.
It seems that Chen Wen really plans to fight the decisive battle with the Baiyun City army in Shouchun City.
Three days later, the Baiyun City army did not injure a soldier or soldier. It pushed it to a place less than 800 kilometers away from Shouchun City. Most of the land in Jiujiang County fell into the hands of Baiyun City again. Yang Tian also fulfilled his promise and handed them all over to Sun Ce.
Although Sun Quan was killed in a battle with Liu Biao before, which greatly damaged the strength of the Sun clan, it did not hurt its foundation, especially some officials and disciples, all of them were brought out. So now Sun Ce took over Jiujiang County, everything went very smoothly.
However, due to the limited number of troops under Sun Ce, the city defense of these cities will be temporarily taken over by the Baiyun City army. The Baiyun City army will not evacuate until Jiujiang County trains enough troops in the future.
While Sun Ce took over the occupied city of Jiujiang County, Baiyun City also began to deploy fortifications on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Of course, the so-called fortifications are not about building buildings such as city walls or fortresses, but about building observation posts. According to the previously established plan, they needed to build an observation post every 100 kilometers along the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, in places like fertile land and flat terrain, there will be a village every dozen kilometers, so the construction of this observation post is very easy. However, it is not so easy to equip each observation post with enough personnel.
According to the plan, each outpost is responsible for patrol tasks on the river surface of 50 kilometers in the east and west directions, and to check suspicious ships entering the Yangtze River, especially large-scale fleets. To ensure patrol efficiency, the patrol personnel of these outposts must have flying pets, and in order to ensure all-weather patrol and safety, the number of personnel in such outposts cannot be less than ten. The Yangtze River waterway in Yangzhou is more than 20,000 kilometers long, and it takes about 2,000 to be equipped with such patrol personnel. Even for Baiyun City, more than 2,000 flying pets are still a big number.
Of course, you can patrol without flying pets, but the waterway in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is too wide, so it is impossible to see the entire river surface by sailing on the river. Therefore, it is very necessary to use flying pets.
However, it is not enough to just set up patrol posts along the Yangtze River, so Yang Tian also transferred the Blood Sail Fleet into the Yangtze River Basin, and it is permanently stationed in Poyang Lake. The reason why Yang Tian decided to station the Blood Sail Fleet here was, first, to radiate the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and second, to defend nearby enemy fleets that may descend from the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, especially Huang Zu's fleet.
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With the current marching speed of the Baiyun City army, you can reach Shouchun City within two days at most. By then, it will be the time for the two sides to fight the final decisive battle.
When Yang Tian received the progress of the advancement sent by Jia Xu, in order to avoid Chen Wen causing any trouble in Shouchun City, he came to the city closer to Shouchun City through the teleportation array, and then summoned the golden eagle to fly towards Shouchun City. He went to Shouchun City, first to stare at Shouchun City, and secondly, he wanted to wait until the Baiyun City army arrived, and he also participated in the siege battle so that he could take down Shouchun City as soon as possible.
However, when Yang Tian came over Shouchun City, he found a strange scene. The entire Shouchun City was shrouded in heavy fog. Even if Yang Tian had a treasure like Hawkeye, he could not see any movement below.
Yang Tian couldn't help but frown. Although it was morning and it was early autumn, it was normal to have fog. But this Shouchun City is the capital. Generally, the fog in the city cannot be too heavy. How could such a fog be blocked? Yang Tian probably might have some problems here. Could it be that the people who sent to monitor Shouchun City before did not find these abnormalities? Or did the heavy fog appear only today?
Just as Yang Tian was still thinking, a carrier pigeon stopped on Yang Tian's shoulder. Yang Tian took out the letter and saw that he was sent by two kingly rangers who had sent to Shouchun City. From the letter, Yang Tian learned that the heavy fog in Shouchun City did appear today. The surveillance personnel discovered this situation early in the morning and used the carrier pigeon to send the message back to him. However, because he happened to leave Baiyun City and flew directly to Yangzhou in the teleportation array, the carrier pigeon turned back and received the message.
Yang Tian did not intend to find the two rangers for the time being. From the letter, it can be seen that they were also confused by the heavy fog and did not know where it came from.
Yang Tian has not seen such heavy fog. Zhang Jiao had used this method before in the Yellow Turban Rebellion plot mission, but the scale was much smaller than this. Of course, this does not rule out the factor that Zhang Jiao did not do his best at that time.
Yang Tian had no idea what was going on in the city now, so he naturally didn't dare to go down to investigate. Maybe there were a large number of crossbow arrows waiting for him below!
If you have a specialty in your profession, you can naturally only find professionals to solve professional problems. Yang Tian immediately thought of Yang Feng, who had been developing believers for the Water Temple in Baiyun City territory, and he might be able to see some clues.
At that moment, Yang Tian sent a letter to the two rangers responsible for monitoring Shouchun City, asking them to continue staring, but they could not enter the city. After the pigeon flew away, Yang Tian drove the golden eagle back to Baiyun City.
Yang Tian first came to Zhenhai City. The temple here was where Yang Feng lived for a long time, and it was most likely to find Yang Feng here. However, Yang Tian didn't seem to be very lucky this time, but after arriving here, he was told that Yang Feng had gone to another county town to preach.
In desperation, Yang Tian had to step onto the teleportation array again. When he found Yang Fengzhi, it was almost noon.
Yang Tian didn't want to delay for a moment, so he immediately took Yang Feng to the teleportation array, and then the two rode the golden eagle to fly towards Shouchun City. On the way, Yang Tian told Yang Feng about the situation of Shouchun City and his own speculation. After Yang Feng heard this, he immediately frowned.
After a while, Yang Feng said: "My lord, my subordinates have no way to determine whether the fog is artificial or natural. However, if it is artificial, then this person's strength should be above his subordinates. With his subordinates' current abilities, he can also drive the fog to block the city, but at most he can block a heavy city like Wangtian City, and he will be powerless to do anything about such a large capital."
Yang Tian didn't continue to ask again. Anyway, after arriving in Shouchun City, he would naturally find out.
Nearly an hour later, Yang Tian and his men flew over Shouchun City. At this time, the heavy fog above Shouchun City had not dissipated, as thick as the morning. Yang Feng didn't say much and just observed it carefully.
Chapter completed!