May is coming in a blink of an eye.

As expected before the war, with E Yue being taken down, the Southern Alliance immediately began a strategic contraction. From the original crazy attack, it retreated to its own territory, and began to frantically strengthen the city, build fortresses, and set up heavy troops on the dangerous and pass roads to prepare for the attack of the Northern Tang army.

After taking Xiangyang in Yizhou, Cao Bin originally planned to go down the Han River to take Jingnan, join forces with the troops led by Tian Mantang to attack Jingnan, and take the fastest speed to capture this land of fish and rice. Now he has to give up this plan. Cao Bin defends Xiangyang, and after Tian Mantang leaves Sichuan and occupy Zigui, he is unable to move forward, so he can only form a confrontation with the Jingnan army.

Yueyang Ding Taiyi's cooked duck watched him fly away again.

Qian Biao was almost at the end of his life, and he only relied on water support to support it. However, as soon as the Eyue war ended, Shi Zhuang's army immediately approached Yueyang. No matter how reluctant Ding Taiyi was, he could only give up the fat piece of meat on his lips and hurriedly shrank back.

Now, it was his turn to worry about the Tang army launching an attack on him day and night.

At the end of May, Shi Zhuang's army officially arrived in Yueyang. It set Yueyang as the headquarters of the central army, and also integrated Qian Biao's troops into his right guard.

Qian Biao officially left the army, and Chang'an appointed him as the governor of Hunan. Although he currently only controls more than a dozen counties around Dongting Lake.

Qian Biao was satisfied.

He is full of confidence in becoming the real governor of Hunan. Ding Taiyi is nothing but a dry bone in the tomb, but he is the walking corpse for a while.

His son Qian Bin and his daughter-in-law Zheng Wenjun all entered the Right Wei Guard. However, what made Qian Bin feel a little embarrassed was that Zheng Wenjun was directly appointed as the General of the Central Army and was on the side of Shi Zhuang with Liang Han. He did not even get one of the front-line troops and became a general in charge of military logistics.

I felt angry and couldn't help but give Zheng Wenjun some look, but after being taught a lesson by Qian Biao, he became depressed. Can he compare with Zheng Wenjun?

Although Zheng Wenjun is a woman, his sense of smell, keenness, and overall view on the battlefield are not comparable to Qian Bin. More importantly, Zheng Wenjun comes from a secret camp and is Li Ze’s real hard-core direct line. With such a wife, he will secretly go!

The Jingnan army, including Tian Guofeng's troops, was ordered to integrate into Min Rou's left-leading guards, and Tian Guofeng was appointed as the general of the Central Army to carry out a comprehensive reorganization. At this time, Min Rou was still in Guanzhong and was preparing to enter the Qinling Mountains, capture the five passages of the Qinling Mountains, and then force Hanzhong.

Although Min Rou has not yet taken office, the military layout of the entire Tang Dynasty has been fully revealed.

The northwest direction was handed over to Min Rou, and the left-leading army was the power of a guard against Yizhou.

The southwest direction was handed over to Shi Zhuang, who used the power of the right guard to deal with Hunan and other places.

Li Mi's right Qianniu Guard, stationed in Ezhou, aimed at Jiangxi.

You Yong's Zuo Xiaowei entered Zhejiang and stared at the direction of Fujian, while also threatening Jiangxi's location.

Zheng Wenchang's troops in Dongting Lake were incorporated into Li Hao's inland waters and were appointed as Li Hao's deputy general.

Although a large-scale reorganization was carried out, the actual number of the Tang army did not increase, and the various units still maintained their original organization. A group of former Yueyang troops whose combat effectiveness did not meet the requirements, the Jingnan troops were withdrawn, and a group of soldiers who reached the age of age retired. Through these measures, the Tang army released a large number of young and strong laborers back to the local area.

Ding Jian officially took office as the newly established governor of Hubei Province, and the entire Hubei Province, except for Xiangyang still being controlled by Cao Bin, all other places have been controlled by the Tang army.

The Tang army did not take advantage of the momentum to launch a large-scale attack as the Southern Alliance imagined, but instead paused. However, for the Southern Alliance, especially Jiangxi, which suffered heavy losses in the previous stage, he did not dare to relax at all. He was still recruiting soldiers in large quantities and heading towards the front line of confrontation.

The large-scale war on land was pressed by Li Ze.

For Li Ze, there is something more important to do now than launching a large-scale war on the Confederate.

Of course, this does not mean that the war has stopped.

Taking advantage of its huge military advantages, the Confederacy forced the Confederate to continuously strengthen its military strength, recruit more troops, build more equipment, and reserve more food, making its expenditures on military expenditures increasingly large.

In short, Li Ze's purpose is to slowly drag down the south on the economy.

But the absence of large-scale wars does not mean that there is no small-scale conflict. No offense on land does not mean that there is no sea either.

The losses suffered by the Southern Alliance, which had lost the confrontation with the Northern Tang army at sea, were not only completely cut off their foreign trade channels, but also lost the big piece of foreign trade cake.

When the two sides entered a new stage of confrontation on land, they immediately tasted the threat from the sea.

The navy of Iron Hook Pan Motang unscrupulously attacked Fujian and Guangdong coastal areas.

Under the blue sky, more than a dozen small fishing boats floated on the sea. One by one, men wearing only pairs of shorts stood on the boat. With a powerful shout, the fishing net in their hands was thrown out, spread out suddenly in the air, and then fell into the water. After a while, the man bent his waist and began to recycle the fishing net.

As the fishing nets appeared little by little, the man seemed to be more and more struggling, and his muscles raised one by one, and his face turned red. The fishing nets rose a little longer, and the people who rowed the net could no longer hide their happy smile. The fishing nets were only half out of the water, but there were already big fish one or two feet long jumping desperately, struggling, trying to break free from the disaster that came from the sky.

But the misfortune of these fish is the joy of the fishermen's harvest.

He rushed forward a few steps after rowing, shouted with the man who was pulling the net, and dragged the fishing wind little by little to the boat.

Just a net, the cabin of their boats was filled with all kinds of sea fish, shrimps, and crabs.

"Oh my God, what did I see, Niu Er, what is that?" The man who pulled the net suddenly jumped into the cabin, reached out and slashed some miscellaneous fish aside, and used both hands to grab a big fish and raised it up.

"Big yellow croaker, big yellow croaker." Niu Er jumped and stood in the pile of fish with his legs. A big crab raised its two big pliers and clamped his legs hard. He didn't notice it at all, but reached out and grabbed the big yellow croaker weighing more than ten pounds with Niu Da.

"The tax we added this year can be paid for the taxes." Zhu Da's face was full of a happy smile. Big yellow croaker was very rare, and big yellow croaker weighing more than ten pounds like this is even rarer. This one alone can sell more than ten taels of silver, and there will be people rushing to buy it. With this money, the war tax that has just been increased this year can be paid for it.

Ordinary miscellaneous fish are not worth much money, but such rare big yellow croaker is different.

"Get a bucket, take a bucket, keep it, don't let it go. If you die, you must sell it at least half the money!" Zhu shouted.

Niu Ershu was busy in the cabin, but he took out a large bucket of fresh water they stored. Without hesitation, he poured out all the fresh water inside, and leaned over and scooped half a bucket of sea water out of the sea. Then the two of them carefully put the big yellow croaker in, then covered the lid, and firmly fixed it on the boat.

"Flip it over and see if there is any?" Niu Er squatted down and stretched out his hand to tear off the crab on his leg. He ignored the bleeding of the claws on his leg. He directly flapped a crab leg, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it around the fishing pile. "If we could find one, even if it was smaller, we would be rich."

"You boy are not in a good mood. Let's go home. The harvest has been enough today!" Zhu Da laughed and walked to the rowing position, preparing to return home.

He just held the Lu, but his whole body froze.

In his vision, a huge white sail shadow appeared, and then the huge gray hull was fully displayed in front of him.

Niu Da screamed, "Northern Tang people, Northern Tang warships, Niu Er, go quickly, go quickly!"

Zhu Er straightened his waist from the cabin and exclaimed, snatching his elder brother's side. The two brothers grabbed the oar handle with four hands and waved them desperately.

On the sea, some other fishing boats like them were frightened, fleeing desperately towards the nearshore direction.

These big ships have a deep draft, and they cannot go to many places near the shore. As long as they escape to those places, they will have a chance to survive.

They had encountered warships from Northern Tang before, but as long as they fled to the nearshore waters, the large warships would be too lazy to pay attention to them anymore.

This time, I went too far.

If it weren't for paying the war tax that the Qing government had just increased, how could they risk going so far? But if they didn't go so far, how could they have such a rich harvest and could not pay taxes? The government really wanted to smuggle houses and demolish houses.

Beads of sweat as big as beans flowed down their faces like water. The two had already had all their strength, but the Northern Tang warship behind them was still getting closer and closer.

With a loud bang, a fishing boat that landed behind their brothers was sunk, and in a blink of an eye it was swallowed by the other party's huge ship. Niu Da screamed: "Hurry up, hurry up, it's coming."

The other fishing boats are basically one person, and only their brothers are two.

"The big ship has slowed down!" Niu Da turned around in a hurry and screamed in surprise.

They had entered the shallow water area, and the warships in Northern Tang were indeed slowing down, but the next scene made Niu Da despair again.
Chapter completed!