PS: I should try to get earlier, but I have dinner late at home, and I usually start typing after dinner, so... I should try to get it.

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In late September, after nearly half a month of travel, Jiangxiaqu commander Chen Xu led his army to Zhaoling County.

At this time, his troops were divided into two groups, and he sent his general Tian Qi and Guo Xi to Xuchang each to reinforce Xiang Xuan, the general under Guan Shuo. He himself led another general Zhu Mao to lead 10,000 troops to Kunyang and meet with Guan Shuo.

On September 28, Chen Xu and Zhu Mao led 10,000 troops to Kunyang.

Halfway through, the two were sent by Guan Shuo to send someone to interrogate, hoping that the army led by Chen Xu and Zhu Mao would cross the Shahe River and reach the southern suburbs of Kunyang to meet with the army led by Guan Shuo.

Upon receiving this news, Chen Xu was surprised to say to his general Zhu Mao: "It seems that Xiang Xuan, who is not only in Xuchang, needs assistance, but it seems that Guan Shuo is not having a good time..."

Zhu Mao smiled and nodded in agreement.

The two of them naturally understood the profound meaning behind Guan Shuo's request, which was nothing more than to put pressure on Kunyang County, which means that Guan Shuo's current situation in Kunyang is not optimistic.

Is a county town so troubled?

Chen Xu also felt incredible.

Although it felt incredible, Chen Xu still did it. Together with his general Zhu Mao, he led the 10,000 troops across Shahe and to the southern suburbs of Kunyang County, and to the camp of Guanshuo's troops.

It has to be said that when Chen Xu realized that the camp built by Guan Shuo was only five miles away from Kunyang County, he felt quite surprised, and realized that the situation on the battlefield here might be even more tense than he thought.

On the other hand, Guan Shuo also learned about Chen Xu's arrival in person. He was shocked and immediately took people out of the camp to greet him.

Around the 10 o'clock in the morning, Guan Shuo indeed saw Chen Xu. He said in surprise: "I'm sorry, Brother Zimian, come to help in person, Guan is very ashamed."

Zi Mian, that is the word "其其" by Chen Xu, which is different from most common people in the Yishishi. Chen Xu is from a poor family - a poor family refers to "common family", and in layman's terms, it refers to a small family. Even if the family is in a poor family and the family is poor like a commoner, they are essentially different from ordinary people.

Chen Xu came from a small family in Chen County, Chen County.

Of course, since he learned that he had defected to the rebels, his family had already drawn a clear line with him.

"Haha." Chen Xu held Guan Shuo's hand and smiled: "It's rare to see Brother Guan's embarrassment. How can I miss it?... I'm just here to avoid purity."

Guan Shuo felt a little embarrassed when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, Guan Shuo immediately woke up and asked in a low voice: "Because that Xu Jin?"

"Who else?"

On the way to the camp with Guan Shuo, Chen Xu said with emotion: "The people of Taiping Road are still adhering to the strategy of 'speed attack' and advocating the 'senior opportunity'... I do not deny that it is indeed important to seize the initiative in the early stage of the uprising, but now, with the rapid advance of our righteous army, the Jin State has already received news of failure. I have no doubt that Jin State is organizing the army to prepare for a counterattack. In this situation, we should detain the county occupied by the occupied areas and fight steadily, rather than blindly advancing northwards, and do something about 'congregating troops in the southern capital of Jin State'... Blind expansion will only give Jin State an opportunity to take advantage of it."

Speaking of this, he changed his tone and lowered his voice and smiled: "Then Xu Jin, relying on the name of Jing Chu, has bothered me day by day, and I feel very troubled, so I came to Brother Guan to avoid purity."

Yes, Chen Xu didn't need to come forward in person when sending reinforcements. The reason why he led his army to come was simply to avoid the nominal "Jiangxiaqu envoy Xu Jin".

Some people think that since Xu Jin is the "Jiangxia Canal Envoy", he must be with Chen Xu, but in fact it is not. Xu Jin's "Jiangxia Canal Envoy" was sent by the "New Chu" who established the country in Jingchu to contact and supervise Chen Xu, which is equivalent to supervising the army.

In fact, the new Chuyi Master today can be roughly divided into three areas: "Jingnan", "Jiangzhong" and "Jiangdong".

Among them, Jingnan refers to Jingchu, which is the founding place of the new Chu and the first place where the rebels raised the "anti-Jin" flag.

When the new Chu was founded, it was originally planned to advance two routes together, one to the north and the other to the east.

So the State of Jin sent two generals to curb, namely "General Wang Shangde, stationed in Nanyang", and "General Han Xun, stationed in Jiangxia", intending to curb the development of the New Chu forces in Nanyang and Jiangxia.

In recent years, Nanyang and Jiangxia have been the main combat locations of the Xin Chuyi Division and the Jin army.

This is also the reason why the Jiangdong Yishi is the weakest - because Xin Chu is unable to open up the third battlefield after Nanyang and Jiangxia.

It was not until Zhao Zhang, the magistrate of Xiapi County, rebelled against Jin and defected to the Yishi Army that the Yishi Army in Jiangdong developed rapidly, and after defeating Han Qin twice, the limelight was unparalleled.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the rise of the righteous army in Jiangdong that greatly inspired the righteous army in the two major regions of Jingnan and Jiangzhong, which made the New Chu State believe that the time to "overthrow the violent Jin" had arrived. Therefore, this joint northern expedition between various righteous army south of the Yangtze River.

It is undeniable that this Northern Expedition had achieved remarkable results in the early stages. In just a few months, Jiangxia, Lujiang, Jiujiang, Runan and other counties were successively captured by the Yishi. The New Chu court and the Taiping Road behind it strongly urged the Yishi to continue to advance north under the good news, striving to push the front closer to the Dahe area as soon as possible and completely occupy half of the country. This greedy and reckless approach made Chen Xu see a great hidden danger.

He said bluntly: "I came here in person this time, and I also want to know the progress of your "strike against Nanyang" with Jingchu. This determines whether I want to accept Jingchu's order and continue to push northward."

Of course, Guan Shuo did not think that Chen Xu's point of view was wrong, but when he mentioned the incident of "attacking Nanyang", he still felt a little embarrassed.

Why?

Because he had not really advanced this matter so far, he was tightly restrained by Kunyang County, so how could he have the spare energy to attack Ye County and attack the rear of Nanyang?

If you are facing ordinary generals of Jiangxia Yishi, Guan Shuo could still hide it, but when facing Jiangxiaqu coach Chen Xu, who is on par with him, Guan Shuo naturally has no way to hide it.

After hesitating for a while, Guan Shuo revealed the truth with a look of embarrassment and ashamed.

After listening to Le Guanshuo's story, Chen Xu was shocked.

You should know that when Guan Shuo captured Yingchuan County, there were 80,000 Changsha Army and nearly 20,000 Green Forest Bids under his command. Even if the nearly 20,000 soldiers lost in Zhaoling County and the 10,000 troops taken away by Xiang Xuan to attack Xuchang, Guan Shuo still had 50,000 troops and nearly 20,000 Green Forest Bids under his command - this did not include the new army recruited by Guan Shuo in Zhaoling, Yancheng, Dingling and other places on the spot.

In Xuchang, Xiang Xuan suppressed the county army of Yingchuan County with only 10,000 troops. However, in Kunyang, Guanshuo's 50,000 troops and 20,000 Green Forest Thiefs could not do anything to one Kunyang County?

Seeing Chen Xu's face strange expression, Guan Shuo explained awkwardly: "In fact, the army used to attack Kunyang is not as much as you think. I reserved 20,000 troops, named Tian Xu and Zhai Shang, and controlled Ye County. In fact, there were only more than 30,000 soldiers and nearly 20,000 Green Forest Thiefs..."

The more he talked, the more embarrassed he became, and in the end he couldn't say anything. After all, just this force alone was definitely not a small number. Under normal circumstances, it was more than enough to capture a county town.

Seeing Guan Shuo's face full of embarrassment, Chen Xu tactfully did not ask, and instead asked about the situation in Kunyang County: "Is Kunyang so difficult to deal with? It's even harder to fight than the county town of Yingchuan County?... By the way, who are the county magistrates and county magistrates of Kunyang County?"

Guan Shuo understood Chen Xu's meaning and shook his head and explained: "The difficulty in Kunyang is not in his county magistrate or county magistrate. Now the one who resists my righteous army in Kunyang is a local bandit leader named Zhou Hu..."

"Bandit leader?"

Chen Xu asked back, seemingly unable to believe his ears.

Guan Shuo could understand Chen Xu's surprise, because before that, even he couldn't believe that a bandit leader had blocked his tens of thousands of rebels.

But that's exactly what's the truth.

He explained with a little depression: "This bandit leader named Zhou Hu is quite famous in Kunyang. Before our rebel army arrived, it was said that Kunyang County had organized officers and soldiers to encircle Zhou Hu many times, but it is said that it failed to succeed again and again... Until our rebel army arrived, Zhou Hu somehow got together with Kunyang's county government, replaced the county government government, led Kunyang's army and civilians to resist stubbornly, and even joined forces with Ye County. Ye County also transported a lot of arms and grain to Kunyang, and even sent three thousand Nanyang troops..."

Chen Xu, who was right, was difficult to understand. In fact, even he didn't understand how the bandit leader named Zhou Hu convinced Kunyang County Government and even the Ye County Government acquiesced to the existence of this person - isn't this guy a bandit?

After telling Chen Xu about the several battles between his Yishi and Kunyang County so far, Guan Shuo said in a deep voice: "According to many battles, the guards of Kunyang County are roughly composed of Nanyang soldiers, black scarf thieves and local militias. There are only 3,000 soldiers in Nanyang. As our army attacked the city several times, it has gradually become difficult to see. I think it has almost been injured and killed, leaving only the Black Tiger thieves and local militias... Among these people, the most difficult one is a group of black scarf thieves called "Bree Wolves". They are both good at dispersing patrol soldiers who attack our army at night, and are also well aware of guarding the city. They are the most trusted group of people in Zhou Hu and even Kunyang..."

"Very awesome?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

Guan Shuo thought about it and commented on the group of wolves: "Scattered to be a wolf disaster, gathered to be a tiger disaster!"

After hearing this evaluation, Chen Xu felt a little surprised. After all, Guan Shuo's evaluation sounded quite good to him.

With surprise, Chen Xu asked curiously: "Have you ever tried to recruit this Zhou Hu?"

Guan Shuo was silent for a moment and said with a little depression: "Before the rebellion, Zhang Zhai, the envoy of Nanyang Qu, sent me a letter asking me to try my best to win this Zhou Hu, but I didn't care much at that time, let alone Zhou Hu proposed to divide Kunyang, Xiangcheng and Runan into their territory, and I was not allowed to settle in the charity army. This condition was only exchanged for him to nominally submit to my charity army. How could I agree?"

"So that's it." Chen Xu nodded in understanding.

Not to mention the excessive demands made by Zhou Hu, he could understand why Guan Shuo did not take Zhang Zhai's reminder to heart, just like he didn't like Xu Jin, because Zhang Zhai was also a Taipingdao person - they have never liked these military supervisors who were talking about the name of "天天".

However, Zhou Hu was able to block the attack of Guan Shuo's army with the military and civilians of Kunyang alone, and Chen Xu was still very interested in this person.
Chapter completed!