In mid-February, the cold air had subsided and the temperature had rebounded, but it was not actually hot, especially at night. As a result, the three cavalrymen in Zhenwu, Xuanjia and Maqian (100 each) who crossed the river were a little uncomfortable. One of them may not be the temperature, but the environment may be.

It was almost morning, and more than 500 infantrymen had quickly packed their things and went ashore. Nearly 300 cavalrymen were still sending horses ashore, and they were so busy that they were sweating profusely.

Horses are also "northern people" and are not very comfortable. From this we can see that it is very expensive to maintain a cavalry unit of an appropriate scale in Jiangnan. In the large screening of adapting to the environment, a considerable number of horses can die from death.

Everyone was busy until midnight before leaving this dilapidated small ferry and heading to Shicheng County for a while.

This county was abandoned during the Taikang period of Emperor Wu of Jin and merged into Xuancheng County. It was restored again during the Sima Rui period. It has now been occupied by the Ji clan of Xuancheng County.

Ji Shihe stood outside the city to welcome Liang Jun who was crossing the river. After a greeting, he looked left and right, but did not see Huan Yi.

A little disappointed.

"General Han, General Guo." Ji Shihe saluted to the two generals who crossed the river.

The two quickly returned the gift.

"General Han" is naturally Han Zhongzhi.

"General Guo" is precisely Guo Sima, namely Guo Song, Sima of Runan County, and Li Ju's nephew.

He once served as the county magistrate of Mi, but later quit. He took Yu Chen's path and joined the life capture army. Unfortunately, he did not make any contribution. After going around, Runan County served as the county Sima.

He personally selected and led the 600 straits who moved south this time. Most of them were the Huhan bandits in Fengyi who moved to Runan for years to settle down. In order to inspire morale, he was allowed to be a soldier in the palace as long as he crossed the river, regardless of the outcome. When he was killed, he could take over the nephew. Guo Song himself even received the promise of the prefect of Runan to step on the prefect together. If the prefect is not capped, it depends on your performance.

Therefore, when the two met Ji Shi and did not want to delay, Guo Song asked directly: "Dare you ask Ji Gong, where is Sima Chong?"

Ji Shihe was stunned and said, "In Wanling."

"Lead the way." Guo Song said.

"Don't you rest for a day or two?" Ji Shihe asked.

"No." Guo Song said, "While the men still have the strength to fight first. If the delay is long,

What should I do if I fall ill?”

"Why is that unlucky?" Ji Shihe laughed and said, "There are many overseas Chinese along the river between Shicheng and Ruxukou.

I have not died of illness all the time. I saw them digging for land and farming on the banks of the river, but there has not been fewer people in twenty years."

"But there hasn't been more people, right?" Guo Song said impatiently, "Let's lead the way quickly. How many people can your family gather?"

"There are more than a thousand people in Shicheng, and there are internal supporters in the city. You can open the city gate. Jingxian is a bit troublesome, but it is okay to bypass it. Xuancheng County is my ancestral home, but in recent years, Jianye has sent a county magistrate to specifically suck my family's bones and suck them one by one."

"Enough! Lead the way." Guo Song said, "Prepare the resources along the way, I want to attack Wanling directly."

Ji Shihe was about to say that the broken road in Xuancheng is difficult to walk, but he didn't dare to walk the river. He could only give up and respond, and then call his children and nephews to stabilize the situation in Shicheng, especially to keep a close eye on the direction of Jiangzhou to the west.

He himself led the way and returned to Xuancheng County to meet his military and military generals.

His attitude is very positive. It’s time to go up to Huan Yi’s high branch, what are you waiting for if you don’t hurry up to climb Huan Yi’s high branch? No, he is climbing up to the high branch of his good nephew Huan Wen.

If the Jiangnan family wants to redeem themselves, this is already the last chance.

I don’t know what the Kong family in Kuaiji thinks. I heard that Maolun married the Kong girl and relied on the introduction of the Huan clan members who settled in Kuaiji. The Huan Fan clan’s uncle Huan Hua moved to Kuaiji during the Chuping period of the Later Han Dynasty.

At noon on the fifteenth, after lunch, Guo Song, Han Zhongzhi and others, led by Ji Shihe, headed all the way eastward, along the disrepaired post road, heading straight to Lincheng (near Qingyang County, Chizhou).

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If the post road is still tolerant, the river on the left and the stream on the right would be very annoying.

The swamps were even more visible everywhere, and the dense reeds almost obscured their sight, making the group of warriors from the north very uncomfortable. They always felt that there were ambushes in the reed marsh.

"This place is like this." Ji Shihe, who led the way, sat on the ox cart and said embarrassedly: "Doshicheng County was dismissed during the Taikang period. The reason was that it was sparsely populated and there were not many people now. If there were no overseas Chinese, it would not have been re-established."

"Didn't you set up a hometown and county in the overseas Chinese?"

"Not all northerners have established Qiao County." Ji Shihe said: "The late emperor, Sima Rui once spent his energy to control Xuancheng. This place was his fief. Maybe he felt that there was no need to establish Qiao County. I am not very clear. I haven't gone out for many years, so it's hard to do business now--

Guo Song was too lazy to listen to his noises, so he just observed around.

In his opinion, there are more than 20,000 households on paper in Xuancheng County. Even if they actually double to 50,000 households, it is difficult to occupy this place. Jiangnan is really too deserted, and it may be possible to remember that Wu County is relatively rich, and even these two counties still have a lot of wasteland.

If you go to Jiangnan to build a village house in the future, Xuancheng seems to be a good place.

Six hundred strife, three hundred cavalry and hundreds of Ji family troops were walking like this.

Along the way, there were rivers and lakes, and the speed of the march was not enough. From time to time, large groups of birds soared into the sky to watch the group of warriors heading from the north and south.

On the 17th, Shicheng came to report that there were another 200 cavalry and 500 squadrons successfully crossing the river.

The messenger also brought some external news: Zhuge Hui sent more than 10,000 troops from land and land to Anfeng, defeating Fan Jun, the prefect of Yiyang, and Jun was defeated and died. Anfeng's troops returned to the west to attack Yiyang.

It seems that someone fled to Poyang News. Recently, there have always been scouts from Poyang County observing near Shicheng, and there have been more ships on the river. The flag should be the Jiangzhou Legion under Wang Bin, who guards the tent of the custody of the siege.

Xunyang Zhou family sent troops to attack Wankou City and retreated.

In short, people have noticed this.

After receiving these news, Guo Song and Han Zhongzhi's attitude towards Ji Shihe improved a lot.

People are so realistic.

Without Ji's support, can they really survive in this vast swamp and dense forest? After walking for so long, I didn't see many people in the village. Even if I snatched all the refugees from Jiangbei, there was not enough food, let alone persisting for a long time.

If Xuancheng is developed for a few hundred years, it will be much easier to cross the river from here.

On the 20th, everyone finally saw Lincheng County. The Wu people seemed to be prepared, but they had no soldiers. They just closed the city gate tightly and looked at the group of northerners who came from afar with fear.

Fortunately, as Ji Shihe said, someone secretly opened the city gate after nightfall.

Guo Song and Han Zhongzhi rushed into the city and quickly killed dozens of county-level military officials, easily controlling the entire city.

At this time, what Guo and Han wanted to do the most was to quickly replace military boots that were almost entirely sludge and wash their white feet quickly.

It took only five days to cross the river, and people could barely stand firm, but the horses had fallen down because they were not adapted to the environment.

Guo Song sighed secretly.

Horses are actually much more sensitive than humans. If they live in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, they mostly come from the grasslands, and the power of the south in mid-to-late February is gradually becoming apparent.

When Cao Cao planned to seize Jiangnan, he also gave seals and ribbons to the chieftain of Shanyue, and almost never sent large groups of people to smuggle across the river.

You have to hurry up! Don’t be killed by the Wu people until the end, but you are sick and lying down.

During the rest period of Lincheng, they also got news from the east. There were two thousand soldiers from the Fuchun Sun family near Guangde County, Xuancheng County, who were defeated by Wuxing's prefect Yu Tan, and the heads were built into Jingguan to show that they were shocked.

The old house of Zhou in Yixing was broken, and many descendants died. Zhou Zha held a soul-summoning funeral in Yangxian, inspiring the Zhou family's children to fight to the death.

The remnants of the Qian family were still active, and some of them collapsed into the border of Xuancheng.

Shen didn't move, and seemed to be hesitating.

The most rare thing is the news about Jincheng. When it heard that the river was blocked so hard that it was difficult to send people to smuggle. The Jincheng defenders were besieged to this day, with less than a thousand soldiers and almost all of their horses being consumed. Some people in Lincheng County talked about them, and they all laughed at Zhao Yin's incompetence, but Guo Song and Han Zhongzhi did not dare to think so, but they sighed that the situation of Jincheng defenders was worrying.

On the 22nd, the second group of people crossing the river came to join, and their troops expanded to 1,5600. According to what they said, the third group of people crossing the river were unlucky and suffered great losses, with only more than a hundred cavalry and three hundred sergeants crossing the river, and probably no one came from behind.

Ji Shihe listened silently, without saying anything.

Unconsciously, his united front value further improved. Without him, these three groups of people crossing the river faced endless swamps and reed marshes, and they didn't know where to grab it. At that time, the cavalry first became infantry, then died of illness, starved to death, and lost to death. In despair, the killing of the fort was almost injured. On the afternoon of the 22nd, Guo Song and Han Zhongzhi discussed it and decided that the latter would lead the cavalry to go first.

In the early morning of the 26th, Han Zhongzhi, Ji Shihe and others traveled more than 200 miles and finally arrived in Xuancheng County. With the help of the inside and outside, they killed the county magistrate and seized the county town.

The Ji family members gathered 3,000 people to arrive outside the county town, preparing to officially return to the right.

At the same time, Sima Chong, the King of Langya who had stationed in Wuhu, urgently collected 3,000 soldiers, plus 3,000 imperial guards, and took a boat to the current and headed straight to Xuancheng. After learning that the city had been replaced with the "Liang" flag, he quickly turned to Wanling and guarded the city.

Yanlin, Dushan Dudu, Liyang, urgently mobilized his troops and horses, crossed the river from Ruxukou, landed on the south bank, and came to Xuancheng.

After he left, the defenders of Huaiyangqiu villages surrendered in despair.

Wang Bin of Jiangzhou also led his army from Peng Zedong to defeat Shicheng first and chased after him.

Even the soldiers and horses of Xuancheng who were killing the Qian family's remnants in Wuxing were fighting in succession, coming from Ningguo and Guangde.

For a moment, Han Zhongzhi and Guo Song, who had just arrived in Xuancheng, were facing the dilemma of surrounding each other.

There is no way, the land marching is too slow, and the mobility is far less than that of Wu Bing who came by boat.

But their efforts to penetrate the enemy's territory were not ineffective. On the 28th, in the drizzle, the Wukang County Magistrate was assassinated in the yamen office, and the "Liang" flag was hung on the head of Wukang County that day.

Shen took action and controlled the entire territory of Wukang within one day, and then rushed straight to Wucheng.

The Zhu family and Shi family (Zhu Zhi, Zhu'an people) rose up to respond.

The descendant of the commander of the Shanyue Zongshu, Lingyang (Xuancheng County), also raised an army to respond.

The Shi family of Yongshi County did not respect Liu Chao's orders, and after a melee, they returned to their old house to guard them.
Chapter completed!