Chapter 923: Recover Yangzhou

Zhuque City, Chuzhou, Chu King Palace.

Although the newly completed King of Chu Palace does not have the temperament of Wanlong City, it is quite grand. On the side of the main hall is Chu Ding’s daily office space, inner study room.

In July, Chuzhou is so hot that it is hard to bear, but the study room inside is extremely cool. Leng Zhuo sits on the bamboo couch, a little lazy and unable to lift his energy. In the lower head, Jiang Ziya, two cabinet ministers, Zhuge Liang, and two military ministers, Sun Wu and Guo Jia, are sitting on the right.

"Your Highness, so far, the summer harvest has entered the final stage. Although there is a major disturbance of the northern plague this year, due to timely control, local patrols from all walks of life are actively responding. In addition, the vitality pill refined by Your Highness, all people will return to their hearts and work harder in farming. This summer harvest will not only not fail, but may also achieve a great harvest!"

"Will there be a local plague break out?" Leng Zhuo finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news. Food is the foundation. As long as there is no shortage of food, Chuzhou will be as stable as the cornerstone.

"When you go back to Your Highness, although there are death plagues in the place from time to time, most of them are handled properly in time, and some of the people that cannot be rescued have been burned and buried, and have been evolved by the Guangling Master. Now, there has been no epidemic of more than ten people in the thirteen prefectures and three counties under our rule in Great Chu!"

The thirteen prefectures and three counties mentioned by Jiang Ziya covers Jinfeng Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, and the western part of Yangzhou Prefecture, as well as Huangshan Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture.

"Yeah!" Finally, I was not in vain. The plagues were rampant during this period, while Leng Zhuo was so busy that he could not touch the ground. There was no way to refine the vitality pill, but he really couldn't find someone to replace him. The alchemy cauldron in the alchemy space of the Baijiang is unique. In addition, the spiritual energy in the Baijiang space has a high elixir rate. He took it outside to refine it. Just mastering this temperature and the time it took to refine a furnace of elixirs, it would be impossible to delay.

Leng Zhuo needs to be responsible for the ten prefectures of Chuzhou, the three prefectures and three counties occupied by Yangzhou, and the four prefectures in southern Qingzhou occupied by Bai Qi. The population under his jurisdiction is no less than ten thousand. Although strict and extremely restricted orders were implemented in these places, the plague did not spread.

However, in April, in order not to abandon the farming work due to this plague, the confinement order on the ground of Chuzhou has been lifted to a certain extent. However, the villages, towns and cities are still unable to walk, but when we come from home to the fields, it is naturally impossible to isolate it as in our own room. There will always be people infected with the plague, so there is naturally a lot more needed for the vitality pill.

However, these are not much more. What really makes Leng Zhuo worried is that Yangzhou is. Compared with Chuzhou, which has good prevention and control, and the three prefectures and three counties of Yangzhou, other places in Yangzhou can be regarded as mourning everywhere. Countless prosperous cities are destroyed by riots after the plague, and even several mobs have formed in Yangzhou. These people are threatened by the plague and have to face the scarce food.

As the plague continued, the desperate Yangzhou people had become a tiger out of the cage and bitten around. Moreover, the tiger was still a tiger with a plague, and the harm could not be ignored. If you want to quell these mobs and even reorganize those towns that fell into the plague, the vitality pill is indispensable.

Everything in Chuzhou was in order. Leng Zhuo comforted a little, turned his head, looked at Sun Wu and Guo Jia and said, "How are you ready in Yangzhou?"

"Return to Your Highness, Xuanwu Legion and Zhuque Legion have all formed a military force to enter Yang. Given the current situation in Yangzhou, these two military force are all composed of warriors and psychics. Now they have gathered in the waters of Taihu Lake, the northern part of Songjiang Prefecture, and the eastern part of Jinfeng Prefecture!"

"In addition, the imperial guards have also drawn 30,000 troops and horses. They are on their way to Yangzhou. It is expected that in half a month, they will all arrive at the Yangzhou front line. Including the temporary patchwork of the rebellion in Yangzhou, 140,000 troops that can enter the plague land have been deployed! All parts of Yangzhou can be recovered at any time!"

Leng Zhuoen said, but did not answer immediately. After pondering for a while, Leng Zhuo said: "It's time. I'll send the order. Since I'm ready, let's go out, but this time I hope I can clean it up!"

In mid-July 2nd year of Jianye, the King of Chu Leng Zhuo issued an order to march towards the plague land of Yangzhou.

At the mouth of Taihu Lake, a large water fleet is anchored on the calm Taihu Lake. Although the Xuanwu Legion is under the jurisdiction of eight water and continental divisions, only three have completed the full squad. Although the rest are still of some scale, it still takes two or three years to complete the reorganization.

However, this time, except for the First Aquatic and Land Division left behind in Xiangyang, the Fifth and Seventh Aquatic and Land Divisions that patrolled the Tianhe Waterway, and the Sixth Aquatic and Land Division responsible for connecting Qingzhou, the remaining four Aquatic and Land Divisions all assembled.

After circling in the air for two weeks, a letter eagle landed in the middle of countless warships, the largest warship.

The Super Tower warship has a hull of more than 40 meters and a hull of eight meters. This makes this Tower warship look like a moving fortress. This Super Tower warship has four-story bottom cabins and five-story boat towers. The side of the ship is full of warships like a city wall, which can be arranged hundreds of archers, and inside the hull, there are dozens of large bed crossbows.

On the highest floor of the building, it was the center of the entire navy. The hurried guards took the military order from Xinying's feet, looked at it, and quickly went down into the cabin.

"Teacher Commander, Your Highness's military order from the Military Affairs Office!"

Sitting in a rattan chair, fanning the fan, holding a book full of pictures, reading with relish. When he heard what his guard said, he immediately threw the book aside and jumped up from the rattan chair: "Huh, I finally don't have to bask in the sun here. I'm passing on our military order. The whole army leans towards Yancheng and prepares to implement the landing!"

"Teacher Commander, have you not read the content of the military order yet?"

"Didn't we order our troops?" Gan Ning was stunned for a moment and asked.

"This is right!"

"Then where do you come from nonsense? Hurry up and send me an order!" Gan Ning was frustrated. From the beginning, Gan Ning was a frustrated supporter.

Back then, Gan Ning was the young chairman as the commander of the first battalion of naval commanders, but his subordinates were so good that the Holy Sect took advantage of the situation and was in chaos. In the battle of Yuxi, the large number of craftsmen in the city were transferred to Gan Ning's troops, and most of them were lost. In the end, they had to abandon the water camp and go north to Xiangyang.

When he was in Xiangyang, Xiangyang had many naval soldiers and many warships, which was also the focus of reliance on them. Therefore, when there was a big battle, they were still the limelight, and he could only make soy sauce and drink some leftovers.

In Xiangyang, he had been practicing troops for several years, and finally he had made his way. Although his Fourth Water and Land Division was still not fully organized, he has now completed 70% of the organization, which is considered to have initial combat power. This time it is his first time to fight.

Gan Ning was assigned a task to regain the big city and Yancheng on the east side of the mouth of Taihu Lake. After cleaning up Yancheng, he then went south along the official road and cleared the places one by one.

Thousands of warships were blowing in the wind and heading towards Yancheng dozens of miles away.

Yancheng, a city located in the hills. Although it is against Tianhe to the north and Taihu Lake to the south, it is not cool at all. It can even be described as a large steamer.

"Sir, there seem to be many floating corpses on the water surface!" As we approached the waters south of Yancheng Wharf, countless corpses appeared on the lake surface.

Yes, countless, along the dock area, there are half-sinking and half-floating corpses everywhere.

"Damn it, they all have plague!" He used the oar to lift up several corpses, and saw that although the corpse had rotten, he could vaguely see his withered face.

"Damn, I won't eat fish again!" A soldier suddenly spitted out, and the other soldiers on the boat looked towards the lake, but saw that there were many big fish with forearms around him eating corpses, and their faces were suddenly blue.

"Bah, it must have been done by the mobs in Yancheng. All the people who suffered from the plague were thrown into the lake by them! Sir, look, there are people on the dock!"

"Damn, can these guys die by burning the fire? They actually threw it into the lake! Isn't it okay to find trouble!" The team on the Feiyu boat said with a very upset expression. They must have to salvage these corpses in the lake, and then burn them completely. Those who do this may be assigned to them.

"Sir, they seem to have run away! I guess the mob in Yancheng will soon know that we are coming!"

"Let them do it, my knife is about to rust, ready to go ashore!"

The navy led by Gan Ning was not all, but part of it, and only 10,000 people were able to attack ashore. Only a part of this 10,000 were his land brigade, and some were elite warriors and psychics drawn from the White Tiger Legion.

It is obvious that ten thousand people landed, which is not something that can be done every minute. While landing, Gan Ning divided up some fleets to start salvaging the dead bodies in the lake with fishing nets, and then dragged them to the shore and burned them together. In the army, there are three light-type earth spirit masters, who will be responsible for purifying the dead air around them.

"What a heavy death energy. You can see the clouds of death energy above Yancheng ten miles away. How many damn people have died!"

"There must be many people from other places who escaped to Yancheng. I think they planned to cross the Hebei region from here, but the ships near Yancheng have long been pulled away by the wealthy families in the city. In addition, we blocked Tianhe, which made a large number of people gather here. Every day, people want to cross Tianhe and escape from this place!"

Gan Ning hummed, "Let's get ashore too. Three thousand people have already got ashore. Let's look at Yancheng first. I heard that there has been occupied by several powerful figures and organized all the mobs below. It is not easy to take Yancheng!"

Just as Gan Ning landed on the pier south of Yancheng, the Chuzhou army of the same size was also landed on the pier south of Yancheng at Yangzhou West Wharf, Nanhubei Town and other places. At the same time, Songjiang was adjacent to the Yangzhou Prefecture line, and more than 20,000 elite troops also crossed the defensive line and rushed towards a town not far away.

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Chapter completed!