Of course, Shi Le, a great man, rescued more than Hua Yi indirectly. Wang Ru, a former sworn brother, also gained benefits in his aggressive southern expedition. Because he rushed to the south, Sima Fan, who had just completed the encirclement of Jiangling, was required to return to Nanyang and suspend the offensive against Jiangling. The army led by Zhang Xuan joined forces with the transferred eight Gan Guanzhong soldiers and pushed them all over the way. Wherever he went, all the powerful men descended and were soon pushed to Jiangxia by him.

But that doesn't matter. The Jianghan Plain's life gate is Jiangling. If Jiangling is not taken down, it will be difficult to sleep even if it occupys the entire Jianghan Plain. What's so bad is that Jiangling City was built by Guan Yu, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms. That configuration can scare people to death. After the Western Jin Dynasty took down Jiangling, it was launched to strengthen and expand it. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as "copper walls and iron walls". It is definitely not an easy task to win this famous city.

Even if you have a counterweight catapult that can throw a huge rock weighing 300 kilograms of rocks two or three hundred meters away, it is not easy to smash the city's walls. It can be foreseeable that under Jiangling City, the Jin army will face an unprecedentedly arduous and cruel battle.

Of course, Sima Fan wanted to take Jiangling in one go, but the walls of Jiangling are really strong and you can't take them down in a short period of time. Secondly, Shi Le, the big demon, led his locust army south and may attack Xiangcheng and Nanyang. He must first find a way to deal with the offensive that Shi Le may launch...

I could only temporarily surround Jiangling and wait until I survived this crisis before going back to deal with Wang Ru.

"Do you think Shi Le will attack Nanyang and Xiangcheng?" Sima Fan asked.

Li Rui said: "The possibility is not small."

Sima Fan asked: "Why?"

Li Rui said: "First of all, Luoyang has been razed to the ground, and Nanyang, where the imperial court is located, has become their next target to attack. The emperor is here, how could the Hu people who vowed to destroy the Great Jin Dynasty let Nanyang go? Secondly, now nine out of ten houses in the Central Plains are empty, the fields are deserted, and the two counties of Xiangcheng are densely populated and have abundant grains. Even for the need to plunder food and population, Shi Le cannot let us go!"

Sima Fan sighed: "It seems that he is facing another big battle."

Li Rui asked: "What are you going to fight this battle?"

Sima Fan said: "What else can I fight? I will firmly clear the world, rely on the strong city and sufficient food to consume them, so that their army's food and grass will be exhausted, and the epidemic will be rampant in their army, and then launch a counterattack, killing their lives!"

Li Rui smiled: "Is it the turtle flowing style again?"

Sima Fan rolled his eyes: "I want to change my playing style, but the problem is that it is not allowed!"

Li Rui said: "No matter what style of playing, just win. Come on, after doing this, I wish us a victory!"

Sima Fan raised his glass: "Damn!"

After a meal in Nanyang, Sima Fanma rushed to the front line without stopping. The Jingzhou army he led stayed on the front line and continued to siege Jiangling. The command power was handed over to the powerful general Geng Zhong. Now he took over the command power of the Tianwei Army, responsible for guarding Xiangcheng.

After all, he is really familiar with Xiangcheng.

His arrival made Beigong Jing feel relieved. No matter how powerful she is, she is only one person. She has to lead three armies alone and coordinate so many powerful armed forces. She is really useless to clone. When Sima Fan comes over, she can hand over the command of Tianwei Army and a large number of powerful armed forces to him with confidence, and concentrate on commanding the Hengye Army and the Shenwu Army, looking for an opportunity to fight Shi Le.

Shi Le did not disappoint them. After killing Wang Mi and clearing out some of Wang Mi's best friends, integrating Wang Mi's troops, he led this army of locusts to the south in a fierce manner. The Central Plains, which had been ravaged to a great extent, once again faced a terrible disaster. Wherever this army of locusts went, villages and forts were razed to the ground. Men, women, young and old either filled trenches, were on the way to escape, or in the belly of the Hu people, it was difficult to find any living creatures where they swept them.

In mid-November, Shi Le's army arrived in Xuchang.

In the past few months, Xuchang has been confronting the Jin army stationed in Xiangcheng under Shi Le's control, and everyone has not violated the rivers. But Shi Le obviously does not intend to let this relatively peaceful situation continue. After arriving in Xuchang, he convened a military meeting for the generals to discuss the goals of the next action.

Shi Le took the lead in speaking: "Our army's southern expedition is to cross the Yangtze River and uproot the Sima family's momentum in Jiangdong. However, the expedition is long and there are hundreds of thousands of people. The food and grass consumed every day cannot be dried. The Central Plains are already ruined, and no matter how much they grab, they can't grab enough food and grass for the army to eat. Fortunately, the two counties of Xiangcheng have just achieved a bumper harvest. I want to use troops to Xiangcheng and Nanyang. On the one hand, I will capture the little emperor and humiliate them, cut off the thoughts of the Han people in the north, and on the other hand, I will also grab some food and grass and population from these two counties to supplement the army's military supplies. What do you think?"

All the generals were silent.

Shi Le said: "Zhi Xiong, please tell me your opinion first."

Zhi Xiong pondered and said, "Now the largest population in the Central Plains are Xiangcheng and Nanyang County. Taking these two counties can indeed get a large amount of population and food, but... I'm afraid it's not easy to fight!"

Diao Ying said: "Our army tried to attack Xiangcheng a few months ago, but the Jin army defended the city and there were a large number of rattles wandering around to support it, so it was difficult for our army to succeed. In the past few months, the Jin army has been strengthening the cities and forts in Xiangcheng. It has just achieved a bumper harvest, and it is sufficient food and grass. If you want to defeat it, it is probably even more difficult!"

Kui'an said: "Besides, there are tens of thousands of Jin troops in Nanyang and Xiangcheng, most of which are surviving veterans of the imperial guards. Their combat power should not be despised. They are also commanded by famous generals like Beigong Jing..."

Hearing the three words "Beigong Jing", including Shi Le, more than half of the Jiehu generals present couldn't help but twitch their eyes and recalled the fear of being beaten on the ground by the young general from Liangzhou in Luoyang. At that time, Beigong Jing had only a few troops on his hand, but he gave them several defeats in succession and killed many Jiehu veterans. Now she has tens of thousands of troops under her command, and most of them are veterans who have lived for the rest of her life. She is backed by two counties that have just achieved a good harvest. It's so difficult to fight her! She is not that her resilience has been exhausted.

, completely despaired about the future, indulged in pleasure and didn't think about anything, just thinking about Gou Xi, who is drunk today! It is said that for the past few months, she has been racing against time to train her army, and she pulled the army into the mountains in every few days to replace the enemy with beasts, training the courage and perseverance of the soldiers, and using this cruel method to turn those veterans who have lived for the rest of their lives into a terrible war machine. Now they have just annexed Wang Mi's subordinates, and the internal situation is not very stable. It is probably not a good thing to rashly provoke this powerful opponent!

However, some people were not convinced. Just as the generals were hesitating, a young general who was only seventeen or eighteen years old stood up and shouted: "All generals are veterans who have experienced many battles, one by one, they are all powerful in the Central Plains. Why do you look scared when you mention Beigong Jing? Is that sissy really so terrible? I don't believe it!"

He bowed to Shi Le and said loudly: "Uncle, my nephew is not talented. I am willing to lead three iron cavalry to act as the vanguard of the army, break the damn Xiangcheng, capture Beigong Jing in front of you, and you will send it down!"

Shi Le laughed out loud: "Ji Long is full of courage. He is really a tiger from my Shi family. OK, okay!"

This young player is Shi Hu.

When it comes to Shi Hu, I am afraid everyone knows it. After Shi Le took down the entire Northern China, he was proud and said to all the emperors of the Han Dynasty that if he met Liu Bang, he would surrender quickly and act as a general under his command to fight for him and open up territory. If he met Liu Xiu, he would compete with him for the Central Plains. It is still unknown who would die. At first glance, you would think this guy was too crazy. Even Liu Xiu, such a plane son, was simply crazy! But don’t worry, what he really wanted to say was behind: "A real man should act openly, like the sun and the moon, and not like Cao Mengde, Sima Zhongda and his son, bully orphans and widows, and use fox charm to seize the world!"

This is for Shi Hu to hear. To put it bluntly, it is just beating Shi Hu.

Shi Hu is Shi Le's nephew. His father passed away very early and was adopted by Shi Le's father, so some people say he is Shi Le's younger brother. This guy is as smart and powerful as Shi Le, good at riding and shooting, and he practices martial arts easily when he is young. After Shi Le was sold to Shandong as a serf, he and his old mother stayed in Shanxi and struggled to survive. In October of the fifth year of Yongjia, in order to win over Shi Le, Liu Chuan sent Shi Hu and his mother to Henan, and sent a letter, saying that as long as Shi Le was willing to surrender to the Great Jin Dynasty, he could protect his high-ranking and generous salary. Shi Le accepted the gift and refused Liu Chuan's favor. He also brought Shi Hu by his side, and taught him how to use troops to fight...

As a result, a great devil was taught.

Shi Hu soon showed extraordinary military talent and became Shi Le the most important general. It can be said that most of Shi Le's country was defeated by Shi Hu. It is precisely because of this that Shi Le was uneasy about him, because he knew very well that the military talents of his own sons were not as good as Shi Hu's. He could still suppress Shi Hu when he was there. Once he died, Shi Hu could no one control him. Those who waited for his descendants would be a disaster! Therefore, he repeatedly emphasized openly and secretly that conquering the world is the purpose of a real man, and robbing the world from the hands of orphans and widows. Those who robbed the world from the hands of orphans and widows were all bastards. Don't learn from them!

There was no use, Shi Hu couldn't listen at all. After he died, he killed all his descendants and took over the country he had worked hard to build. Perhaps Liu Chuan never dreamed that he would send the proton back to show his goodwill to Shi Le. Not only did he fail to pull Shi Le to the side of the Jin Dynasty, he also released a devil who was ten thousand times more terrible than Shi Le. Thirty years later, the shadow of this Hell Demon Lord enveloped the entire Northern China and almost exterminated the northern Han people.
Chapter completed!