The reason why Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao thought that Lin Fu could not fight the Battle of Jingxiang before this was mainly because they had a narrow vision and could not see that the Battle of Jingxiang would affect the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south and affect the initiative of the next war situation in the world.

Will it fall in the south or the north? Furthermore, they still can't clearly see Lin Fu's ambitions.

Yue Lengqiu has been dealing with Lin Fu for many years, so he naturally sees some things more clearly than others in Tanzhou. However, it was precisely because he saw so clearly that he misjudged Lin Fu's determination to aid Nanyang.

If Nanyang can be defended, the next situation will definitely be favorable to the south. At least when Yuzhang met Lin Fu, Yue Lengqiu did not doubt Lin Fu's determination to defend Nanyang.

The subsequent development of the situation showed that although Yue Lengqiu misjudged Lin Fu's determination to defend Nanyang when he was in Yuzhang, he still believed that Lin Fu would not give up Jingxiang easily, and at the worst, he would fight Beiyan in the Jingxiang area.

Keep going, unless Lin Fu really doesn't have the ambition to conquer the world.

Beiyan must be allowed to completely occupy Jingzhou, control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and threaten Jiangning from the upper reaches. The entire situation is extremely unfavorable to Huaidong.

Of course, after Yue Lengqiu escaped from Nanyang and saw Lin Fu giving up Nanyang so neatly, his confidence was not so firm. Only then when he saw Lin Fu leading the front across the river to establish a foothold in Qichun did he believe in himself again.

judge.

In any case, the Chizhou Army has no retreat.

Of course, in addition to Zhang Zuowu, Gu Hao, Yue Lengqiu and others who arrived in Qichun at this time, Vice Prime Minister Zuo Chengmu and Hu Wenchang, son of Hu Wenmu, also came over.

After the fall of Nanyang, if the main force of the Huaidong Army had not crossed the river into the eastern region of Hubei and contained the main force of the Beiyan soldiers and horses heading south from the east bank of the Han River, the Jinghu Army would have absolutely no confidence in holding Jingzhou with its own strength.

In fact, following the example of Nanyang, people in Jinghu were deeply afraid of being played by Huaidong. Before they saw Huaidong officially crossing the river and sending troops to the north bank of Hubei, people in Jinghu would not

Completely commit the main troops to Jingzhou for defense.

On the one hand, Zuo Chengmu came to work on behalf of the imperial court. On the other hand, Zuo Chengmu was a deputy prime minister from the Jinghu system and was the representative of the Jinghu family in Jiangning. Whether Jingzhou can be defended will give Huaidong an opportunity to weaken it.

, it is related to Zuo Chengmu’s vital interests, and he cannot sit idly by.

Naturally, the Jinghu Army will not take Jingzhou lightly, because once it abandons Jingzhou and retreats to the south bank, only the Jiangxia Banfu and Ezhou Prefecture can be defended. It will only be like the Chizhou Army gradually becoming a vassal of the Huaidong Army.

Yue Lengqiu was almost trapped in Nanyang and could not escape due to being played with by Lin Fu like that.

Of course, if the Huaidong Army was not determined to cross the Yangtze River and join the war, the Jinghu Army would have no choice but to temporarily abandon Jingzhou due to the situation.

In addition to leading Yu Wencheng's troops to cross the river and go north, after taking the remaining city of Qichun, Lin Fu ordered the supplies of the Jianghuai government to assemble directly with Qichun as the center, and took practical actions to demonstrate his determination to enter eastern Hubei and attack Jingzhou.

Xiang’s determination.
Chapter completed!