"I think that this scoundrel Li has suffered such a crushing defeat, his time is up."
"Yes, as long as our army marches north, the recovery of the Central Plains is just around the corner."
At this time, countless literati in Jiangnan turned the story of Hu Zongxian defeating Li Qin's army and marching south into a tale that continued to spread in Jiangnan.
The morale of the entire Jiangnan region was greatly boosted.
Despite the widespread praise throughout Jiangnan, Hu Zongxian in Lianghuai was not happy at all.
He stared intently at the map before him, while simultaneously ordering his men to continue repairing the cities destroyed by Li's army's southward advance.
At this moment, there was an article praising him from Jiangnan on his desk.
But he didn't even look at it.
He knew how exaggerated those literati had been about Li Qin's army's southward march and his defeat of it.
As someone who experienced it firsthand, he knew that Li Qin's army's southward advance was not something he had repelled at all.
Rather, they left voluntarily.
They voluntarily withdrew after the war in Hubei and Hunan ended.
This confirms his deduction that Li Qin's army's southward march to the Huai River region was merely a feint, intended to support the war in Huguang.
Of course, he also witnessed firsthand the fighting power of Li Qin's army this time.
Although Qin Chenyao's Lu army was not as strong as Zhang Hengshuo's Liao soldiers, they were still capable of fighting.
However, compared to the Huai Army, which they had only recently formed, it was still much stronger.
Especially those Liaodong troops, once they reach ten thousand men, in open field battles, my own Huai Army is no match for them at all.
The only ones capable of fighting them were probably Yang Zhiyong's tens of thousands of Shanxi troops.
But the next time Li Qin marches south, he will definitely have more than just this many troops.
The situation in the Huai River region is worrying.
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