Zhang Zhaohua lifted the curtain and went in, and somehow, he felt a little funny: "Mr. Wang, I'm here again." ”

Wang Du opened his eyes lazily: "It's chattering again." ”

Zhang Zhaohua wanted to persuade him to surrender for his own use, Wang Du naturally refused, he didn't even care about King Yan, not to mention a woman, what to say in the middle of the day - he didn't want to, Zhang Zhaohua came to annoy him every once in a while, Wang Du argued with her at first, and then stared at her and waited for her to finish speaking, and bombarded her to leave.

"Oh, Mr. Wang, have you figured it out these days?" Zhang Zhaohua asked him kindly: "Would you like to surrender?"

"You surrender," said Wang Du, "where is the ordinary surrender, and if you want me to surrender at the feet of a woman, it is unheard of!"

"It's unheard of in ancient times, coming to you is the first time in the world," Zhang Zhaohua said: "It seems that the person you are going to be loyal to is me, and your status has been lowered by thousands of times! If you are really talented and learned, no one will be buried with you!"

"I have the ability, I really want to assist a woman, and I can also push this person to be a Wu Zetian," Wang Du looked at her with his eyes: "It can be seen from this that your mind is not small!"

Zhang Zhaohua laughed and said: "Where is Wu Zetian? Didn't you say that King Yan is about to be defeated, and when the time comes, Beiping will be turned into powder!"

Wang Du's voice sank: "What I said is right, your Yan King, that is, he has hit Hebei and Liaodong, and he can't go down to the south!"

"On the front line of Shandong and Hebei, no matter what the imperial court loses, no matter how many battles and victories King Yan has," Wang Du said: "To be honest, it is not a fatal blow to the imperial court, the reserve soldiers in Jiangnan are sufficient, and they can continue to go north, and then King Yan can only die of exhaustion." ”

He said to Zhang Zhaohua, who was frowning and wanted to refute: "You said before, the words of Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng scholars will bring disaster to the country and the people, I laugh at you for being the daughter of the boudoir, you are small and big, and you don't know about military affairs." Why did Emperor Gao crown the princes and defend the strategic places in the world, and Kaifeng, where the King of Zhou was located, Qingzhou, where the King of Qi was located, and Jingzhou, where the King of Xiang was located, were all the only way for Emperor Gao to go on the Northern Expedition and seize Beiping.

Zhang Zhaohua was suddenly taken aback, she remembered that when Emperor Gao seized Beiping, it was such a thing - first take Shandong, remove its shield, rotate Henan, cut off its wings, pull out Tong Pass and defend it, according to its household threshold, the situation in the world, then into control, and then enter the Yuandu, the other side is alone, without a fight. Both the capital of Keqi, the drum marched to the west, and the clouds, Jiuyuan and Guanlong swept down.

Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai actually had such a long-term strategy, knowing that they controlled these strategic places, especially the three points of Jingzhou, Kaifeng, and Qingzhou, which were the key points in Emperor Gao's Northern Expedition strategy. Therefore, at that time, the cutting of the feudal domain was fundamentally intended for King Yan.

"In this battle, King Yan is attacking the south from the north," Wang Du said: "The north attacks the south, either from the Bashu region to the south, or through the Xiangfan region into the south, or through the Huaiyang region into the south, the land of Bashu is too far, if the king of Yan is alone and rushes thousands of miles, he will drag himself to death." As for the Xiangfan region, where is the king of Xiang? The imperial court has already taken over the Xiangfan region, can the king of Yan go south from here? The last Huaiyang region, Shandong is its barrier, don't underestimate this place in Shandong, it can lock the passage of the king of Yan to the south, if I were Tie Xuan,"

Wang Du smiled treacherously and said: "Take advantage of the time when King Yan is attacking other places, set off from Shandong, go directly north, send out a strange army, go straight to Zhending, gather the generals, and you can reach Beiping in a few days, and Beiping can be broken with one drum! To tell the truth, although King Yan has conquered many state capitals in the past year, but after his army left, these state capitals have not been recaptured by the imperial court, and they can be occupied, but they are only Yongping and Baoding, I don't know what he is busy with!"

Zhang Zhaohua heard the cold sweat rolling down, thinking in his heart if Tie Xuan really followed his method, what would he do if the soldiers came to the city - but he heard Wang Du sigh and said: "But Tie Xuan soldiers are not enough, I heard that King Yan is now besieging Jinan City, Jinan City is deep, and it can be defended, but it takes a lot of effort, I am afraid that after King Yan besieges the city, Jinan is tired and has no strength to surprise the army again." ”

To tell the truth, Zhang Zhaohua also feels that the current situation is all on the side of the imperial court, she has already got the battle report, King Yan has been besieged under Jinan City for a month, and he still has not entered, and he can't break through the Shandong defense line in Jinan, so he can't go south, if the situation develops like this, King Yan will be unable to hold on sooner or later and will lose first. Now the imperial court has formed a huge encirclement of King Yan, any passage that wants to go south is locked, King Yan desperately wants to expand this layer of encirclement, rushing left and right, Kaifeng, Xiangfan and other heavy troops are displayed, he can't go south, he can only break through this layer of defense in Shandong.

"You're right, the imperial court is now using troops, and there is generally no big mistake," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Even if the army is lost now, even if it uses such a big fool as Li Jinglong." ”

At the mention of Li Jinglong, Wang Du's two hands gradually clenched into fists: "Li Jinglong, it's better to be a real dog and a horse!"

"To be honest, I've thought about it too," Zhang Zhaohua said: "If Emperor Gao's hand can be loosened a little and leave a Fu Youde or Lan Yu down, where can King Yan still deal with the imperial court like this, maybe the battle will be settled!"

"You say that Li Jinglong is a mediocre talent, I greatly agree with this," Zhang Zhaohua spread his hands and said: "But after the first battle of Baigouhe, Li Jinglong was not held responsible, and he persevered in appointing his Emperor Jianwen, I said that he was a stupider fool than Li Jinglong, do you recognize it?"

Wang Du held back for a long time before he let out a vicious breath and said, "It's indeed a fool!"

Zhang Zhaohua laughed happily: "Jianwen thinks he is Wei Wenhou, and thinks Li Jinglong is the son of Le Yang! I think he is the king of Zhao Xiaocheng, and the other is Zhao Kuo's resurrection!"

However, Zhang Zhaohua realized that the imperial court could actually accept Li Jinglong's defeat, even if Li Jinglong's heavy losses were not a fatal blow to the imperial court, after all, as long as the imperial court had a stable rear, it could still send troops to this area continuously, and the imperial court had enough strength to support these losses, but it only harmed the southern army that was blindly commanded by Li Jinglong and died.

"Maybe the imperial court can still withstand such a defeat now," Zhang Zhaohua also smiled: "But the battle has been fought for almost two years, and King Yan has grown from 2,000 guards at the beginning to 70,000 elite soldiers today, and has the capital to compete with the imperial court.

Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng said in the book that "the vassal king is powerful, and the weight is difficult to control", in fact, this is very debatable.

The vassal king did have a certain amount of power, but this power, especially the right to lead the troops, was actually only able to command tens of thousands of troops when the emperor explicitly ordered the local troops to obey the king's orders - other times, Emperor Gao clearly stipulated that the vassal king only had the power to rule over his own guards, and could not touch the local officers and soldiers.

The kings' guards were no more than a thousand people. Therefore, Emperor Jianwen was suspicious of the king of Zhou, and the king of Zhou was exiled without any resistance; The same is true of the kings of Qi, Min, and Xiang! Emperor Jianwen was suspicious of King Yan, and King Yan immediately sent all three of his sons to the capital as hostages. Seriously, the strength of the vassal king is completely incomparable with the center, that is, the meat on the chopping board, no matter how he cuts it, the strength of the two sides at the beginning is indeed like this, but later-

As Zhang Zhaohua said, King Yan's strength has been strengthened in the use of troops with the imperial court. This in itself was a failure of the imperial court.