The Qilin Hall was very quiet, five or six important ministers were silent, and the atmosphere was a little depressing.

Zhu Jun paced back and forth in the hall with his hands in his hands, his brows furrowed, and he unconsciously let out a heavy snort, which was a manifestation of his nervousness, and sometimes even he was unaware of it.

"Gen Xiangguo, tell me what you think!"

The silence of the crowd made Zhu Jun a little dissatisfied, and he first began to question Xiang Guo Yuanxiu.

Yuan Xiu's eyelids jumped, he coughed heavily, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, this incident happened in Chengdu, it really makes people feel very sudden and surprised, but if you think about it carefully, it should be reasonable, and it is not strange." ”

"What do you say, and what do you call it?"

"Your Majesty, the dictatorship of the eunuchs of the Southern Tang Dynasty is well known to passers-by, but this kind of dictatorship cannot exceed the imperial power, once it exceeds the imperial power, their death time will come."

"But it's not them who died, it's a damn Li Shi, he manipulates the imperial power!" Zhu Zhu's heart was furious, he was eager to know the answer, but Yuan Xiu gave him an ambiguous answer.

"The problem is here, the eunuchs have military power, the emperor wants to kill them, if they don't want to die, the only way is to kill the emperor and set up a new king."

"Yuan Xiangguo, everyone knows this answer, there is no need to repeat it!" Zuo Xiang Yao Lingyan couldn't help but sneer in a low voice.

In the past two years, the relationship between Yuan Xiu and Yao Lingyan has been an open secret of the imperial court, and the two have maintained restraint in front of Zhu Zhu, in addition, the two have fought openly and secretly, never stopping, and the courtiers have stood in line, and gradually divided into two factions, the source faction and the Yao faction, if the bane of the Southern Tang Dynasty is the eunuch dictatorship, then the instability of Daqin is the dispute between friends.

Today in front of Zhu Jun, Yao Lingyan didn't dare to go too far, but he still seized the opportunity to ridicule Yuan Xiu, and it was very clear in the intelligence that it was the eunuch who launched the palace coup, and Yuan Xiu was still here pretending to analyze it in depth and say useless nonsense.

Yuan Xiu suddenly glared at Yao Lingyan angrily, "I want to hear it, what is Yao Zuoxiang's opinion?" ”

"I'm not as conceited as Yuan Xiangguo, I can't talk about high opinions, but I think this may be an opportunity for us to attack Jianghuai."

Zhu Jun's spirits perked up, this was what he liked to hear, and he hurriedly said: "Yao Aiqing continues!" ”

"Your Majesty, the new monarch of Chengdu will succeed to the throne, and the envoys of various festivals will definitely meet the new monarch, Weichen estimates that Guo Song will not go, but Chen Shaoyou of Huainan and Liu Qia of Jiangnan East Road and Ma Sui of Jiangnan West Road will definitely go to Chengdu to meet him, and the coach is not there, isn't this our chance?"

"Makes sense!"

Zhu Jun was greatly appreciative, and he asked Liu Sigudao, who had been silent, "What do you think of the military advisor?" ”

Liu Sigu said for a while: "I think the timing of the death of the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty is a bit strange. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"This is obvious, Li Shi is anxious to return to Chang'an, and even does not hesitate to use Yangzhou to exchange Guanzhong, but Guo Song occupied Guanzhong, I am still thinking, how should Guo Song respond to Li Shi's request, after all, he publicly admitted that he was a subordinate of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but he didn't expect Li Shi to die at this critical moment, relieving Guo Song's trouble, this is too coincidental!"

"You mean to say that Li Shi's death is related to Guo Song?" Zhu Jun asked.

"The humble position is just a suspicion, but there is no evidence, but I am sure that there must be a lot of secrets hidden in this that we don't know, in fact, we don't need to care about these, just like Yao Xiangguo's suggestion, now is a good time to seize Jianghuai, and Weichen also hopes that His Majesty can seize this opportunity."

"General, what do you think?" Zhu Jun's gaze turned to Zhang Guangsheng again.

Zhang Guangsheng bowed down and said: "Your Majesty takes Yangzhou, it's the right time!" ”

Zhu Jun laughed, "Okay! With all of you's good words, I will send troops as soon as possible! ”

.........

Zhu Zhu's army had been preparing for a winter, a large amount of grain was transported to Fuli County, Xuzhou, and 60,000 troops were also distributed in Bozhou, Xuzhou, and Sizhou, plus the original 20,000 garrisons, bringing the army to 80,000 in the southeast.

However, Zhu Jun's deployment was gradually completed over a period of several months, and the time span was large, and neither Li Na, Wu Shaocheng, nor Chen Shaoyou were aware of Zhu Jun's strategic intentions.

In the afternoon of this day, several fishing boats sailed out of Surabaya and entered the Huai River, although the winter is not over, the north is still frozen in the river, but the Huai River is not frozen, the fishing boats can still be seen from time to time, and a county town can be seen vaguely on the opposite bank, which is Huaiyin County in Chuzhou.

At present, Chuzhou is the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty, subordinate to Huainan Jiedu Mansion, Huainan Jiedu Mansion has a total of 20,000 troops, under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou and Chuzhou, Jiedu envoy is Chen Shaoyou, he is also the history of Yangzhou Thorn.

Huainan Jiedu Mansion is also currently attacked on both sides, not only to guard against Zhu Zhu in the north, but also to guard against Wu Shaocheng in the west, especially Wu Shaocheng has always been ambitious in Yangzhou, and several times sent troops to sneak attack, all of which were defeated by the Huainan army.

Because of this, Chen Shaoyou was very vigilant against the Huaixi Army, he deployed 10,000 heavy troops on the western front, led by his henchman Wang Shao, and he also laid down 5,000 troops in the north, mainly distributed in Huaiyin County and Shanyang County, of which Chuzhou Prefecture governed Shanyang County has 3,000 troops, and Huaiyin County's troops are slightly weaker, about 2,000 people, but these 2,000 people are all naval troops, usually patrolling on the Huai River.

Several fishing boats continued to cast nets on the Huai River to catch fish, and gradually approached the south bank, there is a water village on the south bank, surrounded by a thick fence, usually you can't see how many boats are inside, and hundreds of big tents are set up on the shore of the water village, and two thousand troops are stationed here.

In winter, the navy generally does not patrol on the Huai River, the north is ice and snow, the river is frozen, it is impossible for warships to go south, and only after the ice and snow thaw in the north, the warships will start patrolling, this is the middle of January, it has been less than a month since the northern river thawed.

Several fishing boats passed by the gate of the water village one after another, and if they had been warned by the patrol boats in the past, but now the gate of the water village was closed, and there were no boats outside.

Two black-clothed water ghosts silently launched from the fishing boat and dived into the water village, several fishing boats quickly sailed away, about half an hour later, another fishing boat passed by the water village, the two water ghosts were picked up on the boat, and several fishing boats immediately sailed north.

Supre County, Sizhou, this is a small county with a population of only 2,000 households, the circumference of the county seat is only ten miles, a pillar of incense can walk from the south city to the north city, but it is the closest county seat to the Huai River in Sizhou, Surabaya passes through the county, although Supre County is north of the Huai River, but its river is not frozen.

In the afternoon, several fishing boats returned to the county wharf, and several sturdy men hurried towards the county seat.

Liu Sigu had already arrived here a few days earlier, along with Zhu Zhu's vanguard general Qiu Jingzhong, who commanded 20,000 troops stationed throughout Sizhou, but his Chinese army tent was also in Supre County.

In the military office, Liu Sigu was repeatedly deliberating on his plan, and his plan focused on three places, one was to cross the Huai River, the second was to cut the connection between Wang Shao's army and Yangzhou, so that Wang Shao's 10,000 troops could not return to Yangzhou for rescue, and the third was to attack Yangzhou, he had sent a thousand soldiers to mix into Yangzhou one after another, and then the time should be combined with the outside and the outside to capture Yangzhou in one fell swoop.

At this time, a soldier reported at the door, "Qiyu military division, the spies are back!" ”

"Let them in!"

After a while, the three sergeants walked into the lobby quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted together, and reported to the commander of the first brigade: "Qi Yu military division, two water ghosts under the humble command have infiltrated the water village and seen the situation of the enemy army clearly. ”

Liu Sigu looked at the two soldiers behind him and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"The gate of the enemy's water village is closed, and there are more than 200 ships moored in the wall, basically small and medium-sized ships of 300 stone and 500 stone, only one thousand stone warship, and the camp on the shore is also very quiet, and there is no sign of army training."

"See the soldiers?" Liu Sigu asked again.

"See, walking around on the shore, there are quite a few people."

Liu Sigu asked some other details in detail, and then rewarded them with thirty taels of silver and ordered them to retreat.

"Strategist, it's still freezing in the north, isn't it too early to start a war?" Qiu Jingzong asked hesitantly on the side.

Liu Sigu smiled slightly: "You think so, the enemy also thinks so, so the enemy water village gate is closed, and there is no longer even the previous patrol, isn't this our chance?" ”

"We only have ten fishing boats in our hands now, and we can't transport troops, so even if we have the chance, we may not be able to catch them!"

"I specially arranged ten fishing boats, just to paralyze the enemy army, in fact, in the enemy's intelligence records, there should be no fishing boats in Huaibei."

Huaibei no fishing boats or Li Xilie's credit, he in a few years, the north bank of the Huai River fishing boats all destroyed, since then, Huaibei has not dared to build fishing boats, 'Huaibei no fish' in recent years has gradually become a local saying.

Liu Sigu pointed to the water village on the map and said: "The key to the army crossing the Huai River is this water village, seize this water village, our ferry problem will be solved, General Qiu, act in two days, don't hesitate." ”