After a big victory, Shenzhou completely stabilized its foothold, and the enemy retreated to dozens of miles away, although the opponent still put on a big attack, but everyone knew that this well-planned drama of Lu Long's plot to succeed was basically over. Unless Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu sent troops on a large scale, it would be impossible for Zhenwu's army alone to take Shenzhou.

As soon as the stalemate situation was long, Chengde took a breath, reinforcements from Zhenzhou, Zhaozhou and other places arrived, and Zhenwu even had to switch from the offensive in front of him to the defensive posture. In terms of overall strength, Chengde's war potential is much stronger than that of Zhenwu.

If strategically speaking, the current Zhenwu should actually withdraw its troops, tens of thousands of troops are outside, and eating and drinking Lazar every day is an incomparably terrifying number.

But the Zhenwu Army and the Yingzhou Army led by Shi Yi are still firmly nailed to Shenzhou, as if they are looking forward to something.

Of course, there are still opportunities.

Although Zhang Zhongwu's main army and Gao Yu had officially started fighting, it was impossible to send reinforcements, but they had another ally that could not be considered an ally, and that was Zhu Shou of Henghai.

Wang Feng and Shi Yi are now pinning their hopes on Zhu Shou, as long as Zhu Shou makes a breakthrough, Chengde will still be their meal.

In Shenzhou City, Li Anguo fell completely ill, and the loss of his son was a huge blow to him. In particular, he had high hopes that he would be able to continue the family's glorious eldest son.

When the enemy's army was overwhelmed, he still tried his best to lift his breath to boost his morale, but as soon as the situation eased, he could no longer hold on and fell completely.

Cao Xin became the supreme commander in Shenzhou City, but at this time, his hands and feet were cold, let alone all day long.

The person sent by Wang Mingyi to deliver the letter brought the news of the Henghai Navy's large-scale attack on Yizhou.

"No wonder, no wonder Wang Feng suffered such a big defeat, and still Chen Bing refused to retreat in Shenzhou, it turned out that they still had a hole card." Cao Xin looked at Gongsun Changming, "Sir, what should we do now?" ”

Gongsun Changming was also helpless, from the beginning of the three families to resist Lu Long, to now the three families have cleaned up together. Wang Feng should be damned, but Zhu Shou is even more disgusting. His ability to make the rudder with the wind is really perfect, and this hand fell into the well, but the situation that Chengde had just turned around was rammed into the abyss with another hammer.

"Right now, I can only pray that the little boy can block the soldiers and horses across the sea, at least he can buy us more time." Gongsun Changming sighed: "Gong Cao, I know that you can't wait to return to Junyizhou right now, but this is absolutely unacceptable. ”

"I know." Cao Xindao: "Zhenwu is still eyeing Shenzhou City, if I return to the army, not only Shenzhou is not guaranteed, but I am afraid that it is myself, and it is impossible to return to Yizhou safely, although Lu Long's Khitan cavalry has suffered great losses, but there are still no less than 5,000 horsemen, in the city, they can't do anything to us, but if I return to the division, along the way, they will have an opportunity." ”

"Xindu must not be able to hold it, the little prince strengthens the city wall in Wuyi, and it is also a good strategy to prepare to hold the city, as long as they can't take Wuyi, then they don't dare to go deep into Yizhou alone." Gongsun Changming thought for a moment and said: "At the moment, on the one hand, I hope that the little prince can stay up longer, and on the other hand, I want to ask Li Gong to write a handwritten letter to Zhenzhou, and the soldiers and horses gathered in Zhenzhou can be divided into a part to go to Yizhou to rescue." ”

Cao Xin nodded yes.

"Thirdly, I hope that Li Anmin of Zhaozhou can send troops to Zhenwu as soon as possible, so that Wang Feng will inevitably have to return to the division in order to keep his old nest. Fourth, Cao Gong, if we launch a moderate counterattack, can we hope to win? Gongsun Changming then asked.

"The two sides have fought these battles, they know each other and know each other, it is extremely difficult for us to launch a counterattack to achieve victory, this is just a waste of our troops, scouts return, Zhenwu and Yingzhou Army's camps are extremely strong, and they are each other's horns, it is difficult for us to attack one of them." Cao Xin said: "As for the Zhao Zhou that Mr. said, I am very worried now. ”

"Because of Lee?"

Cao Xin nodded: "Li Bo and Akihito were captured together, Akihito died under the city of Shenzhou, but Li Bo has never been seen, and I am now very worried that the other party will take Li Bo to threaten Li Anmin." Once Li Anmin delays sending troops to raise troops for this reason, we will be in even greater trouble. ”

"Don't tell Li Gong about these things for the time being." Gongsun Changming sighed: "In the direction of Yizhou, I still believe in Li Ze's kid, or he can bring us some unexpected surprises." ”

Cao Xin smiled bitterly: "I hope so, but sir, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no matter how capable Li Ze is, no matter how he has a way, he only has such a little strength in his hands, and the two armies are facing each other, how can there be many fancy things to speak of?" In the end, it's not the big fish that eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp. As soon as Li Ze is defeated, Wuyi is lost, and the door of Yizhou is opened, and we will be defeated like a mountain. ”

The two were silent, even if they were as clever and clever as the two of them, they were helpless in the face of such a situation.

"If there is really no way, then you can only lead Chen Bang to Chengde." After a long time, Gongsun Changming said sneeringly: "It's better than giving Chengde to Zhang Zhongwu." ”

"Chengde was fought down by Li Gong with us old brothers, for this, how many old brothers have we died, how many relatives and friends have died, until the last moment, we will never bow down." Hearing Gongsun Changming's words, Cao Xin said solemnly: "It's not the most desperate time yet." Besides, now is to lure Chen Bang into Chengde, and it is too late in time. ”

While the two were talking, You Yong strode in.

"Gong Cao, sir." You Yong clasped his fists and saluted, and said: "Just now the scout came to report, the enemy has divided his troops, and the Khitan cavalry bypassed Shenzhou City and went deep towards my Chengde." The last general wanted to lead his cavalry out of the city. ”

"Is it a trap, trying to lure our cavalry out of the city and then gather and annihilate it?" Cao Xin asked.

"I'm afraid not." You Yong hasn't answered yet, Gongsun Changming has already said: "Zhang Zhongwu drove the Khitan cavalry to fight, and he has always not given enough food, and more supplies are relied on the Khitan cavalry to rob it themselves. ”

"Cao Gong, the end will be the Chengde wolf cavalry as the vanguard, gather all the cavalry out of the city, the Khitan cavalry wants to fight a decisive battle, I will fight a decisive battle with him, if they are just for looting, it will be better. It's a good time for us to kill them in large numbers. "You Yongdao." Otherwise, if they act arbitrarily, not only will the people of Chengde suffer, but the soldiers and soldiers in the city will also be unstable. ”

"General You is right." Gongsun Changming said: "What I'm most worried about is that these Khitan cavalry are nominally going to plunder, but in fact they are going to Yizhou to meet the Henghai Department, if Yizhou is lost, Shenzhou will inevitably not be protected, and now the main force guarding Shenzhou is the Yizhou soldiers, even if you, the commander, are unmoved, but the soldiers below are homesick, and they are more worried about the safety of their families, where do they still have the heart to defend the city?" When General You goes out of the city, as long as he deals with it carefully and constantly brings back the news of victory, the morale of the troops in the city will be safe! ”

"Then let's do it, Lao You, you are an old military officer, you don't need me to tell you anything, be careful, we can't afford to lose anymore." Cao Xin admonished.

"The last will understand." You Yong nodded.

Looking at the back of You Yong leaving, Cao Xin turned his head to look at Gongsun Changming, and said: "Sir, I'm afraid I have to ask you to have a good talk with Suning, now that the form has just eased down, Suning's small movements are continuous, and this person is now a little careless because of Li Che's death." I'm worried about what he's doing badly. But this person has a special identity, and Li Gong doesn't speak, so it's inconvenient for me to do anything to him. ”

"Don't worry about this person, he can't make any big waves." Gongsun Changming shook his head, lowered his voice, and told Cao Xin about Hu Twelve. Looking at Cao Xin's shocked expression, Gongsun Changming smiled bitterly and said, "You should know why I have so much confidence in that kid by now, right?" Someone else takes one step and looks at three steps, he takes one step and looks at ten steps. Since he can calculate the Zhenwu rebellion, can't he calculate that Henghai may defect halfway and fight a rake? ”

The reason why Gongsun Changming dared to tell Cao Xin about Hu Twelve was naturally because now Cao Xin's Yizhou was in Li Ze's hands, and he was not afraid that Cao Xin would spoil Li Ze's affairs. What's more, Cao Xin has always been very warm on Li Ze's problem, and he can be regarded as indirectly helping Li Ze a lot, if Li Ze takes the position, Cao Xin will undoubtedly become the most important party member of Li Ze. And now it seems that as long as Chengde survives this difficulty, there is no doubt that Li Ze will ascend to the sky in one step.

After a long time, Cao Zhicai said sneeringly: "As soon as Mr. said this, I suddenly became confident again. ”

"Me too!" Gongsun Changming nodded and said: "So you just have to do a good job in the defense of the Deep State, if Suning wants to jump, let him jump, the happier he jumps, the faster he falls." ”

Cao Xin nodded, once Li Ze ascended to the throne, it was inevitable that he would not deal with Suning, presumably now Suning also thought of this, so he was eager to regather his strength after Li Che's death, but he never imagined that Li Zeqi was already ahead of the curve.

"If this person dies bravely in this battle to defend Chengde, it will be the best ending." Gongsun Changming said: "In this way, in the future, the fate of the whole clan can be avoided." ”

"It's no longer possible." Cao Xin shook his head and said, "Now that Suning is extremely wary of me, probably he also thought about whether I would borrow a knife to kill someone, right?" ”