After being silent for a while, Li Jing cleaned up his mood and spoke again, his voice was already hoarse, and asked, "How are the preparations along the river, and how are the preparations for the reinforcement army?" ”

Feng Yansi hurriedly got up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Jiangbei should send Huang Fuhui to the aid of Huangfuhui, who has led an army of 20,000 troops into Tunchuzhou to strengthen the garrison of Qingliu Pass. Huangfu made Jun Yuan a general in the Central Plains, familiar with the northern pawns, old and serious, rich combat experience, can resist the Han soldiers in northern Chu. ”

"The deputy envoy Xu Wenzhen, who led 20,000 troops, has been stationed in Hefei. Yao Feng, the capital supervisor, led the 20,000 troops to Gaoyou, and could go north to support Si and Chu at any time. With these three lines of soldiers and horses, it is enough to protect our Jiangbei Prefecture County, consolidate the defense line along the river, and threaten the Han army! ”

"There are also 20,000 sailors, patrolling along the river and defending the river defense!"

Li Zhenggu, the deputy privy envoy, also got up and reported: "The imperial court has raised 30,000 strong people from Jiangnan and Fujian, and they are stationed in Dangtu, issued armor, and practiced for three months, which can be worthy of a war!" Chang Run's soldiers, need to guard against Wu Yue, Jinling forbidden army, need to consolidate the Beijing division, all of which cannot be moved lightly. If the Pingchu army returns, plus the state soldiers and township soldiers from all over the country, I will have 100,000 troops to fight against it! ”

Listening to the reports of Feng and Li, Li Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the army of 100,000 made him feel a little relieved.

In fact, on the side of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was already a big explosion, and it was the first time in more than ten years that it had spared no expense of national and people's strength, which could be regarded as a reckless force. But in order to keep Huainan and defend against foreign aggression, everything is worth it.

After the previous toss of the Southern Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers, at the time of national crisis, it still has such strength, bursts out with such energy, and the prosperity of the national strength can be seen. It can be seen that in the original history, Guo Rong's three expeditions to Huainan were won after three years, not without reason.

"Your Majesty, although there are many soldiers and horses in our army, compared to the Han army, the combat power is really worrying, although it is called 100,000, there are really not many people with combat experience, especially in the battle of Xia Cai, Liu Yanzhen's fool will be my 30,000 elite forbidden army, and I will be lost!" Song Qiqiu came out and punctured the bad situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"What do you suggest?" Li Jing no longer had a king's city, and his worried face was full of worry, and he looked at Song Qiqiu.

Song Qiqiu said directly: "The Northern Soldiers have always been strong, the Northern Han Dynasty has been established for five years, almost all of them have not been recruited, and those who followed the Han Emperor's southern expedition were mainly based on the Northern Han Forbidden Army, which was the absolute power of the Han Dynasty to suppress the world, and the combat power can be imagined." ”

"Therefore, in the future, we can no longer ask fools like Liu Yanzhen to seek a decisive battle with the Han army on land, that is the way to defeat. When the garrison army in Jiangbei is strictly ordered, it is forbidden to take the initiative to attack, when it is weak, and then it is strong! ”

Song Qiqiu was a "fool" to despise Liu Yanzhen, and Feng Yansi on the side was a little embarrassed, after all, he was his own person who instructed Wei Cen to recommend him.

At this time, of course, Song Qiqiu would not care about the psychology of the party, and still methodically emphasized to Li Jing his strategy of resisting the enemy: "Over the years, the Central Plains soldiers have been in trouble one after another, and they have been created by the Khitan, the country has not been pacified for a long time, the population is insufficient, and the government is difficult to realize. ”

"The son of heaven of the Northern Han Dynasty, succeeded to the throne as a young man, and in a few years, he cleaned up the country to try to govern, and the results were very good, and he could be called the hero. The reason why he attacked me is to covet the wealth of the people of our dynasty and want to strengthen his national strength. ”

However, its three-year agglomeration, once it broke out, although it was strong, but after all, the foundation was weak and the foundation was not strong. With the accumulation of two generations of our dynasty, we only need to hold the customs and defend it steadily, confront it, consume its sharpness, spend its money and food, and wait for its successor to be weak, which is enough! ”

And the Northern Han Dynasty is located in the Central Plains, the land of four wars, it will be difficult to stay in Huainan for a long time, otherwise, if there is something in the north, it will be a situation where the enemy is on both sides. Although the Khitan changed the country, its strength was not greatly damaged, and only one army was needed to make the Han Emperor look north. ”

Therefore, the Han army is not a long-lasting army, and our army only needs to deal with it calmly, fight steadily, and defeat it with national strength and people's strength. Compared with the Northern Army, our dynasty is shorter than the infantry cavalry, but longer than the naval division. After the beginning of spring, when taking advantage of the water division, along the canal north, to aid Si and Chu, in order to protect the Huai water, and attack the rear of the Han army from the side, destroy its floating beams, and hit its grain road! ”

"As for the Shouzhou side, He Jingzhu knows that he is a good general, and with his ability, according to the strong city, it is not easy for the Han army to take down. The divisions of Hefei and Chuzhou only need to slowly march to the reinforcements, and stay on the side of Shouchun to contain the Han army and make it impossible to attack the city with all its might! ”

"In this way, just wait for half a load, wait for a good opportunity, and the Han army can retreat! And at that time, when midsummer arrives and the climate is hot, how can the northern pawns adapt to the water and soil in the south, and it will be more convenient for our army to find a good opportunity to break the enemy! ”

Since Song Qiqiu returned to the court, he has synthesized the news, analyzed the current situation, and advised Li Jing before and after to make suggestions, but this time, it is a response strategy that he has summarized after repeated thoughts.

Analyze Song Qiqiu's strategy and summarize it, one is stability, the second is cowardice, and the third is dragging, being humble to resist the strong, and being punctual and standby. Although some aspects are considered a little idealistic, the analysis of the strength of the two sides and the view of the current situation are still very clear. If the Southern Tang Dynasty and the front-line armies can really implement this strategy, then it will really cause great trouble to Liu Chengyou.

For its strategy, the ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty also agreed, one is that Song Qiqiu is famous, the other is that the Song party is powerful, and the analysis of the three is indeed reasonable. For Li Jing, at this time, there was a person who made an idea and told him what to do, just like a drowning man who saw a floating beam and clung to it.

"Mrs. Song deserves to be the first strategist of our dynasty and the pillar of the society!" looked at Song Qiqiu's calm old face and said, "Just according to what Taifu said, deal with the Han army!" ”

Although as a political enemy, Han Xizai also had to admit that Song Qiqiu was indeed sophisticated, and took the initiative to praise it: "Taifu's strategy can be described as a deep plan!" ”

After that, Han Xizai also suggested to Li Jing: "Your Majesty, as Taifu said, our dynasty should send another envoy to strengthen the contact with the Khitan and Houshu, and invite them to send troops to attack the Han." Now that the Han army is strong, the ministers expect that the other two countries will not completely sit idly by! ”

After Han Xi finished speaking, Song Qiqiu glanced at him, and said nonchalantly: "Contact can be contacted, but you can't completely pin your hopes on him, with the ability of the Han Emperor, how can you not be prepared?" Our army is punctual and standby, others can't count on it after all, whether it can resist the Han army, the most important thing is to rely on me Datang itself! ”

"Mrs. Song's words are reasonable!" Seeing Song Qiqiu's cold reaction, Han Xizai also responded lightly.

Under the planning of Song Qiqiu and others, Li Jing calmed down a little, and the fear and panic in his heart decreased slightly. However, before the palace discussion ended, the Privy Council hurriedly sent a report from the northern army, Feng Yanlu, the regimental training envoy from Sizhou, the Han army raided Shanyang, and Chuzhou was lost.

Hearing this, the Southern Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were so frightened that even Song Qiqiu almost pulled off his beard. Chuzhou is the place where Si and Huai converge, and the canal traffic is choked. Once Chuzhou is lost, Sizhou in the west will also be difficult to protect, and most importantly, the lower reaches of the Huai River will completely fall under the control of the Han army.

As for the idea of Song Qiqiu's advance, using the Tang Navy's division to enter Huai, attack the flank of the Han army, and threaten its grain route, it was directly declared that it was no longer feasible. For Song Qiqiu, this face was beaten too quickly.

And Chuzhou is lost, Sizhou is sandwiched between Hao and Chu, and has become an isolated city, with nothing to rely on, and it will be lost sooner or later. In this way, at least in the Huaiyin area, the Tang army has no possibility of resisting the Han army. The loss of a city caused the Tang army's Huaishui defense line to completely collapse, and it moved directly south to the line of Lu, He, Chu, and Yang, which was also the current arrangement of soldiers and horses in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

This was already foreshadowed when Haozhou was lost, and the reaction of the Southern Tang Dynasty was slow after all, and its eyes were on Shouzhou, mobilizing heavy troops, but it never strengthened the defense of Si and Chu. pinned his hopes on the state soldiers and the power of the weather to carry through this winter, but he didn't expect that Chuzhou would be lost so quickly.

In this way, the location of Shouzhou is more prominent, a lonely city, and the situation is changing and more unpredictable.

After being analyzed by Song Qiqiu and others, and learning of the evil consequences of Chuzhou's loss, Li Jing was shocked and angry, unable to control himself, and almost roared: "Wu Shaoting, how could he lose Shanyang so easily!" Bad for me, mess with my military defense, and ask him for blame! ”

Shou, Hao, Si, and Chu are the foundation of Shouhuai, and now, more than a month, have lost two of them. Li Jing is not a person with strong willpower, and his ability to resist pressure is also poor, and at this time, his mind is almost lost.

In the face of Li Jing's questioning, no one in the hall could answer, and Feng Yanlu's report was only a result.

In fact, Guo Rong got to Chuzhou, or repeated the previous strategy, attacking the east and the west, but the strategy is not afraid of the old, as long as it works. Guo Rong led the main force eastward, threatening Xuyi, and making a lot of noise. And Zhao Kuangyin secretly led two thousand Longqi soldiers to lurk around and go straight to Shanyang.

Wu Shaoting, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Chuzhou, was not defenseless, but his attention was on Cheng Deqin, the deputy envoy of Xuzhou Jiedu in the north, and Guo Rong, who fought Sizhou in the west. Unexpectedly, the Han army attacked from behind, and the leader of the troops was Zhao Kuangyin, who was brave and good at seizing opportunities, and he succeeded in one blow, and Wu Shaoting was also captured. Almost the previous time, Chen Sirang attacked Zhongli's copy.

The Huainan military town on the Huaiyin front line was very important to the Southern Tang Dynasty, but the generals sent by the Tang Dynasty were too problematic.

Or Song Qiqiu, accustomed to seeing the world, said calmly: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to panic, Wu Shaoting must be investigated, how to deal with the impact of the loss of Chuzhou on the overall situation of the Han Dynasty is more important!" ”

"What can I do?" Li Jing asked.

Song Qiqiu said directly: "Pass the order to Sizhou, let it gather armored soldiers, defend Xuyi, never let anything go wrong, and wait for the imperial court to rescue!" The main force of the Han army was in Shouchun, and there were not many troops passing through Sizhou and Chu, so Yao Feng of Gaoyou led his troops north to Baoying, carefully looking for battles, and looking for an opportunity to recapture Shanyang! ”

Song Qiqiu said extremely seriously: "The Huaishui defense line must not be lost, otherwise, it will definitely affect the overall situation of the entire Huainan!" ”

It can be said that Shouchun was besieged and Haozhou was lost, which only shocked the Southern Tang monarchs. If the Huaishui defense line collapses, it will be a shock, without Huaishui, how to defend the river?