After discovering that the offensive route and the scale of the Meng Yuan army exceeded the previous estimate, Zhao Yu personally drafted a letter explaining the situation, and sent it all the way to Lin'an to be handed over to Lu Xiufu to organize a response to the new situation that might arise; The other route was sent to Zhao Mengjin, the envoy of the Pingjiang Jiangdong Command, and ordered him to redeploy as soon as possible in response to changes in the enemy's situation, deploy troops, and make sure to prevent the enemy from breaking through the predetermined defensive line and breaking into the hinterland.

At the same time, Zhao Yu summoned the officers of the two large battalions above the division level under the city of Yangzhou to come to the camp to discuss countermeasures on the current situation. However, until the evening there was still no conclusion, and the controversy mainly focused on two points: for the withdrawal of troops from Yangzhou, concentrate on the total annihilation of the enemy led by Yuxi Timur, so as to avoid fighting on both sides. They still adhered to the original operational policy, not only to capture Yangzhou and annihilate the enemy in Yangzhou, but also to inflict heavy damage on the enemy who invaded the south, so as to completely eliminate the threat of the hostile situation between the two Huai to Jiangnan.

The guys who were divided into two factions argued endlessly at the meeting, and they didn't stop eating, and they all argued that their opinions were correct in various aspects. But Zhao Yu did not rush to stop it, or made a final decision as before, and even rarely interjected, just silently listened to the opinions of both sides. And these guys are all martial artists, and their tempers are not very good, and their voices are louder than the other. Maybe if it weren't for the presence of the emperor, I'm afraid that the competition would have been decided a long time ago.

Although Zhao Yu listened patiently, he couldn't help but be irritated in his noisy heart, and after dinner, he asked Chen Fenglin to continue to organize the discussion, and he walked out of the account to breathe. Now it is the weather of Layue, it is the coldest season, and the camp is in the wild, unsheltered and colder, blown by the cold wind, he feels that his hot head is more sober.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"Governor Wang, have you been here all along?" Zhao Hao walked a few steps before he heard someone calling, and he looked for prestige but saw Wang Yinglin standing outside the cordon and waving to him.

"Your Majesty, Governor Wang has been waiting for a long time!" At this time, the guards on duty replied.

"It's so cold, why don't you let Governor Wang wait in the tent?" Zhao Yu said a little angrily. But his order was not to allow irrelevant people to come close to the big tent, and it was not easy to blame them, but he felt that the guards were too ignorant, and it was really rude to let a half-old man freeze in the cold for most of the day.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates also asked Governor Wang to wait in the side tent, but he insisted on waiting outside the tent!" Wei Shili explained.

"Well, let Governor Wang come over!" Zhao Hao was a little puzzled, what kind of demon is this old man doing? Waved his hand and asked the guards to let him go.

"Your Majesty......" Wang Yinglin crossed the cordon and came over to salute in a trembling voice.

"Governor Wang, let's go to the side hall to talk!" Zhao Hao saw that the old man was not cold, although he didn't have a runny nose, but he was also trembling, and hurriedly hugged him and walked towards the side hall.

After entering the side hall, Zhao Yu asked Wang Yinglin to sit on the soft couch together, and ordered Xiao Huangmen to add a brazier to the side, so that the kitchen could cook a bowl of hot soup and send it in quickly. Wang Yinglin roasted the fire, and drank a bowl of hot soup before he felt warm on his body, and he also saw sweat on his forehead.

"How about Governor Wang have a few drinks?" Seeing that Wang Yinglin was relieved, he wanted to give a salute, pressed his hand to let him not move, and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty hasn't eaten yet?" Wang Yinglin asked as he removed his hand from the brazier and licked his lips.

"I was dizzy from the noise of those guys, and I only ate a few bites in a mess, so Governor Wang will accompany me to use some more!" Zhao Yu knew that he had been waiting outside the tent for a long time, and he must not have eaten dinner yet, if he said that he hadn't eaten, he would naturally be embarrassed to mention it, so he took the initiative to invite.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister will be disrespectful!" Wang Yinglin also understood that the little emperor didn't like to twist and pinch, so he also pushed the boat down, but in fact, he was also hungry and uncomfortable.

"Let the dining room heat two pots of good wine and serve a hot pot!" Zhao Yu twisted his face and instructed the little yellow door to accompany him.

As early as when he was in Qiongzhou, Zhao Yu made a hot pot, but the place was too hot, and it was not easy to eat it often without winter or summer, but after arriving in Lin'an, it became a home-cooked dish in the palace in winter, and according to his requirements, the imperial chefs prepared various ways to eat. It's a pity that there are no chili peppers in this era, and the spicy fragrant pot is impossible, but it is still liked by the queen mother and concubines. He also used this to entertain the ministers in the court, which was naturally well received, and spread to the outside of the palace and was all the rage in Lin'an City, but he still regarded the palace as authentic.

The imperial chef who accompanied him was cooked, and after a while, he first served the scalded Shaoxing old wine and four plates of side dishes, and then brought the brass hot pot with a charcoal fire. The chef is very intimate, the bottom of the pot is made of beef bones to boil soup, in addition to the commonly used ingredients, but also added wolfberry, angelica, longan and other qi-replenishing herbs. There are not many varieties of shabu-shabu, only sliced lamb, frozen tofu, a plate of boiled white meat, and pan cabbage leaves (Chinese cabbage).

Wang Yinglin seemed to be really hungry, so he started on his own after accusing himself, and Zhao Yu naturally had a small yellow door to serve, dipping the scalded meat slices in seasoning and putting them on the plate for him to use. He drank wine unhurriedly, ate a few pieces of meat, and asked Xiao Huangmen to give him hot meat and vegetable clips from time to time, and was not in a hurry to ask him why he was in a hurry to see him.

"Your Majesty, the minister is rude!" Wang Yinglin ate hard for a while, looked up and saw that the little emperor was looking at him with a smile, his old face was red, and he put down the chopsticks and said.

"Hehe, why should we be polite in private, it's better to be frank!" Zhao Yu picked up the wine glass and invited.

"Your Majesty Xie is not to blame!" Wang Yinglin thanked him again, and hurriedly picked up the wine glass and drank, "Your Majesty, the minister suddenly asked to see him today, and he really has something important to say." ”

"Governor Wang, but it's okay to talk about it!" Zhao Yu saw that he was also half full, and poured wine for him with his own hands.

"Your Majesty, the minister is vainly guessing, and today he will discuss with the generals, I'm afraid there will still be no result!" Wang Yinglin sat upright and said solemnly.

"Well, what about Governor Wang?" Zhao Yu nodded.

"It was not the minister who spied on the military plane, but the minister was stopped by the guards several times when he asked to see him, and there were endless arguments in the tent, so he concluded that there was no conclusion. And the reason is that His Majesty is still hesitant in his heart! Wang Yinglin replied with a chuckle.

"Does Governor Wang know what makes me hesitate?" Zhao Yu saw that his old god was there, and seemed to have peeked into his thoughts, so he took a sip of wine and asked rhetorically.

"Your Majesty is hesitating about whether to collect the two Huai, or to complete the annihilation of the enemy in Henan Huaibei and Shandong and Hebei in accordance with the established strategy, and still retreat to the south of the Yangtze River!" Wang Yinglin stared at the little emperor's eyes and said.

"How does Governor Wang know that this is the matter, and not the other?" Zhao Yu did not admit it, nor did he deny it, and then asked.

"Your Majesty's original strategy of encircling Yangzhou to fight the enemy and luring the enemy across the Yangtze River to annihilate him was to strike at the enemy of the two Huai, so that he would not dare to harass Jiangnan in vain, and buy time for our dynasty to accumulate money and grain for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains." Wang Yinglin, as the ruler of the central government, participated in the original discussion and was no stranger to this, "But the changes in the current situation have exceeded the original estimates, and it is both an opportunity and a crisis for our dynasty, so it is difficult for Your Majesty to make a decision." ”

"Please also ask Governor Wang to elaborate!" Zhao Hao bowed his head lightly. In fact, as Wang Yinglin said, when he learned that Yuxi Timur had gathered the remaining troops of the two Duwanhu Prefectures to cross the Yangtze River to invade the south, he realized that the development of the situation had changed, and the appearance of fighters was a great opportunity to recover Lianghuai, but neither he nor the imperial court was prepared for this, or even psychologically.

"Your Majesty, with all due respect." Wang Yinglin first confessed, "Meng Yuan set up two capital 10,000 households south of the Yellow River, with 10 10,000 households and more than 20 1,000 households. At present, the city of Yangzhou is besieged by the third, and Yuxi Timur wants to command the remaining 70,000 households and some of the 1,000 households to attack the south of our Yangtze River, which can be said to be pouring out, as long as our army is determined to concentrate its forces to encircle and annihilate the enemy who invaded the south, and then defeat Yangzhou to destroy its remnants, then the main force of the enemy south of the Yellow River will be completely gone. The fighting strength of the remaining Thousand Households Mansion is weak, and the total strength is only 20,000 people, which is difficult to resist the sweep of our Korean army. After the Mongol Yuan court lost the troops of the two Duwanhu Prefectures, only the guards defending Gyeonggi and the Mongol army stationed in the northwest could be mobilized, but they had to guard against the rebellion in the northwest, and they did not dare to fight with all their strength, and most of them could only stick to the line of the Huai River to protect the safety of Gyeonggi. ”

"Your Majesty is worried about three things: first, he is worried that there will be insufficient troops to protect the Yangtze River defense line; Second, they are worried that our DPRK will not have enough money and food reserves, and will not be able to cope with the famine in the two Huai provinces and will not be able to bear the huge military expenditures after the expansion of the army. Third, they are worried that the opposition of the ministers of the DPRK and China will lead to civil strife. Wang Yinglin continued, "The minister thinks that these are not enough to worry about, or that they cannot shake the foundation of our dynasty. ”

"Please also ask Governor Wang to clear up your doubts!" Zhao Yu raised his glass and invited.

"Your Majesty, at present, our dynasty has deployed more than 300,000 troops along the river, if the enemy of the two Huai can be annihilated, the Huai River can be guarded, the defense line can be rearranged, and the western expeditionary army is like a bamboo, has approached Chongqing, you can eliminate the worry of suffering from the enemy, so there is no need to worry about insufficient troops; Moreover, there is a saying in the world: Jiangdong is ripe, and the world is full. Our dynasty occupies the south of the Yangtze River, and the grain produced can be eaten by the people of the world, so there is no need to worry about famine, and the period of tax reduction and exemption by His Majesty next year has ended, and the tax tax of the imperial court can be increased by more than half, and there is still a lot of surplus in His Majesty's inner treasury, can he lend some to the imperial court! Therefore, Your Majesty does not need to worry about money and food. Wang Yinglin smiled.

"You will count the little money in my pocket, but Governor Wang's words also speak to my heart!" Zhao Yu smiled when he heard this.

As for the ministers in the court, they are not stubborn, most of them are still well aware of the righteousness, and they still have the ambition to recover the Central Plains for more than a hundred years. The minister thought that although there would be opposition, as long as His Majesty was determined, it would not be enough to stop the battle to recover the two Huai. Wang Yinglin arched his hand to apologize for what he had said about digging out the emperor's wallet, and he said with a straight face.

"Governor Wang is really a cadre of the country!" Wang Yinglin's words not only made Zhao Yu more confident, but also felt that this person could be of great use, so he couldn't help but praise it.

"The minister is loyal to the country, and he will not hesitate to do this!" Wang Yinglin saluted.

"It seems like a rare opportunity to recover Lianghuai, but it also contains dangers." Zhao Yu raised his hand to excuse him, drank the wine in the cup and said, "According to our estimates, Yuxi Timur will implement the plan of encircling Wei to save Zhao in order to relieve the siege of Yangzhou, so as to fall into the trap we have laid." However, I did not expect that he would disregard the safety of the two Huai and invade the south with all his might, so that the troops deployed by our army in Jiangdong would be thin and unable to complete the encirclement of the enemy. As a result, not only did it not complete the plan to encircle and annihilate the invading enemy, but it put Jiangnan in danger. ”

"Well, Your Majesty is right. At present, most of the imperial guards defending Gyeonggi have already arrived here with His Majesty, and the armies of the Huguang Division have to undertake the task of attacking Huaixi, even if they have to be transferred to Jiangdong, they are afraid that it will be difficult to solve the fire from afar. Wang Yinglin nodded thoughtfully, and then raised his head and said unwillingly, "But Your Majesty's time is rare, is it rare to let go of the great opportunity to recover Lianghuai?" ”

"The only way to do this is to transfer troops from the various departments besieging the city back to Jiangdong, and cooperate with the remaining departments to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy who invaded the south!" Zhao Yu took a deep breath and said.

"Your Majesty, if you are to transfer the enemy besieging the city, will you not care about one or the other, and let go of the enemy in Yangzhou!" Wang Yinglin said in surprise. He knew that although the enemy in the city had suffered heavy losses, he could still mobilize tens of thousands of people to defend the city, and if he found out that his army had moved south, he took the opportunity to break the camp or break through the siege, which would increase the variables.

"The current enemy is trapped in the city, with the turtle in the urn, if our army only besieges but does not attack, if they want to break the siege, it is also delusional. It is rare that if he returns to defense too early and is discovered by Yuxi Timur, he will definitely suspect that there is fraud in it, so he will give up the southern invasion; If it is to wait for it to cross the river and then make a callback, I am afraid that it will break through the siege and leave. Zhao Yu frowned and said.

"Yes, the enemy army is mostly cavalry, and our army is mostly infantry, and it is difficult for two legs to run through four legs!" Wang Yinglin felt that he had just persuaded the little emperor, but there was a deviation in this kind of 'trivial matter', which made him frustrated.

"Hehe, Governor Wang is wrong, sometimes four legs may not be able to run over two legs!" Zhao Yu smiled when he heard this, he didn't expect Wang Yinglin to be very visionary in strategy, but he was trapped in this kind of thing, and he didn't feel funny.

However, Zhao Yu thought that Wang Yinglin's idea was still popular, and he thought that people couldn't outrun the horse. In fact, Zhao Yu also thought so, and in his previous life, he was very surprised to hear that there were horses running to death in the 12-kilometer horse race at the National Games.

Some people should be surprised, in everyone's impression, the ancients described the horse as "a thousand miles in a day, eight hundred in the night", a fire rolling the majestic wind, a long drive as fast as electricity. Twelve kilometers away from running and vomiting blood, is this papier-mâché? In fact, that's right. As the saying goes, a horse beaten with iron and a papier-mâché is still very fragile in a long-distance march, and it does not run as fast as it is rumored, and it cannot go so far, and to a certain extent, people will surpass it......