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(Updated April 23, 2009!) ）

"Xianggong, the battle of the Shang Yu brothers at the Lingfeng Ferry on the Chujiang River not only raised the prestige of our army, but also made Zhenjiang no longer have the generals of the naval army, General Xu Da and General Hu Dahai have successfully taken Zhenjiang Mansion, and the other three cities will not be broken in the future, what else do you have to worry about?" Ma Xiuying saw Zhu Yuanzhang frowning when she looked at the map on the table, and couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Xiuying, although our army can take four cities this time, but Zhang Shicheng is about to meet our army, and Liu Futong is being constantly eaten away by the 200,000 yuan court army in the north at the moment and defeated, I am trying to order someone to take him and Banzai to Chuzhou to settle temporarily, this Liu Futong's subordinates are all people who can not defend the land and do their duty, and his father tried his best to implement the law of restraining the generals of the department, and several marshals were estranged from him because of this."

"Although our army has taken four cities near Yingtianfu today, the general trend of the world will be long and the other will disappear, Zhang Shicheng after taking several cities, the land occupied at this time is by no means weaker than our army, and accept the Yuan court to recruit again."

"And our army is surrounded by Fang Guozhen and Xu Shouhui's general Chen Youliang who looks at our army to occupy the richest area in the south of the Yangtze River, if Zhang Shicheng attacks Liu Shuai, then if our army wants to rush, it will first do a good job of dealing with Fang Guozhen and Chen Youliang, the two people who have long been unwilling to dormant to attack, if you want to restore the world, but there are always so many troubles! If you can't get the rebels to work together, how can you drive all the Yuan dogs back to the outside of the fortress? That's what worries me. Zhu Yuanzhang stood up from the table and sighed, and then said this sorrowful thought that had been hidden in his heart for many days.

"Xianggong, that Zhang Shicheng should have surrendered to the Yuan Court, and Fang Guozhen was also canonized by the Dragon and Phoenix Court, so he should not attack our army, Xianggong, I see that you are too worried. Only Chen Youliang is trying his best to expand, and our army must not attack hastily, otherwise it will be attacked. Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was so worried, Ma Xiuying couldn't help but analyze.

"Brother Shang Yu once talked to me about a solution, but I don't know if I should adopt it! If Chizhou can be taken, Chen Youliang's army can be refused, but at this time our army is still separated by many county capitals, if you want to take Chizhou, you need to take the counties and towns around Tongling Mansion to take the army below, under this transfer, our army will be too scattered, but I am worried! After Zhu Yuanzhang heard his wife's words, he became even more worried.

"Xianggong, this matter can be relieved, the Shang Yu brothers trapped all the more than 1,000 Mongolian people in the iron ore field in the mountains, but they didn't kill them, why is this?" Ma Xiuying saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was too busy with Chen Youliang's matter, so she changed the topic.

"Xiuying, fighting against the Yuan army for many years, if all the tribes in the Yuan court are united, will the Mongolian people be less powerful than the 20,000 iron horsemen who entered the customs that year? I am afraid that the various units of our Red Turban Army have long been defeated and no longer exist, and the dozens of tribes in the Yuan Court have also acted independently like the various forces of our Han people, which is why this situation has occurred. ”

"Brother Shang Yuxian has long put forward the proposal of dividing the tribes of Mengyuan, this time it is just to further divide Mengyuan in the future, so I agreed to him to mine with the Yuan people first, this more than 1,000 soldiers are useless to kill, it is better to work for our army to mine." After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Ma Xiuying mention this, he smiled and smiled, and even frowned.

At this time, it was already close to the late autumn of the year, and Shang Yu had quietly transported dozens of ground firearms that could be used by ordinary soldiers alone to Zhu Yuanzhang in Yingtianfu by twenty secret soldiers, but the amount of ground ammunition was insufficient, and Shang Yu was stepping up the system, which made Zhu Yuanzhang happy and a little worried.

At present, Zhu Yuanzhang has a land spanning more than 1,000 miles in the south of the Yangtze River, and the soldiers plus the incorporated Yuan army and the newly collected troops are only more than 100,000 people, and compared to the surrounding anti-Yuan forces, it is still the smallest one, and if it stops at this time, it will be eaten away by the surrounding forces.

"Marshal, there is an important military report!" At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted outside.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately shouted: "Report it to me quickly." ”

Outside, a secret soldier walked into the study, and immediately half-knelt on the ground and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Report to the marshal, my prime minister Liu Futong led the army to confront Zhang Shicheng in Anfeng and was defeated, and was attacked and killed by a rogue after galloping with Banzai. This is a text sent by the front army. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately taken aback and said, "Liu Futong is dead? Long live Han Lin'er? Then he took the text and opened it to take a look.

"It's a pity, it's a pity! It would be so unexpected......" Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be a little disappointed at this time, and he didn't know whether he was sorry for Liu Futong's death, or disappointed that Han Lin'er didn't die.

"I didn't expect you to be a member of the Business Alliance, so that the business operation in my county government will be temporarily handed over to you for the time being, anyway, your county lord can't go back to be a member, do you think it's okay?" Xiang Lan'er sat in the back hall of the county government, looking at the business books in Lai'an County that had been sorted out by Shang Yu, while recalling what Shang Yu said when he later learned Xiang Lan'er's identity.

"Lan'er, you're still here! Accompany my godmother to the market, the weather has become colder and colder these days, I want to buy some clothes to make two clips for you and Xiao Yu? Wear. Shang Meishi held a small money bag in his hand, pushed open the door, walked into the back hall, and said with a smile.

Since Xiang Lan'er came to Lai'an County, there is no longer a county lord's land shelf, and Shang Mei's is also treated like a mother, which makes Shang Mei's lost expression after Lu Wan's loss of Lu Wan's expression is much lighter, and Xiang Lan'er is more knowledgeable than Lu Wan, Shang Mei's is even more fond of her after learning that Xiang Lan'er also belongs to the Shang Alliance, and it seems that she and Shang Yu can make a marriage, but because the time is still short, there is no appropriate time.

"Godmother, you wait a while, I still have a store and I will accompany you out after reading the accounts." When Xiang Lan'er saw Shang Mei's coming in, she immediately stood up with a smile and handed a stove in her arms to Shang Mei's.

Seeing the stove, Shang Mei's heart was hot, she still remembered that after Shang Yu received the monthly money in the first month of Quanzhou Mansion, she immediately prepared a stove and several luxurious clothes for her, and said in her heart: "This Xianglan'er in front of me is also the same as our family Shang Yu, if she can make a pair with my family Yu'er, then Xiao Yu will not stop every day to think about that Lu Wan girl, Lu Wan this girl may not be able to turn back for the rest of her life, her mother died in the hands of Xiao Yu's master, this is an unchangeable fact!" ”

At this time, Shang Yu was rushing to Qinghu Village outside the city, where the last season of grain collection was concentrated, and it should be the time for centralized loading and transportation to the treasury, so Shang Yu naturally wanted to go and see it in person.

Shang Yu did not bring his personal entourage, first, the distance is close, and secondly, the secret soldiers are now in the second phase of training, if successful, then they can successfully infiltrate the surrounding sphere of influence, Zhu Yuanzhang has made it clear that the current surrounding situation is very unfavorable, and it is absolutely impossible to resist those forces with military strength alone, so he canceled the plan to infiltrate the Yuan Court, and instead carried out new training in protecting the Chuzhou Righteous Army.

Shang Yu was fully able to control the horses at this time, and his heart was very excited, if this batch of grain and grass was ready, it would be enough to supply the Tianfu army of 100,000 people for more than two years, which was Shang Yu's proudest thing in more than two years.

The village in front was not far away, Shang Yu stared ahead at the gallop and thought: "If hundreds of firearms are completed within three months, if the ammunition can be made faster, Brother Zhu can get a deterrent effect with this sharp weapon, and it would be good if he could return to Quanzhou as soon as possible." Brother Zhao Qing has been reluctant to give up recently, seeing that he seems to have a deep affection for Xianglan'er, but he doesn't know how to help him, hey! When I go to the secret barracks again tomorrow, I should ask him. ”

The road outside the county government is very smooth, enough for two carriages to run in parallel, which is also rebuilt by Shang Yu ordered migrant workers, the crops on both sides of the road have already been harvested, only the stem of the highland is still standing, in the winter these are good burning materials for civilian homes.

At this moment, hundreds of whistling sounds came from both sides of the road, and it turned out to be hundreds of three-inch crossbow arrows with blue light at the tips, which were shooting towards Shang Yu and the horses in the running, obviously feeding poison......