"I really underestimated Zhu Youzhen!" Li Ze shook his head and said.

"It's true that I underestimated Zhu Youzhen." Gongsun Changming's face is also not very good-looking.

Less than ten days after Li Ze set the strategy of how to take advantage of the fire to rob and beat the water dogs, the intelligence from Yangzhou made him suffer a blow to the head.

Huainan was lost.

Everyone thinks that at such a juncture, Zhu Youzhen will concentrate the strength he can gather to return to Chang'an to snatch the chair of the pseudo-Liang, from the current strength comparison, his eldest brother Zhu Youyu is indeed unable to compete with him, but partially, this guy actually attacked Huainan for the first time.

"It's no wonder Madame, we didn't expect it!" Gongsun Changming said: "It seems that this kid has grown up now. After taking Huainan, he immediately stopped and stationed on the spot, accepted it when he saw it, and did not lengthen the battle line, and at the same time gave us a big problem, and he easily withdrew. ”

"A good opponent." Li Ze didn't care. "Huainan is lost, but Yangzhou, Lianshui and other places are still in our hands, and our strength has not been damaged, but the time to open up along the Yangtze River will be delayed."

"Zhu Youzhen gathered tens of thousands of troops in Huainantun, and he turned around alone, it seems that he is confident in the crusade against Zhu Youyu." Gongsun Changming looked at the map and said: "Once he easily solves Zhu Youyu, next year, under the condition of ensuring that Huainan is not lost, he can gather the strength of Eyue and compete with Qian Biao for the Dongting Lake Basin, and now he has a good sailor force, and then he can also look at Shannan East Road, if Zhu Youqi of Shannan West Road also submits to him, then his plan to retake Shannan East Road is not hopeless." ”

"A plan on paper." Li Zeho smiled and said: "Once Zhu Youzhen's soldiers come to Chang'an City, Xiangyang's Dai Chao will inevitably abandon Xiangyang and return to Chang'an, Tian Guofeng's department will take Xiangyang without much effort, and bring the entire Shannan Dongdao under our rule, at the same time, until next year, our rule in Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan has been solidified, this area is connected, there are Tian Guofeng, Ding Jian, and Qian Biao on the land, and they can easily mobilize more than 100,000 people, and there are Zheng Wenchang's sailors on the water, he wants to peek into this place, It also depends on whether his teeth are hard or not? ”

Gongsun Changming smiled: "I'm just talking about a possibility. It is always necessary to prevent any accidents, just like this time in Huainan, the cooked duck made him fly away again, which inevitably made people depressed. Li Xiang, Madame wants to retake the Huainan region with the whole army, what do you think? ”

"Didn't you already know what to expect?" Li Ze glared at him: "Naturally, it's not allowed." ”

"It's really not necessary. Now Zhu Youzhen's department is waiting for us, just waiting for us to compete with them, the time and place are favorable, we don't occupy it, at this time, except for hitting a hard nail, I'm afraid that we won't get anything. Once there is a mistake, the deployment of Yangzhou will inevitably be lost. So, at this time, I think the goal is still to be on the east and west of Zhejiang. ”

"Not bad. The secretary supervised an official document to hold Yangzhou accountable for this Huainan incident, especially Liu Ruyan and Mei Jiu. Li Zedao: "At the same time, it also makes them clear that on top of the problems in eastern and western Zhejiang, they can no longer make the same mistakes." When it's time to start, there must be no hesitation. The situation in these two places is much more complicated than that in Huainan. ”

"With Madame's temperament, I suffered a loss in Huainan this time, and I'm afraid that I will cut through the mess quickly." Gongsun Changming smiled: "But that's fine." ”

"Although the matter in Huainan is somewhat unexpected, it does not hinder the overall situation." Li Zedao: "When we take Tianping, Gunhai and other places, and the army is directly approaching Xuanwu Wuning, the core areas of Zhu Youzhen, he will have to give up his car to protect the commander, and he will naturally withdraw the army. Gongsun, in fact, you can think about it now, Xiang Xun in the south. ”

"Jiangxi has all fallen into the hands of Xiang Xun." Gongsun Changming said: "Next, this person will definitely fight with us in the east and west of Zhejiang, but I am afraid that conflicts will be indispensable." ”

"So you have to get ahead of them and take down these two lands, which is called the first strike. Now that these two places have already fallen into our hands, he will stretch out his hand again, and we will have plenty of reasons to speak to him. Li Ze said with a smile. Now he has just taken Hongzhou, and he is tired and needs to rest, so well, time, we still have a little advantage. ”

"But this person is only afraid that he has already done a lot of work in these two places, especially in eastern Zhejiang!" Gongsun Changming reminded.

"Pan Motang is still over there!" Li Ze said quietly.

In the snow, Zhu Youzhen only took more than 100 cavalry guards and galloped all the way into Luoyang.

"Uncle." Looking at Xu Fu and Xu Chong, father and son who greeted him outside the mansion, Zhu Youzhen turned over and dismounted, clenching his fists and slamming them to the ground.

Xu Fu waved his hand and said, "Don't say anything, let's go and worship the prime minister first!" ”

"Yes!"

Respectfully worshiped Jing Xiang with the etiquette of his son and nephew, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but shed tears in the coffin, it can be said that if it weren't for the person lying in the coffin now, there would never be the current Zhu Youzhen, maybe he was still abandoning himself in Chang'an City, but unfortunately, in this sudden change, his guide, his teacher, but he fell into it first, and the initiator of this incident was himself.

"Okay, don't cry, Brother Jing can't see this kind of childlike state in his life." Xu Fudao.

"I killed Jing Xiang!" Zhu Youzhen wept. "If it weren't for Jingnan's accident, how could this happen?"

"Not necessarily!" Xu Fu sneered: "I tried Yang Honggui, there are some other implications here, but your Lao Tzu is dead, for the sake of the dead, you don't need to know about this matter." ”

Zhu Wen is his old boss and old benefactor, Xu Fu is unwilling to shake out the ugly things of Zhu Wen and his daughter-in-law in front of Zhu Youzhen.

"Besides, Gongsun Changming, this old man, is insidious and vicious, such a desperate plan, only his kind of person can think of it, let alone you, even if I change your position, I want his way. Brother Jing has been living all his life, and he is a righteous and bright calculation, and when he meets a person like Gongsun Changming, it is natural for him to suffer. "Xu Fudao." However, conspiracy is conspiracy and intrigue, and in the end, it is still necessary to see the truth on the battlefield, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Daliang, but it is not a clay sculpture and paper paste, and the Tang army does not necessarily have to get benefits. ”

"But we fell behind in the end. In the south, it is difficult to make progress for a while, and it would be good to be able to hold on to the fruits in front of you. Zhu Youzhen sighed.

"You've done a great job." Xu Fu nodded: "In such a situation, you can still think of taking Huainan first, Lao Jing did not choose the wrong person, compared to Zhu Youyu, you are not a little stronger, that dog thing, your brain is full of mush." ”

"Uncle, what are we going to do next?"

"There is no need to worry about training in the south, and Zhu Youyu in Chang'an City is not enough to worry about!" Xu Fu said proudly: "What we have to do now is to enter Chang'an with lightning speed, take Zhu Youyu, and then reorganize the army to fight, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Tang army in the spring." If you win, you won't have to worry about anything, and if you lose, what else is there to say? ”

"Everything depends on my uncle." Zhu Youzhen arched his hand and said: "This time, my nephew came alone and had nothing. ”

"Don't ambush me." Xu Fu looked at Zhu Youzhen and said: "Don't tell me that you have no arrangements in the forbidden army, when I was in the forbidden army two years ago, don't think that you can hide those small actions from me." Now Fan Sheng is still running for you in Chang'an City. Jing Xiang has helped your father all his life, in addition to the forces above the surface, those forces that sink underwater, I think Jing Xiang will also hand it over to you, right? ”

"Uncle, those people of mine are all small colonels, and their strength is limited, so they can't get on the stage after all, so they can only make small fights. And the power of respecting the prime minister is mostly in the civil official system, and when things come to this point, I am afraid that Zhu Youyu will carry out a big purge in Chang'an, and he would rather kill the wrong person than let it go, whether he can return to Chang'an this time depends on his uncle's tiger might. Zhu Youzhen said sincerely.

"Don't worry, I have led the forbidden army for many years, and Zhu Youyu has only led it for a few years? After he came to power, even if he had been trying hard to replace the old man's old subordinates, how could he be completely eliminated for a while? Xu Fu said proudly: "The tiger is not dead, not to mention that I am still alive, this year, we will go to Chang'an City for the New Year." ”

"The fifth uncle has gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses in Xuanwu, and then he will arrive, this is all I can take out now, and the rest of the soldiers and horses, including Uncle Cao of Tianping, really dare not move." Zhu Youzhen said. "Although I stabilized the situation in the south, in the south, Li Ze's forces are still weak, and Xiang Xun is not of the same mind as him, and it may even drag him back. But in the north, it is Li Ze's world, and this is a great opportunity to come here, and the Tianping army is hanging alone, Tian Ping in Wei Bo and Liu Chenglin in Pinglu will pose a great threat to Tianping. Uncle Cao was fortunate to be able to hold on. ”

"I'm in Luoyang, and I only have 10,000 soldiers and horses to move." Xu Fu said: "The people in these places in Mengjin Pass not only can't move, but they must strictly guard against Shi Zhuang on the other side. But 20,000 troops, enough. I also sent someone to Gunhai to persuade Dai Yue, and the old man assured him that as long as he did not join the same stream as Dai Chao, the old man would ensure that his Dai family was worry-free. If he can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, the old man will ensure that he will take the place of Dai Chao after the war. ”

"I'm afraid it's hard." Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "You can't hope for him." ”

"Either way, it's always going to give it a try." Xu Fudao: "Resolving this turmoil in the shortest possible time is our only choice. ”