In the evening, on the Weisheng Tianji Palace, you can see the scene of the sunset sprinkled all over the hills.

A cart full of wheat is coming in from the road outside the city, which was rebuilt after the Great War and has not been built long, but it looks more spacious than it was before the war.

"These are the last thirty cartloads of wheat, and an hour later the winter wheat is finished. If it weren't for the troublemakers of the steppe tartars, April would have been a good day. ”

This is the lookout on the side of Tianji Palace, Lou Shuwan put down the monocular in her hand, and the evening breeze was blowing warmly. Standing here with Lou Shuwan next to him were Yu Yulin and Wang Juyun, two high-ranking military officials. Since two years ago, the Tiger King forces and the displaced forces led by Wang Juyun have successively confronted the Jin soldiers who went south and Liao Yiren, who invested in gold, and now they have completely become one.

Among the two sides of this confluence, Wang Yin, who was alias Wang Juyun, was originally the Shangshu of the Yongle Dynasty, and he was proficient in handling details, religious methods, and the art of war. After the fall of the Yongle Dynasty, he secretly rescued some of the generals under Fang La's command that year, and went to the border to once again begin to preach the White Lotus and Maitreya who were "equal to the law" among the displaced people in the frontier, uniting a large number of displaced people and calling for mutual help. In the past two years, although he himself did not smile at his majesty, his selfless attitude won the respect of everyone around him.

After learning about its idealistic side, Jindi's side was relatively cautious in merging with it. In fact, Lou Shuwan's resoluteness in the past anti-Jin, her dedication to Jindi, and her attitude of having no heirs and never seeking personal gain have greatly promoted this merger.

Since the shame of Jingping, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and Wang Yin traveled to the north, perhaps because he couldn't bear the suffering of the people, so he preached here to save people. But in fact, he chose the area south of Yanmen Pass to develop, the place is extremely unsatisfactory, basically unable to build a base area, and can not gather too many materials, this time with the Jin land, the refugees under his command can be regarded as a temporary place to live.

On the other hand, Lou Shuwan dealt with Lin Zongwu back then, and won the title of a descendant in the Maitreya Sect, and later kicked Lin Zongwu away, and the religious framework obtained also played a certain role in the stability of the people's hearts in Jindi. But in fact, Lou Shuwan crushed Lin Zongwu in the intrigue of political operation, and he was not very proficient in the essential laws of religious operation after all. The two sides cooperated and took what each other needed, and at this time, the commission actually played a role in the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

In March, a group of grassland mercenaries wreaked havoc in Jindi and burned wheat fields, which really caused some trouble to Lou Shuwan and others, but fortunately, in early April, these madmen who did not want to die entered Yanmen Pass in the north and killed directly in the clouds, and before leaving, they also solved Liao Yiren's problem for Lou Shuwan by the way. So from the middle of April, with the harvest of wheat, the Tiger King forces spent time in the continuous reconquest of lost territory and the reorganization of surrendered troops, which can be called jubilant, and at the end of April, the subversive news of the end of the decisive battle in Hanzhong came, and everyone's emotions were complicated and even a little stunned - in this way, Jindi was not a big victory.

The relatively smooth situation and the good news that comes one after another will make people feel happy, but they can't cover up the sanity of Lou Shuwan, Yu Yulin, Wang Yin and others.

Theoretically speaking, compared with the Tian Shi period two years ago, the strength of Jindi at this time has made a huge leap forward. On the surface, the loss of a large number of materials and the attrition of soldiers seem to have beaten the entire force to a thousand holes, but in fact, the irresolute people who are two-faced and three-stabbed have been thoroughly cleaned up, and after two years of fighting and training, the remaining ones are already the elite of the battle, and Lou Shuwan and others have accumulated huge prestige in the decision-making of the past two years. In fact, if it had not been for the Mongol involvement in March and April, Lou, Yu, Wang and others would have planned to launch a large-scale offensive at the end of March and early April to bulldoze Liao Yiren.

Now, this accumulated strength can be used as a basis for facing the Jurchen Western Route Army, but everyone is still not too sure whether they can win. On this day, Yu, Wang and others basically finished their training outside, and only then did they take the time to return to Wasion and discuss further major matters with Lou Shuwan.

"Since the end of the New Year, they have been running outside, and the two generals have worked hard. This batch of wheat is put into storage, and the winter wheat harvest is almost the same, although it has been trampled by those grassland people before, but looking at it, the entire Central Plains, on our side, is stronger, and we can have some confidence in what we want to do. ”

Looking at the road between the foothills to the west, Lou Shuwan smiled, where the sunset set set its golden color, and then she restrained her smile.

"The only thing to worry about, I have asked all the people in the army, and I have also written privately to the two generals to inquire before, and no one can still have confidence in the victory in the face of the Jurchen rout...... The news of the decisive battle in Hanzhong has spread all over the world, but we are even incompetent to deal with the defeated generals of the Huaxia army, so can we really explain it to the people? ”

As she said this, her eyes became serious. In Jindi these years, Lou Shuwan has mostly managed government affairs and logistics, but during the two years of the war, she went with the army, and she was not completely incomprehensible to the army, and the seriousness at the moment could not be called a reprimand, but more of a sense of urgency in private.

Wang Juyun frowned, even more serious, Yu Yulin did not hide it, and sighed: "Over the years, looking at that Mr. Ning's management of the army, it is obvious that there are many innovations. The Wu Dynasty emphasized literature and light military force, and was afraid that the army would use force to gain self-respect, so the control of the army was intertwined, so that the generals had no right to the army and the army was weak and difficult to return. ”

"This condition is not difficult to do, our army has also developed in recent years, especially in the past two years, the war has also removed a lot of shortcomings, originally all the small households in Jindi are inevitably reaching out to the army, doing the idea of their own plan, in essence, so that the army can not fight, we have cleaned up almost the same in the past two years. But this condition is only the first threshold......"

Yu Yulin paused: "After entering this first threshold, the army is certainly like an army, but what is really powerful about the Huaxia Army is the intensity of military training and the strictness of military discipline. In the past, all the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were the standard of private guards, and they were trained every day only for fighting, and the art of war was forbidden. The Huaxia Army's approach is to support the army with all its strength, and to resell ordnance and buy food, using Mr. Naning's business methods, to resell ordnance and buy food, and do everything possible, and many times in the middle, in fact, I still have to go hungry, if it was ten years ago, I would think it ...... It doesn't last long. ”

"If the army is hungry, it will lower its morale, if it does not obey orders, it will violate military law. But what Mr. Ning is really powerful about is that he can make the army hungry while maintaining the strictness of military law, of course, there is a reason for the name of 'Huaxia', but in our case, it cannot be maintained, if you want military law, you have to have food, and if you lack food, there will be no military law, and the reason why there are middle and lower-level generals is ......"

"In this way, Huaxia Jun is not different from us in any aspect, in fact, there are differences in all aspects. Of course, in the past, I never felt that this difference was so big, until the battle of Wangyuan Bridge and the battle of Hanzhong came over. The 20,000 men of the Huaxia Seventh Army defeated Zong Han's 100,000 army, but it is true that we can wait for this group of remnants of Zong Han Xiyin...... There is no corroborative evidence. ”

After Yu Yulin said this, he was silent for a moment: "This is the difference between me and Huaxia Army today. ”

Since the meeting between Lu Liangshan and Ning Yi more than ten years ago, Yu Yulin's attitude has always been cautious in front of the name of Huaxia Army, but at the moment it is only three or two people in private, and his words are quite frank. Wang Juyun on the side nodded, and waited until Lou Shuwan's eyes swept over before he spoke.

"The power of one battle, the power of several battles, but you can have it, although you may not be able to win, but you are not necessarily defeated."

Lou Shuwan nodded: "...... It's okay to play at least a dozen, and that's a good thing. ”

For the next possible war, all aspects of the measurement have actually been summed up, basically, more than two years of resistance has increased the combat power of the Dejin army, with the gradual unification of ideas, more is the increase in resilience. Even if he can't say that he will definitely be able to defeat Zong Han and Xi Yin, even if he can't win a battle, he can calmly and continuously carry out follow-up battles, relying on the terrain of Jindi, and it is not too much of a problem to boil Zong Han and Xi Yin back.

This situation makes people not cry, but they can't laugh either. After Lou Shuwan finished speaking, there was some silence between the three of them, but then the woman smiled: "In this way, it's no wonder that those people in the southwest are so proud that they can't do it." ”

Yu Yulin thought for a while and laughed: "How is Fifth Master Zhan doing?" ”

"After the decisive battle in Hanzhong, he came over several times, and one of them sent a letter from Ning Yi." Lou Shuwan said lightly, "Ning Yi told me about the future situation in the letter, and talked about the issue of Zong Han and Xi Yin's return to the north, he said: The fourth southern invasion of the Jurchens, the Eastern Route Army won a great victory, and the Western Route Army was defeated......

"Heh, he's quite considerate......" she smiled slightly, with a lazy sarcasm, "I think I'm afraid we won't be able to beat it, so let's go down the stairs." ”

“……”

“……”

Yu Yulin and Wang Juyun glanced at each other.

Wang Juyun said: "What else did you say in the letter? ”

Lou Shuwan took out the letter from her sleeve and handed it over: "Yes, he made his own little abacus, hoping that we can lend a batch of grain to those people in Liangshan in the east...... Shandong is hungry for thousands of miles, last year the grass roots and bark are almost eaten up, winter wheat, seeds are not enough, so although it is time to harvest, but I am afraid that I will not be able to harvest a few grains, and it will not be long before the bottom will be seen again. ”

The letter written by Ning Yi was very long, and even if he held it in his hand, he couldn't read much for a while. After Lou Shuwan finished speaking, Yu Yulin said: "The Jingou East Route Army has returned to the division close to the Yellow River, once it crosses Shandong, I am afraid that it will not be able to let go of Zhu Biao, Wang Shanyue, Liu Chengzong and others." The wheat has only recently been harvested, and they have been able to survive until now, so it should be no problem to hold on for a while. Ning Yi is sure that they can survive the Jurchen East Route Army? What he wants to borrow is food for the future, right? ”

Lou Shuwan nodded: "How Liang Shan survived in front of the Jurchen East Route Army, he didn't say much in the letter. I asked Zhan Wu, there are probably a few ways, either simply give up Liangshan and hide on our side first, or recognize that Wu Qimai is dying and survive on the mountain, or simply ask Zong Fu Zong Bi to let him live? I'm too lazy to guess ......"

She said this, paused, and then said lazily: "He invited me to wait for the south in the letter - defeated the Jurchens once, I am very proud, in June, I will hold a hero conference in Chengdu, choose the leader of the Green Forest Alliance, and say that I want to talk to the people of the world about the idea of the Huaxia Army, and about the sale of grain, we can also talk about it at that time, it seems that I am not afraid of our sky-high price......"

Hearing her say this, Wang Juyun, who was reading the letter, looked slightly moved, and turned two pages to the back, Yu Yulin also glanced at this side, and naturally knew that if there was really such an invitation on the letter, the rest of the information would probably become trivial. Lou Shuwan turned around, approached the female wall on the edge, and looked at the scenery in the distance.

There was silence between the three of them for a while, Yu Yulin looked at Lou Shuwan and said, "Are you going to go?" ”

The evening breeze blew the skirt, and Lou Shuwan turned her back to this side, looking into the distance.

“…… Although we are not reconciled, there are some things that are indeed much worse than the southwest. As Brother Yu just said, it is bad and needs to be changed, but how to change it has to be cautious. It's a good thing to be able to go to the southwest to see the last time, not to mention that Ning Yi has a request for me this time, if I can go to the southwest, I can take a lot of benefits......"

“…… But Zong Han and Xi Yin returned to the north, and the war was imminent......"

Lou Shuwan pressed her hands on the women's wall, looked into the distance with a cold gaze, and said:

"How am I going?"

She calmly and coldly stated the facts. Sneer at.