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Jinling.

Cai is still the big tent of the Chinese army.

Cai still asked Chai Jin, "Where have the Anhua Army and the Wuning Army gone?" ”

Since Cai still sent Lu Qing, Yan Qing, Yu Peng and others to weave an intelligence network, Lu Qing, Yan Qing, Yu Peng and others began to go to or personally go to or send their cronies to set up intelligence collection points in various transportation hubs to open restaurants, teahouses and other places where people often stay and chat. With enough intelligence-gathering talents, Cai will still definitely set up intelligence collection points in all major cities to spy on the whole world.

Because of the intelligence collection points, Cai can still accurately grasp the movements of various armies, for example, Cai still knows that the 100,000 Han soldiers and 200,000 Xiang troops on the sixth road in Shaanxi have already set off from the Daimyo's Mansion, and the army on the side of Liu Zhen has almost been assembled, and the vanguard army can be sent out from Gyeonggi in three or five days at most.

Compared with other armies, Cai is still most concerned about where the Anhua Army and the Wuning Army under his control have gone?

In fact, Cai has been keeping an eye on the movements of these two armies.

Chai Jin obviously guessed that Cai would still ask about the movements of the Anhua army and the Wuning army.

Therefore, as soon as Cai still asked, he immediately replied, "The Anhua army passed through Gwangju yesterday, and the Wuning army passed through Macheng yesterday." ”

Cai still found the location of Gwangju and Maseong on the map, and when he looked at it, he couldn't help frowning, and said, "Why are you walking so slowly?" At this rate, they won't be able to reach Gangneung in ten days. ”

Chai Jin is only responsible for collecting intelligence, and Chai Jin is very smart not to participate in the rest of the things.

Zhao Ding took over the conversation and said, "The Central Forbidden Army has been lazy for too long, and it has long lost its ability to act, so I don't think we can count on them." ”

Song Jiang said: "But with only our existing forces, go south to fight a decisive battle with the Fang Qi Buddha Tribe, isn't it too risky?" Fang Qifo has an army of 120,000 there, the key is that it is difficult to guarantee that Fang La will not change his mind to send reinforcements to Fang Qifo, if that is the case, in the case of no reinforcements, we will be alone in the depths, and we may face the encirclement of millions of rebels. ”

Chai Jin listened to the words and looked at Cai Yi.

Cai still nodded, and Chai Jin said, "Just yesterday, Fang La has already formulated the next battle plan, and has already started the facts, according to the body, in addition to sending Fang Qifo Beidai to capture Chongde and waiting for the opportunity to capture Xiuzhou and Huzhou, send Fang Baihua to take the area of Guangdejun, send Fang Wuxianggong to take the area of Taizhou, send Qiu Rixin to take the area of Yuezhou, send Shi Sheng to take the area of Suzhou, send Huo Chengfu, Chen Hoop bucket and others to take the area of Chuzhou, and personally command Zheng Mowang, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang and others to take the area of Quzhou and Wuzhou. ”

Liang Gongcheng relied on his familiarity with the southeast, and wanted to show himself in front of his grandson-in-law, so he hurriedly spoke, "In this way, it means that Fang La's gang has focused on seizing the southeast, and the Fang Qifo is a lone army in front of us." ”

Liu Qi looked at the map for a while, then pointed to the area of the Guangde Army and said, "Old general, please look here." ”

Liang Gongcheng listened to the words and looked in the direction that Liu Qi was pointing.

After looking at it for a while, Liang Gongcheng said with some uncertainty, "You mean, it is possible that the Fang Baihua Department is the reinforcement of the Fang Qi Buddha Department?" ”

Wang Dedao said, "Fang Baihua should want to seal the passage to the south from the west, but looking at the distance between the two armies, if we have a decisive battle with the Fang Qi Buddha Department, only the Fang Baihua Department can become the Fang Qi Buddha reinforcements." ”

Liang Gongcheng couldn't help but question, "But the distance between the Guangde army and Huzhou is okay, is it too far away from Xiuzhou, aren't they afraid that we will defeat the Fang Qifo Department in Xiuzhou in one fell swoop, so that they will not have time to rescue?" ”

Wang Shengdao: "It is estimated that they can't afford us, and they don't think that we can defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops of Fang Qifo in one fell swoop." ”

Yue Fei carefully looked at the map for a while before he said, "In my opinion, they want Fang Qifo to seize Huzhou and Xiuzhou first, and then rely on the dangers and cities in the Huzhou-Xiuzhou area to hold on to seal our passage to the south." ”

Niu Gao said: "The premise is that they can defeat Huzhou and Xiuzhou, especially the latter." ”

Zhai Xing asked, "Who is the Xiuzhou guard?" ”

Chai Jin said, "Zhang Qi, but when Fang Qifo just went north, he ran away with his family, and now it is Chen Yu, a direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, who actually leads people to guard Xiuzhou." ”

"Bachelor? Literati? Zhang Jun said.

Zhao Ding glanced at Zhang Jun and said, "This Lord Chen is not an ordinary literati, he is twenty-one years old in the Jinshi, the first to know Shen County, hard work, remarkable political achievements, followed by the Yongqiu County Order, political achievements are also written, and then first Guangxi transfer judge, and then Shangzhou, Xingyuan prefect, and then promoted to the matter, as Huaibei Huainan transfer envoy, last year he because of outstanding political achievements, promoted to Longtu Pavilion straight bachelor, responsible for the management of Hangzhou, in order to strict financial system, to limit corruption, he created "economic money", greatly limited corruption. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ding still bowed to Cai and said, "The warp money created by this Lord Chen is very similar to the stamp duty created by the general, but the warp money is not as versatile and effective as the general's stamp duty, and the warp money has a certain mandatory ......."

With Zhao Ding's narration, Cai still somewhat understands that the economic money created by Chen Yu is actually miscellaneous tax economic money, which is not only part of stamp duty, but also part of value-added tax, and from the perspective of this era, it is already a very clever tax system.

After Zhao Ding explained the money system for Cai Ying, he said, "This Lord Chen is as civil and military as the general, and he is well aware of righteousness, and the lower officials think that he will be able to hold Xiuzhou and buy enough time for us." ”

Among the people present, one counts as one, and it can be seen that Zhao Ding admires Chen Yu very much.

However, some well-informed people couldn't help but secretly look at Cai Yan because of this.

Cai still knows why these people peeked at him.

When Chen Yu was the transit judge of Guangxi, the leaders of Guangxi's ethnic minorities were reluctant to pay tribute to the Northern Song court.

Cai Jing therefore advocated conquest.

Chen Yu said that the main thing should be pacification, and the war should not be lightly mentioned.

Therefore, Chen Yu aroused Cai Jing's jealousy.

Soon after, Chen Yu was relegated to his hometown by Cai.

In other words, Chen Yu has old grudges with Cai Jing, and if he has old grudges with Cai Jing, he has old grudges with the Cai family, and then he still has old grudges with Cai.

Therefore, many people think that Zhao Ding admires Chen Yu so much, which may cause Cai to still be unhappy.

And yet—

What these people never expected was that Cai was not only magnanimous and not to blame for the past, but also said, "If Xiuzhou is guarded by Chen Hengbo, then it will definitely not be attacked by the traitors, and then you can formulate a battle plan, and you can use Xiuzhou as the territory of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

As soon as Cai still said this, Liu Qi immediately persuaded, "General, let's be cautious, in case Lord Chen can't hold Xiuzhou......"

I have to say that Liu Qi is Lao Cheng's serious suggestion, after all, the husband is the winner without a fight, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts.

It's a pity -

Liu Qi is not Cai Ying, I don't know what Cai is still thinking.

First of all, Cai is still too confident in Chen Yu - if history does not change, the Battle of Zhongshan, one of the five major defense battles of the Northern Song Dynasty that bought precious time for the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, was fought by Chen Yu, when the first strong army Jin Army besieged Zhongshan Mansion and stormed it for half a year, and it was impossible to attack Zhongshan Mansion that Chen Yu led people to hold, and a group of peasant troops with hoes could defeat Xiuzhou that Chen Yu led people to defend?

Secondly, Cai Yi, who is familiar with history, knows that the Fangla Righteous Army led by Fang Qifo did not defeat Xiuzhou in the end, and in the process of fighting Xiuzhou, the Fangla Righteous Army also suffered heavy losses.

Again, and most importantly, Cai still has not enough troops in his hands - even if the Xiang army he brought is counted, his strength is only more than 20,000 points, not even 25,000, in this case, Cai still can't consider Fang Qifo occupying Xiuzhou anyway, otherwise he won't be able to fight Fang Qifo at all.

Since Cai still believes in Chen Yu so much, Liu Qi can't say anything more, after all, Cai is still not one of those who doesn't know how to soldier, but a general who has fully proved himself.

Therefore, everyone quickly bypassed Xiuzhou and discussed how to fight a decisive battle with Fang Qifo and win the battle.

After full discussion, Liu Qi's suggestion was finally adopted, and the location of the decisive battle was set in the area of Wudun and Qingdun as much as possible - here the Fangla rebels of the Fangqi Buddha Department in Xiuzhou and Huzhou could be cut off, and then they could be divided and attacked.

Of course, this is only the ideal scenario.

It is impossible to calculate all the rapid changes on the battlefield, so when you are in battle, you have to look at the on-the-spot performance of the commanders and generals of each army.

After drawing up the battle plan, the general staff carefully dismantled the battle plan and then distributed it to the staff officers at all levels, who then discussed the strategic objectives for which their departments were responsible with the generals of the departments.

After doing all this, Cai still ordered to leave the two battalions of Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin to lead 10,000 troops to guard Jinling, and the rest of the troops went south tomorrow to fight a decisive battle with Fang Layi's army.

After everyone left, only Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji's grandfather and son did not leave.

As soon as Cai still arrived in Jinling, he fished Liang Gongcheng and Liang's step-grandfather and son out of death row.

Zhao Ting and the others actually wanted to find some scapegoats to take the blame for them, and then reduce their guilt.

And the vast majority of those who were pulled out to take the blame had no background.

Of course, Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji's grandfather and son did delay the defeat of the fighter, and they did not complain about killing them.

But with Liang Hongyu's relationship, Cai still can't watch Liang Gongcheng and Liang step-grandfather and son beheaded, right?

And now that Cai, who is in full swing, who can not sell face?

Moreover, Cai still asked Liang Gongcheng, Liang Ji's grandfather and son, and many generals who were really familiar with the southeast battlefield to help him in the war, in the name of needing generals who were familiar with the terrain of the southeast.

In this way, Cai still easily rescued Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji's grandfather and son, and temporarily incorporated them into the Jinwu Army, and even let them participate in the high-level combat meeting of the Jinwu Army, which was considered to have given them enough face.

As for why Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji's grandfather and son didn't leave, Cai still doesn't know.

Cai Ying, who is going to go on the expedition tomorrow and has a lot of important things to deal with personally, really doesn't have time to guess, so he asks directly, "Grandfather, father-in-law, do you still have anything?" ”

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