Chapter 387: Retreat is Advance
Even if Li Xinchen sincerely felt that he was guilty, then Xiao Maha and Zhou Qu and the others would not agree, otherwise wouldn't they have to follow Li Xinchen to ask for guilt?
As for the attitude of the crown prince Chen Shubao, it is not to mention.
Therefore, once Li Xinchen's recital is sent to Jiangling, it will definitely no longer be just a simple recital, and Xiao Maha, who has the responsibility of reviewing and transferring the battle report in advance, will definitely react, whether it is to plead guilty together or to defend Li Xinchen, he will undoubtedly stand on Li Xinchen's side.
And Li Xinchen could even imagine that when this recital was sent to Chen Ji's desk in Jiankang Mansion for thousands of miles, there must have been a lot of recitals next to him.
And Li Xinchen did this for no more than a few reasons.
First, this battle is as he said, there is really no consultation with the Jiankang Mansion, once it is traced, everyone is responsible, so instead of sending this as a handle to the dormant Chen Shuling, it is better to put it forward first, so as to retreat as advance, so that the entire East Palace civil and military have to express their position for the benefit of the East Palace.
At that time, even if Chen Ji wants to punish Li Xinchen under anyone's instigation, he will have to consider the position and ideas of the East Palace, so this crime will definitely be a big deal, and it may even be directly exempted.
Second, Li Xinchen also knew that Chen Ji was a suspicious person, and he didn't want to leave a bad impression that he was too popular with Chen Ji, after all, he ranked first in the merit book in the two wars, and sometimes this is not a good thing.
Li Xinchen is still young now, and he doesn't want to be "remembered" by Chen Xu, as long as he can smoothly manage his own one-third of an acre of land in Bashu, it is best for Chen Ji to forget about him, a person who is thousands of miles away.
Xiao Shilian rubbed his chin gently, Li Xinchen's intentions he could already figure out seven, seven, eight and eight. Just looking at the battle report, he knew that this time there was a lawsuit with the imperial court to fight, and the two sides didn't know that dozens of days had passed, at least in the past two months, Li Xinchen said nothing about it in Bashu.
Even if the imperial court really wanted to blame Li Xinchen, there was still the East Palace civil and military forces in front of him, so it was unlikely that Li Xinchen would be transferred out of Bashu. Even the imperial court, in order to appease the East Palace, Li Xinchen and these soldiers who went on expeditions, would in turn give him an official and a knight.
This move is to retreat into advance, Xiao Shilian didn't know whether Li Xinchen wanted to ask for guilt or ask for credit, but he still said firmly:
"Shizhong, others don't object, but please join you in this matter."
With an eyebrow raised, Li Xinchen sighed softly. Obviously, Xiao Shilian didn't want to sit in the position of the first merit and let Li Xinchen plead guilty, which would make it seem that he Xiao Shilian was too unrighteous, which was unacceptable to Xiao Shilian.
"I'm sorry for you." Li Xinchen was a little helpless, this guy's stubbornness, he knew that he couldn't pull it back at all, so he simply agreed.
Xiao Shilian grinned widely, he is now a miscellaneous general, and he is also a leader among young people, even if he really goes down again, where can he fall, so he doesn't care.
And Li Xinchen looked out of the door slightly, the entire courtyard was already shrouded in a faint mist, and as for the mountains in the distance, he couldn't even see the outline clearly. It's like this confusing general trend in the world.
I hope Chen Ji won't be embarrassed with himself this time.
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"This Li Shizhong has a problem for someone." Xiao Maha held the piece sent by Li Xinchen from Bashu in his hand, and paced back and forth in the lobby, his face full of helplessness.
And Zhou Qu and Pei Zilie, who had already gotten the news, walked in one after the other. Now Ren Zhong is in Zhangchuan County, Chun Yuliang is in Zhangshan County, and Lu Guangda has returned to Yingzhou to cover Jingzhou's flank, so only Zhou Qu and Pei Zilie are the only people in the city who can discuss this matter with Xiao Maha.
Zhou Qu also frowned slightly, obviously Li Xinchen's recital also surprised him. And Pei Zilie is still as calm as ever, but he can also see a little expectation in his slightly changing expression.
Ba County has been taken, and after a short rest, Li Xinchen will definitely continue to send troops to Shu County, and this time he will not be absent from the battle of Shu County.
The war on the Jingzhou side has come to an end temporarily, as Bajun fell into the hands of Nan Chen, Wei Chi Hui simply gave the order to retreat, and the Northern Zhou army, which was originally on the line from Zhangshan to Zhangchuan and Nan Chen, gradually retreated, and re-enshrined the Xiangfan defense line, obviously Wei Chi Hui has clearly realized that compared to Jiangling, which is impossible to take in a short period of time, Bashu is more important.
Of course, in the fierce battle of the past few months, Xiao Maha in order to ensure that the war does not burn under the city of Jiangling, he constantly used the tactics of adding oil to Zhangchuan and Zhangshan to replenish the troops, Rao is so that these two cities have a few times almost lost, fortunately, Ren Zhong and Chun Yuliang are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they stabilized their positions and launched a counteroffensive at a critical time, so that they successfully forced the enemy who entered the city to retreat.
And now that the war in Jingzhou has stopped, Xiao Maha no longer has enough troops in his hands to support Li Xinchen, and even he himself has a headache in the face of the soldiers and horses that Wei Chi Hui has already possessed. After all, Zhangshan and other places are not Xiongguan fortresses like Xiangyang, after this battle, the city is ruined, the soldiers are tired, and this defense line is already fragile like a layer of window paper, so Xiao Maha does not have the capital to continue to enter Xiangyang.
With the war in Jingzhou at a stalemate, the next most important battle is naturally the war in Bashu.
And impartially, Li Xinchen's recital was delivered to Xiao Maha at this time.
"It's really interesting for Shizhong to ask for credit for so many soldiers, and then ask for guilt with Boqing." Pei Zilie couldn't help but speak first.
Zhou Qu gently stroked his beard, Jiangling could fall into war at any time before, so Chen Shubao and Princess Lechang were transferred to the public security early. Now that the fighting has subsided, Chen Shubao will return to Jiankang Mansion in the near future. Without Chen Shubao by his side, Zhou Qu doesn't have to think about this master's feelings all the time, and he has now added Jiangling Taishou to his body, so he can help Xiao Maha deal with Jingzhou's affairs openly.
Seeing the look of worry and helplessness on Xiao Maha's face, Zhou Cheng finally couldn't help it: "Shizhong and Boqing also have their own hardships in doing this, and doing this also means to retreat as advance." Presumably, His Majesty can also understand the essence of this, and he will not really embarrass Shizhong and Boqing. ”
"According to what Zhou Gong said, a certain direct consent is?" Xiao Maha raised his eyebrows, after all, the two people who asked for the guilt were very important to him, and he didn't want to make such a hasty decision.
Zhou Qu laughed: "Li Shizhong's kid has always had a lot of ideas, Yuanyin, you don't have to worry about him, according to the old man, you and I will each write a chapter, explain the ins and outs of the army in Bashu, and justify the two of them." ”