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Chapter 163 Dispatch of Troops

Ma Yun, who returned to Jinling, soon had to focus his attention on the Huai River defense line. ? At the Songzhou Conference that the puppet Zhou had just ended, Guo Rongshun successfully won Wang Yin, and then made important adjustments to the Huaibei military generals, he appointed the veteran general Xiang Xun as the head of the Huaibei camp and the envoy of the Caizhou Festival, Zhang Yongde as the deputy head of the Huaibei camp and the envoy of the Guide Festival, and Wang Yan as the commander of the right wing of the Huaibei camp and the commander of the Yingzhou Assassin (now Fuyang City, Anhui Province). The puppet Zhou army was like a doping on the front line in Huaibei, ready to move. The skirmishes between the Chu and Zhou armies were even more continuous. One piece of information that Ma Yun attaches more importance to is that there are often a large number of wood chips and wood downstream in the upper reaches of Yingshui. This shows that Wang Yanbu, who was stationed in Yingzhou, seems to be secretly building ships.

At this time, it has been less than half a year since the defeat of Bianjing, and the pseudo-Zhou moves so frequently, does it indicate that it is about to go south? Although the history is exhibited to this day, it seems to have deviated too much from Jack Ma's memory. However, in Ma Yun's vague memory, the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Rong should have gone south more than once, and it seems that he took the land of Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty during his lifetime. Could it be that Guo Rong is also going south this time?

Ma Yun, who got the news, didn't dare to be too big, and hurriedly summoned the privy envoy Wang Yun, the privy deputy envoy Li Xiang, the subordinate servant Xu Zhongya, the middle secretary Fan Zhen, the secretary of the military department Cao Yun and the criminal department secretary Zhao Pu.

After Ma Yun gave the seat, several ministers sat down with their hands in their hands, circulating the latest military information, and for a while, the imperial study was quiet, which made people feel inexplicably depressed. After everyone finished circulating, Ma Yun coughed softly and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of this situation?" ”

Ma Yun's eyes swept over several ministers one by one, Xu Zhongya is already old, and she is old when she acts, but when she sits on the seat, she looks calm and unfazed; The quality of those who are over forty years old is completely different, with a worried face, Zhongshu Province is responsible for formulating the world's major policies, whether it is the opening of Jinghu Lake or the construction of the southeast, silver is indispensable. Once the time is up, the task cannot be completed, although Shangshu Province is responsible, but the big head falls on Zhongshu Province, who made Zhongshu Province not recognize the situation clearly? The privy envoy Wang Yun is a figure who can compete with the two ministers, when he was under the command of Ma Xifan, he went on the horse to govern the army, and the people on the horse, and he was well-informed, he sat still, but he took his eyes to look at Li Xiang; And Li Xiang is the actual Grand Sima, for such an important military activity, he must have put forward his own proposals, and among the six people who came to discuss the matter, he was the only one who was specifically responsible for this kind of affairs. Although Cao Yun is the secretary of the Ministry of War, but now the Ministry of War does not have the power to mobilize the army, nor does it have the name of a staff officer, it is just a department that assesses officers, reviews the army, and releases military salaries and balances with the Privy Council. The perennial absence of war seemed to have made him lose his sensitivity to military affairs, and he sat under Zhao Pu with a disapproving face. As for Zhao Pu, while looking at the military intelligence, he secretly compared it with the information he already had, which was sent by the Intelligence Department of the Privy Council, and it was not the same system as the wind catching room. In addition, Zhao Pu has now learned lessons and lessons, and he is still quite insightful in terms of major policies, but when it comes to the campaign, it is overstretched. The most typical is the Battle of Bianjing, there is only one Zhao Pu by Ma Yun's side, and Zhao Pu's suggestions are often not as good as Ma Yun's impromptu response. This battle also made Zhao Pu understand that he and Li Xiang still have a specialization in art, and he is not better than Li Xiang to go there.

Seeing Ma Yun's rhetorical question, Zhao Pu sorted out his thoughts and said: "Your Majesty, the intelligence is basically consistent with the news obtained by the wind catching house, the army of the puppet Zhou in Huaibei has frequent internal movements, and there are constantly small-scale conflicts with our army in Shenzhou (now Xinyang City, Henan Province), Yingzhou, Xuzhou (near Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province) and other places. The minister felt that the puppet Zhou was likely to launch a military operation against the Huainan front line of our country in the near future. ”

Zhao Pu's analysis is not only what Fan Zhen is most unwilling to hear, but also what Ma Yun does not want to see. Ma Yun lightly flicked the fingers of his right hand on the table, pondered for a while, and then said: "Although most of Huainan's army is newly recruited, Zhu Yuanbu still has 40,000 elites, can't Pseudo-Zhou really see these situations?" Didn't Guo Rong know that Zhu Yuan, who was in Songzhou at that time, was actually unharmed? ”

Ma Yun is counting the digital account, he is not afraid of pseudo-Zhou, but he feels that pseudo-Zhou picking such a time to go south is indeed a bit difficult for Chu State to deal with. The strength of the sailors of the Chu State is good, that means that at sea, on the Huai River, due to Zhang Yongde's burning, killing and looting last year, the ships deployed by the Chu State in the Huai River have suffered great losses, and it has no ability to block the Huai River. That is to say, as long as the puppet Zhou is determined, as long as he picks a suitable place to ascend 6, the puppet Zhou's army can cross the Huai River and head south.

Now it is spring, once the army of the puppet Zhou crosses the Huai River to burn and loot, delaying the spring ploughing of the people of Huainan, it will be a heavy burden for the Chu State at that time.

"Now in the Khitan Kingdom, Yelu Tart is in power, and this autumn, the Khitan will send troops south. In this case, the pseudo-Zhou did not defend the land of Hebei, but prepared to engage our army again in Huainan, which... What kind of idea is this pseudo-week! Li Xiang echoed Ma Yun and said. He added some of what Ma Yun didn't say completely, which obviously seemed to be asking, but in fact it showed that he was very suspicious of Pseudo Zhou's motives for sending troops.

"Last month, Shi Shouxin, a pseudo-Zhou of the Zhou Dynasty, showed his troops to the Khitan in Hebei Province and made a big show for his mission. From this matter, can we think that the pseudo-Zhou wanted to show his strength to the Khitans, so that the Khitans were jealous and did not dare to go south easily to buy time for themselves? Wang Yun said softly on the side.

Although Wang Yun's words were not about pseudo-Zhou in Huainan, they made the eyes of several people sitting brighten. Ma Yun squinted his eyes and said: "Wang Ai, do you mean that Wang Yan's move in Yingzhou this time is actually the same as Shi Shouxin's move in Hebei?" ”

Wang Yun nodded, and Cao Yun on the side became cautious, he originally didn't care, and the reason for this was also because he felt that Pseudo Zhou was just bluffing, scaring and scaring Da Chu, and consuming Da Chu's strength. As long as Da Chu takes proper measures, Pseudo Zhou will not get any cheapness. There is also a precedent in history for this matter, when the Sui Dynasty in the north used this trick against the Chen Dynasty in the south, that is, taking advantage of the Chen Dynasty's spring ploughing time, let the Chen Dynasty organize the people to defend, and missed the good time for farming, causing the Chen Dynasty's economy to become more and more difficult to support.

Cao Bin said: "If that's the case, then the pseudo-Zhou is not trying to make a show, but is going to fight with our Dachu with real swords?" That's a problem. Your Majesty, on the front line of Huainan, our food, grass and ordnance are not sufficient. In this hurry, it is also difficult to mobilize sufficient supplies. ”

"This material is indeed very critical. Wang Shumi is very right, since the puppet Zhou took action in Huaibei to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and wanted to intimidate and block the Khitan army from going south by waging war against us, then the puppet Zhou will do everything possible to win. And this victory must be achieved in a short period of time, otherwise, once the Khitans go south, the pseudo-Zhou Ke will make a show in vain. Zhao Pu continued: "In this case, the minister thinks that our army should mainly defend the city, so that the puppet Zhou has to have a siege battle with us. As long as Huainan has enough food and grass, even if our army is a new army, it will not be easy for the pseudo-Zhou to defeat them. After all, the most elite troops of the pseudo-Zhou can be in Hexi. Once the time has been held for a long time, the pseudo-Zhou can only collect his troops and retreat, he wants to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, but it will be completely unsuccessful. ”

"Well, Lord Zhao's opinion is a feasible strategy. However, along the Huai River, plus a total of seven states in Xuzhou, Haizhou, Suzhou, and Sizhou in Huaibei, these places have only one month's grain and grass at most. In the case of not knowing the target of the Pseudo-Zhou army's attack, do we want to supply grain and grass to these seven states at the same time? Wang Yun said with a frown. Obviously, he didn't think it was smart.

Before Zhao Pu could speak, Cao Yun shook his head and said: "No, absolutely not, even if the household department has so much grain and grass, the military department can't send so many people to transport it." If the people are used to serve, I am afraid that the crops will be delayed. ”

Although Xuzhou and other places were well managed by Cao Bin, which was not conducive to the swing of the puppet Zhou cavalry, the entire Chu State, that is, Xuzhou, was the greatest threat to the puppet Zhou, and if there was a chance, it would be strange if Guo Rong did not attack Xuzhou first. In addition, Wang Yan's actions in Yingzhou were not aimed at Shouzhou, an important town in Huainan. The information is not clear, which makes it difficult for the top leaders of Chu to make up their minds.

Ma Yun calculated in his heart that if Guo Rong really went south and relied on the new army in Huainan, he was afraid that he would be in a hurry for a while. Coupled with the death of Qian Qing and Shi Da and the transfer of Wang Quanbin, there are not many outstanding generals in Huainan, and they have to draw people and troops from other places.

Ma Yun thought about it and said: "Xu Aiqing, Cao Aiqing, since the pseudo-Zhou intends to come to the door, we can't be unprepared at all." Although the savings of the state treasury in the past two years are not much, the military rations are still fully supplied, and some grain should be hoarded in Huainan. You draw up a feasible plan to deliver another five months of grain and grass to Shouju, Chuju, and Gwangju in a short period of time. ”

Seeing that the two agreed, Ma Yun turned his head to Wang Yun and Li Xiang and said: "Pseudo-Zhou dispatched troops, and there were as many as three backbone generals of the white-clothed army in Huaibei, not to mention the outstanding generals of the Hebei Army. We also have to adjust to make good steel use on the blade. You are going to plan to mobilize the Hangzhou defense envoy Pan Mei, the Hongzhou defense envoy Lu Jiang, and the Guangzhou defense envoy Zhou Xingfeng to Zhu Yuan's command. ”

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