was rejected by Han Qian, and Yao Xishui didn't feel at ease, after all, the information Han Qian said was too amazing.

And after Han Qian told her and Li Chong about this, he directly burned Zhu Yu's portrait, and seemed to have no intention of sending someone to inform the defense embassy, which made Yao Xishui and Li Chong shocked and suspicious, and couldn't figure out Han Qian's true intentions for a while.

Han Qian hid such a crucial information, did he want to find an opportunity to lead Zuo Si's men to retreat first?

It's just that Han Qian really has such intentions, so what to do with them?

Yao Xishui stared at Han Qian with burning eyes and asked, "What do you want to do, probably you won't just invite us over to talk, right?" What does your seizure of the grain ship in Yingzhou have to do with this? ”

"There is no doubt that Zhu Yu, the king of Liang Yong, has indeed entered Wancheng, if we assume that the 30,000 Liang troops who are advancing from the direction of Fangcheng to Wancheng at this time are really the elite of Xuanjiadu, you can tell me, how will the Liang army use troops in the direction of Deng Xiang? And if you are Du Chongtao, how should you deploy your forces to defend it? Han Qian pointed to the sand table in the middle of the hall that outlined the landscape of Xiangzhou, and asked Li Chong and Yao Xishui to go over and talk about the battle.

Although Li Chong has no experience in directly leading troops into battle, he has been exposed to it since he was a child, and his analysis and judgment of the battle situation are far beyond the reach of low-level military schools.

In fact, Yao Xishui just blurted out Liang Jun's strategic intentions more thoroughly, and it is obvious that she has also been trained in this area.

Although at this time, the troops gathered by the Chu State near Xiangzhou were almost more than 50,000, in the face of the 60,000 Liang troops who entered Nanyang and Penyang one after another, there was the advantage of terrain and defending the city, and there was generally no need to worry that the Liang army could break through the Hanshui defense line.

The Liang army is already stronger than the Chu army, but among the 60,000 Liang army, half of them are the most elite Xuanjiadu of the Liang army, so the meaning is completely different.

The establishment of the Central Army of Liang State is similar to that of the Chu Army, divided into the system of guarding the pro-army and the forbidden camp army, but the highest level of the forbidden camp army is the army, and the highest level of the eight guards and pro-army is "Du", but the scale is comparable to that of the first army of the Chu army.

In the early years of Tianyou, Emperor Liang handed over Xuanjiadu to his second son, Zhu Yu, who had just turned twenty years old, to lead the town of Luoyang, and no one expected King Liang Yong to have an outstanding performance.

However, from the early years of Tianyou, the Jin Emperor shifted the strategic focus of the Liang State from the eastern front to the western front, and repeatedly sent heavy troops to attack the prefectures and counties along the Yellow River north of Luoyang.

Zhu Yu, the king of Yong, not only made Luoyang Prefecture and County Dazhi, and led Xuanjiadu to fight with the Jin army, but also fought more and more fiercely, forcing the Jin State to turn from offensive to defensive on the western front, and the strength of Xuanjiadu gradually expanded to about 30,000.

Such an army is neither an elite cavalry nor an ironclad infantry, but an elite combat force mixed with a horse infantry army.

The elite of this Liang army, the elite of the Zuowu Guard Army led by Du Chongtao with only 15,000 troops, did not dare to fight with it, even if the 60,000 Chu troops in the Dengxiang area poured out, the possibility of defeating Xuanjiadu in the field battle could not exceed 30%.

What's more, Zhu Yu, the king of Yong, is an extremely rare soldier in the world.

He went out of the town of Luoyang, and led the Xuanjia to fight more than 30 battles with the elite of the Jin army in the north of Luoyang, and did not taste defeat, not to mention the large and small forces near Luoyang that were once unwilling to belong to the Liang State, let alone how many folded in his hands.

Yao Xishui stood in front of the sand table, and secretly felt that if she was King Yong, she would put aside the fortified city defended by heavy troops, and directly interspersed through the gaps, captured Yingzhou City, cut off the Hanshui channel, and then whether it was from the upstream or downstream, she could calmly cross the Han and attack the Xiangzhou City defended by Du Chongtao himself.

At that time, more soldiers and horses will be piled up under the city of Xiangzhou.

If this is the case, it will be difficult for the Chu State to crack the strategy of the Liang army, after all, it cannot be expected that the soldiers and horses of Tanzhou will pour out, and the nearest reinforcements from Xiangzhou City can only be assembled and transferred from Jinling.

From the summons to the mobilization of reinforcements to the west, and the arrival at the city of Yingzhou, I am afraid that it will be three months later.

Can Xiangzhou City hold on for three months?

If Xiangzhou City is lost, then the offensive and defensive momentum of the Liang army in the Dengxiang area will be completely reversed.

Yao Xishui frowned, and found that how the Chu army struggled in a short period of time, it was difficult to crack the Liang army's secret plan to attack the east and west this time, perhaps the best way was for the Longque army to decisively abandon the Danjiang River, retreat into Xiangzhou City, and hold Xiangzhou City with Du Chongtao and wait for Jinling reinforcements!

"You tell us about this, I'm afraid you don't want the Dragon Bird Army to retreat into Xiangzhou City, right?" Yao Xishui stared at Han Qian's eyes and asked.

"Clever!" Han Qian couldn't help but snap his fingers and praise Yao Xishui, and said, "Miss Yao is really studying hard these days, it's not in vain that I worked hard before!" ”

Yao Xishui's face was slightly cold, and she said, "What are your intentions?" ”

"When we retreat into Xiangzhou City, we are actually giving up the Danjiang Waterway to the Liang army, and the Liang army will be able to gain the ability to fight long-term battles in the Dengxiang area by opening the passage with Guanzhong, and will dare to send more soldiers and horses in, and its will to snipe Jinling reinforcements in Yingzhou will become more firm. If Shu is cowardly and does not dare to participate in the war in the end, Xiangzhou City may still be difficult to defend in the end," Han Qian said, "but with the prestige of Li and I, in such a bad situation, it is not enough to defend Danjiang alone......"

"Do you want us to help you kidnap the Third Prince to Canglang City?" Yao Xishui stared at Han Qian in shock, she had never seen such a brazen and shameless person in her life.

You must know that not long ago, it was the person in front of him who persuaded Li Zhihe to join forces and take the three princes out of their control.

Li Chong only understood Han Qian's intentions at this time, and he was also shocked.

"Why do you need to be so surprised, and why do you need to be 'hijacked'?" Han Qian sat down at the back of the long case, stared at the faces of Yao Xishui and Li Chong, and said, "I just want you to persuade Mr. Shen Yang with me." ”

The real key point of Liang's strategy of attacking the east and west this time lies in Danjiang.

The Liang army could not control the Danjiang waterway, and could not transport a steady stream of grain and soldiers and horses from Guanzhong through Wuguan and Danjiang, and they could eventually enter the Dengxiang area to fight with limited soldiers and horses, and the time was difficult to last.

After all, it is all land from the gap in Fangcheng, and the flanks are threatened by the Shouzhou army.

If the Liang army could not capture the city of Xiangzhou within three months, when the Jinling reinforcements came in, they would be trapped in grain and grass and forced to retreat.

If the Chu army wants to bankrupt the Liang army's strategy this time, in addition to the fact that Xiangzhou City must be defended, the gains and losses of the Danjiang waterway are equally important.

However, how to keep the Danjiang waterway!

This was the problem that troubled Han Qian the most after confirming that Zhu Yu, the second son of Emperor Liang and King Yong of Liang, had secretly arrived in Wancheng.

The soldiers and horses on the Western Front were too complicated, with more than 5,000 Longque troops, more than 1,500 cottage recruits, more than 1,500 Xiangzhou troops, and more than 3,000 Yingzhou and Huangzhou reinforcements, adding up to nearly 12,000 people, and the strength was barely enough.

The problem is that when the situation is not so sinister, Han Qian and Li Zhihe cooperate well and can control the situation on the Western Front, once King Liang Yong raises the banner, Xuanjia is defeated and destroyed in the area from Zaoyang to Yingzhou, and then turns back to attack Canglang City, Iron Crocodile Ridge and Xichuan City, Han Qian also knows very well in his heart that with his and Li Zhihe's prestige, it will be far from enough.

If Xia Zhen, who has bad deeds in the past, don't talk about it, and the copycat mercenaries will inevitably become untrustworthy.

The copycat mercenaries have no allegiance to Da Chu, and their dependents are not controlled hostages, they are willing to participate in the war at this time, and it is Han Qian who can bring them some benefits.

And once they judge that surrendering the Liang army will bring them greater benefits, and if they don't surrender, they may be killed, what hope can they have?

If the three princes were to visit the Western Front in person, the meaning would be completely different.

The arrival of the three princes can first bring higher interest expectations to Zhou Yi and other cottage leaders, and can also directly suppress Xia Zhen, Zheng Hui, Zhang Bao and other generals who are not in the Longque Army system, so that it is possible to condense the scattered western front into a force and stick to the Danjiang River.

Han Qian didn't think it would be difficult to convince the three princes to take the risk of coming to the Western Front, except that he and Li Zhihe had won the trust of the three princes, in fact, the three princes had always longed for the opportunity to come to the Western Front to command the troops in person.

The crux of the problem lies in Shen Yang.

Shen Yang's allegiance was to Da Chu, not to the Three Princes, and he had to consider how serious the blow to Da Chu and Emperor Tianyou would be once the Three Princes were captured or killed in battle.

Han Qian really wanted to tell the truth, and Shen Yang would not be too passive to give up the Danjiang waterway, but it was more likely that he would suggest that Du Chongtao send other generals of sufficient weight to Canglang City or Iron Crocodile Ridge to preside over the battle on the Western Front, and would definitely not agree to let the three princes take risks.

Of course, Han Qian and the others did not have the opportunity to withdraw to Xiangzhou City.

What Han Qian wanted to do at this time was to take the third prince to Canglang City.

It's just that even if he blocks the news now, he doesn't have the ability to persuade Shen Yang to agree to the third prince to come to Canglang City, but Li Chong, Zhang Ping, and Chai Jian stand with them again, and things are different.

To be honest, Han Qian didn't expect that the situation would take such a sudden turn for the worse, and it would become what it is today in such a short period of time, otherwise he would have been a little polite to Li Chong and them in the first place.

Yao Xishui and Li Chong looked at each other, how could they not have thought that Han Qian would tell them this matter so calmly, wouldn't this grandson feel a little guilty and embarrassed?

"Under the expected development of the situation, even if His Royal Highness stays in Xiangzhou City and finally helps Du Chongtao to hold on until the moment when the Liang army withdraws his troops, the world will not think that His Highness is only fifteen years old and has any credit, but His Royal Highness will come to the Western Front and finally hold the Danjiang River, the meaning will be completely different," Han Qian stared at Li Chong and Yao Xishui, and said, "The snow covers the mountains, the roads are muddy, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Liang army are still a day or two away from Wancheng, and the time left for us is also very limited. We can talk about it - don't think that you control me, I control you, everyone is tired, isn't it? ”

Seeing Han Qian's face, Yao Xishui hated it in her heart, but she also knew that whether to cooperate with Han Qian again or not was decided by Chai Jian and Zhang Ping, not her and Li Chong.

"Can Li Zhihe know about this?" Li Chong still held a grudge against Li Zhihe's betrayal, and asked in a loud voice.

"There was no war in Iron Crocodile Ridge yesterday, why did I run over so hard?" Han Qian asked rhetorically.