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Hearing the latest news brought by Wang Zhe from East Lake, Han Qian sat on the stone bench in front of the big tent, looking at the stars above the night dome, and was silent for a long time.

"Wei Qun rushed to Jinling, after the letter of state, in addition to sending people to Chuzhou to lobby, in the past two days also visited Li Changfeng, Zhou Yuan, Shouwang and others are very diligent, we speculate that the so-called coalition strategy to attack Liang, its fundamental purpose is to say that Lu Qingxia used the combined forces of the Chai Construction Department to attack Guanzhong...... Gao Shao also brought the conclusion of the preliminary analysis of the Military Intelligence Staff Department.

Han Donghu and Huo Li, who had returned from Heshuo and served as a senior guard military attache in the guard cavalry battalion, spread out the map they had brought with them.

The Chu army currently has four areas bordering the Liang army.

From east to west, the first area was the defense line of the lower reaches of the Huai River, which was under the responsibility of the Huaidong soldiers and horses.

The second area is the defense line in the middle reaches of the Huai River, which is in charge of the Tangyi Army.

The third and fourth areas were respectively the Xiangbei Army responsible for the upper reaches of the Huai River and the Nanyang Fangcheng defense line, and the Qinling Jingzikou and Xichuan defense lines responsible for the Chai Construction Department of the Xiangbei Army.

The Liang army corresponding to the Chai Jian Department was the defender of Wuguan in Shangzhou.

Although Han Qian's previous recital was left in the middle and did not come out public, Han Qian's position and attitude have already been made clear, and it is not difficult to see some clues in the eyes of Shu State lurking in Chu, and it is not difficult to imagine that after Wei Qun sent a letter of state to Great Chu, he sent someone to Chuzhou, but did not send anyone to Donghu to contact.

In the upper reaches of the Huai River, Li Zhihe led his troops to besiege Luoshan City, which has not yet been captured, and is currently in a stalemate with the defenders.

Li Zhihe and Wen Bo are extremely stable in their use of troops, Wen Bo does not surrender, Li Zhihe does not want the casualties of his troops to be too tragic, and he will not easily lead his troops to attack before the defenders run out of food; And even if there will be variables along the way, Wei Qun's envoy to Dachu will not place too much hope on not having a clear goal.

The route that the Chu army can really send out to attack Liang in a big way, first, Xinwang Yang Yuanyan led Huaidong soldiers and horses to cross the Huai River and attack the Xusi area, which itself is also something that Xinwang Yang Yuanyan has been actively planning; First, Chai Jian sent troops to attack Wuguan, of course, he could also borrow some soldiers and horses from Zhang Ji in Jingzhou.

For the Shu army, it was to send troops from Liangzhou to the north to attack the southwest and southern regions of Guanzhong.

From the perspective of the Shu army, the Liang State has now fallen into a state of fragmentation, and Wei Qun's persuasion of Huaidong soldiers and horses to cross the Huai River to the north to attack Xu Si this time has little impact on the relevance of other regions of the Liang State, and is more to promote the overall situation of advocating the destruction of Liang within Great Chu, but if he can persuade Chu Ting to order Chai Jian to attack Wuguan, it can really effectively share the military pressure of their troops to the north.

This should be the top priority of Wei Qun's envoy to Chu this time.

At this time, although Emperor Liang still had 60,000 soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, on the one hand, he had to prevent the Weizhou rebels from sending troops from Hangu Pass to attack Tongguan, and on the other hand, he had to prevent the Mengwu cavalry from sending troops along the Fenshui River Valley to attack Hejin and other places.

Obviously, this is not something that Han Qian's resolute advice can prevent.

Even if Da Chu did not send troops to attack Wuguan, the Shu army in Liangzhou could gather fifty or sixty thousand elites to attack Guanzhong from the passes such as Baochuan Road and Meridian Road, which was enough for the Liang army to eat a pot.

Although they have secretly maintained close contact with the Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong and his family over the years, even if they can exert influence on the Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong, can Wang Yong dissuade the monarchs and ministers of the Shu State from giving up the immediate opportunity to seize the Guanzhong region?

What's more, the Shu State sent Wei Qun to envoy Dachu at this time, who knows if there is a factor behind the Guanjianglou to encourage people?

Han Qian thought of this problem, and Feng Yi and Gao Shao also thought of this problem.

"If Xiao Yiqing and Wang Jingrong send people into Shu to match, and they follow Shu envoy Wei Qun into Jinling to meet Lu Qingxia and others, the matter of the coalition army attacking Guanzhong is afraid that it will be done soon." Feng Yi said with a frown.

Although Chu and Shu can generally coexist peacefully, the two countries' alliance forces enter the same area, involving too many complex layers, usually speaking, the negotiation and preparation will take a long time, plus they are secretly pulling back, saying that it is not clear that Emperor Liang can seize the time difference to open the passage to the west to the Guguan.

As long as the Liang army can regain control of the Heluo and Bianjing regions, Xu Mingzhen and Sima Tan's attitude may change and become loyal and filial generals of the Liang Dynasty again, in which case, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang will have more chips in his hands.

And if the Shu army moved the idea of seizing Guanzhong at this time, it was instigated by the Muguls or directly Xiao Yiqing and Wang Jingrong behind their backs, and Lu Qingxia and others, who had been secretly colluding with Guanjianglou, secretly contributed to the trouble in Jinling, and the Chu-Shu coalition army attacking Guanzhong might be launched within a month or two.

Chai Jian's side even only needed to get Lu Qingxia's instructions to directly launch an attack on Wuguan.

"We'll go back to East Lake at dawn tomorrow!" Han Qian pondered for a while, then Huo Ran stood up and said to Feng Yi.

The current situation was too chaotic and complicated, so he had to interrupt his trip to inspect the disaster situation in the prefecture and county in advance, and told Han Donghu and them to get ready, and set off to rush back to Donghu as soon as it was dawn.

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Speechless all the way, when Han Qian rushed back to East Lake, it happened to be the Double Ninth Festival, it was already the season of high autumn and cool, maybe there would be another month, and the first wave of cold snaps of the year would come from the north.

Tired from running all the way, he hurriedly washed his face, and then ordered Wang Zhe to bring Shen Peng, the capital of the Chengtian Division of the Liang Dynasty, as well as Princess Yunhe and Zhao Ci, who had been detained in Donghu for nearly half a year, to the Yanchi Pavilion where he dealt with daily affairs.

Wang Zhe presided over the affairs of the Northland, and he was also in charge of the house arrest supervision of Princess Yunhe, Shen Peng, and Zhao Ci.

Han Qian's arrangement was also based on the consideration that even if Shen Peng, Zhao Ci and others inadvertently leaked even a little bit of information, it would be extremely conducive to the scouts of the Military Intelligence Staff Department to lurk and spy in the Central Plains and Heshuo areas.

It's just that Princess Yunhe, Shen Peng, and Zhao Ci are all extremely tight, and they don't have much direct help for the lurking and espionage work in the Central Plains and Heshuo areas, but with the three of them as bait, Wang Zhe still followed the vine and caught the seven people lurking in Tangyi's secret room of the Liang Kingdom, which was the biggest contribution the three of them made to Tangyi during this time.

Wang Zhe couldn't understand what to do in this situation, Han Qian rushed back to Donghu and urgently found these three people, should he let them go back to deliver the news? In my heart, even if Emperor Liang knew the news that Chu Shu would join forces to attack Guanzhong ten days and half a month in advance, what would it do? Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang must have been prepared for the robbery of Chu and Shu at this time, right?

Of course, Han Qian clearly ordered, and Wang Zhe also obediently led people to the prison where Shen Peng, Zhao Ci and Princess Yunhe were imprisoned respectively.

This year is said to be fast, through the streets and alleys and riding horses are not fast, after two incense sticks to the detainer and then back to the inkstone pavilion, Wang Zhe saw that in addition to Wang Jun, Gao Shao, Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Xi Ying and others, Zhao Wuji, Guo Ke, Xi Faer were all summoned.

Han Qian was dining with Feng Yi, Gao Shao, and Feng Yi around a table.

They rushed back to East Lake, it was already past lunchtime, but Feng Yi, Gao Shao, and Feng Yi accompanied Han Qian to dine informally, and the others still took some food to fill their stomachs in private.

Han Qian gobbled up a bowl of vegetable rice and pulled it into his mouth, while listening to what Guo Rong said.

However, in the small hall at this time, in addition to these people, the ordinary guards and the assistant clerks on the left and right of the attendants, and even Huo Xiao, who has always been by Guo Rong's side to write letters, and Huo Li, who served as the military attache of the attendants, were all guarding inside and outside the courtyard, looking like they were going to discuss secrets.

Wang Zhe brought Yun and Princess Yunhe, Shen Peng, and Zhao Ci in, and hesitated whether he wanted to retire.

"Wang Zhe, you and General Shen should talk in detail about the changes in the situation in Liang, Jin, Chu, and Shu since the beginning of the summer, as well as the intention of Shu envoy Wei Qun to rush to Jinling three days ago, don't hide anything, so as not to misjudge General Shen's judgment." Han Qian stopped his chopsticks and directly instructed Wang Zhe to say.

Wang Zhe was stunned for a moment, glanced at Han Qian suspiciously, and secretly said Do you really want to let Shen Peng and Zhao Ci go to Guanzhong to report the news? Of course, Han Qian had ordered so, and he explained to Shen Peng the changes in the situation that the four kingdoms of Liang, Jin, Chu, and Shu could openly spy on, as well as Wei Qun's arrival in Jinling with the credentials of the state, and the matter of contacting Chuzhou and the Empress Dowager Cishou Palace.

After Wang Zhe introduced the situation, Han Qian had just finished a bowl of vegetable rice, put down the dishes and chopsticks, stared at Shen Peng who was standing on the side of Yunhe and the princess, and said:

"Regarding the fact that Guanjiang Tower, the Late Red Mansion and even the Shu Lord Wang Jian are all the remnants of the former Dynasty's Shenling Division and the eunuch party, General Shen must know better than us, and the change of Heshuo also proves that Guanjianglou has long been secretly attached to the Mengwu people under the mediation of the northern fugitive clan. We now also have clear evidence that we can confirm that there was a collusion between the Late Red Mansion and the Guanjiang Building, and we even did not hesitate to hand over the many new techniques and new methods that I have implemented in Qiuhushan and Xuzhou over the years to the hands of the Mughu. And the matter of Shu Chu joining forces to attack Guanzhong, it seems that no one can easily reverse it-"

Even if he expected that the situation would be difficult to reverse suddenly, he could guess that Chu Shu was very likely to take advantage of the fire to rob, but when he heard that the Central Plains was still a mess at this time, and Chu Shu was about to attack Guanzhong with a coalition army, Shen Peng also took a while to ease up, straightened his clothes, and said with a gloomy expression:

"After so many days, Hou Ye summoned me again, shouldn't it be to scare us, what's the matter, Hou Ye please command?"

"It's not impossible to prevent Chai Jian from sending troops from Junzhou to attack Wuguan, but it's relatively justifiable, so as not to make Tangyi fall into the point of attacking everyone, there are really not many ways - I want to ask General Shen to help us rob the Wen clan to Tangyi!" Han Qian stared at Shen Peng and said.

Hearing Han Qian say this, Wang Zhe suddenly thought of where this was going to be calculated.

Li Zhihe sent troops to besiege Luoshan City for so long without attacking it, firstly, he used his descendants' troops, and secondly, he wanted to force Wen Bo to surrender the city without blood, so that Wen Bo and his elite could be used by him.

And if Tangyi can take control of the Wen clan one step ahead, the government and the opposition can only praise Tangyi for his merits, and cannot accuse Tangyi of being ill-intentioned, but Wen Bo and the Luoshan defenders went out of the city at this time to surrender to Li Zhihe, can Li Zhihe and Lu Qingxia still accept it without reservation?

Will Li Zhihe and Lu Qingxia be more worried that Wen Bo may lead the Luoshan garrison and the Tangyi army to attack the Xiangbei Army inside and outside?

Under such circumstances, Chai Jian, who was stationed in Deng Jun and the two places, really did not dare to act rashly.

It's just that after the Wen clan joined the Liang with the Wen Dusk Bridge, they were surrounded by the feudal clan in the north of Xuzhou - the Liang State was in turmoil, and the Sima clan had an ambiguous attitude, so they did not directly imprison the Wen clansmen, but also sent soldiers and horses to monitor the left and right.

How could they do it, send men and horses to the north of Xuzhou quietly, kidnap hundreds of Wen clansmen, and then break through the Sima clan's round-up and successfully loot people to Tangyi?

In addition to the fact that the Wen clan must have Xu Si's soldiers and horses supervising the periphery where the Wen clan lives, look at the life trajectories of Wen Duqiao and Wen Bo's father and son, but know that the Wen clan will inevitably organize corresponding defense forces within them, even if there are only dozens of elite forces like the generals of the Wangfu of Zhedong County, it is extremely difficult to deal with - especially when the Wen clan people learn that Tangyi sent soldiers and horses to hijack them, they will resist desperately, right?

To be honest, if Wang Zhe is asked to formulate a plan of action, this is impossible at all.

It must be done, only by jointly sending troops to cross the Huai River with Huaidong (at present, Tangyi has no waterway directly with the Huai River, and must borrow the road from Huaidong to enter the Huai River), and at the same time as advancing to Sizhou, send a group of two or three thousand elite cavalry to quickly go around to the north of Xuzhou to rob people.

Of course, this also has to count on the fact that when the troops are sent to cross the Huai, the Sima clan will not withdraw hundreds of Wen clansmen to Xuzhou City in advance.

And Han Qian brought Shen Peng over at this time, and Wang Zhe naturally knew that there might not be no chance in this matter.

Emperor Liang was previously in order to control the local warlord Sima Shi, in addition to transferring Sima Yi to serve in Beijing, at this time his life and death were unknown, he must have placed a small inside line in Xu Si in addition to Han Yuanqi.

The Sima clan did not directly join the Weizhou rebels, who were more victorious in the current situation, and it is estimated that the inner line planted by Emperor Liang was also playing a role.

Shen Peng is one of the two major capitals of Chengtiansi, and the inner line of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang in Xu Si should be able to contact and use; Even further, in the gathering place where the Wen clan people lived, was there a hidden pile of Chengtiansi?

"They must be trying to deceive us. Wen Duqiao has a grudge against him for killing his father, and he robbed the Wen clan to Tangyi, how could he ask Li Zhihe to throw a rat trap over there? Zhao Ci said sharply, he was worried about the secret that Wang Zhe used them to fish out of Tangyi during these days, and he was afraid that it was Tangyi's trick now.

Zhao Ci said this, and the lobby suddenly fell silent.

Of course, everyone still remembers that when Han Daoxun went to lobby Wen Duanqiao, he was captured and mutilated by Anning Palace, and it can be said that Wen Duanqiao was one of the direct culprits who killed Han Daoxun.

Speaking of which, Han Qian rushed back to East Lake, and planned to send a special warfare elite to infiltrate Xuzhou to kidnap the Wen clan, and everyone's surprise at this time has not completely calmed down.

Because of this blood feud, even if the Wen clan can be successfully abducted to Tangyi, there will be an extremely complicated struggle between the hearts and minds behind it.

If Wen Bo was worried that in order to avenge the blood feud of the year, he would poison the Wen clan, would it instead prompt him to throw himself more firmly to Li Zhihe, so that he could borrow the power of the Empress Dowager's party to save the Wen clan from Tangyi?

If that's the case, it's a bit self-defeating for them to put so much effort into it.

Of course, this old matter is still too sensitive, especially when Wang Jun was present, Gao Shao and Feng Yi couldn't bear to mention it, but they didn't want Zhao Ci to stab it bloodily.

"What the hell is a young man, your father has been lurking in my Han family for more than ten years, and he has played so many people in the palm of his hand, and he has not been as breathless as you, where did you see that I am going to cheat you?" Han Qian looked at Zhao Ci and asked with a slightly calm face, "You may not have counted why my father died, but don't you know how your father died?" Do you think that your father died in Xuzhou, and I ordered him to be killed, and then pretended to set up a monument for him? ”

After Zhao Kuo committed suicide by hitting a stone, Han Qian finally buried him next to his father's tomb in Longya Mountain, and also made people set up a monument to record Zhao Kuo's deeds of serving the Han family for many years and the last stage of his life to transport the corpse back to Xuzhou and even die regardless of the danger.

Zhao Ci was reprimanded by Han Qian.

Shen Peng waved his hand, signaled him to be calm, and said: "Hou Ye also knows that Xu Si has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past half a year, and I am not very clear about many things over there. ”

"It's impossible to put the men and horses directly under your command, but I will ask you to come along. In the current situation, the chances of success can be five or five, and it is worth doing," Han Qian said to Han Donghu, Wang Zhe, Xi Fa'er, Guo Ke and others, "You and General Shen draw up a plan, what resources to mobilize, and the Military Intelligence Staff Department will fully cooperate with you." ”

The Military Intelligence Staff Department only has a small number of escort personnel, and can only draw manpower from the guard cavalry battalion, but the arrangement of the operation must be led by the Military Intelligence Staff Department, after all, this is not a regular enemy territory interspersed raid operation.

"We have seven secret stakes seized by Hou Ye, if we bring them with us, the success may be higher?" Shen Peng said calmly.

Han Qian looked at Wang Zhe, he remembered that Wang Zhe had talked about it, but he didn't take it to heart.

"Two people are seriously injured, and the other five are in prison." Wang Zhe said.

Han Qian spread his hands towards Shen Peng and said, "Now I can only return five people to you, if this matter is successful, I will let you go." And when Emperor Liang returns to Bianjing, I will also send someone to send Princess Yunhe back. As for whether Chu and Liang will be bloodied in the future, I, Han Qian, will not embarrass a woman or child. ”

"I hope Master Hou doesn't forget today's words." Shen Peng stood up and pulled Zhao Ci and Han Donghu, Wang Zhe, Xi Fa'er, and Guo Qi to leave first, discussing the exact and feasible plan for robbing people.

asked Yun and Gongyi to be sent back to the prison again, Han Qian also signaled Feng Yi, Gao Shao, Guo Rong, and Zhao Wuji to go to their respective busy, he walked to the study, picked up the pen and wanted to write something, but after writing the numbers, he couldn't put down the pen again for half a day.

Wang Jun and Xi Ying walked in, looked over, and saw that only the words "Wengong Dusk Bridge" were written at the beginning of the letter.

Xi Ying asked in surprise, "You want to write a letter to Han Donghu to bring to Wen Duqiao?" ”

Han Qian nodded and said: "Han Donghu and Wang Zhe took people to Xuzhou, and it is not too difficult to evacuate, the most difficult thing is that the Wen clan will fight and resist, which will be the biggest danger of this trip - and pretending to be Liang Jun should not be able to hide from them." I am writing this letter to Wen Duqiao, maybe it can make a difference. ”

"How could Wen Duqiao believe that you would rather bear the notoriety of unfilial piety, but also put aside the blood feud of the year and let him go of the Wen clan?" Xi Ying asked, "He has been struggling with deceit all his life, and he does not hesitate to be the lackey of the Anning Palace, how can he not understand the mind of the old man and the state of mind of you to make this decision, right?" ”

"No," Han Qian shook his head and said, "Characters like Wen Duqiao, even if they choose to collude with the Anning Palace and cause chaos in the Great Chu, or if they are full of disdain for people like my father, they may not understand, and they may not believe it. Just like Wang Jun and her father, as early as the beginning of the Jinling Incident, he saw clearly what kind of person my father was, so he borrowed my father's hand to unveil the chaos of the Jinling Incident! ”

Han Qian stood up, took out a sandalwood box from the house, took out the blood book that Zhao Kuo brought back that year, handed it to Wang Jun and said, "This is the blood book that my father left me before he was executed. ”

This is a blood book written from the placket of the robe and broken fingers, Wang Jun is still the first time she has seen it, and when she took it and unfolded it, she saw a few lines of blood characters in the book: "The old things in Chuzhou, accumulated for many years, the punishment is imminent, this life is suddenly in front of me, I really feel that life and death are small, don't think I think ...... it"

Han Qian said: "I wanted to ask Han Donghu to bring this blood book to Wen Duqiao to read, but I was afraid that something would happen and it would never return to me." ”

At this time, hearing the sound of Wen Xin and Yuan'er breaking into the courtyard and chattering and frolicking, Han Qian looked up at the window, Zhao Ting'er walked into the courtyard, he temporarily put down his pen and walked into the courtyard.

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In the dead of night, Guo Ke, Han Donghu, Wang Zhe, and Shen Peng waited for Han Qian to make a decision with the planned submarine attack plan.

The specific location of the Wen clan's settlement, of course, has long been clear on the Tangyi side, but the internal situation of Zhuangzi is extremely difficult for outsiders to infiltrate, and Tangyi is not clear, but Shen Peng knows.

The lieutenant governor of the Wen clan's settlement is a spy directly under the jurisdiction of Chengtiansi, who was lurking there in the early years to monitor the Sima clan, and then casually arranged the fiefdom of the Wen clan there and monitored it together.

Of course, there are still many hidden piles of Chengtiansi in Xusi, firstly, the matter involves the secrets of the Liang State, and secondly, the situation is turbulent, Shen Peng does not know how much impact these hidden piles have been affected, at this time, he is only willing to confide in a few hidden piles that may be related to the submarine attack plan and need to stand up and cooperate, and the others have to wait for people to sneak into the Xusi area and improvise.

There are also three retreat plans, one of which is to send two three-masted ships from the navy to go to sea and sneak to the bay area in the northeast of Haizhou to lurk, if the sneakers can't get rid of Sima's round-up from the south, they can only consider moving from the mountainous areas north of Xuzhou to the east and to the coast of northeast Haizhou.

Of course, the biggest problem is that the Wen clan may resist to the death.

They can't stay in Xuzhou for too long, it will be too difficult to capture all the Wen clansmen alive before the enemy reinforcements arrive, and it will be completely pointless to bring a bunch of dead corpses back - in that case, it will only prompt Wen Bo to throw himself into Li Zhihe, and then find an opportunity to avenge their side with blood.

Han Qian handed over the letter he had written all afternoon and the blood letter left by his father to Han Donghu to keep ......