Han Jun never thought that his uncle, who was usually very affectionate, would suggest abolishing him because he was worried that his scandalous affair with the Queen Mother would be exposed and affect him.

However, seeing that his father did not reprimand the second uncle for saying ridiculous, but sat there silently, Han Jun fell to the ground in a panic, and stammered: "Father, the child really doesn't know that all this is Lu Qingxia's conspiracy, the queen mother has an order, and the child doesn't dare to disobey——"

"The Queen Mother has a life? Can the Queen Mother order you to strip naked and climb into her bed? Han Daoming was so angry that he trembled and scolded, eager to kick Han Jun to the ground, and cut off the root of his misfortune with his own hands and feed it to the dog.

If it weren't for the fact that this lid was directly stabbed open by Han Qian today, he wouldn't have known that there was always a sharp blade hanging from the necks of hundreds of people in his Han family.

Han Duan glanced at Chen Zhiyong, he hesitated for a while, but he still felt that it was better to sit aside and be silent first.

Of course, he knew that his father's suggestion still had some loopholes, and the best way to say it was to secretly claim that Han Jun had injured his lower body when he was practicing martial arts or doing other things since he was a child, leaving a hidden illness that he could not do, and quietly spread this matter to His Majesty's ears, so that he was not afraid that Lu Qingxia and Li Zhihe would be able to threaten him with this matter in the future.

At this time, there was a commotion outside the courtyard, and it sounded as if hundreds of soldiers had drawn from the nearby military camp and rushed in the direction of the north.

Han Daoming stood up suspiciously, they didn't know what happened in Tangyi at this time, but the sudden mobilization of the army was definitely not a trivial matter.

The courtyard where they were located, as part of the back house of the county government, had a separate courtyard leading to the outside street.

Han Qian led the people away, and the courtyard was left with the servants of the Han family who crossed the river with them.

Han Daoming and the others pushed the door out of the courtyard, stood on the alleyway and looked north, and could see that there were countless torches lit at the head of the North City Gate outside Lixu, illuminating the black pressure on the inside of the city gate, all of which were stubborn soldiers.

There were more than a dozen cavalry running back and forth, as if counting the number of people, and soon saw the north gate slowly open.

They didn't know what was going on, so they rushed to the North City Gate with a dozen people, and were intercepted as they approached the North City Gate school grounds.

Feng Yi saw their figures and sent someone to notify the outlying sentry to let them pass.

Han Daoming saw that Han Chengmeng, the eldest son of the concubine, was actually in Tangyi, and he was still standing with Feng Yi, and asked in surprise: "Chengmeng, why are you in Tangyi?" ”

"Chengmeng has seen his father and second uncle," Han Chengmeng greeted his father Han Daoming and uncle Han Daochang, and said, "The child just escorted a batch of grain and grass to Qingpukou in the afternoon. The child had only entered the city for a while, and Han Qian had just summoned the child to come over to inquire about the grain, and the child was still thinking that he would go to see his father after Han Qian led the troops out of the city......"

At present, Jianghuai has requisitioned grain and straw, and the Hunan prefectures are probably the regions with the highest degree of cooperation except for the Gyeonggi region.

In order to make up enough money, food and other materials for the Tangyi camp, the imperial court also thought of requisitioning from Hunan Prefectures for the first time.

Hearing Han Chengmeng's answer, Han Daoming nodded, thinking that Huang Hua and others still played a role in serving as ambassadors in Hunan, he saw that Han Qian was wearing armor and surrounded by generals, and had already entered the gate of the North City, with hundreds of generals who were preparing to leave the city in the middle, and it was inconvenient for them to walk over directly, so he asked Feng Yu: "What happened, Han Qian needs to lead his troops out of the city at this time?" ”

"At nightfall, the scouts rushed back to report that more than 3,000 enemy horsemen had crossed the turtle and headed south, and that the number of enemy horsemen assembled on the outskirts of Chuzhou before tomorrow would increase to more than 7,000. In addition, the Shouzhou army, which had arrived in Chaozhou City before, also had more than 8,000 foot soldiers marching east along the southern foot of Fucha Mountain in the afternoon - Hou Ye and Zhou Yi and other generals judged that this part of the enemy's troops and horses was very likely to be inserted between Tingzi Mountain and Wujian Mountain to prevent the Youshenwu Army, the remnants of the Navy Division and the Chuzhou defenders from breaking through to the south. Hou Ye decided to personally lead his troops and horses to reinforce Tingzi Mountain, and contain the enemy's eastward and southward troops, so as to prevent the Chuzhou defenders from daring to break through and possibly surrender to the enemy directly...... "Han Daoming, as the Minister of Participation, was ordered to come to the labor army, Feng Yi naturally had nothing to hide, and told all the plans to mobilize troops and horses overnight.

The scope of Tingzi Mountain is not large, but it is located on the northwest side of the Great Thorn Mountain, close to the north bank of the Chujiang River, the geographical location is extremely important, it is only 30 to 40 miles away from the southeast edge of Chuzhou City and Wujian Mountain Range to the north, it is the springboard for the Chuzhou defenders and the remnants of the right Shenwu Army and the water division to retreat south to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

On the other hand, in addition to being the key point to control the north bank of the Chuhe River, Tingzi Mountain is also the transit place for the defense line of Tangyi and Dazhushan to extend northward to Chuzhou and advance into the Wujian Mountains.

In terms of the current situation, whether to defend Chuzhou City, or whether to include the southern section of the Wujian Mountains into the Tangyi defense line, Han Qian has no way to make a final decision.

This has nothing to do with whether Han Qian dares to fight a tough battle, but mainly to see the progress of the preparation of soldiers and horses and the changes in the situation of the Great Chu court.

If the opinions of the court could be relatively unified, and Han Qian had 20,000 well-equipped elite soldiers available at this time, he would dare to rely on the Yangtze River, put the northern flank of the defense line in Chuzhou City, and directly build the triangle area, which is almost about 100 miles deep, including Chuzhou City, Tangyi, and Da Thorn Mountain, into a defense area to contain the enemy's southern peeping into the Yangtze River.

However, there are still too many variables to predict.

In addition to the Xuzhou Water Battalion, there were more than 3,000 Jiangzhou soldiers, more than 4,000 soldiers and horses newly formed by the Chishan Army, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from Guangde Mansion in the early stage.

Even if Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou fully cooperated with him, the disadvantages of the chaotic command system, the incomplete armor, and the unfamiliarity with the newly incorporated ones could not be completely overcome in seven or eight days.

Han Qian didn't even know if there would be any unexpected changes in the court.

Therefore, Han Qian's current plan is much more conservative, striving to gain a firm foothold at the northern foot of Tingzi Mountain first, and ensure that the enemy army will not be able to block the passage from the Wujian Mountain Range and Chuzhou City south to Tingzi Mountain in a short period of time.

Even so, Han Daoming felt that this move was extremely risky, and asked in surprise:

"The enemy army will be able to gather fifteen or six thousand soldiers and horses on the outskirts of Chuzhou tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, even if Han Qian has arranged a small number of soldiers and horses to respond to it in Tingzi Mountain, and the final number of soldiers and horses that can be used is only five or six thousand, how can we ensure that the enemy's troops will not be directly inserted into this open area between Chuzhou City and Tingzi Mountain?"

"The main force of the Liang army has not gone south, and the Shouzhou army may not dare to fight a tough battle until it has been fully rested," Feng Yi said, "and in addition to Hou Ye and Zhou Yi leading the Jiangzhou soldiers and the old division of the Zuoguang German army to the west, Tingzi Mountain has been stationed with 500 sentinel soldiers and horses, and at this time, the remnants of the Navy Division and the Right Shenwu Army have also withdrawn into the southern section of the Wujian Mountain Range, and they can go out of the Wujian Mountain to fight south at any time, and there are more than 1,000 defenders in Chuzhou City, which may not be unable to fight." Besides, if we want to gain a firm foothold in Tangyi, we need to be able to have a win to boost morale......"

"As Han Qian, as the chief general, it seems that there is no need to personally lead the troops," Han Daochang asked hesitantly, "If there is a mistake, wouldn't it be a big deal?" ”

"We persuaded Hou Ye, and Hou Ye said that if he spared his life, how could he tell his generals to use their lives?" Feng Yu said, "By the way, when will you cross the river and go back to Jinling, Master Hou just specially ordered me to give you a ride......

Han Daoming glanced at Han Jun, he still couldn't bear it in his heart, motioned for Feng Yi to speak aside, and asked, "Han Qian really decided to return to Xuzhou after the war?" ”

Feng Yi glanced at Han Daoming, Han Daochang and the others, and said, "I also persuaded Hou Ye to think of the Han family just now, but Hou Ye said that he had not received the slightest benefit and favor from the Han family before. Even if he wants to think about blood and family affection, at most someone from his Japanese and Han family defected to Xuzhou, he will not turn it away, but he will not bear so much to do with the success or failure of the Han family - this should be borne and sacrificed by the children of the Han family who enjoy the benefits and graces. ”

Hearing Feng Yi say this, Han Daochang, Han Duan, and Chen Zhiyong all set their eyes on Han Jun; Han Chengmeng had just arrived in Tangyi, and he didn't know what was going on.

"It's not enough for the Han family to help him gain a foothold in Tangyi?" Han Jun asked anxiously.

Seeing that Han Jun's voice was a little loud in a hurry, Feng Yu signaled the left and right guards to block the entrance of the alley, don't ask the idle people to come close and hear the content of their secret conversation, and said: "Conspiring with Lu Qingxia and others, they will try their best to strengthen the power of Li Zhihe's family from beginning to end, and restrict Hou Ye from holding more military power." Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, will bear most of the responsibility for the defeat this time, but it is foreseeable that in order to save his life and protect the glory and wealth of the Li family's children, Li Pu will re-submit to Lu Qingxia's skirt and have never been completely reduced to a chess piece played by Lu Qingxia, which also means that Zhou Yuan, Zhou Shu, Chai Jian, Xu Jing, Li Xiu, Li Qi and a large number of generals of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion will return to the late Red Mansion. It is not difficult to foresee that the more than 60,000 Huaixi forbidden troops who withdrew to the southeast foot of Qianshan Mountain will soon become the combat power of the descendants under the complete control of Lu Qingxia and the decisive decision, in addition, the combat power of the Zuo Shenwu Army led by Chai Jian in Wuzhiling, Shaozhou is not weak......

Hearing Feng Yi say this, Han Daoming and Han Daochang were able to save the authority that the Red Mansion was about to control, or the hard power that was really in their hands, it was so terrifying.

Feng Yu continued: "...... In comparison, even if the Hou Ye has the full help of the Han family, he can only organize 20,000 soldiers and horses in Tangyi, and he has to block the enemy's troops from the front, and the slightest carelessness will be a catastrophe. If the Hou Ye stays in Jianghuai, if he doesn't want to be subject to Lu Qingxia, in addition to regaining His Majesty's trust, is there any other way to find it? And with Han Jun's matter in front of him, how could the Hou Ye and the Han family regain His Majesty's trust? In addition, Han Xiangye, why didn't you think about it, why did Lu Qingxia dare to invite Xuzhou Shuiying East this time and not worry about Xuzhou Shuiying's eastward expansion? ”

"If Jun'er falls on a horse when he is a child and can't do anything, can Lu Qingxia still threaten him with this matter?" Han Daoming gritted his teeth and asked with determination.

"Hou Ye and Lu Qingxia have no problem with the snake for a while, but this is not a long-term solution after all, and it is still necessary to quietly ask Your Majesty to believe in this matter, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers in the future." Feng Yi didn't look at Han Jun either, and said lightly.

"Naturally, this matter must find a way to reach His Majesty's ears quietly, and there is no fear of verification when the incident occurs, so that there is no hidden danger." Han Daoming gritted his teeth and said.

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Han Qian stayed in Tiancheng, Gao Shao, Feng Yi and others to sit in Tangyi, and he, Chen Jingzhou, and Zhou Yiqin led the first batch of 5,000 elite reinforcements to Tingzi Mountain.

If it were possible, Han Qian would prefer to set up his lord's camp tent in Tingzi Mountain.

In this way, it is better possible to take into account the battle on the east and west flanks, and after the enemy army controls Chaozhou, the front of the army will continue to extend forward, from the south of Chaozhou to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

In any case, as long as the enemy army is given the opportunity to gain a foothold close to the north bank of the Yangtze River, the warships of the Lou Ship Army can threaten the shipping safety of the Yangtze River waterway to a certain extent.

Even if the warships of the Lou Boat Army are not enough to compete head-on with the large warships of the Xuzhou Water Camp on the Yangtze River, they will also give them a headache from time to time to attack and engage in guerrilla attacks from the waterways of the rivers and rivers on the north bank of the river they control.

However, it was by no means easy for them to completely block the mouth of the river where the warships of the Lou Boat Army entered the waterway of the Yangtze River.

In order to achieve that effect, in addition to Li Zhihe's dispatch of troops from Shuzhou, Han Qian and the others also had to use the Great Thorn Mountain as a base to ensure that the Yangtze River shoreline west of the Great Thorn Mountain, that is, nearly 100 miles southeast of Chaozhou, was within the effective military strike range of the Tangyi marching army, so that the enemy could not establish a defensive base on the edge of such a long shoreline, and also made it impossible for the remnants of the Louzhou Army to be transferred to Chaohu Lake in the future, and could not turn into the Yangtze River through small and medium-sized streams to carry out surprise operations.

It's actually quite a difficult task.

It is not enough to simply rely on the Yangtze River and establish a defense line along the river; At the same time, the fortifications are distributed close to the north bank of the Yangtze River, which will also make the defense line look too thin.

Even if they are backed by the Yangtze River, these fortresses are not afraid of being cut by the enemy, but how to arrange large-scale tuning on the north bank in the later stage?

The defense line does not have enough depth and buffer, and the enemy can kill it with a surprise attack, how to ensure that the men and horses can go out of the walled city to cultivate with peace of mind?

Han Qian, Zhou Yi, and Chen Jingzhou personally led their troops to Tingzi Mountain this time, mainly to see if there was any possibility of holding Chuzhou City.

If it was possible, Han Qian definitely didn't want to give up Chuzhou City.

Chuzhou City, forty miles away from the north of Tingzi Mountain, backed by the southern section of the Wujian Mountain Range, is more north than Chaozhou City in terms of topography - the Yangtze River waterway from Jiangzhou to the east, is the southwest to the northeast oblique flow direction, which makes the east of Chuzhou City is much closer to the Yangtze River shoreline, but in the direction, it is farther north than Chaozhou City. Therefore, after they occupy Chuzhou City, they will not be too far away from the support of the Great Thorn Mountain, but they can peek behind the side of Chaozhou, threatening the enemy's communication between Chaozhou and Shouzhou.

At this time, relying on the protection of Chuzhou City, the Tangyi marching army could stride out of the Great Thorn Mountain along the north bank of the Yangtze River and extend to the Qingcang Mountain in Liyang County in the west, which could actually seal the enemy's passage from the area east of Chaohu Lake to the south of the Yangtze River.

But the biggest problem is that the main force of the Shouzhou Army in Chaozhou City at this time, even if it is pinned down by Li Zhihe in the southwest, there are still as many as forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses on its northern line from Zhongli or through Mopan Valley through Yongyang, and how many soldiers and horses can Han Qian have in his hands to defend Chuzhou City at this time?

This is still the situation in which the main force of the Liang army does not adjust its strategic deployment, and the dilemma they are facing.

In addition to guarding Chuzhou City, Han Qian had a more feasible alternative.

That is to abandon Chuzhou City and copy the strategy of taking mountains as a city implemented in Maoshan to the Wujian Mountains.

In that case, as long as the Tangyi marching army has an elite force of 3,000 to 5,000 people, operating in the Wujian Mountains and not being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, it can greatly contain the enemy's activities in Chaozhou and the northern part of Chuzhou, greatly weaken their control over this area, and can also achieve the same goal they envisioned.

The problem is that at this time, among the remnants of the Fengling in the southern section of the Wujian Mountains, it is difficult for Li Xiu and Li Mo's troops to imagine that they will obey his mobilization, and they are mainly cavalry, as long as they find a gap, they can withdraw to the north bank of the Yangtze River along the river at any time, and even cross Chaozhou and go to Shuzhou to meet Li Zhihe, which is not particularly difficult.

Cavalry is still the strongest mobile combat force in the world.

The other remnants were mainly the remnants of the naval division of the Left Wuya Army, the morale of the generals was extremely poor, they were eager to retreat south, and they were not good at guerrilla warfare in the mountains, Han Qian wanted to withdraw them and integrate them into the naval army, and another elite was transferred into Wujian Mountain, and the strength of the troops kept in Wujian Mountain was not less than 3,000 people.

In addition, it was the defenders who were guarding Chuzhou City with Chuzhou Assassin Shi Wei Zhen at this time, which was a headache for Han Qian.

After recovering Chuzhou City, the local households had already fled, and after Wei Zhen took office, he did not directly recruit the displaced people to resume farming, but gathered a large number of Gyeonggi clan lords to send their children to cross the river to occupy the fields, and wantonly sold or plundered the displaced people who gathered to each family as slaves and maids.

Since Chuzhou City is farther north than Chaozhou, except for Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng leading the main force of the Right Shenwu Army stationed here, peeping into the gap between Chaozhou and Shouzhou, and sheltering the land supply line from Tangyi to Chaozhou Daying, the newly formed state soldiers to maintain local law and order are mainly requisitioned from the children or family soldiers of the sect lords who cross the river, and the children of the sect lords are also willing to participate in their affairs to cover their occupation of land and plundering slaves and maids.

The Right Shenwu Army was annihilated by Chen Mingsheng and they took to Zhongli, and the defenders trapped in Chuzhou City at this time were, to put it bluntly, the descendants of the Gyeonggi Sect Lords, and it was hard for Han Qian to imagine that they would obey him under the command of Wei Zhen.

Han Qian had the heart to care about the life or death of the Chuzhou defenders, but there were still almost 20,000 people in Chuzhou City at this time, mainly the slaves and maids that Wei Zhen and the children of the Jinggi Sect lords had plundered and sold from the homeless people, but Han Qian was not willing to let these people fall into the hands of the Shouzhou army or be slaughtered.

Coming out of the north gate of Tangyi City, going west for several miles, and then continuing along the north bank of the Chuhe River to the west, there are official roads that extend to the territory of Liyang County.

At this time, the sky is full of stars and moons, which is conducive to the westward movement of foot soldiers at night.

Before dawn tomorrow, there is no possibility of engaging with the enemy's forward, Han Qian and the others were quite calm at this time, riding horses to discuss the possible changes in the battle situation before and after entering Tingzi Mountain.

Discussing the matter of replacing the remnants of the Sailor Division from Wujian Mountain, Han Qian couldn't help but sigh:

"Where in this world are there so many clever calculations, just like when I kept Wang Lin at the beginning, I didn't reveal his identity, mainly because I was thinking about using counter-tricks, thinking that I could confuse Chuzhou through Wang Lin's fake news, but in fact, too many things before and after the Jinling Incident are unpredictable - the same is true for not revealing Wen Ruilin's identity, thinking that when I confront Liang Jun in the future, I can use this secret chess move, but I don't want to be self-defeating. Gao Chengyuan refused to enter Tangyi to treat his injuries, and would rather die on the river, probably because he was very resentful of me when he was dying. “

Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou also felt sorry for Gao Chengyuan's death, but they knew in their hearts that the whole thing was like this, mainly because of Emperor Yanyou's unreasonable suspicion and precautions against Han Qian.

It is true that Han Qian is good at using dangerous tactics and taking the wrong side of the sword, but the problem is that several times when the situation is the most critical, Han Qian has to use dangerous tactics and has to take the sword to turn the crisis around.

How can this be grounds for suspicion?

Not only Zhou Di, but Chen Jingzhou also chose to support Han Qian for the first time after receiving Zhou Di's secret letter.

In fact, they were born as cottage generals, and they clearly knew the attitude of the clan lords towards them, and Emperor Yanyou did not trust them and was unwilling to use them to lead the army.

Zhou Yi is in the prime of life, but Chen Jingzhou is more than fifty years old, and in his early years, he was injured on the battlefield and left a dark disease, and his health is not as good as a year, he is worried that he will one day die of illness, and Zhou Yi is lonely, and the situation of Guangde Mansion may be repeated in Junzhou, and the children of the cottage who stay in Junzhou will be bloodily purged by the family lords.

Chen Jingzhou was about to say a few words of relief, when more than a dozen horsemen chased after him from the side and rear, they held the rope, and when the people approached, they found that it was Han Daoming, Han Daochang and others who came out of Tangyi City and chased after them on horseback......