A string of flames burned in his chest, and it also burned the frustration of Xinchang Hou Li Pu to the ground, but he also knew that he could not replace his eldest brother's position in the minds of Li Xiu and other Li family athletes at this time, and even his youngest son had been taught by his eldest brother since he was a child, and he would not listen to him at this time to disobey his eldest brother's will.

However, he has time, and the eldest brother's body should not last long.

Time is really a good thing sometimes, who would have thought that Emperor Tianyou would die at the hands of women and children, and there would be no room for struggle?

Thinking of this, Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, cheered up and said to Li Xiu: "I can understand your father's thoughts, but Han Qian has completely angered the Chuzhou army, and it is incompatible with Anning Palace, Maoshan is probably not so easy to guard!" ”

"Father said the same thing, but he just wanted us to do our best." Li Xiu said, dismantling the bright silver spear in two and putting it into the leather bag on the horse's back.

"We may persuade Han Qian to lead his troops to retreat east?" Li Pu said thoughtfully.

The eldest brother is hiding left and right, he doesn't expect Li Xiu to lead the palace guards to listen to him and act, so he has to retreat to the second best in everything.

He believed that as long as Li Xiu met with Han Qian, he was willing to put pressure on Han Qian with him, and believed that Han Qian might not be brainless to guard Maoshan Mountain.

He didn't see the slightest possibility of success in defending Maoshan Mountain, and retreating to Xuanzhou in the south, or retreating to the shore of Taihu Lake, would be as useful to the Chuzhou army as well as the Anning Palace, but their situation would be safer.

Li Xiu said: "I also asked my father, and my father said that whether it was before or after the attack on Danyang, it was ......unrealistic for 40,000 or 50,000 old and weak women and children to evacuate to Xuanzhou or to the shore of Taihu Lake."

"Why did the old prince say that?" Chen Mingsheng couldn't help but ask.

"The main reason is that Han Qian's troops are too small, but the 40,000 or 50,000 old and weak women and children need a lot of grain every day," Li Xiu explained, "The troops are too small, even if there is no threat from the enemy, Han Qian and his troops can only concentrate grain in a narrow area, and the amount of grain needed is very large, which means that the excess grain collected from the narrow area will inevitably cause a strong local backlash and resistance, and finally it will soon intensify the contradiction with the local forces and fight." ”

Li Pu can still figure out this reason.

There are too few troops, and there are too many old and weak women and children who need shelter, which means that they can only control a very limited area for live talk.

Assuming that they can control the territory of a county, not counting other materials, they have to requisition 30,000 or 40,000 stone of grain from this county every month, and they need 200,000 stone of grain and grain for half a year and more than 400,000 stone of grain and grain a year.

There are too many old and weak women and children, and there is too much food to need, which is too burdensome.

Yanling Port, as a land and water wharf and a thoroughfare, is still a place with a lot of grain storage, and there are many grain stores and warehouses that store more grain, but they have been stationed in Yanling for two months or they have collected all the grain stored in Yanling.

If the old and weak women and children are abandoned, and only 3,000 remnants of soldiers are retained to feed on the shores of Taihu Lake, how can it be a problem?

The 3,000 soldiers and horses and 14,500 war horses were captured, and their mobility was enhanced, and they could completely fight if they could fight, and retreat if they could not, but the speed of action with 40,000 or 50,000 old and weak women and children was slow.

The evacuation from Yanling to Maoshan was only 20 miles away, and nearly 50,000 women and children spent a whole day intermittently.

"That's what I said, but so many old and weak women are left in Maoshan, and they will have to collect grain from the surrounding villages in the future, isn't it the same to intensify the conflict with the locality?" Chen Mingsheng asked.

Even if Han Qian had made arrangements in advance, the food in their hands was barely enough to consume for a month.

"I also asked my father the same, and my father said that Han Qian might be able to struggle for a glimmer of life! In addition, it is more convenient to defend the mountain than to defend the city, and the area where a small number of soldiers and horses can move will be wider......" Li Xiu said.

"Since your father has made up his mind that this is the case, and I still have more than 100 elites available under my command, I will cooperate with you in a team and see how Han Qian can toss a glimmer of life out!" Lipp said.

"That's very good." Li Xiu said.

Although he would not go against his father's will, he couldn't see the second uncle being bullied by Han Qian like this, it was the best choice for them to join forces together, anyway, more than 300 of them brought out more than 400 war horses this time, and they could give a part of it to the second uncle; If the situation is really irreversible, they will have to escort the second uncle and them out of the encirclement together.

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Han Qian and Yuan Guowei rushed to the west foot of Xiaomao Peak with more than a dozen guards to meet Li Xiu and Li Mo.

Li Yu, as the first general of the founding of the Great Chu, although Zhishi has been in Hongzhou for many years, his influence in the court has always been there, and as the brother of Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, it is impossible for Han Qian not to pay attention to the movements of Li Yu and other figures in the palace of Zhedong County.

Li Yusheng had five sons, two sons died before they were minors, one son died on the battlefield, and the eldest son Li Changfeng was named the Marquis of Jin, and served as a senior general of the commander, and he followed Li Yuzhi when he was in his prime.

Li Changfeng was not yet fifty years old at this time, and it seems that he should not have left the mountain, but was left by Li Yu in Hongzhou to preside over the family business.

When Li met Zhishi, his youngest son Li Xiu was only sixteen years old, in the army was known for his martial bravery, rarely encountered opponents, talked about the military array had been praised by Emperor Tianyou, but when he was very young, he was forced to live in seclusion with Li Yu in the mountains, and there was no outstanding record handed down.

Li Qi is Li Pu's youngest son and Li Chong's younger brother.

When Li Yu chose to return to his hometown and live in seclusion, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, was not willing to return to the plain, and stayed in Beijing with the squire of the military department, secretly plotted for the Shenling Division, and also put the eldest son-in-law Chai Jian, the eldest son Li Chong and others to the state and county for training, but sent the youngest son Li Qi back to Hongzhou for foster care.

Li Zhen has been in Hongzhou all these years, and he has never even returned to Jinling to reunite with his father and brother Li Pu, Li Chong and others.

Of course, Han Qian knew that Li Pu's arrangement was to prevent the conspiracy they had secretly planned from being exposed and being wiped out by Emperor Tianyou, and when his vein could still leave a single bloodline in Hongzhou, so that it would not be wiped out.

According to the intelligence from the investigation, under the guidance of Li Yu, in addition to being familiar with military books and being good at arranging troops, he was also a rare cavalry general from the Li family.

Although Li Yu was born in poverty, as the first general of Great Chu, he fought with Emperor Tianyou in the north and south for half his life, and also accumulated a very deep foundation for the Li family, which can be called the first general of Jianghuai.

Han Qian saw that Li Qian was thin and weak, and he was still a little shy when he stood in front of and behind others, and it was hard to imagine that Li Changfeng and other once famous brave generals in Chuzhou were not his opponents in foot and horse battles.

Seeing that Han Qian was wearing the white robe of filial piety for his father Han Daoxun in addition to the battle armor, and dared to bring only such a few people to the western foot of Xiaomao Peak to meet him, Li Xiu also secretly admired his courage, thinking that he probably guessed that his father was nearby, so he immediately told them of their intentions, and said: "After we meet with the second uncle, we will be temporarily stationed on the small slope post in the west. ”

Han Qian looked at the slope to the west, there was a village of twenty or thirty families, the surrounding terrain was open, and more than 400 elite cavalry camped there, keeping a distance from the main camp at the northern foothills, and it was convenient to advance and retreat in case of trouble.

For Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, to go out with Chen Mingsheng and lead the guards, join Li Xiu, and station nearby, Han Qian had no opinion, and agreed that after Li Xiu and them were stationed, he would supply grain and horse feed with 400 people and 400 horses.

Seeing that Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, took more than 100 guards and joined Li Xiu and the county prince's palace guards to gallop to the slope in the west, Yuan Guowei said worriedly: "Li Xiu may not have the mind of the old prince!" ”

Yuan Guowei's overall strategy is not as good as that of senior generals, but in this life, he still has the ability to see people.

"......" Han Qian smiled slightly, but it was slightly bitter.

Once upon a time, he was particularly incomprehensible to his father's political ambitions, and for a long time he was even deeply worried that his father's overly radical and hasty political ambitions would be involved, and even in the early stage of the Jinling Incident, the choices he made could be said to be contrary to his father to a certain extent.

Li Xiu was at the age of establishing fame and impulsiveness, but he was forced to follow his father Li Yu to retreat to the mountains, and there was no resentment in his heart?

Han Qian thought that there was no essential difference between him and Li Xiu once upon a time, so he knew too well the disdain in Li Xiu's eyes and the eagerness and ambition to show his ambitions.

Under Li Pu's instigation and instigation, Li Xiu and Li Mo, the outstanding sons of the younger generation of the Li family, may become troubles for him to overcome in the future, but at present, there is such an elite cavalry that can fight together, and it can more or less share part of the pressure.

Han Qian is currently most concerned about the movement of the Chuzhou army, and when it comes to this, there is probably no clearer than the eldest lady of the Wang family.

Thinking of this, after Han Qian had arranged some things, he walked towards the courtyard where Wang Jun was imprisoned.

The two maids beside Wang Jun saw Han Qian coming over, their eyes were full of vigilance, but they couldn't stop Han Qian from entering the hall directly.

Han Qian pushed open the door and saw Wang Jun sitting in front of the window, the weather was sunny, and he could see the situation at the western foot of Xiaomao Peak through the window.

"Prince Li also came to Maoshan?" Wang Jun saw Han Qian push the door in and asked curiously.

The range of Maoshan Mountain is a little less than that of Baohua Mountain, the northern foot is only seventy or eighty miles wide from east to west, Wang Jun is sitting in front of the window, and the west foot of Xiaomao Peak is two thousand steps away, Han Qian thought to herself that she should be able to see the cavalry and guards of the county palace approaching and the situation of Xinchang Marquis Li Pu meeting with him.

With Wang Jun's intelligence, it is not difficult to guess this.

Han Qian saw a stoneware teapot and a wheat cake placed on several cases, touched the teapot, the water was still warm, so he sat on the bamboo couch, took a missing stoneware bowl and poured water, and directly took the wheat cake, tearing it with his hands and eating it.

Seeing Wang Jun staring at his hand, Han Qian thought that this might be her morning food, and tore half a wheat cake for her.

Wang Jun took half of the wheat cake, tidied up the skirt shirt, and sat on the bamboo couch on the other side of the case in a regular manner, tearing the wheat cake with slender hands and eating it in smaller bites.

"If I beat Danyang and burn it down without guarding it, how will your father react?" Han Qian asked.

"If the Chuzhou army wants to react, it will fall into your way, and my father will most likely persuade His Highness to send troops to the remnants of Danyang, and then contact the local government to defend itself, and sit idly by on the Maoshan side, but I don't know if His Highness will listen to my father." Wang Jun looked down at the embroidered shoes and said in a low voice.

Han Qian ate the wheat cakes, twisted up the crumbs that fell on the placket and ate them, not daring to waste a little bit of food, at this time Shi Ji ran over and said that Zhang Ping, Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Feng Yi, Zhang Ping and others rushed to Maoshan, Han Qian clapped his hands and walked out of the yard to see Zhang Ping and Lin Haizheng......