“…… The sailors were defeated by Hong Zepu, the Great Chu generals died eight or nine times, and the ministers were worried about hearing in Xuzhou, and they couldn't sleep all night, worried that His Majesty and the princes of the court did not notice the plan of Emperor Liang, and hated to fly to His Majesty's side to solve problems for His Majesty. Although the minister was not yet mourned, but the country was in trouble, and there was no one who did not worry about the country and worried about his family, so he was summoned by the queen mother, and did not think about anything else, so the minister gathered soldiers and horses and warships, and did not dare to delay the moment, and traveled under the stars and nights, and on December 12, he led eight sailing ships carrying 3,251 loyal and brave men from Xuzhou to Tangyi. I hope that my meager body can be the screen of the imperial capital, and I wish my sincere heart to share your Majesty's worries......"

“…… Tangyi, the northern gateway of the imperial capital also, Tangyi exists, the imperial capital is at ease, its city was destroyed in the war at the end of the previous dynasty, the first emperor Dingding Jinling, then sent the city to build the screen of the domain. However, Tangyi is difficult to survive. The big thorn mountain is the remaining vein of Huaiyang Mountain, the river water and the pillow Chuhe River, the more Chuhe River is Nanqiao, Chuzhou, Langya and other places, the west goes to Liyang and the emperor across the river to face each other, the west is high and the east is low, the peaks of Xihua and Tianjing are all in the hundred and thirty zhang high, the mountain is majestic, the natural and Tangyi are the horns of each other, and it is the dry city of the north bank of the emperor's capital. Chuhe River, the ancient name of Tushui, the source of Fucha Mountain, from west to east, in the west of Tangyi City into the river, is the north of the Great Thorn Mountain, another fan screen is also ......"

"Xu Mingzhen, a thief, rebelled against the Liang State, with hundreds of thousands, even if the Liang army does not come, Jianghuai is also in danger, there is no way to defend the heart of Huaixi, but it can not lose the foothold on the north bank, with the thin view of the micro-ministers, in addition to Tangyi Ducheng, when the big thorn mountain, Chuhe River inside and outside the fortress is built, filled with the elite, the west and Shuzhou, the east and Yangzhou to watch each other, in order to make the enemy difficult to drink the eye of the Yangtze River, dare not peep into the top of His Majesty's imperial ......"

"The minister is weak and incompetent, but loyal to His Majesty, and is willing to summon the fierce courage of Jianghuai to fight for His Majesty to guard Tangyi, Da Thorn Mountain, and Chuhe, in order to one day shroud the body of Da Chu Ma Ge to inherit the will of his father, I hope Your Majesty will allow it, and the minister Han Qian will kowtow to ......"

Xuzhou Shuiying arrived at Tangyi on the north bank before noon, and in the afternoon, Feng Yi and Guo Rong crossed the river into Jinling City and presented Han Qian with "Please Defend the North Shu".

In the Chongwen Palace, Yang Yuanpu, who had a pale face, was behind the imperial case, listening to Feng Yu standing in the center of the hall and reading out loud, the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching slightly.

Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zhou Bingwu, Du Chongtao, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Han Daoming, Li Changfeng, Chen De, Zhang Chao, Guo Liang, Zhang Han and other generals sat on the left and right, or expressionless, or solemn, or shocked, and listened to Feng Yu's "Concert Please Shoubei Shu" by Han Qian, and was silent for a long time.

Han Qian's recital sprinkled with a lot of words, and the actual meaning was summarized in a few words.

It is nothing more than "I came to listen to the order of the Queen Mother, and when I came to see that only Tangyi was a city, it would be very passive, so I suggested that Tangyi should be used as one end to build more fortresses along the Great Thorn Mountain and Chuhe River, and recruit Jianghuai brave men to form a defense line that is more than 100 miles long, so that Jinling can be safe and worry-free." I am incompetent and unwilling, and my greatest advantage is that I am loyal to the emperor, so please allow the emperor to agree that I will be fully responsible for this matter and kowtow. ”

Although the remnants of the Right Shenwu Army and the Navy Division only managed to break through the siege for three or four days, and they were mainly still stranded in the hills and mountains of the northern section of the Wujian Mountain Range, and had not yet been able to break through the blockade line of the enemy cavalry, there were still a few generals who fought their way out of the encirclement from other directions and escaped.

Xu Jing, the director of the Ministry of Staff, gathered dozens of routs, ventured through the reeds that were burned by the ambush soldiers, successfully broke out of the siege, and fled all the way south in a hurry, and fled back to Jinling late the night before yesterday.

Xu Jing is currently the highest-ranking official who fled back to Jinling, of course, in addition to Xu Jing, there are also one after another

Seventy or eighty people fled directly across the river and returned to Jinling.

At the same time, there were also three or four hundred defeated soldiers, and when they passed through Tangyi, they were directly absorbed by Han Qian and Zhou Yan.

However, this is the only one of the few generals who have broken out of the siege from Zhongli except for the small 4,000 remnants in Wujian Mountain.

This also means that Zhongli broke through the siege and was annihilated by more than 12,000 generals before and after.

Even if the remnants of the northern section of the Wujian Mountain Range can successfully break through, the Right Shenwu Army and the Great Chu Water Division can be said to be completely annihilated.

The left and right Wuya Army and the Right Shenwu Army, more than 42,000 generals and sailors before the war, only about 4,000 people escaped alive in the end, and nine out of ten were killed, how much difference is there from the annihilation of the whole army?

This is a rare defeat and fiasco since Liang and Chu competed for power.

Even in the Jingxiang War, where the situation was once extremely critical, it was beaten by the Liang army in the early stage and had no power to fight back, and the loss of real elite combat power was far less heavy than this time.

The most elite heavy cavalry of the Liang army was ambushed in the south of Zhongli at this time, which became a key part of the defeat of the breakout soldiers and horses, as well as Wen Ruilin's appearance in Zhongli, Gao Long's assassination of Chen Mingsheng before the breakthrough, etc., are enough to show that Li Pu's previous plan to attack Hongzepu was a trick and trap of the enemy army from the beginning to the end.

Although Jinling City has not yet received a large number of Liang troops crossing the Huai to the south at this time, this is also something that should be foreseen at this time.

In fact, because Li Zhihe and Han Qian were worried that Yang Yuanpu and the Empress Dowager Wang Chan'er would break out into a violent conflict too early that might seriously shake the morale of the army, not only did they no longer transmit military information to Jinling, but even deliberately blocked the news.

Because before Xu Jing fled back to Jinling, the imperial court only knew that a large number of Shouzhou cavalry were advancing eastward, but the specific scale and the situation of the siege of the Right Shenwu Army did not know the details, and Li Zhihe did not have any further details from the news.

It wasn't until the Privy Council directly sent scouts to cross the river and rush to Chaozhou City yesterday that it was discovered that Li Zhihe was almost at the same time that Xu Mingzhen led the Shouzhou cavalry to intercept the Right Shenwu Army, and he and Li Pu persuaded the generals to act in accordance with the Empress Dowager's secret edict, and had already given up the plan to attack Chaozhou City, and was arranging for the soldiers and horses to retreat to the southeast of Qianshan Mountain.

And the same yesterday, Hunan Xuanwei made Huanghua from Yueyang to send the news that Xuzhou Shuiying entered the Yangtze River under the edict of the Empress Dowager, until today it was confirmed that Xuzhou Shuiying entered Tangyi, and Feng Yu came to Jinling on behalf of Han Qian.

In the past three days, one news after another, like a boulder dropped from a thousand feet in the sky, shook everyone's hearts.

If it was before the Right Shenwu Army was annihilated, Yang Yuanpu would of course rush to Changchun Palace in a rage and ask why the Queen Mother was carrying a secret edict behind his back, and why she interfered in national affairs without saying hello.

He may also angrily convene the ministers to decide to abolish the Empress Dowager's system of interfering in politics, and Chen Ruyi and An Jixiang will directly strengthen the monitoring of Changchun Palace and take back the authority of the Weaving Bureau.

He may also cross the river to the Chaozhou camp in person and deprive the ungrateful Li Zhihe of the command of the Huaixi Forbidden Army in public.

It's just that what else can he say and what can he do at this time?

He wanted to say, will the princes and ministers still listen to him?

If he wants to do it, won't the princes and ministers jump out to stop it?

Yang En, Li Pu, and Li Zhihe all acted under the secret edict of the Empress Dowager, how many of the ministers in this palace could he really trust?

Will he convene the ministers to decide to abolish the queen mother's system of interfering in politics, and it will evolve into a group of ministers at any time

The situation of inviting the Queen Mother to the court?

Yang Yuanpu was like a wolf who was bitten by his companions, and locked himself up in the Chongwen Hall for two days in despair, smashed everything that could be smashed, killed three palace maids who didn't open their eyes with his own cane, and beat Chen Ruyi and An Jixiang, two useless eunuchs who didn't even get the slightest wind beforehand, and their noses were blue and their eyes were swollen.

Zhang Ping came over and told him that if he didn't see the ministers again, the ministers could only invite the Queen Mother from Changchun Palace to the Chongwen Hall to listen to the music, and he had to re-summon the ministers of political affairs, Feng Yi and Guo Rong in the Chongwen Palace.

Listening to Feng Yu's recitation, Yang Yuanpu's eyelids twitched slightly.

To be honest, his suspicion and hatred for Han Qian at this moment were inexplicably not so deep, and what made his hands tremble slightly uncontrollably at this moment was Li Zhihe's betrayal!

Yes, he still can't figure out why Li Zhihe would carry his mother's edict behind his back?!

Even if Li Zhihe had different opinions on the arrangement of the war, why didn't he write to him?

Could it be that Li Zhihe has always been the queen mother, and he just pretended to obey him from beginning to end?

At this moment, Yang Yuanpu felt a chill in the depths of his bone marrow.

For Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zhou Bingwu, Du Chongtao, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Han Daoming, Li Changfeng, Chen De, Zhang Chao, Guo Liang, Zhang Han and others, in the past three days, although their hearts were also turbulent, they were much better than Yang Yuanpu.

Although after summoning Shen Yang into the political hall, this is the first time that the Queen Mother has issued an edict to interfere with the military aircraft of the outer court, but the Queen Mother said that the matter of governing and discussing politics has not been abolished.

Han Qian, Li Zhihe, Li Pu, Yang En, and others acted under the edict of the Empress Dowager, although it was very abrupt, and it could even be said that they directly forced His Majesty to the palace, but at least it could not be said that it was inconsistent with the system.

In fact, it was precisely the Queen Mother's timely intervention to temporarily resolve what may be the biggest crisis since the founding of Great Chu, and they felt more fortunate in their hearts.

In particular, the Xuzhou Water Camp entered the Yangtze River in time, relieving everyone's worries that Jinling might be directly attacked, and there was no need to worry that the main force of the Huaixi Forbidden Army might fall into Jiangbei and become a lone army.

It seems that the Right Shenwu Army has been destroyed and hit hard, but the current situation in Dachu is actually slightly better than when the main force of the Water Division was destroyed, at least there is no crisis that can't wait to take dangerous measures, and the main force of the Huaixi Forbidden Army has not suffered much serious losses, preserving the foundation of the forbidden army formed after the Jinling Incident.

And Han Qian became famous in the battle of Xichuan, Tangyi backed the Yangtze River, and the possibility of holding Tangyi was extremely high, and some people even looked forward to the repetition of the battle of Xichuan under the city of Tangyi and the glory of defeating the Liang army with only one city.

Moreover, in addition to Her Majesty, the Queen Mother has no other heirs born to the first emperor, even if she directly intervenes in the government this time, in the eyes of most people, it will not cause the crisis of abolishing the emperor and establishing another one.

Most people are worried about the crisis that will be temporarily resolved, and as the Liang army crosses the Huai south, there is a possibility that it will intensify again at any time, and they are also worried about how they will clean up the situation in Huaixi that has become a mess after the Shouzhou army defects to the Liang state.

Feng Yu presented a note on behalf of Han Qian, Yang Yuanpu didn't want to be too passive, didn't want everything to be led by the nose, the court just asked the ministers to draw up a good plan, and did not let everyone immediately make a decision on Han Qian's letter and discuss the response to the follow-up situation......