Jiankang, Taicheng, Jieqi Pavilion, the concubine Zhang Lihua sat on the couch and talked to a woman standing in front of her, this woman was young, dressed in silk and satin, her appearance was charming, and her complexion was white and red, and she was a beauty carefully prepared by Zhang Lihua for the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven is a good woman, and there are a lot of concubines in the harem, but Zhang Lihua can overwhelm the crowd and be pampered for a long time, in addition to her outstanding appearance, empathy is also a very important reason, she will not exclude other women for the sake of exclusive favor, but will give the Son of Heaven a "surprise" from time to time.

The beauty in front of her is a carefully prepared "surprise", which has been arranged to be dedicated to the Son of Heaven, but the timing is not right these days.

"The official family has been working state affairs for the past few days, and there is no time for him to take care of it, so you can sleep in a few days."

"Yes..."

The woman bowed and then retreated with the palace maid, Zhang Lihua looked at the graceful back, and smiled slightly, the disappointment that flashed on the woman's face for a moment, she could see it clearly.

I think I have outstanding appearance, so that the official family will be fascinated after seeing it, and from then on, I will obey my words?

How naïve!

Zhang Lihua was disdainful in her heart, this was the beauty she personally chosen, of course she knew what the other party was thinking, but she didn't feel that it was a threat, because no one could go through the road to success again.

Zhang Lihua was born in a humble military family, her father and brother supported their family by weaving mats, and Zhang Lihua, who was born in a poor family, actually had the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose, and by the age of ten she had become a little beauty.

With such a appearance, it was too wasteful to sell mats on the roadside with his father and brother, and it was not cost-effective to enter the music workshop to be an oiran, which coincided with the selection of maids in the palace, Zhang Lihua was sent by her father and brother to "run for election", and then entered the palace as she wished, and began to fight hard.

The prince's Gong Liangdi was the master she had to serve when she entered the palace, and the crown prince Chen Shubao quickly noticed Zhang Lihua, a maid who had just entered the palace not long ago, which shocked Chen Shubao.

These four words are still young, can not stop Chen Shubao's passion, since then, Lihua, the daughter of the Zhang family who was born poor, has become the prince's favorite woman, when the prince becomes the son of heaven, she has become the most favored concubine in the harem.

Countless beautiful women tried to follow the path she had walked back then, but they all failed.

What's the problem?

If you are a woman, you will love to run if you are in love, and then you will be a beautiful beauty, and you will enjoy it day and night, and you will lose interest in it for a few months or a few years, Zhang Lihua not only looks like a fairy, but also has a set of solid pet experience, and can stand tall in the fiercely competitive harem.

Therefore, she is not afraid that the beauty she chooses will take her place in the heart of the Son of Heaven in the future.

Zhang Lihua will not be like a jealous woman, when she sees the Son of Heaven touching another woman, she will cry, make trouble and hang herself, on the contrary, she will select beauties from time to time to present them to the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven will continue to have beauties around him, and his energy will be scattered, and his interest in other concubines will never be able to increase, so that no one can compete with her.

And those beauties, after the fresh energy of the Son of Heaven, at most give the names of "female doctor" and "female bachelor", and accompany the Son of Heaven and Xingchen to chant poems at the banquet every day, and become beautiful decorations.

Therefore, it is a trick of Zhang Lihua to go to the Son of Heaven every once in a while, no one can re-walk the road she walked back then, and the most favored by the Son of Heaven is still her Zhang Lihua.

Getting up from the couch, Zhang Lihua sorted out her makeup in front of the glass mirror, and then walked outside the pavilion, and turned into the Linchun Pavilion where the Son of Heaven lived through the flying bridge.

Zhang Lihua was favored by Chen Shubao, and there was no need to communicate in and out of the Son of Heaven's bedroom, so Chen Shubao, who patronized the map, did not notice that Zhang Lihua walked in, and the eunuch standing on the side saw Zhang Lihua approaching and was about to remind Chen Shubao, but she stopped him with gestures.

Motioning to the eunuch to bring a set of tea sets, Zhang Lihua skillfully brewed a pot of good tea, and the fragrance of the tea overflowed, so that Chen Shubao, who had a sad face, was shocked after smelling it, and then found that there was one more person around him.

"Oh, the concubine is here? I didn't notice it for a while, and I snubbed my concubine. ”

Zhang Lihua smiled and held the brewed tea in front of Chen Shubao: "Official, please use tea." ”

"Okay, good..."Chen Shubao took the teacup, Zhang Lihua looked at the other party, and then said heartbrokenly: "The official family is working state affairs, and his face is much haggard, and the concubine is afraid. ”

"Alas, it would be nice if those officials were as sensible as Concubine Ai." Chen Shubao sighed, put down the teacup, lit the map with his hand, and complained: "It's going to be clear in the next few days, how can I not work?" ”

Chen Shubao, who has always been a carefree man, is now full of sadness, chattering and complaining, Zhang Lihua is smiling and listening, which makes Chen Shubao's idea of confiding stronger and stronger.

Among his harem, Zhang Lihua is the most empathetic, so Chen Shubao regards most of the concubines and beauties as vents, but regards the concubines Zhang Lihua and Kong and Gong Er as confidants, among which Zhang Lihua is the most trusted.

At this moment, Chen Shubao was holding back his stomach and wanted to find someone to talk to, Zhang Lihua came just in time, and he poured out the boredom in his heart endlessly.

In the past few days, Chen Guo is facing a life-and-death turnaround, if he does a good job, then Chen Guo will turn the crisis into safety, if he does not do well, he Chen Shubao will become the king of the dead country.

A few months ago, the situation in the Zhou State changed abruptly, and infighting broke out, and Chen Shubao, after weighing the pros and cons, decided to unite with the Yuwen clan to attack the Wei Chi clan, but before that, it was necessary to fight left and right.

He took Fu as the envoy to Jiangbei, and contacted Chi Youqi, the commander of the Taishang Book of the Southeast Province of the Zhou State, and tried to get some benefits back, but after tossing several times, except for returning some captured Chen officials, soldiers and family members, there was no other benefit at all.

The official in charge of the negotiation on the other side is Gongyi, the chief secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and his kung fu is very good, Fu has traveled back and forth to the north and south banks of the Yangtze River several times, not to mention an inch of land, and he can't even get a grain of grain.

The sincerity of the Wei Chi clan about peace was very poor, probably because he looked down on Chen Guo, which made Chen Shubao very angry, and he could only set his sights to the west, to the Shannan area occupied by the Yuwen clan.

He took Xu Shanxin as the envoy to Shannan, and contacted the Shannan Dao Daxingtai Shangshu Lingyu Civilization of the Zhou State, and tried to get some benefits back, and Xu Shanxin did not fail in his mission and brought back 400,000 grains.

These grains were like timely rain, which made the soldiers and civilians of Jiankang who were facing the dilemma of food shortage cheer, and Xu Shanxin went to Anlu, Shannan, and brought the envoys of the other party, and confirmed two important news.

First, the Son of Heaven of Zhou really did not "die", but fled to Shannan after a lot of hardships, Xu Shanxin had been to Yecheng, the capital of Zhou State, as an envoy of Chen State, and had seen this Son of Heaven of Zhou with his own eyes, and this time in Anlu, he saw it himself.

Second, the king of Xiyang of the Zhou State is now guarding the state of Yuzhou, and the minister of power, Chi Qin, led an army of more than 100,000 to besiege the Xuan, and so far (when Xu Shanxin left Anlu) has not been able to take it.

These two pieces of news lifted the spirits of Chen Guojunchen, because according to the news confirmed by Xu Shanxin, the division of the Zhou State into the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty is a foregone conclusion, and the key lies in how long the Yuwen clan's "Western Zhou" can last.

And Yuwen Wenwen, the king of Xiyang of Zhou State, as long as he supports in the Hanging Gourd for one more day, the army led by Zhou Guoquan's Minister Chi will stay in the Hanging Gourd for one more day, and there is no time to take care of anything else, then it is an excellent opportunity for Chen Guo.

What are the opportunities?

That is to sneak attack Guangling on the north bank of the Yangtze River, as long as you can occupy Guangling and gain an important foothold in Jiangbei, then the situation of Chen Guo will be opened!

This is the strategy offered by Xingchen Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing, Chen Shubao has never led troops, nor has he personally come to the battlefield to command the battle, but he knows that Guangling has gathered a large number of Zhou troops, and it is difficult to succeed if he wants to sneak attack, and the word "sneak attack" is too ugly.

The Yuwen clan and the Wei Chi clan occupied the territory of the Chen State, so Chen Shubao felt that the official army should use the word "recovery" to attack, and the strategy offered by Kong and Shi was to send elites to bypass the Zhou army's river defense in advance, and take advantage of the opportunity of Fu to send Guangling again to Guangling and Wei Chi Youqi to attack Guangling.

At the same time, the main force of the naval army stationed in Baixia outside Jiankang City attacked to control the river around Guangling, while the soldiers and horses of the official army on land arrived at Jingkou across the river from Guangling in advance, and when the battle of Guangling broke out, they immediately crossed the river and went north.

Chen Shubao disagreed at first, but the biggest reason why he disagreed was not that the success rate was low, but that he was afraid of damaging the reputation of his generation of Ming Jun.

What can I do if I send envoys to negotiate with others, and at the same time send elites to carry out sneak attacks, this kind of undeclared war will ruin my reputation?

Of course, Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing have a solution to the problem that Chen Shubao is most concerned about, that is, once they fail, they will be defined as "provoking without permission", which has nothing to do with the official family.

When that time comes, it will be used for Zhongwen's head to calm Wei Chi Youqi's anger.

"The official, the concubine thinks that this experience of the general is a bit like Fan Yuzhi?"

"Fan Yuzhi?" Uncle Chen paused for a moment, then shook his head with a smile: "It looks a little similar, but it's actually different..."

Fan Yuzhi is a Warring States figure, originally a general of the Qin army, and Qin Wang Yingzheng had a holiday, fled into Yan for Yan Prince Dan to take in, and later Prince Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin, Jing Ke to Fan Yuzhi's head and the map of the governor as a gift, to see Qin Wang Yingzheng.

Zhang Lihua mentioned Fan Yuzhi, whether it was deliberately provoking the topic, or a flawed topic, this move was in the hands of Chen Shubao, he took a sip of tea and began to correct the "misunderstanding" of the favorite concubine.

Who is Yu Zhongwen? The lonely son of the Sui State has an enmity with the Weichi family.

Yu Zhongwen's grandfather, Yu Jin, was the ancestor of the Zhou State, Yuwen Taiyuan, who led the army to break through Jiangling, the capital of the Liang State, and was in a high position in the court, and the Yu clan was a first-class magnate in the Western Wei (Zhou State).

As a result, when there was a turmoil in the Zhou State in the second year of the elephant, Yu chose to side with his relative Yang Jian and confronted Wei Chi Yuan, the governor of Xiangzhou, who supported the new emperor.

At this time, Yu Jin had already died, a son Yu Yi, the son-in-law of Zhou Taizu, was the governor of Youzhou at the time, but he refused to be wooed by Wei Chi Yuan, and the other son Yu Yi, as the head of the marching army, marched west with the army sent by Yang Jian, and defeated Wang Qian, the governor of Yizhou, who responded to Wei Chi Yuan.

Yu Jin has another son, Yu Shi, who is reused by Yang Jian, Yu Shi has three sons, the eldest son Yu, who was the governor of Wuzhou at the time, sat in Guangling, and repelled the attacks of the Chen army several times; The third son, Yu Xiangxian, married Princess Yuwen, but also stood on Yang Jian's side.

And Yu Shi's second son Yu Zhongwen, who was the county guard of Dongjun at the time, refused Wei Chi Yuan's solicitation, and was attacked by the other party's troops, Yu Zhongwen was defeated by the enemy who would attack him, and Wei Chi Yuan was furious and sent more soldiers and horses to besiege Dong County.

Yu Zhongwen was lucky to break through, but his wife and children fell into the hands of Yu Chi Yuan, and then lost his life, and the Sui State perished, Yu was liquidated by Yu Chi Hui, Yu Zhongwen escaped again, and the feud with Yu Chi was one more time.

Chen Shubao thinks that a person like Yu Zhongwen is very suitable to calm the anger of Yu Chi Youqi, but the reason why he thinks that it is inappropriate to compare Yu Zhongwen to Fan Yuqi is because he is not the prince Dan.

He didn't use Zhongwen's head to deceive Wei Chi Youqi, but used it as a vanguard to sneak attack Guangling.

Since Hou Jing had this lesson from the past, the Southern Dynasty would no longer believe in any Northern Dynasty general, Chen Shubao was very hesitant at first for Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing to strongly recommend Yu Zhongwen to lead the troops to sneak attack, but considering the other party's situation, he finally agreed.

Wei Chi Hui, who killed Yu Zhongwen's wife, children, uncles and nephews, has died, and his sons Yu Chi Shun, Wei Chi, and Yu Chi Youqi are still alive, and Yu Zhongwen will never throw himself into Yu Chi Youqi, who is sitting in Guangling, but will fight hard to kill the enemy.

When Chen Shubao said this, he began to look forward to the bright prospects after the official army's victory in this sortie, completely forgetting that "undeclared war" would damage his prestige.

"The official family, the concubine does not know the art of war, and always feels that the Zhou army is stationed in Guangling, and it must be heavily guarded, how can the official army succeed in this attack?"

"Don't worry, concubine, I... It's been well planned..."

Chen Shubao began to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, showing off in front of the favorite concubine, the careful deployment he said was actually drawn up by Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing, of course, Chen Shubao guessed that the "original author" should be Yu Zhongwen, and Kong and Shi were just the handlers.

Jiankang's river defense, there are two key points, one is the quarrying in the west of Jiankang, and the other is the Jingkou in the northeast of Jiankang, which are the two key points on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the northern army wants to cross the river on a large scale, it must land in one of these two key places.

Of course, outside Jiankang City, there is also the important point of Baixia, where naval warships gather to defend the capital and avoid the enemy directly coming to the city.

Corresponding to Jiangnan Quarry and Jingkou is Hengjiangkou and Guangling on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and corresponding to Baixia is the Jiangbei ** region, so if Chen Jun wants to go on a northern expedition, he must capture one of these three important places.

However, the Zhou army had heavy troops in these three places, and it was difficult to succeed in a frontal attack, so it was necessary to bypass.

"Concubine Ai guess, how should the official army bypass the Zhou army's river defense?"

"The official family... It's all already drawn on the map, isn't it? ”

Chen Shubao was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the map, and sure enough, where Zhang Lihua's slender jade finger pointed, there was an ink blot, which he had drawn himself.

"Haha, I was negligent!"

Although the answer to the puzzle is already available, Chen Shubao's explanation is still high, Zhang Lihua will certainly not let him be disappointed, and said interestingly: "General Yu led the elite of the official army to take the sea route to attack Guangling, what a surprise move!" ”