The tiger is not overwhelmed, and the prime minister Wei Chi Dan, who is in power and opposition, although he is sick at this time and looks crumbling, but his majesty trembles, just a few words, Cui Zishu and others feel cold behind them when they hear it.

They were indeed arranging for the withdrawal of troops, and such an act was indeed a big taboo without the permission of the lieutenant Chidun in advance, but there was a reason for it, and it had to be so.

But now, Cui Zishu and others can only ask for guilt first.

Wei Chi was forced to support his sick body, looking at the person in front of him, he was very angry in his heart, the battle of Chai Village was defeated a little miserably, but it was not so miserable that the hundreds of thousands of troops outside the city had to retreat, Cui Zishu was his henchman who arranged to stay in the camp, and he was really disappointed by such a performance.

When leading the troops south to Xizhou, Wei Chidun not only let Cui Zishu stay in the camp, but also arranged the eyes and ears, so Cui Zishu and several major generals arranged the withdrawal of troops in advance after the defeat of Chai Village, and Wei Chidun knew before returning to the camp.

This kind of behavior is similar to usurping military power, if it weren't for Wei Chidun's great trust in Cui Zishu and his belief that there must be a reason, he would have asked Huang Longbing to rush in and take down these people.

Because of his dizziness, Wei Chidun doesn't have the energy to say so many words now, but he will never run away in fear because of a failure, the hanging gourd is a life and death disaster, and Yu Wenwen's mad dog will not give up the decision to capture the hanging gourd whether he is in the city or not.

Wei Chi Youqi is still cleaning up the situation in Huainan, even if he can't stop Chen's counterattack in a short time, as long as he holds Huaibei, he can avoid further deterioration of the situation.

The premise of all this is that Wei Chi Dan will drive Yuwen's army away from Yuzhou, otherwise the officers and troops on the front line of Huaishui will be attacked by the enemy and can only retreat to Huaibei, and even Henan will have problems at that time, so he must not withdraw his troops.

Even though nearly 10,000 cavalry were lost in the battle of Chaicun, the main force of the army was still there, there was no problem with the supply of grain and grass, and the grain route was guaranteed.

The situation has developed to this point, and it has deteriorated more and more, but as long as it is resisted, it will not be bad again, and Wei Chidun knows that once his troops withdraw, it will not be a stop loss, but the beginning of a series of collapses.

Before, Yuwen Wen, who succeeded in the sneak attack on Hanging Gourd, defeated the officials and soldiers of the imperial court in a row, claiming that he had encountered the 'Son of Heaven in Distress' in Hanging Gourd, and sent documents everywhere to call on officials, generals, and heroes to raise troops and serve the king, but almost no one paid attention to them, that is, these people were afraid of the strength of the imperial court and did not dare to speak up.

Now that more than 100,000 troops of the imperial court are gathered outside the Hanging Gourd City, which of the powerful people in the surrounding areas and even in Henan and Huaibei dare to think differently?

And now, the Chen army counterattacked, Huainan has changed, if the army besieging the hanging gourd is withdrawn, the official army will not be able to stand in Huainan at all, and the heroes and powers in various places are afraid that they will take risks and defect to Yuwenwen, and then this mad dog will become a mad tiger and can no longer be suppressed.

The generals who stayed in the camp would not be unaware of this stake, and as a result, they dared to arrange the withdrawal of the troops, Wei Chidun felt that someone had ill intentions and intended to muddy the water to fish in troubled waters, Cui Zishu was unlikely to be that person, so who could it be?

This person can be punished!

Wei Chidun hated in his heart, but at this time, he was sick on the couch and didn't have the energy to say so much, and the explanation given by Cui Zishu, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion, made him stunned: Something happened in Qingzhou.

Not long ago, the news of the defeat of Guangling reached the Qingzhou Governor's Office, because many people from Qingqi served in the military and labor, and went south with the army to station in Guangling, and this news immediately caused an uproar in various parts of the Qingzhou Governor's Office.

Then rumors appeared in various places, saying that in order to reverse the crisis in Huainan, the government also had to levy and send people to serve in the military and labor, and go to Huainan to die.

Liu Yuan, Shamen of Qingzhou, deceived the public with evil words, claimed to have a dream of Maitreya, and ordered him to lead believers to rise up, establish a Buddhist country on earth, welcome Maitreya to be born, and turn the world into a Maitreya Pure Land.

Many Yiyi organization believers attacked the county office, the county office, and even the state office, and there were many officials in the official office to do internal response, and even the state soldiers defected, and the rebel was very arrogant, and the Qingzhou Governor's Office had jurisdiction over the counties and counties in the six prefectures, and rebellions broke out in most areas.

The army of the Qingzhou Governor's Office, because it bears the heavy responsibility of escorting grain and grass to supply Guangling, so more than half of the army is not in Qingzhou, and the Qingzhou Navy last year went south to the Yangtze River to fight, although some people later withdrew, but many soldiers and Qingzhuang are still in Guangling, and the defeat of Guangling does not know how many people died.

Therefore, for the sudden outbreak of large-scale civil uprising, although the Qingzhou Governor's Office tried its best to send troops to quell the chaos, that little force was a drop in the bucket, and the officers and troops everywhere could only be trapped in the state city and wait for foreign aid.

As soon as the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion was in chaos, the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion on the south side of it was in a dilemma, it had to resist the Chen army in the south, and on the other hand, it was necessary to guard against the rebellious people of the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion in the north going south and harassing various prefectures and counties.

Xuzhou was too busy to take care of itself, and the situation of the Huainan officials and troops became more and more difficult.

"Qingzhou.... The people are in turmoil...."

Wei Chidun muttered to himself, his face became more and more ugly, and he was about to say something, but his eyes rolled and he passed out.

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At night, the candlelight in the tent was bright, and Wei Chi, who was lying on the couch, woke up slowly, and Cui Zishu, who was guarding the side, hurriedly stepped forward when he saw this: "Prime Minister? Do you need a military doctor? ”

"Water..."

"Quick, bring the water!"

The attendant brought the warm water, Cui Zishu helped Wei Chi Dun to sit up, and then held the jade bowl and asked the other party to drink the warm water in the bowl, he saw that Yu Chi Dan's complexion seemed to have recovered a little, so he wanted to speak, but the other party spoke first.

"Qingzhou... A demon monk, what the hell is going on? ”

"Prime Minister Qiqi, in the past hundred years, under the guise of Maitreya's next birth, there have been countless people who have bewitched the people and gathered ignorant believers to rebel.

Speaking of this, Cui Zishu smiled: "Even his so-called 'Liu' surname is probably a false confession, just to confirm the prophecy of the golden knife of the 'Mao Golden Knife', so that the foolish people think that their destiny is in hand." ”

"God... Fate, jumping clown! The widow has already sent people to the land of Qingqi to deal with this kind of demon monk, how... Ahem, ahem...."

"Prime Minister, the land of Qingqi, has always believed in the doctrine of Maitreya's next life, the demon monk is mixed in the ordinary monks, for a while, the fish eyes are mixed, the truth is difficult to distinguish, but this time the demon monk rebelled, it is impossible to succeed, there was a similar incident in the Qi country, but it was quelled in a few months."

"But now is the critical juncture, this demon monk!"

I can't help but be angry, last year, a magistrate from the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion played a game, saying that someone gathered ignorant believers in the name of organizing the Yiyi statue, and it seemed that he was planning something.

Of course, Wei Chidun would not take this kind of matter of crisis on the foundation of the government's rule, and sent people to Qingzhou, and ordered the Qingzhou Governor's Office to conduct a large-scale search and arrest in the territory, killing many demon monks and their followers who had bewitched the public.

I thought it would stop there, but at the critical moment, bad things came out of this cancer again.

People are unlucky, drinking water will stuff their teeth, Qingzhou demon monks to Maitreya was born as the reason to bewitch the public to set off a rebellion, if in the past it was just a disease of scabies, but now at this critical moment, it has become a problem of elbows and armpits, threatening the safety of Xuzhou Prefecture to govern Pengcheng.

The Huaibei region, from west to east, is generally the area under the jurisdiction of the Yuzhou Governor's Office, the Bozhou Governor's Mansion and the Xuzhou Governor's Office, and to defend Huaibei, the three cities of Yuzhou Prefecture Hanging Gourd, Bozhou Prefecture Governing Xiaohuang and Xuzhou Prefecture Governing Pengcheng must be defended.

Among them, Pengcheng is more important.

The Southern Army's Northern Expedition must first take Pengcheng, and then attack Qingzhou, only by taking Pengcheng and Qingqi in Huaibei, can the Surabaya water system be opened, so as to use boats and boats to transport grain and grass to the Yellow River, as the grain route of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Occupy the land of Qingqi, the northern army can sweep westward along the Yellow River, sweeping the land of Henan, Liu Yu's northern expedition at the end of the Jin Dynasty, is such a road, and when the Southern Dynasty lost Pengcheng, it can no longer effectively threaten all parts of Henan.

Therefore, Pengcheng is very important, even more important than the hanging gourd, and now, the Qingzhou army that could have reinforced Pengcheng was overwhelmed by the rebellion set off by the demon monks, and the Xuzhou army, which had no foreign aid, would also be overstretched in the face of the offensive that the Chen army was very likely to launch.

Thinking of this, Wei Chi Dan felt that his already painful head was getting more and more painful, closed his eyes and eased his spirit, he opened his eyes and asked, "Tell me, where did you originally plan to withdraw the army?" ”