The officers and troops of the northern front suffered heavy losses, and the southern front did not go alone.

Originally, the Wuchang army had gathered in Yingcheng, preparing to attack Anlu, where the Huaixi robbers were entrenched, but before the battle, Li Jian suddenly suffered a violent stroke, and the six thousand Wuchang army soldiers were suddenly leaderless, and under the support of Sima Yang Ping and the judge Liu Zhen, although there was no chaos, the pace of the attack was put on hold.

Seeing that Li Jian was dead, the dust of the Eyue Festival was undecided, and Fan Ze, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, who was originally going to be reinforced, and Li Xun, the Hunan observer, could only stand still.

In the Lingyunzha barracks, white tents, white snow, black soil, and red bloodstains: the mules of the Huaixi Army lined up in a long line, carrying corpses on them, and were heading in the direction of Yuncheng.

The corpses were all Huaixi soldiers, and at this time, Wu Shaocheng's beard was covered with ice and snow slag, and he looked at this scene with a blue face.

The other Huaixi generals all stood behind him.

In fact, in the previous fierce battle, although the official army suffered large losses, and the camp was burned down, and retreated more than ten miles, Wu Shaocheng's record on the bright side was relatively good, but his own side also killed 2,000 people in actual combat.

Behind the official army, the entire imperial court is providing support, and the blood recovery speed is very fast.

And Shen Guangcai, two thousand elites died, and it is difficult to recover from the blood that flowed out in a short period of time.

I heard that Tian Xu, who looked at Wei Bo, did not dare to make a move, and the imperial court was also preparing to transfer the Heyang Army and the Yicheng Army to the Huaixi battlefield.

This kind of asymmetrical oppression of power still makes Wu Shaocheng very uncomfortable.

But then in the tabernacle, Li Yuanping strongly suggested: "Under the festival, the way of the soldiers is false and real, deceitful and treacherous, and the number of officers and soldiers killed in battle, we will advocate that it will be 10,000, and we will be reduced to 500 in our own phalanx." ”

"And then? Win today, die two thousand; Tomorrow wins, and another two thousand die. Then Huainan, Eyue, Heyang and other armies will besiege again, and there will be no more fighting soldiers in Caizhou. Wu Shaocheng was greatly dissatisfied.

Li Yuanping made a suggestion: "As long as these numbers are publicized, say that in the battle of Lingyunzha, my Huaining army will win a great victory." At that time, there will naturally be someone who will speak for us, and it depends on the attitude of the court. ”

Hearing this, Wu Shaocheng frowned and thought for a while, then nodded.

At this moment, behind a deer antler outside the tent, Wu Shaoyang was standing in a hidden place, and opposite him was Wu Shaocheng's house slave Xian Yu Xiong'er.

"Do you think there is a chance of winning this battle?" Xiong Er asked Wu Shaoyang and said.

Wu Shaoyang was silent.

Although he still belonged to the main battle faction before, who expected that the battle situation would expand more and more, and the attitude of the imperial court would become more and more tough.

Originally, Wu Shaoyang thought that if he achieved a partial victory over the imperial court officials and army, he would force him to negotiate peace and cede greater rights and interests to Huaixi.

In the past, the towns of all sides were so kind to the imperial court, and there were few miscalculations, which can be described as attacking and retreating.

But at this time, unlike in the past, the imperial court had a strong mobile reserve army, which continued to come to the surrounding areas of Huaixi, and the prime minister who presided over the military and political affairs was also very strong: to fight a general war, Huaixi could not die well at all.

In the end, Wu Shaoyang shook his head and whispered something to Xian Yu Xiong'er......

The Jinluan Hall of Daming Palace, surrounded by silver frost and snow, the emperor sat in the somewhat cold east hall, the toes in his boots were constantly curled up because of the cold, and the mouth was full of white mist, and his front was full of music.

Lu Zhen and Du Huangshang sat opposite, and on the side were Wei Zhiyi, Li Jifu, and Wei Cigong, who were scholars from Hanlin Academy.

Huaixi released the news:

Wu Shaocheng rewarded the sergeant and announced that he had killed more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the Lingyun Zha Formation, and the officers and troops were defeated and retreated for dozens of miles, capturing countless heavy armor battles, and only 500 casualties on his side.

Faced with this news, the emperor was a little panicked at first, why was the loss so heavy?

At that time, Wei Bo's Tian Xu suddenly asked people to enter Beijing to do things, to mediate the war between the imperial court and Huaixi, and Li Shigu of Ziqing, and even Wujun, the king of Chengde, also echoed the voice, asking the emperor to think of the common people in the world, as long as Wu Shaocheng is willing to ask for guilt, he will forgive Huaixi.

And Xuanwu Li Wanrong was not willing to be lonely, and expressed his stance to the prison army envoy Ju Wenzhen, saying that the Beijing army such as Shenwei and Shence was unbearable, and Duya's Eastern Capital defenders were weak, so how could they know the military revolution? might as well be the entire war on the northern front, let me come and unify it - Gao Tang Lao will be in the birthday festival to control all parties.

Headed by Yu Shimuzan, the servant of the Yushi Terrace, he also presented a note to the Daming Palace, saying that since the war in Huaixi, it has been nearly a year, and the monthly consumption of money and silk is six or seven hundred thousand, so it is better to stop the war and give the people a rest and recuperation.

In this regard, the emperor also has some six gods and no masters.

"I want to appoint Lu Changyuan as the assassin of Ruzhou, collect 10,000 dingkou from the state border, and replenish the losses of the front-line Shenwei and Shence troops at any time, what is it?" In a hurry, the emperor wanted to directly interfere with the command again.

Lu Zhen said: "Ruzhou is already on the front line, and it is already very difficult for the local people to bear the burden of transferring the military camp, and the household registration is only tens of thousands, but they have to collect 10,000 Dingkou, how can they bear it?" Moreover, these Dingkou were originally peasants, and they had never learned to fight in formations, so they were suddenly added to the army, and even if they did not flee from the battle, they would be killed and injured by Cai Kou, which would damage their morale. ”

After being vetoed by Lu Zhen, the emperor was a little displeased, so he asked what to do if the official army suffered such a big loss?

"The so-called loss of 10,000 is just Cai Kou's rhetoric. The exact records of the military envoys and the military supervisors have not yet been submitted, and Your Majesty does not need to mess with himself. Lu Zhen was very calm, "The front-line fighters are changing rapidly, Your Majesty lives in Zichen, and everyone looks up to it, so you should be more serious." ”

At this time, Li Jifu, who has always been resourceful, said: "It is better to authorize the eastern capital to stay in Duya, recruit the mountain shed in Shaanxi Duji, and get 3,000 rights and interests soldiers first, and make up for the losses of each battalion." ”

The emperor agreed.

Du Huangshang said: "The high school Lang lives in the eastern capital, and the officers and soldiers will win one after another; Gao Gao Lang left the eastern capital and went to Huainan, and the official army did not run well. ”

Upon hearing this, everyone, including the emperor, shook their heads and said nothing.

Then Du Huangshang said: "Chen Huangshang watched the Huaixi battle array, except for Chen Xuzhong's military Quhuan, the others were mostly guest troops, each of them was only three or five thousand people, and the single battle was definitely not Wu Shaocheng's opponent, but they could unite and have no authority to sit in the town, and the coordination was not effective, so they were repeatedly taken by Cai Kou. ”

"Then you have to go to a minister." The emperor replied.

Thinking about it, only Du Huangshang meets this condition.

So the emperor promised to immediately issue a document, so that Du Huangsheng could serve as the commander of Dongdu, Chen Xu, Shaanxi, Heyang, Zheng Hua and other provinces as his subordinate servant Pingzhangshi, and go to supervise the military array, but the emperor was afraid that Gao Yue would be dissatisfied, so he entrusted Wei Zhiyi to write an additional document to explain the matter to Gao Yue.

At this time, Du Huangshang, Lu Zhen, Li Jifu and others were all resolute feudal factions, so they all asked the emperor to resolutely not negotiate a truce with Huaixi, and should make up their minds to completely conquer Cai Kou, revitalize the imperial court discipline, and let other towns know what Wang Fa is from now on.

"I use Gao Yue, Lu Jiu, and Du Huangshang, why worry about Cai Kou's injustice? Guess the degree at most for half a year, Caizhou Wu Shaocheng will definitely teach the first method! At this moment, the emperor's courage rose again, and he sat upright, so assured.