The angel rushed to Henan from Xijing to read the imperial court order.

The Tiger Prison is closed.

Henan pacified Wang Shichong to greet the angel, and after he listened, he was shocked. I was a dignified Henan pacification envoy, and I only served as a few days, but now half of Henan is cut out and given to Zhang Xutuo again?

Is he still a festival envoy?

Why?

"Wang Anfu, the commander of the mighty army of Shandong Province is the marshal of Rongguo Gonglai, and Zhang Xutuo is only the deputy marshal." Angels are corrected.

But Wang Shichong is not stupid, he has always been by the side of the royal driver, so although Zhang Xutuo only gave the deputy envoy, this order also said that the deputy envoy would act as the envoy, and Zhang Xutuo was still the leader of the newly established Shandong Mighty Army.

He is just a pacification envoy, Zhang Xutuo, the general of the defeated army, has become a festival envoy, and his soldiers and horses have not been given a military number, Zhang Xutuo has a military name of a mighty army.

"Although Deputy Marshal Zhang was defeated on behalf of Haisi, he also actively recruited and organized soldiers and horses to counterattack the bandits, and lost land in several counties, and his merits were not small."

These words could not convince Wang Shichong, and he felt very unconvinced. Originally, there was also an eastern capital in Henan Province, Luoyang, which was independent of Henan, and now he has cut off the east of the canal to set up Shandong Road, so what does it mean for him to be the pacification envoy of Henan?

In addition to Luoyang, and then cut off the thirteen counties of Shandong Province, there are only fifteen counties left in Henan Province, and now there are seven counties in the hands of Li Mi and Meng Rang, and he, the pacification envoy of Henan, only has eight counties left.

Fan Zigai was also a little dissatisfied with this appointment, but this was not the time to be angry, he persuaded Wang Shichong, "Wang Shuai, for now, let's find a way to kill Li Mi together." ”

Li Yuan was also persuaded on the side.

He is in a hurry to return to Huainan now, how can he be willing to stay in Henan every day, but Wang Shichong is still unwilling to fight the rebels, so he is helpless.

Now I heard that Zhang Xutuo was appointed as the deputy envoy of Shandong Daojiedu, but I think it is a good thing, the east and the west are attacked, and Li Mi is destroyed as soon as possible, and he can also go south to Jianghuai as soon as possible.

The emperor may arrive in Jiangdu one day, and he must go back early to prepare. And because of Li Mi and Meng Rang's gain, Jianghuai is not very peaceful now, not to mention that Meng Rang entered Huaixi and made trouble, and Zuo Caixiang and Li Zitong are also making trouble.

Li Yuan didn't want Jiang Huai, who had been hard to get his hands on, to appease and make him take the throne, and was finally masturbated by the emperor.

Speaking of which, the current situation in the Central Plains is indeed very embarrassing.

Li Mi blocked Xingyang, cut off the canal, and forced Luoyang, which was simply a knife against the throat of the imperial court. When the eastern capital of Luoyang was built, it was because Guanzhong Daxing was in a corner, especially Daxing City could not act as the capital of the unified court, because the population was too large, Xijing could not be self-sufficient, and was limited by the terrain of Guanzhong, which made it difficult to transport, even if it was transported by water, there was a long distance in Shaanzhou that could not be sailed at all.

Every year, it is necessary to transport several million stone of grain from the southeast to Xijing, but it costs more grain and people to transport these grains into Beijing.

Not to mention, the huge cost of private merchants transporting grain into Beijing.

Therefore, the emperor built the eastern capital and established the capital in Luoyang, the center of the world.

It is not only conducive to the transmission of government decrees to the world, but also the Central Plains is rich and can be self-sufficient, coupled with the Grand Canal opened later, so that the imperial court does not have to worry about transportation and grain, and the establishment of several large granaries made Luoyang once extremely rich.

But Luoyang also has shortcomings, that is, the lack of risk.

Li Mi now makes Luoyang extremely dangerous, and the prime ministers have to leave Luoyang with the emperor, called Patrol the World, which is actually refuge.

Taiyuan Mansion and Fanyang Mansion are both in the north, although it is very dangerous, but both have the trouble of insufficient supply, so only Jiangdu Mansion can take the southeast wealth and grain.

Other words.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the strategy of the prime ministers, Luoyang is not safe, and the supply of Xijing is insufficient, so it is not bad to go to Jiangdu first, and then fight steadily and steadily, suppress the rebellion in the world, and then return the capital to Luoyang.

It's better than the emperor and hundreds of officials, as well as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians crowded into Luoyang or Xijing, and even food can't be guaranteed, right?

Although the emperor has built a new Xiaoguo army of 100,000, the combat effectiveness of this forbidden army is not as good as before, and now it is not of great use except for being more edible.

In a few years, it is estimated that it will be difficult to truly become an army.

Li Yuan saw that Wang Shichong was unhappy, and he was not interested in continuing to accompany him to spend time here, so he simply said, "Now that there are 100,000 soldiers and horses of Deputy Marshal Zhang of the Shandong Dao Mighty Army to attack the rebels, I don't think I need to continue to stay here." His Majesty's royal car has already left Xijing, and I must immediately return to Jiangdu to prepare for the drive, Meng Rang, Zuo Caixiang, Li Zitong and other thieves are still making trouble in Jianghuai. ”

Li Yuan is leaving.

Wang Shichong couldn't stay, after all, he had a good reason.

So Wang Shichong could only let Li Yuan leave.

Li Yuan led 8,000 men to leave Luoyang and detour south to Jianghuai by land through Hanoi County to the east of the canal.

Not long after he left, there were rebels Jing Pantuo and Chai Baochang in Jiangjun in Hedong, and they attacked Jiangjun and Hedong County one after another, approached Hanoi, and threatened the eastern capital Luoyang.

The two thieves accepted Li Mi's reward and responded to Li Mi.

Fan Zigai had no choice but to discuss with Wang Shichong, "Now that the north of Luoyang is threatened by rebels, I must lead my troops to eliminate these two thieves first." ”

"The traitors in the land of Henan will be handed over to Wang Shuai and Deputy Marshal Zhang to join forces to encircle and suppress."

Although Wang Shichong was unwilling, Fan Zigai's rank was still above him, so he had no choice but to respond, and watched Fan Zigai take away tens of thousands of horses.

The late spring of the twelfth year of the great cause.

Wang Shichong continued to confront Li Mi in Xingluocang.

The two armies made several tentative attacks, but they all returned in vain.

Li Mi's soldiers had plenty of food, but although the soldiers and horses were numerous, they were not fine, and Wang Shichong's Jianghuai soldiers were very fierce, but the number was not much, so the two armies temporarily formed a situation of equal strength, and the stalemate could not be broken for a while.

No commander wants to fight a battle that is evenly matched, and everyone wants to do everything they can to gain more advantages before the war starts.

Evenly matched means it's going to be the toughest battle.

No one dared to strike first, so they were all waiting for the opportunity.

Wang Shichong deceived Zhang Xutuo to send troops to attack Li Mi's back first, but Li Mi hoped that Jing Pantuo and Chai Baochang would use Zhu Cang and Meng Rang to have a greater influence on the periphery of the soldiers and horses, so as to contain the imperial court soldiers and horses, and even finally fight to the eastern capital to join the army and gather the imperial court soldiers and horses.

Li Mi has Xingluo warehouse in hand, and there is no shortage of food, so he is not in a hurry, he is stepping up supervision and training of soldiers and horses every day.

Wang Shichong was very anxious, the eastern capital lost Xingluocang, and the canal was cut off, and the grain and grass were empty.

By the Luoshui River, in Wang Shichong's Jianghuai army, there were also complaints from soldiers from time to time.

"Confronting the rebels here every day, seeing that the spring ploughing is wrong, and summer is coming again, everyone hopes to return to their hometown in Jianghuai Jiangnan as soon as possible!"

These dynamics were constantly reported to Wang Shichong through the officers, which made him even more anxious.