Zhang Bin advocated going south to attack Qing and Xu, he thought that Liu Kun was not enough to worry, and he would not cross the Taihang Mountain into Jizhou in a short time, so we should take this opportunity to first set Qing and Xu and control the upper and lower rivers. The update is the fastest, especially Wang Jun's remnants, Shao Xu and Liu Yan are still tired of times, and they must immediately lead the division to fight, and they cannot be allowed to sit big.

Shi Leshang was groaning, Cheng Yao Cheng Ziyuan suddenly got out of the train, waved his hand again and again, and said: "What Youhou said is inappropriate, and it should be regarded as a westward advance." "Immediately" said something, so loudly that even Zhang Bin could hardly refute......

First of all, Cheng Yao was not opposed to sending troops to attack and hate, but he thought that Shao Xu and Liu Yan were just ringworm scabies, "Ming Gong sent a general, with an elite 5,000 elites, and he could trample on it, so he could not win quickly, and he could not afford to look eastward."

"And Shao Xu is the general of Wang Jun, and now Wang Jun is destroyed, so it can be said that Shao Jun is anyway. That is, he refuses to obey, the messenger comes and goes, Liu Yan will be suspicious, thinking that the two of them are enemies, they are forced to gather, and it is very easy to get into discord, if they can take advantage of the situation, then why worry about it? ”

As for the direction of the main attack, it should also point to the western front, "Now Wang Jun is destroyed, Liu Kun is difficult to survive alone, if Ming Gongguo can wave 100,000 troops, the west will exceed Taihang, and the state will not be enough." And I heard that Liu Kun has recently descended several hundred and twenty thousand people, and if he accumulates it in a volume, it will be a great trouble for me in the future, and I must not worry about it.

"And Zu Ti and Pei should wave their divisions on the river, and the big single can not be controlled, resulting in the loss of Luoyang, and the country is in danger, and it is expected that an envoy will be sent to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty. Now the lord is faint, Da Dan is in power, King Yong is going west, Ming Gong is begging the king in Hebei, if it is easy to turn back, don't you want to get it? If the country is weak, the Ming Gong can be used, but the country is dead and the Ming Gong is embarrassed, this lip is dead and the teeth are cold, Wang Jun and Liu Kun have learned from the past, and the Ming Gong must not ignore the ......"

Shi Le's loyalty was dedicated to Liu Yuan alone, and since Liu Yuan's death, he had a hidden intention of self-reliance, and the generals present naturally knew about it. However, Cheng Yao said, now is not the time for independence, once the Hu Han regime falls, then we will be attacked on all sides, so although it is not worth Liu Cong, Liu Cang and others, you can't cut it off now, you should try to lend a hand and pull them along.

"Zu Ti is in Si and Yan, and he is adjacent to me across the river, so he must be guarded against. If I can capture the annexed state, then I am strong, and my ancestors are powerless; If you take Qing and Xu, the border is long, thousands of miles from north to south, I am afraid that you will encounter police everywhere, and even be exhausted. It's the old army to conquer the west, I don't know the right marquis Yunnan, what do you want? ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Yao glanced at Zhang Bin and said unceremoniously: "Cao Wei is a member of the Chengcheng, Qingzhou is not peaceful, and he does not dare to cross the river to the west, which is harmless to me." And Pei should have left Xu Fang and went to Guanzhong, the first to bear the brunt is King Yong, not me. If you go south in a big way, you will get Qing and Xu, and there is no danger to defend, and the ancestors are close between the elbows and armpits, how can you ignore them?

"The last official is selfish, is it because the right marquis was very heavy on Pei Cai, and he played the right marquis and left, is it because of his heart, and he wants to avenge this arrow? However, today's meeting, only to discuss military strategy, and the direction of the Ming Gong, how can the right marquis harm public affairs with selfishness? ”

Cheng Ziyuan said that I suspect that Zhang Bin was teased by Pei Gai at the beginning, and he felt that he couldn't swallow this breath, so he suggested that Shi Le's southern expedition valued Pei Gai at the beginning, probably only Shi Le and Zhang Bin, and Zhang Bin is even worse, everyone knows that I don't have much interest in Pei Gai, and I only abide by the friendship of colleagues every day; So Pei should have run away, and I didn't feel so angry. At the end, he also said that I am afraid that Zhang Bin suggested the southern expedition, which is purely selfish, not something that a minister should do!

A few words made Zhang Mengsun speechless. In fact, Zhang Bin also knows that as far as the current situation is concerned, the only enemy in front of him is Liu Kun in Bingzhou, but he thinks that Liu Kunzhi is very talented, even if he ignores it, that guy will not be able to turn the sky. Pei Gai is different, Zhang Bin faintly felt that this person would become Shile's most terrible opponent in the future, so he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to destroy Wang Jun and Hebei Chugu, and first went to Pei Gai's old nest Xuzhou, and Pei Wenyue could only lead a guest army, deal with Suo and others in Guanzhong, and resist Liu Yao's rapid offensive, maybe he could be strangled in infancy.

But this can't be said explicitly, because Liu Kun is not worried, Pei should be the enemy, it is purely Zhang Bin's intuition, and there is no enough argument to prove it. Therefore, Cheng Yao's words just hit the key point of Zhang Mengsun, making this resourceful "right marquis" just open his mouth, but he was speechless at all.

Shi Le has relied heavily on Cheng Yao in the past two years, one is that Cheng Yao married his sister to Shi Le as a concubine, and the two became relatives, so this pillow wind, even if the heroes and heroes are not completely immune, the second is that the way of the emperor pays attention to balance, and Shi Le also has the intention of raising Cheng Yao to balance Zhang Bin. Therefore, he listened to Cheng Yao's reasonableness, but Zhang Bin was difficult to refute, and after a little thought, he decided to consolidate Hebei, monitor the rejection, and enter the map and merge the state.

Now Shile's power covers most of the Hebei region, reaching Youzhou in the north, and the Taihang Pass he is facing is the Jingcheng in the north of Xiangguo and the Fukou in the south. Shi Le Nai ordered An to guard Changshan Taishou, calm the place, control the well, and wait for the abundance of grain and grass to find an opportunity to go west. As for Fukou in the south, he handed it over to Shi Hu and appointed Shi Hu as the Taishou of Wei County and guarded Santai.

Shi Hu went out to take orders. Shi Le stared at him for a while, and then said expressionlessly: "Ji Long is not familiar with civil affairs, so he should be able to assist him." ”

He, the nephew, was just a pure stunned when he first met, and he seemed to be useless, who wanted to be in Huaibin after the first battle, Shi Hu suddenly seemed to be a different person, and became calm. Shi Le didn't know if it was the blood and fire on the battlefield that ground out this piece of jade, or if it was taught by Pei Gai...... However, Pei Gai only taught Shi Hu for three days, so he wouldn't be able to be reborn so quickly, right?

It's just that although Shi Hu has become calm, he has always led his troops to fight, he knows how to advance and retreat, and he no longer relies on his bravery, but the ferocity in his bones seems to be even worse than before, slaughtering the city at every turn, whether it is the army and the people, the old and the weak, women and children, all of them are killed. Therefore, Shi Le felt that it was no problem to let Shi Hu lead the troops to fight, and he guarded the place...... I'm afraid that there will be too many killings, and it will be difficult to build a solid base area. Therefore, it is better to send someone to follow him and take charge of civil affairs.

Eventually, Shi Le appointed Xu Guang as Shi Hu's assistant. Xu Jiwu was quite unambitious during this time, originally he and Cheng Yao could stand side by side, in Shile's staff team, it was the second echelon second only to Zhang Bin, but since he arrived in Hebei, Cheng Yao's power has become increasingly powerful, and Xu Guang has been far behind. Shi Le deliberately used Xu Guang this time to assist Shi Hu, whom he valued, and also implicitly made Xu Jiwu meritorious and could be promoted to balance Cheng Yao.

After the meeting, Zhang Bin returned to his residence sullenly, abandoned his subordinates, crouched on his desk, studied the map repeatedly, and even forgot to eat dinner. It was just getting dark, and suddenly a waiter spread the news outside the door, saying that Zhang was visiting. When Zhang Bin heard the news, he hurriedly pushed the table open, "Please!" ”

This "Zhang Zhi", whose real name is Zhang Pi, is a native of Qinghe, Jizhou, Shi Le came to work after he arrived in Hebei, and was assigned to listen to Cheng Yao at the beginning, and Cheng Yao treated him very well. Because Cheng Ziyuan also knows that his biggest shortcoming is that he is not familiar with the military, so it is difficult to narrow the distance between him and Zhang Bin.

However, Cheng Yao got Pei Gai's secret guidance, and seemed to be able to be the chief in terms of military strategy, but in fact, he just copied Pei Gai's analysis of the situation, and after a long time, it finally aroused Zhang Bin's suspicions. Zhang Bin looked at Cheng Yao's subordinates and felt that only the newly promoted Zhang Phi had the possibility and ability to help with the moves, so he tried his best to win over Zhang Phi, and finally made Zhang Phi turn his back on himself. Now that Zhang Pichun is visiting at night, Zhang Bin knows that there must be something important, so he hurriedly invites him.

After Zhang Pi came in, he made a gesture, that is, the guests and hosts sat down, and he did not greet him, and directly cut to the point: "The day before yesterday, the right marquis made a certain investigation, or there are eyebrows." ”

Zhang Bin let out an "oh", couldn't help but open his eyes wide, leaned forward slightly, and showed a very interested gesture. What did he ask Zhang Pi to investigate? Obviously, who is standing behind Cheng Yao? Since he arrived in Hebei, he has had many correct suggestions on the general trend of the world and the strategy of military struggle, unlike in the past, Zhang Bin didn't believe that Cheng Ziyuan instantly opened up, and felt that someone must be hiding behind his back to give him advice. originally suspected that the person behind the scenes was Zhang Phi, but after he befriended Zhang Phi, he knew that his guess was wrong, so Zhang Phi secretly probed the matter.

Zhang Pi said: "Under the command of Cheng Changshi, most of them are mediocre people, or they are familiar with history and literature, but they are all scholars in the army and war. Although I have also spoken many times, Cheng Changshi's words to refute the right marquis today are not what I taught, and I don't see any treacherous people who were led into his private room by him......"

Zhang Bin twisted his beard and frowned slightly: "However...... What did he say? "If someone hadn't secretly supported it, would Cheng Yao have obtained some secret book? There is no reason for this!

Zhang Pi lowered his voice and said word by word: "Although no one enters his private room, there are often secret books coming from outside, and only Cheng Changshi can open them alone. Occasionally, he lied that his family was in Xiangguo, but his family members were all in Xiangguo, how could there be many letters from outside? And if it's a family letter, why avoid people? ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised: "Where did the book come from?" ”

Zhang Pi said that after many investigations, I knew that these secret books were all transmitted from the south, but "since last year, the letters have been scarce." Then he looked at Zhang Bin, which means: Have you thought of it? What happened at this point in time?

Zhang Bin groaned slightly, and his face immediately showed an incredible expression: "After the autumn of last year, Pei should leave Xu and take Henan ...... west" Could it be that Pei should have been writing letters to Cheng Yao, and even making a move? How can it be! Didn't the two of them get along in the first place? Cheng Yao has also set traps many times to frame Pei Gai!

Zhang Phi arched his hand and asked: "I often hear that the right marquis and the generals mention Pei Wenyue, but Cheng Changshi has not said a word about this person all year round, but I don't know what kind of person he is?" ”

Zhang Bin pondered for a while, shook his head slightly, and sighed: "I don't know how it is like a human ......."

Then he explained: "At first, I thought that the Confucian son of the high door did not understand the practice, and the Ming Gong wanted to collect the effect of thousands of gold and horse bones, so he began to recruit him." However, he talked with him earnestly, but in the general trend of the world, he was quite insightful......" Speaking of this, he also lowered his voice a little and told Zhang Pi: "In fact, the first person to build the foundation between Handan and Xiangguo is not me, but Pei Wenyue." It seems that it is unwilling to say it explicitly, so it has not been reported to the Ming public......"

Zhang Pi was taken aback: "In this way, it is a wise man!" ”

Zhang Bin said with a wry smile, of course Pei should be a resourceful man, otherwise he would not have set a trap and fled to Jiangnan, even I was deceived by him" Ran Bi Nandu not long after, he asked Xu Fang in Beizhen, and accumulated with Zu Shizhi for several years, but he could lead the Northern Expedition, and now he is in a mess and has fallen into Henan...... In the past, the Ming Dynasty had a division of 100,000 bears, crisscrossing the south of the river, and now it has been transferred to Hebei, fighting hard for several years, and destroying Wang Jun; And Pei and Zu started the incident with their hands, but now they can fight against Ming Gong! Isn't it scary to think about it? ”

Zhang Pi couldn't help but shiver slightly.

Zhang Bin said: "Every time I think about myself, if I change places, I and my ancestors will cross the river at the rate of thousands of deaths, and there will be a shortage of people and food, but in five years, almost all the three states of Si, Yan and Xu?" And many people think that Pei Wenyue is the auxiliary of Zu Shizhi, and I see that his ambition is not willing to succumb to the Ming Gong, how can he be the master of an old revolution? I'm afraid that Pei Wenyue wants to seek the world by himself, and Zu Shizhi is just his pawn! ”

Zhang Pi said in horror: "In this way, he is the hero of the world!" ”

Zhang Bin sighed again: "I don't know yet...... This person is very deep in the city, and I am also deceived by him, and when I was under the command of Ming Gong, he tried to escape, and his plans were interlocking, and it was difficult to detect the clues...... It's me who is not as far away as Pei Wenyu! His people will be a great disaster in the future, so I only asked Ming Gong Xingshi to cut them down today! ”

Zhang Pi also sighed and said: "In the world, there are things to be done and things to be done. In the past, Wei Wu did not kill Zhaolie, so there was the defeat of Chibi and Hanzhong, but how could he love his talent and be confused by Zhaolie? When he was under his command, he did not dare to kill in order to prevent people from betraying; Catch it, want to kill and the end of the world, it is difficult to calculate. If Pei is still in Xufang, there is still something to say about the southern expedition, and since he has entered the customs, he will get Qing and Xu, and there will be no great benefit to me. What Cheng Changshi said today is not unreasonable......"

Zhang Bin waved his hand, meaning that you don't need to say this, anyway, Shi Le has already made a decision, and it is useless for me to be depressed. The conversation changed and pulled back to the original topic: "If Cheng Ziyuan and Pei Wenyue have a secret communication, then I am afraid that he has entered Pei Mouyu without knowing it, and he will be a ...... for others in vain" Zhang Bin felt that Cheng Yao would not have any dissenting intentions towards Shi Le, then he colluded with Pei Cai, and he must have fallen for the other party's deception" If Qing can steal his correspondence, or capture the person who sent the letter, he can report to Ming Gong and cut off this trouble! ”

Zhang Pi nodded again and again, and said Don't worry, I will find a way to complete the mission delivered by Youhou.