Reduce the pressure on the Liang army, so that Dai Siyuan can lead the army south to fight the Wu army? This idea looks very good, and Li Cunqiao has just announced it and has been unanimously approved by all the generals.

However, when it came to giving up Desheng Nancheng, the generals were not very happy.

At the beginning, in order to build the southern city of Desheng, the Jin army did not know how much effort it had put in and how many soldiers it had lost, before it succeeded in building the city and firmly nailed it to the south bank of the Yellow River, which gave the Liang army a headache.

Now directly give up Desheng South City, and all the generals are not very reluctant.

More importantly, if the southern city of Desheng is abandoned, then the only ferry controlled by the Jin army is Yang Liudu, and Yang Liudu is in Yunzhou, far away from the core area of the Liang State, and even if the Jin army goes south in the future, it will have to fight with the Wu army or the Liang army in Yang Liudu.

"Generals must understand that although the Liang army is currently facing pressure from the Wu army, it is our army that they are more vigilant about. If we don't give up Desheng Nancheng and transfer the main force of the army away, how can we make the Liang army rest assured that the main force will be mobilized south? Now that the decision has been made to let the Liang army and the Wu army consume each other, a Desheng Nancheng is reluctant to give up, how can this be done? ”

Li Cunxun strongly agreed with the generals who first pacified Hebei and then crossed the river to the south, so he was extremely supportive of Li Cunxuan's decision.

However, Li Siyuan was a general who strongly advocated going south to fight with the Wu army for the Central Plains, and in the battle of Huliupo, the Jin army was defeated at first, and in the confusion, Li Siyuan lost contact with other armies, so he led his subordinates to cross the Yellow River north and return to Hebei.

After crossing the river, he learned that Li Cunmiao was surrounded in Huliupo, and the situation of the Jin army was extremely critical.

At that time, among the many generals of the Jin army, except for Li Siyuan, other generals followed Li Cunqiao to fight, and the veteran Zhou Dewei was even killed in battle, and he was the only one who crossed the river and returned to the north.

Afterwards, Li Cunmiao's attitude towards him suddenly became much colder, and he himself was even more ashamed, and he always wanted to make up for his mistakes.

So among the generals of the Jin army now, the most radical and adventurous general, in addition to Li Cunqiao, is Li Siyuan.

He stood up and objected loudly: "Great King, if you give up Desheng City, then our army's ferry will only be Yang Liu; At that time, as long as the Wu army concentrates its forces to besiege Yang Liu, it can easily block our army in Hebei, so as to achieve the goal of monopolizing the Central Plains. Is the king willing to see such an outcome? ”

Li Cunmiao's face was cloudy, and he didn't know the danger of giving up Desheng, Yunzhou was now being besieged by the Wu army, and once Yunzhou was lost, the Wu army would be able to enter and besiege Yang Liudu.

More importantly, the Wu army has always been known as a naval army, as long as Yunzhou is taken, the Wu army's naval army can go all the way north along the Grand Canal and drive into the Yellow River.

At that time, the Wu army blocked the Yellow River with a powerful naval army, which was stronger than the Liang army's Yellow River defense line, and it was more difficult to break through.

As long as the Yellow River is blocked, the Wu army will be able to calmly deal with the Liang State, and then annex the Central Plains alone.

And if the Desheng Ferry is left, because the Desheng Ferry has iron cables running through both sides of the Yellow River, which can block the Wu army's naval army, plus the pontoon bridge connection between the two Desheng cities in the north and south, it is much less difficult for the Jin army to cross the river south from here.

"Then in your opinion, how should Gu reassure Liang Jun and then transfer troops to deal with Wu Jun?" Li Cunqiao asked in a deep voice.

"Why does the king pin his hopes on Liang Jun? The last general heard that the Wu army is now attacking Yunzhou, and if the king allows, the last general is willing to lead 5,000 elite troops to cross the river to the south, raid the Wu army, and seize Yunzhou! Li Siyuan said loudly.

"What? Raid the Wu army and capture Yunzhou? The generals were taken aback by his proposal.

"Dare to ask the general, not to mention whether the five thousand people can defeat the Wu army and capture Yunzhou, even if it is done, then what next? What is the general going to do next? If the Wu army cannot be completely defeated, what is the use of simply defeating the Wu army outside Yunzhou City? Li Cunxian frowned and asked.

"Next, turn the Great War between the two countries between the State of Wu and the State of Liang into the War of the Three Kingdoms. Our army pinned down the Wu army with a small number of troops, so that the Wu army could not attack the Liang State with all its might, and at the same time, the king commanded the main force to pacify Zhenzhou. After the king pacifies Zhenzhou, he will lead the main force to cross the river and compete with the Wu army! Li Siyuan said loudly.

When the generals heard this, they all groaned, and Li Cunxian also thought seriously about his suggestion.

raided Yunzhou with a small number of troops to prevent the Wu army's naval army from entering the Yellow River, and at the same time it was able to contain the Wu army and reduce the pressure on the Liang army; At the same time, because there were not many troops mobilized, it would not affect the war in Zhenzhou, and Li Cunqiao could wait for Zhenzhou to be pacified before crossing the river to the south.

It seems that this suggestion is better than Li Cunqiao's previous decision, not only can he grasp the initiative, but also he does not have to give up the key point of Desheng Ferry; However, there are so many areas to take risks in this plan.

The first is the question of how to defeat the Wu army and seize Yunzhou.

It is difficult to say how many troops the Wu army besieging the city outside Yunzhou City has, if Li Siyuan is allowed to lead 5,000 troops to attack them, no one dares to guarantee whether they can win; Even if he wins, how to capture Yunzhou is also a problem, and you can't hope that the defenders of Yunzhou will surrender directly, right?

In addition, after capturing Yunzhou, if the Wu army concentrates its forces to besiege Yunzhou, how long can it hold out with 5,000 troops? If you can't hold on and need reinforcements, if the main force of the Jin army happens to be pinned down by Zhenzhou or the Khitans at that time, you can't count on the Liang army to rescue Yunzhou, right?

In short, Li Siyuan's proposition looks good, but there are too many risky places, that is, Li Cunxuan, who is also adventurous, shook his head after thinking carefully and said: "Although the manager's proposal is good, it is too risky, please forgive Gu for not agreeing to your decision." ”

Li Siyuan couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard this, but he also knew that his suggestion was too risky, and it was normal for Li Cunqiao to refuse.

"Lone decided, according to what I said before, to abandon the Desheng Nancheng Ferry, and at the same time build a city on the north bank of Yang Liudu, echo the city on the south bank, and strengthen the garrison of Yang Liudu." Li Cunqiao finally announced.

He slowly looked at the generals and ordered: "Li Cun trial hearing order." ”

"The end will be."

"After the lone army left, I ordered you to guard the northern city of Desheng and monitor the fighting movements of Wu and Liang in the south at all times."

"The last general commands." Li Cunxian hugged his fists.

Li Cunqiao then looked at Li Siyuan and said, "Li Siyuan listens to orders." ”

"The end will be."

"I ordered you to be responsible for building a city on the north bank of Yang Liu, and at the same time be responsible for the military affairs of Yang and Liu, and you must not slack off in the slightest."

"The last general commands." Li Siyuan was overjoyed in his heart and hurriedly replied.

Giving up Desheng Nancheng means that the focus of the Jin army will be shifted to Yang Liudu's side, and Li Siyuan, as the person in charge of Yang Liudu's side, will naturally have a rising position.

Of course, while the expansion of rights also means an increase in responsibility, if Yang Liudu cannot be kept this key point, then he will be more responsible in the future.

After Li Cunqiao made his decision, the generals quickly began to mobilize their forces according to his arrangement.

In mid-October, before the Jin army could make any moves, new news came that the Dingzhou Yiwu army had mutinied, and the king of Beiping was imprisoned by his righteous son, Wang Du.

It turned out that Wang Chuzhi had no son at the beginning, and later took in a child named "Liu Yunlang" as his son, and named it Wang Du.

When this king grew up, he was very good at flattery, and was deeply liked by Wang Chuzhi; Later, Wang Chuzhi specially built a new army to make Wang Du commander.

After taking in the royal capital, Wang Chuzhi later had a son named Wang Yu.

Unlike Wang Du, although this Wang Yu is Wang Chuzhi's own son, he has not been loved by Wang Chuzhi, and later simply defected to the Jin Kingdom, Li Keyong married his daughter to him, and promoted them successively, and now serves as the training envoy of the Xinzhou regiment.

Wang Yu defected to the Jin Kingdom, and was not close to Wang Chuzhi, and the other sons were still young, so Wang Chuzhi simply wanted to pass on the throne to Wang Du, the adopted son, and appointed him as the deputy envoy of Jiedu.

Now that the Jin army is crusading against Zhenzhou, Wang Chuzhi knows the truth of the death of his lips and teeth, and is worried that it will be difficult for Dingzhou to survive alone after the death of Zhenzhou, so he strongly opposes the Jin State's crusade against Zhenzhou, and advocates leniency for Zhang Wenli, but unfortunately was finally rejected by Li Cunmiao.

Wang Chuzhi, who has been worried about this matter for the past few months, suddenly remembered that he also had a son who served as a regimental training envoy in Xinzhou.

Xinzhou is located north of Taiyuan, not far from Datong, close to the territory of the Khitans.

Wang Chuzhi secretly sent someone to persuade Wang Yu to bribe the Khitans and lead the Khitans to invade the Jin border, so that the siege of Zhenzhou could be lifted.

It's a pity that although Wang Chuzhi's plan is thoughtful, it ignores the internal opposition.

For the northern states, the Khitans were not a good thing, so there were many people within the Yiwu Army who opposed colluding with the Khitans.

What's more, in order to make Wang Yu agree to collude with the Khitans, Wang Chuzhi specially sent someone to promise him that he would be established as the heir in the future.

This immediately made Wang Du feel seriously threatened, so Wang Du joined forces with the officials and generals of the Yiwu Army who opposed collusion with the Khitans, imprisoned Wang Chuzhi, and told Li Cunqiao what had happened.

After getting the news, Li Cunqiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Yiwu Army also made a mess at this time, he would really have a headache for a long time.

Now that Wang Chuzhi is imprisoned, the Yiwu army is too busy to take care of itself, and it is naturally impossible to make chaos, as long as Li Cunqiao sends someone to appease and appoint Wang Du as the new Yiwu army festival envoy, then Dingzhou will naturally be stable.

The only thing that worries Li Cunmiao is that Wang Yu has already colluded with the Khitans, coupled with the persuasion of Lu Wenjin in Pingzhou, I am afraid that this Khitan invasion is a foregone conclusion.

At the thought of having another big battle with the Khitans, Li Cunqiao couldn't help but feel a headache.

At the end of October, the Jin king Li Cunqiao personally led a large army to besiege Zhenzhou, when the banner of the Jin king was raised under the city of Zhenzhou, the morale of the Jin army suddenly soared, and the morale of the defenders in the city was greatly frustrated.

The prestige of this name in Hebei is as heavy as that of Yang Wu in the south, even those ambitious people everywhere cannot help but be afraid in the face of the army led by Li Cunmiao himself.

It didn't take long for Li Cunmiao to personally command the army to launch fierce offences one after another, beating the defenders in the city to a miserable beating.

In early November, Zhang Chujin sent his henchmen Qi Jian and his younger brother Zhang Chuqi to the Jin army camp to ask for surrender.

Although Li Cunmiao has the heart to accept it, the generals believe that the Zhenzhou Rebellion must be severely punished, otherwise how can they warn the world and comfort the spirit of Zhao Wang Rong in the sky?

If you accept the surrender of Zhenzhou, then how to deal with Zhang Chujin and others? How to explain to King Zhao's old department?

Besides, Shi Jianjian's revenge has not yet been avenged, how can he accept Zhang Chujin's surrender?

Yan Bao even believed that it would not be long before the Jin army would be able to break through Zhenzhou and capture Zhang Chujin and others, and there was no need to accept their surrender.

Under the unanimous opposition of the generals, Li Cunmiao had no choice but to give up, and at the same time sent troops to step up the siege of the city, vowing to crush Zhang Chujin and others to ashes.

"Did King Jin really refuse? Isn't he worried about the war situation with Liang State? ”

On the city wall of Zhenzhou, looking at the Jin army receding like a tide, Zhang Chujin, who had long been anxious, sat down against the city wall tiredly.

As one of the three towns of Heshuo, the Chengde Army can confront the Tang Dynasty court for a long time, although it is not a big force today, but its heritage is also very deep.

Before the Jin army launched an attack, Zhang Chujin consciously stored a large amount of money, food and materials in the city, enough for the defenders to use for more than a year; At the same time, Zhang Chujin knew very well in his heart that once the Jin army attacked, the only way out was to shrink his forces, defend Zhenzhou, and wait for the situation to change.

However, now that the war had begun, and although the Jin army's attacks had been repulsed, the changes he had hoped for had never materialized.

"Childe, King Jin himself is actually a little moved by our invitation, but the generals under his command strongly oppose it, so in the end King Jin refused." Staff Qi Jian said.

"Yes, big brother, what should I do now?" Zhang Chuqi wiped the beads of sweat from his face and asked.

Zhang Chujin was silent, and at this time, Qi Jian suddenly said: "By the way, Gongzi, when I was in the camp of the Jin army before, I happened to hear a news, saying that the southern Wu State had gone on a northern expedition, and the Wu army was like a bamboo, and it captured Bozhou, Songzhou and other places one after another, and now it is almost on the edge of the Yellow River." ”

"What? The Wu army is about to hit the edge of the Yellow River? Zhang Chujin was shocked.

In the past few months, Zhenzhou has been besieged, and it is not even clear what the situation outside is now, Zhang Chujin did not expect that the situation in the Central Plains would change so much.

He originally hoped that the Liang army would send troops to support, but he didn't expect that the Liang State would be unable to protect itself now, and even an important city like Songzhou would be captured.

But then he wondered: "Since the Wu army has already gone on a northern expedition, why didn't the Jin army send troops to cross the river, but instead clung to us?" Could it be that the King of Jin is willing to see the Wu army monopolize the Central Plains? ”