"What? Huainan raised 300,000 troops to fight against Zhu Quanzhong? ”

Feng Xiang, after hearing the news of Yang Wu's troops, Li Maozhen's face was first full of surprise, and then he was overjoyed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Three years ago, after Zhu Quanzhong swept through Guanzhong, due to various reasons, although he dealt a heavy blow to Li Maozhen's forces, he could not occupy the vast territory west of Chang'an for a long time.

Although Li Maozhen has lost his past majesty, the so-called hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and he raised troops to occupy a large area of territory abandoned by Zhu Quanzhong again, and his strength has recovered.

Coupled with the alliance with Yang Chongben, a long-term confrontation with Zhu Quanzhong was formed in the western part of Chang'an.

As Jing Xiang expected, Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben were completely frightened back by Zhu Quanzhong's terrifying prestige of setting foot on Zhao Kuangning within a month last year.

But after a long time, he gradually became a little unable to sit still.

However, with the news that Zhu Quanzhong sent troops to the south, he did not immediately raise troops, but learned the lessons of last year and forcibly wanted to wait for the opportunity.

If Zhu Quanzhong can still achieve a big victory when he goes south to attack Huainan, it means that the Liang army is strong, and even Huainan, who eliminated Qian Biao, the king of Yue, is not an opponent, so he can only continue to endure.

However, if Zhu Quanzhong went south to fight unfavorably, or did not withdraw without achieving any results, it means that the strength of the Liang army is not strong enough to be invincible in the world, so as long as he is careful, it doesn't matter if he fights a few battles with the Liang army.

As for the possibility of the Liang army being defeated and returning, he hadn't thought about it before, after all, the Liang army's achievements in recent years have been too brilliant, especially when Zhu Quanzhong personally led the troops, he basically never failed.

With such a terrifying existence, Li Maozhen naturally felt that Huainan might be able to withstand their attack, but it was impossible to defeat Zhu Quanzhong.

However, in the end, the news that came to Fengxiang was that Zhu Quanzhong was defeated and returned, losing more than 70,000 soldiers, and even Kang Huaizhen, a famous general of the Liang army who had defeated him many times when he was fighting in Guanzhong, was captured and killed by Huainan, which really surprised him.

What shocked him even more was the news that Huainan Xingbing's 300,000 troops launched the Northern Expedition after that.

Because of the distance, Li Maozhen's understanding of Huainan is to eliminate the Yue King Qian Biao, with many soldiers and strong strength, which is second only to Zhu Quanzhong's powerful domain, and more information is not very clear.

But it wasn't until the news that Huainan claimed to have sent 300,000 troops this time that he understood how terrifying Huainan's strength was.

Of course, he also knew that 300,000 people must be exaggerated, even Zhu Quanzhong's mobile force was only 200,000, if Huainan had 300,000 people who could be used for the Northern Expedition, then Qian Biao should have been leveled by Huainan a long time ago, and it would not be finally wiped out after more than ten years of war with Huainan.

However, although he felt that the Huainan Army of the Northern Expedition did not have 300,000 people, he felt that there might be about 150,000 to 200,000 people, and this scale was extremely shocking.

You must know that the armies of the major powerful clans today are basically trained strong armies, unless the situation is urgent, they generally will not use those strong men who have just put down their hoes as soldiers, let alone do anything to coerce the people to increase their momentum.

Therefore, every soldier is a real combat force, not those peasant rebels who look great but are actually shattered at the slightest touch.

Therefore, if Huainan really has 200,000 troops in this Northern Expedition, then Huainan is the second feudal town in the world that can dispatch 200,000 troops to fight at a time, and there is no problem in listing Huainan as the second strongest feudal domain in the world.

As for Li Maozhen himself, after the war that lasted for more than a year three years ago, his strength has now been greatly damaged, and he can only dispatch seventy or eighty thousand people when he joins forces with Yang Chongben.

This scale is estimated to be about the same as Liu Rengong in the whole world, and it is slightly weaker than Li Keyong or Wang Jian.

As for the strength of Ma Yin in Hunan and Zhong Chuan in Jiangxi, they were weaker, and the remaining feudal towns, such as Wang Zhenzhi in Fujian, Liu Yin in Lingnan, and Li Chengqing and others in Xiazhou, were directly ignored by Li Maozhen.

Of course, this is the strength that he and Yang Chongben have joined forces, and this only counts the number of mobile troops, as for the combat effectiveness, it can't be calculated so simply.

Thinking of Li Chengqing, Li Maozhen couldn't help but feel bored.

Li Chengqing is now a vassal of Zhu Quanzhong, and often sends troops to help Zhu Quanzhong deal with him; In this way, Zhu Quanzhong planted a nail in his back, making him feel uncomfortable.

However, because of the remoteness of Xiazhou, Li Maozhen sent troops to crusade many times, and although he defeated the Dingyan army many times, he could not completely eliminate it.

At this time, the guards came to report that Yang Chongben had arrived.

After a salute, Yang Chongben said respectfully: "Has the king ever heard the news of Huainan's 300,000 troops on the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains?" ”

Li Maozhen nodded and said, "Naturally, I heard about it, what, what do you think about this matter?" ”

"The last general felt that this was the time for our army to raise troops to respond to Huainan. This time, Zhu Quanzhong raised 200,000 troops to the south, but he returned defeated, and his internal morale must be unstable; Coupled with the news of Huainan's large-scale northern expedition, the Central Plains will inevitably be greatly shaken. This is the day to destroy Zhu Quanzhong, this kind of opportunity is not much, the king must not miss it! ”

Yang Chongben used to be Li Maozhen's righteous son, so he was very respectful to him when he spoke; However, now the relationship between the two sides is equal and cooperative, so what he says also carries a lot of weight, and Li Maozhen must carefully consider his opinion.

"Are you saying that we will directly send troops to attack Zhu Quanzhong? And what about Xiazhou? Don't you take this opportunity to pull out the nail of Xiazhou? Li Maozhen said in a deep voice.

"King, Xiazhou is remote and difficult to break through in a short period of time, so it is better to respond to Huainan first and deal with Zhu Quanzhong; As long as Zhu Quanzhong's forces are driven out of Guanzhong, let's turn our heads and deal with Xiazhou, anyway, the Xiazhou army is weak, and if there is no Liang army to contain it, it is not difficult to deal with the Xiazhou army alone. Yang Chongben said in a deep voice.

In this era, Xiazhou was far less powerful than when Li Yuanhao established Western Xia; Or to be precise, it is not how strong the Dingyan army of later generations is, but that the Song army of later generations is too weak, and Li Yuanhao's personal ability is good, so the Dingyan army can defeat the Song army repeatedly.

In this era, although it cannot be said that it is a dispensable role to play soy sauce, even Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben can easily suppress him, and defeat him many times, as for Zhu Quanzhong, Li Keyong and other stronger feudal towns, their strength is far above the Dingyan army.

Listening to Yang Chongben's words, Li Maozhen nodded in agreement.

He was originally inclined to attack Zhu Quanzhong first, and since Yang Chongben also had this opinion, he naturally would not object.

Soon, Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben marched eastward again, aiming at Chang'an.

Jinyang.

After hearing the news that Huainan defeated Zhu Quanzhong and raised troops to the north, claiming to be 300,000, Li Keyong did not act in a hurry like Li Maozhen.

After so many years, perhaps because of his age, he is finally not as irritable as he was at the beginning.

It can be said that it has become negative and decadent, but it can also be said that it has become calm.

In short, after hearing the news of Huainan's troops, although he was happy that his old enemy had suffered a heavy blow, he was not very interested in sending troops to fight against Zhu Quanzhong.

"Father, why didn't you respond to such a good opportunity? If the major feudal towns send troops together, no matter how powerful Zhu Quanzhong is, he will not be able to resist it! On the side, Li Cunqiao saw that he was not interested, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"No hurry, no hurry!" Li Ke shook his head with a smile and said: "My father ate too much of this impatient personality back then, and after teaching it again and again, I have to understand it a little bit!" ”

He took a slow sip of wine, put down the wine glass, and then asked: "Do you see why Zhu Quanzhong didn't stay in Huaibei to resist the Northern Expedition of the Huainan Army after this defeat, but immediately led the army back to Bianzhou?" ”

"He's concentrating his forces, ready to accumulate enough strength first, and then give the enemy a hard blow!" Li Cunqiao woke up.

"Not bad!" Li Keyong laughed: "Although Zhu Quanzhong's strength has been damaged, he is still the strongest domain in the world today, whether it is Hedong for his father or Huainan for Yang Xingmi, it is not comparable." ”

Therefore, Zhu Quanzhong's return to Bianzhou this time was actually to concentrate his troops and prepare to attack the feudal towns that jumped out to respond to Huainan first. And because he has the most power at this time, this punch must be ruthless and accurate. Therefore, the father can't be the first to come forward at this time, otherwise he will definitely be hit by Zhu Quanzhong's fatal blow! ”

Li Cunmiao nodded, he obviously understood this truth, but he still asked: "But father, if everyone is worried about being hit by Zhu Quanzhong, wouldn't this opportunity to deal with Zhu Quanzhong with Huainan be wasted?" How can we talk about eliminating Zhu Quanzhong in the future? ”

After all, Li Cunmiao is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and he doesn't know how strong Zhu Quanzhong's strength is now, so he naturally doesn't think there is anything wrong with coming out at the earliest.

In his opinion, Hedong's power has been declining for several years, and it will be better to take advantage of the current opportunity to revive Hedong's prestige.

Li Keyong laughed with haha: "Don't worry, you don't need to be the first to come out as a father, naturally someone will be the first!" After suffering so many losses for my father, I finally woke up, and it was not too late! But now there are still stupid people like my father in the world! ”

Li Cunqiao pondered for a moment, and then reacted: "Father is talking about Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben? It is possible that these two people would have come out first. ”

"It's these two! Just wait, I'm sure it won't be long before news comes in! Rick smiled with a nod.

Soon, new news came that Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben raised 60,000 troops and attacked Chang'an.