"Then Jiang Huan Song ordered me to attack Penglai this time, do I still want to go?" Zeng Dong finally calmed down.

"Of course I'm going, what Huan Yan wanted to do most before his death was to unify the five kingdoms for the first emperor, and we had to fulfill his last wish for him. Besides, you can also take the opportunity to go to Penglai to expand your strength, although our navy is strong, but all military expenditures have to rely on Jiang Huan Song, once we lose his support, we can't even pay our military salaries. Lu Xinghai also has the heart to make Jiaozhou independent.

"I understand that we have to have our own hematopoietic function. The Nujiao Gang has nothing else, that is, there are many ships, and we also have to develop overseas trade. The best thing to do now is the Tianluo Sect, Princess Wan'er is the wife of the sect leader, and after I take Penglai, I will send someone to find her. Zeng Dong thought about the future development direction of the Nujiao Gang in a moment.

Lu Xinghai nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, I'm old, and the Nujiao Gang will only rely on you in the future." ”

After the two returned to the port, Zeng Dong counted the men and asked the shipyard to start building a large merchant ship. Thinking that after he took Penglai, there should be a few ships to launch.

After explaining the affairs of the gang, Zeng Dong took eighty warships to anchor and rushed to Penglai, and this time even Lu Xinghai personally came to the dock to see him off.

Half a month later, when the Qi warship was about to sail into the port of Penglai, it found that a small boat was in the way.

Vice Adjutant Chen Shipeng was just about to give the order to sink it, Zeng Dong walked out of the cabin: "Slow down, let a small boat go over and ask, see who the other party is?" ”

In the face of eighty warships, he dared to stand in his way, Zeng Dong was also full of curiosity about the person in front of him.

"General, the owner of the boat said that he was an old acquaintance of yours and invited you to come and meet you." The spies soon returned.

"Bold, this man is so rude, the general will wait a while, and the last general will go and send him away." Chen Shipeng is also a master of the Nujiao Gang, and he immediately wants to use light skills to jump out.

"Wait." Zeng Dong stopped him again, and mobilized his internal force and shouted towards the small boat: "Who is Zunjia?" Why are you standing in the way of my army? ”

"General Zeng, I have something important to discuss with you, please come over and talk about it." A woman's voice came from the boat opposite.

Zeng Dong's face changed when he heard this, and he hurriedly jumped into the boat and rowed towards the opposite side.

"Her Royal Highness the princess will participate in the end, hey, the stone sect leader is also there?" Zeng Dong got into the cabin and saw two people sitting inside, one of them was Jiang Wan'er, the eldest princess of Qi Kingdom, and the other was her husband, Shi Luosheng, the leader of the Tianluo Sect.

"General Zeng doesn't have to be polite, it's inconvenient for me to show up at the moment, so I invited you over in this way, and I hope the general won't be surprised." Jiang Wan'er gave a slight salute.

Zeng Dong hurriedly returned the salute: "Why did His Highness appear here?" Hasn't Penglai been occupied by Ning Buqu? ”

"Do you know about the third brother?" Jiang Wan'er didn't answer, but asked Jiang Huanyan.

Zeng Dong's expression was a little gloomy: "Is the Third Highness no longer there?" ”

"So you guessed that?" Jiang Wan'er said Shi Luosheng's inference, although the angle was slightly different from Lu Xinghai's inference, but the conclusion was that Jiang Huanyan had been killed by the current Emperor Qi.

"Although I came here to attack Penglai on the orders of Jiang Huan Song this time, I am also preparing for revenge for His Royal Highness in the future." Zeng Dong already hated Jiang Huan and Song, and he no longer called him His Majesty.

After speaking, Zeng Dong thought about it, and told him and Lu Xinghai's plans again, because he planned to cooperate with the Tianluo Sect to develop overseas trade in the future, so there was nothing to hide.

"There is no problem with the trade matter, I came here this time to persuade you to give up attacking Penglai, because Ning Bu gave in to make trouble in Yandi, which was decided after I discussed it with my fourth brother."

Jiang Wan'er's words surprised Zeng Dong, but he was relieved to remember the scene when the fourth prince and Ning Bu became confidants when they attacked Nanjun.

"If I don't move forward, I'm afraid that Jiang Huan and Song will not be able to explain it." Zeng Dong was worried that Emperor Qi would be angry with the Nujiao Gang, and now that they had no hematopoietic function, once Jiang Huan Song ordered an economic blockade of Jiaozhou, it would be a problem for them to eat.

"Don't worry about this, I have a plan to make Jiang Huan Song dare not attack you easily." Shi Luosheng, who had been sitting next to Jiang Wan'er, suddenly spoke.

"Sect Master Shi, please advise." Zeng Dong was very polite to Shi Luosheng, not only because he was the eldest princess's concubine, but also because he was also Jiang Huanyan's only recognized friend.

"Jiang Huan Song deceived the world and said that the third brother was guarding filial piety in Jingsiyuan, and I am worried that it will not be long before he will announce that the third brother died due to excessive grief, which can not only avoid the three-year period, but also make people never know the truth."

"How's that going to work? His Royal Highness can't be killed by someone like this, Sect Master Shi, is there anything you can do to stop him? Zeng Dong felt that with Jiang Huan Song's personality, it was very likely to do so.

Shi Luosheng nodded and continued: "It's not difficult to pierce him, but you need your help, General Zeng. I heard that General Sun Zhongmou had returned to Shangjing from Bingzhou, and was preparing to raise 100,000 troops to Yandi to exterminate Ning Buqu. I hope that General Zeng can go to Hanzhong to stop him under the banner of His Royal Highness. ”

"Under the banner of the Third Highness? But His Royal Highness should be guarding filial piety in Jingsiyuan now. Zeng Dong was puzzled.

Shi Luosheng shook his head: "No, the third brother is in Jing Si Yuan is just Jiang Huan Song himself, and no one has seen it." And you are the deputy of the third brother, if you appear in Hanzhong under the banner of the third brother, what do you say will be the reaction of the world? ”

"yes, I didn't think of that. If His Royal Highness was really killed by Jiang Huan Song, he would not be able to expose what I said was a lie. Zeng Dong suddenly realized.

"Yes, everyone in the world knows that you are the deputy general of the third brother, and you have all the tokens of the third brother in the army, so your words are naturally more credible than Jiang Huan Song. He can't refute you, unless the third brother is really in the meditation garden. ”

Jiang Wan'er also echoed: "Although the eldest brother knows that what you said is false, he doesn't dare to do anything to you, let alone do anything to the Nujiao Gang, because he is worried that you will use the name of the third brother to say something else, such as before his father's death, he made another edict to abolish the eldest brother's position as the crown prince and re-establish the fourth brother as the emperor." ”

Zeng Dong's face changed, and he naturally guessed that what Jiang Wan'er said had another deep meaning, and the death of the Third Highness may have been caused by Jiang Wushuang's change of edict before his death, but Jiang Wan'er had no evidence, so it was difficult to say.

"Okay, according to the sect leader's plan, Zeng will take people to Hanzhong to stop General Sun's march to Yandi." After some consideration, Zeng Dong decided to adopt Shi Luosheng's suggestion.

"Great, the general can take people to land directly from Penglai, most of Yandi is still the territory of Qi now, and the general can go all the way unimpeded." Shi Luosheng was overjoyed when he agreed.

"After General Sun arrives in Hanzhong, General, you can send someone to find him with the third brother's token. At that time, General Sun will definitely go to Jiang Huan Song for verification, but unfortunately Jiang Huan Song is difficult to ride a tiger, so he can only acquiesce to the fact that the third brother is in Hanzhong, no matter whether he will order to continue the siege of the city at that time, there is a delay during this time, and it is enough to recover a large amount of Yan land unyieldingly. ”

The three of them chatted about the details again, and then Zeng Dong landed from Penglai with an army of 30,000 and went straight to Hanzhong City, and Shi Luosheng also took Jiang Wan'er to the next stop.

Although Yuzhou City is strong, Deng Yuanjue and Wu Teng have been guarding here for many years, and the people in the city don't want to fight with them, so they adopt an attitude of not helping each other.

This can be bitter for the defenders at the head of the city, because Yuzhou has always implemented the policy of hiding soldiers from the people, these people can become soldiers when they pick up weapons during war, and after the war, they can become farmers when they put down their weapons.

Losing the support of the people, the combat effectiveness of the defenders dropped by at least 30%. It wasn't until Xiao Yin, who returned to the Song Dynasty, came to support with 30,000 forbidden troops that the one-sided battle situation was slightly reversed.

"General, the situation is a little wrong, Ning Bu yielded to the incident in Yandi, after he took Anyang, the soldiers were divided into two routes, one was led by the deputy general Niu Qingyuan to recover the old land of Yanguo, and the other was led by himself himself, after taking Liuzhou, he went all the way north, and broke through Fuquan and Liping in a row, and now the troops are under Guangyuan City, his army has exceeded 80,000 people, and this posture seems to be killing us." In the handsome camp, the worried Wu Teng was reporting to Deng Yuanjue on the battle situation in Yandi.

"The three cities of Fuquan, Liping and Guangyuan were originally the old lands of the Yan Kingdom, and it is not possible to say that they are coming at us if they do not give in to attack them." Wu Shuang, who was standing on the side, said that since he took away the 100,000 troops stationed in Yandi, the defense there was very empty, and it was normal for Ning Buqu to take it quickly.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, you see that Niu Qingyuan's army is only 30,000 people, and it stands to reason that he is the main force to recover Yan Kingdom. If Ning Buqu was just for these three cities, there would be no need to bring so many people. I'm afraid that after he takes Guangyuan, he will continue to wave his troops north and attack our Jizhou County. "Wu Teng is best at defense, and he can also see more things that ordinary people can't see from some details.

Deng Yuanjue has always attached importance to Wu Teng's opinion, and he also feels that there is a problem in it: "The safety of Jizhou County is related to our entire rear, and there is no room for failure." Wu Shuang, you take 20,000 people to Shaozhou to garrison, if Ning Buqu really dares to come to fight my Jizhou, I will send reinforcements to support you. ”

"There is another thing, the spy said that Jiang Huanyan, the king of Lu of Qi State, came to Hanzhong City, but it is very strange that he did not trouble Ning Buqu, but instead blocked Sun Zhongmou outside." Wu Teng continued to report.

Deng Yuanjue thought for a while and smiled: "This Jiang Huanyan must be fake, someone asked Zeng Dong to pretend to be him to test Emperor Qi, but Jiang Huan Song could only suffer a dumb loss, admitting that Jiang Huanyan had left Jingsiyuan and went to the battlefield again." But who is the person behind this? Why would Ning Buqu also know about Zeng Dong's plan? ”