The generals were still a little stunned, and then Wang Shifan's henchman Liu Yan spoke: "Everyone, why don't you understand what the festival marshal means?" The Son of Heaven is in trouble, and we, as the feudal towns, should raise troops and serve as kings; What's more, Zhu Quanzhong is ambitious, the reason why he didn't annex us in the past was not that he had no ambition, but that he was restrained by Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, etc., who resisted him more fiercely, and now Zhu Quanzhong's main forces are in Guanzhong, if we can't take advantage of this opportunity to expand our power, and when Zhu Quanzhong makes an empty hand in the future, who else will suffer next besides us? ”

Liu Cheng has had great ambitions since he was a child, is good at the art of war, likes to read historical biographies, and he is very smart and quite able to understand it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is good at using soldiers to set up tricks, good at using the enemy's surprise to win, and has the reputation of "one step and one hundred plans".

As Wang Shifan's confidant, Liu Yan naturally understood Wang Shifan's thoughts. In fact, before the arrival of the edict of the Son of Heaven and Zhang Jun's letter, he persuaded Wang Shifan to send troops, but Wang Shifan was still a little hesitant at that time; But after seeing the edict of the Son of Heaven and Zhang Jun's letter, Wang Shifan finally made up his mind.

At this time, Wang Shishi's younger brother Wang Shilu also spoke: "Everyone, now that the Central Plains is empty, the number of troops is very small, and my Qingzhou has always been respectful to Zhu Quanzhong, he definitely never thought that our army would raise troops to fight against him." So now is a good time for us to make a difference, and please don't hesitate! ”

Wang Shifan's cronies also opened their mouths to persuade one after another, and then all the generals present finally reacted, knowing that Wang Shifan did not improvise after listening to the holy decree, but had already had the idea of raising troops, and even discussed it with his henchmen.

For these generals, it is their ideal to make meritorious contributions, and since their commanders have already made up their minds to fight, what do they have to hesitate about as generals?

"The last general is willing to follow the commander to the death and crusade against the traitor Zhu Quanzhong!" At this time, everyone's opinions were finally unified.

However, although it was decided to raise troops, Wang Shifan also knew that with the strength of Pinglu Town alone, even if he took advantage of the emptiness of the Central Plains to launch a surprise attack, he would still not be able to defeat Zhu Quanzhong's main force when he returned, so it was necessary to find allies.

At present, the most suitable allies were undoubtedly Huainan Yang Xingmi and Hedong Li Keyong, and Wang Fan immediately ordered to send envoys to the two places to seek reinforcements.

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Two days later, the envoy from Guangling rushed all the way into Tian Yan's camp outside Hangzhou, and the news he brought to Tian Yan shocked the generals.

"The king has an order, let Tian Zhijun immediately withdraw his troops and return to Xuanzhou, and must not continue to fight with the king of Yue!" As soon as he entered the big tent, Shang Gongnai loudly announced the military order sent by Yang Xingmi.

Shang Gongnai has a "work ethic" of "taking whom's salary will do things for whomever he wants", he was conscientious and conscientious when he was under Feng Hongduo, and now he is still doing so under Yang Xingmi.

"What, why do you want our troops to withdraw?" Tian Yan was shocked and angry.

When the Wuyong Capital Incident first happened, he didn't think that Yang Xingmi might prevent him from sending troops to Hangzhou to expand his power, but after Huainan sent troops to attack Suzhou first, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was nominally in the same group with Huainan after all, even if Yang Xingmi was afraid of expanding his power, he would not let go of this opportunity to weaken Qian Biao.

Later, after Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi invited him to send troops to Hangzhou, even if he did not get Yang Xingmi's military order, he led the army to besiege Hangzhou, and Yang Xingmi did not send anyone to interfere with his private sending troops. In view of this, Tian Yan thought that he and Yang Xingmi had reached a tacit understanding: Huainan would capture Suzhou and Huzhou, and he would capture Hangzhou, Yuezhou and other places.

With this "tacit understanding", even though he knew that attacking Hangzhou would indirectly help Huainan share the pressure, he did not complain at all.

During this time, although he and Qian Biao had their own victories and defeats, in general, it was his side that gradually gained the upper hand.

When the news of the loss of Suzhou and Huzhou came, although he was a little worried that Yang Xingmi would not demolish him down, he felt that Yang Xingmi had always been a kind person, so he didn't think much about it, but hoped that the news of the fall of Suzhou and Huzhou would hit the morale of Qian Biao's side hard.

In fact, the morale of Qian Biao's side was indeed greatly reduced, and even if Huainan did not send troops to help him, he was confident that he would defeat Qian Biao and seize Hangzhou, but he did not expect that Yang Xingmi would send an order for him to withdraw his troops at such a critical moment.

"Despicable! Shameless! Feelings: You just captured Su and Hu Erzhou, and you turned your face and demolished me for me? Tian Yan couldn't help but curse in his heart.

"Now that our army is about to capture Hangzhou, why do we want our army to withdraw at this moment?" Many generals on the side of the royal altar were also indignant.

These generals also fought endlessly during this time, and finally gained a little upper hand, but they didn't expect Yang Xingmi to send an order to withdraw their troops at such a time. At this time, they only scolded their mothers in their hearts, but they didn't have the courage to do so much in front of Shang Gongnai.

Shang Gongnai shook his head and said: "The king has an order, and now Zhu Quanzhong has sent his nephew Zhu Youning to lead an army of 60,000 troops to garrison Suzhou, and it is possible to go south at any time." Therefore, at such a time, our army cannot fight on both sides, and must negotiate peace with Qian Biao. ”

"What kind of reason is this, not to mention that Zhu Youning only has 60,000 people, even if he goes south, he can't help me Huainan, not to mention that Qian Biao has been a grasshopper after the autumn for a long time, and it is time to sweep him away in one fell swoop, how can he withdraw the army?"

Tian Yan was furious, if it weren't for Shen Wenchang on the side, he couldn't stop glancing at him, he was afraid that he would have already flared up, he barely suppressed his anger: "The general will be disobeyed by the foreign monarch's order, now is a good time to eliminate Qian Biao, our army must not retreat here, you go back first, I will repair a letter to explain to the king." ”

"Tian Envoy Jun, Wang Rang once said when he came down that the Xuanzhou army must retreat no matter what, and must no longer fight with King Yue, this is a military order, please don't let the envoy be embarrassed!"

Tian Yan was furious and said loudly: "This is a chaotic life. That Qian Biao is ambitious, he has been at war with the king for many years, and has always been the king's henchman, and now he finally has the opportunity to eliminate Qian Biao, but let our army withdraw his troops, this must be a treacherous villain behind the back to bewitch the king! ”

Shang Gongnai was unmoved, and said with a sneer: "What, does Tian Yuanjun still want to come to the 'Qingjun side'?" ”

Tian Yan's face turned red with anger, although he did have the idea of "Qingjun's side", but how dare he admit it at this time, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the messenger and said: "You, you ......"

Shang Gongnai didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and then said: "The king also let me take the next word, saying that if the envoy does not withdraw his troops, the king will appoint another Xuanzhou assassin to guard Xuanzhou on your behalf!" ”

At this time, the big tent suddenly quieted down, only the sound of Tian Yan being angry and exhaling loudly, but Shang Gongnai was watching his nose and nose, and his nose was watching and waiting for Tian Yan to reply.

"It's too much of a deception! It's too much of a deception! This Yang Xingshu doesn't give me a way to live at all! ”

Tian Yan secretly gritted his teeth and called Yang Xingmi's name, Yang Xingmi was originally called Yang Xingmi, but Gao Yu thought that this name was not good, so he changed it to his current name. But now no one dares to call him by his name back then, that is, Tian Yan is very angry to dare to do this.