"Of course, Jinling is also within the scope of my attack, and now Tang Zhiqi has led his troops to Jinling, but if we want to take Jinling, we first need to conquer Runzhou, so that Runzhou and Yangzhou are like two gates, which can completely keep the sailors of the prince Li Hong out of the door and isolate Jinling, in this way, Jinling is not a turtle in the urn, and it is easy to get it!" Li Jingye said with a mysterious and triumphant smile.

"Clever strategy, but if Runzhou can't be taken in a short time, and the waterway can't completely block Li Hong's sailors, we can't sit still, right?" King Yue was still a little worried, and always felt that something was wrong.

"Of course, so Li Jingzhen bypassed Runzhou and continued to go south to conquer Changzhou, so that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still took care of it?" Li Jingye smiled predictably, but several other people were relieved at the same time.

At this moment, a soldier hurriedly ran in sweating, and gasped: "My lord, there are no large ships on the Yangzhou wharf or the Yangtze River, and even two hundred miles away, no large ships have been found. ”

"What? Is there a five-tooth battleship? Li Jingye stood up and walked up to the soldier and asked sharply.

"Back to the people, there are no Wuya warships, even none, except for fishing boats and merchant ships, there are no other ships." The soldier let the sweat on his forehead, with a bitter salty taste flowing into his eyes, and in the face of the angry Li Jingye, he didn't dare to wipe it easily.

With the soldier's confirmed answer, everyone fell into silence again, and the atmosphere in the hall became even more dull and depressing.

Pei Wang Li Xian didn't say anything, just watched them argue with a calm expression, didn't dare to say a word, sat awkwardly at the top, and had to look at the bitter expressions of these people.

"There is no sailor, no army to follow, and then two hundred iron tools go straight to Yangzhou? What is the purpose exactly? Negotiate peace? Li Jingye's eyes were about to pop out, this most unlikely possibility, now in his opinion, seemed to have become the only reason for the prince to come alone.

In the face of Li Jingye's doubts, whether it was King Cao or King Yue, or King Langya and Wei Siwen, no one could give him a clear answer.

Seeing that there was no reaction from the people seated, Li Jingye could only think of King Luo Bin now, he had followed the crown prince Li Hong to conquer Anxi, maybe he could give him advice.

So he turned his head to look at Wei Siwen and asked, "Did King Luo Bin send supplies to Zhichong Mansion a few days ago?" ”

"I'm back, I came back early this morning, didn't you say he worked hard, let him go back to rest." Wei Siwen said hurriedly.

"Call him over at once." Li Jingye waved his hand and asked Wei Siwen to hurry up and find Luo Bingwang.

"No hurry!" Li Zhen, the king of Yue, stood up and stopped.

Looking at Li Jingye's puzzled expression, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, had no choice but to explain: "Now the top priority is not to find King Luo Bing to dedicate himself, but the prince is afraid that he is about to arrive at the city gate at this time, should we welcome or refuse?" ”

The topic thrown by Li Zhen, the king of Yue, slammed on everyone's chest like a thousand pounds of heavy stones, and in the face of this problem that weighed as much as a thousand pounds, everyone felt a heavy sense of oppression that could not breathe.

The atmosphere in the lobby seemed to be frozen all of a sudden, yes, now that the crown prince Li Hong is outside the city, should he welcome him or refuse him to enter the city?

Refusing him, that is, there is no way out at all, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Prince, whether there are troops ambushed around Yangzhou, immediately refused His Royal Highness the Prince's words to enter the city, in case Yangzhou City has been surrounded, already within his control, what should I do?

To welcome him into the city is to lure the wolf into the house, and if he does not have a large army behind him, it is better to say, if there is...... I'm afraid that for all of you here, it will be a catastrophe.

After thinking about it, the only thing that made them entangled was obviously not to welcome or refuse His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to enter the city, but most importantly, they still hadn't figured out His Royal Highness's intentions and whether he had soldiers and horses to follow!

The atmosphere in the lobby is still a little stiff, everyone doesn't know what they're thinking, and everyone doesn't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is trying to do when he enters the city so alone, and what he relies on!

"I thought it was better to let the prince Li Hong enter the city, I would wait to meet him at the city gate, after all, now the dedicated army has not yet conquered any city in the hall, and the deployment of government troops can find another excuse to perfunctory the prince, and the most important thing at the moment is to find out his intention." Li Ming, the king of Cao, thought about it and felt that Li Hong should still be allowed to enter the city.

"What Uncle Wang said is very true, now we rely on fantasy and speculation, and obviously we don't think about what the prince's intentions are, so why don't we welcome him into the city and knock on the side? In this way, we can put the prince's words and deeds under our noses, and it will also help us control the prince's actions, so that such a ridiculous thing as today will not happen again. In this way, even if he has thousands of troops behind him, won't he become timid because he is under our control? Li Chong, the king of Langya, echoed the proposal of Li Ming, the king of Cao, and said.

Li Jingye looked at a few of them hesitantly, and muttered thoughtfully: "But the two princes can think of it, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should also be able to think of it, he will let us control his actions so easily?" Obviously, he took the initiative to send it to the door this time ....... ”

"Dedication, I thought that King Cao and Chong'er's proposal could be considered, we only rely on speculation now, obviously we can't grasp the prince's accurate motives, your guess just now is completely opposite to the situation we are facing, His Royal Highness the prince is in the official road without a large army, Yangzhou wharf, even two hundred miles away, not even a five-tooth warship, in this way, if you want to know yourself and know the enemy, I am afraid that it will not work if you do not welcome the prince into the city, not to mention, after welcoming him into the city, the initiative is not more firmly in our hands?" Li Zhen, the king of Yue, pondered it, walked up to Li Jingye, and said earnestly.

"That'...... In that case, we will immediately go to the gate of the city to greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Li Jingye's hesitant gaze swept back and forth on the three of them, and finally said with some uncertainty.

"Good! I'll welcome him into the city first, and see what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd, Li Hong. Cao Wang Li Ming also stood up from his chair.

Li Jingye's heart was still a little unsteady, but at this moment, he couldn't help but think about the stakes in detail, so he could only follow Cao Wang Li Ming and others to the city gate.

But this did not affect him, sent someone to find King Luo Bin, King Luo Bin followed the prince to fight in Anxi, and during this time, he has been wandering around Yangzhou, and the various Zhichong Mansions are most familiar with the movements of Yangzhou City and the movements of each Zhichong Mansion except for the commander who is now leading the troops outside.

Therefore, if King Luo Bin is summoned, maybe he can learn from him about some of the movements outside the city, whether it is controlled by himself, or the movements of the various folding mansions in the lobby, so can it be deduced that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince entered Yangzhou alone, what did he rely on.

Manjiang Garden was also cleaned up by Li Jingye, some time ago, Li Hong's short arrival was to live here, and he was full of praise for Manjiang Garden, and now he came over again, Li Jingye had no other way but to continue to arrange for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to live in Manjiang Garden.

On the official road of Yangzhou, Wei Tuqi led two hundred princes' guards, one in front of the other, protecting the two carriages in the middle, and when passing by some villages, he could even smell a trace of the tense atmosphere in the early stage of the war.

Passing by the small villages, when they saw the cavalry waving their flags passing by, they did not stop their men as usual, and stood in the fields or at the door of their homes, quietly watching.

The people in the fields took their hoes and ran to the dense grass, and the women who stood at the door of the house chattered about their homely routines, one by one, as if holding their tails, trotted a few steps into the house quickly, and then reflexively closed the door quickly, and there was no movement.

"It seems that Li Jingye has made enough preparations before this station." Bai Chun lifted the curtains, looked at the scene outside, and muttered.

"If he had done enough, he would have driven these people into the city, or dispersed, and now he is still in place, obviously he does not know whether to attack or defend this battle." Li Hong glanced out the window and saw a peasant woman, holding her bare child, rushing into her house like the wind.

Bai Chun lowered the curtain and looked at Chen Qinghan on the side, along the way, Chen Qinghan's face had always been full of worry and anxiety, obviously worried, and his father Chen Jingzhi, who was still imprisoned in Yangzhou Prison.

"Will they let us into the city?" Bai Chun asked suspiciously.

Suddenly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince changed to a small road, and after staying in a folding mansion for two days, he continued to take the small road until he was almost in Yangzhou, and then changed to the main road, saying that this would allow Li Jingye to meet him at the city gate.

She didn't understand why if she changed her route, Li Jingye would greet him respectfully as before, but along the way, she didn't ask this question.

But now that the gate of Yangzhou was in sight, looking at Chen Qinghan's anxious look, Bai Chun couldn't help but ask for Chen Qinghan, who was silent.

Chen Qinghan glanced at Bai Chun gratefully, and then waited for Li Hong's answer expectantly, as if Li Hong's answer was like the fish talisman that opened the city gate, which was better than anything else and could also make her feel at ease.

Li Hong stretched comfortably in the spacious carriage, and said easily: "He can't open the city gate, he has no other way to go, we have changed routes many times along the way, so he doesn't know how many of us there are and what the intention is, so there is no other way than to open the city gate to welcome us in, and then knock on the side to understand my intentions." ”