Tokyo, Ōryō Prefecture.

In the summer capital, the breeze is warm, the cicadas are chirping, the willows are fluttering, and the pedestrians are weaving, so it is not lively.

In late April, after Chen Xu and Wang Jingbu handed over the defense, together with Xiang Xun, the two people returned to the capital to resume their lives, and the two who returned triumphantly were personally received by the emperor, and the two who were the commanders were rewarded, expressing their great attention to Chen Xu and Xiang Xun.

At the beginning of his return to Beijing, because the war of the Western Expedition had just ended, the soldiers who participated in the war began to rest for half a month, which was actually a half-month vacation.

When the Wei army recaptured the four states on the southwestern border, and the peace envoy of Shu had just left Tokyo and brought back to Sichuan with the edict of Emperor Wei approving peace, the government and the opposition began to discuss whether to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, and did not mention the civil officials, but said that the military ministers and military generals have always been a faction of the main battle, because if there is a war, the military generals will be useful and meaningful, and they will not be left out in the cold and the power will be empty.

Great Wei and Southern Tang have had a long-standing grudge, not to mention anything else, let's just say that before the attack on Shu, Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty had openly supported the rebellion of Xue Shouli and others, and sent envoys to bypass Hou Zhou by sea to Liao and Northern Han, and discussed with them about the joint attack on Hou Zhou. These things were just because the Wei Dynasty was not long after the founding of the country, and the situation at home and abroad was unstable, so it was not easy to make a big move, so they were ignored for a long time.

At the beginning of the new Wei Emperor Lu Rong's accession to the throne, he made great efforts to govern the country, made drastic moves, reformed the military and politics, and was ambitious, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, thought that he had destroyed the Min State and Ma Chu, so he was empty-eyed, and even began to have the idea of annexing the world, arrogating the emperor's name, calling himself the "Emperor of the Tang Dynasty", and seeing it as the continuation of the Li Tang Empire and the orthodoxy of the world, how could the arrogant Lu Rong endure it?

Not to mention the old hatred, the Great Wei attacked Shu, and Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, sent envoys to Jinyang and Jiangning, contacted the Northern Han and Southern Tang Dynasty, and attacked the Great Wei in three ways.

Chen Xu, who has finished his vacation, should be on duty and rest, and he should rest and rest, which is still more leisurely than the days when he is away.

In the blink of an eye, time has passed at a breakneck pace to June.

The Wei army was in full swing on the Huainan battlefield, and the battle was fierce!

Oh oh oh, I don't know whose rooster crooked sound, the weak sunlight through the window, Chen Xu opened his eyes.

"It's worth it." Nian Zhen also woke up, looked at his face, her beautiful eyes flowed, and she exhaled softly.

"Hmm." Chen Xu replied softly, "It's time for me to get up." ”

Every three days, the senior generals of the forbidden army had to go to their official offices to assign tasks such as changing guards and training according to the arrangements established by the Privy Council.

Although the emperor personally drove the expedition and was not in the capital, the ministers who stayed in Tokyo under the emperor's personal orders were well organized and even stricter than before.

"I should get up and make you breakfast, too." Nian Zhen stretched his waist and wanted to get up.

Chen Xu moved away from the warm incense lotus root, got out of bed, and Nian Zhen served him to put on clothes. At the beginning, Chen Xu resolutely disagreed with Nian Zhen to serve him and dress, he was a modern person, used to wearing clothes by himself, and now there is one more person to help him dress, which is a little unaccustomed, at that time she was crying, thinking that Chen Xu lifted her, saying that this is what his wife and concubine should do, and at Nian Zhen's insistence, Chen Xu also followed the customs of the countryside and accepted it.

Sometimes he is very obsessed with this kind of life, but it is only sometimes that he comes to this era and has unrivaled power, shouldn't he do something influential in this parallel time and space, on this land of Shenzhou!

Men are ambitious in the world, but there is no end to progress, and there is no ambition when words and ambitions are paid!

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Putting on his armor, Chen Xu rode along the road with his own soldiers and marched to the guard office in the south of the city.

According to the usual practice, the number of people is counted according to the roster.

It didn't take much time to count the number of people, and Chen Xu successively commanded one by one to visit the soldiers on the left wing of the Hujie Army, who were either training or patrolling. Deepen the understanding of himself and the soldiers, he has now been promoted to the commander of the left chamber, and the number of soldiers commanding the commander has increased by more than half, so that those people can also see the people of the officials, not just a name of fierce and good fighting, a vague phantom.

The ancient army did not have the modern professional army so perfect command and combat system, the generals commanded the army more by the prestige and prestige of the generals, personality charm, control of the people, the ancient strong army, most of them led them not all the way with them to grow up with the main generals, such as what Yuejia army, Qi army, is one of the outstanding representatives, or with them often win battles, soldiers believe in your ability, willing to work with you. The Song Dynasty began to emphasize literature and light military force, and separated the soldiers, the soldiers did not know the generals, and the generals did not know the soldiers, which was also an important reason for the military weakness of the Song Dynasty.

As soon as he entered the barracks, he heard He Meng next to him start shouting.

"Now our Wei army is in full swing in Huainan, Shouzhou City alone is besieged by hundreds of thousands of people, I don't know when Your Majesty will send us, there has been no battle for a while, and we are in a panic! Ha ha! ”

He Meng laughed.

"Second brother, don't think it's easy to fight Huainan, look at it, hundreds of thousands of troops haven't even taken Shouzhou City, I don't know what the main general is doing these days, heh!" Suo Hu shook his head and pouted.

"Third brother, don't say it!" Chen Xu shouted.

"There are many generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Shouzhou City is an important town in Huainan, and I heard that it is Liu Renzhan, a famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who is stationed in it, it is a hard bone, and it is not so easy to take!" Chen Xu analyzed objectively.

The two nodded.

"Although our army did not make any breakthroughs in the middle of the road, it has achieved good results in the battlefield on the southeastern front." Listening to the previous few talk about the Huainan war that people in the world have focused on recently, Yuan Jizhong also began to talk about what he had heard.

"You say, we listen." Chen Xu was interested and asked Yuan Jizhong to continue.

"I heard that one of the most outstanding achievements on the southeast front, Zhao Yuanlang, first used a strategy, feigned defeat and retreated, and then set up an ambush on the way, defeated thousands of troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty at the mouth of the vortex, captured more than 40 warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty, broke through the Qingliu Pass, captured the two envoys of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and captured Chuzhou, the first city captured by our army. And the Fenghua Festival of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was captured by him, made Huang Fuhui praise his bravery, and His Majesty listened to Long Yan Dayue and praised him even more. ”

Yuan Jizhong saw that everyone was more interested in the Huainan war, so he said it slowly.

Chen Xu listened to Yuan Jizhong's words, and faintly felt that a certain person's name was a little familiar, and his face was suspicious, so he asked, "What is the name of the person you just said?"