Although he did not fight a perfect war of annihilation, Dai Yan had some regrets. But no matter how you say it, this battle is a victory, and it is worth rejoicing!

He immediately sent someone to send the news of such a great victory to Taoqiu, so that the newspapers in Taoqiu could publicize this great victory! After all, the current war in Taoqiu is not just his own war, all the Taoqiu people have bought bonds to enter the market, and they are also one of the "shareholders" of this war project. Now that the project is well done and profitable, of course, it is necessary to make the "shareholders" happy and give them greater confidence!

Subsequently, he had no intention of letting go of the fleeing Le clan soldiers! Now that he has an army of 80,000 in his hands, and there is no reason to be afraid of the other party at all, Dai Yan directly took the army of 80,000 and continued to approach the south and arrived at the city of Chuqiu!

Chuqiu, located on the north bank of Danshui, was one of the most important cities of the Le clan in the northern part of the Song Kingdom. The Taoqiu army pressed the border, although it had not yet officially attacked the city, but it had already frightened the Le family!

Le Cheng, who was in Suiyang, directly found Hua Rong and asked him to immediately send soldiers and horses to help Chuqiu!

Regarding Le Cheng's request for help, Hua Rong directly refused: "Xiangguo, I can't agree to your request!" ”

Le Cheng asked, "Why did Si Kou do this?" Are you so short-sighted in order to weaken my Le's power? Hijacking the monarch and stabbing Taoqiu, but we did it together, if we fail, will there be a good result in the end? ”

Hua Rong replied: "Xiangguo, now that we are people in the same boat, your strength has weakened, that is, our common strength has weakened, how can I be so short-sighted to weaken my own strength?" The reason why I don't approve of directly aiding Chu Qiu is because Chu Qiu is now dead and can't be saved! If we still invest our strength in the dead place of Chuqiu, then in the end, we will only be brought a greater defeat! ”

"What do you mean by the place of death? Although Chuqiu is not a city with high walls, it is also a city with a population of tens of thousands! My Le's family has been operating here for a long time, the people are dependent, and Taoqiu is now only tens of thousands of troops, as long as we are willing to send a large army to defend the city, we will definitely be able to stop Ziyan under this city! Le Cheng said a little angrily.

Hearing Le Cheng's statement, Hua Rong shook his head and said to him: "Xiangguo, what you think is still too simple!" Do you know what is the most powerful place in Taoqiu today? It's that their weapons are already completely ahead of us! Nowadays, all the soldiers of Taoqiu use iron weapons, and the iron sword is longer and sharper than the copper sword. Yueqing fought head-on with the Taoqiu army twice on the battlefield, but what was the result? Which time was not a big rout? ”

Le Cheng said: "It is precisely in this way that we should retreat to the city and use the city to resist the attack of the Taoqiu army!" ”

Hua Rong said to Le Cheng: "Xiangguo, we can't resist Taoqiu on the frontal battlefield, so do you think we can fight against Taoqiu just by defending the city?" You probably don't know yet, Taoqiu now has a ballista that can throw stone projectiles, and this weapon has shown great power in the defensive battle of the Xiangyi Coal Mine! However, such a thing, in the eyes of Sima Zhaohua of Chu State, is by no means used for defense alone, its biggest role should be used to attack and destroy the city! Although Chuqiu is not a small city, it is still impossible to defend against the attack of ballistas! Therefore, I think that Chuqiu City is already broken, and if we don't draw out the power in it, I'm afraid we will lose even more power! ”

Le Cheng asked: "Then according to your statement, Chuqiu can't resist the attack of Taoqiu's army, and Suiyang can stop it?" Do we just keep retreating, and then let ourselves fall into complete failure? ”

Hua Rong replied: "Of course not! The victorious soldiers win first and then seek battle, and the defeated soldiers fight first and then seek victory! The war between us and Ziyan is for victory, and now retreat and forbearance are all necessary! Now that Ziyan maintains an advantage on the battlefield, we can no longer stop his attack through the city, we can only stop him through the terrain!

Now outside of Suiyang, we still have Danshui. As long as we retreat to the south bank of Danshui and use Danshui to block the attack of the Taoqiu army, even if Ziyan has great skills, he will not be able to attack easily! ”

Hearing that he wanted to retreat from Danshui, Le Cheng asked suspiciously, "You're not mistaken, right?" Taoqiu already had a powerful navy several years ago, and used it to exterminate the water bandits in Onozawa. If Taoqiu's navy enters Danshui, what is the significance of this line of defense to us? ”

Hua Rong smiled coldly: "Taoqiu's navy is very powerful, but I have my own way to make his navy unable to enter!" Danshui is connected to the water, and Pengcheng is connected, as long as we can win over Pengcheng, what is the Taoqiu Navy afraid of? ”

Danshui is connected to Jishui, which seems to give the Taoqiu Navy a chance to enter from Jishui. But in fact, the upper reaches of Danshui are already under the control of Wei, if Dai Yan wants to enter Danshui from Jishui, he must pass through the land of Wei, and he must go to Daliang, the capital of Wei, to make a big bend!

Although the current Wei State is weakened, it still has the backbone of a big country, will it allow Taoqiu, a "rebel organization" that is not even a country, to use troops to pass through its capital at will?

Therefore, Hua Rong has enough confidence: Taoqiu Sailor cannot enter Danshui from Jishui! In this way, if the Taoqiu Sailor wants to enter Danshui, he can only go south from Surabaya first, reach Pengcheng through Surabaya, and then turn from Pengcheng into Danshui!

Hua Rong continued: "Now Ziyan hasn't realized the importance of Pengcheng yet! We must win over Pengcheng as soon as possible and get them to our side! Today's Pengcheng Lingzizhang is an important minister from the imperial family, and he has always had the heart of self-reliance, and he has long wanted to turn Pengcheng into another Taoqiu. If we ask the monarch to give him this name and make him Peng Chengjun, if we think about it, he will block the pace of Ziyan's progress for us!

If Pengcheng stands on our side, Xiangyi will completely lose assistance, so that we can fully devote our own strength to attack Xiangyi, as long as Xiangyi is captured, then we will completely open up the communication channel with Chu State! With the State of Chu as the backing, why can't we defeat Ziyan and quell this civil strife? ”

Hearing Hua Rong's suggestion, Le Cheng was finally moved. However, on the issue of Chuqiu's defense and retreat, he still made two preparations. First of all, prepare various boats on the Danshui to serve as a response to the soldiers of the Le clan; Secondly, let the Le clan soldiers continue to defend Chuqiu, if Ziyan does not attack the city, or does not break through Chuqiu, then it is naturally the best, if Chuqiu is broken, then he immediately let the clan soldiers who retreated to the city quickly withdraw from the city and retreat to Danshui!

Hua Rong has no objection to Lecheng's approach. In his heart, Le Chengcheng is a small family, and he can't give up the foundation of the Le family! This made Hua Rong full of contempt for Le Cheng, and he was confident that he would completely control it!

If you want to seal Peng Cheng Ling Zizhang as Peng Chengjun, you must get Song Jun's approval. When Hua Rong and Le Cheng asked Zixi for help at the same time, Zixi only thought about it for a moment and agreed. In his opinion, now that he has been completely pulled into the same boat by Hua Rong and Le Cheng, if they fail, I am afraid that he will not end well! He didn't believe that his disciple Yan was only thinking about Qingjun's side, and had no interest in his position!

The siege and annihilation battle fought by Dai Yan by the soldiers of the Le clan is known as the Battle of the Plains. After the Battle of the Plains, the situation in the Song Kingdom immediately changed dramatically. Everything was as Hua Rong planned, when Suiyang gave Zizhang a huge promise to split the land and seal the monarch, Peng Cheng ordered Zizhang to immediately agree to stand on Suiyang's side in this civil war!

And Zizhang's stance also affected many neutrals in the Song Kingdom. Dangyi, Xiaoyi, and Liuyi, these cities located in the south of the Song Kingdom and originally belonged to the power of the imperial family, and the nobles who were full of sympathy for Ziyan followed in the footsteps of Zizhang, followed Suiyang in action, and crusaded against Taoqiu in public opinion!

Hua Rong was also surprised to see so many cities willing to stand on Suiyang's side, but he quickly figured out why the nobles were willing to stand in line.

The previous civil war was a civil war between Suiyang and Taoqiu, and everyone could hang it up without caring about themselves. However, now Suiyang is in a predicament, willing to win over Peng Cheng, and has given such a huge bargaining chip, so if he is also on Suiyang's side, should Suiyang also give enough benefits?

Although the status of these cities in the south is not as important as Pengcheng, and the impact of their standing on Suiyang may not be as great as Pengcheng, but their statement is at least a relief in the snow for Suiyang, right? With such a friendly move, even if Suiyang does not give the power of the fiefdom of the split land, then there should be no problem with giving a promise of "generational autonomy", right?

As for the outcome of the Song Civil War, these nobles are actually not optimistic about Taoqiu. In any case, Suiyang has been the capital for 700 years since the Song Dynasty. It has natural legitimacy, and Tao Qiu wants to oppose it, and in the eyes of these Song nobles, it is inherently rebellious!

And the nobles in the south, because they have deep contacts with the Chu State, they also know the strength of the Chu State! For Tao Qiu, even if there have been some changes under Zi Yan's rule in recent years, these nobles can't see the change in strength at all, and they don't think that Tao Qiu can defeat Suiyang and the Chu State behind it at the same time!

So in this kind of "winning" war, when Suiyang is defeated, isn't it the best time to give assistance to reap benefits for yourself?

For the southern aristocracy's "sending carbon in the snow", Suiyang also immediately began to "return the favor". Soon, Song Junzixi issued a number of royal orders, granting the orders of the guards who defected to Suiyang to collect their own taxes and recruit troops on their own to resist the "thieves"!

The entire territory of the Song Kingdom fell into a state of fragmentation! What was originally a unified country with centralized power has completely turned into a country that is divided from each other!