A year of many disasters and hardships, pray for peace!

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In the third year of Xiande, in June Chuzhou City, Zhao Dezhao and his grandfather Zhao Hongyin played chess in the back garden of Chuzhou Mansion, although playing chess was just a pastime game, but now the situation in Huainan is turbulent and changeable.

Chess is like a battle, and a battle is like chess.

Both of their thoughts were injected into the battle situation ahead-

The changes on the battlefield, like the changes in the chess game, are strange and varied. There are no eternal winners and losers on the battlefield, but perseverance is the king, but those who lose must not be able to persevere.

If the Zhou State wants to destroy the Tang State, it will definitely raise the whole country's troops to the south, but there is the Liao State in the north, and the Han State is still breathing; There is a Xiazhou party in the west; Southwest Shu does not want to forge ahead; There are many countries in the south that are divided and coexist, the Tang State is rich in things and people, the first in the world in the sailors, and occupies the best geographical advantages in the world; Wu Yue is on the verge of the East China Sea and has developed maritime transportation; The Han Kingdom is the farthest, separated from the Tang Kingdom, and it is beyond the reach of the whip for the time being......

In the second year of Xiande, Wang Pu gave the advice in "Pingbian Strategy" in "Pingbian Strategy", "First the south and then the north, first the easy and then the difficult." "The goal of this expedition to the Tang State has been set to capture the Jiangbei states.

The army of the Zhou State took this as a national policy and fought to the death.

But the battlefield is not as expected by the Zhou army, it is changing......

Zhao Dezhao looked back and smiled, he still knew the development of the situation in the future, but the current situation was: in a short period of time, the Zhou army would evacuate Chuzhou City.

Several states in Jiangbei are still in the hands of Zhou Jun at the moment, but they may not be able to hold it steadily. Those newly occupied states are still being recovered by the Tang army.

Regarding the future retreat of the Zhou army, Zhao Dezhao told Zhao Hongyin, Zhao Hongyin was full of disbelief, he stared at Zhao Dezhao for a long time, and then his face began to be normal, he didn't believe what Zhao Dezhao said at all.

But in my heart, I still have to prepare, don't win, think about defeat first.

Zhao Dezhao can't say that he is reborn in the third life, he has already experienced these in the first life, and after Zhao Hongyin heard it, he must think that he is a demon or talking nonsense.

However, in private, Zhao Dezhao had secretly let the forces of the Changchun Hall in the north of the Tang State Jiangbei gather together, and after the retreat, secretly implement the plan.

However, the forces of Jiangning Mansion are still lurking in the capital for the time being, waiting for an opportunity to hibernate.

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But as in history, the month of June has passed, and the beginning of July has come to the third day of the seventh month.

Since Chuzhou was occupied in the north of the Tang Kingdom, Chuzhou City looked across the river and was Jiangning Mansion.

At this moment, the door of Jiangning Mansion was wide open, and the emperor, officials, and people of the Tang State could not sleep and eat, lest the Zhou army cross the Yangtze River and attack Jiangning Mansion.

In the Jiangning Mansion of the Tang State, Li Jing received a battle report from the front, and against the enemy Zhou State, the Tang army lost more and won less, but Wu Yue Guo no longer posed a threat to the Tang State.

In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the East Route Army recovered Taizhou, and then attacked Yangzhou, but it was unable to hold on to Han Lingkun, the Zhou army in Yangzhou City; Li Jingda, the king of Qi of the Middle Route Army, landed in Guabu, and lost most of his troops in the battle of **, and there was not much left. After that, Li Jing ordered the army on the middle road, gathered the stragglers of the Tang army in other regions, and then went north and rushed to the direction of Haozhou; The army of the Western Road was previously pressed and beaten by the army of King Kui of Zhou.

What Li Jing is most worried about now is that the Zhou army will go down the Yangtze River from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, cross the Yangtze River, and attack Jiangning Mansion, so as long as he recaptures the important towns on the north bank of the Yangtze River, such as Hezhou, Shuzhou, Qizhou and other states, and then burns the Zhou army's warships, defeats the Zhou garrisons under Shouzhou City, Haozhou, and Yangzhou, and recovers the lost territory, that is the best.

The previous few times Guo Rong of the Zhou State had rejected his request for peace, and Li Jing had lost his dignity as emperor, and this time he must teach the Zhou army to go and never return.

However, at this moment, Li Jing was determined to counterattack the Zhou army, regain the lost territory, and solve the threat on the west and north sides of the Jiangning Mansion portal.

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The Emperor of Zhou returned to Beijing, and on July 21, he granted amnesty to the Huainan region and abolished the excesses and miscellaneous labor of the Tang Dynasty.

In late July, in the south of Shouzhou City, stationed was Li Jixun, the commander of the guards and infantry troops of the Zhou State and the envoy of the Zhangxin Festival.

At the beginning, Guo Rong ordered Li Jixun to lead his troops to garrison here and build cave houses and ladders to attack the city.

Since the return of the Son of Heaven to Beijing, Li Jixun in the south of Shouzhou City was slack in guarding the palace, and was seen to have a problem by Liu Renzhen, a Tang general stationed in Shouzhou, and after the sneak attack that night, hundreds of soldiers in the camp were killed and the siege equipment was burned.

Li Jixun's siege equipment was burned, but Liu Renzhen smiled over there, and the pressure on Shouzhou City was reduced a lot.

At the same time, Li Jing prepared for the Tang generals to recover the lost territory, so Li Jing sent Zhu Yuan, a member of the driving department, to regain the Jiangbei states.

These states are located north of the Yangtze River, along the coast. If the Zhou army had the same naval division as the Tang State, it is estimated that Jiangning Mansion would have been captured long ago.

The land of Shuzhou (the predecessor of Anqing City, Anhui Province) is located in the upper reaches of Jiangning Mansion, and Shuzhou is the "West Gate" to control Jiangning Mansion of the Tang State, and the defense is of great significance.

After that, Zhu Yuan led the army to capture Shuzhou, and Zhou Shuzhou assassinated Shi Guo Lingtu to abandon the city and escape.

After the recovery of Shuzhou, Zhu Yuan set his sights on Hezhou (Ma'anshan City and County), and the geographical location of Hezhou is very important, this place is the six dynasties of Kifu, Kyoto important place, in history there is "Jinling barrier, Jiankang key" said.

Soon after, Zhu Yuan took advantage of the situation to regain Hezhou.

In Qizhou in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, this place is surrounded by water on three sides, near the river and by the lake, and "the left controls Kuanglu, and the right is connected to Dongting", which is a place where military families must fight in history.

The city of Qizhou was previously occupied by the Zhou army, after which the Tang general Li Ping recovered Qizhou.

The Tang army regained several states successively, and the news was transmitted back to Jiangning Mansion, and Li Jing was extremely happy, so that the Tang State sailors could travel across the Yangtze River and be safe.

Later, Jiangning Mansion received good news, not only the Tang ** team, but even the people at that time rose up to resist.

At that time, the Zhou army captured the territory, and the people there were miserable because of the grain and silk that the Tang State forcibly requisitioned from them in the past. When the Zhou army entered and occupied Huainan, the people thought that they would have a good life if they came to the heavenly soldiers and generals, but the Zhou army specialized in killing and plundering, and regarded the people as mustard.

When these people heard this, they were all disappointed, gathered in the mountains, set up the fort wall and solidified themselves, operated agricultural tools for soldiers, and accumulated paper for armor, which was called the white armor army at the time! The Zhou army attacked and was repeatedly defeated. Most of the Tang states captured before were taken back.

Li Jing's joy this time is not fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter.

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In Jiangbei

The Tang army marched all the way, reinforcements were stationed in the Purple Mountain, and Li Jingda was stationed in Haozhou (the supervising army was Chen Jue, one of the five ghosts), echoing the city of Shouzhou.

At this moment, the Zhou army's army here was a little unbearable, in the face of Shouzhou that could not be captured and the continuous reinforcements of the Tang army, as well as in the face of the fact that several states in Jiangbei had been recovered by the Tang army, the previous efforts were in vain, and the soldiers' morale was not high.

This contest seems to be a fight to the death.

At that time, several generals in the army noticed the seriousness of the matter.

When Huainan Jiedu envoy Xiang Xun asked to mobilize Guangling's troops to storm Shouzhou, and then make other decisions after capturing Shouzhou.

According to the opinions of Wang Pu, Wang Pu, Fan Zhen and other ministers, he finally adopted Xiang Xun's plan, and at the same time ordered Xiang Xun to open the Yangzhou treasury, and ordered the defenders of Chuzhou City, as well as the bureaucratic base, to retreat to support the Zhou army in Shouzhou City.

Guo Rongzuo sent it back, and ordered the Yangzhou prefect to open the treasury and distribute the money to the Yangzhou officials, and not to take anything from the people. At that time, the people of Yangzhou shouted the benevolence and righteousness of Zhou Guo, welcomed the road, and ate pot pulp.

Zhao Dezhao has been paying attention to the situation in Huainan in the past few days, and he feels that Chuzhou City must be withdrawn from the report that the military situation in Chuzhou has been secret, so he has been talking to Zhao Hongyin about this matter in the past few days, but Zhao Hongyin also feels that retreating north is the royal way now. Although Chuzhou is surrounded by mountains, it is too close to Jiangning Mansion, within one or two days. However, several states in Jiangbei were recovered by the Tang State, and Chuzhou was in danger of being captured. The retreat at this moment must be to the north as a reinforcement from Shouzhou.

Next, after receiving the note from the Son of Heaven, the defenders and officials of Chuzhou City got this edict from the Son of Heaven, and immediately retreated and rushed to the direction of Shouzhou to assist the main army of the former army of Zhou to attack Shouzhou.

In the past few days, the Zhou army has suffered a lot from the Tang army, and due to the dispersion of military strength, I am afraid that the Tang army will be divided and eaten.

On the Tang side, the generals in the army had different suggestions and opinions on this.

They thought that at this moment, they should take advantage of the fact that their Zhou reinforcements had not arrived under the city of Shouzhou, attack and destroy the main force of the Zhou army first, and then ambush the enemy halfway up, waiting for the opportunity to kill the enemy by surprise.

As a result, the generals of the Tang army asked to occupy favorable terrain to meet the Zhou army.

However, Song Qiqiu thought that this trip was too risky, and he did not agree to do so, but felt that the defenders of Shouzhou and the army of Li Jingda, the king of Qi in Haozhou, would become a corner, and then join forces to encircle and suppress the Zhou army and the reinforcements that had not gained a firm foothold.

So Song Qiqiu did not agree to their request, and ordered all the generals to guard their respective cities and not attack without authorization.

And then things changed.

The situation in Shouzhou was originally favorable to the Tang Army, but the Tang Army lost the decision-making power to control the battlefield.

However, in Li Jingda's army in Haozhou, Chen Jue, who is one of the five ghosts, controls all military and political affairs, Li Jingda is just a puppet, and all military and political affairs are personally interrogated through Chen Jue.

But Chen Jue's approach was obviously excessive, he led the whole army, although there were 50,000 troops, but the whole army had no fighting spirit, and no one in the Tang Dynasty dared to oppose Chen Jue.

Chen Jue is one of the five ghosts. is good at slapping horses, and he is a celebrity and cronie around Li Jing, so no one dares to offend him. However, Chen Jue was not good at military affairs and acted recklessly, laying the groundwork for the fall of the Tang Army.

Han Lingkun withdrew from Yangzhou and led his troops westward to the direction of Shouzhou.

Over there, Zhao Dezhao and the others withdrew from Chuzhou in late July, and Zhao Hongyin led the army, Zhao Pu and other officials to follow the original road and go north to Shouzhou to support the main force of the Zhou army.

Zhao Dezhao followed Zhao Hongyin and others to the south of Shouzhou City on July 31, and Li Jixun's department was located in the tent of the large army camp.

Seeing Li Jixun, Zhao Dezhao naturally knew him, he was one of the "Taizu Yishe brothers" of his father Zhao Kuangyin in history, and he was also one of the basic forces of his father Zhao Kuangyin who launched a mutiny on behalf of Zhou Jiansong.

The so-called "Taizu Yishe Brothers", also known as the "Ten Brothers of the Yishe Society", namely Zhao Kuangyin, Yang Guangyi, Shi Shouxin, Li Jixun, Wang Xianqi, Liu Qingyi, Liu Shouzhong, Liu Tingrang, Han Chongyun, Wang Zhengzhong.

At this time, the highest status among the "Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society" was not Zhao Kuangyin, but Li Jixun.

Li Jixun is eleven years older than Zhao Kuangyin, so Zhao Dezhao wants to call his uncle when he sees Li Jixun.

At this moment in the army, Zhao Dezhao finally met someone he knew in his previous life, but at the moment, the two have never met.

When Li Jixun saw Zhao Hongyin, he respectfully saluted: "Uncle Zhao is good!" ”

"Jixun, the past is put aside for the time being." Zhao Hongyin understood that he was shouldering a heavy responsibility, and in June, Li Jixun was attacking Shouzhou, because of "neglect to defend the palace", so that the Tang army in Shouzhou City "went out of the city to attack", "broke through the fence and entered", and the Zhou army's siege tools were burned, and "hundreds of soldiers died", which affected the morale of the Zhou army.

At that time, the Zhou army had no fixed will, and the generals wanted to withdraw from the army.

In Kaifeng, Guo Rong did not blame Li Jixun for being a military minister, but was only removed from his military post and served as the envoy of the three cities of Heyang (south of Mengxian County, Henan). Li Jixun felt that His Majesty was too gracious.

Li Jixun saw a little child standing next to Zhao Hongyin, and estimated that it was Zhao Hongyin's grandson, so he said: "Thank you Uncle Zhao for your concern!" This little brother must be the grandson of his uncle! ”

"Jixun, this is my grandson, Dezhao. Zhao'er, call uncle! ”

"Zhao'er has seen her uncle."

"Zhao'er is good, why is Zhao'er also in the army?" Li Jixun wondered.

"This kid is too naughty, he came quietly with him."

"Oh? Zhao'er, aren't you afraid of war? Marching and fighting is not a child's home. ”

"Zhao'er is not afraid, Zhao'er is good at martial arts, uncle, don't underestimate Zhao'er, I'm not afraid of fighting, I must be a little general in the future."

"Zhao'er is really ambitious, and he will definitely be an enemy in the future." Li Jixun praised.

"Uncle praised it falsely, Zhao'er saw that his uncle was powerful, and wanted to learn some martial arts from his uncle to defend himself."

"Okay, if you want to follow me to the playground early in the morning."

"Zhao'er can't ask for it."

The next day, Zhao Dezhao followed Li Jixun to the playground to practice martial arts.

Because Zhao Dezhao insisted on practicing martial arts, what Li Jixun taught him was basically a piece of cake. Zhao Dezhao can complete it, and it also makes Li Jixun feel incredible.

"Zhao'er, it's a good day! The foundation was good before, which surprised my uncle today. ”

"Hehe, I'm practicing blindly, and I've learned some martial arts from my grandfather, my father and Zhao Xin."

"No wonder ......"

Throughout August, Zhao Dezhao stayed in the camp in the south of Shouzhou City, following Li Jixun to learn martial arts every day, and soon after, the whole person looked darker and stronger.

Now Zhao Hongyin's fate has been changed by Zhao Dezhao.

And Zhao Dezhao would receive secret reports from Changchun Hall every few days, and in Kaifeng, business and education were carried out in an orderly manner.