Of course, Xu Chang will not forget that Liu Shiche is the first strategist under Xu Yuanlang, and the shock in his heart is incomparable when he sees him and his father appear in Lu County at the same time.

Liu Shiche seemed to not know what Xu Chang was thinking, and immediately said, "According to the report, Su You withdrew from Shandong to go back to establish the country and claim the emperor, and when he left, there were a total of 50,000 troops left in Shandong, all of whom were led by Li Jing. Half a month ago, 20,000 men and horses from Li Jing's headquarters withdrew from Beihai, officially forming an encirclement of our territory......"

Xu Chang nodded secretly, these news are not a secret.

But he heard Liu Shiche continue, "The current situation is that Li Jing's general Xue Wanche took a day to capture Lei Ze City, Liu Heimin took half a day to take Yuncheng, and then Dongping was in Li Jing's hands, and he used less than 20,000 troops, but in the battle, he used weapons that would make earth-shattering noises and cause large-scale destruction......"

"Father, it's strange that the child is not good at supervising the war, and I ask my father to take it seriously!" Hearing this, Xu Chang immediately knelt down to Xu Yuanlang and pleaded guilty, but after seeing Xu Yuanlang speechless, he distinguished, "Kelu County is also trapped in Li Jing's encirclement, and there are tens of thousands of people in the Wagang army in the east alone......"

Xu Yuanlang was slightly dissatisfied with his son's exaggeration, snorted and shook his head, "After the battle between the Wagang Army and the Eastern Capital Army, they were overwhelmed by Wang Shichong and Du Fuwei, and now they are unable to protect themselves, where can they still divide tens of thousands of troops?" ”

Listening to Xu Yuanlang's cold snort, Xu Chang shouted a little anxiously, "Father, the child is not shirking responsibility, and he will never dare to say half a lie." ”

Xu Yuanlang turned his head to look at Liu Shiche, who said expressionlessly, "Cheng Biting Jin, who was stationed in Jinxiang before, has only five or six thousand troops, probably because he learned that the chief manager personally led his troops to come, and has now withdrawn from Jinxiang. ”

Hearing Liu Shiche's words, Xu Chang didn't believe it at all, he had sent scouts to investigate several times before, and every time he saw large-scale reinforcements from the Wagang Army, was he playing an empty city plan?

By the way, now that Liu Shiche has learned the news of Cheng Yanjin's withdrawal, what about Zhou Wenju now?

As if he had seen through Xu Chang's thoughts, Xu Yuanlang sighed and said, "Child, you fell for Li Jing's suspicious plan, he is taking Lu County openly and secretly taking Dongping; Cheng Biting Jin is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he uses the method of day and night to circulate soldiers, which creates the illusion of continuous reinforcements, otherwise it will not involve you...... If you use regular soldiers to deal with Cheng Biting Jin, it will be as easy as a finger, but if you use the method of sneak attack, you will fall into his trap......"

Listening to Xu Yuanlang's words afterwards, Xu Chang's brain suddenly "buzzed", not only because Cheng Biting Jin deceived himself with only five or six thousand people, but also because Zhou Wenju had gone and had no return!

Xu Chang couldn't help but lose his voice, "Zhou Wenju ......"

Xu Yuanlang said, "Zhou Wenju was ambushed by Cheng Yanjin, and finally led the remaining seven or eight hundred en to surrender to the Wagang army. We have lost Dongping and three generals at present, and the situation is not optimistic! ”

"A child who dies cannot forgive his sins, and asks his father to punish him severely." Xu Chang listened to Xu Yuanlang's report without any emotion, and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, he was too tender in front of Li Jing, Xue Wanche, Liu Heimin, and Cheng Yanjin.

Xu Yuanlang came to Lu County in person at this time, not to blame his son, but at this time, seeing that he was really humble, he immediately turned over and pulled his arm up, "Who is not wrong?" As a father, I hope that you will be able to grow more and more courageously and grow in battle! Didn't Li Yuan's son Li Shimin also defeat Xue Ju in Shallow Water Plains before and was only one team of guards left? But after he came again, he withstood the pressure and was ashamed! Who cares now that he's ever been defeated? ”

Xu Chang listened to his father's words, and immediately became excited again, how many people are really born to fight? What is one or two failures?

Winning generals are certainly respected, but the most important thing is to be able to win battles at critical moments.

As long as the last battle can be won, all defeats can be reversed.

After enlightening his son, Xu Yuanlang hugged his fist to the generals who followed his son to greet him, "Brothers, Chang'er is young and has the love of all brothers, if there is something wrong, Xu should ask for amends." ”

All the generals knelt down together and said in unison, "The chief manager is serious." ”

Liu Shiche then said, "The current situation is very clear, it is Li Jing's heart that does not die, and in the danger of this defeated army, we should fight against the Yunzhong army together!" ”

What Liu Shiche said was obviously what Xu Yuanlang wanted to say to everyone, and everyone present shouted in unison at this time, "We should fight against the Yunzhong Army together!" ”

Everyone spoke in unison, their voices were high-pitched, and they swept away the meaning of decadence.

Xu Yuanlang nodded slowly, bowed deeply, and looked up at the north, but his eyes were worried.

Xu Yuanlang took 50,000 elite soldiers from Rencheng to Lu County, which means that the total strength of Lu County has reached 130,000 people, which is equivalent to ninety percent of Xu Yuanlang's soldiers and more than twice the number of troops under Li Jing's control.

Subsequently, Xu Yuanlang relied on the terrain and mountain shape to cast protection in the deep ditch of Zhaohu Lake, and pulled out an arc-shaped defense in Rencheng and Yanzhou, showing that although Dongping County was lost, Kelu County would not give up an inch of land.

The troops are strong, and they are fighting at home, but Xu Yuanlang still doesn't see much hope for his future.

The time is up, and now that it has entered the harvest season, even if Li Jing's army does not use local materials, there is no need to worry about food problems at all; Geographically, the front line is too long, which is very disadvantageous to the defending side; In terms of people, Li Jing's strategy and the current armor and weapons of the Yunzhong Army are much higher than those of the Xu Family......

The above is of course Xu Yuanlang's thoughts, as far as Li Jing's opinion is concerned, he is really not willing to fight a tough battle, and he doesn't like "one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither", and more importantly, the current priority of the newly established Cloud China is not to expand its territory, but to stabilize and build the liberated areas.

Based on the above reasons, Li Jing wrote a letter to Sanshan after obtaining Dongping, and ended up with Xu Jiajun.

When Su You got Li Jing's letter, he naturally came to see the good news, and now that his territory is wide enough, he doesn't care much about the gains and losses of one city and one pool.

What Su You wants to see most is, of course, a country established according to his own ideas.

If everything is still going according to the order of old friends, then why should you participate in this troubled world?

Just when Su You received Li Jing's report, the battle of Taiyuan County also had a new change.

After Liu Wuzhou cleared the small cities around Jinyang City, he finally realized the problem of grain and grass after more than half a month of sticking with Li Yuanji of Jinyang.

Faced with the problem of food shortage, there are various solutions to it, one is to lead the army to return north, give up the attack on Jinyang and return to Mayi; the second is to storm Jinyang and rob the grain and grass in the city; The third is to abandon Jinyang and turn south, enter the land east of the river, and make Jinyang an isolated city.....

The first opinion was rejected first, Liu Wuzhou was planning to go south, and now Taiyuan County is in his hands except for Jinyang City, how can he return north?

As for the storming of Jinyang City, it was really unrealistic, although the defenders in the city were only more than 30,000 people, although Liu Wuzhou still had a secret army borrowed from Su You; But the city of Jinyang is too tall, and the gate of Jinyang has long been blocked with stones.

Whether it is to be afraid of the city wall or to blow up the city gate, it is not a realistic thing.

The idea of the third diversion to the south is indeed suitable for Liu Wuzhou; It was precisely because of this idea that Liu Wuzhou began to order the army to work in three shifts with the people outside the city to start harvesting grain.

The army led by Li Jing is a division of benevolence and righteousness, but Liu Wuzhou leads an army of thieves, so it is destined to play cards out of common sense.

At this time, it was the busy season of farming, but Liu Wuzhou did not come to help, but to be a robber.

So Li Yuanji, Dou Dan and others could only watch the people under their jurisdiction, crying and fighting for food with Liu Wuzhou's army, but they couldn't do anything; Of course, if the land of Taiyuan can still be preserved, Chang'an is afraid that it will only be tax-free for a few years to appease these bosses.

Li Yuanji didn't take the people's joy and anger to heart, but Liu Wuzhou's army robbed the people's grain and turned south, but Li Yuanji's heart was stale.

Taiyuan is the gateway to Hedong, but now Liu Wuzhou's army directly gave up Jinyang and went south to Hedong.

In the face of Liu Wuzhou's pride of treating the 30,000 army of Jinyang as nothing, Li Yuanji had countless battles between heaven and man in his heart, and wanted to move away from the stones at the gate of the city and rush out of the city to fight Liu Wuzhou by surprise.

But even if all the elites in the city come out of the empty city, there are only 30,000 people on their side, can their 30,000 people be the opponent of Liu Wuzhou's 100,000 or so army?

As a standard ancient person, Li Yuanji would not be as naturally sensitive to numbers as Su You, and in fact, it was not uncommon for a battle to break a 100,000 army with 30,000 troops.

When Li Yuan suppressed the group of thieves in Hedong, he only brought an army of 30,000, and he could eliminate more than 100,000 thieves. The army led by Zhang Xutuo, Yang Shanhui, Wang Shichong, and Xue Shixiong was only 20,000 or 30,000 people, but the more than 100,000 thieves they defeated back then were not once or twice.

After treating Liu Wuzhou as an ordinary thief, Li Yuanji's confidence immediately swelled, and he not only sent troops out of the city to hunt down Liu Wuzhou, but also personally led the army there.

Dou Dan and the others naturally did not allow Li Yuanji to fail, in order to dissuade him from calming his anger, he even broke his head, Li Yuanji had this step, and his anger finally slowly subsided.

At the end of July, good news finally came from the north,—— Li Yuanba led an army of 30,000 from Yanmen to Liu Wuzhou's territory, and is currently attacking Liu Wuzhou's old nest Mayi!

This news is simply a slap in the face for Liu Wuzhou, if Ma Yi is conquered by Li Yuanba, where can he go to live?

After Li Yuanji heard the news, he was anxious and happy.

The anxious thing is that Li Xuanba has made great contributions again, but he has gained nothing; The good news is that Liu Wuzhou is about to lose his base and will eventually become a lonely ghost, isn't this the time to harvest his own heads?