After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he immediately became alert, Li Quan has been in the Xinghua area for a period of time, and at the same time is also mobilizing troops to gather in Shuyang, although there is no war, but to deal with Daquan and the Southern Song Dynasty are taking a coercive posture, for a while can not judge Li Quan's current intentions, now according to their analysis, it is unlikely that he will enter Haizhou again, because he has been defeated in the battle with the Flying Tiger Army, and wants to continue to go north, it can be said that there is a great element of self-inflicted humiliation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

If he wants to continue to expand the land, he can only develop in two directions, one is to attack Bozhou under the current control of the Jin State from Mengcheng to the west, so as to seize a larger territory from the Jin State, and the other is to the south, attack Gaoyou, Taizhou, Yangzhou and other places, and the Southern Song Dynasty officially tore his face and claim land to the Southern Song Dynasty.

And what is unclear at the moment is what he is planning, whether he is preparing to go south or west, and suddenly the Chinese New Year is approaching, and he is transferring troops, what do he want to do?

"You say slow down, Li Quanjun has a change, there must always be a general direction! So let's judge what he's up to! How can we judge just such a change? Gao Huaiyuan was a little unhappy with such a clueless news about Jia Qi, and asked Jia Qi.

Jia Qi rubbed his hands together on the charcoal basin to warm his hands, and then replied: "It's not that Xiao Xiao's speech is incoherent, but the news is indeed vague, and our people didn't know where Li Quan's troops and horses were, but his troops and horses left the camp overnight, and now I don't know where to go!" Therefore, the little one can only inform the young master first! ”

After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he pondered for a while, thinking that no matter what Li Quan wanted to do, if he wanted to use troops, he should not choose this time to do it! After all, the New Year is coming up in a few days, and if he wants to fight, I'm afraid he will have to ask his subordinates if they are willing to fight! What's more, this news is not very clear, and they must wait for new news to come before they can make a judgment, so he nodded and said: "In that case, you pass it on, let the people in Li Quan's territory pay attention to it, and find out the number of Li Quan's troops as soon as possible, as well as the people who led the troops, and the direction they are going!" ”

Jia Qi nodded and agreed, and Ji Xiancheng happened to get up and go out at this time, go to set up Gao Huaiyuan's wine and food, and a few people have a meal together.

Gao Huaiyuan then whispered and explained: "You sent another message to Zhou Jun and them, so that they must not relax during the Chinese New Year, and send more meticulous and hard detectives (armed scouts) to strengthen the vigilance of Li Quan's army in Shuyang, in case Li Quan takes advantage of this time to sneak attack their Haizhou!" ”

Jia Qi immediately nodded and whispered in agreement, Gao Huaiyuan thought about it and felt that there was nothing too much to care about, so he got up and had a meal with Jia Qi to accompany Ji Xiancheng, which made Ji Xiancheng happy.

This matter seems to have passed like this, Gao Huaiyuan did not pay too much attention to this matter, but paid attention to the palace again, every year during the New Year, there is a habit in the palace, there will be a banquet in the palace to entertain the courtiers in the capital, and the Son of Heaven will have a good time with the ministers.

And the snow at this time, undoubtedly added some new fun to this New Year, Gao Huaiyuan is responsible for protecting the royal family, this time is his most tense and busy moment, he must arrange various matters of the palace banquet with the inner servants, and arrange the guards in the palace to prevent something from going wrong, after all, this is Zhao Yun's first big banquet for the ministers, not only the civil and military officials will participate, even the queen mother of the harem and other concubines will also participate in this feast, so Gao Huaiyuan did not dare to slack off, and stayed in the palace for two consecutive days without coming out, After a lot of intense busywork, this thing was finally arranged.

When he got home, Judge hurriedly sneaked into his mansion and met Gao Huaiyuan.

"Young Master Qiqi, do you remember what you told Li Quan a few days ago?" As soon as Jia Qi saw Gao Huaiyuan, he immediately asked him.

Gao Huaiyuan frowned, why didn't he let me stop like this! I had just come home and had something going on again, so I nodded and said, "Remember, what's wrong?" But have you found out the whereabouts of Li Quan's troops? ”

Jia Qi shook his head and said: "The trouble is here, Li Quan's army is led by one of his cronies, and it is one of his elites, with as many as 6,000 troops, but it disappeared for no reason, our people tracked down the matter, but unexpectedly found that they had signs of going south, but they didn't know where they went!"

Now the reply to the news said that after they arrived in Xinghua, they dispersed, this matter is really too strange, how can an elite army be disbanded? But this happened, and after our people tracked down Xinghua, they could no longer find their traces! I always feel that this matter is too strange, it seems that Li Quan has hidden a big conspiracy and does not know about it! ”

Gao Huaiyuan was also a little confused when he heard it, this thing doesn't make sense! Since it is Li Quan's elite soldiers, there is no reason why it will be suddenly disbanded during the transfer! Could it be that there was internal strife within Li Quan's army, which caused his troops and horses to disperse?

So after Gao Huaiyuan and Jia Qi returned to their room, they unfolded the detailed map of Huainan East Road they had drawn, and Jia Qi pointed out to Gao Huaiyuan on the map the route of the march of this Li Quan's army and the place where they disbanded according to the information he received.

Gao Huaiyuan lay on the map and looked at it for a long time, stunned that he didn't understand this matter, so he asked Jia Qi: "This place is not an important place!" The waterways in this area are vertical and horizontal, and they are not suitable for the movement of large armies, not to mention that south of Xinghua is Taizhou, do they want to surprise Taizhou? It is said that Li Quan should not have such courage! Taizhou is an important town along the river, does he really want to rebel if he does this? ”

Jia Qi couldn't understand Li Quan's action this time, and said hesitantly: "The little one has also thought about it, but judging from the news from Xinghua, Li Quan's other soldiers and horses have not made much movement, not to mention that now Xu Xiji has more than 20,000 soldiers in Gaoyou, they attack Taizhou, Xu Xiji will never sit idly by, and will definitely send troops to attack Xinghua, once this happens, Li Quan will not be able to take Taizhou, and it is likely that Xu Xiji will cut off the retreat behind his back, and he will suffer a big loss at that time!" Maybe there was something wrong with his troops, and he disbanded due to internal strife! ”

Gao Huaiyuan thought about one head and two big, straightened up and said: "Since this is the case, we don't have to think about it, we are not roundworms in Li Quan's stomach, we can guess what he is thinking about every day, the soldiers will block the water and flood the earth!" What's more, if Li Quan turns his face with the imperial court, it may not be of any benefit to him, it is very risky to fight Taizhou, and it is estimated that nothing major will happen, not to mention that there is also the garrison army of Zhenjiang Mansion facing each other across the river, let Xu Xiji bear this heart! Tomorrow is the time for the big banquet in the palace, you just have to pay attention to the things here! In addition, the horses on the Tubo side, you also have to think of a way to let Huang Hao get them back, how to send these horses to Huang Yan along the way, this matter is an important matter. ”

Jia Qi thought about it, if Li Quan turned against Da Song at this time, what good would it do him? They were worried about this matter, and it was better to think about how to get the horses back from Tubo, so he cleaned up and left Gao Huaiyuan's house to go about his business.

And Gao Huaiyuan returned to the palace early the next morning and began to arrange the big banquet in the palace, and he had no time to pay attention to this matter.

This time the big banquet in the palace is set in the Daqing Palace, a total of dozens of large tables have been placed, the waiters are shuttling back and forth for the final arrangement, the imperial dining room got up early on this day, and began to prepare all kinds of banquet ingredients, the whole palace is busy in full swing, this is also the first big banquet after Zhao Yun ascended the throne, so the specifications are very high, in addition to the banquet, there are all kinds of singing and dancing, juggling interpretation, and even prepared fireworks outside the main hall, so that the people in the palace and the ministers watched together.

Just preparing for these things made the internal servants in the palace busy, and Gao Huaiyuan was not easy at all, to greatly strengthen the guards around the Daqing Palace, and to strictly check the hundred officials and Kabuki personnel who entered and exited the palace at the palace gate, in case someone brought the murder weapon into the palace, so even the Holy Protector was transferred to the palace gate Some people were transferred to help check the people who entered and exited the palace gate.

In short, after a busy day, the banquet was finally arranged, and as the night approached, the hundred officials began to enter the main hall.

Soon Zhao Yun accompanied Empress Dowager Yang out of the apse, and the civil and military officials knelt down in a large area, pouting their butts to welcome their arrival.

And Gao Huaiyuan could finally take a breather at this time, found a place on the military general's seat, and after paying homage to Zhao Yun and the Queen Mother, the chamberlain announced the start of the banquet.

For a banquet like this, everyone is not concerned about what to eat, let alone what to drink, but about the whole process, because this year is about to pass, and the year name is still the Jiading year name when Ning Zong was reincarnated, and after the New Year, the year name will be changed, and everyone is very concerned about this issue.

Sure enough, after Zhao Yun saluted a few glasses of wine, Shi Miyuan stood up with a wine glass, and first said a lot of nonsense such as congratulating the Queen Mother and the Holy Zhao Yun for their good health, and then announced the name of the coming year on behalf of Zhao Yun, the result was Baoqing, Gao Huaiyuan sighed slightly, his heart still did not deviate from the trajectory of history, and after Jiading, he still set the name of Baoqing, it seems that the wind and waves stirred up by his little butterfly are not enough!