"That'...... Do you want to tell Tongmei about this news? Zhu Wen asked with hesitation.

However, as soon as Jing Xiang looked at Zhu Wen's eyes full of bad water, he knew that the third pig was pretending to be forced! He didn't want to tell Ge Congzhou the news at all, so as to affect the battle situation, but he didn't want to offend Ge Congzhou.

Helplessly, as a very qualified military advisor, Jing Xiang bravely came out at this time to carry the black pot for Zhu Wen.

"Ahem! Cough! Jing Xiang coughed twice, gently waved the green feather fan in his hand, and said: "Now the gathering points in the world are in Hebei, and the overall situation should be the focus at this time." That's news! It's not okay to tell General Ge later. ”

"Strategist...... Isn't that good? Zhu Youning, who had a good relationship with Ge Congzhou, couldn't help but speak. Later, I felt that something was wrong, which inevitably seemed to be suspected of forming a gang. Then he added: "Yanzhou's geographical location is important, it can threaten Xuzhou in the south, contact Yang Xingmi, threaten Caozhou and Bianzhou in the west, enter the hinterland of Xuanwu, and threaten Yunzhou in the north to cut off the retreat of our army." And the walls of Yanzhou are strong, even if you don't sit on anything, it's an uncomfortable fish bone in your throat! It's unpleasant. General Ge should be informed to see what he can do. Moreover, General Ge's family is also in Yanzhou, so it is reasonable to inform him. ”

If someone else said this, Zhu Wen would have already shown dissatisfaction, but Zhu Wen couldn't feel a trace of dissatisfaction with Zhu Youning. Zhu Youning is his brother with the best relationship between Zhu and Wen, the son of Zhu Cun. Zhu Cun and Zhu Wen are hooligans in the township together, and they even participated in the Huangchao Uprising together, and the relationship is very iron. However, Zhu Cun did not have a good life as Zhu Wen, and died in a siege battle.

But these feelings Zhu Wen has not forgotten, developed and personally adopted Zhu Youning, plus Zhu You has been smart and clever since he was a child, and he does not hesitate to absorb it when he grows up, and his martial arts are strong. Zhu Wen regarded Zhu Youning as his own son.

As soon as Jing Xiang saw Zhu Wen like that, he knew that it was useless to expect Zhu Wen to contribute behind his back. However, Jing Xiang was not simple, and said with a smile: "Then how many soldiers and horses does Liu Cheng have in his hands?" It's only 10,000, and you have to lose some to capture Yanzhou City. This is the end of the strong crossbow, and you can't wear it. The capture of Yanzhou City has exhausted the last trace of strength. can let Zhang Cunjing's troops go out of Qizhou, so that Wang Shifan is powerless to support Liu Jun. At the same time, the border defense was strengthened, so that Liu Cheng could not attack. This is just to allow Wang Shifan to temporarily occupy Yanzhou. When Chitose recovers Hebei, Wang Shifan will be a grasshopper after the autumn, and it won't be long before Yanzhou will be recovered! On the contrary, now Hebei is the key. ”

Speaking of this, Jing Xiang paused, and then said: "Besides, I also know what Commander Zhu is worried about, it's not that Liu Jun killed General Ge's family. But from Chengde to Yanzhou, and with a large army, it will take seven or eight days to say the least. Not to mention seven or eight days, even if it is an hour, it is enough for Liu Cheng to kill General Ge's family cleanly. But if Liu Yan was jealous and didn't kill General Ge's family, what was the use of General Ge rushing over now? It may even lead to threats from the family of General Liu and Ge, causing a counterreaction. ”

Zhu Youning opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't come up with any reason, so he had no choice but to watch Zhu Wen agree to Jing Xiang's method.

However, everyone knows that this kind of concealment can only be concealed for a while, and it is impossible to conceal it for a lifetime. In fact, all Zhu Wen needs to do is to take such a little time, not to let Ge Congzhou stabilize his mood for a short time, and let Zhu Wen calmly arrange someone to take over Ge Congzhou's offensive against Chengde.

However, when it came to who was the general, Zhu Wen hesitated again. Originally, Ge Congzhou was the best pioneer, and Ge Congzhou's combat effectiveness can be seen from going down to Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, and Cizhou in five days. But now if Ge Congzhou is not allowed to go south, I am afraid that Ge Congzhou is also in Cao Ying, and his heart is in Han, and he has no heart to fight.

In the end, Zhu Wen decided to use Li Si'an, the commander of the flying cavalry, to replace Ge Congzhou as the crusade envoy. At this time, Li Si'an was generally good and did not cause any major failures.

…… Dingzhou ...... "Liu Jun? I didn't expect that there were such capable people under Wang Shifan. The corners of Li Cunhuan's mouth couldn't help but show an excited smile. Although Jing Xiang said in his mouth that Liu Jun was just the end of a strong crossbow, he couldn't wear Lu Min. But Liu Yan's occupation of Yanzhou is an irrefutable fact. He greatly pinned down Zhu Wen's flank.

"Your Highness, this is your chance! His Royal Highness should immediately summon the group to train the troops, reorganize, and form several large armies to go south to support Liu Jun, this is the time to expand the results of the battle! Yang Shihou said excitedly on the side.

"No, at this time, we can't send troops to Yanzhou for the time being, we have to pass the autumn harvest in September, September to March, and this half year is the time for us to fight back!" Li Cunhuan shook his head slowly and rejected Yang Shihou's suggestion.

Although Yang Shihou's suggestion was rejected, he didn't care too much, he continued to speak, "Now that Li Keyong is in a dilemma, we should take the initiative to attack, Feihu County is the only place for Ulzhou to go south to Dingzhou and Lulong to the east." Moreover, the terrain is dangerous, it is a piece of land, as long as Feihu County is captured, the soldiers and horses of Xinzhou, Wuzhou and Dingzhou can be concentrated in one place. Not to mention saving a lot of troops, you can also concentrate on defense. ”

Yang Shihou paused when he said this, and then said: "If Li Keyong wants to attack Lu Long, then he can only detour the desert, but is the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles so easy to break?" Once he could not cross the Great Wall, he Li Keyong did not know how many soldiers and horses he would have to lose before he could return to Hedong. In this way, without our action, Zhu Wen will also be eager to attack Li Keyong, who is seriously injured. ”

"Although the plan is good, Li Keyong is not easy to deal with. Feihu County has a dangerous terrain, and it takes 240 miles to cross the mountains and mountains from the nearest Tang County. The march in the mountains is not as good as the flat land, and I am afraid that it will take at least five days to reach Feihu County along Laishui. During the five-day journey, as long as you are not an idiot, you can rely on the dangerous mountains along the way to block the attack, which is enough to support the arrival of reinforcements used by Li Ke. It was closer to send troops from Xinzhou and Wuzhou, but it would also take more than 160 miles to go. There are still many mountain roads along the way, which is not easy to do, so it is better to stay honestly. Otherwise, why you say why Li Keyong is reluctant to send troops is because I am all ready, so it is difficult for him to start. Li Cunhuan shook his head slowly, once again negating Yang Shihou's advances.

"Then according to His Highness, what should I do?" Yang Shihou was a little dissatisfied in his tone this time. "Besides, how can there be immortals in war, who do not take risks, Your Highness is so cautious, is it possible that you are ready to enjoy happiness now?"

Li Cunhuan smiled, and his finger lightly tapped Yanzhou on the sand table and said, "This is my breakthrough, grind slowly." If there is no accident, after the autumn harvest in September, I am afraid that Zhu Wen and Li Keyong will not have much strength to fight. And I organized 50,000 regiments to train troops, plus tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and quickly went south to intercept Zhu Wen's back road. Although I don't dare to say that the world is to be treated, but the first feudal town in the world, I'm afraid it is not Zhu Wen or Li Ke who will use it! ”

"What His Highness said is good, but I'm afraid that Zhu Wen and Li Keyong will not let His Highness get his wish!" Yang Shihou said with a little worry.

"They are naturally unsatisfactory, so now we have to focus on guarding, and in October, the initiative is in my hands, and I can't help but let them be unsatisfactory!" Li Cunhuan sneered and said coldly.

…… Ulzhou ...... "Li Cunhuan, you are really ruthless!" I actually played the preemptive attack! Rick yelled viciously as he looked at the map. Although he saw Li Cunhuan's strategy, Li Keyong had no way. is all because Li Cunhuan can be said to be a conspiracy and a strong attack. Don't look at Li Keyong's nearly 70,000 horses in his hands, but in front of the narrow pass, even if it is a 100,000-strong army, it can only send hundreds of people to attack, this kind of refueling siege warfare is something that all commanders are unwilling to face.

Not to mention the forces that could not give full play to their superiority, they also wasted time and suffered heavy casualties. In this way, even if the opponent's pass is captured, I am afraid that the proportion of casualties is five or six times that of the opponent, or even ten times, or even dozens of times. This is something that Li Keyong cannot tolerate. He is not only an enemy of Li Cunhuan, he also has Zhu Wen. He can't attack Li Cunwan desperately, otherwise he will only cheapen Zhu Wen in the end.

"Father, let's make peace with Li Cunhuan!" Li Cunmiao looked at Li Keyong, gritted his teeth, and said this proposal that made his arrogant self-esteem quite hurt, this was no longer a solution.

"No!" Li Keyong let out a low roar like a lion, stared at the map with blood-red eyes, and said, "We still have a way!" The voice was full of reluctance.

Even Kang Junli, the proposer of this war, had to sigh and said sullenly: "Father-in-law, it's not that there is no way, but the only way is to storm Xinzhou and Wuzhou, which will cost at least three months of siege time and the sacrifice of 20,000 soldiers, as well as Juyongguan and Youzhou." When Lu Long is defeated, I am afraid that your father-in-law will be able to leave fifty percent, which is already a great blessing! There is also capital talking about dominating the world! ”

Kang Junli's words were like a sharp needle, piercing Li Ke's balloon-like self-esteem, and all of a sudden Li Ke's confidence was clean. Let Li Keyong have to face the reality, even if he defeats Lu Long, it will be a miserable victory, and the bastard Zhu Laosan will not let go of this opportunity to pick up cheap. If he let it go, he would not be the famous rogue emperor Zhu Laosan in history.

"That'...... That pie...... Who to send! It was originally just five words, but it was squeezed into seven words by Li Keyong. Although no one could afford to see what kind of face he was looking at this time because Li Keyong lowered his head, it was already possible to imagine how ugly the expression on Li Keyong's face was when he said this.

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, what they were most afraid of was that Li Ke used his stubbornness, which would be troublesome. Li Siyuan's side only had 30,000 soldiers and horses, but he dealt with Zhu Wen's army of 80,000, and the hardships can be imagined. More importantly, 20,000 of the 30,000 troops are Chengde, in case Wang Rong betrays Hedong in order to survive, Li Keyong's situation can be imagined how bad it will be, and Li Cunhuan is already imminent.

Kang Junli and Li Cunqiao glanced at each other, and finally Kang Junli spoke. "Wu Yanqi, the secretary in charge of his father-in-law (one of Li Keyong's dying ministers), has always been a good arguer, and he can be the main envoy, as for the deputy envoy ......" Saying this, Kang Junli looked at Li Cunxuan, as if to say, hey, I can take half of the responsibility! Don't try to slip away, you kid.

Li Cunmiao had no choice but to follow Kang Junli's words and said: "Coach Zuo makes Meng Zhixiang a deputy envoy!" ”

Li Keyong nodded and said: "The pawn named Guo Chongtao (the junior official in charge of guest invitations and delivery) under my door is alert in case of trouble, and he should deal with it calmly, so let him accompany him!" ”

"Father (father) is wise!" Kang Junli and Li Cunqiao praised in unison.

The compliments of the two also made Li Keyong slightly swept away a trace of depression.

Now that it has been discussed, let's go and prepare immediately, don't look at a mission of only more than ten or twenty people, but there are really a lot of things to prepare. First of all, the carriage and horse, this must be good, this is a matter of face, otherwise others will underestimate you, this can not be sloppy. There are also some gifts, to do what they like. There are also accompanying personnel, who dare not say that they are all handsome men and handsome guys, but they definitely have to be seen by people and have a good impression or two. This can't be handsome, but also have literary talent, otherwise you can just pull a team of ducks over. And the soldier, to paraphrase a guard of honor in modern terms.

After two days of trouble, Wu Yanqi was on the road. Before he came to the boundary of Dingzhou, Jinyiwei's spies had already informed Li Cunhuan of the information.

"The main envoy Wu Yanqi, the deputy envoy Meng Zhixiang...... Hey! This guy seems to be the Emperor of Houshu, but I didn't expect him to be a person under Li Keyong's command now. Entourage Zhou Bi, Xiu Chongren, Guo Chongtao...... Guo Chongtao! If the previous Meng Zhixiang only surprised Li Cunhuan a little, then Guo Chongtao almost startled Li Cunhuan.

In the Later Tang Dynasty, there are only three people who can be called Optimus Prime, and they have successively supported the heavy responsibility of the Later Tang Dynasty. They are Zhou Dewei, Li Siyuan, and finally this Guo Chongtao. Li Cunhuan forgot what Guo Chongtao's record was, but he remembered Guo Chongtao's southern expedition to Shu.

It has been said since ancient times that the difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky! This is already a consensus, and some people even say that since ancient times, most of them are headed by the Yangtze River, and they should be headed by Shu Dao. No matter who is right or wrong, since ancient times, no one has suffered less in attacking Shuzhong. But Guo Chongtao only took 70 days before and after. If it weren't for the half-cut hero Li Cunmiao's almost straight line fall, I'm afraid that the Later Tang Dynasty would have already dominated the world. It was Zhao's turn to shout.

"Gotta find a way to detain this guy!" Li Cunhuan thought secretly.

During this time, Zhu Wen also changed generals and appointed Li Si'an as the envoy to Hebei. And Ge Congzhou led 10,000 Yanzhou soldiers to the south to settle accounts with Liu Yan. At the same time, Zhu Wen also transferred 20,000 Caizhou soldiers from Caizhou to the north, in order to wait for the arrival of Caizhou soldiers, Li Si'an and Li Siyuan and Li Cunzhang in Chengde were all petty fights.

In this way, the three major festivals of the Central Plains made it almost peaceful to spend April in the fifth year of Qianning. And Li Cunhuan also ushered in the 'guest' he had been looking forward to for a long time.

"Your Highness, the messenger sent by Li Keyong has arrived!" Feng Dao walked into the study and whispered to Li Cunhuan, who was buried in the sand table.

"Oh! So soon! Li Cunhuan raised his head, and his eyes couldn't help showing a touch of excitement.

"It's at the gates!" Feng Dao added.

"Then it's hard for you to go, you can go and receive them in person!" Li Cunhuan said with a smile.

"Then the official has retired!" Feng Dao bowed and said.

But about an hour later, Feng Dao went and returned.

Li Cunhuan looked at Feng Dao strangely, "What's wrong?" ”

"Your Highness, Wu Yanqi has just stayed, and after cleaning, he asked the lower officials to see His Highness! And they are also going to hold a banquet in the Yuhuatai where His Highness allocates to their residence, and invite His Highness! Feng Dao showed a wry smile and said with a wry smile, there are guests there who invite the host first, and Feng Dao doesn't know what medicine is sold in Wu Yanqi's gourd.

"Oh? Wu Yanqi set up a banquet to assassinate the king? No, they, along with the accompanying guards, were only thirty-seven. Li Keyong has such a bold personality and has to have such great ability, it should be something else, but what is it? Li Cunhuan couldn't help but wonder.

"It shouldn't be an assassination of His Highness, but this must not be guarded against. His Royal Highness is now a person in the four towns of Lulong. Speaking of this, Feng Dao couldn't help muttering dissatisfiedly: "Your Highness is also fifty-fifty in twenty, but he doesn't even have a son!" In case something happens, I'm afraid Lu Long ...... Ay! ”

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but smile embarrassedly when he heard this, he didn't know what was going on, could it be the sequelae of the crossing? But it's also possible that he often goes out to fight and rarely gets close to women. Zhang Chengye even proposed to let Li Cunhuan bring Yu Xianyun to serve with him. It is conceivable that Lu Long's civil and military officials are now worried about Li Cunhuan.

"This, well, let's go over there Wu Yanqi! Pu Leji, you go and prepare, don't let the Hedong side have a chance to assassinate! Li Cunhuan was embarrassed. Feng Dao was forced by a little subordinate, and it was not good to force Li Cunhuan more, which allowed Li Cunhuan to avoid this hurdle.

When Feng Dao left, Li Cunhuan pondered whether he should secretly find a famous doctor to see if he had a problem, or if there was a problem with Yu Xianyun, otherwise he would not see any movement after three or four years.

At dusk, Li Cunhuan changed into a white tiger-striped Hanfu, wore a Tang knife at his waist, and went to the banquet under the protection of 200 iron eagles.

Wu Yanqi sent someone to wait for Li Cunhuan at the intersection early, and as soon as he saw Li Cunhuan coming, he immediately went in to inform Wu Yanhuan. Wu Yanqi immediately took the deputy envoy Meng Zhixiang to wait under the Yuhua platform. A platform is a type of structure made of rammed earth to form a pyramid-like hill, one floor taller than the other. Buildings and flowers were planted on this hill. Not only can you look at the beauty of the splendid mountains and rivers from afar, but you can also defend from a high position. In ancient times, it was the most popular ancient villa of the royal nobility.

(To be continued)