"Unexpected! I can't imagine that Li Cunhuan would dare to go off the rails like this! Zhu Wen's heart was full of horror, as if invisibly, a cold sword was pointed at his throat, and the tip of the sword was only a hair-length distance from his skin. I didn't know where the sword would appear.

"On the 11th, he defeated Wu Yue's Yangtze River Naval Division stationed in Changzhou, and landed in Xiuzhou at the same time, and on the 12th, at noon, Xiuzhou City was attacked and the city was broken. The thirteenth said that Hangzhou was besieged, but it was not attacked. On the fourteenth, at night, there was civil strife in Hangzhou, and Li Cunhuan took the opportunity to trap Hangzhou! Qian Biao's family died. It's just three days, or four days! So fast! Jing Xiang took the information sent by this piece of detail, and his hands trembled involuntarily.

"Fortunately, Li Cunhuan wanted to stabilize the morale of the army and recover, and stayed in Chuzhou for ten days, otherwise Xuzhou would be lost." Zhu Wen's mouth was full of happiness, and there was a trace of fear that he didn't know, or knew but didn't dare to admit it.

"King, now I'm glad that these are useless, what the king has to do now is to hold Xuzhou! Yunzhou! Luoyang! These three key points, as long as these three cities are guarded. At most, Li Cunhuan plundered nearby states and counties, and did not dare to go deeper! Zhu Wen's other mastermind, Li Zhen, said with a worried face.

Zhu Wen just wanted to nod in agreement, but at this time, Jing Xiang shook his head and said, "No! ”

Zhu Wen looked at Jing Xiang inexplicably, and felt a little annoyed in his heart, could it be that you are still preparing to fight in the nest at this time? For the competition between Li Zhen and Jing Xiang, he Zhu Wen didn't know that it was strange, and he just turned a blind eye to it, he didn't expect Jing Xiang to come to this point, so disregarding the overall situation.

Jing Xiang glanced at Zhu Wen, although Zhu Wen's face did not change much. But Jing Xiang is and others, and he immediately understood Zhu Wen's thoughts. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he didn't complain about Zhu Wen's distrust of him, but sighed that Li Cunhuan's move had made the king lose his sense of proportion, and he became eager for quick success. If it was in the past, the king would definitely calm down and weigh the pros and cons between himself and Li Zhen's plan, instead of urgently implementing a plan like now.

Jing Xiang said: "Luoyang can block the seventy or eighty thousand Lulong army on the opposite side, and Yunzhou can block Pinglu and Yanhai plus the 100,000 army brought over from Lulong. But Xuzhou can't stop the 200,000 wolves and tigers under Li Cunhuan's command! ”

"Humph! It's not that the official looks down on Li Cunhuan, but that Li Cunhuan's subordinates, plus the Huainan army, can indeed make up about 200,000 people, but Li Cunhuan can't do this! To hold Huainan, he needs at least 10,000 soldiers and horses he brought from Lulong. In addition, there is also the elimination of the old and weak, and the elimination of those who are loyal to Yang Xingmi. There should be only 1440,000, but more than ninety percent of these people have just surrendered to Li Cunhuan, and people are panicking. How can we cross Xuzhou and go deep into Xuanwu! Although Xuanwu had a smooth road, it was also easy for cavalry to sneak attack grain. If I wait for Gan Ning's general, maybe, Li Cunhuan will return to his original form! Lost Huainan and Jiangdong! Li Zhen snorted coldly and said unconvinced.

The general of Gan Ning in his mouth, Jing Xiang knew what Li Zhen meant, as long as there was a fierce general who attacked at night and succeeded, he could not cause the soldiers under Li Cunhuan to bomb the camp. After all, more than ninety percent of the soldiers and horses under Li Cunhuan's command were newly surrendered soldiers. Once more than 100,000 troops bomb the camp, even if Sun Wu and Wu Qi are reborn, they will be helpless. And at that time, take the opportunity to lead the soldiers and horses back to Huainan, and there will be countless people who will divide one side. The Jiangnan territory that Li Cunhuan had worked so hard to build before naturally came to naught overnight.

"You forgot someone! He was able to appease the Huainan troops! Jing Xiang said with a solemn face.

"Are you talking about Wang Maozhang? Or Xu Wen? Do they have the ability? Wang Maozhang has the ability, but he doesn't have this prestige. Xu Wen? It's just a small person! Li Zhen retorted with a sneer. He also had the same idea as Zhu Wen, thinking that Jing Xiang was fighting in the nest, and there was no room to talk about it, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong. And Zhu Wen was rare not to stand on Jing Xiang's side and scold Li Zhen, so that Li Zhen couldn't help but be secretly complacent in his heart.

But Jing Xiang's next sentence surprised both him and Zhu Wen, who had been watching coldly, and a layer of haze was cast in his heart. "Li Shenfu! He has the ability. ”

After half a ring, Li Zhen came back to his senses and lost his voice: "How is it possible!" Li Shenfu is Yang Xingmi's henchman! ”

"Du Ling too, Gao Yan, too! Li Cunhuan's tongue should not be underestimated. Jing Xiang closed his eyes, his voice surprisingly calm.

Du Ling and Gao Yan were the most trusted generals under Qian Biao after Gu Quanwu's death, and let them sit in the two states in the northwest close to Yang Xingmi. It is equivalent to the general army of the Ming Dynasty sitting in Shanhaiguan and Xuanda, which is directly related to the safety of Hangzhou, and the people who are enough to sit in these two places not only need to be capable, but also loyal is the first. But the former one became the main force to destroy Qian Biao and gave advice to Li Cunhuan. It can be said that Qian Biao perished so quickly, and Du Ling accounted for at least five of the ten credits.

And Gao Yan did not become a pioneer like Du Ling. But according to the news sent back by Xizuo, Gao Yan did not send a single soldier to support Qian Biao. Although there are not many soldiers and horses under his command, only 10,000 people, they are all Wu Yue's elite soldiers, after all, they are sitting on the frontier, and the opposite side is Huainan, which has a very bad relationship with Wu Yue. Even if there is no war, the soldiers will train hard, not to mention that there are not many skirmishes in peacetime, which is equivalent to breaking Qian Biao's arm. And Gao Yan also sent people to Li Cunhuan to send food, tea, and wine to support Li Cunhuan for some of the grain and grass. In addition, because Gao Yan did not dispatch troops, Tian Hao, who was originally going to take advantage of the fire to rob, not only acted rashly.

"It should ...... Probably not! There was a lot of uncertainty in Li Zhen's voice, and he was no longer as resolute as before.

"Li Cunhuan has a lot of skills to persuade him to surrender! What does that mean? Zhu Wen was drunk by Jing Xiang, and he also knew the situation in front of him, and he was not as optimistic as he subconsciously thought.

'Surrender! Jing Xiang smiled bitterly in his heart, this was the answer he thought was the best, but he knew that even if he said this, Zhu Wen would not agree with it, but would provoke him to kill him.

"Leave 30,000 people to guard Luoyang, as long as you hold the other end of the Heyang Bridge, even if the Lu Long Army has thousands of troops, it is useless. Originally, 10,000 people were enough, but it was necessary to prevent Lu Longjun from changing to Puzhou, crossing the Yellow River from Puzhou into Guanzhong, and then going through Huazhou and out of Tongguan, although it wasted a lot of time, but it was also the only way. The rest of the army quickly returned to Xuanwu, where the king would be the place where Lu Long and Xuanwu would fight a decisive battle! Jing Xiang muttered.

"The military advisor thinks that the place where we will fight Lu Long will be Xuanwu?" Zhu Wen asked.

"I don't know, but as long as you can defeat the soldiers and horses from Huainan, Xuanwu will be safe!" Jing Xiang secretly added in his heart: It is short-term security, and Lu Long's pressure on Xuanwu is inevitable. Even if this battle is won, the flames of war are ignited in the territory of Xuanwu, and the losses suffered by Xuanwu will not be less, and it will also happen in February, and there is no hope for this year's spring ploughing. How will you survive next year? In the past, it was possible to plunder neighboring states.

But now there are also Li Cunhuan and Liu Zhijun feudal towns near Xuanwu. Liu Zhijun doesn't have much oil and water, not to mention, there is a natural danger in Tongguan, and he can't get much from looting. Zhao Kuangning is quite wealthy, occupying the area of Nanyang and Xiangyang, but the territory is not large, and when it is still green and yellow, and if Nanyang is not captured, the road will not be smooth, and the grain that can be looted will be limited, and even less will be transported back. That's it, even Zhao Kuangning was offended, and the surrounding feudal towns really had enmity with Xuanwu. As long as Li Cunhuan gave an order, he blocked Xuanwu.

As for the plundering of Li Cunhuan, he is rich, but I am afraid that Li Cunhuan still wants you to send troops to Xuanwu, so that he can consume Xuanwu's troops. And send a small group of troops and horses, where is the opponent of Lu Dragoon. Besides, even if the Xuanwu army is one top two, it can't consume Lu Long's million-strong army. Xuanwu's decline is already obvious!

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On February 10, Li Cunhuan personally led the army north, but he did not break his promise and did not let Li Shenfu lead the army alone. On 14 February, he conquered Suzhou, which is located on the edge of the Grand Canal. Li Cunhuan personally sat in Suzhou, and let Du Ling and Tian Hao lead a total of 60,000 troops to trap Xuzhou, one south and one north, and also prevent the two from fighting in the nest.

Li Shenfu led an army of 60,000 people north along the Grand Canal and went straight to Kaifeng City. Of course, although Li Cunhuan said that he would let Li Shenfu's family set off with the army, Li Shenfu would not take it, but stayed in Suzhou, which was equivalent to putting Li Cunhuan by his side as a proton.

After Liu Jun heard the news of Li Cunhuan, he was overjoyed, and personally led 30,000 Yan Navy to arrive in Xuzhou along Surabaya, and then from Xuzhou to Suzhou, on the one hand, to protect Li Cunhuan, on the other hand, to protect the grain road, at this moment Li Cunhuan only had 15,000 Lulong troops and 20,000 Huainan troops around him. And just to transport grain, it took 10,000 Huainan troops, and along the way, 10,000 Huainan troops and 10,000 Lulongben troops were used. How to tell Liu Jun not to worry.

On February 20, Li Shenfu led an army of 60,000 to Ningling (now Ningling, Shangqiu City) in the northwest of Songzhou, and Zhu Wen also led 80,000 soldiers and horses to Xiangyi (now Sui County, Shangqiu City). Xiangyi and Ningling, located at the northwest end of Songzhou, are both located on the banks of the Grand Canal, although the terrain is flat. But there is a river between Ningling and Xiangyi, Suishui!

It is one of the tribes of the canal gap dug by the Wei State during the Warring States Period, starting from Kaifeng, but it is not with the canal Bianshui, but the distance is very close, the distance is not more than ten miles, and it is only seven or eight miles. It flowed alone until Ningling before it joined the water of the Grand Canal. But it surrounded Xiangyi. And if Xiangyi is not captured, even if Li Shenfu has a million troops, he will not dare to send troops to attack Kaifeng City.

Although the Grand Canal and Suishui surrounded Xiangyi, if Zhu Wen wanted to send troops, he could send thousands of soldiers and horses to attack the grain and grass at any time without Li Shenfu's knowledge. And if Li Shenfu wants to attack Xiangyi, he will be affected by the natural danger of the Grand Canal and Suishui. For a while, Li Shenfu was helpless.

At the same time, Li Cunxiao led an army of 60,000 to attack Yunzhou, Li Cunxiao took the lead and once occupied the city wall, but it was a pity that Zhang Cunjing, who defended the city, knew that Li Cunxiao was a person. also knew that it was not easy to resist, so he secretly ambushed ten archers in an attempt to shoot Li Cunxiao one by one. Li Cunxiao was extremely powerful, so naturally he was not shot. But he was also shot in the thigh by an arrow, the most important thing is that this arrow is poisonous, fortunately it was found early, and the soldiers hurriedly covered Li Cunxiao to go down the city wall to heal, which did not kill Li Cunxiao.

However, the occupied city wall was also taken advantage of Li Cunxiao's retreat by Zhang Cunjing to spread rumors that Li Cunxiao was dead, Lu Longjun was shocked, and the morale of the Xuanwu army was greatly boosted. Originally, the city wall captured by Lu Long's army was recaptured by Zhang Cunjing, and Li Cunxiao was hit by an arrow, and the army was unstable in a short period of time, so he had to suspend the offensive.

Where is Heyang, Li Cunhuan had already ordered Ge to come from Zhou, but Ge Congzhou was unwilling to attack the old master, saying that he was sick and couldn't come. Temporarily changed to Yelu Abaoji as the head coach, and Zhou Yanpet as the supervisor. led the soldiers and horses to attack Luoyang, but Zhu Youyu, the eldest son left by Zhu Wen, was not a tiger father and a dog, and the defense was very effective. Yelu Abaoji attacked for three days in a row, but there was no progress.

Only according to Zhou Yanpet's strategy, he left his younger brother Yelu Anduan to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard Heyang. He led an army of 70,000 to take the Puzhou Bridge and enter the Central Plains.

Some time ago, Zhu Youyu took advantage of a lot, not to mention killing more than 1,000 enemies. It is inevitable that there will be some complacency, thinking that Lu Longjun is nothing more than that. But he didn't stupidly go to counterattack, after repeatedly confirming that Yelu Abaoji really left and the army arrived in Puzhou. Only then did he counterattack, wanting to learn from Li Cunhuan and play with a knife in the back.

It's a pity that Zhou Yanpet was prepared, and although there were only 5,000 soldiers and horses left for Yelu Anduan, there were 1,000 black-clothed troops and 4,000 loyal and filial piety troops. They are all veterans of Lu Long, elite troops. After receiving a round of longbow soldiers' rainstorm of shooting, the attacking Xuanwu army was killed, and the soldiers who fell into the water were the worst.

Yeluan Duan took the opportunity to lead a thousand black-clothed iron cavalry to launch a counterattack, and it was like a torrent of black steel rushing out. Where the horse's hooves fell, flesh and blood flew everywhere, whether dead or alive, all flesh was puree. Drive the defeated army to storm the walled city on the south bank of the Heyang Bridge.

It was also thanks to Zhu Youyu's reaction that he was fast enough and ruthless enough, and ordered the soldiers to shoot mercilessly, but Yeluan saw that there was no advantage to take advantage of, so he retreated to Heyang in a huff. But Zhu Youyu lost 2,000 men and horses at once. also let Zhu Youyu know that he took advantage of the previous time because of the dangerous terrain of Heyang Bridge, and now he can only lead his troops to Shaanzhou (now Sanmenxia City) to strengthen the city defense without tears, so as to resist the attack of Yelu Abaoji from Tongguan.

But I don't know if it's Zhu Youyu's good luck or bad luck, when he arrived in Guanzhong, Liu Zhijun begged Yelu Abaoji with tears and snot to ask him to help deal with Li Maozhen.

Yelu Abaoji was helpless by Liu Zhijun, so he had no choice but to agree to lead 4,000 black-clothed troops to help in the battle. As a result, he immediately helped Liu Zhijun kill Li Maozhen and defeated him, losing more than 3,000 soldiers and horses. Not to mention the retreat of thirty miles to camp, he also sent someone to bribe Yelu Abaoji, hoping that Yelu Abaoji would leave quickly, so he almost hung up the battle free card.

(To be continued)