"Your Highness, the middle strategy of the humble post is actually very simple, please ask Your Highness to lead the army to quickly go north and join General Qu Tutong, and gather 100,000 troops to attack Luoyang from the west road, maybe we still have hope to take Luoyang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"If I lead the army north, it means that Nanyang, Huai'an, Shuyang, Xiangcheng and other counties will have to give up."

Zhang Gongjin nodded, "Zhang Xuan has 80,000 troops in Xinye, even if His Highness doesn't want to give up, I'm afraid it will be difficult." ”

Li Shimin paced back and forth with his hands in his hands, he heard the meaning of Zhang Gongjin's words, even if Luoyang could only say that there was still hope, "Then what about the next step?" Li Shimin asked again.

"Your Highness, the next strategy is to withdraw to Guanzhong on all fronts, at most to keep the west of Hangu Pass and Hongnong County, but at least all the troops can ......."

"Say no more!"

Li Shimin decisively stopped Zhang Gongjin's words, he would never consider making a strategy, and his father would never agree, at this moment, Li Shimin finally made up his mind that only the middle strategy was his only desirable strategy.

He immediately ordered: "Quickly pass on my order, so that Wu Shi Tong will continue to lead the army to support Xiyang County, and Liu Hongji will immediately lead the army north to join me." ”

Li Shimin accepted Zhang Gongjin's suggestion, in the current complicated situation, he can only continue to confront Zhang Xuan by grasping the backbone, although it is a pity to give up Nanyang and other four counties, but this is a wise move, concentrate forces, and prevent being broken by the Sui army.

.........

The atmosphere in Luoyang is still very tense, and the clouds of war have always shrouded the sky over Luoyang, but in the past two days, there is more or less a trace of joy on the streets of Luoyang, because the Son of Heaven Wang Shichong killed the once evil cannibal demon king Zhu Wei, and hung his head on the Dingding Gate to show the public, although there is a shortage of food, wine and meat have become a luxury, but there are still many people who replace wine with tea to celebrate the demise of Zhu Wei.

However, for the hundred officials of the imperial court, the killing of Zhu Ji represents another meaning, Wang Shichong is taking the military power of the generals under his hands, and Zhu Ji is just a victim.

Wang Shichong has taken back all the military power and handed it over to his brothers and nephews, in fact, Wang Shiyun, the king of Zhao, is in charge of the southern city of Luoyang, Wang Shiwei, the king of Chu, guards the Baocheng of Luoyang, the prince Wang Xuanying guards the east city of Luoyang, the king of Han Wang Xuanshu guards the city of Hanjia, and the king of Lu guards the city of Yaoyi, and the other 20,000 royal forest troops are divided into three armies and eighty-four provinces, of which Wang Xingben of Jingzhou commands the cavalry of the 28 provinces of the Longxiang army, Wang Tai of the Song Dynasty commands the infantry of the 28 provinces of the inner army, and Wang Jundu of Yue commands the infantry of the 28 provinces of the foreign army.

A series of army deployments, the final result is that the Wang clan controls all 60,000 troops, under the unified command of Wang Shichong, which is a concrete manifestation of Wang Shichong's resolute disbelief in outsiders at the critical juncture.

In fact, the same is true of Li Yuan, the military power of the Tang Dynasty was basically handed over to his brothers and nephews, Zhang Xuan was just because he had no brothers, and his son was still young, so he could only personally command the army, thus sacrificing the imperial power, in this regard, the power of the Northern Sui Dynasty was much greater than that of the Tang Dynasty and the Zheng Dynasty.

On the one hand, the business is withering, the materials from the north and south have gathered in the capital, forming a new business network, Luoyang is almost isolated, there has been no Jiangdu cargo ship to Luoyang for several months, and Chang'an also has its own business network, Bashu, Guanzhong, Longyou, Hexi, and Zhou and other places of materials to support Chang'an, only Luoyang is not relied on, business is withered, more than half of the shops are closed.

On the other hand, affected by the war, almost everyone realized that the war was coming, and Luoyang City began a frenzied rush to buy, grain, cured meat, cloth, salt, wine, gold and silver jewelry, etc., as long as the materials that could be exchanged for food during the war would be snapped up, resulting in skyrocketing prices, and shops were forced to close due to insufficient inventory.

Therefore, when Cen Wenwen entered the West Market, he thought that today was a closed day, and it was deserted everywhere, and the door could be dropped, and there was no longer the hustle and bustle and crowds of people in the past.

Cen Wenwen shook his head secretly, and the carriage soon came to Pi Shixing, where all the shops were closed, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street.

Cen Wenwen got out of the carriage and handed the money to the coachman, who smiled and said, "Childe, you can't buy anything here, and it's a long way back, so it's better for me to send Childe out again!" ”

"No need, I'm not buying something, you can go!"

The carriage turned around, Cen Wenwen walked along, and soon found the largest fur shop in Luoyang, originally called Beishan Fur Shop, has now been renamed Hundred Beasts Hall, Phnom Penh black plaque on the three big characters 'Hundred Beasts Hall', it turned out to be the imperial book of the Son of Heaven Wang Shichong.

Cen Wenwen couldn't help but laugh dumbly, if Wang Shichong knew that this Hundred Beast Hall was the intelligence agency of the Northern Sui in Luoyang, how would he feel?

knocked on the door twice, and after a while, the door creaked open, and a guy said, "I'm sorry, our store has closed down, son, go to another house!" ”

"I'm not here to buy something, I'm looking for you Lu Dongzhu, he's here!"

"You are ......."

"You go and tell Lord Lu, I came from the Zhongdu Guanxue Tower, and he will know."

"Childe, wait a minute!"

The guy turned around and trotted all the way, the Guanxue Building mentioned by Cen Wenwen is another name for the pavilion where the Qi Wangfu Intelligence Agency is located, only the core people know, only a moment, Hou Zheng Lu Ping of the Luoyang Intelligence Agency hurriedly came out of it, he looked at Cen Wenwen, and asked hesitantly: "But Mr. Cen?" ”

Lu Ping had already received the news in advance that His Royal Highness the King of Qi had sent Cen Wenwen to Luoyang, but he had never seen Cen Wenwen, so he was a little hesitant.

Cen Wenwen smiled slightly: "It's Cen Wenwen!" ”

"Sir is finally here, please come in!"

Lu Ping warmly welcomed Cen Wenwen into the shop, looked at both sides, and then carefully closed the door, he invited Cen Wenwen to sit down in the inner hall, and poured him another cup of tea.

Cen Wenwen smiled: "It seems that General Lu and Wang Shichong have a good relationship?" ”

Lu Ping knew that he was referring to the plaque, so he smiled bitterly: "It is Wang Shiyun who has a good relationship, to be precise, Wang Shiyun got this plaque for me for the sake of money, with it, it will save a lot of trouble, at least the army will not come to search." ”

"I just think it's funny, what if Wang Shichong finds out?"

"If Wang Shichong knows, he will definitely cramp and skin us, this is what he said, but during this time, Wang Shichong's army is very strict, and the army will search every day, forcing us to destroy all the evidence, and there are many dangers, and thanks to this plaque, the search soldiers dare not make a mistake."

"Then can you still contact Xiangyang now? I'm referring to carrier pigeon connections. ”

"There is no problem with this, our carrier pigeons are outside the city, and they are not located in the city, as long as the city gate is not sealed, we can send a letter to Xiangyang at any time."

Cen Wenwen took out a sealed letter tube and handed it to Lu Ping, "This pigeon letter needs to be delivered to the marshal before dark, please arrange it immediately!" ”

Lu Ping nodded, called a confidant, and asked him to deliver a letter outside the city immediately, and the henchman took the mailbox and left.

At this time, Lu Ping smiled again: "If I am not mistaken, among the soldiers brought back by Yun Dingxing this time, there are also our people!" ”

Lu Ping is an extremely shrewd person, since Cen Wenwen's current identity is Yun Dingxing, how can there be no Sui soldiers in Yun Dingxing's army?

Cen Wenwen said lightly: "All the soldiers brought back by Yun Dingxing this time are our people, and General Shen Guang is in charge of command, so we will start acting when the time is ripe." ”

Lu Ping was taken aback, "A thousand people?" ”

Cen Wenwen nodded, "Both!" ”

Lu Ping rubbed his hands excitedly, "Then what can we do?" ”

Cen Wenwen learned from Fang Xuanling that this Lu Ping is very shrewd and capable, and he is very quick-witted, and he has the credit for winning the Tiger Prison Pass this time, Cen Wenwen thought for a while and said: "There is indeed one thing that needs the assistance of the general, Yun Dingxing has handed over a thousand troops to Wang Shiyun, but it is only a nominal belonging, in fact, it is still under the command of Yun Shitai, but I hope that the deployment arrangements under Wang Shiyun's account will be in charge of our own people, so that we can send our troops to key positions at a critical moment." ”

Lu Ping groaned and said: "I really have such a person in the military department, he got the city defense map of Luoyang for me, this person is now in the military department, I can directly place him under Wang Shiyun's men." ”

(To be continued.) )