Yuan Fang smiled slightly, but did not answer Qu Yongjie's words, but said: "Li Qing pacified the grassland, and after the first battle in the grassland, he stabbed his ally Murwei people in the back, and now not only the grassland, but even the territory of the Murwei people also fell into his hands. ”

"This son is eloquent and strategic, hated the black, the first war decided the grassland and the Murowei people, it is difficult for non-big strategists to do it, although this son will solve the pain of Dachu for hundreds of years, but he does not make people worry!" Mr. Long sighed: "The capable minister who governs the world, the hero of the troubled times, the first assistant Chen Xiyan in the words of the old man!" ”

Qu Yongjie was also speechless, for Li Qing, he had a painful skin. "Mr. Long said that yesterday was good, if it is the world of great rule now, then with Li Qing's talent, it will naturally become the barrier of the Western Regions of Great Chu, even if he goes on an expedition to the Western Regions, it is not uncommon for him to open up territory for Great Chu, but now, he has obviously turned his attention to the Central Plains and started his layout."

Yuan Fang nodded, "Yes, this person is extremely ambitious, just looking at the fact that he can let go of his hatred with the Xiao clan and form an alliance with the Xiao clan, take the opportunity to seek a merger with the state, sign a non-aggression pact with the Lu clan but occupy Changqi and Luo Feng in Luzhou, and send a sailor to secretly help the Zeng clan, you can know what attention he is fighting." ”

Mr. Long shook his head and said: "Li Qing and King Ning, are both under the idea of long-distance friendship and close attack, King Ning helped the Lu clan to attack the Zeng clan, Li Qing secretly helped the Zeng clan to fight against the Lu clan, the longer the two families dragged on, the more advantageous it will be to Li Qing, if the Lu clan is dragged down by the Zeng clan, then the Dingzhou iron cavalry will not hesitate to enter from the state and fully occupy the territory of the Lu clan, and his sailor is in the territory of the Zeng clan, at that time, the land and water will go together, and the Zeng clan will not have a second way except to bow to him." ”

Qu Yongjie is a good hand at fighting, but he is a little slow to plan these twists and turns, and when he heard Mr. Long's analysis, he couldn't help but gasp, "Mr. Long, if what you said comes true, then Li Qing's forces will not be able to be contained, presumably at that time, it will be time for him to enter the Central Plains." ”

Mr. Long sighed: "That's it, Li Qing is a righteous and bright plan, even if you know what, the situation is forced, you can still only watch him come step by step, the Lu family hopes to defeat the Zeng family quickly, and then turn around to deal with Li Qing, but Li Qing will let him get his wish, if the Zeng family is really defeated, I expect that even if Li Qing is not ready, he will brazenly send troops to attack the Lu family, so that it will fall into a two-sided battle." ”

"Isn't there a solution?" Qu Yongjie said.

Mr. Long smiled slightly, "It's not nothing, one is that the Lu clan defeated the Zeng clan in a very short period of time, but this is obviously unrealistic, and the second is that King Ning sent troops to the Zeng clan and attacked the Lu clan on both sides, forcing the Zeng clan to surrender, and then the Lu clan turned back to deal with Li Qing and dragged Li Qing back." But there must be one condition, that is, King Ning must first achieve a complete victory in the Battle of Qinzhou before he has a chance to free up his forces to deal with Zeng. ”

Qu Yongjie shook his head and said: "In the battle of Qinzhou, King Ning may win easily, but now it seems that King Ning will lose the last one." ”

"There's still one more chance." Mr. Long said.

Qu Yongjie perked up and said, "I want to hear about it." ”

"Yizhou!" Mr. Long said.

"Yizhou is the location of Li Qing's family, if any of the Central Plains forces suddenly attack Yizhou, Yizhou is in danger, and the Li family will definitely order Li Qing to enter the customs in advance to participate in the war, which may also break Li Qing's strategic deployment." Mr. Long said.

Yuan Fang shook his head, "This is unlikely, the Xiao clan will not conflict with Dingzhou now, and King Ning will not take the initiative to provoke a war with Li Qing at this time, if Li Qing is provoked, and the Xiao clan is completely allied, and Dingzhou Iron Cavalry enters the Central Plains, King Ning will be defeated." ”

"What if we go and attack Yizhou?" Qu Ping said suddenly.

The three people in the room all laughed, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand." Qu Yongjie scolded with a smile, "King Ning and the Xiao family have the strength to do something against Yizhou, but they don't dare to poke this hornet's nest, and we have neither the strength nor the need to poke the hornet's nest." ”

"My father also underestimated our Dingzhou army, as far as I know, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 horses in Yizhou, and there are 5,000 elite horsemen who went to Dingzhou, but we have the advantage in terms of troops, why don't we have the strength."

Mr. Long shook his head, "Qu Ping, you go and look at the map first, we border with Yizhou, there is only a narrow passage, and Yizhou since the rise of Li Qing, it has held the strategy of sticking, Yizhou is all dangerous and important towns, are all forts, listen to Yuan Fang said, these fortresses are Li Qing's first fort in Dingzhou, it is extremely difficult to attack, the 60,000 troops of Wanyan Bulu have not been able to defeat Fuyuan, you think about our people to attack Yizhou, I am afraid that it has not penetrated into Yizhou itself, it will be consumed, At that time, can Xingzhou still be protected, the two fierce tigers around us will pounce on us and tear us to pieces. ”

"In this way, Li Qing has no way to stop it?" Qu Ping was unconvinced.

"So Mr. Long just said that what Li Qing did was a conspiracy, he laid out the situation openly, how to break the situation, not only what we have to think about, how can Xiao's family, King Ning, Lu family and others not see it, but the plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, even if Li Qing lays out the situation one by one, how can the world be as he wants, chasing the Central Plains, if it is so simple, then why should Xiao Haoran and King Ning have been planning for decades?" Qu Yongjie said with a smile.

"What your father said is good, but now we can only take one step at a time and adapt to the situation, but the top priority is that our own strength in Xingzhou needs to be rapidly improved, Brother Qu, I am responsible for the intelligence, Mr. Jun Long plans for you, strategic layout, and diplomatic communication are also done by Mr. Long for you, and there is only one thing you have to do."

"Army!" Qu Yongjie stood up, "Mr. Long and Brother Yuan, rest assured, in one year, I can train the current 30,000 Xingzhou soldiers into elites, in two years, I can train 50,000 soldiers, if there is three years, as long as the silver is guaranteed and the logistics are safe, I can train 100,000 soldiers." ”

Mr. Long said with a smile: "Don't train the elite of the Royal Forest Army back then, and was defeated by Li Qingding's soldiers." ”

was ruthlessly exposed by Long Xian, Qu Ping's face showed anger, but he only dared to be angry with Mr. Long now, and although Qu Yongjie's old face was red, he was not angry at Mr. Long's ridicule, and he said very seriously: "What Mr. Long said is very reasonable, the battle with the Dingzhou soldiers back then was like a slap in the face for me, and it woke me up completely, Li Qing is right, the soldiers who have not been on the battlefield can never be called elite, and the Royal Forest Army can only be regarded as a good-looking army. The Dingzhou soldiers are the army that can fight, but at the moment when the Central Plains is in turmoil, presumably our Xingzhou soldiers will not be short of wars. ”

Yuan Fang smiled and said, "Do you also want to follow in Li Qing's footsteps and make a move of mad dog spirit?" ”

"As long as I can win, don't say it's a mad dog, it's a mad cow, I admit it." Qu Yongjie laughed. "Although I don't like Li Qing, this person's training is really good."

Qu Ping said strangely: "Father, you also said just now that we are not strong enough to provoke Yizhou, but you just said that we have no shortage of wars in Xingzhou, so who can we fight, Yizhou can't fight, then there are only King Ning and Xiao Clan, they are stronger!" ”

Mr. Long said with a smile: "We don't fight Yizhou, we don't want the Xiao family or King Ning to pick up the cheap, but the Xiao family or King Ning, we don't have the opportunity to knock it out." ”

"But how do you say that?" Qu Ping was puzzled.

"It depends on the timing, for our Xingzhou, as long as we grasp the right time, we can seek the greatest benefits." Mr. Long said: "Xingzhou's strategy is to keep the Xiao family and King Ning on balance at any time, to put it simply, we see who is going to lose and fall behind, and we will help whoever we want." In short, let them fight as badly as possible, at this time, even if we go to take advantage of some people, he will not dare to lose his temper, and he has to come to us to be careful, hoping to pull us over again. ”

"Isn't this a two-faced one?" Qu Ping was speechless.

"Kid, this is politics!" Yuan Fang said meaningfully: "Military has always been only a political auxiliary means, a means adopted in order to achieve political goals. ”

Qu Ping nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Li Qingneng has managed a huge force in a few years from a mere school captain, the owner, your foundation is much stronger now than he was back then, can you make his career?" Mr. Long took a sip of tea and said.

Qu Yongjie stood up and was full of spirit, "With Mr. Long's luck and the help of Brother Yuan, of course Qu is confident that he will rebuild the prestige of Dachu and behead all these rebellious ministers and thieves." ”

"And me!" Qu Ping waved his fist, "My son has no other skills, he leads the troops to fight, but he is in front of the charge, but no one is behind." ”

Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

In the dead of night, Mr. Long stood alone under the moon, looking up at the waning moon, and muttered to himself, "Li Qing, Li Qing, do you also want to leap into the Central Plains?" Do you want to reshape the soul of Da Chu, or do you want to start a new stove and set up a portal again! ”

The waning moon was silent, hidden behind the clouds, leaving him only a dark and boundless silence.

Linxi Town, a big battle is going on fiercely, Zhang Wei led 10,000 southern troops, is storming a battalion of the Royal Forest Army led by Xiao Tianci, the two sides launched a fierce battle on the periphery of Linxi Town, in order to prevent Xiao Tianci from digging embankments and releasing water, Zhang Wei only invested one or two battalions of troops at a time, Zhang Wei paid attention to the war of attrition, you want to release water, okay, that can only drown my forward, as long as the water is released, my rear army swoops up, you have nothing to do. The two armies were stuck together, fighting on the periphery of Linxi Town.

"General Xiao, what should I do, now that the troops have suffered heavy casualties, do you want to withdraw the brothers outside into the town, and then give the order to release the water!"

A Royal Forest officer anxiously called Xiao Tianci.

Xiao Tianci smiled, "Don't panic, take these dog things, slowly introduce them into the town, and we will slowly retreat to the mountain temple, I will give Zhang Wei a chance to surround me." ”

"General, there are still thousands of people in the town!" The Royal Forest Officer's face changed dramatically.

Xiao Tianci glanced at him coldly, "I know." ”

(To be continued)