Wang Xu left Gwangju City, but also had to be forced to do so, the small Gwangju City has long been exploited by him, even the gentry and rich families in the city are difficult to survive, but the army under his command needs to eat food, but also need to have military salaries, otherwise it is difficult to maintain, at this time, Wang Xu finally understood some things, that is, he needs to have strategists, and he needs to have officials who can manage the people's livelihood, otherwise no one can stand it.

When leaving Gwangju City and going to Tangzhou, Wang Xu thought for a long time, the storyteller talked about the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou of the Western Jin Dynasty, although the eyebrows were fluttering and impassioned, but there was not much actual content, and it was not so simple to really maintain an army and lead a place, and it still needed some skills, to put it mildly, it still needed scholars to govern the place.

Wang Xu made up his mind, if he could gain a huge harvest in Tangzhou, after he came back, he must govern the place well, at least he needed to maintain the expenses and keep the more than 10,000 soldiers under his command.

Li Rupei's entire energy was concentrated on the situation in Huainan Province, Jiangnan East Province, and Jiangnan West Province, and a large number of scouts were sent out to reconnoiter the intelligence of these places and send it back at any time.

Since the beginning of August, Li Rupei's contemplative situation has often appeared.

Cui Anqian worked even harder, shouldering big and small things, almost never troubled Li Rupei, the matters above the people's livelihood, he made a decision directly, and the following were implemented, and the affairs above the army involved grain and grass, and Li Rupei did not need to ask.

The study room of the palace was full of maps, and according to Li Rupei's requirements, the map of the Tang Dynasty had already been drawn.

The map is densely covered with markers of various colors, and these marks were drawn by Li Rupei.

What surprised Cui Anqian and others was. The places marked by Li Rupei are not only in the south, but also include many places in the north, and even include the capital Chang'an and the eastern capital Luoyang.

August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival.

An important piece of information was sent to the palace.

An hour later, Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang entered the study of the palace.

Li Rupei looked at the two of them and slowly spoke.

"Wang Xu of Gwangju has made a move, left Gwangju on August 12, and led nearly 10,000 soldiers towards Shenju."

Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang both froze for a moment and did not speak. Because of Gao Biao's indulgence, there are many people in the south who take advantage of the situation to rebel, but there are not many people who really have some strength, most of them are local gate lords who take the opportunity to gather troops and control the place at the same time, the main purpose is to find the court to ask for official positions when the time comes, among these rebels, Wang Xu is the strongest.

Wang Xu led the sergeants to leave Gwangju, and the purpose of a certain guess was very simple. There is a shortage of grain and grass, and it is necessary to loot everywhere, judging from the previous information, Wang Xu is a straw bale. I didn't know anything about the local things, and the people in Gwangju City couldn't survive anymore, so Wang Xu couldn't think of a way from Gwangju, so he had to lead the soldiers to attack. See if you can loot the money. ”

Cui Anqian spoke first.

"Shenzhou is controlled by Huang Chao, can it be said that Wang Xu is ready to fight against Huang Chao."

Gao Chibang also spoke.

"In terms of strength, Wang Xu is by no means Huang Chao's opponent. However, they can fight with each other, which is a good thing, whether it is Huang Chao exterminating Wang Xu, or Wang Xu forming a certain blow to Huang Chao, it is beneficial to the Iron Army. ”

Li Rupei shook his head slightly.

"Huang Chao rebelled for several years, I don't know how many things he has experienced, he will let Wang Xu go to Shenzhou so simply, you all know, Huang Chao's strength is far stronger than Wang Xu, and Huang Chao has occupied some places in Guangzhou, if you want to exterminate Wang Xu, I am afraid that after Wang Xu leaves the city of Guangzhou, you can do it, but the information received by a certain person, Wang Xu left Guangzhou, has already entered Shenzhou, and I am afraid that he has entered Shenzhou at present."

Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang were silent, they didn't understand why Huang Chao would let Wang Xu go.

Li Rupei walked to the front of the map.

"After Shenzhou, you can go directly to Tangzhou, despite the chaos in Huainan Road, but Tangzhou, Suizhou and other places are stable, the people are basically stable, there is no shortage of food for the time being, but unfortunately Tangzhou and Suizhou are places controlled by Shannan Dongdao, Huang Chao is thinking about looting these places, and he does not dare to have substantive actions, he has suffered the loss of the Iron Army, and will never directly contact the Iron Army, but Huang Chao has been rebelling for many years, and conceit is inevitable, and he is unwilling to put such a good place not to loot."

Cui Anqian couldn't help it.

"Could it be that Huang Chao specially let Wang Xu enter Tangzhou to plunder, this Huang Chao can think of such a far-reaching idea, it's not simple."

Li Rupei nodded.

"Huang Chao's abacus is good, Wang Xu plundered Tangzhou, the Iron Blood Army will definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress, so the guards in Suizhou and other places must be loosened, Huang Chao can take the opportunity to loot these places, even if the Iron Blood Army can turn back, it will be too late, once it is successful, Huang Chao will quickly evacuate, and the Iron Blood Army rashly enters Huainan Road to conquer, and may not be able to achieve victory, you all know that in terms of mobile combat, Huang Chao is the most powerful."

Li Rupei's analysis made Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang silent again.

Let Wang Xu plunder Tangzhou, it is impossible, to exterminate the nearly 10,000 soldiers under Wang Xu's command, at least about 10,000 iron-blooded soldiers are needed, so the number of iron-blooded soldiers stationed in Suizhou must be less, if Huang Chao leads the army to loot Suizhou, even if the iron-blooded army is heroic, but the disparity in numbers is too great, and Huang Chao, who is fully prepared, must be able to think of the best way to deal with it, if there is really such a situation, the iron-blooded army will suffer, and the people in Suizhou and Tangzhou and other places will also suffer.

Li Rupei quickly spoke again.

"The chaos in the south must be quelled in the shortest possible time, if you indulge this chaos, it will be more difficult to clean up after a long time, it is very unfavorable to the Iron and Blood Army, the court can't think of any good way, if you let Gao Biao return to Huainan Road, the situation will be even worse, at this time, the Iron and Blood Army must attack with all its strength to calm the situation in the south in one fell swoop, once this is done, Gao Biao will never think of being able to return to Huainan Road."

As soon as Li Rupei's words fell, Gao Chibang immediately expressed his position.

"Please give an order, and your subordinates will do their best to calm down the chaotic situation in the south."

Li Rupei looked at Gao Chibang.

"The situation is different this time, behind Huang Chao and Wang Xu and others, I am afraid that there is also the figure of Gao Yu, and even the figure of other Jiedu envoys in the north, the pressure faced by the iron-blooded army is very great, to put it mildly, this is another crisis faced by the iron-blooded army, and the iron-blooded army's actions must be accurate in every step, and do not leave any chance for the opponent."

In this regard, Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang are both clear, Li Rupei once analyzed that the turmoil in the south was originally a problem for Gao Biao to the imperial court, and the imperial court's military strength in the south was originally weak, once the 100,000 troops under Gao Biao stood by, anything could happen.

"There are two tasks for the Iron and Blood Army to attack this time, the first is to completely exterminate Wang Xu, let other people who dare to rebel see, Wang Xu's fate today is their end tomorrow, and the second is to defeat Huang Chao again, thinking that the possibility of exterminating Huang Chao in a short period of time is not large, and the time is not very ripe, but Huang Chao must be afraid of the Iron Blood Army, and he doesn't even dare to hear the title of the Iron Blood Army."

"In addition, there are 100,000 troops under the command of Gao Yu stationed in Yangzhou, the iron-blooded army should also pay attention to it, a certain idea is that after the extermination of Wang Xu and the defeat of Huangchao, the iron-blooded army marched into Huainan Road, and the 100,000-strong army led by Bi Shiduo, if you know it, evacuate Yangzhou, no matter where they go to other places in the south, the iron-blooded army will not ask for the time being, but if you want to hold on to Yangzhou, then don't blame the iron-blooded army for being ruthless, and the same must be exterminated."

"The purpose of the iron-blooded army's march into Huainan Province is to control Huainan Province, isn't it true that the imperial court has not appointed an envoy to Huainan Province, so let someone propose a candidate."

Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang looked at Li Rupei, dumbfounded, they didn't dare to imagine that Li Rou, who had just controlled Shannan East Road for more than a year, was going to control Huainan Road, how much courage it would take, in case the battle line was too long, and it was difficult to take care of the first place, wouldn't it be a big trouble.

They will not know at all that Li Rupei must do this, the chaos in the south this time, if indulged, will be the prototype of the next five dynasties and ten kingdoms, Li Rupei will never allow such a situation to appear, everything must be nipped in the bud, Nanzhao, Vietnam and other places in the south are in this chaos, slowly seeking independence.

"I know what you think, maybe I think I'm too anxious, but there is no way to do it, I can't relax the chaos in the south to continue, those rebels, all think that they are princes, how can they really obey the court's appeasement, unless they dare not move, they can really calm the chaos in the south."

"The Tang Dynasty has long entered the troubled times, since the time of the rebellion of Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi, the ministers of the court and the central government are corrupt, the eunuchs are chaotic, how can it be possible to save the Li Tang royal family without iron and blood means, when a certain was in Guanzhuang Town, he already had such ideas."

Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang's faces were faintly pale, in their opinion, although the power of the Li Tang royal family was gradually weakened, it was far from the time of troubled times, at least the local feudal towns, did not dare to rebel openly, and the imperial court could still rely on local taxes to maintain, but in Li Rupei's view, these were already signs of troubled times.

Since Li Rupei said such words, it means that all the decisions he made were carefully considered, Cui Anqian and Gao Chibang had no objections, and what they needed to do at present was to do their best to do all the logistics and preparations to help Li Rupei realize his wish as soon as possible and revitalize the Li Tang royal family. (To be continued......)