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Chapter 530: Three Roads

When Fang Xie walked out of the study, all the generals waiting in the courtyard gathered around. These few tens of minutes are as long as centuries. Their eyes were full of urgency, eagerly waiting for Fang Xie to show them a bright path.

Just like in the darkest days in the northwest, King Youxu took them to always insist.

They looked at Fang Jie, and Fang Xie looked at them.

A group of men who were fearless in the sea of corpses and blood were difficult to calm down at this time. Everyone felt that this kind of anxiety was familiar, because they were in the same mood three years ago when they were trying to survive in the gap between the cavalry of hundreds of thousands of Mengyuan barbarians and hundreds of thousands of rebels.

"There are 50,000 people in the cottage."

Fang Xie spoke, his tone very slow.

"I've been sitting in the room for so long, trying to calm myself, but I'm still terrified, because I have to decide not only my own life and death, but the survival of all of you. You should all know that now our Black Flag Army is in a dilemma. If we return to the army, will the emperor be convicted of letting go of the Mengyuan people? If you are condemned, do you confess or disagree? ”

"Not convinced!"

In the silence, I don't know who shouted, his voice was hoarse, and he was extremely sad and indignant: "In the past four years in Wolf Milk Mountain, we have not taken a single copper coin from the imperial court, and we have not eaten a grain of grain from the imperial court!" But we still held the battle flag of the Great Sui and fought with the rebels and barbarians day by day. Did the defeat in Mandu Banner have anything to do with us? Why did the emperor make us outcasts! Why! ”

As soon as he spoke, the other generals expressed their dissatisfaction and anger.

The defeat of Mandu Banner really has nothing to do with them, they have not stopped fighting for the glory of this empire and soldiers in the past few years. They have been working hard to maintain their dignity with their blood and sweat, but now, they have become the people abandoned by the Great Sui Emperor.

When they entered the canyon, they were so determined and magnificent. How disheartened when you withdrew from the canyon!

Hearing the discussion of the people below, Fang Jie's heart suddenly opened up a lot. He had always been worried that his lack of prestige might not be able to completely convert these 50,000 people. If he rashly decided to take them somewhere else, or stay in the Wolf Milk Mountain Canyon, would these soldiers not agree?

Will they still have illusions about the imperial court?

But now, hearing the soldiers expressing their grievances to the fullest, he suddenly found that he was always suffering from gains and losses like this, and he was worried too much. Sometimes something happens and you don't need to deliberately guide it, it just flows there, it flows in that direction.

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the courtyard, Fang Xie looked at the door, and saw that it was Chen Xiaoru running in. Looking at the thick layer of dust on his body, he knew that he was in a hurry along the way.

"Master Hou, my subordinates are back!"

Fang Jie's heart warmed, and he walked over quickly to support Chen Xiaoru who was saluting. At this time, Chen Xiaoru can come back after leaving, how can he not make Fang Xie feel warm in his heart? Especially when his heart was very cold, Chen Xiaoru's return made Fang Jie's gloomy heart seem to be sprinkled with a piece of sunshine.

"Master Hou, my subordinates have made it clear."

Chen Xiaoru swallowed and foamed, and his lips were already chapped.

Fang Xie hurriedly asked someone to fetch water and handed it to him: "Let's talk about it here, I'm discussing with you." The news you bring back is important, and everyone listens to it. ”

Chen Xiaoru knew that Fang Xie led the troops back to the cottage, so he guessed what kind of situation the team was facing now, he was the kind of person who didn't need to explain clearly to understand the intention, and when he heard Fang Xie say this, he immediately understood what Fang Xie meant. He drank the water bladder in one go, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, "After the subordinates rushed to Jinyang, they managed to get in touch with the flying fish robe who was still obeying orders in the camp outside the city. ”

He took a breath and continued: "Although our people in the flying fish robe are losing ground now, the garrisons around the emperor's tent still use our people. A while ago...... Luo Yao arrived at the camp alone! ”

"Ahh

The crowd let out an exclamation.

Chen Xiaoru said: "Luo Yao took more than 100 heads of Li Xiaoche and others in Jinyang City, and entered the camp so blatantly, and fought with Su Buxing, the eunuch of Bingbi beside the emperor, and Zhang Zhenren of Wudang Mountain, those two people joined forces and failed to defeat Luo Yao, and then Luo Yao swaggered away. ”

"Doesn't that mean ......?"

Sun Kaidao immediately said loudly: "Is it a foregone conclusion that Luo Yao will raise the flag?" In this way, the entire southwest and even Jiangnan will be in chaos! ”

Even if there was no such thing, Luo Yao's rebellion was a well-known thing, and Sun Kaidao's shout was actually deliberate. When he said this, it was like the last straw that crushed the soldiers' loyal thoughts. Sun Kaidao just wanted to remind these generals that now the Great Sui has been in turmoil. Even if you still have the idea of loyalty, it doesn't make sense, you are loyal, but many people have already raised the banner of rebellion.

"And then?"

Fang asked.

Chen Xiaoru said: "What's more, his subordinates inquired that the emperor really had no intention of mobilizing troops and horses, and he never said to the generals below that he would send troops to support our Black Flag Army!" ”

This sentence caused another roar of anger.

Sun Kaidao was very satisfied, he knew that these people were now dead to the imperial court.

He glanced at Chen Yishan and Lu Fenghou, the two cronies of Fang Jie, and then touched Xiahou Baichuan who was standing beside him with his hand. Sun Kaidao had talked to these three people before, and they immediately stood up when they got Sun Kaidao's signal.

Chen Yishan suddenly knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said, "Master Hou, we still need Master Hou to take us on the road in the future!" We are like children abandoned by our parents now, even if we can't hate our parents, we have to find a place to survive. ”

"Master Hou, it's time to think about ourselves!"

Lu Fenghou knelt down and said: "The life and death of tens of thousands of horses are all on the Hou Ye alone. ”

Xiahou Baichuan said: "The subordinates know that the Hou Ye is loyal to His Majesty, but now it's not that we don't want to be loyal to the court, it's that the court treats us as outcasts, and the subordinates implore the Hou Ye to take his brothers to fight down a place, we don't raise the flag to rebel, just seek a way to live!" ”

"This ......"

Fang Xie hesitated for a moment, looked at everyone and stopped talking.

"Please decide!"

The dozens of generals in the courtyard looked at each other, and then knelt down at the same time and said.

Sun Kaidao stood behind Fang Xie and watched this scene, the corners of his mouth picked up, and he secretly said in his heart: It's done!

……

……

Fang Xie paced back and forth in the big tent, looking very solemn. Sun Kaidao stood in front of the map and was marking out the forces of all parties, and soon, the situation became extremely clear.

"We're here now"

Sun Kaidao pointed to the location of Dazhai: "There is no other force within a radius of three or four hundred miles here, and the remnants of the rebel army know that we dare not come here to be presumptuous." Five hundred miles to the southeast is Jinyang City, since Li Xiaoche is dead, the defenders in Jinyang City must have surrendered. After the imperial court broke through Jinyang, the next step must be to wave the army to besiege Longxi County, and the Li family is completely finished. ”

"Three hundred miles southwest of Jinyang, six hundred miles away from our cottage is the rebel Hou Wushan's western camp. After the defeat of Meng Wansui, he returned here with tens of thousands of remnants, Hou Wushan's western camp was blocked between Jinyang City and Longxi County, Meng Wansui thought that Jinyang could hold on for a while, he did a wait-and-see, now Li Xiaoche and others are dead, as soon as Jinyang is broken, the emperor's next target is naturally Meng Wansui. ”

"More than 200 miles south of Longxi County is Mangdang Mountain, and now tens of thousands of remnants of Yin Poshan are doing bandits in Mangdang Mountain, and this person's team is not to worry."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at everyone, and then pointed to the south of Mangdang Mountain: "Huangyang Dao, now that Luo Yaozuo's vanguard has been defeated by about 200,000 people stationed here, if nothing else, he will lead the army to fight a decisive battle with the emperor, and before that, he will watch the emperor and Meng Wansui Yin Poshan fight." ”

Lu Fenghou said: "Military Division, Luo Yao didn't do it before, how can he fight the emperor instead of halving the army now?" ”

"The war is changing rapidly."

Sun Kaidao said: "Before, Luo Yao didn't fight the emperor head-on, because he wanted Meng Yuanren and Li Yuanshan to join forces to bring the emperor down. He led his men and horses straight into the Central Plains, but now that the Mengyuan people are gone, Li Yuanshan is defeated, and the emperor's troops will not be too many after clearing the remnants of the enemy, and it is a tired army, Luo Yao was defeated at the beginning, and he needs a big victory to restore morale, so he will inevitably lead the army to block the emperor back to Chang'an, as long as the emperor is killed, the court will be in chaos, the prince is young, and the Quartet will be in turmoil, and he will just take advantage of the chaos. ”

"You and I both know that Luo Yao is definitely not only the hundreds of thousands of horses with him, Chen Xiaoru, you can tell me about the situation in the southwest."

Chen Xiaoru walked over and hugged his fists at the generals: "Generals, I have been in contact with the flying fish robe arranged in the southwest before I was humiliated. Just before the decisive battle between the imperial court and Li Yuanshan in Xiping, Luo Yao's general Ye Jinnan raised nearly one million troops from the four southwestern provinces, crossed Yishui and entered the south of the Yangtze River. Ye Jinnan had already led the army into Jiangnan at this time, and confronted the six guards of the imperial court in Xiangfan Road. ”

Although the emperor was wary of Luo Yao's rebellion, and before coming to the northwest, he secretly transferred the Jiangnan garrison to deploy defenses, but he must not have expected that Luo Yao would have so many men and horses, and the six guards did not dare to fight. If...... If the news of the emperor's death in the northwest spreads, wouldn't the general of the Six Guards have his own plans? ”

When he asked this, everyone actually had the answer in their hearts.

Sun Kaidao took a few steps forward and said, "So, we now have three paths to choose from. ”

"First, stay here."

He looked at everyone and said: "I discussed with Hou Ye before, we are not short of grain and grass materials now, and we can harvest another batch of grain after autumn, and the safest and most conservative thing is to stay in the cottage for the time being and wait and see what happens." Wait until the court and Luo Yao decide the winner before making plans, after all, the soldiers are also tired, so take the opportunity to recuperate. There are more and more people gathered in the area of Fangu, and we can recruit some new soldiers and train them while recuperating. ”

"The bad thing about this road is that the northwest is tired, although we have no worries about grain and grass now, but after the winter to the beginning of next year, the grain will be stretched, and then move again, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents. Even if you stay and don't leave, there is no future in the northwest. Li Yuanshan and Mengyuan people have been plagued here for more than three years, and the people have almost no harvest in the past few years, we can survive this winter, but we may not be able to survive next winter. ”

Everyone nodded, knowing that he was telling the truth.

Sun Kaidao continued: "On the second way, let's take advantage of the battle between the imperial court and the remnants of the rebels, and lead the army to the east. If we can take advantage of the fact that the imperial court sailors are guarding against Luo Yao's people, we can cross Luoshui and enter Hedong Road, and it will not be difficult to take down a place with our troops, but ...... It's hard to hold. Hedong Province is not short of food, and it is also rich, but there is no danger to rely on, we don't have the strength to compete with the imperial court and Luo Yao now. ”

"The Third Way"

Sun Kaidao's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and then he said slowly: "Take all the grain and grass, pass through the gap between the rebels and the court people, cross Mangdang Mountain, and enter Huangyang Road!" ”

"Huh?!"

This sentence surprised everyone.

"Huangyang Road is also short of food, but it is much better than the northwest. Luo Yao's foundation is in the southwest four provinces, and we went to Huangyang Road to settle down on the edge of the tiger's den. Think about it, Luo Yao and the emperor would never have imagined that we would go to that place, and Huangyang Road has natural dangers to rely on, Qingsong Mountain, Cuiping Mountain, and Niutou Mountain can all gain a foothold. Most of Luo Yao's men and horses left the southwest, and the remaining troops were only enough to defend the four southwestern roads. After Luo Yao led the army to leave Huangyang Dao, there was no force there. As long as there is no war for a year or even half a year, we can recruit soldiers to hoard grain and grass, and the number of troops can be at least doubled. ”

"It's dangerous, but it's the brightest."

He looked at Fang Jie, but found that Fang Xie was a little distracted.

"Master Hou, everyone is waiting for you to decide."

Sun Kaidao asked.

Fang Xie looked out the window silently, and suddenly said, "Let's prepare, go to Huangyang Road after a month of rest." Before I do that, there's one more thing I need to do. ”