All the generals were enthusiastic, but the adults in the civil official queue frowned and sighed, after all, the war together will destroy the lives and wilt all the industries.

Moreover, the consumption of grain and grass materials for hundreds of thousands of troops is huge, and the huge pressure of raising food and grass will be on their shoulders.

Even if the task of raising grain and grass is completed and the army triumphs, the main credit must be that of the military generals, and these civilian officials can only share insignificant and sporadic credits.

When Shi Hu and the generals raised their heads and laughed, one of the civil officials walked out of the queue, stepped forward, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the Jin family lives in the south of the Yangtze River, if you talk about land warfare, my Dazhao is enough to destroy it, but the Jin people and water divisions are very powerful, and now they are all arranged in the river, although our soldiers and horses are many, they are not good at water warfare, and they are only afraid of ......"

"I'm afraid of something." Shi Hu couldn't help but be furious when he saw that someone dared to disobey his decision.

"I'm just afraid that I will return in vain and waste grain and grass." The civil official's voice was very weak, and he seemed a little trembling, but he still spoke out bravely.

"Nonsense." Shi Huyuan's eyes exploded, he reprimanded, and shouted: "The main army of this king, as long as everyone drinks a sip of water, they can drink the water of the river dry, and it is easy to level the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Seeing that Shi Hu had made up his mind, the civil official did not dare to disobey again, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and retreated into the queue with palpitations.

Zhang Jackal, the general of the town guard, had taught the navy of the Jin room, so he naturally understood the power of it, and also knew that it was not a wise move to send troops to destroy the Jin, but Shi Hu's ambition could not be violated, and rash remarks would only anger Shi Hu, and he would be reprimanded at least and his life would be at worst.

He frowned and pondered for a moment, the corner of his mouth smiled weirdly, took a step forward, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Jin room is located in the south of the Yangtze River, why do you need the king to conquer it, it is enough to transfer a partial division, my dignified Zhao is an invincible wolf, the Jin room is just a fat sheep in our mouths, we can eat when we want, and we can eat as much as we want." ”

Zhang Jackal's compliments made Shi Hu feel very comfortable, he stroked his chin with a smile, looked down at Zhang Jackal, and asked curiously: "Okay, good, well, in your opinion, how can we eat." ”

Seeing that Shi Hu was very interested in his own mentions, Zhang Yu was quite proud, and bowed down and said: "In the opinion of the last general, you should eat piece by piece, eat too much to distangle your stomach, and eat less than you can enjoy it." ”

"Oh." Shi Hu's interest became even stronger, he walked up to Zhang Jackal's side in a few steps, and asked eagerly: "In Aiqing's opinion, which piece should we eat at the moment." ”

The corner of Zhang Jackal's mouth smiled, and he bowed down and replied: "North of the Yangtze River, south of the Huai River, this piece of fat is no more, no less, just under the mouth, and it saves the trouble of crossing the river, as for Jiangnan to gnaw slowly in the future, what does the king think." ”

"It makes sense, it makes sense." Shi Hulong's heart was overjoyed, patted Zhang Jackal's shoulder, and praised: "Aiqing's words are very true, if you are not in a hurry to destroy Sima Xiao'er, let him live a few more days, hahaha!" ”

After Shi Hu finished speaking, he laughed loudly in the main hall.

Zhang Jackal seized the opportunity and continued to pat the horse and said: "The king is merciful, Sima Yan must be grateful when he knows it, and it may be possible to lead ** beauties and civil and military officials to take the initiative to surrender in the future." ”

When Shi Hu heard this, he looked at the generals, frowned, and said: "If Sima Xiao'er really comes to surrender, this king must give him a competent title." ”

"Why don't you just call it 'Fat Sheep Wait'! What does the king think? After Zhang Jackal finished speaking, he couldn't help but hide his face and snicker.

"Hahahaha!" On the top of the main hall, Shi Hu and the generals all laughed, and even the civil officials who had been silent couldn't help but hide their faces and endure it, and their faces were flushed.

Before the battle was fought, the monarchs and ministers of Zhao were already immersed in the joy of victory, and the arrogance could be seen, and after a while, with the wave of Shi Hu's hands, the laughter of the generals came to an abrupt end.

"The generals obey orders." Shi Hu shouted.

When the generals in the audience heard the order, they immediately clenched their heads and fists to listen to Shi Hu's dispatch.

Shi Hu held his big belly, put his hands behind his back, looked down on the generals, and ordered loudly: "General Taobao is the commander of the Middle Route Army, Zhang Ju and Wang Lang are the deputy generals, and he will lead an army of 60,000 to capture Huainan County; General Zhixiong was the commander of the Left Route Army and led 20,000 troops to capture Guangling County; General Ma Qiu was the commander of the Right Route Army and led 20,000 troops to capture Lujiang County; General Kui'an is the commander of the rear army, Yao Gezhong, Sun Fudu, and Zhang Jackal are the deputy generals, leading 50,000 troops and the rear grain and grass to respond to all parties, and after the autumn harvest, immediately enter the army. ”

"The last general commands." Peach Leopard, Kui An and other generals responded in unison.

"There are less than two months left before the autumn harvest, so all the generals should go to the army and prepare to go! Train your troops well, and this king is waiting for your triumphant return. Shi Hu laughed and encouraged the generals to say a few words, walked down the steps, stretched out his hand and waved lightly, and the attendant beside him understood and shouted loudly: "Scatter the dynasty." ”

"Congratulations to the king." The civil and military officials bent down in unison to send them off, and only slowly retreated when Shi Hu left the hall.

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A small tea shed outside the east gate of Yecheng, Hua'an and Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu, after resting for a while, checked out and left, the tea shed is only less than ten miles away from Yecheng, and you can clearly see the city in the distance when you get out of the tea shed.

Although the distance is too far to see very clearly, the unique majestic momentum of Yecheng still makes Hua'an sigh, such a tall and majestic city can only be found in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Although the cities in the south of the Yangtze River are also tall and sturdy, they are still too far away from the Yecheng in front of them in terms of scale.

"It is worthy of Yecheng, tall and magnificent, with the momentum of a generation of imperial capitals." Hua An looked at Yecheng in the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

The thunderstorm beside him raised his eyes and looked into the distance, nodded, and responded: "What Brother Hua said is that Yecheng does have a desirable momentum, much stronger than our Thundercloud Castle. ”

"Brother Lei is really good at laughing, there are only a few people in our dock fort, and the total number of old, young, women and children is only a few thousand, and Yecheng has a population of hundreds of thousands, and the city can't accommodate so many people if it's small!" Zhao Wu said without thinking.

"Hahaha! The two brothers are very right, but they don't know what is going on inside Yecheng, and it would be disappointing if Jin Yu was defeated on the outside. Hua'an couldn't help but be very interested in the internal structure of Yecheng, and looked at Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu after speaking, after all, the two have been living nearby, and they may know more about the situation inside Yecheng.

Hearing this, Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Brother Hua, we haven't been to Yecheng." ”

Hua An was very surprised, and wondered: "Yecheng is so close, since the two brothers feel bored in the dock fort, why don't they go into the city for a walk, there are many things in the city that are not outside." ”

Thunderstorm smiled dumbly and explained: "Brother Hua doesn't know, we used to sneak out of the dock fort every time, and we didn't have any silver taels with us, and we killed a lot of Hu people along the way, and when we saw the soldiers at the city gate, we were worried in our hearts, so we didn't dare to go in." Hey! ”

"Oh, I see." Hua An nodded in a sudden realization.

The three of them rode their horses all the way and slowly marched towards Yecheng, and it didn't take long for them to come to a place less than 100 meters outside the city gate.

"Brother Hua, Yingchun Gate, we have arrived." When he came to Yecheng City, Zhao Wu seemed very excited.

Hua'an nodded, raised his eyes, only to see that the city in front of him is very magnificent and domineering, three zhang high, the city gate is written in the middle of the three gold-inlaid characters, along the city gate to both sides of the stretch for several miles each has a corner tower, from a distance it looks like a huge pagoda standing at the corner of the city wall.

Every hundred paces on the city wall, there is a semicircular pier with a radius of five or six zhang protruding from the city wall, there is a tall enemy tower built on the pier platform, the fully armed soldiers on the enemy tower are closely watching every move under the city, and the lookout on the female wall is full of soldiers, weapons and armor shine in the sunlight.

Directly above the city gate was a tower, which was much higher than the enemy platforms on both sides, and a general in armor paced back and forth on the tower, looking down from time to time.

An urn city was built in front of the city gate, the moat outside the urn city closely surrounded the city, the river surface was more than two zhang wide, and the river water was green and bottomless.

Huge drawbridges spanned the moat, and the chains on the drawbridges were thicker than a man's arm. The horses outside the drawbridge were now resting on both sides of the road, and the soldiers at the city gate were checking the passers-by back and forth.

"It's spectacular." Hua An sighed.

Because Lei Yun and Zhao Youde had prepared gorgeous clothes for the three of them in advance, they did not suffer any trouble, and they passed the city gate smoothly.

After entering the city gate, Hua'an was even more surprised, only to see an unusually wide street in front of him, and the street was bustling with people on both sides.

On the south side of the street, there are many teahouses, taverns, brothels, pawnshops, and workshops, and there are many small vendors with umbrellas in some open spaces, and the hawkers who shout and shout as they walk carry full of sugar gourds.

There are constant pedestrians on the street, some walking, some riding horses, some sitting in sedan chairs, some carrying burdens and hurrying on the road, some driving ox carts to deliver goods, some driving donkeys to pull trucks, and some stopping to admire the girls in the "green building" to solicit customers on the roadside.

Hua'an and his group of three walked along the street for two or three miles, and after crossing a small bridge, a street facing south came into view.

It is the intersection of the two streets, so it seems to be particularly prosperous, the buildings are obviously much taller than the one you just saw, and the door is tied with a plaque such as "Cailou Huanmen" to attract business, and lanterns, streamers, and troupe juggling are even more essential.

At the most prosperous southeast corner, along a meandering river, a building was built seven or eight feet high. At a glance, the three big characters of the huge gold-inlaid "Sihai Building" shine in the sunlight.

The people who entered and exited this building were all noble dignitaries, and there were hundreds of sedan chairs and carriages parked in a vacant lot next to the door.

A few inns were opened diagonally opposite the Sihai Building, and Hua'an and his party chose a room on the third floor of the best inn to live in, although the price was very expensive, but they didn't plan to live permanently, so they could afford it.

"Brother Lei, Brother Zhao, you rest first, I'll go out for a walk alone." After Hua An finished speaking, he didn't wait for Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu to reply, and walked out alone.

Because the corridor of the inn is facing the street, Hua'an, who walks along the corridor, can enjoy the scenery of the market by the way, Hua'an, who is in a good mood, stands on a wide terrace at the end of the corridor, looking at the bustling crowd in the market, and suddenly has an urge to chant a poem.

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit......" Hua An whispered a poem that he had read in a book.

"...... Uproar"

With the sound of splashing water, Huaan couldn't dodge and was doused from head to toe.