Although he knew that Zuo Liangyu was defeated, Shi Kefa was still a little panicked when he heard the news that Jiannu was going south.

The strength of Jiannu is well known to the world, although Zhou Yuji's army has defeated Jiannu three times, but it is either a skirmish or facing Jiannu's servant army. Shi Kefa knew this very well, and Jiannu was able to defeat Li Zicheng's thief army, which had nearly one million troops, and Li Zicheng was able to occupy Beijing, which shows that Jiannu's troops were prosperous, and the form was not optimistic.

At this critical moment, Shi Kefa is a little difficult to understand, but what can he say?

Shi Kefa crossed the bridge with a heavy heart, Zhou Huchen was busy, this busyness made Shi Kefa even more speechless, almost all the soldiers were busy sweating profusely, and the people in the mud included the leading commander Zhou Huchen. In front of the Huaihe Bridge, countless huge trenches had begun to take shape, and the corpses of those soldiers of Gao Jie's old department, which could not be burned due to the rain, were thrown on the two wings of these trenches by Zhou Huchen's soldiers.

It was a tragic and horrific scene, and the two wings of this line of defense actually formed two thick walls with corpses.

Zhou Huchen wants to see Shi Kefa after all, and he can't avoid it.

Shi Kefa was shocked and didn't know what to say, and then used the corpses of former allies to build a line of defense, this is not as simple as cruelty. Regardless of victory or defeat, it is estimated that Zhou Huchen will be sprayed to death after going back, those officials and scholars still don't know how to describe Zhou Huchen, and how will history judge Zhou Huchen? Shi Kefa couldn't imagine it.

Of course, he will not let Jiannu go south easily, Zhou Huchen is now leading the army and water soldiers to hold Sizhou, and he must fight with Jiannu. It is imperative to curb the turbulent situation of Jiannu, as for cruelty, the world's comments, Zhou Huchen doesn't care, he just needs to prove that he is fighting, he wants to give Jiannu a hard time.

Giving a salute to Shi Kefa, who was pale, Zhou Huchen stretched out his hand and pointed to the line of defense under construction: "Master Inspector." This line of defense is not impregnable, but it will become a nightmare for Jiannu, 80,000 soldiers Chen Ge will wait for him, we will let Jiannu know what the real Ming soldiers are, and know the strength of our army. ”

Zhou Huchen didn't mention the matter of the fire, Shi Kefa's face sank like water, Gao Jie's old department was killed by him, and now he is the one who is blocking Jiannu, Shi Kefa really doesn't know what to say. There is no doubt that Li Benshen and Li Chengdong abandoned Xuzhou and fled, but Zhou Huchen should not be killed. Especially at this critical moment, the imperial court needs these soldiers to work together to defend Jiangnan. can be killed, and now the question is not right and wrong and responsibility, but how to stop Jiannu from going south.

"Is there any news of Jiannu? Where did Jiannu go? Shi Kefa was very helpless, he directly gave up the problem of Zhou Huchenhuo and Li Benshen and others.

Zhou Huchen quickly replied: "The scouts have news that Jiannu's army has left Xuzhou and will arrive in Sizhou tomorrow." ”

"Jiannu is dispatched very quickly! Can Xiaohu stop Jiannu? Shi Kefa was worried.

"There is no problem for the time being, it is difficult to say in the future."

Shi Kefa paused slightly, and then asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Jiannu has all the way to Huguang. How long can Li Zicheng's remnants last? It won't be long before Jiannu will reach Jiangfang, what should Nanjing do? And our army is facing the Duoduo Department, and according to reliable information, there are already Jiannu troops rushing to Huai'an. As long as Huai'an Jiannu is taken, it will go down the river, so what if our army holds the first line of Sizhou? Could it be that Jiannu copied the back road of our army? ”

Zhou Huchen's words made Shi Kefa feel a lot of pressure, he was silent for a while, and then said: "There are also Liu Commander's soldiers and horses, can't you fight?" ”

Liu Dushuai is talking about Liu Zeqing. Speaking of Liu Zeqing, Zhou Huchen smiled, this subordinate is not as brave as Gao Jie's soldiers. He shook his head slightly.

Shi Kefa was a little confused: "Liu Dushuai is not Jiannu's opponent, and Huai'an lacks major generals, so it is difficult to hold it!" ”

It's not a matter of not being able to hold it, but Liu Zeqing didn't dare to fight at all, his choice was either to run away or surrender, and Zhou Huchen didn't bother to mention him:

"The current situation is that the entire bridge in Surabaya has been destroyed, and only this Huaihe bridge remains, and the Jiannu of Xuzhou wants to go south in the shortest possible time, and this is the most important breakthrough point. So, we're here to give Jiannu a little color, but that's about it! The Overseer must hurry up and arrange defenses everywhere, Xiaohu can defend for a maximum of ten days, and after ten days I will return to Yangzhou, if I want to protect the river defense, Yangzhou must not be lost! ”

After a long time, Shi Kefa finally came back to his senses in ignorance: "Sizhou can't be defended? ”

"You can't keep it."

"What's the benefit of ten days, you can go down to Yangzhou in a few days!" Shi Kefa was a little desperate, obviously with a serious lack of confidence.

"My territory, I am in charge, since Sizhou can't be defended, I have to defend Yangzhou. If you want to attack Yangzhou, you have to fill it with countless lives, I want to see how many people are working for Jiannu? Since he can defend Ningwu and Yanmen, Yangzhou boys can also defend it. Zhou Huchen was full of confidence.

This is equivalent to defending Yangzhou, and Zhou Huchen wants to stick to Yangzhou, but once the Jiannu army goes south, Yangzhou will be besieged as a dead city, which Shi Kefa can't understand.

"How long can Yangzhou defend, Jiannu is an army of 200,000!" Shi Kefa shook his head.

"Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of people can't capture Ningwu and Yanmen, how many troops does Jiannu have? Can this person take down more than 100,000 people to defend Yangzhou? Waterway, as long as the waterway does not die, Jiannu will never be able to take Yangzhou. If you can't take Yangzhou, don't think about Nanjing! "How can Jiannu have an army of 200,000, I'm afraid that there will be 200,000 traitors with the traitor army, not to mention that Zhou Huchen has been consciously weakening these traitors, Zhou Huchen is too lazy to entangle this issue with Shi Kefa, but talked about the strategic importance of defending Yangzhou.

Shi Kefa understood that Zhou Huchen must have hoarded a large amount of materials in Yangzhou, and he was confident that he would hold Yangzhou for a long time. And Jiannu can't continue to go south if they can't take Yangzhou, and it is impossible for Jiannu to let Zhou Huchen threaten him behind him, so how can they keep the threat and turn to attack Nanjing. As long as Zhou Yuji's father and son hold Yangzhou, it is equivalent to containing Jiannu, and the only threat to Nanjing is the Jiannu soldiers and horses on Huguang Road.

This method is very stupid, but it is absolutely effective, it is impossible for Jiannu to leave the threat of Zhou Yuji and his son behind, Zhou Huchen and his son used everything they have to contain Jiannu in Yangzhou, and Nanjing still has time to arrange defenses.

Shi Kefa was moved, and quietly looked at the young man in front of him, domineering, brutal, and unruly are the consistent evaluation of this young man, and he can be said to be the most domineering one among several towns, but is he Ma Shiying's person? Shi Kefa suddenly found out that he was wrong, Zhou Huchen's father and son are not anyone's people, they only belong to this country, belong to this Ming Dynasty, and their father and son have been working hard for this country.

"Guarding Yangzhou must hold the canal and river defense, the old man will go back to arrange, ten days, Xiaohu remembers that it is ten days, and ten days later the old man sent someone to respond."

There is no need to say anything, Shi Kefa left without looking back, will history return to that trajectory? Shi Kefa is still going to Yangzhou? But Yangzhou has more Zhou Yuji's father and son and more than 100,000 troops, what kind of change is this? (To be continued......)