Until the 25th, the main force of the southern front of the Huaidong Army was mainly concentrated between Huangpi and Shicheng, encircling and annihilating the 100,000 defeated troops at the southern foot of Dahong Mountain.

Lin Jian moved his line to Huangpi, including the reserve troops and horses, and they also mainly advanced to the north of Huangpi, ready to march towards Shicheng, and the original Zhaohushan camp became the largest prisoner of war camp east of Huangpi.

As the two most important war criminals in South Vietnam since the war in Zhejiang and Fujian, Lin Lian promised to give them wine to preserve their corpses and not humiliate them, he would not secretly and execute them in secret, even if they were killed, they would be convicted first.

With the military inspection school, the crime that was drafted in the past three days was called by Hao Wenzhuang and Wen Chengyun to sign and confess, and Hao Wenzhuang did not look at the charge, and wrote with a pen: What he has done over the years, no one can know better than him, there is no mention of the Yi clan in the crime, can he have more luxury?

When the army reviewed and left with the confession of guilt, Haowenzhuang tidied up his clothes and waited for the Huaidong soldiers to send the wine over, when the sunset came in from the window, fell on the long table made of rough wood, and danced in the dust in the pillar of light. There was also dust on the table.

Haowenzhuang said to Wen Chengyun: "If Lin Tie wants to go on the Northern Expedition, he must first pull out Huaixi - I really want to know Lin Tie's next move!" It's a pity that I can't see this chess move and die like this! As he said this, his fingers couldn't help but write on the dusty table, "If you want to go on a northern expedition, first pull out Huaixi".

Wen Chengyun knew about the testament given by Luwenzhuang to Hu Zongguo, and saw that Luwenzhuang was not afraid of the wine that was about to be sent, but only cared about Lin Bin's handy chess - Wen Chengyun wanted to cry and laugh at this time, and his heart turned into a sadness! I don't know if Gong Wenzhuang is trying to reward his ambition to dominate the world in this life, or simply let the world know his power, but this moment will be empty.

At this time, the door creaked, and from the crack in the door, Wen Chengyun's heart tightened, knowing that the person who sent the wine was coming, and when he looked up, it was Song Fu who came in with a lacquer plate.

In other words, the first prisoner came to Zhaohu Mountain, and when he saw Song Fu, Wen Chengyun might have pounced on him and bit him twice, but when he saw Song Fu personally come to kill them, he just turned his face away; Hao Wenzhuang looked at Song Fu calmly, didn't even look at the copper kettle in his hand with the lacquer lid, and said: "Before the execution, I can see the old man, but I ......regret it."

"Zhiwen Zhuang Gong has no hatred in his heart, and Song Fu is also at ease." Song Fu said.

"Why do you hate it?" Hao Wenzhuang smiled, poured two glasses of wine from the pot, looked at the amber clear wine, and handed a glass to Wen Chengyun.

Song Fu saw the words "If you want to pull out Huaixi first" written on the table, he knew that Haowenzhuang had not thought through this section in his heart, and said lightly: "If you want to pull out Huaixi, you must first get Shouzhou!" It can be regarded as a response to the luxury of Wenzhuang, to solve his confusion before he died.

"......" Hao Wenzhuang stopped the wine jug to his mouth, "Oh" Ran responded, and said, "It's not wronged! Then he lowered his head and drank the poisonous wine. Wen Chengyun reacted slowly, but then he also figured it out, it turned out that Jingxiang had already counted Huaixi and Beiyan in the first battle of Huaidong, seeing that Gong Wenzhuang had already drunk the poisonous wine, he quickly suppressed his head and drank the poisonous wine, and followed.

Song Fu stood indoors, remembering the past, tears streaming down his cheeks, and motioning to the soldiers to hold on to the bodies of Hao Wenzhuang and Wen Chengyun, so that they could die a decent death.

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Flying into the camp, stepping on the ground shook slightly, Yue Lengqiu looked up, and the flying horse went straight to the big tent of Lin Tie Xingyuan.

Except for the 800 li plus the urgent letter horse, whoever rides on the horse and gallops close to the forest bound to the big tent will be killed by the assassin first. It's just that the letters and newspapers from Zaoyang and Fancheng in the past few days don't need to be rushed for eight hundred miles, Yue Lengqiu wondered, what else is so urgent, and he went straight to the big tent of Lin Tie.

Yue Lengqiu happened to have something in his hand to discuss with Lin Lian, so he walked to Lin Lian's big tent, and also wanted to know what urgent military information was coming.

Since the enemy's troops on the southeastern front of Hubei were all defeated and completely lost their resistance, at this time, Lin Jian had no problem controlling the entire battle situation as a privy envoy, especially directly controlling the battle situation in eastern Hubei.

Yue Lengqiu naturally wanted to move to Huangpi to join Lin Lian, so that the command of the Huaidong Army and the Chizhou Army on the southern front could be transferred together, instead of him staying in Qichun, so that the southern front still looked like there were two command centers...... Just like Lin Jian had no opinion on this in his heart, but especially after Deng Yu and Yue Zhi both led their troops north, Yue Lengqiu still stayed in Qichun to command the Chizhou Army, and the transmission of military information had to go back and forth between three or four places, which greatly affected efficiency.

Yue Lengqiu walked into the big tent and saw that Zuo Chengmu was also here, nodded, and asked, "Eight hundred miles of expedited flying horses into the camp, what is the emergency military situation?" ”

"Lishan secret detective report," Lin Jian raised his head from the burial table, asked Yue Lengqiu to sit down and speak, handed Yue Lengqiu the urgent letter from Suizhou, and said, "Ye Ji Luo Rong sent an envoy to assassinate Luo Xiancheng, and Dong Yuan sent Chen Jingrong to infiltrate Li Mountain and surrendered several generals of the Suizhou army...... What a good strategy. ”

In any case, Yue Lengqiu is the identity of the privy deputy envoy.

"Ahh Yue Lengqiu was taken aback and said, "What a ruthless strategy, could it be that Huaixi had made peace with Hu Lu in secret?" ”

Yeji Luo Rong sent someone to assassinate Luo Xiancheng, the most able to make Luo Xiancheng defenseless, and after Luo Xiancheng's death, Huaixi gained the most, and asked Huaixi to directly recruit Zhong Rong, Wang Xian'er and other enemy generals, Dong Yuan suddenly got another 60,000 soldiers and horses in the northern vein of Huaishan, Huaidong Ming still can't take Dong Yuan?

What if Dong Yuan was really ambitious, more presumptuous, and destroyed the Feng Lijun in Xinyang first?

Thinking of this, Yue Lengqiu's back was cold, and if he was not careful, the entire Jingxiang battle might change, and he hurriedly said: "It is imperative to transfer troops to the east and return to the east, attack the enemy of Lishan in the north, and disagree with the surrender!" I'd rather let Ye Ji Luorong flee north, than let Dong Yuan sit big! We must not give Dong Yuan a chance to collude with Hu Lu! I immediately wrote a letter by hand and asked someone to send it to Wuyang Taochun to expose Dong Yuan's plan. ”

Lin Lian glanced at Yue Lengqiu and saw that his expression was sincere, not as if he was fake. Yue Lengqiu didn't know the inside story, just the situation on the surface, his suggestion at this time was the most appropriate, and although Tao Chun weakened Dong Yuan at this time, he had 30,000 soldiers and horses, and half of them should be in his direct control.

Yue Lengqiu came forward to woo Tao Chun, and he should be more convincing than others.

Zuo Chengmu sighed in his heart, thinking that Yue Lengqiu finally understood that Dong Yuan was just playing a power scheme, and he couldn't achieve the general trend, and he also persuaded Lin Lian: "If you want to go on a northern expedition, you must first pull out Huaixi!" "He, like Yue Lengqiu's suggestion, would rather let Ye Ji Luorong go than let Dong Yuan sit on the big possibility.

This is not just a matter of 50,000 or 60,000 troops surrendered to Lishan, but also involves the control of the northern vein of Huaishan.

Once Dong Yuan is asked to control the northern vein of Huaishan, he can go south out of Huaishan, and the soldiers will directly Xiangfan and Suizhou, and Yanhu can even occupy the Nanyang Basin without retreating, echoing with the east and west of Huaixi. Huaidong will deploy heavy troops to defend from Xiangfan to Suizhou, and the pressure will be extremely great.

In turn, the Huaidong Army will control the northern vein of Huaishan in its hands, and will maintain strategic superiority from Suizhou to Xinyang and from Luzhou to Shouzhou. Dong Yuan must be much more honest, and he doesn't dare to blatantly collude with Yan Hu.

Without Dong Yuan's strategy, even if Ye Ji Luorong took all the soldiers and horses on the west bank out, he would no longer have the ability to defend Nanyang - Yanhu wanted to defend Nanyang, facing the heavy troops of Huaidong, and less than 100,000 troops could not hold it; And 100,000 heavy troops were stationed in Nanyang to confront Huaidong for a long time, and the supply line was too long for Yanhu.

At a time when Dong Yuan was likely to secretly make peace with Yan Hu, he was vying for control of the northern veins of the Huai Mountains, and had priority over chasing Yan Hu's soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River. Besides, Dong Yuan was ambitious, once it became a fact that Zhong Rong and other generals surrendered to Shun, the number of soldiers and horses in his hands increased to 1780,000, and he entered the hinterland of Jingxiang from the northern vein of Huaishan, which would also make it impossible for the Huaidong Army to go all out to chase and annihilate Yanhu's soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River.

Even if Ye Jiluo Rong is allowed to flee north, but the general trend of the world is in the hands of Huaidong, before the Northern Expedition, it is the right move to sweep away the Huaixi forces.

"If you want to go on a northern expedition, you must first get rid of Huaixi," Lin Jian stood up, laughed, and said: "What Prime Minister Yue and Zuo Xiang said is really a good policy!" ”

Gao Zongting said with a smile on the side: "Dong Yuan was in a hurry to pounce on the food, but he forgot to protect his butt; Yue Xiang and Zuo Xiang don't worry too much......"

Dong Yuan and Yan Hu secretly made peace, Lin Jian and Gao Zongting should be the most angry people, but seeing that Lin Jian and Gao Zongting looked calm, and even looked at Dong Yuan's joy after entering the palace, Yue Lengqiu suddenly understood and said: "It turns out that the privy envoy has already had a backhand, dare to ask what is the policy?" ”

Zuo Chengmu was also frightened by the news that Luo Xiancheng was assassinated and the generals of Suizhou were all surrendered to Huaixi, but he didn't expect Lin Jian to hide a back hand.

After Lin Jian walked to the long case, he picked up a charcoal pen, pointed to the map hanging on the north wall, and said: "In order to make it impossible for the enemy soldiers in Suizhou at Lishan and the northern foot of Huaishan to surrender to Huaidong, Dong Yuan transferred all the soldiers and horses from Huaixi to Pingchang Pass, Luoshan, Huangchuan, and east to the south of Shouzhou, and concentrated them to the west of Guangshan. At this time, Xiao Kuian had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Zhengyang, far west in Huaixi, and Tao Chun had 30,000 soldiers in Wuyang, north of the Huai River; Dong Yuan appointed Ding Zhiru to stay in Shouzhou, but in fact, his garrison in Shouzhou, Haozhou and Sizhou was less than 10,000, and they were scattered in Zhucheng. These 10,000 soldiers and horses are still more important than Sizhou, and it seems that Dong Yuan still intends to prevent Huaidong's troops in Xu Si from entering Sizhou for no reason - his defenders in the camp of Kip Shishan are less than 2,000; Its defenders in Shouzhou City were less than 2,000. Since Dong Yuan didn't know the importance of guarding Shouzhou, I had already issued a Privy Council order to Ning Zechen, the commander of Ning Fengjun, and he led his troops to take over the defense of Shouzhou! ”

Lin Tie drew a long line between Xinyang City and Shouzhou, like a bolt of lightning, and a dazzling appearance appeared on the map!

An even colder chill rose up on Yue Lengqiu's back, although he no longer had the intention of arguing with Lin Tie in his heart, at first glance, he knew that Lin Tie was behind Dong Yuan, and he also called it poisonous in his heart!

With Lishan troops as bait, Dong Yuan's troops in the hinterland of Huaixi were all lured, and then Ning Zechen was directly sent from Xinyang to attack the hinterland of Shouzhou, where the army was empty.

From Xinyang City to Shouzhou City, first out of the Shihe River, and then into the Huaishui, all the way is a spacious river.

As long as Huaidong prepares enough ships in advance near Xinyang City, and the 600-mile waterway can directly attack Shouzhou City in two days at most, which is much faster than transporting troops from Shanyang downstream to Shouzhou.

Moreover, in such a short period of time, Dong Yuan didn't have time to take any precautions, at most he asked Ding Zhiru to transfer the soldiers and horses of the Kip Shishan battalion into Shouzhou City, and there were only less than 4,000 guards. However, it will take at least seven or eight days for Dong Yuan to lead all the main forces of his descendants to assemble from the west and south of Guangshan County and then return to Shouzhou.

Before the privy order brought by Ning Zechen, Ding Zhiru withdrew from Shouzhou City; If he does not retreat, Ning Zechen will directly use Ding Zhiru to disobey the order of the Privy Council to attack Shouzhou and Kip Stone Mountain, can Ding Zhiru defend Dong Yuan and lead the main force of his descendants to come back to help?

Dong Yuan returned to Shouzhou, first, it was too late, and secondly, he had to risk a direct rebellion-

At this time, there is no reason to talk about it, Dong Yuan can win the war, can hold the territory of Huaixi, even if he holds a few key cities in Shouzhou, with the crazy support of the ministers of the imperial family, there will still be a chance to rehabilitate and fight; If Dong Yuan failed to recapture Shouzhou, he would not be able to escape the charge of colluding with Hu Lu against thieves.

Does Dong Yuan still have a chance to win at this time?

If Dong Yuan does not return to help, and Ding Zhiru does not resist in Shouzhou, it will show that they recognize the Privy Council order issued by Lin Xuan, then they will give up the defense of Shouzhou and hand it over to Ning Zechen to take over; And Haozhou, which is sandwiched between Shouzhou, Dongyang and Huai'an, will inevitably not be able to keep it-

Huaixi one town and three prefectures, all the essence is in Shouzhou to the east of Shouzhou Haozhou, Dong Yuan spent three years to save 15.6 million acres of military tun, all concentrated in Shouzhou and Haozhou; And Xinyang and Wuyang, north of Huaishui, became remnants of the war.

Isn't Dong Yuan relying on the 15.6 million mu of Juntun fertile land in Shouzhou and Haozhou, and in addition to the taxes in Huaixi every year, Juntun Liangtian can directly provide Dong Yuan with millions of stone of military food, so he has some confidence to tear his face with Huaidong, right?

Lin Jian wants to seize Dong Yuan's Shouzhou and Haozhou, what a vicious strategy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle!

Lin Jian put down the charcoal pen, and asked Yue Lengqiu and Zuo Chengmu with a smile: "Yue Xiang, Zuo Xiang, you said that Huaixi will not hand over the defense of Shouzhou by the order of this court?" ”

Zuo Chengmu couldn't help but ooze cold sweat from his forehead: Will Dong Yuan struggle? Is there any hope of winning Dong Yuan's struggle?

It turned out that Lin Jian had already had a plan in his heart to "want to go on a northern expedition and pull out Huaixi first".

Yue Lengqiu said: "Dong Yuan is not a person who does not know the general situation, he does not have enough troops to defend Shouzhou, and it is natural to give up the defense of Shouzhou......"

"I think so too," Lin Jian said with a smile, "I also want to draw up an order directly for Dong Yuan, asking him to lead the Huaixi Army and the subordinate army to immediately go north from Xinyang and recover Queshan, Ruzhou and other places, what do the two ministers think?" ”

Yue Lengqiu and Zuo Chengmu glanced at each other, knowing what Lin Yuan's intentions were: since Dong Yuan didn't resist, Lin Lian didn't have the name to clean him up, after all, Dong Yuan transferred troops south and surrendered the Suizhou army, at least there was no fault on the surface, then drive Dong Yuan and his troops to the north of Huaishui first!