(Update a chapter of 5,000 words first, it's even more vulgar and sick, there are so many people who get sick in the spring; So the second is more than that, I don't know)

The Huaixi torrent is surging, and it can even be said that the world is turned upside down, but Zhong Rong is unaware of it in Lishan, waiting for the news to come from Guangshan County......

At noon on the 27th, Lishan was still drizzling, and the cold rain for several days made the road muddy; Dozens of horsemen surrounded two narrow carriages across the mountain road between the Huai Mountains, galloping towards the camp of Lishan, and the horses' hooves and rutted plows trampled the mud and flew over.

Chen Jingrong lifted the curtain of the car, lit up the token given to him by Zhong Rong, and directly entered the northern camp of Lishan with the carriage and horse.

Zhong Rong heard the news that Chen Jingrong had returned from Guangshan, and he had been waiting anxiously for the past two days, so he hurriedly walked from Nanying to greet him.

"Mr. Chen," Zhong Rong will be seven feet tall, a head taller than Chen Jingrong, and his figure is extremely burly, walking towards him, as if a small mountain is moving, he stood in front of the thin Chen Jingrong and bowed, looking a little funny.

Chen Jingrong looked tired, there was too much hesitation and hesitation in his eyes, and he secretly asked himself in his heart: "Zhong Rong, this thief kills people without blinking, his hands are full of blood, he is cruel by nature, and he has no loyalty and sincerity to the old master, can he really conspire with him at this time?" ”

The hesitation on Chen Jingrong's face, Zhong Rong could also see it, he frowned, looking at a carriage parked in the distance, called the Huaixi Dozens of Cavalry Regiment to protect the middle, he frowned, and asked suspiciously: "Who else is coming with Mr. Chen?" ”

Chen Jingrong looked back, since he had already entered the Lishan camp, it was impossible to turn back, and said in a suppressed voice: "The envoy is in the carriage!" ”

"......" Zhong Rong turned countless names in his mind just now, he never expected that it would be Dong Yuan, the envoy of Henan, in the carriage, Dong Yuan came to the Lishan camp in person, did not make Zhong Rong ecstatic, only made him surprised and suspicious, and subconsciously thought that there must be a big problem inside Huaixi, otherwise Dong Yuan would not be able to easily take risks to come to the Lishan camp.

Zhong Rong naturally knew that he was not an honest person.

Chen Jingrong looked at the folds on Zhong Rong's face and the scars that were vertical and horizontal, and he was also shocked, although Zhong Rong and the other generals were nominally surrendered to Huaixi, but he independently commanded more than 30,000 troops in Lishan, and Huaixi now has no other means to restrain him, if you really want to see him as a harmless big cat, it would be a big mistake.

If you make a mistake, it will be the end of blood splashing seven steps and the army falling apart, how can Chen Jingrong not be frightened?

Seeing Chen Jingrong and Zhong Rong standing and talking under the light rain curtain, Dong Yuan, who was dressed in green clothes, opened the curtain and stepped out of the carriage, signaled Hu Qi to stay in place, walked towards Zhong Rong alone, and said with a smile: "Doesn't General Zhong welcome this envoy to the Lishan camp?" ”

Zhong Rong couldn't think of what was wrong, but Dong Yuan was wearing a green robe and his bearing was extraordinary, although his face was slightly pale, his eyes were bright, as if there was an electric light, so that he couldn't force his eyes.

Although he had never met Dong Yuan, Zhong Rong did not doubt that Dong Yuan in front of him could be pretended by others - as if he had stagnated for a few breaths, Zhong Rong pushed the mountain and knelt down, and bowed on the wetland: "The envoy has worked tirelessly to see the mountain, and the last general has not been able to meet him from afar, please ask the envoy to forgive the last general!" ”

Dong Yuan looked at Zhong Rong's burly and abnormal body kneeling with blazing eyes, glanced at Chen Jingrong before he went to pick Zhong Rong up and said: "The envoy came to the Lishan camp, but he didn't want you and me to disagree, why did General Zhong see him like this!" ”

"Is there something wrong with Huaixi?" Zhong Rong stood up and asked a little impatiently.

Dong Yuan secretly felt that although Zhong Rong was full of blood, he was not a stupid person after all-as long as he was not a stupid person, things were simpler, so he was afraid that he would not understand the power, nodded and said: "There are indeed some changes in Huaixi, and there is no need to hide it from General Zhong: just yesterday, Ning Zechen, the commander of the Fengli Army in Xinyang, was ordered by the Privy Council to lead his troops to take over the defense of Shouzhou, and I have ordered the guards of Shouzhou to lead his troops to withdraw from Xinyang......"

Dong Yuan's understatement was as if Zhong Rong had stung a poisonous scorpion, and his face changed suddenly.

Shouzhou is to Huaixi, just as Jiangning is to South Vietnam. Losing Shouzhou, Dong Yuan will lose the foundation of his foothold in Huaixi, not to mention taking in Lishan to surrender troops, it is difficult to raise 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which means that Dong Yuan has no value at all!

But if you don't vote for Huaixi, what other road is in front of you?

Chen Jingrong looked at Zhong Rong's reaction nervously, what if Zhong Rong used Dong Yuan's head to cast his name in Huaidong at this time?

Dong Yuan knew that Feng left the army to attack Shouzhou without permission from Xinyang, and under the anger, he couldn't stop bleeding that night, so his face was pale with blood loss at this time, but he forbade the army to take any action, and only sent the letter to gallop to Shouzhou before nightfall on the 25th, and ordered not to resist, and passed a letter to Yuan Guizheng to lead the remnants of the Nanyang Army to take over Xinyang City, and he decided to come to Lishan alone to see Zhong Rong, Chen Jingrong and Liu Tingzhou and others all persuaded him not to do this risky plan, to guard against Zhong Rong has the heart of a jackal! Dong Yuan only said: "I am still for the commander of Dayue who guards the border and determines the frontier - Zhong Rong killed me to surrender to Huaidong, at this time, Lin Tie, will not hesitate to take in the generals who are good at killing Dayue's handsome ministers?" Zhong Rong detained me and dedicated me to Huaidong, are you worried that Lin Jian will privately detain an innocent privy deputy envoy? Could it be that Zhong Rong still has a way out to dedicate me to Beiyan? I don't go to Lishan at this time, I don't want to gain Zhong Rong's trust, Lin Jian only needs to send someone to send a Privy Council order to order me to rectify and surrender the army, and I can make the Lishan surrender army fall apart......" Dong Yuanli disagreed with the public, and went to Lishan alone with Chen Jingrong, standing in front of Zhong Rong.

Before Dong Yuan left the Guangshan camp, he also asked the Yan general Tong Erdan, who assassinated Luo Xiancheng, to successfully "rob the prison and escape" from the prison camp, so as not to prevent Lin Jian from coming to ask for someone in the name of the Privy Council.

"I want General Zhong to be the vanguard and lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Huai River to the north to recover Queshan, Ruzhou and other places," Dong Yuan didn't care about any changes on Zhong Rong's face, and said to himself, "What does General Zhong think?" ”

This plan is also a risky plan: so that Zhong Rong has the opportunity to lead 20,000 troops to cross the Huai North, from then on for Zhong Rong is the sea and the sky, if he breaks away from the grasp of Huaixi and goes to Beiyan again, Dong Yuan will completely block his retreat, and if he does not lead his troops to rebel, he can only resign from the position of privy deputy envoy, head of the Huaixi camp, Henan envoy, etc., and hand over all the military power to bear this responsibility, and give an account to Jiang Ning - in the same way, if Zhong Rong can only be mastered by Dong Yuan, he and many of Dong Yuan's descendants are alone north of the Huai River, Then Lin Jian will not be ruthless to Huaixi and Dong Yuan easily......

Zhong Rong lowered his head, his eyes rolled, and many thoughts flashed through his mind.

He didn't want to take Dong Yuan's head and turn to Huaidong, but thinking that Dong Yuan was the same Nanyue marshal as Lin Lian at this time, he used Dong Yuan's head to curry favor with Lin Lian, and he would only ask Lin Yuan to cut off his head to show his innocence - Dong Yuan can come over, he must be fully prepared, even if he kills Dong Yuan, he may not be able to escape from Xinyang to the north, and Ye Ji Luorong sent Tong Erdan to assassinate Luo Xiancheng so that the Suizhou army surrendered to Huaixi, so naturally he would not want to see Dong Yuan kill himself.

Since Dong Yuan said that he would lead his troops to recover Queshan and Ruzhou, it showed that he had no intention of harming him, Zhong Rong was also a little relieved, suppressed his voice, and said: "Zhong Rong often hears people say, 'It's tolerable, which is unbearable', Lin Lian's son is so aimed at Huaixi, he will take Shouzhou without saying a word, why should he put up with him?" If Zhong Rong is used as the vanguard to attack Suizhou, Zhong Rong will definitely fight a bloody way for the recruit! ”

"General Zhong, since you have entered Huaixi as a general, you are a general of Dayue, how can you provoke friendly troops?" Dong Yuan said this, but his tone was not harsh, but revealed an indescribable sadness and powerlessness.

"Huaidong has done the 'first year of junior high school', how can the envoy be able to do the 'fifteenth'?" Zhong Rong said.

Chen Jingrong said beside him: "Not to mention the more than 30,000 elite people of the Huaidong Army in Fancheng and Zaoyang; The main force of the Huaidong Army on the southern front, as well as the Chizhou Army, a total of 1450,000 elites, have reached the front line of Panpo and Xiaochang, and it only takes three or four days to rush north to Suizhou. How sure is General Zhong that he can take Suizhou City, which is guarded by 10,000 elites of the Huaidong Army, before the main force of the southern front of the Huaidong Army goes north? ”

Lin Jian ordered Ning Zechen to leave his troops to attack Shouzhou, how could he have no backhand and no defense?

If you can take Suizhou by surprise, it is a good move, so that Huaidong will not be able to pursue the Northern Yan soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River. Not only that, Huaidong's soldiers and horses in Fancheng and Zaoyang will also be forced to retreat south because their flanks are completely exposed, so that Beiyan has the opportunity to regain Fancheng and open up the grain route connecting Xiangyang and the west bank of Hanshui in the south!

As long as the soldiers and horses on the Western Front of Northern Yan do not withdraw from Jingzhou, the Huaidong Army will naturally take the Huaixi Army occupying Suizhou.

However, the premise of everything is that Zhong Rong's Lishan army must be able to take Suizhou City, which was guarded by 10,000 elites of the Huaidong Army, by surprise and before the main force of the Huaidong Army's southern front goes north, is this possible?

Can't take Suizhou City by surprise, even if the Huaixi Army joins forces with the troops and horses of the Northern Yan Western Front at this time, even if the soldiers and horses south and west of Guangshan listen to Dong Yuan's orders to start a war with Huaidong, even if the Lishan Army can immediately restore morale for Dong Yuan's use and fight hard in the front, their chances of victory are also very slim.

Relying only on Chen Zhihu's headquarters north of Xinye, it is actually difficult to pose a major threat to the defense line that the Huaidong Army has formed in the areas of Fancheng, Zaoyang, and Pinglinbu, and it is impossible to respond to their attack on Suizhou - in the end, Ye Ji Luorong's 100,000 elites are isolated from Hanshui on the west bank, and Ye Ji Luorong and his troops have to go around Nanyang from the narrow passage of Danjiangkou, Wuguanhe, and Wuguan, and it will take a month to say less.

Even if Lin Jian was so sluggish that it dragged on for a month, and asked Ye Ji Luorong to lead his troops to slowly withdraw to Nanyang, would the military rations of the Lishan and Guangshan camps still last for a month?

Suizhou is the testicle and pill of the Lishan Suizhou army, Suizhou fell, and the Lishan army and horses can descend to Huaixi; Shouzhou is Huaixi testicles and pills, and if you lose Shouzhou, Huaixi will have no room for struggle at all - how many people can still fight back if they can catch the opponent in the hands of the testicles and pills?

Listening to what Chen Jingrong said, Zhong Rong could also understand their anger and unwillingness when they first learned that Lin Jian had sent troops to seize Shouzhou. Zhong Rong also understood that only the greater the hatred of the Huaixi people towards Huaidong, the safer he would be in Huaixi, and he would not betray Dong Yuan to Huaidong.

Thinking of this, Zhong Rong knelt down again and said: "The last general is also deeply unhappy for the recruitment, and the nonsense is also hateful and difficult to control. ”

Dong Yuan nodded and said: "General Zhong immediately ordered the troops and horses to go north, even if there is any order from the Privy Council, General Zhong will not care, he has his own envoy to come down......"

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Yue Lengqiu galloped into Suizhou on the night of the 27th.

Because Tang Fuguan took advantage of the defeat of the army to attack Suizhou like a thunderbolt to take the outer city of Suizhou, the outer city of Suizhou is basically intact at present, only Changle Palace has been destroyed beyond recognition. Luo Xianyi, Wei Zhang, and other stubbornly resistant Suizhou army generals have been given the heads, and less than half of Luo Xiancheng's 3,000 descendants who survived after the war have been imprisoned in prisoner of war camps.

In addition to these, the most captured are Luo Xiancheng's relatives and families, and there are not many Suizhou army generals who have small families in Suizhou City.

Huaidong Tuntian is to dispose of the camp field as public property, and the camp and tun soldiers are the reserve soldiers of the Huaidong Army, which is actually an effective means of restricting the soldiers as generals - Suizhou Tuntian is not the case.

The Suizhou army still failed to change the old pattern of soldiers as generals, and the tuntian model under the auspices of Wang Xiang was actually to occupy the fertile land circle near Suizhou and divide it to the generals, and the generals set up tunzhai and manor, and planted it with private soldiers.

That is to say, in peacetime, the soldiers and horses garrisoned by the state army are in the hands of the generals, and the tun soldiers have actually become the private servants and private slaves of the generals.

The advantage of this is that the king can quickly change the situation of lack of military food and supplies in Suizhou from time to time, and will not touch the interests of the generals; The disadvantage is that the status of ordinary soldiers is even lower, and they have no centripetal force towards Suizhou, and they do not show particularly strong combat effectiveness.

Therefore, many of the small relatives of the generals of Suizhou live in the tunzhai and manor, rather than living in Suizhou City.

Yue Lengqiu is also very clear about Suizhou's Tuntian model, although it is not perfect, but it did improve the bad situation of the Suizhou army at that time, so when he entered Suizhou City, he first asked Cao Ziang who Wang Xiang was, in order to show his appreciation for Wang Xiang - Lin Jian had just ordered Wang Xiangquan to know the Suizhou prefect to assist Cao Ziang in handling the government affairs in Suizhou, and had just rushed to Suizhou City from Lishan.

"The generals did not live in Suizhou City for a small time, so that many people had the opportunity to flee to Lishan, otherwise there would be more opportunities for the generals to break away from the Huaixi Army after the war." Wang Xiang said regretfully. Although at this time, the Suizhou army and horses all surrendered to Huaixi, but after all, the Privy Council held the right to transfer the generals, and when the soldiers were rectified, the Suizhou generals might not continue to be tied to the Huaixi tree after removing their worries.

Of course, the small family and relatives were originally a good bargaining chip, but at present, the Huaidong Army has not been able to grasp all these chips in their hands.

captured Suizhou, and the most captured were Luo Xiancheng's family and relatives, Luo Xiancheng was really extravagant, and there were more than 120 concubines alone; The wives and daughters of the generals under his command have to guard against Luo Xiancheng's robbery, and this alone makes few generals dare to leave their families in Suizhou City.

"It's difficult to do both," Yue Lengqiu laughed, thinking that Luo Xiancheng couldn't trust the king, otherwise he might be able to break through a situation in Jingxiang, "How can you be demanding in everything?" ”

Yue Lengqiu went north to see Dong Yuan, but Huaixi is still unstable, so he wants to stay in Suizhou and wait and see the situation for a few days.

Cao Ziang, who was sitting opposite Yue Lengqiu, smiled slightly, and didn't care about Wang Xiang's pity, if he really wanted to take the small family as the hostage, he would fall into the inferior class, which was not in line with the big pattern of the master's public creation. Let these Suizhou generals all go to Huaixi, and they can collect all the tuntian without resistance and redistribute it as officials, and it is not without any benefit.

At this time, a guard came in from outside and handed Cao Ziang a secret letter.

Cao Ziang read the secret letter and said to everyone present: "Dong Yuan may have a secret meeting with Zhong Rong in the Lishan camp at this time......

"He's so bold!" Yue Lengqiu was startled, and Orr saved that he shouldn't say this. Why didn't he go to danger alone in Xuzhou to persuade Chen Hansan to trap Liu An'er? Dong Yuan even lost his pants, in addition to taking the dangerous front, what other tricks could he have to break out of Huaidong's palm?

Cao Ziang, Wang Xiang, and Tang Fuguan looked at each other and smiled, ignoring Yue Lengqiu's embarrassment.

Yue Lengqiu also pressed his embarrassment and said: "Dong Yuan went to Lishan alone, probably to prevent him from falling into the army; Chongguo Gong originally intended to take Zhong Rong's head, but I'm afraid this trip won't be a ......."

Cao Ziang nodded, if Dong Yuan couldn't appease the Lishan army in time, as long as they passed a Privy Council order and ordered Dong Yuan to investigate the crimes of the generals who surrendered, they could put everyone in danger - Dong Yuan went to Lishan alone, just to appease Zhong Rong and other generals before the Privy Council order was issued.

At this time, if the Privy Council order was really to be passed on to Dong Yuan to liquidate the crime of surrendering to the army, Dong Yuan would definitely refuse and delay in every possible way, so that the surrender would return to Huaixi - it can be said that Dong Yuan was still very bold and strategic to go to Lishan alone.

Cao Ziang pondered for a moment, and said to Tang Fuguan: "The possibility of Dong Yuangou jumping over the wall in a hurry is not high, but it is also necessary to be prepared, and order Lishan and Luodian to strengthen their vigilance to prepare for a surprise ......attack by Lishan troops."

Zhou Tong went to Fancheng and personally commanded the soldiers and horses on the front line of Fancheng, Zaoyang and Pinglinbu, where there were more than 30,000 elite infantry battalions and the main force of the third brigade of Sun Zhuang's cavalry battalion, mainly to prevent Chen Zhihu from fighting from Nanyang.

Cao Ziang stayed in Suizhou, Suizhou and the east of Suizhou, including Luodian, Lishan, and Chaishan, with a total of more than 15,000 elites and more than 4,000 soldiers in the Tang Fuguan Division, guarding several fortresses at key points.

Yue Lengqiu knew that Dong Yuan's dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, but he really couldn't calculate Dong Yuan's chance of jumping off the wall in a hurry, in the final analysis, all the power and conspiracy must be based on the corresponding strength. Dong Yuan really wanted to drive Zhong Rong to attack Suizhou, or simply change the banner and surrender Hu, but he was just seeking a quick death.

At this time, Lin Jian did not intend to make Dong Yuan have no way to retreat at all, force him to rebel, and he did not intend to make the Lishan army fall apart immediately - even if the Lishan army fell apart at this time, the pros and cons were half, although it could further weaken Dong Yuan's power, but it would only be harmful and not beneficial to clean up the remnants of Nanyang, Xinyang, Jingxiang and other remnants after the war.

Lin Jian just hoped that Dong Yuan's troops would be driven north of Huaishui first, so that it would not affect the next battle to recover Xiangyang and Nanyang, and after the war, Huaishui and the area south of the Qinling Mountains would also have a chance to recuperate, and give Huaidong a complete mastery.

At that time, even if Dong Yuan still has 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and collects Zhong Rong and others to surrender the army for his use, and secretly colludes with Yan Hu, what splash can he toss?

When to use risky tactics, when to be safe, everyone in Huaidong has a clear account in their hearts, Yue Lengqiu sighed in his heart, it is good to be able to grasp the initiative. However, no matter what, how Huaidong will adjust his deployment next, or whether he Yue Lengqiu will go north to see Dong Yuan, he still has to wait and see for two days before he can make a decision.