Ho Kyo.

"Lord, it's too late!"

The house is quiet, and only the cicadas are singing in the small courtyard. Fang Yuting looked at the gray-haired and thin old man on the bed, and he didn't even recognize him.

Overnight, it seemed that everything had changed, but Huan Wu's eyes were still burning with fiery light.

"Get up!"

Huan Wu lay on the bed and waved his hand slightly, signaling Fang Yuting to get up.

"I ordered the burning of the plank road in the Magpie Valley, what are the rumors outside?"

"This ......." Fang Yuting paused slightly, then lowered his head and said, "There are no rumors outside." ”

"Lie!" Huan Wu stared at Fang Yuting with a pair of eyes, with a disdainful smile on his face, "What other rumors can there be, it's just that I'm afraid of that Yang Xian child." ”

Fang Yuting looked at Huan Wu, the other party didn't have any mustard at all, and said it frankly.

"My lord, that's just a little ignorance. How can they understand the deep meaning of the lord? ”

Next to the large bed is a short table with several delicate lacquered plates. Huan Wu picked up the preserved fruit on the plate, threw it into his mouth and chewed it, and suddenly felt a sweet and sour taste, stimulating his taste buds.

"I'm afraid it's not just a little bit! So far, after the First World War, whether it is the common people, or the princes everywhere, and even the generals in our army, they all think so.

"Lord!"

"After this battle, Youji died, the eldest brother died, and even Jue'er died in front of me. Yang Xian is vicious, no less than the ancestor. I lost badly, but he didn't win either! ”

When Huan Wu said this, a red tide surged above his entire gray face, and his eyes were bright.

"In the first battle of Sanshiyuan, the Shu army lost three percent of its soldiers. Then Yang Xian hurriedly attacked the Huan Biao camp for ten days, and soon after taking it, he fought with our army in Quegu Road for two days, and the army lost two percent. After this battle, Yang Xian wanted to compensate the fallen soldiers and reward them for meritorious service, and the treasury of Yizhou was afraid that it was about to bottom out. ”

A slight cough resounded in the room, and Fang Yuting picked up the teacup on the short table and handed it over. Huan Wu drank some tea before he smoothed out the violent tremor in his chest.

"I was too anxious before, and after this defeat, I realized that the best way to deal with Yang Xian is not to play any tricks with him, and to win with a dignified master. Time is in my beam, not in his Yang Xian. I burned the plank road, Yang Xian is to use all the national strength of Shu to build it, and it will definitely not be able to repair it in three or five years. If Yang Xian wants to go north out of the Central Plains, he needs to be like us attacking Shu, the grain route will be transferred for thousands of miles, and one city after another will be taken. I want to see, with the national strength of Shu, can he hold on? ”

With the defeat of the Liang army's second battle against Shu, the two armies of Liang and Shu have been offensive and defensive. Huan Wu ordered the Liang army to build more than a dozen cities on the Yongyi border. The Liang army in Yongzhou also switched from strategic offensive to strategic defense.

The Magpie Valley Road has been burned down, the Shirakawa Road cannot march at all, the Shiyang Trail is dangerous, and the Yonecang Road is remote. At the same time that Huan Wu asked people to build more Sanshui Pass, he also let people build a large number of outpost camps near the other three crossings to monitor the movements of the Shu army.

Huan Wu took a breath, and his face changed slightly.

"The autumn wind is coming! After the affairs of Yongzhou are arranged, I will leave for Shendu. Ho Kyung's affairs, let Huan Zhong preside over it! ”

"Subordinates obey!"

String City.

"Have you given the bereavement of the wounded and wounded and the rewards of the meritorious soldiers?"

A huge map is scattered across the chamber and depicts the deployment of the Liang army on the Yongliang border. Yang Xian looked at it for a long time and suddenly asked.

Yan Le walked out from the side and arched his hand: "Everything that should be sent has been sent, but after this battle, the treasury of Nanzhong, Baocheng, Miancheng, and Gucheng has been exhausted. The treasury of Ba, Lang and even Jiangzhou has gone to fifty percent. Lord, although our army is victorious, I am afraid that we will not be able to launch a counterattack against the Liang army in a short time. ”

Yang Xian smiled and pointed to the defense point of the Liang army on the map.

Huan Wu sent a large army to garrison Sanshui Pass, and built more than a dozen cities in Zhongdi, Meiguo, and Fufeng, and even built two walled cities in Baichuan and Shiyang Daokou. Maybe he's waiting for our army to fight back, so that we can suffer! ”

"My lord, the Quegu Road has been broken, and our army wants to go north, but it is not easy."

Yan Le said very tactfully, this is not only not easy, it is simply difficult. This thousand-mile Shu Road is not only testing the combat strength of the Shu army, but the national strength of the two countries.

Huan Wu burned the plank road, which is equivalent to completely admitting defeat in front of the world. But at the same time, he also found the stupidest but effective way. That is to compete with Yang Xian for national strength.

Although the attacking side has the initiative, it can spend several times more financial and military resources than the defending side. And in this Qianli Shu Dao, this number may have to multiply several times.

Huan Wu holds the seven states of the Central Plains, and his resilience is not comparable to Yang Xian in the land of one state. Even if you can't win on the battlefield, as long as you accumulate national strength, you can still win in the end.

And this land of Yizhou is not easy to enter, and it is the same to get out. Even if it takes twenty years, Yang Xian can be consumed to death.

"This is not the time to fight back." Yang Xian looked at the generals of the various armies in the house, "Pass the order, the troops assembled on the front line will return to the station, straighten out the soldiers and horses, and replenish the battle damage." Our army and even the whole of Yizhou now need to recuperate. ”

"The last general obeys!"

A group of generals gave up.

"My lord, there will be something to tell you at the end."

At this time, Yang An gave up. He was originally the commander of the Zhichong Army, and after the battle on the front line, he passed through Xiancheng and was preparing to return to Jiangzhou.

"What?"

"After the defeat of the Liang army, in addition to the soldiers captured by our army, a considerable number of people wandered around Zhounan County. Huan Wu burned the plank road, and they had no hope of returning north, but instead poured to various places. Among them, Liang Jiang Rongcan has become a climate. He had thousands of heavy infantry under his command, but after the defeat, he fled south and entered Badi. According to the scout's report, he not only took in the defeated soldiers of the Liang army, but even began to recruit bandits and bandits near Badi. After a long time, I am afraid that it will become a great disaster. ”

Yang Xian groaned, "There are many mountains and mountains in Badi, if you send an army to fight, not to mention the cost of money, I am afraid that it will not be effective in a short time." Our army is about to recuperate, and it is not appropriate to raise troops at this time. ”

After speaking, Yang Xian glanced aside. At this time, in the queue of the ministers of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jiang Zhou, Fang Pei, Xu Ji and other generals of the Liang army were among them.

These generals surrendered with their subordinates, each with thousands of soldiers and horses, and they were also a large force. Sensing Yang Xian's gaze, these generals were all a little weak-hearted.

This was the time for them to make contributions, but these generals did not dare. Because they know Rong Can's temper very well, let Rong Can see them, I am afraid that if they disagree, it will be a knife.

In the past, persuasion was tantamount to death.

Eventually, Dickson stepped up. Unlike the rest of the generals, he did not have a single soldier under his command.

"The last general is willing to go and try it and persuade Rongcan to surrender!"