Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and said, "The Duke of China also thinks that this matter is extremely suspicious, it stands to reason that although Xu Da was placed under house arrest by the Duke of China, the Duke of China has not yet ordered Xu Da to be killed, even if the soldiers under Xu Da's command want to disobey the order, they must take care of me, the Duke of Wu." ”

Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Li Shanchang lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said: "From what I see, most of the generals under Xu Da's command are generals who seek the country in the old city, and there should not be such a ridiculous request, I'm afraid there is really something special in this matter." ”

As soon as he heard Li Shanchang come like this, Zhu Yuanzhang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and an idea suddenly popped up.

"With Li Junshi's meaning, it could be that someone is secretly plotting this matter behind his back." Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and said to Li Shanchang.

Li Shanchang said a little embarrassed: "Actually, this is not a little speculation on the part of his subordinates, I just think this matter is a little weird."

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, smiled slightly and said: "It's okay, the Duke of China also feels that this matter is a little strange, I don't know if I offended the generals under Xu Da some time ago, and actually joined forces to resist my order." ”

"There are many generals under Xu Da who can fight well, if these generals disobey the order, won't they become rebels, Wu Guogong can't be underestimated in this matter, and these people should be arrested." Li Shanchang has never been good friends with Xu Da, and he really wants to take this opportunity to teach Xu Da's generals a good lesson.

Zhu Yuanzhang has another idea, after all, the generals and soldiers under Xu Da are one of the most elite troops in the Yingtian Army, if they really arrest the generals under Xu Da according to Li Shanchang's intentions, it is estimated that the soldiers under these generals will be unstable, and if it becomes a mutiny, the overall situation will be difficult to clean up.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, deaf to Li Shanchang's words.

Li Shanchang saw that Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang did not react to his words, but he was a little unsure of what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking, so he had to ask: "What does Wu Guogong think about this matter?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Li Junshi is honest in loving me, but he is just talking about things from the outside, and talking about people afterwards, most of them are harsh, once they are in the period, they are difficult to get rid of. ”

Li Shanchang had already heard the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's words, and knew that Wu Guogong did not seem to be ready to punish those generals under Xu Da who disobeyed his orders, so Li Shanchang asked: "With Wu Guogong's intentions, how to deal with this matter." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Don't interfere in this matter for now, I want to see what the generals under Xu Da want to do." ”

Li Shanchang didn't know if what Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang said was the true intention in his heart, so naturally he had a way to find out how Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to deal with this matter.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang said to Li Shanchang: "Li Junshi, there are not many people who know about this matter at the moment, and my lord hopes that Li Junshi will not spread it." ”

Li Shanchang nodded and said: "Wu Guogong, please rest assured, his subordinates have their own sense of proportion, and they will not talk nonsense about this matter with others, but just remind Wu Guogong to pay careful attention to this amazing move of the generals under Xu Da, is it possible that Xu Da instructed the generals to act like this." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, shook his head and said: "It is absolutely impossible, after the war, Xu Da has already been secretly proposed by my confidants to Yingtian Prison and placed under house arrest in a secluded place, there is no way to communicate with anyone, how can he instruct the generals under his command to act like this." ”

"Then is it possible that someone instigated it and made a big fuss about Xu Da's affairs, so that Wu Guogong and Xu Da's generals must be evil." Li Shanchang said to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head and pondered, raised his face to Li Shanchang and said: "General Chang Yuchun and the Chu army have also captured all the spies sent by the Han King to Yingtian City, it should not be the ghost of the Han King Chengyouliang's subordinates." ”

Li Shanchang said meaningfully: "If it weren't for the ghosts of Chen Youliang's subordinates, would it be someone in the army who wanted to rescue General Xu Da, and it would be because he instigated the generals under Xu Da's command to disobey orders." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart moved when he heard this, although Li Shanchang did not say who instigated it, but in terms of the closeness between the people in the army and Xu Da, the person Li Shanchang said was already about to come out.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was cold, and he said with emotion: "This matter is not trivial, there is no tangible evidence, we can't speculate." ”

When Li Shanchang saw Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude, he already understood that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to involve Chu Liuyan in this matter, obviously knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, still attached great importance to and protected Chu Liuyan, and refused to arbitrarily drag Chu Liuyan to this matter.

Li Shanchang did not go into this topic very deeply, and Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang naturally did the same, so the two were silent for a while.

Suddenly, a guard ran in and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, said: "Duke Wu, the big thing is not good, General Yuchun often comes to report, and he and General Tang He lost for a while." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, hurriedly pushed the case and asked: "What is the current situation, can General Chang and General Tang He stop the Han army of Han King Chen Youliang." ”

The guards didn't know about this, so they had to say to Zhu Yuanzhang, Duke of Wu: "Qi Wu Guogong, General Chang sent a messenger to come back quickly, and he is waiting outside the door, this person should know what the situation is." ”

"Then don't you announce that man in, do you have an elm head?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily to the guard.

When the guards heard this, they hurriedly ran out, and then asked the messenger who was standing outside.

As soon as the messenger came in, he knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Excuse me." As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw this person, he opened his mouth and said: "What is the situation on General Chang's side, can you block the attack of Chen Youliang, the king of Han, you can tell your own lord quickly." ”

The person who reported the news raised his head and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, "His subordinates were entrusted by General Chang to rush back to report the war to the Duke of Wu. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, heard this, he was extremely shocked, so he said to this person: "If this is the case, wouldn't General Chang be unable to resist the attack of Chen Youliang, the king of Han." ”

The messenger nodded.

Li Shanchang on the side asked the person who reported the news: "Is the situation you mentioned just now your own judgment?" ”

The person who reported the news turned his head and said to Li Shanchang: "It's not the judgment of his subordinates, but what General Chang said to me personally, General Chang suffered defeats this time, and he was deeply afraid that he had paid Wu Guogong's entrustment, so he let his subordinates rush back, firstly, he wanted Wu Guogong to know the battle situation, and secondly, he wanted Wu Guogong to send troops to rescue him as soon as possible, otherwise under the offensive of the Han army, General Chang and General Tang He would not be able to hold it and had to retreat in defeat." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he already knew that the battle situation was not good, if he didn't send troops to reinforce Chang Yuchun, he might really be broken through the camp by the Han army under the command of Han King Chen Youliang.

But this is already inferior, if you can only focus on this matter, you have already given up half of Ying Tiancheng to Chen Youliang, and Zhu Yuanzhang is absolutely unwilling.

However, what bothered Wu Guogong the most was the situation of the front-line war, and the most urgent task at the moment was how to fight against the Han army under the command of Chen Youliang, the king of Han. The elite soldiers near Yingtian City also let Chang Yuchun and Tang He take away, and now the only ones who can rely on are the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou and the soldiers under Xu Da.

But these two ends are not very smooth, Chuzhou soldiers and horses, under the eyes (comma for harmony) are still looking forward to killing Xu Da, revenge for King Xiao Ming before returning to their hearts, and the generals under Xu Da are now forcing themselves to release Xu Da, otherwise they will not go to meet the Han army.

It's a dilemma.