Huaiyou is launching an offensive in Pinglu, and it is still uncertain whether Huaiyou only wants to take back Haizhou, or is ready to fight a big battle and take Mizhou as interest, but judging by Du Li's character towards Jiang Feng, I am afraid that the latter is more likely.

I have to admit that in the past few years, Jiang Feng has been so lucky that he is against the sky, of course, Du Li thinks that Jiang Feng's courage is equally big against the sky, no matter how many opportunities you are given, if you dare not seize it, you can't catch it, then you will achieve nothing.

Obviously, Jiang Feng is the darling of this combination of the lucky and the brave.

The annexation of Shouzhou gave Jiang Feng greater confidence, and taking down the three states of Luhao and Chuzhou directly gave Jiang Feng courage, which is equivalent to giving Jiang Feng the capital to fail, even if he failed in the battle of the Northern Expedition, he could return to Huainan to lick his wounds again, accumulate strength, and wait for a comeback, but fate favored this guy again, the civil strife in Xuzhou, and the collapse of Yanyunyi almost gave such a large piece of land and population to Jiang Feng.

Du Li's views were a little different from those of the rest of his family, and he didn't think that Jiang Feng's rash victory over Yanyun and Yi Sanzhou was a mistake and a risk.

Indeed, from the current point of view, Zhu Mao's initiative to retreat, Yanyunyi Sanzhou will only consume Huaiyou's money and grain reserves, which are not thick enough, and even the displaced people will bring chaos and disorder to Huaiyou, but you must know that even if you don't take over Yanyunyi, you can stay out of the matter?

The nearly one million homeless people in Yanyun Sanzhou are not fools, will they flee to the even more barren Hebei, or the equally sluggish Jiqing, instead of coming to your Xuzhou or even Huainan?

Therefore, the wise move is to take over Yanyunyi, and try to keep these displaced people who may become disaster victims in the local area, even if they provide some necessary food for this purpose, which is really unbearable, and then appropriately guide some displaced people to eat and stay in places that can still be accommodated.

Du Li thought that Jiang Feng handled this matter extremely well.

Of course, the side effects will definitely be not small, and Huaiyou may be dragged down by the three states of Yanyun and Yi for a long time, consuming a lot of financial and material resources.

It can bring a lot of benefits, absorbing the remnants of the Taining Army, enriching the strength of the Huaiyou Army, especially the strength of the cavalry army, and advancing the front line to the front line of the big river, which can ensure the safety of Xuzhou and the hinterland of Huainan to the greatest extent.

It's just that now Huaiyou is still going to attack the Pinglu army, which can't help but make Du Li feel frightened.

Maybe Haizhou's salt profit is too important for Huaiyou, but Du Li also feels that Huaiyou can be delayed for a year or two, and it is not too late to plot again when the strength of Yanyunyi and Xu Si is digested.

Du Li is powerless to influence Huaiyou's decision, on the contrary, Huaiyou wants to be able to exert influence on the Du family, for example, isn't this time Huaiyou asking the Du family to send someone to Xiangyang to persuade the Xiao family?

"Hehe, Lord Xiao, if you don't have this will, how can Brother Du Li have this experience?" Hou Chen did not deny or affirm, but skillfully pushed Du Li out, "Nanyang Erliu's arrogance is becoming more and more arrogant, provoking the war and invading Anzhou, not long ago, he destroyed the agreement reached between our Huaiyou, the imperial court and Nanyang, and invaded Guangzhou, its ambition is obvious to all, presumably the Xiao family should have a more intuitive feeling than us." ”

The thick-bearded man snorted lightly, of course he understood the meaning of this Huaiyou envoy, it was okay to form an alliance, and the Xiao family needed to show some gestures, but if it was not an alliance, why should the Xiao family take the initiative to provoke?

Even if this kind of provocation seems to be very weak, with the current situation in Xiangyang, it is indeed necessary to be cautious.

It is true that there is infinite resentment and hatred towards Nanyang, but can resentment and hatred solve the problem? No.

Xiao Xian knew very well that now due to Nanyang's deliberate co-optation of Jiangling, more and more pressure had been formed on Xiangyang's side, and it was because of this that he was willing to meet the envoys of Huaiyou and Ehuang.

Otherwise, it is thousands of miles away from Huaiyou, and the performance of Ehuang is extremely unbearable, and even important places such as Anzhou have been lost, so what kind of alliance do you come to talk about with yourself?

The huge pressure made Xiao Xian have to consider all aspects of the possibility, as long as it was Nanyang's enemy, he would not hesitate to try to become an ally, but if it was said that Xiangyang would disregard his own interests and safety to curry favor with Huaiyou, it would be impossible.

"Lord Hou, we don't need to go around in circles, that's right, now Xiangyang is facing huge pressure from both Nanyang and Jiangling, because of this, we can't be cautious, your army is now far away in Qilu to use troops, worried about Nanyang's constraints, we can understand, but at least until now we haven't found any action from Nanyang, but if I Xiangyang takes the initiative to provoke, wouldn't it be self-inflicted?"

Xiao Xian glanced at Du Li, who had been silent, "The Ehuang side is also far away from the water and can't save the near fire, with all due respect, I'm afraid the current Ehuang doesn't have much strength to help us." ”

It's a bit of a slap in the face, which makes Du Li a little embarrassed, but it's the truth, if Nanyang and Jiangling make moves against Xiangyang, I'm afraid that Ehuang can only use moral support, and it is difficult to take substantive measures.

"If Ehuang doesn't, then what about Tanyue?" Du Li said with a smile.

"Tan Yue?!" Xiao Xian was taken aback, of course Tan Yue has this power, the problem is that he has already contacted the Ma family in Tanyue to attack Jiangling, the problem is that the Ma family is not interested, and they are quite cold to their proposals, I don't know if it is okay, after their two invitations were politely declined, Xiao Xian also cooled this thought, and now the other party suddenly mentioned the Tan Yue Ma family, could they still have any reason to persuade the Ma family?

Xiao Xian looked at Du Li again, if anyone had anything to do with Tanyue, then it was impossible for Ehuang not to know, and it was impossible for Du Li to deceive him.

The two overlords of Jiangnan and Western Dao, the east is the Zhong family of the Zhennan Army who controls Hong, Fu and Yuanzhou, and the west is the Ma family who is in charge of Tanzhou, Yuezhou, Lizhou, Langzhou, Weizhou and Hengzhou.

The relationship between the two families has not been harmonious.

The Ma family continued to befriend the Zhong family's vassals Jizhou and Qianzhou, so that the Lu family and the Peng family gradually became independent of the Zhong family, and the Zhong family also supported Yongzhou, Daozhou, Chenzhou, and Lianzhou, which were located in Tanyue's sphere of influence, to fight against the Ma family, so the relationship has always been very tense.

It is precisely because of the continuous tension between the Ma family and the Zhennan Army, coupled with the mixed Han and Miao living in the southern states, and the fierce and unsubmissive chieftains of the mountain tribes, which also makes Tanyue not have much energy to pay attention to the north, even Jiangling has always had ambitions for Li Zhou and Langzhou, and the Ma family has only maintained a defensive posture and is unwilling to take the initiative to deal with Jiangling.

Now this Hou Chen actually said that they can talk about moving the Ma family? How is this possible?

Seeing Xiao Xian's suspicious gaze, Du Li's face was also a little bitter.

He has seen Hou Chen's ability to cooperate vertically and horizontally, and the reason why he came to Jiangling so late was because he was still pulled around by Hou Chen.

I first went to Hongzhou to meet the Zhong family of the Zhennan Army, and then went to Tanzhou to meet the principal of the Ma family, and obtained at least verbal promises and wishes from both sides, and then came to Jiangling.

"Uncle Xiao, uh, what Lord Hou said is not a lie. Du Li swallowed a mouthful of foam with some difficulty, "Before, I accompanied Lord Hou to Hongzhou, and then went to Tanzhou, before coming to Jiangzhou, the Tanzhou Ma family did say that if Jiangling is not good for Xiangyang, Tanyue is willing to send troops to help." ”

Du Li's second brother has already made a marriage contract with the second daughter of the Xiao family, and if there is no accident, he will marry next year, in this case, Xiao Xian believes that Du Li is unlikely to help outsiders deceive him.

"Oh, went to Hongzhou, nephew, what agreement do the two families have?"

Xiao Xian's spirits were lifted, the strength of the Tanyue Ma family was not bad, if he could really form an alliance with the Ma family to deal with Jiangling, it would greatly reduce the pressure on Xiangyang, if it was only against the Nanyang Liu family in the north, the pressure would be much smaller.

"Well, Lord Hou persuaded the Zhong family to no longer support Yong, Dao, and Chenzhou, and would give some support to Tanyue, so Tanyue would agree. ”

The story here is quite complicated, even Du Li can't say it clearly, and he couldn't participate in some secret talks between Hou Chen and the Zhong family, the Ma family, etc., but just witnessed it when the two sides reached an agreement.

The entanglement between Tanyue and the Zhennan Army, Xiao Xian certainly knows that the water here is deep and complicated, not only is it as simple as the Zhennan Army supporting Yong, Dao, and Chenzhou to make independence, Tanyue is the same as making bad things behind the Zhennan Army, Jizhou and Qianzhou, and even the Dazhong clan of Jiangrao Erzhou, all have the same shadow of Tanyue.

"Really?" Xiao Xian was overjoyed, if he could get Tanyue's full support, Jiangling would be fine.

"Seriously, Ma Jianfeng has agreed to increase his troops in Lizhou, and promised to increase his troops by 10,000 troops to the line from Shimen to Liyang in Lizhou within this month. Du Li nodded.

The garrison on this line is even far better than Tanyue's army in Yuezhou, and Tanyue in order to avoid fighting with Jiangling, so it is only stationed in Yuezhou, which is an important place in the military town, and the garrison is reasonable, but Lizhou is deliberately maintaining a state of no garrison, and now it seems that the Ma family is going to change this state for this.

The Ma family's attitude seems to be very eager, which also makes Du Li quite puzzled, in his opinion, even if there is pressure from Huaiyou, but Huaiyou is thousands of miles away, it is difficult to have much influence on Tanyue, if it is through the Zhennan Army to exert indirect pressure, but in the fighting method between Tanyue and the Zhennan Army, Tanyue actually has a certain upper hand, why does Tanyue seem to take the initiative this time?

What is the cat here, Du Li can't know for a while, there is no deep connection between Tanyue and Ehuang, and the two sides have always been well water and not river water, down Du Li feels that he needs to take a good look to see what is going on on Tanyue's side.