Chapter 177: On an equal footing, the wolf looks at the Central Plains
Compared with the imminent cold and cool two states, as the backyard of Beiliang, Lingzhou, on the occasion of the green season of wicker buds, there are still many handsome men and beautiful women who go out to play together, many children in the city happily fly kites, and the children of rich families will also string colorful lanterns on the kite line, like near their courtyard, there are no less than ten kites swimming in the sky, and the laughter of the children invisibly dilutes the tension after the two groups of people meet, but Xu Fengnian's unexpected opening remarks seem to be a bit sour. As the most stunner woman in Xishu in the past 20 years, thank you for the spring post thatched cottage, she was on the list of rouge reviews at the age of fourteen, and is known for her "skin like mutton fat jade, holding hands like lotus buds", and ten years later won the rouge review, although the real age is now twenty-six years old, but it is not an exaggeration to say that she is twenty-eight beautiful - mother. Thank you's figure is like most Shu women, thin and delicate, with a very thin waist. Thank you, especially white-skinned, no wonder there is the nickname of the Moon Palace Immortal, I don't know how many Shu men are haunted by it, Xu Fengnian is far away in Beiliang, and I have heard that the Xishu Taoist envoy has coveted it for a long time, if it weren't for Chen Zhibao's feudal Xishu and became a guest in the Spring Ti Thatched Cottage, I am afraid that after Xie Lingzhen died in Xu Fengnian's hands on the shore of the Spring God Lake, she would have become a caged bird in the mansion of the Jingluo Envoy.
After Xu Fengnian teased thank you, he led the horse forward, and did not immediately look at the man in white standing between the three people at the door, but looked at the middle-aged Confucian Xie Guanying, the word Shuyang, self-named Flying Fish, once called "North Xie Nan Li" with Li Yishan, commenting on the Spring and Autumn Period, of course, what interests Xu Fengnian the most is not this person's generosity in catching Jiao and raising a real dragon, but one of his identities, the father of the white fox face. The white fox face said that he was dead for some reason, and he didn't have the surname Xie with Xie Guanying, but the surname Nangong, which was naturally another difficult book.
In Xu Fengnian's view, there are only three people who can be called lucky in the Liyang Dynasty now, of course Emperor Zhao Zhen is one, and then there is Chen Zhibao, who is assisted by Xie Guanying not far in front of him, who lives in a corner of Shu in the southwest, and is eyeing the Central Plains, and now he has rebelled against Su Shu, the prince of Xishu, who should have belonged to the Beiliang camp, and Zhao Dingxiu, the old master. Why did Chen Zhibao want to meet this time, Xu Fengnian could guess a clue, because the third proud son of the Son of Heaven who is expected to sit on the dragon chair is His Royal Highness Zhao Zhu, the prince of Yanyi, the little beggar back then. Then the next pattern is similar to the first emperor Zhao Dan when the Eight Dragons seized the heir, Bei Liang does not need to be mixed in, it can play a pivotal role, Chen Zhibao wants to justifiably go out of Xishu, and must take advantage of the general trend of Western Chu's restoration of the country, and become the Dingding figure who broke through the capital of Western Chu before the Southern Xinjiang army, and Bei Liang will play the role of "insufficient success and more than defeat" The key role, if Xu Fengnian is determined to contain the Xishu forces, then the probability of Zhao Zhu's success will be far greater than Chen Zhibao, of course, Xishu is definitely not to ask for things this time, but to make a hidden exchange, as long as Bei Liang does not drag Xi Shu into the Central Plains, then if you want to come to Xi Shu, you will not make the Bei Liang backyard catch fire in the Liang war, this will test the tacit understanding between the two sides of Shu Liang, and they all agreed, then they are all happy, but as long as one of Xu Fengnian and Chen Zhibao is unwilling to take a step back, it will be after today, the two sides will completely tear their faces, and they will not die, Bei Liang will suffer from the enemy, and Xi Shu will also miss the opportunity, the loss of the Central Plains to compete for the deer, may be the embarrassing situation of slow step by step.
This transaction is very likely to determine the ownership of the entire Central Plains, and even the surname of the entire world. Otherwise, with Chen Zhibao's temperament, how could he return to Beiliang and take the initiative to meet Xu Fengnian? And most of the time, Xie Guanying was taken advantage of, and it was not easy to persuade this white-clothed soldier to go out of Shu and enter the cold.
Probably thank you for being Chen Zhibao's confidant, and he knows the importance of this meeting, so even if he ridiculed Xu Fengnian and slammed her seven inches, he still didn't shake his face.
The group entered this Jiangnan-style luxury house, Xu Fengnian and Chen Zhibao walked side by side in the front, followed by Tantai calm and thank you, and finally Xie Guanying and Xu Yanbing. Huyan Daguan and Temudie'er didn't follow, Huyan Daguan said that it didn't look like he was about to start working, he had to go to the streets of this Lingbei city to buy some kitsch objects for his daughter-in-law and daughter, and then this great master of Beimang Martial Arts left directly. In fact, on this trip to Lingzhou, Huyan Daguan had already made it clear to Xu Fengnian in Qingliang Mountain that he would not help Beiliang kill anyone, but if Xu Fengnian's life was in danger, he would come to the rescue, and Xu Fengnian would certainly not ask for anything about it. When it comes to Huyan Daguan, a martial artist who is extremely close to the realm of Wang Xianzhi, unless it is Xu Yanbing and Cao Changqing, who have too many worries that they can't let go, no one will care about the world, such as Deng Tai'a, although he is still a relative of Xu Fengnian, he is also unwilling and disdainful to ignore the trend of the Liang Mang War, and the same is true of Sui Xiegu, the reason why he stayed in Beiliang, I am afraid that in the final analysis, he still wants to occasionally show his face and beg for a scolding by the side of Tantai Peace.
Putting aside the weak thank you, Beiliang's side is Xu Fengnian, whose realm is damaged, Xu Yanbing, who is "only half a step away", and the first person to practice qi, and Xishu, Chen Zhibao, who is not sure whether he has become an extraordinary saint, and Xie Guanying, who is at the top of the list on the land immortal map.
It should be evenly matched.
Six people sat down in the quiet courtyard, thank you as a woman who has twice been on the list of rouge reviews, there are really too many commendable "unique learning", among which she boiled tea and had a "feather tea" said, thank you for the lotus bud reputation of both hands, and be good at the tea ceremony, countless Taoist real people in Shu have praised its tea "in the middle of the leisurely clean, the rhyme is high and quiet, and the two armpits of the drink are breezy, like feathering and soaring". Thank you for the tea leaves used to make tea at this time, it is the first treasure of the Ming Dynasty Spring God Tea, she brought the tea utensils and tea sets from the Spring Ti Thatched Cottage, scattered, as many as eighteen pieces, presumably a complete set of priceless eighteen bachelors. Rao is Xu Fengnian also has to admit that the Xishu woman's cooking tea in front of him is indeed pleasing to the eye, and the most important thing is that it contains a sense of forgetfulness, no wonder the Taoist priests of Xishu admire her.
Xie Guanying took a sip of tea first, and after putting the cup, he took the lead in breaking the silence, without any painless greetings, but went straight to the point, "Cao Changqing knows that Xichu must fight to Tai-An City in one go, and he can't lose a battle, otherwise the situation in the entire Guangling Dao will take a sharp turn for the worse." At present, the Modao Formation, which was born from the Euphorbia, has surfaced, and several field cavalry armies as the main force have also appeared, excluding the 60,000 sailors, and the land troops of Western Chu have 170,000, which can be regarded as comparable to the imperial army led by Lu Shengxiang in the north and the 100,000 troops in the south. But war has never been a battle of numbers on paper, and Zhao Bing's southern Xinjiang army is far superior to Western Chu in terms of combat power. ”
Xu Fengnian took a sip of tea, refreshed people's hearts, twisted the rim of the cup with two fingers, and said with a smile: "The situation is still flat, Cao Changqing's sailor will definitely annex the sailor of Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling, and after the confluence, the Guangling River with the Guangling sailor will have a great way to block the footsteps of the southern Xinjiang army." Xie Xiqian has 170,000 Western Chu, and he has a great chance of winning against Lu Shengxiang, who is inferior in strength. Then it depends on whether the Qingzhou Navy Division can help the soldiers and horses of southern Xinjiang to cross the moat, otherwise Cao Changqing will fight all the way to Tai-Ancheng, and Gu Jiantang's two Liao border armies will also take advantage of the situation to go south...... This is also the root cause of why the Taiping Order let the two easternmost fronts of Beimang make bowls, and why they want to show weakness to Yuan Tingshan in Jibei. In this situation of rapid development, except for Gu Jiantang, the rest of the forces are far from quenching their thirst in the eyes of the imperial court. ”
Xie Guanying seemed to be confident, and shook his head indifferently: "The Qingzhou Sailor may not be able to fight, and Lu Shengxiang is by no means an idle person. ”
Xu Fengnian looked at this middle-aged man with frosty white temples, and he was a little fustured for a while, worthy of being a white fox-faced father, he was a lot older, and he could still make a woman's heart move. As far as the gas is outstanding, it seems that only the big official Cao Changqing can compete with one of them. It's really not a lie. On the other hand, those authentic Jianghu people, the old man in sheepskin, Mrs. Deng, and Huyan Daguan, are all 108,000 miles away, of course, the old man Li when he was young, whether it was a sword or a person, was invincible in the world.
Xie Guan smiled a little dumbly at such a distracted young vassal king, glanced at the man in white beside him who always looked calm, and thought to himself that it was no wonder that Zhao Changling chose him with the surname Chen instead of His Royal Highness the prince surnamed Xu.
Xu Fengnian smiled apologetically, and then asked curiously: "Mr. Xie has a plan in the Qingzhou Water Division, which is not surprising, but if I am not mistaken, Lu Shengxiang left Guangling Chunxue Tower at that time, it was Yuan Benxi's instructions, and he will agree to let him enter and leave the city at that time? That means that Lu Shengxiang can change from the general of Liyang to the secretary of the military department, after all, in the future dynasty, what kind of general is just a little better, and the book with real power is fragrant." ”
Xie Guanying smiled and asked: "Even if he Lu Shengxiang wants to be the king of Beiliang who decided the Central Plains in one fell swoop, can he do it if he wants to? Not to mention that this time is different from the past, even if he succeeds in besieging the city, he still needs to be busy fighting with the young son of the southern Xinjiang to make a snipe and mussel." ”
Xie was keenly aware of the man she admired and frowned quietly.
When making tea, she can forget herself, and she will never forget him after all.
Most of the women in the world are like this, no matter how the gods come out of the dust, there is finally a man who lets them return to the world, and is willing to add fragrance to his red sleeves with his bare hands.
Xu Feng laughed younger: "In this way, the first emperor Zhao Dian died early, otherwise Mr. Xie wouldn't have to be so sad." ”
Xie Guanying nodded and said: "If the first emperor is alive, I will not be in Lingzhou now, but in Qingzhou Sailor." ”
Everyone in the world knows that Zhao Dian has a blue eye for Chen Zhibao, and naturally, if Zhao Dian is not dead, he will not politely refuse Chen Zhibao's "only" 10,000 people to go out of Shu to quell the rebellion like today's son Zhao Zhan.
The Zhao family has served two emperors, and some things are passed down from generation to generation, such as Zhao Zhen's treatment of Beiliang like the first emperor, always on the premise of not affecting the stability of the Central Plains, in order to maximize the consumption of Beiliang's military strength, otherwise as long as the Beiliang Xu family is still there, cutting the feudal domain will become a big joke. But some things have quietly changed, such as the attitude towards Chen Zhibao, the king of Shu, Zhao Dian is the kind of trust and appreciation that is almost paranoid, as a self-proclaimed enlightened emperor, he is extremely intoxicated with the kind of "the country has unparalleled good generals, and he is driven by me", while Zhao Zhan turned to jealousy and suspicion.
Xie Guanying, who had always been gentle in conversation when reuniting with old friends, shook his head and refused to continue pouring tea, his momentum changed suddenly, and his tone became colder, "Earlier, I deduced the battle situation of Beiliang with the King of Shu, and if I treat the prince as an ordinary official to make an evaluation, it is just a middle and lower." If it weren't for the fact that the prince didn't build a big city in the north and south of Liangzhou, then there would not even be the middle and lower. ”
Xu Fengnian smiled and didn't speak.
Xie Guanying continued: "Bei Liang's best strategy is only to rely on more than 100,000 of the world's most elite field cavalry troops to succeed in one battle!"
Xu Fengnian's face was as usual and asked, "Mr. Xie is saying that all the millions of Beimang's army will be stationed north of Hutou City in Liangzhou, and a battle of the West Fortress will be repeated?"
Xie Guan smiled and said nothing.
Xie Xie, who acted as a brocade flower, was a little surprised in his heart, but this hateful young feudal king was not stupid. Mr. Xie didn't mean to be alarmist, but had an all-night sand table deduction with him, but the basis of the deduction at that time was that he was in charge of Beiliang, not this young man surnamed Xu who presided over the overall situation. Under this premise, Beimang did not dare to divide his troops into three ways to suppress the situation on all fronts, and would only dare to finish his work in one battle, and gamble with Bei Lianghao, to be precise, with him, and Chen Zhibao, who was silent next to him, made a desperate bet. Mr. Xie played Dong Zhuo, Chen Zhibao as the defender of Beiliang, the two sides transferred troops, very similar to the original battle of the West Fortress, the two sides continued to reduce their personnel, continue to increase their troops, and compete to see who was dragged down earlier, and finally Mr. Xie tried his best, but still lost to Beiliang, who only had 30,000 cavalry and infantry troops left. In that shocking paper talk, Liuzhou, Youzhou and Lingzhou were all reduced to watching dramas. All the tragic, treacherous, and wonderful battles only took place north of Liangzhou. But this is the first hand of that deduction, not even the middle game, the next will be Bei Liang forced the vitality of the seriously injured Beimang spearhead to turn to Liangliao, Bei Liang from the Yang horse pawn to have several years of cultivation and recuperation In the same three-legged tripod, Liyang and Beimang continue to consume, and Beiliang will quickly recover to hold 150,000 pure cavalry troops after regrouping, and then Nanzhao Xishu will raise more than 150,000 foot soldiers, and once again participate in the battle for the world with a total of 300,000 troops. At that time, thank you for watching the deduction, at the end of the middle game, she thought that he would take advantage of the weakness and lead the army straight to Tai-Ancheng, and after becoming orthodox in the Central Plains in one fell swoop, he finally had a decisive battle with Beimang at the end, but he made her guess wrong, at that time he chose to go north from Liangzhou and Jizhou, and chose to first set foot in the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties and then covet the Central Plains, and finally became the Northern Liang, the Southern Dynasties, the Western Regions, After the co-ruler of the six major territories of the Western Shu Southern Zhao, he condescended, directly bypassed the already battered Gu Jiantang's two Liao defense lines, fought a decisive battle with the Liyang army in Huainan Province, and then went south to Guangling Road, ignoring Tai-Ancheng, and then fighting with the southern Xinjiang army.
Thank you and smiled happily. You Xu Fengnian can probably only think of the first move of that deduction, how can you guess the heart-wrenching in the middle and the end after that?
Then she was dumbfounded, only to hear the guy smile and ask: "According to Mr. Xie's deduction rules, wouldn't Gu Jiantang have to be the secretary of the military department for twenty years in the new dynasty?"
Yutai calmly glanced at thank you, and the Great Grandmaster of Qi Cultivators also smiled.
The King of Shu, who had always been completely out of the way, finally took a look at Xu Fengnian, which can be regarded as the king of Beiliang who had been watching coldly for many years, watching him grow up little by little.
Xie Guanying raised his hand, thank you for pouring tea immediately, he smiled and took a sip of tea.
This tea seems to taste out.
Only in this way can the two sides barely sit on an equal footing.
Before this, he Xie Guanying didn't regard Xu Fengnian as a real opponent at all.