If the Rus' officially declare war on the Great Zhou and send a powerful fleet to attack Shunfeng Harbor and all the major ports along our East China Sea coast, how will we deal with it?

Now I have enough trouble in the east, and I can't take a small island of Yizhou, let alone make an enemy of the Rus' with its powerful fleet of sailors.

Fortunately, there are various tribes in the northern Xinjiang as a buffer in the middle, otherwise the Rus' will attack directly from the northern continent, which will be even more difficult to deal with.

Xiao Chen thinks that the current threat to the Great Zhou is the fleet of the Rus, so either he doesn't fight, or if he wants to fight, he has to be hurt and afraid.

Destroy as many of his ships as you can in one or more battles, and it would be even better if you could deal them a devastating blow.

As for how to fight? Xiao Chen said that he still had to let Chen think.

In short, once a strategy is formulated, it must never be changed, and no matter how great the difficulties and pressures are faced, it must be resolutely implemented.

Because of the balance of all interests, this war with the Rus' is inevitable.

Then the question arises again, how to deal with the aftermath?

Xiao Chen thinks that this battle is only a partial battle, as long as we don't publicly declare war with Rus, it is actually unlikely that they will officially declare war with our Great Zhou.

There are many reasons, so I won't repeat them one by one, just talk about the aftermath.

Our strategic goal is only to regain the Tailport, not to start an all-out war with Rus, so this must be mastered.

Li Wanjiang nodded again and again when he heard this, Aiqing, it's great that you can think like this, and I mean the same thing.

The battle on the Minzhou side has basically been fought, and Xiao Xinghan, the thief of the Tianxuan Society, has returned to Yizhou Island, or because our sailors are too weak, so they can't completely exterminate them at present, but fortunately, their vitality has been greatly damaged this time, and I expect that they will never dare to send troops again in a year or two, so I can send some sailors north.

However, it is definitely unrealistic to rely on our sailors to recover Shunfeng Harbor, and the main thing is to launch an attack on land, after all, we have a relatively strong advantage in fighting on land.

By the way, Xiao Chen, how many soldiers do you have now, I don't know?

Li Wanjiang seemed to just ask casually, but Xiao Chen had to answer carefully.

"If you go back to the emperor, there are probably more than 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers at present." Xiao Chen's words shocked the emperor.

"How much?" Li Wanjiang was taken aback, as far as I know, your kid is recruiting troops in Changshan Prefecture, and there are probably more than 10,000 soldiers at present, I thought that your kid would report thousands of people to me, but unexpectedly made 30,000 people at once, you are really honest enough to be honest with you!

"Your Majesty, these soldiers can only be used to fool the tribes in Northern Xinjiang and deter the Rus' people in Shunfeng Harbor, in fact, they are just a rabble." Xiao Chen sighed and told the 'truth'.

The truth is that the subordinates were ordered to march north, and there were only seven or eight thousand soldiers in total, of which three thousand were old and weak, three thousand were recruits, and only one thousand heavy cavalry could be used to fight.

The battle with Xian Xiao was won by chance, but there were also heavy casualties, and after the battle with Yan Pingqiu outside the Yin Mountain, thousands of people were lost, and the brothers I brought out, nine out of ten were shrouded in horse leather, and they died in battle......

In order to prevent the tribes of northern Xinjiang from going south, and also to guard against the westward invasion of the Rus in Shunfeng Harbor, the minister had to recruit some soldiers, but most of them were displaced ordinary people, and the minister gathered them in order to prevent them from freezing and starving to death, and also to prevent them from wandering and causing chaos.

They couldn't fight at all, and they only maintained law and order inside and outside the city in peacetime, and the main purpose was to blask the Rus and the tribes of Northern Xinjiang.

Don't hide it from the emperor, the minister also built a naval division, and there are currently thousands of people, most of whom are fishermen, as for the war? Hehehe......

Therefore, if the emperor wants to recover Yanyun County, he must send troops over, and the minister is really powerless.

The Rus' not only have a powerful fleet of sailors in Shunfeng Harbor, but also at least 10,000 cavalry, and fight them with a rabble of ministers, that is, meat buns and dogs, and they will be eaten as much as they go!

Xiao Chen's words are seven points false, three points true, true and false are mixed together, and it sounds like the real thing, so that Li Wanjiang can't judge what the truth is?

After all, his sources are still very limited, and they may not be so accurate.

But if it is really as Xiao Chen said, it is not a bad thing, after all, what Li Wanjiang is most worried about is that this kid has self-respect for his troops, and his tail will not fall.

"I'll think about it." Li Wanjiang's words are basically equivalent to agreeing.

"Your Majesty, the minister, the general of the expedition to the north, and the title of marshal should be returned to the emperor, and the minister will be the governor of Yanyun County in the future, and the minister's soldiers will still be under the management of the minister, so I think it will be established in the name of the governor's own soldiers." Xiao Chen followed Li Shi's advice and took the initiative to hand over the military power.

Although he just proposed to have military and political power, the military power of the governor and the military power of the general are completely different things.

The Governor has only the power to form and command forces similar to civilian armed forces, and in most cases, it is temporary.

Get on the horse to manage the army, get off the horse to manage the people, that's just the way it is said.

But this also depends on what the situation is, for example, in terms of the current situation in Yanyun County, Xiao Chen must be in charge of both military and political power, whether it is a general or a governor, it is just a formal name for him.

"Uh...... Let's think about it again, after all, when you attack Shunfeng Harbor in the future, you still have to be responsible. Li Wanjiang hesitated, but did not make a decision immediately.

"Then ask the emperor to send a powerful general to help the minister, so that the minister doesn't have to worry too much about the military." Xiao Chen took the initiative to ask Li Wanjiang to send someone over.

"There's no need for this, I see that the few people under your command are still quite good at leading troops." Li Wanjiang replied very quickly this time.

Because he knew in his heart that Xiao Chen's subordinates, Li Wanjiang, would not be able to command whoever he sent to go, and he would definitely be set up in the air, so it was better to be generous and not send them at all, so as not to arouse the disgust of Xiao Chen and his subordinates.

The two chatted until late at night, and Gong Shouli came in to remind the emperor that it was time to rest, and this was the end.

Overall, the talks were good, both parties were quite satisfied, and it felt like things were going according to their plans...... But there must be one of them who feels wrong.

I don't know who it is?

After Xiao Chen returned from the palace, he immediately said that he was not sick, and there was an endless stream of people who came to visit him when he heard the news, and the emperor heard that he was sick again, so he sent seven or eight waves of doctors to treat him in a row.

Among them, there are the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital, and there are also some so-called 'miracle doctors' invited from outside the palace, in short, the emperor really has nothing to say about his Xiao Chen's 'thoughtfulness'.

However, these doctors couldn't diagnose it after they came to see it, and Lord Xiao had only one symptom, that is, fever, and as soon as he burned up, he fell into a coma, and it was impossible not to be in a coma, because his hands were hot to the touch.

It's really hot, it's as hot as the iron pipes of the heating system!