Sun Ning, who was still in the south of the Yangtze River, didn't know that such a scene was happening in Huazhou City, west of Tongguan, and he didn't know that his biggest powerful enemy was lurking there.

He only knew that although the decisive battle with Qin Yude's troops was not fully successful, it was still a big victory for the imperial court. And with this great victory in annihilating the main force of the enemy army, the overall strategy of the imperial court should indeed be changed.

Although the various arrangements along the south coast have not been completely stopped, and the shipyard is still under construction anyway, the dispatch of soldiers and horses, the focus of the imperial court's attention has quickly shifted back to the north.

The Huainan soldiers, who were supposed to go to the south, were quickly stopped and turned to the north. At the same time, there are also soldiers and horses from Huguang and other places, who will quickly gather after arriving in Liangzhou, and then point directly at Kaifeng.

For the imperial court at this time, the twenty or so cities on the first line of Kaifeng are now a piece of ownerless fat, how can they be easily let go?

As for the possible response of the Luoyang Zhao Guang School not far away, it can be completely ignored.

Because after the great destruction of Qin Yude's troops under the city of Liangzhou, except for a part of the soldiers and horses to pursue and surround its defeated army in Xicheng, the other soldiers and horses in Liangzhou have already taken advantage of the situation, and after recovering the previous lost territory along the way, they once again Chen soldiers arrived in the two cities of Yi and Xing, and put on an attack posture against Xingyang.

Although this army is inferior to Luoyang in terms of strength, they are moving forward with a great victory, and they are stable in morale to suppress the Luoyang soldiers who will regret it.

If this Pingtian army really came out of the front line of Xingyang Tiger Prison under the leadership of Colonel Zhao Guang and others, the Vietnamese army would not care about a head-on decisive battle with them.

Then, just like defeating Qin Yude's troops before, they were also defeated in a battle, so as to recapture Xingyang Chenggao and other important cities in the Central Plains, and even directly enter Luoyang and return to the old capital.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the situation of the Vietnamese army, so at this time, there is still no movement on the Luoyang side, and I can't see the slightest intention to take advantage of the emptiness of Kaifeng and seize this strategic place in Gyeonggi and the Central Plains commercial and trade city in the hands before the Vietnamese army.

So, time passed little by little in the continuous deployment of troops and generals of the Vietnamese army, and in the action of increasing troops to the north, and during this period, perhaps because of the feeling that the general trend had gone, in order to protect itself, many cities under the rule of Kaifeng surrendered one after another, and re-invested in the arms of the Dayue court.

And all this news was also sent to Luoyang City through various channels without leakage, and fell to Zhao Guangxiao's desk.

As a result, his whole person was surrounded by regret and powerlessness, which was really painful.

Zhao Guangxiao really regretted it, how could he be blinded by lard, and he had not had a correct judgment of the situation for half a year?

Why did he refuse to believe Qin Yude's sincerity, so he ignored his adventurous march, and watched him enter the territory of Liangzhou alone, and then the plan was defeated, and finally even Kaifeng was about to be unable to hold on.

Obviously, during this time, he has the opportunity to take the initiative to turn the whole tide of the battle.

As a result, because of his suspicion of people, or cowardice, he actually missed everything until everything was irretrievable.

"Say, am I the most incompetent of lords, a real sinner?" Zhao Guangxiao looked at the eldest son in front of him, and said with chagrin and self-blame.

Previously, the latter sent him a new front-line battle report, which was the information that the Vietnamese army was very likely to officially send troops to Kaifeng before the end of the year. This means that the horns and mutual assistance originally formed by the two divisions of the Pingtian Army will completely collapse.

And once Kaifeng is lost, the next Luoyang side, will naturally usher in the full attack of the Vietnamese army, by that time, with the morale of the current Luoyang army, can it still be defended?

Zhao Guangxiao, who understood this, naturally regretted it even more, and after sitting in a daze for a long time, he asked such a sentence.

Zhao Qianhui was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly said, "Father doesn't have to blame himself so much, all this is actually not your fault, it is a judgment and decision made by us together.

"If you want to blame, you can only blame the southern court for being too insidious, and Qin Yude for being too reckless......

"At that time, everyone would have doubted him

The real intention of such a risk, if he could slow down and accept it when he saw it, maybe it would not be such a result. And ......"

"You don't have to excuse me, a mistake is a mistake, this time I did fail him, I failed the robe of my Pingtian Army, I am the biggest sinner in the loss of the Central Plains this time."

"Father......" Zhao Qianhui wanted to say something to comfort the other party again, but he couldn't come up with a better explanation for a while. Because he is only a military general after all, and he does not have the pleasing eloquence of his two younger brothers.

The only thing he could say was, "Father, even so, there is something we can do to make amends. It's not too late to make amends!"

"Make it up? How can I make up for it?" Zhao Guangxiao calmed down a little and asked.

"Help them and defend Kaifeng City." Zhao Qianhui said with a fierce expression.

"Do you send troops to stop their advance? Hasn't this been discussed before, so doing so will only add to the mistakes and make us suffer more losses?"

"That was the case then, but then it was different."

"How?" Colonel Zhao Guang's spirit was slightly lifted, he was also an experienced general, and he still had ideas about the use of soldiers.

"The weather that follows is not conducive to attacking battles, especially storming cities." Zhao Qianhui said in a low voice, "But if the Vietnamese army wants to break through Kaifeng in such a climate, then its investment will inevitably be not small, and the logistical problems will naturally be greater, which will also give us an opportunity."

Zhao Guangxiao thought about it carefully, and really felt that this was the truth.

If the own army on the flank can pinch the opponent's logistics line, it can really inflict heavy damage on them.

But then, he thought of the facts before him: "Can our army really hide from the enemy in front of him? It is impossible for them to go from the road near the line of Xingyang, and it may even be from the Caohe waterway......

"Half of the waterway is already frozen, it can't be." Zhao Qianhui immediately denied, "They will indeed set up a grain route away from us. However, we are not completely without the opportunity to hide from the world.

"Because judging from the recent weather, a heavy snowfall is inevitable, and in such bad weather, the garrison of the two cities of Yixing must be relaxed. Coupled with the shrinking posture we have been showing before, it will catch them off guard."

After some explanation, it really made sense, which lifted Zhao Guangxiao's spirit again: "Maybe it's okay! Then let's take a gamble this time, just to make up for our previous mistakes and make amends!"