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The person who came was about thirty years old, thin and tall, and although his appearance was ordinary, there was a hint of imperceptible wisdom between his eyebrows.

The person who came walked to Zhang Shi and stood still, and gave Li Cunshen a salute: "Villain General Lu, meet the general." ”

"General Lu?!"

Hearing the name revealed by the visitor, Li Cun stood up barefoot directly!

In the process of Fang La's uprising, two people gave Fang La a good plan related to the success or failure of Fang La's uprising.

One of them is General Lu.

General Lu suggested to Fang La: "According to Jinling, because of the spread of the southeast counties, collect their taxes, establish the foundation first, and Xu Yi's plan to attack can be the cause of a hundred generations." ”

General Lü believed that since the Zhao and Song dynasties had lost their economic lifeline, they would inevitably have to go all out to recapture it, and suggested that Fang La seize Jinling and control the Yangtze River in order to consolidate the southeast.

But the short-sighted and self-righteous Fang La did not adopt General Lu's opinion, but took it upon himself to split his ways.

Specifically:

All the way to the north, attack Xiuzhou;

All the way to the south, attack the area south of Muzhou - this road after conquering Chuzhou, and then divide the road: east to attack Yuezhou; attack Wenzhou in the south; Attack Shinshu on Jiangnan East Road in the west.

Fang La, on the other hand, personally led the army to stay in Hangzhou.

It is equivalent to saying that Fang La separated his men and horses, and only used a partial division to fight slowly north.

Of course, Fang La also has his own reasons.

In Fang La's opinion, with the slow work efficiency of the Zhao Song Dynasty, it would be fast to send a large army after half a year, so he could first defeat all the southeast, and then calmly go north, relying on the manpower and financial resources of the entire southeast to fight with the Zhao Song Dynasty slowly.

But Fang La never expected that at that time, in the Beijing Daimyo Mansion of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, there were the elite of the 150,000 elite Song troops who were ready to go.

In a nutshell.

After the Fangla Righteous Army divided its troops, the Righteous Army attacking to the south won a series of victories, successively conquering Wuzhou, Quzhou, Chuzhou and the subordinate counties of these states.

Although the Fangla rebels seemed to have won a lot of victories, the Song armies in various prefectures and counties and the landlords' armed forces in various places resisted stubbornly, seriously slowing down the pace of the rebels.

This led to the fact that after the Fangla Righteous Army in the three states of Lianke, the forces were scattered, and at the same time, Yuezhou, Wenzhou and Xinzhou were far apart, and the attacking rebel armies could not take care of each other, and the city defenses of each state were quite strong, and the Song army in Yuezhou even had sharp artillery, so the rebel army not only could not quickly conquer these areas, but was also dragged down by the local Song army and landlord armies.

As a result, although the Fangla Righteous Army conquered 52 counties in six states and achieved a great victory, due to the dispersion of troops, the Righteous Army to the north could not move due to insufficient troops and other reasons, and could not reach the Yangtze River in time to rely on the Yangtze River to rely on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the Righteous Army to the south could not return to help, and then the Fangla Righteous Army could only watch the Song Army calmly cross the river into the Liangzhejiang region.

Judging from this result, Lu Jiang's strategic vision is very accurate.

Later, due to the lack of ideological defense and preparation for retreat, Fang La insisted on carrying out a long period of passive defense in the isolated city of Hangzhou under the pressure of many troops.

Seeing this, General Lu advocated an immediate withdrawal from Hangzhou.

But Fang La is reluctant to fight in Hangzhou.

As a result, Fang La missed the best opportunity for strategic transfer, which in turn led to Fang La's extermination.

What's even more rare is that after Fang La was wiped out by the Song army, General Lu continued to lead the righteous army to resolutely fight the Song army to the end.

This shows that General Lu is by no means the kind of person who will surrender to Zhao Song, Li Cun can use it boldly with confidence, and even let General Lu help Li Cun guard his home.

In this way, Lu will vote for Li Cun in the future, so it is no wonder that Li Cun will be so excited that he will lose his temper.

Seeing Li Cun standing up barefoot, General Lu was surprised: "The general has heard of the name of the villain?" ”

Li Cunxin said: "Of course I've heard your name, otherwise I would be like this." ”

But on the lips, Li Cun said: "No, Mr. Ran will solve the immediate difficulties for me, and it must be my son's room to help, why should I not be excited?" ”

Although General Lu knew that Li Cun first learned from Liu Bang to wash his feet to see Yingbu, and then learned from Cao Cao to greet Xu You barefoot, and compared him to Zhang Liang, the purpose was just to attract his heart, but General Lu was still very moved.

- Lu Jiang is a smart person, and he knows that if Li Cun values him very much, it will never be possible to do this, in other words, Li Cun's methods to Lu Jiang are not important, what matters is Li Cun's attitude towards Lu Jiang.

General Lu bowed to the ground: "The general's words are serious, his subordinates are just a student, no different from Brother Gu Jian." ”

Li Cun smiled and waved his hand: "Mr. Lu should be humble, I know Mr. Talent, Mr. doesn't need to say much, come on, come and discuss with me about all the matters at hand." ”

This is one of the places where General Lu takes a fancy to Li Cun, he is happy to do things, decisive in action, and never indecisive or dragging his feet.

Through simple discussion, General Lu was stunned to find that Li Cun had dumped almost all of the work at hand to him, and what Li Cun did was to give rewards to the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army, visit the craftsmen and craftsmen of the fire and gunpowder works, and visit Liang Zhen and other injured soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun is just doing some effortless face-saving projects, and all the hard work is left to General Lu to do.

Seeing this, Lu Jiang's last worry was also put down.

Actually-

General Lu has already come to the Tiger Army.

This matter has to start when General Lu was invited by Bao Kang to help Fang La's uprising.

After receiving Bao Kang's letter, General Lu immediately set off for Qingxi.

As soon as General Lu arrived in Qingxi, he was led to the Tiger Ben Army by two extremely enthusiastic old women.

With General Lu's ingenuity, of course, he soon discovered that the Tiger Ben Army was not the Fang La Righteous Army.

But General Lu was attracted by the extraordinaryness of the Tiger Army.

Therefore, General Lu did not leave the Tiger Army immediately, but kept mixing in the Tiger Army, slowly observing this army that made him extremely curious.

Soon, General Lu knew that all kinds of extraordinaryness of the Tiger Ben Army were created by Li Cun.

This made Lu Jiang start to observe Li Cun again.

As a result, the more General Lu observed Li Cun, the more he was amazed at Li Cun's power.

During that period, General Lu also went to Fang La's righteous army to see Fang La.

After comparing Li Cun and Fang La together, Lu Jiang decisively chose to vote for Li Cun.

But Li Cun is really powerful, both civil and military, as if there is no Li Cun who can't do it.

This made General Lu useless for a while.

However, Lu Jiang was not in a hurry, because Lu Jiang knew very well that no matter how good a person was, it was impossible for him to defeat the world alone, so Li Cun would use him one day sooner or later.

Before that day comes, Lu will increase his own value, his own weight, so that he can have a higher starting point in the future.

Soon, the careful General Lu found the biggest hidden danger of the Tiger Ben Army, that is, Li Cun did not have many available talents in his hands.

So, General Lu took the initiative to find Zhang Shi, and then began to help Zhang Shi do things, and with Zhang Shi's hand, he helped Li store talents.

Zhang Shi was not a stupid person, he soon realized that Lu Jiang was extraordinary, and then he wanted to recommend Lu Jiang to Li Cun.

But Lu Jiang wanted to see where Li Cun's limit was, so he stopped Zhang Shi.

In fact, General Lu didn't see Li Cun before, and because General Lu had always had a deep concern, that is, General Lu was worried that Li Cun was a person who liked to grasp everything in his own hands and refused to give power to his subordinates.

If Li Cun is really this kind of person, then let's not say that General Lu will definitely be useless, and the key is that Li Cun will definitely not be able to become a big deal in the end.

Now judging from Li Cun's performance of simply putting all the power to him, General Lu can already be sure that Li Cun has to do everything by himself because he has no talent who can help him do these things, in fact, Li Cun is not the kind of person he is worried about.

Although General Lu was already very sure of his judgment of Li Cun, General Lu couldn't help but confirm: "Dare to ask the general what he did?" ”

Li Cun smiled: "I naturally have to rest for a few days." ”

Speaking of this, Li Cunyi hugged the girls around him: "Have a good exchange of feelings with my beauties." ”

Then Li Cun put away his smile and said leisurely: "Then lead the army north to capture Zhenjiang and Jiangning Mansion." ”

Lu Jiang was completely relieved this time!

- General Lu finally fully confirmed that Li Cun knew very well what he should do as a lord.

General Lu said with a smile: "The subordinate is really lonely, and the general has to work hard." ”

Li Cun knew that Lu Jiang was reminding himself that if he didn't form real relatives with those talents, those talents would have room for rebellion, and they would not do things for themselves with peace of mind.

Li Cun didn't promise Lu Jiang anything, but he was ruthless in his heart: "For the sake of the stability of my power, I will fight ten tonight!" ”

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