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After reading the secret letter sent by Zhang Chao in a hurry, Li Cunyan breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it was Tan Zhi who came, not Tong Guan." ”

Although Li Cun clearly remembered that Tong Guan only began to lead the Western Army south in the first month, if Li Cun's arrival changed history and Tong Guan led the Western Army south in advance, then all Li Cun's plans may become utopian, at least Li Cun will no longer be as calm as he is now.

Now, it is Tan Zhi who has come, not Tong Guan, and Tan Zhi has not brought the Western Army over, so what else does Li Cun have to worry about, after all, history has fully proved that Tan Zhi is a man of great ambition and talent, and there is nothing to worry about.

Actually-

Li Cun really wants to lead the army north now, saving himself from being so worried all the time.

But the problem is that there are no conditions for Li Cun to lead his army north.

First of all, there is the question of the number of troops.

At full cost, the Tiger Ben army now has more than 60,000 horses, and half of them are recruits recruited in Hangzhou.

If these recruits are not simply trained, it will be difficult to bring these recruits along the Yangtze River, let alone fight.

The key is that only these 60,000 people are not enough for Li Cun to use at present.

You must know that in history, Fang Qifo led an army of 70,000 to the north, and soon after leaving Hangzhou, he returned with a feather.

Of course, there are reasons why Fang Qifo and Fang La's righteous army can't work, but it also shows to a certain extent that if you want to go north with 30,000 or 20,000 people, it won't work at all.

Besides, Li Cun can't take all the Tiger Ben Army away.

If Li Cun really did this, Li Cun would have just left on the front foot, and someone would definitely come to steal Li Cun's house on the back foot.

In addition, the current establishment of the Tiger Ben Army is also a mess.

Moreover, as a person who aspires to overthrow Zhao Song and replace him, Li Cun is bound to not let any of his generals become stronger and bigger, so Li Cun must control the number of direct commanders of his generals.

Therefore, Li Cun is bound to reorganize the Tiger Army.

And then there's the armor.

A will not say anything, but if there is none, there will be none.

But there must be a weapon, otherwise how will this battle be fought?

And Li Cun's goal this time is to recruit 100,000 soldiers.

As far as the weapons that Li Cun had accumulated before and captured in Hangzhou City were not enough for these hundreds of thousands of Tiger Ben soldiers.

Now, Li Cun can only ask the craftsmen to hurry up to make the armor, and at the same time send people to fight the county towns and landlords in Hangzhou, and then transport all the captured armor to Hangzhou for unified distribution......

After reading the secret letter, Li Cun did not discuss with Zhang Chao about Tan Zhen's southward journey, but asked Zhang Chao: "How are Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er prepared, as soon as my army arrives, can they immediately open the gates of Suzhou City and Huzhou City for my Tiger Army?" ”

During this time, Li Cun did not patronize the development, and he also began to send people to contact the heroes who led the crowd.

Like Lu Shinang in Taizhou, Qiu Rixin in Yuezhou, Huo Chengfu, Chen Hoop and Hong Zai in Chuzhou, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang and Chen Miaozhen in Wuzhou, and even Li Cun, the Zheng Demon King in Quzhou, sent people to contact him.

Of course, Li Cun did not forget to send someone to remind Fang La to go to the Jingxiang area as soon as possible, especially to quickly occupy Xiangyang and block the road of the Song army to take the middle road down the Yangtze River.

However, none of the above people are the focus of Li Cun's current strategy, Li Cun's current strategy focuses on Suzhou Shisheng and Huzhou Lu Xing'er.

Suzhou and Huzhou are the two important checkpoints for Li Cun to go north this time, and these two states are also the barriers between Zhenjiang and Jiangning Mansion, if Li Cun can easily take it, then it will be easy for Li Cun to go north.

It's okay -

As soon as Li Cun sent someone to contact him, Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er, who were lonely, immediately expressed their willingness to help Li Cun conquer Suzhou City and Huzhou City.

Of course, this is also because Li Cun did not treat Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er badly.

- Li Cun directly asked Su Sheng and Lu Xing'er to send 10,000 taels of garlic to each of them, and let the two of them use it as activity funds, and then promised that as long as Su Sheng and Lu Xing'er could help him lay down Suzhou City and Huzhou City, he would let the two of them each lead a military horse and become a senior general of the Tiger Ben Army, and each of them would be rewarded.

Zhang Chao replied: "Both of them said that they are ready, just wait for my Tiger Ben army to kill, and immediately open the gates of these two cities for my Tiger Ben army and lead the army into the city." ”

Li Cun still believes in Su Sheng and Lu Xing'er's words, because in history, the two of them have risen up in Suzhou and Huzhou, and have made a lot of noise, and now Li Cun has paid a lot of money to help them, the key is that they can also play Li Cun's banner, in this case, Suzhou and Huzhou should have no problem.

Li Cun asked again: "Is there really no hero in Xiuzhou who can earn the city gate for my Tiger Ben Army?" ”

Regarding the road to the north, there is only one problem in front of Li Cun at present.

This problem is Xiuzhou, which is next to Hangzhou.

Historically, Fang La sent Fang Qifo to the Northern Expedition, and Fang Qifo divided the army of the Northern Expedition into two, and sent a 10,000-strong army to Huzhou, preparing to fight Jiangning Mansion, and then personally led an army of 60,000 to fight Xiuzhou.

But here in Xiuzhou, Fang Qifo suffered a big defeat.

——Fang Qifo led an army of 60,000 to fight Xiuzhou for more than half a month, but they were repeatedly defeated, which gave the Zhao Song Dynasty enough time to enable the reinforcements of the Zhao Song Dynasty to cross the Yangtze River and enter the Liangzhejiang region, so that there was a turning point in the war.

Moreover, there is also a person in Xiuzhou that Li Cundu is extremely afraid of.

This person is - Chen Yu, a famous anti-gold general in the Northern Song Dynasty.

When it comes to the famous generals of the Two Song Dynasty, the first thing that comes to people's minds must be Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, and Liu Qi, who are famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty.

But in fact, there were also famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty.

And Chen Yu is one of them.

What's even more rare is that Chen Yu is still a real civil and military master.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Chen Yu is also unlucky, otherwise, his achievements will definitely not be under Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, and Liu Qi.

Chen Yu is a well-educated person who has ascended to the rank of scholar, and no matter where he is an official or what work he does, his political achievements are extremely prominent.

In history, Chen Yu also created the "economic system money", in Huai, Zhejiang, Jiang, Hu, Fujian and other seven roads, increased the sales of wine, dregs, commercial tax, tooth tax, deed tax, head money, building shop money, each increase of 20 wen to fill the economic system, for the Song army to exterminate the Fangla uprising to raise enough military funds.

In addition, Hangzhou's water conservancy was also repaired by Chen Yu.

The most important thing is that there were five singing and weeping battles during the Two Song Dynasty, two of which were fought by Chen Yu.

Everyone knows Zong Ze.

But few people know that Zong Ze was only the deputy marshal, and Chen Yu was the marshal.

It's just that at that time, Chen Yu was trapped in Zhongshan Mansion to fight the defense of Zhongshan, and later the Jin State besieged Zhongshan with heavy troops, Chen Yu held the wall for half a year, and finally was unfortunately killed by the rebel Sha Zhen, and the whole family of 17 people was killed together, which gave Zong Ze the opportunity to control the soldiers and horses of the world.

After the Jin soldiers entered the city, they saw Chen Yu's corpse standing solemnly, and praised him: "the loyal minister of the Southern Dynasty", and buried him in the Iron Pillar Temple.

It can be said that Chen Yu is the kind of talent that Li Cun wants most.

Extremely loyal.

Extremely capable.

Extremely unwavering.

It's a pity that Chen Yu is not only not Li Cun's subordinate, but also Li Cun's enemy - an enemy that Li Cun may not be able to recruit if he tries his way.

Xiuzhou, where Chen Yu is here, even Li Cun, does not have the confidence to defeat Xiuzhou in a short period of time without sufficient gunpowder weapons.

Unless, there can be a hero in Xiuzhou who can open the gate of Xiuzhou for Li Cun, or a rebel general like Sha Zhen by Chen Yu's side.

Based on this, Li Cun asked Zhang Chao to plan this matter early.

Who would have thought, but Zhang Chao directly poured a basin of cold water on Li Cun: "I am about to report to the general, Xiuzhou has implemented a strong wall and cleared the wilderness, and the whole city is under martial law." ”

After a pause, Zhang Chao took the initiative to say again: "The people sent to Xiuzhou by his subordinates have not delivered news to the outside for two days. ”

Li Cun understood that Zhang Chao was reminding himself that the people he sent might have been arrested by Chen Yu and them, and the news from Xiuzhou was no longer reliable.

Li Cun listened to it and sighed leisurely: "It seems that it can only be to send a large army to lock Xiuzhou City, but ...... Who can be sent to see Chen Yu? ”

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