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Hearing Tan Zhi say that he had a plan to break the enemy, Tong Guan didn't have any joy on his face, but just said lightly: "Oh? What is the plan of Tan Zhizhi to break the enemy? ”

From Tong Guan's attitude towards Tan Zhen, it is not difficult to see that Tong Guan hates Tan Zhen, no, it should be said that Tong Guan hates Tan Zhen.

This is really not to blame Tong Guan.

If it weren't for Tan Zhen, a fool, who lost Jiangnan, the Song army would have fought too much in this battle.

If you leave a bridgehead for Tong Guan in the south of the Yangtze River, let the 500,000 troops cross the river.

Tong Guan can divide the soldiers into two ways, give those ant thieves a double dragon probe pearl, and in a few months, these ant thieves in the two Zhejiang regions can be wiped out.

Good.

Jiangnan, you Tan Zhi will lose it, but Yangzhou, you Tan Zhi don't lose it.

If Yangzhou is not lost, Tong Guan can at least collect one or two thousand boats at the water transportation hub in Jiangbei, and he doesn't have to worry about grain and grass, and those gentry and nobles in Yangzhou can also help Tong Guan exterminate ant thieves.

Now, Yangzhou's ships, grain and grass, and the gentry and nobles have been served by Li Cun.

It is no exaggeration to say that Tan Zhi lost these two battles, which made the Song army fall into great passivity.

In addition, behind Tan Zhi is still Liang Shicheng and Wang Huang, who are at odds with Tong Guan, and this group of people is thinking about using Tan Zhi to replace Tong Guan every day, just like using Wang Huang to replace Cai Jing.

You say, should Tong Guan hate Tan Zhen, should he hate Tan Zhen?

Let's put it this way, that is, because Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao are protecting Tan Zhen, so that Tong Guan is not good at moving Tan Zhen, otherwise Tong Guan would have killed Tan Zhen, a pig teammate.

Tan Zhi also knew that Tong Guan hated him and hated him.

To be honest, if he could, Tan Zhi didn't want to use his hot face to stick to Tong Guan's cold ass.

But Tan Shu first lost Jiangnan and then Yangzhou, which put the Song army in an extremely unfavorable situation.

The longer this war drags on, the more trouble Tan Shu will have.

The current situation is that even Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao are a little fond of Tan Zhi and do not hesitate to pay attention to him.

Tan Zhi knows that the most reliable relationship between people is always the relationship of interests, if he can't prove that he has the value of replacing Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao will definitely abandon him, at that time, let alone Feihuang Tengda, it is difficult to say whether he can get out of the way.

So Tan Zhen must save himself.

Therefore, during this time, Tan Zhi has been discussing with several of his strategists how to break the enemy.

Finally, the emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and Tan Zhi and them thought of a plan to break the enemy.

Tan Zhi couldn't care about Tong Guan's attitude towards him now, he hurriedly said: "Since ancient times, there have been three ways to go south. On the eastern route, take the Jiangtan Plain to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and reach the south of the Yangtze River; The middle line, take Nanyang, Xiangyang, to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, you can go directly south along the river, or you can enter Jingzhou and enter the east from the Zhejiang-Jiangxi corridor to the western part of Zhejiang; The western route, go to Guanzhong, Hanzhong to Shudi, go down the Yangtze River from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, enter Jingzhou and enter the west of Zhejiang from the Zhejiang-Jiangxi corridor to the east. Since the eastern front is blocked, our army can detour to the south through the middle line, although it will take some more time to take this road, but they will always be trapped on the eastern front! ”

Then Tan Zhi took the initiative to ask: "Since this plan is made by me, I will lead my troops to detour to Nanyang, how about it?" ”

After speaking, Tan Zhi looked at Tong Guan expectantly!

What Tan Zhi never expected was that there was no surprise on Tong Guan's face, but it was all banter.

Tan Zhi suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart, and he hurriedly asked Tong Guan: "Tong Shumi, do you think this plan is inappropriate?" ”

Tong Guan shook his head: "Definitely." ”

Tan Shu frowned: "Why is that Tong Shumian laughing at me?" ”

Tong Guan put away his smile and said bluntly: "I laugh at you for being too late to realize it." ”

Tan Shu said unhappily: "What does Tong Shumi's words mean? ”

Tong Guan slowly stood up and said lightly: "Are you really going to be stranded in Nanjing for a month or two?" ”

When Tan Zhi heard this, his pupils shrank: "Could it be ......"

Tong Guan took Tan Zhen's speculation and said: "I went to Jingzhao Mansion in person a month ago, and now the army may have ......."

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Weizhou is not a commercial city, originally only 3,500 residents, but it has long become the Jingyuan Road Envoy and Shaanxi Zhulu Metropolitan Residence Location, these two yamen for it to attract a large number of military and civilians, so that it gradually became the most prosperous city in Shaanxi Five Roads.

Today, the city is lined with houses and shops, and there are several neighborhood markets that can almost compare with Tokyo's Bianliang City.

Although Weizhou was the center of the Western Army, it was already 80 years ago as a fortress city on the front line of the military.

Nevertheless, according to the old tradition of the Western Army, "I will not attack the enemy, but I will not attack it", the commanders who run the city still put the city under strict military guard.

Outside the city, there are dense deep ditches, patrols inside and outside the city are frequent, and the inventory is tight, especially near the military headquarters, the sentry posts are sanitation, and the weather is very strict.

This set of defense system was also established when the ancestors of the Planter Dao, Chong Shiheng and Chong Ge, were the commanders of the Western Army, and now after 80 or 90 years of war, they have been continuously supplemented and enriched, making this city like steel and cast iron.

Standing on the wall of this fortified city, the seed master Dao looked at the southeast direction, worried about the safety of Zhao Song!

Seed Master Dao is a veteran of the Western Army, but also a famous general, in the fight against the Western Xia battlefield, he has outstanding military achievements, prestige, known as "the old breed of the slightest justice".

- He is also the idol of the heroic flower monk Lu Zhishen in "Water Margin".

Seed Master Dao is seventy years old this year, and he is three years older than Tong Guan.

Even in later generations, this is already an old man who should have retired a long time ago, let alone in the Northern Song Dynasty when the average age was less than forty.

Ke Shidao not only did not retire, but he also firmly controlled the ancient chariot of the Western Army, which had been used for a long time.

The seed master is like this, not because he loves power, but because he has not yet found a suitable successor - he is not at ease to hand over the Western Army to Liu Yanqing, the successor chosen for him by the imperial court.

In the opinion of the planter, Liu Yanqing has a certain ability and a certain ability, but Liu Yanqing's temperament is not suitable for being the commander of the three armies - he is too indecisive.

More than a month ago, the Seed Master Dao received the imperial gold plate issued by Tong Guan, asking the Seed Master Dao to immediately mobilize 100,000 Western troops to prepare for the Jiangnan expedition.

The golden wooden card in front of the emperor can only be applied when passing the 100,000 urgent military report, and it is necessary to walk 600 miles in a day and night, so that people hold the golden red card, and every time they pass a post station, they must change a good horse, gallop over, and the momentum is like lightning.

When he received this order, the cultivator Dao was extremely resistant in his heart.

Because the Western Army has already been drained of half of the elite by Tong Guan, if another 100,000 troops are withdrawn, there will definitely be serious holes in the defense of the northwest.

Be.

After the imperial court transferred 150,000 Western troops, it transferred 100,000 Hebei forbidden troops.

However, these Hebei forbidden troops had extremely poor combat effectiveness, and their discipline was lax, so they were simply overwhelmed, and they were expected to defend the northwest frontier, and the hometown of the Western Army would be lost.

Perhaps it was precisely because he knew that the Seed Master Dao would resist this order, so Tong Guan personally rode a fast horse from Yingtianfu to Jingzhao Mansion despite the fact that he was almost seventy years old, and had an open and honest long talk with the three real leaders of the Western Army, Seed Master Dao, Seed Master Zhong and Yao Gu.

After a long talk, the seed master knew that if the Western Army did not take a risk this time, the Great Song Dynasty would be in danger, because Fang La and Li Cun in the Liangzhejiang region had already become an existence that could destroy the Great Song Dynasty and must be exterminated.

In the end, Tong Guan, Chongshidao, Chongshizhong and Yao Gu decided through deliberation to transfer another 40,000 Western Army and 60,000 Hebei Forbidden Army, led by Chongshi Dao and Chongshizhong to take the middle line and the western front respectively to exterminate the ant thieves in the Liangzhejiang region, while Yao Gu led the remaining Western Army and Hebei Forbidden Army to defend Xixia and take advantage of the emptiness in the northwest to counterattack the northwest and recapture the Hengshan area.

This time, the division was extremely cautious, because if one was not careful, it might cause a fatal hole in the defense of the northwest, and then lose the hometown of the western army.

After more than a month of careful mobilization, the two Song armies of the Eastern Expedition assembled in Weizhou at the foot of the Seed Master Road and Xingyuan Mansion at the foot of the Seed Division......

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