"After His Royal Highness withdrew from Jinan, he drove to Yucheng, and after passing through the city, the Yucheng garrison also retreated with His Highness."

Gu Huai stopped his pen and thought thoughtfully: "Didn't leave any of them?" ”

Wei Laosan nodded.

It seems that the situation in the north is even more serious than I thought... Ping'an and Guo Ying really gave Zhu Di a lot of trouble, and they didn't even dare to stay in Jinan.

However, although Jinan has been almost fought, but it can't break through Jinan City, it really makes no sense to send troops and horses, the actual control range of the Yan army is at most to Dezhou, and even the three prefectures of Hejian are only attached to it rather than a real knife and a real gun, to forcibly occupy Jinan, it is inevitable that it is too risky, and now Guo Ying'an has relieved his breath and began to attack the rear, no wonder Zhu Di retreated in a hurry.

"What about the movements of the defenders of Jinan? Did they pursue? ”

Wei Laosan shook his head and said: "No, where do they dare, those remnants of the defeated army waited for His Highness to go away, and then went out of the city and followed behind to receive the city all the way, and said that it was to recover the mile." ”

Gu Huai smiled, and it could be seen that Wei Laosan was quite disdainful of Sheng Yong Tiexuan's actions, but his mouth was on others, how could he say that it was their business, let alone "recovering lost ground" after Yan Jun's ass, maybe they would also say that Yan Jun besieged the city for three months, how anxious, difficult, and demoralizing it was.

After all, it's just a paper-like article, no matter how nice it sounds, in the end, it will only count if you have a real fight.

And Texas is not lost, Shandong territory will sooner or later start the war again, here is Zhu Di's southward journey through the road, now the retreat, is just due to the rear fire and grain and grass pressure, wait until the rectification is completed, Jinan... After all, we still have to fight.

In this way, the war should be temporarily over, the imperial army was scattered, and the defeated generals of Ping An Guo Ying with a group of remnants could only make a small fuss, and the current imperial court was no longer able to launch such a big offensive, and the Yan army also needed to rest, and needed to digest the area occupied by Baigou River after the first battle, after the siege of Jinan, the Yan army was unable to go south in a short time.

As soon as he thought of this, the letter in his hand was almost written, Gu Huai put down his pen: "Two letters, hand them over to the spies below to send them out, this one will be handed over to the prince, the news that I am alive, the prince does not know now, I must send a message to the past." ”

Wei Laosan scratched his head: "Adults don't want to go back to the north?" ”

"There will be a fight here sooner or later, it is necessary to set up some eyes and ears, if there are spies from the secret spy department in Jinan City, it will not be like this this time," Gu Huai leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes in contemplation, "Mangzhong is now in Dezhou, Qingming is in Jinling, Beiping is watching Liqiu, Jinan is not looking for someone to watch, I am still a little worried..."

He shook his head and stood up, ready to carefully consider the future arrangements of the Shandong territory, Wei Laosan looked at the other letter in his hand, and hurriedly asked: "My lord, where is this letter delivered?" ”

"After the prince retired from the army, Jinan did not open the city gate for several days, and finally opened it, but there was no news from the court, which is very strange."

Gu Huai stopped and stood with his hands in his hands: "You must know that it has been three months... The defeat in the first battle of Baigou River, the siege of Jinan for so many days, even if the military post is delayed, the will of the imperial court should be on the way, how can it be that there are no imperial reinforcements, and I haven't heard the news of someone's bad luck? ”

"So there's only one possibility..."

He smiled: "Give this letter to Li Jinglong, who didn't dare to return to Jinling." ”

"Huh?"

……

In the backyard of the house, Xu Miaojin has changed her clothes, and she is finally no longer the appearance of the young man in Tsing Yi, although the three-month siege has made her a little malnourished and thin, but her big eyes and pointed chin look more and more like a porcelain doll, but her small mouth is a little high, and she holds her chin with both hands and looks at the flowers blooming in the yard viciously.

It's sulking.

Also, in Jinan City, Gu Huai was around her all the time, his eyes were full of her appearance, and he quickly came up to ask if she was uncomfortable when she frowned slightly, and she would feed her porridge and coax her to sleep... Where is it like now? As soon as the meal was finished, he started to get busy, and he didn't even look at her.

People will always feel very deeply about the difference, especially women, Tsundere Lori feels unbalanced at the moment, and she only feels that Gu Huai has become the busy person again, and she doesn't care about her at all.

A figure walked up to her, looked at her, looked at the flowers, and said with a smile: "Why is it vicious, still hungry?" Flowers are not edible. ”

Tsundere Lori snorted softly and turned her head away from him.

Gu Huai didn't mind, and sat down at the stone table, but it was far away, and the little girl became more and more dissatisfied, and wrinkled her nose: "You're busy with you, what do you care about me?" ”

"Why are you so angry?" Gu Huai was stunned, "I finally came out alive..."

As soon as he said this, the little girl also felt that she was a little excessive, thinking about the suffering in the city, she felt like a year just staying in the Taoist temple, not to mention the care of going to the city wall to defend the city? Tsundere Lori's attitude softened: "You... Aren't you tired? ”

I was going to give Gu Huai a little care from the heart, and let him have a good rest by the way, but who knew that after Gu Huai was stunned, he touched her head: "Remember to call uncle..."

"Don't! You're necrotic! People are not children! Tsundere Lori covered her messed hair and was angry, "Ignore you!" ”

Seeing her such a big reaction, Gu Huai withdrew his hand, he just saw that the atmosphere was so heavy just now, and he just wanted to make a joke... But it seems that Tsundere Lori doesn't seem to like this kind of joke very much.

Speaking of which, Gu Huai looked Xu Miaojin up and down, she was wearing a young Tsing Yi in the city before, and she couldn't quite see it, but now she has changed back to women's clothes, although it is a cloth dress and hairpin skirt, but she is indeed a big girl, and it is really not appropriate to see her as a little girl.

It is said that the eighteenth change of the female university, but I haven't seen her for a while, and she has grown up...

Thinking of his actions just now, Gu Huai couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, Xu Miaojin was the county lord after all, and he could still say that he wanted to take care of her in Jinan City before, so he was in a hurry, but now that he is out of the city, he really has to pay attention to the distance between each other.

He coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Qingming has passed, or... I'll send someone to take you back to Beiping? ”

At the mention of this, Xu Miaojin's expression also darkened, she quietly left Beiping this time to sweep the tomb of the third brother, who knew that she had been trapped in Jinan for so many months, calculate the time, the third brother had been gone for a year.

Occasionally, I dream back at midnight, and I can still dream of the scene where the third brother took himself to catch it by Mochou Lake when he was a child, but when he woke up, he was already separated from each other, this kind of thing...

She whispered, "I still want to go back to Jinling." ”

"Are you going back to the Zhongshan Palace?"

As soon as he asked, Gu Huai regretted it, and couldn't wait to give himself a mouthful, how did Xu Zengshou die, others may not know, but he and Zhu Di knew the reason, when he returned to Beiping with the news of Xu Zengshou's death, he didn't dare to explain it to Xu Miaojin at first, and it wasn't until a while later that he told her the truth. The eldest brother who forced the third brother to death with his own hands?

Looking at Xu Miaojin's demeanor, she is not ready to go back to that home, it has been a year, why do you have to go to the grave to worship, but if Xu Miaojin does not return to Zhongshan Palace, where can she stay in that place in Jinling?

If Xu Miaojin wants to return to Beiping after worshipping, what should I do if I encounter this kind of thing in Jinan again? Anything can happen in troubled times, and Gu Huai really doesn't want her to take this risk anymore.

He thought for a moment and sighed, "I see... I'll go south with you. ”

Xu Miaojin raised her little face and looked at him blankly.

"Don't look at me like that, in fact, I originally planned to go to Jinling, but I haven't decided how long I want to stay," Gu Huai said while thinking, "There will be no war for a while, after the battle of Baigou River, the imperial court will inevitably be turbulent, and many things can be done at this time, its realization has been a little late in the past, and the best time should be before the siege of Jinan." ”

He looked to the south, "It's just that we might have to take a long detour... Some people need to see each other first. ”

……

Re-entering the territory of Texas, the shadow of Jinan's siege failure gradually dissipated, Zhu Di glanced back at his army, and the spirit returned to him.

A momentary defeat... After all, it can't affect the overall situation, the court is afraid that it has been stunned by itself, and it has not been able to react for such a long time. Guo Ying'an, who advanced by land and water, heard the news of his division, so he did not dare to continue to attack Dezhou, but withdrew his troops out of the territory of Dezhou overnight, and it seems that they did not expect that they would give up Jinan so decisively.

It seems that I still think too highly of them.

It's still a little unwilling to say... can't beat Jinan, after all, it is still confined to the north, what if the three provinces of Hejian are attached? The first time Zhu Di saw that Zhong Hongwen, he knew that this person was the kind of official who was used to seeing the direction of the wind in the officialdom, and if the court was powerful, he would definitely throw himself back into the arms of the court without hesitation.

There is not much he can give him, it seems that he doesn't want it, why is he unwilling to leave the three mansions of Hejian one step, is such a person stupid or smart?

Now that it has entered autumn, the harvest of autumn grain and the arrival of winter mean that the Yan army will have plenty of time and logistics to suppress the entire rear, and then not only Datong, Xuanfu Liaodong will no longer become a shackle to his south, and when he arrives in the spring of next year, he will take the army to the south and fight a decisive battle for the country with the nephew on the dragon chair!

Of course, in addition to these, there is even better news ... Zhu Di took out the spy report just sent by the secret spy department from his arms, and the familiar handwriting made him finally let go of the heart he had been carrying for the past few months.

It's just that even after reading it once and seeing the words after reporting peace again, Zhu Di couldn't help frowning, Gu Huai's thought... It's a stroke of genius, but isn't it too risky?

Once successful, it will indeed be enough to withstand an army of 100,000, but if it fails, that place in Jinling... But you can't spit out bones.

But there is one thing he said that is indeed right, to this day, what method cannot be used and dare not be used?

It's just that in this way, I'm afraid I won't be able to see him for a while.

Zhu Di glanced deeply at the south and gently flicked the horse's head:

"Drive!"