Inside the city of Huazhou.

After Chang Bokai received the battle report, he went to the prince's palace to report the situation as soon as possible.

"Your Royal Highness, there is a fight. Di Jie sent 50,000 troops and had already taken five cities in Yuezhou. At present, an attack has been launched on Yuezhou City." Chang Bokai said.

"How long can you keep the situation in Yuezhou?" Prince Shen asked.

"It is not known yet, these rebels in Yuezhou, after domestication, should have a certain combat effectiveness. However, once this person fights, he may be a little crazy. It is very likely that he will bow Yuezhou in a short period of time, and it is also possible that he will not be able to win Yuezhou in two or three months." Chang Bokai said.

"Chang Zhifu, your level of speech is getting higher and higher, and it is simply not leaky. You seem to have said something, but you don't seem to have said anything." Prince Shen smiled faintly.

"That's right, Xia Guan thinks that His Royal Highness the Prince can send troops to Yuezhou. At this time, if you take a part of the Yangzhou army and relieve the siege of Yuezhou City, you may even take Yuezhou City." Chang Bokai said.

"What else?" Prince Shen asked.

When he saw Chang Bokai looking like he hadn't finished speaking, he knew that he still had something to say.

"Also, when you send troops to Yuezhou, send another army to raid Yangzhou City! If you can take Yangzhou City in one fell swoop, then it's ......," Chang Bokai said, hehe laughed.

Chang Bokai is already imaginative, thinking about things and doing things, and he is very bold.

He dared to kill the heads of the innocent villagers in the boundary of Huazhou, and went to the court to ask for merit as a rogue; also dared to launch a massacre of the city in order to get a few firearms.

Now that he can come up with a plan to raid Yangzhou, Prince Shen doesn't think it's strange at all.

"If we really act according to your strategy, we may really be able to eat Yangzhou and Yuezhou. However, if this Jiangling Han Yu saw that this king sent troops over, what would he do? Sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger fight? Unlikely. If the surprise attack succeeds, it is good, if the surprise attack fails, we will lose a lot of capital in Yangzhou.

Chang Zhifu, Huazhou is not as rich as the two places and three states in the south of the Yangtze River. We did our best, and we only saved up such a small amount of money. So from now on, you can take away your wild thoughts."

Prince Shen said.

Prince Shen also knows the truth of starving the cowardly to death.

There are many people in this world, and it is because of the blessing of luck that they can succeed in the end.

However, Prince Shen's family background is not small, he is not barefoot, and he does not want to bet his fate on luck.

He has recently been studying the war in Qingzhou back then.

His goal is not in Jiangnan for the time being.

He had a plan, and it was a more fanciful but more secure plan than Chang Bokai.

"Chestnut from the fire...... It is indeed dangerous enough. But by eating Jiangnan, we can have the capital to dominate the world. Right now, Su Xuan is about to unify the north." Chang Bokai said.

Do something or don't do it, or you have to do something big.

Chang Bokai has always been such a person.

"Then listen to the plan of this king, now that the war in Jiangnan has started, we still don't know the situation in the east of Moon Lake. Once someone unifies Jiangnan, the boundary of our Huazhou can be said to be under the nest. They can send troops to Huazhou at any time, and it is difficult for Huazhou to use troops. It's hard to attack, but it's hard to defend.

Now we must first leave a back road for ourselves, and we must have a back road that can be attacked and retreated. For example, we are now out of cavalry and occupy Shudi! Then send another cavalry from Shu Road and enter Qingzhou.

At the same time, he used troops against the southwest and the two places to capture Yunzhou and Baizhou. In this way, Huazhou, Shuzhou, Qingzhou, Yunzhou and Baizhou will all become our territory."

Prince Shen said.

After listening to Prince Shen's words, Chang Bokai felt that his thoughts were suddenly opened.

It turns out that Prince Shen has been plotting against Shu and the southwest.

"Lord Wang, Shu Dao is difficult to attack, although Shen Qi is not in Qingzhou now. But he will definitely leave his henchmen and generals to guard Shu Dao. If we want to take Qingzhou, I'm afraid it's a little difficult." Chang Bokai said.

Prince Shen naturally thought of this.

But he does want to expand his territory now.

Even if you can't eat Qingzhou, it's just one less state.

The southwest is a place with relatively high terrain. In the past, Emperor Jingyang controlled the world, and he should be able to actually control the land of these two states.

But now in the past few years, Yunzhou and Baizhou are equivalent to two wastelands.

In addition, the Southwest Straight Rebellion before, many people died.

Now whoever can send troops to the southwest will be able to occupy the land of these two states.

It can even be said that Southwest Zhi has always been in Prince Shen's pocket, and he has it at his fingertips.

"If there is really someone guarding Shu Dao, then it is up to you to rebel against him. If it doesn't work, we'll have half of the country." Prince Shen said.

"What the prince said is very true." Chang Bo nodded.

"Chuan Ben King's order, reorganize the troops and horses, and seize Shuzhou and the southwest Zhi." Prince Shen said.

"Yes, Lord Wang, the lower official has another suggestion. Is it possible to send troops to Tongzhou? If Tongzhou can be taken, it will be equivalent to cutting off Shen Qi's retreat route. In this way, I have a way to seize Qingzhou. When the time comes, we will not only have more Qingzhou, but also more Tongzhou." Chang Bokai said.

"If you want to attack the state, you need to raise the army......

Prince Shen wants to take the land of Shu and the two states of Southwest Zhizhi, which is just a simple matter of sending troops in the past.

But to take Tongzhou, it may be an uphill battle.

The Tongzhou guard general is named Yu Hui, who is the deputy general of the Shen family army and one of Shen Qi's henchmen.

He guarded Tongzhou and ensured logistics for Shen Qi.

And he is only loyal to Shen Qi, he is Shen Qi's righteous son. If you want to take Tongzhou, you can only attack.

Prince Shen and Chang Bokai had already analyzed it before, and it was impossible for this person to rebel.

However, Prince Shen still made a decision.

"Let's take the three places first, if you can't enter Qingzhou from Shu Dao, then attack Tongzhou and cut off Shen Qi's back road." Prince Shen said.

"Yes."

Huazhou sent 50,000 troops, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, and only 10,000 troops were sent all the way to enter Shuzhou from the Canglan River waterway; On the other hand, 40,000 troops were sent to advance to the southwest.

And that's not all Prince Shin is doing.

In addition, he dispatched 50,000 troops, hoarded on the border between Huazhou and Tongzhou, ready to attack Tongzhou at any time.

The world is full of war, and the people are struggling to make a living.

After Prince Shen launched the war, Huazhou and Southwest Zhizhi did not know how many ordinary people died under the horse's hooves.

The Huazhou army was brutal and unkind, and everywhere they went, there was no grass.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people left from the southwest and entered the Yongzhou territory.

Then Yongzhou, which was relatively peaceful, was also in chaos.

The Yongzhou government yamen quickly dispatched troops to block a large number of displaced people who had rushed from the southwest out of the country and prevented them from entering the country.

Those homeless people slowly turned into rogues and clashed with the Yongzhou army.

But the homeless people can basically be said to be unarmed, and they use sticks, rocks, or other things as weapons.

How can such a force be an opponent of a heavily armed army?

Under several rounds of bloody suppression, hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the southwest did not know how many of them died tragically under the suppression of the Yongzhou army.

The Yongzhou army went to the southwestern border to suppress the displaced people, and they needed military salaries. The military salary is not enough, and it is snatched out of the mouths of the common people.

But which of the common people is not poor and white?

Within the boundaries of Yongzhou, in a short period of five days, more than a dozen peasant uprisings, large and small, were launched.

If there is an uprising, there will be suppression, and if there is suppression, it will be necessary to increase the troops, and if there is an increase in troops, it will be necessary to pay the army, and if it is necessary to pay the army, it will be necessary to squeeze the common people.

As soon as the common people, who had nothing to squeeze, were squeezed, they gathered to rebel.

A closed loop has been formed between repression and resistance.

This vicious circle is intensifying.

So that no one in the world thought about it

The thing that happened was that the first place in the world that there was no way to solve the chaos was not the four northern states, not Yuezhou after the slaughter, not Huazhou that was brutally ruled, not the southwest straight that was crushed all the way by the brutal Huazhou army.

The first place to be completely undisturbed will be Yongzhou, which has always had the least sense of existence.

The situation in Yongzhou was extremely dangerous, and the government no longer had the slightest ability to suppress the peasant uprising.

Even within the army formed by the government, mutinies occurred from time to time because of the grabbing of resources.

However, Yongzhou was in chaos, and Su Xuanxiu's opportunity finally came.