Huang Zicheng nodded: "The emperor is exactly, Cao Guogong is the emperor's cousin, and he is the son of the king of Qiyang, he must be trustworthy, and the minister believes that Cao Guogong will be able to conquer Naihui and return the majesty of my court!" ”

Jianwen said with satisfaction: "Spread my will, Jin Cao Guogong is the general of Zhaoyong, and he will set off immediately, rush to Zhending, and take over Geng Bingwen's military power!" Sweep away the Yan rebellion! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

After leaving the imperial study, Qi Tai couldn't hold back any longer, he walked up to Huang Zicheng and asked, "Lord Huang, why do you want to stop me three times and twice?" Under is the military department of Shangshu, although not military, but for the generals in the army is deeper than you, Wei Guogong is much stronger than Cao Guogong! ”

After Huang Zicheng listened, he turned his head and glanced in the direction of the imperial study, pulled Qi Tai to the side, and made sure that no one was eavesdropping around, Huang Zicheng said.

"Lord Qi, I saved your life just now, then Wei Guogong is the brother-in-law of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, if this Wei Guogong also betrays the court on the battlefield, what should I do? If King Yan adds these hundreds of thousands of troops, then we don't have to think about establishing meritorious deeds for His Majesty today, you and I will hang ourselves directly! ”

When Qi Tai heard this, he sighed and said: "I understand Cao Guogong, he is a gentleman on weekdays, and he doesn't study the art of war all day long, he only knows how to fight eagles and dogs, how can such a person fight against King Yan, who has been on the border of Beiping for many years?" What's more, as early as the Northern Expedition that year, there was already a high and low comparison between Li Jinglong and King Yan. ”

After Huang Zicheng heard this, he still said nonchalantly: "Lord Qi, it was that year, Shibei should be impressed in the third day, I am very optimistic about Cao Guogong, as for King Yan, you also said just now, the two of them have been divided into high and low back then, and Cao Guogong must be dissatisfied with King Yan!" ”

"If you think about the enmity of the year, plus the rebellion of King Yan now, these two are combined, Cao Guogong will definitely use all his energy and strength to try his best to defeat King Yan, and more importantly, because he has accompanied the army on the Northern Expedition and fought with King Yan before, so he must know more about the combat characteristics and style of King Yan than Chang Xinghou!"

"In short, Lord Qi, you and I are colleagues, even if I pit anyone, I will not pit you, just listen to me this time, next time if there is a disagreement with Lord Qi's politics, listen to Lord Qi next."

Qi Tai said with a sad face: "I didn't mean that at all, alas......"

……

When King Yan learned that the imperial court had replaced Geng Bingwen with Li Jinglong, King Yan's first reaction was to laugh wildly, and he laughed for a long time.

"I never imagined, I never imagined that the imperial court would actually send Li Jinglong to replace Geng Bingwen, this is simply ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Zhang Yu looked at His Highness from the side, laughed wildly as if he had suddenly gone crazy, and asked with some puzzlement.

"Why is Your Highness so laughing? This Cao Guogong is also the son of Li Wenzhong, the king of Qiyang, even if the son is inferior to the father, it will not be like this, right? ”

Zhu Di waved his hand.

"You don't understand! This kid grew up with me, the first time we went to war, I was forced by my father and father-in-law to be a big soldier at that time, and he was already a general banner at that time. ”

"My biggest opinion of this person is that he knows a little bit about everything, he knows a little bit about everything, he can do a little bit about arranging troops, fighting in the field, attacking cities and defending cities, but he is not good at everything!"

"If the younger generation knows a lot, then none of us is as good as him, but when it comes to refinement, then none of him can catch up, that's why I laugh, let him be the commander of the first army, he is reluctant to be a general, to be the commander, it seems that the court really doesn't know this Cao Guogong."

After hearing this, Zhang Yu smiled slightly: "If Your Highness is like this, wouldn't it be better for us?" If this Cao Guogong is really like His Royal Highness said, then what can he do even if he comes, at most, he will send money and food to us. ”

Zhang Yu didn't expect Zhu Di, who was still laughing wildly just now, to suddenly restrain his smile at this time.

"No, if Li Jinglong arrives in our situation, it will be dangerous."

Zhang Yu looked stupid, it was you who said no just now, and now it's you who says we can't do it, do you think he can't do it or we can't do it?

"Your Highness, what do you mean? The last general really doesn't understand! ”

Zhu Di let out a sigh of relief and stood up: "What this king means is that if the imperial court continues to reuse Geng Bingwen, we may be able to afford it for a little time, because Geng Bingwen can't attack, but he can't defend, maybe after a while, they will bring soldiers and horses from Liaodong." ”

"But now that Li Jinglong has been replaced, although this king feels that Li Jinglong is not a general, and all the art of war is half-understood, but he dares to fight more than Geng Bingwen, and this time the court sent him an extra 100,000 troops, and the court has lost almost forty or fifty thousand people in the past few days."

"No matter how idiotic Li Jinglong is, he still has a great advantage in beating us with nearly 600,000 troops."

If these 100,000 troops are replenished, the imperial court will have nearly 600,000 troops, even if he has captured more than 20,000 people during this time, he can fill the vacancy, and even more than 15,000 people, but the captured imperial army is basically useless.

The reason is very simple, that is, because these people are the southern army that has been neglected in battle for a long time, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are inferior to the army under their own command, and if you want to train them, you can't get out in a month.

There may be a month to practice for yourself, and even if there is, what's the use of adding this person?

Zhu Di thought about it, what he could do now was to return to Beiping City to defend, Li Jinglong knew how to rely on numerical superiority even if he was an idiot.

The only thing he can do now is to defend Beiping City and buy more time for the old twenty.

"Pass on the king's order, withdraw the army immediately, we will retreat to Beiping and wait for reinforcements!"

Zhang Yu and others received the order, and then the Beiping army began to gradually retreat and retreat to the city of Beiping.

Li Jinglong had already entered the winter when he arrived in Zhending City, and after Geng Bingwen handed over the handover of the handover seal, he returned to Beijing to wait for the fate.

Li Jinglong immediately began to accept all the affairs of the army and integrate all the information, although Li Jinglong is almost an idiot in the eyes of Zhu Di, but in the end he is still Li Wenzhong's son, and the basic operation can still be played clearly.

When he counted the grain, grass, ordnance and number of people, he felt that this battle could be won with his eyes closed, not to mention that Zhu Di immediately withdrew to Beiping after his arrival, what does this mean? It shows that Zhu Di is afraid of himself!