Judging from the battle report, Ye Mingsheng felt that Yuan Song had basically achieved the best of his abilities, but his opponent was Xu Zhaojie, who had almost no defeats in his life...

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If Guo Zhiping or Lin Huaiwu were in charge of this battle, Ye Mingsheng did not underestimate his subordinates, but he did believe that the casualties of the Fengwu Army would be greater, and it was impossible to withdraw with only 3,000 casualties.

, the only thing Ye Mingsheng is worried about now is whether Yuan Song's injury is serious or not.

The battle report just mentioned that Yuan Song was injured, but did not say where Yuan Song was injured. This is also a situation that Ye Mingsheng needs to consider. If Yuan Song is seriously injured and cannot continue fighting, should he let Ma Zhongjun take over the command, or should he let Ma Zhongjun take over the command?

Who should be sent to take over command?

In addition, the reform progress in Hebei and Henan is at a critical stage. Xu Zhaojie must not be allowed to wreak havoc. Xu Zhaojie's behavior must be stopped!

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng seemed to have thought of something, and his expression also felt a little comforted!

In the battle report just now, in addition to mentioning Yuan Song's defeat, the situation of Qilu was also mentioned.

When the Seventh Division, sent by Ye Mingsheng to attack Licheng, reached the gates of Licheng City, the Qi army responsible for defending the city originally wanted to resist, but after the Seventh Division's dozens of heavy artillery bombardments, they resisted.

The attitude immediately softened, and then with the bribery and wooing from the Coordination Office, the Qi army defending the city finally chose to cooperate.

Yin Biao, who originally conspired with Xu Zhaojie, was forced to kill Xu Zhaojie's envoy to show his allegiance to Ye Mingsheng after his hometown of Licheng was captured by the Fengwu Army...

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This is a blessing in misfortune. If Yin Biao now knows that Yuan Song suffered a defeat at the hands of Xu Zhaojie, this will undoubtedly strengthen Yin Biao's attitude of resistance and make the situation on the Qilu, Hebei and Henan front lines even worse. Now control

To reach Licheng is to hold Yin Biao's seven inches.

Although Yin Biao may still have illusions, he can't overturn the situation now. He can give him a taste of sweetness first and help him destroy Han Wenbao, and then mobilize Qilu's troops to threaten Anqing from the flanks, so as to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao.

Forcing Xu Zhaojie to give up attacking Jiyu.

Xu Zhaojie's ability in tactical command is indeed great. Even Yuan Song on his side is not his opponent, and He Jingyun is fighting fiercely with the Imperial Army in Yunbin. So now the only strategy that can defeat Xu Zhaojie is to mobilize superior troops to consume Xu Zhaojie bit by bit.

No matter how strong Xu Zhaojie is, his troops in Anqing are only 50,000 at most. After subtracting the troops guarding Anqing, the offensive troops he can mobilize are only more than 30,000 at most!

If the first division of more than 20,000 people cannot defeat him, then two divisions will be needed. If two divisions are not enough, then three divisions will be used. If three divisions are not enough, then five divisions will be needed!

In short, since Xu Zhaojie dared to come this time, Ye Mingsheng was going to beat him up! The beating made him frightened!

The past two months have been the most intense phase of the Luo'an Imperial Army's offensive on the Yunbin battlefield. Now I have to avoid its sharp edge and hit Xu Zhaojie so painfully that Xu Zhaojie dare not go north. Only in this way can I safely lead my troops to rescue Yunbin.

Counterattack!

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Jinyang, in a heavily guarded mansion.

Shangguan Hongyuan, who is tall and imposing, is grading something, while Huang Da, the left minister of the Ministry of War in the hall, is waiting quietly, not daring to make any noise for fear of disturbing Shangguan Hongyuan.

After a cup of tea, Shangguan Hongyuan completed his corrections, and then handed the memorial to the attendant. The attendant who received the memorial bowed to Shangguan Hongyuan and then left quietly. After the attendant left Shangguan Hongyuan, he handed the memorial to the attendant.

His eyes shifted to Chen Jingyu, who had been waiting for a long time, and he said lightly:

"What's matter?"

Faced with Shangguan Hongyuan's inquiry, Huang Da immediately said with joy:

"Inform the Chief Assistant of the Eight Hundred Li Urgent Report in Anqing. Xu Zhaojie defeated the Fengwu Army in Chengfeng County and annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops. The enemy general Yuan Song was alive and dead. In addition, he also captured more than 100 enemy troops and red-coated soldiers.

There is a cannon and more than a hundred Fengwu military firearms. Governor Xu has already transported the captured Fengwu military firearms to Luo'an and presented them to the Chief Assistant!"

After saying that, Huang Da quietly looked at Shangguan Hongyuan, waiting for Shangguan Hongyuan's praise and reward. Because he secretly received three thousand taels of silver from Xu Zhaojie, as the left minister of the Ministry of War, he was in Luo'an court.

The Central Committee has always advocated cooperation with the Zhennan Army to jointly fight against the Fengwu Army. For this reason, he has repeatedly advised Shangguan Hongyuan to increase firearms support for Xu Zhaojie...

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And now Xu Zhaojie won the battle in Anqing, breaking the myth that the Fengwu Army was invincible, and exerted pressure on the Fengwu Army from the south, forcing the Fengwu Army not to devote itself wholeheartedly to the Yunbin battlefield. This naturally

This shows that his proposal to unite with Xu Zhaojie is correct. Therefore, when Xu Zhaojie wins this time, he will follow You Rongyan.

However, to Huang Da's disappointment, Shangguan Hongyuan was not as happy as he imagined when he heard the news. He just nodded very calmly, as if he did not hear that Xu Zhaojie had won the battle, but that he had heard that Xu Zhaojie had won the battle.

It's the same thing for dinner.

Shangguan Hongyuan thought he knew Xu Zhaojie's son very well. It was he who promoted young Xu Zhaojie step by step to the position of commander of the Xuanwu Army, making Xu Zhaojie the invincible Marquis of Zhenyuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, relying on his understanding of Xu Zhaojie, Shangguan Hongyuan felt that Xu Zhaojie probably won this battle, but there was still a lot of water in the battle report!

The first point of this is to annihilate the number of Fengwu troops. Xu Zhaojie said that it was to annihilate more than 10,000 enemies. You must know that according to the intelligence of the Supervision Department, the one facing Xu Zhaojie is the 1st Division of the First Army, the most elite of the Fengwu Army. The standing force is also

There were only more than 20,000 people. Xu Zhaojie said that annihilating more than 10,000 enemies meant that he had disabled the most elite troops of the Fengwu Army! He had disabled them!

With the progress of the Yunbin battlefield in the past few days, Shangguan Hongyuan also had a clearer understanding of the Fengwu Army's combat effectiveness. Therefore, he felt that Xu Zhaojie's few troops in Anqing alone were not enough to kill the Fengwu Army.

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Perhaps Xu Zhaojie could do this by gathering all the soldiers and horses of the Zhennan Army, but it is impossible to complete this task with tens of thousands of people in Anqing!

Of course, since Xu Zhaojie dared to report the annihilation of 10,000 enemies, this at least shows that Xu Zhaojie had thousands of people, which should be less than 5,000. If there were more than 5,000, Xu Zhaojie would

With his character, he would definitely report annihilating 20,000 enemies, and he would never report 10,000 enemies being annihilated like he does now!

In addition to exaggerating about the situation of annihilating the enemy, Shangguan Hongyuan was also sure that Xu Zhaojie also concealed something about the seizures. Xu Zhaojie would definitely have captured more in fact, but he underreported and then pretended to be fake.

Dedicate all the gains to yourself.

Whether it was exaggerating the situation of annihilating the enemy, or concealing something during the capture, Xu Zhaojie had only one purpose, and that was to show himself his attitude and prove his worth in containing Ye Mingsheng on the southern front.

Ask for more firearms for yourself.

If it were three months ago, if Xu Zhaojie had dedicated these firearms to himself, Shangguan Hongyuan would have been very happy even though he knew Xu Zhaojie's intentions. After all, he could arrange craftsmen to deal with the Fengwu Army after getting these firearms.

Firearms are better imitated.

But now he has clearly realized that it is difficult for him to completely imitate Fengwu Army's firearms. The first point is the quality of the steel. The steel used by Fengwu Army to manufacture firearms is made using new technologies.

, the hardness is better, the flexibility is also better, and secondly, there is the problem of gunpowder that needs to be solved...

Even if all these problems are solved, according to Fengwu Army's firearms standards and their current manufacturing processes and techniques, it will take at least hundreds of craftsmen and a busy month to make a cannon, and Fengwu Army's manufacturing

The factory only requires a dozen craftsmen and half a month is enough to complete it.

After understanding this situation, Shangguan Hongyuan could only accept the reality and was forced to lower the standards of firearms in the hope that craftsmen could manufacture cannons and send them to the front line faster.

However, although the power and range of these hastily manufactured Zhengdong cannons are much better than those of old-fashioned artillery, due to the lowering of manufacturing standards, various problems often occur after high-intensity use of Zhengdong cannons.

Various accidents, and even multiple cases of barrel explosions, caused many gunners to complain in the army. Shangguan Hongyuan had no good solution for this, except to forcibly suppress the sound on the front line.

Therefore, the firearms sent by Xu Zhaojie can only be said to be better than nothing, and will not have any impact on the current situation. Thinking of this, Shangguan Hongyuan asked Huang Da directly:

"How many firearms does Xu Zhaojie want?"

Seeing that Shangguan Hongyuan directly exposed Xu Zhaojie's thoughts, Huang Da, who was following Yourongyan, felt a little embarrassed. After hesitating for a while, he tentatively said:

"Xu Zhaojie wants 10,000 divine muskets and thirty Zhengdong cannons. He said that as long as you, the Chief Assistant, reward him with these firearms, he can go all the way north to attack Huanglong and capture the dog Ye Mingsheng for the Chief Assistant.

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Shangguan Hongyuan snorted coldly. He naturally would not believe Xu Zhaojie's nonsense. In fact, the two people he resented most, Ye Mingsheng and Xu Zhaojie, were not Ye Mingsheng, but Xu Zhaojie. If it hadn't been for his promotion back then, Xu Zhaojie would have been

Even with some ability, can he become the commander of the Xuanwu Army so quickly and become one of the few high-ranking generals in the Forbidden Army?

But Xu Zhaojie used lies and betrayal again and again to repay his kindness!

Although Ye Mingsheng, who used to be his own soldier, also betrayed him, at that time Ye Mingsheng was just a small figure. Although Shangguan Hongyuan also hated his betrayal, compared to Xu Zhaojie, Shangguan Hongyuan simply did not care about him.

Ye Mingsheng was not impressed.

The reason why they are joining forces with Xu Zhaojie to deal with Ye Mingsheng is entirely because the Fengwu Army led by Ye Mingsheng is developing too fast and is forced by the situation to act as a last resort. If it were not for Ye Mingsheng and the Fengwu Army, Shangguan Hongyuan would have to deal with it now.

It's him, Xu Zhaojie.

If Xu Zhaojie could really kill Fengwu Army and Ye Mingsheng, then not to mention 10,000 divine weapons and 30 east-conquering cannons, even if they were multiplied by ten times, Shangguan Hongyuan would be able to get them for him by selling iron. But it is obvious that Xu Zhaojie is

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Even though Xu Zhaojie was already in Anqing, he only gathered 50,000 people in Anqing. More of the Zhennan Army's troops were still in Huainan, which meant that Xu Zhaojie didn't really want to go north to compete with Ye Mingsheng.

, now it is very likely that he is just feinting to let the Jiangnan area relax their vigilance. If he really gives him the firearm he wants, Xu Zhaojie will probably copy his tactics of taking Huainan, and rush to Jiangnan with a feint in Hebei and Yu.

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After wanting to understand this, Shangguan Hongyuan didn't bother to talk nonsense and said directly:

"When the Yunbing War started, the firearms we produced were not enough for the front line. How could we have any extra for Xu Zhaojie?"

"Tell Xu Zhaojie! Give him at most two thousand divine weapons and five east-conquering cannons!"

"Isn't he also researching and making firearms? Then let him make them himself!"

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Governor's Mansion, Study Room

Looking at Zhao Han's leaving figure, Ye Mingsheng shook his head slightly. He was quite optimistic about Zhao Han. He thought he was very flexible and his thinking was very clear, so he promoted him to He Jingyun's deputy and to the staff department.

Deputy Chief of General Staff, looking forward to the day when he can take over from He Jingyun.

But now it seems that although Zhao Han is somewhat resourceful, compared to He Jingyun, he still lacks some determination and ruthlessness!

In the report just now, the advice he gave to Ye Mingsheng on behalf of the staff was to focus on maintaining stability. In their opinion, Xu Zhaojie would not stay in Hebei for too long, so it was acceptable as long as the situation did not escalate seriously.

It is simply the opposite of Ye Mingsheng’s idea!

He, Mr. Ye, would not hope that Xu Zhaojie would leave on his own. Since Xu Zhaojie dared to take action, he would make Xu Zhaojie pay the price with blood!

Just when Ye Mingsheng had made up his mind, the attendant Ye Cheng walked into the study and reported to Ye Mingsheng:

"Tell me, your lord, the eldest madam needs to see you for something!"

Although he was a little curious as to why An Miaoyi, who didn't often come to the study to see him, suddenly came to see him today, but now that An Miaoyi was here, Ye Mingsheng naturally would not shut out his wife, and immediately rushed to the door.

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Chapter completed!