Gu Fan's study was an independent courtyard, with side rooms on the left and right where the guards rested, and side rooms where officials were on standby. But at this time, others were either in the banquet hall or had gone elsewhere.
In addition to the guard commander Chen Fan standing in front of the corridor with his back to the study and staring at the movement outside the yard, Gu Fan also saw that the only nine personal guards in the yard were also in groups of three.
In front of the moon gate, it also properly blocks the corridors connecting the wing rooms on both sides with other courtyards——
It is easy to guess that these nine people have problems. They were arranged by Deng Gui just now when he left the table for such a long time. However, he was completely unaware and fell into the trap.
At this time, Gu Fan suddenly remembered that when he first arrived in Chuzhou as the envoy to Huaidong, there were often thefts in the house, but the thieves were never found. This made him very dissatisfied with the guards around him, and worried that assassins would threaten his safety.
, he asked Deng Gui to help him select some men with innocent backgrounds and powerful skills from the army to serve as his personal bodyguards.
At this time, several people in the courtyard were selected by Deng Gui from the army, and Chen Fan was the former military officer of the Forbidden Army in the west of Beijing...
It was precisely after these people came to him that they killed two thieves who broke into the mansion on the spot. After that, there were no more thefts, which made him hate Deng Gui.
The trust was built up, but I didn't expect that all this might be arranged by Deng Gui.
He thought that by bypassing Deng Gui, directly interfering in the appointment of the core generals of the Huaidong Army, and placing many cronies among them, he would be able to control the Huaidong Army well and make Deng Gui follow him with peace of mind. However, he did not
Although he was worried, he never expected that Deng Gui would go so far behind him, and the people he deployed seemed to be secret spies from Beijing and Xiangzhou.
"How come Marquis Deng is regarded as a great hero, why are you willing to live under someone else's roof?" Gu Fan suppressed the shock in his heart, stared at Deng Gui with eyes like a dead fish, and asked unwillingly.
"As long as you have contact with some people, you will know that they are beyond your reach in this life. If you can follow them and travel thousands of miles, you are lucky in your life. How can you dare to expect anything else?" Deng Gui said with a smile, "This is Deng
Gui understood this when he was an official in Tongbai Mountain. Please forgive me for not being able to have a heart-to-heart talk with Mr. Gu in the past..."
"Did Marquis Deng see all this clearly when he was at Tongbai Mountain?" Gu Fan asked in frustration.
"Having been an official for half his life, Prime Minister Gu doesn't know that some people are invincible even if they haven't encountered the storm, so why wait until the storm surges before making a decision?" Deng Gui asked with a smile.
When Gu Fan served as the envoy of the southwestern route of Beijing, he thought he had enough knowledge about the Tongbaishan banditry that had occurred under his rule.
He also thought that Deng Gui only had brief contact with people in Chushan when he was the inspector of Huaiyuan, and then he was transferred back to the military deployment department to serve as a military official. Later, he also led a group of imperial guards in the west of Beijing to accompany Jian Ji before he ascended the throne.
Emperor and prosperity.
He thought that even though Deng Gui had many interactions with people in Chushan in the past, Deng Gui was not a coward, and he should have had nothing to do with people in Chushan over the years.
He never imagined that Deng Gui had deliberately cut ties with Jingxiang (Chushan) over the years, which was actually a deeper dormancy.
Who would have thought of this?
You must know that when Deng Gui deliberately kept a distance from Jingxiang (Chushan), Emperor Jianji was still in power, and Deng Gui's status at that time was not much inferior to Xu Huai's.
Gu Fan sat down at the desk and was speechless for a moment.
Deng Gui and Jiang Ping moved to Xiudun, sat beside the case, and asked:
"At this time, Prime Minister Gu can
Please be patient and listen carefully to Jiang Qian's report on the military situation in Huaixi, right?"
"..." Gu Fan was under the control of others at this time, so he could only brace himself, looked at Jiang Ping and said, "Then I will have to trouble Jiang Qian."
"This time, the Qiandi people proposed peace, and the Red Husbands cooperated extremely well with the withdrawal. Prime Minister Gu must have known that this was because the Red Husbands knew that they could not take down the hard nut of Jingxiang on their own, so they intended to provoke civil strife in Dai Viet first, right? This
Jiang Ping shouldn’t need to break the Qu’ao inside one by one, right?” Jiang Ping asked calmly.
"..." Gu Fan remained silent. Everyone was a fox for thousands of years, so he didn't think Ge Boyi and others' intentions could be hidden from Jing Xiang.
Jiang Ping continued: "Xiang Gu must also know that if our envoy really does nothing, then Jingxiang will face the dilemma of foreign enemies and Xiaoqiang. Of course, ordinary people may think that it is possible to separate the capital.
Xiang Zili is by no means too bad, but do we still have to expel the Hulu and recover the Central Plains?"
"Chihu has withdrawn his troops and has actually made peace with the Qiandi clan. Even if Pingliang County Duke doesn't admit it at this time, I'm afraid he can only tolerate it for a short time?" Of course Gu Fan would not admit that he was the one at this time.
A member of the Qian Di Department stared at Jiang Ping and asked in confusion.
"As of today, there are still 30,000 to 40,000 elite soldiers of the Red Hu people who have not withdrawn on the south bank," Jiang Ping said. "In my family's envoy's plan, I will naturally seize the rear soldiers and horses of the Red Hu people and beat them hard, so as to show the world to the world."
He declares his ambition to expel the Hu barbarians and regain the Central Plains, thereby declaring to the world his determination to never make peace with the barbarians. Jiang Ping is here this time under the orders of the envoy, and specially invites Mr. Gu to participate in this grand event!"
Even a figure like Deng Gui was willing to lie dormant for Beijing and Xiang. At this time, his own life was also controlled by these eleven or two people. When Gu Fan heard that Xu Huai was planning to attack the rear troops and horses of the Chihu people who had stayed south of the Huaihe River,
I didn't feel too shocked.
Thinking carefully about the specific changes in the battle situation, Gu Fan calmed down a little and asked: "The Chihu people are most afraid of Pingliang County Duke, and they will never fail to take precautions. At this time, the main force of Jingsheng's army is south of Liling Mountain, far away.
The point where the Chihu people cross the Huaihe River is more than two hundred miles away, I really don’t know how Pingliang County Duke can chew this bone?"
"I have selected the elite vanguard troops to be deployed at the northern foot of Huaiyang Mountain in the southern part of Lu'an County. They will choose the right time to move north along the Peishui River, and they will raid the floating crossing at the mouth of the Peishui River at all costs." Jiang Ping said.
"The Red Husbands left 8,000 elite cavalrymen on the south bank to coordinate with nearly 30,000 infantrymen in the rear. It should be to prevent the Pingliang County Guild from mobilizing the selected vanguard troops to cause trouble at the critical moment, right?"
Gu Fan said,
"Of course, I am not questioning the combat effectiveness of the Selected Front Army, but even if the Selected Front Army completely destroys the captive soldiers' floating crossing at the mouth of the Feishui River at all costs, it should only be able to temporarily suppress the captive soldiers' large-scale crossing of the Huaihe River. However, the captive soldiers can't cross the Huaihe River on a large scale.
There are troops in the Peishui River and the middle reaches of the Huaihe River, and there are as many as 20,000 naval troops with thousands of boats. The troops at the rear can rely on the dozens of camps outside Fudu to hold on, waiting for the continuous flow of troops from the north bank.
Crossing south by boat, how sure is the Duke of Pingliang that he can win this battle in a short period of time? Or maybe the Duke of Pingliang is sure to convince Han Shiliang and Ge Yu to send troops from Shouchun to join the war, and he is sure that they will not sit back and watch Jingsheng's army.
Fighting with the Japanese soldiers and losing both sides? The Japanese soldiers focused on preventing the Beijing-Xiangxiang Xinyang Navy from flowing down the Huaihe River. They set up multiple river barricades in Huangchuan, Gushi and other places, and the main force of the navy was mainly deployed in
In the waters west of the Peishui River, no matter how sharp the Xinyang Navy is, it may not be able to tear apart the Lubing Navy in just three to five days.
Blockade, defeat the main force of the Imperial Navy, and fight to the vicinity of the mouth of the Feishui River?"
"What if Huaidong Water Camp goes upstream?" Jiang Ping asked.
"Pingliang County Duke overestimated the combat effectiveness of Huaidong Water Camp," Gu Fan said with a bitter smile, "Huaidong Water Camp has three to four thousand generals, but there are only a few ships, and they usually only dare to huddle within Shanyangdu.
, they dare not even enter the Huaihe River lightly, dare to go to the waters near Shouchun to find trouble? Unless the Jingzhou Navy has tried to hide the truth and has already arrived at the mouth of the Huaihe River. However, I think it is unlikely that the Chihu people will make a mistake in this matter.
The fatal mistake is that we can’t even figure out where the main force of Jingzhou Navy is at this time!”
"When the Qiandi clan bowed their knees and sued for peace, they agreed with the Red Husbands to send out supervisory officers to watch every move of our army. The main force of the Jingzhou Navy was indeed still on standby in Tongling and Songyang areas at this time. And the Nanfei River and Dongfei River
The Chihu people rebuilt the connecting Cao Cao River waterway first, and now they are destroying it to a certain extent. It is impossible for our warships to enter the Huaihe River in ten days and a half," Jiang Ping said, "but our navy has two newly built
The armored ship, disguised as an ordinary grain transport ship, has entered the Huaihe River and will rendezvous with the Huaidong water camp. I believe it is still capable of harassing the Japanese troops from the lower reaches and preventing them from large-scale attacks????????????
????Model ferry!”
"Iron-armored ship?" Gu Fan asked in surprise.
"Yes, there are currently two large iron-hulled sub-ships built by Beijing and Xiangyang. They are rebuilt on the basis of two warehouse ships. They have not been equipped in the army. I just hope they can play some role at the critical moment."
Jiang Ping said.
"We are participating in a grand event together. At this moment, what else does Prime Minister Gu have to hesitate about?" Deng Gui stared at Gu Fan with bright eyes and asked, "Or maybe Prime Minister Gu thinks that the Duke of Pingliang is narrow-minded and would care about Prime Minister Gu and Mr. Gu.
Is Wang Boqian his son’s in-laws?”
In Huaidong, Gu Fan was the commander-in-chief, and Deng Gui and Yang Qiye were the generals.
Yang Qiye is relatively independent and is not restricted by Gu Fan. The main reason is that You Xiaoshengjun has experienced so many hardships in these years. Most of his generals are direct descendants of Yang Lin. The cohesion with Yang Qiye as the core is extremely strong, which is beyond Gu Fan's ability.
penetration.
At present, probably only Hu Kai can bypass Yang Qiye and directly mobilize the Youxiaosheng Army based on Caizhou Army. After all, Hu Kai is the real founder of Youxiaoshengjun.
However, the Huaidong Army, or Chuzhou Army, with Zuo Xuanwu Army as the main body, and Deng Gui could not bypass Gu Fan and act without authorization.
Therefore, Deng Gui wanted to lead the Huaidong Water Camp and part of the elite Chuzhou Army upstream, and cooperate with the two armored ships of the Jingzhou Navy to attack and harass the soldiers and naval forces from the lower reaches, making it impossible for them to calmly move between the north and south banks of the Huaihe River.
To transport soldiers and horses by ferry, it would be more secure if Gu Fan's active cooperation was needed.
If he really wanted to assassinate Gu Fan in his study and then launch a mutiny, Deng Gui could not be sure that he would be able to quell the chaos in the shortest time, let alone dispatch the water camp in time.
"The matter has come to this. It seems that I have no other choice. I hope Pingliang County Duke will not forget what I said today." Gu Fan cupped his hands toward the southwest and said dejectedly.
In the final analysis, he had no feelings for Emperor Shaolong. He initially planned to go out to suppress Huaidong because the Huaidong Army was in chaos at that time. He wanted to win over Deng Gui and cultivate his own power, thinking that he would have a foothold in the court.
Since everything has fallen into other people's calculations, and he is indeed inferior to others, turning around is not really an embarrassing thing for a person like him.
What's more, at this time, who can and dares to deny that the real righteousness lies in expelling the Huru and restoring the Central Plains?
