Zhou Yuanlang, dressed in Tsing Yi with a gloomy face, came back from outside the city.
Tu Yuan, who was also in the city, welcomed him into the government office. Before he could sit down, he asked: "Sir, what do you think Ling Su said?"
Zhou Yuanlang sat down, lowered his head and took a sip of tea, his face gloomy.
"Slippery!"
After he said these two words angrily, he slapped the table hard and said in a deep voice: "I thought that since he agreed to meet me, this matter would be a 70-80% success. But I didn’t expect that this guy named Ling, a first-time martial artist, is actually very clever, since I can’t catch him.”
After that, he roughly explained the content of his communication with Ling Su, and then said in a deep voice: "For such a major matter related to the national war, you can never trust Ling Su completely based on just a few words from him."
He looked at Tu Yuan and said in a deep voice: "What I mean is that this so-called cooperation is over."
"Let's write down the contents of today's meeting with Ling Su into a document and send it to Shen Qi."
"It's great if you can drive a wedge between the two of them. If you can't drive them apart, forget it. We'll fight the Shandong battlefield as we should."
"Summer is about to begin. If we delay for another half a year, Nanchen will not be able to fight."
Tu Yuan touched his chin, thought carefully for a while, and suddenly said: "Sir, if Ling Su is easily persuaded by him to turn to us, then there is something wrong with it. He is so cautious now, but there is something wrong with it." It seems real."
Zhou Yuanlang frowned slightly: "General, what do you mean, we should believe him?"
"I believe he can't talk about it."
Tu Yuan said softly: "Since he is willing to come to see Mr., no matter what he says, he must take some risks. Since he is willing to take the risk of being suspected by Shen Qi and come to see Mr., he must have something in his heart." Some little thoughts of my own.”
"We can still seek cooperation with him."
General Tu said softly: "However, we cannot follow his rhythm, but we should follow our own rhythm."
Zhou Yuanlang touched his chin and looked up at Tu Yuan.
General Tu smiled and said: "According to what Mr. Ling Su said, what Ling Su wants is nothing more than military merit."
"He wants us to release water on the battlefield of Dongchang Prefecture. It is best to give Liaocheng to him so that he can make contributions to Shen Qi."
"The Dongchang Prefecture battlefield is of great importance, so naturally it is impossible to just give it to him just because you want to."
"However, I think we can use another method to force him."
Zhou Yuanlang was thoughtful, and suddenly understood, and said softly: "The general means to use heavy troops in Dongchang Mansion."
"yes."
Tu Yuan said softly: "Up to now in the Shandong battlefield, Shen Qi's arrangement has been very obvious. It is to disperse the troops while striving to gain an advantage on all sides."
"His idea is to divide the troops into three groups and seize the other five prefectures in Shandong except Jinan Prefecture. By the second half of the year, after a year of fighting, the three route armies will not only have stronger troops and horses, but will also form a siege on Jinan Prefecture. Then besiege Jinan Prefecture."
"If we use heavy troops in Dongchang Mansion to drive Ling Su out of Dongchang Mansion, or even defeat Ling Su's troops several times, then not only will Shen Qi's dream come true, but Ling Su, as a person within the Huai'an Army, will You will also face tremendous pressure!”
Tu Yuan said softly: "When the time comes, maybe he will take the initiative to pursue cooperation with us!"
Zhou Yuanlang frowned and said: "If you want to achieve a great victory in Dongchang Mansion, I'm afraid..."
"It requires 50,000 or more troops to make it possible."
When the Huai'an Army was divided into three armies, the total number was just over 100,000. Among them, the Pioneer Army had the smallest number, with only over 20,000 at the beginning.
In other words, the left and right armies were allocated a total of 40,000 troops!
This size of troops was basically the strength of the entire Huai'an Army in the 13th year of Hongde's reign.
Even more than the entire Huai'an Army.
Putting aside the Huai'an Army as a whole, the left and right armies are a behemoth in themselves!
You must know that Su Ding, the left-leg army who is currently attacking Qingzhou Prefecture, has almost spread out its entire force and is fighting with the Qi army head-on!
Still not falling behind.
Tu Yuan narrowed his eyes and said softly: "At least 70,000 people."
This is the entire Shandong battlefield, half of the Qi army.
"Assign a group of people to take a detour to Daming Mansion and give Ling Su a hard blow!"
After hearing this, Zhou Yuanlang stood up silently, looked at Tu Yuan with a strange look, and said, "General, Jinan has to be defended. Where did you get so many troops?"
Tu Yuan remained silent.
Zhou Yuanlang understood and said softly: "You have to abandon Qingzhou."
General Tu's tone was full of helplessness: "Taking a step back, even if this move does not hurt Ling Su, the battle situation is Jinan Prefecture Dongchang Prefecture. We can at least confront the Huai'an Army from east to west."
"If the fight continues like this, Jinan Mansion may really be surrounded by Shen Qi in the second half of the year."
He looked at Zhou Yuanlang and sighed slightly: "There is one thing that I won't tell you, but sir should also know."
"The Nanchen army on the Henan side has also been making frequent moves recently. Although the troops sent by the imperial court did not suffer too much losses on the Henan side, they also lost a lot of cities."
"Sir is a close relative of the emperor. Naturally, he knows better than Tu about how the emperor will react to this."
Zhou Yuanlang shook his head slightly: "No matter how we fight in the Henan battlefield, we can't abandon law-abiding in the Shandong battlefield..."
Tu Yuan shook his head slightly.
"Historically, wars in the Central Plains never lasted too long."
"If Shandong is captured by Shen Qi this year, next year the battle line will immediately move west to Xiangyang, and then west again."
"I will write to the emperor to explain the matter in Shandong."
"Even if you only stick to the two mansions, you are still holding on..."
Tu Yuan sighed: "Isn't it?"
Zhou Yuanlang silently shook his head: "The general has been in war for a long time, so what he saw is naturally different from what I saw."
"But the general is the commander-in-chief of Shandong. We will fight as the general says."
Tu Yuan smiled bitterly: "Sir, you and I have long been grasshoppers on a rope."
"It is useless to shirk responsibility at this time."
General Tu said slowly: "If Shandong cannot be defended, we may not be accused by the court, but the original merit of following the dragon will be wiped out."
Zhou Yuanlang was silent for a long time, and suddenly he slapped the table angrily.
"It's really frustrating to be beaten passively all the time and be led by Shen Qi!"
Tu Yuan also felt the same way, and he clenched his fists.
"That's what makes it so hateful!"
"If the imperial army from Nanchen comes out in full force, our army can also go south to Jiankang, attacking the enemy and rescuing them, and the predicament will be solved."
"But Shen Qi's Huai'an army basically doesn't have the Nanchen Forbidden Army. It's as if he conjured an army out of thin air!"
"It didn't come out of thin air."
Zhou Yuanlang was silent for a while and said quietly: "Most of them come from the Huaihe Navy."
"In the past, the Huaihe Navy was as well-behaved as a lamb. But after changing the generals, why did it suddenly change and start biting people..."
Tu Yuan was silent for a moment, wanting to say something, but in the end it turned into a long sigh.
"It has been two years since Your Majesty took the throne..."
"Two years."
Tu Yuan's expression was a bit bitter: "The imperial court has not yet discussed how to deal with Nan Chen..."
Zhou Yuanlang closed his eyes and said silently: "I heard that another princess will be sent to the Tatars for marriage."
Tu Yuan silently clenched his fists and said nothing.
Zhou Yuanlang stood up and looked outside.
"General, now we can only try our best to fight for a chance for peace talks on behalf of the court and the emperor."
General Tu was very disappointed when he heard this.
"These words seem to have come from Nan Chen's mouth seventy years ago..."
The two looked at each other, speechless.
………………
While the two Northern Qi generals here are worrying, Mr. Shen on the other side is carrying out his plan step by step.
After Laizhou Prefecture was captured, and after a period of rest, he began to march into Dengzhou Prefecture.
Relatively speaking, it is much easier to get to the capital city.
After all, at this time, the communication between Dengzhou and Jinan Prefecture has been completely cut off, and there are not many defenders here.
Within half a month of launching the troops, the vanguard army encountered basically no resistance in the counties and even state towns they visited.
Mr. Shen, on the other hand, followed the vanguard and picked up many prisoners.
Of course, not entirely prisoners.
There are indeed many Han people from Shandong who took the initiative to join the army and join the Huai'an Army.
After a simple selection, these people will also be incorporated into the army to enrich the force.
In addition to blasting troops, what is even more enjoyable is raiding homes.
Many Zhuli people in these cities have already fled.
But most of the food cannot be taken away.
In addition, there are still some who didn't have time to escape.
I asked Mr. Shen, who ransacked his house along the way, to make a lot of money.
Ye Chan followed him and worked as an accountant for him.
On this day, the two arrived at Zhaoyuan, Dengzhou Prefecture. Miss Ye took an abacus and worked for a long time. Finally, she filled in the numbers in the booklet and placed it in front of Shen Yi.
"Master, look, this is the food and money we got."
"Although there is a lot of food, if tens of thousands of people feed it, it won't last long."
Shen Yi lowered his head, looked at the accounts, and said, "The property obtained will be sold to the second brother, and he will go to nearby counties to purchase food."
Ye Chan shook her head slightly: "I'm afraid it's not easy to buy at this time."
Shen Yi looked calm.
"Give him one or two thousand households."
“It’s a good buy.”
Recently, I saw a lot of brothers talking about it in the comment area. I also took a look at it. Maybe there are too many battle scenes recently. I will consider skipping it as much as possible or shortening this part of the plot. Thank you readers for your opinions and suggestions~
