"What is the purpose of the emperor sending him to Shandong?"
After leaving the imperial envoy's residence, Tu Yuan finally couldn't bear it any longer. He walked behind Zhou Yuanlang, his face even more ugly: "Are you going to force us to fight in full?"
"But when we were on the defensive in Yandu, His Majesty approved it!"
Zhou Yuanlang walked beside him with a calm expression: "General, don't speak so loudly."
"When the sound is loud, anyone can listen."
Tu Yuan then suppressed his temper and whispered: "Sir, what do you think?"
"The military is a major matter for the country, and the emperor will not treat this as a child's play."
He continued: "Prince sent Rui down, there must be a purpose."
He clasped his hands behind his back, looked to the north, and whispered: "On the one hand, forcing us to fight, on the other hand, I am afraid that Yandu is already preparing to send envoys to Jiankang to sue for peace."
Tu Yuan was stunned and said in a low voice: "With the fighting like this, how could the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty agree to peace talks!"
He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Unless the emperor is really willing to cede Shandong Province, the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty will probably agree to stop the army."
"Even if we stop fighting."
Tu Yuan exhaled a breath of turbid air: "How many years can the Southern Dynasty live in peace and contentment if it wins Shandong? In less than five years, war will inevitably start again."
"When the time comes, will Shanxi and even Zhili be ceded to the Southern Dynasties?"
Zhou Yuanlang's face was expressionless: "If you are beaten like this, naturally there is no way to talk about it."
"That's why Prince Rui is so anxious to force us out of the city to fight."
Zhou Yuanlang thought about it for a moment and said in a low voice: "However, if the imperial court is really willing to lower its dignity and send envoys to Jiankang to seek peace, it may not be impossible to negotiate."
He said slowly: "The Southern Dynasties are not monolithic."
"According to the information from the Purity Department, there are many people in their court who don't deal with Shen Qi."
"If Shen Qi conquered Shandong by force, then the great credit belongs to Shen Qi alone. But if it was a civil servant from Jiankang who conquered Shandong through peace talks, then Shen Qi would not want to take this great credit.
30% to 40% to the civil servants."
"This is an achievement that is destined to go down in history. Those Han civil servants will definitely be so greedy that their eyes will turn red."
"With them here, maybe this thing can be done."
Tu Yuan was stunned.
"Sir, what you mean is that the emperor is really planning to cede Shandong?"
"The Southern Dynasty is no longer able to fight. If we continue to fight, we will be exhausted."
"The emperor probably wants to bear the humiliation and solve the Tatar problem first, and then go back and deal with the south."
"If it were the past, I would definitely agree with the emperor's idea and admire the emperor's ability to bend and stretch from the bottom of my heart."
"but now…"
Zhou Yuanlang looked worried: "I'm afraid it won't work."
Tu Yuan understood and said silently: "Because this Shen Qi cannot be judged by common sense..."
"yes."
Zhou Yuanlang sighed silently and said with a wry smile: "In my opinion, this person is even a bit evil."
"Nowadays, even the entire Huai'an Army cannot handle it with common sense."
"The feeling he gave me was like..."
Zhou Yuanlang closed his eyes and said slowly: "A calm big monster leads hundreds of thousands of little monsters..."
Tu Yuan followed Zhou Yuanlang, stopped, and after a dazed moment, gave Zhou Yuanlang a thumbs up.
"Sir, what you said is very appropriate."
………………
On the fifth day after Shen Yi arrived in Kaizhou, under Zhang Meng's attack, Kaizhou finally broke through.
On the day Kaizhou City was captured, Shen Yi left Kaizhou City on horseback and headed east to Fan County, Dongchang Prefecture.
At this time, part of the left army was at Fan County, and Ling Su himself was also here.
After watching the battle in Fan County for several days, Mr. Shen left Fan County and prepared to return to Yanzhou.
Ling Su saw him off all the way, covering a distance of seven or eight miles.
Shen Yi rode on the horse, looked back at him, and said with a smile: "General Ling, now the Left Route Army has arrived near Laiwu in Jinan Prefecture, and the war in Henan is also fierce, which is enough to attract the attention of Qi people. No matter what you do, Whether we attack Daming Prefecture or Dongchang Prefecture, there is no need to rush, you can take your time."
Shen Yi paused and continued: "Just remember, if the Dongchang Prefecture or Daming Prefecture has a hard time, it means that the Qi people have put a lot of troops here, so relatively speaking, the Jinan Prefecture will be easier. ."
"If it's easy for you to fight here, then end the battle as soon as possible, look for a suitable opportunity, and head to Jinan Prefecture."
Mr. Shen thought for a while and added: "If Qi Ren is determined and directly abandons Dongchang Prefecture and Daming Prefecture, then you can consider not attacking Daming Prefecture for the time being. After taking down Dongchang Prefecture, you can fight with Dongchang Prefecture. Together with the left army, we surrounded Jinan Prefecture."
"Just remember something."
Shen Yi warned: "Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture are equally important. There is no so-called difference between a prefectural city and a provincial city."
His face became serious: "Zhang Meng has such inexplicable thoughts, you must not have them."
"If you give me credit, Dongchang Prefecture is no different from Jinan Prefecture."
"Besides..."
Shen Yi said slowly: "It will be very difficult to take down Jinan Prefecture with only the left army. You probably need to free up your hands after you finish fighting here to have a chance to take down Jinan Prefecture."
Ling Su looked serious, lowered his head and clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Shen, I will never have such thoughts."
"The general has never felt that Mr. Shen has any partiality. Speaking of partiality, the general has the highest rank in the Huai'an army."
"This is Mr. Shen's partiality."
When Mr. Shen heard this, he smiled dumbly.
"After all, General Ling is a seasoned man, and his words are still pleasing to the ears."
Shen Yi patted his shoulder and said, "I have finished inspecting the three armies this time. After that, I will return to Yanzhou District. While coordinating the overall situation, I will start to arrange the war in Jinan Prefecture."
"If anything happens, send someone to Yanzhou to deliver a message."
Ling Su lowered his head again: "I will finally understand!"
Master Shen gently pulled the reins, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse turned around, heading towards the official road, and began to run slowly.
Master Shen was riding on horseback, waving to Ling Su behind him.
"The war on the Western Front is entrusted to General Ling!"
Ling Su also rode on the horse, bowed to Shen Yi, clasped his fists, and shouted back.
"The last general will definitely live up to Duke Shen's high expectations!"
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A few days later, Shen Yi finally returned to Yanzhou City.
The last time he returned to Yanzhou, he came back from Xue Wei. After staying in Yanzhou for three or four days, he went out to "inspect the three armies."
This tour of the camp gave him a good idea of the status of the Huai'an Army.
Once we have the bottom line, we can start planning for the next and most important battle of Jinan Prefecture.
After returning to Yanzhou City, Shen Yi first went back to the Governor's Yamen to catch up on his sleep.
After all, I am traveling all the way, and I often don’t have time to sleep. Even if I sleep, I can’t sleep peacefully.
After catching up on my sleep, it was already dark.
Mr. Shen patted Miss Ye who was lying in his arms, then got up from the bed, put on a simple cloth, left the governor's Yamen, and came to the Magistrate's Yamen in Yanzhou.
In the prefect's yamen, Mr. Zhang had been busy all day. He just came out of the study and looked exhausted.
He has many things going on.
Because there are more than one matters in Yanzhou Prefecture that need him to deal with.
Nowadays, Laizhou Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture, which have been restored, still have no prefects, and most of the officials are temporarily sent from Yanzhou.
This resulted in that all matters in the three prefectures that could only be handled by the prefect or even the provincial level were basically brought together to him.
Handling the affairs of four prefectures at the same time, although Mr. Zhang is still called Yanzhou Prefect, he is actually written as the Chief Envoy of Shandong.
After seeing Shen Yi, he was so angry that he stepped forward quickly, grabbed Shen Yi's sleeve, and said: "Zi Heng, write a letter to the court quickly and ask them to send more prefects, prefects, and county magistrates!"
"If we don't send officials down, Brother Wei will resign soon!"
Mr. Shen smiled hoarsely: "Senior brother, what's going on?"
Zhang Fuzun was full of resentment, raised his head and pointed at the moon in the sky, and said angrily: "I just came out of the study at this moment!"
"Do you know how long it has been since I saw the sun?"
Shen Yi smiled with a smile on his face and said: "Senior brother, don't worry, the imperial court will naturally send more officials one after another."
"I came to see my senior brother this time because I have something more important."
Zhang Jian looked at Shen Yi and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"
"Autumn harvest."
Mr. Shen said with a smile: "It's already August, and there's still a little more than a month before the autumn harvest begins."
"The autumn harvest in Yanzhou must be done well."
Shen Yi looked at Zhang Jian and said seriously.
"This is the most powerful killing weapon on the battlefield in Shandong this year!"
I drew a marching diagram and put it at the end of the chapter, but it didn’t seem very clear when I uploaded it, and I don’t know what happened.
There are high-definition ones in the book club...