It takes a certain amount of time for intelligence to be transmitted from Jiangnan back to Liangzhou. Coupled with the recent war and chaos, it is even more difficult to transmit intelligence.
What Cheng Dalei has obtained now is probably information from more than ten days ago.
"Do you think Li Xingzai can still hold on?"
"Difficult." Cheng Dalei thought for a while, slowly uttered a word, and then shook his head and said: "But the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there are too many factors that determine the outcome. In the end, who will win and who will lose, I can't say now."
"But at least now it seems that Li Xingzai is bound to lose."
Cheng Dalei nodded helplessly.
"What if he is defeated?"
Cheng Dalei thought for a while and said: "Then Li Xing is the master of Jiangnan. He will confront the Rong tribe across the river. The Rong tribe is not good at water warfare, and the Yangzhou soldiers are too weak. In the end, whoever wins and who loses will still say no.
Good thing."
"Then what won't we do?"
"wait."
Cheng Dalei spat out one word. In terms of strategy, he had already made up his mind, which would never be shaken no matter what anyone said. Now that the situation was unclear, it was not the time for Liangzhou to take action. If Liangzhou didn't take action in the end, the victory would be determined by taking action.
However, after a month of stalemate, the situation in Jiangnan has not changed much. This matter is a bit strange anyway.
Cheng Dalei knocked on his head, wondering what Li Xing's idea was.
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While Cheng Dalei was racking his brains, people in Jiangnan were still in dire straits. This was true for both Li Xingzai and Li Xing.
Li Xingxing's 200,000 troops approached Li Xingzai's territory. Li Xingzai guessed right, this strategy was indeed the work of He.
After He joined Li Xing's camp, he immediately started planning to eliminate Li Xingzai. It turned out that he had no mercy at all.
He counted the troops under Li Xing's command and found to his disbelief that half a million troops could be raised in Jiangnan alone.
Jiangnan is a fertile land. Liangzhou has been run by Cheng Dalei for a long time, and now it only has a population of one million. But any city in Yangzhou has a population of 700,000 or 800,000. Li Xing is stationed here, and he has no problem gathering hundreds of thousands of troops.
of.
He quite feels like a poor man suddenly becomes rich. With so many soldiers, why should they save them to make dumplings for the New Year?
So he offered advice to Li Xing and raised troops to attack Li Xingzai. He quickly destroyed Donghai and was done, so that he could reorganize his troops and prepare for the decisive battle with Nohara Huo.
Li Xing followed his plan and raised an army of 200,000, and rushed towards the East China Sea like a tiger preying on prey. However, when he approached the forces of the East China Sea, he stopped dead in his tracks.
He was in charge of internal affairs in the south of the Yangtze River, and he did not understand the actual leading of troops in war, and he was not responsible for it. Hong Liao was in charge of such conquests and battles.
He completely didn't understand the purpose of stopping the troops at this moment. According to Hong Liao, Li Xingzai's troops in Donghai were weak but strong. Even if they could defeat them, Jiangnan would definitely suffer heavy losses in troops.
It is better to besiege instead of attack and use heavy troops to deter them. If one day Yeyuan Fire hits Jiangnan, it would be better to use Li Xingzai as a shield and destroy a group of Rong troops first.
Kazuya cannot say that this strategy is completely unreasonable. But after all, he came from Liangzhou. What kind of place is Liangzhou? It is simply a den of bandits. Nine and a half out of ten people are bandits.
Bandits tend not to think too much when doing things. If they look forward and backward, they will not be able to be bandits.
He obviously had opinions about Hong Liao's strategy, but he didn't mention it to anyone. The key is that this matter is not easy to talk about.
The situation in Jiangnan is more complicated than imagined. There are three major camps under Li Xing. One group is the old ministers who supported him as emperor, and the other group is the young newcomers who have just emerged. This group of people is headed by Hong Liao. And Gang Lai
Soon, people who technically did not have their own direct lineage and were not welcomed in the other two places joined his command.
In any case, He Jin is still on an unstable footing. If he has any opinions on Hong Liao's strategy, in the eyes of interested people, he wants to challenge Hong Liao's position.
There have been many veterans who have instigated and stepped forward. How could such a shrewd and ghostly person be so stupid as to be used as a gunman?
Although there are factions in Liangzhou, they are not as serious as those in Jiangnan. Cheng Dalei is in the middle and others can speak freely. Sometimes, He misses the time when he was still in Liangzhou. When working in Jiangnan, there are many things that do not satisfy him.
Fortunately, Li Xing treated him well. Cheng Dalei presided over the internal affairs, and Li Xing always supported him strongly.
Now He and Hong have a clear division of labor, and He is not willing to point fingers at what others are doing. He is willing to handle what he should do and what he can do. If he has nothing to do, he will stay at home and drink tea, and he will not be flattered in officialdom.
, nor develop direct lineage.
At dusk that day, He took a small sedan back home. As soon as he entered the gate, a housekeeper came over to inform him.
"Sir, someone has come from your hometown. He is said to be your distant nephew. He is waiting for you now."
"My distant nephew?" He frowned and said, "Let him wait for me in the side hall. I will come after changing my clothes."
"yes."
He changed out of his court clothes and put on his casual clothes. After thinking about it, he put a short sword in his sleeve.
When I came to the side hall, I saw a young man wearing coarse linen clothes standing there. His appearance made me stunned.
"Third uncle, I see you, third uncle. You have always been kind. My nephew, I miss you so much."
He paused, then smiled and said: "My good nephew, I haven't seen you for so many years, I almost didn't recognize you."
With that said, He Chong waved his hands to the housekeeper: "You guys go down first, I have something to talk with my nephew."
The serving servants and maids retired, and only the young man Hehe was left in the side hall.
The smile on his face slowly faded: "Mr. Song, we haven't seen each other for many years. I only heard that you were working in the East China Sea. I didn't know that you were actually my nephew."
This young man was none other than Song Youqu. He smiled and bowed deeply.
"My lord, you and I have both worked under the master, so we can be considered old friends anyway. I have taken the liberty to come here this time. I really have something big to talk about."
"If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, do you think Mr. Song won't come to see me for no reason?"
Song Youqu paid his respects again and said, "I have a secret letter from my Majesty here. Please read it with your Excellency."
He took the letter and read it by candlelight. His face became increasingly ugly, and he immediately unfolded it and burned it on the fire.
"King Xiaoyao is still so direct in his work. Does he know that with just this letter, he can take my head?"
Song Youqu opened his mouth and said: "The letter has already made it clear, so there should be no need for further clarification. The current situation must be clear to you, sir. Li Xing is not the Ming Lord, and he will be defeated sooner or later. My Majesty is the Holy Lord descended from heaven, and you and your Lord are now in important positions.
, if we can coordinate from the center, Jiangnan will definitely be defeated."
He paused for a moment, then scattered the ashes and said with a smile: "King Xiaoyao really thinks highly of He."