When Chen Huiji had made up his mind, Chen Shushen in Yuzhang County was also facing the same decision problem.
Once Chen Shujian left, the entire Yuzhang County was undoubtedly in a gloomy mood. It was obvious that Chen Shushen was completely unable to mobilize people's hearts.
He, the Yueyang King, was brought up temporarily. Facing these Chen Shujian's old men, all Chen Shushen could do was to let them settle down first. After all, as soon as Chen Shujian left, everyone's thoughts began to wander.
Before, Chen Shujian was pressing here, and no one dared to say anything. At worst, they would die fighting together with Chen Shujian. But now that Chen Shujian has left, of course they have lost the fighting spirit in their hearts.
Li Xingchen's army has passed Pingxiang and will soon reach the gates of Yuzhang County. The situation in Jiangzhou to the north is unknown. As for Jiankang Prefecture behind him, it seems that there is no hope now, so everyone must now
Come up with an idea, and in the end it is Chen Shushen who can represent everyone's opinions.
Therefore, when all eyes fell on Chen Shushen, Chen Shushen felt extremely uncomfortable.
He is just an idle prince who has never held military power. Under such circumstances, he is already an out-and-out puppet.
He knew what these people wanted to do, but he couldn't stop them. Even if he didn't take the lead in doing this, he might be punished by his subordinates.
Thinking of this, Chen Shushen wished he could cut Chen Shuling into thousands of pieces. If Chen Shuling had not made a scene, Chen Shujian would still be alive, and the situation would at least be sustainable. Even if there was really no way to retreat, it was not Chen Shushen who took the lead.
Damn it!
More importantly, Chen Shuling has set a very bad example for everyone. This is clearly telling everyone that even the Nanchen royal family no longer cares about the outcome of this battle. It has reached this juncture and is even still in internal strife. Since Nanchen
The Chen royal family already has this attitude, so what do you guys have to say? Just pat your butts and change sides.
The generals and civil servants stood on both sides, and standing in the middle was Li Xingchen's envoy. The envoy did not seem to take this scene seriously, but just looked at Chen Shushen attentively. This made Chen Shushen feel a little dazed, as if he himself
He has become a lonely minister and an evil son, and this person was sent by Li Xinchen to lead these civil and military officials to attack him.
The envoy looked very young, which made Chen Shushen a little surprised why Li Xingchen would come here all the time. The man smiled and cupped his hands: "Yao Silian, the general of the Han Dynasty, is here to see the King of Yueyang."
"Tongshilang?" Chen Shushen frowned.
And a staff member hurriedly explained in a low voice. It turned out that the general secretary was a newly created position by Li Xingchen. Above him was the general secretary. As the name suggests, he was here to deliver news as an envoy. The current general secretary was King Gu Ye. This general secretary
The minister is Yao Silian in front of me.
Yao Silian was the son of Yao Cha. He had only been crowned for a few years. When he was young, he naturally did not want to inherit his father's legacy and spend his whole life squatting in the academy, so he recommended himself to be the general manager, relying on his familiarity with Jiangnan.
King Gu Ye presided over the communication and persuasion to surrender to various places in Jiangnan.
After hearing this, Chen Shushen was shocked. Li Xingchen had obviously realized that the people in Jiangnan were in turmoil, so he simply set up these two permanent positions. Moreover, both Gu Yewang and Yao Silian were very familiar with Nanchen.
It is naturally easy to get to the point when you come forward.
This Li Xingchen!
However, he secretly scolded Li Xingchen in his heart, but could not say it out loud. Chen Shushen smiled and said: "In the past, the person who represented the King of Han was usually Gu Yewang Gu Gong. Why is it that Yao Langzhong came this time?"
This sentence seems to be nothing, but in fact it is asking Yao Silian, you, a little general manager, can you really represent Li Xingchen's will? Moreover, you are looking down on someone too much. After all, someone is also a prince. This Yu
There are also many soldiers and horses in Zhangjun!
Yao Silian couldn't help but smile and said: "Gong Gu is old after all, so I took the initiative to initiate this task. Of course, Gong Gu also has his own tasks. After all, it is more convenient to go directly down the river to Jiangzhou to avoid the fatigue of traveling."
The entire meeting hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone subconsciously looked at Yao Silian.
What does this mean?
Chen Shushen gritted his teeth. Could it be that Chen Huiji couldn't hold on any longer? If Jiangzhou surrendered, the Shuhan navy could rush directly to the Yuzhang County city along the Gan River. By then, the Shuhan army would attack by land and water. This would be like Xiangzhou.
A remake of Battle of the States!
So everyone, including Chen Shushen, was panicked.
Yao Silian seemed to be very satisfied with the reaction of these people, and said calmly: "Now that a hundred thousand troops are besieging the city, Jiangzhou has already made an intention, so it is not a difficult task. I don't dare to compete with Gu Gong for credit.
Naturally, we have to leave everything that is sure to happen to Mr. Gu."
"Then aren't we sure of everything here?" At this moment, a general couldn't help but ask.
As soon as these words came out, the entire meeting hall exploded.
"What do you mean by this?!"
"You know what it means!"
"Are you generals not planning to continue this battle?"
"How can we fight? One-third of the soldiers under a certain command have already escaped. I'm afraid they will all be gone in two days!"
"If you want to fight, that's fine. You civil servants should first find a way to replenish the army's money and food before talking about anything else, otherwise it will be a slap in the face!"
The civil and military officials on both sides immediately began to curse at each other, but Yao Silian, who was standing in the middle, seemed to have expected such a scene, and smiled without saying a word, just looking at Chen Shushen.
"Quiet!" Chen Shushen couldn't help but yelled.
After all, he, the Yueyang King, still had to go out to top the vat, so everyone did not dare to go too far. The meeting hall finally became quiet, but Chen Shushen only felt that he had a splitting headache.
Through these few quarrels, he already understood what the following officials were thinking. The civil officials wanted to urge the generals to continue fighting in order to fulfill their reputation of loyalty, but they absolutely could not go into battle. Needless to say, the generals,
For people like Li Xingchen and Pei Zilie who came from the Nanchen Army, they didn't have much sense of rejection. In addition, they had been discouraged before, so who wanted to continue fighting. As for the uneven food and salary, and low morale, it was also an important objective factor.
At this time, the smile on Yao Silian's face faded, and he looked at Chen Shushen seriously: "King Yueyang, I would like to ask, in the battle of Xiangzhou, does King Yueyang know how many casualties there were in the city?"
Hearing these words, Chen Shushen felt that he suddenly returned to that bloody night, and couldn't help but shudder all over. Not to mention how many civilians were killed and injured, he couldn't even count the number of soldiers and horses killed and injured.
It was really a fierce battle.
Yao Silian took in Chen Shushen's expression and asked: "Does King Yueyang think that if this battle continues, how many casualties will there be in Yuzhang County?" (To be continued)