Lord of the House

Vol 10 Chapter 25: endless trouble

Lin Fu wanted to welcome Yang Pu, Ma Chao and other coffins into Chongzhou, while Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu quietly landed at Dongcheng Pier and entered the city.

Zhao Hu has been in Haidong for several years. Except for his wife and children, his parents and brothers are all in Chongzhou.

However, the situation in Shandong has become a trend of collapse. They could not get news from Luxi in Dengzhou in time, and they walked at sea for a few days. They just landed and were eager to know the development of the situation in Shandong. Ya go.

Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde and others were so busy in Dongya that when they saw Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu come in, Lin Mengde said, "I'm so busy here, I don't have time to go to the wharf to meet you. I'm also worried that you will go back to reunite with your family first. I'm discussing with Master Qin to send someone to invite you here directly, but don't blame it..."

Gao Zongting clasped his fists and smiled: "How dare you, how dare you?" He asked, "How far has the situation in Shandong developed?"

"The news of the fall of Yangxin reached Jinan. In order to avoid the break of retreat, Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong and their sons began to abandon Jinan in the sixth day of the sixth day and hurriedly fled south from the western foot of Mount Tai. There were as many as 100,000 people, and the speed of evacuation was extremely slow. It was almost delayed until the 12th, when Liang and his son led hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate from Jinan City in batches. The 10,000 cavalry crossed the Yellow River and occupied Jinan. The next day, Yuan Lishan led 10,000 light cavalry to cross between Taishan and Yishan from Linzi, to catch up with the main force of Liang's fleeing south at the western border of Tai'an. Liang Xi was supposed to be Yuan Lishan's old master, but Yuan Lishan didn't remember his old feelings at all, and he fought very hard. In the first battle, Liang's southern retreating troops were defeated. Liang Chengchong had fled to Jining, but Liang Xi and the remaining soldiers were about close. 30,000 people were trapped in Dongping County, and the brave soldiers who fled all over the mountains and fields are even more rare. It is not an exaggeration to say that blood is flowing. The main force was catching up from Jinan, and there was a steady stream of troops from Linzi to the southwest. By yesterday, Yanhu had gathered more than 80,000 troops in the periphery of Dongping County. I didn't dare to break through the siege, but sent several messengers to rush out to ask for help..."

"How is the grain storage situation in Dongping County?" Gao Zongting asked, "How many soldiers and horses does Liang Chengchong have in Jining?"

It is not as far as Yangxin, thousands of miles away, with heavy mountains and rivers. Dongping County is only four hundred miles away from Huaiyang. The Anshan Lake in the territory is connected to Sishui, which is an important water area to communicate with the Yellow River and Huai River. The key to the possibility of breaking the siege is whether the grain storage in Dongping County can support the deployment of troops here.

"The Liang family has long been deployed in Jining. The 10,000 elite soldiers transferred from Yinan were also deployed in Jining. They gathered the remnants and collapsed. Liang Chengchong had about 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jining. In addition, the Liang family was asking for help. The letter said that the grain storage in Dongping County will last for two months, but this figure is very questionable!" Qin Chengzu said.

The hills and plains at the southern foot of Mount Tai are favorable terrain for Yan and Hu Dagu's cavalry battles. Only Liang Chengchong's 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jining could not rescue Liang Xi, who was trapped in Dongping. However, if Liang Xi could not lead the remnants to hold on to Dongyang County to contain the main force of the enemy, and the reinforcements rushed over and found that Dongping County had already run out of food and surrendered, it was likely that a large number of enemy cavalry would be attacked head-on.

The Liang family was afraid that Huaidong and Jiangning would not receive reinforcements, and they would most likely boast that Dongping had enough food.

The Liang family retreated to the south. Caozhou (now Heze) and Jining were big cities, and they were also the main cities that the Liang family had planned to evacuate into. The most dilapidated town in Dongping County was a transit station on the way to the south of the Liang family. How could the Liang family be stored in Dongping? How much forage?

"Is there any movement in the Changhuai Army?" Gao Zongting asked.

"With the withdrawal of the Liang family, the flanks of the Changhuai Army will be exposed, and the foundation of the entire Hehuai line of defense will be completely loosened," Qin Chengzu said, "The evidence of Liu Ye's flight to the enemy is conclusive, and because of its implication, Yue Lengqiu resigned to the prime minister for the time being. He lives in seclusion by the Moling Lake. Emperor Yongxing did not allow him to leave Jiangning, and he should wait for the limelight to pass. However, the rise and fall of Yue Lengqiu will inevitably involve the two armies of Huinan and Changhuai. After arguing for several days, a decision was finally reached to order the Changhuai Army to withdraw to Dongping in the south. However, Yue Lengqiu just resigned, causing people to worry that the Changhuai Army's morale was fluctuating and morale was low. At this time, the Changhuai Army was asked to help. Dongping, luck is unpredictable..."

At this time, Huaidong did not want to force Yue Lengqiu to resign, and even wanted Yue Lengqiu to stay in the temple. Given the current situation, the fluctuating military hearts of the Changhuai Army and the Huinan Army were not in Huaidong's interests, but If you don't take Liu Yefei's charge, Huaidong will lose his position when he sends troops to Dengzhou.

Sometimes you can't get the best of both worlds in everything.

Without waiting for Gao Zongting to ask again, Qin Chengzu went on to introduce the latest situation between Hehuai and Huai: "Dong Yuan was only leading his troops into Guoyang, but he did not intend to go further north. It is also to prevent Chen Han Sansheng from changing depending on the situation..."

To say that Liu Yefei's surrender to the enemy was unexpected by many people; Chen Hansan, the court and the opposition were almost all wary, including Luo Xiancheng, who retreated to Xiangyang, and Jiangning couldn't worry about it...

"If the cancer of Chen Hansan can be pulled out, Liu Miaozhen's 30,000 elites will not be nailed to Huaiyang..." Zhao Hu clenched his fists, and was extremely disdainful of Chen Hansan's repeated betrayal behavior. .

"Difficult..." Gao Zongting shook his head bitterly, and read the word "difficult" in Qin Chengzu's eyes.

Chen Hansan has no integrity at all. Once Yanhu is powerful and sweeps over, his chances of surrendering to the enemy are 80 to 90 percent, if not ten percent. In fact, it is a very dangerous and unstable factor. Furthermore, Qin Chengzu, Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu and others also harbored a deep hatred for Chen Hansan, but if they could get rid of them, they would never delay their actions until today.

Chen Han Sanfei Liu Yefei can compare.

Pretending to be Jiang Ning's special envoy and falsely publicizing secret decrees, Liu Yefei could be deceived out of the city to annihilate; such a simple strategy would hardly work against Chen Hansan.

Huaidong could even dispatch troops to land in Dengzhou with lightning speed just based on guesswork. Even if there is no evidence of Liu Yefei's surrender to the enemy in the end, he can still be charged with a crime. Liu Yefei has become a prisoner, and there is still room for struggle?

If Chen Hansan could be eaten clean at once, Huaidong would not be afraid of finding the crime of carrying the stolen goods. The key point is that Chen Hansan has 20,000 elite soldiers and is extremely loyal to Chen Hansan. It is difficult for outsiders to differentiate. Difficult to eat at once. Furthermore, Xuzhou is a rare heroic city in the Central Plains. At the beginning, Yue Lengqiu relied on 20,000 elite soldiers to defend Xuzhou. Liu An'er led 200,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Xuzhou for more than half a year and failed to capture it. Chen Hansan could not be lured out. How many troops to fight Xuzhou?

Chen Hansan did not get rid of it, let alone Dong Yuan dare not lead his troops north to aid Dongping, nor Huaidong dare to take away the troops on the front lines of Huaiyang and Suyu. At that time, not only the soldiers and horses who went north to aid Dongping would be threatened by Chen Hansan, but also the empty Huaisi defense line would be in danger of being pierced by Chen Hansan at any time.

The current predicament in Huaisi can be said to be the sequelae left over from the early years of the Huaisi war, which were not handled neatly, and this sequelae was extremely difficult and serious.

With such a situation, Yue Lengqiu can't blame Yue Lengqiu for not being ruthless at the beginning—many times, the situation forces him to take some measures to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and even sometimes drinking poison to quench his thirst is a last resort.

At first, Yue Lengqiu wanted to use Chen Hansan's power to suppress Huaidong to expand to Xusi area. In the later stage, the Liang family wanted to balance Huaidong and leave a buffer force between Huaidong and Shandong, including Jiangning's unwillingness to let Huaidong's power be unlimited. Expansion will not allow Huaidong to remove the hidden danger of Chen Hansan.

At this time, the situation became urgent, and Yan Hu soldiers and horses poured in continuously. The distance from Xuzhou recently was only two or three hundred miles, and the opportunity to solve the cancer of Chen Hansan was lost.

Thinking of this, Gao Zongting asked, "Has there been any obvious changes in Chen Hansan?"

Qin Chengzu said: "What the MI Division can confirm now is that Yan Hu twice sent people to sneak into Xuzhou to contact Chen Hansan - obviously, it is impossible for Yanhu not to see Xuzhou, a variable that is extremely beneficial to them. Zhang Yubo also recently Du sent someone to Jiangning to secretly report the news of Xuzhou. I don't know where the accident happened, and the news was leaked. Zhang Yubo had closely monitored Chen Hansan in Xuzhou, and the situation was very dangerous. Compared with removing the cancer of Chen Hansan once and for all, What is more urgent now is that before Chen Hansan publicly defected to the enemy, Jiang Ning publicly ordered Zhang Yubo to be transferred out..."

Gao Zongting sighed endlessly: the Qingzhou war is over~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Gu Wuchen, Zhao Qinmin, Zhang Jinxian, Du Juefu and others either committed suicide or died in battle, all of them died; although Chen/Yuanliang fled with the rebel army when the city of Linzi was broken However, the whereabouts are still unknown to this day, and it seems that there is a lot of misfortune. The officials of the Dongyang family, who rose at the same time as Lin Fu, have already perished and few people are left.

Zhang Yubo was a straight-forward person, and he was not an official. He knew that Xuzhou was a dangerous place, but he still went to work alone. People in Huaidong did not want Zhang Yubo to be in danger again in Xuzhou.

Qin Chengzu added: "The current situation in Dengzhou can only be said to be roughly the same. There are still nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians who have not withdrawn, so they are eager to transfer you back from the northern line, and also to deal with the current situation together. Set up the envoy Secretary Shanyang camp, specializing in the northern front, and command the troops and horses of Jinwei Island, Haidong, Huaisi, and Huaiyang..."

"Incorporating Haidong into the unified command of the Shanyang camp?" Gao Zongting asked.

"Yes, the Zhen family has sent a secret envoy to Chongzhou again. Your Excellency is determined to support the Zhen family in seeking the royal power of Koryo..." Qin Chengzu said.

After the Seogwipo War, the Zhen clan became independent in Haeyang County on the Goryeo Peninsula and faced off against the Goryeo Lee clan. But relatively speaking, Zhen's power is still weak, and it has no strength to overthrow Li's rule on the Korean Peninsula.

Of course, Zhen's desire to expand the scale of the war on the Korean Peninsula is also what Huaidong is happy to see.

As far as the current situation is concerned, one of Huaidong is worried that the Goryeo navy still has a certain strength in the East China Sea and can be used by Yanhu; the second is that Yanhu receives nearly 300,000 stone of rice grain from Goryeo every year. , and there are at least no less than 20,000 Goryeo soldiers fighting directly for Yanhu.

Zhen's expansion of the scale of the war on the Korean Peninsula will greatly weaken the military support that Yan Hu can obtain from Korea. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter

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