"What, you want to send troops from the prefectures and the provinces to Lanzhou and rush to Taiyuan?"

Puban is also Hezhong County, which is the capital of Puzhou (Hezhong Prefecture). The Yellow River turns a big bend at a right angle in the southwest of Puzhou. It is across the river from the Guanzhong Plain to the west, and across the river from the south, and facing the ancient road from the western part of Luoyang. Zhongtiao Mountain is located in the south, extending close to the north bank of the Yellow River, and is an important place connecting Shaanxi and Henan.

King Jing Zhao Tuan served as the defensive envoy of Puzhou and promoted the grain and salt affairs of Hedong, Luoyang and Shaanxi. He led the Xuanwu army to take charge of Puban and organized the emergency transport of grain and fodder from Luoyang and Guanzhong to transport it to Jinzhou and Zezhou to support Gao Junyang and Zheng Huaizhong's troops.

In addition to Qian Shangduan, Qiao Ji'en, Deng Gui, Zhang Xin and others all went to Puban, King Jing Zhao Tuan also reported to transfer Zhong Yingqiu to the magistrate of Puban.

In addition, King Jing Zhao Tuan also submitted a memorial to divide Puzhou into a new grain land for the Xuanwu Army, and moved the families of the Xuanwu Army soldiers recruited in Qinshui and other places to Puban and other counties for temporary resettlement, so as not to prevent the Chihu people from going south. Many generals and soldiers were unwilling to evacuate with their relatives.

The court is now in a mess, with no overall view. As long as the memorials issued by King Jing and Zheng Huaizhong from Hedong are not too excessive and seem to be beneficial to defense, they are basically approved.

Puban is now following the initial strategy of discussion. In an orderly manner, Qian Shangduan and others did not expect that Xu Huai led the Yiqin Camp to return to Chushan from Puban for only half a month. Suddenly, he secretly returned to Puban and proposed a combat plan to lead troops to raid Taiyuan from Guanzhong.

Qian Shangduan, Zhang Xin, Deng Gui, who were staying in Puban at this time, sat on the left side of King Jing Zhao Tuan, staring at Xu Huai in amazement. He wondered how he thought of such a crazy plan.

Although the Chihu people had not yet captured Taiyuan City, large areas such as Xin, Dai, Wu, and Lan in the north of Taiyuan and Yunshuo in Yunshuo on the north side have been quickly digested by the Chihu people.

At this time, many surrendered generals, such as Cao Shili, served as the governor of Lanzhou, and marched Wanhu, Yuehailou was appointed as the governor of Yingzhou, deputy marching Wanhu, Yin Chao was appointed as the governor of Xinzhou, deputy marching Wanhu, and other Khitan surrendered generals, each occupying Yunzhou, Shuozhou and other places. Dayue had already lost control of these places.

Even if the main force of the Chihu Western Route Army is very likely to be unable to wait to capture Taiyuan and go south urgently, there will definitely be no shortage of troops staying to monitor the Taiyuan defenders.

In addition, Cao Shixiong will inevitably guard against the troops from the prefectures and prefectures. Xu Huai led three to five thousand troops into Lanzhou and raided Taiyuan. Is it enough to make people's teeth stuck?

"The Chihu people invaded the south again and would inevitably carry a large number of surrendered troops to assist in the attack and capture the city and village. However, Hedong, Hebei and Hehuai were destroyed, and it would be difficult for their surrendered troops to obtain sufficient supplies from these areas by looting. Therefore, they would inevitably take away as many relatively elite cavalry troops in the surrendered troops as possible, and carry a large number of livestock so that they could slaughter the mounts to make up for food and fodder if necessary."

Xu Huai sat down on the right side of King Jing and analyzed calmly,

"So after the main force of the Chihu West Route Army heads south, even in Taiyuan and Lanzhou in the northern part of Taiyuan, Xinzhou and others will keep some people, but their combat effectiveness will not be too strong. On the one hand, the Taiyuan defenders were trapped for more than seven months, and their food and fodder were exhausted. They guarded the city with a mouthful of blood in their chest and the undying iron bones with the barbarians. However, in fact, they have lost the ability to go out of the city to fight back. On the other hand, the prefectures and Khitans in the West Mountain tried their best to avoid conflicts with the enemy soldiers. These two points will be called the Chihu people ignoring the threat of losing their backs and abdomen. I led my troops to go there, and there was a chance of victory!"

Xu Huai wanted to lead his troops north, of course, he had to obtain the support of King Jing Zhao Tuan, so that he could better hide his traces and call the materials needed for combat from Puzhou and Guanzhong nearby to achieve the goal of fast, rapid and hostile.

"In addition to the feasible raid, there are three other reasons that require us to take this risk," Xu Huai said. "First, whether the Khitan remnants are willing to truly surrender to the Dayue, and whether they will send troops to participate in the raid on Taiyuan this time can finally be confirmed; second, the prefectures and prefectures should still strengthen constraints; third, the Red Hu cavalry invaded Hehuai again, and His Highness cannot do nothing."

The Khitan remnants are the easiest to understand.

Although some of the Khitan remnants were migrating from Xishan area to Linzhou at this time, many people in the court were deeply worried that this move would lead wolves into the house, and they always wanted to urge the Khitan remnants to use troops against the Chihu people as a letter of surrender.

Although some of the children of the Gu family in the Prefectures participated in the defense of Bianliang in the sequence of the imperial guards in the capital, the imperial court issued repeated orders to order the Gu family to organize troops to harass Lanzhou and Shuozhou in the Prefectures and Contain some of the captured troops to reduce the military pressure in the south. However, the Gu family did not do anything in the Prefectures, so it is difficult to make people not doubt their ancestors.                                                                       

Therefore, Xu Huai led his troops from Fuzhou to Lanzhou, and the raid of Taiyuan. Whether the Khitan remnants and Gu family could actively cooperate will ultimately determine their future attitude.

In fact, Qian Shangduan, Zheng Huaizhong and others were eager to verify this, worried that they would have any abnormalities that would directly threaten the security of the Guanzhong Northeast Portal.

Xu Huai wanted to send troops to raid Taiyuan, which was inseparable from the cooperation of Gu's family in Fuzhou. At this time, only King Jing could put pressure on Gu's family in Fuzhou.

Otherwise, how big the face of Xu Huaidai would convince Gu to completely give up the opportunity to secretly send Qiubo with the Chihu people and cooperate with them with all their strength? Xu Huai was more confident in persuading Xiao Linshi.

As for the third reason, it is actually the most realistic thing about King Jing.

The Chihu people invaded the south again. As the prince, King Jing Zhao Tuan, how could he be completely indifferent and stay in Luoyang with Zheng Huaizhong and remain in Puzhou?

If this is the case, how can the world be convinced in the future?

Therefore, when the Chihu people go south again, the Xuanwu army and the Qin Feng soldiers of Zheng Huaizhong will still fight. However, considering that the Chihu people will still send heavy troops to block the front line of Hulao at that time, if the Xuanwu army and Qin Feng soldiers continue to be suppressed west of Hulao, they will inevitably be criticized in the future.

If Xuanwu Army and Qin Feng Army were suppressed by Chihu Cavalry and could not advance eastward by the west of Hulao, they would send their partial troops to detour for thousands of miles and raid Taiyuan, who else in the world could criticize King Jing?

Qian Shangduan and Qiao Jien's eyes were lit up. Deng Gui asked hesitantly: "Can Taiyuan defend the main force of the Chihu Western Route Army go south? No matter what, before the main force of the Chihu Western Route Army goes south, he will definitely try to attack Taiyuan again!"

"Qian Zerui is in Puban. According to him, Taiyuan's military and civilians have a very firm will to defend the city, and now Taiyuan's military and civilians have no way to retreat! The city is broken and the city is massacre, and they can only defend until the day they are unable to defend again."

Because the discussion involves extremely sensitive issues such as fighting for the support of the legitimate legislator, Xu Huai cannot directly bring Qian Zerui to participate in the secret discussion,

"If the main force of the Chihu Western Route Army had already captured Taiyuan before heading south, we could only harass Lanzhou, and we would not go deep into Taiyuan, or even not harass Lanzhou. At most, it would be a waste of time. If we prepare for it in vain, we would not suffer any more losses!"

"Can the Chushan soldiers withstand such a arduous raid?" King Jing Zhao Tuan asked worriedly.

Although the Xuanwu Army is still good at combat effectiveness, it is still not arguably the elite of hundreds of battles; Zheng Huaizhong is currently choosing to support him, but King Jing Zhao Tuan cannot speak of true trust in Zheng Huaizhong, but it is more of a relationship of mutual cooperation. With the abolition of the king-supporting troops from the southeast and southwest, even if Hu Kai continues to serve as the defensive envoy of Caizhou, Yang Lin led less than 10,000 troops and horses, so he cannot speak of the elite.

King Jing Zhao Tuan now has the only elite combat power he can rely on is the Chushanzhu.

From the first northern expedition to the Qinshui River to the sudden attack on the Chushan soldiers, under the leadership of Xu Huai, there has been almost no stop in the past three or four years.

King Jing Zhao Tuan was worried that the Chushan soldiers who had not undergone a thorough rest could take on the combat mission of rushing thousands of miles. The other was worried that the Chushan soldiers would suffer heavy casualties when they rushed to Taiyuan, so that he had no elite combat power to rely on.

"Chu Shan tried his best to draw two thousand warriors, and he could still fight!" Xu Huai said.

He didn't explain much, nor did he want the outside world to understand the military system inside the Chushanzhang.

Although the Chushan soldiers have been fighting for the past few years, especially around this year, they participated in the defense of Gongxian County and crossed the river to attack Qinshui. The intensity of the battle seemed to be very high, even the cavalry generals and soldiers within the Chushan camp were revolving on their way to fight, and the casualties were supplemented in time.

Even war horses pay great attention to rotating commanders.

At this time, Xu Huai was able to pull out two thousand elites who had been replenishing their energy for a long time from Chushan, and two thousand fat and strong war horses and the same number of camel horses.

Of course, with the two thousand elite troops in Chushan alone, the troops were slightly less. It would be possible that Puban sent some troops, as well as the remnants of the Khitan tribe and the Gu family in the Prefecture to cooperate, and taking advantage of the main force of the Chihu Western Route Army to head south and raid Taiyuan.

"I'll ask someone to invite Qian Zerui over, I'll ask about the situation in Taiyuan carefully." King Jing Zhao Tuan did not ask about Qian Shangduan and Qiao Jien's opinion, and knew that they would be against it. After all, this is really not their style. Xu Huai will always be the one who takes the wrong steps.
Chapter completed!