Inside the commander's tent, Zhang Yangquan saw that his civil and military officials were about to start a quarrel, and had to stop him.
"Okay, if you have different opinions, you can argue, but you can't make personal attacks. Geng San, don't say such things again in the future!"
Geng San silently agreed.
At this moment, the guards entered the camp and reported: "General Manager, Deputy General Manager Guo is here, and Fang Shenzheng is also back!"
Zhang Yangquan was surprised and happy, and said: "Please come in quickly."
Just listen to a familiar loud laughter: "Wang Da, Monkey, Geng San, you three guys, why don't you apologize to Judge Ma! A arrogant army will be defeated, and Judge Ma is right!"
Amid laughter, Fang Yuan and Guo Niansheng entered the tent together.
The three of them, Wang and Da, had always admired Fang Yuan. After hearing these words, they looked at each other and bowed their hands towards Ma Yulin.
Qin Lingjun's eyes showed joy and she said to Fang Yuan: "Uncle Fang has returned just in time. We are discussing whether to withdraw troops from Zhenzhou and Tongzhou and defend Jiangdu with all our strength! I wonder what Uncle Fang thinks?"
Unlike Guo Niansheng, who was in charge of logistics, Fang Yuan was Qin Jianye's number one general and had rich experience in leading troops.
He pondered for a while and said: "It is not necessary to defend the city with more troops. If we guard separately, we can rescue each other and boost morale. There is no need to gather together!"
Zhang Yangquan nodded and asked tentatively: "How long does Uncle Fang think Gaoyou can defend?"
Fang Yuandao: "Well... I only heard that Gaoyou was besieged. I don't know the specific situation..."
Wang DaDao: "Tuo Tuo led an army of 100,000 to surround the north gate of Gaoyou, and the east gate was 70,000 from the Mobei Army. Currently, these two groups are attacking Gaoyou."
Fang Yuan and Wang Da stopped and asked, "Where are the west gate and the south gate?"
The monkey said: "Chahan Timur's 80,000 right-leg army was divided into two. One half blocked the water gate to the west of Gaoyou, and the other half blocked all roads connected to Gaoyou, turning Gaoyou into an isolated city."<
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Fang Yuan asked again: "How many defenders are there in Gaoyou?"
Geng Sandao: "Less than thirty thousand."
Fang Yuan pondered for a while and said: "Looking at it from this point of view, it is only a matter of time before Gaoyou is breached, but..."
Zhang Yangquan said: "But what?"
Fang Yuandao: "In addition to the army, defending the city also depends on whether the people in the city are united. As long as the army and the people are united, it will be difficult for the army, no matter how powerful it is, to breach the city!"
Zhang Yangquan nodded secretly and said: "Zhang Shicheng is very popular among the people. In addition, the Yuan army will massacre the city after attacking it. The people of Gaoyou will definitely cooperate with the defenders!"
Fang Yuan smiled and said: "That's good. I think within half a month, the Tatars will not be able to capture Gaoyou City!"
Zhang Yangquan turned his eyes to Ma Yulin and said, "What do you think, Ma Tuiguan?"
Just now, Fang Yuan asked Wang Da and the other three to apologize to him, which was very helpful to Ma Yulin, and he felt that Fang Yuan's words were logical and different from the blind arrogance of Wang Da and other generals.
"I have no objection."
Zhang Yangquan nodded and said: "Then the matter is settled. We will not remove the troops from Zhenzhou and Tongzhou for the time being. We will wait and see the changes in the situation in Gaozhou Post Office! Uncle Guo, what's the matter with you coming over?"
Guo Niansheng smiled and said: "There was something wrong before, but now it's okay."
Zhang Yangquan was stunned.
Guo Niansheng smiled and said: "The general manager's office just received a letter from Zhao Desheng. He proposed to abandon Zhenzhou and lead troops back to Jiangdu to strengthen the defense."
The monkey smiled and said: "It seems that Lao Zhao is more anxious than us!"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said: "Give him a reply and ask him and Xu Baisheng to continue to guard Zhenzhou and wait for orders!"
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When Xu Baisheng returned to the camp in the east of the city, it was already dusk. As soon as he entered the commander's tent, he saw Zhao Desheng sitting behind his commander's desk with a golden sword.
He didn't care, and silently walked to the wooden frame, took off his armor, and ordered someone to bring a pot of radish and potato soup, and sat on a table to eat.
Zhao Desheng couldn't help but said: "You see the dragon all day long without seeing its tail. Could it be that you are surveying the terrain again?"
Xu Baisheng said "hmm".
Zhao Desheng just asked casually, but he actually guessed it, and said in surprise: "You don't think the Yuan army will come to attack Zhenzhou, do you?"
Xu Baisheng said while eating: "No, they won't pay attention to us until Jiangdu is defeated."
Zhao Desheng frowned and said: "Then why are you still investigating? The Yuan army is encircling Gaoyou in large numbers, and it will only take a few days to defeat it! I just wrote a letter to the general manager, proposing to abandon Zhenzhou, gather troops, and stick to Jiangdu!" Xu Baisheng said without raising his head: "The manager will not agree."
Zhao Desheng was unconvinced and said: "How do you know?"
Xu Baisheng said: "If I wanted to give up, I would have given up long ago and would not have waited until today."
Zhao Desheng was silent for a while and said: "Then I will lead 15,000 people back to Jiangdu, and you will lead 5,000 people to stay behind. Do you think the general manager will agree?"
"No."
Zhao Desheng touched his nose and said with a wry smile: "I'm very calm. To be honest, I haven't been able to sleep at night for the past few days. I'm afraid that when I get up in the morning, I will hear the news that Jiangdu is besieged!"
Xu Baisheng drank the soup in one gulp, finally raised his head and said: "Instead of asking for trouble by thinking about these things, we should think about what we can do now!"
Zhao Desheng said blankly: "The general manager asked us to defend Zhenzhou, what else can we do?"
Xu Baisheng wiped his mouth and said: "Two days ago, I sent a detailed report to Hezhou to report that Timur quietly returned to Hezhou!"
Zhao Desheng frowned and said, "He was originally the guard general of Hezhou. What's so strange about returning to Hezhou?"
Xu Baisheng's eyes were intense and he said: "I want to deal with you first!"
Zhao Desheng lost his voice and said: "You want to attack Hezhou?"
Xu Baisheng shook his head: "It's not about attacking Hezhou, it's just about dealing with him first!"
"Does it make a difference?"
Xu Baisheng said: "To deal with it, you don't have to attack Hezhou first. You can also lure him to attack Zhenzhou, and then gather him and annihilate him!"
Zhao Desheng pondered for a while and said: "Do you want to win another battle and continue to frustrate the Yuan army?"
"Fighting Ye Xian is different from attacking other Yuan armies. It will not only lower the morale of the Yuan army, but also make the Yuan army more divided!"
Zhao Desheng was stunned and said: "Why?"
Xu Baisheng said slowly: "It's Tuotuo's Qicun first. In this battle of Haozhou, Tuotuo asked Dong Tuanxiao to take the blame first. The Jiangnan soldiers must be dissatisfied. As long as we let Ye first suffer another defeat, we can Deepen the dissatisfaction of Jiangnan soldiers!"
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Zhao Desheng thought for a while and said: "That makes sense."
Xu Baisheng added: "The most threatening force to Zhenzhou now is Hezhou's 30,000 troops. If we can eliminate them first, the general manager will have nothing to worry about when he mobilizes us in the future!"
Zhao Desheng sighed and said: "You are really thinking too far! The problem is, he has been frightened by us first, how dare he come to attack us again?"
Xu Baisheng's eyes flashed and he said: "As long as you grasp his psychology, it's not difficult. It only takes two steps."
Zhao Desheng asked quickly: "Which two steps?"
"The first step is to spread rumors!"
……
First of all, Timur has never been so angry as he is now. During the Battle of Shahe, it was indeed his fault, and he accepted it even if he was scolded.
However, this time in the battle of Haozhou, the responsibility does not lie with you at all!
He clearly advocated using Jia Lu's strategy to continue to besiege the enemy, but the boy Yesu came up with a bad idea and seduced the enemy to rob the camp. As a result, he fell into the enemy's plan and the entire army was annihilated!
The hateful thing is that no one believes in him, even his brothers think he is shirking responsibility.
He seems to have been labeled as a "defeated general". Whenever he loses a battle, others' first reaction is that it was him!
In the past two days, whenever he goes out, he can hear a group of unscrupulous people on the street talking about him.
Some said he was the most frequently defeated general of the Yuan Dynasty. Some said the emperor was very angry this time and wanted to hold him accountable, even the prime minister would be implicated.
Ye Xian was angry and wanted to put all these unruly people in jail. However, he remembered Tuotuo's warning to keep a low profile after returning to Hezhou, so he forced himself to hold back.
That afternoon, in order to change his mood, he went to watch a play in Goulan. The previous show was "Lu Dongbin's Three Journeys to Nanliu". After watching it, he felt a little better.
Who knows that the next scene will be "Guan Yu loses Jingzhou due to carelessness!"
Ye Xian felt very depressed and stood up to leave the private room. Unexpectedly, a man below laughed and said: "Guan Yu lost Jingzhou and killed his brother. Isn't it a bit like our doctor Ye Xian?"
Another person said: "Fart! What kind of person Guan Wusheng is, how can I compare with him!"
"That's right, that's right! General Guan won many battles before, but only lost one in Jingzhou. Doctor Ye Xian only lost one battle!"
I was so angry that I almost vomited blood. I couldn't hold it in anymore and ordered the guards to go down and arrest these unruly people.
The hook column became a mess.
Soon, those people who were talking were caught, and they calmed down a little. Remembering Tuotuo's instructions, they did not execute them, and only asked the guards to lock them in prison for three days.
On the way back to the mansion, I began to think more and more angrily, thinking: "If I can't win a battle, I will be nailed to the pillar of shame for the rest of my life. What's the point of living?"
However, the only one that can be attacked at the moment is Zhenzhou. Thinking of Zhenzhou's disastrous defeat last time, I still feel a little frightened.
After a few days of this, the scouts suddenly came to report that 10,000 troops from the east gate of Zhenzhou had set up camp and headed towards Jiangdu.
Ye Xian was overjoyed and wanted to lead his troops to attack Zhenzhou, but everyone on the left and right opposed it, saying: "General, the Zhenzhou thieves are full of tricks, I'm afraid they may be deceitful!"
Ye Xian said angrily: "How can we lead troops to fight if we are too timid! Now our army is surrounding Gaoyou, maybe it has captured Gaoyou now and is marching towards Jiangdu! The Zhenzhou bandit soldiers will naturally detach their troops and go to Jiangdu to defend! You don't have to follow.
, I can lead the troops alone!"
Ignoring everyone's dissuasion, he gathered 25,000 troops and marched towards Zhenzhou.
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"You want to attack Jiangdu?" Dong Tuanxiao asked with a frown.
Jia Lu nodded and said: "Yes, this is the only way to save you."
The night was low, the moon was bright, and the moonlight shone on Jia Lu's face, solemn and solemn. It was obvious that his words did not come out casually.
Dong Tuanxiao moved his body in the prison car, changed to a more comfortable position, and said: "Has our army captured Gaoyou?"
Jia Lu said: "Not yet. The Gaoyou defenders are very tenacious and well prepared. The center army and the front army have been attacking for eight days, but they have not been able to climb the city wall!"
Dong Tuanxiao frowned and said, "In that case, will the Prime Minister let you divide your troops to attack Jiangdu?"
Jia Lu said: "Of course not under normal circumstances, but if special circumstances arise, he may change his mind!"
"What special circumstances?"
Jia Lu looked around, walked to the prison car, and leaned against the prison lane: "Before I came to find you, I went to the Left Route Army and had a few words with some of your generals!"
"Yang Tongguan and the others?"
"Yes, they are all angry about what happened to you."
Dong Tuanxiao's face sank and he said: "Jia Gong, you won't encourage them to do anything dangerous, right?"
Jia Lu said calmly: "I have received your favor, how can I harm you? Don't worry, they will not mess around, they will only prove one thing to the prime minister!"
"Prove what?"
Jia Lu whispered: "Only you can lead the left army to win the battle!"
Dong Tuanxiao's expression changed sharply, and he said: "You..." He paused, lowered his voice to the lowest level, and said: "You don't want them to deliberately lose the battle, do you?"
Jia Lu squinted his eyes and smiled, saying: "Isn't this bad?"
Dong Tuanxiao's expression changed several times. He wanted to say something but couldn't.
Jia Lu said: "Actually, even without my hint, the Left Army's attack on Xinghua would not go smoothly. Because of you, the morale of the soldiers is very low, and the commander-in-chief is the King of Xining..."
Dong Tuanxiao was silent for a long time and said: "You are playing with fire!"
Jia Lu said solemnly: "The Prime Minister asked King Xining to lead the army. That is playing with fire! In my opinion, only if you command the left army can our army regain Yangzhou as soon as possible!"
Dong Tuanxiao said: "Isn't there Chahan Timur?"
Jia Lu shook his head and said: "Chahan offended King Jing because of the Battle of Baoying. The Prime Minister will not offend the Mobei Army for him. In this war, he can only be a bystander!"
Dong Tuanxiao said blankly: "I heard that Chahan saved King Jing in the Battle of Baoying. How could I offend him?"
Jia Lu turned around, stared at Dong Tuanxiao silently for a while, and sighed: "It seems that General Dong does not have a deep understanding of the treacherous nature of people's hearts. It was precisely because Chahan saved King Jing that he offended him!
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Dong Tuanxiao was stunned and speechless.
Jia Lu continued: "Those princes all have the same virtues. They are arrogant and think they are invincible. In fact, they don't understand their own weight at all. One is worthless than the other!"
Dong Tuanxiao thought of the King of Zhennan and the King of Xining, and did not refute, nor was he willing to continue this topic, saying: "Even if Xinghua is defeated, the Prime Minister may not let you attack Jiangdu!"
Jia Lu turned around, leaned against the prison car again, and said calmly: "That's because you don't understand the current situation in the DPRK! Don't look at the prime minister's glory, but he is actually under a lot of pressure now!"
Dong Tuanxiao said: "Is it because of Hama?"
Jia Lu curled his lips and said: "Hama is just a jester. He is trying to figure out the holy will all the time. The reason why he slandered the Prime Minister in front of His Majesty is because he saw that Your Majesty is very impatient with the Prime Minister!"
Dong Tuanxiao nodded, was silent for a while, and said: "You'd better be careful when attacking Jiangdu. These bandits are not ordinary. They have a very powerful gunpowder in their hands!"
Jia Lu sighed and said: "I know that not only are they powerful with gunpowder, but they are also making firecrackers. My brother is helping them make firecrackers in Jiangdu!"
Dong Tuanxiao hesitated and said: "Then are you still sure of conquering Jiangdu?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure at all." Jia Lu shrugged, looked back at Dong Tuanxiao, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, no matter whether you win or lose this battle, I can save you!" After that, he walked away.
Go.
Dong Tuanxiao was stunned. Only when Jia Lu walked away did he understand what he meant.
If Jia Lu captures Jiangdu, it will be a great achievement, and he can use this achievement to plead with himself.
If defeated, it would definitely cause shock to the Yuan court. Coupled with the unfavorable war in Xinghua, it is very likely that he would be re-activated under the heavy pressure.
Thinking of this, Dong Tuanxiao murmured in the direction where Jia Lu left: "Jia Gong, we are even!"