Chapter 51 Regret not listening to Xiaodu's words!
Zhou military camp outside Shouzhou.
Guo Rong looked at the battle report in his hand and was furious. He looked at the civil and military officers in the tent and threw the battle report in his hand to the ground. He said angrily: "One by one, their eyes are higher than their heads. Why divide the troops into four and seize the thirteen states in Jiangbei first?"
, Shouzhou is like a turtle in an urn, it can be captured easily."
"What now?"
"Let them be divided and attack them."
"We also lost two generals!"
"The lands taken will be taken back one by one by the enemy."
"I have repeatedly emphasized military discipline and that we must pay attention to people's livelihood when we are on an expedition. I do not ask you to be kind and considerate of the people, or at least not to bully the people."
"It's fine now. It was all troubled by the white-armored soldiers, but it was taken advantage of by Jiangnan."
"Loss of troops and territory..."
"Everyone, what else can you say now?"
All the civil and military generals in the tent were frightened.
Guo Rong has an impatient temper, and once his temper gets the better of him, he often attacks without regard to severity.
When I was in Bianjing, there was Queen Fu who could always persuade Guo Rong calmly and suppress Guo Rong's temper.
Queen Fu is not here now. Once the boss takes over, they will suffer.
As the capable generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty began to take power, the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty were fascinated by a series of successes. As the autumn harvest was approaching, the momentum of the white-armored soldiers swept all the state capitals.
The Zhou Dynasty, which attacks various places separately, will drive straight in, unstoppable, and will begin to be controlled everywhere.
Especially Huaixi East Road.
Zhu Yuan!
A young general from the Southern Tang Dynasty appeared out of nowhere and killed Qi Zangzhen, the governor of Huangzhou. He used white-armored soldiers to defeat Si Chao, the security patrol envoy of Guangzhou, captured Li Fu of Qizhou, and showed his head to the public.
Now Zhu Yuan's army arrived directly at the foot of Guangzhou City, forcing Si Chao to hide in Guangzhou City and ask Guo Rong for help.
On the Huainan West Road, as Zhao Hongyin was defeated by Guo Tingwei, and Zhao Kuangyin's defeat, Guo Lingtu, who occupied Sizhou City, also felt the pressure and applied to abandon Sizhou and withdraw to the Shouzhou military camp.
In just over a month, the Southern Tang Dynasty had completed its counterattack against the Great Zhou Dynasty and recovered Huangzhou, Qizhou, and Chuzhou in one fell swoop. Guangzhou was in danger, and Sizhou could no longer defend itself.
In addition to Huainan Middle Road controlled by Luo Youdu, Huainan East and West Roads are both in danger.
How can the arrogant Guo Rong endure it?
Seeing all the generals in the tent, no one dared to say anything.
Guo Rong suppressed his anger. Now that the morale of the army was slightly unstable, it was not suitable for heavy punishment. He waved his hand and said: "Go down and reflect on yourself."
Looking at the empty military tent, the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty was also secretly upset.
When Shouzhou could not be captured for a long time, the generals proposed to attack separately.
Although Guo Rong received Luo Youdu's warning letter, he did not adopt it.
On the one hand, just as Luo Youdu thought, Guo Rong was from the perspective of the emperor.
Although Luo Youdu and Zhao Kuangyin are the most capable of fighting, they cannot both be used. Special favors will cause internal unrest.
Therefore, it is imperative to divide the troops.
On the other hand, Guo Rong didn't really believe that the Southern Tang Dynasty could make any waves.
Although I had expected that the troops would be divided into multiple routes and there would be a risk of being defeated by each of them, I still felt that even a partial defeat would only be a matter of one or two places.
With Zhou's military strength, as long as the rescue is timely, it will not be much affected.
Who would have thought that a wave of white-armored soldiers would unexpectedly arise in various places in Huainan.
Moreover, most of the white-armored soldiers appeared in the state capitals they captured, which was very unlucky.
In fact, this has nothing to do with being unlucky.
Under Li Jing's governance, the people in Huainan were already living in poverty and barely surviving. They were just one step away from being able to survive and rebelling.
The invasion of Zhou soldiers and the suffering of the people were the last straw that broke the camel's back. They would definitely not survive.
If you can't survive, you have to rebel. Then the defeated Southern Tang withdrew from the state capital and unexpectedly escaped from the quagmire.
Da Zhou, who captured the capital of Xiazhou, was able to withstand all the anger of the Baijia Army.
This caused the Zhou Dynasty to have to deal with the White Armored Army in the territory and beware of the counterattack of the Southern Tang Dynasty, facing enemies on both sides.
Zhu Yuan of Huainan East Road was another ruthless character who did not risk his life in order to achieve great achievements. He directly led five thousand sergeants to turn Huainan East Road upside down.
As for Huainan East Road, Qi King Li Jingda led Bian Hao, Xu Wenzhen, Lin Renzhao, Chen Decheng and Guo Tingwei to the north.
Even Zhao Kuangyin suffered a loss, so naturally the others were no match.
As a result, Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road were almost completely defeated.
Thinking of the stable Huainan Middle Road, the emperor of Zhou Dynasty said thousands of words, but in the end they only turned into a long sigh: "I regret not listening to the words of young people!"
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Da Zhou Military Camp!
Luo Youdu led Zhang Qiong and more than ten cavalry into Zhou Dynasty's camp in the northwest of Shouzhou City again.
In just half a year, the situation in Zhouying has changed a lot.
After half a year of continuous siege, the soldiers were inevitably tired. Coupled with the recent frequent defeats, a mood called pessimism arose in the army.
But the moment Luo Youdu stepped into the military camp, the sergeants patrolling around him stopped and looked around, and they all felt a sense of respect in their hearts: "This is my little Zhuge of Great Zhou!"
When Luo Youdu conquered Meng and Shu in the west, his military achievements were able to occupy a place among the military officials.
Now he is attacking Liu Yanzhen, taking Luzhou, seizing Hezhou, conquering Shuzhou, and capturing Lu Mengjun alive under the city of Hezhou...
This series of brilliant achievements is dazzling enough, and Zhao Kuangyin could compare with it before.
However, as his horse stumbled, Huaixi East Road and Huainan West Road were defeated one after another. Luo Youdu held the position of Huainan Middle Road with one person, so that the Southern Tang Army did not dare to invade.
This seems extremely valuable.
In the military camp, military merit is the standard.
Luo Youdu returned with unparalleled military achievements, dazzling as if he was wearing colorful rays of light.
The soldiers in the army all stood up and looked ahead.
Xiang Xun passed by the camp and saw Luo Youdu coming from a distance. He didn't know how to respond for a while.
As the late general of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei in the past, his status in the army was second only to Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde, and was tied with a few veteran generals with similar qualifications to him.
When he failed to win the command to attack Meng Shu, he hated Luo Youdu and encouraged Shi Shouxin to deal with Luo Youdu many times.
Nowadays, Luo Youdu's military exploits are shining brightly, and Xiang Xun is a little unsure of his attitude.
"Ask for the envoy!"
Before he could think about it, Luo Youdu said hello first, walked forward quickly, bowed and said hello.
He didn't chat much with Xiang Xun, he just said hello simply, just like old friends meeting on the street, but they have important things to do and have no time to talk about the past, so they can only exchange a few words with each other warmly.
Before Xiang Xun could react, Luo Youdu bowed and left.
Wiping his beard, the veteran felt inexplicably relieved. After making such a great contribution, this boy was not squeamish at all. He still had an old guy in his eyes, and he knew how to say hello when he met someone.
"Not bad!"
Along the way, they would exchange greetings with familiar and unfamiliar civil and military officers until they arrived outside Guo Rong's imperial tent.