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Chapter 1235
After discussing with Li Xia for a long time, Yi Shiying left Baozhou Camp.

He didn't want to delay, and he didn't rest overnight in Baozhou City, so he rode his horse and headed south, and arrived at a small camp in the middle of the night.

Yi Shiying rushed to Baozhou first because Yi Shiying was in a hurry to meet Sheng Sheng, while the infantry were still behind.

The general in charge of guarding the camp, Zhu Cheng, rushed out to greet him and said, "The commander came back overnight?"

"You haven't slept yet?"

"Hey, I just woke up. The last general is on duty in the middle of the night tonight." Zhu Cheng stepped forward and asked, "Marshal, did your Majesty send us here to enter Yanjing and make great contributions?"

"There's no rush, let's talk about it." Although Yi Shiying himself was in a hurry to come back, he appeared very calm in front of his subordinates, "Your Majesty said that whenever you face a major event, you must be calm."

He took a rucksack from the horse's back and refused to let Zhu Cheng take it over. He took it into the tent with his own hands, sat down and beat his legs first, and waited for Zhu Cheng to light a candle before he spread out a few maps in the rucksack .

Zhu Cheng leaned over to look, and couldn't help being surprised.

Because this is not a map of Yanjing, but a map of Taihang Mountains.

"Master, this is?"

Yi Shiying was still beating his legs, and asked back: "Do you want to fight Yanjing?"

"Who doesn't want to go?"

"But there is not enough food and grass in the army." Yi Shiying said: "I thought His Majesty wanted to go all out before the food and grass ran out, but Kublai Khan is not easy to deal with. In Yanjing."

"Then it will be strange, how can Meng Yuan have enough food and grass to drag us down?"

"Why do you say?"

"How would the general know?" Zhu Cheng smirked, showing his big white teeth in the night, "Say it, Commander."

Yi Shiying said: "Kublai Khan has a group of seductive ministers who are good at financial management."

"I don't believe the last general. I have produced a large number of talents. How can I lose to the Semu people in this respect?"

Yi Shiying ignored Zhu Cheng's interruption, and continued: "Over the years, Ahema has been in Shanxi, opened salt ponds, smelted iron ore, paid silk, traded roads, and controlled a large amount of wealth..."

Zhu Cheng listened, and then looked at the map of the Taihang Mountains on the case, and suddenly understood something.

"Understood?" Yi Shiying pointed at Zhu Cheng, then pointed at herself, and said, "This is a confidential military situation, you know it and I know it, don't let it out for now."

"I will understand at the end."

"Now in Shanxi, Ahema has shrunk the line of defense, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields to hold on to Taiyuan, choking all the main roads in Shanxi. Therefore, it is difficult for Liu Yuanli to advance after taking the southwestern part of Shanxi. In the next few days, we continued to march north and arrived at Bao After that, rest for a few days, and then enter the Taihang Mountains when you are ready..."

The candlelight in the tent was dim, and Zhu Cheng's eyes became brighter as he listened to Yi Shiying's strategy.

And Yi Shiying was very tired after running back and forth, and she couldn't open her eyelids as she talked.

Zhu Cheng said: "Commander, take a rest, the general will make arrangements tomorrow."

Yi Shiying didn't take off his armor, wrapped in a blanket, and murmured: "When the Central Plains is recovered, I don't want to miss a moment."

Zhu Cheng couldn't help laughing.

"Don't worry, Commander, let's show off after resting."

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In the next few days, the two generals began to make arrangements based on this strategy, and marched towards Baozhou at the same time.

However, just outside Baozhou City, a news spread to the army.

"Big guy!"

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Cheng quickly stepped into the big tent, and said with a low voice: "There are rumors in the army that the Song army has already broken through Sichuan and Sichuan last year, and has surrendered Chongqing. It is His Majesty who has been suppressing this news and refused to tell the soldiers. .Now the soldiers are very disturbed and talking about it."

Yi Shiying raised her head, her eyes were filled with astonishment.

Before he stayed in Luoyang, he only knew that Wang Hao had gone south to win over Lu Wenhuan so that the Song army would not go north, thinking that this was the entire intersection with the Song court this time.As for the news about Chuanshu, he had never heard of it.

"How could the Song army have such a victory?"

"There are various theories. Some say that Jia Sidao led a large army to attack Shu, and the army is strong; some say that Jiang Cai, who was stationed in Chongqing, had already joined the Zhao army. Some even said that Jiang Cai's surrender was the Song court's arrangement; It is also said that because of our army's Northern Expedition, it not only emptied the troops in Sichuan and Shu, but also exploited the people in Shu, so the people of Shu helped the Song army to suppress the rebellion, just like what happened to Wu Xi back then..."

Yi Shiying frowned.

In terms of loyalty to Song Ting, he asked himself how few people in Sichuan and Sichuan could match him.But in the face of the general trend, even he has joined Datang, and he does not believe that Jiang Cai or the Shu people will fall to Song Ting.

Moreover, he knew the topography of Sichuan and Sichuan the most. From the Three Gorges to Chongqing, to Xuzhou, Lu, and then to Chengdu, all the roads were full of natural dangers. No matter how powerful the Song army was, it would be difficult to easily break through a few city passes.

"fake."

After a little thought, Yi Shiying made a judgment with a firm tone.

Zhu Cheng's expression was still anxious, and he said, "But the soldiers in the army are very worried..."

"What are you worried about?" Yi Shiying's face darkened, and said: "This matter is Meng Yuan spreading rumors, can't they see such an obvious trick? Listen to the wind is rain, call the generals for me."

"Marshal, after all, there are many Syrian state soldiers in our army."

"Call all the generals to meet me. Go and find out who brought the news into the army."

"Yes!"

Half a day later, Yi Shiying realized that things were more serious than he expected.

The reason why the news reached his army was because the whole Baozhou front was spreading the news.

He hurried to see Li Xia.

Li Xia was not in Daying North of the city that day, but in the Lianchi Courtyard in Baozhou City.

Lianchi Bieyuan was originally Zhang Hongji's office when he was in Baozhou City, and the place was big enough, so Li Xia temporarily used it as a residence.

When Wugu brought it here before, it destroyed a lot of pavilions, towers and pavilions, but now it has roughly been repaired.

Yi Shiying rushed to the gate, looked up, and saw a plaque with the four words "Water Survey Office" written in flamboyant and phoenix dances. It was obviously written by a great northern Confucian, but unfortunately the wood was ordinary, and even No paint either.

Going further inside, you can see that everything has been cleaned up, but the original exquisite carved railings and painted buildings are often put together with some raw wood, which looks strange.

This war-torn building has obvious signs of repair, just like the land of the Central Plains.

Without waiting for long, Li Xia quickly summoned Yi Shiying.

"I pay respects to Your Majesty."

"Yi Qing is free."

Yi Shiying got up and took a look, and saw not only herself, but also several other important ministers standing in the lobby.

Among them, Shi Jun and Fang Yankai are the ones he is most familiar with.

"Your Majesty, the reason why I want to see you today is because there are rumors in the army that the Song army has invaded Sichuan and Shu."

When Yi Shiying was speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced, and saw that Li Xia's expression was very calm, and he felt a little at ease, and said: "I suspect that this news must be false, and it is Meng Yuan's heart attack strategy. You have to guard against it."

Li Xia raised his hand and pressed in the air, stopping a large group of courtiers who wanted to speak.

"Don't Yi Qing think that the Song army really invaded Sichuan and Shu?"

"The minister thought that the Song court should not send troops. This move will only make it lose the hearts of the world and speed up its demise."

"But if the Song court does not send troops, we will have to march south when we drive out Yuanmeng."

"At that time, the court of the Song Dynasty greeted His Majesty with civil and military officials. It was nothing more than "repaying the township party and appreciating its reputation." Why do you have to do it when your body dies and your name is ruined, and you will leave a bad reputation for thousands of years?"

"I don't understand either." Li Xia said, "Maybe it's out of loyalty?"

Yi Shiying said: "If so, he is only loyal to the stubbornness in his heart, not to the world."

"Jia Sidao has really sent troops to Shu."

Yi Shiying was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Moths are flying to the flames, I thought Jia Sidao would never be able to break through Chongqing."

Li Xia smiled and motioned for someone to pass the information to Yi Shiying.

"There is a lot of information, and the content of different sources is different. Yi Qing has a look."

Fang Yankai also stepped forward and whispered a few different pieces of news to Yi Shiying.

"This urgent letter was sent by the guard Zhang Wan before the siege of Yong'an City on the eighth day of the first lunar month, saying that the food and supplies in the city were complete and that it would last for at least one year. This letter was sent by Zhang Qiyan from Kuizhou, with similar contents. Seventh, Jiang Cai, the guard of the Chongqing government, sent a message saying that Kuizhou had been besieged by the Song army and had lost contact."

"Kuizhou is broken?"

"It's unlikely, unless Zhang Qiyan and Zhang Wanjiang drop."

Yi Shiying asked, "What about the follow-up news?"

"No, these letters are the latest news from Sichuan and Shu." Fang Yankai said, "I only know that Jia Sidao blocked the Yangtze River and completely surrounded Kuizhou with his superior force."

"This is different from what is said in the military."

"Look at this again." Fang Yankai lowered his voice and said, "This is the information that came out from Yanjing recently, saying that... Kuizhou has been broken."

Yi Shiying didn't dare to ask more about the source of the news, but she frowned deeply and asked, "Is it credible?"

Li Xia said: "The source of the news is credible."

Fang Yankai took out another piece of information and said, "This is the information that the Department of Public Opinion found from Jiangling. The content is also that Jia Sidao has broken through Kuizhou."

Yi Shiying was puzzled, and murmured: "That's... Zhang Qiyan really surrendered?"

Even if it was him, when all kinds of information were put in front of him, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"There's no conclusion yet, it's probably Jia Sidao's exaggeration." Shi Jundao: "What is certain is that Chongqing is still there, and the news circulating in the army must be Meng Yuan's rumors, in order to disturb our army's morale."

Yi Shiying frowned in thought, and said, "The situation in Sichuan and Sichuan is hard to say at the moment..."

"The most important thing at the moment is not the situation in Sichuan and Sichuan. You and I know that the Song army will be in a difficult position due to the terrain in central Sichuan. To put it bluntly, the Song army really took Sichuan and Shu. When His Majesty takes Yanjing and returns, I am afraid that he will not reach Hanzhong. , Sichuan and Shu have already returned. The most troublesome thing in front of us is the morale of the army."

"Meng Yuan clearly spread rumors, how about explaining it clearly to the soldiers?"

"I don't know. How can the soldiers in the army tell the difference between encircling Kuizhou and taking Kuizhou? The same thing, in our analysis, is like this, but when someone with a heart spreads it, it looks another way. Only By the way, how could it be possible to appease the morale of the army?"

Yi Shiying sighed, becoming more and more anxious.

He had already prepared his troops to enter the Taihang Mountains, but now the news of the fall in the rear had a particularly deep impact on his soldiers.

Spreading rumors is the easiest trick, but when you think about it carefully, it is the hardest to crack.

On this day, the ministers discussed repeatedly, but in the end, there was still no way to completely dispel the influence of rumors on the morale of the army.

"According to the current situation, the military rations are insufficient and the rear is unstable..."

"So what." Yi Shiying, the Shu general, seemed more resolute than the northern general, and said, "Yanjing is right in front of us, is it possible that we can retreat?"

"retreat?"

These two words fell into Li Xia's ears, and he suddenly felt something, beckoning all the officials to come forward...

(End of this chapter)