marquis of jingan

Chapter 1012 Good-looking and filial piety

Tu Yuan didn't lie, for a whole day, he didn't send any more troops to the west gate, but forcibly let go of such an opening, so that the Huai'an army could go out through this opening smoothly.

This is not difficult to understand.

For the current Tuyuan, his goal is to regain Xuzhou, not to annihilate the Huai'an army.

Because the latter is too difficult.

And if Xuzhou City can be recovered in a short period of time, then it will be spread that he, Tuyuan, recovered Xuzhou in more than a month after Zhou Shizhong lost the important city of Xuzhou.

Reporting to Yandu at that time was inevitably a great contribution.

More importantly, Tu Yuan also knew that the old emperor couldn't last much longer.

It is best to settle this credit while the old man is still alive and conscious, then it will inevitably be a generous reward.

After all, this is an errand assigned by the old emperor.

If it is waiting until the new emperor ascends the throne, although it is also a credit, the reward must not be as generous as Emperor Yongping.

Because Xuzhou City was lost in the Yongping Dynasty, the old emperor definitely wanted to take it back before he died, and pass on a complete Daqi, so that he would not leave regrets before his death.

But in the new emperor dynasty, the new emperor may not have these feelings.

However, Mr. Shen did not follow his example. Although Ximen was almost undefended for a whole day, the Huai'an army in the city remained motionless, as if the thousands of Huai'an troops who broke out yesterday were not at the same level as the Huai'an army in the city. No relationship.

Tu Yuan didn't lie, and neither did Shen Yi.

In fact, it would take less than the next day. On that day, the [-] Huaihe navy and the [-] imperial troops in Huai'an moved at almost the same time and started to ferry northward.

The Huaihe navy in the west rushed straight to Suqian, while the [-] forbidden troops rushed towards Haizhou City according to Shen Yi's instructions.

The news of a large army entering the army cannot be hidden from anyone, and Shen Yi has no intention of hiding it from these Qi people.

At noon the next day, General Zhou Shizhong led his troops to station in the west of Xuzhou.

Today, the Qi army did not attack Xuzhou City, and Xuzhou City seemed quite calm.

Because there was no battle, at noon, General Zhou was a little sleepy. After lunch, he lay down on the bed in the big tent. Just as he closed his eyes, a messenger rushed in. Kneeling in front of Zhou Shizhong, he kowtowed and said, "General, the military situation is urgent!"

Zhou Shizhong suddenly opened his eyes, then sat up, looked at the messenger soldier, and said in a low voice, "Say."

"Yesterday evening, the brothers stationed along the Huaihe River discovered that the Southerners on the south bank had begun to cross the river and went up. Not only one, but two groups from the east and the west went north almost at the same time."

Xuzhou City is some distance away from the Huaihe River. It is not surprising that the news was delayed for half a day. General Zhou stroked his beard and asked, "Which two places did the southerners go north?"

"The east side is from Huai'an Mansion."

The messenger bowed his head and said, "The west side is from Huaiyuan County across the Huaihe River."

Hearing this, Zhou Shizhong closed his eyes, considered the situation for a while, and after a long silence, he said expressionlessly: "I see, report to the general."

The current chief general of the Southern Expedition Army is no longer Zhou Shizhong.

Although it has been operated for decades, the Southern Army is still controlled by the Zhou family, or General Zhou is actually in control, but from the perspective of the court, the main general is easier, so Zhou Shizhong is not needed to do the Southern Army's northward march Decided.

At the same time, he no longer needs to take the main responsibility.

At this time, the light and fluffy sentence has already pushed the responsibility to Tu Yuan.

As a result, the messenger soldiers hurried to another camp and reported the situation in the south to Tu Yuan. After hearing the news, General Tu frowned, and while reaching out to receive the detailed report, he asked : "Approximately how many people, do you have a count?"

"There are 2 people who went north from Nanchen Huai'an Mansion, and over [-] people who went north from Huaiyuan."

Hearing this sentence, Tu Yuan was slightly relieved.

It is full of calculations, and together it is 3 people.

Although this number of troops is definitely not small, it is not enough to threaten the Southern Conscript Army with nearly 20 people, and it is even less likely to change the situation in Xuzhou.

After reading the detailed information, General Tu said to himself.

"Attack Suqian all the way, attack Haizhou all the way..."

He glanced in the direction of Xuzhou City, thoughtful: "The man surnamed Shen is really sincere. He said that he will increase his troops today, so he will increase his troops today. It's just..."

"Counting the manpower in Xuzhou City, the total number of Southern Dynasties troops is more than 7..."

"Shen Qi is really confident that more than 7 people can defeat me with nearly 20 conscripts?"

Thinking of this, Tu Yuan frowned.

"It's a little too confident."

After muttering to himself for a while, General Tuda strode out of the camp, got on his horse, ran to the Qi army camp outside the west gate, and saw Zhou Shizhong.

Seeing Tu Yuan, Zhou Shizhong immediately cupped his fists and saluted: "General Tu."

Tu Yuan glanced at Zhou Shizhong, sighed and said, "Brother Zhou, you should already know about the news of the southerners going north."

Just as Zhou Shizhong was about to deny it, he looked up and saw Tu Yuan's gaze. After hesitating for a while, General Zhou smiled and said, "I learned about it with General Tu."

"General Zhou thinks, what should we do?"

"There are not many people from the south. Even if they occupy Suqian and Haizhou, these two cities are not big. After my army takes Xuzhou, they can take it back calmly."

Tu Yuan was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "But this is too ugly."

Zhou Shizhong shook his head slightly, and sighed: "Indeed, if our nearly 20 troops were lost by less than [-] southerners, it would be too ugly."

"But once the troops are divided, it will be difficult to surround Xuzhou..."

He looked at Tuyuan and said silently: "If the Huai'an army in Xuzhou City is no longer trapped in Xuzhou, and now it will be autumn, the grain will be ripe immediately. When they are short of food, they can go out of the city to look for food and find food If we shrink back later, it will be a long way off to regain Xuzhou..."

General Tu sat down and said slowly: "I understand the truth, but the city must not be lost, otherwise, you and I will not be able to explain to His Majesty."

Having said that, both of them were silent for a while.

General Tu took out a wine bag from his waist, raised his head and took a sip of the wine, then let out a breath of alcohol: "Qing Ye."

Zhou Shizhong's eyes widened, and then he said in a low voice: "Since ancient times, no one has heard of the attacking side clearing the wilderness..."

Tu Yuan smiled, and said, "It's okay to leave it for a while, but the crops twenty or thirty miles away from Xuzhou City will either be burned or collected half a month before they mature, otherwise Shen Qi in the city If you sneak out in the middle of the night and snatch it, it will be troublesome."

Zhou Shizhong was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "It has to be like this."

Tu Yuan looked at Zhou Shizhong, and said, "The Southern Dynasty army in Huai'an has gone to attack Haizhou. Haizhou is also a state city, so it's not easy to lose it. General Zhou?"

Zhou Shizhong bowed his head silently: "This subordinate obeys orders."

Tuyuan glanced to the south.

"As for Suqian..."

"Let's send someone over to take a look at the situation."

………………

Yandu, Xiude Hall.

Xiude Hall is the sleeping hall of Emperor Yongping.

At this time, in this hall, the smell of medicine was so strong that it was a bit pungent.

In the dormitory, seven or eight imperial physicians gathered together, talking in a low voice.

Among them, one or two imperial physicians were already stuttering in their speech, apparently extremely frightened.

The great eunuch Liu Yi knelt silently in front of His Majesty's bed, and he would stand up from time to time to ask the imperial physician about the specific situation.

It was midnight.

Eunuch Liu, who had been on guard for several days, was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. He knelt in front of the emperor's bed and dozed off.

In a daze, he heard a faint voice: "Liu Yi..."

Eunuch Liu suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the bed, quickly leaned on it, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, you are awake..."

Emperor Yongping's face was pale, and the color of blood could hardly be seen: "Bring me some water..."

Liu Yi nodded in a hurry, quickly fetched water for the old emperor, helped the emperor up again, and served him to drink water.

After drinking a bowl of water, Emperor Yongping looked a little better. He coughed twice, then lay down on the bed again, rubbed his swollen head with his hands, and asked, "How long have you been sleeping?"

With tears in his eyes, Liu Yi whispered, "Your Majesty, it's been three days..."

Emperor Yongping closed his eyes, thought for a while, and asked, "What has the third child been doing these three days?"

"His Royal Highness King Qi is sincere and filial. For the past three days, he has been kneeling outside the Hall of Virtue, almost without water..."

Emperor Yongping was silent for a while, opened his eyes and asked, "Where's the fourth child? Are you still not at ease?"

Liu Yi hesitated and said in a low voice.

"His Royal Highness King Wei, you also knelt outside the hall three days ago, but left the next day..."

"very busy..."

Emperor Yongping closed his eyes again.

"I... know."

(End of this chapter)