marquis of jingan

Chapter 855 first move
His Royal Highness King Wei looked up at Zhou Shizhong, and after being silent for a while, he said slowly: "Is it possible that the general suspects that this rumor was passed on by me?"

"Your Highness, it doesn't matter who passed it on."

General Zhou said slowly: "Now, even Mr. Zhou has heard the news, which means that the matter has spread widely. Yandu has probably also received these rumors..."

"In other words, His Majesty probably already knows."

General Zhou looked at King Wei quietly, and said, "Your Highness should think about whether His Majesty doubts that it was passed down by King Wei."

"Father Emperor Sheng Mingrui Duan."

Zhao Kai took a deep breath, and said, "Plus the Cleansing Division's hands and eyes are open to the sky, so naturally I won't misunderstand this king."

General Zhou was silent.

After a while, he decided to speak directly to Zhao Kai. After a pause, he opened his mouth and said, "Your Highness, what Zhou means is, should Your Highness go back to Yandu first, meet His Majesty, and explain clearly to His Majesty?" , If His Majesty has not misunderstood, His Highness will return to Yandu before returning. Riding a horse will only take half a month. By that time, it may not be spring to thaw, and it is impossible to fight, and it will not affect His Highness's governor..."

"If His Majesty is deceived by others, His Highness should go back and explain clearly to His Majesty."

After he paused for a while, he continued: "Your Majesty has been ill in recent years, and His Highness has not gone back this year, so just taking this opportunity to go back to visit and take a look at the situation in Yandu, wouldn't it be good?"

Zhou Shizhong's words can be said to be very old and golden words.

But these words depend on who and when they say them.

His Royal Highness King Wei sat in front of Zhou Shizhong, lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked up at General Zhou, and said slowly: "Now, all the [-] reinforcements from the imperial court have arrived along the Huaihe River. If you get in the way, it won't work if you want to drive this king back to Yan?"

He frowned and said: "This king came to the front line this time to make meritorious service. Now that the situation in Yandu is unknown, and there are rumors spread by someone with a heart, if I go back like this, can I still get out?"

When Zhou Shizhong heard the words, he just sighed and did not continue to persuade.

Because His Royal Highness King Wei is a bit too "smart", or more thoughtful.

This kind of person, as long as he has his own judgment, will often be convinced, and he will not listen to anyone who tries to persuade him.

"Since His Highness said so, there is nothing Zhou can do about it."

General Zhou sighed, and said, "I can only hope that His Majesty is aware of the details."

His Royal Highness touched his chin and thought for a while, and then said: "Well, this king will go back and write a report, and report it to him for his own defense. After the father reads it, he will naturally send the Purification Officer to check the facts."

Zhou Shizhong frowned secretly.

He took a deep look at Zhao Kai and secretly sighed in his heart.

Silly boy, I asked you to go back to Beijing, not to prove to the emperor that you have no objections, but to prove to the future new emperor that you have no objections!

You are now writing a letter to the emperor, where can the future new emperor see it?
With these rumors, once the world is turned upside down, Yandu changes its owner, the first one will not be able to tolerate you, the prince who is "in charge" outside!

But Zhou Shizhong also understood in his heart that the young prince in front of him was not unexpected.

Rather...he wanted to fight for the throne.

Therefore, he didn't think that the new emperor in the future would be someone else, and he didn't want to just go back to Yandu and bow his head.

Facing the rumors that have been widely spread in Xuzhou, His Royal Highness King Wei's attitude is quite ambiguous.

After the young prince had a conversation with Zhou Shizhong, he suddenly looked up at Zhou Shizhong and asked, "General, our army attacked Huai'an last year, but there were no good results. This year, the imperial court's reinforcements have arrived. We must fight." It looks better."

His Royal Highness King Wei's words were a bit cryptic, but Zhou Shizhong had already heard it.

What he meant was that the imperial army has arrived, so they can no longer lie about their military achievements like last year, at least they can't lie about their heads on a large scale, so they will definitely be discovered by the imperial reinforcements. Among these people, there must be eyes and ears of the imperial court of.

Zhou Shizhong nodded slowly and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, this year our army has sufficient strength, even if it is forced, we can still gain a firm foothold on the south bank. At that time, we will definitely be able to march to the territory of Nanchen and force those Southern Dynasty people into the city to guard city."

There are many cities along the Huai River, such as Huai'an City.

Once the defense line along the river is lost, Da Chen's army can only abandon the river and defend the city.

And the places outside the city will fall into the hands of these Qi people, and those people who have no time to escape into the city will be massacred and plundered by these Qi people.

At that time, no matter whether it is the Southern Conscript Army or the reinforcements from the imperial court, they will not have any opinions.

After all, if you go to kill the Southerners to gain military merits, everyone will be promoted and get rich after returning. As for whether they killed soldiers from the Southern Dynasties...

that's not important.

His Royal Highness King Wei's eyes lit up, and he said, "General, when will you do it?"

Zhao Kai was very clear in his heart.

This time his old father, His Majesty the Emperor of Daqi, although he was furious and seemed determined to fight Nan Chen to the death, he also knew that it would be impossible to separate the two countries unless they were at the end of their rope. Win or lose.

He also just wanted to teach Little Emperor Nan Chen a lesson.

It is best to take down a few cities in Chen State, force Nan Chen to seek peace, and then seek benefits from Chen State, so that Chen State will not dare to move when the power of Qi State changes.

This is all the strategic intentions of Emperor Daqi.

As long as this strategic intention is achieved, he, the prince of the warlord, will be meritorious. At that time, he will be able to return to Yandu, return to his old father, and compete with those brothers for the heir apparent!
"very soon."

Zhou Shizhong said quietly: "At the latest, at the end of this month, we can go south. This time, we won't make small fuss like last year."

"Zhou has already searched for ships. When the time comes, the army will directly press down from the front line of Huai'an. No matter what schemes and tricks that scholar surnamed Shen in Huai'an has, it will be of no avail."

"His line of defense along the Huaihe River will be directly destroyed by us."

Zhao Kai's eyes became excited, he looked up at Zhou Shizhong, and asked, "The general wants to fight Huai'an?"

"It's too slow to hit other places..."

Zhou Shizhong said in a low voice: "If you fight Huai'an, Zhao Lu may not be able to save it. If you fight other places, the Huaihe Navy will have 10 troops, and there will be reinforcements in the future. I don't know how long it will take."

"Although I don't know exactly what Zhao Lu is thinking, but last year we tentatively attacked Huai'an several times, and his Huaihe Navy..."

Zhou Shizhong said in a low voice, "Do not move."

"In this battle, even if we only win the Huai'an Mansion, we can still explain to the court, this soft persimmon..."

"If you don't pinch it, you won't pinch it."

Zhao Kai clapped his hands and laughed.

"That's very good, the king will just wait for the general's good news."

………………

On the tenth day of February, Huai'an Army's Eastern Front Xiangshui camp.

Master Shen sat on the main seat, and Xue Wei and Su Ding sat on both sides of him. Su Ding looked serious, and slightly bowed his head to Shen Yi and said: "Mr. Shen, there are more and more ships on the north bank..."

"It stretches for 200 to [-] miles, and there are Qi people's ships everywhere. The scout battalion estimates that there are more than [-] ships just north of the Xiangshui camp. There may be more than [-] ships on the north bank of our entire Huai'an defense line."

"With so many ships, they can even transport more than 5000 troops directly!"

Having said this, Su Ding took a deep breath, and said: "More than 5000 people come here, even if they lose 2000 or [-] people when they land, they can immediately establish a defense line on the south bank, calmly cover the subsequent landing, and within half a day, they can send several Thousands of people come here."

General Su looked at Shen Yi, feeling a little helpless: "Mr. Shen, when the time comes, we won't be able to defend the defense line along the Huai River. We can only retreat to Huai'an City to defend Huai'an."

When Master Shen heard this, he couldn't help frowning. He glanced at the north side and slapped the table hard.

"It's Huai'an again!"

After letting out a bad breath, he looked at the two people and said, "We can't let them continue to gather calmly like this. We have to move, we can't just sit and wait for death. As for retreating to Huai'an City..."

Master Shen said in a deep voice: "Only when you have to, you can retreat to Huai'an. If you can stop the Qi people from the Huaihe River, you must try your best to stop them."

Su Ding looked at Shen Yi and asked, "Mr. Shen, what do you want to do?"

"We can't let them think that the Huaihe Navy is dead."

Speaking of this, Shen Yi cursed angrily: "Although those people are indeed dead!"

He took a deep breath, looked at Su Ding and Xue Wei, and said in a low voice.

"us…"

"Maybe we have to go first!"

(End of this chapter)