marquis of jingan

Chapter 926
On the north bank of the Huaihe River, the camp of the Southern Army was conquered.

Zhou Shizhong, who fled back to the north shore in embarrassment, sat in the handsome tent with a gloomy face. Beside him, Daoist Priest Yu Zhenzi also had a bad look on his face.

After a while of silence, Yu Zhenzi glanced at Zhou Shizhong, and said slowly: "General, the matter has come to this, should we report it to the court?"

"Report?"

Zhou Shizhong glanced at this monster, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "How can you report it? Your Majesty has made such a big determination. The imperial decree said that at all costs, we must defeat the Huai'an army on the south bank. Now we Losing so many people, I didn't even see the walls of Huai'an City!"

"How do you report this?"

Yu Zhenzi stroked his beard and asked: "The general wants to fight again?"

Zhou Shizhong's face was gloomy: "If you don't hit him, you still have to hit him. If you don't hit him, you will hurt Shen Qi. I have no way to explain it to His Majesty."

"Before, it was the last chance."

Yu Zhenzi shook his head slightly and said: "It was so easy to gain a firm foothold on the south bank before, and we could transport troops there leisurely, but now we are forced back by the southerners. The shipbuilding skills of the Southern Dynasty are far better than ours, and the Huai'an Army also has more warships. If you want to stand firm again, how many people will die?"

"and…"

Yu Zhenzi lowered his head slightly and said: "Besides, although Zhao Lu's Huaihe navy has already withdrawn, if the general attacks Huai'an again, who can guarantee that the Huaihe navy will not come again?"

Yu Zhenzi settled the accounts with her fingers.

"The Huaihe Navy now has a full 10 people. Behind the Huai'an Army is the Imperial Army of the Southern Dynasty, and there are also 6 to 20. The army sent by the imperial court, plus the Southern Army, originally had nearly [-], but this After years of loss, how much is left now?"

Yu Zhenzi lowered his eyebrows and said, "I'm afraid it's not much more than the army of the Southern Dynasty."

"If you continue to fight, you will be the one who suffers, the general."

Zhou Shizhong looked at Yu Zhenzi with a dark face, and his voice was hoarse: "Zhou may not understand the principles said by the Taoist priest. Zhou also said it just now. If I don't fight, I have no way to explain to His Majesty."

He muffled: "Father's many years of achievements cannot be broken in my hands!"

Zhou Shizhong's words are very simple.

If Emperor Yongping is not satisfied, he, the general of the Southern Army, will be done. At that time, the Zhou family can only return to Yandu. Inevitable things, after one or two generations, will completely decline.

At that time, maybe he will be a slave to old Zhu Lizhen again.

Zhou Shizhong absolutely had no way to accept this.

He looked at Yu Zhenzi with a hoarse voice: "Master Daoist, since you came to Huaihe, you have always been the one who made suggestions..."

When Yu Zhenzi heard this, he frowned immediately.

Obviously, Zhou Shizhong didn't intend to let him stay out of the matter, and dragging him was also going to drag him into the water.

The Yaodao of Yandu was silent for a while, stroked his beard, looked at Zhou Shizhong quietly, and suddenly smiled: "Who said the general can't explain?"

Zhou Shizhong frowned, looked at Yu Zhenzi, and said nothing.

Yu Zhenzi continued: "This time, my master crossed the river and beat the southerners hard. In the territory of Huai'an Mansion, he killed tens of thousands of enemies and came back victorious."

Zhou Shizhong let out a foul breath, and said in a muffled voice: "The Taoist chief wants to falsely report his military achievements?"

Yu Zhenzi smiled and said: "Didn't the fourth prince deal with it in the same way last year? Now, it's just repeating the story of the fourth prince,"

Hearing this sentence, Zhou Shizhong frowned.

Last year, Wei Wang Zhao Kai did falsely report his military merits, and even killed the good and pretended to be meritorious. This matter is a top secret, only Zhou Shizhong, Zhao Kai and a few people know about it. Things have passed.

But Yu Mako knew about it!

If he knew it, it meant that Emperor Yongping already knew it.

Zhou Shizhong's voice was hoarse: "The fourth prince is the fourth prince, we are us."

What he meant was that the fourth prince, Zhao Kai, was the emperor's own son after all, even if he did something wrong, the emperor would turn a blind eye and pass by.

But outsiders like them cannot be compared with the Fourth Prince.

Yu Zhenzi squinted his eyes, and said quietly: "The general's words are not true."

"The fourth prince is also a courtier of Daqi, we can do whatever they do."

"The key is whether the imperial court needs us to do this."

The demon Taoist looked around, and after confirming that there was no one else in the tent, he said in a low voice: "Your Majesty can't make it through, so he has to fight this battle. In fact, His Majesty and the ministers in the court may not necessarily want to fight." This battle."

"So, we just need to win."

"As for how we won, or even whether we won or not, it doesn't matter, and no one will care."

The meaning of this demon way is that Emperor Yongping only needs a step to go down, as long as he is given a step, it doesn't matter whether there is a lining on this step.

Just save face.

Hearing this, Zhou Shizhong felt a little short of breath. He took several deep breaths and said hoarsely, "Master Daoist, if this is investigated, it will be a crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the entire family."

Yu Zhenzi lowered his head and took a sip of wine: "The poor Taoist has been with you for more than twenty years."

General Zhou was expressionless: "The Taoist priest is alone, but Zhou has a big family."

Yu Zhenzi raised his head and drank the wine in the glass. After drinking the glass of wine, he looked at Zhou Shizhong quietly.

"General, if Your Majesty pursues you because of this matter, and even kills all of your Zhou family, how will this matter end?"

"Send people to the Huaihe River again, and fight with the southerners forever?"

"Only one Shen Qi, how many people are needed to eat it?"

"When Jinshang ascended the throne, the situation was already very clear."

Yu Zhenzi let out a foul breath, and said: "Da Qi has no strength to go south, and now it's just a fight for face. Your Majesty is at this age, do you really have the energy to continue fighting?"

"It's the best ending for you to report to the court."

"Whether it's His Majesty, the ministers in the court, or the soldiers under him, or even the people of the Southern Dynasty, they are all willing to accept this result."

"Haven't the general seen it yet?"

Yu Zhenzi said softly: "There are already complaints in the army."

Zhou Shizhong covered his forehead with both hands, still hesitating.

"I…"

"Need to think again."

"Not urgent."

Yu Zhenzi stood up, saluted Zhou Shizhong, and said with a smile: "It usually takes two or three days to clean the battlefield. The general can think about it for two days. When he has a decision, he will report it to the court."

The Yaodao turned around and walked towards the outside of the tent. When he reached the door of the tent, he looked back at Zhou Shizhong with a calm expression.

"The general calmed down and thought about it, and he could understand that this road may not be the best one among many roads, but the only one."

After saying this, Yu Zhenzi turned and left.

Zhou Shizhong angrily punched the table with his fist and let out a low growl.

"Shen Qi!!"

…………

On the south bank, Xiangshui Camp.

After a few days, some finishing work finally came to an end. Most of the Northern Qi soldiers who were lost on the south bank surrendered and were captured by the Huai'an army, and a small number of those who resisted stubbornly were killed on the spot.

For the past few days, Shen Yi was mainly busy treating the wounded and dealing with the aftermath.

After working hard for three or four days, good news came from Wan Zhong.

With the retreat of the Qi people, the elite Qi people on the coast of the East China Sea also lost their fighting spirit, retreated from the sea by boat, and stopped attacking Huai'an Mansion.

The western front also sent good news. Ling Su and the others repelled the Qi people on the western front with more than 3000 casualties, leaving more than [-] Qi people.

So far, the large-scale war in Hongde in the early winter of 12 has come to an end for the time being.

Shen Yi stayed in the Xiangshui camp for several days, and the rescue work in the wounded barracks was considered to be over.

The end means that those who survived survived, and those who did not, returned to the land of Huai'an.

In the past few days, Shen Yi sent several memorials to Jiankang, reporting the cause and effect of the Huai'an battle to His Majesty the Emperor.

After finishing his last memorandum, all the pigs, cattle and sheep in Huai'an Mansion also rushed to Xiangshui camp. Xue Wei was so excited that he personally led people to slaughter the cattle and sheep.

Of course, these cattle are all wounded or sick cattle.

All in all, it is a cow that cannot plow the land.

Otherwise, the government will not kill him.

As for how these cows were injured and sick, that is not something that the government should care about.

In the camp of Xiangshui, hundreds of cauldrons were set up.

As all kinds of meat were put into the pot, the aroma was overflowing, and the sad atmosphere in the camp also bid farewell to some laughter.

Zhang Jian and Shen Yi fought side by side, looked at the scene in Xiangshui camp, smiled and said: "It's really lively."

Master Shen sighed slightly.

"original…"

"It should be more lively."

(End of this chapter)