Lord of the House

Under the darkness of the night, the Laihe River seemed to be a black ribbon running across the low hills on the eastern outskirts of Xinyang City. Ning Zechen led the first town division of Fengli Camp to be stationed on the east bank of the Laihe River, and stood between Xinyang City and the Laihe River.

Xinyang City was much darker, and the campfire on the east bank of the Luhe River was as dense as the stars in the sky. According to the plan, tomorrow the camp will be officially set up to attack the northern foothills of Huaishan along the Lianhe River.

A little upstream from the ferry is the Lihe Water Village, where 3,000 Huaidong Naval Forces and hundreds of warships are stationed.

Standing on the ferry crossing, Meng Zhixiang looked at the camp on the other side, and Meng Yan, who was wearing a crimson official robe beside him, and asked worriedly, "Dong Yuan's military order has Liu Tingzhou's countersignment, and they want to control the troops around Xinyang. If you pull them all out and press them to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain, will Ning Zechen see it like this, and the Chongguo Guild will see it like this in the future?"

"Dong Yuan is too smart," Meng Yan folded his sleeves, as if to vent his full grievances, and said resentfully, "How can a person like him be willing to die in front of a beautiful knee?"

Meng Zhixiang and Meng Yan differed from the same clan's nephew in terms of seniority. He was only seven or eight years old when he was younger than Meng Yan, and he didn't have much contact with him when he was in the clan. However, when Xinyang was damaged by robbers and was destroyed, he fought side by side with Meng Yan. The stakes are at stake. Over the years, they have forged a deep friendship, and they are both teachers and friends with Meng Yong.

Meng Zhixiang let out a long sigh:

The situation is obvious, Huaidong will win the victory of Jingxiang again, and the main force of the Yanhu West Line who has been lured into the land of Jingxiang will be completely destroyed, which will completely reverse the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south. primary issue.

Before the war, the cavalry of Yan and Hu's direct line plus the Han army of Xinfu had a total force of more than 500,000. After the annexation of Shejia and Luo Xiancheng, the total force reached more than 700,000; compared with before, the forces of Jiangning, Huaidong With Chizhou, Jinghu, Xiangtan, Huaixi, and the Cao family who retreated into the two Sichuans, the total strength is about 600,000, and they are at a disadvantage, so they must unite closely and fight the battle of Jingxiang.

As soon as Huaidong's ambush at Chaishan came out, the balance of Jingxiang's victory and defeat would be completely locked. The total number of soldiers and horses on the Yanhu Western Front was as high as 400,000. At least half of them would be buried in the Jingxiang hills -- this is still the case. The best outcome for Beiyan, the total number of Beiyan's troops will also be sharply reduced to more than 500,000.

Even if the strength of the north and south sides is similar, after Huaidong recaptures Jingxiang, it will be able to completely stabilize the defense line on the Huaihe River. The coastal area of ​​Liaoning poses a serious threat, and the overall situation will be dominated by the south.

Among the forces of the Southern Dynasty, even if the Jinghu Army defended Jingzhou, the damage would not be light. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but there are many internal problems, and the elites of the Huaidong lineage will reach an astonishing 300,000, or even exceed, and further control Jingxiang and Nanyang...

At that time, Dong Yuan is willing to be rich and old, and hand over the power in his hand. Even if Duke Chongguo was trying to maintain his reputation and win people's hearts, he would never be able to do anything to Dong Yuan, who had only great merits and no major faults in his life, and had no power in his hands.

As long as Dong Yuan handed over his authority and named a wealthy prince, he would not be stingy if he wanted to come to Chongguo.

It's a pity, Dong Yuan is not reconciled.

"What if Dong Yuan is not reconciled?" Meng Zhixiang sighed again and said, "The situation in the north and south is settled, what tricks can he play?"

"This is Dong Yuan's cleverness," Meng Yan said with a heartache, "Luo Xiancheng has 50,000 soldiers and horses on the northern front, scattered in the defense villages at the northern foot of Huaishan, and cannot be assembled in a short period of time. Luo Xiancheng In Lishan, there were no more than 20,000 reinforcements that could assist Suizhou. At this time, Cao Shuai led 40,000 troops to attack Suizhou, and Luo Xiancheng had only 20,000 soldiers and horses to assist Suizhou. , Luo Xiancheng's aid to Suizhou will only make Cao Shuai eat more. Therefore, the troops and horses of Suizhou at the northern foot of Huaishan are no longer a threat. Even if Dong Yuan did not move his troops, it would be far better than pressing all his troops to the north of Huaishan at this time. It's better, this is a clear way for Chen Zhihu to pass through Zhengyang directly into the Nanyang Basin..."

Meng Zhixiang asked, "What's the benefit of Dong Yuan doing this? Didn't Duke Chongguo make up his mind to take care of him after the war? Besides, Huang Zuyu and Zhou Bin had already stood in Fancheng, so even if Chen Zhihu could pass through Zhengyang directly When Queshan goes to aid Fancheng, it will take at least four or five days for the main force of his foot and cavalry to reach the periphery of Fancheng.

"Chen Zhihu is smarter, he should understand that the situation is over, and he won't go directly to help Fancheng..." Meng Yan said.

"Chen Zhihu doesn't go to Fancheng, where is he going?" Meng Zhixiang asked.

"This is what makes Dong Yuan so powerful and hateful," Meng Yan said through gritted teeth, "If Dong Yuan cooperated with Ning Zechen, he would ignore Luo Xiancheng, who was bound to be in chaos, and immediately sent his division north to join Xiao Kuian and die. By biting Tu An and Chen Zhihu to death, Duke Chongguo leads the main force of the Huaidong Army on the southern front and cooperates with Cao Ziang's troops and horses from Chaishan, and it is very likely that all the troops and horses on the western front that Yanhu has entered Jingxiang will be wiped out..."

Meng Zhixiang sighed with emotion.

Shera surrendered to the past, so that the total strength of Yanhu exceeded 700,000, and the troops on the western front reached 400,000. If they can wipe out all the troops and horses that entered Jingxiang on the western front of Yanhu, at least 300,000 soldiers of Yanhu can be wiped out. Horses, including at least nearly 100,000 cavalrymen of the Yanhu lineage, were only able to withdraw to Hezhongfu in time, such as Chen Zhihu, Tu'an and a few other soldiers and horses from the northern line.

This battle could have severely damaged Yanhu in one fell swoop, reducing the total strength of Yanhu to less than 400,000.

At that time, with the strength of the Huaidong family, it will be enough to expedition the Central Plains to the north.

It's no wonder that Dong Yuan's extreme reaction of "cunning rabbits die, lackeys cook".

"...At this time, Yan Hu's defenders in Guanzhong were less than 20,000, and a considerable part was concentrated on the western front to prevent the Cao family from returning to the carbine," Meng Yan continued, "that is to say, once Yan Hu entered Jingxiang's western front, If the troops and horses are completely wiped out, it will be a matter of course for Duke Chongguo to lead the army to take the opportunity to capture Wuguan and regain the Guanzhong..."

"Dong Yuan sent Chen Zhihu to Wuguan?" Meng Zhixiang suddenly realized.

Meng Yan nodded and said, "That should be what I meant. After Duke Chongguo recovered Jingxiang and Nanyang, but since Nanyang was five or six hundred miles away from Hezhongfu, the western Henan plain was always under threat from cavalry on the east line of Yanhu. Under this situation, even if Chen Zhihu did not retreat to defend Hezhong Mansion, Duke Chongguo could not immediately send troops to recover Hezhong Mansion. Guanzhong was different. After Wuguan was taken, it was Shangzhou Mansion. The two wings were sheltered by Qinling Mountains and Funiu Mountain. Pingyuan, Chang'an Prefecture, and the cavalry on the east line of Yanhu had no way to support Guanzhong in a short period of time. In addition to making Chong Guogong lose the opportunity to completely wipe out the enemy soldiers in Jingxiang and take advantage of the situation to recover Guanzhong, Chen Zhihu first Going further to Wuguan, we will strengthen the defenders from Wuguan to Baiyangguan and Danjiangkou, and will guard the last passage for the enemy troops in Jingxiang to withdraw. He is going to let Ye Jiluorong on the west bank of the Han River escape! He is not raising the pirates, he wants to raise the enemy and the enemy!"

Meng Yan has been in Xinyang for these years, watching Xinyang before the invasion of rogues and wars, the city was dilapidated, people's livelihood was in ruins, and hundreds of thousands of people died - hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanyang were massacred by Ye Ji Luorong, Dong Yuan this At that time, he actually wanted to let Ye Jiluorong escape in order to protect Huaixi's status. How could Meng Yan not hate him?

Meng Zhixiang's back was also shivering with chills, and he thought: Dong Yuan is so vicious!

Only by asking Ye Jiluorong to preserve a certain amount of strength, join forces with Chen Zhihu to retreat to Guanzhong, and occupy Wuguan's opening to attack Nanyang and Jingxiang, can Lin Fu be unable to free up his hands and feet to clean up Huaixi.

This is all about giving up all principles and bottom lines in order to keep one's own desire for power: is Dong Yuan today, or Dong Yuan, a little official who guarded Xianxia in those days?

Only then did Meng Zhixiang understand that people really change. What a heroic figure was Dong Yuan back then, today's Dong Yuan is a traitor who wants to harm the world for his own selfishness.

"Zhixiang is puzzled. Why did Liu Tingzhou subscribe to the military order? Could it be that he was not aware of Dong Yuan's intentions at all?" Meng Zhixiang was puzzled. Still immediately see a lot of doubts.

"What is more important in Liu Tingzhou's heart than the ruler and the people?" Meng Yan asked. "The wise men of ancient times have words, and they plan for the sake of the society, why should they cherish the people? Although Liu Tingzhou is honest and upright, he is not with us after all."

Meng Zhixiang sighed, not knowing what to say.

Compared with expelling the captives and recovering the Central Plains, the more important thing in Liu Tingzhou's heart is to prevent Duke Chongguo from abolishing the emperor and becoming independent, so he completely chose to wear the same pants as Dong Yuan at this time.

Meng Yan laughed angrily and said, "Dong Yuan heard the news and gathered his troops south to fight Luo Xiancheng, and asked Xiao Kuian to lead those troops to hold Chen Zhihu down, and he couldn't say that he was at fault after the fact-compared to biting Chen Zhihu, Huaixi's generals also I'd rather fight Luo Xiancheng to compete for military exploits. In the future, if Duke Chongguo blames Huaixi for this, except for Xiao Kuian, who is full of grievances and has nothing to say, other generals of Huaixi will be more united in Dong Yuan. Around. Even Xiao Kuian, Liu Tingzhou will also come forward to appease. In addition, Dong Yuan pressed his troops to fight Luo Xiancheng at this time, not really fighting, but to drag Luo Xiancheng's troops at the northern foot of Huaishan to death - think about it , Luo Xian's prejudice is over, will he surrender to Huaidong or Huaixi? Dong Yuan, he is too smart, and he has all the benefits!"

Meng Zhixiang became very worried: he thought that the general situation in Huaidong was set at this time, and after winning the victory of Jingxiang, the time to abolish the emperor and become independent would be ripe.

If Luo Xiancheng's 50,000 troops on the northern front surrendered to Dong Yuan, and Ye Ji and Luo Rong escaped to Guanzhong with the aid of Chen Zhihu, the general situation of the whole world would still be difficult to see~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Dong Yuan did not want to To fight for territory, but to fight Luo Xiancheng's 50,000 surrendered troops on the northern front - Dong Yuanzhen may have said that the agency has exhausted it!

Meng Zhixiang said, "Duke Chongguo should have taken precautions against Dong Yuan in advance, so why didn't he just issue a warrant to force Dong Yuan to fight Chen Zhihu? At least he might use this to weaken Huaixi after the war..."

"It's useless, Dong Yuan is determined to raise the enemy's self-respect, and as a recruiter, he has the power to arbitrarily decide the military and government, how can the military order of the Privy Council restrain him?" Meng Yan shook his head and said, "Furthermore, after the war, The empress dowager and the emperor Yongxing have not tried their best to protect Dongyuan?"

Meng Zhixiang nodded. Those people in Jiangning would not care about the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanyang, nor how badly the Central Plains were beaten. In order to keep their precarious throne, what could they not do?

"Then Duke Chongguo didn't take any precautions against this?" Meng Zhixiang asked.

"I don't know, maybe there is. If there is an afterthought, it should be in the hands of Ning Zechen. We go to see Ning Zechen and we will know everything," Meng Yan said, after thinking for a while, he sighed again, "Ning Zechen. I have only 16,700 soldiers in the water infantry here, and if we add us, there are only 24,500. Even if I go to Zhengyang to intercept Chen Zhihu, I can't make it in time... Even if Duke Chongguo is on guard against Dong Yuan, It can only reduce the harm of Dong Yuan as much as possible, but cannot completely reduce the bad influence that Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou will bring. Sigh..." Meng Yan sighed with pain and hatred, and patted Meng Zhixiang with emotion. shoulders and said, "In short, we didn't make the wrong choice."

Meng Zhixiang nodded. If he hadn't decided to join Duke Chongguo long ago, they would certainly have wrapped Dong Yuan around to fight Luo Xiancheng at the northern foot of the Huaishan Mountain. In the future, they would also be the target of Duke Chongguo's cleansing— My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter