"There are still more than 30,000 people in the city, and the enemy troops outside are only 70,000 or 80,000. Pingjiang County is strong and there is enough food and grass in the city. If we mobilize the people, there will be no problem in holding on for a year and a half."
Late at night, the few people in the city who were still in control of the city gathered at Shan Taozuo Duwei's Yamen to discuss together. Zhou Hong seemed to be the most optimistic about the current situation.
Lin Zhaoying hasn't slept since yesterday. Her wrist hurts and she doesn't dare to sleep. She looks extremely haggard. She doesn't say anything now and is just sitting.
As the host, Shan Tao looked at several generals. They all looked lonely and had no intention of speaking.
The morale of the army is fragile now. If the enemy attacks the city tomorrow, can it really be stopped? Shan Tao began to have some doubts, especially since the other party's methods were so weird, and he seized the fleeting opportunity to kill the army in an instant when he was in trouble.
While they were discussing, Lin Haoming had already gone out with his troops overnight.
But this time he was not with Zhu Feiling. Zhu Feiling's army was tired from continuous fighting, so now he was following Wei Yi.
After he went to Wei Que in name, this Wei Yi was regarded as his uncle. Now he was leading tens of thousands of troops.
Wei Yi is an innate master, but he is actually not good at fighting, so the actual commander here is Lin Haoming. This is what Wei Tong meant before Wei Yi set off.
At present, the army is divided into three groups, one group of 10,000 people stays with Zhu Feiling to suppress the people in the city, and the remaining two groups lead 20,000 people each to go to Pingjiang in two directions.
What Lin Haoming has to do next is very simple. While Pingjiang has not thawed, he can cross the Pingjiang River and sweep the cities along the Pingjiang River.
When Lin Haoming was at dawn, he crossed Pingjiang and saw Changning County in front of him. After a winter, Changning County had recovered. After several months of repairs, the city no longer looked like it had been continuously destroyed before.
But at noon, when there were the most people coming and going at the city gate, suddenly an army approached from far away.
At first, everyone just thought that His Highness the Prince was mobilizing an army to attack Wei Tong, but when the army approached, they realized something was wrong.
The army rode in directly from the city gate, occupied the county seat in a moment, and then began to drive all the people out of the city from house to house.
The people didn't know what to do in the cold wind, so they looked for places to hide temporarily outside the city. But early the next morning, everyone discovered that the entire county was ablaze with fire. It turned out that Lin Haoming had been in the city after entering the city. , rested for a day, then clicked on the county seat, and then headed towards the next goal.
The two armies swept away all the county towns on the west bank of Pingjiang County in just a few days. When Shan Tao in Pingjiang County knew about it, he immediately felt that something was wrong. Pingjiang County might soon become an isolated city.
He immediately wrote a letter and passed it by flying eagle, hoping that the prince would allow him to lead his army to break out. Otherwise, once Pingjiang thawed, everything would be too late.
At this time in the capital of Yue Kingdom, Zhang Xiaozheng returned to the study from the court with an angry look on his face.
The news coming from the front made him shocked and angry. The 300,000-strong army was lost just like that. What was even more disgusting was that how dare Su Lang and Lin Zhaoying kill Zhou Yuanan. If they did, it would be fine. Why? Will be counterattacked by Xia Chunqiu, causing the army to lose its commander, and the opponent will take advantage of the loophole.
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An army of 300,000 people, Zhang Xiao asked himself, if some of the border troops were mobilized and some troops were assembled to suppress the local area, they could still get it together, but the combat effectiveness of these 300,000 people was much lower than before. More importantly, Wei Tong passed through this After a great battle, the situation was reversed. Now, some of the guys in the court began to become submissive on the surface, and they didn't know what to do in their hearts.
Soon, Shu Bicheng, Niu Gang and Wang Fengming arrived here.
"Teacher, this is the intelligence we just received from the front." Zhang Xiao handed a note to Shu Bicheng.
Shu Bicheng looked at Zhang Xiao's gloomy face, and his face became even more ugly as a result of the note.
"How could this happen? This was news a few days ago?" Shu Bicheng gave the note to Wang Fengming after reading it.
"I just received it, but this happened a few days ago. When did the information become so slow?" Zhang Xiao said angrily.
"Your Highness, right now the Black Dragon Guard..." Niu Gang started, but did not continue.
Zhao Wufeng is dead, Xia Chunqiu is also dead, and the news has spread among the Black Dragon Guards. Zhao Wufeng has been in charge of the Black Dragon Guards for more than thirty years. Almost all of the Black Dragon Guards today are his disciples. Now the Black Dragon Guards have not rebelled. Not bad.
"Your Highness, at this time, you must be more calm. The most important thing now is the choice." Shu Bicheng, the prince's teacher, has been facing this student as a minister since the prince came to supervise the country, but at this moment, it seems that he has returned to the original state. When I was just teaching the young prince.
"Teacher, what do you mean?" Zhang Xiao asked.
"From the report, we can see that Wei Tong plans to fight across the river with us. Now with our current strength, we can no longer win quickly. In this case, we must conserve all our strength and withdraw the troops who are still west of Pingjiang River. Come and wait for the next opportunity." Shu Bicheng said.
"The teacher is right. I will give the order right now to bring Lin Zhaoying and Shan Tao back, and evacuate the rest of the places that are still under control." Zhang Xiao regained his composure and said.
Seeing this disciple like this, Shu Bicheng also greatly appreciated it. As long as His Highness is not confused by the situation in front of him, I believe he will still be able to regain control of the situation.
"Your Highness, in addition to this, Your Highness must gather the victims of the Hexi disaster as soon as possible. Wei Tong sent people to burn the city, which is essentially increasing the burden on us. At present, we must stabilize the situation. On the one hand, we must open warehouses to release grain, and on the other hand, we must send people to Wei to borrow money. Food." Shu Bicheng said.
"This...will the Wei State lend it to us? We know that our relationship with the Chu State is much better than that of the Wei State. Why not go to the Chu State to borrow food?" Zhang Xiao was also a little confused.
"Your Highness, the good relationship between the Chu State and me is more about using each other. Now that our situation is not good, the other party will definitely open his mouth. But the Wei State is completely different, because the current king of the Wei State is quite wise, and he will not look at it. When the traitors of the Wei State steal the Yue State, and once the Yue State is stolen by Wei Tong, then the power of Great Xia will directly come to the Wei State, and the lips will die and the teeth will be cold. The Wei State will not watch us subjugate, and will help us no matter what. Of course, it is possible to put forward conditions, but it is more about face. Your Highness has not yet ascended the throne, so there is no harm in losing some face. After all, he is not a king. You can earn the face back in the future, and what Chu wants is real. Things must not be given away.”
After hearing what Shu Bicheng said, Zhang Xiao nodded silently and said, "Teacher, I understand, I will take care of this matter."
