Yanzhou, Gaoping State, Changyi City.
After several days of rest and recuperation, the Qingzhou Army stationed in Changyi City has fully recovered, and subsequent food supplies have also arrived one after another.
At least within a month, the supplies of these tens of thousands of Qingzhou troops have been guaranteed.
After everything was completed, Liu Yu still did not get any useful information from the south about Sima Yuexingtai, King of the East China Sea.
There was no accurate information on where Xingtai and the Chinese army were at this time, or where they were going.
Although Liu Yu knew that in history, in March of the fifth year of Yongjia, Sima Yue had already died, and the remaining officials of Xingtai and the Chinese army officers and soldiers went to Xuzhou and Donghai Kingdom together.
However, according to the information Liu Yu found out, there was no news about Sima Yue's death, and there was no news about Xingtai officials and the Chinese army.
It is not that Liu Yu has not thought about directly leading tens of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers to kill in the direction of Xiangcheng of Liang State. However, it is not easy to find these Baiguanxingtai in the vast plains of eastern Henan, and in these In people's minds, Liu Yu's threat may not be less than the threat of those barbarians.
"Sir, are you so sure that these hundreds of officials and soldiers in Xingtai will be defeated after encountering the barbarians? I mean, they are nearly a hundred thousand people, it's that simple Can it be defeated?"
His nephew Liu Xun never believed it after hearing Liu Yu's guess.
After all, that is the Luoyang Central Army, which is known as the world's elite, and there are nearly 100,000 people. How could they be defeated in one blow after encountering the Hulu cavalry, as Liu Yu said?
"This is just a guess. However, these hundreds of officials and soldiers in Xingtai have long been short of food and clothing. If Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, dies of illness again, the army will be demoralized and leaderless. It’s not impossible.”
Liu Yu was not very sure about what he said.
After all, the course of history is not predetermined by fate, but a series of inevitable and accidental encounters. Everything may change in detail, such as the time of Sima Yue's death.
"Then our mission this time is to attack Sima Yue. What if Sima Yue dies of illness?" Liu Xun asked curiously.
The slogan of the Qingzhou Army's deployment this time is to eliminate the treacherous minister Sima Yue. If Sima Yue, the traitorous minister, dies of illness, what will the Qingzhou Army's subsequent purpose be?
"Haha, if Sima Yue dies, it will be a blessing to him that he will not have to experience a miserable old age. At least half of the credit for the monstrous flood that has swept away the lives of countless people in the world belongs to Sima Yue."
The expression on Liu Yu's face started to look a little disdainful.
"Sima Yue is dead, which is an advantage for him, but the remaining officials and the Chinese army, except for Sima Yue's party members, the rest are the elite of the Central Plains people. If they can be used by me, then in the future If we can bring peace to the troubled times, we will definitely be able to accomplish great things."
In fact, Liu Yu didn't have much confidence in his last two sentences.
Since the party ban at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the powerful families in the world have clearly realized their own strength. The subsequent Wei and Jin dynasties were dynasties created by powerful families and military strongmen, even in the current tragic wars. It turns out that these powerful families may not cooperate obediently when facing Liu Yu.
"I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will still have to kill people and establish my authority myself."
Regarding these powerful families who have been spoiled by power, Liu Yu has to believe that the combination of violence and interests is the basis for cooperation with these families.
At this time, a guard led Wu Xin in quickly.
"Qi Gong, the rangers from the Black Cloud Camp captured a man who escaped from the south."
Wu Xin said eagerly as soon as he entered the door.
"Who is it? An official or a soldier?" Liu Yu asked immediately.
"I'm not a big official, I'm just a captain of the Chinese army, but I seem to know a lot about the situation there."
"Then bring them over quickly." Liu Yu ordered.
After a while, Wu Xin brought in a tall and thin soldier with several guards.
Liu Yu looked him over and saw that the variegated white robe on his body was tattered and dirty. It looked like it had not been taken care of for many days.
However, the leaked military uniforms can still be identified, which are exactly the military uniforms of the Jin Dynasty Central Army in Luoyang.
After this Chinese soldier from the Jin court was brought in, his face was full of fear and nervousness, and he stood there blankly.
"Be brave. If you see Qi Gong, why don't you pay your respects quickly?"
When Liu Xun saw this, he immediately scolded him.
The soldier jumped up when he heard this and quickly fell to the ground.
"I'm afraid of being rude, I hope Duke Qi will forgive me!"
Liu Yu had no time to waste time with him on this kind of thing, but said it simply.
"Get up, he who doesn't know is not guilty. Where are you from?"
"The villain is the cavalry colonel under General Zuowei." The soldier said immediately after standing up.
"Since he is a soldier of the Chinese Army, why did he come to Yanzhou? Shouldn't he be in Ku County?"
Liu Yu deliberately named the place "Buxian County" to observe his reaction and judge whether it was consistent with his guess.
"I really don't dare to deceive Duke Qi. I am a native of Gaoping. My home is in Juye Daze. I became a deserter and escaped on my own." As the soldier spoke, his eyes turned red and he actually stayed. Tears came down.
"Qi Gong, you don't know something. Xiangcheng is in complete chaos. The Taifu is dead. Wang Taiwei and others are not mourning in secret. They want to bring Xingtai and the Chinese army to Xuzhou Donghai Kingdom, and then they want to I went south to Jiangdong. I am the eldest son of the family. If I went to Jiangdong, I might never be able to come back. Therefore, I stole two horses with my brother and fled back to Gaoping. I just felt sorry for my brother. He was shot to death by Hulu’s riders on the road!”
After that, he started to cry loudly, his voice was so sad that everyone present could not help but feel moved.
"Sima Yue is dead? How are you sure?" Liu Yu continued to ask.
"The villain is under the command of General Zuowei. He happens to be guarding Taifu's military tent. He knows everything about what happened that day."
"What's the situation with Xiangcheng Xingtai and the Chinese army now?" Liu Yu continued to ask without giving him a chance to think.
"As soon as the Taifu died, all the ministers were in chaos. Several vassal princes and Wang Taiwei refused to lead the army. Finally, it was decided to return to Donghai Kingdom to mourn the Taifu, and then go south to Jiangzuo."
"How many people are there in Xiangcheng?" Liu Yu admired this soldier a little. Not only could he make bold decisions at critical moments, but when faced with pressing questions, he answered questions clearly and narrated without any stammering and hesitation like ordinary soldiers. Unclear logic.
"Back to Qi Gong, I don't know how many people there are specifically, but I once heard from Wang Taiwei and others that there must be almost 100,000 people."
Liu Yu changed his tone to a friendly tone and asked, "What's your name?"
"The villain's name is Ding Yi, there is no word."
"Haha, Ding Yi, I think you are good. You are a strong man who has seen the world." Liu Yu praised him. He dared to steal horses and escape with his brothers, and also avoided the threats of horsemen and bandits along the way. He is indeed worthy of it. A strong man now.
"Ding Yi, let me ask you, will Xiangcheng have enough food when you leave?"
Hearing Liu Yu's question, Ding Yi immediately looked painful and said, "General, since February, the army's food and grass have been running low. Those ministers and generals are fine, but we, the small school soldiers, have begun to We were short of food, and by the time I escaped, many of the horses in the cavalry army had been killed. If the villain’s horses had not been killed by the camp general, I would not have stolen the horses and escaped.”
After hearing this, Liu Yu guessed that it seemed that these Chinese troops, whose military morale had long been weakened, would really be difficult to resist if they encountered the wolf-like and tiger-like Hu and Han cavalry.
At the very least, the first thing was that after the death of the powerful minister Sima Yue, no one in the hall dared to step forward to take over the crisis and comfort the officials and soldiers. Instead, they thought of an excuse to send Sima Yue back to the East China Sea for burial. Thinking of running away.
This means that the enemy has not yet been seen, but victory or defeat has been decided.
"Ding Yi, do you know where the Hu and Han thieves like Wang Mi and Shi Le are at this time? Do you know where the Hu Lu cavalry you met along the way are from?"
"When the villain left Xiangcheng, Shi Le and the barbarians seemed to be still in Yingchuan. Since Xuchang fell into the hands of the barbarians in February, these barbarians have been plundering everywhere in Yingchuan. As for the villain on his way back, he encountered The Hulu cavalry that arrived were all stragglers, and it was impossible to tell which tribe they belonged to."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yu immediately took out a map.
This map is a so-called dangerous map of mountains and rivers presented to Liu Yu by one of his officials when he was in Qingzhou.
In fact, in Liu Yu's view, the representation of this map is a bit too freehand. The specific directions of the cities and towns on it are quite biased, and there is no concept of scale. In addition, it is not "up north and down south" in later generations. "descriptive method.
In order to understand this map, it took Liu Yu a long time to adapt.
However, there is nothing that can be done about it. After all, there is no superb map surveying technology at this time. If you can draw the directions of one city after another, it is considered qualified.
Moreover, in ancient times, these maps, especially those marked with administrative divisions and dangerous mountains and rivers, belonged to NPN for most of the time, almost as much as astronomy and stars.
Liu Yu looked at the map for a while, and after thinking about it for a while, a bad premonition emerged.
"The Xingtai and Zhongjun troops who are currently mourning Sima Yue can only reach the Qiao County area at the fastest speed. If they are slower, they may only be twenty or thirty miles away from the city."
"However, Changyi is three hundred miles away from there, but Shi Le and others in Yingchuan are more than two hundred miles away, and Shi Le has a large number of cavalry. In this way, if Shi Le knew about these hundreds of The movements of the officers and the Chinese army will definitely catch up to Xingtai before me."
"Hey, it seems like these people's real chance of survival is to hold on to a fortified city. Otherwise, they can only become the target of Hu Qi chasing behind them. As for defeating Shile Hulu in the field, under the command of Taiwei Wang Yan Waiting for someone to incompetently and shamelessly formulate an escape strategy is like committing suicide."
Later, Liu Yu ordered people to place Ding Yi, the deserter who had just provided a lot of information, in Haosheng.
The more Liu Yu thought about it, the more he felt that this kind of thing could not be delayed at all. If he could take a step forward and meet Xingtai and the Chinese army first, he might be able to avoid a disaster involving the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
Liu Yu immediately ordered the guards to summon the generals of each camp for him.
After the accompanying guards who passed the order left, Wu Xin kept looking at Liu Yu, as if he wanted to say something, but was embarrassed to say it.
Liu Yu kept his head down, looking at the rather abstract map of the Central Plains on the desk, but did not notice this.
It was his nephew Liu Xun who noticed Wu Xin's appearance. Liu Xun approached Liu Yu and reminded him.
"Bo Cheng, what do you have to say?"
Liu Yu looked at Wu Xin and said.
"Qi Gong, Wu has something to say to Qi Gong." Wu Xin said with some anxiety.
Seeing Wu Xin's appearance, he could not see the generous spirit of the Yan and Zhao warriors in the past. Instead, Liu Yu was very curious and interesting about this matter.
"Hahaha, Bo Cheng, it doesn't matter, what else can't be said between you and me?" Liu Yu said with a hearty smile.
"Qi Gong, I heard that Xun Kui, who was sent to deliver the decree, has left, right?"
"Yes, he hasn't left yet. He has to wait for Cangyuan's beggar army to repel the invading Hu and Han cavalry before he can return to Luoyang. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so embarrassed."
Regarding Wu Xin, what Liu Yu said was not concealed at all, because the vicinity of Cangyuan in Yanzhou has always been an important channel for communication between the north and the south of the Yellow River. The famous Baima and Yanjin in history are not far from Cangyuan to the north.
"In my opinion, Qi Gong quickly asked Xun Kui to come to the table. He said that the general himself was humble and not arrogant. He was really unfamiliar with the position of general and was not qualified for it, so he refused to accept the resignation."
Wu Xin's words really surprised Liu Yu. If he did this, he would be throwing back the pie that fell from the sky.
"Bo Cheng, what do you mean by these words?"
"Xin, I dare to ask Duke Qi, does he know that this general is above the three Dukes?" Wu Xin asked.
"Well, of course I know." Liu Yu said.
"If Qi Gong, you accept the appointment of this general, then from now on, everyone in the world will regard you as a general who has received the honor and favor of the Jin Dynasty."
"In this case, if you want to be a loyal minister of the Jin court for the rest of your life, then no one can say anything."
"But if, one day, Qi Gong and the Jin court fall out, and even go to war with each other, then everyone in the world will talk about it."
"What's the matter?" Liu Yu asked with a normal expression.
"I'm afraid some people will say that Qi Gong is ungrateful despite being so favored by the Jin Dynasty."
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