After a series of raids and harassment operations and the itinerary of the Goryeo naval army, Zhao Yu had basically determined the intention of Meng Yuan's southern attack, which was mainly divided into three battlefields: first, with the troops of Wanhu Mansion in Shandong and Hebei, together with the Goryeo naval army and the newly trained naval army, entered the canal from the mouth of the Huai River to reach the Yangtze River, and then continued south along the canal, approaching Lin'an; the second is to attack Ezhou from the Han River to part of the forces of Wanhu Prefecture in Huaibei in Henan; The third is to use the Huainan salient as a bridgehead to attack Jiangzhou, which can support the Ezhou battlefield to the west and join the Jiangdong battlefield to the east.

"What do you Aiqing think?" Zhao Yu summoned the crowd to discuss countermeasures, and he asked after explaining the current battle situation and his own judgment.

"Your Majesty's judgment, the subordinates think that there is no deviation, the enemy wants to go down to the south of the Yangtze River in a three-way way, and the top priority is to determine which way the enemy army is the main attack, so as to mobilize troops!" Han Zhen had already taken office as a fellow of the Privy Council, and he directly gave the little emperor a hand, he pointed to the sand table and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the current enemy army on the east road is the main attack." Lu Xiufu continued, "Mengyuan Shandong Hebei Wanhu Prefecture has jurisdiction over 60,000 households and 2,000 households, of which there are three tens of thousands of households, one of the middle 10,000 households, and the rest is the lower 10,000 households, and the number of troops is nearly 40,000, plus the newly recruited 50,000 sailors, it is already nearly 100,000. The Goryeo naval army went south with 500 large and small warships, and conservative estimates would not be less than 30,000 people, and the combined troops in the two places would be 150,000 people, far better than the other two routes. ”

"The minister thinks that Lu Xiang's words are reasonable." Wen Tianxiang nodded and said, "I am facing the Yangtze River defense line, focusing on Jiankang in the east and Ezhou in the west, and the defense is also around the two cities. The enemy's Western Route Army went south from Xiangfan to attack Ezhou, and intelligence showed that Xiangyang was only stationed with one enemy Wanhufu, and the attack on Ezhou was obviously insufficient, and its purpose was more like containment, in case the Ezhou garrison went south for reinforcements! ”

"Otherwise, the minister thinks that Boyan has arranged this way, although it seems that the goal is to capture Lin'an, but there are other changes in it, once it attracts a large number of troops of our army on the east road, it will turn to Ezhou or Jiangzhou as the main target, as long as it breaks through one place, the battlefield situation will be reversed again!" Ying Jieyan raised objections.

"The governor thinks that if Mengyuan East Road is lost, which road will be the focus?" Han Zhen Shili asked.

"I thought it was the middle road, once this place was breached, it could echo the east and west roads, and it could also go straight into the hinterland of Jiangdong. However, the main force of our army is deployed along the river and around Lin'an, and the troops in the hinterland are weak, and once it penetrates, it will be like entering a no-man's land, which will inevitably cause turmoil. If our army divides its forces to block it, its east and west roads will be able to take advantage of the weakness, which will lead to the collapse of the Yangtze River defense line as a whole. Ying Jieyan replied.

"Your Majesty also thinks that our army's Yangtze River defense line is like a long snake, and our army uses warships as a mobile to quickly dispatch troops. Hit the snake's head, tail move, roll; Hit the snake's tail, move first, bite; The snake body rampage, head to tail, twisted. Han Zhenyan said, "Your Majesty also said that breaking the long snake formation is nothing more than limiting the mobility of the two wings, so that the head and tail cannot take care of each other, that is, pulling its head, clamping its tail, and cutting its waist, so that the long snake formation can only fight separately, and can no longer fight with the cooperation of the three parties, the head and tail can not take care of each other, and the formation is not attacking and self-breaking, and Boyan wants to break through our army's Yangtze River defense line in this way." ”

"Boyan is so cunning, there are so many scheming hidden in it, fortunately, His Majesty has seen through his tricks!" Military affairs are not Liu Di's director, and he can only listen, but fortunately, he can still understand, and nodded yes.

"Everything I have learned comes from several gentlemen, and Governor Liu has a good reputation!" Zhao Yu hurriedly waved his hand.

"Your Majesty is martial and wise, and the minister is just a corrupt Confucian, but he doesn't dare to take credit!" Deng Guangjian said with a straight face.

"Sir, don't be humble, I'm so martial and wise, it's not for the grace of more than ten years of teaching from Mr., I don't dare to forget it for a day!" Zhao Yu listened and hurriedly replied.

"Flamboyant tongue, hippie smiley, where is the majesty of a monarch!" Although Deng Guangjian's face was still frosty and reprimanded the little emperor, the corners of his mouth curved upwards betrayed him.

"Don't be angry, sir, I have already learned my mistake, and yesterday I ordered that if any more unrealistic hype appeared in the newspapers, I would jail them out!" Zhao Yu saluted again.

"What's going on?" Jiang Xuan looked confused, I don't know why the two masters and apprentices are like this, Lala asked softly with the sleeves of his strict clothes.

"Hehe, Zong Bao must not have read the newspaper recently!" Ying Jieyan twisted his face and chuckled.

"Exactly, what's in it about Your Majesty?" Jiang Xuan raised his eyes to look at Deng Guangjian, who was still reprimanding the little emperor, and asked again.

"In order to confuse the enemy army in Jiangbei, His Majesty deliberately revealed some news about the current war to the tabloids in the city, and also published it in the Di newspaper. But I don't know who I want to do, and I always praise Your Majesty in the newspapers, although some of them are exaggerated, but they are not bad. As a result, the tabloids in the city followed suit, and many of them were full of such articles, some of which were flatterers, and there was no lack of flattery. But Zhongfu thought that His Majesty did it, so he entered the palace and reprimanded him, which is said to have alarmed the Queen Mother! Ying Jieyan said in his mouth, but his finger secretly pointed at Liu Huang, indicating that it was his doing.

"I see. But I think there is nothing wrong with Shengbo doing this, Your Majesty has just been in charge of the government, and he has just entered Jiangnan, and he needs to establish his prestige, and it is not the right time to properly inform the world when the good news is frequent? Why should Zhongfu be so angry? Jiang Xuan felt that it was reasonable, and complained a little about Deng Guang's recommendation.

"Why didn't Zongbao also make fun, it is said that the "Times" gave a lot of money to polish the pen! It is rumored that someone made hundreds of dollars from it, enough to buy a house in the outer city. Ying Jieyan took a sip of tea and chuckled.

"So Governor Ying has benefited from this!" Jiang Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then said suddenly.

"Hehe, we have taught such an excellent disciple, and we also have a light on our faces, and we have a lot of money for the effort, why not do it!" Ying Jie Yan said with a smile.

"Naturally, how can you pretend not to know such a good thing!" Jiang Xuan nodded vigorously.

"Deng Zhongcheng, I am currently discussing the major affairs of the military aircraft, if you want to advise Your Majesty, why choose this time. And if you feel that what is contained in the newspaper is untrue, you can also issue a rebuttal, don't 'bully' Your Majesty here! Seeing that Deng Guangjian was still chattering, but the little emperor could only say yes again and again, Liu Huang couldn't sit still and persuaded him.

"I ...... I just advise Your Majesty not to be overjoyed, not to be complacent by a few words of flattery, and to talk about bullying the word, which is really unreasonable! Deng Guangjian listened and turned to Liu Huangdao.

"Deng Zhongcheng, although you are the emperor, you are also a monarch and minister. Now I reprimand Your Majesty in front of all the ministers, where is the gift of a monarch and a minister! Liu Huang didn't eat his set, and immediately went back.

"You ......" Deng Guangjian was indeed choked, and he looked at him angrily, but he couldn't think of how to refute it for a while.

"If there is something important to discuss today, don't quarrel anymore, or focus on state affairs!" Lu Xiufu saw that the two of them were staring at each other with big eyes, like aggressive little roosters, and hurriedly played a round game. But he was also envious in his heart, thinking that the little emperor was no longer the fearful king Wei before, but the emperor who could decide the life and death of ten thousand people with one word, but he could still pay respects to several masters. It is also reused, and now the three masters have entered the phase, ranking as the leader, and there are few people in the world who can do it.

"Sir, calm down, wait for the state affairs to be discussed, and then teach a lesson!" Zhao Yu wiped his sweat, and also breathed a sigh of relief, pressed his hand to let Deng Guangjian sit down, and cleared his throat again, "Now that Meng Yuan has deployed troops on the riverbank, and the war is imminent, we already know the strategy, how to deal with it?" ”

"Boyan's strategy is too treacherous, and he grasps the initiative in his own hands, if our army adjusts its deployment at the moment, there will inevitably be loopholes in the defensive line, and it can adjust the direction of attack, while our army is passive everywhere, and has to change with it, and it will be taken advantage of if there is a slight difference!" Jiang Xuan looked at the sand table road.

"What Governor Jiang said is reasonable, the enemy army in the Central Plains includes tens of thousands of horses to supply the Jianghuai army, and it can travel hundreds of miles a day, so we can't guard against it!" Lu Xiufu nodded, embarrassed.

"I have some ideas, please refer to them!" Seeing that several people were sad, but there was no good plan for a while, Zhao Yu said.

"Your Majesty, please!" The crowd listened to the salute in unison.

"Since the initiative is no longer in our hands, then we will respond to all changes with the same and still implement the established policy of replacing defense with offense." Zhao Yu said.

"I want to hear about it!" And they saluted.

"At the moment, it seems that we are in passivity, but I don't think it maybe!" Zhao Yu took the baton and pointed on the sand table, "From the perspective of troop deployment, Boyan has concentrated more than 100,000 troops on the East Road, obviously he is taking Lin'an as the main target, which is also the most profitable, and he will not give up easily." If the Central Route Army wanted to cross the river, there was no naval support. Through reconnaissance in the early stage, we can judge that the enemy army wants to use a giant raft as a boat to force a crossing of the Yangtze River, and it is self-evident what the chances of success are. The enemy army on the west road is obviously insufficient to attack the heavily defended Ezhou, and our army can also transfer additional reinforcements from Huguang at any time. ”

"Your Majesty is really wise, and he can always find another way. Your Majesty's use of offense instead of defense is to break the enemy in Jiangzhou? Wen Tianxiang said, secretly smiled bitterly and shook his head, secretly worried about how long this little emperor's brain is, he can always find a breakthrough from the predicament, and turn defeat into victory.

"No, a group of landlubbers don't have boats, and the rafts they made were burned by us, how can they cross the river, even if they can collect some boats, we only need to transfer the Yangtze River Navy to Jiangzhou, we can stop it in Jiangbei, they won't cross the river on horseback!" Zhao Hao smiled and planted the small flag representing the naval army on Jiangzhou Road, "Why don't you worry too much about the direction of Ezhou, we have built a fortified city at the mouth of the Han River that joins the Yangtze River, and arranged artillery, I don't believe they can break through the dense artillery fire!" ”

"In this way, we only need to deal with the enemy's Eastern Route Army, the current Goryeo Navy and its newly trained Navy are blocked by our First Navy outside the mouth of the Huai River, and cannot enter the Yangtze River through the canal. In addition to returning to the north, they are now breaking through the blockade of our naval army and forcibly entering from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and my intention is to annihilate the enemy's Goryeo naval division. At the same time, troops were sent to capture Yangzhou, which was rich and should be a place for the enemy to hoard grain and grass, and could prevent the enemy from returning to the water army to cross the river from there. ”

"Hit Yangzhou?"

"What's wrong?" Looking at everyone's surprised eyes, Zhao Hao touched his chin and said incomprehensibly.

"Your Majesty, Yangzhou is no longer the Yangzhou of the past, and now it has long declined!" Ying Jieyan smiled.

"Yangzhou is in decline!" Zhao Yu listened and said with some loss. In his impression, Yangzhou at least in the Sui Dynasty after the opening of the canal became synonymous with prosperity, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went down to Yangzhou three times in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a saying of "riding a crane down Yangzhou, with a hundred thousand", during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the salt chamber gathered, the rich rivaled the country, and also formed the salt gang dish. Why did the Great Song Dynasty decline!

"Your Majesty may not know that Yangzhou's wealth also comes from the maritime trade ......," Ying Jieyan explained.

Zhao Yu listened and gradually understood. The prosperity of the commodity economy in ancient societies mainly depended on natural conditions and transportation conditions, especially water and land transportation. Waterway transportation, large volume of goods, low cost, so most of the commercially developed cities appear in the big river basins. Superior traffic conditions are the basis of commercial development, which is the case in ancient and modern times, and the development of Yangzhou is largely due to its superior traffic environment.

Yangzhou has a unique location, close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and for a long time before the Tang Dynasty, sea ships could sail directly into the Yangtze River from the sea and dock at Yangzijin in Yangzhou for trade. However, due to the siltation of sediment, the north bank of the Yangtze River has been connected with Guazhou, so that the tide cannot enter at all. On the one hand, it is due to the fact that it cannot be washed by the sea tide, and the canal has been canalized after repeated improvements, and it is separated from the surrounding natural lakes, and the sediment regulation of the lakes cannot be obtained; On the other hand, due to the warlord melee in the Jianghuai region at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the canal was artificially damaged.

In this way, the Yangtze River is far away, and the silting up of the canal makes this famous commercial city prosperous, which makes Yangzijin lose its role as a port. The town of Guazhou, which is located at the mouth of the canal, has replaced its position and become increasingly prosperous, and in the Song and Yuan dynasties, it has developed into a comprehensive port of "prosperous Yinbu, Jiayu Yangbu". In addition, the tide could not reach, and the sea ships could no longer anchor outside Yangzhou as before, and the part of its foreign trade was replaced by Shanghai, Taicang, Hangzhou and other cities respectively.

In addition, Zhao Yu also knows that when the social environment is relatively stable, the urban economy can have room for development. Once a country or region enters a state of war, a large number of labor forces are separated from production, and economic development is impossible at all. After the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, the Jianghuai region successively became the main battlefield of the Jin, Yuan and Song dynasties, and further declined, and Yangzhou's reputation as "Guangling Town, rich in the world" was also unworthy of the name.

And Zhao Hao, who was based on the memory of his previous life, also misjudged, and it would be meaningless to attack Yangzhou again......