If you look at the southwest problem as a progress bar, take Mianzhu City, this progress bar is about forty percent at most, but the problem is that Mianzhu is the bottleneck of this "progress bar", after Mianzhu is taken, the back part can be said to be unimpeded, as long as it can be completed step by step.

That is to say, from the perspective of the Pingnan Army, after losing Mianzhu, there will be no city to defend in the southwest except Jincheng, although the imperial court wants to take the southwest, it also needs to win the Pingnan Army head-on, but compared to the heritage of the two sides, this is only a matter of time.

General Zhuguo, who has always been calm and calm, has a slightly distorted face at this moment.

His hand holding Xu Zhen's front was trembling faintly.

I don't know how long it took for Li Shen to loosen Xu Zhen's clothes, and the general's clothes had been torn out by Li Shen a few times.

"Who else knows about Mianzhu?"

Xu Zhen bowed his head and said: "The last general came to see the general for the first time, except for the general, no one knows." ”

Li Shenmulan said: "Block all news, and you can't tell anyone the news of the fall of Mianzhu." ”

They were originally rebelling, if they were victorious, their morale would naturally be high, but once they suffered defeat, they would immediately panic, and if the news of the loss of Mianzhu spread, the people in the city might tie up Li Shen, and then open the city gate to surrender.

Even within the Pingnan Army, they will lose their fighting spirit.

So the news can't get out anyway.

Xu Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "General, you will be able to understand what you do. ”

"But the defenders of Mianzhu are now on their way back to Jincheng, they can return to Jincheng the day after tomorrow at most, there are nearly 10,000 of these people, there are many people, and it is impossible for the general to let each of them not speak......"

Li Shen's face was expressionless.

"Now set up camp outside the city at once, and when they return, you will live in it, and no one shall enter or leave without the orders of the general."

Xu Zhen sighed, bowed his head and said, "Since the general insists, the last general will do it." ”

Speaking of this, the general bowed his head and said in a deep voice: "General, the last general thinks that paper can't contain fire, and the general still has to find a way to get back Mianzhu......"

"You don't have to worry about these things."

Li Shen slowly closed his eyes.

"Go sort out Mianzhu's battle report and send it to me, I want to read it."

Xu Zhen nodded and slowly retreated.

After Xu Zhen retreated, Li Shen didn't move for a long time, he turned around and sat down under a pavilion, and couldn't stop taking a deep breath.

The Li family had a hard time starting a business.

The branch of Pingnan Hou Mansion is separated from the Li family of Zhao County, and now Li Shidao, the head of the Li family of Zhao County, is commensurate with Li Shen's uncle and nephew, and he is quite polite to Li Shen, this is because the Pingnan Hou Mansion is now a big family, and the Li family of Zhao County is attached to it.

But at the beginning, the two brothers Li Zhijie and Li Zhili, since they separated from the Li family of Zhao County, it means that they are not the main lineage, at that time the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still there, and the Li family of Zhao County was still an official in the Northern Zhou Dynasty for generations, and Li Zhijie went south to enter the Jin, starting from a school official, and slowly became a general who led the troops to fight later.

One of the hardships is not enough for outsiders either.

Later, Li Zhijie sacrificed his life to take Nanshu, and was willing to take risks to run his own business in Nanshu, and then passed it to Li Shen.

Among them, there are thousands of difficulties and dangers, and only Ping Nanhou, who is the party concerned, knows best.

It is for this reason that Li Shen regards this family business as more important than anything else, even far more important than his own life.

He has been busy for more than ten years, and he doesn't know how much hard work he has gone through, just to be able to keep this family business, so that the Pingnan Hou Mansion and the Pingnan Army can continue to exist.

But now, where his life's wish was, he was stabbed severely.

If the Pingnan Hou Mansion is like a mirror, then Mianzhu is lost, this mirror is full of cracks, and it is only a matter of time before it is broken.

At this moment, he was very uncomfortable, very, very uncomfortable.

Because the inheritance handed over to him by the old marquis Li Zhijie is in danger!

After I don't know how long, Li Shen slowly stood up from under the pavilion.

No matter what the situation is, no matter what he has to face, he, the backbone of the southwest, cannot fall at this time, and if he falls at this time, the Pingnan army will soon collapse completely.

If he can hold on, the Pingnan Army will still have a chance.

Li Shen walked slowly to the front hall, and his wife, Mrs. Yu, was sitting in the front hall, waiting in a proper manner.

Everyone has their own laws, for example, if her husband is at home, it is absolutely impossible for Mrs. Yu to eat first.

At this time, she had been relieved a little from the grief of losing her son, and when she saw Li Shen coming over, a smile appeared on her face, and she said with a smile: "Why did Master Hou come, the dishes are a little cold." ”

Li Shen's face was as usual, and he barely squeezed out a smile on his face.

"It's nothing, there are some military affairs for me to deal with."

"Let's eat."

General Zhu Guo sat down, and was just about to pick up the chopsticks, but because he was depressed, he coughed violently a few times.

Madame Jade took out her handkerchief and wiped her mouth for him, and then she saw a touch of red on the handkerchief.

Obviously, General Zhu Guo vomited blood.

This noble girl from the Zheng family in Xingyang was shocked.

She stood up, reached out and patted Li Shen's back, her tone so anxious that she was about to lose her voice.

"Master Hou, what's wrong with you?!"

Li Shen took a few breaths and shook his head at his wife.

"Nothing."

"It's much more comfortable to cough it up."

…………

When Jincheng received the news here, Ye Ming and Ye Shaobao also received the news from Li Xin, the second-generation boss of the Ye family, picked up the letter and opened it, just glanced at it briefly, and his eyes were shining.

In the letter Li Xin wrote to him, he didn't say any specific details, but he talked in detail about the achievements of the little grandfather Ye Mao.

For example, Ye Mao attacked Fucheng, for example, Ye Mao pursued the Pingnan Army, and nailed Cheng Ping, the third person of the Pingnan Army, with a spear.

These are Li Xin's kindness to the Ye family, and they are also his answer to the Ye family.

At the end of the letter, Li Xin wrote a sentence lightly.

"Brother, Jiangyou, Fucheng, and Mianzhu have all been broken, I have established a firm foothold in Mianzhu, what will happen next, please show my brother."

Originally, a big man of Ye Ming's level, no matter what he did, should be moody and angry, after all, he couldn't let outsiders easily see his thoughts.

But at this time, Ye Shaobao's mouth was almost up to the root of his ears.

He laughed heartily.

"What a Li Changan!"

"I actually knocked down all the bamboos!"

Ye Shaobao passed the letter down and let the forbidden army read it all over again.

In the end, he summoned all the generals of the forbidden army to the tent.

At this time, General Ye was full of spring breeze.

He sat in the handsome seat and had a loud voice.

"You have also seen that Li Xin, the Marquis of Jing'an, is already in the southwest hinterland, and the Pingnan army is in chaos."

"Now, in front of us, there is only one sword gate."

"As long as the Sword Gate Pass is broken, Jincheng can break the city at any time, and then we can return to Beijing."

Speaking of this, Ye Ming smiled slightly.

"It's just that the New Year's Festival is coming soon, a good day. It's not good to see blood, and after this year, we can start to take the Sword Pavilion. ”

"On this great day."

Ye Ming smiled brightly.

"General Ben will send a letter to Li Yan to tell him the good news of Mianzhu's destruction of the city."