Xie Ai joined the Huainan Governor's Mansion, counting for several months, and just joined the Governor's Mansion, he held such a humble but powerful position as the chief bookkeeper, responsible for sorting out the military and political documents in the Governor's Mansion, which was an absolute confidant.

However, after joining the Governor's Mansion for so long, his people just kept their duties and did not make any attention-grabbing remarks, and over time, the subordinate officials of the Governor's Mansion gradually ignored this so-called Liangzhou Magi.

However, Shen Zhezi knew what kind of endowment Xie Ai had, and he could see that he was not only responsible, but also tried to deepen his understanding of the Huainan Governor's Mansion through these correspondence documents. He is quite satisfied with Xie Ai's attitude and practice, as Huainan becomes more and more important, more and more people come to take refuge in the Governor's Mansion, and there is no shortage of people who claim to be wise men, and their bold words attract people's attention, which is quite sensational.

However, Xie Ainai was personally recruited by Shen Zhezi into the mansion, and it is really rare that he can maintain such an attitude of not being arrogant or rash, and not showing his ability with wild words.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi also paid special attention to Xie Ai's first strategy, especially this strategy coincided with his own thoughts, so he really wanted to hear what Xie Ai's strength was.

"Wang Shi has accumulated for several years, and Tiannan has become a Fengyi, and there are few rivals since the Northern Expedition. This sincere soldier has been strengthened, such as breaking a bamboo, and it will be solved after a few sections. Guo Hou intimidated Cheng Gao, Xiao Lang picked up sour dates, and it was the same! It is advisable to be brave and courageous, and it is not appropriate to defend and curb yourself. ”

Seeing Du Du looking at him, Xie Ai was also a little flustered, after all, this was the first time he had spoken to make a move, so it was inevitable that he would be apprehensive.

After saying this, seeing that Du Du Du looked at him with his approval, Xie Ai calmed down a little and continued: "Strong men are available, this is one of them. Wang Shi is forging ahead, unstoppable, winning the decisive victory quickly, attacking it unprepared, this is the second. ”

Hearing this, someone in the banquet suddenly raised his hand to disagree, but it was the Huainan veteran Qiao Qiu: "Xie Zhushu said that the Wang Division is strong, this is not suspicious, the Wang Division will drink the horse in the river between the ten months of the north, it is a feat." But if you say that the decisive victory is fast, and the attack is unprepared, this is a little self-deceptive? Since Wang Shi entered the north, the north and the south have been moved, and now there are several stone thieves in the north of the river, how can it be possible to win again than unprepared? ”

Hearing Qiao Qiu's questioning, Xie Ai paused, then looked at Shen Zhezi, and saw that the governor nodded and motioned for him to continue, and then said: "What General Qiao said is indeed common sense, the king is going north, how can the thieves not know the reason, but looking at what he crosses the river, there is no fault for not being prepared......"

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart. Previously, whether it was himself or when he and the generals specified the overall battle plan for this time, they actually made a big mistake, that is, they overly substituted Shi Kan into their own position. In their view, Shi Kan was bound to seek to come south, and the situation should be extremely urgent. Therefore, the preparations they have been making all along have been to gather heavy troops in Henan, and then start a major battle with Shikan, and there is a possibility that a big war may break out before they reach the Yellow River.

However, Shi Kan may not have such a clear understanding of the situation, perhaps the troops under his jurisdiction are too restricted, and the troops deployed in Henan are really minimal, and even these troops, I am afraid that they are all privately dispatched by the generals of various departments, first of all, they cannot meet the defensive needs of watching and helping each other in the region, and they are too scattered, and secondly, in terms of troops, it seems that the Huainan Army is not an opponent.

At this point, Hurun, who supervised the battle of Huting, had the most right to speak, and under Shen Zhezi's instructions, he described the battle process in detail. From its description, it can be seen that the enemy army of Huting, whether in terms of armament or preparation, does not meet the standard of long-term defense.

In other words, they should not have realized that the Huainan army would launch an attack during this time period, otherwise it would be too arrogant. Although the Huainan army only arrived at the front of tens of thousands of people, such a sloppy preparation situation is really looking for death.

Such a fact, it is not difficult to analyze, maybe they didn't believe it before, but now they have troops in Henan, and they are still facing such an opponent, which shows that this is indeed the case, Shi Kan really did not regard the Huainan Army as an opponent who needed to be prepared, or at least not in this period of time. Perhaps he attached great importance to the Huainan Army, but this attention was not implemented in specific military operations.

For such an analysis, all the generals in Huainan are a little unacceptable, because by now, the combat goal of the Huainan army has been extremely clear, tens of thousands of horses and horses went north to fight with Shi Kan in the Yellow River, but the other side does not seem to have realized this, it is actually an undefended posture.

They naturally don't believe that Shi Kan will be this kind of mediocre class with unknown knowledge, you must know that Shi Kan's current reputation is not a fluke, it is also a real knife and a real gun, even if there is no opportunity to inherit part of Shi Le's inheritance in the north, in the early years in Huaibei was also the entire Xuzhou suppressed.

"Could it be that his people show the enemy and lure them in?"

Qiao Qiu continued to ask, after all, Huainan did not have a clear grasp of the situation in Yecheng, and it was very likely that Shi Kan deliberately put on an undefended posture in Henan, and set up heavy troops in Hebei, waiting for the Huainan army to throw themselves into the net or attack half-crossing. After all, geographically speaking, the Yellow River is close to Yecheng, which is the home of Shikan, and it occupies an absolute advantage in order to wait for work, so it is not surprising to make any arrangements.

When Shen Zhezi heard this question, he also looked at Xie Ai with great interest, which was actually one of the reasons why he was hesitant to make a decision. After all, with the current strength of the Huainan Army and the large-scale actions since the end of spring, no one can ignore it so much. Even Shi Hu, who was further north, had insight and took the initiative to shrink the military force to Hebei. Shi Kan is in the first place, if he really turns a blind eye, it is really incredible.

"If Shi Kan is not unconscious, but can't, is it possible?"

When Xie Ai said this, his eyes were already shining: "Xiang Niandu Du frustrated Ji Long, coinciding with the new death of Shilong, and the collapse of the karma department, although Shi Kan is the adopted son of Shilong, after all, he is far beyond the heir. His people used to establish Huaibei, and they are by no means the masters of Hebei's calculations......"

Xie Ai has analyzed a lot, but there is only one core point, that is, the current situation in Yecheng is close to the edge of getting out of control. Although Shi Kan is Shi Le's adopted son, he does not have the advantage of legal system, and Hebei is not his foundation, so he may have lost or partially lost the dominance of Yecheng, so there will be such a speculative situation in Henan.

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help but stand up from the seat and turned to face a map of Hebei hanging in the big tent. This map, not from Huainan, but in the early years of Hebei people persuaded into the Yuan Emperor into one of the books, has been nearly 20 years of history, in fact, the reference significance is not much, but it is now Huainan and even the entire Jiangdong preserved the most detailed map of Hebei.

Previously, when Huainan was engaged in mutual market commerce, he was actually carefully collecting many information about Hebei, but he hoped to obtain accurate information about Hebei through those villagers who lived in one place, even if those people dared to say it, Shen Zhezi dared to believe it. And with that one-sided information, it's hard to piece together a complete picture. You must know that the Jiangdong Imperial Court has been extinct in Hebei for more than 20 years, and even when the Northern Expedition of Zu Ti was at its strongest, it could not break through the Yellow River.

Shen Zhezi and the Huainan Governor's Office now know the situation in Hebei, and the most conclusive and credible thing is that Qian Feng obtained some information from his activities in Hebei earlier, so after crossing the Yellow River, the entire land of Hebei is a fog of war for the Huainan army. A few years ago, Shi Hu led the crowd to the south, and suffered a lot of losses in this regard, because he didn't know that in that short period of more than a year, Shen Zhezi had risen strongly in Huainan and misjudged the situation in Huainan.

Now it is the Huainan Army that is facing this problem, and it is also the Huainan Army that needs to make a choice. Xie Ai's judgment was mostly in line with Shen Zhezi's thoughts, and he also felt that Shi Kan had at least lost part of his control over Yecheng, otherwise it would be impossible to have no arrangements in Henan. Shi Kan's current situation is similar to that of Ran Min in the future, but it is much worse than Ran Min.

At least Ran Min has always been a highly regarded general under Shi Hu, and Shi Hu's tyranny has intensified the national contradictions to the point of breaking out, and during Shi Hu's reign, he has a repressive attitude towards the military organization of the Qi nationality itself, including the gateway of the Hebei Jin people, and he mainly relies on the armed forces of Fu Hong and Yao Yizhong, which are Guanzhong, and when suppressing the Xianbei Murong clan, it is inevitable that the Hebei beggar army will be supported.

Therefore, when Ran Min was fighting against Qianhu, on the one hand, he relied on Li Nong's beggar army, and on the other hand, through national contradictions, he was able to gain the dominance of Hebei in a short period of time. Of course, this was also because the armed forces of Di and Qiang were anxious to return to Guanzhong at that time, and did not join the power struggle in the state of Qian.

Shi Kan was able to have today's powerful position, which was already due to fate, and his own military ability and personal prestige were far weaker than that of Ran Min later. As a general who was transferred from Huaibei to the core of the Qi Kingdom, he has a shallow foundation, so Xie Ai's judgment is entirely possible. Even Shen Zhezi himself has already had speculations about this.

The most obvious evidence is that, first of all, Shi Kan did not set up heavy troops in Henan to guard against the attack of the Huainan army, including the Xuzhou army, which is most likely because a considerable part of his subordinates opposed the return to Henan. Secondly, after learning that Huting was attacked, the people of sour jujube did not come to the rescue, but took the initiative to give up sour jujube, which shows that these Henan people themselves do not have a unified deployment, and it is very likely that they have grudges against each other, so that the Xionghu army of sour jujube is mainly self-preservation, and they will not save when they see death.

If this assumption is true, then it is very likely that on the north bank of the Yellow River, Shi Kan did not have enough troops at all, and the weakness on the south bank of the Yellow River was simply due to his lack of strength, rather than the so-called strategy to lure the enemy.

In this way, if the Huainan army appears in Hebei, it is very likely to cause great variables, and even cause the collapse of Shikan's army. Of course, this is the most ideal guess, which can be imagined, but it should not be used as a goal.

Originally, this was just Shen Zhezi's speculation, and he couldn't be sure of it himself, so he was very entangled in his heart. But now that I heard that Xie Ai's judgment was quite similar to my own judgment, I naturally felt excited in my heart. In fact, it is very simple to prove whether this guess is correct, that is, to put some people across the river to test. But if this guess is wrong, this part of the people will be in the middle of the battle, and there will be no life!

The others were still digesting the information contained in Xie Ai's judgment, and Shen Zhezi had already made a decision, he turned his head to look at Xie Ai, and said in a deep voice: "If I send the master book to cross the river, do you dare to do it?" How many troops should you put in to open up the situation? ”

When Xie Ai heard this, his shoulders shook, he could make this judgment, and naturally he could imagine what kind of dangerous situation he would face after crossing the river once he made a mistake in judgment. But he was shocked, not because he was burned, but because the governor seemed to approve of his speculation.

He was already familiar with the structure of the Huainan Governor's Office, the military and political affairs were two independent or subordinate military systems, and the chief secretary he served seemed to be the choice of his confidants, but in fact, he could not get involved in the military at all. However, because of the similarity, the Governor seemed to be trying to make a special case for him.

"If the army of 3,000 soldiers is victorious, the last general is willing to cross the river and restore the land, bloody Hebei, and fight to the death without retreating!"

Xie Ai knew that such an opportunity was really rare, and at the same time, he was full of confidence in his own judgment, knowing that once he seized this opportunity, he would become the real confidant of the governor, so he stood up and said solemnly.