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Jiankang Mansion, Ouchi Imperial Study.

Although the sun is shining outside, the whole study still makes people feel a little cold, not because of the poor lighting conditions, but because the atmosphere here is really not warm.

The footsteps were hurried, and a eunuch walked quickly to the table in the imperial study, stretched out his hand and sent the express newspaper in his hand to Chen Ji's eyes. Chen Ji, who was napping, heard the sound and slowly opened his eyes, and there was a murderous aura in his eyes when he looked at these eunuchs.

And this aura of murder obviously does not dissipate because of the warm sunlight outside.

"Where did it come from, and what news?" Although Chen Ji squinted slightly, he still carried an irresistible majesty, which made the eunuch subconsciously bow his head.

"Back to the emperor, this is the news sent by General Jingkou Zuowei, the army has set out." The eunuch hurriedly replied.

Chen Ji stretched out his hand to take the eight-hundred-mile express report, and after looking at it, he exhaled softly, he didn't rush to say more or give orders, but looked at Yutu slowly with deep eyes, Xiao Maha, I hope I didn't mistake you.

I've been looking forward to this Xiliang for a long time.

At this moment, another eunuch walked in quickly, saw that Chen Ji had woken up, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, General Huainan Fan has an urgent report!" ”

"Oh?" Chen Ji raised his eyebrows, "Fan Meng? The bulletin came at a better time. ”

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"Wang Liang is mobilizing troops in Huaibei, and he has the intention of attacking Huainan?" Xiao Maha slowly put down the express sent from Huainan in his hand, his brows furrowed.

And Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian, who were standing beside him, subconsciously glanced at each other, and their faces changed slightly. It is already an ironclad fact that the domestic army of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is going north, and now what Wang Liang wants to do in Huaibei, with the troops in his hands, it is even difficult to successfully resist Nan Chen's attack, let alone attack Huainan.

"This Fan Meng is really looking for time," Xiao Maha sneered, "Look at it, according to him, the place where Wang Rail attacked was Zhongli, it was really a good place to choose!" ”

Li Xinchen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

I see!

Although Fan Meng is nominally the chief general of Nan Chen in Huainan after Xiao Maha leaves, after all, the imperial court has not issued a clear will from beginning to end, and he is a bit unjustifiable no matter how he looks at it, and the scope of his orders is still limited to the area of Liang County after all.

Now Fan Meng claims that Wang Liang intends to attack Zhongli, and the intention is of course obvious, but he just wants the imperial court to take this opportunity to give him a name, so that he can truly command all parts of Huainan.

You must know that on the entire Huainan defense line, Zhongli is the hub connecting Huaidong and Huaixi, and it is also the fortress that Nan Chen is concentrating on, and its status in the Huainan defense line is no less than the status of Jingkou in the Dajiang defense line, even if the main force of Nan Chen is now going south, Wang Liang does not mobilize 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses and a sufficient number of sailors, and he does not want to easily threaten Zhongli.

Compared with Zhongli, North Xuzhou and Liang County on the east and west sides are a little weak, if Wang Rail attacks, he must choose to attack these two directions, and after North Xuzhou takes it, he will have to face another strong city - Yangzhou, so if you want to take a bridgehead in Huainan, Liang County is obviously the most suitable.

Therefore, Wang Liang put Liang Jun, the weak point of Nan Chen, not to attack, and attacked Zhongli with insufficient troops, which is a bit fantastical. Fan Meng's report naturally has elements of making a big fuss, and the other side may be exaggerated as a gathering of troops just by mobilizing troops.

This method of exaggerating the enemy is also not new.

Zhongli is the territory left by Wu Mingche to Xiao Maha, who presides over Zhongli's military, it also symbolizes who is the commander of the army of Southern Chen Huainan, this is customary, and it is also a rule that all soldiers abide by, so from the bottom of my heart, Xiao Maha does not want to hand over Zhongli to Fan Meng.

Fan Meng is now in charge of the defense of Huainan in Liang County, and he is stationed in Zhongli to completely control all the military forces of Nan Chen in Huainan are two concepts, and presiding on behalf means that once Xiao Maha returns, Fan Meng will also be able to take the lead of Xiao Maha, but his entry into Zhongli is different.

In the future, I am afraid that this Huainan will not have a foothold for Xiao Maha.

"This Fan Meng is really despicable!" Xiao Shilian snorted.

And Xiao Maha shook his head: "But this method is very effective, this is Chiguoguo's yang strategy, even if the imperial court doesn't want to, there is no reason to change generals at this time, so it seems that this Zhongli still has to fall into the hands of Fan Meng." ”

"Not necessarily." Li Xinchen narrowed his eyes, "Fan Meng has no choice when he does this, but the general should not forget that His Majesty's temperament may not tolerate such a courtier." ”

Xiao Maha's expression changed, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As Li Xinchen said, perhaps in most cases, in the face of such a request from front-line generals that is actually not excessive, the imperial court will push the boat to meet them, after all, the real power is almost in their hands, but it is just a matter of name, and there is not much difference between giving and not giving.

There are even times when the imperial court wishes that the front-line generals would care about this. The so-called no one is perfect, and it may not be a good thing that people are too perfect, and the imperial court is not afraid of civil and military officials who like wine and wealth, but those officials who don't like anything will make the imperial court really afraid.

Because this is a subordinate who has no weaknesses, once one day they become opponents, they will be unable to resist. To a large extent, everyone has their own weaknesses and preferences, and these officials, who are not interested in wine, wealth, or even real power, are probably the highest positions that they really covet.

However, this is only in most cases, and now the emperor of Nanchen is Chen Xu, as an emperor who is "not right", Chen Ji is not only suspicious, but also very sensitive to courtiers with bad intentions, obviously now Fan Meng is asking for the command of the entire Huainan in the form of semi-persecution, I am afraid it will have the opposite effect.

Xiao Maha breathed a sigh of relief, according to what Li Xinchen said, it is indeed very likely that Chen Ji will not agree.

However, it is obvious that Li Xinchen did not feel relaxed because of this, he thought about it and said slowly: "Even if Your Majesty will not refuse, you will definitely be dissatisfied, and when the time comes, Fan Meng will definitely not be satisfied, which can be called 'satisfied' for Your Majesty, but it may not be a good thing for us." ”

"Shizhong, you are not necessarily a bad thing, and it is not necessarily a good thing, so is it a good thing or a bad thing?" Xiao Shilian suddenly said with some dissatisfaction, he didn't like this kind of twisted intrigue, and he naturally heard it in a fog at this time.