"On the way to the march, I was surprised to hear that the governor of Huainan had led the Huainan Xiong army to break the thief general Shikan, and crossed the river to the north to capture the city of Yecheng in Dayi, Hebei, and many of our soldiers cried with joy, God blessed Jin Zuo, fortunately the governor of the capital, Xiongluo marched north, and it was not enough to be troubled......"

After arriving at Liyang and landing, Li Hong and other Xuzhou generals all stepped forward and bowed deeply in front of Shen Zhezi, their tone was high-pitched and passionate, and their praise for the Huainan Army was endless, and they didn't want money.

For these praises of the Xuzhou army, Shen Zhezi and the generals of Huainan accepted all the orders. However, Shen Zhezi's focus is not here, but he looked at the size of the Xuzhou army's fleet here with great interest, it is really too burning, nearly thirty warships, the smallest of which are medium-sized fighting ships, and as for the large warships, there are as many as seven or eight!

Previously, in front of the Yedi army, the Huainan army was still able to rely on the strength of the boat and the enemy on the water. But compared with the Xuzhou Army, the Huainan Army is nothing.

The reason why there is such a difference is because after the first war of Huaishui in the early years, most of the Huai Dishui ordnance of the Qianguo State was inherited by the Xuzhou army, the most important of which was boats, and there was no shortage of sea ships. After all, in the early years, when Jiangdong was pressed and beaten, it was also a very keen way to attack the coastal counties of Jiangdong across the sea, and there were naturally a lot of weapons in this regard.

Although the Huainan Army also received a part of the profit afterwards, Xi Jianren was not old at that time, and was unwilling to be completely subordinate to Huainan, leaving behind a lot of good goods, which can be seen from the fleet that came to meet the division this time.

This made Shen Zhezi quite unhappy, but when he thought that Xi Jian finally stopped hiding it this time, it could be regarded as a kind of confession, and his mood calmed down a little, and he sincerely felt that youth was the biggest capital. What if Xi Jianren is stingy, if you have the ability to borrow from the sky for another five hundred years, pick and search, and finally save these foundations not to be left to Shen Zhezi to receive!

Although Shen Zhezi's attitude was quite good, Li Hong and the other generals were not in a relaxed mood, and when they returned to Liyang City, they were busy explaining to Shen Zhezi in detail why they were delayed.

Although the dispatch to the north this time was very smooth, and there were few stubborn people in the land of Qingyan, it still encountered some twists and turns. Especially in Taishan County, some local tyrants and townsmen relied on their geographical advantages, repeatedly surrendered and rebelled, and finally the Xuzhou army gathered superior forces to eliminate several of the larger forces. But until now, it can't be said that it is settled, and Shen Mu still stays there to guard.

Shen Zhezi can also understand this, Taishan County is one of the few, and it can even be said that it is the only place in the Huanghuaihai Plain that occupies a beautiful place, and the rest of the place is flat.

In the early years, the military leader Xu Gong, who occupied this place, took advantage of this location, wandered between the Jiangdong court and Shile, rebelled, and waited until Shile had unified Hebei to stabilize the situation, and then sent Shi Hu to finally break it with an army of 40,000.

Although there is no such powerful military leader as Xu Gong in the land of Mount Tai at present, there are also many Haowu Township Sects, and if someone secretly provokes it, it will be very troublesome for the Xuzhou Army to solve it.

And if Taishan County cannot be stabilized, then Xu Yanqing will not be able to talk about complete stability, and if the Xuzhou army comes south, it will face the hidden danger of being intercepted.

The Xuzhou army itself is difficult to change the habit of fighting separately, and Xi Jian cannot reach the front line to supervise the battle due to his old age.

Seeing that Shen Zhezi did not mean to pursue the Xuzhou Army's delay, Li Hong and the others were relieved. If they still had the intention of competing with the Huainan Army before, now they have completely dispelled this idea.

These Xuzhou generals also knew the plan of this military operation, and they wanted to unite with the Huainan Army to go north to fight Yecheng Shikan. To be honest, they are not too enthusiastic about this, because Xi Gongye is nearly seventy years old, once they go north, these generals will be under the control of Liang Gong Shen Zhezi, but they are all the way to the auxiliary army, so even if they are meritorious, they will inevitably be thick and thin.

For Liang Gong, their senses are also extremely complicated, one can see that this person has an unlimited future, and they can also feel that Xi Gong is cooperating with his people to take over the affairs of Xuzhou, and the other is that he is too domineering, once he enters Xuzhou, it will inevitably break the original situation in Xuzhou, and it is impossible for these military leaders to re-enter the original way to retain some independence.

Therefore, this time in Taishan County, there is no lack of deliberate delays, wanting to make Liang Gong rein in. But they didn't expect that even if they didn't show up, the Huainan Army alone would cleanly kill Shi Kan and capture Yecheng, and the results would be even greater than they had expected!

In this way, their previous thoughts and practices became a joke, and their hearts could be described as both embarrassed and afraid. Relying on the Huainan Army alone, it broke out with such an amazing combat effectiveness, what is it difficult to accept to capture Yecheng in World War I and Xiangguo in World War II? In this way, how will they, the Xuzhou generals, deal with themselves?

Moreover, the Huainan Army has achieved such brilliant results, and the next matter of Liang Gong taking over from Xi Gong in charge of Xuzhou is no longer a question of whether he can do it, but whether he wants it or not. You don't even have to guess if you want to think about it, Shen Mu's big head is thousands of Huainan soldiers in Xuzhou right now!

So at the moment, they really don't have any qualifications to act anymore, and they are rushing to Liyang. As soon as they sat down, several Xuzhou generals spoke one after another: "Now that the king is victorious, it is appropriate to take advantage of this general trend to break the thief again!" The last general and others who were trapped in the land before failed to do their best, and later they will fight hard to fight for the governor of the city, annihilate the thieves, and destroy Ji Long! ”

After hearing this, Shen Zhezi said with a smile: "Master Wang will naturally be more courageous in the future, you don't have to worry about having nowhere to hunt, and you don't have to be in a hurry, just take a break for the time being." As for whether or not to attack Xiangguo in the north, this matter still needs to be discussed. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be stunned, but because they were weak-hearted, they didn't dare to ask more. Only Li Hong was Xi Jian's confidant, and after hearing this, he frowned and said: "Master Wang's victory in Liyang this time is an unprecedented feat since Yongjia, and this is a grand omen of Jin Zuo's great prosperity." And Hebei Shiji Longfang took Xiangguo, and all the ruins were not prosperous. At present, Xu Huai's two departments have more than 100,000 people together, why do they all ...... superintendents?"

When he said this, he saw that Shen Zhezi's eyebrows were already slightly locked, although his expression did not change much, but he had a terrifying momentum rushing towards his face, so that it was difficult to speak the follow-up words, and he was busy lowering his head.

"You are coming from afar, let's bring the troops into the camp for a short rest. As for where the soldiers are coming to Japan, there will be an order later. ”

After Shen Zhezi finished speaking, he stood up from the seat, although he did not pursue the fault of the Xuzhou army at the moment, it did not mean that he had to give them a full account, Xi Jian was almost the same here. But even if Xi Jian is here, what decision he has will only give is a notice, not a discussion.

In fact, from the very beginning, Shen Zhezi did not plan or expect to be able to wipe out the remnants of Hebei within a battle. Even if Yecheng has been taken now, even after the arrival of the Xuzhou army, the military strength on the bright side has been completely superior to Shi Hu.

The Xuzhou Army itself has not yet been integrated into the Huainan Army system, and such a combination seems to be powerful, but when faced with a truly brutal war, whether it can achieve the effect that one plus one is greater than two, Shen Zhezi is really doubtful.

Xiangguo and Yecheng seem to be very close to each other, but every time they advance, the risk that the Huainan army will face will be greater. Once the battle continues to the north, it is impossible to expect that Shihu will be easily defeated like Shikan, and it will be a protracted battle.

In such a battlefield environment, field warfare is the key to decisive victory, at least for the time being, in terms of field warfare, the Huainan Army cannot be said to have completely surpassed those soldiers and miscellaneous righteous servants.

The Huainan army advanced strongly into Hebei, but it caused many miscellaneous Hu among the Yan Dynasty to gather around Shihu, which Shen Zhezi did not want to see. At least at present, those miscellaneous people are not happy to see the Huainan Army enter Hebei strongly.

The art of war has its own way of relaxation, and at present, the new reconquest of Wei is far from being a stable advance base for the Huainan Army. Rather than forcing the group of hutongs to hate the enemy, Shen Zhezi was more willing to see them dog-eat-dog, tossing each other and wiping down their strength.

Even if you don't count the Tuoba clan, which is still a small character at the moment, the Murong clan has gradually become a climate, and may not be happy to still be trapped in Liaodi. In particular, Shen Zhezi was really not friendly to the Murong clan, and almost blatantly supported their brothers' split and internal strife.

And Shi Hu is also a character who does not allow others to snore, the so-called mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, Shen Zhezi wants to take a look, if there is no strong threat from the Huainan army in the south, who of the two of them will press whom to the ground and rub strongly.

Of course, the main problem is that the Huainan Army has now reached a limit, although the battle of Liyang seems to be easy to win, but it has also reached the next limit of the Huainan Army. To digest the results of the battle and prepare to receive Xuzhou, Shen Zhezi has always believed in the power that he does not grasp for himself, and he has never been truly powerful.

Especially in Jiangdong at the moment, the Shen clan is still far from being a word, and there are still many constraints, and when the war in Hebei is going on at this point, if it can't react, it will be too slow.

At this point in the war between the North and the South, in fact, compared with the gains and losses of the city, the acquisition of population has become the key to victory or defeat. Especially in the case that Jiangdong has a weak foundation and both the north and the south have accumulated many drawbacks, Shen Zhezi really doesn't have to fight for the courage of the moment.

Of course, he is scheming, and the enemy really can't guess. In particular, after the Huainan Army advanced northward, it put on a posture of great and difficult progress, although Xiangguo put on a posture of a fierce soldier, but Shi Hu was intimidated by the strong strength of the Huainan Army and the Xuzhou Army, and did not dare to start the war lightly for a while.

Shen Zhezi continued to pose to increase troops to Yecheng, but the main intention was no longer to compete with Shihu for victory in Hebei, but to take advantage of the mutual fear and restraint of the two sides to collect as many Hebei villagers as possible, and then the army slowly retreated, and finally retreated to the area of Fangtou.

When Xiangguo was still speculating about the intentions of the Huainan Army, more than one million people from Hebei had already withdrawn from Yedi, moved west to south, and were placed in Jijun, Hanoi, and Henan to the west of Fangtou. And when the Huainan Army withdrew, the entire Yedi was demolished and burned down, regardless of the new city, the old city, and even the three stations.

As for the main forces of the Huainan Army and the Xuzhou Army, they continued to advance westward along the Yellow River, aiming at Heluo.