After a few days of army formation in the capital, on the tenth day of the ninth month, Li Hualong officially led the troops to the expedition as the governor of Henan and Nanzhi and the rank of the right attendant of the military department.

On the ninth day of the first month, Shen has always given him the task of opening up the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal within three months and sending grain to the north.

He commanded 50,000 soldiers and horses in Jizhen and 10,000 elite troops in Beijing, a total of 60,000 troops, and the troops of Henan and Nanzhi local guards also needed to obey Li Hualong's dispatch, and Li Hualong's hands could not be less than 100,000 soldiers and horses.

The Beijing Division has gathered people with useful military experience in the military department to make a strategic analysis and analyze a more appropriate strategy, that is, to use small troops to feign the main force to go south to Yangzhou Prefecture to deter the main force of the Zhennan Army, and the main force is lightly armed and will cross the Yangtze River from other places and directly attack Nanjing.

This is a more appropriate tactic.

But early in the morning of the 10th day of the ninth month, an hour before the army marched, the latest information arrived.

On the Zhenjiang side, the naval division of the Zhennan Army began to storm Yangzhou Prefecture five days ago, and they easily hit the north bank of the river with the advantage of the naval division and the advantage of firearms.

As a result, their strategic plans faced a major shock.

Shen had to convene the military meeting again in a panic.

"It's still going to be fought according to the original plan! Otherwise, our army will fall into the trap of the rebels! They lead you by the nose! The rebels have a shallow foundation in the south of the Yangtze River, and if they do not take this opportunity to cross the river in one fell swoop to destroy the main force of the rebels and recover Nanjing, if the main force of the thieves makes rapid progress in the north, the situation will change radically! ”

Li Hualong insisted on his previous strategy unwaveringly, insisted on following the previous strategic plan, and resolutely could not be led by the nose of the Zhennan army, he felt that this was the conspiracy of the Zhennan army, forcing them to concentrate the main force in Yangzhou, instead of making a detour to attack Jiangnan.

This will also buy time for Xiao Ruxun's main force to advance.

And Xiao Tycoon is quite dissatisfied with this.

"Do you just let Yangzhou Mansion be breached, and then the rebel sailors will go north along the Grand Canal to fight in Beijing? There are only 20,000 soldiers in the Jingshi who can fight! What are the rest of the goods, Inspector Li, you don't know! The court handed over the main force to you, not to ask you to use the court as bait to attract the main force of the rebels!

When the time comes, even if you recover Nanjing! The Kyoshi is gone! So what's the point of your recovery of Nanjing? We've all become prisoners of thieves! What's the use of you recovering Nanjing?! ”

Xiao Daheng has suffered a lot of Li Hualong's anger in the past few days, and he has completely exploded at this moment.

Li Hualong's forehead burst into a few green tendons.

"You know what?! That's what the rebels want us to do! If you go south to Yangzhou with the main force, you will just fall for the treacherous tricks of the rebels! Put the main forces in Yangzhou, and just entangled with the rebels there? Wait for the food to run out and be captured?! ”

"Tens of thousands of rebels? How many tens of thousands of our troops? With 60,000 elite troops and countless local troops in your hands, can't you even do anything about tens of thousands of rebels?! Or are you Inspector Li just trying to use Jingshi as bait, and want to put all of us in danger to fulfill your prestige?! ”

Xiao Daheng angrily reprimanded Li Hualong, Li Hualong's face changed, his face turned red, and he shouted angrily: "What did you say?!" How dare you slander me like this! I am dedicated to the country, and you have slandered me so much! ”

"Isn't it?! You take the main force away, the Beijing division only has tens of thousands of garrisons, and the defense is weak, how do you know that this is not the plan of the rebels? The purpose is to take down the Jingshi in one fell swoop?! When the time comes, Shousuke will be gone, and His Majesty will fall into the clutches of the devil, what do you want? How are you going to do it?! ”

Xiao Daheng and Li Hualong quarreled so much that they didn't give in to each other, and they didn't stop arguing until Shen Cheng shouted angrily.

"Enough! The current situation of the great enemy is severe, and instead of sincere cooperation, you slander each other and pass the buck, what is the reason?! ”

Seeing that Shen had always been so angry, Li Hualong and Xiao Daheng didn't dare to say any more, glanced at each other, and stopped arguing hatefully.

Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief a little, thought for a while, and looked at Liu Huangsheng.

"Xuanzi, you say, what should I do now?"

Compared with Xiao Daheng and the arrogant Li Hualong, who have never been on the battlefield, Shen has always admired Liu Huangsheng, who has experience on the battlefield and is humble.

Shen always asked, and suddenly Xiao Daheng and Li Hualong stared at Liu Huangsheng.

Liu Huangshang felt a strong oppressive momentum.

Li Hualong is a strong person, which goes without saying.

Xiao Tycoon is a noble person who has achieved Liu Huangsheng, and Liu Huangshang cannot go against Xiao Tycoon.

Shen has always asked Liu Huangsheng, and it may not be that there is no meaning in letting Liu Huangshang support Xiao Daheng's opinion.

Liu Huangshang had already guessed that Shen had always sensed a deep sense of crisis in his sensitive heart, and he didn't believe that those armies and towns along the canal could resist the attack of Xiao Ruxun's water division, if Xiao Ruxun could take Zhenjiang Mansion and Nanjing with water division, then it was only a matter of time before he could take down the Beijing division.

Similarly, Shen has always been unable to trust the Jingshi's waste Jingying to achieve miracles.

Shen has always been sensitive and uneasy, and at the moment, he may not be willing to take risks at all.

After he took the biggest risk of his life, the aftermath has not ended, and even intensified, and he has developed a little doubt and distrust of himself.

At this moment, he needs a sense of security, not a risky move.

Although Liu Huangshang thinks that Li Hualong's method is not impossible to try, and even Li Hualong's method is right, at least it can pull the occupancy from the point where Xiao Ruxun took the lead back to a stalemate, and give the imperial court time to react and mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the country, instead of being passively beaten like now, and even not figuring out the route of the rebels.

However, Liu Huangshang said what Shen always wanted to hear.

"Xia Guan thinks that what Xiao Butang said is very reasonable, Jingshi is the most important thing, if Jingshi is not guaranteed, everything else is nonsense."

Liu Huangshang briefly elaborated on his thoughts: "Maybe you can use the main force to go south to Yangzhou at the same time, send a force south to the south of the Yangtze River to threaten Nanjing and Zhenjiang Mansion from the side, and force the rebels to retreat, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the war situation, all in all, we must not lose control of the canal, and we must not give the rebels the possibility of going north to Beijing along the canal, after all, we do not have a sailor who can fight the rebels on the water." ”

Xiao Daheng looked at Li Hualong with a sneer.

Li Hualong looked at Liu Huangsheng's anxious face, and wanted to open his mouth several times, but after seeing Shen Yi's cold eyes, Li Hualong instantly understood what Shen Zheng meant.

So, Li Hualong had no choice but to sigh deeply.

"In this case, I have to threaten the rear of the rebels by crossing the river by way of a strong general and an elite army, and maintain enough pressure on the rebels, otherwise, the rebels will not retreat easily at all!"

Li Hualong can only retreat to the next best.

"Yes, one more layer of protection is better."

Shen Yi nodded directly in agreement.

Li Hualong said no more.