Ning Zong's body became weaker and weaker, and Shi Miyuan, after what happened this time, also accelerated his plan to depose the crown prince. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gao Huaiyuan now had to be officially dragged into this matter, because one night, he was suddenly recruited by Shi Miyuan to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Originally, Gao Huaiyuan was still busy paying attention to the situation in Jingdong these days, because after Li Quan's powerless request was rejected by the imperial court this time, he was very unhappy, and he was not as respectful to Xu Xiji as before, and ran to Xu Xiji almost every day to complain and threaten, which made Xu Xiji so annoyed that he could only use the court's decision to shirk the matter.

Li Quan then transferred troops from Yanzhou, returned to the Chuzhou area, and made a posture threatening to go south, which suddenly made the situation in the north tense.

Xu Xiji couldn't bear it anymore this time, and immediately left Chuzhou City, went to the Song army camp stationed south of Chuzhou, and transferred 20,000 garrison troops from Jiankang to garrison in the south of Chuzhou, in the area of Hongze Lake, and formed a confrontation with Li Quanjun.

Although Li Quan was arrogant, he didn't dare to really send troops to fight with the Southern Song Army, so he began to gather heavy troops to attack the territory of Fu Daquan in Haizhou, vowing to avenge Enzhou's revenge.

So since the end of September, Li Quanjun and Fu Daquan's Flying Tiger Army have launched a big battle in the Shuyang area, Gao Huaiyuan is very concerned about the battle of Shuyang, and he can't wait to fly to Shuyang in person, command his soldiers and horses, and fight with Li Quan for a while.

But he knew that it was impossible, so Judge's residence became his remote command post, and every day as long as he was fine, he would lie at Judge's place, paying attention to all kinds of news about the battle of Shuyang.

At the beginning of the battle of Shuyang, the two sides fought very fiercely, Fu Daquan also knew that this battle was related to the life and death of his Flying Tiger Army in Jingdong Road in the future, if Li Quan's army was allowed to invade his territory before the autumn harvest, then his army may have a serious food shortage next year, so he very faithfully carried out Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, resisted the enemy abroad, led the army into Shuyang, and Li Quan's army started a big battle.

Li Quanjun mobilized more than 50,000 soldiers and horses to launch an attack on the Flying Tiger Army, and the Flying Tiger Army was not polite, taking out 20,000 or 30,000 of the most elite soldiers and horses.

The two sides gathered on a very narrow front, almost every day to carry out a big battle, Li Quan's army wanted to attack Haizhou, and Fu Daquan did not allow them to advance half a step, so the battle was very fierce, and Li Quanjun's main general this time is also Fu Daquan's sworn enemy Li Fu, Li Fu hated Fu Daquan to the extreme, personally went into battle to supervise the battle, and launched attacks against Daquan's army again and again.

From the beginning of the war, the Flying Tiger Army firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield, and the equipment level of the Flying Tiger Army obtained a large number of armor after fighting Jinan, Qingzhou, and Mizhou, so although the strength was much less than that of Li Quanjun, it was stronger than Li Quanjun in terms of quality and morale, so after the start of the battle, it did not fall behind at all.

The Flying Tiger Army attaches great importance to the strength of the crossbow soldiers, and after every battle, Li Quan's army has to pay a great price, so it fought for nearly ten days in a row, Li Fu led the army to be exhausted, and failed to break through the defense line of the Flying Tiger Army, so he had to ask Li Quan for reinforcements, so Li Quan ordered Liu Qingfu to lead 20,000 troops again, and sent troops to Shuyang to assist Li Fu in attacking the Flying Tiger Army.

Originally, according to the agreement between the Flying Tiger Army and Peng Yibin, Peng Yibin should be in the direction of Tengzhou this time to respond to the actions of the Flying Tiger Army and contain Li Quan's troops, but this time, because the Jin State saw an opportunity, he brazenly sent troops out of Bozhou to attack the Jinan Mansion and Tai'an Prefecture controlled by Peng Yibin, forcing Peng Yibin to transfer troops to fight, and could not help the Flying Tiger Army to contain Li Quan's army from the flank, so that the Flying Tiger Army could only resist the attack of Li Quan's army by itself.

So to a certain extent, Li Quan has turned to the use of the Jin State, and in essence, he has become an accomplice of the Jin State, Gao Huaiyuan hated it so much that he gritted his teeth, but because Shi Miyuan was always unwilling to tear his face with Li Quan, the Flying Tiger Army could not get the response of the imperial court, but fortunately, after such a troublesome situation in the court, the imperial court allocated 15,000 people to the Flying Tiger Army with grain and straw armor, but it also slightly relieved the pressure of the Flying Tiger Army, so that the Flying Tiger Army did not collapse in Shuyang because of the shortage of grain.

Liu Chengyi and Zhou Jun took advantage of the fact that Fu Daquan led the troops to fight with Li Quanjun in Shuyang, and separately organized the people in the area under Liu Chengyi's jurisdiction to harvest the autumn grain in the fields, while Zhou Jun led the town defenders to build a large number of buildings, strengthen the walls and other facilities of Haizhou City, and repeatedly reorganized the relatively weak town defenders, so that the combat power of the Haizhou town defenders was greatly improved.

Seeing that after Li Quan sent Liu Qingfu more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the strength of the two sides in Shuyang began to become very different, Fu Daquan got the news from Liu Chengyi, saying that the autumn grain harvest in Haizhou had been completed, so he suddenly launched a surprise attack on Li Fu's barracks, immediately withdrew from Shuyang, and the whole army returned to Haizhou City.

Along the way, Fu Daquan and Liu Chengyi joined forces and implemented the policy of clearing the wilderness in Haizhou, and all the common people who belonged to the Flying Tiger Army also moved north, away from the battlefield, and emptied the villages near Haizhou City, leaving not even a single soybean for Li Quanjun.

After Li Fu and Liu Qingfu joined forces, they immediately pursued in the direction of Haizhou, and finally arrived at the city of Haizhou, surrounded Haizhou City on three sides, and tried to annihilate Fu Daquan's army in Haizhou City in one fell swoop.

But they underestimated Fu Daquan's strength, because Fu Daquan retreated to Haizhou City this time, and had gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses in the city to defend the Flying Tiger Army and the town defenders, and Fu Daquan's army is now like a cloud, and there is more assistance from a person like Zhou Jun who has been in battle for a long time, and they have strict military discipline in the army, which is very popular with the local people, so Haizhou has been operated by them into a strong barrier, plus the newly harvested autumn grain, so that they have no worries about food and clothing, and they can fight with Li Quanjun for a long time. Basically completed the original strategic vision of Gao Huaiyuan.

At this point, Gao Huaiyuan was relieved, and he no longer worried about whether he could win this battle.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan was notified that Shi Miyuan wanted him to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to meet him, so Gao Huaiyuan had to temporarily put aside the war in Haizhou and hurriedly rushed to Shi Miyuan's Prime Minister's Mansion.

When he was walking on the road, Gao Huaiyuan didn't know what Shi Miyuan was looking for him this time, and thought that he was picking up Zheng Qingzhi and others to oppose Shi Miyuan's original decision, and he found out, so he was a little uneasy on the road, and he was still thinking about various excuses in his heart to deal with Shi Miyuan's questioning.

But when he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion and was led to Shi Miyuan's residence, he felt that it might not be as he thought, and it seemed that Shi Miyuan should not specifically ask him or something, so after signing up, he was recruited into the study by Shi Miyuan.

After Gao Huaiyuan saluted Shi Miyuan, who was sitting behind the bookcase, he found that there were only two people in the room, he had never encountered such a situation before, Shi Miyuan was cautious, and there were never fewer guards or house slaves around him, but what happened today? He was the only one in the house.

Gao Huaiyuan really suddenly had a thought in his heart, simply took this opportunity to strangle Shi Miyuan, an old thief, and pull him down, and he continued to do the scourge, but then he put away this evil thought, because if he did this, there would be no benefit to him now, Guicheng has not yet come to power, he needs Shi Miyuan's big tree to help Guicheng up, otherwise, he has been playing in the capital for more than a year? What's more, he can't run out of strangulation of this old thief, and he also wants to give the old thief his life with his whole family, and he can't do this loss-making deal.

"The lower official sees Lord Xiangye, I don't know if the Xiangye is coming to the lower official so late, what are your orders?" Gao Huaiyuan respectfully saluted Shi Miyuan.

Shi Miyuan looked at Gao Huaiyuan standing in front of him with a look that was not easy to understand, for a long time, he felt that he had seen this young man clearly, but when Gao Huaiyuan was recruited to him today, Shi Miyuan suddenly felt a little uneasy.

After Gao Huaiyuan saluted Shi Miyuan, the room suddenly fell into a silence that made Gao Huaiyuan uneasy, Shi Miyuan didn't speak, he couldn't even straighten his waist, he could only hunch his waist and stand in front of Shi Miyuan's book like a bow.

"The old man called you here today to ask you a question, that is, can the old man trust you?" Shi Miyuan looked at Gao Huaiyuan through the crystal lenses on the bridge of his nose, and suddenly asked Gao Huaiyuan such an inexplicable sentence.

After Gao Huaiyuan listened, he chuckled in his heart, and after his brain turned a few times, he quickly showed an excited look, and replied with his fists clasped again: "Back to Xiangye's words, the small one really doesn't know how to answer Xiangye, Xiangye can be said to be as kind as a mountain to the small one, and the small one was just a small county lieutenant before, and he was promoted to the direct control of the dragon in less than a year, which is all thanks to the Xiangye, and the small heart is grateful to the Xiangye, it can be said that the grace of the Xiangye is unforgettable, if the Xiangye wants to use the lower official, Although the small one dies, he can't repay the grace of the minister, whether he can trust the small one, it can be said that it all depends on the mind of the minister, as long as the minister can use the small place, the small one will never give up even if he is a liver and brain! ”

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, Shi Miyuan felt a sense of relief, he couldn't see Gao Huaiyuan's duplicitousness, and felt that Gao Huaiyuan should have said these words from the heart, so he breathed a long sigh of relief, so he nodded and stood up.