Chen Daozi returned from the north and reunited with his family in Chongzhou for three days, and then he would be sent north to infiltrate Yishan again and join Wu Qi, Chu Zheng and others.

"The strategy of secretly manipulating the East China Sea and plundering Jianghuai in the early days of the luxury family is undoubtedly correct - although the luxury family is already tired, the good things in its combat thinking may as well be learned. Needless to say, this is true. We should not ignore the benefits of the enemy just because it is a hostile relationship. It's not the right attitude, it's an awkward attitude......"

Lin Jian has been vigorously sending outstanding officers and logistical government personnel to the northern front, so as to be able to carry out guerrilla warfare with the enemy in a more solid way between the mountains and rivers of Yidi.

Before all the people who went north left, Lin Jian would personally make a mobilization speech, and he would take the trouble to introduce everyone to the situation from Qingzhou to Yinan, to Tai'an, and to Dengzhou, as well as the main tasks they would perform between the mountains and rivers of Yidi.

"From Mount Tai to Yishan, from Yishan to Mengshan, to Kunyu Mountain, the entire central region of Shandong is hilly and mountainous, what are these places rich in? It is rich in mountain bandits and horse thieves. Yitai Zhushan is connected to Heji in the west, and Yimeng Zhushan is connected to Xusi in the west, which has been the place of four wars for several years. In the ninth year of Chongguan, when the east captured Koubian and broke Jinan, a large number of defeated soldiers fled to Yitai Mountain as bandits; During the Huaisi War, the exile army that gathered between southwest Lu and Huaisi was as high as four or five hundred thousand, but the exile army that was successively defeated by the Pingji Army, the Changhuai Army and our Huaidong Army did not know how many, and naturally there were also a large number of exile army generals who fled into the mountains and rivers of Yidi to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers. This has greatly increased the power of mountain bandits and horse thieves among the neighbors of the mountains and mountains in the entire central part of Shandong, and their momentum is no less than that of the Donghai Kou in the early years...... "Lin Jian stood on top of the lecture hall, and the officers and officials who were about to leave for the north all sat under the lecture hall to listen to the instructions.

“…… Speaking of which, most of you can understand why I just used luxury as an example. It is true that the mountain bandits and horse thieves between the mountains of Taiyi and Mengyu are the objects of our initiative to unite and resist the Eastern Captives together - but there are some things that we have to distinguish clearly. Good experiences must be learned, and bad experiences must not be learned. It is a good experience for the luxury family to unite with the forces of the East China Sea Invaders, but it is precisely the key factor for our Huaidong Army to break through in southern and eastern Zhejiang. Most of the mountain bandits and horse thieves in the mountains and rivers of Yidi are from good backgrounds, including peasants who can't eat, and ordinary soldiers who are dragged down by generals and lose battles and are afraid of being held accountable, and they are forced to become bandits, and there is nothing they can do. For them, we must not blame the past and actively strive for them. But this is a boundary, and after the past, there is still a scourge to the locality, that is, the black sheep. Even if we can't exterminate them in a short time, we must not be in the same league as them - and after everyone goes to Yishan, we must resolutely avoid harming the people from attacking and harassing the areas controlled by the Dongyu. You must know that in the future, the foundation for everyone to be able to gain a foothold in Yishan is not only the swords, guns, bows and crossbows in their hands, but also the more important thing is to rely on the people and mobilize the people. If even the support of the people is lost, what can we talk about relying on and mobilizing? ”

"At this time, the enemy is in great force, after everyone goes north, do not care about the gains and losses of one city and one village, we must be good at taking advantage of the situation, make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and resolutely implement the combat strategy of 'avoiding strong enemies, disturbing the garrison, and fighting tired soldiers'. It is not a shameful thing to preserve our strength, and we are preserving our strength today in order to better fight the enemy tomorrow. War is cruel and tortuous, we cannot correctly understand the war situation, and blindly sending soldiers to the front line to sacrifice is not a responsible attitude, nor is it conducive to striving for final victory in the future, but the enemy army has become tired, and between retreating, we must also be resolute in our attack, not afraid of sacrifice...... I hope that everyone here can independently analyze the situation and become a qualified general of the Huaidong Army......"

Lin Lian, Qin Chengzu, Gao Zongting and others personally sent Chen Daozi and others on the journey, and in order to save time, they would ride directly through the Yinan region controlled by the Liang family.

Looking at the cavalry that embarked on the journey north, Gao Zongting said with emotion: "It would be nice if this work could be done a year earlier." ”

"Delong regains and looks at Shuye," Qin Chengzu smiled slightly, saying that Gao Zongting was not greedy enough, and said, "A year ago, the Liang family still controlled Yinan tightly; The Gu family knew that Huaidong would send people to Yishan, and maybe they would directly send troops into Yishan to suppress it—how could they have the foresight to know that Huaidong was so painstaking, and it was also to leave them a way back? ”

Gao Zongting smiled bitterly.

Lin Jian said indifferently: "Although the situation is more urgent, it will not be without time to ......."

Zhou Pu rode a horse, galloped from the city, turned over and dismounted, and said with a curse in his mouth: "The Liang family of the dog day, if it is really not planted-the news just came from the north, Liang Chengchong abandoned the plain at the end of July and withdrew all the soldiers and horses to the south bank of the Yellow River. Because of the dispute over the ferry, they even pushed each other and drowned thousands of people! ”

In the Sumen case, the Liang family was one of the masterminds, and the generals and leading officers promoted by the Marquis of Jingbei Su Hu in the border army were almost all suppressed by the Liang family without exception, and even many people disappeared inexplicably and had no news - Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu and other former generals of the Su family had absolutely no good impression of the Liang family's father and son.

"The situation is more urgent!" Gao Zongting frowned and smacked his lips and said, "The Eastern Capture Army captured Linzi and threatened the flank of the Liang family, but Liang Chengchong's troops were stationed in the plain, so why didn't it threaten the Eastern Capture to enter the flank of Qingzhou Soldiers and Horses?" The Liang family withdrew, and Yangxin was completely isolated. In the absence of a flank threat, Ye Ji Duodi could also send more troops and horses to enter Linzi from the eastern front when Yang Xin was not pulled...... There are two options for the Dongyu to gather troops and horses in Linzi to increase: first: you can go southwest, pass through the low hills between Mount Tai and Yishan, force Tai'an, and cut off the back road of the Liang family's retreat from Jinan to the south......"

"This choice, Ye Ji Duodi will most likely not choose," Qin Chengzu said, "Once Tai'an is lost, Liang Xi, Liang Chengchong's father and son's retreat to the south will be cut off, but to the west is the defense line of the Changhuai army, and further west is the Hezhong Mansion where Liang Chengyi is responsible for the defense...... No matter how stupid Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong are, they have fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses in their hands, as long as there is continuous rice and grain in Jinan City, how can they hold it? For Ye Ji Duodi, it is better to put pressure from the front, force the Liang family father and son to abandon Jinan and flee south, and after the Liang family father and son leave Jinan, send an elite cavalry to attack him halfway. ”

"If from the front, from the Pingyuan Mansion to force the Liang family's father and son to abandon Jinan and flee south, Ye Ji Duodi led a main force to slowly enter the Pingyuan Mansion, it will take some time, then the second choice he can make on the eastern front should be to make Chen Zhihu the vanguard, interspersed to the east, and capture Dengzhou Water Town!" Gao Zongting said in a resolute tone, "Your Excellency should immediately make a secret statement to the imperial court, please withdraw the Dengzhou naval army, destroy all ship-building facilities and places in the Denglai area on the spot, and force the craftsmen to go south......

"The court issued an order, Ye Liufei refused to carry it out, how should he deal with it?" Ye Junan asked.

Even if the imperial court protects Jianghuai, it must not want the Dengzhou Navy and the shipyards and craftsmen in the Denglai area to fall into the hands of Yan Hu, and the only thing to worry about is Liu Yefei. The Dengzhou Navy retreated south, Liu Yefei, as the prefect of Dengzhou, could not retreat south, if Liu Yefei was loyal to the imperial court, he would naturally follow the order; If Liu Yefei had already decided to surrender to Yanhu at this time, he would definitely do everything possible to obstruct the Dengzhou Sailor from going south, so as to get more surrender capital in front of Yanhu......

"Those who resist the decree are killed, and those who intend to rebel, what nonsense is there to talk about?" Lin Lian said coldly, and instructed Ye Junan to say, "Mr. Ye, please go and draw up the excerpt with Zong Ting, and send someone to Jiangning today...... Please go to the secret decree and take the sea route north from Jiangning to Dengzhou, and the time should be in time. ”

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In the back house of Linzi Mansion, Lu Xiong, the dog calf, sat sleepily under the shade of the willows by the small pond, his eyes half-squinting at the lotus canopy and the green lotus leaves in the pond. In the past year, what he didn't understand was that since he and Chen Zhihu wanted to avenge the governor, why did they help the eastern captives to attack the city and plunder the land and kill people? And those who have repeatedly received the emperor's favor, seem to be serious, and are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, why are they rushing to join the East?

The dog calf Lu is as strong as a tiger, but he can't think through many things, but the governor is drugged to death, which fills his heart with resentment, like a murderous weapon, Chen Zhihu drives him to attack the city, and it is like a wild slaughter; After the war, he helped Chen Zhihu to guard the house, and he could only pin his affection for the commander on Chen Zhihu.

"You go back and tell the surnamed Liu that there is no chance of bargaining in front of me. I promised him conditions today, and the Three Kings or the Emperor of Heavenly Mandate did not allow it in the end, it's not all nonsense," a low voice like spring thunder came from the room where the carved windows were opened, "The surname Liu should also understand what Da Yan needs in his heart, as long as he can keep these for Da Yan, he is still worried that there is no way out?" ”

After a few moments, several people came out of the house. Even in the inner courtyard, these people looked very uneasy.

Directly pulled the carriage to the inner courtyard, the carriage was tightly covered, and the cracks were not exposed, looking at the few strangely shaped people who got into the carriage and did not show up again, the dog calf Lu Xiong stood up and thumped his waist, and said to himself: "Damn it, I'm afraid of showing my face, why don't you take your face off?" ”

The carriage galloped out of the house, and Chen Zhihu walked out of the house.

Chen Zhihu has a tiger's back and a bear's waist, even in the inner house, he is wearing soft armor on his body, there is a big spot on his face, like tiger stripes, and a piece of his left forehead is naturally sunken into it, and his mouth and lips are open, making his appearance look unusually hideous and ugly.

This flaw in appearance caused him to abandon his parents when he was a child, and he was adopted by a monastery and became a monk since he was a child. Even as a monk, he was so humiliated that when he was thirteen years old, the old monk who adopted him died, so he took a boning knife and killed none of the other twenty-six monks in the monastery.

Lu Xiong, the dog calf, asked, "Master Tiger, there is still a battle to be fought?" ”

"Perhaps!" Chen Zhihu said lightly, and when he spoke, his mouth cracked even more, like a living tiger face.

"Master Hu, you said that Mr. Gao knew that we helped the Hu people fight, would you blame us? Will the Governor blame us in the Hades Palace? Lu Xiong, the dog calf, asked.

"Since you have made up your mind to avenge the Governor, are you still afraid that the Governor will blame you?" Chen Zhihu asked rhetorically, seeing the dog calf Lu Xiong scratching his head incomprehensibly, smiled, and looked into the distance with his eyebrows, and said secretly in his heart: Governor, don't blame me, I have fulfilled my righteousness to you, and there is no place for my allegiance in the court of this dog day......

Chen Zhihu touched the ugly spots that covered half of his face, remembered all the humiliations and tortures he suffered in his childhood, and thought that he was summoned by Emperor Chongguan to ascend to the palace at first. For the land under his feet, Chen Zhihu only has endless resentment in his heart.