As soon as the rain stopped, there were still drops of rain on the eaves, and the dark clouds dispersed, revealing a few stars in the sky.

Liu Miaozhen stood in front of the window, looking thoughtfully at the Hessian cliff that seemed to be lying on the courtyard wall, at this moment there was a sound of ruts, from this window to see the situation in the front yard, a strong woman in the house listened to the voice, and said: "Xu is that person is coming......

"Aunt Ma, you can help me bring the face covering......" Liu Miaozhen said.

Liu An'er turned to the world at the beginning, there was no base, and the family also went with the army, and all departments set up camps to settle their families.

Liu Miaozhen first followed the army to enlist, except for the personal attendants who used healthy women, there was no difference between the others and male generals, so she wore multiple armor and face coverings, so as not to affect the prestige of being a general.

After the Huaisi War, Liu Miaozhen was honored as the co-leader of the Huaisi Liumin Army, and only then did she officially select the healthy women who were proficient in martial arts from the military camp. Aunt Ma and Ma are the wives of Ma Lantou, the daughter of a lake thief in Hongzepuli, her father killed the officers and soldiers, and the Ma family inherited her father's business, and she was a female water thief who was quite a headache for the government in her early years.

It is a shocking move for a woman in the world to show her head, but how can the daughter of the rivers and lakes be so exquisite? Liu An'er was ambushed and killed by Chen Hansan, and it was several female soldiers from the old camp who escorted Liu An'er's two young sons to escape from Xuzhou.

Sun Wenwan knocked on the door and came in, and saw Liu Miaozhen covering the bronze mask over her face, she said: "My lord has arrived in the front hall, waiting for General Liu to come over...... but her eyes looked at the saber on Liu Miaozhen's waist.

Liu Miaozhen's superb martial arts have been spread all over the Huaidong Army, a battle outside Suining City, Lin Tie was involved in the front battle to supervise the battle, although there was no danger, but Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen were reprimanded afterwards - Lin Tie may not care, but Sun Wenwan has already been told by his father and Lin Mengde and others, and Liu Miaozhen and the people around him must not be allowed to have the opportunity to approach Lin Tie with a knife. Even after Sun Zhuang escorted Liu Miaozhen to Chongzhou, he found an excuse to transfer Sun Zhuang away first.

The desire to harm others depends on the situation, and the heart of defending others must never be discarded.

Sun Wenwan's eyes looked at it, Liu Miaozhen knew what it meant, took off the saber, put it on the desk, stood up, and walked with Aunt Ma to the front yard with Sun Wenwan.

Seven or eight giant candles were inserted in the front hall, reflecting the hall as bright as day, Lin Jian was dressed in green clothes, sitting in front of Nanmu's long case, and only Song Jia sat sideways to accompany him - when Sun Wenwan brought the girl in the red jacket in, Lin Jian and Song Jia got up to greet each other and said: "General Liu is here, the news leaked out, it is unfavorable to Huaidong and Huaiyang, and there is a place of neglect, please Haihan." ”

Liu Miaozhen thought that Lin Jian would be surrounded by sword guards, but she didn't think that there was only a bright and beautiful woman sitting with him, and Lin Lian's solemn tone let her know that Lin Jian was taking this meeting seriously.

"Lin Zhizhi is polite, it should be me who took the liberty to visit and caused a lot of inconvenience to Huaidong." Liu Miaozhen sat down in front of the long case opposite Lin Lian, Aunt Ma stood behind her, and Sun Wenwan stood beside Lin Lian.

Lin Jian smiled, Liu Miaozhen was wearing a spacious red shirt, her jet-black hair was tied behind her shoulders with a red ribbon at will, and when the bronze mask covered her peachy face, no matter what tone she spoke, it made people feel cold.

Perhaps because of the bronze mask, Liu Miaozhen's eyes looked extraordinarily deep and clear. Even if you don't look at her face, just looking at these eyes, you will tend to think that she is a stunning woman who has captivated the city and the country.

It's really strange to say, if Sui Ning hadn't split her mask in the first battle, she really hadn't thought about what kind of face she looked under the mask, and she always thought it was a fat and ugly woman. is probably the previous intersection, the woman in the red jacket gives people too sharp a feeling, which makes people ignore her appearance.

Huaidong never thought that Liu Miaozhen would come to Chongzhou in person, and after receiving the news, it took a lot of time to digest the news.

It's hard to see any ambition from Liu Miaozhen.

After the first battle of Suining, the reason why the Huaisi Liumin Army pushed Liu Miaozhen as the main factor, the most important is that Liu An'er's two sons who escaped from Xuzhou after his death were young at that time, far from the age of being able to stand up and preside over the situation.

Under the circumstances at that time, if you didn't want the Wandering Army to completely collapse, you had to push someone out, even if Liu Miaozhen was a woman, there was no one more suitable to sit in that position than Liu Miaozhen.

When Chen Zhihu was appointed as the envoy of Henan, the troops of the Wandering People's Army fought in Huaiyang and did not even have half a life left, and the generals of the Wandering Army could only save their lives, and they had no intention of fighting for power at all. After advancing eastward, the Huaisi Liumin Army was disbanded, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and finally the Red Jacket Army composed of Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and other elites was acquiesced by Huaidong, and recuperated in the Huaisi area with a complete establishment - Liu Miaozhen's position was stabilized.

There are not no ambitious women in this world, but Liu Miaozhen neither recruited a capable and powerless man to assist her husband to assist her, nor did she stoop to subordinate to which Xiaojie, and she is still alone with her sister-in-law, so it is more likely that she wants to support the situation until Liu An'er's two sons grow up to take over the military power.

"General Liu came over in person, when he first received this news, Huaidong was also surprised, I was still worried in Chongcheng, could it be that Qin Sima went to Huaiyang on behalf of Huaidong, so that General Liu felt that Huaidong's sincerity was insufficient?" Lin Jian asked.

"There are a few points that I don't understand, and I need to ask the envoy Lin Zhizhi for advice in person."

"Please."

Liu Miaozhen put her hands in her spacious long sleeves, pressed them in front of her thighs, and looked at Lin Tie with her eyes.

Liu Miaozhen's figure is quite tall among the women in the world, almost not half a point shorter than Lin Lian, although the face is as bright as a peach blossom, but the body frame is quite large, and she is a proud figure of a model in later generations, but it is too tall in the world. In addition, Liu Miaozhen is accustomed to wearing multiple armor and riding battles, which will inevitably give people the impression of being strong.

"Lin Zhizhi has worked hard to go around such a big circle, and only now can the little woman get a glimpse of it," Liu Miaozhen said, "I want to ask, are the Donghu people really so powerful, so that Lord Lin is so cautious?" And in the eyes of Lord Lin, the defense line built by Jiang Ning in Hehuai is really useless? ”

"It's not as far-sighted as you think," Lin Jian smiled slightly, and glanced at Song Jia beside him, "Leaving Sun Zhuang to guard Huaisi is still a plan of Song Dianshu, at first he was just unwilling to let Chen Hansan occupy the entire Huaisi region." Of course, I would say that I can't bear to see the outcasts slip into hopeless despair, and you won't believe it......"

"Why are you sure I won't believe it?" Liu Miaozhen asked rhetorically.

"Your eyes tell me you won't believe ......," Lin Jian said.

"I believe that what you said is true, you are secretly pushing the court to recruit me today, with such a mind, but why couldn't you leave a way for my brother to live two years ago?" Liu Miaozhen asked.

"You misunderstood what I said," Lin Jian shook his head and said, "The exile army that I can't bear to slaughter is the countless poor people who are waiting to be fed, hungry and cold, and have to pick up hoes or scythes to kill officials and rebel for themselves, and grab food for their families, not those ambitious and greedy thieves who are greedy for princely establishment......"

"You don't have ambition?" Liu Miaozhen asked disdainfully.

"It's not a bad thing to have ambitions, but some ambitions can give the people of the world a way to live, and some ambitions are greedy like a prairie fire that wants to devour everything, and move the people of the world to be their own stepping stones," Lin Jian said, "I don't have anything good to pretend to be, and my reputation in Shilin is not much better than that of a thief, but my will can't be shaken by others." Since I am in Huaidong, I have reduced rents and taxes, exempted from civil service, and millions of people have enough to eat, can wear warm clothes, are not suffering from hunger and cold, and are not harmed by the scourge of war - these things I have done are worthy of myself and of heaven and earth......"

"......" Liu Miaozhen was silent, many of Lin Lian's measures in Huaidong were not treated by the scholars and Qingliu, but they were very popular with the generals of the Wandering People's Army, and they all said that if the officials and generals of the world were like Lin Lian for the sake of the ant people, no one would raise the flag to rebel.

“…… Four or five hundred thousand ordinary people in Huaisi, what are they thinking in their hearts and what are they looking forward to? Don't you look forward to having enough to eat, to be able to wear warm clothes, to be free from hunger and cold, and not to be harmed by the scourge of war? Do they all think that they can be crowned kings or not? Lin Lian continued, "If the world is quiet, although it was difficult in the past few years, it is not difficult for everyone to live and work in peace and contentment in the end. Today, Hu came on horseback, and the world was chaotic, so he could no longer have the mind to sit back and enjoy his success. If you want to eat enough and wear warm clothes, you have to work hard to earn for yourself and your family - I also said the same thing to the generals of the Huaidong Army. Of course, this is not enough, I also said to the Huaidong officials: The officials are all raised by the people, can you abandon them without fulfilling your duties? ”

"......" Where did Liu Miaozhen think that Lin Lian was eloquent, this kind of talk was almost something she thought about but didn't think through.

"I think that when General Liu came over, there must be a lot of controversy within the Red Jacket Army, but General Liu saw that we were so jealous and careful of the Donghu people, and came to Huaidong in person, just because he was worried that we would not have good intentions after all our good deeds, and that we were pushing the Red Jacket Army and even all the hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded in Huaisi to die, and he stood idly by, watched the fire from the other side, and finally sat back and enjoyed its ......success," Lin Jian continued.

"......" Liu Miaozhen realized that she sat down and didn't say a few words, so she gave Lin Jian an intuition to pierce her intention.

Although there are still many people alive in the old department that Liu An'er brought back from the border army, and they also have a certain understanding of the Donghu people, their vigilance is still insufficient.

Liu Miaozhen will not believe that there is any love and hate in the world for no reason.

Lin Jian wanted to directly incorporate the Exile Army, and at the beginning of the year, even after Chen Zhihu's unit was transferred to the north, he had a good opportunity. When advancing eastward, how weak and desperate the Red Jacket Army and the exiled army were, Liu Miaozhen knew best in her heart that as long as Huaidong gave a way to live, most people would probably surrender directly to Huaidong.

Even if Huaidong sent troops to defeat them first, and then captured them, it was more effective than buying rice and grain, and it should never allow the Red Jacket Army to get a respite, or even a chance to recuperate.

It was at this point that even if many generals had a great impression of Huaidong, the Red Jacket Army could only accept Jiangning's recruitment, and Huaidong did not get any direct benefits.

If it weren't for the Donghu people, Liu Miaozhen and the generals of the Red Jacket Army would have regarded Lin Jian as a saint who had no desires and no desires.

The situation in the north after the defeat of the Jizhen army shows that Huaidong's previous actions were deeply motivated - Huaidong has gone to great lengths in the past five months to preserve the Red Jacket Army and give the Red Jacket Army a relatively sufficient time to recuperate, all in order to prepare for the Donghu Iron Cavalry that may break through the Hehuai defense line and move south at any time.

Previously, Huaidong was too constrained by Jiangning, Yanjing and other forces, and it was impossible to personally come forward to stick to the flanks of Xuzhou, Shandong, and Henan, and deploy a 30,000-strong elite army on the front line of Huaiyang to build a defense line to shield Huaidong, and the construction of the Huaisi defense line could only be made by the hands of the fake red jacket army.

Although Liu Miaozhen did not have an intuitive understanding of the combat strength of the Donghu people, she was also jealous from such a far-sighted deployment in Huaidong, and speculated that the offensive of the Donghu people breaking through the Hehuai was likely to be extremely fierce, and it was likely to swallow up the Red Jacket Army, and the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in the Huaisi area were also devoured.

Just as Lin Jian said, Liu Miaozhen was worried that Huaidong's deployment would eventually be for the Red Jacket Army to block this knife in front, and worried that the 30,000 men of the Red Jacket Army and the hundreds of thousands of children and hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded in Huaisi would be used by Huaidong as a substitute for the dead in order to repay the grace of several months.

Liu Miaozhen's face was hidden behind the bronze mask, but her eyes flickered smartly, and Lin Jian said: "The Donghu people invaded, and Huaisi was in front of Huaidong, but this is a natural act, not a human arrangement, without the Red Jacket Army, Huaidong will also organize a force to go north and advance to the front line of Huaiyang and Suining - in addition, it is still the sentence that I often say with the Huaidong officials: The officials are raised, and the people are all in the mouth, can you not fulfill your duties and abandon them?" Then I will also tell General Liu today that the rice and grain that Huaisi gets every month is not the result of my empty-handed tricks, but the surplus of countless people in Huaidong. General Liu was so suspicious, did he want to lead the Red Jacket Army to hide behind Huaidong? ”

Liu Miaozhen's pink face hidden under the bronze mask was slightly hot, and she said, "I didn't mean that......" I thought it was a child arguing when she said this.

"What's behind Huaidong, it's the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang," Lin Jian couldn't see Liu Miaozhen's face, and he didn't speculate about what she was thinking, it was already a foregone conclusion that the Red Jacket Army would accept Zhao'an, and he just wanted Liu Miaozhen to defend Huaisi with peace of mind, so he didn't have any scruples when he spoke, and said, "If General Liu wants to go to eastern Zhejiang to exchange battlefields with the Huaidong Army, I don't have an opinion......"

"I didn't mean that," Liu Miaozhen couldn't help but straighten up childishly, and argued, "The 100,000 elites of the Jizhen army were all collapsed in an instant, Lord Yilin, as you speculated, the Hehuai defense line is likely to be vulnerable, and the Hu people who swept south may be hundreds of thousands, and Chen Hansan is a repeated villain, and the Red Jacket Army only has 30,000 troops available in Huaiyang, and there is still a lack of soldiers and few armor, but it is embarrassing!" ”

"Qin Sima went to Huaiyang on my behalf, it was to discuss the matter of war defense, General Liu is good, leave Qin Sima in Huaiyang, and come to Chongzhou to question me about war defense," Lin Jian laughed and said, "If you are worried that the conditions that Qin Sima allows to give Huaiyang will not count, it's okay, I will talk to you personally......" Seeing that the lights and candles in the hall were broken, he said, "It's late today, General Liu is tired of the journey, so I won't bother much, I will leave this Hehuai situation map, and I will come to talk to you about the details tomorrow!" What does General Liu think? ”

Liu Miaozhen was ashamed and annoyed, and said, "What do you say? ”

Lin Jian and Song Jia said goodbye and left, and sat in the car, Song Jiacai laughed with his palms and said, "Liu Miaozhen is used to pretending to be a heavenly girl, but she is not as good as you." If you can't fight a war, you can't argue with your tongue, I'm afraid you're going to surrender completely......"

"Alas," Lin Jian sighed lightly, ignoring Song Jia's banter, and said, "Things are not that simple, fortunately, Liu An'er's second son is still young, and there are some problems, it is good to be less bloody-"

"Just Liu An'er's two sons, what ambition can they have? I'm afraid that it will be really troublesome at that time for someone who has a heart," Song Jia said, "If you want to say a simple way, it's not nothing?" ”

"What's the solution?" Lin Jian sat in the car, shifted his body, and asked.

"You married Liu Miaozhen!" Song Jia said.

Lin Jian almost fell out of the car and refuted: "Nonsense. ”

"Am I talking nonsense?" Song Jia asked reluctantly, "Why do you say that the generals of the Red Jacket Army are so wary and refuse to give up their military power?" It's not that I'm worried about liquidating it in the future. Are you worried that someone may push Liu An'er's second son out in the future, why? It's not the word 'fame and fortune' - if you marry Liu Miaozhen, you can appease the hearts of the generals of the Red Jacket Army, and the generals of the Red Jacket Army will join Huaidong to make meritorious contributions, which is much more likely than supporting Liu An'er's two sons who are still snotty - in my opinion, this matter may not be what I think, nor may it be that someone in Huaidong thinks so, and I don't think that there is no one in the Red Jacket Army who doesn't think so! As long as you can get a rich and noble road to a wife and son in Huaidong, who cares how Liu Miaozhen will give you? Of course, there is no guarantee that there will be others who will covet Liu Miaozhen in the future! ”

"Bad step," Lin Jian smiled bitterly, speaking of sharp teeth, he was not as good as Song Jia, and asked directly, "Tell me, will the Song family send a daughter to me to sloppy?" ”

"Phew!" Song Jia took a sip of Lin Lian, and her face turned red, but she didn't expect to talk about it for a long time, and said, "Luxury Feixiong is fighting on the Western Front, Huizhou will be down, and the luxury family has not yet exhausted, how could my scheming father think that there is still my daughter who is out." ”

Lin Jian sighed lightly, if the Song family could be co-opted, the situation on the southern front would be much simpler. But the extravagant Song and the other six surnames are too deeply entangled with each other, and if the extravagant family dies, even if the Song family sees the opportunity, they will lose half their lives. Until the end, who has the courage to break their arms?

At this time, Lin Jian did not have the intention of secretly sending people to Quanzhou to contact, even if he wanted to play conspiracy, he had to use his strength to support him.

Back in Dongya, it was already dawn in the early morning, and Lin Jian was just about to go back to the mountain to rest, when a letter and newspaper came back, and the soldiers and horses of the South Road composed of the Jinghai First Water Battalion and the Chongcheng Bu Battalion successfully captured Yizhou.

However, before the arrival of the Southern Route Army, the officials, defenders, clan forces with eight surnames and a large number of people sent to Yizhou by the Zhejiang-Fujian Governor's Office had already evacuated in advance, and set fire to the walled city, dock port, and village before leaving, leaving a ruined city in Huaidong and less than 10,000 people in Yizhou who did not have time to evacuate.

Due to the burning of large areas of villages and the snatching of food and money, more than 10,000 people in Yizhou have become refugees waiting to be fed, waiting for relief from the Huaidong Army.

Zhejiang-Fujian's combat strength at sea is dominated by the eastern Zhejiang naval division, the first battle of eastern Zhejiang, the eastern Zhejiang naval division lost nearly half, the remnants were blocked in the middle and upper reaches of the Qianjiang River, and the only naval force of Zhejiang and Fujian on the southern front could only be used to blockade the Minjiang River, and there was no ability to go to sea and compete with the Huaidong naval army at sea.

In this case, even if Zhejiang and Fujian do not want to give up Yizhou Island, they will be more passive in dividing their troops to defend. Seeing that there was no hope of counterattacking Mingzhou Mansion, he ordered all the resources that could be withdrawn from Yizhou Island and destroyed those that could not be withdrawn, so as not to take advantage of Huaidong.

Not only did he forcibly withdraw from the Ding household, but he even organized people to scatter salt near Yizhou City and destroy the fields.

No matter how deep the roots of the luxury family were in Yizhou Island in the past, the relocation of people and the destruction of land would always fail to win the hearts of the people. For a time, the people of Yizhou also raised troops to resist, suppressing and killing many people for the luxury family.

Huaidong's movements were not slow, almost in the Chongcheng infantry camp in Shangyu rested, in Hukou Zhai just completed the expansion, sent troops south, almost nearly 10,000 people intercepted.

The so-called gains and losses, this is good, the Huaidong Army will reduce a lot of resistance to take over Yizhou Island, and it can directly fill more than 10,000 displaced people on Yizhou Island. Under the current circumstances, Huaidong is only worried that there is no more land to resettle the displaced people, but it is not worried about the lack of food.

In Lin Bin's impression, the island of Taiwan in later generations is the Yizhou Island in the world, and the paddy fields can be planted with three crops of rice a year, and the annual yield should be six or seven percent higher than that of the ripe fields in Chongzhou. It's a pity that Yizhou Island is still in the development stage, and the dry land is only about 20,000 acres, which is really limited, and it is better than nothing; The cost of reclamation of Yizhou Island is too high, and the Huaidong Military Division is not capable of direct large-scale investment in the short term, so it depends on how much potential Huaidong Qianzhuang still has to tap.