Yan Binglie burst into tears in front of Li Xin, and what he did with his performance was just hope, taking advantage of the siege of Xuzhou to make Li Xin, the deputy general of the Zhenyu Marquis who moved in northern Xinjiang, stay and help him defend Jining Prefecture. Jining Prefecture is located on the left bank of the Grand Canal at the junction of Shandong and Nanzhili, although the status of the trade route is slightly inferior to that of Linqing that runs through the east and west, north and south, but in addition to inheriting the north and south, it belongs to the land rush, there is Yanzhou on the left, and Juye is on the right. If the thieves are interested in Xuzhou, Jining Prefecture will also be extremely dangerous.

If there is a war, the rebels attack the city, if the city is broken and escaped, they will be held accountable by the court in the future, beheaded and abandoned the city, and the clansmen are miserable as slaves. Since the Ming Dynasty, internal and external wars have been frequent, and it is not uncommon for governors to be beheaded, not to mention a small governor, he asked himself if he had the determination to die in the city, so he had to do his best to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to protect himself.

In fact, Li Xin and Zhang Fangyan's team passed through Jining Prefecture, and it was already difficult to move an inch. To the south of Jining Prefecture is a dry water system criss-crossing Dushan Lake, Zhaoyang Lake, Chishan Lake, and Lumeng Lake. And further south across the Huaihuang Waterway, is the city of Xuzhou, which is surrounded by thieves. In such a complex and dangerous geographical environment, the thieves gathered and disturbed, and there were only 100,000 people at every turn, and the two guards were only 3,000 people, and they were all northerners, so it was difficult to adapt for a while, and the disadvantages were even more obvious.

In Yan Binglie's mind, he put on a big step like this, and Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, calmed down, but he never expected that Li Xin would refuse in one bite.

"The elder Ge went to Nanjing, and now he has been tied up on the road for nearly a month, so it is really not appropriate to delay more. The thieves gathered in Xuzhou, and the fleet could go south through Suqian via the Huitong River. It's just that there is one more thing to ask for, I hope that Yan Fuzun will help collect the big ship and load the sergeants......"

Originally, he wanted to persuade Li Xin to stay, but Yan Binglie was disappointed and couldn't laugh or cry, but people not only clearly refused, but also turned to himself to make a request. At the same time, he also deeply felt that he had underestimated the town marquis, he obviously had done a careful study of the topography of the southeast of the mountain, and after the lake water system crisscrossing Jining Prefecture to the south, the Grand Canal was indeed divided into two, all the way through Xuzhou into the Huanghuai River, which is also the main waterway taken by the world's merchants and boats. The other one flows east through Pizhou and Suqian into the Huanghuai River, which is a tributary, that is, the waterway that Li Xin said he would take.

The disappointment was on Yan Binglie's heart, and he didn't dare to offend Li Xin and Zhang Fangyan, who was about to become the governor of Zhejiang, so he had to accept it.

"The lower officials should cooperate with all their might, and cooperate with all their might..."

The waterways near Jining Prefecture are vertical and horizontal, and there is no shortage of large and small ships, and Yan Binglie is also hard to recruit, and he has collected more than ten large ships in one day. Who knows, two days later, the situation turned around. The arrival of the imperial court's envoy to Jining Prefecture was definitely a surprise, because the emperor ordered Zhang Fangyan and Li Xin to clear the banks of the Grand Canal on the way south, so as to clear the river, and never block the passage of Cao Yun. Also who came with the messenger was He Tengjiao, the magistrate of Yanggu, but at this time, He Tengjiao was already ordered to prepare for the military in Jixi, and he was in charge of Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion at the same time.

Zhang Fangyan's recommendation to the emperor accepted all of them, and it was only fitting for this person to sort out the military equipment of the two prefectures. If the emperor has been able to make such a decision as he is now, why has the Ming military affairs been so corrupted. In Li Xin's view, the Ming Dynasty's officials and troops suffered repeated setbacks, and most of the time it was not how strong the thieves were, but the prevarication of the imperial court, which gave the thieves the opportunity to survive in desperate situations.

Yu Li Xin was pleasantly surprised by another thing, which he never expected anyway, that more than 10,000 main elites of the Three Guards Army had also been ordered to go south and obey the dispatch. Although there were many restrictions on the will, it was clear at a glance that this was the result of a compromise between the cabinet and the emperor, and in fact it was the best way to do it.

Fan Fucui of the cabinet really did not target himself, and at the critical moment, for the sake of national affairs, even the result of his previous painstaking efforts to seize his military power can be burned, which is also admirable. Li Xin thought about it, and there was an irrepressible inexplicable excitement in his heart, and he couldn't wait to raise troops to destroy those thieves who did all kinds of evil. The grievances and forbearance of the past few days are unprecedented since the Ming Dynasty, and just a day ago he planned to take the Huitong River through the Huanghuai River between Pizhou and Suqian, avoiding the thieves and going to Nanjing.

How is this the character of his Li Xin? If it is passed out, it will be ridiculed for the seal of the deputy general. As soon as he thought of this, Li Xin quickly ordered the Zhizhou of Jining to send him all the maps of the places he passed through as far south as Xuzhou, and he wanted to study them carefully.

Yan Binglie was overjoyed when he learned about it, and the marquis of Zhenyu asked for a map, didn't it just explain that he was preparing to conquer the thieves besieging Xuzhou? He hurriedly ordered the master book to go through all the documents of the state capital, found all the maps that could be found, and presented them one by one, for fear that Li Xin would be a little dissatisfied.

At this time, the map only showed the location of rivers, lakes and important cities in roughly equal positions, and there were no details of the terrain and mountains, so a local was needed to elaborate on the details. It is not easy to find such a person who is not only proficient in literature and ink, but also familiar with the terrain, when people worship books and read thousands of books than travel thousands of miles, so finding a reader to recite a subset of scriptures and history abounds, but it is not easy to find a person who knows the terrain.

And the final solution to this problem turned out to be the new Jixi soldier Beidao He Tengjiao, who pointed out the rivers and mountains from Jining Prefecture to Xuzhou, which surprised Li Xin.

"The Huanghuai waterway is intertwined, and there are many mountainous areas, such as here" He Tengjiao pointed to the location of Xuzhou on the map and talked eloquently: "In addition to the Huanghuai waterway in the north of Xuzhou, there is also the turbid river and the Qingou staggered together, the north of the Qingou is Huashan and Qishan, and the west is the Jingshan, the terrain is undulating, especially in recent days, the rain and snow, the road is muddy, it is really not conducive to the army to line up to fight......"

He Tengjiao said a lot of words, and finally summed it up, Li Xinxin can be replaced by eight words.

"The terrain is complicated, and it is not suitable to use soldiers..."

Li Xin's heart suddenly moved, and he opened his mouth to ask.

"If He Bingxian leads the troops, how should he capture Xuzhou?"

Hearing this, He Tengjiao was stunned for a while, and then immediately replied as if he had already had a draft: "If the subordinate officer leads the troops, it is better to block than to attack..."

Li Xin was silent, waiting for He Tengjiao to give a detailed answer.

"First of all, our army has two disadvantages... The veterans of the southbound division are tired, this is one of them. Northerners are not accustomed to the terrain and climate of the south, and this is the second. Therefore, when the advantages and avoid the shortcomings, first of all, our army took a boat in Qingou into Dangshan County, cut off the back road of the thieves, and the lower officials speculated that the thieves who besieged Xuzhou were the five battalions of Gezuo that had been entrenched in the area of Yinghuo Mountain. The fighting spirit and morale are certainly not high, and this can confuse the morale of the army. Then ask Zhang Ge Lao to order Nanjing, and transfer the arch to guard the Nangi garrison Chen Bing Fengyang Mansion, one to guard the ancestral tomb, and the other to deter thieves. ”

Li Xin suddenly asked: "Wouldn't it be better if the Nanjing garrison was transferred to attack our army on two sides?" ”

After He Tengjiao heard this, he shook his head with a wry smile.

"The marquis of Zhenyu doesn't know, if the transfer order bluntly says that he will go north to attack the thieves, I am afraid that after the whole army is dispatched, it will be too late."

Li Xin's chest suddenly swelled with anger, and he subconsciously asked, "Why?" ”

"Why else, just cowardice... If you bluntly transfer troops to fight, the armies of all walks of life will inevitably drag on, so that the fighters will be delayed......" He Tengjiao sighed, and continued: "With such a two-pronged approach, the thieves can be determined..."

Li Xin nodded, stared at He Tengjiao's eyes tightly, and asked abruptly.

"What if Xuzhou is captured by thieves during the dispatch of people from all walks of life?"

He Tengjiao was stunned by Li Xin's question, and his body shook back and forth a few times, until he stretched out his hands and held the table to stabilize his body, and he couldn't speak for a long time, yes, if Xuzhou was captured in the next time, wouldn't it be in vain to work all the chess pieces? He replied sharply, "How is this possible? The city of Xuzhou is high and deep, and there are court soldiers stationed, how can it be easily captured by thieves? ”

Having said that, He Tengjiao's tone still revealed the hesitation in his heart after all.

However, He Tengjiao's overall idea was still deeply appreciated by Li Xin, but he reversed his strategy of putting blockade first, and made up his mind, only waiting for the main force of the Three Guards Army to arrive in Jining Prefecture, and then drove straight into a decisive battle with the thieves to defeat this group of rabble, and at the same time, he used He Tengjiao's deterrent strategy, and decided to ask Zhang Fang to strictly transfer the Nanjing garrison Chen Bing Fengyang Mansion to deter the thieves besieging Xuzhou.

In the anxious waiting, Li Xin's assumption was unfortunately true, and three days later, the news came from the south, and the thieves of the fifth battalion of the left left were slaughtered in Xuzhou......

After the news reached Jining, the people in Jining Prefecture were panicked, and many wealthy gentry families had taken refuge with their families, and the officials did not dare to leave their posts without permission, and they were all in fear. Now that Xuzhou has fallen, the next target of the thieves is likely to be Jining Prefecture. Yan Binglie was already like a frightened bird, and came to ask Li Xin to have an idea, and repeatedly asked him to save and relieve 100,000 people in Ning.

Li Xin said something diametrically opposed to everyone else.

"The mansion is a little safe, the thieves will not go north to Jining Prefecture after they go to Xuzhou, in Li Xin's opinion, they will go south to Fengyang Mansion..."

Li Xin's judgment did not make Yan Binglie feel relaxed, but was stunned to think of the catastrophe in the eighth year of Chongzhen, when the thieves captured Fengyang Mansion, burned down the central capital, dug up the imperial tomb, and countless officials fell to the ground......

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