Gao Yi walked in with a shackle, saw the dog calf Lu Xiong squatting under the eaves of the porch, stretched out his foot and kicked him, and said with a smile: "Dog calf, go back to the room quickly, see what good things I found for you?" ”

"......," said the calf, shrinking back as if bitten by a snake, "don't play tricks on me. ”

The dog calf Lu Xiong is not afraid of Chen Zhihu, but Gao Yi is the most blind in his heart, saying that he is giving him good things, and he sent two stripped women to his room last time, causing him to not sleep well for a few nights, and he doesn't understand in his heart, obviously there is meat to eat every day, what does Gao Yi do with women? finally returned the woman to Gao Yi, Gao Yi laughed at him for growing a donkey's big goods for nothing, but he didn't know how to use it, inexplicably, others also laughed at him......

Chen Zhihu frowned slightly, knowing that Gao Yi was greedy, and said to him: "You also get fewer women, don't miss the business......"

Gao Yi put on a scoundrel-like smile, and said, "What Hu Shuai confessed, it must not be wrong," and asked again, "I heard that the person surnamed Liu has come over, it seems that Zhang Xie's letter from the dog can still play a role." How do we fight next, first hit Qingzhou? ”

"You've met with Lin Lian, do you think he'll let us take Dengzhou calmly?" Chen Zhihu asked.

Gao Yi frowned, he had met Lin Jian twice. The first time was when Chen Zhihu was appointed as the envoy of Henan, he went to Jiangning to participate in the military conference on behalf of Chen Zhihu, and met with Lin Jian and Gao Zongting; The second time was when Lin Lian's Red Jacket Army marched east to Suyu and Suining, and he went to Shanyang on behalf of Chen Zhihu to ask for the guilt and met with Lin Lian.

Hearing that Chen Zhihu was worried that the Huaidong Army would interfere in the situation in Qingzhou, Gao Yi grinned and said: "He has this thought, and he also has to have this strength to succeed...... There are 70,000 or 80,000 people trapped in the Huaidong army in eastern Zhejiang, and Lin Jian is a god, how many soldiers and horses can he conjure? ”

"I'm afraid it's not that simple," Chen Zhihu's face was gloomy, coupled with his hideous face, even if he smiled, it was also extremely ugly, so that people couldn't see what he was thinking, he just said in a low voice like thunder, "The Huaidong Army can suppress the extravagant family to fight, and the troops are very sharp, but the reason why they can take the lead depends on the prosperity of its sailors, which is unprecedented." When the commander was alive, he also talked about the sailor, and also said that the ancients were not as good as Lin Tie - with the strategy of Lin Tie and Gao Zongting, it was impossible to sit back and watch the Dengzhou Navy Division fall into the hands of the Northern Yan - you look at the situation in Dengzhou, it is like the mouth of the bag in Bohai Bay, as long as the Dengzhou Navy can be used by the Northern Yan, the one or two thousand soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army on Jinwei Island will be like shrimp in a bag, and it is easy to exterminate. Since when the Tianjin Navy retreated south, Lin Tie laid a follow-up hand on Jinwei Island, it was impossible not to see Dengzhou. ”

"Even if Huaidong is unwilling, what can he do?" Gao Yi said, "Since Liu Yefei sent someone to contact, he is bent on seeking wealth from the north!" Liu Yefei, who is in charge of Dengzhou, cooperates with us, as long as we capture Qingzhou, the duck that is still worried about its beak will fly? ”

"If Liu Yefei has the ability, Chongguan will be able to force Tang Haoxin and Lin Jian out of Qingzhou for ten years," Chen Zhihu was quite upset about Liu Yefei and said, "Or give Liu Yefei three or five years of time, or he can master the Dengzhou Water Division, but he has only been out of Dengzhou for less than a year at this time, and he also wants to see the surface of Dengzhou water, and he is afraid that it will be a dream." The 20th battalion of the Shuibu Army in Dengzhou Town, Liu Yefei can master three or five percent, and he will reach the sky. If at this time, a secret decree of the Southern Dynasty confiscated Liu Yefei's military power and ordered the Dengzhou Navy Division to retreat south by sea, what would you chase after you? ”

"Logically speaking, the Southern Dynasty wants to protect half of the country, the Huai River and the Yangtze River are natural hazards that can be relied on, and the same as Huaidong, the Northern Yan cannot be allowed to possess the Dengzhou Naval Division," Gao Yi woke up Chen Zhihu, and he was helpless for a while, "The Southern Dynasty wants to issue a secret decree quickly, and it is really necessary to withdraw the Dengzhou Naval Division to the south, even if we lead the army to rush at this time, it will be too late!" ”

"Not necessarily," Chen Zhihu said, "if the Southern Dynasty really wants to withdraw the Dengzhou Naval Division, it means completely abandoning Shandong." At present, Qingzhou has not yet fallen for me, Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong are still gathered in Jinan, how can the Southern Dynasty make up their minds to cut off their arms so easily? But just in case, I want you to lead your troops to fight a losing battle outside Qingzhou City! ”

"I lost the battle?" The horizontal flesh on Gao Yi's face twitched, he knew that Chen Zhihu was a plan to stabilize the enemy, and dragged the Dengzhou Sailor back, but it was difficult to accept it in his heart when he asked him to defeat the battle.

"Why, if you lose the battle, you can't fight?" Chen Zhihu stared at Gao Yi with a frightened face.

"The forward battalion is just such a seed, and it hurts to lose a person. A small defeat, Hu Shuai's strategy is afraid that it will be difficult to do, if it is a big defeat, Hu Shuai, don't you feel pain in your heart? Gao Yi twisted his head and said.

Chen Zhihu has been on the battlefield for half his life, but half of his fame is earned by the forward battalion. Like Chen Zhihu's background, most of the generals of the forward battalion are death row prisoners, Dakou, and dead soldiers.

Chen Zhihu used them to kill on the battlefield, and he was also extremely indulgent in military discipline to show his fierce and brutal atmosphere. Even under Li Zhuo's rule, it was common to slaughter the walled city and plunder the enemy's territory, and it was a very distinctive elite in the original Eastern Fujian Army. Headed by Gao Yi, there are many brave generals in the forward battalion, and with the martial arts of Ao Canghai back then, they can only succumb to Gao Yi.

Chen Zhihu has been fighting on the battlefield for half his life, leading many or few soldiers, but the military power of the forward battalion has never been let go, and it is almost used as a personal guard. And Chen Zhihu likes to take the lead in battles, so the forward battalion is used as the pioneer elite of Chen Zhihu to attack the enemy in almost every battle, and it is also some of Chen Zhihu's most famous elites.

Such an elite, the strength is naturally not too much, Chen Zhihu has fought for half his life, has led 70,000 or 80,000 troops in Datong, and the forward battalion is only more than 4,000 people, and today, almost all of them are elites in a hundred battles.

In order to seek the Dengzhou Naval Division, he deliberately let the forward battalion be defeated under Qingzhou City, and Gao Yi was reluctant.

"Zhou Zhizhong has led his troops to Hengtai, and he will enter the city tomorrow, and I will organize his troops into the forward battalion, and you will lead them to fight Qingzhou." Chen Zhihu said.

"Zhou Zhizhong is willing?" Gao Yi asked.

"When you enter Linzi City, you still have to let him decide?" Chen Zhihu said coldly, "It's a big deal to return him 5,000 soldiers and horses after the war." ”

"You don't need the forward battalion, you can tell whatever the tiger marshal wants." Gao Yi said in a loud voice.

"Got a battle to fight? I'm going too. Lu Xiong, the dog calf, said.

"You're going to go if you lose the battle?" Gao Yi asked.

"Let Lu Xiong go, defeat will be defeated!" Chen Zhihu said.

"The dog calf is full of blood and blood, but it will only rush forward!" Gao Yi persuaded. A battle that must be lost, and bringing a tenacious dog calf to the battlefield is not harming his life?

"There's not so much nonsense, if he doesn't obey, he will be knocked unconscious and dragged back." Chen Zhihu's face sank and said.

"After the big defeat, how do you go on?" Gao Yi asked.

"Hmph," Chen Zhihu said, "The Southern Dynasties have to win the 'Qingzhou Victory', and Liu Yefei is a piece of, and he can also transfer the main force of the Dengzhou Town Army out to 'support' the Qingzhou ......."

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Liu Yefei has been sitting in the government office for the past few days, seeing that the situation in Qingzhou is about to collapse, he hurriedly surrendered to the past, and he can still make a fortune, but when he sends out the secret envoy, he suffers from gains and losses.

Liu Yefei was worried that the matter would be exposed, and before Chen Zhihu led his troops to conquer Qingzhou, the imperial court sent someone with a decree to take his life first; is even more worried that Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan's father and son will finally hold Yangxin and force the Beiyan army to retreat, and he is even more empty of bamboo baskets, and he also has a handle in the hands of Beiyan.

At this time, a man in a green shirt walked in, saw Liu Yefei, who was suffering from gains and losses, and called softly: "Uncle......"

"Ah," Liu Yefei was startled, and looked up to see that the person who came was Liu Zhiyong, the nephew he sent to Linzi to talk to Chen Zhihu, so he calmed down a little, sent all the maids and maids in the courtyard away, and the first thing he asked was, "Zhiyong, you haven't shown your tracks all the way, have you?" ”

"No, except for Chen Zhihu, Zhiyong ate and drank in the carriage during the day, and never met anyone." Liu Zhiyong said.

"That's good, that's good," Liu Yefei was a little relieved before asking, "Did Chen Zhihu say when he would go to Qingzhou and when he would come to Dengzhou?" ”

"Chen Zhihu didn't say when he would go to Qingzhou, only that he would be defeated outside Qingzhou, and he asked his uncle to lead the Dengzhou soldiers from Laiyang to the west......," Liu Zhiyong said.

"That's ......" Liu Yefei didn't understand the deep meaning of Chen Zhihu's action for a while.

Liu Zhiyong reminded: "Chen Zhihu is afraid that his uncle will not be able to persuade the generals of the Dengzhou soldiers to surrender to Yan, so he wants his uncle to transfer all the soldiers and horses out of the Dengzhou camp. As long as Chen Zhihu sends a partial division all the way to capture Dengzhou to cut off the retreat, or the Dengzhou army surrounds Chen Zhihu's troops on the way west, it will be relatively easier to persuade the generals to surrender to Yan when the time comes......" Liu Zhiyong paused for a moment so that Liu Yefei could figure it out, and said, "In addition, the lord of the Northern Yan Kingdom is bound to the Dengzhou Sailor, and he wants his uncle to transfer the Sailor to the shore as much as possible!" ”

Liu Yefei heard that Chen Zhihu underestimated that he couldn't control the Dengzhou Town Army, so he felt a little angry in his heart, and he couldn't get off the shelf in front of his nephew, so he had a calm face and said with emotion: "It's easy for a dog to look at people's eyes, but it's going to be so troublesome......"

"It's better to be careful," Liu Zhiyong persuaded, "Zhao Zhen and Hu Yu'er are afraid that they are not so easy to convince; Moreover, if the situation in Qingzhou cannot be saved, the imperial court may issue an order to transfer the Dengzhou Navy Division to the south......"

Dengzhou town divided the water infantry army, after the collapse of Yan Ji, Dengzhou infantry battalion 5,000 soldiers were transferred to Daliang in large quantities to supplement the lack of Changhuai army troops, at this time Dengzhou town under the jurisdiction of the infantry battalion, most of Liu Yefei to Dengzhou after the recruitment and formation, there are ten battalions of about 6,000 people, and most of its generals are Liu Yefei's cronies who pulled it up.

Liu Yefei was sure to persuade the infantry battalion generals to surrender to Beiyan with him, but this army of soldiers and horses had a hasty training time, and lacked soldiers and few armor, so their combat strength could only be listed as first-class in the local township, and Chen Zhihu was not put in the eyes of Chen Zhihu at all, and Chen Zhihu could also say that Beiyan was greedy for the sailors of Dengzhou.

Dengzhou Town is under the jurisdiction of the real elite soldiers, the Dengzhou Naval Division, which has a history of more than 200 years and has been greatly strengthened during Li Zhuo's tenure as the secretary of the military department.

The Dengzhou Naval Division suffered a heavy setback in the battle in eastern Liaodong, but now it still maintains an establishment of more than 6,000 people, the special warships and ordnance have not suffered major losses, the generals and soldiers are also in good order, and the training is also sufficient.

The former town lord of Dengzhou died in Liaodong, but the generals of the water camp, headed by Zhao Zhen and Hu Yuer, formed a series of their own, and did not buy Liu Yefei's account.

At this time, the main force of the Dengzhou Town Infantry Battalion was assembled in Dengzhou City, but the main station of the water division was in the swordfish village on the east side of Danya Mountain in the northwest of Dengzhou City.

The knife fish village is said to be a village, but it is actually a water city. Daoyu village uses the steep terrain of Danya Mountain near the sea to build, negative mountain control sea, the circumference is about 600 steps, the city wall is still built with stones, the enemy platform, the moat is complete, it is a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is a north-south phase gate, and the south gate is connected with the land route; The north gate is the water gate, which is the place where the sailors enter and exit. There is a 200-pace-square sea pool in the city, which can berth hundreds of large and small warships.

If Liu Yefei can't persuade the generals of the Navy Division to surrender together, even if Chen Zhihu leads a large army to attack, the Dengzhou Navy Division can defend and resist stubbornly according to the Daoyu Village. No matter how elite Chen Zhihu's troops and horses are, if they want to attack Daoyu Village, as long as the defenders are strong-willed, they will inevitably have to pay a heavy price to succeed.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, the Dengzhou Sailor can't guard the knife fish village, and can calmly withdraw from the sea route, and it is not difficult to imagine that the incident of Jinhai will be repeated in Dengzhou.

Chen Zhihu is also extremely accurate, counting on Liu Yefei to persuade or coerce the generals of the water division to surrender together, the risk of failure is too great, and the best plan is to transfer the tiger away from the mountain.