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The loss of Xuzhou prompted Duoduo's main force to withdraw across the Huai River overnight.

While rebuilding a defensive line in Huaibei, he divided his forces to suppress the rebel armies in the Central Plains and Shandong. He also sent 15,000 men and horses, led by Gong Acha, to hurriedly return north to deal with Jiang Huang in Datong.

After Liu Meng of Dingyuan City learned that Duoduo's main force had retreated, he immediately advanced to Fengyang, and his morale was very high.

In the city of Chuzhou, after learning that Xuzhou was recovered and the main force of the Tartars retreated, people rushed to tell each other, played crowns to celebrate, and the streets were full of firecrackers.

In the courtyard on the east side of the state ya, Qin Mu frowned slightly, on the surface, the Qing army was forced to retreat north, and it was the Qin army that won a big victory, but in fact, Duoduo's simple retreat to the north was not conducive to the next layout of Great Qin.

This time, Qin Mu did make two plans, one of which was to point his sword at Shandong, and if he did not collect the command at night, Huang Lianshan had already rushed to Shandong.

The way to seize Shandong this time was different from the seizure of Jiangnan, Qin Mu did not intend to send 100,000 troops to attack in a mighty way, but adopted a gradual infiltration method, making full use of the local people's dissatisfaction with the forced shaving of hair and clothes of different races, instigating an uprising by night, and using the strength of the local people to disintegrate the rule of the Manchu Qing little by little;

When necessary, send more than 3,000 cavalry to attack from a long distance, and quickly seize some important strategic bases with the cooperation of the rebel army, and these combat strongholds are preferred along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling this canal;

With these canals in hand, the Qin army could steadily advance northward. The large army in the south marched step by step, dragging the main force of the Qing army on the southern front as much as possible. So that the rebel armies in the Central Plains and Shandong have a better space for growth.

Now Duoduo is willing to give up Fengyang and Shouzhou, the two bridgeheads to enter Huainan, and quickly withdraw the main force to the north, for the righteous army in the Central Plains. Bad news undoubtedly.

Sima Kai stared at the sand table for a while, and said in a deep voice: "King Qin, if the Qing army wants to suppress the Shandong Righteous Army, Jining must bear the brunt, Jining is located at the eastern end of the Huanghuai Plain, which is not conducive to defense militarily, is it not to let Dongfang Sheng go east to attack Yanzhou." If you can't beat it, you can also retreat into the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong. ”

Qin Mu was noncommittal about this, Daqin is still out of reach of Jining, although Xuzhou to Jining is only two or three hundred miles. There is also Weishan Lake in the middle, and it is not a problem for the sailor to support a little material through Weishan Lake, but it is impossible for the sailor to go ashore to fight.

"Dongfang Sheng has lived behind enemy lines for a long time and is good at fighting behind enemy lines. It's a battle or a defense. How to turn to the war, it is up to him to decide according to the situation, from such a distance, this king will go to remote control and command, but there will be problems. Xuzhou has just been defeated, and Muyang, Haizhou, Tancheng and other prefectures and counties in the east have not yet sent troops to control them, and Jin Shenghuan has to defend Xuzhou and divide troops to control these prefectures and counties. There is no spare strength to go north, Jining. It's up to Dongfang Sheng. ”

Gu Junen was more optimistic, he said: "I don't think Jining is necessarily unfortunate, although Jining is in the plain area, the city is high and the walls are thick. Yan Yingyuan, relying on the people of Jiangyin City, defended Jiangyin City for 60 days without foreign aid, and annihilated countless enemies. As long as the sailor can provide Dongfang Sheng with weapons and grain and grass, Jining City may not be able to become the second Jiangyin. ”

It's not that there is no such possibility, but just because there is a Jiangyin, you can't expect every city to be as impregnable as Jiangyin, Qin Mu nodded and said, "I hope so." ”

Gu Junen said: "Duoduo is willing to give up Fengyang, this is also a helpless thing, the only way to do this is to first defeat Fengyang and Shouzhou as soon as possible and stabilize the entire Huainan." Seeing that the end of the year is imminent, it will not be long before spring begins, and the newly laid large area of land must be prepared for spring ploughing as soon as possible, otherwise the next year's grain will not be self-sufficient, and the imperial court will be dragged down by this, and it will be a problem to advance further northward. ”

Qin Dao bowed his head and said: "Yes, Sima Kai, you draft a decree and send it back to the capital, so that the ministers of the court and the central government can immediately start sending officials to prepare cattle, farming tools, grain seeds, etc. ”

"Yes, King Qin."

In this battle, the battle line was advanced to the north for hundreds of miles, and the men and horses of Fengyang and Shouzhou, under the siege of Liu Meng and Meng Ke, would not last long, and with the Huai River defense line, Jiangnan and Jinling would be completely safe.

Rice to eat bite by bite, advancing north too fast, in fact, it may not be a good thing, the Central Plains is broken, there are countless refugees, to put it mildly, this is actually a huge burden, Daqin has just laid down the south of the Yangtze River, in the case of insufficient grain and grass, rashly going north, but it is easy to fall into a passive predicament.

Let's take it one step at a time.

In the evening, Qin Mu asked his subordinates to burn a pot of wine, and drank with the red lady under the sparse and slanting window, the red lady changed her red dress in the past, and actually changed into a dress embroidered with orchid and bamboo on a white background, and the pure feeling was like an ink painting with a few strokes.

She suddenly changed into this outfit, which made Qin Mu's eyes, who were a little aesthetically tired of her red outfit, light up, "Good-looking, Ying'er, it's so good-looking." ”

The red lady was slightly uncomfortable under his continuous admiration, and poured him a full glass of wine and said: "Drink, drink and chant poetry, enjoy peace, you are here now." ”

"Ying'er, I am the King of Qin, the king of a country, can you speak?"

"I can't." The red lady couldn't help but laugh after answering with a tense face, and the majestic twin peaks trembled, "I'm like this, but I'm not like your confidantes, I can poetry and painting, I can sing and dance, if you can't look at it, though"

"How?"

"You hum!"

"Ying'er, don't be angry, come, sit on the king's side, it's cold, let's drink next to each other."

"Think beautifully."

The red lady did not change the bold style of the past, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, after drinking the wine, the wine glass snapped on the table, and said: "Fengyang will worship thousands of men and horses, the main force of Duoduo will be withdrawn, the morale of the remaining Tartars must be even lower, Liu Meng and Su Jin's forty or fifty thousand troops will attack, if they can't be defeated, then needless to say, when Fengyang and Shouzhou are recovered, what are you going to do next?" ”

"Go back to Jinling."

"Back to Jinling? I'm not going back. ”

After the red lady finished speaking angrily, she picked up the wine jug and filled herself with a glass, in her heart, she was actually afraid, she didn't want to see Qin Mu's other women, and she lacked mental preparation for "living in the palace", she didn't want to face the four high walls all day long, being a golden bird in a cage.

"Ying'er, do you like the sea?"

Qin Mu smiled, a cold moon rose outside the window, hanging in the clear sky, a plum blossom in front of the window, under the flower branch is the pool water is shallow, the night wind blows, the dark fragrance floats, Qin Mu does not know whether it is the fragrance of plum blossoms, or the fragrance of the red lady.

"Why are you asking this?"

Qin Mu's words aroused the curiosity of the red lady, and with his understanding of Qin Mu, he would definitely not ask this for no reason.

"Ying'er, the widest in the world is the sky, wider than the sky is the sea, wider than the sea is the man's mind, Yinglai, come to my arms, are you still afraid of being bound?"

"Go and go, get down to business."

"Okay, Ying'er, have you thought about it, although our sailors didn't have many dazzling performances this time, but their contributions cannot be ignored, it is precisely because of them that we have controlled the main waterways, and logistics supplies can be continuously delivered, and the war is fought so smoothly, half of the credit goes to the sailors."

"So, you're going to focus on the sailor next?"

Qin Mu smiled and said nothing, in fact, he didn't understand much about the water master, what could he do if he focused on the water master?

"No, you want to solve the Fujian Zheng family first, right?"

"Ying'er, can you sit down?"

"You" the red lady was so angry that she wanted to whip him, "The Tartars have been defeated again and again, it is the weakest time, you don't take the opportunity to expel them from the Central Plains in one fell swoop, in case they are relieved, it will not be so easy." ”

"Look at your urgency, everything you said by yourself, did I say that I would not fight the tartars? For example, if I hug you and drink at the same time, these two things can be done together, and they complement each other. ”

"Do you want to ambush the Zheng family, and then attack Yanjing by sea?"

"Ying'er, you're not finished, this king doesn't want anything now, he just wants to hug you, okay?"

King Qin was furious and threw himself at the incomprehensible girl

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