Lin Jian wanted to welcome the coffins of Yang Pu and Ma Chao into Chongzhou, while Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu quietly went ashore at the Dongcheng Wharf and entered the city.

Zhao Hu has been in Haidong for several years, in addition to his wife and children, his parents and brothers are in Chongzhou.

However, the situation in Shandong had become a collapse, and they could not get the news of Luxi in time in Dengzhou, so they walked on the sea for a few days, and just landed on the shore and were anxious to know the development of the situation in Shandong, so they did not care about going home, and went to Dongya first.

Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde and others were very busy in Dongya, and when they saw Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu coming in, Lin Mengde said: "I'm so busy here, I don't have time to go to the dock to meet you." I'm still worried that you will go back to reunite with your family first, and I'm discussing with Qin Ye to send someone to invite you over directly, but don't blame ......"

Gao Zongting clenched his fists and smiled: "How dare you, how dare you?" He asked, "Where has the situation in Shandong developed?" ”

The news of the fall of Yangxin reached Jinan, and in order to avoid being cut off, Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong began to abandon Jinan on the sixth day of the first month, and fled south from the western foot of Mount Tai in a hurry. However, there are more than 100,000 people who have dragged their families and families and coerced people to evacuate south, and the speed of evacuation is extremely slow. It was almost delayed until the 12th, when the Liang father and son led more than 100,000 people to withdraw from Jinan City in batches, and on the 14th, Ye Jiduodi led 30,000 cavalry to cross the Yellow River and occupy Jinan. On the next day, Yuan Lishan led 10,000 light horsemen from Linzi to pass between Mount Tai and Yishan, and caught up with the main force of Liang's soldiers and horses fleeing south in the west of Tai'an Province. Liang Xi wanted to be regarded as Yuan Lishan's former master, but unfortunately Yuan Lishan did not miss the old feelings at all, and fought very hard, and defeated Liang's southern withdrawal of troops and horses in the first battle. Liang Chengchong has fled to Jining, but Liang Xi and the remnants of nearly 30,000 soldiers are trapped in Dongping County, and the brave soldiers who fled all over the mountains and fields are even more unknown, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is bloody. Yanhu's troops and horses were mobilized very quickly, in addition to Ye Ji Duodi personally led the main force of 30,000 cavalry from Jinan to catch up, the troops from Linzi to the southwest also continued to flow, and by yesterday, Yanhu had gathered as many as 80,000 troops in the periphery of Dongping County, and half of the cavalry were half. The Liang family didn't dare to fight, nor did they dare to break through, but they sent several messengers to rush out for help......"

"What is the grain storage situation in Dongping County?" Gao Zongting asked, "How many soldiers and horses does Liang Chengchong have in Jining?" ”

Dongping County is only 400 miles away from Huaiyang, and Ansan Lake is connected with Surabaya in the territory, which is an important water area to communicate the Yellow River and Huaishui.

"The Liang family has long been deployed in Jining, and the 10,000 elite soldiers transferred from Yinan before are also deployed in Jining, collecting the remnants of the army, and Liang Chengchong has about 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jining; In addition, the Liang family said in the letter asking for help that the grain storage in Dongping County would support for two months, but this figure is very doubtful! Qin Chengzu said.

The hilly plains at the southern foot of Mount Tai were conducive to the movement of Yanhu's large cavalry, and Liang Chengchong's 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jining alone could not bring out Liang Xi, who was trapped in Dongping. However, if Liang Xi could not lead the remnants to hold Dongyang County to contain the enemy's main force, and the reinforcements rushed over, they found that Dongping County had already run out of food and surrendered, which was likely to attract a head-on attack from a large force of enemy cavalry.

The Liang family was afraid that Huaidong and Jiangning would not send reinforcements, and it was very likely that Dongping would boast that Dongping had enough grain in stock.

The Liang family retreated south, Caozhou (now Heze) and Jining are big cities, and they are also the main cities that the Liang family prepared to withdraw into in advance.

"Is there any movement in the Changhuai Army?" Gao Zongting asked.

"With the retreat of the Liang family, the flank of the Changhuai army was exposed, and the foundation of the entire Hehuai defense line was completely loosened," Qin Chengzu said, "The evidence of Liu Yefei's surrender to the enemy is conclusive, and he was implicated by it, Yue Lengqiu resigned to each other and temporarily lived in seclusion on the shore of Moling Lake." Emperor Yongxing did not allow him to leave Jiangning, and he should wait for the limelight to pass and recover, but the ups and downs of Yue Lengqiu inevitably involved the two armies of Huinan and Changhuai - whether the Changhuai army withdrew or defended, Jiangning debated for several days, and finally came to a decision to order the Changhuai army to withdraw south to aid Dongping. It's just that Yue Lengqiu has just resigned, which makes people worry that the morale of the Changhuai army will be fluctuating and morale will be low. At this time, let the Changhuai army go to aid Dongping, the bad luck is unpredictable......"

Huaidong didn't want to force Yue Lengqiu to resign at this time, and even wanted Yue Lengqiu to stay in the temple, in terms of the current situation, the military spirit of the Changhuai Army and the Huinan Army was fluctuating, and it was not in the interests of Huaidong, but if Liu Yefei's crime was not confirmed, Huaidong would lose his position when he sent troops to Dengzhou.

Sometimes you don't have the best of both worlds.

Without waiting for Gao Zongting to ask again, Qin Chengzu then introduced the latest situation between Hehuai and Huai: "Dong Yuan only led his troops into Wuyang, but he didn't mean to go north again, and he looked at the situation to prevent Chen Han Sansheng from changing ......."

To say that Liu Yefei's defection to the enemy made many people unexpected; For Chen Hansan, almost all the government and the opposition have deep vigilance, including Luo Xiancheng, who retreated to Xiangyang, which made Jiang Ning unable to worry......

"If Chen Hansan's tumor can be pulled out, Liu Miaozhen's 30,000 elites will not be nailed to Huaiyang and unable to leave......" Zhao Hu clenched his fists, and was extremely disdainful of Chen Hansan's repeated rebellion.

"Difficult ......" Gao Zongting shook his head bitterly, and also read the word "difficult" from Qin Chengzu's eyes.

Chen Hansan has no integrity at all, and once Yan Hu is powerful and swept over, he may defect to the enemy, even if not ten percent, but eight or nine percent, which is actually an extremely dangerous and unstable factor. Moreover, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu and others also have a deep hatred for Chen Hansan, but if they can get rid of it, they will never delay it until today.

Chen Hansan is not a willow leaf flying can be compared.

pretending to be a special envoy of Jiangning and falsely announcing a secret decree, you can trick Liu Yefei out of the city and annihilate him; This kind of simple strategy is difficult to work against Chen Hansan.

Huaidong was even able to send troops ashore in Dengzhou with lightning speed just based on speculation. Even if you can't find evidence of Liu Yefei's defection to the enemy in the end, you can completely make a charge and plant it on his head, Liu Yefei has become a prisoner under the stairs, and there is still room for struggle?

If Chen Hansan can be eaten clean at once, Huaidong is naturally not afraid that he will not be able to find the charge of carrying Chen Hansan, the key is that Chen Hansan has 20,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and he is extremely loyal to Chen Hansan, it is difficult for outsiders to divide and eat at once. Moreover, Xuzhou is a rare Xiongcheng in the Central Plains, Yue Lengqiu relied on 20,000 elite soldiers to defend Xuzhou, Liu An'er led 200,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Xuzhou for more than half a year, and could not lure Chen Hansan out, how many troops should be invested to fight Xuzhou?

Chen Hansan didn't get rid of it, don't say that Dong Yuan didn't dare to lead his troops north to aid Dongping, and Huaidong didn't dare to casually empty the troops on the front line of Huaiyang and Suyu. At that time, not only will the back of the soldiers and horses going north to aid Dongping be threatened by Chen Hansan, but the Huaisi defense line, which is empty in defense, will also be in danger of being pierced by Chen Hansan at any time.

The current predicament in Huaisi can be said to be the sequelae left over from the Huaisi war in the early years that were not handled cleanly, and this sequelae is extremely tricky and serious.

The situation is like this, and it can't be blamed that Yue Lengqiu's methods were not ruthless at the beginning - many times, forced by the situation, he can only take some measures to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and even sometimes drink to quench his thirst, which is a last resort.

At the beginning, Yue Lengqiu wanted to use Chen Hansan to suppress Huaidong's power to expand to the Xusi region, and in the later period, in order to balance Huaidong and leave a buffer force between Huaidong and Shandong, including Jiangning, who did not want Huaidong's power to expand indefinitely, would not allow Huaidong to take action to uproot Chen Hansan's hidden danger.

At this time, the situation became urgent, and Yanhu soldiers and horses continued to pour in, and the recent distance from Xuzhou was only two or three hundred miles, and the opportunity to solve Chen Hansan's cancer was lost.

Thinking of this, Gao Zongting asked, "Has Chen Hansan ever had an obvious abnormality?" ”

Qin Chengzu said: "What the Military Intelligence Department can confirm now is that Yan Hu has twice sent people to infiltrate Xuzhou to contact Chen Hansan - it is obvious that Yan Hu cannot fail to see Xuzhou, a variable that is extremely beneficial to them. Zhang Yubo has also sent people to Jiangning twice recently to secretly play the dynamics of Xuzhou, I don't know where something happened, and the news was leaked, Zhang Yubo has been closely monitored by Chen Hansan in Xuzhou, and the situation is very dangerous. Compared with eradicating Chen Hansan's tumor once and for all, what is more urgent at the moment is that before Chen Hansan openly defects and defects to the enemy, Jiang Ning will publicly order Zhang Yubo to be transferred out......"

Gao Zongting sighed: The dust of the war in Qingzhou has settled, Gu Wuchen, Zhao Qinmin, Zhang Jinxian, Du Juefu and others committed suicide or died in battle, and they all died; Although Chen / Yuan Liang escaped with the rebel army when Linzi City was broken, his whereabouts are still unknown to this day, and he is also very lucky.

Zhang Yubo is a straightforward person, an official and upright, knowing that Xuzhou is a dangerous place, he still goes to work alone, and the Huaidong people do not want Zhang Yubo to be in danger in Xuzhou again.

Qin Chengzu said again: "At present, the situation in Dengzhou can only be said to be roughly like this, and there are still nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians who have not withdrawn, so they are in a hurry to transfer you back from the northern front, and they also want to deal with the current situation together." The lord decided to set up a camp in Shanyang, which was in charge of the war on the northern front, and commanded the troops and horses including Jinwei Island, Haidong, Huaisi, and Huaiyang......"

"Will Haidong also be included in the unified command of the Shanyang camp?" Gao Zongting asked.

"Yes, the Zhen clan has sent a secret envoy to Chongzhou again, and the lord is determined to support the Zhen clan in seeking the royal power of Goryeo......" Qin Chengzu said.

After the Battle of Seogwipo, the Zhen clan seized Haeyang County on the Goryeo Peninsula and established itself against the Goryeo Yi dynasty. However, the Zhen clan was still relatively weak and did not have the strength to overthrow the Lee clan's rule on the Goryeo Peninsula.

Of course, Zhen's desire to expand the scale of the war on the Goryeo Peninsula was also something that Huaidong was happy to see.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Huaidong is worried that the Goryeo sailors still have a certain strength in the East China Sea and can be used by Yanhu; The second is that in addition to receiving nearly 300,000 stone rice grains from Goryeo every year, Yanhu also has at least 20,000 Goryeo soldiers who fight directly for Yanhu.

Zhen's expansion of the scale of the war on the Goryeo Peninsula would greatly weaken the military support that Yanhu could obtain from Goryeo.