Song Jia accompanied his father in the corner pavilion to talk about what Huaidong had seen and heard in the past few years, to fundamentally dispel his father's concerns, Huaidong's rise was not a fluke; Song Bo went out for a moment in the middle, and then took a stack of ponds and copied them back, and said as he walked: "There is another strange thing in the north that has something to do with the East China Sea Fox!" ”

The expression on Song Bo's face was more strange than surprised, Song Jia turned her head to look at the past, she spent most of her time at sea during this time, and official letters such as Tang Copying had to be copied through Mingzhou, and the information lagged a lot, and Zhejiang and Fujian had secret agents in Jiangning, and it was far faster to send the news back than to transfer it from Mingzhou, and I didn't know what happened in Huaidong.

"The girl in the red jacket wants to marry Lin Tie as a concubine, and Emperor Yongxing may issue a decree to give marriage!" Song Bo handed over a copy of Tang, which contained the latest information collected by the spies from Jiangning.

Song Jia was slightly stunned, she didn't expect that a joke back then would become a fact today, and it was normal to think that this was also the best shortcut to solve the problems left by the Huaiyang Army at present, but when she thought that when she left Xuzhou, there was no sign of this incident at all, but I don't know who stabbed open this layer of window paper?

Gao Zongting? Ye Junan?

It's not like it, Song Jia would never have imagined that it was Liu Miaozhen herself who proposed it at this time.

Song Fu just sighed deeply, the peddlers and pawns may pay attention to the trivial things of male and female love, but what he saw from this incident was much more far-reaching-the group of male wives and concubines is not enough to become a problem for others in the current world.

Even Song Fu didn't care about how his daughter was doing in Huaidong, even if his other daughter married a luxury Feihu as his wife, it became insignificant in the face of the family's interests - he was more concerned about the meaning behind the red-jacketed girl marrying Lin Lian as a concubine.

Since Liu An'er killed Chen Hansan, hundreds of thousands of wandering troops in Huaisi were mainly women in red jackets, and later recruited and organized as Huaiyang Town. Although Huaiyang Town was controlled by Huaidong, it was still an independent army headed by Liu Miaozhen.

Liu Miaozhen's marriage to Lin Jian as a concubine means that Huaiyang Town will be completely integrated into Huaidong, plus the hundreds of thousands of displaced army generals and families who were resettled in the Huaisi area before, Lin Jian can truly consolidate his control over the Xu Si area.

Although Liu Miaozhen is allowed to Lin Jian as a concubine, but her identity and status are special, as a general who controls 30,000 elites, it is impossible to marry someone else as a concubine casually, at least to formally resign from the imperial court and inform the matter before it can be done, and it is not impossible for Emperor Yongxing to personally decree the marriage - on the other hand, Jiang Ning will not see the consequences of Liu Miaozhen marrying Lin Jian as a concubine, and if she does not stop it, it is not that she doesn't want to, but the situation makes it impossible, which is probably the direct consequence of the luxury family's soldiers and horses in southern Jiangnan, right?

"Jia'er hasn't played chess with her father for a long time, and you won't live in Quanzhou for a long time, so let's play a game of chess with my father." Song Fu's voice revealed a hint of desolation.

"Okay......" Song Jia responded, even if it was the general trend, he knew that his father defected to Luxury, and it was extremely difficult and painful to make the decision to go to Huaidong.

No one else can send it, Song Bo went to get the chess box in person, and he didn't feel how cold the wind blew in the garden, Song Fu opened the chess box in silence, picked up a few chess pieces one by one and pinched them in the palm of his hand, and asked his daughter: "What kind of commitment does Huaidong need the Song family to make?" ”

Song Bo said: "Is it that the prophet will talk to the fourth uncle?" ”

"The world is chaotic, no one can be left alone, Huaidong can't tolerate the Song family riding on the wall and watching again, what other choice can there be?" Song Fu sighed, "Maybe after next autumn, Huaidong will organize soldiers and horses to land directly in Mindong, and the luxury family still has the road to retreat to the Minjiang River, so what choice can the Song family have?" ”

Two hundred years ago, the eight surnames entered Fujian, that is, along the Min River, along the Min River in Pucheng, Shaowu, Jian'an, Jin'an and other places, the eight surnames clan in these places are particularly deep. In these places, almost all the characters with heads and faces are from the eight clans.

Located in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River, Jian'an Mansion is also the most important river valley plain in the hinterland of Eastern Fujian in addition to the coastal plain.

Huaidong soldiers and horses landed directly from the coast of eastern Fujian, and it was inevitable that the forces of the eight surnames would be dealt a serious blow, such as Jin'an, Quanzhou, Xiapu, Zhangzhou, Jieyang and other coastal prefectures and counties, and the land route was blocked by steep hills and mountains, forming relatively independent plots one by one.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army still has 40,000 elites in eastern Fujian, and the total amount seems considerable, but the defense of coastal prefectures and counties is scattered, and the coastline of thousands is diluted, and the defenders in various places are relatively limited. Even in the city of Jin'an, the defenders were more than 15,000 people. Take Song Jia's words, even if Huaidong organized 20,000 troops to attack Xiapu at this time, it would be able to make the luxury family anxious and exhausted.

If you don't want to calmly divide the Huaidong soldiers and horses after landing on the shore and then break them individually, the luxury family must have the determination to survive with broken arms - give up the coastal prefectures and counties, gather the soldiers and horses and retreat into Jian'an Mansion, seal the passage of the Minjiang River, and still be able to breathe in the valley plain of the middle reaches of the Minjiang River and the new land in southern Gansu.

The Song family can abandon Quanzhou and retreat west with the luxury family, but how many people will choose to take the road that is getting narrower and narrower and there is no hope, unless the luxury family can take Jiangzhou before the autumn, from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, directly threaten Jiangning - but what is the probability that the luxury family will take Jiangzhou before the autumn?

Yanhu has adopted a strategy of focusing on stability on the front line in Shandong and Henan, and Huaidong's defense on the front line in Xuzhou will be relatively stable, and the Huaiyang Army will be completely integrated into Huaidong, so that Huaidong will have the ability to organize a large number of troops and horses to land and fight in eastern Fujian after the autumn, and perhaps Dongyang County will be attacked first.

As long as this point is affirmed, if Song Fu wants to give up Quanzhou and retreat west with the luxury family, he does not want to surrender to Huaidong as a criminal clan, so he will inevitably have to make a choice at this time.

Song Jia sighed in her heart, maybe her father thought that Huaiyang Town would be a hidden danger that Huaidong would be difficult to grasp, but in fact, it came to this point, Liu Miaozhen married Lin Jian as a concubine, and the news came, although it felt abrupt, but after thinking about it, everything was logical and natural.

Song Jia, as a woman, thought of the possibility of Liu Miaozhen giving Emperor Yongxing another decree to marry, and she also had a sour feeling in her heart, so she just straightened the hair that was blown by the wind in front of her forehead, and said: "Quanzhou and Yizhou face each other across the sea, and divide eastern Fujian into north and south, and the Song family protects Quanzhou, which is a great achievement; In addition, Huaidong intended to help the Zhen clan to seize the royal power of Goryeo, in addition to inviting Dongju, Danluo and the Saga clan and the Konxiang clan of Kyushu Island to send troops to participate in the war, the Jeju marching army also recently increased the number of soldiers and horses to 25 battalions, from the west coast to contain the soldiers and horses of the Goryeo state, and the children of the Song family can join the Jeju army if they want to fight for fame......"

Joining the Jeju marching army to use troops against the Goryeo State, across the vast sea, it was not afraid that the news would leak out and give the luxury family a handle, but the Song family has always sent their children to join the Jeju army, which naturally blocked the retreat of the Qin and Duchu dynasties - once the Song family made up its mind to throw itself into Huaidong, this was indeed the best promise, and it was also the best choice for the Song family.

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In the back garden of the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang and Fujian in Jin'an City, Hao Wenzhuang heard the secret agent report on the abnormality in Quanzhou City in the past few days, and his brows were deeply furrowed - although it is not certain that the Song family has colluded with Huaidong, but in the several passages leading from Jin'an to Quanzhou, the Song family has replaced the descendants of the descendants to lead the troops to guard the key passes, and in Quanzhou City, the generals who are close to this side will also be replaced, and the situation is becoming more and more distinct.

"Song Fu, the evil tiger, will eventually come back and bite us, if we don't solve it at this time, will we have another chance in the future?" Luxury Feihu said viciously, he took away the military power and lost the opportunity to stand alone, so he naturally followed back to Jin'an. He no longer had the slightest respect for Song Fu at this time, although his two wives were Song Fu's daughters.

Hao Wenzhuang raised his head, closed his eyes, and said with a painful expression: "There is no chance, the most important thing at the moment is not to let the news of the Song family's secret defection to Huaidong leak out, we have to calm down!" ”

Although the Song family only has four or five thousand soldiers and horses in Quanzhou, there will be a total of 20,000 people in Huaidong's water camp and foot soldiers on Yizhou Island. If the Song family and Huaidong have formed a secret discussion, once the war in Quanzhou begins, it will only take two days for Huaidong to transfer troops from Yizhou Island into Quanzhou to support.

Who is sure that Quanzhou City will be taken like thunder in such a short period of time?

Although the Zhejiang-Fujian army has just taken Yuzhang, but Ganzhou and Yiyang in the hinterland of southern Jiangxi have not yet been captured, at this time in Quanzhou, Jin'an fight, and Huaidong is likely to use troops against Dongyang County at the same time - such a disastrous scene, with the ability of luxury Wenzhuang, there is no courage to face it!

With the current financial resources of the luxury family, it is already reluctant to maintain the first-line use of troops, and the third-line use of troops, unless a miracle occurs, it is difficult to escape the bleak end of the overall collapse.

"Can't you call the villain to be ambitious?" Extravagant Feihu is unwilling, unconvinced, and does not admit defeat.

"Huaidong has drawn a way to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and we can only go down this road, otherwise what can we do?" There was an irrepressible sadness in Hao Wenzhuang's voice, "This is also the last opportunity we can grasp." ”

The Jianghuai war subsided for ten months, Liang Xi died, Dongping fell, Yanhu soldiers and horses withdrew back to Jinan one after another, Huaidong's soldiers and horses in Xu Si were resting in a hurry, and there was no sign of hastily transferring south to exert pressure on eastern Fujian - Haowenzhuang was naturally sure that Huaidong was going to borrow their sword to disturb the situation on the western front at this time.

The ambition exposed by Huaidong's strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf is no longer limited to one side of the princes, but the Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, the two lakes and the two Huai are all divided into Huaidong's chessboard, laying the groundwork for the Huaidong soldiers and horses to advance westward and conquer the world.

The more fiercely they struggle to survive in southern Jiangnan, the more favorable the whole situation will be for Huaidong.

Luxury Feihu resolutely clenched his fist and pressed it fiercely on the table: "Damn! ”

"Right now, we can still fight for half a year to a year, as long as we can quickly pacify Gannan in time, it's still too early to say who will die," said Haowenzhuang, "but right now, the prefectures and counties south of Quanzhou have come to consider giving up......

Since Huaidong has the intention of going westward, if they don't take the opportunity to gather back the soldiers and horses scattered on the outer line, and wait until Huaidong lands on the coast of eastern Fujian in a big way, it will be too late - the coastal areas of southern Fujian and southeastern Fujian are actually the outer line for the luxury family, and it is really pitiful to think about it.

At this time, even if the evidence of the collusion between the Song family and Huaidong is caught, Haowenzhuang will do everything possible to conceal it - once the news of the Song family's attachment spreads, Huaidong will most likely be forced by Jiangning's pressure to attack Mindong in advance. On the other hand, the news of the Song family's defection to Huaidong will seriously affect the morale and determination of the other six surnames, and if one or two are really not strong-willed, the entire Zhejiang-Fujian army will fall apart.