Chen Zhihu led his troops to capture Linzi on July 22 and plundered his troops; The news of the fall of Linzi City reached Chongzhou on July 29.

Lin Tie did not stay in Jiangmen, and rushed back to Chongcheng non-stop, and summoned the officials and generals who stayed in Chongzhou that night, and drove Lin Mengde and Zhou Guangnan to just come back from Jiangning, and the lights in the East Ya were bright all night.

It rained at night, and it hit the bamboo leaves and leaves, the sound of rustling non-stop, the stone steps were slippery, Gu Ying's sleeves held an oil-paper umbrella, accompanied by the maid, and rushed to the courtyard at the northern foot of the mountain.

Gu Junxun stood in front of the porch, his face complicated, mixed with pain.

Seeing Jun Xun like this, Gu Yingsleeve put away the umbrella where the rain was dripping straight down, and held her hand with pity; Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman listened to the voice, walked out of the house, and asked Gu Yingsleeve: "How long will it take for the Dongya to deliberate?" ”

"Things haven't stopped, maybe you have to stay up late......" Gu Yingsleeve saw Jun Xun's face full of sadness, and said, "Why don't you go directly to Dongya and listen to what they say?" Is it better than worrying about it here? ”

Gu Junxun shook his head and said: "Xianggong has gone through a lot of hardships to get to where he is today, I shouldn't embarrass him, but I can't help but worry about Qingzhou - my mother followed my father to exile in the border land for ten years before returning, and I have endured all the hardships of the world, and my sister-in-law has just turned one year old when she gave birth to a child." Yang Xin Xu can't be saved, but I think about picking up my mother, sister-in-law and infant child from Qingzhou, maybe it's still in time! ”

"It will take seven or eight days to ride alone, and it will take seven or eight days to rush to Qingzhou quickly, and send three or five hundred soldiers and horses over, and the speed will be even slower," Gu Yingsleeve said, "I can only wait patiently at the moment - Linzi is lost, Qingzhou is in the east, I can always be a little guarded, and I won't give the thieves an easy ......."

"Xianggong may have already made arrangements, why don't you bring Miss Song to ask?" Liu Yue'er said.

"Yes, it's better than sitting here and waiting." Xiaoman said.

As soon as they went to Dongya, they were suspected of being women interfering in politics, and the impact was not good, but Song Jia followed Lin Jian all the year round, and she was most clear about Huaidong's military and political affairs arrangements.

It is better to call Song Jia alone to the other courtyard for questioning than for them to guess here like headless flies.

Linzi fell, Yangxin's retreat was cut off, and it was already a life of nine deaths - no matter what, Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan were her father and brother, and now they are trapped in Yangxin, and they are in danger, so how can Gu Junxun not worry and worry?

Listening to Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman's proposal to call Song Jia over, Gu Junxun hesitated again, afraid that Song Jia would be delayed in Dongya, she sent someone to shout, there would be a disturbance - just hesitating, Juan Er walked in from the outer courtyard and said, "Song Dianshu is here......"

"My lord summoned all the officials and generals to discuss the matter, I don't know when I can rest, so I specially asked me to come over and give ......" Song Jia walked into the weeping flower hall, looked at the ladies standing in front of the eaves, paused slightly, looked at Gu Yingsleeve's face for a moment, and said, "Let me come over and give the three ladies a ......."

Gu Junxun looked at Gu Yingsleeve hesitantly, not knowing whether to leave Song Jia for questioning, Gu Yingsleeve said: "Miss Song, you often follow Seventeen, does Huaidong have some means to deal with Qingzhou?" ”

"The main force of Huaidong's soldiers and horses is trapped in the south, and it is impossible to lead a large army to aid Qingzhou," Song Jia held a red silk umbrella, stood under the garden tree that was constantly dripping out, responded to Gu Yingsleeve's question, and said, "It's not that there are no means to deal with it at all, but it's hard to ......say whether it can be used."

"Let's come to the house and talk, the rain has splashed my clothes......" Liu Yue'er shouted softly, asking Song Jia to take shelter from the rain under the eaves.

The relationship between Song Jia and Lin Tie, the people in this inner house know it - this is nothing, Song Jia is such a beautiful woman, she followed Lin Tie without a name and no share, and generally speaking, the situation is even more pitiful. But in fact, Song Jia is not to mention being a female official, she can still follow Lin Jian for a long time, no matter how generous a woman is, she will have opinions in her heart, and she will be hostile to Song Jia, so her attitude will be cold.

Whether it was Gu Junxun or Gu Yingsleeve, they all subconsciously asked Song Jia to stand in the courtyard and ask; Only Liu Yue'er has the most gentle temperament, and she thought of asking Song Jia to come into the house to talk.

"The military department sent a lot of people to Qingzhou, and General Wu actually went to the north after May, but no matter how many people were sent, it was difficult to do anything big in the face of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who Yan Lu entered Qingzhou," Song Jia rested the umbrella, handed it to Zuo Lan to hold, followed into the house, sat down and said, "Linzi is lost, and Yangxin's retreat to the south will be cut off, but the rebel general Yuan Lishan still adopted a strategy of encircling Yangxin, and there is no complete siege in the east of Yangxin - the military division is not capable of organizing troops and horses to land and support, If Yangxin can break through along the Zhulong River, Jinwei Island will also organize some sea boats to rush to the mouth of the Zhulong River to respond. But in fact, the opening of the gap by the captives was also to lure the Yangxin defenders to flee and facilitate the annihilation of the field, and it was also likely that there were ambushes on the way from Yangxin to the Zhulong River. It's hard to predict how many people will be able to break through in the end! Besides, what Master Gu plans to do in Yangxin is not something that we can grasp here......

This involves the question of whether it is possible for Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan to surrender to the enemy, Song Jia said vaguely, Gu Junxun Bingxue was smart, he thought about it in an instant, his face turned pale, and he just shook his head and said: "My father has been exiled to the border for ten years, with hard work, if he can have a chance to get out of trouble, he will definitely not give up......"

Gu Yingsleeve took over the conversation and asked Song Jia: "Except for Yangxin's side, most of the cities in Qingzhou are empty in defense and difficult to defend, does Seventeen have any arrangements?" "Thinking that my uncle and cousin are more and less auspicious in Yangxin, but how can I take out my aunt and Si Yuan's wife and children, it can be regarded as leaving a root for the Gu family.

"After the loss of Linzi, if Dengzhou Town does not send troops in, the total number of defenders in Qingzhou counties will be thousands," Song Jia said, "As long as the thieves send a small number of cavalry to penetrate deeply, the road to retreat from Qingzhou along the south of the Jiaolai River will be dangerous - for now they can only retreat to Yishan, General Chu went south from Yangxin to Huaidong, but did not stay, and met with the adults in Changguo in early June, and then went back to the north." If the old lady is willing to retreat to Yishan, Yishan will respond, as long as she enters Yishan, it will be easier to go to Huaidong......"

Listening to Song Jia's introduction, Gu Yingsleeve understood that the situation in Qingzhou was completely collapsed, and Huaidong's arrangement could accept some people to escape, but it would only be possible if the Gu family was willing to cooperate - if the Gu family remembered the previous resentment, they still insisted on going their own way at the last moment, and did not cooperate with Huaidong, the situation would be even more dangerous.

But for Huaidong, there is only one step to do, Gu Yingsleeve thought to herself, maybe this can make Jun Xun feel better, after all, it is not to sit here and watch the Gu family die.

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When Lin Jian returned to Dongya, he immediately decided to divide the Military Intelligence Division into two divisions, the North and the South, to deal with the military intelligence collection and analysis of the southern and northern fronts, and to be led by Wu Qi and Gao Zongting.

Huaidong planned to use Yishan to receive the troops and civilians evacuated from the northern part of Shandong, and in order to avoid the noise of others, it was necessary to send a high-ranking general to sit in Yishan—and Wu Qi was also accustomed to sneaking behind enemy lines, so the Northern Division had a deputy commander in charge of daily affairs.

It is still unknown the situation in the counties of Qingzhou Prefecture, but after Lin Jian returned to Dongya, he asked Qin Chengzu to immediately transfer 200 military attaches from various ministries and the combat training academy to urgently infiltrate Yishan to deal with the chaotic situation of the army and civilians fleeing into Yishan after the collapse of the situation in northern Shandong.

In addition to the main seat, the ordinary public hall is a long chair on both sides of the wall, Lin Tie in the side hall where Dongya handles official business on a daily basis, has adopted a round table discussion method, Lin Tie and Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting, Ye Junan, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang and others sit around the table.

"Do you want to transfer the Tianjin Navy?" Lin Jian asked, even if another forty battalions of soldiers were drawn to equip the armor, it would take two or three months to form combat strength, and he only had the armor of the third brigade of the Jinhai battalion at hand that could be mobilized.

Although the news of the loss of Linzi has only come from the north, the entire Qingzhou and Dengzhou in the east have extremely limited troops, and it is difficult to predict how the Liang father and son will react in the west - there is chaos in Qingzhou, which also hinders the collection and transmission of information, and further and more detailed information will be transmitted back for a while, but the collapse of the situation in northern Shandong is already something that can be seen with the naked eye.

In order to quickly break the reins of the southern front, Lin Jian considered whether to throw the last bit of reserve troops into it.

Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting and others glanced at each other, and finally Lin Mengde opened his mouth and said: "Zhou Guangnan and I went to Jiangning this time, and Huaidong's prestige in the streets and alleys of the market has increased greatly, but the more the prestige of the market is revealed, the more suspicious it is above the temple - the most threatening to Huaidong, except for the luxury family and Hu Lu, Jiangning cannot be despised ......"

No matter how deep the contradiction with the Gu family is, there is still a bottom line between each other, when Gu Wuchen was in Jiangning, he still controlled the Jiangning water camp, so he didn't need to leave many garrison troops in Chongzhou - this is not that time, according to common sense, Jiangning can't do without Huaidong to maintain the north-south defense line, but in history, there are countless people who have self-destroyed the Great Wall, and Huaidong can't do without garrison troops in Chongzhou, which is almost the consensus formed by Lin Mengde and others.

Moreover, no matter how critical the situation, it is possible to have only a part of the reserve force at its disposal, which is the most basic military principle.

Lin Jian sighed lightly, and knew that it was not the time to use the last bit of reserve troops—he could only look at the development of the situation on the north and south fronts before making plans.

At this time, the guards came in to report: "The Marquis of Yongchang sent a post, and I want to see my lord......"

Lin Jian took the post, threw it on the table, looked at the people on both sides, and said, "What is Yuan Guizheng doing in Chongzhou at this time?" ”

"Maybe he came to Chongzhou a long time ago, but it was the news of the fall of Linzi that forced him to show up and contact Huaidong......" Gao Zongting guessed.

After all, Chongzhou is still under the rule of the imperial court, since Lin Jian has the intention of restricting the people from entering and leaving Chongzhou, he does not have the energy, and on the side of the Empress Dowager Liang and Hailing Wang Yuan Jianwu, Lin Jian only sent troops to guard the palace, and there is no house arrest and surveillance, and there is no need for this - Jiangning discussed the matter of asking the Queen Mother to return to the court in early July, and it is not so surprising that Yuan Guizheng quietly entered Chongzhou.