Sun Zhuang saw that Lin Jian was going to drive him out, so he limped to the yard and begged for a basin of cold water to pour on his head, ran back and said: "It's not on duty, drinking alcohol doesn't hinder military discipline." Now that I'm sober, what's the matter, even if I am told, I miss something, and you cut off my head without complaint! ”

Seeing Sun Zhuang standing under the hall with wet hair, drenching the brick floor, others saw that Lin Lian's agitation plan was this effect, and they were somewhat crying and laughing.

"I heard that you were on duty in the Military Intelligence Department, and you ran in to see this situation map when you had nothing to do," Lin Jian stood behind the public case, stood with his hands in his hands, pointed to the map hanging behind him and asked Sun Zhuang, and asked, "There was a message from the post horseman that the Datong defenders had surrendered, what do you think?" ”

After Lin Jian came back, he handled official business in this side hall every day, and the side hall became a forbidden place, and he was not allowed to enter without a report; Usually, it is not so particular, the detention room of the Military Intelligence Department is next to this, and Sun Zhuang is idle in the Military Intelligence Department, and he is not allowed to come in.

"The officers and soldiers are all mother's soft eggs, why did Datong fall?" Sun Zhuanghu was taken aback when he heard the news of the surrender of the Datong defenders, but it was none of his business, so he would not worry about the emperor Lao'er who was trapped in Yanjing, and said casually, "Yanjing East is tied to the Donghu people like nails, and Datong will fall again, and there will be a turtle egg in the north?" What should I do if I drink loose wine? ”

Since Chen Zhihu's headquarters was transferred to the south, although Datong still gathered nearly 40,000 defenders, there was no elite who could go out of the city to fight in the field. As long as the Donghu people do not withdraw their troops on the periphery, it is only a matter of time before Datong falls...... Some things were predicted, but it's hard to accept that they actually happened.

Lin Jian sat down, threw a sweat towel on the corner of the table to Sun Zhuang, asked him to wipe the water on his head and face, and didn't think he was rude when he spoke, and said: "The words are not rough, what you see is not bad, and there is not much hope in the north." Not only is there no hope in the north, but you can look down at Jinnan and Yanji—"

Jinnan and Yanji are the Hehuai Plain, and Sun Zhuang knows best what the situation of the Hehuai Plain is. It seems that the Liang family can still gather 50,000 or 60,000 troops in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, but even if these 50,000 or 60,000 elites are all elites of a hundred battles, they are full of holes in the long defense line from Tongguan to the mouth of the Zhulong River in Yangxindong.

"The Liang family is unreliable, if the Liang family can be relied on, the border army will not be defeated so badly-" Sun Zhuang said loudly, he and Liu An'er were both born in the border army, and they also served as a colonel in the border army, although they have not met with Liang Xi and Liang Chengchong's father and son in his life, but his tone was extremely disdainful, but he stopped abruptly when he said this, staring at the map on the wall like a copper bell, and when he looked at Lin Jian again, his face was full of anger, and he said angrily, "The whole thing is a set set by you, and you want to pull a cushion for Huaidong!" ”

"Presumptuous!" Qin Chengzu, who was standing on the side, shouted in a deep voice to stop Sun Zhuang's rude behavior.

The guards on the side saw Sun Zhuang glaring angrily, only when he was going to be unfavorable to Lin Tie, and he was about to come up to arrest him with his saber, Lin Tie waved his hand to let the guards retreat, just looked at Sun Zhuang calmly, and said: "If you don't see yourself as the general of Huaidong today, I can also understand the resentment in your heart - when you were allowed to lead an army in Suining, it was to separate you from Huaidong and Xuzhou." You value righteousness and promise, and you are far more trustworthy than Chen Hansan, which is your strength and weakness. Huaidong then did not need to station too many troops on the northern front, so that he could spare his hands to do other things. It's not surprising that you let Suining and Suyu out. Let Liu Miaozhen come in, just considering the collapse of the entire northern front and the large-scale influx of Donghu cavalry - the Liang family is unreliable, Chen Hansan is even more unreliable, I think, Liu Miaozhen is more reliable than them! Speaking of this, Lin Lian stood up with his hands in his hands, looked at Sun Zhuang coldly, and reprimanded mercilessly, "You elm head, you idiot, what Zhang Gou has long thought about, Chen Yan can understand even if he is a martial artist, Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou know it in their hearts, but you only suddenly realized it today - you are angry, you are unwilling!" What is your anger, your unwillingness! Why did you rebel and kill? ”

"......" Sun Zhuang was silent, when he suddenly thought of Huaidong's overall deployment on the northern front, blood rushed to the top of his head, and he didn't speak through his brain, and at this moment he gave Lin Jian a reprimand as if he had been hit on the head!

"Huaidong is worthy of the sky and the earth, and the people are just peaceful and peaceful. For these four words, is the blood of the Huaidong boy less than yours? If you want to talk about scars, don't I have half a scar on my body! Lin Jian rolled up the sleeves of his robe, revealing the scars of the arrow wounds on his arms, and shook off the sleeves of his robe, and reprimanded, "For decades, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, the hungry people have changed their children and eaten, the officials have forced the people to rebel, you are angry, you are unwilling, you kill people and slaughter the city, I can understand." Liu Miaozhen led his troops and four or five hundred thousand refugees to chase and slaughter Chen Zhihu, Tao Chun, and Chen Hansan, and there was no way to go to heaven and no way to escape. I can't bear to let four or five hundred thousand people die on the west bank of Bianshui, take the risk, acquiesce in allowing you to let them go east, and let the children of Huaidong tighten their stomachs and squeeze out 40,000 stone rice grain for Huaisi every month, why are you angry and unwilling? What is there in Huaidong that is sorry for you, sorry for Liu Miaozhen, sorry for the four or five hundred thousand people in Huaisi? ”

"I ......" Sun Zhuang already knew that Huaidong was secretly supplying food to Huaisi, so he knelt on the ground and said, "The last general just talked nonsense...... "No matter what kind of plan Huaidong has, when the Red Jacket Army is desperate, let go of the eastward passage, and also provide food and help, so that the four or five hundred thousand people who have been drowned can breathe a sigh of relief, which is a great kindness."

"General Sun was a colonel in the border army, and he knew the power of the Donghu people, so he had already been frightened, so he naturally looked at Huaidong's ill-intentioned intentions," Song Jia smiled beside him, "It's such a character, and the adults also want to entrust him with important tasks, I think it's better to choose someone else as soon as possible!" ”

"Song Dianshu, don't defile me, if Sun Zhuang is afraid of death, you will raise it!" Sun Zhuang argued anxiously.

"Phew!" Song Jia thought of this reckless man talking nonsense in a hurry, blushed, took a sip, and no longer answered his words.

Sun Zhuang knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Lin Tie again, and said: "The last general will never be afraid of Hu Gouzi, even if the adults throw me into the sea now, I will pick a few Hu Gouzi's heads and give wine to the adults!" ”

"The broken northern front and the influx of Donghu cavalry are a great disaster for the people of the world, and the people of the world work together to reject it. I won't avoid it, Lord Qin won't avoid it, Song Dianshu won't avoid it, everyone around you won't avoid it, and the children of Huaidong won't avoid it. Do you think that when I let the Red Jacket Army enter Huaisi, I trapped you in injustice and harmed the Red Jacket Army? Lin Jian asked angrily.

"That's what I thought at first, but when I think about it, I'm wrong." Sun Zhuang said.

Song Jia couldn't help but want to laugh, how could someone else respond like this, what a reckless man.

"In the face of this great catastrophe for the people of the world, do you think that the Red Jacket Army should be avoided from afar, or directly to the side of the Donghu people?" Lin Jian asked.

"I didn't think so......" Mr. Sun said.

"Liu Tingzhou and Li Wei recruited the Red Jacket Army on behalf of the imperial court, and I also asked Li Wei and Li to explain the situation of the northern front to Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou in detail. If Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou feel that staying in Huaisi will be used by Huaidong, they can lead their troops to leave, and I will never stop them. I killed the Hu people in Yannan, and the Red Jacket Army left, and the Huaidong children could also block the iron flow of the captives," Lin Jian said, "If the Red Jacket Army stays and fights side by side with the Huaidong disciples to resist foreign insults—Sun Zhuang, you have been with Huaidong or an enemy or friend for four or five years, you touch your chest and ask, when did Huaidong stab his family in the back and make him stumble?" If you want to talk about killing the enemy, when did Huaidong let others be stabbed in front of him, and his own family hid behind his back and enjoyed the success? Or do you resent me for demoting you because of the loss of the city? ”

"I don't have a grudge, I was confused for a while just now," Sun Zhuang put his head against the brick floor and said, "I understand it now, I was wrong just now, please spare my dog's life, let me kill a few more dogs for adults!" ”

"Your dog's life is worthless, it's useless for me to come, stand up and talk to me," Lin Lian said with his sleeve, "The Donghu people leaked in, and Huaisi is likely to be the main battlefield." Datong has been lost, and there is not much time left for us to prepare - I will not let the Red Jacket Army stand in the way unprepared, no matter how tight the war on the southern front is, Huaidong will do its best to send a batch of materials to support the Red Jacket Army, and once the southern front can draw troops, it will not hesitate to enter Huaisi to fight in the north - of course, this requires the Red Jacket Army to agree with the imperial court and Jiangning's edict even if it is nominally. Liu Tingzhou and Li Wei have already talked about it with Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou, and Lord Qin will go to Huaisi on behalf of me, and Huaidong's experience in resisting and attacking the Donghu cavalry will be communicated by Lord Qin with the generals of the Red Jacket Army without reservation. I wanted to let you join the army as commander, but I thought it would be more helpful to the Red Jacket Army—your performance just now is too hopeless for me......"

"I was wrong, please give me two more whips and let me accompany Lord Qin." Sun Zhuang knelt down and begged Lin Jian not to change his mind.

"You're not going to make me any demons on the way?" Qin Chengzu asked beside him.

"No, please rest assured." Sun Zhuang said.

"You go back and clean up, give you half an hour, don't blame me for not waiting for you after the hour." Qin Chengzu said.

Sun Zhuang kowtowed, turned around and left, going home to inform the blind old lady and the pregnant little woman before leaving.

Watching Sun Zhuang leave, Qin Chengzu said to Lin Lian: "Untie his heart knot today, and from now on there will be one more general in Huaidong." If necessary, is it necessary to let Sun Zhuang lead an elite army into Huaisi to fight side by side with the Red Jacket Army? ”

Lin Jian nodded and said, "Let's talk about it depending on the situation, I hope the Liang family can carry more time." ”

The situation has developed to this point, and the women in the red jacket and the generals of the Huaisi Liumin Army have basically accepted Huaidong's suggestion and accepted the imperial court's recruitment. Of course, estrangement and vigilance are difficult to completely eliminate in a short period of time, and Liu An'er's death and Chen Zhihu's ruthless massacre are two scars that are difficult to eliminate.

If Huaidong wants to join forces with the Red Jacket Army to resist Donghu, and even ask the Red Jacket Army to bear more pressure in the early stage, it is necessary to persuade the Red Jacket Army to deploy as much as possible to the north of Suining and Huaiyang, both in terms of strength and defensive line, and also to make more preparations for confrontation with cavalry in terms of soldier formation and drills.

Resources are limited, and the resources of the Red Jacket Army are even more limited. If Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou were always worried that Huaidong would stab them in the back, how could they be fully prepared before the Donghu cavalry infiltrated Huaisi on a large scale?

Sun Zhuang was a key figure, and only Sun Zhuang could convince Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou, and the generals of the Red Jacket Army to reduce their vigilance against Huaidong as much as possible, and focus on preparing for the defense of the Donghu cavalry.

At present, we can only think about the coalition army first, and whether the Red Jacket Army can be integrated into Huaidong in the future, Sun Zhuang is also a key figure.

When Sun Zhuang, Zhang Gou, Chen Yan and many other generals of the Wandering People's Army integrated into Huaidong and became important generals in Huaidong, they could imperceptibly eliminate the sequelae left by Liu An'er's death, and attract the generals of the Red Jacket Army to take the initiative to move closer to Huaidong and let go of their vigilance against Huaidong.