The victory of Wolf Ziguan was great, and the Mengyuan defenders were annihilated, announcing that Xuzhou had been completely captured......

After the vanguard army led by Tang Zhan completed the task, the troops were reorganized into Chang Yuchun. In the first battle of Xuzhou, the vanguard army made great contributions, not only took the important land in Xuzhou with strange tricks, but also lost quite a few soldiers, which is the general's art of war. Although the chief general was not informed in advance, Chang Yuchun still personally showed the great achievements of the vanguard army, and rewarded the chief general Tang Zhan and the military advisor Lu Jing, and informed Zhu Yuanzhang of the battle situation in Xuzhou. Of course, although this battle was a great victory, the vanguard troops were not only playing an important role, but naturally they also lost a lot of energy and needed a period of recuperation. Xuzhou and Huaibei are broken, Shandong has no shield, and the plan of the Northern Expedition to Shandong is currently present. Of course, the vanguard military department, which was bent on the battle with Xuzhou, did not know the news of the destruction of Huaibei City......

At the Changchun barracks, Tang Zhan and Lu Jing personally led the soldiers to escort the defeated Yanjitai Bazar to the main camp. During the escort, Lu Jing and Yan Jitai still had some words, just like the first confrontation at Qiling Pass, only this time, the situation of the two sides was completely reversed......

Lu Jing accompanied the soldiers to escort this Yan Jitai, and said with a smile: "How about it, I said it when I was at Qiling Pass-who escorted whom in front of whom, so that no one could raise his head, how could others be prophets......

However, Yan Jitai seemed to have taken everything very lightly, he closed his eyes, and responded to Lu Jing with a smile: "I, Yan Jitai, have fought all my life, and have done my best for the Mengyuan Imperial Court, calculating countless others inside and outside the bureau, and even Zhu Yuanzhang himself has never failed during the Guo Zixing period...... I didn't expect that I would be planted in the hands of you, a yellow-haired girl...... No matter what, it is already gratifying that it did not fall into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang's old enemy in person. can die in the hands of this little girl of you, even if it is known to future generations. It's not in vain......

Lu Jing listened to Yan Jitai's sudden and inexplicable tone, and couldn't help asking, "Don't you hate me? I'm Zhu Yuanzhang's person." is incompatible with the Mengyuan court, and at a young age, he calculated you and corrected the Fa, ruining your reputation for a lifetime...... When the two armies clash, you should hate me to the bone, and in order to catch me, you sometimes even give up the overall situation in the army and act with me......"

Yan Jitai still closed his eyes and smiled, and the conversation with Lu Jing before he died no longer looked like an enemy. Instead, it was like a friend who saw him off: "I've fought so many battles in my life, and I've never fought so happily like this time, with a young girl...... I am old, and when I was young and frivolous, I offended the partisans of the court, and now that I am old, they also secretly plot against me from time to time...... Meng Yuan's country is exhausted, and I am glad that I can be loyal to the court before I die, and I no longer ask for too much. Rather than die at the hands of those court rebels who are trying to scheming and kill me. It's better to be killed by an enemy general I admire on my favorite battlefield, and I have no regrets in this life...... Lu girl, you are the same as the descendant of the Tang family. It's someone I admire in my life......"

I didn't expect that the enemy who once hated me to the core, but now when he is dying, he admires him, and he understands that people will know it when they hear it. Yan Jitai said the truth, and Lu Jing could also faintly feel it. In the past 20 years, Yanjiji Taibaza has struggled and struggled in the chaos of the imperial court and the chaos of peace and war...... However. Lu Jing restrained her expression and sighed slightly: "If it were me, I wouldn't agree with your statement...... I knew the art of war when I was young, and I used it skillfully, although I was young, I was the most reluctant to fight in my life, and I was not like you, I would never like the 'battlefield'...... I am for him and to help him complete his wishes, so I am not afraid of hardships to come here and give everything I can ......" As she spoke, Lu Jing turned her head and glanced at Tang Zhan, who had not noticed.

Yan Jitai seemed to understand what Lu Jing meant, and said with a slight smile: "A girl is really a girl, no matter how smart and strategic, she still has a girl's simple heart, and she can't bear to see the cruelty of war, if I were you, maybe I would do the same...... But I'm from the past, if you are going this way for you, there is one thing I must remind you of - war or something, although it is cruel, but what is even more cruel is the political struggle between the DPRK and China...... If you and General Tang are the founding heroes, don't fall into the 'troubled waters' of the imperial court struggle, once you fall in, you won't be able to get out in this life......" Yan Jitai's last words were particularly dignified.

When Lu Jing heard this, the whole person was silent for a long time, and even her expression was slightly gloomy. Thinking about this march, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be secretly monitoring his every move and that of the Tang Zhan army, and Lu Jing always had a bad premonition. And after many conversations with generals, Lu Jing gradually felt the depth of Zhu Yuanzhang's scheming - Zhu Yuanzhang is the most terrifying person......

Finally, after a long journey, Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others pressed Yanjitai Bazaar to Chang Yuchun's main camp. At this time, Chang Yuchun was sitting in front of the main camp and personally interrogating important prisoners of war, while after Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others were escorted, they handed over the prisoners of war to the soldiers in custody, and he and others retreated to the side. Yan Jitai was tied to the ground with his hands tied and kneeled on his knees, waiting for the spring to fall. However, Yan Jitai was not too afraid, and seemed to have looked down on everything, life and death......

"Surrender and avoid death-" Chang Yuchun said coldly like a judge, "Tell the Mengyuan border defense position on the Shandong border, and you can be reused by the marshal——"

Yan Jitai Bazaar smiled more, and did not look at Chang Yuchun, and responded softly: "I, Yan Jitai, have lived enough in this life, and I have no regrets about being able to do my best for the court...... If you want to kill, you will kill, rather than being squeezed and persecuted by the chaotic party in the court, it is better to die under the knife of you generals, I, a veteran who has been galloping on the battlefield for many years, is still comfortable in my heart......"

When Chang Yuchun heard this, he couldn't help but admire Yan Jitai's loyalty to the country and not afraid of life and death, just like Xue Qiang, the Taishou of Huaibei, he was squeezed out by the chaotic party of the Mengyuan court, but he had the blood of dutiful loyalty and not afraid of power in his bones, even if he was his own enemy...... But the enemy is the enemy, whether it is Xu Da or Chang Yuchun, the army has always acted strictly and strictly, since the prisoners of war are unwilling to confess and surrender, then there is only beheading.

Chang Yuchun waved his hand, and then said to the executioner on the side: "According to the order." Chop ......" Chang Yuchun's tone was not big, and he seemed a little helpless.

"General Xie gave me a death...... "Yan Jitai was before leaving. I don't want to thank you softly.

However, Chang Yuchun doesn't seem to be finished. Yan Jitai was escorted by the soldiers and turned around for a moment, Chang Yuchun continued: "You are the same as Xue Qiang, who raised his hand in Huaibei, your bones are very hard, even if the defeat is decided, you are still loyal to the imperial court, but it is a pity that this imperial court is the imperial court spurned by the people of the world......"

"Do you mean Lord Xue Qiang Xue? It seems that Huaibei has already been captured, no wonder you asked me directly about the deployment of the Shandong border just now......" Yan Jitai continued to say softly.

Chang Yuchun no longer concealed it, and simply said bluntly: "That's right." On the night when Wolf Pass blocked the Huaibei reinforcements, taking advantage of the transfer of the main force of Huaibei, the marshal ordered General Xu Da to bribe Huaibei's deputy general An Chaocheng, seize Huaibei Empty City, and capture Xue Qiang when he returned to the city...... Xue Qiang, like you, was unwilling to surrender, so General Xu Da didn't show mercy to his subordinates......"

"Is it? Zhu Yuanzhang is really a terrible person, during the Guo Zixing period, I fought with him three times, regardless of victory or defeat. I didn't expect Shibei to beat me so much in three days, and he took Xuzhou and Huaibei in one plan, and I, a former opponent, became his stepping stone. Do you say yes......" Yan Jitai's last sentence, his eyes obviously looked at Lu Jing on the side - that gaze seemed to say, I, Yan Jitai, was not planted in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands. It's in the hands of Lu Jing, a little girl, and Lu Jing is the person I can afford......

But Lu Jing's eyes didn't seem to be happy. Even though she may know what Tsubame Jitai wants to express to herself. Compared with this, she was more concerned about the fall of Huaibei that Chang Yuchun said just now - Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da to capture Huaibei with a strategy. This matter has not been known to the vanguard army......

At noon, Yan Jitai was beheaded......

"I finally understand now, the rescue of Qiling Pass and even the battle of Wolf Pass, why only General Chang Yuchun's troops came to the rescue......" Lu Jing was in Chang Yuchun's camp tent, and talked about the Northern Expedition with Tang Zhan, but Lu Jing kept thinking about the Huaibei incident just mentioned, "Our vanguard army has attracted the attention of Xuzhou from the beginning, including General Chang Yuchun's rescue, just to transfer the main reinforcements of Huaibei and buy time for Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da to take Huaibei...... We paid such a big sacrifice and fought hard with Yan Jitai three times, but we didn't expect that in the end, we all became Zhu Yuanzhang's pawns...... Zhu Yuanzhang has been secretly monitoring our army, and now he has successfully won this move. We used a plan to take Xuzhou, but these have long been in Zhu Yuanzhang's calculations, we are just his pawns, he laid out a plan to take Huaibei Xuzhou from the beginning, no matter how we calculate the enemy, it is all within Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations...... Yan Jitai is right, Zhu Yuanzhang is terrible, really terrible......"

"Jing'er...... Oh, no...... Army Division, what's wrong with you?" Tang Zhan, who had always cared about Lu Jing, saw that Lu Jing's expression was a little nervous, and couldn't help but ask with concern. But in front of Chang Yuchun, he almost mispronounced the title.

Lu Jing just shook her head slightly, didn't say anything, and didn't want to say anything now......

"The marshal is back—" At this moment, Zhao Zijin's voice came from outside the tent, and at this time he came to report the news that Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da led the main army back to the camp.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da returned, Chang Yuchun naturally got up and prepared to greet him, and when the soldiers lined up outside the tent gate, Zhu Yuanzhang had already entered the camp, and the general Xu Da and all the cronies and generals were behind.

"Marshal—" After Zhu Yuanzhang entered the camp, all the generals said in unison.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Chang Yuchun for the first time: "General Chang, just now this marshal returned from the direction of Huaibei, and I heard from the army that General Chang has successfully taken Xuzhou, and the casualties are not big, right...... When Ben Shuai transferred the tiger from the mountain this time, it was really easy to take Huaibei, but it was a bitter thing for you, General Chang, while blocking the Huaibei reinforcements, he also gnawed down Ben Shuai's old enemy Yan Jitai Bazaduo...... However, General Chang will take Xuzhou according to the commander, and the commander will definitely reward you heavily, so as to encourage the morale of the army, and the prestige of General Chang's 'victorious general' is deeply rooted in the hearts of the army——"

However, Chang Yuchun was a little restrained, and bowed down and said: "Marshal Hui, taking Xuzhou this time actually has some small changes...... After receiving the news of the successful capture of Huaibei, the last general Ben led a large army to attack Xuzhou head-on as originally planned, but the vanguard army headquarters of Langziguan set up under it took the first step to ambush it, controlled Xuzhou with fewer victories, and annihilated the Mengyuan troops in Xuzhou in one fell swoop......"

Saying that, Chang Yuchun recounted the strategy of the vanguard army from beginning to end......

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and showed an incredible expression, but it was only for a short moment. Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Tang Zhan and Lu Jing, and said with a mysterious smile: "I really thought of it, someone can calculate before Ben Shuai, use more refined strategies, win more with less, and win Yan Ji Tai Baza, who has not been defeated in Ben Shuai's life, but she is a heroic young woman, and she should not let ......" Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was extremely mysterious, and the speculation made people feel uneasy.

Tang Zhan had this feeling, he was quite inexperienced, and he lowered his body for a while and didn't know how to answer. Lu Jing was also extremely nervous, but she still showed a calm appearance, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Marshal Hui, the last general and General Tang are just in response to General Chang's plan, seeing that the enemy army in Xuzhou is not moving often, they changed their original plan, and I hope that the marshal will forgive ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang paused, threw a mysterious and suffocating look at Lu Jing, and took a few steps closer, feeling like a thousand catties of boulders slowly pressing down on the realm. Zhu Yuanzhang stopped in front of Tang Zhan Lu Jing, and continued to say in a slightly mad tone: "Is it? This marshal seems to remember that he has not yet told the other military departments under General Chang the report on the capture of Huaibei...... Since General Chang didn't inform you of this news, how did you know the original plan of this marshal first, change the plan and cleverly take Xuzhou?"

After hearing this, Lu Jing was shocked into a cold sweat in her heart, Zhu Yuanzhang's seemingly slight words were like a sharp blade and cold knife, approaching aggressively before attacking the heart, but he did not pierce into it, and all the time gave people an indescribable oppression that life and death were in front of him. Lu Jing's palms were already sweating, but her expression still did not change, and she was looking at Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "General Chang ordered our army to intercept Huaibei reinforcements at Wolf Pass, but the branch was attacked by Xuzhou. In order to win the opportunity, he simply took the empty city of Xuzhou with the sub-division, but unfortunately it was ahead of General Chang's original plan...... This is a dangerous strategy, our army diverted the main force of Xuzhou, if we did not occupy Xuzhou at that time, and waited until the main force of Xuzhou retreated, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to miss the opportunity? Although there was a plan to disrupt the original plan of the marshal and General Chang, he was also forced to have no choice but to hope that the marshal would be able to forgive him...... Lu Jing chattered a lot in nervousness, wanting to temporarily round Zhu Yuanzhang over.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Lu Jing's seemingly confident eyes, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth...... Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and walked away from Tang Zhan and Lu Jing's side—the sense of oppression of Tang Zhan and Lu Jing was temporarily relieved—and he continued to Chang Yuchun: "General Chang, no matter what, in this battle of Xuzhou, your army, especially General Tang's vanguard military department, has made outstanding achievements, and will be rewarded heavily, so as to inspire all departments in the army and drum up the morale of the army for the Northern Expedition!"

"Yes, Marshal—" Chang Yuchun bowed his head and ordered.

"Xuzhou and Huaibei will be broken, and the Shandong barrier will be removed, and the 250,000 Northern Expedition troops will be able to go north......" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't finish speaking, and continued to say to Chang Yuchun, "In the battle of the Northern Expedition, General Chang, you will continue to be the vanguard, and General Xu Da will lead the rear army to command." The enemy generals on the Shandong side no longer have the difficulty of Yan Jitai, and our army must be as strong as a bamboo in this Northern Expedition! Especially the vanguard general Tang Zhan......" Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Tang Zhan again, and his tone suddenly became low and meaningful.

"Yes......" Tang Zhan also responded nervously.

"The descendants of the Tang family are the descendants of heroes, General Tang really lives up to expectations, Tang Xiaofeng is a hero, and then the generations ......are talented," Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at Tang Zhan and said, "Since the vanguard army is commanded by General Tang, then this reward for General Tang will be the main reward...... I hope that General Tang can make persistent efforts, and after seizing the world with the Northern Expedition, Zhu will make General Tang an important hero!"

"Thank you...... Marshal Xie ......" Tang Zhan bowed down and thanked him, but there was a faint sense of foreboding in his heart.

Lu Jing saw it in her eyes, but in her heart, she kept thinking about Yan Jitai's instructions before his death: "Zhu Yuanzhang is terrible, really terrible......"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and walked out of the camp, and his heart was not calm for a long time: "The vanguard army only has less than 20,000 troops, but it can defeat the 70,000 army of Xuzhou as a natural danger defense, and outwit Xuzhou with few soldiers, and defeat the old enemy Yan Jitai Baza, who I have not defeated in my life...... Whether it's Tang Zhan or Lu Jing, they're all terrifying, I'm going to be the emperor, they can't be underestimated......"

No one can guess what Zhu Yuanzhang is thinking about in his heart, but one thing is certain, Zhu Yuanzhang thinks farther than anyone - in this war, Zhu Yuanzhang is designing to dominate the entire chess game...... (To be continued.) )