After listening to Zhang Zhongsheng's words, Zhu Wen nodded and left the bloody mansion without any expression of excitement or indifference. Behind him, screams could be heard one after another from the depths of the compound. One can imagine what Liu Xinwu's family was going through.
He didn't look back, and went to Jiedushi's mansion surrounded by a group of old ministries.
Zhu Wen was noncommittal to Zhang Zhongsheng's statement on the surface, as if he was very indifferent, but this was just the steady demeanor he had formed after experiencing great wind and waves, and he recognized it in his heart.
It is an indisputable fact that the hinterland of the Central Plains was weak during the Huaisi War.
Li Maozhen really has no control over the towns, at most she relies on the name of the imperial court and lures her interests. Once the backyard is threatened, the Jiedu envoys of each town will return to help the town immediately even if their brains are kicked by a donkey.
Walking on the cold street, Zhu Wen felt two contradictory emotions of calm and passion intertwined in his heart.
After returning from Kunlun, he knew that the general situation was over and he was unable to compete with the kings anymore, so he planned to live in seclusion in the market for the rest of his life. In troubled times, human life is worthless, and it is not too bad a result to be able to preserve his wife's wealth and wealth for the rest of his life by relying on his own cultivation.
Unexpectedly, the opportunity found him.
Of course he knew that Gao Pian had no good intentions, but this did not prevent him from taking advantage of the situation and fishing in troubled waters.
Yes, fish in troubled waters, this is Zhu Wen's plan. Now he really doesn't have much power to speak of, and the great cultivator in the Realm Realm has to rely on Gao Pian's power. He looks like a candle in the wind, and he can't stand the wind and rain at all.
But Zhu Wen could see clearly that when Li Maozhen was defeated, the Central Plains would be full of flames of war again, and there would be plenty of homeless soldiers and monks for him to recruit.
It is easy for Gao Pian to defeat Li Maozhen in Huaisi, but it is not so easy to dominate the Central Plains.
In the battle of Huaisi, Li Maozhen had three times as many soldiers, but he fought the battle to the present situation. He could not take Wuning for a long time. Except that Gao Pian was not weak, the soldiers and horses originally belonged to the three parties were mixed together, so it was impossible to talk about it. Unity is an important reason. There are too many conflicts of interest, and everyone has their own thoughts.
It's good that the war is going well, but once the war stalemates, the fragile alliance will be easily broken.
However, when Li Maozhen was defeated, the situation of the Central Plains towns going their separate ways would change immediately.
Not long after Zhu Wen arrived at the Jiedushi's mansion, the old ministries came one after another, including civil and military officials and monks of all sizes. Zhu Wen met them and talked with them all night long.
When the civil and military people dispersed, everyone walked briskly, obviously high-spirited.
Zhu Wen walked unhurriedly and came to the backyard with ease.
This place used to be his mansion, Liu Dazheng has only been in charge for a short time, and the architectural pattern has not changed.
Walking in the familiar environment under the dim light, Zhu Wen felt a lot of sadness or light emotion in his heart. He is a rough man, he can't recite a few lines of poems that fit the occasion, and he doesn't have that impulse. What he can think of in his mind is how to hold on to the lost and recovered things so as not to repeat the same mistakes.
His wife, Mrs. Zhang, came from a family of poets and officials. Plan accordingly.
"Once Li Maozhen was defeated and retreated to Huaisi, there would be no commander in the Central Plains who could compete with Gao Pian, but he still had the strength to resist the Wu army, especially Pinglu and the old troops of King An in Hebei—whether it was military strength or monk strength."
Zhu Wen said slowly, "Cui Keli, Li Zhen, Shangguan Qingcheng, Liu Dazheng, Song Jiao and others are used to looking down upon King An when they follow King An. They regard the heroes of the world as grass bandits, and the possibility of being willing to take refuge in Gao Pian is very small. And Even if they are willing, Gao Pian wants to control King An's old power, but he can't tolerate leaders like them. They are all smart people, and when the time comes, they will know what to do."
Mrs. Zhang sat down beside Zhu Wen, held his hand, stared at him affectionately and said, "Your husband means that they will unite with you at that time?"
Zhu Wen nodded slightly, his eyes flickering: "With a part of King An's army and the strength of monks, I don't mean to defeat Gao Pian who is in the sky immediately, at least he can be blocked. When Li Maozhen recovers, he will intervene in the Central Plains again. At least support me one or two."
This time he set fire behind his back, which greatly harmed Li Maozhen, but when he mentioned that Li Maozhen might help him in the future, there was no hesitation in his tone.
He knew in his heart that not only Li Maozhen, but also Wang Jian would not be idle.
Among the kings, no matter who they were, they would not hope that there would be another existence in the world as powerful as King An—unless that person was themselves. It is an inevitable choice for the weak to unite and get rid of the strongest first, just like they entrapped Li Ye in Kunlun.
Mrs. Zhang pursed her lips and asked, "Husband wants to take over King An's old department?"
Looking at his beloved wife, Zhu Wen spoke softly and firmly, as if making some kind of promise: "Whether it's the army or the Tsingyi Yamen, King An's old department is a powerful weapon in the world, and whoever gets it can rule the world. Don’t want to own it? Then Li Maozhen is just a clown, who ran up and down because he held the emperor hostage, instead of letting Wang An’s old tribe fall into his hands, let me, Zhu Wen, lead them to clear up Yunei!"
After saying this, Zhu Wen's eyes were full of resentment and regret, as if seeing a bright pearl cast in secret.
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Just when Zhu Wen gathered his old troops and sent a call to action to prefectures and counties, the clown he was talking about had already fought three rounds with Yang Xingmi near Tangong City, Shansang County.
In one day, there were three battles.
Li Maozhen's record was two losses and one tie, losing more than three thousand soldiers and killing less than eight hundred enemies.
Li Maozhen stood at the head of Shansang County, watching Wu Jun fleeing quickly on the eddy water, his face was so gloomy that it was about to rain.
To be honest, the record of the three battles today has nothing to do with her, he just arrived here. If it hadn't been for him to come, the troop in front of us, which was full of sharp soldiers from the Wu army and suddenly emerged from the river grass, would not have fled quickly after the first encounter with Shansang soldiers, but might have captured them This county.
Although the walking boat is extremely fast and can travel like flying on the water, the hull is not big and can only carry twenty or thirty soldiers. But this can't hold back the opponent's ships. Just like now, the other party's nearly 200 walkers fled on the Guoshui River, and the momentum was as huge as a giant dragon.
Not to mention, beside the dense forest not far from the shore, Wu Jun and Ma Jun disappeared as soon as they emerged.
Adding up the two, there are at least 8,000 soldiers. It is really not difficult to capture a county that is located behind the army and is not very well-defended.
Weishui is a relatively large river in the Huaisi River System. It generally runs from northwest to southeast. It originates in Chenzhou and flows through Bo and Ying into Huai River: this is also the basic situation of the Huaisi River System.
In the territory with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, there are countless such rivers, and the water network is intertwined and criss-crossed, which is extremely complicated, and it is impossible to control all of them. The Wu army's navy marched upstream through the Huaihe River, and by reducing the size to a small size, they could reach where they wanted to go at will. How could the troops from Guanzhong, Central Plains, and Hebei be prevented.
"I don't know where the Wu army got so many ships, big and small, with endless patterns. We have only so many ships in a limited number of styles, and we have fought against them a few times, and every time they have been beaten to pieces by the opponent. Now There are no boats daring to walk on the river, so it is still unavoidable to be attacked."
The commander of the capital stationed in Shansang was a big man with a rough face and a resolute temperament, but now he was wronged like a little daughter-in-law. He pointed to the burning fleet of his own fleet by the river and complained to Li Maozhen.
There are a hundred and ten boats of different sizes in the fleet by the river, which is quite a number, but most of them are civilian boats, mainly used to transport grain. Just now, Wu Jun walked over to attack and set a lot of them on fire. Although many soldiers are busy putting out the fire now, it seems that about half of them will be lost.
"Yang Xingmi..." Li Maozhen looked at the river where the shadow of the walking boat could no longer be seen, silently chewing on the name.
There were about 200 Wu troops who attacked Shansang, but the number of Wu troops who cooperated in the attack was less than 10,000. I heard that Yang Xingmi had no less than 200,000 Wu troops under Yang Xingmi's command. One can imagine how terrifying the number of Wu troops is. .
Although Wu Jun's navy is huge and elite, it is impossible to have so many ships of various types, especially small warships suitable for the Huaisi River system. Needless to say, Suzhou, where Yang Xingmi sits, must be building ships day and night, and it has been going on for a long time.
At the southern end of Bozhou, Yingzhou, and Suzhou, and at the upper end of the Huaihe River, where the water network is densely covered, there are countless warships of the Wu army hiding in the dark, like dormant poisonous snakes and locusts waiting to bite Li Maozhen. 160,000 troops.
Their military strength was insufficient, so they turned the big into small, like a fly biting a wild animal, trying to suck up the enemy's blood little by little. Whenever the wild beast was about to fight back, they would scatter in all directions, leaving the wild beast empty-handed. When the wild beast didn't pay attention, they would crawl all over the beast's body and limbs, acting recklessly.
Finally, when the behemoth lost too much blood and staggered, they would swarm up and knock it down, devouring its flesh and blood.
Thinking of this, Li Maozhen couldn't help but shudder.
Yang Xingmi, a Confucian general, should not be underestimated......
Li Maozhen couldn't sit still any longer, and waved to summon military envoys and monk commanders, and shouted in a deep voice: "The monks of Huanyinfang are in groups of three, and they monitor the rivers and official roads scatteredly. There must be Qi training monks guarding every five miles. There must be a real person sitting in the forty miles. Once Wu Jun sentries, rangers, and monks are found, the surrounding monks will be mobilized to hunt and kill, and no one will escape!
"Order Zhao Bingkun to give up attacking Suzhou to fight the enemy, stop moving forward, retreat the main force of the fine cavalry, and divide into counties and fortresses to wait for orders! The rest of the troops shrink the front, or station in towns, or build strong camps. There is no military order from the king. No one is allowed to go out of the camp to fight without authorization, and those who disobey the order will be beheaded!
"Again, order Liu Zhijun to disperse the 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command. With the capital as the command and the garrison as the node, search the wild forests, wasteland, hills outside the city day and night, especially the big and small rivers! Soldiers find it for me!
"Once a large number of Wu troops are found, immediately report to the same counties and fortresses. Please dispatch Jingqi to siege, and then cooperate with the nearby army to siege and kill! I will give him half a month. If he can't turn over every inch of land in Bo and Ying However, I will take his head!"
The sergeant was dumbfounded by the military order, but seeing Li Maozhen's murderous look on his face, he didn't dare to question him, and quickly took the order and left.
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The first leader of Huanyinfang is a middle-aged woman with a plump body and rich makeup. Hearing Li Maozhen's words, he couldn't help but change his face and said: "King Qi arranged this way, and the monks under his command will come out in full force, and there will be no guards around him. ... "
"This is not something you should consider! Remember, if the Wu Jun's military order can be transmitted unimpeded after all the Huanyinfang is dispatched, I want you to die without a whole body!" Li Maozhen gritted her teeth.
The first commander didn't dare to ask any more questions, and took orders to leave like a military envoy.