The reason why these gentry and wealthy merchants all believed that the Haibei Army entered Caozhou this time was because the main forces of the two brothers, Changyi Regiment and Fuzhou Regiment, participated in the Battle of Haigai, so many people in Yanzhou thought that the Caozhou thieves were angry with Liu Peng this time, which caused him to draw most of the main forces in southern Liaoning back.

Although he used a butcher knife to kill chickens, and Ding Gong also used twelve yuan to get the illusion of the Caozhou people, this illusion of the Caozhou people was very beneficial to Ding Gong's Caozhou strategy. Even Ding Gong clearly took away five and a half regular troops from six battalions, but his wife was all in modest place, and only Liu Xingzuo from Xuzhou was a little ignorant of raising him.

There are at least a dozen Caozhou gentry waiting for Liu Peng to meet, and there are more Caozhou gentry thinking of a way to meet Ding Gong, but they can't find a suitable way for the time being.

Wei Zhongxian was extremely dissatisfied with this ending. He almost smashed the tea bowl in his hand: "Is there a court in General Liu's eyes? Is there a court in me? Wei Zhongxian? The Battle of Haigai was obviously a big setback, and the court did not hold him accountable much. How could he give up on himself? Does he want to be Huan Wen?"

He described Liu Peng as self-deprecating, while Wang Tiqian, who was below, said with a wry smile: "Duke Wei, the court has made some moves in Shandong recently. I'm afraid General Liu has misunderstood. Last year, Governor Yuan advocated the establishment of Jinzhou Pursuit. He also said that even if Jinzhou Pursuit was not established, General Liu would have to give General Liu a sword. Now Governor Wu has raised the matter again, but the court has ignored it!"

Wei Zhongxian knew all this very well, but he did not expect that Liu Peng was so disappointed with the court after the fall of Haigai, and his reaction was so fierce that he even directly withdrew the troops in southern Liaoning to Shandong.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian was not aware that this was just a beautiful mistake. Although many newly formed troops and newly mobilized recruits were either returning to the camp or directly retired, the main forces of the Haibei Army in southern Liaoning were the Changyi regiment and the Fuzhou regiment to replenish the group due to the heavy casualties in the south.

However, the next series of events made Liu Peng first transfer these two infantry regiments to Qingzhou Prefecture in the east, and then let the two infantry regiments participate in the Battle of Cao Pu.

However, the entire Cao Pu battle was only 7,000 troops, and this had to be included in the local force of Song Zhifu's Cao army and Caozhou. It was not as the Shandong gentry said at least 20,000 troops. However, such wrong information scared Wei Zhongxian. He cursed repeatedly: "It was all a bad thing for Sun Chengzong. If it weren't for the defeat of Liu He, the situation would not have been corrupt!"

Why is it because of Liu He's defeat? Naturally, the chain reaction caused by Liu He's defeat has reached an uncontrollable point.

Originally, according to Wei Zhongxian's plan, the Haibei Army would definitely have to deal with Haibei Town after being defeated from Haigai, at least to force Liu Peng to surrender, so that the court could rebuild its prestige in Shandong and return all the 130 official flaws to the court. However, Wei Zhongxian never expected that his wishful thinking would completely disrupt the small battle of Liuhe.

Now the court has repeatedly shook its head when it comes to the Battle of Liuhe. No one expected that the small defeat of Liuhe would cause such amazing turmoil. Although the Guanning Army lost only four hundred war soldiers and seven or eight hundred people of all war horses, armor, weapons and all equipment in the Battle of Liuhe, the problem is that the defeat of Liuhe has triggered a series of terrible chain reactions.

According to the title book and the secret report of the Jinyiwei from the Guanning Front, now because of the legend that Jiannu wanted to cross the river eastward to advance to Guanning, the Guanning army, which originally had 130,000 troops, was already in a sudden collapse and fleeing. The Guanning army lost only 400 people in the Battle of Liuhe, and the Guanning army had fled more than 40,000 people after the Battle of Liuhe.

That's right, not four hundred people, not four thousand people, but forty thousand people!

The Guanning Army, which the court had high hopes of building with tens of millions of food and wages, was scared by such an insignificant battle in Liuhe, and the escape continued. Not only did the military and civilians flee, but even many middle and lower-level officers joined the escape ranks. Some officers even fled with troops. Now the Guanning Army is in a panic, and I am afraid that as long as Jiannu comes, the entire army will collapse.

Wei Zhongxian also knew that although Sun Chengzong knew about military affairs, he could neither reconcile the generals nor dispatch the army. However, he did not expect that the Guanning Army would be so decayed due to an insignificant battle in Liuhe. However, Sun Chengzong caused great trouble and only needed to pat his butt and leave. Wei Zhongxian, who was in charge of the government, went all out to help Sun Chengzong with all his might.

Wang Tiqian could only help Wei Zhongxian solve the problem: "Wei Gong Xi'an, I'm afraid Sun Jingluo didn't want the matter to be so deteriorated. It was really unbearable for Guanning Army. Who would have thought that the situation was so as to this point, how to change General Liu's mind now is the key! Don't forget the lessons of Huan Wen's Northern Expedition. If the court tried too hard, General Liu would inevitably feel disheartened and would inevitably have some resentment towards the court."

Whether it was the resigned Sun Chengzong, the newly appointed Gao Di, or other officials in Liaodong, the court now has to put all its hopes on Liu Peng after the defeat of Liu He.

They always felt that as long as the Haibei Army was willing to send troops to Haigai again, there was always a way. Although the Battle of Haigai did not win any target, it at least caused heavy damage to Jiannu in the field, which was dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than the result of the Battle of Liuhe.

As long as Haibei uses troops to Haigai, it can at least restrain the momentum of Jiannu's large-scale eastward advance, so that the Guanning Army can have a chance to breathe. Otherwise, with the current Guanning Army's posture, Jiannu will not need to attack them first.

However, the court was talking on paper, but news came that Haibei Town had transferred most of the elite troops to Yanzhou Prefecture to suppress Hedong, which gave Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch party a head-on blow.

Although the Haibei Army's mobilization has always been his own way and never reported to the Ministry of War, the Haibei Army's actions in Yanzhou Prefecture have always been regular and unwilling to stimulate the court. Now Haibei Town has invested 20,000 troops in Hedong in one breath and took the wrong medicine!

Moreover, even though Haibei Town did not take any wrong medicine, Wei Zhongxian and the ministers in the court also remembered an extremely terrible result, that is, these 20,000 soldiers arrived in Yanzhou Prefecture, and Liu Peng's Haibei Town could cut off the canal at any time.

As soon as the canal was broken, the court broke off contact with Jiangnan. Not only did the nine borders and the capital not get the food and goods from Jiangnan, but the court also lost most of its fiscal revenue. It was precisely such terrible consequences that made Wei Zhongxian both startled and frightened.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Tiqian proposed to compromise with the Haibei Army, Wei Zhongxian decided to follow the rules as soon as possible: "Tiqian said it very well! The key now is to let General Liu change his mind and make everyone quieter. General Liu is a meritorious minister after all!"

Some time ago, I attacked Liu Peng's question book, but there were not a hundred letters and eighty letters. Everyone was planning to take advantage of the opportunity of the sea to overturn Liu Peng and Haibei Town, which was the gold and silver mountains after overturning Liu Peng and hundreds of official shortcomings. Everyone can reward the fruits and fruits according to their merits and deeds.

But no one expected that the Guanning Army was so vulnerable, and the consequences of Liu He's defeat were so serious. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian not only could not hold Hai Gai's responsibility for the setback, but now he had to do everything possible to give the Haibei Army candy.

Even if the Haibei Army refused to use troops to Haigai again, it would have to transfer the elite main force drawn from southern Liao to the state. Otherwise, once Jiannu discovered that the Haibei Army had mostly transferred the main force in southern Liao, he would have been unscrupulous and advanced westward without any scruples, and then it would be the second defeat of Guangning.

Moreover, in the eyes of Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tigan, the situation at that time may be even more serious than Guangning's defeat. In the second year of Tianqi, Guangning's defeat in the Ming Dynasty was to withdraw all the way from the pass and defeat at Shanhaiguan.

Now the Guanning Army is already a frightened bird. Maybe even Shanhaiguan can't defend it and retreat directly to the city of Beijing. At that time, Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs will be a place where they will die without burial, so Liu Peng must change his mind. Wei Zhongxian continued: "Liu Peng wants Shangfang Sword, we can give him Shangfang Sword..."

"He wants to set up Jinzhou Fuzhi, and we can agree to set up Jinzhou Fuzhi!"

"We can agree to whatever decree he wants, the beauty and jade liu Lady, and the specific name he wants. As long as he uses military service, we can talk about anything!"

Hearing Wei Zhongxian say this, Wang Tigan feels that this matter can be done halfway, so he immediately continues to remind Wei Zhongxian: "Duke Wei, since all these things can be discussed, should we stop at the work of Shandong's training of the new army?"

Although the court avoided talking about this matter, everyone knew that the reason why Liu Peng responded so fiercely and even transferred heavy troops from southern Liao to Shandong was that the court was preparing to train a new army trained by Western France in Shandong to fight against the Haibei Army, and the Haibei Army also used Western France training, so the Haibei Army was particularly vigilant about this.

But Wei Zhongxian said without hesitation: "You can talk to General Liu about other things, but you must not talk about the training of the new army. This new army is completely prepared to deal with Jiannu. Now it is just temporarily living in Jinan Prefecture and has nothing to do with the Haibei Army. Besides, our Haibei Army and compromise are originally a way to quench thirst. If this new army is dispersed, it may be..."

"It's a dead end to cut off the firewood from the cauldron!"

Wang Tigan already understood that Eunuch Wei had never been confused at the critical moment.

Now the Haibei Army's offensive in Hedong has passed the stage of eating meat, but has entered a critical stage of gnawing hard bones. Although the Haibei Army has achieved many results, casualties have suddenly increased, because the enemies we are dealing with now are often real bandits.

The reason why it is called a "real bandit" is that the Haibei Army is the bandits who do not take Haibei Town seriously at all. No matter how large or large the number of people are, it is the primary target of the Haibei Army. The Haibei Army attaches more importance to them than the real large bandits, and goes out to do everything possible to chase these bandits who dare to fight against Haibei Town to the end.
Chapter completed!