"From the Huai River to Xiangyang, there is indeed a lack of strategic depth. However, the enemy soldiers had just retreated from the Huai River. The soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang were inspired by this and were excited. Many people were encouraged. Even if the officials in the court were afraid of DDT, they should not discuss the matter of moving south in an urgent manner."

Jin Longquan said with a frown,

"I have also paid attention to the scholars of Xiangyang before. The children of aristocratic families are very eager to discuss this matter, and it is a bit abnormal, but I don't expect that the Zheng family will be vigorously promoting it behind the scenes..."

In his early years, Longquan of Jin was only considered a person in Tongbai Mountain. He dealt with officials and officials, and was also considered to be a witness to the impermanence and danger of the world, but he was still not a hero for a while.

Even though he decided to instigate Tang Tiande to join Chushan and secretly serve Chushan, Jin Longquan was more impressed by the skills of Xu Huai and Tongbaishan.

However, after that, the large amount of information that Jin Longquan contacted through Chushan and the many principles pursued by Chushan's actions actually far surpassed the universal level of the world.

And these are the fundamentals of Chushan’s omnipotence in recent years.

Since Jin Longquan believed in Xu Huai and the people of Tongbai Mountain, when he had the opportunity to contact the real secrets behind all this, his horizons naturally opened up, and all kinds of ideas entered a higher level.

Jin Longquan lurked beside Jin Zhuangcheng, and felt more direct and real than Zheng Tu and others about the many undercurrents in Xiangyang City.

Zheng Tu was in Xiangyang to contact the court on behalf of Chushan. The imperial edicts and edicts of the court and Xu Huai’s memorials in Chushan were all conveyed by his hands. Zheng Tu could come into contact with a large number of officials in Xiangyang, but either had a good relationship with Chushan or was wary of Chushan. Some things were in it and could not be understood thoroughly.

Before Shi Zhen came to Xiangyang, Jin Longquan noticed that at this time, it was unusual for aristocratic families to discuss the southward migration. After Zhao Fan came to visit Jin Zhuangcheng and said this, he couldn't wait to find an opportunity to come and contact Zheng Tu. Unexpectedly, Shi Zhen would be in Xiangyang at this time.

Now that the Zheng family is the one who spares no effort behind the whole incident, its motivation is not difficult to analyze.

Zheng Huaizhong supported Emperor Jianji, which was just a speculation in seeing the situation.

When he chose to guard Heluo, the Zheng family thought that the Chihu people would attack Shaanxi with all their might. Seeing that the situation in Heluo was the most complete, they couldn't wait to take Luoyang, Tongguan, Hulao, Pinglu, and Xiangcheng under their command, for fear that others would intervene in Heluo to get a share of the pie.

Zheng Huaizhong never thought that Chihu people were the most determined to attack Heluo. He attacked Pinglu and attacked Gongxian from Xingyang and Hulao to the west. Yanshi lasted for more than a year, and countless casualties still did not retreat.

Before the New Year, Zheng Huaizhong had to invite aid to Xiangyang and transfer Yang Lin's troops to help defend Yanshi and Gongxian, but his direct troops still had to stay in Pinglu and fight with Cao Shixiong's troops in close combat.

Chushan defended Huangyangzhai, Shimenling and Chushancheng, and did not limit the battlefield to the offense and defense of Chushancheng. He even had the right to choose the battlefield from beginning to end, forcing Yue Hailou to enter the terrain that was beneficial to Chushan to fight the war of attrition.

The battle of Huangyangzhai occupied favorable terrain, used much more sophisticated soldiers, used closer formations, and more well-trained elite soldiers, spent more than a month on combat, and killed them.

More than 15,000 generals and soldiers from Yuehailou were injured, but the price paid by Chushan was less than one or two of the enemy's troops.

Any injuries or illnesses are replaced quickly, which makes the second-wing troops more confident and the more they fight, the more they fight, the stronger their combat effectiveness. In the end, Yue Hailou has to give up the delusion of attacking Huangyangzhai.

In contrast, the Zheng family paid much heavier price when guarding Pinglu.

The Zheng family guarded Pinglu, who was purely based on the city and relied too much on the defense of the city wall. The defenders lacked the awareness of creating depth and attacking depth, which led Cao Shixiong, Meng Ping and others to surrender to the camp and build the city under Pinglu, and then set up dozens of catapults close to the city wall, smashing and bombing day and night.

In more than a year, Pinglu City had long been beyond recognition. Even though the defenders were still tenaciously defending the broken Pinglu City at this time, how could there be fewer casualties?

Although Zheng Huaizhong once expanded his troops to Heluo after guarding Heluo, including the Luoyang Prefecture Army, which is of the local wing army, his true elite troops were actually very limited in combat power.

The Battle of Pinglu was so tragic that it could not be defended without the direct troops. If the direct troops were using the direct troops, the casualties were so heavy, why didn’t Zheng Huaizhong feel heartbroken?

Why didn’t he worry? Once the direct troops were completely lost, could his status in Dayue be guaranteed?

After all, Zheng Huaizhong was afraid and didn't want to guard Heluo.

Xu Huai had long offered advice to Emperor Jianji. If Heluo and Shaanxi could not defend, Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian's two troops should retreat to the Qinling Mountains. Relying on the steep terrain on the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains and the continuous supply of materials and personnel to support the four routes of Chuanxia, ​​suppressing the enemy troops on the Wei River and entering the stalemate stage; while Zheng Huaizhong's troops should retreat to Xionger Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Xiangyang to the south of Luoyang to try every means to open up the passage of Nanyang across Funiu Mountain, giving Zheng Huaizhong's troops support, and insisting on entering the stalemate stage with the enemy troops in Qiushan in the southern part of Luoyang.

In fact, this is consistent with the strategy of Chu Mountain relying on Jinghu and Xiangyang to guard Tongbai Mountain.

It is also the fundamental reason why Xu Huai insisted that Emperor Jianji had to be determined to stay in Xiangyang with the ambition to burn his boats.

Only in this way, in addition to inspiring the soldiers of the front camp to fight bloody battles, the main thing is to ensure the supply of materials and personnel from the hinterland of Jianghuai and Jinghu to continuously transport them to Tongbai Mountain, Funiu Mountain, Xionger Mountain and Qinling Mountains.

This is also the best defensive line for the Great Yue to resist the enemy's troops outside the Jianghuai River and Huai River.

Unfortunately, when Xu Huai offered advice before, Zheng Huaizhong did not raise any objections. He felt that holding 80,000 troops would not fall to this point, but when he realized that the situation had developed to this point, he was unwilling to defend these poor mountains and broken valleys like a parody army.

However, the emperor did not move south, let alone Emperor Jianji, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Wu Wenche, Gu Fan and others, they would not have thought about the old love and allowed Zheng Huaizhong to lead tens of thousands of troops to retreat to Nanyang or Xiangyang.

Isn’t this instigating Zheng Huaizhong to hold the emperor to command the world?

Therefore, for Zheng Huaizhong, he did not want to fall to the poor mountains and rivers of Xionger Mountain and Funiu Mountain, and did not want to hand over military power. Only Emperor Jianji and all officials went south can he free up space to lead his army to retreat south.

However, it was because of the insight that the Zheng family was stirring up trouble behind the scenes, and Shi Zhen felt even more headache.

The strategies Xu Huai offered were indispensable.

Without Zheng Huaizhong, Yang Lin restrained more than 20,000 in Heluo

The Chihu Cavalry, Xiao Gan and Cao Shixiong had a total of more than 100,000 troops and horses, and these troops would be transferred to Ru and Ying.

Even if Chushan can barely defend the central and eastern defense line of Huai Shang, will Liu Yan, Deng Gui and other troops defend the gap between Wuyang, Fangcheng and other Tongbai Mountain and Funiu Mountain in the southward direction of Nanyang?

Even though they had insight into the Zheng family's intentions, it was extremely difficult to deal with.

Even if he went to Emperor Jianji to expose the Zheng family's conspiracy, Emperor Jianji would most likely not punish the Zheng family at all, and he might even compromise with the Zheng family.

Zheng Huaizhong also has 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers and horses in his hand. This pair of Da Yue is a double-edged sword. If used well, it is a sharp blade to resist foreign aggression. If used poorly, it may in turn stab the Da Yue, who is already covered in bruises, and then stab it a few more times.

The Zheng family is in the high position of Dayue, and is currently established as the loyal and fierce Dayue. Therefore, he is very dedicated to guarding Heluo, so he will also calculate such a plan. He does not want to directly threaten Xiangyang for the time being.

However, if the Zheng family is desperate one day, or if they feel that there is no future to stay in Dayue, will Emperor Jianji really dare to test the integrity of the Zheng family?

Shi Zhen felt a headache.

Before having a bottom line but not having absolute strength, you often choose fewer and more restrictive than those without a bottom line.

Shi Zhen couldn't help thinking that Zhao Fan dared to go around secretly this time when he came to Luoyang. He even had conspired with Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and others on the southward migration. In addition to taking advantage of the ministers in the Xiangyang court's fear of the enemy and fear of fighting, he probably also expected that even if their intentions were discovered and exposed, it would definitely not hinder the Zheng family?

This is really a dilemma.

However, such a big thing is extremely sensitive. Even if Shi Zhen thinks of countermeasures now, he will go back to Chushan to inform Xu Huai of targeted actions.

After understanding some of the subtle mentality of the officials in Xiangyang, Shi Zhen went back to Jin Longquan first to avoid staying outside for too long and revealing flaws in Jin Zhuangcheng.

The existence of Longquan in Jin was very important for them to understand the movements of the officials in Xiangyang and the gentry and gentry in Nanyang.

Just like today, Jin Zhuangcheng never showed any tendency in front of Zhao Fan, but Zhao Fan dared to lobby Jin Zhuangcheng, or intentionally buried something in Jin Zhuangcheng's mind, even if he predicted that the gentry and gentry in Nanyang were not the big clan that came out of Tongbai Mountain, and it was not the same as Chushan.

When Jin Longquan stood up and said goodbye, he said, "I heard from Zhao Fan's words that it seems that he intends to stir up the storm with the Marquis and Princess Yingyun. This is a big deal!"

Shi Zhen nodded bitterly, saying that he was not unaware of this and knew how subtle it would be if this matter was used as a matter of being used by someone to make a fuss, but some things were not able to be solved successfully.

"Miss Xuan is not the Marquis's good match. Why has it been so long? No one mentioned it?" Zheng Tu interrupted and asked.

"Why don't you mention it?" Shi Zhen asked back.

"You don't mention it, how can I say so much?" Zheng Tu said with his hands spreading out.

"If you want to mention it, someone has mentioned it long ago; if no one has mentioned it, there must be a reason!" Shi Zhen sighed slightly, "In short, some things are no longer as troublesome as tens of thousands of enemy soldiers. Let's see..."
Chapter completed!