King Li Qing of Yan had been observing outside Chuzhou City for a long time. Li Qing's personal guards were on guard around him. I don't know how long it took Zhao Ge to come to the side of King Li Qing of Yan and said, "Prince, the Song army built a complete fortification with Chuzhou City as the core, and there is clear water as the waterway for transportation. The Song army can continuously transport food, grass and supplies from the south of the Yangtze River to this point."

Li Qing nodded and said, "I remember if there is another big city in Chuzhou?"

"Yes, the prince." Zhao Ge said to Li Qing: "Another important defense center of the Song army is Laiancheng, which is located on the west bank of Laishui. The Song army also deployed heavy troops wherever it."

After taking the telescope away from his eyes, Li Qing said, "Let's meet the camp first! You will report the specific deployment of Song army in Huainan to me. Our specific action plan still needs further consultation."

"It's the prince, the last general understands..." Zhao Ge said to Li Qing.

After returning to the camp, Li Qing immediately summoned all the generals. After the Song army changed from attack to defense, its strategic situation still changed. What followed was the Song army's defense system and military deployment in Huaibei. Through a series of additional troops, the Song army now has not only one million troops in Huainan, but also more.

After sorting out all the information, Zhao Ge came to everyone with a baton and said, "Generals, according to the information we have obtained, the total strength of the Song army in Huainan has exceeded one.5 million troops, and this one.5 million troops are distributed among the strongholds north of the Yangtze River. The focus of the Song army's defense is mainly Chuzhou, Zhenzhou and Hezhou, north of Jiangning Prefecture, because these three places directly aimed at Jiangning Prefecture, the center of the Song Dynasty;

Among them, Chuzhou was the top priority of the Song army's defense. The Song army deployed 800,000 troops in Chuzhou, of which 600,000 troops were deployed in the fortifications centered on Chuzhou City. The remaining 200,000 troops were mainly deployed in the Laian area. According to the information we have obtained, the Song army is building a new city where Laian water and Qingliu water intersect, which should be to prepare for future withdrawal;

In addition, the Song army also deployed 300,000 troops in Zhenzhou and Hezhou respectively. Zhenzhou's defense focus is on Liuhe as the core. In addition, the guard of Zhenzhou is Zhang Miao, who also serves in the defense of Yangzhou and Taizhou..."

Zhao Ge introduced the Song army throughout Huainan defense. After hearing this, Yan King Li Qing said, "You have heard of General Zhao Ge's introduction. That is to say, the Song army deployed millions of troops within the distance from Taizhou in the east to Hezhou in the west. The Song army built a complete Yangtze River defense line with the Yangtze River, and the Song army also had hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of warships from the Jiangnan Navy as their support;

In other words, if we want to destroy the Song Dynasty, we must destroy them first. According to the Song army's organization, the millions of troops cannot be all war soldiers. There should be a considerable number of auxiliary soldiers. So you don't have to worry. According to our previous combat plan, we hope to conduct roundabout operations, that is, we must avoid the key defense locations of the Song army and start from the weak point. But now it seems that it is difficult to achieve this. After all, the Jiangnan Navy of the Song army is not a vegetarian."

Li Qing's speech made all the generals feel uneasy. As the commander, you are like this. Can you still expect the brothers below to die? Therefore, as soon as Li Qing said, the overall momentum of the Xia army was basically half released, so the Xia army did not launch an attack; because Li Qing knew that this battle to destroy the country could not be solved by a quick battle, and after losing a large number of elite troops, the overall combat capability of the Xia army had decreased a lot, and Li Qing had to retrain his soldiers to restore the Xia army to its best state.

In the next three months, Li Qing rebuilt a Jiangbei camp, or a Jiangbei city, north of Chuzhou City. The Xia army relied on Jiangbei City to conduct military deployment, and the Xia army's large amount of food, grass and supplies were continuously transported here. The Song army soldiers who were originally preparing to fight to the death did not wait for the Xia army, so they began to relax. The Song court, which was actively preparing for war, began to gradually slow down their deployment.

Besides, after Li De, King Liang, led the Yuzhou army to withdraw from Luzhou, Li De did not attack the Song army, but retreated to the Dabie Mountains and disappeared. Of course, the 200,000 Xia army could not have disappeared at once. Li De was also raising his energy and waiting for the next action; it was not Li Qing who was equal, but had to wait for the Song army to relax its vigilance and wait for the Xia army to recover its best combat power. In addition, it took a lot of time to assemble important supplies such as food, weapons, gunpowder, and war horses. Whether the Xia army had mastered the water route? After crossing the Huai River, the Xia army's supplies needed to be transported to the front line bit by bit by bit by land.

Three months later, Li Qing, the King of Yan, who was the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, sent his former confidant general Yan Shu to prepare for the mission to the Song Dynasty. Yan Shu came to the city of Chuzhou with a large amount of jewelry and gifts. Yan Shu shouted to the city gate tower: "Go and tell your general Zhong Shu, this general Yan Shu has something to see him."

When the gatekeeper saw Yan Shu in the future, he echoed: "Wait here."

The guard hurried to the Chuzhou General's Mansion. After seeing Master Zhong, the general said, "Report, report, report... Report to the Grand General, Xia General Yan Shu asked for a visit, saying that he wanted to pay homage to the Grand General."

Zhong Shidao frowned and said, "Yan Shu, what are he doing at this time? Is it because he wants to spy on the reality of Chuzhou?"

"Master, will we meet or not?" the guard general asked Master Zhong.

Zhong Shidao thought for a while and said, "See, why don't you see me? I want to see what tricks Li Qing is playing this time."

After the guard came to the north gate of Chuzhou City, he ordered: "Open the city gate..."

The heavy gate of Chuzhou City opened with "creak! creak!" Yan Shu immediately drove a cart into Chuzhou City with dozens of his followers. As soon as he entered the city, Yan Shu began to observe the defense of the Song army. Chuzhou City was indeed built as solid as a solid foundation. Soon Li Qing came to the gate of Chuzhou Grand Marshal's Mansion, but no one came to greet him.

Yan Shu smiled and said, "Aren't your Song Dynasty known as a country of etiquette? Do you just treat a special envoy of a country like this?"

A Song general said: "Hosting guests has its own way of treating guests, but General Yan, do you dare to say that you are a class?"

Yan Shu smiled and said, "This general is here to be the order of Emperor Xia. He is here to discuss peace with the Song Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty is so hospitality, the general can only go back and report to His Majesty, saying that the Song Dynasty has no sincerity to discuss peace."

Yan Shu's words naturally came to the ears of Master Zhong, but Master Zhong did not believe what Yan Shu said at all. However, the Song general did not make things difficult for Yan Shu, so he quickly let Yan Shu in; Yan Shu saw Master Zhong in the lobby and said, "External General Yan Shu, pay homage to Mr. Zhong."

The first update is presented, Tianyu wishes everyone a happy New Year and all the best...

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