Chapter 534 Post-war Summary
Zhao Duan smiled, as if she was not surprised by her choice.
He has made a similar choice twice, once in the capital, and once gave the concubine who was robbed by Li Yinglong, the young master, a chance to decide his fate.
The second time was for Yunxi to decide whether to do things for her.
This is the third time now, and his purpose is simple.
As a member of the embroidered clothes, Nie Yurong may play a key role in dealing with King Mu in the future.
As a chess player, if you want to defeat a strong enemy, you need to inadvertently lay down "idle chess", such as the princess Lu Yan'er beside King Jing Xu Wen.
For example, what would happen if you put an insider under the hands of King Mu Xu Jingyan? Zhao Duan didn't think it was done.
But it does not prevent him from doing this from a standpoint as the governor.
"Mr. Zhao, I can do things for you without having to give up my sister." Yu Xiu's expression changed slightly, and he took a step forward and tried to stop him.
Zhao Duan smiled like a fox:
"The priest, if you think about it, what I want you to do will inevitably be related to this royal civil war, and this will violate the principles of the Tianshi Mansion."
Yuxiu was stunned for a moment. She took a deep breath and said seriously: "I know."
This means that she would rather break some taboos for Nie Yurong, and even as a disciple of Tianshi, she would definitely bear a huge price for it.
Nie Yurong shook her head and smiled:
"Sister, I am determined. Even if you stop me, I will return to the embroidered clothes and point it out. Not only for you, but also for my friends over there. Now that I know that you live a good life, it is enough, but I have other things to do."
Obviously, the female killer who can become a swearing emblem is not an indecisive person, and is more decisive than Yuxiu.
She stared at Zhao Duan and said seriously: "Can I attract a few trustworthy friends and surrender to the court together?"
Zhao Duan said with a strange look:
"Do you think King Mu will lose? Want to take others out of the fire pit?"
Nie Yurong said, "I don't know who will win, but I don't think Xu Jingyan is as good as a king."
Hiss... What is this Mu Wang's appearance in private? Even his subordinates have no confidence in him. Zhao Duan said curiously:
"Why do you say that?"
Nie Yurong said:
"Mu Wang has always been a heroic attitude of seeking talents externally, but it is not the case in private. Moreover, most importantly, he has a serious suspicion. He has always been worried about Zhao Shixiong. I don't understand so many principles, but at least I know that his subordinates are uneven and it is difficult to conquer the world."
Zhao Duan's eyes lit up slightly, he recorded the information and nodded:
"Okay, since that's the case, I will arrange for Song Jinxi to help you create an illusion of escape or disappearance, so that you can lurk back, and then you can contact Song Jinxi and contact him."
The life and death of a female killer leader, just decided in such an understatement.
Now it was Nie Yurong's turn to look at him with strange eyes:
"That's it? Are you afraid that I will turn against you after leaving? You are just performing now? Lie to you? After all, it is normal for the sisters I haven't seen for decades to match in the eyes of others that I have been embroidered and have been growing up for decades."
Zhao Duan laughed and waved his hand, with a strong sense of confidence in his tone:
"I am not King Mu. I will not doubt people. If I do not doubt people, I will do this if I promise to let you go. If you rebel, I will catch you once and I will catch you a second time."
Nie Yurong was stunned. At this moment, she realized clearly that the favorite minister of the empress in front of her was completely different from the image in the information.
Even though the two of them only had a short time to contact, she was still conquered by Zhao Duan's every move and courage.
"I understand a little, why does Your Majesty like you?"
Nie Yurong suddenly sighed, looked at Yuxiu deeply, bowed her hand, and walked out of the room.
Yu Xiu opened her mouth, sighed, and said farewell and returned to the house in a daze.
She didn't blame Zhao Duan, but realized that the crying sister in her memory had grown up and was more independent than herself.
...
After seeing off a few people, Zhao Duan silently chewed off the apple, and a familiar footstep came from outside.
Mochou rushed in quickly, his face filled with joy:
"Xue Shence is back! Su Dan has been captured and won a great victory!"
Finally back!
Zhao Duan was shocked and immediately stood up and left the county government with Mo Chou, and was about to see Xue Shence and other generals reunited.
In the team, many rebel generals were also escorted. "General" Su Dan was tied up, his eyes closed, without saying a word, and he looked indifferent to life and death.
"Governor Zhao! Xue has lived up to his entrusted responsibility and defeated the thief army! Captives are behind!"
Xue Shence threw Fang Tian's painting halberd and turned over and dismounted. His eyebrows that were so gloomy that the sun shone brightly for several days.
A famous general's face was filled with a victorious smile.
Zhao Duan fell to the ground in his heart, and immediately led everyone into the county yamen to inquire about the situation.
The process was extremely simple, and the plan failed. Su Dan, who lost the guard of the master, was attacked by three Beijing camps, Xue Shence, Shi Meng and Yuan Feng.
Unsurprisingly, the evacuation road was also cut off.
Mo Chou also explained the current situation in the city, indicating that the city was not damaged much. Just wait for the driven refugees to come back, at most two or three days, the seized territory can restore order.
A big victory filled the entire army with joy.
At this moment, Xue Shence, Shi Meng, Yuan Feng, Chen Gui, Tang Jinzhong, Ji Yue, Lang Shiba and others gathered together.
In an extremely relaxed atmosphere, the results of the battle were exchanged.
As the main general, Xue Shence looked at Zhao Duan seriously, stood up and said solemnly:
"In this battle, Governor Zhao has made great contributions. If the Governor did not take action at a critical moment, Xue will be the second to take responsibility. If the two counties become scorched earth, they will be the sinner forever."
As soon as these words were spoken, dozens of generals in the hall gave Zhao Duan'an a grateful, admirable and convinced look.
Everyone understands that if Zhao Duan had not had the clouds and rain, the result would have been reversed.
"No wonder you ordered a lot of strange things to collect in Lu Mansion. Is it just for today? Are you worried that the worst situation will happen, so you are preparing?"
Mochou is not stupid. Thinking of Zhao Duan's actions in supervising food in the past two days, he suddenly realized it.
Zhao Duan did not take credit for it, and said with a faint smile:
"It's just that I'm prepared for any trouble. I'm not sure whether I can succeed. Fortunately, the worst case did not happen. This battle was a great victory, and the first contribution was to Your Majesty, the king's army. Secondly, everyone works together, and secondly, the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp work together..."
Halfway through, Zhao Duan, who realized that the beginning of the speech was too strong, coughed lightly and said:
"In short, the great victory should be celebrated, but you must not relax. It is important to know that it is only a small part of the territory on Linfeng's Western Front, and there is still a long way to go before the rebellion is suppressed. Next, the vassal kings must be careful when counterattacking."
Xue Shence nodded, calmed his joy and said seriously:
"We expected to take back Linfeng. When news spread here, I am sure that King Jing of Linfeng's eastern front will definitely take action, attack the Eastern front, form an alliance with King Mu Xu Jingyan, and fight with us."
Mo Chou looked at him: "You want to go back to the Eastern Front?"
Xue Shence nodded:
"Once King Jing takes action, someone must be in charge of the Eastern Front, so I don't have much time left. I want to take a break and take some troops back to the Eastern Front to fight against King Jing. As for this side..."
Shi Meng, commander of the Shenji Camp, said:
"King Jing steals the drawings of firearms. I heard that there are firearms in the army. You fight too passively. It is better to let Chen Gui bring new firearms and Privy Councilors to join him, so as to restrain King Jing."
Yuan Feng, commander of the Five Military Camp, said:
"It's better to go to the East Line of the Shenji Camp to the Five Military Camps to guard the Western Line. I just happened to want to compete with Zhao Shixiong!"
Su Dan, the "bridgehead", was abolished. The western front continued to go south and entered the Huai River Channel. He would face Zhao Shixiong, the commander of the southwest border army.
That was a hard bone that was far more difficult than Su Dan.
At the end of last year, Duke Tang and others returned to Beijing to report their duties, but Zhao Shixiong refused to enter Beijing.
Zhao Shixiong has a very high status in the border army and is considered by many to be no less than the "military god" Xue Shence.
Everyone began to discuss how to divide the troops, who stayed on the Western Front, and who went to the Eastern Front.
Zhao Duan did not have any layman to guide his experts and fully respected the opinions of these generals.
Finally, after discussion, a consensus was reached:
Xue Shence took Shenji Camp to the eastern line and will be the main force of the imperial court to attack Jianchengdao rebels.
The fifth military camp stayed on the Western Front, cooperated with the prefect Sun Xiaozhun, and advanced slowly, focusing on a steady and stable manner.
Try not to face the head-on battle with Zhao Shixiong, but instead stabilize the Western Front and strategically assist Xue Shence.
In other words, it is unrealistic to start a war on the east and west lines at the same time, so it is better to pick one first. "Since that's the case, just do it." Zhao Duan, as the military supervisor, nodded and made a decision, and said:
"As a military supervisor, I will write a memorial myself and report the news here to Your Majesty."
Well... In fact, the report has been completed, but there is still a procedure to make up...
Xue Shence suddenly looked at him and said seriously:
"When the governor submitted the memorial, he also asked His Majesty to report his Majesty about food and other materials. I am very worried that the rebels such as King Jing and King Mu will not fight with us next, but will strengthen the walls and clear the fields, hide as turtles, and delay time."
Zhao Duan felt aroused in his heart: "You mean..."
Xue Shence sighed:
"It's almost autumn. Now there are nine eighteen prefectures in the dynasty, and many places are in the hands of the anti-kings. The territory that the court can still dominate is just a matter of fear that food and other materials will soon be in short supply."
What are the battles? It's logistics.
The capital city does not produce grain, and Linfeng and Qingzhou are also not the main production areas of Yu State.
This means that once the war cannot be conquered for a long time, it will not end this year, and once winter begins, it will be even more difficult to quell the rebellion.
And when it is spring next year, it is the sowing season again... Once the vassal kings join forces to block the supplies, the court will immediately experience a "material shortage".
At that time, I am afraid I will collapse without fighting...
"Three months."
Xue Shence gave a time with a serious expression:
"At most these days, the weather will enter the middle of winter, and it will be more difficult to fight. Therefore, if we cannot get the Huai River within three months and cannot obtain enough material supplies from the extremely wealthy Huai River, then... the court will be in a great dilemma!"
Win Huai River within three months?
Or at least take half of Huai River?
Hearing this goal, most of the joy of the victory disappeared, but it has to be admitted that Xue Shence's judgment was correct.
"Jointly blockade and cut off supplies... This is indeed a strategy that the anti-kings are likely to choose." Zhao Duan also became solemn.
He remembered the day he arrived in Taicang, when the rebels burned the fields around Songjiazhuang and wanted to blow up the Taicang silver mine-
Obviously, the purpose is also for this.
Since attacking the capital is no longer realistic, then turning to a collective defensive strategy and dragging the court down is the most reasonable and wisest choice.
"Don't worry too much. If Duke Tang of Xiping Road defeated the King of Hejian, relying on Xiping Road to supplement it, life would not be too sad."
Mochou saw that the atmosphere was dull and worried that it would affect morale, so he hurriedly said.
As for the Tieguan Road further north... she didn't mention it because there was a shortage of material capital there.
Xiping Road... Zhao Duan felt aroused in his heart. According to the information, the Hejian King on the other side was not strong, and Duke Tang clearly stood on the side of the empress last year...
With the strength of the border army led by Duke Tang, it was not difficult to defeat the King of Hejian within a few months.
But the problem is...the Western Regions...
The Western Regions must be happy to weaken the imperial court's blockade on the border, which is likely to cause trouble.
Even if there is Princess Wenzhu in the Western Regions, the actual person in power over there is the Buddhist Dharma King. If the Dharma King orders to restrain the border troops, Princess Wenzhu will not be able to stop it...
Still can't count on others... Zhao Duan sighed in his heart and said:
"I will report to Your Majesty truthfully."
The meeting ended here, and the soldiers stood up and left to carry out the aftermath.
But compared to the joy after the victory, everyone felt a little more urgency.
Three months... can they capture Huai River?
Even if Xue Shence was in charge, the three major capital camps came out together, destroyed the Qingzhou army in succession, and captured Su Dan alive in two victories, they still couldn't give people confidence.
Zhao Duan also returned to the room in the county yamen. After a simple meal, he slept for a while. When the sun went out, the sky turned dark, the world became dark, and he woke up again.
Finally, I felt my spirit full again and tried to visualize "The World".
...
In a trance, Zhao Duan entered the world in the picture again.
But this time, as soon as he entered the scroll, he clearly felt the existence of the "stone tablet".
"Hey, is it because I've worn the painting before and left some traces?"
Zhao Duan didn't know the principle, but his consciousness instinctively adjusted the direction and did not fall towards the metropolis below, but floated in the air, following the strange traction, and found a gap in the darkness.
"Does these gaps exist? Yes, if there are no gaps, how can my consciousness enter here? So, I was unable to detect the cracks entering and exiting the scroll before."
"Or, when Zhenbao first entered here, he left a gap that belonged to her alone on the scroll, and did I remember this coordinate last time?"
"It's interesting to say that. I only existed as my previous life only in the scroll. Once I left the scroll, I would restore my identity as 'Zhao Duan'."
Zhao Duan was thinking about it and tried to take the initiative to drill into the crack.
...
The palace, in the old fourth floor pavilion.
Zhao Duan suddenly came out of the mural, and what caught his eye was darkness.
The palace was already at night, but in the dark room, a palace lantern was lit, and the exquisite palace lanterns were burning quietly.
Dispel a piece of darkness.
Xu Zhenguan sat quietly on the cushion and was having supper!
There was a small table on the ground, with plates of rice and pot of wine on it.
Seeing Zhao Duan "going back", Xu Zhenguan, who was holding chopsticks to pick up food, was stunned for a moment, with a smile on his face and said with a smile:
"It seems you succeeded."
Zhao Duan was also stunned, his expression changed:
"Your Majesty won't wait for me all the time, right?"
Xu Zhenguan nodded for granted: "I have been waiting."
She explained seriously: "This is worth waiting for."
Several hours have passed since Zhao Duan returned to Linfeng last time.
She waited until dark from the afternoon.
Zhao Duan was silent, breathed a sigh of relief, and explained:
"After I returned, I found that my soul was extremely tired. I rested for a while and dealt with some aftermath before I tried to come back. It seems that I can often travel back and forth in this state, but the price is that I will consume energy every time and need rest."
Xu Zhenguan had some surprises in his eyes. Although it was just a "soul" that could float over and was not a complete person, it was a good thing no matter how you look at it.
"Sit down and talk? It's a pity that you can't eat like this." Xu Zhenguan quipped.
Zhao Duan smiled bitterly, not looking at the delicious food on the table, he did not talk nonsense, and talked about some of the subsequent events of the battle, including the fact that Wei Xianzong made meritorious service for his crimes.
"It seems that you are protecting this person right. The person recommended by Mr. Yuan is indeed talented."
Xu Zhenguan nodded and said:
"It is special during the war. Since he is willing to commit crimes and make meritorious service, he can give him a chance."
Zhao Duan nodded and mentioned the reunion of the Yuxiu sisters.
"What's wrong? Well, how do you use this person? You can do it at the front of you and the camera." Xu Zhenguan nodded and expressed surprise, but these are not big things.
It was not until Zhao Duan finished talking about the content of the meeting of the generals after the war and Xue Shence's concerns that Xu Zhenguan finally became serious.
"The blockade of supplies and trapped the court to death... This matter is indeed difficult to resolve, but within three months, it is a fantasy to take back the Huai River. What do you think?"
Xu Zhenguan asked, his eyes shining in the darkness.
(This chapter ends)