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Jinling.

Cai Shen’s central army tent.

Cai still asked Chai Jin: "Where did the Anhua Army and Wuning Army go?"

Since Cai still sent Lu Jie, Yan Qing, Yu Peng and others to weave intelligence networks, Lu Jie, Yan Qing, Yu Peng and others to start or send trusted personnel to open restaurants, teahouses and other people to chat to establish intelligence collection points in places where people often stay and chat. At present, Cai still has just begun to send Lu Jie, Yan Qing, Yu Peng and others to establish intelligence networks, so the conditions are still very limited, mainly because professional talents are not enough, so they can only establish intelligence collection points in various transportation hubs first. When the conditions in the future are enough and there are enough intelligence collection talents, Cai still will definitely set up intelligence collection points in all major cities to monitor the whole world.

Because of the intelligence collection point, Cai can still accurately grasp the movements of each army. For example, Cai still already knows that the six 100,000 Han soldiers and 200,000 wing troops in Shaanxi have already set off from Daming Prefecture, and the troops on Liuzhen have almost gathered. At most, the vanguard army can be sent from the capital in three or five days.

Compared with other armies, what Cai still cares most about is where the Anhua Army and Wuning Army, which are under his control, are?

In fact, Cai has been paying attention to the movements of these two armies.

Chai Jin obviously guessed that Cai would still ask the movements of An Hua Army and Wuning Army.

So, as soon as Cai still asked, he immediately replied: "The Anhua Army passed by Gwangju yesterday, and the Wuning Army passed by Macheng yesterday."

Cai still found the locations of Gwangju and Macheng on the map, and frowned and said, "Why are you walking so slowly? At this speed, they will not be able to reach Jiangling in ten days."

Chai Jin was only responsible for collecting intelligence, and Chai Jin was very clever and did not participate in the rest of the matter.

Zhao Ding took over the conversation and said, "The Central Imperial Force has been lazy for too long and has lost its power of action. I think we can't count on them anymore."

Song Jiang said: "But just relying on our existing forces to go south to fight the decisive battle with Fang Qifu's troops, isn't it too risky? Fang Qifu has 120,000 troops. The key is that it is difficult to guarantee that Fang La will not change his mind to send reinforcements to Fang Qifu. If that is the case, if the reinforcements are not sent, we will go deep alone and may face the siege of millions of rebels."

Chai Jin listened to the words and looked at Cai Jian.

Cai still nodded, and Chai Jincai said, "Just yesterday, Fang La had formulated the next combat plan, and the facts had begun. According to the facts, in addition to sending Fang Qifo to capture Chongde in the Northern Dynasties and waiting for an opportunity to capture Xiuzhou and Huzhou, Fang Baihua to capture the Guangde army, Fang Wuxi to capture the Taizhou area, Qiu Rixin to capture the Yuezhou area, Shi Sheng to capture the Suzhou area, Huo Chengfu, Chen Zuotong and others to capture the Chuzhou area, and personally commanded Zheng Demon King, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang and others to capture the Quzhou area."

Liang Gongcheng relied on his familiarity with the Southeast and wanted to show himself in front of his grandson-in-law, so he rushed to speak: "This means that Fang La and his gang have focused on seizing the Southeast. Fang Qi Buddhas are alone in front of us."

Liu Qi looked at the map for a while, then pointed to the Guangde Army area and said, "Please look here for the old general."

Liang Gongcheng listened to the words and looked in the direction Liu Qi pointed.

After looking at it for a while, Liang Gongcheng said a little uncertain: "You mean, the Fang Baihua tribe may be reinforcements from the Fang Qi Buddha tribe?"

Wang Dedao: "Fang Baihua should want to seal the passage from the west to the south, but looking at the distance between the two armies, if we fight with Fang Qi Buddha's tribe, only Fang Baihua's tribe can become Fang Qi Buddha's reinforcements."

Liang Gongcheng couldn't help but question: "But the Guangde army is still okay from Huzhou. Is it too far from Xiuzhou? Aren't they afraid that we will defeat Fang Qi Buddha's tribe in Xiuzhou and make them unable to rescue them?"

Wang Shengdao: "I guess they don't look down on us and don't think we can defeat Fang Qifu's army in one fell swoop."

Yue Fei looked carefully at the map for a while before saying, "In my opinion, they wanted Fang Qifo to seize Huzhou and Xiuzhou first, and then to defend the city in the Huzhou-Xiuzhou area and seal our passage to the south."

Niu Gao said: "The premise is that they can conquer Huzhou and Xiuzhou, especially the latter."

Zhai Xing asked: "Who is the governor of Xiuzhou?"

Chai Jin said: "Zhang Qi, but this person took his family away as soon as Fang Qifo went north. Now, the one who is actually guarding Xiuzhou is Chen Go, a direct scholar in Longtu Pavilion."

"Bachelor? Literary?" Zhang Jun said.

Zhao Ding glanced at Zhang Jun and said, "This Lord Chen is not an ordinary scholar. He was a Jinshi at the age of 21. He first learned from Shen County. He worked hard and had outstanding political achievements. He was then the magistrate of Yongqiu County and also achieved great political achievements. He then served as the judge of Guangxi Transportation, then served as the prefect of Shangzhou and Xingyuan, and was promoted to the chief minister. He served as the transfer envoy of Huaibei and Huainan. Last year, he was promoted to the direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion for his outstanding political achievements and was responsible for managing Hangzhou. In order to strictly enforce the financial system and restrict corruption, he created "economic money" which greatly restricted corruption."

Speaking of this, Zhao Ding still bowed to Cai and said, "The economic money created by Lord Chen is very similar to the stamp duty created by the general. However, the economic money is not as useful as the general's stamp duty, and has significant effects, and the economic money has a certain degree of compulsory..."

With Zhao Ding's account, Cai still understood that the economic money created by Chen Go is actually miscellaneous tax economic money. This economic money includes both a part of stamp duty and a part of value-added tax. From the perspective of this era, it is already a very clever tax system.

After Zhao Ding explained the money for Cai, he said: "This Lord Chen is as good as a general and is both civil and military, and is a very wise man. The subordinates believe that he will be able to defend Xiuzhou and gain enough time for us."

Anyone present can be seen from one counts and one person. Zhao Ding highly respects Chen Go.

However, some well-informed people couldn't help but look at Cai Jian secretly because of this.

Cai still knows why these people peek at me.

When Chen Go was appointed as the judge of Guangxi Transportation, the leaders of Guangxi ethnic minority groups were unwilling to pay tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty court.

Cai Jing therefore advocated conquest.

Chen Gou reported: The main focus should be on appeasement, and war should not be easily spoken of.

Therefore, Chen Gou aroused Cai Jing's hatred.

Not long after, Chen Gou was demoted to his hometown by Cai Shen.

In other words, Chen Go has old grudges with Cai Jing, and if he has old grudges with Cai Jing, he has old grudges with the Cai family, and then he still has old grudges with Cai.

Therefore, many people think that Zhao Ding's admiration for Chen Gou may make Cai still unhappy.

However--

What these people never expected was that Cai still did not blame the past with a generous and generous past, but also said: "If Chen Hengbo was guarding Xiuzhou, it would definitely not be compromised by the rebels. Next, you will formulate a combat plan and you can use Xiuzhou as the territory of our Song Dynasty."

As soon as Cai Shen said this, Liu Qi immediately advised: "General, let's be more cautious. If Lord Chen can't defend Xiuzhou..."

It must be said that Liu Qi was a serious suggestion from Lao Cheng. After all, those who have won the temple before the battle have to be counted more; those who have not won the temple before the battle have to be counted less. More than that there is nothing to be counted.

pity--

Liu Qi is not Cai Jian, and I don’t know what Cai Jian is thinking.

First of all, Cai was still very confident in Chen Go. If history did not change, the Zhongshan Defense War, one of the five major defense battles of the Northern Song Dynasty that had won precious time for the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, was fought by Chen Go. At that time, the Jin army besieged Zhongshan Prefecture for half a year, but could not attack Zhongshan Prefecture, which Chen Go held his men to defend. Can a group of peasant troops holding hoes defeat Xiuzhou, which Chen Go held his men to defend?

Secondly, Cai Jian, who is familiar with history, knew that the Fang La Yi army led by Fang Qifo did not conquer Xiuzhou in the end, and in the process of attacking Xiuzhou, Fang La Yi army suffered heavy losses.

Again, it is also the most important thing. Cai still has insufficient troops - even if he included the wing army he brought, his troops were only more than 20,000 points, less than 25,000. In this case, Cai still could not consider Fang Qifu's occupation of Xiuzhou no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to fight Fang Qifu at all.

Since Cai still believes in Chen Go so much, Liu Qi can't say anything. After all, Cai is still not those who don't understand soldiers, but a general who has fully proved himself.

Therefore, everyone quickly bypassed Xiuzhou and discussed how to fight Fang Qifo and defeat him in one battle.

After full discussion, everyone finally adopted the suggestion put forward by Liu Qi, and set the location of the decisive battle in Wudun and Qingdun areas - here, the Fang Layi army of the Fang Qi Buddha's troops in Xiuzhou and Huzhou can be cut off, and then they can be attacked separately.

Of course, this is just the ideal situation.

It is impossible to calculate everything in the battlefield with ever-changing changes. Therefore, when the battle is in front of the battle, it depends on the performance of the generals in the command of each military commander.

After formulating the combat plan, the General Staff carefully disassembled the combat plan and distributed it to staff at all levels. Staff at all levels discussed the strategic goals of their department with the generals in the department. In this way, they linked one link to one link, passed one level to one level, and infiltrated the combat plan of the General Staff to the entire army.

After doing all this, Cai still ordered Zhai Xing to stay. Zhai Jin and the two battalions led 10,000 troops to guard Jinling. The other troops headed south tomorrow to fight with Fang Qifu's troops Fang Layi's army.

After everyone left, only Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji-gun and his son did not leave.

As soon as Cai Shen arrived in Jinling, he caught Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji-gun and his son out of the death row.

Zhao Ting and others actually wanted to find some scapegoats to take the blame for them and thus reduce their guilt.

Most of the people who were pulled out to take the blame have no background.

Of course, Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji-sen did miss the opportunity to defeat the war, and they didn't complain about killing them.

But with Liang Hongyu's relationship, Cai still can't watch Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji-grandson beheaded, right?

Now that Cai, who is in a strong sense of holy family, still takes action, who can not sell his face?

Furthermore, Cai still brought Liang Gongcheng, Liang Ji-sun, and many generals who were really familiar with the Southeast battlefield to the war in the name of generals who needed to assist in the war with the Southeast terrain. It was reasonable and well-founded.

In this way, Cai Shen easily rescued Liang Gongcheng and Liang Jizu and his son, and temporarily organized them into the Jinwu Army, and even allowed them to participate in the senior combat meeting of the Jinwu Army, which gave them enough face.

As for why Liang Gongcheng and Liang Ji-gun and his son didn't leave, Cai Shen didn't know.

The war is about to go to war tomorrow, and there are still many important things that need to be handled by yourself. Cai Jian really has no time to guess, so he asked directly: "Grandfather, father-in-law, do you have anything to do?"

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