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Liu Zhen and others arrived at Cai Shen's base camp and learned that Cai Shen had not yet gotten up.

Liu Zhen looked at the already rising sun and wanted to say, "What time is it, and Cai hasn't yet risen?"

Unexpectedly, Sui Jianzhang took the lead and said: "Cai Zhaodao must be exhausted after a few days of war, so it's normal to sleep for a while. Let's wait a while."

If this were the past, Liu Zhen was still Cai Shen's commander, then Liu Zhen would have a little temper.

Now, Cai is still above Liu Zhen, both in terms of level, power, and strength, so he will wait for a while.

Of course, Cai still didn't ask Liu Zhen and the others to wait too long.

As soon as Liang Hongyu came to inform Cai Jian and Liu Zhen and others that they had come, Cai Jian immediately got up from the bed and then kissed Fang Baihua and Chen Jingu's faces respectively. Seeing that they were pretending to be asleep, Cai Jian got out of bed alone, and then washed up under Liang Hongyu's service and came to see Liu Zhen and the others.

As soon as they met, Cai still said apologetically: "I'm sleepy, let me laugh at you."

Liu Zhen smiled and said: "It's understandable that people will inevitably feel a little tired after fighting for days."

Cai still asked, "Please sit down, come and have tea."

After the guest and host took their seats, Liu Zhen couldn't wait to say, "What's the situation of the enemy and us now?"

Cai Shen glanced at Liu Qi.

Seeing this, Liu Qi walked to the simple sand table that Cai still had someone to make, and then pointed to the Wukang-Deqing area and said, "Although we have just annihilated 50,000 or 60,000 troops in Fang Baihua's tribe and Chen Shisi's tribe, Fang Baihua and Chen Shisi have some troops here to defend. There are no 100,000 troops in this part of the rebels, but there are also 80,000 troops."

Liu Qi pointed to the Lin'an-Yuhang-Fuyang area and said, "Zheng Demon King and others led their troops south. With the cooperation of local rebels, they went to Wuzhou, Quzhou, Qingtian, and Jinyun. They took 20,000 officials and troops to seize the dangerously trapped Chuzhou. Now they all retreated here to assist in defense of Hangzhou and became a barrier to the west of Hangzhou."

"The people of Lanxi, Zhu Yan, Wu Gang, Suzhou Shi Sheng, Gui'an, Lu Xing'er and others rebelled one after another to respond to Fang La. They successively captured Yueqing, Ruian, Kexian, Xinchang, Songyang, Longquan, Suichang and other places, and now they are approaching Hangzhou."

"At the same time, the rebels who occupied Wuyuan in advance have also conquered Kaihua, Changshan, Jiangshan and other places, and their troops are at the city of Xinzhou."

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After introducing the general situation of the rebels in each unit, Liu Qi concluded: "At present, from the suburbs of Suzhou in the north, from the city of Xinzhou in the south, from the bank of Wenzhou in the east, and from the bank of Huangshan in the west, the rebels spread across the vast areas of Hangzhou, Mu, Wu, Qu, Chu, Su, Hu, Xiu, Yue, Wen, Tai, and She, Xuan and Xinxin in the east of Jiangnan Road. They gathered millions and captured six prefectures and fifty-two counties."

Finally, Liu Qi pointed to the Hangzhou area and said, "The current purpose of the rebels should be to gather in the Hangzhou area to fight our army to a decisive battle."

Although sand trays were used to fight wars when Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui and the local tyrant Wei Xiang in Wudu area, when general Ma Yuan "gathered rice into a valley to draw the situation", he used sand trays to fight, but since ancient times, there are not many generals who are using sand trays to fight wars, and it can be said that there are even fewer. The reason is that it is too troublesome to make sand trays.

Unexpectedly, there were sand tables in Cai’s army, and they were built in detail, with mountains, rivers and rivers.

What shocked Liu Zhen and others even more was that when a sand table was used to demonstrate, the situation of the enemy was clearly visible at first glance.

Liu Zhen thought to himself: "No wonder Cai can still win repeatedly. With his skill, those rebels who can't even tell the difference between the south and the west and the north will be beaten by him. How could they be able to defeat him?"

Sudden!

Liu Zhen saw that on Cai Shen's sand table, the Western Route Army had not passed Dusong Pass, and then he felt aroused. He pointed to the location of the Western Route Army and said, "Has the Western Route Army just arrived here?"

Liu Qi said: "The Western Route Army was intercepted by rebels such as Shi Sheng, Gui'an, Lu Xing'er and other rebels in Huzhou. Wang Zheng led his troops to defeat the rebels in Shi Sheng's rebels in Si'an, which scared the rest of the rebels to retreat along Huzhou to Hangzhou. However, Wang Zheng did not take advantage of the victory, but continued to implement our previously designated combat plan, attack Dusong Pass, force the rebels back to Qingxi, and encircle and annihilate them on the spot."

Here we have to say that from the perspective of loyalty to Zhao Song alone, Cai Jian is indeed far inferior to Tong Guan. Although Tong Guan hated Cai Jian and wanted to get rid of it quickly, Tong Guan was always considering the overall situation from beginning to end, and was not as selfish as Cai Jian, who only considered his own gains and losses.

Liu Qi pointed to Dusong Pass and said, "The rebels left 30,000 troops here. The general stationed here is Fang La's nephew Fang Jie. The Western Army of Wang's commander's army returned in vain after two trial attacks. Now he is trapped under Dusong Pass."

After listening to Liu Qi's introduction, Liu Zhen was shocked by the ability of Jinwu Army to inquire about intelligence, and also felt a little lucky.

Without any hesitation, Liu Zhen said: "Now all rebels are gathering in Hangzhou. If they gather, this battle will be difficult to fight. In my opinion, we might as well go south to capture Hangzhou directly, and capture the king first. As long as Fang La is captured, the remaining rebels will immediately become a pile of loose sand, which is not to be afraid."

After hearing this, Zhang Jun opposed: "This is too risky. Don't forget that there are at least 80,000 rebels in Fang Baihua tribe in Wukang-Deqing. If we go south rashly, these 80,000 rebels will all our retreat, and we will become turtles in the jar."

Zhang Jun then clasped his fists at Cai and said, "General, we should wait until the Western Army breaks through Dusong Pass and join forces with us, and then first wipe out the 80,000 rebels from Fang Baihua's troops, and then move south calmly. When relying on the ground, if the rebels want to fight with us in Hangzhou, we will fight with the rebels in Hangzhou. If the rebels withdraw from Hangzhou and withdraw back to Qingxi, we will continue to implement the previous plan to encircle and annihilate the rebels in Qingxi that Tong Xuanxiang formulated."

It must be said that Zhang Jun’s suggestion is an invincible suggestion.

But Zhang Jun didn't know that what Liu Zhen was most afraid of was the Western Army coming to rob merit, so he said: "When our reinforcements arrived, the reinforcements of the rebels also arrived, so waiting for reinforcements was meaningless. Now, our army has won consecutive battles and is in full swing. We should attack Hangzhou in one go and give the rebels a fatal blow."

After pondering for a while, Liu Zhen said again: "As for the rebels of Fang Baihua tribe..."

Speaking of this, Liu Zhen looked at Cai Shen and said, "I heard that Fang Baihua and Chen Shisi were captured alive?"

Cai Shen said without even raising his eyelids: "I caught it, but because I was only concerned about fighting, they ran away in the chaos."

As soon as Cai Shen said this, all the soldiers of the Jinwu Army were stunned: "Fang Baihua and Chen Shisi ran away?"

Soon, there were well-informed and quick reactions. I thought that Cai Shen brought Fang Baihua and Chen Shisi to his tent yesterday, and then he got up late for the first time today, so I guessed some.

Those who are not well-informed and slow to react are mostly not talkative people.

There are only a few people like Guo Jin who are not well-informed, slow to react, and quick-talking. They asked stupidly: "I ran away, why haven't I heard of it?"

Wang Gui glared at Guo Jin and said, "You are our general, you have to know everything."

Guo Jin was about to retaliate, but Zhao Hong beside him pulled him and whispered: "When there is outsider, don't talk nonsense."

Only then did Guo Jin realize that he was talking too much.

With Guo Jin's example, those who just want to open their mouths and ask Fang Baihua and Chen Shisi how they ran away, and they both closed their mouths.

Liu Zhen didn't think much about it, and he said, "It's a pity to run away? Otherwise, if they were the magistrate, these 80,000 or 90,000 rebels might be defeated without attacking them."

Liu Zhen said again: "Now we can only divide our troops to wipe out the rebels of Fang Baihua tribe and Chen Shisi tribe, or stop the rebels of Fang Baihua tribe and Chen Shisi tribe from letting them go south."

Cai still said without comment: "Then Liu Zheng thinks how should we allocate our troops?"

Liu Zhen was waiting for Cai Jian's words, and he said: "The army of the recruiting troops has fought one after another, so it is natural that it is difficult to fight the tough battle. Our troops have not fought in a battle since they went south. Why would our troops come to fight Hangzhou?"

Cai still smiled and said, "You attack Hangzhou?"

As soon as Cai Jian finished speaking, the soldiers of the Jinwu Army burst into laughter.

The laughter of the soldiers of the Jinwu Army made all the Central Imperial Guards blush!

They knew that the soldiers of the Jinwu Army did not believe that they could attack Hangzhou.

Liu Zhen really wanted to slap the table and say, "Don't look down on others, we will decide to take this Hangzhou!"

But Liu Zhen also knew what kind of things he was leading.

So, when the words came to his mouth, Liu Zhen swallowed it back and said: "Of course, the enemy has hundreds of thousands of troops, and our troops only have more than 30,000 troops, and some of them are single and lonely. So, please send a side division to help us attack Hangzhou City."

As soon as Liu Zhen said this, many people from the Jinwu Army secretly scolded Liu Zhen for his delusion: "You have made meritorious service and let us shed blood and sweat, what kind of dreams of spring and autumn!"

Cai still didn't say anything - he, who has always been in supreme interests, obviously could not be so selfless.

Liu Zhen also knew that this kind of thing was not in vain, so he immediately said: "Of course, this battle was fought under the command of the recruits. The brothers of the Jinwu Army who participated in the war could not do their best. Whether it was spoils or credits, they would have a share of the Jinwu Army's brothers."

actually--

This is not impossible.

But the problem lies in that Tan Zhen also went south.

In this way, Tan Zhen could not fail to compete for this commanding achievement no matter what.

In name, Cai is still one level lower than Tan Zhen.

Therefore, when they got involved with Tan Zhen, Cai still decided not to get the big head.

Instead of being so unclear and making wedding dresses for others, it is better to fight each other.

So, Cai still thought about it for a while and said, "Let's do this, you go south and recover Hangzhou from the front, and our Jinwu army deviates from the waterway to the back of Hangzhou City to attack Hangzhou City. How about?"

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Chapter completed!