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Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-fifth: Endure the humiliation for a while, let the sun and the moon

Wang Mingyi held the coffin and cried, almost fainting. As Li Ze said, his brotherly relationship with Wang Mingren was real. The two brothers have clear division of labor since childhood. One is in politics and the other is doing business, and they support each other. They are friendly and respectful. Now that Wang Mingren has passed away young, Wang Mingyi not only feels the pain of losing his brother, but also feels that the sky is falling.

The Cao and Wang family have always trained Wang Mingren as their successors. The wealth, honor and disgrace of the two families in the future are all due to Wang Mingren. Now Wang Mingren is dead. The two cousins ​​of the Cao family are stupid in studying, not understanding the current affairs and are pure nerds. They are devoted to business and have little understanding of politics and even more ignorant of military affairs. Wang Mingyi looked in front of him and felt that his future was dark.

Wang Mingren has been dead for ten days, but the war ahead is tight and has not been buried. Everyone's sadness has basically passed. When Wang Mingyi cried, he suddenly felt sad again. Wang Wenshu, who was still lying on the soft couch, was even more crying and fainted. Many of the scabbed wounds on his body that had just been cracked again, staining his heavy clothes with blood, causing the doctor to be in a state of chaos.

Seeing the sadness of the Wang family, Li Anguo also came from the sadness. Next to Wang Mingren's spiritual shed was Li Che's spiritual shed. Although Wang Mingren's body was full of holes, he finally snatched a whole body back, while Li Che only had one head left, and his whole body was carved from sandalwood. Wang Mingren was dead, and Wang Mingyi, a brother like Wang Mingyi, cried bitterly in front of him. Li Che was dead. One of his brothers was in the distance, and he was probably secretly happy. Li Anguo looked at Wang Wenshu who was carried down, but he was extremely envious.

"Okay, Mingyi, the dead are gone, and the living still need to mourn. The governor is still waiting for you to report the situation in Yizhou!" Cao Xin pulled Wang Mingyi up and said with a gentle voice.

Wiping away the tears on his face, everyone left the spirit shed and turned to the main hall. At present, the battle situation in Shenzhou has stabilized. In addition to the 20,000 soldiers brought by Cao Xin in Yizhou, the reinforcements from Zhenzhou have finally arrived. Wang Sili, the newly recruited soldiers of Zhenzhou, arrived in Shenzhou with the newly recruited 50,000 Zhenzhou Prefecture soldiers, and set up a camp ten miles away from Shenzhou City, supporting each other with Shenzhou City. Li Anmin, Zhaozhou, finally launched troops under the rule of Zhenwu Jiedu, under the rule of Zhenwu Jiedu, which forced Wang Feng, the governor of Zhenwu Jiedu, to transfer some troops back to defense. Although the general Deng Jingshan under Zhang Zhongwu led 20,000 troops from Mozhou to aid Shi Yi, the confrontation between the two sides had already formed, and in a short time, no one on both sides could do anything to each other.

So the situation in Yizhou touched everyone's mind.

If Yizhou is broken by Henghai, Henghai Army comes from Yizhou and seizes the retreat of Shenzhou, Chengde will be defeated. At this moment, King Feng of Zhenwu is still stalemate and refuses to retreat to guard his nest. Naturally, he sees this. If he leaves at this time, once Henghai succeeds, he will lose the benefits he has obtained. At that time, he will not lose the rice.

Both sides of the enemy and us are waiting for the change in the battle situation in Yizhou.

"Jingshou, uncle, we won." Standing among the high-ranking officials under the rule of the governor of Chengde, even Wang Mingyi was a little nervous. After all, he was like the governor Li Anguo and the governor of Shenzhou Suning. Even if he didn't want to see Wang Sili, the governor of Shenzhou, Huang Shang, the governor of Shenzhou, and Du Teng, he was not able to see them just by wanting to.

"Win it!"

As soon as Wang Mingyi said this, everyone in the house breathed a long sigh, and their faces suddenly stretched out. It was Suning, whose tense face was stretched out first, as if he wanted to smile, but then he thought of something, but his face seemed even more difficult to look.

"Yes, I won. The young master led his troops to wipe out the army under Zhu Bin, the governor of Dezhou, at the junction of Wuyi and Xindu. He annihilated thousands of enemies and captured thousands of prisoners. Then he even chased the enemy for hundreds of miles and shot Zhu Bin to death at the city of Dezhou. The army took advantage of the situation to seize the city of Dezhou." Wang Mingyi said loudly. He also participated in this battle. He couldn't help but feel proud when he spoke. But he heard everyone in the house looking at each other.

Is this true?

"Are you true?" The first question was Cao Xin.

"Of course it's true." Wang Mingyi looked at his uncle and said seriously: "After we took Dezhou, the young master said that we were short of troops and could not defend Dezhou, so he set fire to Dezhou City and all the villages and towns in Dezhou, and then plundered more than 100,000 Dezhou people and retreated to Yizhou. In this battle, we only occupied Shiyi County in Dezhou, and all the others were destroyed. Now these three places are busy resettling more than 100,000 people!"

If everyone had heard the news of the victory before, they could barely maintain the demeanor of a high-ranking person while ecstatic, but at this time, the sound of cold air was rising and falling in the house.

He plundered more than 100,000 people and set fire to burn all towns, villages, and Dezhou City in Dezhou. It was an ancient city that had been passed down for thousands of years. In this way, a fire was burned clean.

This young man Li Ze, who had never met, is really a ruthless character. Such cleanliness and ruthlessness are beyond everyone's expectations.

"It's actually so cruel!" Shenzhou Governor Huang Shang murmured in a daze.

"This is a bad thing for Changshi Huang!" Gongsun Changming stood up, "The young master burned Dezhou, plundered tens of thousands of people, and forced them to migrate. It seems cruel, but it is the wisest move for us Chengde. Otherwise, even if the young master won this battle, we will still lose next. Once there is a problem in Yizhou, what will happen to Chengde in the whole life? Isn't it that Shi Yi, Wang Feng, and Deng Jingshan waiting for now? Are you just waiting for news of Yizhou's failure?"

Huang Shang suddenly woke up and suddenly realized that the one he had just criticized was Li Ze, the young master of the Jiedushi, and Li Ze was now the only son of the Jiedushi. His face changed slightly, and he lowered his head and stopped talking.

Gongsun Changming turned around, looked at Li Anguo, and bowed: "Mr. Li, the young master turned hundreds of cities in Dezhou into an unmanned land, which is a helpless move. Otherwise, Zhu Shou would definitely revive the army and occupy Dezhou again. It is obviously impossible to defend it. But if these towns and these people are left behind, Zhu Shou can collect food on the spot, recruit civilians, and march again. With the young master's current troops, he will definitely not be able to withstand it, but now, Zhu Shou is afraid that he will not be able to cross this unmanned land of hundreds of miles. Wang Mingyi, you said that the young master sent a cavalry in Dezhou."

Wang Mingyi nodded and said, "Yes, the young master sent a general named Li De to lead hundreds of cavalry stationed in Dezhou. If the enemy attacks, he will continue to raid the enemy's food route. If the enemy just stops moving, he can take the initiative to attack, circulate and attack him, and constantly harass Cangzhou, Dizhou and other places, so that the opponent will be uneasy."

"That's it!" Gongsun Changming bowed to Li Anguo Road: "Mr. Li, if what I expected is right, I'm afraid that the day when Lu Long's army and Zhenwu army withdrew were not far away."

"The enemy still has the upper hand now, why do they withdraw their troops?" Suning asked loudly without consent.

"It's very simple. Zhang Zhongwu doesn't want to fight a stalemate with us." Gongsun Changming said calmly: "Since you can't quickly decree, this person's strategic concept will be shattered. If you continue to stalemate, you will not benefit him at all. Once we are forced to do so, you may ask for help from the court and attract reinforcements. For him, it will not be a good thing. Even Gaopian from Hedong may send reinforcements to us."

"Gaopian from Hedong, but he had just suffered a defeat under Zhang Zhongwu. In the Sangganhe battle, Gao Pian lost his troops and generals. He was killed by Zhang Zhongwu's cavalry and had to retreat to Daizhou. He was still not good at taking care of himself, and he could still control us?" Suning asked sneered.

Gongsun Changming smiled, but sat down, too lazy to answer Suning's question. However, Li Anguo sighed and said, "Suning, Gao Pian's strength is far superior to my Chengde. He ruled the Tianjian Army, Datong Army, Hengye Army, Kelan Army, Yunzhong Guardian Army, and Yunzhong Guardian Army. The main force under his command reached 50,000 troops, and his strength was not weak compared to Zhang Zhongwu. This time the defeat of Sangganhe was dragged down by our hastily dispatched troops. He had to send troops to restrain Zhang Zhongwu without sufficient preparation, so he was defeated. But only after he retreated to Yanmen Pass in Daizhou, Zhang Zhongwu was no longer in a state of failure.

As we advance, we can see it. Now that we have a breath of rest and formed a stalemate with Lu Long, he has no need to risk his troops. Now the situation in the north is already in chaos, the Zhenwu army and the Henghai army have openly surrendered to Lu Long, Gao Pian must do his best to protect our virtue, so sending reinforcements is something imaginable. We may refuse the direct intervention of the imperial army, but we will not refuse Gao Pian's command to support him. Zhang Zhongwu is a smart man. Since the battle situation has reached this point, he will inevitably withdraw his troops and make peace with us. Then concentrate his efforts to deal with Gao Pian first."

"Make peace?" Suning screamed: "If they killed Che'er, who dared to make peace with them, I would chop him up."

"Irregular!" A layer of blush appeared on Li Anguo's pale face, and he looked at Suning in annoyance: "Che'er is my son, don't I feel sorry for me? But if Lu Long sent someone to make peace, I would still agree."

Speaking of this, Li Anguo coughed loudly, and it was unsustainable for a while. You Yong quickly walked over and stroked his back. After a while, Li Anguo calmed down and pointed his finger at Cao Xin: "Cao Xin, tell me, why did I agree to ask for peace? Cough cough cough!"

Cao Xin looked at Suning and said slowly: "Because we have suffered great losses after the great defeat in Hejian and the great war in Shenzhou these days. If we insist on fighting Lu Long, we will not only not be able to gain any advantage, but on the contrary, we may also suffer failure. The best result may be both defeats. If we really do this, the imperial army will take advantage of the situation. Zhang Zhongwu will definitely see this, so he knows that even if he withdraws, we will not have the strength to provoke him for the time being, but will stubbornly restore our strength. A Zhenwu Army and a Henghai Army are enough to restrain us. And he can concentrate all his efforts to fight Gao Pian. Since he cannot defeat Gao Pian at unexpected speed, he must concentrate all his strength and fight to the death with Gao Pian. If Hedong is defeated, the overall situation in the north will be settled."

"If Hedong is defeated, wouldn't Che'er die in vain? At that time, will we still have to be like Lu Long?" Suning said angrily.
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