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"Gather troops in winter? To deal with this military governor?" Liu Ce was stunned when he heard this and frowned, "What do Li Suwen want to do?"

Seeing this, Wu Sidao next to him hurriedly asked Jiang Pei: "Three Master, are you sure Li Suwen summoned his troops to deal with the military governor? This is a big deal, but don't make a mistake. Aren't they going to deal with Huang Fu from the south..."

Jiang Pei said: "Mr. Wu, although I don't understand the military strategy, I still have some basic judgments. I will gather troops in winter.

It was just after going downstairs to report to the military governor's office to the military affairs of the eight northern provinces. Do you think this is a coincidence?

In addition, the main forces of Huang Fu and Xue Chengzong of the army confronted each other outside Qingzhou Prefecture, and they both won and lost each other. The war did not worsen even further.

The imperial court's financial difficulties are tight, would it choose to gather people from all over the capital at this time? It is unreasonable for both emotion and reason, so I believe that

Li Suwen had no other reasonable explanation except to summon troops to deal with the military governor..."

After listening to Jiang Pei's analysis, Liu Ce and Wu Sidao both fell into deep thought.

"Ha..." After a brief silence, Liu Ce sneered, "Li Suwen summoned a large army in various parts of the capital. Without the imperial court's instructions, this military governor would not believe it if he was beaten to death.

Since the court is betrayal and destroys bridges across rivers, then he doesn't blame me for being unrighteous. I want to take advantage of the fact that I am not aware of my military governor's foothold in the north and launch an offensive? It's such a dream!

The military governor immediately sent troops to launch a fierce attack on Su Ning, Hengyang and Yuzhou provinces, directly north of the Wei River. He wanted to see what the court and Li Suwen could do to me!"

Wu Sidao added: "Mr. Military Governor, my subordinates suggest that you send letters to the generals of the three provinces to surrender, and start from both sides to destroy the morale of the army.

Most of the officials in these three provinces are poor families, and the people are dissatisfied with the Great Zhou. Now the military governor can invite people to take good opportunities!"

Liu Ce nodded after hearing this: "Immediately draw up a plan, and first order people to send documents to the soldiers guarding the camps in all regions of the three provinces, so that they can stand on the side of our military governor.

At the same time, Chen Qing's Baipao Army was ordered to go to Caizhou, Heyuan, and move southward in late January. It is necessary to arrive before Li Suwen summoned the army to cross the Wei River and arrive north of the Wei River across the river.

If necessary, all the bridges can be demolished to slow down the enemy's marching speed..."

Wu Sidao bowed and said, "Mr. Military Supervisor is wise, so his subordinates go and write to send people to the battalions of the three provinces..."

After Wu Sidao left, Liu Ce said to Jiang Pei: "Third brother, don't say much. You have to work hard all the way, take a rest first. After a few days, this military governor will hand over Jingtai to you.

Don't worry, this military supervisor will send additional officials to help you, so that you can adapt to the pace and way of our military supervisor's office handling government affairs as quickly as possible."

Jiang Pei stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, don't say these polite words. Since we are a family, I will sincerely help you.

To be honest, over the years, I, the older brother, have learned a lot of things…”

Liu Cehe nodded: "Thank you for your help from the third brother. Don't worry, I will never forget the three brothers' strong help. In the future, I will never treat you badly..."

"Then I'll take it back first..."

"Brother, go slowly..."

After seeing Jiang Pei off, Liu Ce paced back and forth in the mansion hall, carefully thinking about the Wei River strategy.

"Straight to the capital, or go to Yongliang?"

Two strategies emerged in Liu Ce's mind, one was to defeat the imperial army and attack the capital, the other was to control the Wei River, attack Yongzhou in the west, and directly take over the nest of the Li Suwen family.

Liu Ce’s thoughts are very complicated when choosing which route to march...

Because choosing to go straight to the capital, it would be equivalent to announcing a break with the Great Zhou Dynasty. When the entire Central Plains situation would be in chaos, it is very likely that the entire family would unite to attack itself.

Moreover, the capital has been wars and many people have been destroyed for years, and the population has been lost. In addition, the city gates have been disrepaired for many years and cannot be managed by the pass. It is not easy to recover their vitality in a short period of time.

It is not difficult to defeat God. The difficulty lies in the series of follow-up civil affairs problems that will be faced after occupying the five provinces and one capital of the capital of the capital. It is also very likely that the Li family will send troops from the west to block the retreat, cut off the connection between the front-line troops and the rear, and there is a threat of being surrounded by the aristocratic army...

What if you choose to attack the west to win Yongzhou? This will require a lot less pressure, and at best it is the conflict between you and the Li family.

And as long as the Yongzhou is taken down and the foundation of the Li family is destroyed, how much prestige and weight does Li Suwen have in the court? The army of various fields in the capital are very likely to fall apart, just like a pile of sand, which directly relieves the threat to the north of the Wei River, and can connect all northern provinces from the far east to the northwest, with a depth of tens of thousands of miles...

However, Yongzhou is not easy to fight. The Li family is different from the Pei family. Its family is a wealthy family in Yongliang. Moreover, the Yongzhou army has great combat power, so it is definitely not comparable to Pei Ji and others...

Even after the battle, the problem I have to face is Liangzhou controlled by Xia State...

This problem is similar to the current cautious handling of the relationship with the Monlo people.

Because once a war broke out with the Xia State, we would face an attack situation where all the people from the five provinces inside and outside Liangzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Suizhou and Lingzhou were attacking.

What's even more terrifying is that these five states are rich in excellent Western Regions war horses, and they are very large in scale and have a good degree of horse breeds, far exceeding the Far East war horses equipped by Liu Ce. They are the best horse breeds for large-scale formation of heavy cavalry and heavy cavalry.

Therefore, after conquering Yongzhou, the external problems faced were also not optimistic...

However, after careful consideration, Liu Ce finally decided to demarcate the boundary north of the Wei River and take the initiative to seize Yongzhou. As for the relationship with the people of Xia, let’s wait until the time comes!

After the strategy was finalized, Liu Ce's mood also soothed a lot. He took out the letter from his arms. It was a letter that Xue Ruyuan asked someone to bring to him. The letter said that she and Liu Ce's son were born in early September and named Liu Cong.

Liu Ce was of course very happy about the fact that he had another son, and of course he also had the relationship of staying in Xue Ruyuan's room and working hard.

But if you think about it carefully, from Liu Yu to Liu Che, to now Liu Cong, I have never watched the child be born with my own eyes when I was a father, and I have been together for too many times, so I have not fulfilled my responsibilities as a husband and father.

But then I thought again, wasn’t I going to fight so hard to give my children and women a peaceful future?

Unfortunately, Song Yanran's stomach still had no movement, which made Liu Ce feel very disappointed...

It is not that Liu Ce insisted on letting Song Yanran have a son or something, but the idea of ​​the mother in this world being highly valued by her son is deeply rooted and cannot be easily shaken. Even Liu Ce himself had to make some concessions and even integrate into it to gradually change them.

As the sphere of influence became larger and larger, the calls for Liu Ce to be the king and emperor almost covered the entire Far East.

Under Liu Ce's subconscious education, the soldiers, officials and the people under the military governor's office generally had no favoritism for the Great Zhou court, let alone any loyalty, and they all wanted Liu Ce to leave the court and become emperor.

In this case, once it reaches the step of becoming independent on behalf of Zhou, the position of the lord of the harem must be considered...

The position of the harem is related to the interests of all parties. The party with children can get more support, especially the part of offspring. If there are no offspring, they are not qualified to take the position of queen at all. Even if the emperor forces his position as a queen, he will still be criticized by officials for not long afterwards.

In other words, the throne is a matter of official business, and the emperor cannot be allowed to do whatever he wants. Unless the emperor is a fool or a tyrant, that's another matter...

Therefore, can Liu Ce not be anxious? He had paved the way for Song Yanran and was waiting for the final result to come. However, Song Yanran's stomach was still not moving, and she was really a little discouraged.

Liu Ce shook his head and put aside these ridiculous questions, and then began to focus on the next strategic layout...

"I hope that during this period, the Monroe will not make trouble, at least wait until the military supervisor cleans up all the mess north of the Wei River..."

Liu Ce sighed silently in his heart, and finally he could only try his best to pray that the things he least wanted to see would not happen.

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December 11th, the outskirts of Shendu City, Shenwu Camp...

"How many people have been summoned in total?"

"Return to the general, so far, a total of 73,000 soldiers and 1,500 war horses have been recruited in the Shenwu Camp. It is still on the way to arrive one after another..."

"It's only such a small number of people? It's been more than a month, how did you do it?"

Li Suwen stayed in the camp and heard that the family general Li Zhao reported the number of people summoned by the Shenwu Army, and his face turned dark in an instant.

Li Zhao hurriedly said: "The government is angry. As the weather is cold today, the road is difficult to move forward, and the capital has been under war and the population is severely lost. It is reasonable that the number of people recruited is unpredictable."

Li Suwen immediately interrupted Li Zhao's defense: "I don't want to listen to your explanation. If you cannot recruit 300,000 Shenwu Army before the end of the month, you don't have to come to see me again!"

Li Zhao showed a embarrassed expression, thought for a while, and plucked up the courage to say to Li Suwen: "Duke Zhenguo, my subordinates have really tried their best,

When the people heard the news that they were going to join the army, those strong and powerful people ran away overnight. When we went to recruit people, there was no soldier to recruit..."

Li Suwen said with his eyes and jaws: "So, you can't fulfill this general's instructions?"

Li Zhao sighed and said, "Duke Zhenguo, there is another reason why the people are unwilling to join the army, that is, we have not paid military salaries. Do you think they are willing to join the army without military salaries?"

"If I had military pay, why would I ask you to go? I would have already issued a list to recruit you!" Li Suwen said with a gloomy face, "In short, no matter what, the troops and military pay must be prepared to be collected on time. When the spring of next year begins, we will attack Liu Ce in the northern direction, restore the great Zhou dynasty and achieve unparalleled achievements!"

Li Zhao frowned slightly, not interested in Li Suwen's words, but Li Suwen's meaning was that all the troops and material resources must be collected.

Li Suwen continued: "Three hundred thousand people, ten thousand horses, three months of food and grass, and I can't get it before the end of the month. That general will definitely punish you for dereliction of duty and be engaged in military law!"

"As for orders, I will do it now..."

Li Zhao had no choice but to bow his order and slowly withdrew from Li Suwen's camp.
Chapter completed!