"During the march, I was surprised to hear that the governor had led the Huainan army to defeat the bandit general Shi Kan, and crossed the river to the north to capture Yecheng, Hebei. Many of our soldiers were so happy that they cried. God blessed Jin Zuo, and fortunately, the governor was born, and Xiong was advancing northward. It was not a problem for me to be a mere Hu Chou..."

After arriving in Liyang to dock, all the generals of Xuzhou, Li Hong and others rushed forward and bowed deeply to Shen Zhezi. The tone was high and exciting, and the praises to the Huainan Army were endless, and they spoke for money.

Shen Zhezi and the Huainan generals accepted all the praises from the Xuzhou army. However, Shen Zhezi's focus was not here, but he looked at the size of the fleet of the Xuzhou army with interest. It was too hot. There were nearly thirty warships, the smallest of which were medium-sized fighting ships, and as many as seven or eight large warships!

Previously, in front of the Ye army, the Huainan Army could still rely on its strong boats and suppress the enemy on the water. However, compared with the Xuzhou army, the Huainan Army was nothing.

The reason for such a difference is that after the Huai River War in the early years, most of the use of water and weapons in the Huai River were inherited by the Xuzhou army. The most important one was boats, and there were also many sea boats. After all, when Jiangdong was suppressed and beaten in the early years, plundering the coastal counties and counties of Jiangdong was also a very keen attack method that Jie Kingdom was quite enthusiastic about. In this regard, it was naturally a lot of weapons used.

Although the Huainan Army was divided into some parts afterwards, Xi Jian was old and was unwilling to be completely subordinate to Huainan. He left many good goods, which can be seen from the fleet that came to meet this time.

This made Shen Zhezi quite unhappy, but when he thought that Xi Jian finally stopped hiding this time, it was a kind of briefing, and he calmed down a little, and he felt more sincerely that youth is the greatest capital. So what if Xi Jian is old and stingy, you can borrow from the sky for another five hundred years, search for it, and finally save these foundations to Shen Zhezi to accept!

Although Shen Zhezi's attitude was pretty good, Li Hong and other generals were not in a relaxed mood. When they returned to Liyang City, they hurriedly explained to Shen Zhezi in detail why they were delayed.

Although the dispatch of troops to the north was very smooth this time, and there were few stubborn people in Qingyan, they still encountered some twists and turns. Especially in Taishan County, some local tyrants relied on their own territory and repeatedly surrendered and rebelled. In the end, the Xuzhou army gathered superior forces to eliminate several of the relatively powerful riots. But until now, it was not said that they were fully settled, and Shen Mu still stayed there to guard.

Shen Zhezi could understand this. Taishan County is one of the few places on the Huanghuai Plain, and it can even be said to be the only place that occupies a beautiful place. The rest are all flat.

Xu Kan, the military leader who occupied this place in the early years, relied on this advantage and roamed between the Jiangdong court and Shi Le. He rebelled and surrendered. He waited until Shi Le had unified the stable situation in Hebei and sent Shi Hu to finally defeat him with an army of 40,000.

Although there is no strong military leader in Mount Tai at present, there are many Haowuxiang Sects. If someone secretly provokes it, it will be very troublesome for the Xuzhou army to solve it.

If Taishan County cannot be stabilized, there will be no complete stability between Xu, Yan and Qing. If the Xuzhou army comes south in large numbers, it will face the hidden danger of being intercepted.

The Xuzhou army itself was unable to change its habit of fighting on its own. Xi Jian was unable to arrive at the front line to supervise the war because of his age. In the absence of a unified dispatch, it was good that he could temporarily solve the problem of Taishan County in such a short period of time.

Seeing that Shen Zhezi did not pursue the Xuzhou army's delay, Li Hong and others were relieved. If they had the meaning of competing with the Huainan army before, then they had completely dispelled this idea.

These Xuzhou generals also knew the plan for this military operation. They wanted to join forces with the Huainan army to go north to fight against Shikan, Yecheng. To be honest, they were not too enthusiastic about this, because Xi Gongye is nearly 70 years old. Once they go north, these generals will be controlled by Liang Duke Shen Zhezi, and they will be assisted all the troops. Even if they get the merits, they will inevitably have a difference of thickness.

Regarding Liang Gong, their senses are extremely complex. On the one hand, they can see that this person has a bright future, and they can also feel that Mr. Xi is cooperating with him to take charge of Xuzhou affairs. On the other hand, he is too domineering. Once he takes over Xuzhou, he will inevitably break the original situation in Xuzhou. These military leaders cannot re-enter the original situation.

Therefore, this time in Taishan County, there is also a meaning of deliberate delay, and he wants to use this to make Liang Gong restrain himself. But unexpectedly, even if they were not present, the Huainan army would kill Shi Kan cleanly and seize Ye City, and the results were even much greater than they had expected before!

In this way, their previous thoughts and actions became a joke, and they felt both embarrassing and fearful. The Huainan Army itself alone burst out with such amazing combat power. What is it difficult to accept to capture Yecheng in the first battle and capture Xiangguo in the second battle? How will these Xuzhou generals deal with it?

Moreover, the Huainan Army had such brilliant results. It was no longer possible to replace Mr. Xi in Xuzhou. It was not a question of whether he wanted to do so. He didn’t even have to guess whether he wanted to. Shen Mu had a big head and thousands of Huainan Army soldiers standing in Xuzhou right now!

So at present, they really have no right to act again, and they are scrambling to come to Liyang. As soon as they settled down, several Xuzhou generals expressed their opinions one after another: "The king's army is victorious now, and it is time to use this situation to defeat the Hu thieves again! The last generals were trapped in the ground and failed to do their best. They will fight hard later to win another battle as the governor, annihilate the thieves and destroy Ji Long!"

After hearing this, Shen Zhezi smiled and said, "The king will naturally be more brave in the future. You don't have to worry about the dangers and have nowhere to hunt, and you don't have to rush for a while. Let's take a break for a while. As for whether to attack Xiangguo from the north, this matter still needs to be discussed again."

When everyone heard this, they were stunned, but because they were guilty, they did not dare to ask more questions. Only Li Hong was Xi Jian's confidant and frowned after hearing this, "The great victory of Liyang in the Wangshi this time is an unsatisfactory since Yongjia, and this is a sign of great prosperity for the Jin Dynasty. However, Shi Jilong, Hebei, was taking Xiangguo, and the abolition was not yet prosperous. At present, the Xu and Huai tribes have already worked together to have tens of thousands of people, so why are they the governors..."

When he talked about this, he saw that Shen Zhezi's eyebrows were slightly locked. Although his expression did not change much, he had a terrifying aura that made it difficult to say the subsequent words again, so he hurriedly lowered his head.

"You are here from afar, and you will be able to lead the army into the camp for a while. As for where the Japanese soldiers are directed, I will be given a command later."

After Shen Zhezi finished speaking, he stood up from the table. Although he did not pursue the failure of the Xuzhou army, it did not mean that he had to give them a clear explanation. Xi Jian is almost the same here. But even if Xi Jian is here, he would only notify him of any decision, and it would not be a discussion.

In fact, from the beginning, Shen Zhezi had no intention or expected to wipe out the remaining forces of Hebei Jie Kingdom within one battle. Even though he had already taken down Yecheng, even after the arrival of Xuzhou Army, the military strength on the surface was completely superior to Shi Hu.

The Xuzhou Army has not yet been integrated into the Huainan Army system. Such a combination seems to be powerful, but Shen Zhezi is really doubtful when facing a truly cruel war.

Xiangguo and Yecheng seem to be actually very close, but with every step forward, the risks faced by the Huainan Army will be greater. Once the battle continues to fight north, it is impossible to expect the Shihu to be easily defeated like a stone, and it will be a protracted war.

In such a battlefield environment, field battle is the key to decisive victory. At least at present, in field battles, the Huainan Army cannot be said to have completely surpassed those Jie soldiers and Mihu Yicong.

The Huainan army advanced into Hebei, which instead led to the gathering of many miscellaneous Hus in the Yan Dynasty around Shihu, which Shen Zhezi didn't want to see. At least in the current view, those miscellaneous Hus are not happy to see the Huainan army occupying Hebei.

The strategy of war has its own way of opening up and relaxing. At present, the new Wei land is far from being regained, and it is far from being a stable base for the Huainan Army. Instead of forcing the Hutongs to fight against the enemy, Shen Zhezi was more happy to see them biting their dogs and slapping their strengths with each other.

Even if the Tuoba family, who is still a younger generation, is gradually becoming a climax, and may not be happy to still be trapped in Liao. Especially Shen Zhezi is not friendly to the Murong family, and he almost blatantly supports their brothers' division and internal strife.

Shi Hu is also a person who cannot tolerate others to snore. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. Shen Zhezi wanted to take a look. Without the strong threat from the Huainan army in the south, who would have pressed whom to the ground to rub strongly.

Of course, the main problem is that the Huainan Army has reached a limit at present. Although Li Yang seems to be winning easily in the battle, it has reached the Huainan Army's current limit. To digest the results of the war and to prepare to take over Xuzhou, Shen Zhezi has always believed in the power that he did not control for himself, and has never been truly powerful.

Especially in Jiangdong, Shen is far from being a one-man show of justice and still has many constraints. When the war in Hebei is at this point, it would be too slow if it cannot react.

When the war between the north and the south has reached this point, in fact, compared with the gains and losses of the city, population acquisition has become the key to victory or defeat. Especially when Jiangdong is already weak and both the north and the south have accumulated many problems, Shen Zhezi really doesn't have to fight for a moment of courage.

Of course, the enemy really had no way to guess his tricks. Especially after the Huainan Army advanced north, it took a sharp move forward. Although Xiangguo acted as a stunning attitude, Shi Hu was frightened by the powerful forces of the Huainan Army and the Xuzhou Army, and did not dare to start the battle lightly for a while.

Shen Zhezi continued to act as an increase in troops towards Yecheng, but his main intention was no longer to compete with Shi Hu to win over Hebei. Instead, taking advantage of the fear and restraint between the two sides, he collected as many people as possible in Hebei Township. Then the army slowly retreated and finally retreated to the Fangtou area.

While Xiangguo was still suspicious of the intentions of the Huainan army, more than one million Hebei people had withdrawn from Yedi and moved west to south. They were placed in Jijun west of Fangtou, Henoi and Henan. When the Huainan army withdrew, the entire Yedi, whether it was new, old, or even Santai, were demolished and burned.

As for the main forces of the Huainan Army and the Xuzhou Army, they continued to advance westward along the Yellow River, with the goal pointing to Heluo.
Chapter completed!