The Yan Army suddenly went south, captured several counties and crossed Shandong, and Pei County, Xuzhou was in an emergency.

Shi Qitai was still in Zhejiang, and immediately rushed to the capital after hearing the news.

At the beginning of the year, the official army was defeated. In order to slow down the attack of the Yan army, the court dismissed Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others on the surface, causing the King of Yan to "Jingnan" to lose the excuse. However, it did not play any role later. Qi Tai took advantage of the opportunity of leaving the Minister of War and went to various places to raise soldiers and food.

The official army was defeated several times on the front line, and it was gradually difficult to dispatch local governments. Local civil and military officials were waiting and watching, and the court's government orders were progressing slowly. So Qi Tai and others had to go down to supervise them in person.

...Qi Tai and his followers were on the post road and soon entered the ground of Yingtian Prefecture, but suddenly it rained heavily in the sky.

Everyone hurriedly drove the carriage to a village next to the post road, borrowed a house from a family, and stayed away from the rain for the time being.

Qi Tai bent down and walked down from the carriage and walked under the eaves of the thatched roof. He did not enter the house, but looked up at the pouring rain and sighed, and said to the guard general beside him: "Stop when the rain stops."

The general clasped his fists and said, "As for your order!"

Qi Tai turned his head and took a look, then walked into the earth-walled wooden door. The people living here had been driven elsewhere, and there were two men in green standing at the door.

Walking to a small window, Qi Tai went over and drafted the curtain and hung it up, looking at the rain outside in a restless manner.

Just then, a voice came from outside: "Qibutang, is Qibutang here?"

It sounded like Fang Xiaoru's voice. Qi Tai hurriedly got up and went out. Sure enough, he saw Fang Xiaoru standing under the eaves and collecting an umbrella. Qi Tai hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "I dare not call myself a ministry hall anymore, how could Mr. Fang be here?"

Fang Xiaoru smiled and said, "It's a coincidence! I saw Duke Qi's memorial. It's time for you to arrive in Yingtian, so I asked the order to go out of the city to greet him. When it rained heavily on the road, I happened to see a guard at the entrance of the village hiding from the rain, so I asked someone to come up and ask, it was Duke Qi!"

"Quickly please," Qi Tai said, "I don't want us to meet in this hut."

Fang Xiaoru smiled.

After the two entered the house, they sat next to the broken wooden table by the window, and there were guards around the house. Fang Xiaoru said, "Even if Duke Qi doesn't write a letter, the emperor will issue an order to summon you back to Beijing. Yan Ni is approaching Pei County, should Duke Qi know?"

Qi Tai nodded and frowned, "I have planned the strategy day and night in the past few days, and I will wait until the Beijing hometown to make suggestions."

Fang Xiaoru said: "The emperor also wants to hear the strategy of Duke Qi."

Qi Tai pondered for a long time, and whispered, "Yan Ni's move is intended to go straight to the capital!"

"Ah?" Fang Xiaoru immediately looked shocked, and calmed down again. He glanced at Qi Tai, "If this is true, Yan Ni is really bold, and the views of Mr. Qi are also amazing."

Qi Tai shook his head and said, "I just made a judgment based on facts. First, Sheng Yong worked hard to manage Shandong, which was located on the flank of the capital of Beiping. Using this as the foundation, threatened Yan Ni, so that he did not dare to go south, thinking that it would be a long-term plan. But now Yan Ni ignored Shandong and his troops arrived at the ground of Xuzhou. If the plan was not in the capital, how could this move be beneficial?"

Fang Xiaoru thought something. Qi Tai glanced at him and thought to himself that Fang Xiaoru could not think of it anyway. It was not his fault. Fang Gong was not good at military affairs and martial arts.

Qi Tai asked what Fang Xiaoru knew better and whispered: "It is said that there were spies in the imperial court in Peking. There was no news about such a big deal?"

Fang Xiaoru hesitated for a moment and whispered: "There is indeed a very important detail... There are only two people in the court who know that person except the emperor!"

"One of them must be Mr. Fang." Qi Tai said casually.

Fang Xiaoru nodded and said, "But a few months ago, the man suddenly disappeared! The court sent someone to Peking to ask about the details, but reported that nothing had happened. It was so strange!"

Qi Tai didn't ask after hearing this. Since the Lord of the Lord hadn't let him know for so long, he couldn't ask again. He asked in a half-joking tone: "I heard that Mr. Fang offered a plan to distract him. It turned out that it was Duke Wei's idea?"

Fang Xiaoru said a little embarrassedly: "It is true, but the Duke of Wei is afraid that the emperor will not accept it, so he told me not to say it was his suggestion."

Qi Tai remembered that before the outbreak of the "Battle of Pingyan", Xu Huizu tried his best to prevent Gaoyang from leaving Beijing... Later, Gaoyang King indeed made great contributions to Yan Ni. Now it seems that Xu Huizu is indeed devoted to the court.

"The Duke of Wei has a gap with Huang Zicheng." Qi Tai called his name without any concealment, and he also couldn't stand Huang Zicheng. "So the Duke of Wei was looking for Duke Fang, and he hoped that Duke Fang would recommend him to lead his troops and have a place to use his skills."

Fang Xiaoru sighed, "How could I not know? It's just that Yan Ni is the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wei, and I'm worried that the emperor will not agree."

Qi Tai said calmly: "Since Duke of Wei has found Duke Fang, why not try it?"

Fang Xiaoru finally nodded.

The rain at the turn of summer and autumn came at the turn of time, and stopped at the turn. After a heavy rain like pouring rain, the rain stopped. Qi Tai looked out the window and stood up and said, "Let's go back to Beijing first."

Fang Xiaoru said: "A heavy rain made Duke Qi live here, please!"

Qi Tai didn't care. He had never lived in thatched huts before, but the house he lived in was only more broken than this one! At that time, he couldn't afford paper and ink for study, so he could only rely on the clan to help him.

...After Qi Tai entered Beijing, he immediately offered the strategy of "attacking from top to bottom, attacking from long-term to defend".

After facing the saint, he proposed to move the main front south. He transferred Sheng Yong to the Huaihe River south, and then transferred the Jingying to the north to reinforce, thinking that it would be deployed in the south. The Ping'an Army followed him to Jining, Shandong, located in Xuzhou and north of Pei County. Most of the two official troops attacked the main forces of the Yan army in a north-south manner!

At the same time, there are long-term preparations for both offense and defense. In advance, the son-in-law, Mei Yin, was appointed as the general officer of Huainan, gathered the soldiers and civilians in Huainan to manage the Huaihe River defense line, and was a strategy for long-term defense.

He ordered the Liaodong army to go south again and force Yan to rebel against the empty Beiping nest, thinking that it would be a strategy to attack from afar.

Shi Yan Ni suddenly headed south and marched very quickly. The emperor and the imperial court could not come up with a comprehensive strategy for a while, so he roughly followed Qi Tai's suggestion and made some modifications in small ways.

Fang Xiaoru recommended Xu Huizu. The emperor trusted Fang Xiaoru very much, but was convinced by reason and finally appointed Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, to serve as the general of the Beijing camp to go north to reinforce.

Qi Tai planned a response as quickly as possible. Yan Ni came up with a surprise and suddenly went south, probably not so smooth.

The confrontation that had been silent for half a year was broken by the King of Yan's southward movement, and a large-scale war was inevitable.

Xu Huizu wiped the butter from his armor and finally got his wish and put on his armor as he wished. He came to the military camp with great enthusiasm. His posture had never been so arrogant.
Chapter completed!