Thief Emperor

Chapter 630 Let’s see who’s better!

Outside Yangzhou City, General Zhou looked up and fell silent as he looked at the city in front of him.

During the day today, he has sent troops to attack Yangzhou, and now it is basically certain that there must be defenders in Yangzhou City.

It’s just that the number of people is not particularly large.

However, compared with Chuzhou City, the city wall of Yangzhou City is almost twice as high. This is a high-walled city in this era. Even if there are only two or three thousand people in the city, it is difficult to break through.

More importantly, Chuzhou has that kind of sky-shaking bomb, who knows whether Yangzhou will have it? Comparatively speaking, Yangzhou is much more important than Chuzhou!
Luo Zhen stood behind General Zhou and said, "General, I have received news that the defenders in Yangzhou City should have been transferred directly from Nanjing by Li Yun. According to the news received by our informant, all the Jiangdong soldiers have been mobilized by Li Yun. Near Nanjing, they have already..."

“It’s so empty.”

"The informant reported that the area near Jinling is now guarded by temporarily mobilized militia. General, we can cross the river at any time if we want."

Luo Zhen clenched his fist and said, "Jiangbei is not easy to fight. We might as well just destroy Li Yun's lair and make him suffer a heavy loss!"

Zhou Xu glanced back at his deputy general after hearing this. After a moment of silence, he spoke: "If we occupied the entire Jiangbei area and Jinling was empty, we could still consider fighting there. But now you want to go south when you haven't taken over any important states in Jiangbei."

"Jinling is 600 miles away from the Huai River. If you go to occupy Jinling, you will force Li Yun to return and fight us. How do you plan to get back from the distance of 600 miles?"

General Zhou said silently: "There are conflicts between us and Li Yun, and it is difficult to reconcile, but it has not come to the point where we would risk the lives of tens of thousands of people to cause trouble for him."

Luo Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "General, we have already offended him. It seems that we should not be restrained at this time. Should we withdraw to Qingzhou and then Li Yun will give up and make peace with us?"

Zhou Xu frowned again. He turned around to look at Luo Zhen and said in a deep voice, "Has anyone from the court come to see you?"

Luo Zhen was startled, and quickly shook his head and waved his hands, saying, "General, what do you mean?"

General Zhou's face was grim. He clenched his fists and gnashed his teeth in anger: "I'm not blind!"

"Yang Min from the Hongnong Yang family in Jingxiang is a shit at fighting. Li Yun had only a few thousand men to guard Chuzhou, but he was able to defend it impeccably against tens of thousands of us. But that son of a bitch Yang Min had more than 20,000 men, but he was only allowed to guard two states. Damn, Li Yun broke Xiangzhou in just half a month!"

"I'll send someone to ask."

Zhou Xu cursed viciously: "That son of a bitch, he is afraid of death because he is in Jingzhou. He has deployed most of the Jingnan Army's troops in Jingzhou. There are only more than 5,000 garrisons in Xiangzhou City!"

"After losing Xiangzhou, Li Yun took it, and then he took Jingzhou bit by bit!"

"These young men from aristocratic families are full of shit! They stink, stink!"

At this point, General Zhou said angrily, "And that Pei San! He talks better than singing, saying that several armies will march in and divide Jiangdong. Bullshit!"

Zhou Xu gnashed his teeth in anger: "Next time I see him, I will chop him twice or he will be named Pei!"

General Zhou could not help but be angry about this matter. When Pei Huang took the lead in this plan, he, General Zhou, was the first to respond and the first to take action.

But his subsequent allies were so incompetent that now it seemed like a one-on-one fight between the Pinglu Army and the Jiangdong Army!
What's worse is that he is now in a situation where he can't back down. Is it too cowardly to retreat back to the north of the Huai River?

If they don't retreat, they can only consider looting in Jiangbei or heading south to Nanjing.

But if they go south to Jinling, Li Yun's family members are not rooted in Jinling, so they can escape at any time.

More importantly, Jinling is also a big city.

Whenever Li Yun goes out, he always brings those thunder bombs with him. Is it possible that such things are not available in a nest like Jinling City?

As long as there is enough of this thing, the city under Li Yun's rule can basically be said to be impregnable. No one can attack the city under the thunder. Even if it is captured, the cost and gain will be far from proportional.

dilemma.

At this time, General Zhou couldn't help but start cursing wildly.

You have to know that he was not the first generation Jiedushi, but the successor Jiedushi. Because he had received a fairly good education since childhood, General Zhou was quite decent in his daily life.

But now, he was so angry that he didn't care about his decency at all.

Luo Zhen was scolded by him and shrank his head and dared not speak. After a long time, he lowered his head and said, "General, if you are still indecisive, you might as well withdraw your troops."

"If we withdraw our troops now, there is still room for easing tensions. The people in the imperial court and the Hedong Army are all unreliable, especially the Hedong Army..."

Speaking of the Hedong Army, Luo Zhen was also quite annoyed. He said in a deep voice: "These Hedong Army completely disregard trust and loyalty. It's really hateful!"

Zhou Xu narrowed his eyes and said softly, "I heard that old man Li is too sick to get out of bed. Old man Li is a man of integrity, otherwise I would not have believed them at the beginning." "Now, Hedong... may not be decided by old man Li."

General Zhou sighed and fell silent.

Luo Zhen looked at him, wondering what he was thinking.

After a long time, when Luo Zhen was about to speak again, a middle-aged man ran over quickly and whispered to Zhou Xu, "General, the Jiangdong soldiers in Jingxiang have been mobilized, and some of them have already rushed from Jingxiang to Jiangdong."

This middle-aged man was none other than Zhou Gui.

Zhou Xu took a deep breath and said, "It seems that in Li Yun's eyes, Jingxiang is already in his hands."

He looked at Zhou Gui and asked, "When did it happen, and how many people were involved?"

Zhou Gui lowered his head and said, "The Jiangdong soldiers in Jingxiang made some moves, which should have happened two or three days ago. As for the number of people..."

"I don't know the exact number, but it won't be too few. If it is too few, there will be no point in Li Yun mobilizing them here."

General Zhou's eyes flickered.

He thought for a while, then said softly: "Luo Zhen."

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Luo Zhen quickly lowered his head and said, "I'm here."

"We will split our troops into two groups. You lead one group and start to retreat northward from Yangzhou. After reaching Chuzhou, you will also lead the brothers in Chuzhou to retreat northward, but do not retreat north of the Huai River. Stay on the south bank of the Huai River."

Luo Zhen bowed his head and responded, then looked up at Zhou Xu and asked, "General, what do you mean..."

Zhou Xu had a blank expression on his face and said, "That Li Yun is just relying on some tricks. In actual combat, our Pinglu Army is not afraid of them."

"This time, we suffered heavy casualties. If we return to Qingzhou in disgrace, how will I be able to maintain my dignity in the future?"

General Zhou looked fierce and said, "He plotted against me, so I will plot against him too! Don't ask any more questions. You just need to follow my instructions and retreat northward."

Luo Zhen quickly lowered his head and responded again.

General Zhou put his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky. After a long while, he slowly spoke.

"Let's get started."

…………

Four days later.

Luo Zhen's troops drove to the vicinity of Chuzhou, preparing to meet up with the Pinglu Army near Chuzhou, and then retreat northward together.

At this time, Meng Qing's troops continued to march all the way to Guangzhou in Huainan Road and stationed in Gushi County.

Here, it is not far from Shouzhou.

As long as they cross Shouzhou, they can reach Haozhou, meet up with the troops stationed in Fengyang, Haozhou, and then wait for Li Yun's next instructions.

That evening, Meng Qing ordered the army to stop and rest. He himself came to the big tent early, ate a simple meal, and fell asleep.

For several days, they kept traveling all the way, and even someone with Meng Qing's temperament could not bear it anymore.

After all, his physique is only slightly better than that of normal people, and is far less powerful than Li Yun.

After lying down, Meng Qing fell asleep not long after. When he was sleeping soundly, someone pushed his arm and woke him up.

"General Meng, General Meng!"

Meng Qing suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to see one of his personal guards squatting beside his camp bed, looking a little anxious: "General Meng, you are finally awake!"

Without waiting for Meng Qing to report, he said, "Nine Division reports, we have spotted the enemy right in front of us!"

"There are infantry and cavalry!"

"It's already approaching my camp!"

(End of this chapter)