.I paused slightly and added: "But the child still believes that now the two armies are facing each other, and the policy of persuading surrender can only be regarded as a surprise weapon. We must not put all hope on it."

"Oh?" What I said seemed to have attracted the interest of my father. He gently stroked his beard and said, "You keep talking."

After answering my order, I thought for a moment, and couldn't help but move, and said, "I thought that the riots in the court were newly defeated. At this time, we must not give them a chance to recover at all. Therefore, we can lead the army to Jiangpu, which will have the effect of intimidating the enemy. In this way, I can also make the surrender unexpected benefits. In addition, when I heard the argument between Zhou Wang, Dai Wang and Gu Wang, I felt that what Zhou Wang and Dai Wang were saying were old-fashioned things. Although Gu Wang had some shortcomings, it may not be impossible to do as long as I thought carefully." I smiled at the Wang Uncle Wang and continued, "Actually, we can follow the words of Wang Uncle Gu, and divide our troops into a detour to Dangtu and look for opportunities to cross the river. However, the army that detoured Dangtu should not be too many, and we must travel lightly and quickly, so that we can have the wonderful use of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger."

After hearing what I said, everyone roughly understood what I meant and knew that I was going to make a strong attack on Jiangpu and not give Jiangpu's defeated army a chance to breathe. At the same time, they wanted to send people to detour across the river and go up the river to threaten the capital.

Although everyone knew what I said was a detour, Dangtu was very different from what King Gu said, but Uncle Gu had slightly saved some face because of my words, so he said to me with a smile: "The nephew Changluo can indeed learn from one example and I mean that."

Everyone had no time to pay attention to what Uncle Gu said. They all silently thought about my words. After a while, Uncle Zhou suddenly asked me: "Nephew Changluo, how many people do you want to detour Dangtu?"

I had already thought of the answer in my heart, and what I waited for was his words, so I gave birth to two fingers and said, "Uncle Wang. I think only 20,000 people are enough to shock the capital."

Everyone thought for a while. Uncle Ning Wang said first: "No wonder King Changluo came out of Chengdu and won consecutive victories. I think this method is feasible."

When the father heard this, he nodded and said, "The enemy's new defeat is indeed low morale. If he can advance to Yingtian while besieging them, the news will definitely make the enemy's morale unstable." With the words of the father, I knew that he probably agreed to my method, but just paused, and I heard the father say, "It's just that there are too few 20,000 people. Let's do this. Since you have proposed the method, you can lead the 50,000 people from his headquarters to detour this time!"

Wen Yan was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know why my father did this. You should know that among the troops brought by the vassals, the ones that could fight were about 100,000 of my father and me, and 50,000 of Uncle Ning's 50,000 of them. I didn't expect that when my father was in need of military service, he would make the decision to let me take the headquarters to detour. This made people a little confused.

I was about to speak when I saw the look of my father's eyes, and my heart moved slightly, and I didn't dare to say anything more. I immediately accepted the order and agreed. When I took the order, I noticed that Uncle Ning, the next to me, looked at me twice, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Then, the people in the tent discussed the details of their march into Jiangpu for a while, and then they all dispersed.

Back at my commander's tent, I told Zhu Zhu all the things today, and asked Zhu Zhu what his father sent me to lead troops from Dangtu to cross the river. After hearing this, Zhu Zhu walked back and forth between the commander's tent, he laughed and said, "Actually, what's so hard to think about? As long as your Highness understands the feelings of His Highness King Yan, all the questions will be solved."

"The Father's intention?" I seemed to think of something vaguely when I heard this, but I couldn't figure it out, so I said, "Brother Zhu, you don't have to do any puzzles, so I'd better tell me!"

"Your Highness, I'll ask you, which of these vassal kings are the strongest?"

"If we say that according to strength, we should be the father's first. After the previous battle in Yanjing, the soldiers under his command were the most capable of fighting. Then, it was time for Uncle Ning. His soldiers and generals had the best preserved strength without war. Then it was us... Well, as for Uncle Wang of Zhou and Uncle Dai, although they had suffered a defeat before, they had a total of about 30,000 people under their command, which should not be underestimated. The remaining Uncle Wang of Wang was less than 10,000 people, and the fewer were only 3,000 people. Even the Chuzhou garrison was not as good as!"

"Your Highness is not wrong at all, so I want to ask Your Highness again. If the army and horses under your command are greatly damaged when siege Jiangpu this time, I wonder who will be the strongest?" Zhu Zhu looked at me with half-closed eyes, and his cunning expression made me feel a little cold.

"Are you saying that my father intended to avoid the Jiangpu battle?" I finally figured out what Zhu Zhu was going to say to me, after all, he asked in surprise.

Zhu Zhu nodded and said, "The siege of Jiangpu is definitely an extremely tragic battle. If you stay in Jiangpu at the same time, you will inevitably suffer some damage. It is really hard to say whether others will have an opportunity to take advantage of it. Now Your Highness, Your Highness, letting you take the lead by detour, just to think that Your Highness can preserve your strength, first, to implement Your Highness's roundabout strategy, and second, to prevent people with other ideas from moving around. This is really the painstaking effort of Your Highness!"

After hearing Zhu Zhu's words, I felt more and more that what he was talking about was the intention of his father. At the same time, I also knew that there was a huge gap between him and his father's scheming. He was still with me and Zhu Zhu. Otherwise, I was afraid that even if I wanted to break my head, I would not understand his father's intention.

Seeing that I didn't say anything, Zhu Zhu said again: "King Ning has been watching the situation of war in various places before. He probably thought that he would take action until the last moment of the defeat of the King of Yan, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman. But he missed you, Your Highness, so this time, Your Highness and King Yan led all the vassal kings. In order not to let the king of all the vassal kings be disinterested by him, he had to hurry to Tuzhou." After a slight pause, Zhu Zhu continued: "But according to the arrangements of Your Highness, Your Highness, you must have already developed a precaution against King Ning, so that you can lead your troops away."

Zhu Zhu's words made me feel that this is really unpredictable. Even at this most important moment, I didn't expect that our coalition forces, which seemed to be united in the outside world, would have such a stalwart. Perhaps the father stood in his position, and there were really some people who were in a high place!

Putting aside these things, the next morning, as planned last night, after I prepared all the march, I led my 50,000 people under my command to fight lightly at noon, and only brought thousands of grains for five days, and turned westward together, and rushed towards Dangtu.

On the same day, the father also set off, leading the coalition forces of more than 150,000 vassals to Jiangpu.

I went west and sent scouts to pay attention to the surrounding situation, especially in the direction of Jiangpu behind the horses. I really didn't dare to relax at all, because the enemy in Jiangpu was very likely to receive the news of my detour and sent people to attack me from behind. However, to my surprise, there seemed to be no movement in Jiangpu, which made me really wonder whether Xu Zuhui was just a false reputation.

This question was not until later, and I learned from Li Jinglong that Xu Zuhui and he had rarely agreed to follow and attack the 50,000 people we detoured, but when they could find me, they hurriedly gave up the idea. But this was all a story.

I brought my men to Dangtu. The one-and-a-half trip seemed surprisingly smooth. There was not even a single intercepting military ship on the river. According to what Uncle Wang of Zhou and Uncle Wang of Dai that day, the navy of the court was divided into two factions, one of which had already turned to our side. Now both of them were fighting in Zhenjiang area, so there was no extra effort to pay attention to my 50,000 people crossing the river.

I hijacked dozens of civilian boats across the river by the river. Although it was a hijacking, I paid all the ships after crossing the river. Therefore, the boatmen were a little grateful to me, which made me even doubt whether I did this to win people's hearts or that I was really so "virtuous".

After crossing the river, I marched along Danyang and Tao Wu toward Yingtian. On the fourth day of this marching, I received a secret letter from my father, saying that the people who were sent to persuade Li Jinglong to surrender had already returned. Although Li Jinglong was a little moved, he was still swaying. Instead, he sieged Jiangpu for three consecutive days, and more than 10,000 casualties were killed or injured on both sides, which was really a stalemate. Therefore, my father meant that I would hurry up and attack Yingtian earlier, so that the enemy's morale would be chaotic.

After receiving a secret letter from my father, I accelerated the marching and rushed to Yingtian's city early in the morning of the next day.

The sun rose from the east a little lazy. Under the first ray of sunlight, my archers shot the first round of arrow rain towards Yingtian City.

I probably had received the news that I detoured Dangtu. The walls of Yingtian City had already been arranged. The rain of arrows hit the top of the city and was soon blocked by the shields of the defending army. At the same time, they began to think about us under the city shooting arrows.

In fact, I had known for a long time that most of the imperial army had been sent to Jiangpu, leaving only more than 10,000 troops to defend the city. Therefore, I dispersed the five armies under my command and sent Hantu. Li Hai soldiers and eighteenth brothers each defended the east gate, north gate and west gate. I led Dali's rear army and my central army to sit on the riverside, urging each army to attack the city with all its might.
Chapter completed!