Without him, Sima Jinda thought about it, but he realized another problem, that is, his eldest brother seemed to be the most uneasy person tonight... Losing the emperor and the queen mother would have a negative impact on the Forbidden Army as a whole, or in other words,

It is indeed a problem for the other generals in this room, but it is not a big problem, but it is really troublesome for his eldest brother, because the emperor and the queen mother are the ones who returned to Dongdu to face Erlang and the old Dongdu.

The important bargaining chip of his power is the foundation of the legitimacy of his identity as prime minister.

Of course, it’s just half the chips and half the foundation.

The legitimacy of my brother's status as prime minister actually comes from two places. One is the young emperor and the queen mother; the other is these people in the room. However, tonight, not only the queen mother and the emperor are gone, but these people are also

Everyone has grievances, so what outrageous things will his brother do in order to consolidate his power?

But don’t ever imitate the one who died!

Just as I was thinking about it, first a few Chen She and several generals of the Chinese army led by Sima Huada arrived. Then, almost in front and back, Zuopushe Sima Deke also brought Yuan Li and was waiting for a few people.

The generals are coming... Zuopushe was originally further ahead, but the generals coming from the east bank of Fei River passed by Prime Minister Sima here and contacted him directly, otherwise the two brothers would not have been so obviously angry before.

"What do you think of Zuo Pushe?" Sima Huada asked immediately after Sima Deke arrived.

"I think we need to save people." Smadek had obviously already thought about it on the way, and almost blurted out. "Otherwise, we won't be able to establish ourselves in Dongdu."

"That's not the case." Your servant She Sima Jinda quickly retorted, but his tone was much gentler than before. "Dongdu is our hometown, and my nephew is from the same sect and ranks as us. If not, we have soldiers and horses at hand.

, wouldn’t it be ridiculous if we still care about gaining a foothold?”

"It's not that I care about it for no reason." Sima Deke frowned. "Don't the people behind know, don't you and the Prime Minister know? I received a message from General Tuwan before. He said that he led his troops to Ruyin County, but he didn't see him.

To support the troops..."

There was an uproar around!

Sima Jinda quickly made amends: "Ruyin County is remote, it is the border between Huaixi and the gang, and it has experienced wars. It has only been a month since Wang Daiji followed Sima Zheng into the east. There is a shortage of soldiers and weapons, so it is normal to abandon Ruyin.

.”

"I thought so too, so I didn't care about it before." Sima Deke continued to frown. "But the night before tonight, I just received another message from General Tuwan. He said that he would send people to you.

In the south, Huaiyang asked for help, requiring soldiers, horses and logistics. As a result, the Huaiyang governor only responded in vain, not sending any people and even less supplies; while Runan did not respond at all. It is said that Wang Daiji received the military order and went to the east capital.

went."

Sima Jinda was also stunned for a moment.

And just for this moment, the surroundings were completely unbearable, and everyone roared, either angry or frustrated:

"Go to the west, go to the west! I'm afraid I'm going to die in the west this time!"

"Can't die."

"You have to shed your skin even if you can't die. If you keep walking like this for half a month, even those with advanced skills won't be able to bear it, and those without advanced skills will probably become useless!"

"Isn't Sima Erlong a member of your Sima family? Why are you so alienated?"

"It can't be because he killed the emperor. Someone must have chosen himself as prime minister and wanted to treat his father as his son, but others saw through it!"

The more the words are said, the more unpleasant they sound, the more they are said, the more explicit they become, and the more they are said, the more unscrupulous they become.

But everyone can understand this emotion... After all, if Ruyin and Ruyang didn't respond, it means that the same thing will happen again in the remaining half month of the rainy season!

Who can bear this?

Listening to the people talking more and more rudely, Sima Jinda couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to, and couldn't refute it even if he wanted to refute... Because few of these Guanlong nobles in the Forbidden Army are fools, and what they say is quite reasonable.

If you really want to forcefully refute it, you are afraid that you will be embarrassed instead. If you insist on suppressing it, this situation cannot be suppressed.

"But it's useless to go back." Sima Jinda tried his best to say. "The sergeants didn't agree."

"Promise." Zhang Qianda said suddenly. "Just tell them that we will take the north road instead and go back to Xingyang. There is food that will not go rancid in the north, money and silk that the army has saved for four years, and hot water for washing.

They went to the bathing place..."

Sima Jinda's head was buzzing, but he instinctively looked at his brother.

And sure enough, Sima Huada was slightly startled when he heard this, then narrowed his eyes and asked, "You all think so?"

"yes."

"The main reason is that the military spirit cannot bear it...it's too painful."

A few people spoke sporadically.

"I object." Sima Jinda quickly expressed his position. "We are already halfway there, why go back and cause trouble? The troops should enter Dongdu to rest and then make further calculations."

Sima Huada couldn't help but hesitate.

At this time, Yuan Lizheng suddenly interrupted: "Prime Minister, right servant, I have a guess about the situation in Ruyin, Ruyang and Huaiyang."

Sima Huada raised his hand to signal the other party to speak.

"I think General Sima (Sima Zheng) did it on purpose." Yuan Li was holding his knife and spoke simply. "He just wants to bring us down, and then when we enter Dongdu, we will naturally be unable to resist, and we will let him control us.

...Don’t think that it’s okay for generals to have cultivation skills. They also need to have sergeants to be considered generals. They will only follow.

Sima Huada laughed dryly without saying anything.

Sima Jinda also laughed: "You are judging a gentleman with a villain's heart, right? Even if there is no situation in Ruyin and Ruyang, if we are like this now, don't we need to be reorganized? In the beginning

When you return to the Eastern Capital, you will inevitably bow your head... Moreover, even if you are reorganized, won't you be missing anything? Aren't you still needed?"

The last two sentences don't seem to be addressed to the same person.

"Of course we won't be missing anything, but the Prime Minister will be missing." Yuan Lizheng still stood there, not in a hurry. "Because there is only one position for the Prime Minister. Although General Sima and the Prime Minister are father and son, they have always had political opinions.

No... If we are really reorganized, we can still continue to be generals and generals, but the prime minister, including the two servants on the left and right, will have no results."

"As long as the Sima family can gain momentum, why should I care about a short-term shooter?!"

Sima Jinda wanted to say this, but did not say it, because he knew that his brother cared, and he realized that Sima Deke actually cared too, and then he felt ridiculous... When the military coup began, the third Sima

Previously it was Sima brothers versus Sima Deke, but now it is actually his eldest brother and Sima Deke versus him?!

"Is it possible not to enter Dongdu?" Sima Jinda thought of this, almost mocking him with a cold air. "Sooner or later, this will happen."

"What I mean is that we can have enough supplies outside the Eastern Capital and have a neat army. We may even bring the Queen Mother and the Emperor back to the Eastern Capital." Yuan Li was answering Sima Jinda's question, but still only looked at Sima.

Hua Da, he knows that Sima Jinda can control everyone here, but he will only be controlled by the Prime Minister sitting here.

"What do you mean?" Sure enough, Prime Minister Sima asked with his eyes wide open.

"What I mean is that we are now turning north in Qiao County. Not only are we going to pursue His Majesty and the Queen Mother, but we are also going to go north and return to Dongdu from Xingyang as we told the sergeants." Yuan Lizheng said.

My own answer.

"What's there in Xingyang?" Sima Huada didn't react for a moment.

"There is a Luokou warehouse." Sima Deke finally came to speak. "I asked people on the road. It was about years ago that Li Shu broke into the Aoshan warehouse in Luokou outer warehouse. It was at the same time that Zhang Xing broke into the Liyang warehouse.

It was for this reason that Cao Lin died in battle, and Bai Hengqiu went out from Hongshan to Hebei to fight... I don't believe that the gang was at war and in civil strife. If they could evacuate the Luokou warehouse in time, they would evacuate it.

, wouldn’t it also fall on places like Liang County and Xingyang on the way? We can just use it. Prime Minister, whether we can catch up with the emperor and the queen mother or not, we can rest in Xingyang and enter Longqiao Pass calmly."

Sima Jinda and Sima Huada took a long breath almost at the same time.

However, both of them need words.

At this time, Yuan Li took the initiative and looked at the former for the first time after entering this house: "You servant shot, I know what you want to say. You are still afraid of fighting and not being able to defeat me, right?"

"Isn't it?" Sima Jinda said a little feebly. "We were nervous about the strength of the gang before and were unwilling to take the north route. Now that we have been soaked in half a month of rain, our combat strength has been greatly reduced..."

"It's because of this rain that we have a great chance of winning." Yuan Li looked at the other people in the room, and then spoke seriously to Brother Sima. "This matter has been discussed in the army before.

, it is a perfect time to fight the army at this time, because their soldiers and horses were separated by the rain, and we turned around now, and they were caught off guard... With these two things, it is enough for military affairs! Instead, the right servant will shoot you.

, maybe my mind was so occupied with going to Dongdu that I forgot to think about it!"

Sima Jinda was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and was speechless on the spot.

Without him, this elite of the Sima clan was convinced that what the other party said was right - he passed through Qiao County, picked up a few fake surrenders, and met some locals. Basically, he could verify some information.

There are a total of fifty battalions, and the branch is well known to everyone in Jianghuai. There must be a lot of casualties in a big fight with Bai Hengqiu, and now there are about fifteen or six people who have appeared in front of the Forbidden Army.

Each battalion has different origins, different types of troops, and different combat capabilities. This shows that these fifteen or six battalions are specially prioritized to deal with the prevention of the imperial army.

So I would like to ask how many battalions the army has? Where are they?

It is a great anecdote that Bai Sanniang's fifth battalion encountered a typhoon in Dengzhou, and everyone knows it; at least ten battalions must be left in Hebei to defend Xue Changxiong; four or five battalions in Xingyang must be deployed to defend Dongdu; the newly surrendered Li

They definitely won't come... Then it is estimated that there are still a dozen dilapidated battalions, which should serve as the general reserve team in the core territory of the Gang on both sides of the river. It is precisely because of their dilapidated state that they can only serve as reserve teams.

As for the rain.

Previously, the rain did not penetrate through the Huaibei front line. Once a war breaks out, we still need to worry that this reserve force will go south to join the dozen or so battalions on the front line to create a large corps of 50,000 to 60,000 people, but now? Entering May.

, the plum rain has been falling for half a month, and no one will take the initiative to fall into a marching situation like the Forbidden Army.

Even the fifteen or six front-line battalions gradually ceased to exist.

In other words, General Meiyu's main force was divided into two groups, one in front and one in the back, and they should all be decentralized groups.

But the main force of the Forbidden Army had to march, and all of them were exposed to the rain.

"Is that so?" Sima Huada obviously didn't have enough confidence in the military, so he took the initiative to ask his seventh brother.

Sima Jinda met his brother's expectant gaze, but he was not in a hurry to reply. Instead, he looked around the room and found that almost everyone was looking at him. Whether it was Zhang Qianda or others who were following on the east bank of Feishui River or the west bank of Woshui River,
To be continued...