Qian Song

Chapter 74 Tan Zhen's Advice (Read More!)

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Tong Guan, who had always been with the old gods before, lost his composure when he heard that the Huben Army had killed the Yangtze River and captured Yangzhou City!
You know, Tong Guan has high hopes for the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

——Tong Guan had always felt that no matter how rampant Li Cun was, he would never dare to cross the Yangtze River.

After all, Tan Zhen still had an army of [-] to [-]. As long as he deployed a little defense, Li Cun, who was not strong enough at present, would definitely not be able to kill the Yangtze River so easily.

Unexpectedly, Tan Zhen and his Song army abandoned the city and fled in succession.

At this time, from Xuanhua Town in the west to Chaixu Town in the east, on the 100-mile-long Yangtze River natural moat, the Zhao and Song Dynasties no longer had a single guard, and the Yangtze River defense line collapsed without attack.

This is not the most critical.

The most important thing is that Tong Guan is very afraid that Li Cun will continue to go north to attack Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Tong Guan hurriedly dispatched troops to block all passages going north along the Huaihe River.

At the same time, Tong Guan immediately dispatched Wang Zhi to lead the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and Dingli Spear Platooners to go south to Gaoyou Army immediately, and joined Tan Zhen's defeated generals to prevent the Huben Army from continuing to go north.

Wang Tun is the seventh grandson of Wang Tuan. He was born in the army and had experience in the Western Army. In the first year of Xuanhe, he went to Wuzhou as an official to observe and make the infantry capital Yuhou. He can be said to be one of Tong Guan's most trusted generals.

Tong Guan felt that with Wang Tian's ability, he should be able to beat the Huben Army back to the south of the Yangtze River, and then find a way to destroy this fast-growing and daring ant thief...

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It is only said that after Wang Ting took the order, he immediately led the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and the Dingli Spear Platooners to rush on Xingye, and arrived at the Gaoyou Army, where he met Tan Zhen who looked haggard.

Tan Zhen is a person who pays the most attention to dressing on weekdays.

Wang Ti's impression of Tan Zhen was always so gentle and refined, like a Confucian general.

Who would have thought that after not seeing him for more than a month, Tan Zhen would be in such a miserable state, how could he still have the demeanor of a Confucian general?
Wang Ting bowed and said, "I have seen Mr. Zhizhi."

Tan Zhen smiled wryly: "There is no need to be polite to Wang Zhizhi."

Then, Tan Zhen didn't know whether it was true or not and said, "I finally hoped for Shumi Tong."

Hearing Tan Zhen's words, Wang Ting was very surprised.

Who among the people in Zhao Song's officialdom didn't know that Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng were at odds?

In this way, Tan Zhen, who was supported by Liang Shicheng to replace Tong Guan, must be at odds with Tong Guan.

Moreover, Tong Guan came here this time to replace Tan Zhen as the commander-in-chief of rebellion—after Tong Guan came, even if Tan Zhen was not called back by Zhao Ji, at most he could only be number two. With such a strong character, Tan Zhen must have lost any power.

In this case, Tan Zhen shouldn't have expected Tong Guan to come.

Seeing Wang Ting's surprise, Tan Zhen laughed at himself: "To tell you the truth, I'm really afraid that if Privy Tong doesn't come again, I'll lose the Great Song Dynasty completely."

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Wang Ting really didn't expect that Tan Zhen would say something like this: "Is he scared by the ant thief?"

Wang Ting persuaded Tan Zhen in a formulaic manner: "Master, don't talk about frustration. Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs. Among warriors in my generation, who has not lost two battles?"

Not wanting to, Tan Zhen shook his head: "Wang's rule is wrong."

Wang Ting was puzzled: "What does Mr. Xiang mean by this?"

Tan Zhen said leisurely: "Since I have entered the martial arts, I am prepared for defeat, so I am not afraid of losing."

After a pause, Tan Zhen continued: "Of course losing is not the same as losing. Let me tell you clearly that ants and thieves are nothing to worry about..."

Speaking of this, Tan Zhen looked at Wang Ting and said very seriously: "The one who is concerned, Li Cun, the leader of the bandit, has one ear!"

Wang Ting didn't believe it: "How powerful is that thief Li Cun?"

Tan Zhen was silent for a while, and then gave an evaluation that Wang Jin never expected: "Outstanding courage, extraordinary talent, even with an army of one hundred thousand, the battle must be won, the attack must be captured, it is called a hero."

Wang Ting's face was full of disbelief.

Tan Zhen saw him, and said calmly: "Wang Tongzhi must be thinking, I'm exaggerating, or I was broken by that thief Li Cun, a reckless person, how can I have the ability to reach the sky and penetrate the earth?"

Wang Ting didn't say a word, which seemed to acquiesce to Tan Zhen's guess.

Tan Zhen didn't say anything more, just said: "Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Wang Tongzhi will fight that thief Li Cun soon, and then he will know whether what I said is true or not."

Wang Ting agreed with what Tan Zhen said at the end. He will personally judge whether Li Cun is as powerful as Tan Zhen said.

Wang Ting took the initiative to say: "So that my husband will know, I have only brought more than ten thousand imperial guards and Ding Li spear platoons here, and the ant thief may have thirty to fifty thousand horses now, three to five times more than me, please help me." The government sent 5 people to go south with me to take Yangzhou."

To Wang's surprise, Tan Zhen summoned Zhang Wei happily and said, "You pick [-] infantry, [-] horsemen, and [-] civilians to recover Yangzhou together with Wang Tongzhi."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hao was a little embarrassed: "Our army's morale is low today, I'm afraid it can't be reused..."

Tan Zhen stared: "You and I both treat the body of the crime. If we don't make some military exploits, how can we eliminate this heinous crime? You told the soldiers truthfully, whoever wants to take the crime and make meritorious service, he will fight with the king. If you don't want to fight, don't blame it." Tan Zhen is not responsible for the crime."

Wang Ting could see that it wasn't Tan Zhen and Zhang Wei who were acting with him, but Tan Zhen's soldiers were really beaten by the Huben army and feared the enemy like tigers.

Zhang Hao sighed, and then replied: "No!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Hao went down to organize the army.

At this time, Tan Zhen turned his head and said to Wang Ting, "I told Wang Tongzhi to see a joke."

What Wang Ting could say was: "It's easy to cure this disease. If they win one or two battles, they will be elite soldiers again."

Tan Zhen took a deep breath and let it out again, before saying, "I hope."

Wang Ti didn't want to be with such a negative person as Tan Zhen, as it would affect his judgment of the battlefield situation.

So, after talking about the business with Tan Zhen, Wang Ting immediately took the initiative to say goodbye to Tan Zhen and leave.

But just before Wang Ting was about to leave the house, Tan Zhen suddenly said, "I have something to say, and I hope Wang Tongzhi will remember it."

When Wang Ting heard the words, he turned around and said: "Please speak, my lord."

Tan Zhen stood up, walked slowly to the window, opened the window, then looked towards Yangzhou, and said, "To fight that thief Li Cun, there is absolutely no way to do it. You should fight him decisively with a dignified teacher. Otherwise, you will definitely lose."

When Wang Ting heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "You, Tan Zhen, were defeated in the face-to-face battle with the ant thief, and you still want me to follow the same path as you?!"

Tan Zhen glanced at Wang Jin out of the corner of his eye, and said in his heart: "Good words are hard to persuade, damn it, compassion is beyond measure. I have warned you for the sake of the country's righteousness. If you don't listen, then you will eat." If you lose the battle, don’t blame me.”

Tan Zhen changed his mind and thought again: "If you wait and wait until you don't suffer defeat, it doesn't mean that I, Tan Zhen, are incompetent. Forget it, I will just sit and watch how you lose to that thief Li Cun!"

Thinking of this, Tan Zhen waved his hand, signaling Wang to go down...

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(End of this chapter)