At dawn, a small army was preparing to cross the river northwest of Xuzhou.

On the embankment, Wang Xiao stretched and felt the wet air in the morning.

Qin Xiaozhu sniffed with his beautiful face and said, "This is the first time I have been to such a south place. There are so many rivers, and there are not many rivers in our Liaodong."

Wang Xiao sighed and said, "This place is soaked in the Yellow River... it is as bad as the officialdom in Jiangnan."

Qin Xiaozhu was quite happy at first. Looking at the south bank of the river, he saw that the area within his eyes was full of mud and mudflats, deserted and deserted, and a scene of withering.

"Yes, why is this happening?"

Wang Xiao himself had no idea. But this time he didn't bring a scholar who was knowledgeable and could not remember anything. He had no choice but to pretend to be knowledgeable and explain to Qin Xiaozhu.

"The section from Shangqiu to Xuzhou was originally a river channel from Sishui. During the Jin and Yuan dynasties, the Yellow River was seized and flowed all the way to Huaiyin and into the Huai River, and then into the sea from Huai River. Simply put, the river channel of Sishui could not carry such a large amount of Yellow River water, so it flooded and became a disaster. It washed away the silt, the river channel was silted downstream, and the riverbed was constantly raised, which was a vicious cycle."

"It took a hundred years of hard work and countless people's efforts to strengthen the river embankment and stabilize the river channel. A few years ago, the King of Hell of Wu broke the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng, and the flood broke the river embankment. A hundred years of hard work was destroyed."

Qin Xiaozhu asked, "Why is the north bank better than the south bank? I see that there is a huge area in the south. How many people will die and how many fields will be flooded..."

"In order to ensure the canal waterway, the river management has always been built on the north bank and diversion on the south bank. Our Chu Dynasty only built the embankment on the south bank a hundred years ago to stabilize the river channel, but the embankment on the north bank is still stronger."

"But it's been many years, why is it still like this?"

Wang Xiao said: "This is a disaster for a hundred years, and I am afraid it will get worse every year."

"Niang Xipi, why doesn't the court in the south treat it?"

"It's weird that they can control the river." Wang Xiao sneered.

Qin Xiaozhu felt a little sad when he thought that the village on the shore was also a densely populated village, but now it has become a mudflat. He frowned and said, "I originally thought that Jiangnan was so prosperous, but it turned out that the people here lived such a hard life."

"The prosperity is for the nobles. The Yellow River is like a tiger and the officials are like a wolf. In this world, there are both military towns and rivers flooding and swallowing, and the people of Xuzhou survived..."

Wang Xiao was just talking, when someone suddenly reported: "Report, Duke, we have captured an official from Nanjing! His name is Liu Lanshan."

"Liu Lanshan?" Wang Xiao pondered slightly, "I haven't heard of it."

Unfortunately, there were no intelligence personnel when I went south this time.

"According to the captured deserter of Xu Zhen, this man is the head of the Nanjing Ministry of War and the think tank in Guan Ming's army."

"Oh? There is still a think tank in Guan Ming's army? I couldn't see it." Wang Xiao said, "Take me here and see..."

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Liu Lanshan was simply unbelievable.

He was actually captured, but he was actually captured by Wang Xiao's soldiers?

how so?

He walked in the carriage for the middle of the night, scolding Guan Ming along the way, ridiculing him for being defeated by Wang Xiao.

Later, I was so tired that I thought that I was already far from Guan Ming’s army, so I stopped for a while. After I sniffed, I was actually caught...

"Wang Xiao?! Why did you appear here? This is the upper reaches of Xuzhou, why are you..."

Wang Xiao looked at Liu Lanshan and felt that this person was very nagging.

"You are my captive, and I am trying you."

Liu Lanshan stared at Wang Xiao, turned a blind eye, and murmured: "If what I guess is right, you must take advantage of Guan Ming's crossing to attack halfway, and then attack forward and backward..."

"You guessed it wrong." Wang smiled.

Liu Lanshan was stunned: "What?"

"Impossible." He shook his head, looked around, and murmured: "You can't let Guan Ming go. You are clearly crossing the river. Did you... you went wrong? Guan Ming is in the southeast."

"Idiot. Since you can think of me assaulting halfway, how could Guan Ming not have thought of it?" Wang smiled, "Since he can think of it, how dare I go."

Liu Lanshan was stunned and felt a huge humiliation.

Is fool? He actually said I am fool?

Listening to his tone, it seemed that Guan Ming's ability was still above him?

"Wang Xiao! Don't bully people too much!" Liu Lanshan roared angrily.

Wang Xiao smiled faintly.

The soldiers were still building bamboo rafts, so he had time to take care of the guy in front of him.

"But you guessed wrongly, you ran over and I caught you."

Liu Lanshan was speechless.

It's so shameful. He was smart and was caught after traveling for a long time.... He was so shameless and humiliated in his life!

"It's not, it's not... You dare to attack Guan Ming with 2,000 people. He only has 30,000 people left now. You have no reason to dare not attack him."

"I don't dare." Wang Xiao said, "Xuzhou is ahead. Guan Ming will definitely go crazy when he sees Xuzhou fall. When he goes crazy, nearly 10,000 elite servants and I will be defeated. I only have two thousand people, but I will definitely not be able to beat him."

"Can't beat?" Liu Lanshan was furious and shouted: "Niang'er Xishu! Touch Nai Dujiu! You know now that you can't beat it?"

Qin Xiaozhu was standing aside bored and guarding Wang Xiao. He turned his head and asked Wang Xiao: "Did this dog official just scold someone?"

"Well." Wang smiled and said, "This 'Niange Xishu' is the authentic Wu language, which is much standard than what we used to say 'Niang Xipi'."

"It's so?!" Qin Xiaozhu was a little surprised. He rarely had such a studious time. He said: "That mother was the one I heard from the veterans of Ji Town that I was calling me. That was the old soldier brought from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the past..."

"Although his Wuzhong soft language is standard, he lacks a little momentum..."

Liu Lanshan was tied up and knelt on the ground. Seeing them whispering to each other, they discussed seriously and became even more angry.

"Wang Xiao! I'm asking you!"

"Oh? What are you asking me?"

"You know now that you can't beat..."

"Oh? Do you really hope I beat Guan Ming?"

Liu Lanshan: "..."

He raised his eyes and stared at Wang Xiao.

Today is the first time he has seen this world-famous foreign minister so close, which is different from what he imagined.

More annoying than I thought!

Liu Lanshan didn't hope that Wang Xiao could beat Guan Ming, but he judged this. He didn't like his judgment incorrectly.

Wang Xiao looked at Liu Lanshan's angry look and comforted him: "Don't worry, I can't beat Guan Ming on the front battlefield, but I can still defeat him."

Don't worry, fart!

Liu Lanshan was even more angry.

"This is my plan." Wang Xiao said: "Guan Ming rushed to Xuzhou and saw that the city was lost, he would be angry and would order the siege at all costs. Siege is not as good as field battles. His 30,000 people attacked Xuzhou, and he would definitely suffer heavy casualties. And I took the opportunity to cross the Yellow River and ambush him."

"The so-called "one-stop action will decline again, and three times will be exhausted. When he cannot conquer Xucheng, his morale will fall. Then I will be surprised and launch an offensive..."

When Liu Lanshan heard this, his body trembled and his face turned red.

But Wang Xiao continued to say: "Start an offensive and drive him to Huai'an."

"Come to Huai'an?! Don't you annihilate Guan Ming?"

Wang Xiao laughed and said, "Then nearly 10,000 servants must not be able to fight. I can defeat them for two thousand people. How can I annihilate them? You can even ask such a foolish question."

Liu Lanshan claims to be a talent in the world and has always looked down on Wang Xiao, a relative who is a nepotist. Unexpectedly, he was humiliated in a few words today, and his anger surged, almost breaking through his scalp and fainting.

He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "I'm asking you... why did you drive Guan Ming to Huai'an?"

"Well, what do you say... drive the tiger and swallow the wolf? Two peaches kill three soldiers?"

Liu Lanshan's face turned gray and he remained silent for a long time.

He no longer knows what to say.

Wang Xiao just waved his hand, looked at the river water under the embankment, and asked, "You have been in Nanjing for a long time, have you ever heard of how to manage the Yellow River?"

Liu Lanshan's face suddenly changed.

He quickly lowered his head, pondered for a moment, and sneered: "Xuzhou has not yet reached your hands."

"I'm almost done with you. If you don't treat me, I'm going to treat me."

"You can't cure."

Speaking of this kind of problem, Liu Lanshan finally calmed down a lot and said lightly: "Even if you take Xuzhou, there is no possibility of managing the Yellow River. To manage it, you must start from Kaifeng, Lanyang, Shangqiu, Yucheng and other places in the upper reaches."

"Oh, let's talk."

Liu Lanshan turned his head angry.

After thinking about it, I still had to regain some of the dignity of a scholar, and then I spoke: "After the court liberation of Kaifeng this year..."

"Niang'er Xishu, what is 'restoring Kaifeng' is nothing more than taking advantage of the Rui army's retreat and picking up a big advantage. To put it nicely." Qin Xiaozhu was too lazy to listen to the bragging, and saw that the scholar could not hurt Wang Xiao, so he took a long sword and went to command the soldiers to build a raft.

Wang Xiao waved his hand indifferently and asked Liu Lanshan to continue speaking.

Liu Lanshan's face turned pale and said coldly: "I don't want to say it anymore."

"Everyone is Chu Chen, what does it matter if the river affairs are?"

"Ha, you still know that you are Chu Chen..."

"To be big, I will resist Jiannu. To be small, I will abide by the law, why is it not Chu Chen?" Wang smiled and said, "Compared to Guan Ming, who is a chaotic person, I can be regarded as a model of Chu Chen."
To be continued...