In Feng'an, in the northwest, a large number of people and horses slowly approached the unfinished fortress earthen wall. Many people led the horses slowly, and the horses gnawed on the autumn grass that had seeds on the ground as they walked.

Li Yiyin looked at the vast grassland in the east, looking tired and excited. It was not easy to gain the support of the party departments and some Tibetan Uighur tribes, and the people who had just gathered at the moment had exhausted their efforts and travel.

"The odds are very good this time, and it will definitely be successful!" Li Yiyin said to his generals, "Emperor Xu Guo's poisoning is in danger, the prince is only a few years old, I heard that there are many rebels in his country, and he has no time to look west, it is the time for us to take advantage of the situation to restore the country." ”

All the generals nodded in agreement, and the army of Xu suddenly withdrew a while ago, and they saw the envoys of Liao, all of which confirmed that Xu was in civil strife.

"Recovering Helan Mountain, you can echo with the Liao State in the north, at that time, you can borrow the Liao army as a help, retreat can be with the Xu army, and you can recover Hengshan and regain your strength!"

Li Yiyin then ordered all the troops to rush to the northeast. All the way forward, I saw that the grassland oasis was deserted, there were no people, and there was no military activity.

A few days later, the coalition forces were approaching the Lingzhou Plain along the Yellow River.

Yellow and green grasslands, sparkling rivers, spectacular mountains in the distance, and endless deserts as far as the eye can see...... The majestic natural scenery made Li Yiyin excited.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden "bang", Li Yiyin and others followed the sound and looked up one after another, a firelight flew into the sky, and exploded again with a "bang", and sparks splashed.

"Not good!" Li Yiyin blurted out exclaimed.

As soon as the words fell, sure enough, on the top of the undulating hill on the north side, faintly people and horses appeared, and then the blue and red colorful flags also appeared in sight. In the woods on the north bank of the Yellow River on the right wing, the noise of people and horses and the sound of horses' hooves also sounded.

The coalition forces immediately stopped, and there was an uproar in all directions. Some people shouted in party language: "It's not good, we are ambushed!" There was also the Tubo and Uighur words shouting, and Li Yiyin didn't understand what he was shouting.

He turned around and said loudly: "Order the left and right flanks to prepare for battle and meet the enemy army!" Those who disturb the morale of the army are killed! ”

The envoys of the various ministries who remained in the Chinese army sent people out on horseback to give orders according to their words. Trumpets and drums sounded, and a large number of men and horses exploded.

On the hillside on the north side, the cavalry is rushing down, and at a glance, it seems that the mountains are full of men and horses! The armor of the Xu Army's forward is bright, shining in the sun, it looks as if steel is rushing, and the battle is very terrifying!

At this moment, Li Yiyin suddenly found that the men and horses in the western rear of the coalition army were turning around and running. His eyes widened, and he hissed, "Send someone to stop those people from escaping!" The Xu army only has Feng Jiye's border town cavalry, and there are not many troops, so don't be afraid! ”

Someone said: "There are Uighurs in the back, how can they listen to us?" ”

An envoy from the Uighur tribe complained loudly: "Li Gong said that Xu was in turmoil and was vulnerable, so how could he be ambushed as soon as he came?" ”

Li Yiyin was furious, his face was hideous, and his roaring voice was hoarse: "He|mother|, if others are in civil strife, he will definitely be able to fight without blood?" We're here to fight, fight! ”

The battle of the Xu army on the northern hillside was very large, but there were only two or three thousand horsemen who could be seen! Li Yiyin couldn't imagine that ten times the enemy's men and horses could be frightened by two or three thousand horsemen?

The rear wing units rode their horses, and this situation immediately spread to the whole army like a plague, and even the men and horses of the party department began to run.

"Li Gong, let's go!" The general persuaded, "With this appearance, there is no way to fight." Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood......"

Li Yiyin sat on his horse, raised his head and sighed, and stood tall to face the surging iron cavalry approaching in the north. a great despair and grief, like a whirlpool; It was as if he felt like he was being caught up in the middle of it, falling into the abyss.

"Li Gong ......"

"Get out!" Li Yiyin suddenly became furious, pulled out his sword, and shouted, "You can definitely win, this is a battle that must be won!" ”

"Rumbling ......" In the sound of galloping horses' hooves, Xu Jun's iron cavalry came straight to him. Countless coalition troops and horses all ran to the west, and there were many people and horses in the wilderness in the distance, like a torrent. On the place where the coalition forces were originally standing, only Li Yiyin was left, holding a military flag in his left hand and an iron sword in his right hand.

Li Yiyin lowered his head, on both sides of his helmet, and his gray sideburns were messy by the wind. He slowly raised his head, his red eyes were bloodshot, gritted his teeth, held the iron sword high, and shouted, "Kill!" "Riding straight at the front of the Xu army's iron cavalry.

"Smack!" Only one arrow was shot in the Xu army's cavalry group, and Li Yiyin felt that his seat was empty, and the horses neighed and fell to their knees with their front hooves. He screamed, rolled off his horse, and threw Venus in front of him.

Li Yiyin supported his body with his hands, picked up the low-voiced weapon, slowly got up, and limped a few steps. I saw that the vigorous cavalry rushed past him on both sides, and no one paid attention to him.

"Ahh Li Yiyin shouted and rushed forward. The one-handed sword was too short to reach the cavalry on horseback, so the man rode his horse and rushed over, and called out in his mouth: "Ouch, what a life!" ”

"Hahaha......" There was a burst of laughter around him.

Li Yiyin's face turned red, and he turned around and slashed at another target, still easily dodged by the fast-moving cavalry.

The grief and anger fluttered into the air, like a punch on cotton. Li Yiyin gradually calmed down, stood in the middle of the crowd, threw away the military flag, glanced at the iron sword in his hand, and slowly raised it......

"Smack!" Suddenly, there was a string sound, Li Yiyin screamed in pain, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

A big man was on the horse, pointing with a bow: "He is Li Yiyin, the leader of the party." Anyone can kill, he can't kill, Lao Tzu will go back to receive merit alive, maybe he will make a hereditary feudal marquis! ”

…… Not long after, Tokyo received an urgent report from the northwest: Feng Jiye led 3,000 cavalry, defeated 30,000 cavalry of the allied forces such as the Tubo Turen of the party (the number of people cannot be verified), captured the leader Li Yiyin, and escorted Tokyo to sacrifice prisoners.

Guo Shao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he didn't do anything, and the border army solved the border trouble, which really saved trouble. He said, "Feng Jiye will not only herd sheep, but also fight." ”

However, the captives were still on the way, but they were not as fast as the urgent military reports of hundreds of miles, so they could only wait patiently.

Guo Shao attaches great importance to this matter, not the battle itself, but the general relationship. In any case, Guo Shao would definitely not let the Helan Mountain and Pingxia regions get out of Daxu's control...... Because of the trend of one and the other.

To deal with the Liao State, now is not the time for a decisive battle. If you attack Liao, you must have a large number of cavalry, and Daxu obviously does not have enough cavalry. However, before the counteroffensive, it is the safest way to continuously weaken the resources available to the Liao State and increase the source of its own war horses.

Guo Shao suppressed the emotions that were provoked, calmed down, and felt a little tired. The strange poison of the Liao people is poisoned slowly and goes slowly. Guo Shao has been improving for almost two months now, and he still hasn't done well.

He left the Jinxiang Palace early, and ordered the eunuch to carry him to Lu Niangzi's side, wanting to meet his benefactor.

As soon as a group of people carried a sedan chair into the Xuanyou Gate not far away, they saw the virtuous concubine Li Yueji kneeling on the side of the road from afar. The eunuch Wang Zhong turned his head to look at Guo Shao's attitude, but Guo Shao remained silent, and everyone continued to walk forward with the sedan chair without saying a word.

"Stop." Guo Shao said softly.

Li Yueji bowed: "Your Majesty! The concubine knew that her father raised an army to be an enemy of His Majesty, and committed the great crime of rebellion and unforgiveness...... But the concubine did not dare to abandon the grace of her father's birth and upbringing, and asked His Majesty to be magnanimous......"

Guo Shaoxin said: Who told you that I was going to kill Li Yiyin?

Li Yiyin's rebellion with soldiers is also considered a rebellion in righteousness, but it is fundamentally different from the rebellion of domestic courtiers.

A few years ago, Pingxia Province was still the territory of the Party members, and now the majority of the population is also Party members. Guo Shao wouldn't think that if he stationed a few thousand guards on the territory, he would get that piece of land. He kept exiling Han criminals to that place, and also ploughed cattle seeds and grain, what did he spend so much effort for?

Now that Li Yueji is married to the Daxu royal family, it is a favorable factor that naturally makes the relationship between the two clans close, and Guo Shao can't think of a reason to abandon this relationship!

If you kill Li Yueji's father, isn't this marriage asking for trouble? The key is that after Li Yiyin was arrested, there was no harm to Guo Shao.

Guo Shao pondered for a while and said, "I'm a little embarrassed, Concubine Li Xian should get up first." ”

"Your Majesty......" Li Yueji looked at the big man behind the curtain with watery eyes.

Eunuch Wang Zhong said: "The virtuous concubine can't force the official's family." ”

"Yes." Only then did Li Yueji stand up.

"Alas......" Guo Shao sighed, waved his sleeves, and the eunuchs lifted the sedan chair again.

He lamented that he actually pretended to be in front of Li Yueji and was embarrassed to say anything. But sometimes it's really helpless, and only in this way can there be less hatred around you.

After the poisoning, Guo Shao became more and more arrogant. A little palace maid almost took her own life...... Guo Shao thought of the previous Zhao Sanlang, a powerful person with the order of the Son of Heaven, who actually died at the hands of Dong Er, a grass citizen; Li Yun, who dared to rebel, also died under the knife of the little-known pawn around him!

Guo Shao pondered, for the little people he could reach, he had to make a gentle and tolerant appearance. Otherwise, within ten steps, the First Emperor would not be Jing Ke's opponent, and he would be chased all over the house!

Entering the courtyard where Lu Niangzi lived, a group of women were already waiting at the door, saluting respectfully, and a burst of "longevity without borders" came.

Guo Shao said: "Flat." ”

The eunuch Wang Zhong and another small eunuch helped him down from the seat, and Wang Zhong said softly: "Your Majesty treats people with kindness and tolerance, but there are always people who don't know what to do, which is really chilling. ”

Guo Shao said casually: "It is precisely because of my accumulation of virtue that in times of crisis, there are still many loyal ministers who are loyal to the country regardless of gains and losses. ”

Lu Niangzi couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty is really benevolent." ”

Guo Shao remembered that not long ago, he signed a thick stack of roster files by himself, and he was noncommittal.