"The court has a conscience this time." Xiao Maha looked at Zhou Qu and Gu Yewang who walked quickly into the lobby, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Zhou Qu and Gu Yewang smiled heartily, there was not much.

When they position themselves as a member of the East Palace system, the entire imperial court is naturally no longer considered their own people relative to their East Palace.

Chen Ji's will was completely written in accordance with what he said in his instructions to Li Xinchen's war report, and this time the envoy of the decree also surprised many people, because it was King Guangluqing Gu Ye, who was standing in the hall at this time.

As King Gu Ye, it is a bit overkill to serve as the messenger of the decree, but in fact, his more important task is to replace Zhou Qu as the assassin of Jingzhou. Zhou Qu is the most core minister of the East Palace no matter what, when Chen Shubao was in Jingzhou before, it was reasonable for him to help deal with the affairs in Jingzhou, and now that Chen Shubao has returned to Jiankang Mansion, Zhou Qu is naturally a little inappropriate to stay in Jingzhou, so it is reasonable to replace Zhou Qu with Gu Yewang.

As for the fact that King Gu Ye was already on the side of the East Palace, Chen Ji must have already figured out and suspected that this time he transferred King Gu Ye out of the capital, naturally he didn't want to let the people of the East Palace take on an important position like Guangluqing who seemed to be idle, but at a critical time, he could control the entire imperial city. In exchange for the official position of such an important feudal official as Jingzhou Thorn History, for King Gu Ye, who has spent half his life in various noble and idle positions, it is tantamount to hearing the will of the world's amnesty, which is called a "comic book of poetry ecstasy".

What's more, Li Xinchen had made it clear in his advice to King Gu Ye that King Gu Ye, as Guangluqing, had the most important significance for the existence of the East Palace to control the imperial city at a critical time. It's just that after all, King Gu Ye has been a loyal minister for most of his life, and now that he is getting old, of course he doesn't want to get too involved in the whirlpool of this struggle, especially the undoubted whirlpool center of Jiankang Mansion, the old man resolutely doesn't want to step into it.

Therefore, for King Gu Ye, this kind of good thing of envoying to Bashu and taking office in Jingzhou must not be delayed.

This is also why when Li Xinchen under Hezhou City received the news, King Gu Ye had already appeared in the lobby of the Hussar General's Mansion in Jiangling City.

"I heard that Shizhong and they are moving again in Bashu?" Although Gu Yewang was tired all the way, his face was full of joy. Now Nan Chen and Northern Zhou have maintained an unexpectedly quiet on all fronts - in fact, no one is to blame, Nan Chen is short of troops on the rest of the fronts, and Northern Zhou is still in the period of national mourning, of course, it is not easy to move troops.

In addition, it was obviously impossible for Northern Zhou to watch Nan Chen be so arrogant, and it is said that the generals from all over the country went to Chang'an in person or sent reliable subordinates to obey the new arrangements of the imperial court. However, at least until the Northern Zhou began to sharpen its knives, the two sides still had to maintain such an eerie tranquility on the front.

So now this distant Bashu is the only place where the two sides are still fighting, Jingzhou is half closer to Bashu than Jiankang Mansion, and the news is of course faster.

Before they reached the council hall, King Gu Ye heard the news that Bashu was fighting again, so he hurriedly wanted to inquire.

Xiao Maha smiled slightly and made a gesture of please: "A certain is studying the situation in Bashu, and it just so happens that the two of you are also going to consult it together." ”

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On the city of Hezhou, Song Ping, the assassin who was in charge of Hezhou's offensive and defensive affairs, turned pale, and felt that he was really moldy for eight lifetimes.

He didn't know how many siege equipment Li Xinchen had prepared to deal with him, he only knew that the entire city of Hezhou was trembling violently under the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet.

The kind of trebuchet that Li Xinchen took out was definitely not the kind of small trebuchet that was usually used to defend the city, the kind of trebuchet was filled with broken stones, relying on a large number, and throwing it out could form a killing injury on the entire surface, thus causing a lot of losses to the dense siege crowd.

The trebuchet is good for defending cities, but not for sieges. In the face of tall city walls and the battlements and towers of the city walls, it is difficult for small stones to play a big role even if they have great speed and kinetic energy.

Therefore, the trebuchet used by Li Xinchen is obviously a thunderbolt that became famous from the Three Kingdoms period. This large trebuchet throws huge stone projectiles, which roar down from the sky, and can easily smash bed crossbows, small trebuchets and other instruments that pose a greater threat to the siege troops into parts, not to mention people.

Song Ping would never have thought that Li Xinchen would move such a device out. You must know that although the Thunderbolt is an effective siege weapon, its huge size and staggering consumption mean that not any general can use it just by saying that it can be used.

Of course, there is a more important point, that is, the armament of thunderbolts and giant crossbows used to defend the city is at a strategic level in this era. It is an out-and-out strategic weapon. This means that the use of these devices must be approved by the imperial court, even if it is tacitly approved, otherwise it will be a great rebellion.

Although Song Ping didn't know the current turmoil in the Nanchen court, he could also figure out that Nanchen's side must also be intrigued, otherwise it would be impossible for Li Xinchen to enter Shu for so long, and he had opened up the whole situation, but he was still fighting alone.

Therefore, he never thought that Li Xinchen would show up the thunderbolt at this time. Looking at the arc in the sky, Song Ping only had despair in his heart.

Of course, he didn't know that Ouyang Mo, the master craftsman under Li Xinchen, was an out-and-out prisoner, although this thunderbolt was not easy to build, but at least the drawings and everything were in Ouyang Mo's heart, and he was given two months to build and assemble more than ten thunderbolts. There are many mountains and trees in Bashu, and the last thing to worry about is the materials, and as Li Xinchen continues to settle the displaced people and dispatch the support of the Tang clan in Xiajiang, the efficiency of building and assembling is naturally much higher.

As for whether the imperial court would allow the use of thunderbolts, Li Xinchen did not bother to answer such a question at all.

What about the imperial court thousands of miles away, and what does it have to do with him Li Xinchen? The general will not be affected by the life of the foreign monarch, he is such a flying and domineering, but the music sent from the Jiankang Mansion is clearly expressed, and Chen Ji is helpless against him, the guy who turned Bashu upside down.

Li Xinchen even felt that the most regrettable thing Chen Ji had ever done in his life was to send troops to the Northern Expedition, although the Northern Expedition took Huainan, but he still hit his head in Huaibei, and more importantly, with the opportunity of this Northern Expedition, Xiao Maha successfully ascended to the throne, and the strength of the East Palace swelled instantly, and developed step by step into what it is today, and it was even enough to fight against the imperial court.

Of course, this is not what Chen Ji regrets the most, the real variable lies in Li Xinchen. Li Xinchen entered Jiankang in a white dress, and he actually stirred up the overall situation of Nanchen like this, and with the sudden death of Yu Wenyong, the overall situation in the world also suddenly surged!