The Yunshan Governor's Mansion, where Qiao Mingtang had been living, had now become Chu Huan's temporary residence.

Everyone under Chu Huan's command performed their duties, and everything went smoothly, Chu Huan was not a person who was in a hurry to advance, although the Northwest Army was in a row and its morale was booming, but Chu Huan did not use this morale to go north immediately.

For Chu Huan, digesting the newly conquered land, working steadily, and pressing step by step, this is the best policy.

It's just that the world is in turmoil, and it often doesn't follow the people's hearts, Chu Huan wants to fight steadily, but the continuous news has made Chu Huan gather the generals under his command to discuss the next strategy.

Within a few days, Chu Huan received two messages in a row, and either of these two messages was a major event that changed the situation in the world.

The barbarians rebelled in Hexi and attacked the camp of the Hexi army, the Hexi army was taken by surprise and suffered heavy losses, and nearly 10,000 Hexi troops were killed by the barbarian cavalry with comparable strength and abandoned their armor, and almost all of them collapsed.

Although the barbarians had less than 10,000 troops, they were extremely fierce, crushing the Hexi army stationed outside the city of Wupingfu and immediately launching an offensive against the city of Wupingfu.

It's just that the barbarians are obviously too anxious, although the defenders of Wuping Mansion City are weak, but the city walls are strong, and the barbarians are not good at siege warfare, and they don't even have the simplest siege weapons, and they have attacked several times in a row, and the losses are not light, so they can only retreat.

Although the barbarians did not capture the city of Wupingfu, but it brought a fatal shock to Hexi, Wupingfu is the last foundation of the Qin State, but now it has been besieged, the blow to Dingwu, of course, is not small.

In addition, Chu Huan got news from the south that the Tianmen Dao people, who had not moved for a long time, finally made a big move, and their actions, as Chu Huan had expected, were to attack Jinling.

Chu Huan knew very well that Tianmen Dao had been in civil strife before, and like a swarm of locusts, wantonly destroying on the southern land, they just didn't give themselves a way back, nearly a million people, burning, killing and looting, sitting and eating empty mountains, there is no force in this world that can support the military rations of nearly one million people for many years.

Tianmen Dao is short of food and grass, they do not have a long-term strategic plan, for them, they have become accustomed to looting to supplement their provisions.

Jinling warehouse has a lot of grain, although Chu Huan has long taken a fancy to it, but for the sake of the overall strategy, instead of using troops in Jinling, he temporarily formed an alliance with Xu Chang.

Such a plan, firstly, was intended to let the Northwest Army worry about the future when it went north, but secondly, it had long expected that once Tianmen Dao made a move, it would inevitably send troops to Jinling, so that Xu Chang's Jinling soldiers could resist Tianmen Dao, which was not a bad strategy.

Chu Huan had already let the white blind man secretly contact his friends on the rivers and lakes, and based on these people, he established a huge intelligence network.

The white blind man has been spending all his thoughts on building an intelligence network recently, he is a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes, has a wide range of friends, and the rivers and lakes are the fastest places for the flow of information, but in the past it was a little disorganized, and now the white blind man has the heart to do it, although it is impossible to pull all the people in the rivers and lakes into his intelligence network, but in a very short period of time, he has made small achievements.

Although the intelligence network is still immature, the composition of personnel is complex, and effective management has not yet been formed, but the relatively large news everywhere is still delivered to Chu Huan as quickly as possible.

Jinling Xu Chang, Hexi Dingwu, Hebei Qingtianwang, Southern Tianmendao, and even Liaodong, these are the most powerful forces today, even those small forces will also have accurate information delivered, not to mention these big forces that affect the situation in the world.

It can be seen from the information sent that Xu Chang has obviously prepared for the offensive of Tianmen Dao, he has a large number of troops, and the equipment is also very sophisticated, and he occupies the advantage of geographical advantages, and controls all the key and dangerous places in Jinling, although in terms of troops, it is far from Tianmen Dao, but Xu Chang is a veteran of the battle formation after all, the layout is well organized, and there is a huge Jinling warehouse behind him as a support, the overall strength is not actually under Tianmen Dao, in addition, the Jinling Army also has a water army, and the lakes in Jinling are crisscrossed, The Jinling Navy comes and goes freely in the lakes and rivers of Jinling, and many places that need to pass through the waterway, Tianmen Road is simply at a loss.

What surprised Chu Huan a little was the reaction of the people of Jinling, the people of Jinling obviously did not have a good impression of Xu Chang before, and there were riots of the people in Jinling from time to time, but when the people of the Heavenly Gate and Dao went out to kill Jinling, the people of Jinling did not take advantage of the situation as some people expected, but followed Xu Chang to prepare for the battle.

However, Chu Huan instantly understood that when Tianmen Dao was just developing, he used various means to buy and bewitch the people, and it was because of this that Tianmen Dao expanded rapidly, but what Tianmen Dao did after that obviously made most of the people fall into despair.

Everywhere he went, he forced the people to join Tianmendao, and once they joined Tianmendao, all the people's property and net worth and lives would be owned by Tianmendao, so many people were not willing to join Tianmendao at all, and Tianmendao was not merciless to these people, killing people and seizing property, just like a group of insatiable thugs.

If there was a period of time when many people still had hope for Tianmendao, then now Tianmendao has become a demon who does all kinds of evil in the minds of the people, as soon as this name is mentioned, the people are first afraid, then angry, and then hateful.

Although the people of Jinling are dissatisfied with Xu Chang, compared to the Tianmen Daoists who do all kinds of evil, Xu Chang at least does not kill people everywhere and set fires, leaving the people homeless.

The people of Jinling supported Xu Chang, naturally they did not really support this person, but hoped that under the leadership of Xu Chang, they could defeat the Tianmen Daoists who violated Jinling Dao.

After discussion, Chu Huan and the people under his command knew that the current situation was the best time to go north.

The situation in Hexi, Chu Huan is very clear, the main forces in Hexi are on the front line of Yanshan, and now that the barbarians have rebelled, and the city of Wuping Mansion is in danger, then the Qin army in Yanshan may not be able to support it for long.

The Qin army on the front line is bound to be disheartened because of the rebellion of the barbarians, even if it can stabilize its position in a short time, but Wuping Mansion is now in a predicament, and it is impossible to continue to provide logistical supplies to the front line, without the logistical supplies provided from Hexi, it is of course impossible for the front-line Qin army to support it, Chu Huan and others have already expected that even if the Qin army can still support it in Yanshan, it will collapse on the whole front in a month or two at most.

The strength of the Liaodong Army, Chu Huan is naturally very clear, once the Qin army collapses, the Liaodong Army will definitely drive straight in, like a bamboo, and soon it will be killed under the city of Wuping Mansion, with the strength of the Qin army, after the Liaodong Army breaks through Yanshan, it is already difficult to hold Wuping Mansion, if nothing else, the Liaodong Army will capture the city of Wuping Mansion, it is only a matter of time.

Of course, Chu Huan did not want to see the Liaodong Army take the lead in capturing Wuping Mansion City.

Whether it is from the military strategy or the people's will, the Northwest Army must take Wuping Fucheng before the Liaodong Army.

The world knows that Wuping Mansion is now the last fortress of Qin, and if the capture of Wuping Mansion is like the destruction of Qin, for the people of the world who are deeply poisoned by Qin, who can destroy Qin, of course, is a great hero, and it is bound to make the people have a great favor, and get the hearts of the people will also take the lead in the world's hegemony.

Chu Huan is now a strong soldier and a strong horse, with sufficient money and food, and sends troops to Xishan directly into the Hexi Corridor, as long as he breaks through the Hexi Corridor, there is a horse Pingchuan in front of him, and the cavalry can reach the city of Wuping Mansion within a few days.

Chu Huan knew very well that the Qin State had reached this point, Wuping Mansion was like a piece of fat, the barbarians had begun to rebel, and the Liaodong Army would eventually kill it.

Although the barbarians do not have many troops at the moment, as Pei Ji analyzed, in the case of Hexi's extreme emptiness now, the barbarians will never let go of such an opportunity, from the Mobei grassland, I am afraid that there are already thousands of barbarian iron horsemen gathering.

It is not false that the barbarians like to fight infighting, but when the thirteen chieftains are killed in the Qin State, it will inevitably provoke the anger in the hearts of the barbarians, from the consideration of interests, they have always liked to enter the territory of Hexi from the grassland in batches, burning, killing and looting, the beautiful women of the Central Plains and the rich property, of course, is the motivation for them to spare their lives.

Since the Feng family sat in Hexi, the barbarians have not been happily plundering in the Central Plains for many years, not only that, but they were often bullied by the Hexi army led by the Feng family.

Chu Huan's most important goal is to take Wuping Mansion City, but he will also not sit idly by and watch the barbarians invade the Central Plains, he knows very well in his heart that once the wolves of the northern grassland rush into Hexi, their ultimate goal is of course Wuping Mansion City, but the people of Li in Hexi will inevitably be deeply poisoned.

Although Chu Huan would not raise any banner of righteousness, it was impossible for him to sit back and watch the barbarians enter the Central Plains and ignore it.

Under such circumstances, the top brass of the Northwest Army quickly made a decision, and the main force of the Northwest Army of 35,000 troops marched north, including 10,000 cavalry and 25,000 foot soldiers.

When going north, Chu Huan did not ignore the movement in the south, fighting and killing, anything could happen, although Chu Huan judged that with Xu Chang's strength, even if he could not defeat Tianmen Dao, at least within half a year, Tianmen Dao would not be able to occupy Jinling, but just in case, Chu Huan still mobilized a part of the troops and horses from the northwest to strengthen the defense of Liangzhou.

Once Tianmen Dao really captures Jinling, it will naturally endanger Xishan Dao, as the forefront of Xishan in the south, Liangzhou's defense is bound to be strengthened.