After late autumn, the weather gradually turns colder, and a cold wind blows, which makes people shiver, especially when it is cloudy, the weather is cold and gray, which makes people feel desolate. ≧，

At this time, Luoyang City was cloudy, and there was a lot of cold wind, which made passers-by's cheeks slightly painful, and at the execution site, the atmosphere became more gloomy and cold, and a large number of crying fathers and mothers were filled with the voices of innocent people.

They are the family of the conspirators, old and young, male and female, and even children of a few years old, they are completely unaware of what is happening in the Luoyang City Palace, and they do not have the slightest involvement, but because of the relationship between Zhu Lian, they must be executed, and there is no room for ambiguity.

In the face of the stout executioner and the glittering broadsword, some prisoners lowered their heads helplessly, and some prisoners closed their eyes and waited for the moment when they were cut down.

And most of the people around them stretched their necks and looked at everything in front of them curiously, as if they were watching the excitement, of course, the people whose families were killed were different, they hated all the prisoners, even the innocent, after all, if it weren't for He Zhong's collusion with the Hu people, Shi Guofu might not have killed on a killing spree, and their relatives might not have died, so He Zhong and other conspirators all deserved to die, and their families were naturally angry, so they also deserved to die.

However, the person these people hate the most is not He Zhong, but Shi Guofu and his men who personally slaughtered their relatives, after all, these Qihu soldiers and horses are the executioners who directly killed their relatives, and moreover, the Qianhu regime has ruled the Central Plains for decades and committed too many crimes. So much so that all the people of the Central Plains hated the Qianhu to the bone, and this time Shi Guofu's slaughter made the old hatred that had cooled in the hearts of the people for more than ten years blow out again.

These hateful civilians were all waiting, waiting for Shi Guofu and his men and horses to be tortured, and then cut off their flesh with their own hands and eat it in their stomachs. to express revenge for loved ones.

"The wolf son of the Northern King is ambitious, intending to usurp the throne, he is a traitor, a traitor, a traitor......" Seeing that he was about to be beheaded, He Zhong shouted angrily.

The surrounding masses were not bewitched by He Zhong, because Hua An did not usurp the throne, but He Zhong really colluded with the Hu people. He Zhong is an abominable sinner, and what a sinner says naturally cannot be believed.

Hua An, who was standing in front of the window, flashed a trace of anger in his eyes, and he couldn't wait to immediately change the order and cut He Zhong and Shi Guofu to death together to relieve the hatred in his heart.

The prison officer in charge of the execution saw He Zhong yelling indiscriminately. Hurriedly threw down the token in his hand and shouted, "Chop." ”

With the landing of the token in the hand of the warden. The wooden signs behind the first batch of more than 100 prisoners were pulled down and their heads were pressed down.

The ** of "woo ......" survival made many prisoners cry, but this did not arouse the sympathy of the bystanders, let alone the sympathy of the executioner.

As the cold light fell. More than 100 bloody human heads rolled to the ground, and the bloody aura instantly filled the air, so that the surrounding onlookers could feel the chilling killing aura.

There are only more than 100 heads, which are simply insignificant compared to the bloody battlefield. Hua An, who was standing in front of the window, didn't even blink his eyelids, he knew that he should be ruthless when dealing with those who opposed him, and he must not have the slightest compassion, otherwise he would definitely kill himself.

"Your Majesty, urgent information has just come from the direction of Shouyang Mountain."

"Why, there are still remnant bandits in Shouyang Mountain." Hua An hurriedly planned the words of his subordinates, and asked nervously.

The subordinates shook their heads and hurriedly said: "It's the people near Shouyang Mountain, they dug up more than 500 corpses of the carcasses buried by our army from the ground, and whipped the corpses to vent their anger, and many people set up a cauldron to cook these corpses, and the scene was terrible. ”

"It's miserable." Hua An's eyes flashed with fierceness.

The subordinates knew that they had used inappropriate words, so they hurriedly changed their words: "It's very happy, it's very happy." ”

Hua An smiled slightly, and said softly: "Don't worry about it, let these people make trouble on their own!" After saying that, he continued to look out the window.

Hua An didn't feel inappropriate about the excesses of the common people, after all, these soldiers and horses slaughtered the relatives of the people, causing great harm to the people near Shouyang Mountain, and it was difficult to calm the anger in their hearts if they did not let these people vent their anger.

In just a blink of an eye, almost all of the more than 1,000 prisoners were executed, leaving only the last Shi Guofu and the captured men and horses under his command.

There were a large number of wooden pillars in the execution ground, and a prisoner was tied to each pillar, and the same number of executioners, holding pig-killing knives in their hands, stood coldly in front of these bearded people, with anger in their eyes.

These executioners are born killers, they have no mercy in their hearts, and for them, there is neither pleasure nor pain in killing, after all, this is their job, and their hearts have long been numb to killing.

However, they had a special resentment in their hearts against these soldiers and horses, so much so that when they were executed, they had already deeply felt a different kind of pleasure, especially when they were executing, they were physically punished, and they cut off the flesh and blood of the prisoners piece by piece, which was very different from a happy knife.

Of course, they are not good at cutting meat, and they may not do it very well, but Hua'an has very low requirements for them, they only need to cut meat with a knife, and it doesn't matter whether they cut well or not.

The feeling of cutting the flesh was naturally extremely painful, and as the pieces of bloody flesh were cut off, Shi Guofu and the others all showed hideous expressions.

The crowd of onlookers was all boiling, and many people began to scramble for the cut meat, which they wanted to eat to show that they had finally avenged their loved ones.

Since the corporal punishment needed to be carried out for two full hours, Hua An felt that he did not have to stay here for so long, and he was relieved to see that there was no major turmoil at the execution site, and immediately, under the escort of his own soldiers, he returned to the Northern Palace, and immediately gathered his henchmen to begin to study the plan of the Northern Expedition to Yanguo.

It didn't take long for Wang Meng, Zhuge Xiong, Wang San, Deng Qiang, Yang An and other generals. All of them entered the main hall of the North Palace.

In order to take all of Youzhou and Pingzhou in one fell swoop, Hua'an had already sent a large number of scouts and smart soldiers to Youzhou and Pingzhou, closely reconnoitered the terrain and military preparations there, and made a sand table model of Youzhou and Pingzhou according to a certain proportion.

At this time, Huaan was standing in front of the giant sand table model. Carefully looked at the terrain and cities of Youzhou and Pingzhou, as well as the garrison positions of the various troops of Yan Kingdom, and fell into deep thought.

"Your Majesty, according to the current strength of the Yan army, it is impossible to defeat the Yan State with only the 200,000 soldiers and horses under the command of General Xie Ai, at least another 200,000 troops must be transferred north to have a certain chance of victory." Zhuge Xiong looked at the sand table model and said.

"Your Majesty. There are 500,000 soldiers and horses around Luoyang City, and it is completely feasible to transfer 200,000 soldiers and horses to the Northern King, and the last general is willing to lead troops to reinforce General Xie Ai. Deng Qiang said loudly.

After listening to the opinions of his subordinates, Hua An did not express his opinion, and now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, he is most worried about the direction of Jingzhou, and he is thinking about it. In the end, how much is it appropriate for Huan Chong to lead the troops, 105,000. Or 150,000.

"Is Wang Shang thinking that the direction of Jingzhou will be unstable?" Wang Meng looked at Hua An and said softly.

Hua An nodded and said without hesitation: "That's right, the goal of this king this time is to recover Youzhou and Pingzhou in one fell swoop, and moreover, he will also send a large army to garrison it." Therefore, in order to win this battle, the king must transfer the most elite soldiers and horses and the most warlike generals to Hebei, so that once the Jingzhou army has a change. Isn't this king passive, so this king plans to let the emperor decree that part of the Jingzhou army and our army will go north to attack Yan Kingdom, so that the pressure on Luoyang City will be greatly reduced, but this king does not know the attitude of the king of the south, so he is a little worried. After speaking, he looked at Wang Meng.

When Wang Meng heard this, he said: "The king doesn't have to worry, now the main force of our army has not left, the 500,000 army has formed a great advantage over the Jingzhou army, Yangzhou's soldiers and horses have gradually begun to move closer to the king, the Jingzhou army has no advantage at all, if they do not obey the emperor's will and allocate some soldiers and horses to the Northern Expedition, it will be disobedient and disrespectful, so we will have enough reasons to attack Jingzhou, at that time, Yangzhou and Shuzhong soldiers and horses will support our army from both wings, with the current strength of our army, It is fully capable of comprehensively solving the problem of Jingzhou. ”

"What General Wang said makes sense, but in this way, my Great Jin will fall into a civil war, and the Yan Kingdom will not reap the benefits of the fisherman." Hua An said worriedly.

Hua An knew that the abilities of the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State were very strong, and the Yan State was located in the northeast, the people were strong, and the cavalry was the mainstay, so if they were given a chance to breathe, they would be a great threat to themselves.

"The king doesn't have to worry, now the 200,000 soldiers and horses under the command of General Xie Ai have completely controlled Jizhou, even if the soldiers and horses of Yan State take the opportunity to go south, in a short period of time, it is impossible to seize Jizhou, without capturing the entire Hebei, Yan State is close to Youzhou and Pingzhou It is impossible to achieve the goal of rising, as long as our army solves the trouble of Jingzhou as soon as possible, we can wave our army to the north and destroy Yan in one fell swoop." Wang Meng said confidently.

"Your Majesty, with our current strength, even if we fight against the Jingzhou Army and the Yan Kingdom at the same time, we will be more than excellent, so we don't have to worry too much at all." Zhuge Xiong said.

Hua An smiled, nodded and said: "What you said is right, with the current strength of our army, it is indeed already arrogant in the world, but we must not be arrogant because of this, if we start a war with the Jingzhou army and the Yan State at the same time, even if our army can win, it will consume a lot of strength, the world is so big, do you think there are only Yan and Jingzhou troops?" Therefore, this king intends to exchange the smallest loss for the greatest victory, and a bitter victory is inevitable. ”

"What the king said is that it is indeed not the best policy to force the Jingzhou army to rebel, but in the opinion of his subordinates, it should not be too much of a problem to let the Jingzhou army divide 100,000 troops to attack Yan State, even if we are not very sure, at least we should try it!" Wang San Zhengse said.

Hua An nodded and said: "That's right, at least we should try, this king will play the emperor early tomorrow morning, and let the emperor make an order to transfer 100,000 Jingzhou troops to the north to attack Yanguo." ”

All the henchmen and subordinates nodded yes, fully agreeing with Hua'an's opinion.

Subsequently, Hua'an issued an order for Deng Qiang and Yang An to immediately reorganize the 50,000 troops under their respective commands and be ready to reinforce Hebei at any time.

When all the henchmen and subordinates went to prepare, Hua'an was still watching the sand table, and in his eyes, it wouldn't be long before the entire Youzhou and Pingzhou would be all in his pocket.

Before he knew it, it was almost dusk, and Hua An had just relaxed his waist when a confidant soldier walked in.

"Your Majesty, the execution has ended, most of the people have left, but there are still thousands of people who are still angry, and they have dismembered Shi Guofu and others, even the bones have been broken, and the scene is chaotic, fortunately, there are no casualties." The confidant reported softly.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, and ordered softly: "Let these people vent again!" However, before tonight, all the corpses on the street must be disposed of, and no trace of blood must be left. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The pro-soldiers were ordered to retreat.

After the soldiers retreated, Hua'an continued to look at the sand table model in front of him, and fell into deep contemplation, once Youzhou and Pingzhou were recovered, all the lost territory of the Great Jin Dynasty would be recovered.

But once all the lost ground has been regained, what happens next? Whether it is to continue to expand the territory and increase the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, or to consolidate the existing achievements, vigorously build water conservancy, and improve the living standards of the people.

In addition, Emperor Sima Dan's health is getting worse and worse, and it seems that he will not live for a few years, what should he do, whether to usurp the throne and stand on his own, or wait for Sima Dan to die before ascending the throne, or support another little emperor to ascend the throne.

These problems all plague Hua'an, making Hua'an's bedroom uneasy, but escaping is not the way, these things are already here, and they must be faced bravely, and escaping will only make the situation worse.

However, Hua An's strength alone is limited, and there are many problems, and he must seek the opinions of his henchmen to see what kind of attitude they have.

At this time, it was already late, and it was not too urgent to discuss these matters, so Hua An did not immediately summon his henchmen into the palace.

He decided to think of several sets of plans first, and then take them out and let his henchmen discuss them, if all his henchmen agree, they can naturally implement it, but if all his henchmen and subordinates disapprove, Hua'an will have to think about it carefully. u