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Flowers are blooming, and early summer and April are quietly passing.

As the envoys of the princes of all parties left Chang'an one after another, the capital gradually returned to its former order.

The undercurrent hidden under the tranquility is once again dormant and waiting, but Chang'an Street is still prosperous, and Nanyuan Restaurant is still making money every day, and it is very lively.

The princes' missions left one after another, the Jingzhou mission that left first, followed by the Yanzhou mission, the Youzhou mission, and the Yangzhou mission, and so on.

Along with the departure of the various delegations, there were also gentry from various states, counties, and even counties, most of which were from the Central Plains prefectures.

As for the results of their trip, naturally some people are happy and some are worried, because the current situation determines that there will not be a scene where everyone is happy, and the phenomenon of favoring one over the other is inevitable and can never be eradicated.

However, regardless of whether the envoys and gentry of all parties went away with joy as they wished, there was only one big winner in the end, and that was the master of Chang'an City, the general Li Li and Li Wenchang.

Xuzhou don't drive to engage in Mi Zhu, and he also left with Hu. Compared with some frustrated "caravans", the results of his trip were not good, and all the money and money he had prepared privately were squandered, and finally he was exchanged for an edict and a parting letter without saying goodbye.

The edict was given to Liu Bei, but it was not to entitle him as the assassin of Xuzhou, but the assassin of Yuzhou. The letter was left by the younger sister Mi Huan, and the letter said that she had followed the Zhen family to live in Guo Jia's mansion for a while, and to be the companion of the Zhen family's sister. When she is homesick, the Zhang family will send someone to escort her back to Xuzhou.

In this way, Mi Zhu left Chang'an with two brocade silks and the other princes' missions. Although he failed to complete the mission delivered by Liu Bei, he was able to go back to make a trip, and he finally did not run in vain. Therefore, when he left Chang'an City, he was not depressed, but seemed very happy, and there was an excited look that could not be concealed between his eyebrows, and this scene happened to be seen by Yuan Yi, the head of the Yangzhou Mission.

With the departure of the princes' missions. The four streets and alleys in front of the General's Mansion have restored their former tranquility, and the lively scene that lasted for more than a month has disappeared. Because this is not a bustling street market, there are few pedestrians in the streets and alleys at the moment; Entering and exiting here are a group of subordinates and many generals from the General's Mansion. Ordinary people would not take half a step lightly, and would rather detour than rashly walk in front of the General's Mansion.

News recently came out in the Changle Palace, which is only one street away from the General's Mansion: Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, suddenly fell unconscious on top of the main hall, and all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty saw it with their own eyes. It can be seen that the Son of Heaven is really sick this time. And it's not lightly ill. He fell ill on the dragon chair in the early morning.

In the next three days, it is said that the Son of Heaven was bedridden, and the general Li Li urgently dispatched dozens of medical scholars from Chang'an Tai College into the palace to treat the Son of Heaven, and guarded the emperor's dormitory day and night. It was not until the fourth day that the Son of Heaven slowly woke up and began to eat in the afternoon of the same day, so that the ministers who had stood in front of the palace gate for four days finally left slowly with relief. And in these four days. Li Li is also sitting on pins and needles, and every half an hour, someone comes to report the illness of the Son of Heaven. It's a bit of a hard time to sleep. For this reason, he had to stay in the General's Mansion for several days, unable to return to the front line of Chencang as soon as possible, in order to deal with a series of emergencies caused by the unforeseen Son of Heaven.

When he heard that the Son of Heaven finally came to his senses, Li Li couldn't help but sigh, and he was really relieved.

At the same time, during the serious illness of the Son of Heaven, dozens of old ministers in the court jointly asked Li Li to cancel the Son of Heaven's mausoleum, and implicitly admonished that this move violated the ancestral system and did not conform to the law. However, Li Li did not change his original intention, and then he called Li Ru to the study for some instructions, and made it clear that the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials went to Loudi Yuan to pay homage to the tomb for two months, and then chose the opportunity to go to worship after the Son of Heaven was fully restored. Then the matter of the Son of Heaven's sacrifice to the tomb was handed over to Li Dao to deal with it with full authority, and there was no need to report the incident, but he could act with the camera and make his own decisions.

After handling the affairs in the city, the entire General's Mansion was completely calm, and many subordinates performed their duties, and the chief Shi Guo Jia made a decision on his behalf, and there was no need to report everything.

In the early morning of the last day of April, thousands of Iron Cavalry guards quietly left the west gate of Yiwu, and rushed west to the rising sun and stepped on the green grass with morning dew.

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Twenty miles away from Chencang City, Zhang Wei's camp, the camp is still high, ten steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and the guards are extremely strict.

At this moment, Zhang Wei, the chief general of the Hanzhong Army, was standing at the foot of the main tent of the camp, and on the upper seat sat a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and small eyes, a mustache, and a gloomy expression. But seeing that this person is no more than eight feet tall, his figure is slightly thin, he is wearing a dark red brocade robe sewn with high-quality Shu brocade, wearing a black jade crown, stepping on a hundred flower boots, sitting on a handsome position at will, but his body is full of majestic and domineering atmosphere, which causes the Hanzhong generals under the steps to hold their breath and silence, their eyes do not squint, they stand with their heads bowed, and their bodies do not dare to move. The identity of this person is self-evident, there is only one person who has such a majestic momentum in the realm of Hanzhong, and this is Zhang Lu and Zhang Gongqi, the third-generation heavenly master who led the Taishou and Wudoumi Sect in Hanzhong.

Since raising troops to attack Liangzhou and waiting for an opportunity to attack Chang'an, Zhang Lu has been sitting in the rear, guarding Yangping Pass to mobilize the army, and responding to Zhang Wei and Yang Ang in the center.

Before the end of the battle of Sili, the battle was quite smooth, and the Hanzhong army was like a bamboo, attacking the city one after another, and it was invincible. However, since Li Liban's division returned to Chang'an, the tide of the battle was reversed, and the Xiliang army continued to increase its strength, and tens of thousands of reinforcements joined the battle one after another, which made the Hanzhong army's good offensive trend come to an abrupt end, and then disappeared forever. As a last resort, the Hanzhong army had to turn from offensive to defensive, abandoning the flat towns and turning to defend to the death, trying their best to contain the strong military might of the Xiliang army, and strive to keep it out of the Hanzhong border.

Twenty days ago, when he heard that Li Li personally led a large army to conquer Hanzhong, Zhang Lu was so shocked when he heard the news that he could not sleep or eat for more than ten days in a row. In today's Yongliang Erzhou and Yizhou, which is adjacent to Xiliang, no one knows Li Li's strength and fierceness better than him, at least no one knows more deeply than him. There is no other reason, because he and Li Li occupy a county almost at the same time, and they are no more than a thousand miles away from each other, and they are on the same Xiliang territory. This kind of fate alone is by no means comparable to others, and what it feels like is only the deepest experience of the person concerned.

Back then, Zhang Lutong's mother Lu Shi maneuvered in many ways, obtained a soldier and horse from Liu Yan, and then went to Hanzhong with Zhang Xiu, the Cheng of Hanzhong County, to plot to kill the original Taishou Sugu, and then designed to kill Zhang Xiu, and then led the Hanzhong Taishou himself, divided one side, and supported the army to stand on his own. At this time, Zhang Lu heard that Li Li, the nephew of the general of Xiliang, rushed to Wuwei County, Liangzhou to serve as the Taishou at the age of seventeen. At that time, Zhang Lu scoffed at this and was very disdainful, thinking that Li Li wanted to insert a foot in Liangzhou as soon as he introduced Huangkou Shuzi, and snatched food from the mouths of Han Sui, Ma Teng and Xiliang Babu, which was really beyond his strength, and the result was inevitably to hit the stone with an egg, and there was no return.

However, with the outbreak of major wars in Liangzhou and a series of battles that lasted for half a year, the development of events was diametrically opposed to Zhang Lu's initial speculation. Just when he was trying to get rid of Zhang Xiu, Li Li had defeated the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng twice in Wuwei County, and exterminated the eight tribes of Xiliang, at the same time, Li Li not only gained a firm foothold in Liangzhou, but also won the four counties of the Western Regions in one fell swoop, becoming the most powerful princely force in the west of Liangzhou, and the strength was even above Han Sui and Ma Teng, so that the two old princes who had occupied Xiliang for many years could not raise their heads.

When Zhang Lu heard the news, he once thought that he had heard it wrong. After confirming that the news was correct, he was extremely red-eyed, and secretly marveled that Li Li really had shit luck, and he occupied the land of the five counties in just half a year, and his luck was really good, and it was a little too good.

In view of this, Zhang Lu tried to send troops to Liangzhou, and also intervened in the territory of Xiliang, taking advantage of the endless war in Xiliang, he also seized several counties and counties to further strengthen his strength. However, he never expected that Ma Teng and Han Sui, two old guys, could not defeat Li Li, so they turned their targets behind them and successively sent troops to capture Wudu County and Longyou counties, and coincidentally collided with the Hanzhong army.

What happened next made Zhang Lu angry when he thought about it to this day. Han Sui and Ma Teng, two old horsemen, actually united with him as an enemy and jointly attacked the Hanzhong army, so that he not only failed to seize the city in Liangzhou, but was defeated and retreated by the Korean and Ma coalition forces, so that even Yangping Pass was lost. If it weren't for Li Li's tiger on the side, the two forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng would have almost invaded the hinterland of Hanzhong and captured Hanzhong County in one fell swoop. Stealing chickens and rice, Zhang Lu made a disgraced face when he first sent troops to Liangzhou, and returned defeated, since then he no longer dared to fight the idea of Liangzhou, and even Ma Teng and Han Sui were very afraid, and they were quite frightened.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed quietly. In the past, the "Jiuqu Yellow River" of Liangzhou was about to be made ancient, and the Ma family army that once crisscrossed Xiliang was also destroyed by Li Li, and the Ma family was all under Li Li's command, and even Ma Teng, the big leader of the Xiliang princes, bowed his head and became a minister. Although the territory did not increase much, the population of the territory increased day by day, and he recruited nearly 100,000 horses, plus tens of thousands of devout and strong followers of the Wudoumi Sect and 15,000 guardian guards.

Today, Zhang Lu has an army of more than 100,000 troops. In terms of the number of soldiers and horses, he is on par with Liu Zhang in Yizhou, and he is fully capable of attacking Yizhou. But just when he was about to move, Li Li mobilized the Xiliang army to fight against the princes of the Central Plains, which made him keenly aware that the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time had finally come.

In Zhang Lu's view, Yizhou Liu Zhang is just a piece of fat on his mouth, and he can eat him whenever he wants, but the opportunity to capture Chang'an is hard to come by, extremely rare, and it can be said that the opportunity cannot be lost and will not come again. So he decisively sent troops to attack the rear of the Xiliang Army, trying to capture Chang'an in one fell swoop, end Li Li's lair, and replace it.

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