Luoyang, Ziwei Palace.

"My lord, Tian Lao Thief is kidnapping the Son of Heaven and deceiving the king and treason!" The one-eyed dragon Li Keyong jumped up from his couch and shouted excitedly at Yang Fuguang, the king of Hongnong County, the military envoy of the capital of the world: "Hey, look at this damn old thief, see what he has done?" He not only kidnapped the Son of Heaven, but also set fire to Chengdu, and transferred the twelve town marshals, and let Wang Duo be the envoy of the Northern Capital, Taiyuan Yin, and Hedong Jiedu, Zheng Zheng as the Eastern Capital, Henan Yin, and the Eastern Capital of Qi as the defense envoy, Zheng Congyan as the Xijing Guard, Fengxiang Yin, and Fengxiang Military Festival Envoy. All three of them were scholars and scribes, and it was like playing the harp to give them such an important place. In any case, Tian Lao Thief is a false edict, and we refuse to accept it. ”

Originally, Yang Fuguang had promised Li Keyong that their brothers would protect him as the envoy of the Hedong Festival in front of the Son of Heaven. But seeing that the meat was in his mouth, now that such a thing suddenly happened, Tian Lingzi actually came out and snatched the Son of Heaven to Guangdu, and robbed the Son of Heaven to rob the Son of Heaven, Li Keyong didn't care. But his mother's Tian Laogou also issued an edict to make a big rotation of the twelve towns festival marshal, he was originally supposed to be the envoy of the Hedong festival, but this time it became nothing, and his name could not be found on the list of the new festival marshals of the twelve towns. His mother's Zhu and Ah elders all have a Zhaoyi Festival envoy, and he Li Keyong is actually nameless. This is intolerable.

Wang Chongrong was also very dissatisfied with this appointment, and he finally managed to stabilize his position with two mutinies and two repeated surrenders to Huangchao and Tang Ting, and Hezhong Town has two large salt ponds, a place that has always been rich. Such a good site. Let him give up to Li Quanzhong, that damn Hebei guy. And then let him go to the same state, isn't this? There are salt ponds in the town of Hezhong, and the territory is also large. But what about the Zhenguo Army? Originally, there were only two states in Tonghua and one Tongguan, but now Huazhou is lost, and there is only one Tongzhou left, and Huangchao's emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and now if you go to Tongzhou, don't you have to fight with Huangchao?

Li Changyan just sat in the position of Fengxiang Festival Marshal. I don't want to leave. The other towns are roughly the same, although there are also some small feudal towns with only one or two states that are willing to change to a larger domain, but others are unwilling to exchange the big for the small.

Yang Fuguang's eyes were half-closed, and he seemed to be asleep, but in fact, he was also very angry in his heart at this time. Tian Lingzi's sudden attack really caught them off guard. No one would have thought that Tian Laogou would have such an idea. Now one wrong step, one wrong step. Tian Lingzi left Chengdu with the Son of Heaven and arrived in Guangdu. Although Yang Fugong also secretly accumulated a lot of strength in Chengdu, he lost the trump card of the Son of Heaven. lost the lead again, and was immediately restrained everywhere. In addition, Tian Lingzi created rumors everywhere. said that he burned Chang'an and wanted to kidnap the emperor to rebel, and he was now embarrassed. Although with his usual preparations, he was not wiped out by Tian Lingzi in one fell swoop, but he was also embarrassed and could no longer stand in Chengdu, and now he has evacuated Chengdu with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, all the way to Guanzhong.

For the Yang brothers, they are already in an extremely disadvantageous situation now that they have lost the Son of Heaven.

Yanjing is preparing to welcome the New Year in the Forbidden Palace.

When Gongsun Lan, who had a big belly, hurried to the palace but staggered to report the news of the Chengdu Palace Revolution to Li Jing, Li Jing was drowsy because of the dense numbers on the financial budget report of the second year of Zhonghe by Li Rang, the secretary of the audit household department.

"What? Will you tell me again? Li Jing's eyes suddenly lit up, as if the dragon had woken up: "Great, it's really good, look, these eunuchs without eggs are really doing a beautiful job." ”

"Convene a meeting of the government hall immediately!" Li Jing said excitedly.

Since the Battle of Daibei, a year and a half has passed now, and the Qin Domain has been defending steadily for a year and a half, as if it is asleep, just quietly watching the excitement of Huangchao and the towns in the west from the east. For more than a year, Li Jing can be said to be really very low-key, and he has never even said a superfluous word.

The war in the northeast was hidden in the quagmire, and Li Jing had to recall the Lin Wei Army and Guo Chongtao's Army on the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain last year, and in the autumn, he recalled the Navy Division Army and began a comprehensive contraction strategy.

From last year to this year, the most difficult year for the Qin army in the past few years has been. There was good news outside, but the Qin army was in a food crisis inside. Everyone has not had a good time for more than a year, relying on shrinking clothes and dieting to live, while tightening their belts and trying to save as much as possible, while they have to squeeze out a large amount of food and materials and send them thousands of miles to the Bohai Sea thousands of miles away from the Guan.

The Battle of the Bohai Sea has now become a protracted confrontation, and both sides are fighting and fighting for attrition, depending on who can't hold it first. The determination of the Khitan and Heishui tribes and the alliance of the Murowei tribes was much stronger than Li Jing expected. Perhaps because of the failure of the southward movement, and the burning and destruction of the two armies of Lin Wei and Guo Chongtao all the way deep into the grassland, the Khitan vitality was greatly damaged, but it strengthened their determination to win the battle of the Bohai Sea to win back a city. This time, the tribal army took out its old capital and relied on the occupied half of the Bohai Sea to carry out all-round plunder to support the operation.

The Bohai Navy was also weaker than the Qin army expected, and in this war, the Bohai State was completely reduced to a supporting role, and the Qin army carried most of the burden against the enemy.

The battle is now, whether it is up or down, Li Jing can't retreat even if he wants to. Now it depends on who can hold on to the last of the most, who can hold on to the last of the most, who can swallow the Bohai Sea, and the last of the most can rely on attracting the fresh flesh and blood of the Bohai State to replenish and restore their strength and become the real overlord of the Northeast. In order to achieve this goal, Li Jing had to adjust his strategic plan, implement the strategy of fighting in the north and defending in the south, and continue to fight with the Hu people outside the pass until he achieved victory. In the Kannai, the registration is completely carried out, and the time is delayed as much as possible in order to recover the vitality.

In the past year, looking at Huang Chao's half-dead appearance, he can still deceive the corpse from time to time, and send two times of Biao, which has firmly attracted the target of Zhuzhen, Li Jing doesn't know how many times he has been secretly happy. No one even knew that Huang Chao had deceived the corpse many times, but in fact, he also had the silent help of the Qin army in secret, and he selflessly provided them with a lot of valuable information. Originally, Li Jing still pinned his hopes on Huang Chao, counting on him to delay it for another year and a half. Who would have thought that at this time, Tian Lingzi, an old eunuch. I actually did such a thing once.

This time. Tian Lingzi plundered the Son of Heaven. It's really gratifying to have a big fight with the Yang brothers publicly.

Half an hour later, all the members of the political hall and the important ministers who participated in the political affairs hall gathered in the political affairs hall to discuss the matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, great news, Tian Lingzi and Yang Fugong brothers have done it, Eunuch Tian took the emperor hostage and left Chengdu to go to Guangdu, and Yang Fugong was finally forced to flee Chengdu and go to Guanzhong. Now. Tian Lingzi is in Guangdu, and he has 100,000 Shence troops under his command and the territory and soldiers and horses of the three towns of Jiannan Dongchuan, Jiannan Xichuan, and Shannan Xidao. Yang Fugong arrived in Fengxiang Town, and Yang Fuguang was in Luoyang. The battle between the three eunuchs began, and we had a good show to watch. Gai Yu, the right envoy of the General Staff, had already learned the news, and said loudly with a smile on his face as soon as he came in.

Li Jing nodded, "I called you here precisely because of this matter." Now the eunuchs are contending, and the two sides each have several towns and soldiers and horses, and there are also Li Yi, the son of the Tang Dynasty, and Huang Chao, the emperor of the Great Qi. What do you think is going to happen next? And what kind of impact will it have on our Qin Domain. What kind of attitude do we need to maintain in this fight? What kind of adjustments do we need to make to our strategic plans? Let's talk about it together. ”

This is indeed a major event related to the Qin army, and if things develop in any direction, it will affect the Qin army.

Jing Xiang, the left envoy of the staff officer, stroked his beard, as an important minister in charge of the strategic direction of the Qin army, his opinion in this regard was extremely important. He thought for a while and said slowly: "I think that Tian Lingzi has a small territory and weak force, and he will compete with the Yang brothers, and he will definitely be the one who loses the most." However, Tian Lingzi holds the Son of Heaven hostage, and he can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, although the current order of the Son of Heaven has no effect, but the Yellow Nest has not been extinguished, and Yang Fugong has no upper hand to occupy. Since Yang Fugong escaped from Sanchuan, he thought that Tian Lingzi and the Yang brothers could not fight for the time being. It is very likely that they will join forces to deal with Huang Chao first, and after dividing up the money and grain of the territory occupied by Huang Chao, they will go to settle accounts with Tian Lingzi and regain the Son of Heaven. ”

The terrain of Sanchuan is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Yellow Nest is still behind, and it is impossible for the towns to send troops to Guanzhong. What's more, although the Yang brothers now have the support of many feudal towns, there are still many feudal towns that do not stand with them. Especially in Guanzhong, Shannan, and Jingxiang.

"Are we going to get involved?"

Cui Yunqing reminded Li Jing, "Your Highness, although we have stopped our troops in the south for a year and a half, we have continued to use troops in the northeast. In just one and a half years, it is far from the time to recover. According to the current situation, we will have to recuperate for at least two years, and this is still under the condition that we have been maintaining the current smooth situation in the Northeast War. If we take the liberty of interfering in the war in the Central Plains now, we are afraid that we will be besieged by the towns at that time, and then it will be dangerous. ”

"Our army is not afraid of the siege of the towns!" Wang Pu said loudly.

"But we don't have the grain and grass equipment to support a big war, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and there is no grain and grass, what can we do to fight? Without equipment, what to use against the enemy? Especially since we now have gunpowder in stock, everyone only knows that the gunpowder is very strong, but they don't know that the power of the gunpowder is piled up with countless gunpowder. The last time we fought in Baishuiluo, we used several years' reserves in one day. The southern expedition to the west in the Guannai directly emptied all the family funds, and now it has not recovered its vitality, blindly reckless and reckless, and then it is only afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable, His Royal Highness does not want the soldiers to be unable to pay food and wages, and the people will not be able to eat, right? ”

"Do we have to endure it?"

"There's nothing wrong with being patient!"

"But it's really embarrassing to be a turtle with a shrunken head all the time, obviously there is a strong force, but you can't do it." Wang Pu sighed.

Li Jing couldn't help sighing, although the army is strong, but logistics is a big constraint. After the Battle of Daibei last year, Li Jing had to shrink in an all-round way, and basically disarmed those unity soldiers, township soldiers, militiamen, and people's husbands and returned them to the fields, so that they could resume production. Even several fleets of the Sailors and the marines of the Sailors were almost all fishermen, whaling and fishing at sea all day long. The cavalry units also often drove out of the barracks and went to the mountains to camp and practice, in fact, to hunt and solve part of the military food problem by themselves.

Li Jing even sent people to Yang Xingmi in Huaixi and Qian Biao in Hangzhou, as well as Fujian, Lingnandong, Lingnanxi, Annan, Tianping, Yicheng, Xuanwu, Korea, Dongying and other places to borrow grain. They also bought grain from those small countries in the southwest of Jiaozhou, and spent a lot of effort to transport the grain back. Officials once suggested that food should only be supplied to officials and the military. The rest of the people left it up to them to figure it out for themselves. They are even allowed to eat out. This proposal was heavily criticized by Li Jing. The biggest reason why the Qin army has been able to develop and grow so rapidly is that there is no civil strife. And there was no civil strife, in addition to Li Jing's checks and balances precautions in place, the biggest reason was that many systems of the Qin domain did allow the vast majority of people to get more benefits than before, from top to bottom, from officials to the common people. They will always support Li Jing. This support was especially great when the life of the Qin clan was in stark contrast to that of other feudal towns.

It was without the huge consumption of civil strife that the Qin Domain was able to expand so rapidly. But if Li Jing really accepted that official's proposal to carry out that kind of blood-transfusion development, sacrificing the interests of the vast majority of the people, to carry out high-pressure rule and maintain military strength, this kind of strength will not be able to last for a long time.

The more that's the case, the faster it will fall. No building with a solid foundation can be preserved for a long time. Military strength must rely on political stability. This is the core.

"It doesn't cause us to join the chaos in the west at this time, not to say that we don't have this ability now. Even if you have this ability, it is not suitable for blending. If we really have that ability, we still have to solve the two thorns in the side of Chengde and Wei Bo in Hebei first. If we don't pull them out for a day, this passage in our Hebei and Shandong provinces will not be stable. Pei You said.

"What Pei Shilang means is that we don't care about the fight of the eunuchs now, and take the opportunity to clear the snow in front of the door?" Gai Yu asked.

"I think this is an opportunity, the current coach of Chengde Town is only ten years old, how can such a coach fight against us? While Huang Chao is still struggling at the moment, the two eunuchs have already pinched again, and we are just in time to destroy Chengde Town. Pei You nodded.

"I think it's inappropriate, Chengde Town has the territory of five states, but it doesn't mean that it can be destroyed, especially in the center of Hebei, it has a geographical advantage, plus Weibo Town will definitely send troops to rescue, and even that ten-year-old doll has an old man named One-Eyed Wolf, how can he sit idly by? Chengde Town is a hornet's nest, and everyone is staring at it. As long as we move, it will inevitably trigger a chain reaction, which will affect the whole body, and if we don't get it right, it will be another battle for Daibei, and it may even evolve into a protracted war. I am categorically opposed to poking this hornet's nest at this time! Gai Yu said in a deep voice.

Indeed, when the Qin army captured the land of Daibei north of Taiyuan, the next military target of the Qin army was already obvious to passers-by, it could not be Taiyuan in Hedong, it could not be Luoyang in Henan, and it could not be Yangzhou in Huainan, so there was only one target left, Chengde in Hebei.

In such an obvious situation, attacking Chengde may be stepping into a big quagmire at any time.

Li Jing pinched his chin, rubbed the short mustache like a steel needle, and fell into deep thought. With the defeat of one opponent after another, the current situation around the Qin army has not improved, but has become more and more insecure. Because after those weak opponents were annexed and eliminated, now on the periphery of the Qin army, the rest are some very powerful feudal towns, they may not be the opponents of the Qin army alone, but if they really combined, they will far exceed the previous times.

"Gu now has a concern, more and more information shows that Zheng Congyan is very likely to give up Hedong Town to Li Keyong. If Li Keyong occupies Hedong Town, it will be very unfavorable to us. In that way, Li Keyong, Chengde and Wei Bo were connected together again to form an iron triangle to resist us. There will even be Wang Chongrong, Zhu Quanzhong, Li Quanzhong, etc. to join their alliance. The waves are sweeping the sand, and the rest of our neighbors around us are already hard stubble. ”

Hearing Li Jing's emotion, everyone felt the same way. The Qin army came all the way west, swallowing up all the feudal towns that stood in its way like a giant beast. Now there is still a feudal town that can't see that the goal of the Qin army is to seize the world, as long as they are unwilling to be annexed, they will become the enemies of the Qin army. The stronger the Qin army, the higher the likelihood that these feudal towns would unite against each other.

"Perhaps, we can focus on the Northeast Battlefield?" Yu Cong said.

"What do you mean?"

"So-and-so's idea is like this" Yu Cong said slowly, Li Jing listened attentively, nodded from time to time, pinched his chin, thoughtful.

Three days later, in Chengde Town, a Qin army envoy, escorted by a team of knights, rode into the city with his head held high, and went straight to the palace of Zhao County.

"King Zhao Jun invites the envoy from Youzhou to come in!"

The envoy of the Qin Domain was a military attache in his thirties, his grade was not high, but he was the lieutenant of Yilu of the seventh rank, he did not enter the palace with him, but reined in the reins of the horse, sat on the horse very arrogantly, and snorted coldly: "No need, a certain is ordered by the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses and the king of Qin to read out an official document, so that Wang Rong can come out to receive the book." ”

Several Chengde guards glared angrily, and their hands were on the hilt of their swords. The military attache was not afraid, but just sneered, "Oh, this official almost forgot, Wang Rong is just a ten-year-old hairy child, maybe he is still breastfeeding at this time, in this case, then this official will read it out directly here, and you will pass it on later." ”

"The most important ultimatum, limited to Chengde Town within three days to hand over the household registration atlas, the above table is attached to the imperial court, otherwise, as soon as the three days arrive, the King of Qin will personally lead a million tigers and wolves to break through Chengde Town, carry 10,000 cannons, and level Shenzhou City!" The military attache finished reading the ultimatum in an arrogant tone, and directly threw the ultimatum in front of the Zhaojun Palace, turned around and left!

After the sound of the hooves of the Qin army's cavalry team was far away for a long time, the gate of the Zhaojun Palace's Mansion opened, and a young man with pink makeup walked out of the mansion, bent down and picked up the most obscure ultimatum on the ground, and after his eyes swept over, he was stunned!

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