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So, Liu Yunniang, who was full of worries, entered the Forbidden City all the way, strode into the political hall, and found that Li Jing and the participants in Yanjing had arrived.

Located in the Forbidden Palace, the hall is magnificently furnished, with a Persian carpet on the floor instead of a straw rush mat. In one corner of the hall is a rosewood screen carved with hundreds of lifelike and colorful rare birds and beasts, which was a congratulatory gift from Emperor Guangxiao, the current 58th emperor of Dongying, when he sent a delegation to congratulate Li Jing on his wedding. The walls are covered with exquisite brocades produced in Shu. On either side of the temple door are a pair of winged wolf statues, their round ruby eyes shining on the blue marble heads.

As soon as Liu stepped into the room, Zhang Chengye, the eunuch among the important ministers, leaned over. "Madame, I said I'm going to pick you up. You've heard about what happened in Daibei, and now it's completely out of control. Considering that the lady was familiar with that side, the king of Qin specially invited the lady to attend the meeting. Hopefully it doesn't bother you and the child in your belly. He had a fake beard on his lips, and he did not have the foul smell of other eunuchs and the sweet smell of the fat perfume used to hide the smell, and even when he spoke, his voice was not shrill. If he didn't know his identity, he would never have thought that such a general-like man would be a eunuch.

"You must have learned something about the way here." Li Jing, who was sitting at the top, had a solemn expression and a low tone. "Just now, the Supervision Office received an urgent report from the CIA from Daibei. Daibei is in chaos! ”

Liu followed Zhang Chengye to the side of the hall and sat down. She glanced at everyone in the hall. There are only eight people in Beijing tonight who will participate in political affairs. But right now, the palace is full of people. Except for her attendance. Tonight, all the generals who are in Beijing at or above the fifth rank have been notified to attend the meeting as observers.

"What happened to Daibei, did Li Keyong fight back?" Li Cunxiao asked loudly.

"Li Keyong should still be in Hezhong Town at this time, but the matter of Daibei is more complicated than Li Keyong fighting back." Li Jing said and turned his head to look at Gongsun Lan, "Gongsun, you first carefully introduce to everyone the current situation in Daibei. ”

"It's good." Gongsun Lan nodded.

Gongsun Lan has just been promoted to the title of Duke of Pingyang County, and she is one of the few people who has been promoted instead of declining. However, she was not promoted entirely because she was Li Jing's woman. Gongsun Lan was in charge of the Qin Domain's Supervision Department. As the director of intelligence, leading the Ombudsman is also commendable. In addition, Li Jing also intends to further enhance the status of women, and she is Li Jing's woman, so this time she will not fall but rise, and she will be successfully promoted to the title of duchess.

Gongsun Lan, who is newly promoted to Pingyang County Gong, is now in a very good mood, and at today's emergency meeting, she wore a women's large-sleeved shirt with wide sleeves, a long skirt tied around her waist, and a bright yellow shawl between her arms. She has a rare jade belt around her waist, and a green palace silk hangs on it. At the bottom is a small incense ball and a jade dragon pendant. With her flying bun raised high, there is also a hairpin of a hundred birds swaying towards Fengjin, and there is a purple Baodian on the forehead above the two eyebrows.

The whole person looks dignified, atmospheric, noble and beautiful.

"The situation in Daibei can only be described in one word now, and that is out of control! Like a wild horse on the loose! Gongsun Lan concisely and straightforwardly summarized the situation in the north of the current Daibei in one word. Then he said slowly, "Not long ago, Li Keyong suddenly came back from the dead, and he first appeared in Yanjing. This one-eyed wolf was bold and daring, infiltrated Yanjing City, and broke into Mrs. Liu's mansion, snatching a pair of children sent by Li Siyuan as hostages. ”

Subsequently, he returned to the camp of the Hedong coalition army in Hezhong Town, killed Li Sizhao, the envoy of the Datong army, and then appeared to seize control of 50,000 Shatuo soldiers and horses. Li Cunzhang, Li Cunjin, Li Sien, Li Siben and other Shatuo generals all swore allegiance to him. When we learned the news, we immediately tried to contact Li Siyuan in Daibei, hoping to plot against him. ”

It cannot but be said that OIOS has been moving too slowly, in fact, everything has gone smoothly before.

Li Siyuan had already decided to surrender to Qin and released Li Cunxin, a spy of the Qin army. However, just when Li Cunxin and Li Siyuan were ready to strike first and try to eliminate the generals loyal to Li Keyong, the matter was not secret, and someone leaked the news.

At the instigation of the generals loyal to Li Keyong, when the Shatuo soldiers in Yanmen heard that Li Keyong was still alive and that Li Siyuan had secretly colluded with Li Jing and betrayed the King of Jin, most of the Shatuo soldiers mutinied. The Yanmen Shatuo army was infighting, and Li Siyuan was besieged by his soldiers, at this time, in addition to his rampage, even his newly built crow army could not be trusted.

Li Siyuan obviously underestimated Li Keyong's prestige in the Shatuo army, Li Keyong did not appear in Hedong, but some Shatuo generals who contacted him shouted loudly, and immediately responders gathered. If it weren't for the critical time, the spies of the Qin army had detected their plan to mutiny in advance, and Li Siyuan might have died in Yanmen.

"Where is Li Siyuan now?"

Gongsun Lan picked up the bamboo whip, pointed to the sand table and said, "Here, Shuozhou!" ”

"Yanmen has been controlled by generals loyal to Li Keyong, and the entire south of Yanmen Pass, the two states of Dai and Xin, have basically turned against Li Siyuan. Originally, when our Ulzhou garrison received the news that the Daibei secret agent had sent back Li Siyuan and was preparing to surrender to Chengcheng, they had already quickly moved to Taixiguan. It's a pity that the last one is still one step behind, and Cheng Huaiyi, the general of the Thai Opera Pass, is loyal to Li Keyong, refuses to guard the city, and keeps our soldiers and horses out of the pass. Now Li Siyuan has retreated to Shuozhou New City with thousands of men, where there are still some people loyal to him. For the time being, he still controls the two states of Yunshuo, but his total number of men and horses does not exceed 20,000, and there are only more than 8,000 soldiers and horses around him. Li Keyong's men and horses may go north at any time, and these soldiers and horses under Li Siyuan are not necessarily reliable, and they may betray Li Siyuan at any time. ”

"Time is of the essence!" Li Jing said in a deep voice. "If we can send troops into Datong before Li Keyong, then it is possible to take Datong and Yunshuo in one fell swoop."

Li Keyong is still in the river, and now Li Siyuan is only facing mutinous subordinates. They don't have many soldiers. We will now immediately send troops from the three prefectures of Wei, Xin, and Wu into Yunzhou. Then reinforce Shuozhou. The odds are still high. Cui Anqian, who attended the meeting, said.

Cui Anqian also participated in the first Daibei crusade against Li Keyong's father and son, and that time, he was the commander of the Zhongwu Festival and led the Zhongwu Badu to participate in the battle. Although this time it was a civil war between feudal towns, Cui Anqian didn't like Li Keyong, Li Keyong was capricious, and he was a Hu person, brutal and untrustworthy. For Li Jing, he wants to send troops to seize his territory. He was supportive.

"If that's all there is to it, there's really no need to worry too much." Gongsun Lan interjected, "But now Daibei is out of control, and it's not just that. The urgent letter we sent back from the Tanma outside the Yinshan Fortress, Li Keyong was very cunning, and before he appeared, he had already sent him deep into the grassland to contact the various grassland tribes inside and outside the Yinshan Mountain, and invited them to go south to the north to help him clear the portal. Li Keyong's conditions were very generous, and after defeating Li Siyuan, he and they each took half of the population. And. If the tribal alliance forces also conquer Ulzhou, Xinwu and other states, no matter how many places are taken. The territory belonged to Li Ke, and all the money, food, and population were given to the tribe. This condition is very tempting, and the tribe also knows that our main force is now in the northeast, so the news shows that many tribes have already moved and gathered tribal warriors to go south. ”

"How many fighters are there?" Zhang Zimian asked. As a general who once killed Wang Xianzhi and defeated Huang Chao, he never asked who the enemy was, only where the enemy was.

"Ten thousand soldiers!" Gongsun Lan replied.

"Ten thousand warriors? According to the customs of the grassland, a soldier will bring two auxiliaries, one to fight the grass valley and the other to guard the camp. Although it is said to be an auxiliary, the grassland tribes all live on horseback, and even if they are auxiliaries, they are often equivalent to the light cavalry in ordinary feudal towns. 10,000 soldiers, 20,000 auxiliaries, that is, 30,000 horsemen, the momentum is not small. Zhang Zimian immediately calculated.

"It's more than that." Li Jing clasped his fingers together, "It is true that there are only 10,000 warriors dispatched by the tribe this time, but they think that this time they are only here to rob the south." Therefore, each of them brought four auxiliaries, and many of them also brought helpers such as brothers and sons, and some tribes even sent slaves and women with them. There are 80,000 Hu people in the entire south. They saw it as a feast of hunting and robbery. It is estimated that they not only plan to rob Daibei, but even plan to rob our Shanqian Prefectures, and even want to come to Youzhou for a visit. ”

When they heard the number of 80,000 people, the generals in the palace couldn't help but look solemn. Although I have already heard it, this team of Hu people who went south is completely a rabble. But no matter how rabble there is, when the number of people exceeds 10,000, it can no longer be underestimated, let alone 80,000 people. There are more than 10,000 people, and there are many people. 80,000 people, that's even more boundless.

Jing Xiang raised his head from his position in the front row, "Your Highness, if it's just the Hu people going south, you can't be afraid. But what matters now is the timing of their southward movement, if we send troops to meet these Hu people, then we may not have the energy to support Li Siyuan. If Li Siyuan is supported, it may be temporarily unable to intercept the Hu people from entering Daibei. ”

Gai Yu, the envoy of the Right Staff Yuan, also said loudly: "At present, Daibei is like a quagmire, and if you are not careful, you may swallow anything that enters. Eighty thousand Hu people are heading south, the two states of the Xin Dynasty south of Yanmen have completely lost control, and the two states of Yunshuo in Datong, Li Siyuan cannot really control them. If we want to enter Datong, we must have at least more than 30,000 elite soldiers to be able to stabilize the situation in Datong, and at least more than 50,000 elite soldiers are needed to defeat Hu Ren and clean up Datong's soldiers and horses loyal to Li Ke. ”

"If you want to take down the Dai and Xin Erzhou of Yanmen together and completely occupy Li Keyong's lair, how many soldiers and horses will be needed?" Guo Chengan asked.

Without waiting for Gai Yu to answer, Zhang Zimian had already said directly: "Right now, Qin Fan doesn't have the strength to take Yanmen Town back, even if he wants to pull out his teeth and take this opportunity to annex the land of Datong Town and Erzhou in one fell swoop, it is a bit risky. ”

"But this risk is worth taking, if we can take Datong Town, even if we only take Datong Town, it will be a huge victory. After seizing Datong Town, our power in Hedong and Daibei will be stronger, and Li Ke's power will be weaker, and we can thus block Li Ke's way out of the block, which will play a huge role in isolating and besieging Li Keyong in the future. If this opportunity is missed, under normal circumstances, we may not be able to send troops to Hedong for three years. Li Jing said slowly. According to the conventional situation, it is impossible for Li Jing to go to Hedong before he puts down Hebei Weiping.

Because this place in Hedong is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is an excellent territory for internal warfare, which can be attacked and defended.

But now, because Li Ke used to force Li Siyuan to oppose him, the Qin army had Li Siyuan's internal response, and there was an excellent opportunity to seize Daibei, even if it was just to capture Datong Yunshuo Erzhou, it was a huge victory. Li Keyong's main force is still in the south, and it is too late to come back.

"But now we have invested five corps and 350,000 horses in the Northeast Warfare. The war had just begun, and there was no strength left to enter the Daibei War. Cui Anqian, the new governor of the Left Army and the Right Governor of the Fifth Army, had to remind Li Jing.

"We are in the five prefectures of Wei, Xin, Wu, Confucian, and Fu to the west of Taihang outside the military capital, and we only have 20,000 soldiers." He noted.

"Yanjing and Shanhaiguan, Jundu Pass, Lulongsai, Mozhou Sanguan, Hejian Fortress, Tianjin City, Tangshan, Cangzhou, all add up to only 80,000 soldiers and horses." Jing Xiang added.

Cui Yunqing proposed: "Maybe we should let Li Siyuan lead his troops to withdraw into Ulzhou, and we will show troops on the border, refuse to defend the city, and abandon Datong." ”

"There is only one such opportunity, and the time will never come again!" Li Jing frowned.

At this moment, Zhang Zimian said loudly: "If the King of Qin trusts Zhang, as long as he gives 30,000 elite soldiers, he is willing to take the two states of Datong and Yunshuo for the King of Qin." ”

Li Jing's eyes lit up, this self-exhortation is a rare general's talent, if he is really willing to lead his troops to fight in Daibei, this matter is not without a turnaround.

"Is that true?" He sat up straight and looked directly at Zhang Zimian.

"I am willing to make a military order, if I can't take Datong Town, I am willing to plant myself to apologize." Zhang Zimian replied without fear.

"Good paper and ink smiled at the Yan servant, and it was decided that the king now appoints General Zhang as the marshal of the westward marching battalion, and the General Staff Institute, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Military Department immediately issued a document to transfer 30,000 elite soldiers from Hebei, and recruit another 20,000 township soldiers to Marshal Zhang, and the soldiers will be sent to the north on the same day!"

The four treasures of the study room were brought up, and Cui Yunqing personally wrote the military order, and after writing, Zhang Zimian took the pen to sign his name and pressed his handprint. Seeing him so bold and magnificent, Li Jing became a little more confident in his appearance this time. (To be continued......)