Zhou Shaoyu guessed Xiao Yao's intentions, and I have to say that she did guess very accurately, but is it really just that?

Xiao Jiwen is the eldest princess, and there are not many princesses in Daliang at present, and most of them are still of the older generation. According to common sense, no matter how noble the princess is, it is impossible to directly take power outside, but Xiao Jiwen is an exception.

However, no matter how exceptional it is, it still falls under the exception.

Not to mention that Xiao Jiwen is a princess, even if she is a prince, it is impossible to expand her territory if she expands her territory. Attack Yunzhou or in the name of suppressing the rebellion, as for King Yun? Well, they have already entrusted Xiao Jiwen with carte blanche to manage Yunzhou. It doesn't matter what the process or the facts are, it's always what it looks like.

Fig leaf or something, it's still very important.

The established plan, Xiao Jiwen originally planned to encroach on Qianzhou, but Qianzhou is still quite peaceful, although the king of Qianzhou is a straw bag and has no ambitions, but he has not done anything angry and resentful, and people's hobby is nothing more than hunting.

So if you want to send troops directly like attacking Yunzhou, it is impossible, at least you have to find a reason, you can indeed slowly lay out one or two, but the problem is that Xiao Jiwen is impatient and so on.

In this way, attacking Bingzhou or Yuzhou is the best choice.

Because the national capital of Daliang is not in Luoyang, there is no existence in this state. The entire boundaries of Chang'an and Luoyang belong to Yuzhou.

Now Yuzhou has been beaten again and again, it is rotten and not presentable, and its ownership has become what kind of fire phoenix Niangniang Daping empress. But the problem is that west of Yuzhou, although it has become an enclave for the imperial court at present, but in the absence of King Zhou, even if it is chaotic, it is basically equivalent to belonging to the imperial court.

It is impossible to directly attack the territory of the imperial court, but you can't bypass this piece and attack Luoyang directly, even if you occupy it, it is not conducive to management across a piece of territory, to put it bluntly, unless you directly turn your face with the imperial court, otherwise don't want to do whatever you want.

In this way, only the merger of states remains.

It's good to merge the state, now that it is occupied by the Turks, Xiao Jiwen's troops will only gain great prestige, and no one will say anything at all. Of course, Xiao Jiwen is not stupid, and she will not really think that she can recover the state with her own strength.

Even if an alliance is reached to a certain extent with the Zhenxi General's Mansion, if it is really regarded as a reliable ally, it will be called stupid, and it is impossible not to guard against it. If you really go out to fight with the Turks, your establishment will definitely be wiped out, and the new army in Shuzhou is still training.

is for the purpose of attacking and annexing the state, and there are indeed those reasons that Zhou Shaoyu guessed, but in fact, he still peeked at Yuzhou.

The Turks are powerful, but if they are not prepared, they can still go down a few floors, if something is slightly wrong, Xiao Jiwen is retreating, and no one says anything, as long as they can occupy a basic plate.

Since the Huofeng Niangniang in Yuzhou had the courage to attack Luoyang and even took it down, it was naturally impossible to be satisfied with this. To the east is Xuzhou, as long as Huofeng is not stupid, he will not take the initiative to offend, and to the north is to merge with the state, against the Turks? If you want to fight, it won't be now. And to the south, Jingzhou, the base camp where Sun Shouren sits? Do you really think that a fluke can keep Sun Shouren from taking it to heart?

As for not expanding, it is even more impossible.

The imperial court is now unable to spare a move, and it does not want to take the initiative to send troops to consume, but from the moment Huofeng ascended the throne, it was already doomed, once the imperial court mobilized, it was bound to take Huofeng as the first object, who would let her be the emperor.

Want to rely on the current territory of half of Yuzhou and the entire Liang court to fight? It's not possible.

With Huofeng's only way out, at least take advantage of the current leisure to expand his territory, then there is no better place than Chang'an, west of Yuzhou.

Therefore, Xiao Sister-in-law expected that Huofeng would send troops soon, and when the time came, Xiao Sister-in-law only needed to turn the horse's head and go south directly, everything would go smoothly, and there was a better reason than to suppress the rebellion.

Turning his gaze back to Bingzhou, he was very annoyed to learn that Ashina Falcon, who was pressed by Xiao Ji's army, but he didn't really take it seriously, 20,000 horses, that is. It just so happens that now Ashina Falcon's prestige has plummeted because of the Battle of Luoyang, and the original plan to invade the Central Plains can only be put on hold. At the same time, we must find ways to re-enhance our prestige.

Kunde's department was destroyed, and Ashina Falcon was not in a hurry with other tribes at all, and directly dispatched his descendants to fight in person, and the banner was naturally to avenge Kunerde, which could achieve a certain effect of buying people's hearts.

Coincidentally, when Ashina Falcon sent out troops, the Daping Empress Huofeng Niangniang, who positioned Luoyang City as the national capital, raised 60,000 troops, and the army was pulled out, all the way to the west and aimed directly at Chang'an.

After Sun Shouren, who was guarding Jingzhou, learned the news, he immediately raised 50,000 troops, intending to recapture Luoyang, but as soon as the army was assembled, he learned that Xiao Jiwen led his troops south to Chang'an in Bingzhou.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Sun Shouren directly gave up the idea of the Northern Expedition. Not only that, but he also ordered someone to send a number of armaments and a gift of 500 blacksmiths to Xiao Jiwen.

"Luoyang is not empty, even if we recapture Luoyang, we will lose a lot, then the puppet emperor sandwiched between Chang'an and Luoyang, seems to have become a caged bird, but in the same way, they who stretched out the Jedi are bound to choose to recapture Luoyang at all costs, at that time it was a hard battle, my Jingzhou soldiers have lost a lot, if there are large-scale casualties, in the end, I am afraid that they can only be slaughtered." Sun Shouren said to his cronies.

On the other side, Ashina Falcon was halfway through the army, and learned that Xiao Jiao's wife was going south, and Ashina Falcon, who did not want to return empty-handed, also intended to go south, at least to loot a wave, and did not want to know that the army of the Zhenxi General's Mansion was dispatched, and many troops gathered on the border of Youzhou to conduct exercises.

From the first invasion last year to the present, the Turkic army has lost a total of 100,000 horses, which is a huge loss of combat power.

In the face of the Zhennan army that did not fight much in the hinterland, they fought so fiercely, not to mention the Zhenxi army that sat on the border of Youzhou all the year round and suppressed the countries in the Western Regions, not to mention that its own combat strength was far inferior to the beginning, and even its prestige fell a lot.

This wave after wave of army movements made Zhou Shaoyu, who was guarding Jincheng, stunned, and the situation became too fast, one after another, dazzling.

Zhou Shaoyu also smiled bitterly, thinking that Xiao Yaowen would stay in Bingzhou for a while, Zhou Shaoyu even planned to see it in person, but as soon as the painting style changed, Xiao Yaowen went to Chang'an, and said that she moved the Zhenxi General's Mansion to cooperate, and scared Ashina Falcon back.