Chapter 438: Gathering Pingcheng
With the support of all parties in Jinyang Prefecture, coupled with the helpers he found, Ye Heng immediately felt that he had become a big tyrant in the blink of an eye!
In order to thank all the forces, Ye Heng sincerely invited everyone to have a drink together and express his gratitude. Unexpectedly, everyone seemed to have discussed it, and they all politely declined, saying that they would go back to prepare for tomorrow's departure, and immediately left after finishing business. The VIP room that was full just now is now only a few people from the Blade Pavilion.
Xue Gai looked at Ye Heng and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.
"Brother Xue, I know your thoughts, which hot-blooded man doesn't want to gallop on the battlefield!But this time I took almost all the main forces in the pavilion away, and Xinyue alone will definitely not be able to support it, so I have to ask you to continue to sit in the pavilion, and the safety of the Fengbing Pavilion will depend on you!" Ye Heng bowed to Xue Gai and said sincerely.
Xue Gai reluctantly smiled and said, "Hurry up, isn't it too much for you brothers to do such a big courtesy? Besides, isn't this what I should have done? You can go with confidence, as long as I am in the Fengbing Pavilion, there will be no accidents!"
"Then I won't drink with you tonight, and I'll get drunk with you when I return triumphantly!" Ye Heng said with a smile.
"Okay! Don't be careless when you go to Pingcheng, protect yourself!" Xue Gai admonished.
"Well, I made a note of it!"
The two exchanged a few more words, Ye Heng took Liu Xinyue and left the VIP room, Xue Gai's face gradually became solemn, and the words held in his heart were still not said in the end.
Early the next morning, people from all sides gathered outside the city gate of Changye City, waving flags, and the momentum was like a rainbow!
A rough estimate of 50,000 people at the scene was something Ye Heng hadn't thought of before. This is not counting the people of the beggar gang and some forces that did not come, at this moment, Ye Heng really has a pride in leveling the world, and a heroic spirit arises spontaneously!
Hou Li Fu of the Northwest came to see him off, and all the big people in the city appeared outside the city, and the people of the whole city also gathered here early.
"Soldiers, brothers, you can kill the enemy with peace of mind, as long as I, Li Fu, am here, your wives and children, and your children will be safe! We are waiting for you to return in triumph in Jinyang Prefecture!" said Northwest Hou loudly to the team that was about to go out. In just a few words, it makes people feel very down-to-earth.
Ye Heng was just about to give the order to set off, when a white-haired old woman walked out of the city gate with the support of a young woman, and the woman shouted anxiously: "Wait, wait!"
Ye Heng immediately dismounted and went to greet him, and asked, "Do you have anything to do?"
The old woman sent the package in her hand to Ye Heng and said, "This is a banner embroidered by me and my daughter-in-law overnight, please transfer it to my son Wang Xuan!"
"Wang Xuan!
After a while, a handsome young man ran over.
"Son, when you go to Pingcheng, you must fight bravely to kill the enemy. Mother and Xianzhi embroidered a battle flag for you, you take it with you, you look homesick, cover it when you sleep, wipe the blood when you are wounded, and wrap your body after death!" said the old woman with tears in her eyes.
Wang Xuan took the battle flag and shook it open to see that it was a bloody banner embroidered with a golden word 'Feng'. The left side is embroidered with the four small words "Serve the country with loyalty", and the back side is embroidered with the four-word message of "Go forward bravely".
"Mother, Xianzhi, take care of yourself, when you go to the battlefield, I will definitely move forward bravely and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!" Wang Xuan said excitedly.
"Fortunately, Wu'er, please go on the expedition, you are a good man of our Wang family, and you are also a good citizen of our empire, go, Niang and Xianzhi are waiting for you at home!" the old woman said to Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan carefully put away the battle flag, knelt on the ground with a pop, kowtowed to his mother and wife three times, and turned back to his team.
Many of the soldiers who saw this scene were all feeling their blood boiling, and tears kept rolling in their eyes.
"Xinyue, try your best to take care of the families of all those who joined the army, please!" Ye Heng walked up to Liu Xinyue and said softly.
Liu Xinyue nodded silently with tears in her eyes, Ye Heng hugged her into his arms and said in her ear: "You also take care!"
Liu Xinyue hugged Ye Heng tightly for a while, then pushed him away and said softly: "Let's go, I'll wait for you in the Fenghou Pavilion!"
Ye Heng stretched out his hand and gently stroked Liu Xinyue's smooth pretty face, looked at her affectionately, then resolutely turned around, turned over and got on the horse, and shouted "Let's go!" The various troops moved in turn, like a long dragon, and swept away along the official road.
At this time, outside the Saiwai, the God of War Regiment won successive battles, defeating some nomads who attacked the Shuntian Empire in the south. The large army sent by the Northwest Hou was also overwhelming, and the enemy's main force was severely damaged one after another. The 30,000 cavalry of the crown prince Li He came out of nowhere, swept the allied forces of the nomads who were struggling between the God of War Regiment and the Northwest Army, and pursued them with victory, driving them north for 800 miles.
After this series of conquests, the northern tribes suffered heavy losses, and they were no longer able to organize a large-scale army to continue southward. As a result, they were very dissatisfied with the organization that provided them with information, and even thought that those people had deceived them, and immediately cut off their cooperation with them.
The organizers behind it were also very depressed, they didn't expect that the Hero Martial Academy had already formed a new God of War Regiment at this juncture, and immediately threw themselves into the battle, if it weren't for the addition of the God of War Regiment, the troops stationed in the north of the Shuntian Empire alone would definitely not be able to stop the southern invasion of the nomads; The combat power of this iron cavalry is not below the three ace armies of the Suncheon Empire, but no one knows when they began to exist. Originally, they were clear about how each of the troops in the hands of the Northwest Hou was distributed, and even prepared dozens of plans to prevent the movement of these troops, but as a result, these armies did not move at all, but an army that had never appeared in people's sight appeared, which made the organizers behind it stretched thin and very passive. It felt like I was trying to hit a stone with all my strength, but it turned out to be a punch in the air, and it suddenly flashed the person's old waist.
Originally, under the ventilation report of the organizers behind them, these nomads could continue to maneuver, but they never expected that the prince, who was originally going to the northwest to play, suddenly appeared in the north with an army of 30,000, and accidentally encountered the main force of the nomads who were being recuperated after repeated defeats, and suffered heavy casualties under the surprise attack, and had to retreat to their own territory. and even retreated again and again, losing the territory that originally belonged to them.
After a series of heavy losses, several powerful nomadic tribes suffered heavy losses, and after losing a large number of military power, they could not maintain their original dominance, and soon their alliance fell apart, falling into civil strife, and no longer had the strength and energy to harass the Suncheon Empire in the south.
Since then, the war in the north of the Shuntian Empire has been quelled, the God of War Regiment has returned to the imperial capital, and the Northwest Iron Cavalry has been reduced to pieces after pursuing it to the north for a period of time and disappeared in the vast grassland, and no one knows where this sudden iron cavalry ended up.
The most striking was the prince's army of 30,000, which first returned to the Hindu Prefecture and took advantage of the opportunity to continue the conscription, which soon expanded to 70,000 men. After a short renovation in Chaoyang Ranch, the crown prince Li He and the crown princess Zhou Sisi marched towards the imperial capital with an army of 70,000. Everyone knows that the emperor is critically ill, and the prince returns to Yong'an City in such a high-profile manner, and the meaning of the drunkard can be said to be known to passers-by. There is no doubt that as long as the crown prince returns to Yong'an City, there will definitely be a battle for power that cannot be seen, and it is difficult to say who will be the final winner. Of course, it is also possible that the struggle for imperial power will affect foreign wars, and the country will be ruined. How things will develop is really confusing, and until there is a final conclusion, everything is possible.
Upon learning of the prince's strong return, the second and third princes, who had been inseparable from each other, immediately died down, and the court was peaceful, but began to deal with the increasingly serious war in the east and south wholeheartedly.
It was only at this time that the imperial court noticed that the western part of the country, which was also in the midst of war, was relatively safe, and Gupingzhou, which was in turmoil, was not lost, and even defeated the rebels and recovered half of the state.
The second prince and the third prince compromised privately, and both wanted to take back Pingzhou and even further take back the rebellious Chen Shuizhou, and take the military merit in their own hands, so that they would take the initiative in the battle for the throne and have a record of competing with the crown prince. So, each of them sent an army to Pingcheng as soon as possible. Not long after Ye Heng returned to Pingcheng with the men and horses of Jinyang Prefecture, the two armies belonging to the imperial court also came to Pingcheng two days apart.
Invisibly, Pingcheng has gathered three forces, and it is really hard to say whether the people of the three parties will work together or have their own thoughts. However, as the city lord of Pingcheng, Ye Heng had to personally meet the generals of the two armies who came from afar.
The first army was actually the Dongqing Army, and their general was none other than Ouyang Chen. This army originally came to support Heijo, but then it came around without any fighting, and finally came to Heijo again.
Ouyang Chen and Li Quan are old friends, and of course they are of the same age. His face is very white, and very delicate, with a pair of single phoenix eyes, often squinting at people, giving people the first feeling that this person is not easy to get along with, and he is very scheming.
The second army came directly from the imperial capital, the number was not much, just a thousand, but the power was amazing, and the soldiers were all fierce and fierce, and it was a unit of the Heavenly Thorn Battalion, the first largest army of the Shuntian Empire. The total strength of the Heavenly Thorn Battalion was only 10,000, and they were the elite carefully selected from the millions of troops around the imperial capital, and they would never be used unless they were important tasks. Although only 1,000 people were sent this time, it was enough to prove that the imperial court attached great importance to Heijo. Because there is a rule in the Heavenly Thorn Battalion, "No more than 100 troops are dispatched, and more than 100 ghosts are worried!"
This sentence means that the combat power of the Heavenly Thorn Battalion is too strong, as long as they make a move, they will inevitably be covered with corpses and bleeding, so when the Heavenly Thorn Camp is used, a maximum of ninety-nine people can easily complete the task. Once there are more than 100 people, the speed with which they kill will make even the ghosts who collect people's ghosts worried. This is of course an exaggeration, but it also confirms the strength of the Heavenly Thorn Camp from the side.
The leader of the Heavenly Thorn Camp is called Feng Zhenkun, a middle-aged man who is nearly forty years old. His skin is bronzed, and there is a very strong oppressive force all over his body, like a cheetah that can explode at any time, even if he sits lazily next to you, you will feel a sense of fear from the bottom of your heart.
The two generals came to the living room of the Temporary City Lord's Mansion, sat on the chair and drank hot tea peacefully, and did not take the initiative to talk to Ye Heng.
Ye Heng looked at the two of them carefully, and he was not in a hurry, and then as if he didn't see the two of them, he casually picked up the documents sent by Gao Lang and looked at them carefully.
The three of them did not speak to each other, and the living room was very quiet for a while, and the pin drop could be heard. The three of them are like three wooden stakes, as if they can sit on the ground. It's clear that there is something to discuss, but no one speaks first, what's going on?
In fact, the three of them are comparing patience, this is building momentum, if anyone speaks first, the momentum will be weakened, and they will be passive in the subsequent negotiations.
In the silence, Ye Heng gently turned a page of the information in his hand. The other two have excellent ear power, and sneered in their hearts: "After all, they are still young, and they can't hold their breath!"
It's just that what the other two didn't expect was that Ye Heng was addicted to it after turning the page, and continued to look at the content after that, and he would ignore the two.
"His grandmother's, how big is this heart, this is really looking at things!" Feng Zhenkun secretly exclaimed.
"How unreasonable, isn't this playing with Lao Tzu?" Ouyang Chen scolded secretly.