After the first snow fell, the cold invasion was logical, the cold wind blowing from the northern Xiongnu steppe went south, froze the land of the Central Plains, and continued to go south, passing the sound of pipa on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the eastward river was also frozen, and the three-foot-long ice ridge could be seen on the eaves of the civilians south of the river. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cold, it's the coldest winter.

The Northern Wei court still lived peacefully, but major events happened at the border gates on three sides.

In the past, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang hoarded heavy troops in the north and south of the Yangtze River, training the naval army, forming a confrontation situation, the Yangtze River is a natural barrier, and a Chu River Han boundary was drawn invisibly. Due to the freezing of the Great River, a thing that had never been considered before but now is extremely realistic has appeared, is it necessary to solve the conquest of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang through water warfare?

The Yangtze River originated in the Tanggula Mountains, thousands of miles longitudinal and horizontal, is the natural border of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang, ten years ago the Tang Dynasty was divided, the original Tang Dynasty Jiedu made Chen Jingyan lead the troops to stand on their own, and drove straight in, intending to take Tai'an City in one fell swoop, when the three major generals of the Tang Dynasty were stationed in one place, the three major generals of the Tang Dynasty, Hong Longjia, and Song Junyi, for the first time in history, jointly led the troops to repel Chen Jingyan's 300,000 army, until the south of the Yangtze River, at the same time, the northern Xiongnu thought that there was an opportunity, and the army went south, and assaulted to the Weishui area.

Coinciding with the great disaster of the royal family, the heirs withered, and the first emperor died, the ancestors signed the "Weishui Alliance" in Weishui with great perseverance, and privately set up "dividing the river and ruling the river" with the Southern Liang, and quickly summoned Song Junyi to return to Beijing, and pushed the Xiongnu back to the north of the Great Wall in a way that fought and advanced.

With the Yangtze River blocking, the traditional offensive and defensive warfare and assault warfare in the Central Plains were not implemented in front of the river, because the basis of all the platoon formations in the Central Plains was land, and with the land, the infantry and cavalry had a foothold, and the ladders and bows and crossbows used in the siege had a foothold. In the past, the strategic thinking of the Northern Wei Dynasty towards the southern front was to abandon the traditional idea of the soldiers and horses before the grain and grass were moved, and to go the other way, suppress the entire line of the navy, and then follow the grain and grass, and the goal of breaking the Yangtze River is not the goal, the real goal is to establish a stable city that can be attacked and defended after the Yangtze River, otherwise everything is meaningless.

For this reason, the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court deliberately put forward a tactical idea of building a city ship, which is simply to build a ship the size of a city, implement a form of self-sufficient supply, and the grain and grass and the blades of soldiers and horses are completely carried on the ship, as long as the ship is large enough to last for more than a month, then this mobile city ship is of great significance. The disadvantage is that the investment is huge, and the investment in protecting the small ships in the ship city is not small. For a large ship of this size, it is roughly estimated that it will cost the national treasury 10% of the treasury silver.

He first got rid of the wheat and beans with weak roots, and gave up the rice with high environmental requirements, and the corn with too tall stems and leaves, and finally chose the sweet potato with a very high survival rate, the sweet potato stems and leaves are edible, and it is easier to cook, but the Ministry of Labor has lost his official because of this, because the sweet potato has a high survival rate, the root system is developed, and the climbing covers the ship, which is easy to damage the hull structure and cause unnecessary trouble, and this damage is very hidden and not easy to detect。 In addition, sweet potatoes have higher requirements for soil, and a large amount of soil is transported to ships, which seriously affects the mobility and load capacity of ships.

Li Yuanhao and Wu Qingyuan once went to the Nine Dragons Pavilion to take out the notes of this squire for research, and found that the thoughts of this squire in the Ministry of Industry were really wild, and this squire also invented an extremely interesting word "soilless cultivation", but unfortunately, Li Yuanhao ordered someone to find this squire, but there was no news.

This year, the weather is very cold, but the situation has taken a turn for the better, the river cover, the waterway has become land, the traditional tactics of the Central Plains have a place to use, the southern line guard general Tai Guofan ordered his lieutenant general, the first person in the Great Wei State to use a gun, Han Xianba, led 3,000 elite soldiers, in the way of the Central Plains rush battle overnight across the river, straight to the South Liang Forte more than 300 miles, more than 3,000 people have faintly seen the South Liang Sage Academy, and then retreated, this is of course related to Han Xianba's combat power, but in the long run, the overall strategy and tactics of the southern front need to be greatly adjusted. In the past, the argument that winter waves were strong and windy and that water battles were not suitable seems to be somewhat untenable.

To this end, the Empress Dowager issued a decree, and the imperial court suspended the class for three days, and all the teachers, together with the four auxiliary ministers, the six Shangshu, the Zhongshu Province, the Menxia Province, the Hanlin Academy, and the Inspectorate collectively entered the palace to discuss the military of the southern front in the Baohe Palace, and to demonstrate and formulate the strategic policy of the southern line from the aspects of military strength and financial resources.

At the same time, the Southern Liang concocted the same method, by the Southern Liang Imperial Court, the Southern Liang Sword Sect eight with a sword master night attack on the camp in the southern army, the assassination of the southern line general of the Tai Domain, and finally died in the hands of the general, in addition to the military talent, the Tai Domain is also recognized as the first in the world of martial arts, but also has a fortune teller in the market to evaluate the general, has the ability to swallow the sky. Originally, it was a folk gossip, but some people interpreted it in a different way, the ability to swallow the sky? Now that His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, is he going to swallow the Son of Heaven and replace him? When the general heard this kind of remarks, he smiled slightly. When this matter was transmitted to the palace, the queen mother was furious, and beheaded no less than 100 people who spread this remark, and not only did not ask the general for the guilt, but praised it lavishly, and issued a decree, and the general Feng was side by side with a different surname Wang and a great power pillar, faintly overpowering Hong Longjia on the western front and Song Junyi on the northern line.

The second is the line of Taihang Mountain headed by Zhenxi General Hong Longjia, not like the southern line with a big river as the boundary, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the southern Liangjing Wei are clearly distinguished, the western line is roughly bounded by the Taihang Mountain and the narrow upper reaches of the Yellow River, the boundary between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Chu is staggered, the form is more complicated, and small-scale encounters often break out. The territory of Western Chu is narrow, but it is not the land of four states, but it occupies the Hetao Plain, which is rich in grassland and beautiful in the Yellow River Basin, and the vast Western Regions in the west, can raid the Central Plains in advance, and retreat can take the countries of the Western Regions as a strategic depth, plus the Western Chu Sword Pavilion and the Little Sage Zhuang, which have sent a lot of masters and military wizards to the army, the power of Western Chu cannot be underestimated.

In particular, the two major battles between Western Chu and the Xiongnu in Yuanfeng in two to three years let the world see the hidden strength of Western Chu. The Xiongnu gathered a large army and went south, wanting to avoid the Northern Wei Dynasty occupying the Central Plains, raiding Western Chu, eating the four states of Western Chu, and then slowly plotting the Central Plains. The two sides fought two battles with more than 100,000 people on the front line of Gaochang, Jinju, Yixi, and Yumen Pass, and the Western Chu fought a country in one place, and the two imperial courts of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang Dynasty practiced the war process alone many times, and agreed that the Western Chu in one place was going to perish.

But the ending was a big surprise, instead of falling into the disadvantage, Western Chu returned with a great victory, driving the strength of the whole country and the number of more than 500,000 Hun cavalry to the north of Jinhui Mountain, Zhuo Evil Mountain and Junji Mountain, and at the same time included Gaoche into the territory, opened up the ancient silk road leading to the Western Regions, introduced the good horses of the Western Regions, and created a heavy cavalry army no less than the Hun cavalry. The night-light jade lion that Li Yuanhao gave to Wu Qingyuan flowed into the Central Plains at that time.

Among them, the most brilliant is the West Chu Sword Pavilion, the Sword Pavilion only nine people form a large array, in Gaochang a place to face 10,000 Hun cavalry, the history books record that "this battle is tragic, blood stains the sky, blood cough dawn, black birds dare not sing, tigers and wolves dare not roar, as if the West Chu war slaves, a place occupies a country", the small sage village is also famous, the two young generals Duan Xifeng and Kou Zhongyuan in Yixi, Yumen Pass generation to advance as a retreat to annihilate the Huns of Yan Ran iron horse, in one fell swoop to build the small sage village into a second only to the Sage Academy, Outside of Yuelu Academy, it is the third largest place for scholars in the world.

Although the Xiongnu were defeated, there were countless romantic figures among them, some of them have become famous and have a better reputation, some people stand out and become a blockbuster, and Zhang Yuan, the general who was born after death and raided the palace of Western Chu, is the former, and the god of war Tuoba Longye, who is the one who broke off the Xiongnu army and fought for the time of strategic transfer, is the latter.

With the arrival of this winter, Xichu was unusual, did not retreat back to the west of Taihang Mountain to rely on heavy snow to recuperate, but instead took the village again and again, crossed Taihang Mountain with an irregular advance route, and appeared in front of the Zhenxi Army.

Zhenxi general Hong Longjia convened the army generals in the military tent overnight, and the discussion was ineffective, and the deputy general Hong Xiguan was also the only heir of Hong Longjia, and a sentence of unintentional words made Hong Longjia break out in a cold sweat: Xichu seems to be waiting for our Great Wei civil strife? Hong Longjia suddenly got up, facing the direction of Tai'an City, and smashed his fist on the iron frame bow and crossbow in the military camp, countless snowflakes fell down, and he muttered to himself: Is the ancestor going to do it?

Compared with the small fight on the southern line and the western front, the northern line bounded by the Great Wall is much more tragic, this year's winter is particularly cold, the more north the colder, the Hun grassland is the coldest, so that the already difficult winter is worse, in previous years, the Hun cavalry will go south twice in succession in the autumn, plundering grain and cloth, each time the number is not much, but three thousand to five thousand cavalry, the northern line army will often take the Great Wall as the boundary, intercepted on the basis of equal numbers, if the Hun cavalry is menacing, the Zhenbei army will retreat as an advance, and introduce the Hun cavalry into the mountainous and hilly area of the Central Plains, limit the advantages of the cavalry to the greatest extent, and use the local division of the Central Plains terrain to annihilate them one by oneBut this winter's cold is completely beyond imagination.

If it can't be blocked, the Zhenbei army will completely retreat, not competing with the Hun cavalry, even if it is plundered a part of the grain, it doesn't care. Different from the southern and western fronts, the southern and western fronts were complete army fronts, costing most of the imperial court households every day, while the northern front of the Northern Wei Dynasty was bounded by the Great Wall, which was a battle line combining the militia and could basically meet self-sufficiency, and the sergeants were civilians in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. When the people join the army, they can not only reduce or reduce taxes, but also get a lot of money, and there is a lot of regional farmland south of the Great Wall, and the Zhenbei army occasionally deliberately reserves some grain for the Xiongnu, which can limit the plundering of the ordinary people in the Central Plains to the greatest extent, "Don't force the Xiongnu wolf to be in a hurry" -- this is a sentence often said by Song Junyi, the general of the Zhenbei Army. In addition, sometimes the Central Plains is in drought and flood, and the Zhenbei Army can also provide part of the relief grain and grass.

Therefore, although Song Junyi, the general of Zhenbei, is at the end of the three major generals in leading the army, and is good at defending and not attacking, he is the most loved by the army, the best in the court, and the most stable in handsome.

After the winter of this year, the horses and sheep returned to the circle, the wolf plague was raging, and the desire for envy of the Central Plains once again hit the nerves of the grassland Huns. The Great Khan of the Xiongnu gathered Helian Bobo, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and Xiu Tukui, the general who was in charge of the Rouran Iron Cavalry, gathered 100,000 cavalry, and stationed them in Chicheng and Wuchuan towns north of the Great Wall. Song Junyi, the general of the Zhenbei Army, quickly gathered his army and built a large array like an iron bucket on the Great Wall, and the two sides fought skirmishes one after another.

The war on the northern front was urgent, and it was transmitted to Tai'an City, and the household department and the military department were suddenly busy with a pot of porridge, Wu Changhe Wu Zhongtang had not returned home for half a month, his eyes were bloodshot, and the queen mother went to the military aircraft many times to express condolences, so that Wu Zhongtang could rest for a while, and before he could say a word, the little eunuch shouted: "The urgent document for eight hundred miles on the northern line has arrived." Wu Zhongtang rubbed his eyebrows, thanked the Queen Mother for her concern, and once again devoted himself to the vast sea of music.

But the above are too far away from Li Yuanhao, so far that she has forgotten what the military aircraft department looks like, winter is coming, snow is falling, and then there is Laba, Xiao Nian, Chinese New Year's Eve, and Li Yuanhao feels that the war is far away and the people of Northern Wei, the wolf smoke in the north can not affect their lights, laughter, as Chinese New Year's Eve approaches, the New Year flavor of Tai'an City is getting stronger and stronger.

Ten years ago, a catastrophe, the royal heirs withered and fell, leaving only the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Little Prince Li Xiuce, there were fewer people, it was not lively, coupled with the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Emperor, Chinese New Year's Eve became the coldest day in the palace.

Li Yuanhao, who had nothing to do, walked in the palace, bored, her heavy boots stepped on the snow, sizzling, she danced the checkered dance, step by step, leaving a strange picture on the snow.

Tired of jumping, jumping hot, Li Yuanhao unbuttoned the button around his neck, and looked up at the palace fence in the distance, where the queen mother appeared with the support of the great eunuch Zhao Duling.

This pair of ancestors and grandchildren glanced at each other, looking at each other from a distance, their eyes were full of indifference, and they were separated at a touch, and the queen mother was full of disgust, don't look around, and gradually drift away.

Li Yuanhao lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, and muttered: "This is a family, why is it too anxious to fry each other." ”

After Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Yuanhao's spirit suddenly became full, the Spring Festival exam was approaching, and tens of thousands of students from all over Northern Wei poured into Tai'an City to enter the examination room, and in the vast sea of people, Li Yuanhao knew that four people would stand out, and then take root in the temple court, which was her foreshadowing against the Empress Dowager.

Li Yuanhao paced around in the palace all day long, like an ant on a hot pot, anxious, nervous for more than half a month, the day of the imperial examination list has arrived, the red flower list of the Enke examination will be posted in front of the Guang'an Gate of Tai'an City, Li Yuanhao changed into the clothes of the usual son early, walked left and right in the palace, avoided the eyeliner of Zhao Duling, and appeared in front of the Guang'an Gate.

Before seeing the list, Li Yuanhao has already seen the various states in the world, the high school student is ecstatic, opening his teeth and dancing his claws, shouting "I won, I won", in the cold winter, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and jumped into the moat. Those who do not hit will lose their souls, stumble, and stumble under their feet and fall into the moat.

Joy and sorrow end up being the same.

With the help of Yu Qing, Li Yuanhao squeezed into the front, and Xing Chongchong looked down from the first place on the list, until all the top three hundred and eight people looked at it, and he didn't see the four familiar names. Frowning slightly, Li Yuanhao wondered in his heart, could it be that he had read it wrong, and looked it up again, and there was indeed no name of Tang Zongfei and the four people.

Walking out of the bustling crowd, the depressed Li Yuanhao sighed faintly, a wave of anger suddenly rose in his heart, and the violent emotions that had been suppressed for a long time in his personality gushed out, stepped into the carriage, and greeted Yu Qing: "Go, go to Wei Mansion!"

The carriage came to the Wei Mansion like an offline arrow, Li Yuanhao stepped into the middle gate, the guard just wanted to stop it, Yu Qing stretched out his hand and handed over the palace waist card, and opened the bow to the doorman left and right, and the two loud slaps were drawn, and the corners of the guard's mouth flowed bloodshot.

kicked on the gate of the Wei Mansion, and the thick door did not move at all, but Li Yuanhao's feet ached, and a little anger increased in his heart invisibly: "Tear down this door for me!"

The doorman was shocked, His Majesty the Son of Heaven today, no matter what the rumors in the market were, after all, it was the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei State in front of him, and the other doormen were greeted with axes and sticks, and the majestic gate of the Wei Mansion fell to the ground with a bang, becoming a mess of sawdust slats.

Li Yuanhao's face became more and more heavy, and the anger and resentment accumulated in his chest were uncontrollable, and it was just that I was angry with the old woman of the Queen Mother every day, and now even you, Wei Haokun, bullied me for being weak and easy to bully? You are really bold. Stepping into the lobby, Li Yuanhao fixed his eyes and saw that the fat-headed and big-eared Guozi Priest Wine was already kneeling there.

Angry, Li Yuanhao strode over, raised a kick, and kicked the opponent's body fiercely, and the foot was extremely ruthless, Wei Haokun sighed and fell on his back. Li Yuanhao was still puzzled, kicked Wei Haokun's heart, reached out to pick up the vase on the side, raised it high, and wanted to smash it at Wei Haokun's head.

Suddenly, the light in the room dimmed, and someone blocked the door, blocking the sunlight.

Li Yuanhao, whose eyes were on fire, was stunned on the spot, the anger in his eyes gradually extinguished, a bitter smile crept up on his face, sighed in his heart, slowly turned around, bowed his head to the figure at the door and said, "Grandson has asked the Queen Mother to say goodbye!"

(PS: The pattern of "The Son of Heaven" is partially exposed, in fact, Yinglan doesn't want to write like this, and feels that there is no interest in it, but it can't be written if you don't write it, foreshadowing and story promotion are needed, in order to avoid the pattern description of three or four chapters in a row in the future, I wrote it here, 5000 words.) "The Son of Heaven" is not a step-by-step story, but a storm and thunder. ）