Chapter 567: Dilemma
In early March of the first year of Guining, the crown prince Yingdan spread the world in Yanmen, denouncing the eunuchs of the inner court, Yao Valve and Long Xiangjun for colluding with the remnants of the cult Dao Monastery, mutilating the emperor, coercing the emperor to steal the power of the Great Yan Emperor, and harming the lives of the people in the world.
In addition to Wei Ziya, Chen Hai, Huang Qiwei, Yao Izuyun, Huang Peiyi, Yao Zhi, Zhao Zhong, Yu Zonghu, Bi Lan, Gao Wang, Huang Shuang, Le Yi, Zhao Ruhui and other more than 100 people, all of them are on the list of reprimands, and anyone who sees them can be killed, and the richness of the reward has always been rare; in particular, the heads of Wei Ziya, Chen Hai, Huang Qiwei, and Yao Izumo can be directly exchanged for the rewards of the townsmen and ten thousand households.
Throughout March of the first year of Guining, Hexi continued to send additional troops and horses to Wolong City, increasing the number of troops to more than 400,000, while continuing to strengthen military pressure on Yandangyuan, the oppression of Tianshui County was not relaxed at all, and even encouraged the sect lords in Tianshui County who had been close to the Dong clan earlier to rise up in Gangu, Tongwei and other places, in order to create great chaos in the hinterland of Tianshui County.
In just three days, Wu Cheng, the governor of Tianshui County, personally led 100,000 county soldiers to suppress the rebellion of the sect lords in Tongwei Mansion on the west wing of Huayang Mansion, executing more than 3,000 people and capturing more than 30,000 followers.
After quelling the rebellion in Tongwei Prefecture, Wu Cheng also immediately confiscated the mountains, forests, lakes and cultivated land occupied by the rebel clan lords to the county government, and used them to reward the brave soldiers and those clan lords and Hanmen who joined the Tianshui county soldiers with their armor, so as to expand the scale of the Tianshui county soldiers.
This can also be regarded as a small-scale implementation of land acquisition and subdivision in Tianshui County.
Prior to this, the soldiers of Tianshui County had always maintained a strength of about 300,000 troops, and they also joined forces with the Musashi Army of Qinchuan County, and borrowed a large number of heavenly weapons sold by the Longxiang Army in secret, so that they could barely resist the pressure of Hexi's eastward advance.
By the end of March alone, Huayang Sect had added 100,000 new soldiers to Tongwei Prefecture, expanding the size of the county army to more than 400,000.
However, this matter caused an uproar in Tianshui County and within the Huayang Sect.
The suppression of the rebellion, the division of land and the subsequent expansion of soldiers and horses were all carried out by Wu En and Wu Cheng in Tongwei Mansion, but by the end of March, Tianshui County Mu Qu Xiyuan could no longer hold back, and rushed to Tongwei Mansion to meet Wu En and Wu Cheng surrounded by more than 1,000 guards.
At this time, Tianshui County was the most powerful of the Wu and Qu clans, Wu En was in charge of Huayang religious affairs, Wu Cheng was in charge of the county soldiers, and Qu Xiyuan was the county pastor, nominally the supreme ruler of Tianshui County.
rushed to Tongwei Mansion City, Qu Xiyuan walked into Wu Cheng and Wu En's temporary mansion here with a black face, dismissed the idle people, and unceremoniously questioned Wu Cheng and Wu En:
"The Huang family is exhausted, there is nothing to lose, the Yao family is trying to become a royal family, and Liao Yunya, Zhao Ruhui, Ji Yuan Ren and others are all from a poor family, and they all have a relationship with Chen Hai to fool around, but your Wu family is respected with my Qu family in Tianshui County, and the clan has nearly 20 million acres of mountains, forests, lakes and lakes, is it possible that it will also be distributed to the children of the Shu branch, and finally dismember the Wu family?"
Seeing that Qu Xiyuan deliberately rushed to Tongwei Mansion to ask about the guilt, Wu Cheng and Wu En glanced at each other, silent and didn't know how to respond to Qu Xiyuan's questioning.
Qu Xiyuan saw that Wu Cheng and Wu En were silent, thinking that he was talking about their sore spots, so he slowed down his tone and persuaded him painstakingly: "Yes, Hexi was in a hurry before, and we had to join forces with the Long Xiang army to resist the strong domain, but the times have changed, at this time, the prince Yingdan has raised the banner of rebellion in Yanmen County, and the six lords and nine feudal clans and the county lords have all sounded, and the soldiers and horses are like flowing water, gathering in Lichuan, and it is not surprising that tens of millions of elite soldiers will be gathered at that time," Speaking of which, although the main hall has a magic circle barrier, so that outsiders can overhear the conversation inside, Qu Xiyuan subconsciously lowered his voice and asked, "Chen Hai occupies the land of projectiles, and he is trying to challenge the world in vain, Wu En, Wu Cheng, you are all handsome talents who know the current affairs, do you really have the will to live and die with Chen Hai?"
Wu En stared at Qu Xiyuan's pupils and asked, "What should Brother Qu see?"
Qu Xiyuan also didn't know how close the relationship between the Wu clan and the Long Xiang army was, and some words were afraid that they would immediately cause death, but some words had to be said today, and he said in a suppressed voice: "At this time, on the two wings of Qintong Mountain, the Long Xiang army is in full swing, and we can't resist its will, but if Hexi and Liangyong send troops to take Yandang Plain, I think Huayang Sect should also take advantage of the situation......"
Wu Cheng sighed slightly and said, "Since Brother Qu has talked about this, we two brothers will not hide it from each other. It is true that the Huayang Sect should take advantage of the trend and change, but I want to ask Brother Qu, is it true that the stronger the Tianshui County soldiers before this, the more qualified they will be to change by the trend and not be bullied in the future?"
"......" Qu Xiyuan was stunned, he didn't expect Wu Cheng and Wu En to coincide with him a long time ago, but he asked suspiciously, "But why do you want to divide the seal in Tongwei?"
Wu Cheng said with burning eyes: "Sometimes I have to admit that Chen Hai's strategy of conquering and dividing the fields is indeed wonderful, we have only been in Tongwei Mansion for more than ten days, and the effect is extremely outstanding, but we also understand Brother Qu's worries. I just want to ask Brother Qu, after the Longxiang army is wiped out, the policy of conquering land and dividing the feudal land will be abolished at any time, so why can't we use the land of the traitor sect for 100,000 elites at this time?"
"......" Qu Xiyuan didn't expect Wu Cheng and Wu En's brothers to have such a plan......
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After Yu Zonghu's troops withdrew to Yanjing City, the Su Guard Army to which the inner court belonged was actually suppressed at the two points of Yanjing City and Wusheng Pass, and the Gyeonggi Plain seemed to have returned to calm without feeling the ferocity of the war.
It's just that countless people know in their hearts that there will be a battle between the Long Xiang Army and the Su Guard Army, and it will come at any time.
In the past, the Shenling Mountain School Palace and the Eight University Halls were all garrisons of the Chenglong Army.
The Su Guard army requisitioned the sons and followers of the sect lord who stayed in Yanjing, and the strength was expanded to 600,000, and the Longxiang army carried out the strategy of dividing the seal, and the soldiers and horses also expanded sharply by 600,000; Chen Hai even transferred the Tiangang Thunder Prison Remnant Array and the Eight Pole Lock Dragon Array of the Tianji Academy Palace to the outside of Yanjing City, and together with the Tiangang Thunder Prison Array deployed in Shenling Mountain, they suppressed the Qianyuan Xuanji Array that ranked first in the defense of Yanjing City's Heaven and Earth Absolute Formation.
Although the new generals are full of enthusiasm, there are not a few rangers, swordsmen, and martial arts who are proficient in martial arts techniques, and there are even a large number of Black Yan Army and Red Mei Sect remnants who were invited by Huang Shuang, Le Yi, Yan Yuan and others to gather from all directions, but they lack training after all, and it is difficult for them to form an army in a hurry.
Chen Hai transferred tens of thousands of elite backbones from Yandang Plain, urgently organized and trained new soldiers, and expanded the third and fourth town divisions of the Longxiang Army to 300,000 people (of course, this also caused the combat strength of the Yandang Yuan defenders to be weakened a lot).
Under Chen Hai's persuasion, or the temptation of the future royal family, the Yao clan will also take out tens of millions of acres of mountains, forests, lakes and lakes on both sides of Yuting Mountain and seven Lingquan Cave Mansions to divide the generals, and the total soldiers and horses of the first and second town divisions of the Guining Army have also expanded sharply to 400,000.
Fortunately, in the past two months, the Tianji Academy Palace has added more than 70 light and heavy Tianji chariots, 300 heavy crossbows, and nearly 4 million gold-quenched heavy front bullets into the army, making the combat strength of the Longxiang Army and the Guining Army in the Gyeonggi Plain enough to suppress the Suwei Army in Yanjing City.
At this time, in addition to leaving 200,000 soldiers and horses to guard the first line of Fujiaoling, Yuting City, and Qintong Dongguan, Chen Hai built a large camp in the east wing of Yanjing City, Shenling Mountain on the east wing, Heguihu Lake on the south wing, and Wangxian Cliff on the east wing to besiege Yanjing City, but left a gap outside the north city and did not completely besiege him.
Some generals below had doubts about this, and Chen Hai explained that the way to use troops is to encircle the troops, which is to leave a gap, so that the enemy generals can sway between fleeing and fighting to the death, and at the same time, it can also weaken the fighting spirit of the enemy generals.
Although in the Gyeonggi Plain, the Longxiang army was at a great strength, and the defeat of the Suwei army and the capture of Yanjing City were just around the corner, but the situation outside Gyeonggi could not be reassured.
In the Kuiwolf Palace, Chen Hai lifted the gold lacquer and silver quill, and worked hard to write, when there was a ring hairpin sound outside the door, and he saw Yang Qiao'er walking in gracefully.
Chen Hai asked without raising his head: "It's this time, why does the imperial concubine not rest?"
Yang Qiao'er looked at Chen Hai's appearance, and there was a moxibustion fever in her heart.
Although she has already become a good thing with Chen Hai, but the overall situation is undecided, and she does not dare to show her feet to outsiders, because in the past few months, the two have often been less than 100 steps apart, but there are very few opportunities to get close, and today is really difficult to calm down, so she boldly broke into Chen Hai's Kuiwolf Palace to deal with military and political affairs.
The night was as cold as water, Yang Qiao'er hesitated for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Although the situation in Gyeonggi is under the control of Chen Hou, but the alliance of the nine feudal domains is powerful after all, and the crown prince Yingdan has taken advantage of the situation to make a comeback and invite Zhuxiong to conquer Gyeonggi, what countermeasures does Chen Hou have?"
Listening to Yang Qiao'er's tone, there was some apprehension in her tone, Chen Hai said with a smile: "It's just that the soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth, although the Nine Lords Alliance Army looks extremely powerful, but they also have their own ghosts, if they are really one heart, when they were in Liquan, the so-called Nine Domains Alliance Army would not be easily defeated by me." You may be worried that the Iron Wolf Army and Hexi may join forces with Hexi, and it may threaten the foundation of our Longxiang Army from the northwest, but the cities I have built on the front line of Yuchengling in the past few years are all to prevent the southern invasion of demons and barbarians, and they are cast by melting iron and stone, where can they be captured so easily? The situation is not as urgent as burning eyebrows......"
Chen Hai knew that the generals in the army also had deep doubts, so when he said this, he did not shield the main hall of the Kuiwolf Palace.
The moonlight was like water, shining in from outside the hall and falling on Chen Hai, and then seeing Chen Hai so confident, he was a little stupid for a while, but he also knew that her words and deeds with Chen Hai were all concerned by others, so he asked again: "Can Chen Hou be sure that before June, he will defeat the Su Guards and expel the eunuchs?"
"Where we need to wait until June, maybe we'll see in a few days. Chen Hai smiled slightly, and after saying these words, he stretched out his hand and released a mysterious light, covering the hall, and staring at Yang Qiao'er's flowery and moon-like face with burning eyes.
Yang Qiao'er saw the heat in Chen Hai's eyes, but she was also in love with adultery, so Chen Hai stared at it with a burning streak, and felt that her legs were a little moist, and she wondered if she was scolding Chen Hai with two bold dog slaves, waiting for Chen Hai to pounce and tear her skirt to shreds, thinking so in her heart, her heart felt like she was going to fly.
However, just as Chen Hai reached out into Yang Qiao'er's arms, grabbed the meat pigeon that trembled slightly, and was so tender that it could squeeze out of the water, and played with it, but a woman in white fell from the sky, with crystal clear jade feet, standing in front of the main hall, looking inside, and said with a smile: "I said that the Guining army and Zhao Ruhui, Ji Yuanren and others only know that the imperial concubine does not know Guining Hou, it turns out that you still have this one, you won't blame me for running over at this time to disturb your good deeds, right?"
Seeing that Ning Chan'er had left Yaoshan for more than a year without any news, and at this time she reappeared again, Chen Li withdrew her hand from Yang Qiao'er's arms and said, "I thought you were going to be greedy for my three Dao Yun Heavenly Pills, calculate the time, you should also appear." ”