Martial law, steel knives and spears, blood and grain merchants who were beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market, when the state power showed its sharp fangs, the deterrent effect on the ordinary people was still extremely effective, Jicheng seemed to be calm on the surface, but behind closed doors, the fear in his heart could not be concealed.

One by one, the decrees were promulgated from the palace hall, and the food of every household was collected by a group of soldiers, who knocked on the door and searched away, when all the magnates in Jicheng bowed their heads in front of the army, the ordinary people had no power to resist.

With Lifang as a unit, all the young and strong people were organized, and the instructors sent by the army carried out some simple training, and the system of continuous sitting allowed everyone to honestly begin to participate in this city-wide mobilization.

The enemy pressed the border, and the army wanted to ensure that they had enough to eat, and the ordinary people were miserable, and the rationed food supplied every day could only be boiled with some gruel, and they could only talk about their lives, and if they wanted to be full, it was unthinkable.

Jicheng is calm on the surface, but everyone, including Ji Ling, knows that under the calm surface, there is often a wildfire that can burn a qiē, so that everything can be turned into ashes in the fire, and to make this fire never burn, the key at this moment is not in the city, but outside the city.

The second division of the Youth Guards of the Eastern Army marched into Tianhe County, with only 5,000 troops, and forced Ji Wugui to retreat in the city, and the first division was under the leadership of Yang Dasha, or set up an ambush or a surprise attack, and wiped out the soldiers and horses of the garrisons from all over Tianhe County to aid the county town one by one. The county town of Tianhe has truly become a lonely city.

Gao Yuanqin led two cavalry divisions and 10,000 iron cavalry to bypass the Tianhe County City, roaring past, and approaching Jicheng. Arrived outside Jicheng in early July and set up camp brazenly. I saw the high ditch and deep base of the Eastern Army, divided into two camps on the left and right, entrenched outside Jicheng. All the high-ranking civil and military officials of Jicheng who went to the city to watch the enemy were all worried, it seems, this is not what they want to leave in the short term?

Of course, Gao Yuan would not retreat so lightly, although he didn't want to take Jicheng yet, in fact, with the strength he could mobilize now, he couldn't capture a royal capital like Jicheng, but this didn't prevent him from wanting to get what he wanted from Jicheng. If he can't get enough chips, he will never retreat lightly, Jicheng. There is no need to fight, as long as his soldiers and horses appear outside this royal capital, whether it is above the military or in politics, the blow to the Yan court is fatal.

"Langya, Yuyang, no matter which one it is, Ji Ling has to spit out one for me, otherwise. I'll let his Jicheng never come out of a single person. In the middle of the tent, Gao Yuan stood in front of the hanging map, and made heavy strokes in these two places with charcoal.

"Why not both?" On the side, Shangguan Hong was full of interest. This time the march was unexpectedly smooth, and to be honest, until now, it was not only him. Even Gao Yuan was a little surprised. The soldiers of Tianhe County not only have low combat effectiveness and fighting will, but also make stupid moves. In just half a month, the main force of the soldiers of Tianhe County was almost swept away, leaving more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Tianhe County, but I am afraid that even the city will not dare to come out of the city.

"Of course I want both." Gao Yuan spread his hands, "But Ruth has to go step by step, and she has to eat bite by bite, if her appetite is too big, it will break her stomach, of course, if there is such an opportunity, I will never let it go." In this battle, if Langya and Yuyang are really taken, but the Yan Kingdom court will become a candle in the wind, which will be extinguished at any time in the wind and rain. These two counties are the important towns of the Yan Kingdom, and if you take these two places, there will be only one Tianhe left, and you will be surrounded by Zhengdong Mansion on three sides, and the day of destruction can almost count down. ”

"Opportunity, what kind of opportunity?" Shangguan Hong rubbed his hands, "There is a chance, we have to go, if there is no chance, we can create a chance!" ”

Listening to Shangguan Hong's words, Gao Yuan was a little stunned, and it sounded so familiar. Still thinking about this sentence in his mind, He Zhiyuan outside had already opened the curtain and entered, "Governor, please see Niu Ben of the Supervision Yuan." ”

"Niu Ben is coming, let him in." Gao Yuan nodded, Niu Ben, Niu Teng, are Ning Xin's cronies, since the fall of Ning Zecheng, these two people have been with Ning Xin, this half a year, but also for the expedition to the East Mansion has made great contributions, so far Niu Teng is still in Donghu, and Ning Xin's stocked fish Mu Gu Lu stay together, a few months down, has been in the nest of the Donghu people, the place of origin between the white mountains and black water, gathered a huge force. As long as this force is integrated, it will definitely make the heads of the Donghu people hurt, and for half a year, the Supervision Yuan has been trying to do everything possible to smuggle weapons there, of course, these weapons were all seized from the hands of the Donghu people, and the standard weapons of the Eastern Army cannot appear there yet, and once the Donghu army stationed there discovers these standard weapons, there will inevitably be trouble.

"I've seen the governor, I've seen the commander of the Shangguan army!" Niu Ben strode into the tent, wearing only a short coat, two arms bare, a small head, and the exposed arms were all shiny beads of sweat, and at a glance he knew that he had come from a long journey.

Gao Yuan poured a bowl of water from the table and handed it to Niu Ben's hand, "Let's drink saliva first, look at you like this, I'm afraid that you came all the way, don't worry, don't worry." ”

Niu Ben did have a big event to tell, but seeing Gao Yuan's determined appearance, he unconsciously calmed down, bowed respectfully and took the water bowl handed over by Gao Yuan, drank it all, and looked at Gao Yuan's eyes, full of respect, people like him, deliberately gracious, he didn't feel anything, but like Gao Yuan's casual action that didn't seem to have any gold content, but he was even more moved, because he didn't feel any deliberateness from Gao Yuan's eyes and demeanor, as if this was an ordinary action.

But it is such an ordinary action, and when a person like Gao Yuan makes it naturally, it makes people fall in love with it even more.

Putting down the bowl, Niu Ben looked at Gao Yuan, "Governor, things have changed in Yuyang, the nails we buried in Zhao Guojun secretly contacted us, after I received the news, while sending someone to warn General Ye Zhen, I personally came to report to the governor." ”

Gao Yuan's heart shook slightly, "Yuyang, what's wrong?" ”

"Zhou Changshou is ready to send troops, if Kong De receives Jicheng's order to retreat, there is a great possibility that he will be caught off guard by Zhou Changshou, and Zhou Changshou also wants Yuyang." Niu Ben said, "This was completely unexpected beforehand. It completely disrupted the Governor's pre-war arrangement. ”

"Zhou Changshou? Interesting! Gao Yuan turned around a few times in the big tent, turned around, and looked at Shangguan Hong and Niu Ben, "I thought that Zhao Mu was dead, this Zhao Mu's death hall would definitely be a man with his tail on his head, I didn't expect him to have such a big mind." It seems that this person is also unwilling to be lonely, and wants to become another big member of the Zhao military, so as to share the power vacuum left by Zhao Mu's death? ”

"It's very likely." Shangguan Hong nodded, "Zhao Mu is entrenched in the military forces of Zhao State. Although Jing Rufeng has risen, there is still Zhao Mu's original deputy general Wu Zeng in the Hedong camp, although Zhao Qi has mastered part of the military power and joined forces with Jing Rufeng, but the prestige cannot be compared with Zhao Mu at all. ”

Gao Yuan turned around a few more times. looked at Shangguan Hong and said with a smile: "It's okay now, Shangguan, you didn't say that you didn't have a chance." Do you want to create a zào machine? This opportunity will come to the door, Niu Ben, after you rest for a day, go directly to the river. Sue Ye Zhen, let him seize this opportunity well, and Zhou Changshou will go to punch Kongde. He can go and raid the whole city, gather all his troops, take advantage of the emptiness of the whole city, take it for me in one fell swoop, and copy Zhou Changshou's back road. Hehe, you have to think of a way to see if you can reveal a little bit of Zhou Changshou's plan to raid Kong De at a critical point in time, Kong De is not good at stubble, the two of them fight to the death, let's have a fisherman to profit. Block Zhou Changshou's way back."

"Yes." Niu Ben responded with his mouth, but his face was quite difficult, "Dudu, this operation is extremely difficult!"

"Naturally, it's difficult." Gao Yuan didn't care, "But I believe that Ye Zhen can grasp this degree, I want to pry Langya out of Jicheng's hand first, and then go to get Yuyang, you tell Ye Zhen what I mean, and let him plan the rest by himself." He is the general in charge of the party, he should have this courage, look at Zhou Changshou, this kind of courage is not trivial!"

Just when Tianhe County was in the dark, a large sea ship docked on a secret wharf in Fenzhou, near the sea, was ready to go.

This sea ship has just been launched, and this trip is an excuse to test the performance of the ship, but the people who will be loaded on this ship are not trivial. This person is Zhou Yuan, the former Taiwei of Yanguo.

After returning to Fenzhou, Zhou Yuan died down, and seemed to completely regard himself as a person in the mountains, ignoring court affairs, regardless of foreign affairs, even if Zhou's life was getting more and more difficult, he didn't care, as if he had completely admitted defeat, but this time, when this old man suddenly exerted his strength, Cao Tianci in Fenzhou found that this old guy didn't seem to be simple.

Cao Tianci once thought that it would be a very difficult thing to secretly transport Zhou Yuan out of Fenzhou, but this matter came to Zhou Yuan, but it became a very easy thing, when Zhou Yuan's family boarded the big ship and slowly set sail away from the dock, the Fenzhou officials still had no response.

Cao Tianci thought that the most difficult thing actually seemed to be the easiest thing.

"I left like this, and I don't know if I can return to my homeland alive to take a look at this life?" Standing on the deck, looking at the outline of the land that was gradually moving away, Zhou Yuan, who was on crutches, sighed deeply, and his eyes were full of nostalgia and reluctance.

"You'll have a chance to come back soon." Cao Tianci on the side smiled and said, "Captain Zhou, it's windy on the deck, you better go back to the cabin and rest!"

Zhou Yuan smiled, "I've been a soldier all my life, how can this little wind help me, you can rest assured of my body, even if I want to die, I will finish this matter and die." Also, don't call me Taiwei in the future, from now on, I am already a traitor to the Yan Kingdom, if you look at me for the sake of my old age, call me Mr. Zhou, I will be very satisfied." (To be continued......)