Outside the city.

Lu Weiyi bowed his hand to Qin Quan and said: "Please thank the general on behalf of Lu Someone to your family Lu Jieshuai, and at the same time, Lu Someone hopes to form an alliance with Lu Jieshuai, hoping that he will not care about the previous things, from now on, you and I can help each other." ”

"What do you mean, I'll tell us the family." Qin Quan said lightly:

"By the way, there is something I should tell you, your subordinate Deng Xuanli was rebelled by the Qingyuan people, and he has already taken refuge in Liucong. A few days ago, he led his army through the territory of Hui'an Prefecture, because Qingyuan is also allied with our army, so I can't stop it, I believe that his troops should have arrived in Xinzhou by now. ”

Lu Weiyi's face was incredulous, and Jia Wu next to him said loudly: "Nonsense, General Deng will never betray us!" ”

Qin Quan's face turned cold, and he said lightly: "Believe it or not." After finishing speaking, he led the troops to return in the direction of Hui'an Mansion.

Lu Weiyi's face turned red, and he gasped and said, "Deng Xuanli, Deng Xuanli!" ”

Jia Wu exclaimed, "Brother Lu, do you believe their words?" ”

"Nonsense, even the Hui'an army is here, but Deng Xuanli's troops haven't come yet, isn't it obvious?" Lu Weiyi said irritablely.

After leading the army back to Chizhou City, Lu Weiyi ordered to force Zhuang Ding, quickly replenish the army of Ning Guo, and at the same time ordered the repair of the city wall of Tongling City, he had a hunch that the Tang army would soon come again.

After separating from Lu Weiyi, Qin Quan led the troops to walk on the official road, the sky gradually turned dark, Jing Che saw that Qin Quan did not speed up the march, and reminded: "General, the New Year will be the day after tomorrow, let's hurry up now, you can go back to Hui'an Mansion to celebrate the New Year with Sister Ling." ”

"I'm going back, who will guard Qimen County?" Qin Quan said lightly.

Jing Che said: "There are the last generals and others, can't the general still believe it?" ”

Zongsi said loudly: "General, now that the Tang army has retreated, Lu Weiyi is also disabled, Qimen City can be said to be worry-free, you can rest assured to return to Hui'an Mansion." ”

Qin Quan stroked his beloved horse and said with a faint smile: "I accompany it every Chinese New Year, and this year will be no exception, and it ......"

Speaking of this, he looked in the direction of Hui'an Mansion City and said, "My sister doesn't need my company. ”

Two days later, the festival house, night.

It is also the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and unlike the tranquility of a year ago, the back house of the Jiedu Mansion is now full of laughter.

Lu Yuan was walking in the courtyard to eat, and when he passed by the kitchen, he saw Jin'er and Yuzhu talking softly while wrapping dumplings, and the two seemed to be chatting.

Continuing to move forward, I saw that in the corridor ahead, Yu'er and Lan'er were fighting to command a few guards to hang lanterns, and these two girls seemed to like that they could have a few people under their hands to be in charge.

After pacing a few more steps and turning a corner, I saw Sun Shaoqing and Su Liuying holding a round fan, sitting on the stone bench and talking about something with a smile.

On the other side, Qin Youyu was accompanying Lu Yutong to play a kind of fireworks that were being shaken with his hands, and it could be seen that in addition to herself and Li Ruozhen, the little girl was the closest to Qin Youyu.

At this moment, a cold wind blew, Lu Yuan tightened his coat, looked up at the sky, and saw another bright moon in the sky, the moon was still the same moon last year, but a year had passed unconsciously.

Looking back on the experience of this year, most of the time was spent in the prison of Jinling Mansion, and I felt that time passed very slowly, but fortunately, Li Ruozhen and a few cellmates were with him, so that he would not be too bored.

Later, after escaping from Jinling Mansion and returning to Hui'an Mansion, he put all his attention on resisting the attack of the Tang State, and now in retrospect, this period seems to have passed extremely quickly.

And I have to admit that he has actually been under great pressure in his heart, and it wasn't until he repelled enemies from all walks of life some time ago that he was relieved.

In general, this year has been very hard, but the hard work is worth it, through this year's efforts, he has changed from a small county order of She County a year ago, to now holding a heavy army, separating one side of the festival envoy.

But that's not what he's most proud of.

At this time, Qin Youyu's voice suddenly came from the side: "Lu Lang, what are you doing?" Come here. ”

Lu Yuan turned his head to look, and saw that Qin Youyu, Lu Yutong, Sun Shaoqing and Su Liuying had already gathered together, each of them carrying a lantern, each looking at him with different expressions, and their eyes were full of dependence on themselves.

"Here we are."

He strode towards them, and for him, the greatest goal of his struggle was to make those close to him live a happy life.

……

Three days later, Jinling Mansion.

At the first court meeting after the New Year, under Li Jing's order, Wang Degong read the military situation on the front line in front of all the ministers of civil and military affairs.

He said sharply: "The Tang army attacking Hui'an Mansion was attacked by rebels at the border, and is currently retreating to Ningguo County, while the Tang army attacking Chizhou was even more defeated, and the 50,000 troops who went to conquer were lost and relegated, and only more than 10,000 people came back.

In addition, Jianzhou and Tingzhou were captured by the Qingyuan army, and Liu Yan of Langzhou has also been recruiting troops and actively expanding his territory. ”

The court fell into a short silence, Li Jingda knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "The younger brother is guilty, please punish the imperial brother!" ”

Li Jing then came out and said: "Brother Huang, this matter cannot be blamed entirely on King Qi, he has already relinquished his command, the war is unfavorable, and the blame lies with Fang Yiwu, the main general of the reinforcements." ”

Hearing his words, Fang Yiwu slowly walked out of the column, knelt on the ground, and said nothing.

"Fang Yiwu, what else do you have to say?" Li Jing said coldly.

"Minister...... The minister had nothing to say. Fang Yiwu closed his eyes and said sadly.

"Come, put him in prison." Li Jing said coldly.

As soon as the words fell, a team of guards walked into the hall and dragged Fang Yiwu down.

At this time, Wei Jun, the right commander of the forbidden army, stepped out and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the battle ahead is unfavorable, and the commander of the unified army cannot escape responsibility, and the minister thinks that King Yan should be allowed to lead the army." ”

"The ministers seconded it!" All the generals stood up, and their voices were extremely loud.

Most of them knew that the crime was not in Fang Yiwu, but if the war was lost, someone had to bear the blame, this person could not be the King of Qi, and Fang Yiwu was just a scapegoat.

They couldn't save Fang Yiwu, so they could only use this way to express their dissatisfaction to His Majesty.

Seeing this kind of formation, Li Jingsui's face was very ugly, and these generals disregarded their faces so much in front of the court, which greatly dealt a blow to his prestige.

Li Jing's gaze kept shifting between Li Jingsui and Li Hongyi, and finally his gaze finally fixed on Li Hongyi, and said in a deep voice: "Quasi-play." ”

In this way, the marshal of the Tang Dynasty to suppress the rebels was replaced by Li Jingsui to Li Hongyi, which also coped with Li Ziqian's original prediction.

Li Hongyi immediately did several things after leading the army, the first thing was to transfer the Jianwu Army, which was originally stationed in Sizhou, to Xuanzhou, and transfer the Xuanzhou Forbidden Army back.

Second, he ordered the transfer of 30,000 troops from the Fenghua army, detoured to the port near Jinling Mansion to land, and joined the forbidden army, and he led the 20,000 forbidden army and 30,000 Fenghua army, and declared that the 50,000 forbidden army was going to Chizhou.

As for the 20,000 Fenghua troops who originally attacked Jiujiang Port, they continued to stay in Jiangbei and look for opportunities to capture Jiujiang Port.

He did this as a last resort, and now there are fewer and fewer troops that can be mobilized around Jinling Mansion, and in order to appease Li Jing's heart, he didn't dare to transfer the forbidden army too much, so he had to transfer the Fenghua army.

In this regard, the civil officials complained that the Fenghua army had made such a big detour, and the consumption of manpower and material resources had increased a lot, and the supply of military food had also been transferred to the Jinling Mansion, which had increased a lot of pressure on the imperial court's finances.

However, Li Jing was very supportive of this, he ignored the advice of the civilian officials, but kept ordering the officials to comfort the soldiers, and he must win this battle.

……

When Li Hongyi gathered the army, the Wuyue court also quarreled, and the Hui'an Mansion actually beheaded the envoy sent by Wu Yue, which was worth it, and the ministers scolded the Hui'an Mansion one after another, but when it came to who would go to the crusade, everyone became silent.

Qian Hongyu said angrily: "Why, the words you said just now were fierce, and when you were asked to defend the country, you didn't speak one by one?" ”

At this moment, an official who was standing quite backward came out and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to recommend one person who can exterminate the Hui'an Army and recapture Muzhou." ”

Qian Hongyu looked at the man, only to feel a little familiar, but he didn't remember his name, but it was always good for someone to be willing to speak, and he said gently: "Who do you want to recommend?" ”

"The minister recommends Tang Bian."

Qian Hongyu thought about it, but he really couldn't remember that there was a general named Tang Bian in the army, so he asked: "What position is Tang Bian currently in place?" ”

"This ......" the official hesitated for a moment and said, "Tang Bian is a general under Qu Kuozhong, the envoy of the Jing Navy. ”

"Bastard." Dai Mu, who had been silent, said angrily: "I actually recommended a general, do you have no generals in my Wu Yue Kingdom?" ”

Qian Hongyu didn't continue to ask about Tang Bian, and looked at Dai Mudao: "Then who do you say is better to let the leader lead?" ”

Dai Mu gritted his teeth and said: "The minister is not talented, I am willing to lead the 50,000 forbidden army and 50,000 town navy, exterminate the Hui'an army, and take back Muzhou!" ”

"Okay." Qian Hongyu clapped his hands and said: "The widow will give you 100,000 troops, I hope you will not disappoint the widow, but the town navy is sent to fight Muzhou, and the Tang State will not sneak attack us, right?" ”

Dai Mu said: "No, the town navy was originally to deal with the Jianwu army of the Tang State, and the minister heard that the Tang State has transferred the Jianwu army to Xuanzhou, so the king does not have to worry." ”

Qian Hongyu nodded and said: "In this case, after defeating Muzhou, the town navy will stay in Muzhou, and you need to guard against a sneak attack by the Tang army." ”

"The king is very worried, but the minister didn't think of this!" Dai Mu took the opportunity to make a big fuss.

Gathering an army of 100,000 is not something that can be done in a few days, coupled with the preparation of grain and grass, so although Wu Yueguo is preparing to attack Muzhou, the time for the real march will need to wait for a while.