As the sun and the moon passed, as the land of Middle-earth became hotter and hotter, the war in all directions intensified.

The elite border armies of Northern Qi and Dayue have been stiff for nearly half a year, and countless people are buried in the battlefield every day, filling in human lives and consuming national strength.

The eastern three kings coalition army has traveled for more than a month and has arrived in Chu, because Mashankou and Nanyang have been lost, and the army composed of government soldiers and militia is stationed on the line from Xiangyang to Luzhou.

Guan Hongye led 50,000 Xiliang troops and tens of thousands of government soldiers, the vanguard of the counterinsurgency, and had arrived in Dengzhou and began to try to attack the city.

It's just that Xiangyang, as the gateway to the Central Plains, is one of the most important cities in the strategic significance of the entire Dayue, and it is not easy to break the city, and it is normal to attack it for three or five years.

The time to quell the rebellion is too long, and there is no benefit to Xu Buling - the national strength of the Northern Qi is far inferior to that of Dayue, who is rich in land and resources, as long as the national strength of the Northern Qi is exhausted, he will inevitably retreat; The situation in northern Xinjiang took a turn for the better, and the Guanzhong Army and the Liaoxi Army were able to return to help, so there was nothing to do with the Western Liang Army.

Therefore, Xu Buling must quickly gain a foothold in the Central Plains when there is no breakthrough in the war in the north, and get a bargaining chip that can bargain with the imperial court. After King Su secretly transported more than 30 heavy artillery pieces to Nanyang Ferry with a merchant ship, Xu Buling sent Guan Hongye a letter of request for war and a military order, asking for 20,000 troops to help break Nanyang.

And even if Guan Hongye can't beat Xiangyang, he will not let Xu Buling come over and interfere. After all, Xiangyang can't be broken, as long as the current situation can be stabilized, dragged to the north to occupy a turning point, and the civil strife will be resolved; And let Xu Buling break Xiangyang, then there will be nothing else to do. Guan Hongye naturally sternly refused Xu Buling's request to fight, and asked Xu Buling to stabilize the market in the rear.

After Xu Buling said hello, he didn't say anything more, and prepared to set off with 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers. Everything was according to Xiao Qi's plan, and the battalion was encroaching on Guan Hongye's military power step by step.

It's just that in this big game of chess in the world, no matter how good a strategist is, it is difficult to calculate everything and know all the variables.

Sometimes, in some places that the world can't see, a seemingly unrelated little thing can disrupt everyone's layout and stir up an unexpected storm......

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It was the height of summer, and the peach blossoms of the Pinggu Valley within a radius of 100 miles, the peach blossoms of ten thousand trees were gone, and the mountains were full of lush greenery.

Far away from the world, hundreds of small peach trees are full of greenery, but they have been left untended for too long, and the originally meticulous nursery is overgrown with weeds and looks a little desolate.

In the small courtyard of the fence, the three huts stand quietly and solemnly, and the wooden shelves are already crawling with tender green vines; On the small window of the kitchen, more than a dozen fish that had suffered a catastrophe had been dried into dried fish, and there were no birds and beasts invading them, and they were still hanging there and swaying gently in the wind; The reclining chairs in the courtyard are still there, and on the small square table outside the house, there are a few dead leaves in a wooden bowl; The original snowman had already melted, and only one robe remained in place, and the white robe could no longer be seen under the erosion of the rain and scorching sun.

Pedal Pedal –

If there are no steps, from far and near, come to a stop outside the fence wall.

The tall figure with three straight knives stuck in his back stopped outside the fence wall, his eyes swept over the small courtyard that had already been empty, his brows were tightly locked, and he felt a little bad.

Secret guard Lao Yi, like Father-in-law Jia, accompanies Song Ji all the year round and knows many secrets that ordinary people don't know.

Back then, according to Song Ji's character, in order to cut the feudal domain and suppress Jiangmen, he would not care about a woman's life and death; In order to prevent the matter of calculating siblings from being poked out in the future, Cui Xiaowan should have really died violently in the palace.

It's just that if you can be the queen, the power of your relatives must be not small, and the Cui family is also involved in this matter, Song Ji can't let Cui Huailu kill his daughter to show his loyalty, and in the end he still compromises and lets the Cui family take Cui Xiaowan back secretly.

As long as Cui Xiaowan is still alive, the sudden death of Queen Cui and Song Yu's desperate move cannot be explained, and it stands to reason that the Cui family should cover their mouths tightly and never let Cui Xiaowan reappear.

But now, Cui Xiaowan is gone, and Cui Huailu doesn't know.

Whether Cui Huailu really didn't know, Lao Yi and Song Ji didn't know, after all, no one came to this place once in a few months. But Cui Xiaowan is gone, she has touched Song Ji's bottom line, and she must make people who shouldn't appear in this world disappear before she makes waves.

But where did Cui Xiaowan go?

Lao Yi stepped into the fence and glanced around the courtyard a few times, looking for clues in the many traces. After half a year of wind and rain, just by the dried fish on the table, it is obvious that I can't see who came back then.

Lao Yi seriously searched in the courtyard, and after finding nothing, he entered the bedroom on the side.

No one bothered in the bedroom, tidy up, before leaving, only took away belongings, everything else was there, even the bedding was neatly folded on the bed.

Lao Yi wanted to rummage through the cabinets to find clues, but as soon as he entered the house, he didn't do anything, and his eyes were attracted by a painting on the wall.

On the wall next to the desk in the bedroom, there is an ink painting - the painting shows a man of peerless elegance, peach blossom eyes and eyebrows like a sword, holding a long lance standing on the top of the Taiji Palace, white clothes swaying with the wind and rain, the body is like a pine pattern does not move, strong and powerful strokes, the momentum of riding the dust is vividly displayed.

Lao Yi's eyes stared, he naturally recognized this painting, because he was also on this painting, standing below the Taiji Hall, one of the many beings, looking up at the man above.

This "Immortal in the Painting", with the inscription 'Pei Yulong' below, is an imitation of Pei Yulong, a famous artist in Danqing, Beijing.

Its origin, Lao Yi is clear. Outside the Longyin Pavilion back then, Xu Buling won this painting by beating the crowd, and the name of 'Zhaohong Yimei' also came out at that time.

Lao Yi's face changed slightly, walked to the scroll, looked carefully, but saw that in the lower left corner of the scroll, there was an extra line of inscription:

I am willing to be a concubine in Ling Lang's arms, not a concubine in front of the emperor's palace.

The handwriting is graceful, obviously a woman's handwriting.

"This ...... that kills a thousand knives"

When Lao Yi saw this, the bruises on his forehead burst out, how could he not understand the meaning of such a simple and straightforward word?

I'd rather be a little under my knees, or be the queen above your Song Ji 10,000 people, it's simply ......

Lao Yi clenched his fists, even if it was just the secret guard under Song Ji's hand, he was not lightly angered by this sentence. He knew that Xu Buling had come to Youzhou inexplicably, and with this painting, there was no need to guess who Queen Cui was.

Lao Yi thought about it, took down the picture scroll, rolled it up and put it behind his back, turned around and walked out of the fence courtyard, and hurried away to the peach blossom overseas.

At the same time, on the side of the canyon, above the green stone walls of the mountains.

Xu Danqing, a painting saint in a literary robe, leaned on the grass house and looked at it from afar; After Lao Yi left, he shook his head and sighed: "It's over...... get up and hide into the forest......

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