Chapter Ninety-Nine: The North Is in Trouble
Twenty miles west of Luzhou City, the southern foot of Dashu Mountain, there was originally a piece of destruction manor, it was the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty of Wu King Yang Xing secret palace, Li Shanxing from the Luzhou don't drive, the dilapidated manor to find a way to buy, and a lot of civil repairs, lasted more than two years, and finally restored the old appearance of this down-and-out manor even more elegant and profound. The manor is built in the lush green forest, the more the back house yard is higher and higher, the so-called spiraling up, overlooking the river, overlooking the five lakes and forests, handsome and beautiful.
Now that the appeasement envoy has arrived, Li Shanxing will use this new house that he has not lived in for a day as the residence of the appeasement envoy.
Li Shanxing was overjoyed, and even sent more than a dozen maidservants into the house, and even his concubine Jiao was mixed with these maidservants, pretending to be the servants of these dozen maidservants.
Jiao's initial reluctance, a six-grade petty official, are you as for you? The old lady has never accompanied a second person except you.
Li Shanxing analyzed it very well, and said that you don't look at the Zhaofu envoy is only a six-grade official, but he is the Son of Heaven's personal entourage, and it is simply like a front station for the Son of Heaven, I heard that his disciple was originally a famous fool in Yingzhou, and after worshipping under him, he was quickly promoted to the six-grade supervision envoy, this is the grace that only the Son of Heaven can approve, you say that Professor Wen, is it a cronie of the Son of Heaven?
He also said that I don't want to keep the black veil on my head now, but now, don't say that I am rich and prosperous, even if my net worth and life, I don't know if I can save it.
My dear lady, I can point all my fingers at you, as long as you make Professor Wen happy, at least, our glory and wealth can be guaranteed.
Jiao's was helpless and entered the garden.
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Lu Ning didn't know these tidbits, but now, he likes to live in these villas near the mountains, rivers and lakes, the air is good, the scenery is beautiful, and people's hearts seem to be open-minded.
The land occupied by these annexes was almost all built with scenic spots, Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in later generations, but it was not at all that ordinary people could build houses and settle down.
In addition to thinking about political affairs, it is also quick to take a little girl with little things to do in this green mountain and green water land to relieve boredom.
However, that night, the special class from the border was immediately delivered, which was the so-called eight-hundred-mile expedited, which made Lu Ning, who was teasing Su Xiaoxiao, stand up suddenly.
It was the first time for Su Xiaoxiao to see Professor Wen so out of shape, and she was shocked.
Originally, the two of them were enjoying the cool in the pavilion on the top of the mountain, but Professor Wen seemed to be in a good mood after meeting an official surnamed Lu today, and when he stroked the piano for him, he suddenly smiled and asked if he could dance a song for him.
This is the first time Professor Wen has seen himself dance.
Su Xiaoxiao was excited and worried, although she was secretly practicing hard every day, just thinking that one day Mr. would want to watch the dance, and she could dance the most beautifully, but for the first time, she was really worried.
At this moment, Sandao hurriedly ran up the mountain, ran out of breath, and sent a letter, and when the gentleman saw it, he jumped up from the stone bench suddenly, and his face changed greatly.
Su Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she didn't dare to breathe, she was even more worried, she didn't know what was going on, and secretly glanced at Mr. 's face.
Lu Ning looked at the urgent report, gritted his teeth, and finally came.
The Khitan invaded the south, known as 50,000 iron horsemen, supplemented by the Han soldiers of Youyun Prefecture, and invaded Hebei Prefectures in the south.
The Northern Han also sent troops to attack Liaozhou and Luzhou.
Although he sent troops to Huainan this time, he only added the Huaibei Army to the guards and pro-army, and did not use the rest of the forbidden army, but he used some dark mines originally buried in Huainan, such as Sun Yu, such as Lu Jiang, etc., to see what he could toss.
Now there is a fierce battle near Yangzhou, and the guards in front of the palace yesterday also arrived on the battlefield.
However, Li Jingsui, while resisting the coalition forces of Li Hongyi and Wu Yue, invested a large number of troops in Yangzhou, mainly the naval army, almost all of which supported Yangzhou, and he only wanted nothing to blame for the battlefield against Li Hongyi and Wu Yue on the southern front, and could even exchange space for time.
And Yangzhou, in his eyes, is obviously too important, no matter what, he must hold it.
Because of this, he has no time to pay attention to the direction of the Baoxin Army, otherwise, the current Tang State Navy is afraid that it will appear in Chaohu.
However, this also shows that Li Jingsui really has no strategic vision, and it is not necessary to defend Yangzhou now, which has lost the space for him to toss and turn.
On his own side, now Zhu Kuangye led the Huainan Army and also went to Yangzhou, in fact, in a short time, where will the so-called integration be effective? The Huainan Army, which was the original Qinghuai Army, and the Battle of Yangzhou mainly depended on the generals of both sides.
His own palace guards and pro-army can completely offset Li Jingsui's superiority in Yangzhou's troops, so in this war, whether your side will win a big victory, a residual victory or a small defeat depends on the ability of the generals.
Of course, the power of the secret supervisor in Yangzhou may also play a certain role.
If you want to say that your side has failed miserably, it is impossible, unless Zhang Yanqing, Zhu Kuangye, and Lu Ping are all wrong, then it is not unjust to lose.
Lu Ning was not ready to go to Yangzhou to supervise the war, unless it was a last resort, it was a small defeat, so he could only find a way to see if he could turn things around.
But today's urgent report, Lu Ning's first thought was whether he wanted to rush to Hebei.
Obviously, under the persuasion of his subordinates, coupled with the possible resentment towards himself, the sleeping king finally raised an army to invade the south.
After all, it seems that he is leading an army to attack Jiangnan, which is the best time for the Khitan to invade the south.
In fact, the Hebei Army, the Hedong Army, and the Beijing Garrison Army were originally guarding against the great enemy in the north.
Gao Huaide led the Hedong Army, and it was defending the city, so there should be no problem resisting the Northern Han, after all, the three major battalions of Hebei, Hedong, and Jingshu were all given some good things.
The Hebei Army has the most good things, and Lu Xing has always been by his side and has experience in using these things.
But what I am most worried about is the Hebei Army, the Beijing garrison camp cannot fully support, and the emptiness of the capital is the biggest taboo.
If you want to say that you will leave now, it will be like a post man who delivers an urgent official document, a thirty-mile post station to change horses, and a post man to pass on emergency military information, and he will actually change people, and he will change horses if he does not change people, from this Luzhou to Cangzhou, nearly two thousand miles, but he will definitely be able to arrive within five days.
But, going to go?
Lu Ning hesitated.
The Hebei Army has bronze cannons for defending the city, and there are thunderstorms, which are the kind of black iron thunder when they were in Pingzhangquan, but they have already been improved, and they do not need to rely on their own magic shots to detonate, but there are various methods, buried in the ground to lengthen the long lead, and there are those that can be detonated under violent impact, etc.
If you can't find a way to defeat the invading Khitans, but you have to rely on yourself to put out the fire, it is really not a word, after all, you can't do it later, as long as the border army is in a hurry, you have to go around as a firefighter.
Speaking of which, the Khitans, that is, the military horses known as 50,000 iron cavalry, in fact, I am afraid that there are no 50,000 cavalry, after all, the Liao country has just quelled the civil strife, and the main enemies of the sleeping king now are still those nobles who are enemies of him in the country.
The Han people are pawned, the combat power can be negligible, and the Han people in the Khitan are regarded as slaves, and they have not really surrendered, as long as the Khitan main force is defeated, the war will end.
After hesitating for a long time, Lu Ning finally clenched his fists and endured it any longer.