It was raining lightly in Jinyang, and there was already a large army outside the city.

Guo Shao stood on a small mound with his sword pressed for a long time, looking at the marching army on the main road, the soldiers' boots stepping on the wet dirt road, and the whole road was covered with mud. The drizzle of rain in the wind hit his face with a complete coldness, and the drizzle slowly gathered on his iron helmet, dripping down from time to time along the brim of the steel hat, and the cold dripping on his cheeks was a burst of cleverness.

The footsteps of the marching army with military discipline and discipline were very neat, especially when the emperor was watching from the sidelines. The breeze was filled with the peculiar smell of earth, and the petals of the flowers were quickly trampled into the mud in the mud.

Guo Shao glanced sideways slightly, and glanced at the two peach trees beside the road, and in the wind and rain, the pink petals fell from the trees. In the scene full of rough mines, the peach blossoms reminded Guo Shao of the spring colors in Tokyo, and the women who cared about the children ahead in China.

At this moment, two men, one tall and one short, rode from the crowd to the bottom of the hill, turned over and dismounted together, and walked up the hillside.

Guo Shao fixed his eyes and saw that it was Gao Yanyu and Hou Mao, who were now the second and deputy generals of the Jiannan Army who were now marching mightily on several avenues. That Hou Mao was thin and short, but Gao Yanyu with him was a tall and strong man with a round face, and the two walked together very strangely, like adults and children. But Hou Mao is not a mediocre talent, and during the battle of Shu, he had a headache for several months in Qingniling.

The two men walked up, ignoring the mud on the ground, and fell straight to one knee. Gao Yanyu saluted and said: "The ministers have come to see Your Majesty, and they have been ordered to lead the Jiannan Army to Jinyang!" ”

Guo Shao took two steps forward, helped the two of them one by one, and blurted out: "The soldiers have traveled thousands of miles to the battlefield, and you have worked hard. ”

Gao Yanyan was stunned, and hurriedly bowed: "Don't dare, the ministers are just doing their part, and they are willing to move forward for His Majesty, and they will never return if they don't break Jinyang!" ”

Guo Shao looked at the people and horses marching on several roads, and said: "The soldiers all have families looking forward to returning, so you must be cautious, and you should try to reduce the casualties of the soldiers when you go into battle." ”

Gao Yanyu and the others were slightly moved when they heard this, and they hugged their fists and said: "Your Majesty treats soldiers like sons, and the ministers dare not obey orders!" ”

After the three of them said a few words, Guo Shao looked up into the distance, and the two generals also followed his gaze.

The rainy air is hazy, as if shrouded in a layer of mist, and the majestic Jinyang City Tower is in the depths of the clouds, looming. This city is also known as the "Dragon City" in the world, as for the source of its fame...... Just think back to the dynasties and generations after the fall of the Tang Empire, and it will be clear at a glance! Ministers, including Guo Shao, considered this city to be a city of desire, and the warlords entrenched here had ambitions; Geography hangs over the heart of the Central Plains! The complete recovery of Jinyang is a necessary step to ensure the safety of the dynasty, and it must be destroyed.

Here is not only the desire of the warlords, but also the things that Guo Shao wants.

A few years ago, Guo Shao first came to this world, except for environmental changes, his situation was no different from his previous life; It's nothing more than adapting to society, trying to squeeze out your head and want to have a place in the world! In his previous life, he studied hard to have a good career, and in this life, he chose the profession of martial arts to discover that he was skilled in archery, and also to have a job and a position in the world.

Just like his dream: a place of his own, a woman of his own, usually has something to do, and someone to talk to after a busy day.

However, the so-called "which hill to stand on and sing which song". Now Guo Shao finds that everything has changed, what he needs is not only to adapt to society, but also to find that he has the power to control the operation of the world! That kind of desire and excitement of domination is by no means comparable to squeezing into a good position.

He changes whatever he wants; Whatever he wants to create, he can do it immediately; He gives gifts to those who have mercy, so that people are grateful; People will worship what he has done, and they will preach it for thousands of years! He is the master of the world, no longer fearful, no longer worried, no longer cares whose will it is, everyone cares about his will. The world is objectively self-centered, and the feelings and experiences are indescribable.

But first of all, Guo Shao wants that kind of strength, to strengthen his strength more!

Devour Jinyang! Although the Northern Han Kingdom was almost economically and materially unprofitable, there were people here and it was a good source of soldiers; There is land, no dynasty is too big, arable land means grain, and territory means volume and strategic depth...... Most importantly, the possession of Hedong can greatly reduce one's own weakness.

A powerful force, not only in strength, but also in its own flaws is an extremely important aspect.

"Dragon City, Jinyang ......" Guo Shao glanced at the distant city tower with complicated eyes, and read two sentences in a low voice.

He pressed his old waist ornament with one hand, and the city in his eyes seemed to be incarnated into desires, dreams, and innermost emotions; His other hand gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, and the strength of his big bulging hand was like his determination!

Guo Shao has always been the person that everyone pays the most attention to in the crowd, and his movements and expressions are seen by the generals. In the faint aura, the generals obviously felt the emperor's strong will.

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In the imperial city of Shangjing on the grassland, the palace is built on a hill, and the rough and tall palace looks at the entire grassland. The voice of a Khitan nobleman in the hall said loudly: "Jinyang must be saved, Hedong cannot be lost from us!" ”

The high-ranking Emperor of the Great Liao, Yelu Jing, had a gloomy face and clutched an old bone scepter in his hand, but the ministers did not keep silent out of fear.

Although it is spring, there is still a chill in the northern grasslands, and the bronze vessels in the main hall are burning with flames, and black smoke is rushing up, in addition to heating, it can also illuminate...... Jerejing had the windows nailed, and the lighting in the palace was not very good. The light of the fire in the gloomy temple added some mystery and horror to the atmosphere here, and the people standing around were not good-natured people.

Hedong was an important opening into the Central Plains, and the nobles of the Liao State could see its role very directly, and they could maintain an active offensive because of these places, and they could loot more things from the rich Central Plains in their imagination; It can show the strength of the Khitan and build its own self-confidence.

"The Great Khitan is the leader of all ethnic groups!" A bearded man raised his head and shouted, "Whether it is Tatar, Murowei, Jurchen, or Han'er, you should be afraid of Da Liao and become our servants!" No matter who wants to provoke the Great Liao, betrayal and hostility, the Khitan Iron Cavalry will let them bleed like a river until they look up and fear the Great Liao again! ”

Yelu Jing looked coldly at the nobles in the main hall. In the heat of the firelight, he smelled the bloody smell of desire and force! The Khitan people's thirst for strength has never changed, because in this vast land, strength and force maintain the foundation of everything. Why are the Murowei, Jurchen and other tribes willing to offer things for the Khitan every year? Because they can't resist...... Mu Wei was weakened because he misjudged the civil strife in Daliao and wanted to betray!

Once the Liao State did not have the strength to threaten those tribes, the behemoth power would collapse. All the nobles knew how to survive in the steppe, so even if some of them had ill intentions about the throne, they could agree on dealing with foreign enemies.

Yelu Jing can't sit idly by and ignore the Northern Han Dynasty! He already felt that his prestige and position were unstable, and if he lost his strategic position under his rule and the situation declined, he would be even more disadvantaged.

At this time, Yang Gon stood up and bowed and said, "To keep the Northern Han Kingdom, as long as you hold Jinyang." Jinyang Jiancheng is the foundation of the entire Hedong. The Great Khan only needed to let the Northern Han know that the Great Liao Iron Cavalry would come to the rescue and actually respond, and Jinyang would not surrender. ”

Another nobleman also agreed, believing that as long as the threat to Jinyang City was removed, the entire Hedong region could be secured. Yelu Jing and the others all expressed their positions, and then issued an order, asking Yelu Xiuge and Yang Gon to gather a large army again and reinforce the Northern Han Kingdom from the north to defeat the Zhou Dynasty army besieging the city.

"We must not lose Jinyang City." Yelu Jing only specifically told this sentence.