Located in the battlefield of Huayu on the western front of the Northern Yan Sanjin, you sang and I took the stage, and the fight was extremely lively; And the battlefield on the Eastern Front, which is located on Youbei Third Road, also has no idle moment.

Guo Xing, the commander of the Shenshi Army, relied on a large number of trebuchets supported by Di Ting's second support, and bombed the originally impregnable Buyeo City into a rubble and ruins; At the same time, it was also announced that half of the territory of the middle mountains in Youbei had been owned by the Shenshi tribe.

However, Guo Xing's big move, although it saved the huge consumption of troops in siege warfare, also lost this important hub fortress that could garrison soldiers and transit materials.

Youbei Sanlu has a weak family background, and there are not many large cities that can garrison the transit; Now that they have lost the excellent strategic hub of Buyeo City, if they want to attack Qingshan City on a large scale, they can only choose to camp their entire army in Huanglong Mansion, which is about 150 miles north of Qingshan City.

This Huanglong Mansion is just a county, the city is small and the people are widowed, and there is no protection at all; Moreover, because it is too close to the enemy city, it will face the danger of the enemy army looting the camp at any time. However, for Guo Xing, who held the field ace army, the Mobei Ranger, not only was he not afraid of Ding Shuo's sneak attack out of the city, but he even had the idea of looking forward to it!

The characters are far-sighted and must have near-term worries; Although the Shenshi Army is not afraid of robbing the camp, it is also facing another problem:

Due to the complete destruction of Buyeo City, the rear route of the Shenshi Army was also extended indefinitely, and the road was exposed to an unprotected wild environment along the way, and there was a possibility that the rear road would be cut off at any time. Of course, he has 8,000 cavalry under his command, and siege warfare is not useful, and he can be responsible for clearing and maintaining official roads along the way; When it is extremely critical, you can also escort important supplies to the front line of Huanglong Mansion.

But there has never been an impermeable wall in this world, and the Shenshi Army is fighting in a different place, and the goal of eight thousand rangers is too big to hide from people at all! Once Ding Shuo of Qingshan City knew about Hu Legen's movements, then the robbery of the camp that he didn't dare to do would become a matter of course!

In fact, the rear passage originally set by Guo Xing was from the Molao League, twenty miles north of Taining County, and then laid down Fuyu City as a transit, and finally arrived at Qingshan City. In this way, each section of the route is about 300 miles apart, whether it is to replenish the supply of troops or to allocate materials, at least in terms of timeliness, it also has a more secure guarantee. But now that Fuyu City is in ruins, the materials and soldiers can only start from the Molao League, travel more than 700 miles south without protection, and arrive at Qingshan City at one time.

In this way, the distance is relatively shortened by less than 200 miles, and it can also bypass the Dongyou Qi Yuan army, which is only one river away from Fuyu City. However, with the Shenshi master mother Saldi crossing the Tongjiang River to the east, Li Zilin's department has completely surrendered to the Shenshi Army; Therefore, from the perspective of overall strategy, the collapse of Buyeo City will also do more harm than good to the Shenshi Army.

The grain road is the lifeblood of the whole army, and Guo Xing, who has suffered a big loss on this issue, will never dare to slack off!

In addition to the first time, there was another small incident that made Guo Xing puzzled. According to the Qilin-kun who listened to him; On the day when Li Zilin offered his pearls and surrendered to Cheng, his father-killing enemy Shen Gui completely disappeared in Fengjing City!

To this day, Li Zilin's dedication to the city has not been widely spread. Guo Xing was once the young marquis of Northern Yan, even though he followed his father in the army and stayed away from the right and wrong place of Yanjing City; But with years of experience and experience, he is not the kind of stunned young man who does not understand the affairs of the court.

Indeed, Li Zilin's "father-killing" apostasy is beyond the scope of his personal position, and he should be nailed to the pillar of shame and scolded by future generations for thousands of years. But at present, Youbei Third Road is in a stormy time and the building is about to fall, even if Yan Qinghong hates to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin; But he still sits in the position of emperor, and the pleasure of revenge has nothing to do with him; It is even more impossible to tell all the people in Youbei about Li Zilin's heartbreaking, hurtful and unreasonable evil deeds.

Li Zilin defected, and one of the three roads in Youbei has gone; Half of Zhongshan Road fell, and the capital Qingshan City was about to fall. In this autumn of national disaster and critical survival, even if Guo Xing sat in Yan Qinghong's position, he could only chew his gums and tongue, swallow the mouthful of blood back into his stomach, and deceive him without knowing it.

It is true that on the surface alone, Li Zilin has already made such a "feat", and there is no possibility of returning to the north. But from Yan Qinghong's position, as long as the Youbei Imperial Court did not characterize Li Zilin for a day, he would have the steps for the prodigal son to turn back and return to Youbei.

The affairs of the family and the country have never been a struggle of will, and personal grievances and hatreds cannot really override the will of the people! In other words, Li Zilin used the cruel behavior of digging graves and killing his teacher to flatter King Chaolu Khan, could it be that the people of Dongyoulu really knew nothing? At least the Li family, which has deep roots, must know it from top to bottom. Today, Dongyou Road has completely changed course, but whether it is the common people or the wealthy gentry, why hasn't there been half a wave?

Guo Xing knew that Li Zilin's move seemed to be standing with the Shenshi tribe; But in fact, he was also helpless to stand with the people of Dongyou Road.

After the Shenshi Army conquered the small county of Taining, they set fire to the city, turning tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city into a piece of charcoal; Later, with the advantage of trebuchets, he defeated the fortified city of Fuyu, and plundered all the villages, counties, towns and towns along the way; At present, half of Zhongshan Road is lost, and the capital Qingshan City is also in sight.

Wherever the Shenshi army goes, it can really be said that "white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles", how can there be any appearance in the world? As a result of resisting the southern invasion of the Shenshi army, the military and civilians on Zhongshan Road have already given an answer in advance; Regardless of the Guanbei Road at the foot of the Son of Heaven, what he thinks; But the people of Dongyou, who have been concentrating on farming for thousands of years, have long been frightened out of their bitter guts.

But if he surrenders to the Shenshi Army, then the squires of the Hao clan will only change their masters and pay the grain, and the poor people can continue to cultivate the land, and the war in the east will not have any impact on their lives. It is precisely under such circumstances that the two parties, whose interests were originally on opposite sides, have achieved unprecedented unanimity; They inadvertently twisted into a rope and forced Li Zilin, who was the master of the house, to defect to the Shenshi tribe.

If he Li Zilin refuses to comply, then he will die inexplicably; And the Great Wilderness City on Dongyou Road will soon have a new owner.

The reason is also very simple: whether it is a civil and military official or a king, although it seems to be high above and can control the life and death of the people at the bottom at will; But throughout history, the reality is quite the opposite! It doesn't matter if it's a faint gentleman or a bright gentleman; Whether it is a prosperous era or a troubled era, in the final analysis, it is just an inevitable product of the will of the group.

To put it simply, Li Zilin made this unethical decision because he was coerced by the will of the people. Because most of the poor people in Dongyou Road rely on helping the squires and wealthy families farm to support their families; If the war spreads to Dongyou Road, then the squire and wealthy families will be forced to move to their homes in order to escape the war; And their family is unable to move, or they will all become slaves of the Mobei people; Either they are displaced and eventually die of starvation.

So in his opinion, Shen Gui's move is meaningless at all; Even if he kills one Li Zilin, he will immediately pop up the second and third Northern traitors; Because this is not Li Zilin's decision at all, but the unconscious choice made by the entire people of Dongyoulu.

Assassination has never been the way to solve problems, let alone really affect the course of history.

If you ask the person who knows Shen Gui best in the world, then except for Guo Xing, don't be someone else's choice! So he believed that Shen Gui understood this truth; Therefore, when he went to Dongyou Road, he should simply want to avenge his father-in-law. However, in this critical period of survival, this kind of venting behavior is meaningless at all.

And Xingping Emperor Yan Qinghong should also understand this truth, he can even understand Li Zilin's difficulties, but all the people in Youbei have a way out, only he Yan Qinghong has no half a step to retreat! Therefore, he could only choose to hide and not make a statement, hoping that Ding Shuo of Qingshan City would be able to do his best to block the progress of the Shenshi Army!

Therefore, the next battle of Qingshan City is the confrontation between Yan Qinghong and the hearts of the people of Dongyou. If Ding Shuo, the general of Taining, can drag the Shenshi Army like a nail, then with the gradual stalemate of the war, the people's hearts in Dongyoulu may gradually warm, forcing Li Zilin to admit that he "surrendered" and returned to the embrace of Youbei Third Road.

This is not only Yan Qinghong's only chance, but also the only chance for Youbei Third Road. As for Shen Gui, the so-called outlier, just like Li Zilin, who was threatened by the people's hearts, he could play a very little role.

The wheel of history rolls forward, and all those who try to stop it will be crushed to pieces.

Therefore, Shen Gui's departure from the nest is mostly likely to be faint by anger, and it does not pose any threat to him at all. Therefore, after setting the assembly point of the Shenshi Army at Huanglong Mansion, he immediately ordered Hu Legen and his eight thousand rangers to clear the passage from Huanglong Mansion to the Desert League; In addition to thoroughly consolidating the rear passage, you can also consolidate the fruits of victory obtained by your own side.

It can be seen that Guo Xing, who has been tempered by life and death for nearly two years, has indeed made great progress. The actual situation is just as he expected: since Taining County was burned, Li Zilin, the governor of Dongyou Road, has always been harassed by the squires and wealthy families in various places. Even if he has made the final decision, his ears have never been cleaned......

This is also a matter of course, after all, these greedy and vicious, bone-sucking parasites will never easily let him go at the critical moment when they have just voted for a new master.

It's just that today, on the morning of the third day after Shen Gui left the nest, the Governor's Mansion of the Great Wilderness City finally ushered in a clean morning.

Today the sky is clear and blue, and there are no clouds; It is now early summer, and the locust trees in the garden of the Governor's Palace exude an elegant fragrance; On the branches stood a few flower-tailed magpies, also chirping towards Li Zilin's window, as if they were talking about something. Li Zilin, who had a rare night's sleep, was turned over by the birdsong, and through the gap in his eyelids, he suddenly found a black-clothed young man covered in blood and holding a short blade standing in his bedroom!