Kipzhou is located outside the Wushan Changxia, adjacent to Jingzhou, and belongs to the Jinghu area in the traditional sense.

After the founding of the Great Chu, the Shu army occupied Kipzhou before the Chu army advanced westward, and then the two countries of Chu and Shu had to unite against the Liang army, so the Chu army had no chance to take Kip Zhou over the years.

If Kipzhou is recovered, it not only means that more than 200 li of land and 340,000 Dingkou belong, but also means that the Shu army wants to be disadvantageous to Dachu from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, so it can only gather troops and horses in Kuizhou or Yuzhou on the west side of the Changxia of Wushan.

This lost the suddenness of starting a war, and it was easier for the Chu army to intercept it under the pretext of the favorable terrain at the east entrance of Wushan Changxia in Kipzhou.

The strategic significance of Kipzhou is great enough, not to mention Liangzhou, which is located between Yongshu and Guanzhong.

To Chu Chengchen, ceding the two prefectures of Kip and Liang, and paying an annual tribute of 300,000 yuan of money and grain, Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, in order to ensure the success of the usurpation, he can be said to have spent blood this time - this also made Li Changfeng secretly frightened.

Of course, Li Changfeng would not be so simple as to think that Han Qian was secretly helping the townsman to usurp the throne, mainly to seek these benefits for Da Chu, he sat behind the long case, stared at Guo Rong with pity, and asked aggressively:

"The Marquis of Qianyang has a good plan to beg Wei for Zhao, it seems that the Marquis of Qianyang is really determined to help the Liang army escape the catastrophe!"

No matter how stupid Li Changfeng is, this time he also completely understands that Han Qian's position against the Chushu coalition army's invasion of the pass has not changed from beginning to end.

Tangyi helped the township marquis to usurp the throne this time, whether it succeeded or not, it would be a heavy blow to Zhao Mengji's army, which had previously reported that it was entering the territory of Qizhou on the western flank of Yongzhou, and it would also force the Northern Expeditionary Shu Army to have no opportunity and possibility to attack Yongzhou to the east in a short period of time.

For Da Chu, it will miss the complete annihilation of the Liang army in Guanzhong, and then want to cross the Huai River, and the use of troops in the land of Hehuai must also become cautious.

Since the founding of Great Chu, such a good opportunity to recover the Central Plains is very likely to be missed, in comparison, even if you can get Kip and Liang from Shu, it will definitely do more harm than good, and lose more than gain.

Guo Rong, Zhou Yan, Wen Bo and others seemed to treat him politely at this time, but Li Changfeng could guess their intentions.

To put it bluntly, in order to deal with the criticism of the courtiers afterwards, Han Qian wanted to drag him into the water, just like he Li Changfeng also participated in the conspiracy to promote the usurpation of the throne of the townsman.

Li Changfeng smiled in his heart, secretly feeling that he was not so stupid, thinking that Guo Rong and the others might detain him at this time, but forgive them and dare not kill him at will, why did he go to this troubled water?

Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo also understood the meaning of Li Changfeng's words, and immediately said: "Qianyang Hou Tiexin colluded with Liang Jun, and we are speechless. ”

The two of them, like Li Changfeng, sat there with their hands in front of the desk, waiting to be arrested.

"How can Hou Ye Li take such slanderous words seriously?" Guo Rong said with a smile, "But there is one thing that Marquis Li may not know yet, the Mengwu people have captured Taiyuan Mansion two months ago. At present, the Mengwu people are blocking the channel in Shangdang, Heshuo and other places, the news has not yet reached Dachu, and the scouts sent by Tangyi are also risking death to pass the news back, and it can be expected that Tian Weiye, Wang Yuankui and Shi Jizu are very likely to have led the annexed army into the Hejin area, does Li Houye really think that Jiangyin Hou Huang and Li Xiu and other generals are still suitable to continue to lead Zuo Wuxiang's army to attack Lantian? ”

Taiyuan Mansion is located in the north of the lofty mountains such as Taihang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain, not to mention that the Central Plains is in chaos now, it is a peaceful event, and the cold winter season when the road is closed by heavy snow, if you want the news to reach Jinling, it is not ten days and half a month to do.

Li Changfeng was not sure whether the news obtained by Tangyi was accurate, but judging from the previous news, the fall of Taiyuan Mansion at this time would not be too surprising; After all, the court had such a prediction before, so it didn't have too much covetousness for Guanzhong.

It's just that prediction is prediction, and when he really heard the news of the fall of Taiyuan Mansion, Li Changfeng was still deeply shocked in his heart, and he knew in his heart that Tian Weiye, Wang Yuankui and others led the subordinate army to the south along the Fenshui River Valley, which meant that the Mengwu people and the Weizhou rebels would be able to gather up to 200,000 soldiers and horses in the northeast and east of Yongzhou.

At this time, the Zuowu Army, which only had more than 15,000 soldiers and horses, really had no need to storm Lantian Pass, let alone easily enter the hinterland of Yongzhou.

Otherwise, not to mention making wedding dresses for the Mugul, there will be a worry that the whole army will be destroyed.

Seeing that Li Changfeng's face was shocked and suspicious, Guo Rong and Zhou Yi glanced at each other, and secretly felt that although Li Changfeng threw himself into Lu Qingxia's family in the court, he obviously didn't know about the fall of Taiyuan Mansion at this time.

Of course, Lu Qingxia and Li Zhihe and Guan Jianglou before may have just been a cooperative relationship between them and Guan Jianglou, but after entering the camp, Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo, who were far less calm than Li Changfeng, had more suspicion than shock on their faces, which showed that they knew more details than Li Changfeng.

Guo Rong temporarily put Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo aside, continued to do Li Changfeng's work, and asked: "If Taiyuan Mansion had not fallen, and Tangyi had helped the townsman to usurp the throne, maybe the princes of the court would still feel that Tangyi was a good enemy, but when the news of the fall of Taiyuan Mansion and the arrival of Tian Weiye, Wang Yuankui, and Shi Jizu in attacking Guanzhong with the surrendered army reached Jinling, did Li Houye really feel that Tangyi was helping the enemy?" Could it be that the dignified palace of Zhedong County, after Duke Li, are all short-sighted? ”

Seeing that Li Changfeng was silent by Guo Rong, Fei Wenbo glanced at Yao Xishui and asked Guo Rong sharply: "Tangyi bullied the monarch and deceived the world, everything was done, and you planned so carefully, and you were also determined to encourage the townsman to usurp the throne and secretly help Liang Jun, it is impossible for us to stop it, what is Lord Guo still making noise here?" Could it be that if you make so much noise, we will believe that Taiyuan Mansion, which can be called the most heroic city in the world, has really fallen at this time? ”

"Why doesn't Lord Fei believe it?" Guo Rong turned his head sideways, stared at Fei Wenbo and asked, "Don't Lord Fei understand the truth that the solidity of the city lies in the hearts of the people?" ”

"There are so many elite scouts in the Ministry Division, but there is not a word of news back to Jinling, and the scouts sent by Tangyi are really better than others?" Fevinburg said dismissively.

"Late Red Mansion has stolen so many things from Tangyi over the years, I really don't know that flying pigeons can also pass on books?" Guo Rong asked, "The Weaving Bureau did everything possible to acquire breeding pigeons in Jiangdong some time ago, and it planned to nourish the body of which concubine in the palace?" ”

This is the case with a lot of things, and once Tangyi wants to expand, it is difficult to keep it a secret.

It is necessary to keep carrier pigeons at the stations and key nodes of various departments, and from time to time they must be taken to the field for flight training, so that it is possible to establish a relatively complete emergency communication network, and it is impossible for the secret of flying birds to be completely concealed from the outside world.

At present, all localities should increase the scale of the foundation, and promote the stone mud to water conservancy, housing construction and other industrial affairs, not only the county level has arranged for engineers to prepare for the construction of stone mud cellars, but also some important township departments with favorable geographical resources have also prepared to build stone mud cellars, and the secret of stone mud firing cannot be airtight.

Failure to do the nearby firing of stone mud for water conservancy, housing, roads, cities and other works is not only not conducive to making full use of the idle surplus labor in the counties, transportation and storage costs are frighteningly high, it is better to use the traditional Sanhe soil as a building adhesive.

Sensing that Guo Rong was deliberately tricking him, Fei Wenbo secretly felt bad, and even kept silent.

Guo Rong looked at Li Changfeng, who was hesitant, and continued: "I heard the Hou Ye say that when King Li Jun was dying, he still thought of the subjects of Great Chu, and the Marquis of Linjin really wanted to see Hu Malu trampling on the Central Plains and seeing Great Chu fall into disintegration? Speaking of this, Guo Rong turned his head to look at Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo, "Or maybe Yao Gong Envoy and Master Fei really want to see Da Chu fall apart?" ”

Guo Rong said this, Yao Xishui could of course understand his intentions, in the final analysis, he wanted them to endorse the matter of promoting the townsman together with Li Changfeng, the Marquis of Linjin.

In this way, afterwards, the princes of the court will lose their position to criticize Han Qian for acting without authorization.

In the final analysis, Han Qian did not have the strength and confidence to betray his relatives at this time.

Again, Yao Xishui can also understand the reason why Guo Rong put on a posture of following the path and seduction, in the final analysis, Han Qian still wants to be able to justifiably garrison and control Liangzhou for a long time by the Right Shenwu Army in the future.

Otherwise, even if Han Qian succeeded in helping the townsfolk to usurp the throne, they would be able to block the Hanshui Passage and completely cut off the connection between Tangyi and the Right Shenwu Army, making the Right Shenwu Army a lone army in Liangzhou.

Without the material support of the Tangyi army, how could the Youshenwu army hold Liangzhou, which is unfamiliar with the place and will be strongly rejected by local forces, for a long time, and resist the counterattack of Zhao Mengji's elite army?

And after Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, sits firmly in the position of the lord of Shu, will he really be willing to give up such a strategic place as Liangzhou, and he has no intention of changing the hexagram at all?

At that time, maybe Liangzhou will become an important bargaining chip for them to win over Changxiang Hou Wang Yong.

Thinking of this, Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo were even more firm, ignoring Guo Rong's ridiculously shallow temptation.

Zhou Yi said at this time:

"Yao Gong Envoy and Master Fei's attitude is like this, and Marquis Li is silent, we may be able to bet on General Zhang Jiao's attitude......"

Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo were stunned again.

Zhang Ben has been very calm over the years, and always makes a choice after the situation is clear.

For example, during the war of cutting the domain, after seeing Li Zhihe lead his troops into Yuanjiang to join the Wuling army, he sent his son Zhang Feng to lead his troops into Langzhou to participate in the war; For example, the Jinling Incident was also after the Chishan Army forced Gu Zhilong to surrender, and the three princes were established; This time, the newly organized Zuo Wuxiang Army only agreed to carve out a part from the Right Wuwei Army, and his son Zhang Feng led the formation into the Zuowu Xiang Army, and served as the deputy commander.

However, Zhang Ben himself is as stable as Mount Tai in Jingzhou, even if Cishou Palace tries his best to win him over, he is lukewarm, maintains a distance, and does not immediately counterattack into the arms of everyone in Cishou Palace.

If Zhang Ji wanted to take over Kip Prefecture and expand the territory actually controlled by the Zhang clan to the west to the Changxia side of Wushan, he would naturally choose to participate in the conspiracy to usurp the throne.

At this time, Li Changfeng, Yao Xishui, and Fei Wenbo represented the Cishou Palace family, and if they still resolutely opposed it, it would undoubtedly force Zhang Feng to go to their opposite.

Of course, Zhang Ben didn't want to express his position at this time, but it was impossible to steal the opportunity to obtain Kipzhou afterwards, after all, the initiative to negotiate with Changxianghou was in the hands of Tangyi, and Tangyi could cross out the terms of Kipzhou from the secret agreement at any time.

In that case, Zhang Qian still wanted to annex Kipzhou afterwards, and could only bear the huge risk of using troops against Shu without authorization.

Yao Xishui only realized at this time that the conditions negotiated by Han Qian and Changxiang Hou Wang Yong in advance were also carefully weighed and considered.

Of course, Zhang Ben may not have much ambition, so he may not want to maintain the status quo in Jingzhou, and of course he will not risk supporting any secret agreement.

Since Zhang Mo's attitude was uncertain, Yao Xishui could be sure that Han Qian was unlikely to take the risk of plotting with Zhang Ben beforehand, but could they bet that Zhang Ben would definitely refuse at this time?

For Zhang Ji, who only occupies one place in Jingzhou, the temptation of Kipzhou is really not ordinary.

Once Zhang Qian chooses to cooperate with Han Qian, what will they do?

Han Qian was so hateful, he actually counted everyone into his chess game, and they only learned about his plot at this time, and there was not much room for them to turn around.

Li Changfeng sighed lightly at this time, and said to Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo: "You go back to Fancheng alone and discuss with General Chai, right?" He said to Guo Rong and Zhou Yan again, "This is going to Fancheng, and it only takes half a day to return, Lord Zhou and Lord Guo, probably won't even be able to wait for half a day, right?" ”

Li Changfeng said so, Yao Xishui and Fei Wenbo naturally did not object, and decided to hand over the final decision to Chai Jian.

They also knew that it would definitely be too late to inform Li Zhihe, who was six or seven hundred miles away, at this time, in order to avoid the news leaking and sabotaging the plan of the plot for so long, Guo Rong, Zhou Yan, and Wen Bo would definitely not agree to give them too much time.

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Before dark, Fei Wenbo and Xu Jing rode their horses and galloped wildly, and the two of them brought Chai Jian's condition that Gwangju be exchanged for Liangzhou.

After the matter was completed, the Xiangbei Army sent troops and horses to garrison and control Liangzhou, but as compensation for the Tangyi army, it could be considered to merge Gwangju into the Tangyi Xingying system; After the matter was completed, in addition to the Right Shenwu Army that needed to be withdrawn from Liangzhou, the local forces in Jingyun and Canglang counties, which were closely related to Zhou Yi and Chen Jingzhou, also needed to move out.

In order to ensure this, in addition to the notes signed by Han Qian in the era of Guo Rong, Zhou Yi, and Wen Bo, after the Right Shenwu Army captured Liangzhou City, it was necessary to directly hand over the remnants of the old Jinzhou Hanyin City east of Liangzhou City to the soldiers and horses of the Right Guard.

If Tangyi can't accept such conditions, the Xiangbei army would rather start a civil war, not only will cut off the Hanshui channel, but will also not hesitate to unite with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, so that the elite soldiers and horses will attack the right Shenwu army from the east flank, and after tearing their faces, they will also not hesitate to bloody the remnants of the cottage in Jingyun and Canglang.

And since Tangyi is unwilling to tear his face, and Xiangbei has no intention of tearing his face, then they have to fight for the most favorable conditions for them.

Abandoning Guangzhou, they can still maintain the channel of expansion from Nanyang (Dengzhou) to the north, and at the same time, the gap in Fangcheng in the north of Nanyang, sandwiched between Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is more conducive to them to save limited troops, but after controlling Liangzhou, it is actually really opening the channel for expansion to the Guanzhong region, and it is not impossible to unite with Zhang Qian in the future to seize Shu.

Only such an exchange will have more advantages than disadvantages for the Xiangbei Army, and it is not impossible to pinch your nose and cooperate with the Tangyi Army.

As for the annexation of Gwangju into Huaixi, the withdrawal of the Youshenwu army from Liangzhou will make Tangyi's strength in Huaixi increase again, which will only make Huaidong, Shouwangfu and other ministers above the court more afraid of Huaixi, so they will rely more on the Xiangbei army.

"General Chai really played well, a wishful thinking,"

Guo Rong briefly discussed with Zhou Yi and Wen Bo, decided to accept Chai Jian's conditions, and returned to the hall to negotiate with Li Changfeng, Yao Xishui, Fei Wenbo, and Xu Jing on the most certain conditions.

"Since the Li Bingbu is here, then everything will be commanded by the Li Bingbu as the first commander. And since it has been decided to suspend the attack on Lantian, at this time, Li Xiu's troops can be directly transferred back, and Li Xiu's troops will follow us into Liangzhou to resist Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's counterattack. With such an arrangement, presumably Lord Fei and Yao Gong Envoy don't need to waste any more time asking General Chai, right? ”

Guo Rong, Zhou Yi, and Wen Bo expressed their trust in the posture of the palace of Zhedong County at this time, and wanted to fight side by side with Li Xiu, and even promised to give up the city in the early stage, and Li Xiu led the troops to directly station, so that when Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian led the troops to counterattack Liangzhou, Li Xiu helped bear part of the military pressure.

Fei Wenbo, Yao Xishui, and Xu Jing also had nothing to say about it.

Otherwise, they could still suspect in front of Li Changfeng that the close relationship between the Zhedong County Mansion and the Xiangbei Army at this time would not stand the test?

However, Li Changfeng, as the Minister of Staff and Governor (Vice Minister) and the Squire of the Military Department, was in charge of power, and when he did not have time to consult Jinling, he was also qualified to directly represent the imperial court, accept Cao Yong and Wang Ang's requests for help, and carry out new troop and horse transfers to the departments of the Xiangbei Army of the Left Wuxiang Army and the Right Shenwu Army, and comprehensively adjust the northwest strategy.

Now nominally support Li Changfeng as the commander-in-chief, mobilize troops and horses, and help the townsman usurp the throne.

Next, Li Changfeng will be the leader, Guo Rong, Chai Jian, Wen Bo, Yao Xishui, Xu Jing will jointly sign a letter to the imperial court, everything seems to be a coincidence, it really seems that it has nothing to do with Han Qian.

Yao Xishui thought that the two sides were sharpening their knives a moment ago, and they almost had a military provocation, and at this moment, they had reached an extremely fragile and precarious cooperative relationship, which was also full of absurdity.

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Everything was negotiated, and each other signed a secret contract to keep it, and then Li Changfeng and Fei Wenbo signed an order, and the Canglang County Order and the County Lieutenant opened the city gate and let the right Shenwu army enter Canglang City.

Li Changfeng is the Minister of Participation, and Fei Wenbo is the Sima of the Right Armed Guards and the Sima of Junzhou, and they can directly order the local guards of Canglang to open the city gate.

And with the letter orders of the two of them, everything became in line with the imperial court order, and that week was secretly returned to Canglang, and it was natural that it really became "worried about his mother too eagerly and returning to his hometown without authorization", and it was a timely event, and the court might at most dismiss him from his position as Jiangzhou Assassin, right?

In the night, Xu Jing carried Li Changfeng's secret letter and order letter, and under the escort of several horses, he rushed out of Canglang City to the north, and they wanted to rush to Jingzikou as soon as possible, and hand over the order letter signed by Li Changfeng and others to Huang Wei, the Marquis of Jiangyin, who was sitting in Jingzikou.

Regardless of whether Huang Xi will obey the order or not, Li Changfeng still has a secret letter that will be sent by Xu Jing to Wuguan and handed over to Li Xiu, who is resting in Wuguan. At this time, they still had to transfer Li Xiu's troops to withdraw along the west bank of the Danjiang River, so that they could follow the steps of the Youshenwu army as quickly as possible and then enter Liangzhou along the Han River.

In addition, Li Changfeng also co-signed many people's letters, and wrote many matters of the imperial court.

Cao Yong and Wang Ang, the prince of Changxiang, remained in Canglang City for the time being, and when the imperial court had a clear decree, they would take the "letter of state" and embark on the journey to Jinling - of course, even if the imperial court finally acquiesced to their own actions, it was unlikely that Cao Yong and Wang Ang would be summoned to Jinling until Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, would be able to secure his seat in Shuzhong, so as to leave a buffer for all possibilities.

The remnant snow covered the mountains, the mountain roads were slippery, and under the sparse stars, hundreds of small sailing boats sailed from the Hanshui and Danjiang rivers to the wharf in the southwest of Canglang City.

Seeing this scene, Yao Xishui, who was standing at the head of the city, could of course guess that Chishan would have dispersed these small sailing ships into the territory of Junzhou for this moment, and it should also be with the assistance of the cottage forces, and the Xiangbei Army did not notice the abnormality in advance along the coast.

After all, they were more staring at the large and medium-sized sailing ships of the Chishan Society, and there was no reason to cut off the trade route between the Chishan Society and Junzhou before, who would stare at the transit of hundreds of small sailing ships all day long?

And this trade route was first opened up by Han Qian with the help of the Xuzhou Boat Gang during the Jingxiang War, mainly to maintain trade with the cottage forces, and it has been maintained ever since.

At this moment, Yao Xishui felt the lack of available manpower, but he didn't expect that under the nose of the Xiangbei Army, Han Qian would be asked to play so many tricks, but they didn't notice it.

The main force of the Right Shenwu Army was stationed in Canglang City under the leadership of Wen Bo, Guo Rong and others, while Xue Chuan and Guo Ke led thousands of generals outside the city and waited to board the ship.

Hundreds of small sailing ships could not carry many people, but the first batch of three or four thousand elites traveled up the Han River to attack Xunyang, Hanyin and other walled cities on the east side of Liangzhou, which were enough to disturb the defenders of Liangzhou.

In fact, after Wen Bo led the right Shenwu army to join up with the soldiers and horses of Xuzhou who had infiltrated northern Shu in advance, even if he couldn't capture the most critical Liangzhou City, as long as he occupied one or two walled cities, he could still achieve the goal of forcing Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiao to withdraw their troops from Guanzhong first, and contain them from the flank and back from the flank to attack Shuzhong with all their might, right?

Therefore, with the assistance of Zhou Yi, controlling the two cities of Canglang and Jingyun, ensuring the retreat and worry-free supply of grain and straw, is the most critical move in Han Qian's entire plan, right?