By the end of the sixth year of Taihe, the Zhubu had completely purged the remnants of the Fenshui River Valley and the surrounding mountains.

The first battle of Yiguan lasted 11 months, and a total of more than 125,000 Mongolian troops were annihilated (including more than 71,000 enemy soldiers captured, and the prisoners were included in the total number of annihilations, killing more than 54,000 enemies); In addition, more than 20,000 Mugwu women and children were captured in the northern part of Jinju (Binh Duong Province).

The elite cavalry of the Mengwu tribe was the most brave and fierce in battle, killing more than 24,000 people on the battlefield, and finally disarming and taking prisoners was even less than 6,000, and the proportion was far from the Jin soldiers and the Yanyun Han army.

Including the more than 10,000 Luzhou elite soldiers who were killed in the early stage and reinforced Yuanqu City, the number of people who were finally killed on the battlefield, and the number of people who drowned in a hurry to escape north across the Fenshui River was only more than 24,000 people.

The victory was a great victory, and the total number of captured Han people was as high as more than 64,000 soldiers.

More than 7,000 of the Mughur soldiers captured by the Mughurs and the Mughal southward migrates captured by Pingyang Prefecture were all incorporated into the military barracks of various ministries to serve as hard labor to build roads and city walls.

The Mengwu women and children were annexed from Jinzhou, and after they were dispersed, they were moved to Zhufu County and Township Divisions to be organized into private households, and the Eastern Liang Army that had surrendered before and the prisoners of the Han Army were forcibly married to form a new family to enrich Dingkou.

The more than 64,000 captured soldiers of the Han army attached to the enemy were all filled into the reserve brigade and used as auxiliaries to strengthen training and education.

Due to the brave and good fighting of the elite of the Mengwu tribe, even after the defeat and siege, there were not many surrenderers, resulting in a lot of casualties among the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang - this battle, in addition to the generals who returned to the camp after recovering from their wounds, the total number of Liang generals who died on the battlefield and those who died of serious injuries and returned to their hometowns for resettlement also exceeded 30,000.

However, among the soldiers lost, the reserve brigade was the mainstay, especially Ding Zhuang, who was recruited into the reserve brigade among the displaced people in eastern Henan, and the loss accounted for half of them.

This is mainly the final surprise decisive battle, in order to break through the enemy's frontal defense line, Wen Bo regardless of casualties, will attack the reserve brigade soldiers with poor combat effectiveness, and throw them into the battlefield in the form of a sea of people, tearing apart the forward line and defense of the Mongolian army, and many people were killed in the battle.

This is the sacrifice that must be made in order to win this glorious victory.

The attrition of the main elite is still controlled within a limited level, and it has not lost the ability to continue fighting.

After this battle, the main infantry brigade, cavalry brigade, and naval brigade were expanded to 40 brigades and 200,000 horses; Because the reserve brigade receives a large number of prisoners, it will maintain an active scale of 70,000 horses in the future, but its combat effectiveness is much worse for the time being; The Liangzhou army led by Li Zhihe and Chai Jian was counted separately, and the six brigades were composed of 30,000 soldiers and horses.

That is to say, in the first battle of Yiguan, the military strength of Daliang climbed to a new level, and after the inclusion of Pingyang, Hejin, Jiangzhou and other three prefectures, the total population of Daliang military and civilian population just crossed the threshold of 8 million.

After the great victory of Yiguan, Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian immediately withdrew their troops from Huatong Mansion and Shangluo Mansion and retreated to Yongzhou and Qizhou.

Throughout the winter, in addition to desperately building fortifications in eastern Henan and Bianliang, the Eastern Liang army did not send a single person to cross the frozen Yingshui and attack Yingxi for half a step......

The imperial mausoleum of Sejong Zhuyu, under the auspices of Chen Kun, who was demoted to the chief of Yichuan County after the Xingyang War, was completed at the end of the sixth year of Taihe in the southern tomb of Yichuan County.

After Han Qian returned to Luoyang, he personally led the civil and military generals to escort Zhu Yu's coffin from Qianxi Temple to Yichuan Nanling for burial.

Han Qian was busy with government affairs, and after the funeral ceremony, he returned to Luoyang with the civil and military generals, and Zhu Juezhong, Zhu Zhen, Princess Yunhe and other children of the Zhu clan and the concubines in front of Zhu Yu had to stay to guard the mausoleum.

Chen Kun was still a small Jiupin County Lord, and he didn't come over to see Han Qian off, so he stayed in front of the sacrificial hall of the imperial mausoleum, looking at the distant mountains and near the river, all covered with snow.

Chen Kun is over fifty years old, and his temples at this time are gradually dyed frost white.

Three years ago, he invaded Xingyang, he was not lightly injured, left a foot disease, walking is also a limp, now the greatest pleasure is to sit on the steps in front of the imperial mausoleum hall, look at the streams and peaks in front of the mausoleum, the scenery of the four seasons is different.

After a while, he saw Zhu Zhen in a silk robe coming over from a distance, he limped over, saw Zhu Zhen standing in front of the small pavilion stunned, and asked, "What is Your Highness thinking?" ”

"When my father was on the throne, I was quite puzzled in my heart, and at this time, it seems that my father's decision was correct. If I hadn't turned the corner back then, fighting for this position would only shatter the mountains and rivers, and the children of my Zhu family would have been unable to save their bones," Zhu Zhen stood still on the steps in front of the pavilion, exhaled a long breath, and seemed to be relieved at the end of his heart, "I want to guard the mausoleum for my father, and go to Shangluo, after recovering Yongzhou, or for the benefit of the officials, it will not be in vain for my father's teachings." ”

Yongzhou City was lost in his hands, and he never wanted to miss the battle to recover Yongzhou City, and as for the follow-up war, after recovering Guanzhong, the overall situation will be achieved, and there is no difference between him and him.

"Very good!" Chen Kun has always been worried about Zhu Zhen's unwillingness, and when he heard him say this, he also smiled with relief and said, "To repair this mausoleum for the first emperor, my wish has also come true." After the recovery of Yongzhou, where will His Highness go, I can't do anything else, so I will lead the horse and whip His Highness......"

"Daliang is the time to employ people, I'm afraid the king won't let you go." Zhu Zhen said.

"Da Liang can do countless officials, which onion am I?" Chen Kun shook his head and smiled, and said.

After a while, Zhu Juezhong saw Han Qian back, rode to the front of the pavilion, saw Chen Kun and Zhu Zhen standing together, and said: "The king said that you have meritorious service in repairing the mausoleum, and you will be promoted to the first rank, and after the expiration of the period of guarding the mausoleum, you will go to the Luoyang Military Academy to serve as a low-level instructor......"

"I have another choice, right?" Chen Kun asked.

"The king said that you must not disobey the order," Zhu Juezhong said, "You are really, just now a group of people helped you say good things, but you hid and didn't see you off......

"I'm a nine-rank official with thick sesame seeds, and I'm qualified to come to the king?" Chen Kun asked.

Zhu Juezhong shook his head with a wry smile, didn't talk nonsense to Chen Kun, and asked Zhu Zhen: "Your Highness, what about Yun and her?" ”

"What should you do in the sacrificial hall to find Yunhe?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Yunhe has always wanted to set up a school dedicated to women's enrollment, in recent years, the state has been in short supply, and there is no spare money and food to waste on it

Blind toss? As soon as the New Year passes, the war in the reconquest will be in full swing, where is there any idle money and food to do this? You also advised Yunhe to dispel this idea first, and don't take what the king said casually seriously. ”

Han Qian had spoken, and naturally they couldn't just resist and disobey the edict, so they thought that Yun He would dispel his mind and save Yun this unobtrusive expense.

"Poor girls can attend the new school, you old stubborn but high the whip of the door wind, keep your daughter out of the new school. Now that I'm going to set up a girls' school, you shouldn't have anything to say. Yun He walked out of the sacrificial hall dissatisfied.

"The king promised me to take Shurong and Tian'er to Shangluo to take them to Shangluo to take up their posts, and the house in Luoyang City will be idle, and if you want to run a girls' school, you will use it." Zhu Zhen said.

"It's better for the eldest brother to treat Yunhe," Yunhe laughed happily, and said to Zhu Juezhong, "The Council has four seats for my Zhu family, and the eldest brother doesn't want to stay in Luoyang, and he has to go to Shangluo to lead the army, and the eldest brother should be on top of the ......."

"You are planning to set up a school, where is the idle time? Besides, His Royal Highness Shangluo is also avoiding suspicion, and this place should be vacant. Zhu Juezhong said that he couldn't imagine what it would be like to have a little red in the green of the Senate, so he thought about dispelling Yunhe's idea of entering the Senate.

"Now that the top and bottom of the beam are all in charge of the king, what else is there to avoid suspicion?" Yun He said, "If you obstruct it, I will go directly to the king to talk about it." ”

"Yes, you can do whatever you like, don't sue me behind your back." Zhu Juezhong smiled bitterly and agreed......

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Compared with the jubilation of Luoyang, the New Year Festival of the seventh year of Taihe, Mengzhou City was shrouded in an unspeakable depressing atmosphere.

Zhao Mengji's Assassin's Mansion is not colorful, and you can't see the atmosphere of the New Year's Festival, and the people in the streets and alleys are also quite interesting, and you can't see the atmosphere of the New Year's Festival.

The snow on the main street was cleared, but there was still residual snow in the eaves of the corner of the wall, and pedestrians hurried by, either worried or suspicious, but no one dared to casually discuss when the Liang army might come to attack Mengzhou City.

However, no matter how it was suppressed and blocked, Mengzhou was separated from Puzhou and Jinzhou by Wangwu Mountain, and even the news that the defeated army fled to Mengzhou a year ago, and the news that the Mongolian army was killed by the Liang army in Wangwu Mountain was impossible to block.

Not to mention the generals, the people of the streets and alleys have also heard all kinds of rumors, and there are even rumors that the king of the Southern Courtyard of the Muguls has been beheaded in Puzhou City, and the remnants will flee back to the desert.

With Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan leaving Liangzhou, fleeing east and west, and finally joining An Jixiang of the Mengwu people, it is impossible to be very happy in his heart.

He was a pure eunuch, unable to start a family, and in his early years, he was an orphan who was secretly adopted by the Late Red Mansion on the streets, and there were no relatives around him at this time.

He didn't agree with Zhou Yuan and others, and he didn't want to stay in the deserted mansion to stare at a few old servants, so he walked to the Zuiyang Building in the East Market early in the morning to drink, and leaned against the window on the second floor to look at the snow on the eaves of the city, and his mood was slightly more comfortable.

From a distance, I saw Wei Mingfu, the head of the Thorn Shi Mansion, riding a thin donkey, stopping in front of the Zuiyang Building, and seeing that he handed over the thin donkey to the old servant to lead, and the people also walked towards the Zuiyang Building, I wondered in my heart, Wei Mingfu also came to drink so early for the New Year?

"It's such a coincidence that Lord An is also drinking here?" Gu Mingfu went upstairs and saw An Jixiang sitting in front of the window, and asked in surprise.

Gu Mingfu is one of the few people in Mengzhou City who can speak a few words, An Jixiang stood up and returned the salute, invited him to sit down in front of the window, and added a wine glass to Gu Mingfu, thinking that it would not be a bad thing to have someone to accompany him to drink on such a cold morning.

"When does Lord An think the Liang army will fight Mengzhou?" Gu Mingfu drank a glass of wine, rubbed his frozen hands, and asked in a low voice.

"Who knows?" An Jixiang smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe Lord Liang feels that Zhao Shuai is no longer a threat, keep Mengzhou and don't fight, and take Guanzhong first......"

In An Jixiang's view, even if the Liang army wants to fight, it will inevitably wait until the Hehuai thaw before sending troops.

At that time, the Eastern Liang army would not be able to threaten western Henan, and at the same time, it would inevitably be worried that the Wuzhi Dam would be dug up by the Liang army, so that the water of the Yu River would return to its original path and re-separate Bianliang from Mengzhou.

The Mongol army finally managed to gather 30,000 soldiers and horses in Ze and Lu Prefectures, and they could not resist the Liang army's eastward advance from Qinyang, and they could not look south; In this case, it was the best time for the Liang army to attack Mengzhou.

Of course, Zhao Mengji may not continue to work for the Mugyu people at this time, if Han Qian can master Zhao Mengji's mentality, it is possible to keep Mengzhou and take Guanzhong first.

Anji said in detail, Gu Mingfu didn't seem to take it to heart, drank another glass of wine, frowned and said, "Why is the wine in Zuiyanglou a little astringent today, don't mix it with water?" For the Chinese New Year, the huge restaurant didn't prepare any appetizers......"

"Where would the shopkeeper have thought that there are two idlers, you and me, who came to drink early today?" An Jixiang said with a smile.

"I heard the news that Nanyang will soon transfer Mrs. Lu and Lord Zhou to Taiyuan, and Lord An will also go to Taiyuan together - Lord An has set the itinerary and informed me, so I can set a table of wine in the house to see off Lord An." Gu Mingcheng said.

"I'm a half-crippled life, I've been displaced for many years, what's the use of going to Taiyuan, it's better to continue to stay in front of Zhao Shuai's tent and wait for the dispatch," An Jixiang smiled sadly and said, "No matter what, the winter in Mengzhou is always better than Taiyuan." ”

"Lord An doesn't go to Taiyuan?" Gu Mingfu asked in surprise.

"Don't go, don't go, I fled to Mengzhou because I was greedy for life and afraid of death, and now I don't have a knife on my neck, why suffer from the fatigue of the carriage and horses," An Jixiang drank a glass of wine, and he was also in a strange mood, smacking his lips and said, "This wine is really astringent today." ”

"I still have two jars of good wine in my house, but I just got up early to listen to my mother-in-law's nagging, and I couldn't be impatient, so I hid out to drink—do you want to be uneasy and the adults go back to the house with me to drink, and listen to my mother-in-law's nagging, it's always more lively than here?" Gu Mingfu asked.

"Okay." An Jixiang is also at peace with his encounter now, if he wants to have a place to drink with people during the New Year, he will not run to Zuiyang Mansion alone, listening to Gu Mingfu's proposal, he suddenly got up, and he couldn't wait to escape from here.

Gu Mingfu, as the head of Hucao, has a small official position, and lives in the corner of a small alley across the street from Zuiyang Mansion, walking three or four hundred steps to get there, squeaking to push open the courtyard door, shaking off a handful of snow on the eaves, some

Xu fell into An Jixiang's collar, and his neck shivered with cold.

An Jixiang bowed down, digging out the residual snow from his neck, and walked through the Hanging Flower Hall with Gu Mingfu towards the atrium.

An Jixiang knew that the two sons of Gu Mingfu died early, and in addition to the two old servants in the courtyard, only the Zhao family lived with his wife, but at this time, there was no sound in the middle courtyard, and no one was there.

Pushing open the wooden door of the hall, a brazier was burning inside, steaming, An Jixiang saw that three people were already sitting in the hall drinking, as if they were waiting for him and Gu Mingfu to come over.

Seeing that the faces of the three people were unfamiliar, they were not servants in Gu Ming's mansion, nor did they look like generals in the Mengzhou Assassin's Mansion and the army, and they were dressed extremely ordinary, like ordinary chariot drivers.

Such a person is sitting in the lobby of the Gu family drinking, how can An Jixiang not be surprised?

"Why don't you want to sit down and drink a glass of water and wine when you see a new friend?" The man who was a little bookish and angry at the head looked at it with a smile and asked.

"Who are you?" An Jixiang asked vigilantly.

"If I report to my family, won't Lord An dare not sit down and drink?" The man asked with a smile.

"Then when I haven't come, take my leave." An Jixiang arched his hand and was about to retire.

"Lord An guessed that we were from Luoyang, and he didn't want to accompany him with a glass of water and wine?" The man asked.

"......" An Jixiang didn't answer, just stood at the door, looking at the faces of the three people in the room.

"Zhang Shimin, the governor of the North Division of the Luoyang Military Intelligence Staff, has seen Lord An," the man stood up, took out a letter from his arms, and said, "Originally, my lord Yin Pengyin came to see An Jixiang, but Lord Yin had something to do temporarily, so I brought the edict from the king and came to see Lord An......"

An Jixiang still recognizes Han Qian's handwriting, such ugly handwriting, it is difficult for others to imitate it, seeing that Han Qian wrote in the edict some old things about him supervising the army in Xuzhou with Zhang Ping, it can be confirmed that this edict is not forged by others to deceive him.

He handed the edict back to Zhang Shimin and said: "I am just a waste in Mengzhou, if you want to recruit Zhao Mengji, I am afraid that I will not be able to help." ”

"Lord An has seen the edict from the king, and he can guess the intention of our trip, how can he say that he can't help?" Zhang Shimin said with a smile, "There are people around Zhao Mengji who are staring, and Xiao Yiqing will inevitably guard against us coming to appease Zhao Mengji, and most of them will have a secret hand - we or the Ming Mansion rashly go to contact Zhao Mengji, it is likely to be bad." If Lord An is willing to spread the word in the middle, Luoyang will have a place for Lord An in the future. Is Lord An still willing to be led by Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan at this time? ”

"The change in Cishou Palace has nothing to do with me, and I just run away afterwards and am just greedy for life and afraid ......of death," An Jixiang said.

"Of course, the king has long found out that Lord An is not Lu Qingxia's puppet, and the death of Emperor Yanyou is not the victim of Lord An, but it is a pity that Chen Ruyi is loyal to Lu Qingxia, but he will still be killed by Lu Qingxia - we have always paid attention to Lord An, and I believe that Lord An and Lu Qingxia are not the same dog, so we will ask Lord An to come to us." Zhang Shimin said.

An Jixiang sighed and said: "Back then, the king secretly helped Wang Yong to launch a mutiny, and Zhao Mengji had a family that could not return, and it was impossible for him to have no resentment in his heart; And at this time, he is good at leading the army and sitting on one side, even if the king sends troops to seize Mengzhou, he can still retreat to Zezhou and help the Mongolian army share half of the country with the king, I am afraid that he will not easily hand over his life to others. ”

Seeing that An Jixiang had changed his tone and title, Zhang Shimin asked him to sit down and speak: "The affairs of the military state, whether you win or lose, where can a character like Zhao Mengji not see through?" Besides, Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian's families are small, and it is also the monarch who persuaded the lord of Shu not to kill them, but to send them to Jinling for imprisonment. And as long as Zhao Mengji can return to Daliang and welcome home from Jinling to a small reunion is just around the corner, how can he not know? As for Zhao Mengji's status and treatment of attaching to the Great Liang, the monarch also said that if he was willing to lead his troops to defend Mengzhou, the monarch wanted to appoint him as the envoy of the Mengzhou Prefecture and lead his troops and horses. Or maybe he had something else in mind, but it would only be clear after Lord An asked him......"

"Did the king send someone to see the Marquis of Wei, Wang Xiaoxian?" An Jixiang asked.

Zhang Shimin came here this time, on behalf of the Beisi to recruit An Jixiang first, and to do a good job of paving the way for the follow-up recruitment of Zhao Mengji and the generals, some things will naturally not be hidden from him, and said: "The Marquis of Wei Xiaoxian is rigid and self-serving, and his temperament is lonely, and the king instructed to focus on Zhao Mengji's work......"

An Ji nodded carefully, he didn't expect Luoyang's work to be done so meticulously, no wonder the battle of Yiguan would go so smoothly, and said: "Wusu Dashi decided to leave Weihou Wang Xiao in Fengxiang first, and transferred Zhao Mengji to Mengzhou, because he was worried that Zhao Mengji's mind was unstable, and his subordinates were transferred to Mengzhou to facilitate control. However, Marquis Wang Xiaoxian has a lonely temperament and is difficult to turn back, but his generals may not be willing to block the elite soldiers of Daliang with their bodies, and many of Wang Xiaoxian's subordinates are Zhao Mengji's old officials. ”

Zhang Shimin nodded, acknowledging An Jixiang's speculation.

In the past two years, Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian have sent out a large number of tuntian fields on both sides of the Weishui River to recruit displaced people to think that they are tunding, and with the support of the Mongolian army, they have built defensive villages on a large scale, and their military strength has been improved accordingly.

According to the established plan, first expel the Pingxia people from Longyou, occupy Qinzhou, and then divide the troops, all the way from the west over Longshan to attack the west flank of Fengxiang, all the way from Liangzhou through Chencang and other roads into the southern area of Fengxiang, even if Fengxiang is captured, there will be countless tough battles to be fought.

Purely from the military resources of the eastern wing, keeping Zhao Mengji is not in a hurry to surrender, and it will not increase the military defense pressure on the eastern wing, but considering that the next focus of Daliang is to recover the Fengxiang army, whether or not he can successfully appease Zhao Mengji may not have a big impact on Wang Xiaoxian, but the psychological impact on Wang Xiaoxian's subordinate generals is huge.

Of course, whether it is to appease or recruit, the conditions for opening are different at different stages.

Whether Zhao Mengji can join the Liang in time can not only peacefully solve the issue of Mengzhou's ownership, but also have more preferential treatment for the influence of the war on the western flank, but the next thing depends on whether the battle of Yiguan has touched Zhao Mengji deeply enough.

It was agreed that An Jixiang would take the letter to find an opportunity to contact Zhao Mengji, and in Mengzhou City, if there was anything An Jixiang contacted Gu Mingfu in a single line, and after Zhang Shimin and others negotiated the matter, they lurked in Mengzhou City, staring at the wind and grass in the city, and waiting for further news......