In the end, the news of the assassination of King Xian and Bai Liyan could not be covered up for longer, and a few days later spread throughout the country, and the Central Plains was in an uproar, but there was a faint murmur with some unclean noise.

Jiang Jie hurried back to China at the end of March, and took the first column of his descendants from the front line to return to China together.

After the restoration of communication in Shanling, the Jin State reacted at the same time, and the Jin army's operations on the Eastern Front were fully transferred to the defensive, and the Xian army was forced to go on the defensive.

At the same time, the king of Jin asked Xianguo to set up his eldest son Jiang Tuo or second son Jiang Ping as king according to the usual practice, and the final bottom line was also to set up the son of Jiang Yu's concubine to be the king, and never accept Jiang Can as the king.

At the same time, the Son of Heaven personally came forward to instigate the princes to exert pressure, intending to force the prince of Xianguo to become king, and Lu Gao, Luhou and their cabinets were in a dilemma.

At the same time, another incident has attracted great attention from all sides, and the reappearance of many people in their seventies or sixties has caused shocking rumors.

When Jing Shanggong Li Dai and Bai Lijuan, who had taken refuge in Xianguo a few years ago, disappeared for many years, they were only in their fifties.

There are more old characters who have faded out of sight, all of them are energetic and radiant, and all kinds of unbelievable rumors have spread widely for a while.

The most reliable sources speculated that Xianguo might have developed some kind of elixir, but all the doctors at Yicaotang denied this claim.

After the assassination of King Xian, the body was not buried for a long time, and he continued to lie in the cold storage, and Bailiyan was still in a coma after being out of danger, with no signs of awakening, and the search for the assassin lasted for a month without any gain.

The aftermath of the assassination had just begun, and when the Eastern Front came to a standstill, the Western Front began a "full-scale counteroffensive", but in the third month after the assassination, on June 19, a mighty fleet appeared in Gangyang County, and Marshal Okka's long-awaited reinforcements finally arrived, but at the same time his career came to an end.

The Allies reassigned Field Marshal Turner and was ordered to move south to take over Oka, but Oka was undoubtedly lucky, at least he didn't have to leave a disgraceful signature on the armistice that followed.

"Your Majesty is deeply concerned about the war in the southern hemisphere, and I have been ordered to come and take over your post, this is a letter of appointment jointly signed by your Majesty and the Communist Alliance, as well as your letter of resignation, for your attention."

Oka took the two letters from Turner, but instead of opening them, he said:

"Thank goodness you're taking my place, these goddamn alien beasts are beyond our imagination, and I hope you can give our warriors some hope."

Then Turner said:

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Your Excellency, so I've been ordered to go south to stabilize the war and negotiate with them. So you should be glad that you won't end up signing that damn agreement, and I'm going to be laughed at. ”

Hearing this, Oka was shocked:

"Negotiations, have our sacrifices and efforts been in vain in the past eight years?"

"Your Excellency, you don't know, the local alien beasts have broken out in an uprising, we have dragged on in the southern hemisphere for too long, and the casualties are huge, and your majesty is no longer able to continue to support such a large-scale war, and it must be ended as soon as possible. But not all, we need to negotiate an outcome that benefits us, and we also need more new technologies from them.

Scientists from all over the world were shocked by the technology of humans in the southern hemisphere, and predicted that if we could not continue to acquire their technology, we would soon be crushed by them in terms of quality and quantity, and it would be even more troublesome. ”

"In this case, this negotiation is not a last resort."

"Yes, we need to know more about them so that we can master their skills and then find a more appropriate time to deal with them."

Eight years of war overwhelmed the armpit economy, and the influx of a large number of native human beings led to fierce conflicts with other races, which in turn led to a wider range of riots and uprisings, which seriously affected the economic chain brought about by the supply of human blood. In addition, the repeated failures of the expedition made it difficult to guarantee the durability of the continued operation.

Just a month after Oka's handover to Turner, Oka left his eldest grandson after seven years of fighting on a returning ironclad canner, and returned to his homeland to be questioned rather than investigated and arrested.

At the same time, the Allied offensive on the Western Front was heavily damaged in July, encountering a frontal armpit front armed with fully automated firearms, and the Allied forces suffered heavy losses and were forced to move to the defense on all fronts.

On the Eastern Front, the Xian Army and the Jin Army defended for several months, and after entering July, they also encountered a frontal attack with powerful firearms, but the losses were not large.

However, at sea, the main fleet of the Xian army encountered the main force of axillary warships reinforced by the southern reinforcement from the northern hemisphere, and only the ironclad canned ships reached 52, and the rest of the wooden sail warships reached 365.

The naval battle lasted for two months, and the winner was not determined until early September, but the armpit took the initiative to leave the battlefield, and finally ended with the Xian army continuing to control the sea area.

However, after this battle, the Xian army lost 217 warships, 76 wounded, 59 torpedo boats, 16 wounded, more than 27,600 killed and more than 71,000 wounded

In this battle, the armpit lost 191 warships, including 19 ironclad canners, and 127 wounded, including 13 ironclad canners.

The battle ended in a disastrous victory, but it also temporarily lost the ability to continue fighting, so it took the initiative to retreat to Wangqin for repairs, and along the way encountered more than 100 enemy detachment fleets behind the detour.

At this time, the Xian army realized that another enemy fleet had made a detour to the back, and judged that the fleeing enemy was only an expedient measure, so they forcibly broke through the interception by surprise and fought fiercely for four days before they broke away from the engagement and continued to return.

In this battle, the Xian army again lost 27 ships, but also sank 31 enemy ships. At this point, the navy once again returned to its original shape, and basically lost the strength to continue fighting in a short period of time.

In the early morning of the third day of October, in the intensive care ward of Yongxing Yicaotang, Bailiyan's eyelids did not beat, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and her physiological functions fully recovered...... Jean raised his right hand as if grasping something.

Bai Lixia desperately held her father's big dry hand and shouted:

"Father, father, it's me, Xia'er, I'm Xia'er......"

Bailiyan faintly heard someone calling, and he struggled to open his eyes, but the dazzling sunlight made him unable to open his eyes, as if he was falling into the shackles of a thousand catties, and he couldn't open them.

"Water...... Water, drink water......"

He shouted with all his might, but only a little bit of a voice.

"Water, my father wants to drink water, right?"

Wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, Bai Lixia got up to get water, at this time Bai Liyan seemed to have been asleep for a long time, her mind was blank, but she vaguely heard a familiar voice:

"Hey, you're finally awake." Langlan greeted, and a clear virtual image appeared in Bailiyan's eyes.

"Where am I, it's dark, where am I?" Bai Liyan asked with difficulty, he tried to control his body and open his eyes, but he couldn't break free from the heavy force.

"You're still alive, and you're lying in the intensive care unit of Yicaotang."

"yes, why does it feel like I've been asleep for a long time, what time is it?"

"It's the third day of October, and six and a half months have passed since you were shot."

"So long!"

"yes, you've been in a coma for six and a half months, and a lot has happened during that time."

"What about the king, how is the king?" Bai Liyan asked hurriedly, his control of his body had gradually regained, and he tried to sit up, but found that there were too many things stuck in his body.

At this time, the wild wave said:

"Jiang stinged dead."

"Dead, how can you die, is it a mutiny!"

"No, the bullet that hit you passed through the front chest and back, hit Jiang Yu's eyebrows right under the two steps, and shot into the right brain, causing irreversible damage. By the time he was sent to Yicaotang, he had already lost signs of life, and with the current technical means, he could not be treated. ”

"How could it be, how could it be!"

Bai Liyan couldn't believe that this would be the result in the end, he tried to prick the needle, and a familiar voice came from his ears:

"Father, water, drink water......"

"Swallow, swallow, you speak, it's me, Rong'er......"

Ignoring the doctor's dissuasion, the women entered the ward one after another, surrounded the hospital bed, and couldn't wait to press on the bed and pull Bailiyan out.

"Ahem......"

Meng coughed a few times, Bai Liyan barely drank two sips of water, at this time someone closed the green curtains, the light was dim, Bai Liyan slowly opened his eyes, and all he saw were familiar faces.

"Rong'er...... Chunyu ...... Fu'er and Xiao'er...... Chunrou ...... You ......"

Jiang Rong brutally grabbed Baili Yan's withered right hand and stepped forward and said:

"I thought you would never come back, I was so worried about me."

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan smiled hard, and with the help of everyone, he reluctantly leaned on the thickened pillow and continued: "My life is a great blessing, I have died many times and I have survived, and this time I can also survive the disaster." ”

"You also said that the doctor transfused you with dozens of catties of blood, and the blood all over your body was changed more than a dozen times, and you have been critically ill for more than ten days before you can see improvement, but you have slept for a few months, so I am worried that you will never wake up."

"It's normal, such a serious injury is a life of nine deaths, and it's a blessing to survive. Tell me about the current situation. ”

"You don't know yet, Jiang Jie's rabbit cub is the king's person."

Bai Liyan couldn't believe her ears, and hurriedly asked Jiang Rong again:

"Who is Jiang Jie?"

"It's the eyeliner that King Renwu planted next to you, he is Jiang Hao's nephew, otherwise how could the two of them have the surname Jiang, and it's because you are so shrewd, someone has placed eyeliner around you, how can you not know after so many years."

Shocked, Bai Liyan suddenly figured out many things, he said:

"It seems that I still underestimated King Renwu, and from the beginning, I have been under his control."

"You are so shrewd, but you have been watched by others for decades."

"Yes, Jiang Jie's kid has always been very shrewd, and he has learned a lot of my skills, but he is an upright person, I am still relieved."

Bai Liyan said this from the heart, but also prepared for the next return to politics.

He still doesn't know what Jiang Jie will do with himself, the current Jiang Jie controls the military battalion and the military academy, controls the First Motorized Group Army, and even has the support of Lu Gao and Lu Hou, controls the military power and economy of the whole country, and now he is the one who is really seized power.

Compared with Jiang Zhen's sudden death, he now has to clean up all the messes.

During the intermittent conversation, Bai Liyan learned about a series of changes that had occurred in the past few months.

At present, there is still no leader in the country, and the cabinet has full authority to handle national affairs, and Jiang Can refuses to be the king, Xihuan is imprisoned in the palace, the Jin Kingdom and the Son of Heaven are pressuring, and the eastern front is in a stalemate, and the western front has suffered defeats, and the political situation has developed to this point, which seems to have entered a dead end.

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