Chang'an, the Imperial City, the Great Prime Minister's Mansion, Prime Minister Yang Jianzheng and his henchmen looked at a map, on which various flags were inserted representing the imperial court, the puppet Zhou and the rebellious army of Anzhou.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was originally the Zhengyang Palace where the Emperor Yuwen Yan lived, and since Yang Jian, the left prime minister of the auxiliary government, was worshiped by Yuwen as the prime minister, the Zhengyang Palace was set up as the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the Prime Minister Yang Jian led the civil and military officials.

"I just received an urgent report from Marshal Liang for 400 miles, and the Tiger Prison Pass is already in the hands of our army." Han Bao, the right Sima of the Prime Minister's Mansion, told Yang Jian that two months had passed since the June marching marshal Liang Rui led his army into Luoyang to confront the army of the puppet Zhou Wei Chi Dun entrenched in Xingzhou, during which the two sides fought fiercely around the Tiger Prison Pass, which changed hands several times and is now finally in the hands of the imperial court again.

"You won't take it away from Wei Chidun again this time, will you?" The Prime Minister's Mansion, Zuo Sima Gao, frowned, and for this tiger prison, he was able to contain more than 100,000 troops in the imperial court, and it was precisely for this reason that Anzhou was rebellious and unscrupulous.

In late June, the imperial court took Liang Shiyan, the Duke of Yuguo, as the marching marshal, together with a total of 150,000 troops from the Jingzhou Governor's Office, to quell the rebellion.

"As Marshal Liang said, nearly 10,000 rebels and thieves have been defeated in the Tiger Prison Pass this time, and they have already suffered a lot of vitality." Han Bao added.

"Dugu, what do you think?" Prime Minister Yang Jian asked, Gao Gong's father Gao Bin is his father-in-law Dugu Xin's wingman, because of his outstanding merits, he was given the surname Dugu, Gao Gong has a lot of friendship with him, so he is called Dugu when talking.

"Prime Minister, the pseudo-Zhou is armpit and elbow troubles must be removed, taking advantage of the Turkic civil strife, the imperial court should crush the pseudo-Zhou in one go, and Yu Wenliang is the turtle in the urn as soon as Wei Chi Yu goes."

"But now that Yuwenliang has occupied Shangwan, if they are allowed to go north and threaten Luoyang from the flank," Yang Jian groaned. Although he didn't think that the Anzhou army still had enough manpower and material resources to support the north, he expected the enemy to be lenient and have to guard against anything.

Gao Gong thought that Yuwenliang was already at the end of the crossbow and there was no need to worry about it, and there was the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion on the side, and the top priority was to drive Wei Chi Dun back to the north of the Yellow River, and then rely on the containment of the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion to make Yecheng direction not dare to act rashly, so that the imperial court could free up its hands to go east to deal with Wei Chi Qin, who occupied the Bozhou Governor's Mansion.

"Although Yu Wenliang occupies the eastern end of Wuguan Road, as long as the imperial court holds Wuguan and important places along the way, then he will not want to sneak attack Chang'an, and when our army recovers the Bozhou Governor's Mansion, then Yu Wenliang can't echo with Yu Chijiong, so he can only sit and wait to die."

Although they received news yesterday that Liang Guo had been controlled by Yu Wenliang, Yang Jian and his wingmen did not think that the other party had the ability to enter the Xinzhou Governor's Mansion. With Chen Guo eyeing Yu on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Wen Liang could only deploy defenses along the river to plug leaks, and it was impossible to squeeze out troops to advance westward from Liang State.

"Having said that, the siege equipment used by the Anzhou army is very sharp and must not be guarded against, and the Duke of Yu Guo has drawn a graphic and sent it over, you can take a look." Yang Jian ordered someone to bring a piece of paper and unfold it on the case, and everyone stepped forward to take a closer look.

"When the Anzhou army besieged Shangwan, this siege equipment was built, and the Duke of Yu ordered people to carefully observe and draw a figure for this object, according to the soldiers, this trebuchet can throw huge stones without manpower and day and night."

Throwing huge rocks without manpower and around the clock, a description they had heard last year, was a description of the generals who escaped after the fall of Xiangyang. At the time, they were skeptical, but now that they have been confirmed, they no longer have doubts.

The siege equipment of the Anzhou army is generally difficult to resist in the city, Xiangyang and Shangwan are conquered in a few days after the siege, which shows its great power, if the city wall is not transformed, then the city can be held for several months or even a year on weekdays, I am afraid that there will never be a situation in the future.

"Prime Minister, this thing needs to be handed over to the ordnance supervisor for study, as the so-called stones of other mountains can attack jade, if the imperial court can create this thing, it will be better to use it to deal with Wei Chi Yuan."

Last year, the Anzhou army attacked Xiangyang with this thing, and no one could describe the details of this equipment when the defenders were defeated.

This thing is very powerful, but the drawback is obvious: it can only be used for siege. The imperial army with a large number of cavalry has the advantage of field warfare, and it is they who are besieging the city at that time, so the besieged Anzhou army is not of much use to have this thing.

What they cared about was something else: a 'thunderbolt' that could make loud noises and hurtful fires. The Anzhou army used this thing to conquer the fortified Fancheng, and then put it into use in the decisive battle of the two estuaries to collapse the large array of the imperial army.

I don't know what this thing is, and I don't know how many Anzhou troops still have in their hands, and the reason why Gao Gong and Han Bao strongly advocated dealing with Wei Chi Yuan first and putting Yu Wenliang in second place is precisely because of this consideration: People will always have fear of the unknown.

Wei Chi Hui's strength and territory are much larger than Yu Wenliang's, but in order to avoid encountering that inexplicable weapon, they would rather choose to deal with Yu Chi Hui first, and after pacifying the north, they will mobilize a large army to attack Anzhou in multiple ways, forgive him, Yu Wenliang does not have so many troops to resist.

The plan was decided, everyone retired, but Gao Gong stayed, and Yang Jian and him continued to discuss some things that could not be known.

"In this way, the attack on me in Chang'an at the end of March last year was also committed by the rabbit cub of the Yuwenliang family!" Yang Jian's calm expression began to become irritable. According to Yang Su, the head of the march to the south, the effect of the Anzhou army's 'thunder' seems to be similar to the effect of his 'robbery' in March last year, so that the doubts that shrouded Yang Jian's heart have finally been resolved.

Yu Wenwen, that little rabbit cub, dared to calculate me several times!

This thunder must have been produced by the Anzhou Army, so Yu Wenliang and his son are seriously suspected, and it was Yu Wenming and Yu Wenwen brothers who were in Chang'an in March last year, and the possibility of Yu Wenwen mastermind planning the assassination is extremely high.

In July, Yuwen Wen sent an envoy to Chang'an to meet the emperor, but inexplicably teased him on the main hall, and later made an attack outside the palace of King Zhao. That time it was Yuwen Zhihe who identified Yuwen Wen as the mastermind behind the scenes, and as a result, he led to the fact that he was drugged in the palace and finally lost his life, and this series of things was inseparable from Yuwen Wen.

"I looked away for a while, let this little rabbit fool through the test, and finally ran away!" Yang Jian was so angry that he shot the book case directly, he had carefully protected himself for so many years and avoided the murderous intentions of Yuwen Hu, Yu Wen Yong, and Yu Wen Yun, the superiors, and he never thought that the gutter capsized and was plotted several times by a kid of the same age as his eldest son, and he could only talk about this kind of thing in front of his henchman, Gao Xi.

"Prime Minister, this person is just a trick to tricks. What could he do if there was a battle between the two armies? Gao Gong comforted, he knew that Yang Jian was not furious because of this matter, but another thing: Yang Jian's baby daughter, Yang Lihua, the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou, was probably taken away by this kid.

Gao Gong still can't figure out how this Yuwenwen 'hooked up' with the Queen Mother, if it is common sense that the Queen Mother is the Prime Minister's wife Dugu's teaching for many years, it is unlikely that she will 'elope', then what trick did Yuwenwen use to deceive the Queen Mother from the palace?

Yang Jian has surrounded the palace like an iron bucket since the auxiliary government, although Yuwenwen works as a guard in the palace, but the number of contacts with the queen mother is limited, Gao Gong sometimes even thinks that the queen mother is because Yuwenwen saved her from the frightened horse, so the two of them promised each other and then eloped?

He didn't dare to mention this kind of topic. If the prime minister's wife knows, I am afraid that she will turn her face, seeing Yang Jian walking back and forth angrily, he persuaded him: In the future, he will conquer An Lu and capture Yu Wenwen, and he will naturally see it.

"An Lu is right, when the time comes, I will personally lead the army, and when I have to conquer An Lu, I will capture that little bastard and ask him to hand over Lihua!" Yang Jian said that his daughter was even more resentful, his hard-working daughter who was knowledgeable and reasonable easily got rid of the bastard husband Yu Wenyun never thought that he would harm Yu Wenwen, the little rabbit cub, and Mrs. Dugu thought about his daughter every day, and he didn't dare to tell her this speculation.

"Last year, that kid didn't go back to Anlu and Wuguan Daowu, I knew there was a problem!"

Although there is no conclusive evidence to prove that it was Yuwen Wen who abducted Yang Lihua, but now Yang Jian 'reasoned' that after the other party assassinated him several times, he also decided that only this bold guy could do this kind of thing, and in order to hide people's eyes, he also announced that the Queen Mother Yang Lihua died of illness, and as a result, a woman could not be recognized.

The more Yang Jian thought about it, the more angry he became: "If Lihua and E-Ying have three longs and two shorts, I will skin him alive!" ”

The daughter married into the palace and suffered a lot, and seeing that she was in power, she was going to do the things of the king, so that her daughter could live a good life, and she didn't have to be widowed by the Yuwen family, but she never thought about it and took it away to the surname Yuwen. Yang Jian, who is "everything under control" on weekdays, can't swallow this breath.

Gao Gong glanced at Yang Jian and didn't dare to answer, because there was another situation that could not be ruled out: that kid is afraid that he is already a cheap son-in-law of the prime minister, and he has a cheap grandson!

Whoever touches this kind of topic is unlucky, he is not so stupid to touch the scales, even if the prime minister doesn't mind, but the prime minister's wife must mind, and if he provokes the prime minister's wife, he will be unlucky, seeing that Yang Jian's evil fire is almost vented, Gao Xi talked about other things.

After some conversation, Gao Xi looked at the door, and then approached and whispered: "Prime Minister, Zhou Zuo is finished"

Yang Jian pondered for a moment when he heard this, and said: "However, the war in Jingzhou is ugly, and I am afraid that the world will laugh at it."

After more than a year in power, everything that should be cleaned up has been cleaned up, and Yang Jian and his henchmen are walking towards the end of the road step by step: replacing Zhou, the imperial court was besieged by three parties in June, and there was smoke for a while. But God blessed the Turks and retreated without a fight, allowing him to free up his hands to deal with Yu Chi Hui and Yu Wenliang.

The withdrawal of the Turkic army due to the death of the Khan due to internal strife can be seen by the people of the world as the result of his Yang Jian's strategy, forcing back the Turkic army that is unpleasant. If the rebellion of Wei Chi Hui and Yu Wenliang is quelled, then he can justifiably accept Zhou Chanjun's domination of the world.

At present, Wei Chi's offensive is exhausted, and sooner or later it will be repulsed, and all the henchmen are planning to go further and claim the king after the war subsides, and then go through the process of Zen to become the emperor, but the battle situation of the fall of most of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion has cast a shadow on this idea.

Just after experiencing a big defeat, the emperor will always let the world look down on him, and Yang Jian has a headache for this 'stain'.

"If you don't advance against the current, you will retreat, the prime minister has reached such a situation, only go further, otherwise there will be endless troubles!" Gao Xi's face showed perseverance, and seeing that Yang Jian was silent, he saluted solemnly and said: "Prime Minister, don't forget the story of King Jindang!" ”

King Jindang is Yuwen Hu. Yuwentai let this nephew take over the affairs of the country before he died, but Yuwen Hu killed Yuwen Jue and Yu Wenyu one after another, and set up a third cousin, Yuwen Yong, as a puppet emperor.

Gao Xi's meaning is very simple, after taking power, it will not end well if you only be a powerful minister!

"Let's talk about it when the battle in Luoyang has a result."

After discussing for a while, Gao Xi retired. Yang Jian sneered after walking back and forth in front of the bookcase a few times: "Shaft, if you dare to act like this, then I will repay the other in the other way!" ”

He summoned one of his attendants and said, "Go, let the man come to me tomorrow!" (To be continued.) )