After receiving this battle report, Xuan Yi immediately wrote a letter to Huang Zide. In the letter, Xuan Yi first reported to Huang Zide about the situation in Sichuan, and then put forward a series of suggestions for the production in the Jingxiang area, and then congratulated Huang Zide on his victory, and then tactfully proposed that the blow to the Jokhang court should not be too much, because now it is still necessary to keep the Jokhang court to withstand the Tartars in the north.

When he wrote this letter, Xuan Yi was already convinced that Huang Zide had once again embarked on the old path of the past, and he would continue to win victories with ease under the intentional guidance of Heavenly Court. And the army of the Jokhang court will all fall in the wind. So Huang Zide will fall into the fantasy that the world can already "pass on the rules", and Niu Juming, who is bent on overpowering him in status, will definitely take advantage of this, and he will continue to encourage Huang Zide to let him go to Beijing. "Take the Jingshi, the early right position, the world can be decided!" Xuan Yi didn't even need to use his brain to think of how Niu Juming would convince Huang Zide. He also knew that even if he stood up against it, it would probably be useless. Huang Zide couldn't resist such a temptation, he was not young anymore, he had suffered enough, and he had long wanted to enjoy it. Although he has been suppressing this desire now, Xuan Yi also knows that Huang Zide is not like the Great Zhao Taizu, who can control his superman for a lifetime. Among the founding monarchs of all dynasties, his qualifications are almost the worst. In such a situation, is there a good reason to stand up against it, and how effective can it be?

Therefore, Xuan Yi didn't expect the tail of this letter to really make Huang Zide stop. He wrote this letter for several purposes like this.

First, set the stage for future failures. This letter is of little use now, but it will serve as evidence of his foresight in the event of a future failure. This will greatly enhance his persuasiveness in the team. Of course, if you meet a Yuan Shao-style lord, this foresight may be dangerous. But Huang Zide is not such a person, and he does not have the fierce opposition of Tian Feng at the beginning, not saving face for Yuan Shao.

Second, it is necessary to prepare for the control of Jingxiang Lake in the future. Now Huang Zide has entrusted Jing Xiang's daily affairs to Shang Xiuying and Niu Juming. Shang Xiuying has more energy to focus on taking care of the children at this time. is approaching, and now the heir is the "national capital". So now in the Jingxiang area, in addition to the military, daily affairs are actually in charge of Niu Juming. Niu Juming's administrative talent is actually only average, (of course, it is still much better than those generals under Huang Zide), but he does not have any incentive to strengthen the defense in particular. Moreover, with Huang Zide's continuous victories, Niu Juming will definitely not be willing to continue to stay in Jingxiang, he will definitely prefer to go to Jingshi and preside over Jingshi's "persuasion", so as to rely on this credit to turn over to Xuanyi. In this way, Jingxiang, as the fundamental place, naturally needs to send another person to preside over it. In such a situation, who else could this person have besides Xuanyi?

Of course, writing such a letter actually means that Huang Zide has become an outcast in Xuanyi's heart. "In order to avoid the sinking of Shenzhou, no matter who it is, it can be sacrificed." Xuan Yi said to himself in his heart. Huang Zide is not the first outcast, nor will he be the last.

After Huang Zide occupied Nanzhao, he soon received a letter from Niu Juming, who also praised Huang Zide's victory, and proposed that according to the original strategy, after controlling Jingxiang and Sichuan, Ganxi should be considered. Ganshan has not only been able to produce elite troops since ancient times, but also has mountains and rivers on the surface, and occupying this place will be very advantageous for seizing the Central Plains. Therefore, he advised Huang Zide to take advantage of the favorable situation that after this victory, the imperial court's army in Ganshan was almost swept away, and quickly marched to capture Ganshan. Of course, now that Jing Xiang had just supported the expedition to Sichuan, the material support he could provide to Huang Zide's actions was very limited. If Huang Zide feels unsure, he can also go back first. It's just that it's a pity to give up such a good opportunity in front of me.

After receiving Niu Juming's letter, Huang Zide gathered his generals to discuss the matter.

"Everyone has seen Mr. Niu's letter, right?" Huang Zide said, "Mr. Niu doesn't have enough food to feed us all the way to Ganshan, and even if there is, there are not enough people to send us thousands of miles over." But now that Ganshan is empty, it is also a good time to take Ganshan. You say, should we take the opportunity to kill Ganshan, or will we honestly go back to Jingxiang and squat for a year or two? ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Jiexuan was immediately ready to speak. Huang Zide was the first to speak: "Lao Liu, don't say it yet." As soon as you say it, the group of boys below don't dare to say it. ”

Liu Jiexuan said: "What's the matter, when did these little rabbits take me in their eyes?" But big brother, what you say is what, I won't talk about it yet. ”

"Well, let's talk about it then!" Huang Zide said again.

"Marshal, I think we should go to Ganshan. The ancients said: 'Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.' Liu Erhu said, "Besides, isn't there no one to deliver food from behind?" How many years have we been fighting, except for the battle just now, when did we ask someone to send food from behind? If you want to talk about the number of troops, there were even more of us than we do now. So, I don't think there's anyone behind to deliver food, so that's not a problem at all. Let's talk about it, isn't that the case? ”

As soon as Liu Erhu said this, the others followed suit:

"That's it, when did we come by transporting grain from behind?"

"If there was no one to transport food later, we wouldn't be able to fight, and we would have starved to death several times!"

"Let's fight, let's fight......"

Huang Zide smiled and listened for a while, then turned his head to Liu Jiexuan and said, "Okay, Lao Liu, say whatever you want to say now." ”

"What are you talking about now?" Liu Jiexuan rolled his eyes, "What I want to say has been told by this Liu Erhu." I didn't leave a word of it. Well, big brother, let's go out to eat the big families of the imperial court. I've only seen a person who goes to eat a big household with a pocket, who has ever seen a person who goes to eat a big household with food? ”

Huang Zide listened to it, laughed and said: "What Lao Liu said is that there is no one who carries grain to eat big households!" Since everyone means this, let's send troops to eat big households...... Hahaha......"

It's just that even Huang Zide didn't expect that this trip to eat big households would be so smooth. He originally wanted to follow the example of Tiancong Khan, and after the army went out, he would attack a few cities to get supplies, and by the way, sweep up the Jokhang army that still dared to resist. However, the reality is much more magical than that.

Huang Zide led the army to retreat to Nanyang first, where he received the first batch of supplies sent by Niu Juming, and handed over the surrendered soldiers, except for Bai Guangen's own soldiers, to Niu Juming to take back and place in the new tunzhuang. Then he led the army to the northwest, passing through Neixiang, Xixia, Shangnan, Danfeng, Shangluo, and Xi'an. Along the way, they did not fight a single battle, and the defenders they encountered either fled long ago or opened the gates to meet him. At first, Huang Zide thought that this was because of the prestige brought by his recent victories, but he soon discovered that a more important reason was that the officials and soldiers in these places had not eaten enough for a long time because of the lack of pay from the imperial court, and by now, they were all about to starve to death. Therefore, as soon as someone asked them whether they would surrender, these officers and soldiers only asked: "Do you have food to eat after surrendering?" Then they scrambled to surrender.

broke the county seat, went in and searched carefully, but there really wasn't much food to come out, and there was not enough food at all. But Huang Zide is not in a hurry, anyway, there is Xi'an in front of him, Xi'an is a big city, can't Xi'an have nothing, right?

When Huang Zi got the city of Xi'an, before he had time to open the posture of attacking the city, he just asked Bai Guangen to go out and shout a word, and the defender of Xi'an was called Wu Anguo, so he immediately led the crowd to surrender. When the news came, Huang Zide was not happy, but frowned and said, "Damn, shouldn't this Xi'an also have no food at all?" ”

Xi'an is a big city, so naturally there will be no food at all. However, it is precisely because Xi'an is a big city that there are many people who eat food, plus these people brought by Huang Zide himself, plus those who surrendered all the way, this bit of food is definitely not enough to eat. Huang Zide thought about it, and asked Huang Laiheng to take the people who had surrendered during this time and send them back to Jingxiang. And he took the army and repaired in Xi'an for a period of time.

Huang Zide stayed in Xi'an for half a month, and because of food problems, he had to set off again and attack Taiyuan in the north. Because the food in Xi'an is already difficult to support, and Huang Zide does not want to spend a huge price to send food from Jingxiang, (the distance is thousands of miles, and the losses along the way are not small numbers), and secondly, the food in his hand cannot support that time, so he can only set off immediately and go to Taiyuan to fight the autumn breeze.

It was also at this time, in Sichuan, that Xuanyi Daoist was bringing a group of soldiers to Qingcheng Mountain, one of the holy places of Daomen. However, Xuanyi Daoist did not go up to the Shangqing Palace to pay homage to the ancestors of the Daomen, but directly transferred to the back mountain, and arrived at the Manhe River in the back mountain. This barbarian river has another name called Wulonggou. Legend has it that Zhang Tianshi once ordered five divine dragons to hide here to protect Qingcheng.

Xuan Yi knew that this legend was just a legend. But this legend is not entirely unfounded. These so-called five divine dragons are not actually dragons, but five dragon veins. This dragon vein does not guarantee the birth of the Son of Heaven or the dragon snake, but in daily life, it can be used by the Dao Sect in order to obtain a little freedom. Borrowing the power of this leyline, Xuan Yi can do things that need to be hidden from the eyes of the heavenly court.