Xue Yang took the lead in Dongchuan to start the war, which undoubtedly stimulated Chen Yu who was in Shannan West Road at this time, after recalling the guard battalion from the eastern front, Chen Yu and Xue Wanli's soldiers were divided into two routes, and Xue Wanli commanded Xue Wanli to start from Junzhou to Jinzhou to fight back, and he personally led 50,000 people from Yingzhou to attack the territory of Xiazhou. Yang Shouliang hastily decided on the northern line, held the city to the south, and led the main force of the Shence army to block Chen Yu in Xiazhou, in a vain attempt to repel all the way.

Although Chen Yu's southern front was only 50,000 people, it had the second and fifth battalions of the main battalions of the Tiance Army, and after entering Xiazhou, he first completely defeated the Shence army that tried to go out of the city and fight with his own field, and then opened the way with explosives packs, attacked the city of Xiazhou, and killed all the more than 30,000 people of the Shence army defending the city. As early as when the Tiance army entered Shannan West Road, I had seen the information sent by Xuan Yingwei, the defenders of Xiazhou not only bullied the people and imposed heavy taxes on past business travelers, but what was even worse was that the defenders were almost all with bad deeds, which made Chen Yu, who had always felt that he was a low-level people, unbearable, and issued a killing order. After frantically slaughtering this group of black sheep, all the warehouses in the city were used to develop grain to help the victims, this scene made Xiazhou later become a resolute supporter of the policy of Tiance Prefecture, and countless people who lacked food and clothing relied on Chen Yu's actions at that time to survive this cold winter and persist until the arrival of the main political officials of the Tiance Army. After hastily handing over civil affairs to the logisticians, Chen Yu's army once again advanced along the north bank of the Yangtze River in the direction of Shizhou. On the northern front, Xue Wanli surrounded Yang Shouliang's administrative place, Jinzhou, forcing Yang Shouliang to abandon his original strategy and gather his army on the northern front. Xue Wanli and Li Feixue, two bold guys, fought with Yang Shouliang's Shence Army outside Jinzhou City for a whole day, completely annihilating the main force of the Shence Army, and the remaining men and horses shrank in Jinzhou City and never dared to go out of the city again. And this is Shannan Road, and heavy snow has also begun to fall, blocking the footsteps of both sides.

Cheng Xiao, who had been operating with the Northern Front Corps, took the team equipped by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to visit the poor and ask about the hardships in the counties near Jinzhou that had been defeated at this time, and brought back the people who had taken refuge in the mountains due to the war, and distributed materials to help the people survive the harsh winter in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The various units that were temporarily unable to fight even began to transfer manpower to assist Cheng Wei in handling political affairs, and at the same time, the materials mobilized from Junzhou were basically in place, and everything was spent in the process of receiving while fighting.

On the Shannan Road side, the two sides temporarily ceased fire due to the weather. At this time, another piece of information appeared in the Central Plains, where the Xuanwu Army was located, and it was quickly transmitted to the Chang'an base camp. The news that Zhu Quanzhong was secretly testing gunpowder was learned by Biaozi from Zhu Youshu.

"Lord, do you want to let Xiaohu take the Flying Eagle Brigade into Bianzhou to wait for the opportunity to destroy the other party's workshop?" Hu Xiaosi, who had already returned to the base camp, went to the General Staff early in the morning to find Xu Tianxiang and Li Xuanqing.

Gunpowder has always been the patent of the Tiance Army, and it is also the most powerful weapon that accompanies the Tiance Army, whenever there is a change in the battle situation, gunpowder plays a role in turning the tide of the battle, so it is no wonder that Hu Xiaosi is nervous.

"No need, if Zhu Quanzhong wants to make gunpowder, let him do it. Anyway, the first generation of gunpowder is now obsolete. Don't you see that even Yang Yi's construction company is unwilling to use it? The power is too small. The Gunpowder Manufacturing Bureau of the Equipment Department has successfully tested a new type of gunpowder, which is currently being improved, and once it is determined that it is suitable for equipment, we may enter the gunpowder era mentioned by the lord in advance. Xu Tianxiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "At present, the main force of the Flying Eagle Brigade is testing new weapons in the equipment department in the river, and I don't have time to pay attention to Zhu Quanzhong." ”

"New gunpowder? Why don't I know any news? Hu Xiaosi was stunned for a moment, and then wondered.

Xu Tianxiang glanced at him, and said angrily: "You are elusive all day long, and you don't bother to read the report of the equipment department, how can you know?" I heard that this gunpowder was invented by a technician accidentally. ”

The white gunpowder in Xu Tianxiang's mouth is actually the white gunpowder of later generations, but the reason why this kind of thing was discovered was mainly due to the chemical laboratory, and Li Xuanqing didn't remember the specific plot in the middle, but vaguely remembered the three main components of sulfur, potassium chlorate and aluminum and magnesium powder. So I just casually wrote to Qin Yao at that time, asking him to organize people to study the experiment, but there was no result for a long time. The last technician inadvertently added nitrocellulose to it, and it almost exploded before reacting.

Nitrocellulose is a mysterious thing, but as long as he knows its basic principle, Qin Yao can make it himself, so after knowing the news, he immediately seized the time to study it without thinking, and improved the composition ratio of aluminum and magnesium powder to remake a new type of gunpowder.

The power of this white powder is naturally many times greater than the original black powder, but the performance is unstable, and there is no large-scale manufacturing process for the time being. Fortunately, after Li Xuanqing learned of this, he immediately asked the logistics department to go to the south of the Yellow River to find magnesium ore for mining, and began to set up a gunpowder production base, and began to move the laboratory test to the factory for standardized production.

In fact, it was not until later that Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi realized that they seemed to have taken a detour, and they could actually try to make yellow explosives in the knowledge reserve currently mastered by the logistics department. I can even concoct something like nitrocellulose, but I forgot about yellow explosives. But this can't be helped, the two of them really don't know much about chemistry, if it weren't for the knowledge of later generations, they would still be able to play a role in knowledge, and now it is estimated that they are no longer the opponents of those chemical technicians who are talking about their lives.

But fortunately, Li Xuanqing has already memorized the additives of ethanol in his previous life, and has handed it over to the equipment department for his own testing, hoping to have results. It's just that if it succeeds, this white explosive will become a complete monster, mixing the recipe of several explosives, and I don't know what will happen in the end.

Hu Xiaosi saw Li Xuanqing nodding and felt as if he had missed something, nodded and said, "Okay, since the lord doesn't like it, then I don't bother to bother anymore, so let Zhu Quanzhong be stunned for a few days." Wait until next year when the two families go to war to scare him to death. ”

"Has Li Jipeng already set off for Jiangnan?" Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "I originally planned to keep him in Chang'an for the New Year." Why are you in such a hurry? ”

He said he planned to set up the team ahead of schedule and get it up and running as soon as possible. In fact, I think he seems to be reluctant to return to Chang'an, maybe he is unwilling to face the past, right? Before taking refuge in us, this kid was bullied by Yang Fugong and Li Maozhen and was almost killed. Otherwise, I won't be desperate to contribute to our Tiance Mansion. Hu Xiaosi shook his head.

"Okay, let's not talk about him. Cheng Wei did a good job in Shannan, Xue Wanli was fighting on the front line, and he cleaned up people's hearts in the rear, and he didn't delay. I heard that Yang Shouliang in Jinzhou couldn't hold it anymore, and now there is a lonely city left in Jinzhou. Xu Tianxiang glanced at Hu Xiaosi and said deliberately: "I said that someone should not delay time, what tricks should be used quickly, after this battle, we are still waiting to drink the happy wine, you can't let Chen Yu spend the New Year alone in Shannan." ”

"I'll go, my lord, you don't care about Tianxiang, just sell me like this?" Hu Xiaosi didn't know this guy's face, so he pouted and said, "Don't worry, my chief of staff, I have already arranged to activate the Jinzhou internal line." In other words, this is still buried by the Xu family. I think you guys should really thank people. ”

"Okay, don't talk so much nonsense, if you really have that much time, go to the river and have a look, maybe Xiaohu's weapon test will be over. That's a good thing. Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, didn't explain too much, and left after putting down a sentence.

"Big brother." As soon as Li Xuanqing came out of the General Staff Building, he met Qiaoxi and a group of palace maids who were about to go out to build a snowman. When Qiaoxi saw Li Xuanqing, he immediately cheered and threw the snow shovel in his hand directly, and jumped over and said with a smile: "Qiaoxi thought of something and was about to tell the big brother." ”

"What's the matter?" Li Xuanqing couldn't help pinching the pretty face that was frozen a little pink when he saw Qiaoxi's mysterious look, and said with a smile.

Qiaoxi tiptoed to Li Xuanqing and whispered, "I seem to be pregnant." ”

Li Xuanqing's face turned red in an instant, and he hurriedly hugged Qiaoxi in his arms and asked, "Are you sure?" How long has it been? Shall we go to a doctor? ”

Li Xuanqing's expression made Qiaoxi also happy, after two lives, the two finally had the crystallization of love, no wonder the expressions of the two were generally happy.

"Don't make a show of it yet, wait and see." Qiaoxi was a little twisted, her cheeks were flushed, and Li Xuanqing's voice just now was heard by the palace maids who were waiting around, and it suddenly made her feel that she couldn't raise her head.

However, Li Xuanqing couldn't care so much, so he hugged Qiaoxi in his arms and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, this is a great thing, if Mr. Cen and they know, why don't you let me have an amnesty to the world, reduce taxes and taxes to celebrate." ”

"Then don't tell them." Qiaoxi smiled: "Let's go to a snowball fight today, if it's true, I guess I won't be able to go out in a while." ”

"General, Madame can't freeze now, or don't go out today." At this time, a slightly older palace maid stepped forward and reminded.

Seeing that Qiaoxi's face was embarrassed, Li Xuanqing smiled and lowered his head and said something in his ear, Qiaoxi cheered again, and then was picked up by Li Xuanqing, and his body flew up and went out of the palace after a moment.

Out of the palace, Li Xuanqing hugged Qiaoxi on the back of the jade lion, and the two of them rode out of Chang'an in the direction of Lishan.

Li Xuanqing smiled: "It feels like all this is so unreal, we actually have children." ”

"I don't think it's real, I always feel like I'm young. Big brother, I'm nineteen years old this year, and you're twenty-one years old, aren't we not in compliance? Qiaoxi originally followed Li Xuanqing's words, but as soon as she changed the topic, she inexplicably turned to this.

"Nonsense, where is the non-compliance? If it doesn't meet any of the regulations, we'll change it for him. Li Xuanqing got off the horse with Qiaoxi and walked slowly up along the road of the Lishan Palace. At this time, the Lishan Palace has gradually planned to open to the outside world, especially the more famous palaces are on the list. However, at this time, it is not the time, so it is still the royal forbidden courtyard, except for the occasional visit of the high-level of Tiance Mansion, it is basically impossible for others to get a glimpse of this vast garden.

The two didn't want to look at anything else, so they walked and chatted along the way, admiring the Lishan Mountain after the snow, only to see thousands of plain wraps, thousands of pear makeup, snowflakes covering the pine trees emitting the sun's luster, and it seemed to have a sense of crystalline. Qiaoxi walked slowly in the snow, like a fairy stepping on the clouds, and it was like a fairy in the painting, which made Li Xuanqing look stupid.

"Big brother, am I good-looking?" Qiaoxi couldn't help but smile when she saw Li Xuanqing looking at her blankly.

"It's beautiful, like a fairy in the sky." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly: "Probably what the ancients said about the country and the city is nothing more than that." Qiaoxi, it seems that this life looks better than the previous life, right? ”

Qiaoxi nodded deeply and said, "I think so too, this is probably called a different kind of beauty after experiencing a lot." But before I was halfway through, I couldn't go on, so I burst out laughing.

"Let's go, how about we live in Huaqing Palace tonight?" Li Xuanqing held Qiaoxi's hand and walked up the steps little by little, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cen has arranged for someone to be stationed here, and he will stay here for two days. ”

"Okay, let's go live in Yang Guifei's room, the Hall of Eternal Life. I didn't think it was good last time I came and left. This time, let's take a good feel for it. Qiaoxi clapped his hands and laughed.

Here, Li Xuanqing and his wife planned to stay in Huaqing Palace for a few days, but over there, they were almost jumped by the scene of Li Xuanqing before. Cen Tianshi originally planned to discuss with the heads of various departments in advance in the Ministry of Civil Affairs building what to do with the plans for the coming year. Because of the Ministry of Communications' overspending, Cen Tianshi plans to take this into account in next year's budget, so that there can be no more wars for money. As a result, as soon as the meeting began, the guards outside the door broke in and said that Li Xuanqing flew up directly from the palace with light skills.

This change made Cen Tianshi startled, he hadn't seen Li Xuanqing perform martial arts for more than a year, and he basically didn't need to go out when he got to his position. Why did this suddenly show its martial arts in the base camp of the Tiance Army? Still making such a big commotion? Thinking of this, Cen Tianshi urgently announced the adjournment of the meeting and chased him out with the guards.

Fortunately, the group of palace maids who followed Qiaoxi out before have not gone far now, and they only learned about Qiaoxi's pregnancy when they caught up with Cen Tianshi. This news made Cen Tianshi and the others so happy that they didn't even have the heart to do the things at hand, so they went separately to inform the high-level military and political officials of Tiance Mansion who were still in Chang'an.

It's no wonder that Cen Tianshi and others were surprised, as the ruling area of Tiance Mansion became larger and larger, and the ruling foundation became more and more solid, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the day when Li Xuanqing would reach the top was not far away, and he himself was not as disgusted with this matter as before. At this moment, the news of his wife's pregnancy came out, and in this era, this is a sign that the country is stable and the survival of the society is guaranteed. Therefore, after consulting with Xu Tianxiang, Cen Tianshi immediately issued an order to the two major systems in the name of the heads of the two military and political departments, and publicized this matter in the form of an official document for the first time. And as this news gradually spread, the entire area ruled by Tiance Mansion fell into a kind of euphoria, and the congratulatory letters sent by local governments and garrisons to Chang'an actually exceeded the normal number of official documents. And those industrial and commercial families who relied on the policies of Tiance Mansion to make their fortunes also sent major figures to Chang'an with congratulatory gifts, ready to congratulate Li Xuanqing. On the military and political side, Xu Tianxiang even directly ordered Xue Yang and Chen Yu on the front line to let them end the war before the end of the year, and not let the heirs of the lord and son be infected with bad luck because of reunification.

Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi, who were hiding in Huaqing Palace, naturally didn't know, but both of them were prepared in their hearts, and things like this would inevitably spread all over the world soon. This is also the reason why Qiaoxi doesn't want to say it so quickly. In the concept of the two in the future generations, this kind of thing should be celebrated together as a family, so can it be turned into political capital? But there is nothing to do about this scene, and there is nothing to change after that.