After Xu Ping reported to the imperial court, the reply came down quickly, and it remained unchanged according to the previous rules. The envoys from the east stopped in Qinzhou, and the tributes were escorted by the Xiang army along the way, and the return and national letters were also escorted to Qinzhou by the Xiang army, and then brought back by the envoys.

Now it is wartime, the DPRK and China are very sensitive to the people who go to the northwest, and those who come and go through the Tong Pass must be strictly checked, and the people of Fanguo are not allowed to enter the capital as much as possible. After the first battle of Zhuoluo City, Shazhou is no longer as important as before, and it is enough to give generous comfort. Now that the internal and external affairs of Longyou have been entrusted to the Marshal of Qinzhou, the imperial court is now of little interest in Shazhou and Khotan.

Such an attitude of the DPRK and China is related to the rise of Xu Ping's status after the first battle of Zhuo Luocheng, and the northwest strategy he proposed was finally accepted by the imperial court. After the Qinzhou army entered and occupied the first line of Mabitshan, the focus of the battle will be shifted to the first line of Tiandu Mountain, and the secondary battlefield will be the line of Malyeongsu in Gyeongju from the Jingsai Supervision Army Division of the party, in short, around the Hulucheon Valley Road. Xu Ping's judgment was recognized by the imperial court, and the attention shifted to the two wings of the Hulu River centered on Jingyuan Road, and no one paid attention to Hexi.

The imperial court embraced the new strategy, and the deployment was adjusted accordingly. Shaanxi deployed Xia Shouyun and controlled the troops and horses of Huanqing and Yanyan, stationed in Gyeongju, mainly facing the Jingsai Supervision Military Division, and at the same time defending the direction of Hengshan. Xu Ping deployed the two routes of soldiers and horses of Qinfeng and Jingyuan with the deputy capital of Shaanxi, and stationed in Qinzhou, mainly facing the Xishoujian Military Division and the Tiandu Mountain South Courtyard. The military intelligence of Qin Feng and Jingyuan was directly reported to the Privy Council, and at the same time, Xia Shouyun Shuaisi, who was transferred to Gyeongju, was actually independent of each other.

At this time, the old generals of the Sanya felt the crisis and united around Xia Shouyun, determined to fight a few beautiful victories in the upcoming war and correct the name of the Sanya Forbidden Army. Maybe it was deliberately to oppose Xu Ping, or maybe they just thought so, Xia Shouyun and the generals of Sanya firmly believed that the focus of the party's next attack was still in the direction of Hengshan, and it should also be the key offensive direction of the Song army. The Wuding River valley in Yinzhou and Xia Prefecture is the foundation of the party, and it is from there that they started.

At Xia Shouyun's insistence, the main forces of the Sanya Forbidden Army were still assembled on the two roads of Huanqing and Yanyan, and most of them were on the Yanyan Road. As for the direction of attack of the Jingsai Prison Military Division, he also chose the prominent White Leopard City, instead of following Xu Ping's suggestion to build a fortress along Malingshui. Malingshui is another northbound passage parallel to Huluchuan, which can go directly to Lingzhou, but the road is not as wide as the Huluchuan Valley Road, and it is difficult for the army to march. When necessary, it can be used as a supplement to the Hulu River Valley Road, and the surprise soldiers go straight out of Lingzhou. Xia Shouyun's choice shows that his strategic focus is still on the front line of Hengshan.

Xu Ping couldn't control Xia Shouyun, and even the imperial court could only appease the generals of the three yas represented by Xia Shouyun, and the eastern front of the party on Shaanxi Road had to be arranged by them. In this strategic deployment, the generals along the border still cannot be united.

Immediately afterwards, Wen Yanbo tried the case of Huang Dehe falsely accusing Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun of surrendering to the enemy as a servant of the imperial history, because the evidence was conclusive, Huang Dehe was beheaded, and the power of the inner servant was hit. Taking this as a breakthrough, Lü Yijian forced his inner servants to propose that they would no longer send temporary prison troops, and the tradition of internal servants and supervising troops came to an end. However, this does not mean that there is no prison army in the army, but there is no prison army with the imperial order sent out during the battle, such as the formation of envoys. The supervision system still exists, and what ended this time was actually the beginning of the Taizong Dynasty, which was to monitor the formation of the generals from the middle of the imperial court, and the internal servants of the battle with the formation map and other monitoring generals arranged the formation according to the edict.

After the disturbance, the newly appointed Jingyuan Road Envoy and Han Qi finally took office. At this time, it has been made clear that the soldiers and horses of Jingyuan Road are under Xu Ping's control, and before he officially took office, he first went to Qinzhou to visit Xu Ping and lead the future military strategy.

Welcoming Han Qi to the Shuai Mansion, Xu Ping said: "After a long time in the capital, I didn't expect you and me to meet again in the northwest. Zhigui, since the fifth year of Tiansheng, you and I have known each other for many years, and this time we will make a big deal in the northwest! ”

Han Qi said respectfully: "Yun Xing has made many miraculous contributions to the country, and now he is in the position of the ruler, and the army is alone, I have just arrived in the northwest, and I am not familiar with everything, but I just listen to the scriptures." Jingyuan strategy, please also make it clear. ”

Xu Ping waved his hand, looked at Han Qi and said with a smile: "You and I are the same year, we have known each other for many years, Zhigui, if you say so, it is too much to see outsiders." We will discuss and handle the affairs of Jingyuan Road, and we must always do things well. In the next year, I am afraid that most of the war will be located on or around Jingyuan Road, and the burden on your shoulders will be extremely heavy, so don't be presumptuous. ”

Han Qi didn't dare to say anything, his attitude has always been humble, but he always lacked a bit of intimacy between the same year.

Xu Ping doesn't care about Han Qi either, he is such a person, he will always hold the measure, never speak thoroughly, never do things to death, and always leave a way back. Whether it is said that he is sleek, or that he is wise, in short, he is not a person who can speak clearly and put people into his heart. Fortunately, he is sleek, not treacherous, and he is still reliable in doing things.

After talking about the scene and doing façade work, Xu Ping let Han Qi go to the back office and set up a banquet for him alone. Many things still have to be said privately between the two, and the friendship of the same year is always there, and Han Qi has always maintained this relationship.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Xu Ping said to Han Qi: "You know a lot about the great battles in the past winter. What do you think of coming to Jingyuan Road to take charge of the government this time? We are not outsiders, we have something to say, and we don't miss the right thing for the sake of swallowing! ”

Han Qi thought for a moment and nodded heavily: "Since Yun Xing asked, I naturally know everything. Before I left Beijing, Zhao Zhen, the deputy capital of Huanqing Road, had been degraded because of the delay in rescuing Yanzhou in the past few months, and Ge Huaimin, the deputy capital of the original Jingyuan Road, was transferred to Huanqing Road. Ge Huaimin was born in Jiangmen, and he has many in-laws with the generals of Sanya, and this time he transferred it, and he understood what it meant when he came to Yunxing. Now the main general of Jingyuan Road doesn't know who it is, to tell you from the heart, if it weren't for the Jingyuan Road soldiers and horses controlled by you, with your current prestige in the northwest enough to deter everything, I really wouldn't dare to take on this important task! ”

"If you win, you will strive for merit, and you will be greedy for profit; If you lose, you will not be saved, and they will flee for their lives. Isn't this problem of the forbidden army a day or two, and it can be corrected just by degrading a few generals or killing a group of commanders? I don't think so! ”

Xu Ping shook his head, drank a glass of wine, and was silent.

The investigation of responsibility for the defeat of Sanchuankou is still ongoing, and the beheading of Huang Dehe is only the most prominent incident. Other responsibilities such as sitting idly by and not helping, deliberately delaying, etc., are widely implicated, and now they are just chasing Zhao Zhen's head. As soon as Sanchuankou was defeated, Fan Yong, who was in Yanzhou, panicked and issued a letter asking all the surrounding generals to go to Yanzhou for rescue. There is no plan to do things, and it is ridiculous to send such a random message, that is, the strength of the party is not enough, if Yuan Hao takes this opportunity to surround the point and send reinforcements, and each one is broken, then it will not only lose that little bit of people in Sanchuankou. In fact, the soldiers and horses who were far away, Yuan Hao had retreated for a month or two before rushing to Yanzhou, what did they do? Because Fan Yongguang sent a text, the generals of Yan Yan and Huanqing were like headless flies, running in vain for a few months, and the loss of tens of thousands of troops running hundreds of miles in vain did not know how to calculate.

Zhao Zhen is sitting on Huanqing Road, the party and the army have been busy for a few months and have not found a flaw from him, even if there is a small mistake, it only needs to be lightly blamed or degraded by one or two officials, and now he is directly transferred back to the mainland, replaced by Ge Huaimin, and I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse. However, his departure from Jingyuan Road is not necessarily a bad thing.