Baguangxiu's disease is a respiratory disease, and several Han doctors among the party members are only general, so it is not possible to diagnose whether it is tuberculosis or not. For Tuoba Guangxiu, the most difficult thing in the year is the autumn and winter, once the weather cools down, not only can he no longer take care of things, but he doesn't even dare to go out of the house, which is why he can't leave Tongwan City all year round as the assassin of Suizhou.

Beginning in the autumn of the second year of Guangshun, Yanzhou began to impose comprehensive economic sanctions on the Pingxia Ministry, which led to a decrease in the flow of grain, medicinal materials and other materials from the Central Plains into Yinxia.

In order not to delay Tuoba Guangxiu's illness, Tuoba Yiyin controlled the entire clan's medicinal material reserves and rationed them. The patriarch of the Tuoba family was still relatively civilized, and he did not believe in the shamans of the clan who were usually used to pretending to be gods and ghosts.

As the weather gradually warmed up, Tuoba Guangxiu's spirit gradually improved, and he began to be able to help Tuoba Yiyin plan some things.

On this day, Tuoba Yiyin didn't bring anyone, and came to visit Tuoba Guangxiu alone.

“…… Lu is thirteen this year, right? Tuoba Yi Yin looked at Tuoba Guangxiu's only son and asked.

"Fourteen years old......" Tuoba Lu was not at all afraid of the Mo Ning order of the Pingxia Eight Divisions, and replied by looking him directly into the eyes.

Tuoba Yi Yin nodded, waved his hand and ordered him to retreat.

"I plan to let Lu Xi serve as the commander of the Suizhou defense, and the young eagles will always fly out to know how wide the world is outside......"

Looking at Tuoba Guangxiu's eyes, Tuoba Yiyin said slowly.

Tuoba Guangxiu sighed softly and did not speak.

Tuoba Yi Yin smiled, he was too familiar with his nephew, a wise man who was never used to expressing his feelings clearly. Nevertheless. As the head of the Tuoba family, the patriarch of the eight tribes of Pingxia, he has the responsibility to do something for this nephew.

"Let's not talk about it, let's talk about it, the situation is getting worse and worse now, Guangyuan and Guangxian are strongly advocating sending troops to attack Luzi Pass. and Li Wenge of Yanzhou fought to the death. Although Chu Weiyan did not say a word during the meeting, he privately advised me to submit a subordinate to Bianliang and use Guo Wei's influence to contain and hinder Li Wenge's actions. The two sides have different accounts, but they agree on one thing - this situation will not last long. Even if Yanzhou doesn't move a single soldier, as long as the market trade is continued to be banned for another one to two years, Yelifang will get up and give our Tuoba family as a great gift to the Han people......"

Tuoba Yi Yin rubbed his face with his hands as he spoke, in the past year or so, the old patriarch's hair was almost half white, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to have suddenly more than doubled.

This year. Li Wenge, a little man in Yanzhou who has never met, has made this world-class hero miserable.

Originally, after returning from the two expeditions to Luzi Pass, the Tuoba family had begun to be vigilant enough against the little man Li Wenge. From March last year to March this year, for a whole year, Yinxia did not know how many meticulous works and spies were sent to understand the origin and details of Li Wenge. Of course, all the investigations were until the true identity of Li Wenge's "hungry man" was traced, and what happened to this person before Li Bin discovered and saved Li Wenge was still a fog.

However, this Li Wenge is bringing more and more trouble to the Pingxia Babu.

Last year's attack on Fuzhou did not go well. But it still worked.

The Yang family, known as the volcano hero, didn't let go of a single obedient way, and cowered in the state city to watch the Dangxiang army cross the border, under the joint pressure of the Northern Han and the Eight Divisions of the Ping Xia. The so-called in-laws of the sons and daughters of the land are just layers of paper, and they are never in the consideration of the princes of these troubled times. The little girl from the Zhi family, who was married into the Yang family at a young age and was now a hostage in Taiyuan with the young master of the Yang family, had no power to change all this, nor was she able to relieve some pressure on her father and brother. In the face of military threats from both sides, the third general of the Zhe family, who has always been extremely conceited militarily and never shows weakness, had to give up the fat of Lanzhou, which had already reached his mouth, and returned to Fangfuzhou.

In order to resist the advance of the Tuoba family's troops, General Zhesan even carried out a strong wall clearing on the counties and towns in the south of Fuzhou, harvested the crops that were not yet ripe in advance, and moved all the farmers, cattle and horses into the Fuzhou city, and the whole army contracted to prepare for a decisive battle with the Tuoba family under the Fuzhou city.

It was precisely in anticipation of this that Tuoba Yi Yin left behind the most wise and far-sighted Tuoba Guangxiu and the most brave and famous old uncle of the Luo Wang, and left two elite soldiers and twenty harriers. Even so, Tuoba Yi Yin still made the worst plan, he has made a plan to completely abandon Youzhou and Suizhou on the southern front at the critical moment of crisis, as long as Fuzhou can be defeated, once the main force of the party returns to the division, these two states and counties with general city defense can be taken back at any time.

As long as you can't defeat the Ruan and unify the ten thousand cities, you won't be able to damage the foundation of the Tuoba family; As long as the folded family has no Fuzhou, it will become a homeless and wandering lonely ghost, whether it is Youzhou or Suizhou, there is no substitute for Fuzhou

Tuoba Yi Yin once believed that the key to this war was to see whether the Zhejia family would first conquer Tongwancheng or he would first conquer Fuzhou - the conclusion was very gratifying, the city defense situation of Tongwancheng was much better than Fuzhou, after all, it was a super battle fortress built by Helian Bobo with all the strength of the whole country, and compared with Fuzhou that had only risen in the troubled times over the years, it was much better in all aspects.

However, the final result made Mo Ning of the Eight Divisions of Pingxia so angry that he almost vomited blood, and the coalition forces of Zhejia and Yanzhou did not waste time in Suizhou and Youzhou nor went to Tongwancheng to consume troops, but took a diagonal, directly conquered Yinzhou, which was weakly defended but was in the rear of the Yinxia strategy, and swept away a large number of war resources that he had hoarded, and by the way, he set a big fire on the grassland in southern Xia, and burned the grassland on which the Tuoba family depended.

This is all a good thing that Li Wenge did.

As a result, the Fuzhou raid operation ended in nothing, Tuoba Yi Yin had to fly back to the Xiazhou lair with his army all the way, giving up all the territory and population he had occupied since the beginning of the war. Therefore, he simply gave up these enclaves that would definitely be taken back by the Fold family.

The Tuoba tribe who returned to Xia Prefecture did not find out until the beginning of winter that they had fallen into an even more terrifying trap.

Since September, Yanzhou has completely cut off all trade routes with Yinxia, and since then no Han caravan has dared to do business with the Tuoba family, but the trade between these caravans and the three major tribes in the south has continued, and the noble elders of the Yeli family, the Fei Ting family, and the Fang Dangjia even exchanged the armor, weapons, and slaves of the Tuoba family with these resources such as grain and medicinal materials bought from the interior. Tuoba Yi Yin knew very well what the elders of the three major families were thinking—after all, Tuoba Family Land Dominance was not innate.

In the eyes of the Han people in the Central Plains, the Son of Heaven is the one who is strong and strong.

In the eyes of the party members of Yinxia, the most populous and powerful ethnic group with the strongest military power is the leader. This is the essence of an aristocratic republic.

But Tuoba Yi Yin can only turn a blind eye to this situation, and the warriors must also judge the situation, for Yanzhou, which has now become the poisonous plan set by Li Wenge, the general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Tuoba Yi Yin sees very clearly, this cunning and vicious Han people are undoubtedly provoking disputes and even civil wars between the eight major clans of the party, and using the party members themselves to eliminate themselves. But it's one thing to see clearly. It is not so easy to effectively defuse this ruse.

The Tuoba family had also tried to make contact with the greedy smugglers in the Han caravans, and there were indeed two Han caravans that had been baited under the high transaction prices offered by the Tuoba family. However, their fate discouraged all those who came after them, and the heads of the proprietors of these two caravans are still hanging on the gates of the northern city of Yanzhou.

The caravans that traded with the three southern tribes would never be merciful to these opponents who used the smuggling land model to compete with them commercially, and they would report these gamers who broke the rules as soon as possible, while the Yanzhou side only needed to verify the authenticity of the receipts of the goods with the three tribes to finalize the case.

The pastures were burned and their savings looted, and there were no commercial resources, and hundreds of Tuoba families were starved to death this winter.

When the food shortage comes. The first to be sacrificed were always the slaves at the bottom of society.

The Great Famine triggered the Great Exodus, and in six months, nearly 2,000 people fled south. Most of them died on the way south and under the scimitars of the pursuing Tuoba cavalry. Hundreds of people entered the Yanzhou territory through Luzi Pass and Weiping Pass.

It was not until the end of the year that Tuoba Yi Yin learned that Yanzhou had implemented the fugitive slave law, which was another poisonous plan by Li Wenge to suck the blood of the Tuoba family.

After a winter of fleeing and killing, the population of the Tuoba family has plummeted from 12,000 to less than 9,000, and due to food shortage, less than 50 newborns were born within half a year. At this rate, Li Wenge was able to starve the Tuoba family to death in just two years.

In order to alleviate this situation, at the end of the year, Tuoba Yiyin had to launch several military attacks on Yanzhou under extremely unfavorable circumstances.

Under the guard of Zhe Yuqing, Luzi Pass has really become an insurmountable Xiongguan. After more than half a year of operation and construction, today's Luzi Pass has become a real Xiongguan with an urn city structure, coupled with the cold climate and the ingenious means of sprinkling water into ice in the Yuqing, the Tuoba family has lost more than 200 troops in front of Luzi Pass, but failed to achieve any practical results.

As a last resort, Tuoba Yi Yin resolutely annexed the fine seal family.

The explanation of the joint tribal meeting is that the fine seal of the fine seal family was the leader of the cavalry of the enemy army in Yanzhou, and this party traitor had the blood of his own people on his hands, and the fine seal family had to pay for it.

In fact, everyone understands that this is just an excuse, Xifeng Minda has long been a slave given to the Tuoba family by the Xifeng family, and in essence, this person has no connection with the Xifeng family. Just

After packing up the fine sealing family, Mo Ningling couldn't use the three major tribes in the south as an excuse to bring it up, because the people of the three tribes together were nearly 18,000 people, and the Tuoba family really couldn't eat it. If Tuoba Yi Yin annexed one of them on the charge of private trade with Yanzhou, it would cause an alliance of the three to revolt, which the Tuoba family could not afford today.

Therefore, persimmons can only be picked up softly, and the grassland is in the north of Xiazhou, where there are less than 5,000 people, and the fine sealing family is undoubtedly the best object.

Even so, Tuoba Yi Yin didn't dare to do anything, he just moved all the nobles of the Xifeng family to Tongwan City. He didn't really hurt these people, he didn't want to provoke those other clan elders because of this, if these high-ranking people were all in danger, the Tuoba family would be in danger.

Tuoba Yiyin lived for half his life in the troubled times of princes' disputes, and for the first time he saw that the battle could be fought like this, and the enemy army did not spend a single soldier. After sitting in danger, he only relied on the merchants who walked around to push his side to the point of exhaustion.

The Eighth Route Army under the command of Li Wenge had surpassed the Fuzhou Army of Zhecong Ruan and became the most vicious and difficult enemy of the Eight Divisions of Pingxia.

Speaking from the heart, Tuoba Yiyin would rather face the Zhe family than face the scoundrel Li Wenge.

“…… After all, Li Wenge wants to cut off the ...... of the alleged king"

Tuoba Guangxiu's tone was very light. But the words are quite striking.

Tuoba Yi Yin did not speak, and listened quietly.

Tuoba Guangxiu's tone was slow and calm, but full of confidence, and he slowly said that Li Wenge's various manifestations of inflated ambitions were like a family routine: "...... Now no feudal town dares to leave its own territory, but Li Wenge does. He is not blindly confident and brave, he has to do it as a last resort. He needs to appease the imperial court and paralyze the Guo family's sons of heaven and ministers. Therefore, he dared to go to Bianliang, which already shows that he has seen farther than all the local feudal towns. Now that he has returned from the court, he must have won the trust of the Zhou dynasty and the opposition. As long as this trust exists, we cannot defeat him head-on......"

"Li Wenge has three things to rely on. The trust of the imperial court is one thing, the feather alliance of the Zhi family is the second, and the army under his command is strong and capable of fighting.

As long as these three things don't mess up. This person will be able to gain a foothold in Yanzhou, and we can't shake him......"

He looked at Tuoba Yiyin with blazing eyes: "The head of the family...... To send someone to Bianliang, Mr. Chunqiu's proposition is to the ground. To deal with Li Wenge, it is necessary to dig him down from the roots. Only by showing surrender to the Zhou lords, and only when we become ministers of the Zhou Dynasty like Li Wenge, can we provide a reason for those ministers within the Zhou family who have been bribed by us to oppose Li Wenge's continued oppression and attack on us......"

"The Imperial Court of Bianliang...... Can you really control Li Wenge? Tuoba Yiyin asked bitterly.

"Can't!" Tuoba Guangxiu judged very firmly, "But the imperial court's attitude towards Li Wenge may be able to influence the decision of the Zhe family, as long as we show favor to the Zhe family and give up the plot against Fuzhou, the foundation of the Zhe family and Li Wenge's peace alliance will not exist." At this time, if the Bianliang court has suspicions and doubts about Li Wenge, even if the Zhe family does not stand on the side of the court, but just watches the fire from the other side, Li Wenge will not be able to bear it! ”

“…… Give up the plot against Fuzhou......" Tuoba Yiyin repeated Tuoba Guangxiu's words with difficulty, with a hesitation in his eyes that bordered on despair.

"Family master, for Bianliang, we are far away in the sky, but Li Wenge is not so far away. In the future, as long as the Central Plains is not stable, or the Khitan threat always exists, the Bianliang side will have no way to free up their hands to deal with us, but they will definitely attack Li Wenge. Li Wenge has seen this, so all his actions are to consolidate his rule over Yanzhou, he wants to make Yanzhou his own real territory, and let the Yinxia where we live become his rear support, all of which must be done in the near future. Because he knew that, as a feudal town, it would be a matter of time before he was suspicious of the imperial court, and he wanted to strengthen his own power as much as possible before that day came......"

"Fuzhou ...... As long as we live, we will have a chance in the future. If we are annexed by Li Wenge, no matter how Bianliang reacts, we will have no chance......"

"Paying tribute to Bianliang will not immediately alleviate our predicament, but if we don't make this move beforehand, our situation will never get better. Regardless of the utility, this step must always be taken. ”

"On the side of the Zhe family, we want to send a letter to Zhe Saburo through Fuzhou, expressing our willingness to talk about the sincerity of peace and not offending each other again, and Zhe Saburo will naturally tell this matter to Zhe Congruan. Although Zhi Congruan will not believe us at this moment, as long as the court shows that it is willing to accept our submission, this old fox will stop moving for the time being...... It must pass through Fuzhou, and nominally respect the Bianliang court. ”

Speaking of this, Tuoba Guangxiu stood up and said to Tuoba Yi Yin very solemnly: "Please Mr. Chunqiu to draw up a table of surrender on your behalf, please ask Bianliang to surrender, the head of the family ......!" ”