The night is as cool as water and pitch black, but the inner history mansion of Jiyin County is brightly lit and bright as day. Although the master of Jiyin County, who slammed the door, was very distressed by this extravagant behavior, who called the king of Xihe County to beg Fu Guihe to be the celebrity in front of Sangui, if he didn't entertain him carefully, let alone talk about the year-end assessment and promotion, even his current position would not be stable.

Beggar Fu Guihe really made the strange things in the past few days anxious, and his heart was panicked, especially at night, as long as there was the slightest sound, he would wake up instantly. Therefore, begging Fu Guihe asked the Shijiang Mansion in Jiyin County to be lit up all night, and asked Fu Fu to send a thousand guards to guard outside the bedroom, so the panic and nervousness were slightly relieved.

Fu Fu stood quietly outside the bedroom of the beggar Guihe, listening to the snoring sound mixed with the "hissing" insect chirping, and his heart was slandered: This fat pig, let us stand guard and sentry, but I am sleeping peacefully, if God has eyes, he should accept your scourge.

In terms of duties, Qifu Guihe is his own peak, and Fu Fu must ensure his safety, but from a selfish point of view, he can't wait for Qifu Guihe to die on the spot, so that there is one less corrupt official in Northern Qi who troubles the dynasty, and the people will suffer less, and he doesn't have to look at his eyes to act, not to mention, but also endure the condemnation of conscience.

It's the middle of summer and the beginning of June, and although the stars are dotted, they still can't hide the brilliance of the crescent moon.

"Your Majesty the Wise Emperor Shenwu, can you tell me how many years of fate Daqi still has? Is it true that this vast country is going to perish at the hands of the faint king of Cushman & Wakefield? ”

Fu Fu looked up at the starry sky, looking at the quietly shining moonlight, his eyes couldn't help but be a little deep and confused. The moonlight is beautiful and eternal, but how much time is left for the prosperity of the Qi country?

There was good news again on the battlefield in the south, but Fu Fu didn't have much joy in his heart, some were just confused and sad.

On the third day of the sixth month, the prince of Beiping County and the generalissimo of the rebellion happily handed over a letter of war to the traitor Gao Xin, and the two sides agreed to fight on the fifth day of June in a vast plain outside Nanqingzhou, and they would fight to the death.

The traitor Gao Xin had a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, but the area under his rule was huge, the cities were scattered, and they could not help each other.

Although the generalissimo regained a large area of lost territory, but the traitors who were forced to bite back from time to time also made the Huaizhou army quite uncomfortable, when 80,000 male soldiers came, now only half of them can be accounted for, this loss is only the largest since Gao Changgong entered Huaizhou. However, the emperor's order was difficult to disobey, and even though he felt sorry for the lives of his subordinates, he had to continue to crusade against the traitors.

With the loss of Jiangsu, Sun Art has lost its strength, not only losing its strategic buffer zone, but also losing countless wealth. Sun Art's lost property is not simply money and food, but those meticulous trading networks and countless high-capacity factories are the greatest wealth. Now, Jiangsu has lost, and Sun Art has lost more than half of its wealth, and it seems that it is a little difficult to support the army.

If you ask Gao Xin what he is most afraid of now, he will definitely tell you about the "protracted war". Everyone in the world knows that Gao Xin is making money every day, but only the officials in Shandong Province know that the speed at which he spends money is even more terrifying.

In the troubled times, in addition to money and food, the most important thing is undoubtedly the population, and only with the population can there be a stable source of troops and sufficient labor. It is precisely based on this that Sun Art has absorbed a large number of refugees who have come to vote and has never refused. Although the consequence of this was that the populations of Shandong and Jiangsu increased dramatically, and the cities became more and more prosperous, which made Sun Art famous and popular, it also put great pressure on the finances.

Now that Sun Art's industry has been hit so badly, it would not be a wise move to fight with the Huaizhou army again. The grain that Gao Xin buried in Shandong was enough to feed his 50,000 troops for two years, but at this severe moment of war, when the city's production capacity was almost zero, Gao Xin could not hold out for long unless ordinary people starved to death. If he really does this, Shandong Province will not be able to defend it, and everything he has paid for the past three years will be in vain, and even if he escapes in the end, it will be difficult to make a comeback.

Rather than end up with life and death and endure countless sufferings, it is better to fight it out now, fight to the death, and maybe turn defeat into victory. There are still 50,000 people in Shandong, while the Huaizhou army is only 40,000, and Gao Xin still has some advantage in numbers, so he did not refuse the Huaizhou army's war letter.

Although he knew that the Huaizhou army took the initiative to ask for war, which might be deceitful, Gao Xin still decided to fight, in addition to being forced to fight, he also had his own thoughts.

The 80,000 Huaizhou army lost half, and this loss was undoubtedly extremely huge for Huaizhou. Shandong still has more than a dozen counties in five prefectures, 50,000 defenders, if the Huaizhou army continues to advance layer by layer, a strong attack of one city and one pool, maybe it will eventually destroy Gao Xin, but I am afraid that I will also break my muscles and bones, and I will collapse. If Huaizhou and Yecheng are united, even if the loss of 100,000 Huaizhou troops may not be nothing, but the two look like they are inseparable, and the Huaizhou side is obviously unwilling to fight to the end.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, the Huaizhou Army and the Shandong Righteous Army fought on the plain outside Nanqingzhou. Nearly 100,000 horses gather here, the black pressure is overwhelming, and the various colored flags waving in the wind cover the sky and the sun, and the momentum of the condensed mountains shakes the heart.

In the battle of the plains in the era of cold weapons, the main factors that affected the victory were the generals' dominance over the soldiers, the mutual cooperation between the soldiers, and the combat effectiveness and morale of individuals. After all, the four states are empty, flat and unobstructed, and there is no cover, even if you want to ambush them, you can't.

War is not a game, it represents only cruelty and blood, and secular morality and ethics cannot restrain it at all.

As the weaker side, Sun Art naturally wants to achieve the ultimate victory while preserving its strength. At the beginning of the battle, Gao Xin used the once-famous weapon of death: gunpowder.

The power of gunpowder is secondary, and its deafening, thunderous sound is the most terrifying. Even the modern people who developed science and technology in later generations talked about it, not to mention the ancients who revered ghosts and gods, feared nature, and knew nothing about it.

A round of gunpowder killed and injured many Huaizhou troops, and at the same time, it greatly damaged the morale of the Huaizhou army. At this moment, Gao Xin dispatched another 10,000 iron horsemen. In the plains of Pingchuan, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was brought into full play, and the Huaizhou army was caught off guard by the Jiangsu righteous army, and was defeated and retreated.

Gao Xin Xue hid the gunpowder and cavalry, and Xing Xing also did not keep the agreement. Of the 50,000 people who fought against the Shandong Rebels on the plains, the real Huaizhou Army was only 10,000, and the other 30,000 were the people in charge of logistics, but the real main force quietly went around behind the Shandong Rebels and came to cover up when the Shandong Rebels relaxed their vigilance because of the joy of victory.

When Gao Xin lamented the great victory in the battle, and wondered why the combat effectiveness of the Huaizhou Army had been greatly weakened, and the vast majority of people had no backbone to surrender with their heads in their hands, the Huaizhou Army of the brigade came like a tide. The Shandong rebels were defenseless and were stabbed in the back at the most lax moment, almost devastatingly. Gao Xin knew that the situation was impossible, so he immediately ordered a retreat, but in the end only more than 20,000 people withdrew from the battlefield. However, the Huaizhou army did not pursue the poor kou, but turned over and recovered Nanqingzhou.

Having lost the support of the city, the Shandong Righteous Army, which was short of supplies, was like a naked lamb and a motherless child, even if it had a mouthful of fangs, but the attack power it could exert was really limited.

Although most of the cities in Shandong Province were not lost, Gao Xin's 20,000 horses were not the opponent of the Huaizhou army at all, and it was a matter of time before they were defeated. The three-year-old rebellion was about to be extinguished, which was a great joy for the Qi country, or for Gao Wei, but Fu Fu felt an indescribable irritability and confusion in his heart.

Loyal to the monarch and patriotic, what if it is a faint monarch? If you are alone, how can you represent the country?

When the time came, the sweltering heat made the guards drowsy, and some of the strong ones even fell asleep with their blades straight. Although Fu Fu saw that the soldiers were careless and slack, he did not scold and stop him.

Regarding the practice of begging for Gui and using a thousand people to guard the door for himself, Fu Fu thinks that pure crushing is the former making a big fuss. As for the ghost that Qi Fu Guihe said about meeting a ghost at night, Fu Fu sneered at it, saying that Qi Fu Guihe was hallucinating because of overwork, but in his heart he said that he was a thief. In fact, although he intuitively felt that this was deliberately done by someone, Fu Fu was reluctant to investigate deeply. Those who seek to beg and trouble this scourge may not be good people, but they are definitely doing harm to the people.

A cool breeze blew, and the cool feeling cleared Fu Fu's mind. At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly came from afar: "Beggar and old thief, take your life-" Then came a weeping whimper, ethereal, but with a chilling breath in the heart.

"Who dares to pretend to be a ghost here!" Fu Fu raised his eyebrows and shouted loudly.

"Beggar and old thief, take your life—" The voice from before sounded again, the same tone, the same tone, but in the opposite direction.

Fu Fu gasped, drank lightly, his body suddenly rose from the ground, borrowed strength from the column beside him, and deftly turned over and jumped onto the roof. Fu Fu raised his eyes and looked around, because the Inner History Mansion was as bright as day, but it was pitch black all around, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the black hole.

"Who is Your Excellency, so sneaky, hiding your head and showing your tail!" Fu Fu was angry and sank into the dantian, and Yang Sheng shouted.

"Six...... Month...... Beginning...... Nine, also ...... Life...... It...... "......A hoarse female voice came, but it was erratic and could not find its way at all. The eerie and long voice makes people's scalp tingle and cold hands and feet.

"Uh-huh!"

Fu Fu was frowning and contemplating, carefully investigating all the abnormalities around him, but suddenly there was a slight muffled snort in his ears. Fu Fu was shocked, and hurriedly looked down, only to see a soldier suddenly fall to the ground, not only did not have the slightest pain on his face, but a calm and comfortable expression.

Fu Fu was about to ask what was going on, but suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand on end, and a killing intent enveloped him. Fu Fu suddenly turned his head, and saw that on the eaves two meters away, there was a woman in white with a disheveled hair standing quietly, her face was pale, her lips were scarlet, but her eyes were hollow, like a legendary ghost.