On July 27, Han Shige led his army to Lingqiu City.

An army of thousands of people suddenly appeared outside the city, and Lingqiu City was suddenly shocked. From the officials of the Lingqiu County Government to the peddlers and pawns in the city, they were both surprised and curious, but when it came to military secrets, no one would rush to investigate, at most they would stand far away and watch the excitement.

A heavily armed eagle guard galloped into the city, to the county government, Wu Benlang will be the new righteous prince Han Shige in accordance with the holy lord's edict, led the army east into Zhuo County, passing through Lingqiu, specially asked Lingqiu County Government to open the city gate, take the road. And took out Han Shige's seal letter as a certificate.

Weifu Wu Benlang will be a high-ranking officer of Zheng Sipin, Han Shige is the son of the famous Middle-earth general Han Baohu, plus a heavily armed Weifu army, where would the officials of Lingqiu County think that this is a scam? The officials of Lingqiu County opened the city gate and warmly welcomed them, but the result can be imagined, and they were "served in one pot" in a daze.

Han Shige's soldiers were bloodless and easily took Lingqiu City.

Subsequently, Li Min and Niu Jinda led the 23rd Army of the alliance to Lingqiu and took over the city.

Han Shige did not stop and led the army to rush to the flying fox.

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July 27, Zhuo County, Linshuo Palace.

The Holy Lord returned from a long journey from the battlefield of Liaodong, dusty and exhausted.

Zhuojun stayed behind Duan Da out of the capital Jicheng 100 miles away to pick up, carefully served all the way, and in the afternoon of the same day, Hu crossed the Sangganshui from the Holy Lord and the Xinggong, and entered the Linshuo Palace located on the west side of the Sangganshui.

That night, Duan Da was edicted to enter the palace to meet the Holy Lord.

At the beginning of the car, Duan Da hurriedly met the Holy Lord, but because he was busy on the road, the monarch and the ministers had no intention of talking deeply. Duan Da originally thought that the Holy Lord would have a good night's rest and summon him the next day, but he didn't expect the Holy Lord to be so eager that he couldn't wait for dawn.

Seeing the Holy Lord, Duan Da tactfully expressed his concern for the king. The Holy Lord was visibly thin, haggard, and a little depressed, but his mental state was fine, and he still seemed to be full of confidence.

The Holy Lord shook his hand at Duan Da, signaling him not to say some meaningless nonsense, and to get straight to the point, although he did have some "injuries" under the repeated blows, but it was not Duan Da's turn to care about "hypocrisy".

Duan Da immediately gave a detailed explanation of the key parts of the current situation between China and foreign countries. In fact, these contents were reported to the Holy Lord from various sources, and even the content he understood might be more detailed than Duan Da, but he needed different people to make different interpretations from different positions and angles in order to provide him with more valuable references.

"The situation in the eastern capital has improved."

Since the general of Youyiwei came to Hu'er and led the main force of the water division into the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, the situation in the Eastern Capital quickly reversed. According to the latest news, Yang Xuangan's rebels have withdrawn from the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, and the Eastern Capital has been safe, and especially importantly, because the siege of the Eastern Capital is shorter, the losses suffered are smaller, and the time to restore stability in the Eastern Capital has been greatly shortened.

"According to the minister's inference, now Yang Xuangan should be surrounded in the Hongnong area, there is Tongguan in front of the danger, there are tens of thousands of chasing soldiers in the back, there are continuous mountains on the left, and there are surging rivers on the right, which has been plugged in and is difficult to fly, and will soon be destroyed."

"However, due to the impact of the crisis in the eastern capital, Xijing had to fight on two fronts, which led to the deterioration of the situation in the northwest, and the crisis in the northwest became increasingly serious."

The Northwest crisis is inside and out. According to the latest news, the Tuyuhun people have captured their former capital and ambushed the Middle Earth army, and the two sides are currently fighting fiercely in the Mahayana and Shugu areas in the upper reaches of the Huangshui, so that the results of the Western Expedition have been lost; At the same time, the Western Turks made a comeback and moved their tent to Sanmi Mountain in the north of Qiuzi in the Western Regions, that is, the Western Turks once again expanded their sphere of influence to the Western Regions, and the Western Regions countries had to turn their backs on Middle-earth and surrender their hands to the Turks.

There are also two crises in the northwest, one is the civil strife in the Western Turks a few years ago, the Luo Khan of the mud Turk was defeated and fled to Middle Earth, and the tribes that followed him were all settled in Huining, Hexi, and now the Western Turkic Khan secretly instigated these tribes to return to their homeland, so the Turks in Huining clamored to go back, which made the situation in Hexi quite tense; The other is the issue of Yi Shuai of the Northwest Army, although the Holy Lord has long ordered Wei Wei Shaoqing and Tang Guogong Li Yuan to rush to the northwest from Liaodong day and night to replace Yuan Hongsi as Honghua's guard, but so far, there is no news to confirm that Li Yuan has completed this task, but fortunately, there is no news to confirm that Yuan Hongsi has raised troops to rebel. However, the more confusing the situation became, the greater the hidden crisis, and Xijing was even more tense and unable to sleep and eat because of this.

"Also affected by the crisis in the eastern capital, the North-South Grand Canal has also fallen into a serious security crisis."

On the front line of the Yongji Canal, the thieves in the Bohai, Pingyuan, and Qinghe counties in southern Hebei are rampant, among which the Bohai thief Geqian, the plain thief Hao Xiaode, the Qinghe thief Gao Shida, and Zhang Jincheng are particularly arrogant, burning, killing, and plundering everything on both sides of the Yongji Canal, and last month Hao Xiaode, Zhang Jincheng, and Liu Heimin even joined forces to capture Liyangcang, and plundered them on a large scale, and the crime is unforgivable.

On the front line of Tongji Canal, thieves are also rampant, first there are white-haired thieves to rob the channel, and then there are thieves in Song and Henan Han Xiangguo, and now I hear that Meng Haigong of Jiyin is also murderous, and Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin of Dongjun are also unscrupulously burning and plundering, and the situation is very bad.

On the front line of Shanyang (Hangou) in Jianghuai, Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyi, Li Zitong and other thieves became more and more powerful, not only frequently plundering channels, but also invading the surrounding areas of Jiangdu from time to time, and the situation became more and more serious.

On July 11, Liu Yuanjin, a native of Yuhang, raised troops to rebel, gathered tens of thousands of three Wu disciples in a short period of time, roared north along the Jiangnan Canal, attacked the city all the way, burned and plundered, and did everything, and the left of the river was in chaos.

The North-South Grand Canal has four sections, the source is Yuhang on the left side of the river, and the end point is Jicheng, the capital of Zhuo County. Last year, there were many rebellions in the north and south of the river, and the Yongji Canal and the Tongji Canal were cut off, and this year it was even worse, not only the Yongji Canal and the Tongji Canal continued to be cut off, but even the Shanyang Canal (Hangou) located in Jianghuai was also besieged by traitors, and now even the Jiangnan River was interrupted, and even the source of the Grand Canal, Yuhang, broke out in rebellion, so that Jiangzuo's materials could not be transported to the north, and the impact was great, and the most harmful was the suppression of the western and northern Xinjiang.

As far as the border garrisons are concerned, the number of troops is of course important, but the continuous supply of grain and other materials for war readiness is the real foundation; without this "fundamental," the garrisons in the border areas will be nothing more than empty words, and no matter how good the national defense strategy is, it will be impossible to implement it.

"Because of the crisis in the Eastern Capital, the Second Eastern Crusade had to be suspended, and the defeat of the two consecutive Eastern Crusades of Goguryeo can imagine the negative impact on the country, but what is more serious is that the Great Desert Northern Captives will inevitably make a very unfavorable interpretation of the situation between the north and the south on this basis, and then affect and even determine the adjustment and modification of the Middle-earth strategy of the Great Desert Northern Captives in the coming period."

The immediate consequence of this "adjustment and revision" may be the outbreak of the Great Civil War.

"According to the latest news that the minister got from the Desert Tooth Tent, Shibi Khan's position in the Tooth Tent is becoming more and more stable, and he has received more and more support, especially the support of the big tribes such as Tiele and Xue Yantuo; On the contrary, Princess Yicheng's situation is becoming more and more difficult, and now in addition to the henchmen of a group of former Qimin Khans such as Shabo Luoshe, Ashina Suni and Jiabitler Ashina Simo, who continue to be loyal and support Princess Yicheng, other supporting forces are rapidly weakening under the deliberate blows, divisions and co-optation of Shibi Khan. ”

Duan Da concisely described and analyzed the four key parts of the current situation in China and abroad, and the four major crises.

two domestic crises, the Eastern Capital Crisis and the Grand Canal Crisis; Two foreign-related crises, the Northwest Crisis and the North-South Crisis.

At present, the crisis in the eastern capital is being resolved, but quelling Yang Xuangan's rebellion is only the first step to solve this crisis, and political liquidation is only the second step, and the third step is the most critical, that is, who wins and loses between reform and conservatism, if the reform fails, the Holy Lord and the reformers will also come to the end of the road.

Because of this, the crisis in the Eastern Capital is related to the core issue of Chinese and Turkish politics, and if this core problem is not solved, the political situation in China and Turkey will not be stable, and if the political situation in China and Turkey is unstable, it will not be able to solve all other crises, so the crisis in the Eastern Capital must be resolved as soon as possible, and it must be resolved as quickly as possible, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

At present, the crisis of the Grand Canal is in the outbreak period, although it is imminent and needs to be solved urgently, but the Holy Lord, the Central Hub, and the Guardian Mansion are all in a difficult situation of internal and external troubles, and they simply cannot spare their hands to fight the chaos and thieves along the entire Grand Canal in the short term. However, most of these traitors are a rabble, and they will not be able to become a climate in the short term, and they will be vulnerable, at most, they will temporarily create a little trouble for the eastern capital, and they will have immediate worries, but they will not have long-term concerns.

In the current crisis in the northwest, the two internal crises are still under control, while the two external crises are powerless to deal with, and they can only watch the results of the western expedition be lost, and watch the newly expanded territory be encroached upon by the Turks and Tuyuhun people. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, and he can only wait for the opportunity to wash away his shame.

The North-South crisis is now out of control for Middle-earth. The reason for the loss of control is not the two defeats of Middle-earth in the Far Eastern battlefield, but the conservative and conservative faction within the Desert Tooth Tent, that is, the pro-Middle-earth faction, that is, the political faction headed by Princess Yicheng and a group of loyal subordinates of Qimin Khan as the main force, has been seriously weakened, has lost control of the authority of the Tooth Tent, and has been forced to retreat step by step by the radical main battle faction within the Tooth Tent.

Shibi Khan and his supporters were radical warlords, and they had the grand goal of establishing a large and unified Great Turkic Khanate, and in order to achieve this goal they had to unify the desert and conquer the Far East, but also defeat Middle-earth, so the Great War between the North and the South would definitely break out, it was only a matter of time and timing, and now was clearly the right time.

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