September 27, Anzhou, Baitancheng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Zixiong and Han Shige led their troops north on September 25, considering the worst possible outcome of the situation in Anzhou, that is, the main force of the alliance was defeated by the ghost side under the left and right attacks of the Xi army and the Turks in the southeast of the moraine, so even if Li Zixiong went north to attack the Xi Wangfu at the fastest speed, he could not give Li Fengyun effective support, but it was better to take advantage of Zhou Zhong's capture of Baitan City, which had already formed a containment of the Xi Wangfu, first swept the southwest region of Anzhou, and first took down all the cities and fortresses between Baoqiushui, Dayaoshui and Weishui. In this way, Li Fengyun can still have a rear support after being defeated, the alliance can still gain something from this expedition to Anzhou, and if the Great Wall is given support, the alliance can continue to attack after respite to expand the results.

Based on this consideration, Li Zixiong and Han Shige commanded the leopard cavalry army and the Thunder army to attack the city all the way, and the opponent was outnumbered, plus Anzhou belonged to Middle-earth, the local Han people always thought that they were Middle-earth, and they wanted to return to Middle-earth at all times.

The Leopard Cavalry and the Thunder Army were invincible, and within two days they took all the cities and fortresses between Baoqiu Water and Dayao Shui, and then rendezvous with Zhou Zhong and Lai Yuan in Baitan City.

Then Li Zixiong sat in the center of Baitan City to command, Mi Yong and a number of big axes led the horse army along the Dayao Water to besiege the Xi army in the direction of Yaoyang, Zhou Zhong and Lai Yuan led the army to cross the Dayao Shui, and the mountain pine nuts that have been active on both sides of the Weishui River, swept the city fortress between the Dayaoshui and the Weishui, and went north to threaten the Xi Wangfu, while Han Shige, Jingjiang Liujin Fei, and Erzhu Tianxiao led the horse infantry army down the Weishui and began to attack the killing loop between the Weishui and the northern foot of Yanshan. Scouts were also sent to reconnoiter the north bank of the river and the southeast foothills of the Mayu Mountains to prevent the Xi army from crossing the river and threatening the flank of the alliance army.

Around noon on 27 September, just as Li Zixiong was commanding the three-way army to attack, the good news suddenly came that Xi Wangfu had been conquered, the alliance had won the initiative on the battlefield in Anzhou, and victory was just around the corner.

Li Fengyun's cronies and subordinates galloped day and night, bringing Li Fengyun's personal letters, detailing that the humiliating royal troops took the initiative to form an alliance, took the initiative to sacrifice the ghost side and the Songshan Pass, and took the lead in attacking the Xi Wangfu, fraudulently opening the city gate, and the Xi Wangfu collapsed immediately, and the alliance army easily took all the passes of the city. Next, Li Fengyun led the army to Wulieshui and fought a decisive battle with the main army of the Xi people led by Ah Huizheng. Li Fengyun is full of confidence in this decisive battle, and the surrender of the humiliating royal tribe will bring a strong impact to the five tribes of the Xi tribe, and the Xi alliance led by the Ahui clan will surely collapse, and there is no suspense that the alliance will win this decisive battle.

However, the victory of this decisive battle only means that the alliance has captured Anju, and there is still a considerable distance before the alliance can gain a foothold in Anju and stabilize Anju. When winter comes, the Turks and the Donghu will attack Anzhou under the pretext of supporting the Xi people, the situation in Anzhou is becoming more and more sinister, and the tide of war may be reversed at any time, so Li Fengyun suggested to Li Zixiong to take advantage of the favorable opportunity to sweep the southwest region of Anzhou, and the alliance will first lay a foundation in the south of Lishui, and at the same time take advantage of the favorable conditions of capturing Anzhou, and do everything possible to win the support of the Middle-earth government.

Li Zixiong was pleasantly surprised and very excited. Miracle, Li Fengyun really created another miracle, Anzhou was unbelievably recovered, the situation was shocked in a short period of time, and one of the five tribes of the Xi tribe actually surrendered at a critical moment, giving the Xi clan Ahui clan alliance a fatal blow, which is incredible.

The humiliating royal ministry and Li Fengyun have a deep blood feud, and the two sides are in an endless situation, why did they suddenly turn hostility into jade silk and join hands to form an alliance? Although Li Fengyun explained in the letter that the Humiliated King was abandoned by Ah Huizheng and the other four tribes, and had to surrender for the survival of the tribe, and the alliance between the two sides was beneficial to each other, and the Humiliated King could develop and grow with the help of the alliance, and the alliance used the Humiliated King to recover Anzhou, and each got its own place, and everyone was happy, but Li Zixiong thought that there was a mystery here, and perhaps the Humiliated King was one of the "backers" secretly deployed by Pei Shiju and Li Fengyun. In addition, the Xi Wangfu fell apart overnight, and Li Zixiong also thought that it was extraordinary, the fortress was broken from the inside, and there must be internal responses, and these internal responses were undoubtedly the result of years of secret deployment.

But these secrets are not important now, and Li Zixiong has no intention of exhaustively investigating them, the secret army mastered by Pei Shiju and Li Fengyun's secret soldiers are all miracle-creating powers, just know the strength of this power. Now the result is very favorable to the alliance, and it is even more beneficial to Li Zixiong, who is trying to exchange merit for pardon, basically one foot has stepped back to the eastern capital, and he is only half a step away, so he must do his best to ensure a fruitful result and ensure that he wins the credit for recovering Anju.

Li Zixiong immediately ordered to spread the good news to all the officers and men of the army in order to boost morale. At the same time, he ordered Shan Songzi, who was fighting on both sides of the river, to immediately get in touch with the Alliance Grand Governor's Office in Fangcheng to establish a safe passage between Baitan and Fangcheng. He also ordered Han Shige, Jingjiang Liujinfei, and Erzhu Tianxiao to immediately send scouts across the river to get in touch with Li Fengyun and the main army of the alliance, who were fighting in Wulieshui, and enter the decisive battlefield at any time.

Li Zixiong hurriedly wrote to Li Fengyun again, telling in detail the process of the southward selection of the front army to capture Baitan City and Panlong Fort, the results of his negotiations with the wealthy families in the Great Wall, as well as the content of the negotiations with the Central Earth officials just sent by Yang Gongdao, as well as the battle plan for the southward selection of the front army to sweep southwest of Anzhou.

The focus of this is the official attitude of the Middle-earth government towards the alliance's attack on Anju. According to the letter written by Duan Da to Guo Xuan, the general of Gubeikou Town and the Taishou of Anle County, which Yang Gongdao saw, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee attached great importance to this matter, and clearly asked the Zhuojun Left-behind Mansion to give support, and clearly asked the Youyan official to find ways to help the alliance take Anzhou, and if Anzhou could not take it, the alliance should also hold out outside the fortress for a longer time, so as to achieve the purpose of striking at the Donghu species and containing and weakening the Turks.

The position of the Holy Lord and the Central Hub was basically the same as Li Fengyun's previous prediction, and his resolute attitude even exceeded Li Fengyun's prediction. This is a good thing for the alliance, there should be no problem with the support of grain, grass and weapons, and it is even better for Li Zixiong and other magnates, as long as the requirements of the Holy Lord and the center are met, it is just a trivial matter to exchange merit for pardon. However, official support is conditional, and Guo Xuan, who negotiated on behalf of the government, put forward a series of conditions, the first of which is to ask the alliance to withdraw all the troops remaining in Feihu into Anzhou, and the official guarantee of the absolute safety of the Feihu rebels in the process of retreat, and guarantee the safe repatriation of the elderly, weak, women and children to their hometowns. Another condition is that the official will not openly support the alliance, all aid will be sent to Anzhou under the pretense of the hands of merchants controlled by wealthy families, and the Great Wall of Gubeikou will always be closed to the alliance, in other words, the alliance has no way out.

The first condition is definitely unacceptable, without the threat of the Flying Fox Legion to the Middle-earth official, and without the north-south echo of the two armies of the alliance inside and outside the Great Wall, the alliance will fall into passivity and can only be slaughtered by the Middle-earth official, and the result of Anzhou will lose its guarantee, and the dream of pardon by Li Zixiong and other powerful people will be in jeopardy, so this condition must not be agreed.

Another condition just proves that the Middle-earth officials have bad intentions, and the Middle-earth officials want to use grain and grass weapons to jam the alliance's neck, to control the life and death of the alliance, and to control the situation inside and outside the Great Wall, which is exactly what the alliance resolutely avoids. What the alliance needs is cooperation, to seek the interests of itself and Middle-earth, and to take each other's own interests, rather than groveling to be the sword of the imperial court and being controlled by the imperial court.

Li Zixiong was worried about the breakdown of the negotiations, so he warned Li Fengyun that it was better to seek others than to seek oneself, and that self-reliance was very important, and that the situation in the coming period would be sinister, and that the alliance should take advantage of the current opportunity to plunder a large number of people, and should be prepared to survive by fighting and shriveling the war. In addition, it is necessary to remind the Flying Fox to stay in the legion that they must work closely with the King of Qi, and if they have no choice but to cooperate with the King of Qi, join forces to take Yanbei, and ensure their own safety first.

Li Zixiong hurriedly wrote to Yang Gongdao of Panlong Castle, telling him the good news that the alliance had conquered the Xi Wangfu, and this result was very conducive to the alliance winning more advantages in the negotiations. At the same time, Li Zixiong asked Yang Gongdao to immediately tell the good news to the Boling Cui clan, Fan Yang Lu clan and other wealthy families, and through them to inform the King of Qi who was far away, so that all forces could benefit greatly from this result, and the alliance would continue to win more support and cooperation from these forces by consolidating and expanding this result.

On September 27, late at night, Zhuojun stayed in the house.

Duan Da was greatly frightened when he received the edict of the Holy Lord, although he understood very well the importance of the recovery of Anzhou to Middle-earth, and also supported the Holy Lord's resolute attitude towards the recovery of Anzhou, but he still underestimated the difficult situation faced by the Holy Lord in the political crisis of the two capitals. It is precisely because of this current unsolvable internal concern that the Holy Lord needs to win the Civil War, establish supreme authority with martial arts, suppress the core contradictions with supreme authority, and then push forward the centralized reform.

This can't be blamed on Duan Da, status determines vision, before Duan Da was the commander of the Praetorian Guard, and now he is a feudal official sitting on one side, neither a central minister, nor a member of the core decision-making level, he has less access to core secrets, of course he can't see the overall situation, he can't guess the intentions of the Holy Lord, and many times he can only consider problems from his own height. From his standpoint, stabilizing Youyan and ensuring the security of the border is the first priority, and the recovery of Anzhou also serves this purpose, so of course he used support as a threat to force Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves to withdraw all the Flying Fox rebels immediately. The interests of Northern Xinjiang are the interests of Middle-earth, and the Holy Lord and the Central Committee naturally support them.

Fortunately, the Holy Lord trusted Duan Da very much, and did not blame him, but spoke politely, you just do your own thing, don't ask about everything, do everything yourself, don't interfere too much with the authority of your subordinates, and in fact, the Holy Lord just made the same mistake, he also asked about everything, did everything himself, and even directly intervened in local military affairs, which made Duan Da panic and at a loss.

What's next? Do the Flying Fox rebels want to encircle and suppress them? On the one hand, the Holy Lord asked the Left-behind Mansion to do its best to support Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves to recover Anzhou, and on the other hand, he sent troops to encircle and suppress the Flying Fox rebels, isn't it a contradiction? If Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief used the recovery of Anzhou as a threat to coerce the Left-behind Mansion to open up the Flying Fox rebels, causing the situation in Youyan to remain turbulent, wouldn't Duan Da and the Left-behind Mansion be held responsible?

It happened that Wu Benlang brought Zhao Shizhu back, and Duan Da immediately asked him to discuss countermeasures. The day before yesterday, Zhao Shizhu arrived in Jicheng, but because the Holy Lord had an edict asking Duan Da to find ways to keep Ashina Simo and Shi Shu Huxi, Zhao Shizhu had to reluctantly deal with the two Turkic envoys.

Zhao Shizhu complained because Duan Da recommended Yin Shishi to serve as the deputy guard, and Duan Da reached a tacit understanding with Zhao Shizhu and Li Zixiong in private, and he went out of the king of Qi to suppress the thieves without authorization, and they all concealed it and did not report it, which was also resentful, so there was an estrangement between the two, but fortunately, the personal relationship was very strong, and the current situation was beneficial to both of them, and there was no loss of interests to each other, so the contradiction was very small, and the cooperation was far greater than the conflict.

Zhao Shizhu returned to the Liushou Mansion and heard the news of the fall of Panlong Fort, which made him very surprised, feeling incredible, Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief's attack speed was too fast, even if Xi Wang Ahui was leading the five armies of the Xi clan to attack the Khitans on the front line of the Tuo Chenshui, the country was empty, but it was not so empty that there were no soldiers to defend, let Li Zixiong and the white-haired thieves attack the city all the way, and kill the Panlong Fort in the southwest of Anzhou in one breath from the flat pine forest in the northwest of Anzhou. And the attitude of the Holy Lord and the Center surprised him even more, King Qi's prediction was completely correct, and his original "adventure" was also completely correct, now he has received a "piece of the pie" from the credit for recovering Anzhou in advance, and then as long as he executes the orders of the Holy Lord and the Center to the letter, and helps Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief recover Anzhou, the greater credit will be at his fingertips. Therefore, Zhao Shizhu couldn't sit still, and actively asked to rush to Gubeikou to take command.

Duan Da came to him, and the main purpose was to invite him to sit in Gubeikou. Although the Holy Lord had already entrusted the important task of supporting Li Zixiong to Murong Zheng, the deputy general of Gubeikou, the actual intention of the Holy Lord was to use this means to indirectly elevate the Left-behind Mansion and directly direct the support matters, so as to prevent local officials from misunderstanding the central decision-making and lead to serious consequences, so as to ensure that the central goal could be successfully achieved. However, this is against the law, unconventional means, and in practice, it will produce a series of troubles and lead to a series of evil consequences.

Murong Zhengze is humble and powerful, and he has no ability to carry out the orders of the Holy Lord, in terms of grain and grass weapons, Gubeikou's reserves are very small, and they all have to rely on the left-behind mansion to raise them, and how does Murong Zhengze command the left-behind mansion? He can only play the Holy Lord, and then the Holy Lord orders him to stay in the mansion, but the time is delayed, and the fighter plane is fleeting, once something goes wrong, the Holy Lord will not take responsibility, the responsibility is below, although Murong Zhengze can't run away, Duan Da can't be spared, so even for the sake of the official hat, Duan Da has to send a personal representative to stay in the mansion to sit in Gubeikou, cooperate closely, give what you want, and ensure that Murong Zhengze completes the task assigned by the Holy Lord. When the matter is successfully completed, everyone has merit and is happy, so why not?

Duan Da's other purpose is to solve the problem of the Flying Fox rebels, and this problem must be solved in the Left-behind Mansion, there is no room for compromise, otherwise the responsibility will be left behind, once the Holy Lord and the Central Authority are punished, Duan Da, Yin Shishishi, and Zhao Shizhu will all be held responsible, and there is no excuse.

"You tell Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief that they have two choices, either immediately withdraw the Flying Fox rebels into Anzhou, or let the Flying Fox rebels fall into ashes." Duan Da said solemnly, "If they choose the former, X will still keep his promise and resolutely support them in recovering Anzhou, but this matter is no longer necessarily related to the encirclement and suppression of the Flying Fox rebels, they are two completely different things, and X will do both things well." ”

Zhao Shizhu agreed.

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