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On June 13, Yang Lan, the king of Qi, led his army to Junyi City, and 20,000 rebel troops set up camp on both sides of the Tongji Canal.

Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, Wu Benlang, and Fei Yao, as well as the local officials of Junyi, went to the military camp to meet the king of Qi.

King Qi is twenty-seven years old this year, tall and strong, handsome, talented, good at riding and shooting, both civil and military, calm and moderate, it is the age of prosperity, great ambitions, however, since the death of his brother Yang Zhaoxu, the prince of Yuande, his life has undergone earth-shaking changes, he was pushed into the whirlpool of the political storm, struggling on the cusp of the storm, fighting for survival every moment, he changed from a carefree prince to a bloodthirsty beast, and all those who endangered his life became enemies, And his worst enemy is his biological father.

If his father had granted Yang Lan the status of the prince of Zhongtu in accordance with the normal inheritance system after the death of Prince Yuande, then Yang Lan might have embarked on a different path in life, but such an assumption is meaningless, and today's father-son relationship has been completely destroyed by the brutal political struggle, and all that remains is suspicion and resentment. In the eyes of the emperor, this son is ambitious but has no ability to realize his ambitions, he has more than enough success, he can't get on the wall, and he's a piece of shit. In the eyes of his son, his father is ruthless, bloody and cruel, killing people like slaughtering dogs, as long as he doesn't listen to him and can't satisfy his wishes, then he is an enemy, blood relatives are also returned, brothers and friends, as long as he is an enemy, then he has to be killed, if he doesn't kill today, he will still kill tomorrow.

Since I am your enemy, if you want to kill me, why can't I resist? Since it's all death anyway, and since it's all death sooner or later, why can't I fight back and fight to the death?

Under the pressure of life and death, in the torment of bloody struggles, and under the encirclement and interception of open and hidden political enemies, the king of Qi became indifferent and withdrawn, and his scheming became deeper and deeper, and he even did not hesitate to protect himself with many negative behaviors such as arrogance, extravagance and decadence, to deceive and paralyze his opponents, but in the game of high-level power, this kind of "bitter meat trick" had no effect, not only did not serve the purpose of protecting himself, but gave the enemy the opportunity to fall into the well. Last year's "loss of morality" case is a typical example of shooting himself in the foot and bringing humiliation on himself, but in comparison, if the King of Qi is high-spirited, when the Eastern Crusade is about to begin, he will show a posture of going all out to fight for the prince, and his end will inevitably be even worse, and he will inevitably be surrounded and killed by his biological father and a group of political enemies, large and small, and will be beaten down by thunderous means.

However, the tiger is not at home, the monkey is the overlord, this time the king of Qi Yang Lan finally has a chance to show his ambitions, he got his wish and took 20,000 troops out of Beijing, he can do whatever he wants. It's just that at this moment, if you look back at the case of King Qi's "loss of morality", the mysteries hidden in it can't help but make people think about it. Perhaps, the case of "loss of morality" is just the strategy of King Qi to "retreat as advance", and it is a seamless bitter strategy, if there is no bitter meat plan, will King Qi still have a chance to lead the army out of Beijing today? Is there still a chance to do what he's always wanted to do?

Among the people who speculated about Yang Lan, the king of Qi, with this kind of malice, was Yang Qing, the king of Xun, and Yang Qing, in order to express his anger, was deliberately deceived by the political forces of the king of Qi and Wei, and when the king of Qi passed through the city of Xingyang Mansion, he took a boat to inspect the disaster situation along the river, and avoided it. Yang Qing, the king of Xun, even suspected that the white thief who suddenly appeared in the White Horse Prison from the sky was a chess piece set up by King Qi and Wei for today's layout. The reason is very simple, now that the king of Qi has gone out of Beijing with an army of 20,000 to fight the chaos, the white thieves not only did not withdraw early when they saw the good, but instead summoned people and horses and Chen soldiers to pass through the canal, putting on a posture of fighting to the death. This is simply an incredible thing, the disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, and the decisive battle is purely a death for the white thief, and it is a great credit to Yang Lan, the king of Qi, so if there is no relationship between the two, who believes it? Anyway, Yang Qing, the king of Xun, didn't believe it, so he deduced that the situation in Henan would become more and more chaotic, the Tongji Canal would be interrupted at any time, and the eastern capital would face a huge political crisis and would explode at any time, so before the situation was clear, he made up his mind to be a "turtle with a shrunken head" and hide for a while.

The king of Qi comforted the local officials and encouraged them, hoping that they would be in the same boat with him. This attitude is very low-key, but it did not win the response of local officials, after all, his identity is too special, the prince who was originally nine out of ten is now close to the end of the world, and the officials see from him not a golden future, but the risk of death and annihilation, so although the "boat" of King Qi looks brilliant, it is really not solid, and no one dares to get on it, for fear that a storm will blow it over.

The king of Qi left Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, and Fei Yao, the general of Wu Benlang, on the one hand, to inquire about the situation on the front line of Tongji Canal, on the other hand, to sit down and talk about the conditions, and strive to win their support.

Cui Baode is from the first wealthy family in Shandong, Fei Yao is a nobleman surnamed Guan Longlu, and behind Yang Lan, the king of Qi, is the local nobleman of Guanlong, everyone is not a "person all the way", each has its own benefits, but the situation has developed to the present, the political purpose of the King of Qi Yang Lang out of the Beijing rebellion has been called, and this political purpose is not in line with the interests of the aristocratic group surnamed Guan Longlu, but the people of Shandong are happy to see it, and even want to add fuel to the fire, in order to take advantage of this rare opportunity to give the Guanlong people a heavy blow, Therefore, Cui Baode and Fei Yao's attitudes towards the chaos of King Qi are very different.

Fei Yao had a smile on his face, his expression was also very respectful, but he sneered in his heart. You deceived An Changgong (Yuan Wendu) in the Battle of Jishui, and this time in order to win the military funds for the rebellion, you openly slapped An Changgong in the face in the Eastern Capital, such an arrogant and domineering move, how can An Changgong swallow his anger? Using the military's position as an excuse, Fei Yao clearly replied to the king of Qi that all the Yingyang mansions in the eastern defense area of the Tianqian Pass in Xingyang were stationed, and resolutely obeyed the will of the Holy Lord, and held the pass to ensure the safety of the eastern capital and Gyeonggi. The implication is that it is not within the purview of our Gyeonggi garrison, and I will not give you any support.

Compared with Fei Yao's tough attitude, Cui Baode is much more accessible. Although Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, was mainly responsible for guarding the Gyeonggi Gate, as the military governor of Xingyang, he naturally had to protect the safety of the Tongji Canal, so he actively supported the rebellion of King Qi and promised to help within the scope of his authority.

What Yang Nan, the king of Qi, wants is this promise, he has an army of 20,000 and the support of the Eastern Capital's military funds, and he doesn't care whether Cui Baode will give him substantial help, as long as Cui Baode doesn't do it behind his back.

At present, the Tongji Canal is full of mysteries, and the biggest mystery is, why didn't the white thief and his rebel alliance take the initiative to evacuate? Even if the white thief has other plans, what about the other thieves? Why did the other thieves stay at the risk of total annihilation? If there is not enough to impress the interests of the thieves, these people will never stay and fight to the death with the officials and soldiers when the strength is very disparity, so the only reasonable explanation is that the white thieves not only promised the thieves that they would defeat the officials and soldiers, but also gave enough reasons to ⊥ them.

What is the reason for the white thief to defeat the official army? This is worth thinking about, so whether it is Yang Lan, the king of Qi, or Shi Wei Yunqi, the scholar and servant, including those wealthy elites who openly and secretly assist the king of Qi, they all racked their brains and deduced in every possible way, and came to only one conclusion, that is, there must be a huge political enemy behind the back at the critical moment of the decisive battle, and this powerful political enemy is either the Zheng family of Xingyang and the local forces in Henan with it as the core, or the Yingru aristocratic group that is lying on the side and eyeing it, or the two join forces.

The key to victory on the battlefield is not the number of troops, nor the merits of strategy, but the political factors outside the battlefield. The King of Qi Yang Murmur's exit from the Beijing Rebellion itself was a means to achieve his political goals, in fact, this was the political incident, so the King of Qi Yang Mur did not think of a decisive battle with the white thief on the battlefield of Tongji Canal at all.

What's in it for him to have a decisive battle? There is no benefit. The first battle is decided, the thieves are gone, and the rebellion is over, what reason does he have to continue to stay in Tongjiqu and stay in Henan to show his strength? Also, if there are too many people killed, and the blood will flow like a river, the political enemies will attack themselves for not being benevolent and righteous, and the people of Henan and even Shandong will also hate themselves to the core, so that not only will they be useless, but they will be guilty, their reputation will be ruined, and they will be offended, which is not cost-effective. In addition, what is more important is that it is precisely because of the rampant thieves in Henan that they have a reason to go out of the Beijing rebellion, an excuse to strike at the local forces in Henan, and a life and death of the people of Henan to coerce the people of Shandong to make compromises

So now the white thief gathered all the troops and Chen soldiers to pass through the canal, which just hit the key point of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and made him in a dilemma, the arrow is on the string, no, but he shot out, but he failed to shoot the target, failed to achieve his goal, wouldn't it be in vain?

"Why didn't the white thief retreat?"

At the military meeting in the middle of the night, Yang Nan, the king of Qi, finally couldn't help it, and asked this incomprehensible but very low-level question. If he and the 20,000 army have just left Beijing, and the white thief can still be interpreted as a bluff, and when he leaves, he will make a big profit on the Tongji Canal, then now that he and the 20,000 army have arrived in Junyi, he will fight out of the Gyeonggi Pass tomorrow and enter the battlefield, and collide head-on with it, and the white thief is still not afraid of death and swears not to retreat, then it is inexplicable.