Chapter 359: Insidious Assumptions

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Yang Xuangan wants to usurp the throne? The real purpose of his military coup was to usurp the throne, to be emperor himself?

This inference was so amazing that it not only shocked Li Zixiong, but also gave Wei Fusi, Dong Chun and Li Shanheng a strong impact.

If Li Fengyun's inference is correct, and Yang Xuan's purpose of moving this military coup is not pure, and he deceived all his allies, then of course it will be difficult for him to get the full help of the conservative forces in Middle-earth, and it will be even more difficult to win the full support of the major aristocratic groups, and his defeat is completely predictable.

This is the root of the contradiction, and it is also where Li Zixiong is most angry.

If Qi Wang Yang Lan is willing to be a "big banner" and is willing to fight to the death, then this mutiny must be sure of success, after all, the identity, prestige and strength of Qi King Yang Lan are there, although they can't respond to every call, but there must be many supporters. However, from the moment Li Fengyun came into contact with Yang Lan, the king of Qi, he repeatedly "instilled" the prophecy that the mutiny would be defeated, and came up with a lot of reasons as evidence, and the result became the current bad situation, the king of Qi swore loyalty to the holy lord, and was even more unwilling to gamble with his life. In this way, the mutineers were at a disadvantage from the beginning, and they were very passive in politics, and the chances of victory were of course small.

This is also the reason why Li Zixiong questioned Li Fengyun. Looking back now, since Li Fengyun suddenly moved west to the Central Plains last year, it seems that there is an invisible hand that is quietly manipulating the situation. If Li Fengyun had not entered the Central Plains westward, how could Yang Lan, the king of Qi, have a chance to escape from the eastern capital? If Yang Lan, the king of Qi, did not flee from the eastern capital, then when the holy lord was forced to move a new round of imperial disputes due to the passivity of the government, in fact, after deposing the qualification of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, would be imprisoned in disguise, and during the second crusade, the holy lord would bring him with him in case of accidents, so that no matter what the outcome of the mutiny, the king of Qi would be completely abolished, and it would no longer play any role when Middle-earth fell into division and war.

However, now the situation of the king of Qi is different, if he can make full use of this mutiny, not only can he effectively ease the tension between him and the holy lord, win some political benefits, but also can once again stay away from the eastern capital, continue to make contributions on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang, and expand in a down-to-earth manner, until the division of the side, when the Middle Earth falls into division and war, the king of Qi will have the ability to save the Middle Earth from danger and turn the tide.

Such a far-sighted, subtle and grand layout requires not only outstanding wisdom and strategy, but also rich political experience, so it is certain that this layout is not the hand of the young Li Fengyun, but the hands of those political forces behind him who hold a neutral position. However, due to the complicated domestic and international situation and the turbulent political situation in the Eastern Capital, coupled with the lack of direct and effective evidence, these people could only watch to one side, borrow their strength, and do their best to save the crisis, and take precautions to prepare for possible divisions and wars in the future. The King of Qi was obviously the savior that these people had prepared for the future of Middle-earth, and Li Fengyun was the sharp weapon to protect this savior.

If these speculations are correct, then Li Fengyun will not only not let King Qi fall into the conspiracy of the mutineers, but on the contrary, he will also deal a fatal blow to the mutineers at a critical moment.

Sure enough, under Li Zixiong's aggressive threat, Li Fengyun fought back angrily, and the blow was fatal.

If Yang Xuan moved that the purpose of the military coup was to usurp the throne, who else would support Yang Xuangan? At the very least, Qi Wang Yang Lan, Wei Fusi, Dong Chun and Li Shanheng completely cut off their thoughts, and they didn't dare to have the slightest thought

Li Zixiong didn't dare to insist, since Li Fengyun put forward this hypothesis very insidiously, if he continued to insist, the consequences would be severe, and he couldn't afford the anger of the King of Qi, and what was even stricter was that he had to leave a way out for himself and his family.

The atmosphere of the discussion was much more harmonious, and Li Zixiong, Wei Fusi, Dong Chun, and Li Shanheng basically agreed with Li Fengyun's strategy, but because there were too many variables, they could not formulate specific plans, so they could only fight separately according to the main purpose of profit-making and the ultimate goal. However, Li Fengyun knew that the possibility of the five people getting together again in the next few months was very small, so this time he not only had to set the development strategy for the next period of time, but also took into account all the possible variables during the period, and on this basis, he drew up a cohesive plan, and then all parties made steady progress according to this "vein" to ensure that there would be no repetition in the implementation process, so as not to lose control of the situation, and then fall into it, lose its way, and be defeated.

Li Fengyun's construction was supported by everyone. At present, the situation is already very complicated, if the mutiny explosion situation will be more complicated, and to "take the chestnut from the fire" in such a complex situation, it is too difficult, at that time all parties are in the game, it is inevitable that the authorities will be lost, in the rapidly changing battlefield, in the treacherous political game, so everyone is very worried, there is no bottom, but if there is a clearly visible "context" as a reference direction for moving forward, the possibility of getting lost will be greatly reduced, and the risks encountered will be reduced accordingly.

So four old guys with rich military and political experience, and a little guy who foresaw the future, made a concerted effort to conduct a detailed analysis and deduction of the situation in the next few months, and came up with many sets of contingency measures and emergency plans.

As dawn approached, the meeting of the five people was coming to an end, and the main "context" and many details about using the Eastern Capital Mutiny for profit had been finalized, and all that remained was preliminary preparations.

Li Fengyun immediately withdrew from the Qilu battlefield, abandoned Mengshan, integrated the Hebei rebel army into the alliance, and then moved to Henan and advanced to Liangjun, on the one hand, to attract the attention of the eastern capital, to give Yang Xuan the opportunity to move the mutiny, and on the other hand, to prepare to attack Gyeonggi.

At the same time, Li Zixiong gave Yang Xuangan strong support, the focus of which was to pull Li Fengyun's forces into the mutiny, and if Li Fengyun wanted to win Yang Xuangan's trust, Li Zixiong's "intermediary" and "guarantee" were very important.

In the name of suppressing thieves, Yang Lan, the king of Qi, on the one hand, continued to cooperate with Dong Chun, who was left behind in Pengcheng, and Li Min, the Taishou of Lujun, to increase the number of troops actually under control, and on the other hand, he took the opportunity to requisition a large number of grain, grass and weapons from Qilu and Xuzhou as reserves to prepare for the upcoming battle of the Eastern Capital.

When the sky was about to dawn, Li Fengyun said goodbye and took the lead in leaving Kuangshan.

On the same day, Li Fengyun ordered to abandon Licheng, and all the armies crossed the river in turn and withdrew to Queshan, and then slowly withdrew along the north bank of Jishui to Sidujin.

On the first day of the first month of April, Yang Lan, the king of Qi, recovered Licheng and immediately transmitted the news to the sailors and to Hebei

The sailors who were upstream on the river immediately went upriver under the command of Zhou Fashang, and while continuing to block the river and resolutely prevent the thieves from crossing the river to the north, they also informed Cui Hongsheng of the news that the thieves were entering Jibei County. Qilu's Jibei County and Hebei's Qinghe County face each other across the big river, because it is impossible for the sailor to block this waterway for a long time, and the sailor has entered the inland waterway for seven or eight hundred miles, and the limited troops and warships have been difficult to complete the blockade task of such a length.

Of course, if Cui Hongsheng can cross the river into Qilu, it will be even better, the sailor can even evacuate the waterway of the big river in advance, but Zhou Fashang knows very well that Cui Hongsheng will never be able to cross the river, and it is impossible to clash head-on with Yang Lansheng, the king of Qi, and Yang Lan, the king of Qi, also "justly" recovered Licheng and defeated the anti-thief, and more coincidentally, the anti-thief has also become "smart", and he also understands the current affairs, and took the initiative to evacuate Qi County, no longer confronting the King of Qi head-on, and no longer continuing to confuse the situation in Qi County, so does Cui Hongsheng still have the meaning of crossing the river? The Holy Lord's edict was based on the deteriorating situation in Qi County, and now that the situation has improved rapidly, and more importantly, the source of the trouble, the thief has fled, and of course Cui Hongsheng will not cross the river.

Sure enough, after Cui Hongsheng received the news, the pace of going south was even slower, but considering Zhou Fashang's difficulties, he still sent a selection army to rush to the north bank of the river to set up defenses, and together with the water division, he stopped the thieves from crossing the north from the direction of Jibei to the north.

In early April, Zhang Xutuo suppressed thieves in Beihai, inflicted heavy losses on the Beihai rebels, and surrounded the remnants of the rebels near Niushan in the upper reaches of Zishui. At the critical moment, the Changbai Mountain rebels, who were also trapped in the mountains by Zhang Xutuo, suddenly came out, and the Beihai marshal Guo Fangzhen and Qin Junhong immediately fought their way out of a bloody road under the response of the Zuo brothers, breaking through the encirclement of Zhang Xutuo, and then the two rebels fled back to the territory of Qi County together, intending to go south to Mount Tai and meet with the marshal Meng Rang, who had withdrawn to Mount Tai in advance.

However, to their surprise, the main army of the King of Qi suddenly appeared in Zichuan, cutting off the road of the righteous army to the south of Mount Tai, and the rebel army had to turn around and go up to Changbai Mountain. But at this moment, the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army and the Beihai Righteous Army suffered heavy losses, and they were already at the end of the crossbow, and they were vulnerable.

Previously, when the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army was defeated under Zhang Xutuo's pursuit, Wang Bo was very resolute and resolutely led the army to retreat to Licheng and defected to Li Fengyun. Wang Bo's attitude is very clear, he has been fighting hard alone for a long time, but he is still wandering around, precarious, not to mention that he is growing, and even living is a luxury, so he made up his mind to follow Li Fengyun and join the alliance, and before he grows stronger, he must find a big tree that can shelter from the wind and rain no matter what. At that time, the Zuo brothers still had self-confidence, dreams, and wanted to be the boss, and they scoffed at Wang Bo's persuasion, but now they regret it.

The Zuo brothers decided to defect to Li Fengyun, Guo Fangzhen and Qin Junhong had no objection and agreed. At this moment, survival is the most important thing for them, and Li Fengyun has become their last "life-saving straw", but where is Li Fengyun now? Since the army of the King of Qi appeared in Zichuan, it means that Licheng has been taken by the King of Qi, and the entire area on the south bank of Jishui is not safe, if you want to find Li Fengyun, you must first cross Jishui, and then look west along the north bank of Jishui, because Li Fengyun was first killed from Jibei County in the west.

The two rebel armies immediately crossed north to Jishui, and at the same time sent their cronies to the west day and night to find Li Fengyun.

At this moment, Li Fengyun is reorganizing the army in Sidujin.