A military leader hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Returning to the general, General Li saw the ferocity of the opposite side of the charge, and he has already personally put on his clothes and went into battle to fight the enemy. Wang Seng Bian was shocked, and hurriedly went to the lookout to take a look, only to see several boats of different colors entangled in the lower waters, and the people on the boat had already fought in one place. I saw a general wearing white clothes and white armor and a silver helmet who was frantically slashing and killing the soldiers of the army.

Wang Seng Bian saw General Li almost killed by him several times, and he was very anxious at the moment, so he asked people to take a bow and arrow, and opened a bow and arrow to take Guo Yuanjian's heart, only to hear a whoosh, Guo Yuanjian responded to the sound, only to see him raise his knife and shout in the direction of Wang Seng Bian: "Despicable villain!" He fell to the ground and died. Xiao Duo's army was full of momentum, shouting loudly to cover up the few Hou Jing rebels who rushed in, and repelled them all.

Wang Seng Bian hurriedly sent people to rescue General Li, and General Li appeared in front of him with a bloody face, and saluted him: "Thank you for the rescue of the general." Wang Seng Bian snorted coldly and said: "In order to take the lead, it is not only necessary to take the lead, but also to have an overview of the overall situation. Fight like you just did with a reckless man, and the other side only needs to send a marksman to take your life. ”

General Li said shamefully: "The last general was careless, because the situation was critical at that time, Guo Yuanjian's gang had already killed red-eyed and led people to break through our army's defense line, and he went down to fight with him without waiting for General Dao's order, which really deserved death." Wang Seng Bian didn't seem to be in a big deal when he saw him, and the defense line was not lost, so he didn't bother with him. just asked his subordinates to return Guo Yuanjian's body to Hou Jingjun.

Hou Jing's side is in chaos, the morale is already low, the army is unstable, and now the general Guo Yuanjian has been beheaded, and the people are beginning to panic, Hou Jing called the generals together for a meeting. At this time, Song Zixian was the last to arrive, but he was a little special, it was the **** who came to Hou Jing's big tent with a few thorns behind his back, which was to take the blame for him.

Seeing him like this, the generals all talked in private, and Hou Jing looked at him expressionlessly and asked, "General Song, what do you mean by this?" Song Zixian knelt in front of Hou Jing and cried: "Prime Minister, I'm sorry for you, General Guo and I didn't take Jiangling, but were beheaded by Wang Seng Bian Formation, Brother Guo, I ...... I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for everyone, woo woo ......" An old man cried emotionally in front of so many people, making everyone present sad and crying, the war has continued to this day, and no one expected this situation, but it was indeed these two people who strongly asked Hou Jing to stay and attack Xiao Duo's Jiangling City, and they had to bear all the responsibility for everything now.

Hou Jing was about to get up and help him up, but Ren Yue ran in from the outside shouting: "Prime Minister, Prime Minister." Hou Jing was shocked when he saw his embarrassed appearance, got up and asked, "Ren Yue?" Why do you look like this? What about Zhang Huaren? Where's my princess of Luyang? Ren Yue touched his tears and knelt down beside Hou Jing and said: "Prime Minister, we originally escaped from Jiankang with Your Majesty and the princess according to your plan, who knew that Gao Huan's team came out to intercept our convoy halfway, His Majesty was taken away by him, Master Zhang has died, and the carriage and horse have also been lost." ”

Hou Jing pinched his shoulders with both hands and lifted him up, and asked viciously, "I ask you, where is my princess?!" Seeing that as if he was going to eat Ren Yue, Ren Yue said in pain: "Ouch, the prime minister spares his life, the prime minister spares his life." Hou Jing pushed him away, pulled out the saber at his waist, and walked towards Ren Yue who fell to the ground step by step, and said, "Spare your life?" Can Lao Tzu go around you? You have killed my wife and my children. Ren Yue said in horror on the ground: "Prime Minister spare your life, you listen to me." ”

At this time, a woman's voice sounded at the door: "Stop! Hou Jing looked up and saw that it was the pot-bellied princess of Luyang, he cried with joy and threw away the sword in his hand, hurriedly rushed forward and hugged her, and said happily: "Are you still alive?" I almost thought you were dead. After that, he pulled Princess Luyang out of his arms and took a closer look, it was indeed complete, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

Princess Luyang had a bumpy ride all the way and the nervousness of being chased and killed, plus she was five or six months pregnant, at this time when she came to Hou Jing's side, her spirit was relaxed, and she almost fainted, but fortunately, Hou Jing grabbed her waist and didn't let this petite beauty fall to the ground. Hou Jing was already frightened by her appearance, and asked anxiously, "Princess?" Princess? Are you alright, princess? At this time, he couldn't take care of Song Zixian and Ren Yue and others, so he picked her up and walked to the barracks, while asking people to find the doctor who accompanied the army to treat Princess Luyang.

The generals present listened to Ren Yu and finished talking about Zhang Huaren's death, and they all sighed, and there was really no room for maneuver in this matter. Even Xiao Gang was captured alive, and Jiangling City here had no intention of falling, and everyone began to make their own small calculations with ghosts in their hearts.

Hou Jing sat on the edge of the bed, Princess Luyang was lying on it with a pale face, a layer of sweat beads appeared on her beautiful and tender little face, her brows were furrowed, and she was trembling in a cold sweat. Hou Jing called out to her anxiously and softly: "Princess? The princess ...... "At this time, the military doctor has already walked in with a medicine bag on his back, and he is guided by the guards. Hou Jing got up and pulled the military doctor and said anxiously: "Come and see, what's wrong with the princess?" The military doctor hurriedly nodded in agreement, put down the medicine bag, gently checked her pulse with his hand, and after a while, he opened the whites of Princess Luyang's eyes, and then opened her small mouth to see the tongue coating.

Hou Jing walked around anxiously on the side, and finally asked anxiously, "How is it, is the princess okay?" The military doctor stood up and said very respectfully: "Prime Minister, the princess is attacking her heart, plus she is pregnant and her body is weak, and she has a prostration reaction after running all the way, so she only needs to rest for a few days." Hou Jing walked to the side of the bed and looked at Princess Luyang's face, turned around and asked a little suspiciously, "Doctor, are you sure she's okay?" The military doctor nodded and said affirmatively: "Don't worry, the villain is sure that the princess will be fine!" Hou Jing waved his hand to let him open some prescriptions, and he continued to call the princess softly on the side.

Let's not talk about Hou Jing's old man's son, let's just say that he is nearly fifty years old but has a soft spot for a little girl who is less than sixteen years old, aside from Princess Luyang's appearance, identity and talent, men, the older the men at the peak of power, the more they are fascinated by those young and beautiful women, in addition to psychological problems, more of an infatuation with eternal life and rights, hoping to be with young people more so that they can also become young and active. Emperors have always been like this since ancient times, Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to Japan for immortality, if he knew that there was nothing in that desolate and backward wild land, how would he feel? Including the later use of a large number of alchemy, seeking longevity and so on.

But Hou Jing's current situation is already rumored to be a soldier, but he is still obsessed with the young Princess Luyang at the moment, coupled with Guo Yuanjian's tragic death, his subordinates are already demoralized and detached, and the time to belong to Hou Jing is really running out.

In Chang'an, in the main hall of Weiyang Palace, the ministers were fiercely discussing whether to send troops to help Hou Jing, while Yuwentai, Su Sui and others were silently and coldly watching. Xie Sichun actively advocated to support Hou Jing this time, the reason was that he couldn't give up the fat of Nanliang to Gao Huan, everyone knew that once Gao Huan got the entire land and population of Nanliang, then the Western Wei Dynasty would not be far from extinction, and it could even be said that Gao Huan would be able to smoothly unify this ancient country that had been divided for centuries.

Xiao Yu, the envoy sent by Xiao Duo to the Western Wei Dynasty, was still under house arrest in Chang'an by Yu Wentai at this time and did not release him, and Yu Wentai, who originally learned that Gao Huan was going south, felt that he had no chance to intervene in Nanliang, and now Hou Jing's envoy came to ask for help to rekindle his hope, and felt that he might have a chance to talk to Gao Huan.

But at present, the internal problems of the Western Wei Dynasty are also very big, the confrontation and war with Gao Huan for many years has wasted a lot of people's and material resources in Guanzhong, coupled with the continuous natural disasters, so that the people in Guanzhong can not survive, many people left their hometowns to go to the Western Regions or Sichuan and Shu to seek a living, and even some people ran away to Nanliang, the population in the Guannai has decreased sharply, resulting in more financial constraints. Hou Jing's fate is almost the same, and it may even be worse, because Gao Huan hates him to death.

So he had no choice but to accept Su Xuan's opinion, on the one hand, he internally asked the wealthy clans in various parts of Guanzhong, and on the other hand, he sent people to negotiate peace with the Turkic Ministry, wanting the Turks to contain the Rouran people, and planned to do both.

At this moment, the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty is young and promising, although he is only in his twenties, he has experienced hardships since childhood, his father rebelled against the Northern Wei clan in his early years and was executed, when his mother was pregnant with Liujia to give birth to his sister Yuan Mingyue was also killed, he grew up with his two elder brothers Yuan Baoyue, Yuan Baohui and his younger brother Yuan Baozhang sister Yuan Baoyue grew up in Zongren Temple, because his parents are traitors, they have been untouchable slaves since childhood, and the life in Luoyang can be imagined as difficult and difficult, Therefore, since he was a child, Yuan Bao has known the suffering and misery of the people at the bottom, and he studied hard, and he was the most resourceful among his brothers.

At the age of sixteen, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty died, and when the new emperor ascended the throne and amnesty the world, they regained their freedom and were fortunate to be assigned to the clan of the family. Later, he was elected emperor by Yuwentai until now.

In fact, he and Gao Huan are still brothers-in-law, which even Princess Grace doesn't know, because since she married Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, her father Yu Jiulu succeeded one of her cousins to marry Yuan Bao to be the queen, this Yu Jiulu is also a veteran of speculation, he is optimistic about Gao Huan's hard power and thinks that Yuwentai's foundation is good, both sides are potential stocks, so he simply buys both. So in the case of concealing the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he married the daughter of a little khan in the clan as his own daughter.

In fact, although Rouran was known to be strong at that time, it was only a little stronger in the face of other ethnic minorities in the south, and there was a new strong ethnic Turk in the ******** steppe in the north, which was really strong, and once invaded and compressed Rouran's territory, from the Mobei of the Tianshan Mountains to the Caspian Sea in the Great Khing'an Mountains were the back garden of the Turks. From Central Asia to the Mongolian Plateau all the way east to the Sea of Japan, the Turkic people are all soldiers, plus the cavalry tactics that come and go without a trace, like a vampire who slaughters and devours the cattle and sheep of other clans nearby, such a huge country is simply terrifying, but even such a powerful nation was defeated by Gao Huan and died out, of course, this is all a later story.

At least for Yuwentai and Gao Huan at this moment, Rouran is a powerful armed clan, and they can't provoke it yet, so marriage and tribute have become a means of compromise between the two sides, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty resisted the Central Plains, accounting for three-fifths of the population of the whole of China (including the Southern Liang), and four-fifths of the country's resource station. The remaining population of the Western Wei accounted for three-quarters, and half of the resources were used.

So if it is by fighting hard power, then Gao Huan must take advantage of his mouth, he is the most promising of the three Han countries to achieve unification, provided that as long as he does not make mistakes in principle, it will be more difficult for Yuwentai's side to complete the great cause of reunification, and the palm of his hand will annex the Southern Liang to increase the strength to compete with the Eastern Wei, and secondly, we must expect various fatal mistakes within the Eastern Wei Dynasty: the monarchs and ministers are not united, natural disasters and man-made disasters and rebellions are continuous, and there are corrupt officials to boost the fire. Basically, it's very difficult.

But the most unlikely to complete the unification is the Southern Liang, Xiao Yan's country is the weakest, the least populous (the heyday of the Southern Liang is only 10 million people) resources are the most scarce, the only thing to do is to choose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and when the Eastern Wei and Western Wei are exhausted, he will take advantage of the weakness to take advantage of the situation, little by little by relying on consumption tactics, it is possible to spend several generations. (To be continued.) )