Yuan Wuben continued to delay, looking for various reasons to refuse to surrender, one of the most important reasons is that he wants to see the King of Qi, he wants to dedicate Liyang City to the King of Qi, not to Li Shanheng, which vaguely reveals a message, I know that you and the King of Qi "fell out", the strong minister bullied the lord, if this matter spreads, it will be very unfavorable to you, so you don't deceive people too much, don't force each other, if you attack, I will defend to the death, and I will pull a cushion when I die.

Li Shanheng weighed it carefully and ordered to set up camp outside the city. Yuan Wu was originally based on the city to hold on, he was forced to attack, he was in a passive position, and all the way to the rush and there was no large-scale siege equipment, if the strong attack, it was themselves who suffered, even if it was captured, the loss was not Cui Hongsheng was more than a hundred miles away in Neihuang, and Zhuo County Deputy Chen Ling estimated that it was almost there, if he could not attack for a long time, and the King of Qi was delayed, it would become a situation of "snipe and clam fighting" to fight, and finally Cui Hongsheng and Chen Ling would be cheaper in vain.

Li Shanheng ordered the follow-up army to speed up the crossing of the river, and be sure to rush to the city of Liyang before dusk. He also sent several teams of light horsemen to haunt the Liyang warehouse to deter the Hebei thieves and try their best to drive them away.

He also sent a messenger to Neihuang to pass the book Cui Hongsheng, nominally to meet to attack Liyang, and to suppress the traitors, but in fact, to sue Cui Hongsheng, the king of Qi is coming, and the credit for recovering Liyang is the king of Qi, so don't rob it, in addition, Hebei thieves have been looting Liyang Cang for many days, so let's stop in moderation, although I also know that you Hebei has been severely affected by disasters in the past two years, there are many victims, and life is not easy, but everything has a degree, almost enough, leave some leeway for each other, don't fall out and fight, then it's boring.

At this time, Zhang Jin, the commander of the Qinghe Righteous Army, said that he had led the army to evacuate, although he coveted Liyang Cang, but there was no way, the Weifu army crossed the river and came, the shape was pressing, and the small life was important. Now the people who are still robbing Liyangcang are basically the pus from the surrounding towns and villages, holding the luck psychology of starving to death to the bold and starving to death, but I don't know that this is a prelude to death, digging my own grave.

On the afternoon of June 18, Yang Lan and Peng Cheng stayed behind, and Dong Chun, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, led his army to Baima City.

The king of Qi has entered the city. Dong Chun stayed outside the city and commanded the Xuzhou army to set up camp in Baimajin, preparing to cross the river to the north the next day. Li Shanheng's letter arrived at this time, detailing the drastic changes in the situation in Liyang, and strongly recommended that the king of Qi immediately cross the river to the north to recover Liyang and win the first credit for counterinsurgency.

Regarding the alliance's abandonment of Liyangcang and the rapid retreat to the north, Dong Chun had already learned something from Li Anqi, who had returned to the side of King Qi, which was also an important reason why he hurriedly went north. He was also worried that Cui Hongsheng was fast and seized the opportunity, although there was Li Zixiong, an ally in Liyang City, who controlled the overall situation, but once the angry alliance was behind Li Zixiong's back and helped Cui Hongsheng open the city gate of Liyang before leaving, then the situation would be unfavorable to Qi Wang. However, the trend of the situation in Liyang was beyond Dong Chun's expectations, the alliance did not deliberately "retaliate" against King Qi, and he just left, and he couldn't hide if he couldn't provoke it, but Li Zixiong "threw down" Liyang City at a critical moment and followed the alliance away, which made Dong Chun very surprised.

What does Li Zixiong mean? What message did he want to send to King Qi? From the superficial point of view, Li Zixiong threw Liyang and fled, which shows that he is very pessimistic about the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, has no confidence in Yang Xuangan, and is not optimistic about this mutiny at all. If the king of Qi had already dominated the northern frontier, he would inevitably win the lead in the future war.

Li Zixiong adhered to the established strategy and used the "body lì line" to persuade the king of Qi to give up his unrealistic illusions.

Fantasy is a castle in the air, no foundation will collapse, "foundation" is strength, no strength is nothing, so we must be obscure, low-key life, honest development and growth. The reason why Guan Long rose back then, relying on strength, the first emperor opened the country, relying on strength, and the unification of the country requires more strength, and the Holy Lord won the fierce imperial war, relying on strength, but the strength of the Holy Lord is obviously not enough, unable to escort his radical reforms, so he launched a foreign war, behind the reckless military is actually the Holy Lord's desire for "martial arts", the pursuit of absolute strength, only absolute strength can help him establish and improve and consolidate the centralized system, in order to realize his ideal of unification.

Strength determines a qiē, the truth is very simple, but many people are blinded by power and wealth, lost in uncontrolled greed, and assume that their strength is unlimited in the illusion, and the result is ashes.

At dusk, Dong Chun entered the city, presented Li Shanheng's letter to the King of Qi, made a detailed analysis and deduction of the situation in Liyang, and then took out the decision made by Li Shanheng at the expense of "unauthorized power" to compare and corroborate, so as to persuade the King of Qi to adhere to the established strategy.

Although the king of Qi has not yet made a clear statement to enter Beijing to seize the imperial unity, and Dong Chun and Li Shanheng have not made public the contradictions between the monarch and the ministers, the facts are all there, the king of Qi is not strong-willed, and he has reversed himself, and Dong Chun and Li Shanheng's countermeasures are too harsh, and the monarch and the ministers have conflicts, which is very unfavorable to the interests of the group, and both sides have the intention to remedy it. King Qi arrived at Baima without any objections, which was actually a compromise between Dong Chun and Li Shanheng, and Dong Chun and Li Shanheng also skillfully used the sudden change in the situation in Liyang in front of them to prove the correctness of their decision, and gave King Qi a decent step, everyone put aside the contradictions, abandoned the previous suspicions, and worked together to tide over the difficulties together.

King Qi was also surprised by Li Zixiong's "late festival is not guaranteed, and he is a thief wholeheartedly", with Li Zixiong's rich life experience, decades of political games. [,！ Experience, as well as the great wisdom tempered by his long time at the top of power, and now he is willing to be a thief at the cost of ruining his reputation, already explains a lot in itself. Li Zixiong is not a person who is afraid of death, nor is he a person who does not hesitate to be famous, he can die for the sake of righteousness, and he can also die for the sake of fame, so Li Zixiong's actions today must have a deep meaning, and this "deep meaning" King Qi can guess, that is, Li Zixiong has no hope for the Holy Lord and Guozuo, and is convinced of the future trend of Middle-earth predicted by Li Fengyun, so Li Zixiong decided to give up his life.

"Li Zixiong fled, and the thieves of the alliance also fled, but Bai Hai was trapped in the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, and life and death hung in the balance." King Qi glanced at Li Baiyao, who was sitting beside him, and asked Dong Chun with a pun, "Can it be understood in this way, now that Li Zixiong has abandoned Yang Xuangan, the thieves of the alliance have also abandoned the white hair?"

Dong Chun immediately shook his hand, "The reason why Bai Fa wanted to enter Gyeonggi in the first place and cause the crisis in the Eastern Capital was to achieve the goal of the alliance going north to fight. It can be concluded that when the news from Liyang's side reaches Bai Fa's ears, he will have more initiative on the battlefield in the Eastern Capital, which will be more conducive to him further aggravating the situation in the Eastern Capital."

After the King of Qi pondered for a while, he asked again, "Does this mean that Yang Xuangan and Bai Fa are going to live and die together?"

Dong Chun knew exactly what King Qi was thinking, so he decided to mercilessly shatter the extravagant hope in King Qi's heart.

"I don't know what Wei Fusi said to the king, and I don't know if Guanzhong Wei has a new commitment to the king, I only know one thing, Dongdu is a dead land, Yang Xuan feels deeply trapped in death, and wants to put it to death and live later, so where is his way of life?" Dong Chun saw the embarrassed look on King Qi's face, and didn't want to embarrass him too much, so he asked and answered himself, "If Yang Xuangan's way of life is Xijing, Guanzhong, and Guanlong's danger to contend with the Holy Lord, then it will inevitably have a fierce conflict with the Guanzhong Wei family, the Guanzhong wealthy family and the Northwest family, and the Guanlong people will never let the war spread to their homeland, and they will inevitably block Yang Xuangan outside Tongguan. The east can be destroyed, but the west capital cannot be turned into ruins, this is the bottom line of the Guanlong people, and it is also the goal of the Weishi in Guanzhong."

King Qi pondered and quickly sorted out his thoughts. A word woke up the person in the dream, wrong, it was indeed his own mistake, he was deliberately led astray by Wei Fusi, his eyes were only on the eastern capital, but he neglected Xijing, and in fact, although this storm broke out in the eastern capital, it affected the two capitals, so the interpretation of this storm must be based on the political situation in the two capitals, and not just focus on the corner of the eastern capital, otherwise it will inevitably make a wrong judgment.

It turned out that Yang Xuangan's target was Xijing, Guanzhong, and hegemony according to Guanlong, so the country was shaken, the mountains and rivers were shaken, and the great cause of reunification fell apart, and Middle Earth would once again fall into the abyss of division and war. But Guanzhong will definitely not make a wedding dress for Yang Xuangan, on the contrary, they want to use Yang Xuangan to make a wedding dress for themselves, use Yang Xuangan to destroy the Eastern Capital, and severely damage the Holy Lord and the center, which can also achieve the purpose of shaking the country and shaking Middle Earth. Although they have the same path, the former is at the expense of the interests of the Guanlong people, and the latter is at the expense of the interests of the Heluo aristocratic group headed by Yang Xuangan, which are fundamentally two different things.

King Qi's face gradually became gloomy, and his eyes were also gloomy, he believed in Wei Fuhei, and also had high hopes for Wei's in Guanzhong, but he was deceived and "sold" by Wei, and this time it was sold more thoroughly than last time, this time he was going to sell his life, and it was sold to his father, it was too ruthless.

After being silent for a long time, King Qi finally spoke, "Can Yang Xuangan break through the encirclement and enter the pass?"

Dong Chun suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, okay, he finally persuaded King Qi. Wei Fusi has been "occupying" the king of Qi and not allowing him and Li Shanheng to have the opportunity to advise, but as Li Shanheng blatantly "made a move", he did not hesitate to turn against the alliance and turned against him, did not hesitate to blackmail the king of Qi by force, and at any cost wanted to kill Li Zixiong to seize Liyang, the situation on both sides of the river deteriorated rapidly, forcing the alliance to abandon the established strategy and go north in advance, so that the agreement between the king of Qi and Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong no longer existed, and the tacit understanding between the three parties was lost, and they could not join hands to control the situation. Coupled with the fact that the King of Qi was overthrown, Wei Fusi could no longer use the power of the King of Qi to influence the battle situation in the Eastern Capital, so he left decisively. Wei Fusi is gone, but King Qi is still angry, full of resentment towards Dong Chun and Li Shanheng, Dong Chun still can't speak, he must find an appropriate time, let King Qi himself figure it out, distinguish right from wrong, misunderstanding can be eliminated, and internal unity can be reunited.

Dong Chun did not reply positively, "If Liyang's side can effectively contain the reinforcements from all walks of life and buy more time for Yang Xuangan, then there is a great chance of entering the pass."

"Yang Xuangan has entered the Guanzhong, how can the white hair break through from the Eastern Capital?" King Qi asked.

Dong Chun showed a meaningful smile, "Therefore, Liyang is very important, whoever controls Liyang can control the situation."

King Qi bowed his head slightly, and slowly stood up, "Pass the order, cross the river overnight, and kill Liyang."

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