"Your Highness, urgent military situation!" Feng Baodu hurriedly came to Li Cunhuan with a solemn face.

"What's wrong?" Li Cunhuan asked as if talking to himself, while reaching out to take the paperwork, opening it, his face immediately became solemn.

Ge Congzhou...... It's not easy! Li Cunhuan's brows were involuntarily locked.

"Your Highness, what now? Do you want to send someone to contact Zhu Wen? This is the best chance to beat Like! Feng Baodu said half asking, half suggesting.

"Nope! Joining forces with Zhu Wen is no less than seeking skin with the tiger, Li Keyong is not as powerful, his threat is not as powerful as Zhu Wen in my eyes. Li Cunhuan shook his head and vetoed Feng Baodu's suggestion without much thought. It's really Li Cunhuan who knows Zhu Wen's nickname too well, the rogue emperor, even if he is a rogue Han Gaozu in front of Zhu Wen, he can only be second.

After a moment of silence, Li Cunhuan shouted to Feng Dao: "Feng Dao, you immediately write an edict!" Let Pinglu Jiedu make Wang Fan send a large army to attack Yunzhou and Yanzhou! ”

"Yes!" Feng Dao's dragon and snake are flying, but he still does not forget to answer his orders.

"Again, Anton Jiedu made Fu Cun's trial and transfer of Anton's army, and Li Cunxiao, the governor of Xiongjin, entered the customs, and the responsibilities and powers of the two were temporarily replaced by the deputy." Although Li Cunhuan's tone was slightly indifferent, everyone could see the danger of the situation this time.

Now Hebei, Hedong, Lulong, Xuanwu, and Chengde are all concentrated in a north-south zone. From Yunzhou and Ulzhou in the north, to Xingzhou, Cizhou and Xuzhou in the south, there are two towns of Yiwu and Chengde in the middle.

The three forces are intertwined, and if they are not careful, I am afraid that a situation will be formed in which one son is wrong and all the games are lost.

"Wait!" Li Cunhuan called out to Feng Dao, who was about to go out to issue an order, hesitated, and said, "Let Yang Shihou come to Yiwu!" Without him this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to see the situation clearly! ”

"Your Highness." Feng Dao shouted hesitantly.

"Huh?" Li Cunhuan looked at Feng Dao suspiciously, not knowing what he had to say?

"Your Highness, why don't you let Zhou Dewei come on behalf of Yang Shihou!" Feng Dao opened his mouth to suggest.

Li Cunhuan hesitated, shook his head, and said: "Although Zhenyuan is good, but in this war, I am afraid that I will face the situation of being attacked by the enemy's soldiers in the city. ”

"Yes!" Feng Dao replied with a solemn face. Li Cunhuan's words have made Feng Dao realize that the sinister nature of this war is not as simple as he thought. In the past hundred years, except for a few years ago, when Li Ke used the power of pouring the east of the river to the city of Youzhou, who else has the ability to come to the city?

…… Qingzhou Jiedu Embassy ...... "Come on!" Please Mr. Zhou! Wang Shifan put down the paperwork in his hand that Lu Long sent from the whip, and commanded the outside with a solemn face.

"Yes!" The men under him hurriedly answered.

This Mr. Zhou, whose full name is Zhou Yanpet, is a native of Guanzhong, and because of the Huangchao Rebellion, he came to Qingzhou. He also became a Taoist monk. is witty and resourceful, Wang Shifan attaches great importance to the other party, but Zhou Yanzhong is a little tired of the world, and has repeatedly refused Wang Shifan's request to go out of the mountain, and is indifferent to the high-ranking officials promised by Wang Shifan. Even many times he ignored Wang Shifan's invitation.

This time is the same, Wang Shifan sent people three times, and then invited Zhou Yanpet. Zhou Yanpet this person, who didn't know, thought that he was a Taoist priest with fairy wind bones, but otherwise, he was dressed in a gossip yellow robe, and it was true to say that he was a Taoist priest. But it definitely has nothing to do with the fairy wind Dao bones, a pair of attractive ears, a pair of mouse eyes, and a beard similar to Zhang Fei's beard on his chin. On the contrary, he has the appearance of an ugly general, but Zhou Yanpet's body is thin and thin, if he doesn't look at his face and wears a Confucian robe, he will definitely be considered as just a weak scholar.

"You're here, sir!" As soon as Wang Shifan saw Zhou Yanpet coming, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, not caring about Zhou Yanpet's previous refusal to invite him.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" Zhou Yanpet waved the dust in his hand, glanced at Wang Shifan, and said, "Lord Wang, I don't know what is the matter with finding the poor road?" ”

Wang Shifan picked up a document from several cases and said: "That's the case, just now King Qin sent me an edict to attack Yunzhou and Yanzhou, but I am not sure about taking it, and I am hesitating what to do!" ”

Zhou Yanpet smiled a little sarcastically, pointed to the west with the dust in his hand, and said, "I'm afraid I'm afraid that Zhu Laosan (Zhu Wen) will retaliate!" ”

"Huh! Scold! Wang Shifan was told by Zhou Yanpet, and couldn't help laughing embarrassedly. But looking at that face and eyes, I'm afraid I'm used to it.

Zhou Yanpet didn't care about the embarrassment he had caused Wang Shifan, withdrew the dust in his hand, and said, "Attack!" In this troubled world, who can stay out of it? Speaking of the back, Zhou Yanpet's tone was indescribably gloomy.

"Who's going to do it?" Wang Shifan said with an embarrassed face, although he has many soldiers, they are basically better than the soldiers and horses who defend the city. Otherwise, his more than 100,000 festival envoys would not have been bullied so badly by Zhu Wen. The most important thing is that if the strategic goals cannot be accomplished. Wang Shifan can ignore the lost soldiers and horses, but this kind of thing to provoke Zhu Wen in vain makes Wang Shifan very unwilling.

Although Wang Shifan is good at government affairs, he recruits displaced people, builds water conservancy, and attaches importance to industry and commerce. All this has made Pinglu prosperous, but in one town, there are nearly 400,000 households and more than 2 million people. Otherwise, Wang Shifan would not be able to raise this army of more than 100,000. But there are indeed no generals around Wang Shifan, or rather, Wang Shifan has not found any generals. He was not sure to capture Yunzhou and Yanzhou.

Zhou Yanpet rolled his eyes and asked rhetorically: "How do you know if you are poor and unmodest?" On the contrary, the adult, as a festival envoy, asked about the poor road, an outsider? What a strange thing in the world! ”

Wang Shifan didn't care when he heard this, he was open-minded for life, and he was always very tolerant of capable people, and the most important thing was that Zhou Yanzhong was an orthodox Taoist priest. He never paid attention to anything, he usually stayed on the Mu Mountain near Qingzhou, and Wang Shifan might not come to him. Anyway, when Wang Shifan asked him, he would answer or not, but he would never take the initiative to give any opinions. This is also the reason why Wang Shifan trusts Zhou Yanpet so much.

In the end, Wang Shifan ordered Liu Cheng to be the general, Wang Yanwen to lead 10,000 soldiers to attack Yanzhou, and Wang Shiqiong led an army of 30,000 to attack Yunzhou, and then sent someone to ask Zhu Jin to send troops to Yizhou. Don't look at Wang Shifan only sent troops in three ways, but all the prefectures and counties under Zhu Wen's control near Pinglu Town were attacked.

In the face of this almost crazy style of play, after the information was reported to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen did not think about it, but laughed and said: "Wang Shifan! What a fool! If he concentrates these troops and horses and only attacks Lao Tzu in one place, Lao Tzu is still a little afraid! Now it's just a meritorious service to Lao Tzu's men! ”

As Zhu Wen said, Wang Shiqiong, the younger brother of Wang Shifan, had just stepped out of the boundary of Qizhou, and was pinned down by Zhang Cunjing with infantry head-on, and the cavalry flanked and attacked, defeated, and beheaded nearly 10,000 people.

Zhu Jin sent the general Kang Huaiying to lead an army of 10,000 to surround Yizhou, and Pang Shigu led an army of 20,000 from Xuzhou to support. Pang Shigu took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to pursue, and Kang Huaiying set up an ambush on the way, but Pang Shigu found it early, and Kang Huaiying only defeated Pang Shigu a small game and beheaded a hundred levels.

But since then, Pang Shigu was afraid of Kang Huaiying, and he didn't dare to pursue, but sent his lieutenant general to lead part of the army to hang Kang Huaiying's tail far away, and when Kang Huaiying really left, he led the troops back to Xuzhou from Yizhou.

In the end, there was only one way left, and the tooth general Liu Jun. Liu Jun was different from the remaining two roads, and he killed all the way to the city of Yanzhou. However, he also ran into trouble under Yanzhou City, although there were no more than 3,000 soldiers in Yanzhou City, there were more than 20,000 people inside, and there were 5,000 or 6,000 young people. In addition, Yanzhou City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, so it is easy to capture. This has been known since Zhu Wen dealt with Zhu Jin at the beginning.

Hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Yanzhou for many years without taking it, and finally relied on a sneak attack on Yanzhou, which was empty of troops, to capture it. But even so, there were many losses of soldiers and horses.

Mo said that Liu Yan only had an army of 10,000, and even if he had an army of 100,000, he might not be able to capture Yanzhou quickly. After a long time, there are Xuzhou Pang Shigu in the south, and Zhang Cunjing and Gongyue in the north. When they brought troops to rescue Yanzhou City, it was not easy for Liu Yan to leave.

Looking at the tall Yanzhou City, the deputy general Wang Yanwen couldn't help but say to Liu Yan with a sad face: "General, I think we should retreat along the road!" Otherwise, I'm afraid that there will be no way to return if you want to return at that time! ”

"The lord sent us here to capture this city, and now you have already retreated before the battle, is this what you did as a human minister?" When Liu Yan heard this, he reprimanded angrily.

Wang Yanwen couldn't help but be blushing by Liu Yan's words, and retreated, not daring to say more.

Although Liu Yan wanted to attack Yanzhou City, he did not arbitrarily use the soldier's surname to attack the city. Liu ordered the army to surround the city of Yanzhou, and brought soldiers to explore the city's defenses and terrain, hoping to find a way to capture the city.

Yanzhou City is located on the edge of Yanshui, because for the sake of preventing floods, Yanzhou City was built on a hill on the edge of Yanshui, the whole Yanzhou City is surrounded by high mountains in the west and Yanshui in the south, plus the terrain is high, it is simply a rare fortified city in the world.

"If it's not 100,000 people, you can't overcome it for a year!" After three days of observation, Liu Jun had to come to this conclusion in frustration. He was favored by Wang Jingwu and Wang Shifan, but he didn't want to help Wang Shifan at this critical moment.

At the same time, he also knew that if Wang Shifan's side didn't play a role, Li Cunhuan's side would have even fewer chances of winning. Once Li Cunhuan is defeated, Li Cunhuan and Liaodong can retreat the most, but Wang Shifan is afraid that Zhu Wen will be used as a target for venting. Where did Wang Shifan retreat?

"What to do!" Liu Jun's brows were deeply locked, and his eyes kept scanning the map he had just drawn, hoping to find a feasible way, and the anxious Liu Jun's forehead didn't know when it was already sweating out.

"General!" An anxious voice interrupted Liu Yan's musings.

"What for!" The anxious Liu Yan's tone was full of dissatisfaction, especially when he was interrupted from his train of thought, and there was no way to capture Yanzhou City now.

"General! Found a water cave that leads to Yanzhou City! Zhu Qi, the captain of Liu Yan's personal soldiers, said excitedly.

"What!" Liu Yan couldn't help but get excited, grabbed Zhu Qi's arm, and said, "Quick!" Take me there! As he spoke, he took Zhu Qi's arm and walked outside the big tent.

As soon as he came out of the big tent, he saw two war horses, and it seemed that Zhu Qi had already prepared.

Liu Cheng and Zhu Qi turned over and got on their horses, Zhu Qi led the way in front, Liu Cheng followed closely behind, and slowly the two came to the southeast, on the edge of a rocky beach, Zhu Qi restrained the war horse, Liu Yan followed and strangled the war horse, scanned left and right, but did not find any caves or anything like that. "Where's that water hole?"

Zhu Qi smiled and said, "General, please come with me." ”

Although Liu Yan was puzzled, he still followed Zhu Qi up, he was not afraid that Zhu Qi would harm himself. Following Zhu Qi, turning left and right on the rocky beach, it suddenly became clear that more than a dozen Qingzhou scouts could be seen on guard in an open space surrounded by rocks.

"General!" Seeing Liu Jun's arrival, the scout hurriedly saluted and said respectfully.

"What about the water hole?" Liu Yan didn't have time to pay attention to those etiquette things, and asked directly.

"Here!" One of the scouts, Lisso, brushed aside the weeds behind him, revealing a hole no more than two feet (sixty centimeters) high. However, the cave is not dark, and I don't know that the light leaking from those stone crevices illuminates the cave and can barely see the terrain.

"Take me down!" Liu Yan said anxiously.

"Yes!" One of the scouts hurriedly replied, and then said to his comrades, "Light a torch!" ”

Soon a torch with pine resin was handed to him, and the scout crouched on the ground, his feet falling into motion, and it was not long before he was already in the cave. Liu Yan found the scout in the cave, and the whole person seemed to be a little shorter, but this shortness was not caused by squatting, and it was estimated that there was no cave inside.

Liu Jun went on and found that it was the case, although the entrance of the cave was small, but the cave was not small, there was no cave in the cave, the landing point was half a body lower than the cave entrance, and the height of the cave was nearly two zhang.

After a while, there was no light. The torch became more and more important, and the light and darkness lit the way forward. As he walked, suddenly a large pool appeared in front of him, and the scout stopped here.

The scout pointed to the waterhole and said, "This is what a mountain man who lives nearby told us because he was greedy for a reward." I just walked through the waterhole, I had to sneak nearly 20 zhang before I got out of the waterhole, and after the waterhole was another cave, I kept walking, and the outside was the back mountain of a small hill in Yanzhou City. ”

"Twenty zhang is a bit far, can you bring armor when diving?" Liu Yan asked with a frown.

"No, I'm afraid that even people will sink to the bottom of the pool if you put on armor, but you can bring small weapons, maces and anything like that. And it also requires two air sacs to replenish the air in the water. The scout said.

"In this case, there are not many people who can pass!" Liu Yan looked at the waterhole and asked solemnly.

"Yes! It is estimated that our army will be able to muster at most not fifty soldiers who can sneak through this area. The scout replied.

"Fifty! And you can't bring heavy weapons and armor, well, that should be enough! It's a pity that we can't infiltrate more soldiers, otherwise we wouldn't have to attack head-on and sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attract the enemy's attention. Liu Jun pondered for a long time, sighed, and said with a little sadness.

The scout also nodded sadly, also feeling sorry for the soldiers who had to die.

On the same day, Liu Jun selected 50 soldiers who were good at water, dived through the water hole overnight, and lurked in Yanzhou City. Liu Cheng himself ordered to prepare for the siege, which could not help but shock many people. I don't know why he chose to attack when Liu Yan has been besieged for so many days, but there is nothing he can do, isn't this a joke with the soldier's surname?

Adjutant General Wang Yanwen even said: "Liu Yan, this is not a coffin and does not shed tears!" ”

Although Wang Yanwen's words were mean, they also showed the generals' doubts about Liu Yan's order. However, doubts are doubts, but they have to prepare for the war with all their might. Wang Shifan is relatively incompetent militarily, but Wang Shifan, who has ascended to the throne from the rebellion since he was a child, is one of the few lords in the world who can completely capture military power. If the generals do not listen to orders, the always magnanimous Wang Fan will let you understand what narrow-mindedness is, and will make you understand what cruelty and tragedy are.

…… Yanzhou City ...... "Hmph! Liu Yan, you also underestimate the sturdiness of Yanzhou City! He will make you sad and you will regret it! The corners of Yanzhou's soldiers and horses showed a sneer on the corner of their mouths, and they looked coldly at the Qingzhou soldiers who launched the siege at dawn.

"Attack!" Liu Jun, who has entered the state, is extremely calm, and his calmness makes people wonder if he is just a robot wearing human skin and a cold heart. Or a humanoid venomous snake with cold blood flowing through it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ……”

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ……”

The sound of drums and trumpets mingled together, and it was a sound that made people's blood boil. The soldier who heard this sound erupted into a huge roar, as if all the sound was poured into this roar.

Tall siege ladders were erected and launched an attack on Yanzhou City, which seemed to be a giant.

"Put!" The Yanzhou soldiers and horses didn't care about the siege ladders that seemed to be little giants, in his eyes, all this would be just a record in his credit book.

With the sound of the drums, which symbolized the counterattack, the bed crossbows and trebuchets erected on the corner towers immediately loosened their tightly taut ropes. "Poof! Burst! ......" sounded through the air.

"Smack!" A shuddering sound rang out, it was a boulder smashing on the siege ladder. Countless sawdust splashed, and the top of the siege ladder more than ten feet high did not know when a large piece was cut off.

"Ahh ......" a soldier wailed in a tenor-like voice, a two-meter-long spear, which was a terrifying weapon fired from a bed crossbow, to the ground.

Although Yanzhou City fought back so violently, like a summer thunderstorm, the Qingzhou soldiers were like grass growing in the desert, and although the environment was difficult, it still did not stop them from approaching the city wall.

When the first siege ladder was already close to the city wall, Liu Cheng knew that his time had come. With a wave of his hand, he coldly commanded: "Put the signal!" ”

A thick smoke rose in the battle array of Qingzhou soldiers, like a hideous black dragon, straight into the sky.

"Wolf smoke? Who did Liu Jun signal to? Yanzhou soldiers and horses made his heart tighten for no reason, he knew that Liu Jun would not send a signal for no reason, who did this signal send to? But after about a quarter of an hour he knew who the signal was sent to.

A soldier ran up to the city tower covered in blood, and crawled to the Yanzhou soldier and horse envoy with a panicked look.

"What's going on!" The Yanzhou Soldiers and Horses knew that the bad things they expected had happened after all, and they just hoped that it would not be too bad. Be able to give yourself a chance to recover.

"General! East Gate! The east gate has been attacked by a group of people of unknown origin, and the city gate has been opened! The soldier's voice was like a heavy hammer, hitting the heart of the Yanzhou soldier and horse.

Yanzhou soldiers and horses stumbled in their footsteps, their backs hit the battlements of the city wall and still didn't know, their eyes looked at the direction of the east gate fixedly, only to see that they didn't know when, the east gate had shouted to kill the sky, and suddenly hung on the head of the city The big banner of Gezi was broken, and it fell towards the city, followed by a pole on the book: the banner of the east crusade to make Liu Yan.

"It's over!" The Yanzhou soldiers and horses sighed blankly, suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist, his eyes were round, and he roared: "Ge Gong! I'm sorry for you! After speaking, the sword in his hand swept through his neck, and a bloody arrow burst out.

As soon as the Yanzhou soldiers and horses died, the north gate of the dragons without a leader was immediately captured. At the same time, the fall of Yanzhou was also announced.

"Who is the way, there is no general in Pinglu!" Liu Yan looked at the fallen Yanzhou City, and showed a mocking smile, as if talking to himself, as if he was saying to someone.

Zhu Qi knew that this was Liu Congzhou's answer to Ge Congzhou, which corresponded to the words of Ge Congzhou and Zhu Wen in the past, and bluntly said that there was no general in Pinglu. When this sentence came out, after Wang Shifan knew about it, he was even more angry that he didn't know that he had smashed several precious ceramics. The lord is worried about the humiliation of his ministers, and Liu Jun is now recovering this breath for Wang Shifan. Let Ge Congzhou understand that Pinglu is not something you can look down on.

............ "What! Yanzhou was actually captured by Wang Shifan's kid! Zhu Wen's face changed greatly, he couldn't imagine that he had just received the news of Zhang Cunjing's victory, and he hadn't been happy for long, when a nobody named Liu Jun captured Yanzhou.

"Oops!" Jing Xiang on Zhu Wen's side suddenly exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Wen also couldn't help but follow Jing Xiang's words, and his heart tightened.

"General Ge Congzhou's parents and family are in Yanzhou City!" Jing Xiang's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, shocking Zhu Wen and all the generals. Even if he was respectful, he was helpless for a while. They couldn't imagine what would happen if Ge Congzhou, who was fighting against Li Siyuan in Zhaozhou, knew the news. This is worse news than the fall of Yanzhou.

(To be continued)