readx; There is no bright color in the sky, the night is still deep, at the fifth watch, Li Qingan quietly got up, this is his habit for many years, no matter what it is, he has to get up at the fifth watch, he moves very lightly, he doesn't want to alarm the beauty next to him, in the faint light, he took a closer look at his newlywed wife, she is so young and beautiful, her hair is as black as jade, her eyes are as gentle as the eyes of an antelope, her fingers rich in the beauty of ancient Greek carvings, light and elegant figure, and a pair of well-proportioned and plump legs, Everything about her is so beautiful and full of vitality. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The graceful figure of the beautiful woman made him can't help but reach out and caress gently, Pei Wan'er 'Hmm! She opened her eyes with a bang, she actually didn't sleep all night, she fell asleep at the fourth watch, Ailang's touch woke her up again, she hurriedly got up, Ailang got up, she had to wait for him to freshen up, this is what her mother has repeatedly told her, it is the duty of being a bride, but the weakness of her body makes her unable to sit up, Li Qingan smiled and held her down, "Continue to sleep obediently, I don't need you to serve." ”

At this time, Pei Wan'er's heart was full of the loss of bidding farewell to her girlhood, and she was full of dependence on Li Qing'an, this man will be her life's dependence, she didn't want him to leave her, she longed for him to accompany her again, the woman's instinct made her hug Li Qing'an, and said coquettishly: "Don't go, stay with me." ”

Pei Wan'er's coquettishness reminded Li Qingan of her shyness last night, originally he also liked this woman, but last night, he was a little too much, he had an inexplicable emotion in his heart, as if he got some kind of pleasure when torturing her, but now, Li Qing'an's heart felt a trace of guilt, so he hugged her and smiled: "I'm not leaving, I'm just going out for a walk, I'm used to getting up at this time, go and breathe the morning air, you continue to sleep!" ”

He leaned down and kissed her on the lips, then got up and went out, this kiss actually filled Pei Wan'er's heart with a sense of happiness, last night's pain and the confusion in her heart all disappeared without a trace at this time, she finally had a feeling of being a wife, a kind of moving tears filled her eyes, she couldn't fall asleep anymore, sat up, the night was still dark, but she had no intention of falling asleep, she began to comb her long hair, today she is going to enter the palace to accept the canonization, the edict that once disgusted her, At this time, her heart also began to look forward to it, and all her thoughts were the shadow of Li Qingan, which was her husband, and she relied on all her life.

Li Qingan simply pulled his hair into a bun and walked out of Penglai Pavilion, the air outside was very fresh, with a fishy smell of lake water, and a trace of chill, the wind was blowing, Li Qingan suddenly felt refreshed, he walked to the lake, and stretched his waist for a long time, he likes this lake, likes the island in this lake, when will he give himself a few days off, lock himself in Penglai Pavilion and think about it for a few days, now he needs time to think.

In the past few days, Li Qingan has been very worried about the Cui family, in order to curb the Pei family's growth, he needs to find an opponent for the Pei family, the Cui family is undoubtedly the best choice, but he doesn't want Cui Lian, he wants Cui Ping to control the Cui family, so that the Cui family will become his loyal hunting dog, but the Cui family's delay in replying made him feel a little uneasy, Li Qingan also knows that the reason why these families have not fallen for hundreds of years lies in its backbone, in its solitary maverick, and will never easily become a tool of the authorities, the Tang Dynasty has been founded for a hundred years, He had never seen Cui Pei and other families bend down in front of the imperial power, and he was really a little worried about whether Cui Lian would give in under his threats and pressure.

"General!"

Someone behind him was calling him, Li Qingan turned around, and saw a small boat approaching, on the boat was one of his personal soldiers who was responsible for delivering the letter, Li Qingan quickly greeted him, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the general, Cui Ping sent an urgent letter last night, and he said that he asked the general to read the letter immediately."

"Where is the faith?"

Li Qing'an's heart was a little uneasy, his own soldiers took out a letter and handed it to him, sure enough, it was Cui Ping's handwriting, but the writing was in a hurry, it seemed very hasty, it could be seen that when he wrote this letter, he was very anxious, Li Qingan opened the letter, only to see that there was only one sentence in it, the clan sacrifice was postponed to the first month of next year, and the patriarch had officially decided to transfer the position of the head of the Cui family to Cui Ning.

Li Qingan let out a long breath, looked at the lake with complicated eyes, and sure enough, he guessed correctly, Cui Lian refused to give in to him, the family's bones, he really understood, Li Qingan's fists gradually clenched, very good, he wants to see how long the Cui family's bones can be hard?

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Cui Jian also didn't sleep all night, last night he finally made a major decision, he convened more than 20 important people of the Cui family to have a short meeting, the content of the short meeting was only two, one is that the clan sacrifice was postponed for four months to the New Year, and the second is that he resigned as the head of the Cui family, and gave it to Cui Ning, who was more than ten years younger than himself, this is his final decision, he would rather the Cui family be defeated, than be a royal lackey, Li Qingan wanted to use the Cui family to deal with the Pei family, he didn't do it.

There is already a glimmer of light on the horizon, the milky gray morning mist is shrouded in the back garden of Cui's house, Cui Jian is walking in the garden with his hands behind his back, at this time his mood is very calm, full of leisure and elegance, he has been rolling in the officialdom for nearly forty years since he was twenty years old, he knows the consequences of playing power games with his superiors, maybe the Cui family will make a profit for a while, a few more Cui family children can enter the official office, and there will be a few backbone members of the Cui family to enter the power center of the Tang Dynasty, but what about the future? Once the Cui family becomes Li Qing'an's lackey, there will be no more turning over, at that time, the backbone of the Cui family, which has enabled the Cui family to stand for hundreds of years, was broken, and the Cui family was really destroyed in his hands.

Not only that, but the far-sighted Cui Jian also saw another danger, now Li Qingan needs the support of the family to take the throne, and once he controls the Tang Dynasty, he will inevitably attack the family, this is beyond doubt, the Tang Emperor will never allow the family to sit big, Tang Gaozong used the hand of Wu Zetian to eradicate the Wang family, after the fall of Empress Wei of Zhongzong, the once most powerful Wei family was brutally purged, so who will be next? Whether it is the Pei family or his Cui family, Cui Jian knows very well that getting too close to Li Qingan may not be a good thing

After walking around the back garden, his will became more firm, if Li Qingan wanted to clean up the Cui family, let him go, the Cui family has its own guard, for hundreds of years, the Cui family has stood tall and rainy without falling, how can he care about one or two setbacks?

Back in the study, Cui Lian spread out a piece of paper, he picked up the pen and muttered for a while, and then wrote the word 'resignation' on the paper.

The sky gradually brightened, a news spread rapidly within the imperial court, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Cui Jian resigned from the post of Xiangguo of the political hall for physical reasons, the news shook the imperial court, the political hall immediately held an emergency meeting, at the meeting by voting, accepted Cui Lian's resignation, and at the same time the political hall adopted Pei Zunqing's proposal and accepted the subordinate servant Cui Ping into the cabinet, replacing Cui Lian's position in the political hall.

This news really surprised many well-intentioned people, Cui Jian gave up the position of head of the family to Cui Ning, but his phase was obtained by Cui Ping, is there some kind of ulterior secret in this? However, as the people who came to Chang'an to participate in the clan sacrifice left Chang'an one after another, Cui Ning's crime of fornicating with the Southern Tang Dynasty was also over, as if nothing had happened, and all kinds of speculation were difficult to maintain, and then the Cui family fell silent.

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Another day passed, in the imperial history, Cheng Song made Li Huan secretly communicate with the Southern Tang Dynasty by impeaching the Hanzhong Jiedu, and had been loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Huan's hard-line attitude aroused the indignation of the Manchu Dynasty, and Li Qing'an formally proposed to the political hall to attack Hanzhong, pushing the defense of the Southern Tang Dynasty to the front line of Hanzhong, this proposal was approved by the political affairs hall, and authorized Li Qing'an to plan the battle of Hanzhong.

Li Qing'an immediately appointed Li Siye, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, as the generalissimo of the expedition to the south, led 40,000 Anxi troops to conquer Hanzhong, and ordered Longzhou, Qizhou, Fengzhou and other three prefectures to share logistics, and the prelude to the war slowly opened again.

Outside the Xianyang camp, more than 40,000 soldiers of the Anxi Army lined up neatly, the flags were displayed, the armor was bright, the swords and halberds were spread all over the sky, as dense as the Black Forest, Li Qing'an, accompanied by Li Siye, slowly got up and rode past the team, at this time, Li Qing'an turned his horse's head, facing tens of thousands of Anxi soldiers, the 40,000 Anxi Army was silent in the formation, every soldier looked up at their commander, and his eyes were full of perseverance.

"Soldiers of the Anxi Army!"

Li Qing'an's voice was very low, but his every word reached the ears of every soldier, "I don't think that attacking Hanzhong is a difficult task, you have experienced a hundred battles, and you have also defeated an army ten times stronger than the Hanzhong army, so your victory over the Hanzhong army is not a victory, there is no capital to show off, but you can also use this battle to tell the world that the real strength of the Anxi army, I will only give you ten days, right!" There are only ten days, counting from now on, ten days later, I will come here again to accept your triumph, even if you are a quarter of an hour late, then you are also a shameful failure, if you fail, the Lord will be demoted to three levels, and the whole army will be fined for one year, if you succeed, then you will not only get a heavy reward, but each of you will get the Golden Hero Medal of the Tang Dynasty Hundred Battles Army, well, all I have to say is so much, let your actual actions confirm the strength of the Anxi Army, we are the first army in the world. ”

Speaking of this, Li Qingan raised his right arm and stared into the eyes of the 40,000 soldiers, who waved their arms violently and shouted: "We will win!" Win! ”

The shouting shook the heavens and the earth, and Li Qingan's arm waved westward, "Let's go!" ”

A group of soldiers of the Anxi Army set off in formation, cavalry, crossbow army, hoplite, mighty, murderous, tens of thousands of camels loaded with all kinds of baggage, followed the back of the team to the west, Li Qing'an and Li Siye rode side by side, he saw Li Siye's solemn face, so he smiled: "What, is the pressure of ten days too much?" ”

Li Siye did not hide his worries, so he nodded and said: "Yes, we enter Hanzhong from Luogu Road, from here to Luogu Road, and then from Luogu Road to Hanzhong, it will take three days at the earliest, so that the time on the road will take six days, and our actual combat time is only four days, which is indeed a little nervous, and my demotion is secondary, I am worried that it will affect morale." ”

"Don't worry! You can take Hanzhong in four days, I know in my heart, I will not put pressure on you at will, I will never mention things that cannot be done, you just let go of your hands and fight, don't have any scruples, and don't need to use any strange soldiers, just pay attention to the scout information, don't be ambushed by the Hanzhong army. ”

Li Siye saw that Li Qing'an was very confident, and he was a little relieved in his heart, he suddenly remembered something again, so he asked: "Then what should I do after taking Hanzhong?" You won't let us stay in Hanzhong forever! ”

"How so? I still want you to fight An Lushan! ”

Li Qingan smiled and said: "I have already arranged it, and then Cui Guangyuan will lead 30,000 people to take over the defense of Hanzhong, and he will be the guard of Hanzhong." ”

At this time, a cavalryman galloped over and reported to Li Siyeyu: "General Li, the Chinese army is about to set off, please return to the team!" ”

"Okay!"

Li Siye clasped his fists and saluted Li Qing'an: "General, I'm going to set off." ”

Li Qingan hugged his fists and returned the salute, "Take care all the way, I wish you a victory!" ”

"Drive!" Li Siye whipped his horse violently and galloped westward, Li Qingan looked at his back, and said to himself lightly: "Ten days, if you return within ten days, then you will be worthy of the title of the first army in the world." ”

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Hanzhong is located in the south of Zhongnan Mountain, belongs to Shannan Dongdao, Hanzhong in the narrow sense only includes Liangzhou, Yangzhou and Jinzhou, with Liangzhou as the center, of which Nanzheng County of Liangzhou is the political, cultural and military center of Hanzhong, the city is tall and deep, if you gather heavy troops and sufficient grain and grass, Nanzheng County can be defended for at least half a year.

Hanzhong Mountain is high and dense, the terrain is steep, it is a difficult place to march since ancient times, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not only an important gateway for Bashu to defend the northern army, but also the main obstacle for the Bashu army to go north, Zhuge Liang seven out of Qishan, to a large extent, it is impossible to successfully cross Hanzhong, but after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong is not as simple as before, especially the meridian road, Luogu Road, Baogu Road three roads for large-scale repair, so that they become a shortcut through Zhongnan Mountain, It only takes three days to arrive from Chang'an to Hanzhong Nanzheng at the earliest, and you can pass through an army of more than 100,000 at a time.

At present, the main commander of Hanzhong is Li Huan, who is seven feet tall, has broad shoulders, uses a 120-pound heavy iron gun, and has excellent marksmanship, which can be called a fierce general, he is the Li Tang clan, and attaches great importance to the bloodline of the clan, he has always believed that Li Heng is the orthodox Li Tang clan, and the young emperor set up by Chang'an is just a trick played by Li Qing'an, and sooner or later he will be usurped by Li Qing'an, and Li Qing'an is the descendant of Prince Yin, how can he inherit the unification?

It is for this reason that Li Huan nominally belongs to the Chang'an Political Affairs Hall, but in fact he has pledged allegiance to Li Heng in Chengdu.

Li Huan is not stupid, when he was impeached by the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Political Affairs Hall ordered him to enter Beijing to investigate, he guessed that Li Qingan was going to do something to him, but he wanted to find a glossy reason, and he didn't dare to go or not, and a war against Hanzhong in the south was inevitably about to break out.

Li Huan had 30,000 troops in his hands, which could fight with the Anxi army, and at the same time he sent people to Chengdu to urgently ask for help, and hundreds of scouts were sent by him to find out the news of the Anxi army.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Huan received information that about 40,000 people from the Anxi Army Brigade had moved south from Luogu Road, and 10,000 people had occupied Huayang County and were stationed there.

Huayang County is located in Yangzhou, about two hundred miles away from Nanzheng, the road is rugged, there are many canyons, Li Huan fell into deep thought.

In the evening, Li Siye's main army has arrived in Huayang County one after another, this is the second day of departure from Xianyang, the march lasted two days and one night, the army successfully arrived in Hanzhong, and then from Huayang County to Nanzheng, at least it will take a day and a night, if the army does not rest, directly set off to Nanzheng, then tomorrow evening, the army will be able to arrive in Nanzheng County, so as to complete the plan of entering Hanzhong in three days, but Li Siye is not in a hurry to complete this task, but ordered the army to rest in place for four hours, and set off at three watches.

Huayang County is a small county, there are only more than 1,000 households, the county seat is also very small, can not be stationed so many troops, Anxi's brigade is stationed in a vacant lot outside the county seat, thousands of big tents are arranged in turn, a huge camp fence has been erected around it, antlers and thistles have been buried, six watchtowers have been erected, dozens of scout teams have been sent out, patrolling within a radius of ten miles, and the security is extremely strict.

The lights were basically extinguished in the camp, it was very quiet, and the soldiers were exhausted from the forced march for two days and one night, and they fell asleep when they collapsed, only Li Siye's big tent was still lit.

The big tent is brightly lit, and a huge sand table is placed in the center, which is the topographic map of the states in Hanzhong, and the cities, passes, roads, military camps, etc. on the sand table are all marked very clearly, and Li Siye is discussing the battle plan with several generals.

Li Siye's expression was very solemn, according to the signs on the sand table, he should have encountered two garrisons of the Hanzhong army, one Luogu Pass, one is Huayang Fort, and the two passes should be garrisoned with 500 people, but they passed through these two passes, but there was no garrison, and saw that there were originally garrisons in the two passes, and now they have just withdrawn not long ago, which is exactly what is strange, indicating that the other party has known their arrival, and there is no resistance, so they withdrew the defenders.

In fact, it is not so easy to take Luogu Pass and Huayang Fort, the pass is very steep, to take them at least to go through a bloody battle, more than 1,000 dead and wounded, but in fact they did not encounter any resistance, this should not be Li Huan's style, is he showing weakness to lure the enemy deeper?

"What do you say, on our next march?"

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(To be continued)