The Central Plains in the first year of the true dragon, just experienced the Huangchao Rebellion, the people have not yet come and healed the pain caused by the grass thieves, in the blink of an eye, the towns rekindled the war, a branch of the feudal town army began to attack me, the beacon fire all over the Central Plains, the chaos of soldiers everywhere, not long ago it was the peasants, tenants, domestic servants, city vendors, craftsmen and apprentices, shop guys, at this time has been wearing a variety of military uniforms, holding all kinds of weapons, wearing simple armor, tattooed on the cheeks of each feudal town and each army have different names.

Once a fierce and brave warrior, he has now been reduced to a slave-like thorn-faced soldier, struggling in troubled times.

It's the worst of times, but it's also the best of times.

For the people living in Taihang and north of the Huai River east of the Bianhe River, this is the best era, so good that many new people to the Qin domain often have trouble sleeping in the middle of the night, for fear that after waking up, everything is just a dream.

Xuanhua in 884 A.D. seems to be still asleep, and it seems to have woken up.

It was another cool morning, a glow pierced through the layers of clouds, falling wisps of morning light, and in the milky white light, the morning fog could not be dispersed. This fog shrouded the black stone city wall of Xuanhua City, which was like black iron, and the tall city wall was full of corner towers, arrow towers were all over the place, and the bell tower in the center of the city was sharp and piercing the sky. This fog also shrouded the Yanghe River not far south of Xuanhua City, and strings of blisters appeared on the surface of the clear Yanghe River from time to time, like boiled porridge, which was the fatty fish in the Yanghe River eating dew.

Between Xuanhua City and Yanghe, there is a big road like a jade belt looming in the morning light.

In addition to the Jinyan National Highway, it is the second road leading to Shanxi from the Beijing-Tianjin area. Jinyan National Road. It is from Yanjing. It connects Tianjin in the east. Then turn back to the west, along the Zhangshui River through Zhuozhou, then through Mozhou, into Yizhou, and then through Puyin and Feihu through the Taihang Mountain, into Ulzhou, and then through the Taixi Pass into the Xindai Basin, to reach Yanmen. Get rid of the section from Yanjing to Tianjin. This Jinyan National Highway is a thousand miles long. Although Taihang Mountain is dangerous and difficult to walk, Qin Fan spent a lot of manpower and material resources to go down, and there was gunpowder to open the mountain and blow up stones, and use the natural orifice of Puyin and Flying Fox Ercheng in Taihang Mountain to build this road. The completion of the Jinyan National Highway greatly strengthened the Qin army's control over Shanxi Province west of Taihang.

However, there is only one way to enter the Jin, which is still far from enough. Especially in Li Jing's strategic layout, after the Qin Domain pacified Hebei, it had to attack Guanlong through Hedong. In particular, it is necessary to strengthen control over the steppe, therefore. It was very important for the Qin army to build a fast lane on the line of Yanshan and Yinshan.

This road starts later than Jinyan Road, but the scale is larger, in the longitudinal line planning, this avenue named Jinghe National Highway, will start from Tianjin, through Yanjing, to the west from the military capital pass over Taihang, and then arrive at the intersection of Taihang, Yanshan, Yinshan three major mountain ranges of Yanjin and the passage of the grassland outside the Saiwai, is also now after the Qin Dynasty enters Yanjin, in this important mountain pass to build a new fortress city, Xuanhua.

After passing this city, which was commonly known as Zhangjiakou by the immigrants, there is a branch road here on Jinhe Avenue, and the main road continues to the west, entering Jining, an important town established by the Qin army in the plateau pass at the southern foot of Yinshan, that is, Ulanqab in later generations, until it reaches the border between Daibei and Zhenwu, near the Yinshan Baidao. In terms of planning, this Jinghe artery will continue to be repaired to the west in the future, passing through Dingxiang, that is, after Huhehot, along the Yellow River meandering area of the Sanshou City to Helan Mountain, continue to follow the Yellow River upstream, repair to Longxi, Hexi, and in the future to the Western Regions.

However, for the time being, it has only been repaired to the border between the west of Daibei and Zhenwu Town, but the branch road branched out from Xuanhua is now being built longer. From Zhangjiakou branch road south, enter Datong, pass through Yunzhou, Shuozhou, through Yanmen Pass, directly to the border of Xinzhou and Taiyuan. With the expansion of the Qin army, the road will also run through Taiyuan and the entire Hedong region, passing through Hedong Town, Hezhong Town, and Zhaoyi Town in the Shangdang Basin, and then passing through Heyang and repairing to Luoyang.

In the future, the Jinyan National Highway will enter Taiyuan from Yanmen, and then go south along the Fenshui, go to the west of Hedong, from the Xindai Basin, to the Taiyuan Basin, and then the Linfen Basin of Hezhong Town, cross the Yellow River at Jiangzhou Longmen in Hezhong Town, reach the opposite Hancheng, enter Guanzhong, pass through Tongzhou, Huazhou, and reach Chang'an.

The planning of the Ministry of Communications of the Qin Dynasty is very ambitious, and the rush to repair it for several years has made it amazing that although these three roads to the west are only being repaired to the Daibei area for the time being, they are still amazing. In particular, Xuanhua City, which was originally just a valley leading to the Mongolian Plateau, used to have only one military fort, but since the Qin army built a very large-scale Xuanhua City here, especially after the Jinghe Avenue and the Chang'an and Yanjing avenues named Qinwang Avenue were officially repaired from here, Xuanhua City is not only a military city on the imperial side, but also soon became a coherent Yanjin, as well as an important passage to the grassland, Guanlong, and Hezhong.

Xuanhua City was surprisingly lively and prospered rapidly.

Xuanhua was originally an important military town, not only a city defense army, but also a border guard army and a field army, plus the standing militia in the city, as well as the urban management team, the security team, the patrol team, the security team, the military police, etc., so that here everywhere you can see soldiers wearing different uniforms. And now, the arrival of Li Jing, the king of Qin, has made this city almost full of soldiers.

The soldiers of the Qin Army, who belonged to different branches of the military and had different numbers, did not belong to each other, but they were clearly distinguished, did not offend each other, and lived in harmony in the same city. In the morning, the soldiers in the various barracks have a lot of time to practice, which is a little more lively than the vegetable market in the morning market, which has become a unique scenery in the border city of Xuanhua.

Except for a few military dependents and family members of officials, the rest of the people here basically fled from the Central Plains, and they were taken in by the Qin clan and then settled in this new city. The vast majority of families have been allocated land on both sides of the Yanghe River, although most of these lands are wasteland, but there are Yanghe and Sanggan rivers passing through, and the land is still good. In the past, it was just too close to the mouth. And the mountain pass here is not as dangerous as the mountain on the line of the Great Wall to the south. In the past, the Hu people could come in and loot at any time. Now it's different, the Qin army is already the king of the north. Not only is there a heavily garrisoned Xuanhua City here, but further north, by the Nanchi Lake at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, the Qin army has now built a new Jining City with a circumference of thirty-six miles. With these two cities and the Qin border guards stationed, the people here no longer have to worry about being plundered by the Hu people, and this originally barren land has naturally become a fertile land. A large number of immigrants. As well as the rise of the Guantun military tun, so that this place is now very lively.

There are also many people, although their families have been allocated a lot of land, but the people in their families are large, and they do not just guard the land to eat. During the busy farming season, these industrious newcomers flocked to the city, working part-time in the newly opened workshops and shops, and even sending their children to school, some of whom had passed the required elementary school. I didn't want to pay any more, so I let the children with little talent go to the shops in the city to be apprentices. Even the women. In the same way, she went out to work like her husband during the slack time, leaving the elderly at home to take care of her, and she commuted to and from work on time every day like her husband, and worked decently. Some follow their husbands to take care of their families, and after their husbands go to work, they buy vegetables and cook, and do some manual work at home to earn some pocket money to buy vegetables.

But in any case, the people here are as new as this city, and they are different from the Central Plains everywhere, revealing a vigorous spirit. The Central Plains was in turmoil, and those refugees who had suffered from the war were constantly pouring into the Qin realm, and everyone said that the Qin domain was a paradise, full of gold, and they were willing to come to the Qin domain to pick up gold when they left their homes. When I arrived in Qin Domain, although I found that Qin Fan did not have gold to pick up, life here was not worse than I imagined, and even better than I imagined.

The wide streets, the tall buildings, the clean and tidy hygiene, they will be dizzy after looking at it for a long time, not to mention, they also have their own land, their own houses, while planting their own land with very low land endowment, they can also go to the city to find a good wage to do short-term work when the farm is slack, and the family is diligent and fast, and the money earned is not even less than that of the field.

After Li Jing rested in Xuanhua City for a night, he changed into ordinary student clothes as soon as it was dawn, and began to slowly walk around Xuanhua City with the guards who had also changed their clothes. Along the way, all he saw was peace and satisfaction, and all he heard was happy words, and in less than half a day, Li Jing heard the people praise him more than 100 times in mutual conversations, and said that he was like a god descending to earth. If it weren't for Li Jing's extremely powerful eyes and ears like the Supervision Department, the civil and military officials of Xuanhua City who knew Dao Dao did not prepare in advance and arrange any drama, Li Jing would have thought that all this was acting.

The rest Li Jing thinks too much, the Chinese people are the most simple, as long as they can live, they will never have too many requirements. Not to mention, compared with the original life, compared with the life in other places in the Central Plains, the new life here is really like in a dream, who will not be satisfied?

"Your Highness, the people's hearts are available, and I feel that the time is right to launch an attack on Hedong Town now!" Zeng Yuanyu, the envoy of the staff who was dressed as a leather merchant, said to Li Jing with a smile.

Li Jing also nodded, it is indeed popular to use. However, the most important thing is that the situation in Hebei is becoming more and more optimistic. Just a few days ago, Wei Bo Jiedu made Le Yanzhen surrounded by tooth soldiers, he was very aware of the current affairs and took the initiative to hand over the power of Wei Bo Jieshuai, and simply became a monk. Wei Boya's soldiers re-elected a general as the marshal, and then the next day, the temple where Le Yanzhen, who had just been a monk for a day, suddenly "caught fire", and the former marshal did not survive in the end.

When the son of Le Yanzhen, who was far away in Xiangzhou, heard the news, he couldn't help but be angry, his father was dead, and he, who was a son, could not be counted by the autumn queen. He wanted to lead his troops to kill Ben Weizhou, but there was a siege of the Qin army outside the city. After plotting with the military advisor Li Shanfu, Le Congxun simply did not sit and surrendered directly to Wang Yanzhang, the general of the Qin army outside the city. Then he acted as the vanguard of the Qin army and counterattacked Weizhou. At this time, the Daimyo's Mansion and Wei Boya's soldiers were in a difficult situation both internally and externally, and the newly elected marshal saw that the situation was not good, so he also intended to surrender to Qin. As a result, as soon as he secretly sent people out of the city, he was known by the tooth generals, and under the secret planning and promotion of Luo Hongxin, the extremely ambitious Wei Boya soldiers, some crazy Wei Boya soldiers directly cut down Zhao Wenmu, the newly elected marshal.

After killing the new section commander, the tooth soldiers with bloody horizontal knives in their hands swept over the fangs and shouted, "Who can take on this important task? ”

In a short period of time, Wei Bozhen died three marshals, and at this time, the Qin army was overwhelmed. The generals were not willing to come out of this. As a result, Luo Hongxin, the junior colonel who was only in charge of the military horse, jumped out. He said that he should be responsible for this. He even told a story about this, saying that a white-bearded old fairy had been coming to him recently, saying that he would be the boss of Weibo. There were a few friends of Luo Hongxin who echoed on the side, and under various circumstances, Luo Hongxin, the Bi Ma plague, actually sat on the marshal of Weibo Town.

However, Wei Bo's marshal was not so easy to be, as soon as Le Yanzhen died, Le Congxun immediately surrendered to Qin, and under the instigation of the Qin army. Seeing that the situation was not good, some of Wei Bo's military leaders also began to turn to the Qin army. As a result, Luo Hongxin tried his best to take the opportunity to become the coach of Wei Bo, but the coach only served for seven days, and after seven days, the old subordinates of the Lejia in the Daimyo Mansion and Le Congxun joined forces and opened the city gate, Luo Hongxin was still in a dream, and he was already captured by Wang Yanzhang's department who rushed into the city.

It is the same as Youzhou City, which is the famous mansion of Hebei Province. In this way, it was easily taken by the Qin army.

The daimyo was lost, and the old marshal was killed. The new commander was captured, and even the arrogant Wei Boya soldiers couldn't stand up this time. A mere 8,000 Wei Boya soldiers, if there is a big name in hand, they can still resist stubbornly for a while, but now that the city is lost, most of them are also caught in their sleep, and some who try to resist are killed on the spot. Wei Zhou and Xiangzhou were lost one after another, and Wei Bo was leaderless, and in just three days, the Wei Bo garrisons in the other four states and counties surrendered to Qin one after another. Things went so smoothly that even many Qin soldiers didn't expect it.

In half a month, the Qin army took down Wei Bo. In the original battle plan, the generals of the Qin army still thought that Wei Bo might be a hard bone, and it was possible that after the Qin army won Chengde in the autumn, Wei Bo might resist until next year. But the reality is that there is only one Shenzhou in Chengde, but Weibo has already fully occupied it.

The original battle plan was quickly changed, and Li Jing sent a new order to Zhou Dewei on the road, asking him to judge the time and seize the situation, and immediately take advantage of the current momentum to take down Chengde in one fell swoop. At the same time, let the Supervision Office go all out, let them be responsible for intelligence work, as well as assassination and plotting against enemy generals.

With Wei Bo's success in front of him, Chengde became a lone army, surrounded by the Qin army on all sides.

Coupled with the surrender of the Su Han Dynasty to Qin in Shenzhou and the defeat of the Zhenzhou City, the Chengde army was even more desperate.

After nine days, Wang Jingyin was beheaded by his subordinates, the gate of Zhenzhou was opened, the white flag was raised on the city, and the Zhao army surrendered. Later, after the Qin army took control of Zhenzhou, it quickly swept away the two states of Ji and Zhao.

From the dispatch to the end, in less than a month, the Qin army barely fought any hard battles, and there was no damage, and they seized two strong towns that had been divided from Hebei for more than 100 years.

At this time, Li Jing's team, which was preparing to go to the front of Daizhou, had just left the military capital pass and arrived in Xuanhua.

However, Li Jing did not return to Yanjing immediately, but stayed in Xuanhua.

Many generals guessed Li Jing's thoughts, and felt that the victory in Hebei had stimulated the King of Qin, and now the King of Qin was ready to use the ox knife that had not yet come to use it to cut at a chicken under the army: Hedong Town!

Li Jing was also thinking about attacking Hedong, the battle of Hebei ended too quickly, and the Qin army, which had been preparing for a long time, almost did not move, and the war was over. It can be said that the Qin army is still ready to go, and it is completely possible to change the original Hebei battle plan into a plan for the capture of Hedong, and the troops and logistics are all fully prepared, and they can start the battle of Hedong at any time.

There is only one reason why Li Jing has not made a decision now, and that is whether the time is right now.

Since the Central Plains War, although the Qin army quickly took the second town of Hebei. But at this time, sending troops to Hedong will break the peace agreement with Chang'an, and perhaps it will make the Chang'an court turn around and temporarily end the internal strife to deal with the Qin clan with all its might. Li Jing is not afraid of going head-to-head with them, but he just thinks that if he waits, it will undoubtedly be a good time to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and the fisherman will benefit.

However, although this is safe, Hedong Town is extremely empty now, and if the opportunity is missed, there may not be such a good opportunity again.

"Does the general also think that the time is right now?" Li Jing sat at the table at the door of a breakfast shop on the street side of Xuanhua Outer City, stirring porridge as he said.

"I feel that the time is ripe, the 200,000 soldiers and horses we prepared for the battle of Hebei have hardly been used, and it is enough to have this army to capture Hedong Town. In addition, the war preparations of more than 10,000,000 stones of grain that we have prepared for the battle of Hebei have not yet been moved. Moreover, after taking Hebei, a large amount of grain was newly harvested, so there is no need to worry about logistics. Moreover, after taking Chengde and Weibo, our attack on Hedong Town is also much more advantageous. We can now attack Taiyuan not only from the south from Daizhou, but also from Zhenzhou through Jingcheng to the west. And from the perspective of the surrounding situation, Hedong Town is now leaderless, and half of the soldiers and horses are still in the Central Plains. Coupled with Chang'an and Chengdu, Zhu Wen and Cai Zongquan and other parties are fighting, and now is a good time to seize Taiyuan. The most important thing is that not only did we not expect the battle of Hebei to end so quickly, but we were afraid that Chang'an would not expect it. In this way, we are now sending troops to Hedong Town, which is an excellent opportunity to take Taiyuan in one fell swoop. ”

Li Jing lowered his head and drank a bowl of corn porridge, put down the bowl and spoon, paused, and finally made up his mind and nodded, "In this way, the General Staff immediately drew up a battle plan and drew it out, either we don't fight, if we want to fight, we have to fight a beautiful battle, and we will succeed in the first battle!" ”

Zeng Yuanyu saw that Li Jing finally agreed to send troops to Taiyuan, and couldn't help but be excited and replied: "The last general is ordered!" The loud answer attracted the surprise and attention of countless people eating breakfast next to him, looking at everyone's thoughtful and excited eyes, Li Jing couldn't help pouting, knowing that today's micro-service trip is over. After a few wry smiles, Li Jing got up, left a wolf silver coin, and turned to leave!

Zeng Yuanyu also found that he had lost his temper for a while and revealed his identity, smiled at Li Jing embarrassedly, poured the bowl of untouched porridge into his mouth in a few bites, and strode to follow King Qin's footsteps while wiping his mouth. (To be continued......)