As for why Sun Guifei would give such a rich reward, Li Yuntian naturally knew it, in addition to Sun Guifei and Zhou Yuting had a good personal relationship, the child in Sun Guifei's belly was the key.

If Sun Guifei gave birth to a prince, then she would be the eldest son of Emperor Xuande, and of course she hoped that Emperor Xuande would make him the crown prince.

But now that Empress Hu is still alive, according to the principle of establishing a successor and establishing a long term, the prince born to Empress Hu must be established as the crown prince first, and only after Empress Hu can not give birth to a prince can she appoint her son.

Empress Hu has already given birth to two princesses to Emperor Xuande, which means that she may also give Emperor Xuande another prince, and this prince is naturally the future crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Sun Guifei knew that it would be difficult for Empress Hu to have another child with her current physique, this was not absolute, in case Empress Hu became pregnant and gave birth to a prince, then her son would have no chance to become the crown prince.

Besides, Concubine Sun Guifei didn't have time to wait anymore, in case other concubines also gave birth to a prince, if Queen Hu wanted to raise her, all her hopes would become a mirror.

In order to ensure that her son can become the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Guifei will now pave the way for him to win over those important ministers in the court who can influence Emperor Xuande.

Although Sun Guifei didn't know whether she was pregnant with a princess or a prince in her belly, if she waited until the child was born to plan, it would undoubtedly be too late.

Among the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the court, Sun Guifei especially valued Li Yuntian, first, she had a close relationship with Zhou Yuting, and Zhou Yuting was followed by Zhou Zheng, which could have a great influence on the nobles in the court.

Second, Li Yuntian is the most relied on and trusted courtier of Emperor Xuande, although his qualifications are not as good as those of Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, but he has both civil and military skills, outstanding eloquence, and can speak for him in the court at critical moments.

Therefore, Li Yuntian naturally became the most important official of Sun Guifei, and Emperor Xuande's favor for Sun Guifei has already shown his attitude towards the crown prince, presumably Li Yuntian will definitely not let her down at that time.

In July, a new battle report finally came from Cochin, and the content of the war report was related to the battle between Changjiang City and Langjiang City, of which Changjiang City was captured on the second day of April.

As early as July of the first year of Xuande, the rebel Li Li personally led 80,000 rebels in order to take Changjiang City, gathered a large number of elephants, flying cars, and ladders to storm Changjiang City.

Chengshan Bo Wang Tong appointed Li Ren, the commander of the Jiaozhi Dusidu, as the defender of Changjiang City, and Gu Fuzhi, the commander of the Changjiang Guard, who was responsible for fighting the rebels.

Li He Gu Fu discovered Li Li's intentions, so he asked people to dig a horizontal ditch to communicate with the hole dug by the rebels, and launched an attack on the rebels who had burrowed into the tunnel from the ditch, inflicting heavy losses on the rebels.

Seeing that he could not attack for a long time, Li Li ordered reinforcements to be dispatched, and increased elephants to attack the city, and the battle situation was extremely tragic.

After Changjiang City was besieged by the rebels led by Li Li, Wang Tong went to the Guangxi general army, the general of Zhenman, and Gu Xingzu, who were close to Jiaozhi, for help.

But Gu Xingzu was worried that the rebels in Jiaozhi would be powerful, so he actually supported the troops to protect himself, turned a blind eye to Wang Tong's request for help, and did not send troops to the rescue, making the Ming army in Jiaozhi isolated and helpless.

On the day of the city's break, Li Ren had been fighting with Li Li for more than nine months, fighting more than 30 times, and nearly half of the soldiers in the city were killed or wounded.

It was not until April of the second year of Xuande that the rebels finally broke through the walls of Changjiang City, and seized the city gate after climbing the city with a ladder.

Seeing this, Li Ren and Gu Fu personally led the dead to seize the city gate, but unfortunately they fell short, and the rebel elephants arrived at the critical moment, so that the two failed to recapture the city gate, and were besieged by the rebels and killed themselves.

It is worth mentioning that Feng Zhi, the garrison eunuch of Changjiang City, and Liu Shun, the commander of the Jiaozhi Division, also killed themselves after the city was broken.

According to later statistics, thousands of military academy members and men and women in the city died unyieldingly.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Wang Tong went out of the city under the protection of his subordinates, escaped from the encirclement and interception of the rebels with nine deaths, and entered Jiaozhou City, the seat of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy.

Almost at the same time, the city of Langjiang, which had been besieged by the rebels for nearly ten months, also fell, and Langjiang Province fell into the hands of the rebels, and the governor of Langjiang Province, Liu Zifu, hanged himself when the city was broken.

After Li Li captured Changjiang and Langjiang, he joined forces and sent rebels to attack Jiaozhou City and Qinghua City, the seat of Thanh Hoa Prefecture, respectively, and captured Dongguan, an important town in Jiaozhou.

Chengshan Bowangtong gathered his troops to hide in Jiaozhou City, closed the city, and relied on the tall and thick walls of Jiaozhou City to resist the attack of the rebels, waiting for Liu Sheng's reinforcements.

Emperor Xuande was shocked when he learned that Changjiang City and Langjiang City had fallen at the same time, he did not expect the rebels to be so fierce, and at the same time he was annoyed that Gu Xingzu did not send troops to rescue, so he ordered him to be arrested and returned to Beijing, and put him in the edict of Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town, and ordered Liu Sheng to lead the army to advance quickly.

Under the orders of Emperor Xuande, Liu Sheng arrived at Xuanhua Province in Cochin in September, and subsequently conquered the rebel Pass.

At this time, Liu Sheng's troops had reached 120,000 people, in addition to the 70,000 Beijing troops of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, 1,000 soldiers were also drawn from Wuchangwei and 1,200 soldiers were drawn from Chengdu Wei along the way.

In addition, there were 10,000 elite Ming troops in Nanjing, when Zheng He went to the West, and 33,000 Ming troops in Huguang, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Fujian, Sichuan, Fujian, Sichuan, and Fujian, Sichuan, and the total number of people has exceeded 120,000.

Seeing that Liu Sheng was menacing, Li Li knew that he was invincible, so he wrote to Liu Sheng, asking the descendants of Chen, the king of the original Annan Kingdom, to be kings, and he was willing to quit the army and return.

Liu Sheng did not open Li Li's paperwork, but immediately reported it to the imperial court, and continued to lead the army south to Jiaozhou City, preparing to rescue Wang Tong.

The rebels set up checkpoints along the way, and the Ming army broke them one after another, and the momentum was like a bamboo along the way, and they soon arrived at Zhenyi Pass.

Seeing that the rebels had been defeated repeatedly, they were simply vulnerable, so Liu Sheng couldn't help but despise the rebels and thought that they were nothing more than Erer.

Due to the long journey, two important figures in the counterinsurgency army, Li Qing, the deputy assistant of the military cabinet of the counselor of military affairs, and the deputy chief soldier of Baoding, Bo Liangming of Baoding, unfortunately contracted the disease, and his condition continued to worsen.

Shi An, who accompanied the army, saw that the rebels' successive defeats seemed to be luring the enemy, and Liu Sheng was very disdainful of the rebels in his words and deeds after defeating the rebels along the way.

Obviously, arrogance is a taboo for soldiers, so Shi An reminded Li Qing that he thought that the rebels might be deliberately showing weakness to lure the Ming army forward, and Liu Sheng should be warned to prevent the rebels from setting up ambushes on the road.

Li Qing felt that the matter was important, so he dragged the sick body forward to warn Liu Sheng, asking Liu Sheng to be careful of the rebels' deception.

Although Liu Sheng agreed on the surface, he didn't care in private, thinking that the rebels were just some uncivilized barbarians, and they couldn't make any waves.

In order to arrive in Jiaozhou City to rescue the trapped Wang Tong before Taifu, General Zhengnan, and Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo, who entered Jiaozhi from Yunnan, he actually led the forward troops to leave the main force of the Ming army.

When Liu Sheng led the forward troops to Changjiang and crossed the bridge at a place called "Inverted Horse Slope", Liu Sheng took the lead and rode horses with more than 100 personal soldiers to gallop across the bridge first, widening the distance between him and the rear troops.

Soon after Liu Sheng crossed the bridge, the rebels ambushed in the mountains on both sides of the ambush group attacked, Liu Sheng was taken aback when he saw this, and wanted to turn the horse's head and flee back to the Ming army, but unfortunately the back road was intercepted, and he had no choice but to lead the army to continue to run forward, and finally the horse was stuck in a quagmire, and was killed by the pursuing rebels with arrows.

The vanguard of the Ming army encountered a strong resistance from the rebels at the inverted mapo, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not one-way, and the day after Liang Ming died of illness, Li Qing also died of illness.

As a result, the chief general of the Ming army became the right general Cui Ju, who sent people to transport the bodies of Liang Ming and Li Qing back to Xuanhua Mansion for resettlement, and led an urgent rush to Baomapo to rescue the vanguard troops besieged by the rebels, and finally led the army to arrive the next day.

Reinforcements from the rebels had also arrived, with more than 100,000 reinforcements, and elephant soldiers were mobilized to fight, which dealt a fatal blow to the Ming army.

It was the first time for most of the people in the Ming army to see such a huge monster as an elephant, and when they saw its proboscis and fangs, and their strength was infinite, they immediately became confused and panicked.

The rebels took advantage of this large-scale attack, and the Ming army could not resist the rout of the whole line, with numerous casualties, most of the generals and officials of the army were killed, and a few fled back to Xuanhua Mansion.

At the same time, Taifu, General Zhengnan, and Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo, who entered Jiaozhi from Yunnan, were blocked by the rebels in Shuiwei County, Guihua Prefecture, and could not go to Jiaozhou City.

Wang Tong in Jiaozhou City was shocked when he learned that Liu Sheng was killed in battle and Mu Sheng was blocked, thinking that the Ming army was in Jiaozhi and that the general trend was gone, in order to avoid the rebels from attacking Jiaozhou City, so he privately lured Li Li to sue for peace with heavy money, and expressed his willingness to present an apology to Emperor Xuande for Li Li.

In fact, this is not the first time that Wang Tong has asked Li Li to negotiate peace, when he was surrounded by the rebels in Jiaozhou City, he once secretly sent someone to find Li Li, promising to beg for Li Li's title, and promised to cede the land south of Thanh Hoa Province to Li Li, hoping that Li Li would withdraw from the army.

Li Li was overjoyed when he saw Wang Tong's envoy, so he sent a letter to Wang Tong, expressing his willingness to strike the army, but to Qinghua to the south of the state capital, and the two sides would not interfere with the river water in the future, and turn the war into a jade silk.

After receiving the letter, Wang Tong convened the officials of the three divisions of Jiaozhou City to discuss, saying that the rebels were powerful, and Liu Sheng's reinforcements had not arrived, and if Jiaozhou City was breached, the Ming army would lose its foundation in Jiaozhi, so it was better to negotiate peace with the rebels, first keep the state capital north of Qinghua Province, and then pacify the rebels after Liu Sheng led the army.

After learning of Wang Tong's intentions, most of the officials on the scene fell silent, and only a few agreed: the Ming army still controlled some places south of Thanh Hoa Province, so wouldn't it be a cheap thing to lose the rebels.

What is particularly important is that Thanh Hoa City, the seat of Thanh Hoa Province, is still in the hands of the Ming army, Thanh Hoa City is a military town in Cochin, and the rebels have returned with several attacks, and if they follow Le Li's peace requirements, the Ming army will give up Thanh Hoa City in vain.

However, in the face of the rebels approaching the city, coupled with Wang Tong's clear attitude, only Yang Shixi, the envoy of Jiaozhi, expressed his dissent, believing that this move was insulting to the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a big crime to negotiate peace with the rebels without going through the imperial court.

It's a pity that Yang Shixi couldn't speak alone, and was scolded by Wang Tong, thinking that he was disturbing the morale of the army, so that all the officials did not dare to speak.

However, what Wang Tong did not expect was that Luo Tong, the prefect of Qinghua Prefecture, refused to abandon the city after receiving his order, and fought with the commander of Qinghua Wei to fight loyalty, which made the rebels sigh at the city.

Li Li did not want to be an enemy of the Ming court, and now that he had won one after another, the Ming army was afraid of war, so he accepted Wang Tong's conditions and decided to negotiate peace with the Ming court.

For this reason, Li Li asked Emperor Xuande to surrender the table, hoping that Emperor Xuande could establish Chen Wei, a descendant of the king of the southern kingdom of An, as the king of Jiaozhi.

Wang Tong then sent Li Li's envoys to Beijing to ask Emperor Xuande to surrender and offer gifts, and the war in Jiaozhi came to a crossroads of war or peace.

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