Two months ago, the Northern Korean army attacked Luoyang, and the decent knights faced it head-on, breaking the Northern Korean offensive.

But the cunning Beikou, but took advantage of the Central Plains' attention was attracted by the battle of Luoyang, sent a partial division, from Zhengzhou, Kaifeng line to break into the Central Plains, with the cooperation of the demon sect demons, the two military cities changed hands overnight.

Not even large-scale conflicts broke out.

Half a month later, the 60,000 troops of the Northern Dynasties gathered and raged all the way in the Central Plains, connecting several big cities in Xuchang, Zhoukou, Caizhou, Xinyang, Bingfeng until Huainan Xiaoxiang, causing the world to shake.

And because on the night when Kaifeng City changed hands, there were strange stars across the sky, and the whole Shenzhou was clearly visible, causing chaos in the entire Southern Dynasty like a pot of porridge.

There are already rumors in Lin'an that the Northern Dynasty will become the ruler of the world, and the destruction of the Southern Dynasty is a foregone conclusion.

Of course, there are soft bones of compromise, and naturally there are hard bones that dare to resist, Zhao Biao, the king of Huainan in the Southern Dynasty, urgently transferred military horses from all over the country and assembled in Huainan and Xiaoxiang, which was bound to block the army of the Northern Dynasty.

Towards the north, there was no hesitation.

When the army advanced to Xinyang, they stopped the pace of going to Xiaoxiang, and turned the spearhead, from the two lines of Runan and Bozhou, to Huainan to attack, obviously, their next goal was to attack Huainan and reach the Yangtze River directly.

At the beginning of August, the northern and southern armies fought a big battle under the city of Bozhou, with 30,000 people in the north and 60,000 in the south.

Helplessly, the national division of the Northern Dynasty staged another "thousands of miles of ice" under the city of Bozhou.

A third of the Bozhou city wall was destroyed.

The army of the Northern Dynasty did not fight with the Southern Dynasty outside the city at all, and the 5,000 cavalry rushed directly into the city and set fire to it and plundered it.

A day later, Bozhou fell, and less than 10% of the 60,000 troops of the Southern Dynasty were killed or wounded, but they could only retreat to Suzhou.

Seven days later, Suzhou fell, and the city wall was also frozen in the same way, so that the army of the Northern Dynasty drove straight in.

Fifteen days later, at the end of August, there was also bad news under the city of Fuyang, this time the national division of the Northern Dynasty did not freeze the city wall, but just appeared to threaten, and the Fuyang Mansion Commander was frightened to open the city and surrender.

But it's no wonder that the officials of the Southern Dynasty are soft, it is really Bozhou, Suzhou, the matter is too sensational, and once the city is broken, the Beikou must set fire to the city, and the people of a city will inevitably be killed and injured countless times.

In short, with the help of the happy "immortal law", the army of the Northern Dynasties was like a bamboo, and the Southern Dynasties could not come up with a good solution at all.

When Shen Qiu and Yaoqin, the newlyweds, arrived in Xiangyang City, they heard the news that the two armies of the Northern Dynasty had encircled Huainan and dominated the capital, according to the storyteller in Xiangyang City.

At most, the Northern Dynasty will be able to conquer the two heroic cities, and the Bingfeng will reach the Yangtze River.

If the national division of the Northern Dynasty can make the Yangtze River freeze again, make the fierce army go straight to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Southern Dynasty will be destroyed, I am afraid that it will be in the next two years.

"Dangerous, sensational!"

In the restaurant where he was temporarily resting, Shen Qiu was eating and said to his ruddy-faced, beautiful wife beside him:

"How can I be happy that I have that ability, the frozen city wall can only be barely done with the help of Shuoxue Xuangong, as for the frozen Yangtze River, he will never be able to do it."

"Doesn't the husband also know how to learn Xuangong?"

Yaoqin wore a veil and added a cup of tea to Shen Qiu, and she whispered:

"Then I'm glad to be able to do it, husband..."

"I can't do it."

Shen Qiu shrugged his shoulders and said to Yaoqin:

"Shuoxue Xuangong has been cultivated to the end, and the cold in the world can no longer meet the needs, and it must be cultivated to the fullest with the help of immortal strange things such as Changbai Hanluo. And the last piece of Changbai in the world has been destroyed by your husband.

According to the current progress, I can only cultivate to the realm of perfection at most, and freezing a small village and town is already the limit, and it is impossible to freeze the city wall and then break it. ”

Yaoqin pursed her lips and said:

"That's a shame."

"It's a pity, it's not a pity."

Shen Qiu's fingers moved, and Xue Ji True Qi and Shuo Xue Cold Qi were entangled and tied to his fingertips, leaving a frost mark on the table.

He looked at the two balls of True Qi working at the same time at the same time at his fingertips, and there was a light in his eyes.

He whispered:

"The true qi of the five elements of the Five Elements Gate, the five elements are born together, and the end is wonderful.

Coupled with the way of exercising qi of these two Yi Divine Fists, it gave me some inspiration, and I already thought in my heart, if I can achieve it, even if I don't have the Changbai Cold Spirit, Shuo Xue's Xuangong is not impossible.

But that's all for later, don't rush now, you can eat something too, last night... You're tired. ”

"Don't say it!"

Hearing Shen Qiu talk about last night, Yaoqin's cheeks flushed with shame, and she touched her slender waist, this bad person made her waist still sore now.

"Husband, you are really a bad person, those shameful postures... Where did you learn that? ”

Hearing Yaoqin's tangled questioning, Shen Qiu snorted.

He picked up his teacup and said:

"Zhang Lan taught, you also know that the prodigal likes to play with beauties the most, and he naturally does the boudoir thing..."

"Woe to you, woe to you!"

Before Shen Qiu finished speaking, he heard a noise from downstairs, interrupting the current events that the storyteller was talking about.

Shen Qiu looked down and saw a Jianghu man with a simple knife staggering into the restaurant.

Probably in an angry mood, the Jianghu people did not lower their voices, and shouted loudly to several colleagues sitting on the edge:

"The Western Regions are in turmoil!

Seven days ago, hundreds of thousands of Hu Yan had broken through Tianshui and were heading to Chencang, and the Xiaoxiang battalion of the Tiance Army had already set out for the battle.

Don't eat it!

Bring your luggage, let's go back to Guanzhong! ”

Several Jianghu people hurriedly met the account and got up to leave, but the news brought by the Jianghu people caused an uproar in the restaurant, and everyone was scolding the thieves in the Western Regions and the ambition of wolves.

But on the second floor, Shen Qiu detected more secrets from this news.

He put down his chopsticks and looked at Yaoqin, who also looked serious, and said:

"It seems that the Demon Sect is really going to go the same way as the Northern Dynasties."

"If this level is attacked, won't the Tiance Army be dragged down?"

Yaoqin said in an anxious tone:

"If there is no cooperation of the Tiance army, how can the northern dynasty lock the main road into the Central Plains by relying only on the Qilu border army of the Southern Dynasty?"

"I can't lock it."

Shen Qiu stood up and said to Yaoqin:

"Since the Battle of Luoyang, the Northern Dynasties have marched according to this step.

Before I waited, I thought about why Na Xing was so risky and attacked alone, if the Tiance army and the Qilu border army joined forces to recapture Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, wouldn't they be in a lonely place?

But now it seems that if he dares to take such a risk, he must have been guaranteed by Zhang Chu of the Seven Peerless Sects, and Hu Yan of the Western Regions invaded Guanzhong at this time, which was clearly cooperating with the Northern Dynasty march.

Can't stay here any longer. ”

He stretched out his hand to Yaoqin, held Yaoqin's wrist, and said in a deep voice:

"We must rush back to Luoyang as soon as possible, the battle situation in the Central Plains may be repeated. Once the Holy Fire Sect, which is also in the Western Regions, also joins the attack on Guanzhong, with its size of hundreds of thousands of believers in the countries of the Western Regions...

Luoyang is in danger, and the world is in danger. ”

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Chencang Ancient Road, reckless mountains and forests, under the Great Scattered Pass.

Tiance soldiers are collecting troops and returning to the camp, a ray of sunset slanting on the battlefield under the mountain, there are corpses everywhere, and some broken flags are piled up together, and some soldiers are setting fire to them.

The scale of the battle was modest.

The pioneers who came first, only more than 1,000 people, were close to reconnaissance, and were blocked by both sides of the Tiance army, and fought a lively and dripping battle of annihilation.

The soldiers were almost unharmed, and their spirits were high, and these Western Regions Hu Yan was nothing more than that.

But the deputy general of the Tiance Army who was riding on the horse was really not happy.

"Gather the soldiers and send more horses."

The adjutant hung his gun on his horse pocket and said to the lieutenants behind him:

"Let Tanma go in the direction of Tianshui, and find out how many people Hu Yan has, whether he divides the troops, and who the leader is, be sure to find out!"

"Yes."

Several lieutenants took the order, and the adjutant general glanced at the battlefield again, shook his head, and then took a dozen of his own soldiers back to the camp at Dasanguan Pass.

When the adjutant general returned to his room, he picked up the letter paper, studied ink and picked up a pen, and asked to write a letter to the general stationed in Chang'an.

This lieutenant general is in his thirties, in the prime of life, with a large body, has practiced martial arts all the year round, is a brave man, and has followed General Tiance since he was a child, and learned the art of war.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is both civil and military.

Moreover, his relationship with General Tiance is still very ordinary.

The general Li Shouguo had a wife, but when he was young, he was killed and injured on the battlefield, his body was damaged, and he could have sex, but he could not conceive an heir.

This resolute-looking lieutenant with a beard is one of them.

His name is Li Dingguo, the eldest of the three Li family's righteous sons, and he is also the elder brother of Li Weiguo and Li Baoguo.

In his thirties, he has become one of the five deputy generals of the Tiance Army, with a high and powerful position, commanding 30,000 elite soldiers, guarding the main road of Dasanguan.

Actually, to tell the truth, it is no wonder that the two brothers Zhao Hu and Zhao Biao are so jealous of the Tiance Army.

In the case of the confrontation between the north and the south, the Southern Dynasty needed the Tiance army to defend the northwest defense line.

However, within the Tiance Army, there has long been a trend of warlords.

On this day, the 60,000 troops, up and down, were all controlled by the general Li Shouguo, and cronies were installed everywhere.

Tiance is an army, known as the strongest army in the world, but it is already like the private property of the Li family.

It's completely a posture of listening to tunes and not listening to propaganda.

More importantly, although Li Shouguo was rewarded by the Southern Dynasty, he was not loyal to the Southern Dynasty.

I never even hid the idea of myself.

He commanded the Tiance Army to guard the northwest, which was to defend the country for the dead Great Chu, not for the usurping Zhao family, such a situation, how could the high-level leaders of the Southern Dynasty dare to trust the Tiance Army?

It's a pity that they can't leave it, so they can only stay away, all kinds of restrictions, but they take the upper and lower as one, and the rock-solid Tiance Army has no way at all.

"Alas, the situation is turbulent, and it is really weird."

After Li Dingguo finished writing the letter, he stuffed the letter into a bamboo tube and asked his soldiers to pass the book with flying pigeons and send it to Chang'an.

He himself stood in the middle of the room, looking at the map hanging on the wall, full of thoughts.

"Dasanguan has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, the pass is dangerous, and it has been garrisoned by the Tiance army for a long time, with 30,000 elite soldiers, it is not difficult to block the nonsense that comes from the pass."

Li Dingguo's finger slid on the map, and he whispered:

"Even if more than 100,000 people from the Western Regions pour in, I am confident that I can hold on for at least three years, but..."

His fingers were raised, and he put them on the place where northern Shaanxi and Gansu meet, and his eyes narrowed.

The Tiance army of 60,000 people, guarding the pass, pressed the Western Regions Hu Yan for more than ten years and did not dare to move, and the end was like the Dinghai God Needle. But the problem is that these 60,000 people have to be defended, and it is not just a big pass.

What they have to guard against is not just the unfashionable Western Regions Huyan.

There are also Mongolian tribes from the Mongolian steppe.

The death of the Yanji Han a few years ago split the Mongol tribes, but Li Dingguo has always heard that the Northern Dynasty has plans to form an alliance with the Mongols, and once the two sides really form an alliance, the Mongol tribes will knock from the north.

There is also the Demon Sect and the Holy Fire Sect in the Western Regions, if the two parties join forces, the 20,000 people in the Dingbian camp may not be able to stop it.

"The Northern Dynasty has bypassed Luoyang and invaded the Central Plains."

Li Dingguo's fingers slid all the way down Guanzhong to the southeast.

The general trend of the world is constantly evolving in his heart, if the north road of the Tiance Army is broken, even if he stays at the Dasan Pass and blocks the Western Regions, he will not be able to save the current bad situation.

"Mongolia, the Demon Sect, and the Northern Dynasties, if the three parties really join forces, from Huainan to Xiaoxiang Yungui line, they will fall into the hands of the Northern Dynasty in an instant."

Li Dingguo's fingers drew a circle in those three places.

This circle of paintings, a small half of the southern dynasty is spent.

Only Jiangnan, Liangguang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places remain.

But if this temple is true, the Northern Dynasty really swallowed the places in that circle, and the remaining places are not in danger at all, and they are completely allowed to be ravaged and engulfed by the Northern Dynasty.

In the end, Li Dingguo's gaze fell on Yungui again.

"There is also the Miao Jiang witch, if there are more than 100,000 barbarian seedlings and then take the opportunity to come out of the clouds... This battle doesn't have to be fought, unless the immortals come to the world, no one can save the Southern Dynasty. ”

He frowned, the more he looked at it, the more annoyed he became, the more he thought about it, the more chaotic he became, so he gave up the map, his heart was depressed, and he walked out of the room again, looking at the reckless mountains and forests outside the Dasan Pass.

"Father, what the hell do you think? And how? ”

Li Dingguo closed his eyes and thought in his heart.

"This world is in turmoil, it's a foregone conclusion, where should we go from here?

I know that you are loyal to Da Chu, but it has been more than 20 years since Da Chu died, and my Tiance army is like a rootless duckweed, guarding the land in this pass. When the world is peaceful, it's fine, but now the world is strife..."

Li Dingguo was not thinking of surrendering to the Northern Dynasty.

His biological parents died in the battle of the Northern Dynasty attacking Dasanguan, and he, like most of the soldiers of the Tiance Army, had a bitter hatred for the Northern Dynasty.

But this Southern Dynasty is also a Adou who can't be supported.

The Zhao family usurped the throne and won the country, which was not justified, and after more than 20 years of confrontation, it failed to make the people return to their hearts.

In the current situation, even if the Tiance Army wants to defend the Southern Dynasty to the death, it is powerless. With the current general trend of the world, the 60,000 Tiance Army was thrown into this treacherous situation, and I am afraid that it will not even be able to make a splash.

In the troubled times, where should this powerful army in the world come from?

"The second brother won a battle a while ago, and he raised his prestige, and he was young back then, and now he can hold up the scene."

Li Dingguo thought of his two brothers again, and he had a slight smile on his serious face.

Although the age difference between the three brothers is a little much, the relationship between each other is really like biological brothers.

"It's just that the third brother is young, and he has a strong temperament, the Central Plains is in chaos, he is still guarding Luoyang, and he only has a bunch of recruits at hand, which is really reassuring.

However, I heard that the Hundred Birds Chaofeng Spear is also in Luoyang.

Alas, I really want to see the treasure of the soldier with my own eyes, if this treasure can be returned to the Tiance Army, all the difficulties will be solved. ”

was troubled in his heart, and Li Dingguo also frequently looked in the direction of Guanzhong.

He was waiting for his father to send back the letter, and he was also waiting for his father to solve his doubts.

My father has been in Guanzhong for more than 20 years, and he never talked about the general trend of the world, and it was not that no one persuaded him to tear the soil and become the king.

Every time there was such a remark, my father smiled and said that the time had not yet come.

But Li Dingguo, who has been following his father all the year round, has a feeling that his father has no idea of separating one side at all, and the reason why he has been standing still should be waiting for something to happen.

Or wait for someone to show up.

After that person appears, the Tiance Army, which has been dormant for more than 20 years, will also make some moves.

But the question is, the father who has been resolute and loyal all his life, in the end...

What are you waiting for?