Fifty miles outside the city of Kyoto, is the first barrier of the Wei army's defense line, sharpened inverted piles densely extended, such barbed wooden piles are set up every ten miles, behind the barbed wooden stakes is a huge wooden fence made of thick wooden piles, behind the fence is the Yan army, its archers are on the front line, always on guard, and then there are pikemen.

There were three lines of defense, thirty miles in depth, and the elite cavalry of the Wei State was deployed at the rear, gathered under the city of Kyoto, as the last line of defense.

It is undeniable that the Wei people were able to build such a fortification in a short period of time, which is already very remarkable, and it is absolutely impossible to break through such a defense line without paying a heavy price.

If the city of Kyoto is not broken, it will be difficult to say that the Wei State will be defeated, as long as this ancient capital is firmly held, there will be a large number of armies in various parts of the Wei State one after another, and these armies will be condensed with the city of Kyoto as the center.

As long as the city of Kyoto is defended, the situation will become more and more favorable to the Wei state.

The Wei general Xue Po lost Nanyang Guanting Shuiguan in a row, and even lost his troops and lost a large number of heavy grain and grass and retreated in a hurry, which naturally caused the anger of the Wei courtiers.

Sima Qingtian suddenly disappeared from the battlefield, and many important ministers of the Wei State already knew about it.

They naturally also knew that the battle of the Nanyang Plain was commanded by Xue Poye, and Xue Poye was to blame for the loss of Nanyang Pass and Tingshui Pass.

Just like the other two countries, although the commanders of the armies are nowhere to be found, the upper echelons of each country are very clear about this matter, and even ordinary officials know about it, but the three countries have not said it to the outside world.

At the same time, it maintains a tacit attitude.

Xue Poye's defeat made the courtiers of Wei State present a fold one after another, impeaching Xue Poye, not only asking Emperor Wei to remove Xue Poye's military power, but also beheading Xue Poye for defeat and punishment, and giving an explanation to the Wei soldiers.

If it is said that Xue Poye lost two levels and buried the Wei king's cavalry iron horse in one battle, it was enough to cut off his head ten times.

As we all know, Shang Zhongli, the holy general of Qingguo, has a very high status and power in Qingguo, and Qing** is also powerful in his own country, but compared with Wei, Qingguo's military is obviously slightly inferior.

The emperor of Wei is a warlike monarch who wants to dominate the world, and because of this, the military represented by Sima Qingtian supported by this emperor can be said to be far stronger than the Qing side in Wei.

The only one who could slightly restrain the military in the DPRK was the old prime minister, but after even this last thorn was picked off two years ago, the military can be said to be powerful, and the Western Wei Dynasty has completely become a military empire.

The strength of the military naturally stands up against the forces of other factions, especially the civilian clique, which has almost become a servant of the military, and everything is in the service of the military's military decrees.

These civilian officials are afraid of the military's strength, and although they dare not confront it on the surface, they are naturally extremely dissatisfied and resentful in their hearts.

When everyone vaguely felt that Sima Qingtian might never come back, and saw that the new representative of the military, Xue Poye, was defeated and lost, even if it was a time of crisis now, they still did not let go of this opportunity to suppress the military, and countless civilian officials rose up, and the twists and turns of impeachment flew to Emperor Wei's desk like snowflakes.

But although the emperor of Wei had a tyrannical temperament, he was not an incompetent king.

He knows very well that now that Wei is facing a counteroffensive by the enemy, the situation is critical, and it is at the time of life and death.

In the past 20 years, with the support and trust of the emperor, Sima Qingtian has held military power and become the most dazzling general of Wei.

It is precisely because this general star is so dazzling that it seems that the other generals of Wei are extremely bleak.

Over the years, except for Sima Qingtian, who has always held himself high at the top of the famous generals, although Wei is known as the first military power, there has never been a heavyweight general.

And because of the famous general Sima Qingtian, the Wei State never cared if there were new generals, or because of Sima Qingtian's power, some generals did not dare to fully reveal it even if they were talented, once they overshadowed Sima Qingtian's limelight a little, what was waiting for him was not necessarily glory, and it was likely to be a disaster.

A star shines, and countless mediocre generals gather under it, all they have to do is obey military orders.

Comparatively speaking, on the contrary, Xue Poye still has a lot of weight in the Wei army, this person followed Sima Qingtian when he was young, and occasionally showed a certain military quality, and because of this, Sima Qingtian was quite important to him, and he was slowly promoted, and finally even became the deputy commander of Sima Qingtian's side.

Emperor Wei knew in his heart that it was a taboo for soldiers to change generals in battle, but the most terrible thing now was that Wei had no generals to change at all.

Once Xue Poye was really executed, he couldn't find a suitable general to command the defense of Kyoto City.

In the face of the overwhelming shouts of the Manchu Dynasty, the emperor of Wei suppressed everyone's mouths with the sentence "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and the enemy is current, and cannot be killed" and his domineering domineering, and then personally comforted Xue Poye, still put the military power of Wei in Xue Poye's hands, and even ordered him to command 100,000 Wei troops and organize the defense of Kyoto.

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Xue Poye was at the first barrier on the periphery of Kyoto City at this time, followed by several generals, looking at the sky from afar, his expression was very serious.

The successive defeats filled the Wei general with a sense of shame.

Now he needs to take this opportunity to snow his own shame, and even more so the shame of the Wei army.

Although facing the two countries and two armies of Yanqing, he had to command the operations on the north and south sides of Kyoto City at the same time, and he had to deal with it with weak forces, Xue Poye still showed the courage that a general should have.

After the coalition forces took Tingshui Pass, the Wei army quickly retreated, and then received the order of the Wei Emperor, and the heavy troops were assembled in the Wei army's Kyoto City, in order to protect the capital of the Wei State.

In addition to leaving a limited number of troops to guard some dangerous passes in Suiding County, Xue Poye gathered almost all the Wei troops in Wei County.

Although many people are talking in private, it is a shame for the Wei people to retreat like this and lose a large area of land, and Emperor Wei asked the Wei army to gather in Wei County, but he was greedy for life and afraid of death.

However, Xue Poye felt in his heart that sticking to Kyoto City was not necessarily an enemy, but only for personal safety.

Kyoto City is the kingdom of Wei, as long as the country exists, and Emperor Wei is alive, it also shows that the country still exists, and there is still a flag floating over Wei.

However, once the country is broken and Emperor Wei is dead, then the six counties of Wei will be cohesive, and they will be scattered, and those scattered Wei forces will soon be suppressed by the coalition forces that took Kyoto City.

And the coalition army advanced all the way to Wei County, which also proved that the coalition army really wanted to take the city of Kyoto, take the capital of Wei first, and tear the banner of Wei apart.

Therefore, Xue Poye felt that under the current situation, it was also the best choice to gather heavy troops in Kyoto City for the strategic purpose of keeping Kyoto City.

The Yanqing coalition army of more than 200,000 advanced towards the hinterland of Wei, and it seemed that the momentum was huge and the morale was like a rainbow, but Xue Poye calmed down and thought about it calmly, but felt that the Yanqing coalition army might not really be as strong as it seemed.

In fact, in his opinion, the hidden danger of the Yanqing coalition army is extremely great, and if the Wei army can make good use of it, it may not be impossible to turn defeat into victory.

In this regard, he had a long talk with Emperor Wei all night and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and us.

Although he has lost several battles in a row on the battlefield, he is not a mediocre talent, and he can get Sima Qingtian's weight, and he still has two brushes.

In his statement, although Wei has a disadvantage in strength and morale, but it also has an incomparable advantage of the coalition army, at least it occupies the right time and place, and in this kind of national crisis, although there are indeed many local rebels who take advantage of the chaos to raise troops, but on the whole, the Wei people still show a common hatred for the counterattack of the coalition army, that is, at least seven points of peace.

If you mobilize manpower and material resources to build several fortifications outside Kyoto City to form a solid barrier, then if the coalition forces want to take Kyoto City, they must first break through several fortifications, and to break through these fortifications, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and the greater the losses of the coalition forces, the more it will affect the morale of the coalition forces.

After they broke through several obstacles, they had to face the final impact of the elite cavalry of the Wei State, and by the time the real soldiers came to the city, they had already gone through several hard battles, and the losses they suffered must be not small, and their morale was greatly reduced after all.

At that time, the Wei army had fully retreated to the city of Kyoto, sticking to this ancient and strong ancient city, and the coalition army, which had greatly reduced its morale at that time, would be more difficult to capture this city, as long as the coalition army could not attack for a long time, the morale would be further damaged, and the Wei army could even launch a counteroffensive, and there was the possibility of turning defeat into victory.

When Emperor Wei heard Xue Poye's analysis, his heart, which was still a little uneasy, suddenly became excited, and then he heard Xue Poye talk about the huge hidden dangers of the coalition army, and he suddenly became even more excited and his confidence increased.

In Xue Poye's mouth, the hidden dangers of the coalition army are huge, the first is to go deep into the hinterland of the enemy, and the logistics supply line is extremely long, which will be a severe test for both the Qing army and the Yan army.

If there is a logistical error, the more troops at the front, the more serious the consequences.

Xue Poye even accurately analyzed that even if the Yan people could support it, the Qingguo people would definitely not be able to afford a long-term fight, once the attack was frustrated and could not be attacked for a long time, then the logistics of Qingguo would inevitably have problems, and the Qingguo people would have to choose to withdraw their troops at that time.

As long as the Qing people withdraw their troops and leave the Yan State army, even if the Yan people are strong and brave, they may not really be the opponents of the Wei people.

The second hidden danger of the coalition is that their alliance is not indestructible, but a short-term combination driven by interests, in fact, the contradictions within the coalition may erupt at any time, and once the defense of Kyoto officially starts, with the passage of time, the deadly hidden danger of the coalition will leak out more and more, and Wei can take advantage of it.

Xue Poye talked about several other hidden dangers, but these two points alone were enough to make Emperor Wei full of confidence.

But the monarchs and ministers of Wei also knew that if they wanted these hidden dangers to break out, it still depended on whether Wei itself could support it, and if the coalition army attacked fiercely and Kyoto City was quickly breached, then this so-called own advantage and hidden dangers of the enemy army would be just empty talk.

After the emperor and the ministers agreed, they made up their minds to defend Kyoto Castle at all costs.

Since that day, Xue Poye began to transfer a large number of manpower and material resources from various counties of Wei County, and built fortifications outside Kyoto City day and night, and further strengthened Kyoto City.

After the coalition forces took Tingshui Pass, they took a rest, which somewhat left time for the Wei army to fight.