Chapter 261
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In mid-April, Zhao Che led his army into the southwest and joined Wei Shuye, who had first entered the hinterland of the southwest. γLatest chapter reading. This was the first large group of Great Xia to resist the army after the outbreak of the war, including 50,000 cavalry, 60,000 infantry, 80,000 heavy armor soldiers, plus Wei Shuye's 10,000 light cavalry, which was exactly 200,000 troops. Three days later, a logistics supply line from the mainland directly into the southwest was established under the coordination of Zhuge Yue, at the same time, Zhuge Yue also led troops to Shengjing, personally sat in the southwest Shengjing camp, the south can support Zhao Che, the north can look down on Zhao Yang, the west can monitor Yanming Pass, and the central can coordinate the operation of grain and grass across the country, and in an instant, it has become the political center of the country.
On April 15, the Yanbei Army finally completed its first rendezvous at the lower reaches of the Heng River. Present were the Yanbei Second Army, the Sixth Army, the Ninth Army, the Thirteenth Army, and the Black Eagle Army, commanded by Cheng Yuan, and the Yanbei Army was quickly assembled, and the follow-up troops were still coming, with a total number of 200,000.
However, Yanbei did not clash head-on with Great Xia, just when Zhao Che gathered all his strength and prepared to fight to the death with Yanbei, Yan Xun suddenly sent a military order from the rear, ordering all legions to disperse and follow the footsteps of the horse thieves to advance to the northern hinterland of Great Xia.
In an instant, intelligence poured in from the front line like a tide, and the Yanbei troops were divided into ten routes and attacked in all directions, and the military staff officers were dazzled by the scouts' battle reports, and everywhere there were "blocked," "heavy losses," "fallen," "surrounded," and "unable to be contacted," and all kinds of bad news poured down like snowflakes.
Zhuge Yue's right-hand man Meng Feng returned to his homeland all the way from the inland of Qinghai, and when he saw the chaos of war, the young female general was stunned, and finally only asked in surprise: "Is Yan Xun crazy?" Is he going to die with us? β
Zhuge Yue looked at the map plotted with various colors, pondered for a long time, and finally, he came to the military staff, pressed the map on the table, and whispered: "I think, I know what he is going to do." β
In a dense jungle on the border of Xia and Tang, Chu Qiao and He Xiao had just reunited with Bian Tang's wedding team, but fortunately, they were blocked by the war and had not returned to Bian Tang, so they were able to preserve their strength in such a chaotic situation.
You must know that there are 20,000 elite wolf troops here, plus Chu Qiao's 20,000 beautiful army, her current strength is already 40,000.
40,000, completely elite route. With this army, as long as it was properly commanded, Chu Qiao was confident that she would face an enemy three times her size.
Under the candlelight in the small tent, Chu Qiao was wearing a soft armor, holding a helmet in one hand, and pointing to the map on the table with the other: "He is going to attack Yanming Pass." β
"Attack Yanming Pass?"
He Xiao's younger brother He Qi frowned and asked, "My lord, they have already occupied Baizhi Pass, why do they still bother to attack Yanming Pass?" β
"You don't know him." Chu Qiao shook his head, "How could Yan Xun be controlled by others?" He is now borrowing Bian Tang, and the back road is all in the hands of Princess Jing'an, once Princess Jing'an turns her face, or the Bian Tang royal family counterattacks, the Yanbei army will definitely fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy. And once the back road is stuck, there is a lot of psychological pressure on the army. Therefore, Yan Xun must attack Yanming Pass and open the northern gateway within the established time, and at this time, it is the time for Yanbei and Daxia to fight a decisive battle. β
Chu Qiao's eyebrows tightened, she took a deep breath, and sat cross-legged on the ground, in fact, she should have thought of these things a long time ago. Yan Xun had been holding back before, and deliberately showed fatigue several times, which made the Great Xia court paralyzed; Later, he risked the danger to attack Bian Tang's grain and grass, in fact, the looting of grain and grass was fake, and the capture of Tang Hu would be true, and through this person, he contacted Princess Jing'an, who had long been opposed, and then took advantage of the Great Xia Civil War to sneak into the southwest quietly. He has been setting up this bureau for a long time.
"Yanbei's strength is definitely more than what appears on the surface, what is hidden outside Yanming Pass is the real strength of Yanbei."
"My lord, should we inform Zhuge Da Sima of this?"
Chu Qiao shook his head, "What I can think of, will he not be able to think of it?" β
She rolled up the map with her backhand, spread out the map of Bian Tang, and said in a deep voice: "The battle between Yanbei and Great Xia cannot be avoided, and we are powerless to stop it. Our current task is to rush back to Bian Tang as soon as possible, get first-hand information about the battle situation in Bian Tang, and see how we can help Your Majesty. β
Guan Song, the deputy commander of the wolf army, nodded hurriedly when he heard this: "My lord, our scouts have been sent out for two days, and it is estimated that they should be back tomorrow morning at the latest." β
Chu Qiao was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a report from the soldiers outside: "My lord, the scouts are back." β
He Xiao at the door opened the curtain when he heard this, and saw three soldiers covered in dust and blood staggering off their horses, one of them said: "My lord, the military situation crisis in Bian Tang, the rebels broke through the Handshui Pass, Fang Huaihai, the deputy general of the Shennan Forbidden Battalion, and Tian Rujia, the general of the Western Yunnan Army, were captured, General Xu Su was betrayed by traitors, Yu Cang Muling was killed in battle, and the Handshui army was completely defeated. The rebel army, numbering 200,000 troops, has now surrounded the capital. β
All of a sudden, the audience was shocked. Chu Qiao sat on the ground, his eyebrows locked, his fists slowly clenched in a few clicks, and then released little by little.
"Who's the enemy boss?"
"It's Princess Jing'an."
"Have you ever identified this person?"
"It was found out that this person entered the Jing'an Palace, four years ago, and started out as just a dancing girl sold in by human traffickers. But later, he was favored by King Jing'an several times, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. King Jing'an was old enough to have a son, he loved her very much, and accepted her as a concubine, but he didn't want to give birth to a son a year later, and as soon as King Jing'an was happy, he made her a concubine. β
He Xiao asked, "Can a slave also be a concubine?" β
"This subordinate doesn't know. However, later the Jing'an palace was not peaceful, and there were several accidents in a row, the old princess and the two princes passed away one after another, and since then she has become the hostess in the palace. After the failure of King Jing'an's mutiny, she escaped under the escort of a group of henchmen loyal to King Jing'an, but she didn't want to sneak into Tanghu Pass and survived under the care of the Tanghu Pass guards. It is said that this princess had an adulterous affair with this righteous son of King Jing'an. β
Chu Qiao's face was gloomy and he said, "What's her name?" β
"This subordinate doesn't know, but he just knows that her maiden name is Qiu."
"Surname Qiu?" Chu Qiao whispered silently.
Guan Song was anxious that Kyoto was besieged, and said: "My lord, Tang Jing is surrounded, we have to go back to save Your Majesty!" β
Chu Qiao's eyes were deep, and he looked at the Baizhi Pass, which was firmly occupied by Yanbei, and on the other side of the pass, was Bian Tang's land.
She nodded and said lightly, "Yes, it's time for us to go back." β
In her life, she had never seen real snow.
In the starry night, the moon is particularly dazzling, and the snow-white light is sprinkled on the ground, like a ** flowing water, and like a piece of white snowflakes.
She stood at the top of the White Tower, dressed in a voluminous robe, and the wind rolled from the end of the sky, blowing her sleeves like two eagles about to fly, fluttering their wings. Her long hair was blown away by the wind and fluttered behind her back like a thousand cobwebs, and the huge palace was heavily forested, shrouded in the darkness of night. In the distance in the black stone square door, there was a figure, the face could not be seen clearly, and it could only be inferred from the straight back that it was a soldier, and he was still very young.
She had been standing like that for a long time.
Xuan Mo looked at her silently, and the moonlight shone quietly on her, with a white brilliance. The night was so quiet that everything around her was silent, only the wind blew through her robe, making a popping sound, and the fragrance of white orchid slowly lingered around the tip of his nose.
For a moment, he seemed to go back many years ago. At that time, he was still a child, and he stood on the hunting ground with his father, and he won praise from the audience for his good archery, and rose to prominence among the children of the royal family. But she wore a bright yellow palace dress and rode into the horse farm, hit the bull's-eye with three arrows in a row, and then turned around, looked at him proudly, and said to him: "If you are not convinced, come out and compare paintings!" β
On that day, the emperor sat on the throne and laughed, saying that my daughter would not lose to a man!
The other princes and nobles also praised the princess for her skills, but he was the only one who stood there quietly, tilting his head and looking at her little one sitting on horseback. The sun was so warm, the wind was so gentle, the sun shone on her delicate face, a pair of eyes sparkled, his chest was damp, the arrow lines of the cuffs rubbed against the skin of his wrists, and it was itchy and numb.
He didn't say anything, and standing in front of such a beautiful her, he seemed to have lost the ability to speak. In the blink of an eye, after so many years, he has long been accustomed to looking up at that dazzling figure, watching her grow up from afar, watching her grow stronger, watching her fall, watching her get up, watching her step by step to the pinnacle of power.
Time passes so fast, the years are like water at the fingertips, easily drowning the youth and stubbornness of the past, together with those thoughts that have been hidden in the bottom of the heart for many years, forever lost the opportunity to spit out, covered by the yellow sand of fate, forever buried in the rolling dust.
"Xuanmo," Nalan Hongye suddenly whispered, the white tower was too empty, her voice sounded a little ethereal, she didn't look back, still looking at the brilliant lights below, and asked softly, "Did I really do something wrong?" β
"Your Highness is not wrong."
She smiled lightly, shook her head and said indifferently, "I'm afraid it's wrong." What Mrs. Duan said may be right, if I open the door and steal, sooner or later I will ruin Huai Song's foundation. β
"If the emperor is seriously ill, the Nalan clan has no bloodline, and the Song dynasty is no longer able to inherit it."
"Who said you can't pass it on?" There was a trace of calm indifference at the corner of Nalan Hongye's mouth, and he stated, "King Jinjiang, King Anli, and King Jianghuai, aren't they all qualified for succession?" β
What she said was the truth, when the royal incense was unsustainable, the royal branch was eligible to inherit the throne, but it was just ......
Xuan Mo didn't speak again, there was silence above the white tower, there was a wind blowing in the corridor, with a damp moisture, even in summer, it was still a little cold.
"At the end of the day, it's me who is too selfish. In my heart, there is always a home before a country. β
Nalan Hongye seemed to be in deep thought, her eyes were deep and ethereal, she had been in a high position for many years, and she had long since consumed the so-called innocence and innocence in her bones and blood, even if there was occasionally a trace of impulsiveness and willfulness, but it was no match for the perseverance and paranoia in her heart.
Thinking of the faces and actions of those royal relatives recently, her eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of coldness.
For hundreds of years since the founding of the Nalan clan, the ancestors threw their heads and spilled their blood for these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, died on the battlefield, and defended the country. This country was forged by their Nalan clan with their blood and bones, and it was guarded by her painstaking efforts for so many years, and those people are just moths who sit back and enjoy their success, why do they want to sit on this world?
"This country was established by my Nalan clan, and it was also guarded by my parents and ancestors with blood from generation to generation, even if it is to end, it can only end in the hands of my Nalan clan's descendants."
A low voice sounded slowly, and the pale moonlight shone on her bright yellow clothes, which looked cold and cold.
She said in a deep voice: "Inform Yan Xun through official channels that I agree with his proposal, and ask him to keep his promise and treat the people of Huai Song Dynasty well, and the one who will inherit the unification in the future will be my son." Also, I want the head of the King of Peace. β
Just look at the refreshing one