West River City.

He Ping, who was ordered to garrison here and lead his troops to monitor the defense on the other side of the Yellow River, has been working diligently for several months, and has never slackened off.

If the Beihu army crossed the river to attack Yunzhou, Xihe City would be the place of the first battle, and as the first line of defense in Yunzhou, He Ping must block the first wave of the opponent's offensive.

Last year, the Hu people swept through Hebei with an irresistible momentum, and the first thing the imperial court did after moving the capital to Bianliang was to establish a defense line on the Yellow River.

In the past few months, Wang Shi and Minfu have built a large number of military cities, established many military warehouses, especially at various ferry ports, and arranged heavy troops.

It was in this situation that Xihe City was established along the Yellow River in the west of Yunzhou, with the important town of Xihe as the core, and Daqi established a complete and tight military defense circle here.

The force included 60,000 new troops under He Ping's command, 800 warships of the Bianliang Navy, as well as the surrounding battle forts, warning towers, and beacons connecting Yunzhou City.

As the bridgehead of Yunzhou and even the land of Qilu, Xihe City uses Yunzhou City, which is dozens of miles away, as a logistics supply point, and the manpower and material resources of Yunzhou and its surrounding areas together constitute its powerful depth and support.

No matter from which aspect, overlooking the Yellow River and dominating the riverbank, Xihe City, which has the echo of the water division and Yunzhou as the hinterland, is a truly impregnable military fortress in the face of the Beihu army that is not good at water warfare.

In the entire Yunzhou Theater, there are only about 200,000 troops, and one-third of them are gathered on the front line of Xihe City, which shows what kind of expectations the imperial court has given Xihe City.

When he first arrived at the front line of Xihe City and presided over the construction of the military city and set up a defense line, He Ping was both excited and nervous, for fear of living up to the burden on his shoulders.

With his soldiers and men busy day and day for months, the defense line was finally completed, and He Ping quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

After the New Year's Festival, the signs that the Beihu army was about to attack the Central Plains were already very obvious, not only the spies of the imperial court, but also the scouts who entered the north bank of the Yellow River after He Ping's subordinates dressed up in disguise, and also discovered the movement of the other party to mobilize materials.

This made He Ping nervous again.

The only key question is where the opponent's main attack direction is.

After the imperial court judged that the Beihu army would attack Yangliucheng and take the direction of Bianliang's troops, He Ping felt a little complicated, feeling that the pressure on his shoulders was light, and he was a little disappointed that he could not establish great achievements.

However, he was not stupid, his mind was very clear, and he knew how powerful the Hu army was that he easily conquered Shanhaiguan and Yanping City, and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the imperial court.

So even when he learned that the other party would not attack Yunzhou, he did not slack off.

On the contrary, he also cautiously asked Yunzhou to send a strong man to the other side of the Yellow River to verify the military information conveyed by the imperial court.

It was in this situation that Yipinlou brought the military intelligence of the Hu people's main attack on Yunzhou to Yunzhou, and then Gao Furui, who was specially sent by the imperial court to Yunzhou to help the Yunzhou War Zone, and stooped down to serve as the Assassin Mansion.

No one knows what Gao Furui saw and did on the north bank of the Yellow River, what Yunzhou scouts he saw, what kind of reports he heard, what circumstances he confirmed, and what kind of evidence he obtained.

In short, when he returned to the south bank of the Yellow River, he told the Yunzhou Theater with no doubt that the Beihu army would not attack Yunzhou.

Even if the Hu people will flank the soldiers and horses to invade Yunzhou, it is also to echo the main force of the main attack on Yangliucheng and contain the soldiers and horses of Yunzhou.

Because of Gao Furui's status and intellectual talent, no one did not believe him when he went up to Li Ru, the assassin of Yunzhou, He Ping, the defense envoy of Xihe City, and down to the officials, powerful and wealthy people of Yunzhou Mansion.

At this point, He Ping's heartstrings have been tense for half a year, and he finally has a chance to really relax.

The 60,000 soldiers under his command, who were on guard day and night, and who had never had a moment to rest, and the elite soldiers on the 800 warships of the river sailors, finally had time to breathe a sigh of relief.

No one can maintain a high level of mental tension all the time, and after a long time, the mind will inevitably be tired, the energy will drop, and even collapse, and it is not impossible to die of exhaustion.

Only by relaxing can we maintain a good state and cope with all challenges and strong enemies.

So He Ping passed down the military order to let the soldiers who had been busy and tired for half a year rest for a while.

Of course, this is a rotational rest, and He Ping will never let there be no one on the defensive line. Once the situation changes, he receives an order from the imperial court that he will also end the rest of the soldiers and recall everyone back to the barracks as soon as possible.

But even if it is a rotational rest, the strength on the defensive line is too empty after all.

When Sun Kang and other Wang Jijing cultivators were rescued by Zhao Ning after a bloody battle, and on the way to quickly retreat to Bianliang, they informed Xihe City of the emergency military situation that King Song Zhen of Lu had exchanged for his life, He Ping was shocked.

As soon as he could, he ordered all the soldiers who went out to rest to immediately return to the barracks to prepare for battle, and at the same time let the soldiers who were on the defensive line immediately enter a state of imminent battle!

Once the Hu army is discovered, the various units must be ready to fight.

He Ping's response can not be described as inaccurate, and it cannot be said that it is not timely.

As a defense envoy who commanded 60,000 soldiers and controlled 800 warships on the river, his military qualities and character were beyond doubt.

It's a pity that everything was late.

The Northern Hu Zuoxian King Borshu had been preparing for this crucial war for a long time, whether it was the illusion he had arranged before the battle began, the scouts who had the imperial court and the defense army scouts, the various fogs of misjudging the military situation, or the Wang Ji Realm cultivators who had ambushed around Songlin Town just in case, all of them showed his outstanding talent.

Compared with the spies of the imperial court and He Ping's scouts, they were temporarily sent to the north bank of the Yellow River, and they needed to be disguised to observe everywhere, and they had to deal with the heavy inspections of the garrisons in various parts of Beihu.

But compared with the scouts in the army, the difficulty of their news to win the trust of the army and the court is undoubtedly much higher.

It was in the past few days that the news was sent from Hebei to Songlin Town, from Songlin Town to Yunzhou City, and then from Yunzhou City to the imperial court, and then the imperial court sent great cultivators to verify the military situation, that Borshu had basically completed his military deployment.

"How's the king's injury?"

Borshu had just saved his life from Zhao Ning's hands, returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, and after recuperating from his injuries, he summoned the mastermind Mu Hehua to see him, and the first thing the latter did when he entered the tent was to ask about his injuries.

As the commander of the army, among the two or three hundred thousand soldiers, the cultivation is the highest existence, and the state of Borshu is related to the overall situation.

"Can't die. Thinking of the situation of fighting Zhao Ning, Borshu couldn't help but sink his face.

Although Zhao Ning took advantage of the long knife Qianjun, but he was able to let him escape with two swords, this combat power was still greatly beyond his expectations.

You must know that he is already in the middle stage of the Wang Ji Realm, and he is about to enter the late stage of the Wang Ji Realm!

The Central Plains Dynasty has a long history, profound heritage, outstanding people, great talents, so there are strange soldiers, and since ancient times, it has been known as the top ten strange soldiers.

Although there are only a few things that have been confirmed in the world at the moment, this is really a great constraint for cultivators in the early and middle stages of the Wang Extreme Realm.

Nearly thirty kings of the grassland are now scattered in the three-way army, and they originally thought that each of them would form an absolute crushing trend against the Great Qi King's Extreme Realm, helping the army quickly open up the situation.

I never thought that now in just one Jin land, there are eight or nine kings in the extreme realm and quasi-king in the extreme realm, and Zhao Ning, who holds a thousand juns, is particularly strong, and Charahan has no choice but to do it.

The Wang Ji Realm here in Borshu is not much different from the Great Qi Center, and there is no absolute advantage, and if you want to rely on the Wang Ji Realm alone to decide the battle situation, you can't do it.

The only one that has an overwhelming advantage in top combat power is the Mengke Department that attacked Hexi, the former Tianyuan Wang Tingxi Expeditionary Army.

In a few months, from the eastward march of the Green Mountains, he simply captured the entire territory of the "Western Regions" and approached the Yumen Pass early.

The day before yesterday, it was reported that they had captured Yumen and were heading towards Shazhou, continuing to approach Mengke's key target, Liangzhou.

But the land of Hexi is too vast, there are about 6,000 miles from the Green Ridge to Liangzhou, and the environment along the road is complicated, and the army carrying a lot of baggage is not fast, it takes more than half a year just to walk, not to mention the Hexi Army of Daqi, and it also relies on the mountains and rivers to deploy layers of defenses, and constantly lags the pace of the army.

Even if these lines of defense were vulnerable in front of Wang Jijing, they would always affect the speed of the army's advancement.

And even if the Western Expeditionary Army captures Liangzhou, it is only the first step, and to enter Guanzhong, you have to break through the defense line. In this way, as long as the Hexi army does not collapse, it will take at least two years for Meng Ge to enter Guanzhong and capture Xijing Chang'an.

Before that, Borshu couldn't expect the Western Route Army to echo the battle situation in the Central Plains, and the only thing he could think about was whether to suggest that Tianyuan Khan transfer Wang Jijing under Meng Ge here.

But now that the army is attacking Hebei very smoothly, the big war into the Central Plains has not yet begun, with the strength of the Tianyuan army, Daqi may not be able to stop it, at this time, please transfer Wang Jijing under the command of Meng Ge over, it is too early to say.

In this battle, Borshu can only rely on himself.

But if the battle situation does not advance smoothly in the future, I am afraid that I can only ask Meng Ge's subordinates, or the Labor Tianyuan Khan to take action in person.

Based on all the circumstances, it can be seen that Zhao Ning suddenly ran to Yunzhou at the moment, saved Sun Kang and the other three Great Qi Kings of the Extreme Realm, and injured Borshu himself, which affected his campaign with his army.

"How did the Southern Dynasty begin to suspect that the real main direction of the army was Yunzhou? If there was no suspicion, the Southern Dynasty would not have sent a few Wang Jijing to investigate, and our strategy of attacking Yunzhou would not have failed!"

Mu Hehua was very annoyed, but he couldn't think of what went wrong.

The scouts who came from the Southern Dynasty were basically under their surveillance, and even if there were fish that slipped through the net, with their previous arrangement, it was enough to confuse the other party.

He even knew that the master of the late stage of the Yuan Shen Realm who came from the direction of Yunzhou had been deceived by him. In this case, the Southern Dynasty was supposed to prepare for war in Yangliu City, how could a few Wang Jijing suddenly run over?

Borshu's face was blue: "How the news was leaked, we must find out, if the enemy finds out the details of us, we don't know what went wrong, then this battle will not have to be fought!"

"Yes!"

Mu Hehua sensed Borshu's irrepressible anger, and hurriedly bowed down to admit that he was taking care of this matter, and now that something is wrong, he can't escape the blame.

But now that the situation had changed, he had no time to look at himself, and instead asked, "Now that the situation has become tricky, my lord, what should we do next?"