The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the autumn wind is sorrowful.

Zhou Ying, who was followed by a group of scribes, came out of a village under the congratulations of Muramasa and others, and it was already evening.

It's another busy day, and Zhou Ying, who has long been uncultivated, can't help but feel deeply tired.

In the past two years, he has almost no leisure time, either running around in the land of Sanjin, or burying his head in the sea of literature, occasionally meditating all night and writing hard, and the whole person has lost more than ten pounds compared to two years ago.

Although there is no cultivation, his body and bones are not as good as those of cultivators, fortunately, there is no shortage of all kinds of good tonics, and Zhao Ning also specially arranged people to take care of his diet and daily life, so he did not get tired of heavy affairs.

"This is already the last village, Lord Zhou, we should go back to Jinyang next, right?" Zhou Junchen slapped his shoulder, very relieved.

Zhou Ying nodded, and his tone was complicated: "It's time to go back to Jinyang." ”

"Yanping City has been captured by Beihu, the emperor retreated to Bianliang, Tokyo, the world's soldiers and horses are gathering in Bianliang, Hebei has no danger to defend, and the troops are seriously insufficient, I am afraid that it will fall in a few days. At that time, the land of the Three Jin Dynasty will become the only seedling north of the Yellow River, and Beihu is bound to use troops to Jinyang, and the Jindi War is imminent......"

Zhou Junchen sighed.

It's heavy, but it's far from worrying.

Zhou Ying was silent for a moment, and then his expression was firm:

"For this war, we have been preparing for several years, and now everything is ready, there is no shortage of food, grass, ordnance, soldiers and horses, and the wartime military and civilian system has also been arranged, and the people's hearts and feelings are all under control.

"As long as the imperial court has an edict, we can justifiably lead the military and political affairs of Jindi, and Beihu wants to cross the Taihang Mountain from the Hebei Plain to capture Jindi, but it is not as easy as capturing Yanping!"

A smile appeared on Zhou Junchen's face: "What the adults said is very true. ”

Jinyang is the foundation of the Zhao family, and its influence is extraordinary.

However, after all, the Zhao family is a family of generals, and he is not very proficient in civil affairs, three years ago, when Zhao Ning returned to Yanping and overthrew Xu Minglang and went south again, Zhou Ying did not accompany him, but according to the other party's arrangement, he went to Jinyang with Zhou Junchen.

Here, they were first under the leadership of the Zhao clan, familiar with the local situation, and then entered the officialdom under the arrangement of Zhao Ning.

With the help of these local officials, Zhou Ying quickly figured out the details of the civil affairs of Jindi, and then, when he gave full play to his talents, Zhao Ning gave him only one task: to prepare the Jindi cultivation system.

The word ploughing and warfare originated from the Shang Dynasty reform of the Qin State, and the core is one, gathering all forces for war.

At that time, when the six states of Shandong were beaten all over the ground to find teeth, they often slandered the Qin people for not knowing anything except farming and warfare, and they were a group of barbarians.

When Yanping was still prosperous and lively, and the powerful were caught in the midst of lust and power struggle, Zhou Ying took Zhou Junchen and other his own team, as well as the Zhao family and Yipinlou's manpower, to run around Jindi.

Go up to the state city and down to the countryside, on the one hand, to understand the people's conditions and people's strength, on the other hand, to pave the way for the cultivation war, day and night, all year round.

Today, preparations large and small have been completed, as long as the Beihu army arrives, Zhou Ying can let Jindi immediately enter the cultivation and warfare mode, and ensure that Wang Shi and the Beihu army will fight to the end.

Zhou Junchen has become a vassal of the Zhao family since he resigned from the Magistrate's Court, and for the emperor, he is an outcast, and his role has been played, and he will not be used again when he is idle. Even if the emperor still wants to use him, his reputation in the officialdom has become stinky, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in the officialdom anymore.

Lingering, Zhou Junchen really thought so before.

He wants to be big in this life

As a glorious ancestor, there is no longer the slightest possibility, so he can only do something for the Zhao family, and ask for a worry-free food and clothing - it is not impossible to have fine clothes and jade food.

But personal enjoyment is not Zhou Junchen's pursuit, although he and Tang Xing have very different temperaments and thoughts, they all want to show their ambitions and wear scarlet clothes and purple, and they can't return to their hometown with glorious lintels, and he has infinite sorrow in his heart.

But with the outbreak of the national war, the situation changed a lot, until the Yanmen army withdrew into Jindi, and he found that the role he played with Zhou Ying became more and more important.

As Zhou Ying's right-hand man, as long as Jin can defend the land, the next opportunity is for him to display his ambitions and make contributions, so although the current situation is difficult, he is high-spirited.

Whether his life can be turned around depends on this fight.

The group left the village, and as soon as they stepped on the official road, they saw a cavalry of freshly dressed and angry horses appearing at the end of the avenue in the setting sun, rushing quickly with smoke and dust.

When the cavalry approached, Zhou Ying and Zhou Junchen were all happy.

"Why did Brother Ning get here?" After the cavalry stopped, Zhou Ying led everyone forward to salute.

Zhao Ning jumped off the horse, smiled and returned the salute with everyone.

Huang Yuandai followed behind Zhao Ning, Zhou Ying looked at him and smiled, although there were no words between the two old friends, there was a sense of like-minded comrades fighting side by side for the glorious cause in their eyes.

Zhao Ning handed over the war horse to his entourage and walked side by side with Zhou Ying, "I just finished inspecting the defense situation on the front line of Taihang Mountain, and I was about to return to Jinyang, and it was a coincidence that I met here." ”

"Where is the Beihu army?" Zhou Ying did not know the latest battle report.

"Initially swept the Hebei region, now the army is divided into two parts, one is led by King Zuoxian, along the Yellow River of Chen Bing, and the Wang Shi who have gathered in Yunzhou, Bianliang and other places to confront the distant confront; ”

The Beihu army went deep into the hinterland of Daqi, and Zhao Ning knew their situation well, even if it was a scout team of one hundred and ten people, as long as he wanted to know, he couldn't hide it from his eyes.

Like before, when he was in Yanmen Pass, the Great Cultivator of Beihu controlled the Yanping Passage in Yanmen, and he was able to block the exchange of news between the two places, and it would never happen again.

Previously, Charahan entered the Yanmen Pass, tried to pursue the Yanmen army, and was ambushed by the Yanmen army in Daizhou, relying on the geographical advantage, and after the loss was not small, he gave up the idea of biting the Yanmen army.

In addition to leaving some soldiers and horses to continue to attack Daizhou and put pressure on the Yanmen army, Chalahan rushed to Yanping with the main force, and joined forces with King Zuo Xian to attack Yanping, which was heavily garrisoned and defended by the army.

After Yanping was conquered, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of King Xian went south, and without much effort, they conquered the entire territory of Hebei until they successfully drank the Yellow River a few days ago.

"Will King Zuoxian of Northern Hu take advantage of the victory to pursue and cross the Yellow River to attack Qilu and the Central Plains?" Zhou Ying felt that the answer to this question would determine the development of the next battle.

This question is also something that Zhao Ning is thinking about.

The situation is no longer the same as in the previous life, and the answer may not be the same.

In his previous life, Yanping only defended for ten days, and under the cooperation of Xiao Yan's forces and the Beihu army, he was declared lost. This time, without Xiao Yan's meticulous manpower, Yanping City held on for more than 40 days.

When Song Zhi retreated south, he left most of the Wang Ji Realm cultivators behind to help Yan Ping defend the city, although they all withdrew on the last day of the war, but in the course of the war, they still played a role in resisting King Zuoxian.

In more than 40 days, the troops of the defense envoys from all over the country successfully arrived in Bianliang, Yunzhou and other places, and initially arranged the defenses.

This is different from the previous life.

In the previous life, there was no army of defense envoys, and Song Zhi called on the world's soldiers and horses in Bianliang.

When the righteous soldier Qin was king, all the people gathered were brave and brave, and the combat power was limited, and the pursuit of the imperial court at that time was to stabilize the position, and the strategy was completely defensive.

And right now, Song Zhi has hundreds of thousands of regular troops in his hands.

Although the armament of these defense envoys may not be as good as that of the forbidden army, most of them have suppressed bandits and suppressed the rebellion of the homeless, and they have lives in their hands, and their combat power is obviously stronger than that of the forbidden army.

With such a powerful force in his hands, would Song Zhi sit back and watch Beihu digest the results of the battle and establish a solid ruling order in Hebei? The first thought of the imperial court should be to counterattack!

In the previous life, the Beihu army did not rush to attack the Yellow River, on the one hand, the early war was too smooth, and they obtained a large number of results in a very short period of time, including the Jin land also fell into their hands.

Therefore, they need time to digest these things, convert civilian and material resources into combat power, and then continue to attack in a good time.

And now, on the south bank of the Yellow River is hundreds of thousands of troops, if there are others sleeping soundly on the side of the couch, sooner or later, they will play eggs, and the Beihu army is likely to cross the river immediately if they are confident enough, seeking to defeat the resistance and will of the Great Qi first, and ensure the stability of the early results.

The most important thing is that whether Beihu wants it or not, the Great Qi Wangshi may counterattack, and the Zuoxian Wang's troops must prepare for war along the Yellow River.

In other words, what Jindi needs to face is actually Chalahan's tribe.

This is exactly the situation that Zhao Ning wants.

If the left and right Xian kings joined forces and attacked Jin Land together, he was not sure that he would be able to defend it, and only by dividing the troops between the left and right Xian kings could he ensure that Jinyang was thorough.

In any case, Zhao Ning needed the imperial court to contain a part of the Beihu army for him.

If the left and right Xian kings really joined forces to attack Jindi, would Zhao Ning be defeated?

Neither is it.

At this time, as long as Wang Shi crossed the river to the north and counterattacked Hebei, the Beihu army would face a dangerous situation.

Over the years, the positive role of the imperial court in reusing the generals of the Hanmen and allowing the regimental training envoys and defense envoys to recruit displaced people and form a new army was finally reflected at this time.

If it weren't for these hundreds of thousands of new troops to restrain the Beihu army, the war in Jindi would not have been able to be fought at all.

In the seventh year of Qianfu, Zhao Ning tried his best to win the battle of Fengming Mountain, successfully delaying the pace of Beihu's full-scale southern invasion, but also gave Song Zhi time and a good environment to further promote the process of his suppression of the family and form a new army on a large scale.

In the past few years, it seems that Zhao Ning's move is suspected of lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, if it were not for these few years, the situation of the Jiangmen family would not be as bad as it is now.

Today, however, the role of the Forces nouvelles is vividly reflected in the defense. These new armies not only stabilized the situation for the national war, but also shared the pressure on Zhao Ning to fight in Jindi, so that Zhao Ning's future planning could be carried out.

This is also the reason why Zhao Ning did not think about sabotaging this matter from the day the new army appeared, but planted people in the new army and actively integrated into this major event.

All for the victory of the national war.

Winning this national war is fundamental and the foundation of everything.

"As long as the imperial court can contain the Zuoxian Wang's department, we will at most deal with the two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses in Chalahan, with the manpower and material resources of the Jin land and the topography of the mountains and rivers, plus our preparations over the years, it is not impossible to do this. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ning was silent for a while.

Huang Yuandai continued: "To gather all the forces of Jindi and obey the orders of the Zhao family, you must first give an edict from the imperial court. If the imperial court does not let the Zhao clan dominate the military and political power of the Jin land, there will be a lot of trouble.

"With such a tense form of war, any slight problem can lead to a total loss. ”

This was the biggest destabilizing factor in the Battle of Jindi.

Zhao Ning looked at the post station not far ahead, and his voice was calm but full of confidence: "Your Majesty will give the Zhao family great power." ”

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