Yan Ping.

The national war has broken out, the fierce battle at the border pass is in full swing, the forbidden army rushed to the defense line of Yanmen and Shanhaiguan in batches, and the defense envoys of Bianliang in Tokyo, Chang'an in Xijing, Jinling in Nanjing and other places are also converging on the border pass, and Yanping City is still singing and dancing, and the peace and prosperity have not been affected in the slightest.

The officials went on errands as usual, and the people were still running for life, and the teahouses and restaurants in the streets and alleys, including the Qinglou in Pingkangfang, were still open, and people came and went. The original order of life in the market has not been stagnant because of the border war.

The people of Daqi have long been accustomed to contempt for the Hu barbarians.

The official mansion's newspaper is always exaggerating the stupidity and weakness of Beihu, and there are all kinds of jokes about Hu people's buns circulating in the streets and alleys, and there are countless foreign races who come to Yanping every year to make a pilgrimage, and they treat all Qi people with respect, even if they are foreign nobles, they dare not shout at ordinary people in Daqi.

More than 100 years of deep-rooted cognition, so that from the elderly to the drooping children, they have never put Beihu in their eyes, coupled with the achievements of the Qi army in flattening the grassland more than 100 years ago, although the current war has come, and it is the Beihu army pressing, but the people of Yanping never thought that Wang Shi would be defeated.

Everyone is now ridiculing the Beihu barbarians for being crazy, and even doing such a stupid thing as challenging the Great Qi Tianwei, they will inevitably be greeted by corpses all over the field, and when the time comes, everyone can spit on the team of Beihu envoys who came to Yanping to ask for sin.

The people of Qi were very optimistic, but the Emperor of Great Qi was not so relaxed.

In recent days, Song Zhi has stood in front of the map every day, assessing the strength of the two sides and constantly deducing the battle situation.

He had never been on the battlefield and was not very familiar with war, so he deduced the situation more from the perspective of the national strength of the two sides, analyzing how many cultivators, material wealth, and civilian soldiers each side could mobilize, and how much room for strategic and tactical maneuver they had.

From this point of view, the gap between the two sides is too great, and Daqi will undoubtedly win.

There are 80 million households in Daqi, and there are only a few million people in all parts of the grassland, so what is there to say about this battle? Can ants bite and kill elephants?

From ancient times to the present, whenever there was no civil strife in the Central Plains Dynasty and the war was taken seriously, when did the steppe people take advantage? Even if the Central Plains Dynasty was in civil strife, the border troops were often able to win the war by relying on their own strength.

The only thing that the Central Plains Dynasty found troublesome was that the steppe cavalry came and went like the wind, which was convenient for robbery, and the border defense line was too long, so it was inevitable that there would be omissions, and from time to time the other party would take away some property. In addition, the army of the Central Plains Dynasty went on an expedition to the vast grassland, and the logistics supply line was too long and the pressure was also great.

But if you really want to face it head-on, the grassland people who abandon their advantages and take the initiative to attack the fortifications are not looking for death?

The Central Plains Dynasty has a large land and a large population, a hundred times the wealth of the grassland people, a hundred times the materials of the grassland people, a hundred times that of the grassland people, a hundred times that of the grassland people, a hundred times that of the young and strong people, and countless mountains and rivers.

Will the Central Plains Dynasty be defeated by the steppe people? Will it be destroyed by the steppe people? Is there anything more funny and ridiculous in the world?

Zhao Yujie entered the main hall, came to Song Zhi's side, accompanied him to look at the map for a while, and said softly: "These days, the concubine has studied a lot of documents, and the more she analyzes, the more she feels, Beihu takes the initiative to set off a national war is an act of looking for death." As long as we take it seriously, there is no reason to lose this battle. ”

Song Zhi shook his head, his mind was not confused:

"If a barbarian dares to attack, he must have something to rely on, not to mention anything else, Xiao Yan has been in Yanping for so many years, and he knows a lot about Daqi, and it is impossible for the other party to know that he can't do it. A few years ago, the Tianyuan tribe, relying only on 100,000 elite horsemen and a group of servant troops, fought thousands of miles westward in four or five years, broke countless cities, and achieved outstanding results.

"Although the Western Barbarians in the Wild Land cannot be compared with the Great Qi, the combat power of the Tianyuan Army is indeed not to be underestimated. The defeat of An Siming and Shi Lushan cannot but reflect on it. ”

Zhao Yujie pursed her lips, immediately changed her opinion and position, and turned her head to echo Song Zhi:

Although An Siming and Shi Lushan were careless and underestimated the enemy and were ambushed halfway, the 60,000 troops were annihilated, which shows that the strength of the other party is very strong. After the war, An Siming and Shi Lushan both said that there were many masters and strong people in the Beihu army. It seems that we can only defend until the armies of the local defense envoys reach the border pass. ”

Song Zhi's gaze stayed on the map, constantly wandering between Yanmen Pass and Shanhaiguan:

"It's not a good situation. Although Feiyuwei has been walking on the grassland for many years, the other party is well guarded, and he has not found much really useful information. Now we don't know the details of the other party. It is a great mistake to not be able to know who you are and who is in the middle of a great war. ”

Zhao Yujie said with relief: "In any case, relying on the border Xiongguan, it is not difficult for us to defend it, and how much strength Beihu has, it will be beaten." No matter how many masters there are in Beihu, can they surpass us? From ancient times to the present, the Wang Ji Realm on the grassland has never been able to catch up with the Central Plains. ”

Song Zhi bowed slightly.

At this moment, the army reported.

Zhao Yujie went to pick it up and handed it to Song Zhi, after the latter saw it, first joy, then solemnity, and finally fear, and in an instant, his complexion changed very wonderfully, and Zhao Yujie was confused.

When Song Zhi handed over the military report to her, Rao was mentally prepared, and Zhao Yujie's expression was similar to Song Zhi.

"Ten Kings Extreme Realm!"

Zhao Yujie's eyes widened, and he looked up at Song Zhi in disbelief, "Outside the Yanmen Pass, there are actually ten Beihu King Extreme Realms?!"

She was tempted to say that it couldn't be.

But behind the military report, there is an Ansiming's secret report, and after the start of the war, the imperial court sent to Yanmen Pass, responsible for transporting materials to coordinate everything, and helping high-grade officials guarding the pass, they all witnessed the battle situation, and there can be no fake.

Song Zhi's face was ugly, and his eyebrows were tight.

"Did Beihu send all the Wang Ji Realm to Yanmen Pass?" Zhao Yujie quickly stabilized her state of mind and analyzed what this military report meant.

"If this is the case, then it means that Beihu is mainly attacking Yanmen Pass, but it will never be all the king's extreme realm. Song Zhi said coldly, "This shows that the number of Wang Ji Realm in Beihu is only a lot more than ours!"

Zhao Yujie bowed her head silently.

Song Zhi didn't speak again.

They looked at the map together.

Half a sound, Zhao Yujie said faintly: "When the Yanmen was closed, there were four Zhao King Extreme Realms, two quasi-King Extreme Realms, and three Yang King Extreme Realms. With the addition of Zhao Xuanji, Zhao and Yang, there are also ten Wang Ji realms. ”

Hearing this, a murderous aura flashed in Song Zhi's eyes.

Ten King Extreme Realms, far exceeding the number of King Extreme Realms of the Imperial Family.

"If Yanmen Pass doesn't have so many King Extreme Realms and quasi-King Extreme Realms, it will be impossible to stop Chalahan. If this is the case, the military report we have received now is not that Yanmen Pass has repelled several waves of attacks by the Beihu army and the situation is stable, but that Yanmen Pass has been conquered, and the Beihu army has driven straight through Yanshan. ”

When Song Zhi said this, there was not the slightest emotion in his tone.

Zhao Yujie peeked at Song Zhi and saw that the other party was expressionless, and he couldn't see what he was thinking.

But she knew that Song Zhi's jealousy of the Zhao family had reached its peak at this moment!

Some time ago, in order to appease the resentment of the family, gather the strength of the family and the cold family to deal with the national war together, and show that he had no intention of abolishing the queen, Song Zhi went to see the queen again after many days, and the reward he brought was far greater than the maximum value that Zhao Yujie got at one time, which made Zhao Yujie feel very guilty.

She didn't want Song Zhi to really ease relations with the Zhao family and give up the abolition.

Now her chance has come.

"To support the forbidden army at Yanmen Pass, it has only been two days since departure, and with the current combat power of Yanmen Pass, it is not difficult to block Charahan. Good steel is used on the blade, should this group of forbidden troops be transferred to other places that need reinforcements more?"

Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched, and it was impossible to make a decision today, and they would set off tomorrow, so they needed to prepare for some time, so the 60,000 forbidden troops who went to the front line of Yanmen Pass were indeed still halfway now.

Song Zhi sat down after returning to the table and was silent.

Of course, the forbidden army can't do it without reinforcements of Yanmen Pass, and if Yanmen Pass is lost, the harm will be too great.

But the timing of reinforcements can be chosen, the Zhao clan is so strong now, let their strength be consumed first, and when the other party is crippled, it is undoubtedly the most reasonable decision to let the forbidden army reinforce.

Zhao Yujie saw that Song Zhi was a little moved.

She knelt down beside the other party, intending to persuade them without a trace and help them make up their minds.

At this time, the military of Shanhaiguan reported.

When Song Zhi opened the military newspaper, Zhao Yujie was browsing together.

It's okay not to look at it, but when I see that she is the same as Song Zhi, her body freezes at the same time and she completely loses her expression.

The military newspaper at Shanhaiguan said only one thing.

The city is broken!

The Shanhaiguan garrison failed to hold the Guancheng, and only one day after the start of the war, the Beihu army broke through the Guancheng!

The reason for the defeat is very simple, there is only one main one: there are too many masters of the Wang Extreme Realm in the Beihu army, and it has reached nine!

Therefore, the battle situation is also very simple: at the beginning of the war, eight cultivators in the early stage of the Beihu King Extreme Realm, under the leadership of King Tianyuan Zuoxian, who was in the middle of the King Extreme Realm, suddenly descended to the juncture, and Sun Meng, Sun Kang, Sun Qian, Shi Chong, and Shi Lushan, the five early stage of the King Extreme Realm, were attacked head-on by the other party, and they were defeated in an instant.

At the moment when Sun Qian died in battle, Sun Meng was seriously wounded and captured, and Sun Kang, Shi Chong, and Shi Lushan fled.

So the city was taken by the Beihu cultivators, and then the Beihu army entered the city in a big way, it took less than a day to completely defeat the Shanhaiguan garrison, completely occupy the Shanhaiguan not to mention, its vanguard tens of thousands of fine horsemen, non-stop long-distance drive straight in, has been to the hinterland of the Guannei killing!

Song Zhi and Zhao Yujie were stunned on the spot, unable to say a word.

Nine Kings Extreme Realm! There are even nine more King Extreme Realms! The number of Wang Extreme Realm cultivators in the Beihu Army is completely beyond the expectations of the two of them, and it has already greatly surpassed the Great Qi!

Moreover, the leading commander of Beihu turned out to be in the middle of the Wang Ji Realm!

The battle was far more difficult than they had expected!

The situation faced by the Great Qi Dynasty was far more terrifying than they had imagined before!

The power of this military report instantly rushed the hearts of Song Zhi and Zhao Yujie to pieces.

There was a dead silence in the hall, and it was eerily quiet, and a needle drop could be heard.

The strange and murderous atmosphere made every eunuch tremble.

Suddenly, Song Zhi stood up and smashed the table case with one palm, and the cultivation of the middle stage of Wang Jijing's qi machine sprayed out like a flood of floods, and the eunuchs standing in the palace were all crushed on the spot, turning into a cloud of blood mist.

The furnishings of the temple were reduced to powder, the pillars hummed, and the beams creaked like the moans of a dying patient.

"Incompetent!A bunch of rice buckets!What's the use of raising you?!"

Song Zhi's beastly roar, combined with his distorted countenance, looked particularly terrifying. The eunuchs, palace ladies, and guards outside the hall all bowed to the ground.

Zhao Yujie sat in place in a daze, and there was no blood on her delicate and peerless face.

......

I don't know how long it took, Song Zhi gritted his teeth and ordered the prime minister to go to Chongwen Hall to discuss matters.

Before walking out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he issued a strict order: to reinforce the forbidden army at Yanmen Pass, they must arrive at Yanmen Pass within five days!

"Your Majesty......" Zhao Yujie suddenly came back to her senses, seeing that Song Zhi was about to leave the Heart Cultivation Palace, and stepped into the Chongwen Hall again after a lapse of many years, she couldn't help but be shocked, and she took two steps after catching up, wanting to say something.

Song Zhi glanced back at her, not at the affection of his bloody companions, only at the mercy of the outcasts.

This look made Zhao Yujie's hands and feet cold for a moment, and she couldn't say anything when it came to her mouth.

"From this day forward, you don't have to go to Chongwen Hall anymore. ”

The emperor's complicated voice dropped this sentence, and disappeared from Zhao Yujie's sight.

Zhao Yujie's heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

The emperor's words undoubtedly deprived her of the authority of the "internal minister", so that she could no longer openly interfere in government affairs.

Although Song Zhi had ordered the family to work together to fight the enemy, he did not leave the Palace of Heart Cultivation. The central minister is still the cabinet, and it is still Zhao Yujie who appears in front of the hundred officials, her power has not been affected in the slightest, and the general direction of Song Zhi has not changed because of this.

But now, everything is different.

The situation took a turn for the worse in an instant, and Song Zhi, the emperor, had to personally preside over everything. Only when the emperor shows up, civil and military officials, the government and the opposition, the army and the people, can really work together to support the enemy.

It's not all.

Shanhaiguan was lost in one day, which showed how effective Zhao's battle in Yanmen Pass was!

With the Shanhai Pass broken, the Beihu army will inevitably drive directly to Gyeonggi, and the imperial court must mobilize all forces to deal with the next difficult moment. At this time, the importance of Yanmen Pass is incomparable.

If the Yanmen army can't block the right Xianwang of Tianyuan, Chalahan, out of Yanshan, once the Beihu army enters the pass from Yanmen, Yanping will be attacked from both sides, and then the left and right Xianwang will join forces, where can Yanping still be able to keep it?

If Yanping can't keep it, the whole of Hebei will be lost!

At this time, the imperial dynasty's dependence on the Zhao clan and the Yanmen army had reached an unprecedented height! No matter what, the Zhao clan must be allowed to guard the pass with all its might, and Chalahan must not be allowed to enter.

Before today, the emperor's suppression of the Zhao family was well known, and an army of 60,000 people with An Siming and a plan to abolish the queen were enough to make the Zhao family resentful.

If the Zhao clan wants to fight hard, how can Song Zhi not do everything possible to show favor to the Zhao clan?

No matter in Song Zhi's view, whether the Zhao family knows that Zhao Yujie is Zhao Yujie, she is the sharp blade that has suppressed the family over the years, and she is the "culprit" who intends to replace the queen. In this situation, all Zhao Yujie's power must be eliminated, and all her honor must be taken back!

Realizing this, Zhao Yujie couldn't help but be like ashes.

Her hands clenched into fists, her nails digging into her flesh, and soon blood dripped to the ground.