Chapter 64: Painting Ashes in the North

There is a court hall in the north and south of the country, and although there is a capital in the north court, the empress is in the king's tent for two seasons of the year, and the king's tent is the center, which is a mobile city formed by countless large and small tents. And the tent where the noblest old woman in the world lived, exclusive to gold, was like a huge golden spider crawling on the grassland, competing with the sun. When this golden royal tent appeared in Gusai Prefecture, the temple of the Southern Dynasty was suddenly overshadowed, and a cadre of noble ministers gathered around the royal tent, quietly waiting for the summons of Her Majesty the Empress, and the Venerable was closer to the royal tent, such as Dong Zhuo, the new king of the Southern Courtyard, Hong Jingyan, the co-owner of the Rouran Iron Cavalry, the festival order of the two states of Gusai Longjiao, and the general of the Southern Dynasty, Liu Qi and Yang Yuanzan, these big men who called for wind and rain in the Southern Dynasty can be relatively close to the Golden Horde. Today, the Empress of Beimang is anxious about the ministers of the north and the south, and routinely paints ashes, and everyone sits on an embroidered pier and goes around in a circle, and there is no difference between high and low seats. However, the white-haired but energetic old woman is still sitting in the north and looking south like the emperor of the Central Plains, with the chess and sword Lefu Taiping Order on the left hand, and the Beimang military god Tuoba Bodhisattva on the right hand.

With Dong Zhuo becoming the king of the Southern Courtyard, his position is getting closer and closer to the Empress Murong, but there are still nobles and powerful ministers like Murong Baoding, the ruler of Orange Prefecture, and today Dong Fat Man was absent-minded after entering the account, while looking up, he took care of himself with his thick fingers, counting how many seats he was still missing from His Majesty the Emperor, anyway, in the Southern Dynasty, he was already the biggest official, but the surnames of the two royal families in the Northern Court, there are still many old men surnamed Yelu or Murong who occupy the pit and do not, even if they are dizzy, they can no longer straighten their waists, and they still force themselves to participate in this painting of ashes, Dong Zhuo and a smiling old immortal look at each other, If he remembers correctly, the old man's name is Yelu Hongcai, he did a few feats when he was young, but there has been no movement over the years, the old guy is silly and happy with Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo is bored, so he smirks at the old guy, and the two are so fierce, as a result, Dong Zhuo's face stiffened with laughter, and the smile on the other side is still so lively and vivid, Dong Zhuo was defeated, rubbed his cheeks, and stretched out his thumb to the old man, with a ruthless expression. Yelu Hongcai smiled unabated, picking his nose, and the old man did not hide his pride at all. Dong Zhuo couldn't help but roll his eyes, this guy was the tumbler who was taken care of by the three dynasties of Beimang? When the Holy Sect Yelu Manjushri was dying, this old man was ordered to be ordered with six people, and he was at the bottom of the seat. When Shenzong died, there were five people present, and Yelu Hongcai began to rank third. When the first emperor died, he was in the presence of the great general Yelu Shulie, the remnants of the Central Plains Xu Huainan, Tuoba Bodhisattva, and Murong Baoding, and they were already in second place.

Next, Dong Zhuo subconsciously turned his head and looked at Her Majesty the Empress.

In the large circle formed by everyone, there is a cloth map, covering the two major territories of Liyang Gyeonggi and Guangling Road, in Dong Zhuo and the old man Yelu Hongcai's kung fu, the empress has discussed the next battle trend with several generals, and they are all optimistic about the explosive power of Western Chu in the short term, but still do not think that Western Chu can succeed, and it is absolutely impossible to successfully restore the country, the empress mainly asked the generals how short this "short term" is, a few months or half a year? Or can it be stalemate until next autumn? Then, under various possibilities, ask the civil officials about the treasury of the Liyang Imperial Court, which will be reduced by a few percent. During the discussion of the overall situation, several young people in Western Chu were also introduced to the ears of the Empress of Beimang, among which Xie Xichen was the most, as many as four times, and Kou Jianghuai followed closely behind, with three times, so that the Empress was interested, but in the end, it was just a sentence of "I was born in the wrong place when I was born, but it was a pity". The generals of Beimang in the tent agreed that the battle between the Eastern Front presided over by Cao Changqing and Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling, would still be won, but the next key depends on the commander of the Liyang Zhao Chamber to clean up the mess, whether it is Lu Shengxiang, who has suffered from constraints, or Lu Baijie, the secretary of the military department, who was ordered to be in danger, and even whether it is possible that Beimang's henchmen who are more north, Gu Jiantang of Dazhu State. In Taiping Ling's view, the Liyang Imperial Court despised Western Chu too much, and the military department did not have Gu Jiantang in charge, compared to the operating speed of the Liyang Imperial Court twenty years ago, it was simply a world of difference. But Taiping Ling was also worried, saying that the more Liyang was beaten by Xichu in the future, the more concentrated and blazing the military power in Gu Jiantang's hands would be in the future, and in the long run, it would be a mixed blessing.

Dong Zhuo did not get involved in this discussion with few objections, when Dong Fatzi saw the empress raise his hand, not only the group of civil officials who were the most disadvantaged and had three grades, but also a large group of military generals who were originally used to being above the top, it can be said that almost everyone was in good spirits, Dong Zhuo also restrained his expression, and only saw the four young female officials take out another map and spread it on the original map. When the extremely detailed and painted map appeared in everyone's field of vision, Dong Zhuo saw that even Yelu Hongcai, the tiger with lost its teeth, squinted his eyes carefully, leaned forward slightly, and carefully stared at the map with a length and width of three zhang. Probably because of his weak eyesight, the old man slowly stood up and took a few steps forward, up and down, only he could bring a servant into the account to participate in the discussion, when the attendant behind Yelu Hongcai tried to help, but the old man waved his hand and refused.

As Yelu Hongcai got up solemnly, most of the Beimang magnates did not dare to sit anymore, but left the embroidered pier with the old man.

That's a big picture of a bleak situation!

Originally, there were still a few people who didn't stand up, until Empress Murong stood up, they got up with it, and the old woman's face did not have the previous leisure of looking down on the wind and clouds, and said in a deep voice: "I know that even now, there are still people who want to fight the eastern front first, thinking that as long as they eat the eastern front that has not yet been fully formed in Gu Jiantang's hands, they can drive south for a long time and occupy Tai'an City of the Liyang Dynasty in one fell swoop, I think this is a wise move once and for all." ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the king's tent was suddenly solemn, and the faces of many generals and festival holders were a little ugly.

The old woman suddenly laughed to herself, "Some people think that the reason why I insist on fighting the Western Front is to be angry with Xu Xiao, who is already dead. ”

Dong Zhuo couldn't help laughing, but he was glared at by the big people in the tent more than a dozen times, ordinary Beimang officials had already been frightened, Dong Fat raised his head, and learned to pick his nose with Yelu Hongcai.

The old woman continued to laugh and said, "It doesn't matter if you think so, I just want to tell you one thing today, the decision to fight on the Western Front cannot be changed. Whoever is against it, may, I will give you the last chance to leave this tent now......"

Soon, several old people in the royal court snorted coldly, took steps together, and walked straight out of the king's tent, these old men were all eagles on the grassland, each with the surname Yelu, and still held considerable military power, similar to the clan king of the Liyang Dynasty. The system of the Beimang royal court was already loose, independent, and only nominally subject to the emperor's constraints, among the old people, there were many people who had not participated in the battle against the Liyang Northern Expedition army more than ten years ago, but even the empress could not settle accounts for these years. In the eyes of these old people, it is only profitable to fight on the eastern front, and what can be done if the 300,000 soldiers and horses of Beiliang are all killed? Beiliang, a place where birds don't, and even those places where the water and grass are fertile on their own grasslands, are marching to the south, it is the Xishu where the northern reckless children know that the road is rugged, it is the land of the emperor who has never been out of the unified Central Plains, and it is also an area where the Northern Mang Iron Cavalry must dismount and fight. You old lady is willing to listen to the instigation of that bullshit Taiping Order, we won't accompany you!

With these unruly "Yelu Princes" have strode away, three out of ten in the king's tent, fortunately, none of the festival holders and generals in the Southern Dynasty have left, and Tuoba Bodhisattva has always stood by the side of the empress.

Yelu Hongcai did not move at all, staring at the map, the old man did not move, there were seven or eight fifty or sixty-year-old big men who were about to move, but they still patiently stayed in the king's tent.

Empress Murong's expression remained unchanged, she didn't look at those backs, pinched a piece of charcoal with two fingers, looked at the map at her feet, stretched out a hand and pressed it down, and said with a smile: "Let's all sit down, we should sit down in advance." After all, except for the young men of our Southern Courtyard King, most of them are not young anymore. ”

A group of people sat on the edge of the map, and the courtiers who were farther away from the old woman naturally sat on the Liyang territory, and the southernmost one sat on the Nanzhao.

After everyone "sat down", the empress joked: "I don't know how to use soldiers, I only know that our Beimang million-strong army should not be able to line up on the border of the two states of Gusai Longyi, and the specific matters are still up to the Taiping Order." ”

Taiping Ling nodded, carried charcoal and walked to the map, but did not go straight to the Liangmang border line, but squatted near the eastern line, drew a half-arc with the top of the arc facing the interior of the grassland, and said calmly: "The restoration of Western Chu has restrained the troops in the land of Liyang and Jinggi, but Gu Jiantang's movements tend to move south, and the troops will not move, but these two tendencies do not mean that Liyang will definitely stand by, and if he does not keep Qiqi from Liyang and Beiliang, he will release his previous suspicions." We are different from the Liyang Imperial Court, which wants to occupy the greatest interests in everything, everything should be based on the worst plan, that is, according to the bad situation of Gu Jiantang sending troops to the north so that the two lines echo, so the old general Yelu Hongcai, as well as Helian Weiwu and Murong Baoding, the two lords with the festival order, led the troops to pretend to press the realm, as long as Gu Jiantang has the courage to come out, then we will take out the corresponding courage, and fight and retreat, and then retreat to the arc drawn by me, so far, there is no retreat!"

Helian nodded mightily, and Murong Baoding was silent.

The scrawny Yelu Hongcai looked at the arc and did not refute.

Taiping Ling paused for a moment, and said in a flat tone: "Next, we also have two lines to fight, but not at the same time, the southern line will be handed over to Dong Zhuo, the king of the Southern Courtyard, at the sole disposal, and His Majesty will not interfere with a single soldier." But before that, the northern line, which is our Beimang's backyard, will be handed over to the general Tuoba Bodhisattva to clean up. The object is the major steppe tribes of those who have just walked out of the king's tent. ”

Yelu Hongcai's eyelids jumped, slowly raised her head, and asked hoarsely: "Your Majesty, isn't it very simple to kill them on the spot?"

Empress Beimang shook her head with a smile and replied, "It's too little. ”

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