Seeing this, Lin Haotian continued: "However, Ben Shuai has come up with so many materials to help you, and I don't want to lose all my money. This commander wants to send a few people to your army to serve as a supervisor, I don't know, what does General Nie think?"

This ......" It turned out that the head coach of the Jin Army still had such additional conditions, Nie Shu's face changed slightly, he lowered his head, and did not answer immediately.

The supervising army is not an ordinary position, if the Jin people are the supervising troops, not only will they know their every move in the future, but even how their own soldiers and horses are arranged, how to deploy, how to fight, they have to obey the command of the Jin people, so will they be You Army or Jin Army in the future?

As if seeing Nie Shu's concerns, Lin Haotian smiled slightly and said, "General Nie doesn't have to worry, the prison army sent by this commander will not influence your decision, but it is just convenient to report your movements to this commander, and it is also convenient for the contact between you and me." ”

"I see. Nie Shu turned his head to look at the advisors he brought, Li Cong and the others were also thinking about Lin Haotian's conditions at this time, and after pondering for a while, Li Cong took the lead in nodding to Nie Shu, indicating that the conditions of the commander of the Jin Army were acceptable to him.

Seeing Li Cong's statement, Nie Shu no longer hesitated, and said to Lin Haotian: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your orders, and I am willing to obey General Lin's arrangement." ”

"Okay!" Lin Haotian stroked his palms and smiled, and said: "As long as you can develop and grow in Youdi and contain the main energy of the Yan Kingdom, this commander can guarantee that the materials of my Jin Kingdom will be continuously transported to you, not only military funds, armaments, food and salaries, but also military horses, medicines, and even talents of our Jin Country." ”

Nie Shu's body trembled, hurriedly took two steps back, bowed to Lin Haotian, and said in a trembling voice: "General Lin's great kindness is unforgettable. As long as we succeed in expelling the Yan people in the future, we will definitely double the reward for General Lin!"

Hmph! Lin Haotian sneered in his heart, at that time, I am afraid that your reward will only be a sword, a sword, a halberd, an axe, a hook and a fork! From the bottom of his heart, Lin Haotian has never trusted You Ren, to Nie Shu. It's just a relationship of mutual use.

Lin Haotian and Nie Shu finally negotiated an alliance, and the Jin State secretly assisted the Youren rebels led by Nie Shu, and Nie Shu's reward for him was to expand his power as much as possible, fight against the Yan army in Youdi, contain the energy of the Yan State, and disperse the combat power of the Yan army.

It can be said that the alliance between Jin and Nie Shu was another watershed in the comparison of Jin Yan's strength, and for a long time after that, Nie Shu's rebels caused great trouble and threat to Yan Guo. It also became one of the most direct factors in the Yan Kingdom's eventual 'change of heaven'.

The current Yanguo can really be described as internal and external troubles.

Although Bu Ying successfully repelled the invasion of the Jin army, it is difficult to guarantee that the Jin State will not have a second full-scale attack. And the internal peace of the Yan country is not peaceful, the rebellion in Youdi is getting more and more intense, and even the Central Army, which has a strength of 50,000 troops, can be attacked by the rebels, and finally the whole army is annihilated, which shows that the rebellion in Youdi has reached the point of imminence.

The biggest concern of the Yan Kingdom is not the rebellion in Youdi. It's a battle for the throne between the prince and the princess.

The battle for the throne has led to the death of Gongzi Yinrong, but the battle for the throne has not ended. On the contrary, all the contradictions that were originally hidden in the shadows were stimulated to the surface, and the contradictions between Yin Xiang and her royal brothers have reached the point where they cannot coexist.

Yin Xiang has the support of Zhang Situ, Yang Zhao, Lu You, Bu Ying, the main commanders in the army, and Yin Ting, Yin Yuan and other sons also have the support of the generals in the army, the ministers of the court and the local princes, among which there is the blood-clothed Marquis Hong Yuetian.

Hong Yuetian has always been friendly with the eldest prince Yin Ting, and he believes that the throne of the Yan Kingdom should also be inherited by Yin Ting, after all, he is the eldest son. Inheriting the throne is a matter of course.

Without the instruction of the imperial court, Hong Yuetian took matters into his own hands, left the fiefdom, and led the Hong family army back to Zhaoyang, the capital of Yan. Garrison the army outside the city of Zhaoyang.

The Hongjia Army is the largest family army, with a total strength of 150,000 troops, and the whole army is all prepared by the regular army, and its combat power can be described as extremely strong, and it is not inferior to the Central Army, or even better.

Hong Yuetian led the army back to the capital, which made the ministers and generals who supported Yin Xiang nervous.

Soon after the Hongjia army arrived in Zhaoyang, there were a total of 12 princes such as Changshan Hou Yinyi, Wuguan Hou Yinyong, Chishan Hou Dou Zhong, Qingyun Hou Liu Zhen and so on led their respective family armies to Zhaoyang.

The princes all have their own spheres of influence, and they all have a large family army under their command, and who will inherit the throne is closely related to their vital interests.

The princes returned to the capital one after another, and their intentions were unknown, so Zhang Situ, Yang Zhao, Lu You, and Bu Ying came to Yin Xiang's princess's mansion to discuss with her how to deal with it.

At present, the Yanguo Central Army under the control of the four generals Zhang Situ, Yang Zhao, Lu You, and Bu Ying has a total of eight corps, the first, third, fourth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, and the ninth and eleventh corps are far away in Youxi, which are basically useless, and those that can be directly dispatched are the first, third, fourth, sixth, tenth, and twelfth six corps.

There are also the second, fifth, seventh, eighth, thirteenth, and fourteenth legions near Zhaoyang, and in addition, there are now more family armies of the thirteenth princes such as Hong Yuetian, with a total of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the situation is becoming more and more complicated.

When discussing countermeasures, Zhang Situ first spoke: "Hong Yuetian has always been friendly with the eldest prince, and this time he returned to the capital without authorization, and he must have come to support the eldest prince, in addition, many of the other twelve princes also supported the eldest prince and the second prince, and the eldest prince and the second prince are now united, and the situation is not optimistic for us!"

Listening to his analysis, everyone frowned and nodded one after another, thinking that his analysis was reasonable.

If the princes do not return to the capital to participate, they can also use their prestige in the army to forcibly elect Yin Xiang to the throne, and now the princes return to the capital. They still led their respective family armies to rush over with murderous spirits, and it became impossible for them to try their best to push Yin Xiang against public opinion.

Bu Ying looked around at everyone and suddenly said: "The battle for the throne has reached the point of life and death, if the princess can successfully ascend to the throne." You and I can be safe, if the princess loses, whether it is the eldest son or the second son, not only will it be difficult for the court to have a foothold for us, but even whether our head can be saved. Now, it can be said that we are standing on the same boat as the princess, and we can only help each other in the same boat, and there is no way back!"

The more Yang Zhao listened, the more he felt that Bu Ying was having something to say, and he asked, "What does General Bu mean by this?"

"I mean that. The princess is glorious, then I am glorious, the princess is declining, then I am declining, now, we must do our best to assist the princess, if we hide our selfishness, look ahead. Two sides and three knives, finally. It's only going to hurt you!" Buying said in a deep voice.

"Smack!"

Yang Zhao was furious, slapped the case, and asked angrily: "Are you alluding to our harboring evil intentions and being unfaithful to the princess?"

Bu Ying Zhengse said: "I just kindly reminded you, and I have no other intentions!"

"You're obviously insinuating......" Yang Zhao was so angry that his beard was raised high, and his eyes were round. I almost rolled up my arms and sleeves and rushed over to fight with Bu Ying.

Seeing this, Yin Xiang, who had been silent, waved his hand to the two of them again and again, and persuaded them: "Okay, General Bu and General Yang." Now that the situation is tense, if it is not good, it will lead to war, so we should not have any more internal chaos. ”

Hearing Yin Xiang's words, Yang Zhao forcibly suppressed his anger, glared at Bu Ying fiercely, and sat back angrily.

Yin Xiang looked around at everyone and asked, "The princes led the family army back to the capital one after another, do the generals have a good plan?"

Zhang Situ said worriedly: "What the last general is most afraid of is that the family army will join forces and make enemies with the princess, so it will ......."

He didn't say anything more, just shook his head again and again.

The princes of the Thirteenth Road, each of the family armies has tens of thousands of people, especially the Hongjia army, a family has 150,000 soldiers and horses, if so many armies are really united in one place, they can compete with the central army, not to mention, the four of them have not yet mastered all the central army.

"General Zhang is right!" Lu You said slowly: "There are two keys now, one is that we can't let the princes unite, and the other is that we have to win over the two people immediately. ”

Yin Xiang's heart moved, and he asked, "Which two people is General Lu talking about?"

Lu You said: "One is Wei Qing, and the other is Ren Tianxing." ”

Wei Qing and Ren Tianxing are both generals.

Wei Qing is an old nobleman of the Yan country, for hundreds of years, the Wei family has provided a batch of generals and talents for the Yan country, and there are countless children of the Wei family who have been blood-stained on the battlefield and shrouded in horse leather, and it can be said that the entire family has made great contributions to the Yan country.

Wei Qing has a high reputation among the Yan Army, even if he can't reach the first call, it is not far away, and he also directly controls the second legion with the strongest combat power in the Yan Country.

As for Ren Tianxing, it was a famous general, when the two countries were fighting gold, Ren Tianxing served as the commander of the coalition army, and was one of the representatives of the new nobles of the Yan Kingdom, Yin Ji also trusted Ren Tianxing very much during his lifetime, and handed over the command of the three central army corps to him alone.

It's just that since Yin Ji's death, Wei Qing and Ren Tianxing's attitudes have not been clear, and they have not clearly expressed who they support or who they don't support.

Wei Qing, as usual, lived in a simple house, even if any prince or princess went to visit, he mostly said that he was sick and did not see it, Yin Ting, Yin Yuan and even Yin Xiang had eaten his closed-door soup.

As for Ren Tianxing, he did it more simply, after Yin Ji died of illness, he moved directly to the military camp outside the city to live, away from the big quagmire of Zhaoyang, from which it can also be seen that Ren Tianxing is a smart person, and he also knows the way to protect himself.

Wei Qing and Ren Tianxing's approach is tantamount to making it clear that they don't want to participate in the battle for the throne between Gongzi and the princess, no matter who inherits the throne, he has no objection.

If the princes did not return to the capital, Yin Xiang's faction could not be so anxious to win over centrists like Wei Qing and Ren Tianxing, but now they can't help but be in a hurry, if they don't have the support of these two people, they may not be able to gain the upper hand in the game with the princes.

After listening to Lu You's words, Yin Xiang was a little deflated and didn't speak for a long time, and after a while, she sighed softly and said, "Before. It's not that the palace hasn't worked hard, and it has also personally visited General Wei and General Ren, but General Wei is not seen behind closed doors, and although General Ren has seen the palace, he has not expressed his attitude to support the palace. Now to win over the two of them, I'm afraid of ...... It's hard to succeed!"

Lu You said: "General Wei can be persuaded by the last general, as for General Ren, the last general is not sure to persuade him, so he can only bother the princess to go again in person." ”

Yin Xiang didn't care about going to the barracks outside the city, but she was worried that she would go in vain, she pondered for a moment and asked curiously, "General Lu is confident that he can convince General Wei?"

Lu You smiled slightly and said, "Although the old general doesn't care who inherits the throne. But the old general's loyalty to my Yan country will never change, now the princes do not listen to the order of the imperial court, return to the capital without authorization, have committed the crime of disobedience, the end of the general, only need to persuade the old general to punish the princes, the old general will naturally stand on our side. ”

Yin Xiang nodded again and again when she heard this, and secretly praised Lu You for being smart and clever. She smiled and said, "This palace can also follow General Lu's example. To convince General Ren for the same reason. ”

The smile on Lu You's face turned into a wry smile, he was confident that he could convince Wei Qing with this, but he didn't have the confidence to convince Ren Tianxing, not that Ren Tianxing's loyalty to Yan Guo was lacking, but he couldn't see through Ren Tianxing at all, and he couldn't guess what he was thinking in his heart.

He looked at Yin Xiang without saying a word. Finally, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and said in a low voice: "Try it, maybe the princess can really convince Ren Tianxing, but I don't know!"

Yin Xiang accepted Lu You's suggestion and went out of the city again to find Ren Tianxing at the Yan army garrison outside the city. I want to convince him to be on his side.

She could think of wooing Ren Tianxing, how could Yin Ting and Yin Yuan not think of it? It's just that like Yin Xiang's result, Yin Ting and Yin Yuan also failed to succeed.

Ren Tianxing currently lives in the barracks of the Fifth Army, the station of the Fifth Army is located in the north of Zhaoyang, dozens of miles away, there is a large vast plain area, as far as the eye can see, there are patches of farmland, that is the Fifth Army's tuntian.

There is a kind of person who is born with the material of commander, Ren Tianxing is such a person, he is very aware of the importance of grain and grass for the legion, the tuntian of the fifth, seventh and eighth legions under his control is the best, these three legions not only do not need to ask the court for grain and grass every year, but also can in turn hand over grain and grass to the court, even so, the granaries of the three legions are full of stockpiles, as long as there is a war, these three legions do not need to make preliminary preparations, and they can immediately send troops to fight.

On the way to the garrison of the Fifth Army, looking at the green wheat fields on both sides of the road, smelling the fragrance of grass in the air, Yin Xiang's gloomy mood has become much more cheerful for several days. “

She sat in the carriage, let the curtain open, and leisurely closed her eyes, enjoying this rare idyllic scenery.

As he was walking forward, a group of Yan soldiers came in front of him, looking like there were more than a hundred or so people, all dressed neatly, with bright armor and bright armor.

"Who is in front? This is the garrison of the Fifth Army, and idle people are not allowed to enter without permission!" The team of Yan soldiers lined up on the road, blocking the road, and the captain led by him took two steps forward and shouted loudly at Yin Xiang's guard of honor.

"Blind your dog's eyes, don't you see that this is the honor guard of Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

A guard urged the horse to run out from the guard of honor, came to the captain of the Yan soldiers, raised the whip in his hand, pointed at the other party's nose and shouted: "You go back immediately to report to the general, just say that the princess is coming, let him quickly go out of the camp to greet him!"

The captain of the Yan soldiers looked surprised, first looked up at the guards on the horse, and then looked at Yin Xiang's honor guard behind him, and stammered, "It turned out to be ...... It's the princess's guard of honor......"

"Nonsense, go back and report it!" the guard raised his toes, bowed his head and looked down coldly at the captain of the Yan soldiers.

Before Captain Yan could react, Yin Xiang leaned out of the carriage and said, "Don't bother General Ren, just go directly to the barracks." ”

Seeing Yin Xiang coming out of the carriage, the captain of the Yan soldiers and the Yan soldiers behind him knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted in unison: "The villain sees Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

Yin Xiang smiled, stood on the carriage, waved his hand to them, and said, "No need to be polite, you all get up!"

All the flame soldiers responded in unison, and then, they stood up one after another.

The guard on the horse impatiently urged, "Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way...... and before he could finish his words, he suddenly stopped, and his face changed greatly.

I saw that the Yan soldiers who stood up also picked up their crossbow machines one after another at some point, and the arrows exposed outside the crossbow machine flashed a cold glow under the reflection of the sunlight.

"You ......," the guard exclaimed, but he could barely say two words when a crossbow bolt was lightning down his throat.

"Pounce!"

The arrow was shot with precision and firmness, and the guard fell on his back on his horse, and fell straight down.

Almost at the same time, the sound of the crossbow machine in the crowd of Yan soldiers was everywhere, and countless arrows pierced the sky and flew towards Yin Xiang with a roar.

Yin Xiang didn't have time to react, she didn't even see what was going on, and the rain-like crossbow arrows had already shot in front of her.

Beside her, someone screamed, "Princess, be careful—" and as she spoke, one of the guards flew into the carriage and threw Yin Xiang into the carriage.

"Plop, pounce, plop—"

In an instant, the inside and outside of the carriage were covered with crossbow arrows, and as far as the eye could see, it was black and vast, and I don't know how many arrows were inserted in the walls of the carriage.

It was only at this time that Yin Xiang realized that she had encountered an assassin.

She wanted to get up, but the guard who rushed up was still pressing on her body, Yin Xiang was ashamed, anxious and angry, and shouted: "You hurry up!" When she spoke, she pushed the guard's body hard, but the latter did not react, Yin Xiang felt that something was wrong, and looked up with great effort, only to see that the guard had at least dozens of crossbow arrows inserted in his back, like a hedgehog, his person had already died, and blood was dripping down his nostrils and the corners of his mouth, soaking the placket on Yin Xiang's chest in red.

"Ahh

Yin Xiang couldn't help but scream, and was stunned for a moment before she came back to her senses and shouted, "There is an assassin, escort!

Without her shouting, the accompanying guards had already rushed to the 'Yan Soldiers' on the opposite side.

The more than 100 Yan soldiers dropped their crossbow machines one after another, quickly took out the pills from their arms, stuffed them into their mouths, and then, each drew their swords, greeted the guards, and fought with them.

When they first came into contact, they were just ordinary people, but after a short time, more than 100 Yan soldiers turned into more than 100 underworld warriors, covering their armor one after another and turning the swords in their hands into immortals.

Yin Xiang's personal guards are not given in vain, most of them are underworld warriors, but compared to these assassins in front of them, they are still a lot worse.

The battle between the two sides did not last long, and the guards were cut down by the assassins, and one of the assassins broke through the guards' defenses, took three steps into two, jumped into the carriage, and saw Yin Xiang still lying in the carriage, with the body of a guard pressed on his body.

The assassin didn't say a word, but raised his wrist upside down, raised his long sword, and stabbed the guard's corpse viciously, intending to pierce Yin Xiang through the corpse. (To be continued......)