At the beginning of the spring rain, it seems that the wind and sand that have accumulated in the whole city for a year have been cleaned away, and the whole city looks clean and refreshing after being cleaned up, and the Daliang City, which is thousands of miles away from the central capital, is a little gloomy and bleak.

Under the premise that Wanyan Honglie personally led 80,000 troops to garrison Yunzhou, Murong Yan personally led 30,000 elite cavalry to cross the Yunhe River and launched a surprise attack on Wanyan Honglie from the flank.

At the same time, Wei Ban's 40,000-strong army advanced all the way and confronted Wanyan Chilie across the line of the Daliu River, successfully pinning down most of Wanyan Chilie's troops, making it impossible for him to rescue Wanyan Honglie.

Faced with such a situation, Wan Yande could only transfer his cronies' army to Yunzhou, hoping to stabilize the crumbling situation in Yunzhou. After all, after Yunzhou is Daliang City, and the five kings have little way to retreat.

As for Wan Yan Kang and Wan Yan Jing, because after Lin Han and Lu Shixing joined forces at the junction of Chaozhou and Gaozhou, their troops had reached 100,000 people, far from Wan Yan Kang alone could resist, so they could only be assisted by Wan Yan Jing, abandoning the western part of Chaozhou and most of Gaozhou, and the troops were shrinking across the board.

Wei Ban, Lin Han, and Murong Yan were in parallel, and the alliance of the Five Kings continued to shrink their strength, and one-third of the territory of Houjian was already in the hands of Xiao Yu and Murong Yan's combined forces.

In such a context, you can see everywhere the people who fled in a hurry with the old and the young, dragging their families and mouths, and now Houjian actually has a bit of a tragic scene in the last years of the Great Chu.

Later construction is not a pure nomadic system of the grassland, but a semi-pastoral and semi-agricultural system, in the system is more inclined to the Central Plains, the region is divided into states and counties, a county has a county guard, a state has a state pastoral, if in time of war, and then temporarily add a road above the state, the chief official of a town guards the Jinglu Jiedu ambassador, referred to as the Jiedu envoy, its functions and powers are similar to the current Xiao Lie imperial court of the chief of soldiers and horses, or Xiao Yu's capital governor of the camp seal officer, the overall military, government, people, financial power, almost a separation.

Later, there were seven states and two capitals, and a total of six festival envoys were set up, the general Murong Yan was the festival envoy of Gyeonggi Province, and the other five Wanyan princes had the official positions of the remaining five festival envoys. Murong Yan's war with the five kings is equivalent to fighting the other five jiedu envoys with the strength of one person, no matter how he uses his troops like a god, it is difficult to have a chance of winning after all. However, with Xiao Yu's help, the situation has changed greatly, it can be said that Xiao Yu's army has dragged down the three Jiedu envoys, and at this time, there are only two people in front of Murong Yan, Wanyan De and Wanyan Honglie, which makes Murong Yan, who has the first strength, feel very relaxed, so he can overwhelm the Sanjiang Plain in a very short time, making Wanyan Honglie, the Sanjiang Jiedu envoy, a complete joke.

The two sides fought many times, but did not fight any wonderful battles, bloody battles, fierce battles, and death battles, usually one side defended and the other side attacked, and where it could not be held, it began to break and flee, and then evolved into a collapse of the whole front, and the originally not tight defense line was lost. Or simply confront each other and no one moves.

The battle was very dull, and Wei Ban seemed to have lost his aura after leading his troops straight into six hundred miles, and began to fight steadily. And Lin Han's side also slaughtered the city and exterminated the clan at every turn at the beginning, and the tyranny was still the same, but during this period of time, after Xiao Yu issued two edicts in a row to reprimand him, he reined in a lot, and began to plunder, requisitioning grain and grass on the spot, and the property was wantonly transported back to the grassland, which made the grassland Taiji, who had accumulated a lot of resentment because of the white disaster, greatly eased their attitude, and several Taiji who bordered Houjian changed their original faces with Houjian, and began to write to Xiao Yu, saying that they wanted to share their worries for the prince and were willing to lead the army to recruit Houjian Yunyun.

In this regard, Xiao Yu held a noncommittal attitude, and left all these excerpts in the middle of the book, but the next day he sent a letter to the grassland royal court, ordering the royal court to send another 30,000 troops to the area of the Daliu River to assist Wei Ban in garrisoning this place.

Huang Hanji was originally a person with a clear mind, and knew that Wei Ban had beaten Wanyan Chilie suspiciously, and he didn't dare to cross the Daliu River for a single step, so where did he need them to draw snakes to help garrison? In fact, it was just a little sweetness given by the prince in order to appease them. However, this is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, not only can it eliminate the long-accumulated grievances of the grassland Taiji by plundering Houjian, but also reduce the pressure of Xiao Yu on the normal battlefield of Houjian, Huang Hanji and the grassland royal court naturally have no reason to shirk, three days after receiving Xiao Yu's order, 30,000 grassland cavalry troops set off, and entered the territory of Houjian through Xiliangzhou.

In this way, Xiao Yu's troops invested in the Houjian battlefield reached 170,000, which was almost equivalent to the sum of the troops of the two Houjian princes, and the 170,000 troops were mostly grassland cavalry, but the real main force was still 40,000 Xiliang Army, and the grassland army still played a disgraceful role as a bandit in this war.

Originally, according to Xiao Yu's meaning, after the battle situation stabilized, he was going to go to Houjian in person, but now that Lin Yinping is pregnant, it is not easy to leave Zhongdu, so he can only send Tang Chunyu to inspect the army on his behalf.

Since Tang Chunyu returned to Xiao Yu, he was entrusted by Xiao Yu with the important task of being the inspector of the secret guard, acting carefully and meticulously, and never making mistakes, and now he is the third person of the secret guard.

At that time, Xiao Lie personally commanded the secret guards, and at its peak, he was known as 200,000 people. Xiao Yu's Northwest Secret Guard Mansion was split from Xiao Lie's Secret Guard Mansion, and after many additions and expansions, it has today's scale, although it is not comparable to the 200,000 scale of the Eastern Capital Secret Guard Mansion, but there are more than 20,000 people on the staff.

More than 20,000 people are a lot, but in addition to the northwest and other places, they also have to take into account the Central Plains, grassland, northeast, Houjian, Jiangnan and other places, especially after the grassland guards suffered heavy losses, the number of people is even more stretched. Therefore, the number of Houjian secret guards is only a few thousand people.

The three commanders of the dark guard, Qu Cang is nominally at the end, but in fact he is the first person, the reason is very simple, he is Xiao Yu's henchman, Xiao Yu assured that all the five states in the northwest, including Zhongdu, were in the hands of Qu Cang, which means that half of the northwest secret guard is in the hands of Qu Cang. Li Rusong, the governor of the left capital of the secret guard, has the highest official position, but he is not in the central capital, but serves in front of the blue jade tent, which is interesting. As for him, Tang Chunyu, is mainly responsible for the grasslands and post-construction in the northwest and north, which is a thankless errand. This time, he inspected on behalf of Xiao Yu and was temporarily granted the right to act arbitrarily, plus the right to transfer some troops, but Tang Chunyu was not much happy, but more heavy.

If the war goes smoothly in Houjian, then everything will naturally be fine, and if there is any wave in the war in Houjian, he is afraid that he will not be pleased. He is different from Qu Cang, he has no deep foundation, and he has no affection for Xiao Yu, and if he is not careful, there is no room for reversal. So on this inspection, Tang Chunyu almost did everything,

During this period, Tang Chunyu had a meeting with Wei Ban, and even the two drank a wine in Wei Ban's Chinese army tent, and talked about the situation in Daliang City and the development of the situation in the later construction.

It has never been a secret that the military has its own intelligence channels, and both the secret guard and the military have tacitly acknowledged this. Wei Ban is an upstart in the army, and Tang Chunyu is a high-level secret guard, so naturally there is no need to hide between the two, and they directly put their words on the bright side.

In Wei Ban's view, the current situation of Houjian seems to be superior, but if the grassland cavalry is allowed to loot and kill, then it is inevitable to push the Houjian nobles to the Five Kings. At that time, the combined forces of Xiao Yu and Murong Yan will be struggling.

Building a country after the war with the strength of two people, even if it can be won, it will be a miserable victory, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Tang Chunyu didn't think about it so much, he just thought that everything would be fine if he laid Daliang City.

Wei Ban finally said: "It's easy to fight the world, it's hard to sit in the world, whether it's the later construction or the extinct Xitong, plus a grassland, when you go south to the Central Plains, it's like a bamboo, but who can stay in the Central Plains for a long time? ”

There was a sentence that Wei Ban never spoke.

If the Northwest is built from the rear in vain, then the old foundation of the Northwest will really be hollowed out.

The country is in such a difficult situation.