It was an eventful time, and if the words of the Hopeful Warlocks were to be followed, chaos was already beginning to appear.

For the people of the Central Plains, the northwest is too far away, except for those caravans that do business in the border area, they have hardly been affected much, if there is any impact, that is, this year's tax has been raised by two percent. In this regard, the people inevitably slandered a few words, and they didn't know if this was the meaning of the officials or His Majesty the Emperor. But no matter who it meant, the ordinary people only dared to mumble a few words behind their backs, and then obediently handed over the fruits of a year's hard work to the hands of the fierce and vicious officials.

On the border of Xiliangzhou, 10,000 light horsemen are ready to go, and the momentum is majestic.

Xiao Yu, who was wearing black armor, stood in front of the army, stretched out a hand, and the armor soldier next to him brought a bowl of soju to his hand.

Xiao Yu held the bowl in both hands, drank the wine in the bowl, the bottom of the bowl was down, and said to Wei Ban beside him: "Hit the Yumen Pass, the official hat I sent is waiting for you to come back and wear it, and this wine right should be practiced for you." ”

Wei Ban held a bowl of the same soju in his hand, smiled, and drank all the spirits in the bowl.

The lieutenants behind Wei Ban also drank it all.

Xiao Yu casually threw the empty sea bowl in his hand to the ground, and asked with a smile: "Gentlemen, do you dare to step on Xiliang?"

The captains smashed the sea bowl in their hands one after another, and said loudly: "Why don't you dare?"

Wei Ban clasped his fists and saluted: "If you can't take the Jade Gate Pass, Wei Ban will come to see you!"

10,000 light horsemen and light riders crossed the Gobi and rushed straight to Yumen Pass. The leading general, Wei Chi's nephew, Wei Ban.

Xiao Yu returned to the camp of the Chinese army, and sat in the tent with one article and one martial arts, it was the current military advisor Zhonglang general and the dark guard governor Lan Yu and the central capital governor Xu Lin.

Lan Yu was bowing his head and writing hard, while Xu Lin was closing his eyes and recuperating. When Xiao Yu came in, Lan Yu had just finished writing the last stroke, put down the Yanghao Changfeng, a specialty of the Northwest in his hand, Lan Yu shook the fold in his hand, and then handed it to Xiao Yu and said: "This is the prince's plea, I have finished transcribing it." If there is nothing that needs to be changed, you can probably hand it in. ”

Xiao Yu borrowed the fold, glanced at it a few times, and said with a smile: "If this fold is sent to Emperor Zheng's table together with the military intelligence in the northwest, I wonder if Emperor Zheng will directly tear the fold?"

Lan Yu picked up the brush on the pen holder and put it in the pen jar to wash, and said with a faint smile: "The emperor tore the fold, but it is a big taboo, it is to be recorded by Taishi Ling, and Emperor Zheng probably does not dare to do this." ”

Xiao Yu was noncommittal, put the fold in his hand and put it in his sleeve, then walked to the map on the wall, and drew an arc along the Xiliang corridor with his hand.

Xu Lin opened his eyes, looked at the map and said softly: "Qin Quan has set up a pocket array along the Xiliang Corridor, and at both ends of the pocket are Yumen Pass and Wusheling Ridge, and if you want to attack Dunhuang City, you must plant it in this pocket. However, Qin Quan suffers because he is a lone army, with no reinforcements and no wings, so we can slowly tear down this pocket little by little, and in the end there is only one Dunhuang City left. ”

Xiao Yu said: "Although the location of Yumen Pass is dangerous, it is far from being a high city, although 10,000 light cavalry is not good at attacking the city, but as long as it is taken by surprise, there should be a sixty percent chance of victory, as for Wusheling Ridge, the terrain is more complicated, which is not conducive to cavalry combat, who does the metropolitan governor think is appropriate?"

Xu Lin pondered for a while and said, "Didn't the prince already have an idea in his heart, but since the prince asked, the last general also bluntly said that it was best to use a cultivator." After all, the Taoist sect, the secret guard, the grassland, so many cultivators in their hands, it is like having an indestructible sword, since the three-foot Qingfeng is in hand, why should we bare our bare hands. ”

Xiao Yu continued to point to the map, but his fingers had already moved from Yumen Pass to Wusheling Ridge, and said with a smile: "The idea of the Grand Governor coincides with mine, this time I plan not to send any cavalry, only send 10,000 foot soldiers, slowly advancing, and then three hundred cultivators will go through the stars and nights to raid the two fortresses of Anyuan and Anmen on Wusheling Mountain." I want to make it difficult for Qin Quan to take care of it, and when these two places are captured, the 200,000 iron cavalry in Zhongdu can naturally drive straight into Xiliangzhou. ”

Lan Yu suddenly spoke: "Although Anmen and Anyuan are not big, but with the small camps around them, there are more than 10,000 elite armorers each, and the two are at a rivalry, relying on each other, even if they can be attacked, how many of these three hundred cultivators can be left?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "I asked Zi Shuiyang and Huang Shuiquan, the two masters of the Heavenly People's Congress, to lead a hundred Dao Sect disciples each, and now that the internal guards and peony personnel led by Qiu Si have infiltrated the city, when the time comes, what does Brother Lan think?"

The three people in the big tent of the Chinese army just said three or two words, and they decided to attack Xiliangzhou.

As long as Xiliangzhou is defeated, no one in the entire northwest can compete with Xiao Yu, and at that time, the vast northwest is in Xiao Yu's hands.

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Eastern Capital

There was already a lot of noise in the court.

Qin Quan, the king of Jin, asked for help almost every day, and the prince's party naturally asked for immediate reinforcement, while the prince's party shirked it for various reasons, no soldiers, no generals, and no money.

Of the 500,000 troops in the northwest, nearly 300,000 were wiped out, leaving only 150,000 Qin Quan, who were still involved in Xiliangzhou and did not dare to move a single bit, and where were there any soldiers and horses left?

Besides, now that the military attache of Dazheng is here, since Xu Lin has been planted in the hands of Xiao Yu and surrendered on his knees, the military attaches below the metropolitan governor don't have to think about it.

But if Qin Zheng is sent to the northwest, it is better to say that if he wins, if he is defeated, Xiao Shunke will really have no obstacles, and he can go all the way south and go straight to the eastern capital without much effort. Who can afford this responsibility?

At this moment, the head of the household department is spitting out bitterness, saying that this year's financial embarrassment, the military department is asking for a huge amount of military salaries, sighing that the people's voice is full of words, and it is not good for His Majesty Tianwei, if he wants to be persecuted again, he will not be able to do it, so he has to resign and return to old age.

To sum it up, if you don't want money, you have to die.

Most of the civil officials are members of the prince's party, except for one secretary of the military department, the remaining five departments are all princes' party, and when they join hands at this moment, they will naturally suppress the leaderless prince's party to death.

What's more, under the instruction of the imperial history of Zuodu, the two officials launched a wave of impeachment of Qin Quan, and there is a reason, Xu Lin has been beaten into the ranks of ministers, and His Royal Highness the King of Jin seems to be crumbling.

The desperate princely party naturally fought hard, although it had not yet rolled up its sleeves and moved, but the words and swords had already made Emperor Zheng, who had been in charge of this huge empire for thirty years, look extremely ugly.

With a cold snort, Emperor Zheng brushed his sleeves away, the adults were silent and silent, and the entire court returned to quiet.

PS1: Official position comparison. Let's explain it roughly for those who don't understand.

In general, some changes have been made in accordance with the Ming system, such as adding a large governor to the left governor and so on.

General of the Army: Chief of the General Staff.

Governor of Zhongdu: Commander of the Central Capital Military Region.

Cabinet Fellow: Standing Committee.

Zuodu Yushi: Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Six Books: Ministers of Ministers.

Six Ministers: Deputy Ministers.

Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces: Military Commission.

Governor-General: Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

Governor: Governor.

As for the three princes and three orphans, as well as the Shangzhu Kingdom, etc., they are just false names and have no real power.

PS2: The celebrant is a special product of the times, and I don't know how to compare.