In March of the first year of the Qianming Dynasty, Gao Yan united his elder brother Gao Zhan and a large group of Xianbei nobles, and took advantage of the southward march of the Hu Lawyers Association to launch the Yecheng Rebellion, changing his nephew from the emperor of Northern Qi to the king of Jinan.

However, Gao Yan's old lady Lou Zhaojun has changed from the empress dowager back to the empress dowager, speaking of Lou Zhaojun, who is really one of the best 'women' in Chinese history, not because of anything else, but because Lou Zhaojun's husband, son, and grandson have basically been emperors.

Although Lou Zhaojun's husband Gao Huan and eldest son Gao Cheng did not become emperors, even the emperors of the Eastern Wei Dynasty became their puppets, and the other three sons Gao Yang, Gao Yan and Gao Zhan were all emperors, and Gao Yin, Gao Bainian and Gao Zhan's son Gao Wei in the grandson were also all emperors, which can really be regarded as the emperor's family.

It is estimated that in Chinese history, only Tang Zhongzong Li Xian can be compared with her, because Li Xian's grandfather, 'milk', 'milk', father, mother, several brothers, sons, and grandsons are also emperors.

Because he had just launched a palace coup d'état and successfully seized power, Gao Yan had to take a full defensive position to ensure his control of power, and the army of the Hu Lawyers Association, which was originally preparing to attack Wang Yong, was also temporarily stationed in Yecheng, but the tens of thousands of newly formed troops were supplemented to the troops stationed in Pingyuan County.

As soon as the Northern Qi stopped, the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen, who had been fighting with the Northern Qi for almost a year, were unable to continue to fight with the Northern Qi, because the relationship between the Northern Zhou and the Southern Chen was rapidly deteriorating because of Wang Lin's factors.

So since the Yecheng Change, after a year of turmoil and 'turmoil' in the entire north, it has finally subsided somewhat, and Wang Yong and Wang Ze are also resting and taking a breath.

Just after the beginning of summer, even Qingzhou, which is located in the north, has become hot, and the Yanghe River outside the city has long been shaded by green trees and lush grass, and you can already hear early cicadas chirping among the trees.

The clear water of the river is slightly 'rippling' in the breeze, and the river has already become warm after a day of basking in the early summer sun.

There is a group of children in the river who do not want to go home early, they will swim in the river with their bare butts, and there will be bursts of cheerful laughter from time to time in the river, and of course they will always come home with a string of river fish strung with wicker, so as not to go home and be punished by the elders of the family.

In the afternoon, it rained for a while, and the sky became more refreshing, because there were clouds in the sky, so the sunlight was softer, and under the reflection of the sun, the new leaves on the newly grown young branches of the weeping willows by the river revealed a jade-like yang green 'color', and there were some clear water droplets hanging on the tips of the leaves.

In the 'flower' garden in the courtyard of the original Thorn Shifu in Qingzhou City, the 'flowers' are like a brocade, and all kinds of fresh 'flowers' are in full bloom, attracting swarms of bees to fly by. In particular, several pomegranate tree 'flowers' are blooming brightly, as if welcoming the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival.

There is a cherry tree with an adult's arm thick in the 'flower' garden, and the cherry tree is full of fruit, and it seems that the gardener of the 'flower' garden is 'serving' and 'getting' well, and now the fruit on the tree has begun to ripen, although it is not too ripe, but it is always enough to pick a small basket.

This will Wang Ze is holding a few red 'Yan' and 'Yan' big cherries in his hands, and is teasing his second brother Wang Hui, who has just turned four.

Wang Hui also looks tall with Wang Yong, coupled with abundant nutritional supplements of cattle and sheep 'milk', marine fish, various poultry, 'meat', and eggs, Wang Hui, who is only four years old, is already the same size as other people's five or six-year-old children.

Under Wang Ze's teasing, Wang Hui kept jumping, wanting to snatch those delicious cherries from Wang Ze's hands, but unfortunately the little guy was only four years old after all, and he couldn't reach the cherries in Wang Ze's hands no matter how he jumped.

After trying and failing many times, Wang Hui looked at Wang Ze pitifully with a crying expression, with an expression that if you don't give me cherries, I will cry to show you, Wang Ze had to quickly give the cherries to his younger brother.

In fact, Wang Ze knew that Wang Hui's expression was deliberately pretended by this ghost 'spirit', although he hadn't gone home to see this little guy for nearly a year, but he knew his spleen 'sex' very well, the so-called 'three-year-old sees old'! But the little guy is 'quite 'very' will give full play to his advantages and sell small with a small one!

After a while, the little guy wiped out the cherries in his hand, and then continued the game just now, both of them looked a little happy, and when Wang Ze and Wang Hui were having fun, Wang Ze was knocked on the head from behind.

Looking back, Wang Ze found that his mother Xiwen was standing behind him with a smile, Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing were standing ten steps away and looking at him with a narrow face, and the third brother Wang Yu, who had just turned two, was holding Zhu Qingqing's hand and looking at himself curiously with a small face, which was really ugly.

Gong Xiwen crossed her waist and pretended to be angry and reprimanded Wang Ze: "Da Lang, I asked you to take your brother to pick cherries, you are good to tease your brother here, I don't know that we are waiting for you!" Have you picked cherries? ”

It turned out that today Gongxi Wenqi saw that the cherries on the tree had begun to ripen part of the cherry in the 'flower' garden, so he was ready to pick some of them and make some desserts for his family.

I didn't think that the two of them would come back, so Gongxi Wenqi took Cheng Xueying, Zhu Qingqing and Wang Yu, who were helping, to come over to find Wang Ze and Wang Hui.

Who knew that as soon as Gongxi Wenqi entered the 'flower' garden, he saw Wang Hui jumping with his head up, pitifully asking his brother Wang Ze for cherries, and Wang Ze kept teasing his younger brother, Gongxi Wenqi couldn't help but stepped forward and knocked Wang Ze on a sugar-fried chestnut.

Wang Ze didn't care about his mother for a while, anyway, his mother was reluctant to work hard, but the little guy Wang Hui would protect his brother from his mother at this time, he looked up and said to his mother angrily with his little face: "Don't beat the big brother, we are playing!" ”

Wang Hui's words suddenly made Wang Ze feel very relieved, he really didn't hurt this younger brother in vain, and Gongxi Wenying couldn't help laughing when she saw the two brothers so harmonious.

Since the attack on Qingzhou, this thorn history is Xun Yun in residence, and later Xun Yun followed Cheng Chong south to attack South Qingzhou, so the courtyard was inhabited by Yidu, Changbai Mountain Iron Field, Gongxi Wenyi, who supervised the production of weapons.

Later, Gongxi Wenqi had to manage the production of salt farms in Qingzhou, Linzi and other places, and he couldn't leave Qingzhou, and then Wang Yong and Wang Ze came one after another, and they all lived in it.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Ze had been back from Nanchen for almost a month, because Gao Yan was still focusing on holding power for the time being, so the military pressure on Qizhou's side was greatly reduced.

However, the powerful Meng clan, who occupied Jeju, begged Wang Yong here, because the number of Northern Qi troops in the plain county on the other side of the river was increasing, and the Meng clan was becoming more and more unbearable.

The Meng clan originally occupied the Jeju secession side, and was preparing to get a piece of the pie in the next great 'chaos' in the world, but who knew that the Northern Qi Dynasty slowly stabilized its position and began to counterattack again, and now the Meng clan panicked.

So on the second day after Wang Ze came to Qingzhou, Wang Yong returned to Qizhou again, during which Wang Yong repeatedly returned to Qingzhou to stay temporarily, but each time he couldn't stop for a few days before returning to Qizhou, but Wang Ze has been staying here, after all, he has been away from home for nearly a year, and he still 'very' likes to stay with his family.

The matter of Yecheng was only known to Wang Yong and Wang Ze after half a month of the change in Yecheng, and finally understood why the Qi army stationed in Pingyuan County was so strange and did not attack.

Wang Ze really didn't know much about the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and he couldn't start in advance to reap the benefits for himself, but according to the intelligence analysis from the spies, the situation was not too good for Wang Yong's side.

First of all, Gao Yan's ability is still very powerful, and his political skills are very strong, through this palace coup, at least the military and political power of Northern Qi has become more concentrated.

In the past, the Northern Qi Dynasty was strong and the army was also very effective, but because of the long-term division of the Northern Qi society, the confrontation between Hu and Han, and the internal contradictions between the DPRK and China, and the Han official group headed by Yang Su and the Xianbei Xungui group headed by Gao Yan and Gao Zhan, a large part of the national strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty was consumed in internal friction.

This also led to the Northern Qi losing again and again in the previous group fights, not to mention the loss of more than a quarter of the country's land area, and even the army lost two or three hundred thousand people.

However, the Northern Qi Dynasty was the hegemon before all, not to mention the strong national strength, the population is even larger, and there are still three catties of iron on the rotten ship, let alone such a country.

Although the Northern Qi Dynasty seemed to have greatly reduced its national strength under the siege of all sides, the actual national strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty was becoming stronger with the concentration of power.

The second is that after seizing power, Gao Yan won the support of almost all the Xianbei nobles and Gao's children represented by Gao Guiyan and He Baren, and his ability to control the army was stronger than Gao Yin.

Such a situation is very unfavorable to Wang Yong's side, which has been directly pointed at by the Northern Qi Dynasty, once the Northern Qi recovers from its self-adjustment, then under the full force of the powerful state apparatus of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the defeat of Wang Yong and others can be expected.

When it comes to governing a country, it is definitely not the same as governing a cottage, although Wang Yong's previous cottage was also very large, with tens of thousands of people, but different is different.

At the beginning, most of Wang Yong's side were people at the bottom of the society, whether it was Wang Yong or Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui or even Lu Wen, their vision was not high, of course, it was inevitable that they were not thoughtful enough to do things, which led to many omissions later, especially intelligence became the shortcoming of Wang Yong's side.

At present, Wang Yong's spies are only available in Yecheng and some major prefectures and counties in Northern Qi, not to mention the low efficiency, not to mention the delay of intelligence, and the 'sexuality' is very high, and when the news reaches Wang Yong and Wang Ze, it is really a cucumber and the vegetables are cold, and at this time, the number of Qi troops in Pingyuan County has begun to increase rapidly.

Since receiving the information sent back by the spies who were 'inserted' near Yecheng, he knew that he had missed a great opportunity, and Wang Yong had been a little sleepless for several days, and often sighed and shouted pity when no one was around.

If you can know what happened in Yecheng in advance, and know that the 100,000 Northern Qi army stationed in Pingyuan County is just an empty shell supported by 20,000 people, then you can raise 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack the plain, so that even if you can't completely annihilate these Qi troops, you can consume a part of the Northern Qi 'elite' army.

Later, Wang Ze's old lady Xi Wenqi couldn't stand Wang Yong's lamentation day and night, so she asked Wang Ze to talk to Wang Yong, and Wang Yong recovered.

In fact, after receiving the belated information, Wang Ze also felt that it was a pity in his heart, but who could blame him for this, the spies and scouts had already risked their lives and tried their best to pass the information back, and after all, he and others did not think about it well enough at that time.

Whether it was the lack of intelligence agencies or the inability to analyze the movements of the Qi army, if one side could send a part of the army to carry out a tentative 'sexual' attack, it would be able to test the reality of the Qi army.

Through this incident, Wang Yong also discovered many weaknesses of his side, but he didn't know how to deal with it, before Wang Yong came to Qingzhou, he also planned to convene the civil and military generals under his command to discuss, which is also Wang Yong's habit for many years.

Now Wang Yong has a full 300,000 troops under his command, all of whom are young and strong men between the ages of 20 and 35, but most of these people are recruits who have never fought before.

In addition to the recruits, the more than 80,000 veterans who participated in the Battle of Qizhou only joined the army a few months earlier than the recruits, and the number of battles was not much, and there were less than 30,000 of them who could be used as the core combat force.

In addition, Wang Yong and the generals under Wang Ze are basically from the wild road, Wang Yong and Wang Ze also know how many talents there are in the world, it can be said that there are Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, and during this time, there are also many folk heroes and down-and-out scribes who have defected to Wang Yong.

But marching and fighting has always been a systematic and complex thing, not that you can be a general if you dare to fight.

In ancient times, especially in the Northern and Southern Dynasties before the Song Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties, books such as historical books, scriptures, and righteousness were the heirlooms of some wealthy scholars, and books such as the art of war were never forbidden to circulate in society.

Although it is possible for ordinary people to obtain some books through other means, it is never possible to borrow military books, and it is impossible to do so without systematic training and training.

Although some reckless heroes initially relied on force to resist the imperial court and defeated many officers and soldiers in the state capital, they were immediately defeated when the regular army of the imperial court carried out encirclement and suppression, which is one of the reasons why peasant uprisings in Chinese history have rarely succeeded.

After Wang Ze came back, he analyzed with his father Wang Yong and found the reason for the matter, but when he wanted to carry out some reforms, he felt that 'the tiger has nowhere to eat'.

At this time, Kong Yi, who had been a staff general under Wang Yong for a period of time, wrote a letter to recommend a wise man to Wang Yong, but this wise man was a bandit leader, because his father and ancestors were all bandits, so he could be regarded as inheriting his father's business.