Weishui soup soup flows straight east.

The willow trees on both sides of the river bank have long since withered and depressed due to the arrival of winter, and the neat fields on the surrounding side are finally no longer visible to the farmers who worked hard in the past.

When all this fell into the eyes of Li Wannian, who was standing at the head of Huazhou City and looking into the distance, he couldn't help but show a little smile.

Li Wannian, who is only forty-five years old now, is the most golden age for a man in power, both in terms of energy, physical fitness and experience, he is at the peak. Coupled with his angular but handsome face, as well as the burly body of a man in Guanzhong, he really has the appearance of a superb man.

And his appearance and posture are far beyond ordinary people, and his ability and prestige are also rare in the world. At least in the hearts of eight million people and nearly 100,000 generals in this Guanlong land, he is a god-like existence.

This can be seen just by looking at his left and right, because he has reached the top of the city, and there are constantly respectful glances from the defenders of the city.

Because he is really remarkable, needless to say, he is a descendant of the dignified Li Tang, and he enjoyed the reputation of the dragon and phoenix among the people in the Guanzhong area in the early years. And after that, when the court was unreasonable and the people were not happy, they were angry and got into trouble, took all their family property, recruited township soldiers, and then went out of the customs and merged into the Pingtian Army, and the sword pointed directly at Luoyang, the capital of Dayue.

And what is even more exciting is that when the army was hastily raised at that time, and the entire Pingtian army was only a few tens of thousands, they really let them defeat Luoyang, the capital of a country.

Of course, this is due to the external factors that the northern side of Dayue is also suffering from drastic changes, and it takes more than eighty percent of the energy to deal with the invasion of the ghosts, as well as the internal factors such as the officials of the Central Plains cities or their subsequent rebellion, or lack of ability, plus the local wealthy families in Luoyang should cooperate with the outside in the end...... However, their Pingtian army can capture the capital as civilians, which is still enough to make the world look sideways and shake everyone.

Among them, Li Wannian has begun to emerge and be praised in the use of people and soldiers.

Perhaps in the hindsight of many people, in addition to the various problems within the imperial court, Zhao Guangxiao, a leader who had considerable appeal in the Central Plains and had a deep relationship with the local wealthy clans, was the key to commanding in the center.

It is the three brothers of Qin Yude, relying on their brave rush and killing, desperately attacking the city and breaking the door, it seems that they have more credit than Li Wannian, who is only the logistics director who organizes soldiers and horses and allocates grain and grass.

But is that really the case?

At least the 20,000 descendants who came out of Guanzhong with Li Wannian never thought so, in their eyes, their own big man was the biggest hero behind the Pingtian Army's victory over Luoyang. If he hadn't worked hard and arranged everything in detail, I am afraid that the 100,000 soldiers and horses would have been torn apart and collapsed on the way to Luoyang for various reasons.

Therefore, when the matter was completed at that time, and each of them discussed their merits and took possession of the Central Plains City, his subordinates also planned to fight for Li Wannian.

But in the end, after seeing that Zhao Guangxiao occupied Luoyang and Qin Yude won Kaifeng alone, Li Wannian only picked a small city next to him for temporary recuperation, and had no intention of competing with the two at all.

At that time, those subordinates also felt aggrieved and dissatisfied for their own generals, and some even threatened to take important cities such as Xingyang for the generals. As a result, these intentions were stopped by Li Wannian, and then he decisively left the Central Plains and returned to his hometown in Guanzhong.

In hindsight, his decision to retreat could not have been more correct.

Because in this way, it not only avoided the dispute between the two divisions of Zhao and Qin, who also belonged to the Pingtian Army, but also avoided the edge of the Liangzhou Army and the Imperial Court Army, which were rising one after another.

You must know that in the previous few years, there was certainly some friction between the two Pingtian armies that were based in the Central Plains, and there were no less small-scale battles with Guo Yan's Liangzhou army, so that their development was always confined to the land of Gyeonggi, and they could not even take down the land of Lu.

Not to mention that with Sun Ning's re-rise, he led the imperial army to the north and south to fight, and then collided with the soldiers and horses of these two sides.

And what made Li Wannian's subordinates even more convinced by his judgment was that they who returned to Guanzhong more than ten years ago were really like a storm and clouds, holding the entire Guanzhong, plus a large area of Ganlong and Hanzhong, in their hands.

Because of the fall of Luoyang and the actual existence of the Dayue Imperial Court, the official power of the Guanlong region has fallen into a low ebb.

In addition, over the years, the continuous exploitation of the imperial court and the government in the Guanzhong area has made the people suffer enough and hate the officials. Therefore, when Li Wannian, a celebrity in Guanzhong, led his troops back again, it was naturally the banner and the rumor.

Almost didn't fight a few decent battles, and the entire Guanzhong was acquired by him, and he naturally settled in Chang'an as a matter of course.

Then relying on Guanzhong, he continued to use troops and took down the already divided land of Ganlong in one fell swoop. Although because of the local situation, there have been many things such as rebellion in the past few years, but on the whole, everything is under Li Wannian's control.

After that, Li Wannian made a move that no one expected.

At that time, he had already relied on the conquest of Guanlong and had sufficient capital to continue to enter the Central Plains to compete for more interests and territory - at least at that time, he could mobilize 200,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 40,000 elite cavalry.

It can be said that if he really gave it a go at that time, it is really hard to say what the world is like now. Maybe Luoyang should have changed its owner a long time ago.

However, in such a situation, he chose to stay in the middle of the pass, and did not plot against the Central Plains.

And in the next six months, more than half of the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses that had been gathered under his command were disbanded, leaving only 50,000 to maintain the stability of Guanlong, and the rest of them were all disarmed and returned to the fields and went home.

This decision really stunned everyone at the time.

In the eyes of his subordinates, isn't this a sign of self-severing his arm and not being enterprising? Some people even left him because of this and returned to the Central Plains to follow Zhao Guangxiao and Qin Yude.

However, this move allowed the people of Guanlong to get several years of recuperation, and the land of Guanlong, which became a country by itself after Guantong Pass, has since become the most stable and prosperous place in the world.

No matter how turbulent the Central Plains and Jiangnan are, within the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in this pass, it is as stable as Mount Tai, everyone has enough food and clothing, and there is a thriving scene.

As a result, Li Wannian's prestige in the entire Guanlong reached an unprecedented high, and he was regarded as the only leader by all the people of Guanlong and the army of Guanlong!

Although he only has about 100,000 soldiers now, as long as he says a word, he can mobilize millions of Guanlong people to live and die for him!

Some people died, but not completely......