The world is not peaceful.

The rebellion of the Yan Dao army has just ended within the Liyang Dynasty, and the civil and military officials involved in this rebellion have reached an extremely exaggerated number, and there are many ministers including the six servants and the Yinqing Guanglu doctor who pulled out the radish and brought out the mud on the side of Tai'an City, and the situation on the Yan Dao side is even worse, it can be said that everyone is in danger.

Lu Ze was very forgiving to those ministers who secretly communicated with King Yan.

For those who are eyebrows, take off the black gauze hat and get out of here.

As for those ministers who really had substantive contact with the rebels in the south, these people were arrested and imprisoned by Zhao Gou's spies or the people of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple early on, and what awaits them is naturally the end of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans, and if they are lucky, they can be sentenced to exile.

After the calamity in the south was truly cleared, the Liyang Dynasty was truly firmly held in Lu Ze's hands.

In contrast, the atmosphere in the south of Beimang has become particularly treacherous.

The fundamental reason for this Beimang's southward and two-front attack did not get what he wanted, the fundamental reason is that Beiliang at this time is no longer the northwest island before, even if Xu Xiao and the white-clothed war immortal Chen Zhibao are no longer there, but behind Beiliang there is a vast Central Plains land as a support and the continuation of strategic depth.

After Lu Ze ascended the throne, he achieved excellent results in various practical policies promulgated by the Northwest Gate.

This year, the Northern New Year Pass is still spent in the killing of beacon fire and wolf smoke, as the battle progresses to such a muddy stage of unsuccessful success, whether it is Beimang who took the initiative to launch a southward attack or Liyang, who occupies the defense line and launches a counteroffensive, it has reached a stage where it cannot be retreated, so in the Beiliang and Liangliao land, there are no red silk lanterns in front of every household, and the New Year's breath is no more.

Even if Liyang took advantage of this war, Gu Jiantang's Hulukou victory successfully buried Beimang's 70,000 troops, and the Beiliang Iron Cavalry also killed countless enemies, but the war was originally a ruthless meat grinding machine made of human blood in Taiwan, and there were also many people who died on Liyang's side.

Lu Ze chose to present the list of casualties in each major battle in front of the court and the minister.

The same red fruit is presented in front of the people of the Central Plains.

Now Tai'an City, Tai'an, the Central Plains only see beacon fire, no wolf smoke, the foundation of all this comes from the Liyang soldiers who fought hard to kill the enemy on the border, and among these brave soldiers who killed the enemy for the country, they naturally also included the Beiliang Army in the three states of the cold land.

In Tai'an City, the atmosphere of this year's New Year is not as warm as in previous years.

Of course, His Majesty's mind will inevitably affect the ministers of civil and military affairs above the court, whether it is the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites outside, or Song Tanglu, the chief supervisor of ceremonies in the palace, is keenly aware of the heart of the young Majesty, this year His Majesty's eyes seem to be on the border line in the distance, and the ministers seem to know something, so they did not go out to buy fun with their colleagues during the rest of the year after the New Year.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, a cheap charcoal fire burned in front of Lord Shousuke, and the sound of the charcoal popping was accompanied by sparks that burst to the edge.

Zhang Julu's blue eyes reflected the burning flames.

The old man stretched out his hand to bake the stove.

He whispered.

"In the middle of winter next year, it shouldn't be colder than this year, right?"

.......

There are also New Year's customs on the Beimang side, so the border has fallen into a long-lost calm.

It's just that compared to Liyang, who was silent in the dark, the hedonistic atmosphere of Beimang was not adversely affected by the war in the south.

Jiaxing's northward migration made countless Central Plains scholars pour into the vast grassland, all kinds of extravagant and lascivious atmosphere filled the Beimang tribes that were unfettered in their bones, and under the influence of the empress in the royal court, the captive faces of the dignitaries and nobles also formed a wind blowing on the grassland for many years.

Sick prosperity appeared in Beimang Yuchan Prefecture, Aquarius Prefecture, Orange Island and other grassland state capitals close to the royal court.

Although this year was not a good year for Beimang.

At the beginning of the year, the empress of Beimang chose to raise the power of the whole country to go south, although the people on the grassland coveted the fertile land and beauties of the Central Plains of Liyang, but the previous successive failures of the southern expedition inevitably affected the empress's control of the entire royal court, and several prairie lords expressed their dissatisfaction, and finally the empress chose to use a blade to shut up these people.

This time, however, the Southern Expedition fell into a deep quagmire, and the number of Beimang sergeants who died on the side reached an extremely exaggerated number.

It's simply using human life to pave the way for the war horse to go south.

After ascending the throne, Lu Ze didn't seem to have done a lot of things, but just smashed the entire Liyang accumulation in the past 20 years to the northern border at any cost, and it was precisely this hand that did not care about the cost, so that the battlefield battle over there gradually evolved into a competition between the two countries.

And how can Beimang, who seems to be extravagant, be compared with the great separation of the eight countries in the Spring and Autumn Period?

The top of the Beimang temple looks calm, but the undercurrent surging underneath is extremely turbulent, and the old Empress Murong is still the real controller of the royal court, but her hand in power is far less powerful than when she was young.

Just like Lu Ze's joke.

Sometimes, youth is the greatest asset.

The ministers of the Beimang court lowered their eyebrows, but their eyes were fixed on the old woman's hand, which seemed to have nothing in her withered and unpopular hands, but she held all the things that the Beimang magnates dreamed of.

Power!

In the night of the Northern Emperor City, the lights are as bright as a moment, the northernmost palace looks magnificent in the moonlight, there is an ordinary hut with candles gently shaking, which not only does not illuminate the house as bright as day, but adds a bit of gloom and darkness.

On the bed, the old woman lay there with a peaceful face, her expression was in a trance, as if she was reminiscing about the eventful years of the past, and as if she was recalling the youth that was in her prime, but there was no so-called fear and panic that she was about to die, and the woman was extremely disgusted with this kind of emotion that only the weak can produce since she was young.

On the side of the bed, Taiping Ling, who was the master of Emperor Beimang, sat on a small bench and looked at Empress Murong when she was dying.

"Li Mibi, that waste."

"Obviously a veteran of playing eagles, but in the end, he was pecked out by the eagle, and the cobwebbed shadow prime minister who hid in the dark and calculated people was cut off his head silently."

"Otherwise, I will be there today, and he should be there."

In the quiet room, only the hoarse voice of the old woman on the bed sounded, and her brow furrowed slightly, as if she did not want to say anything more about what bothered her at such a time.

There were countless powerful ministers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and there were only two of the old women who trusted them the most.

The Taiping Order in front of him and the dead Li Mibi.

Even the Tuoba Bodhisattva, the god of the Northern Mang Army and the guardian of the grassland, is no longer in this ranks.

There was a bit of untimely rare tenderness in Taiping Ling's voice: "Your Majesty is still uncomfortable now?" ”

The old woman didn't answer this question, but suddenly spoke: "Taiping Ling, is that little emperor of Liyang really so powerful?" The three generations of emperors of the Liyang Dynasty, Zhao Li who decided the Central Plains in one fell swoop in the Spring and Autumn National War, Zhao Chun, who died early in his conscientious work, or Zhao Kai, who is now unparalleled in Tai'an City, Zhao Bing, the king of Yan, and Nalan Youci are so unhelpful that they have not even dragged on for half a year. ”

In the end, the corners of Empress Murong's mouth raised a hint of mockery.

Taiping Ling shook his head: "Mainly because the villain Tu Chen Zhibao died too early, Zhao Kai successfully raised the emperor's qi in Nashu, with the princess of the fallen country of Western Chu as the base, plus Xie Guanying secretly caught the python for him, so there was a later royal expedition, but this young emperor's battlefield expedition ability is too great, even far beyond the imagination of King Yan, otherwise Zhao Bing and Nalan Youci have been planning for so many years, and they will not be beaten down by the young emperor of Liyang with one punch." ”

"There is a popular saying among the people over there in Liyang, called boxing is afraid of being young and strong."

"Emperor Liyang's fists are very hard, and the angle of his punches is even more tricky."

"It's not surprising that King Yan lost at the hands of this nephew."

The old woman gently folded her hands on her abdomen and pulled the corners of her mouth slightly: "It doesn't matter." ”

"I fought in the ring with the powerful princes of Beimang, and I played the first empress in the ages."

"There are so many confused accounts on the grassland, after I die, they will be read and re-settled, Taiping Order, I just hope that Beimang can still be Beimang in the future, not become the autumn hunting ground of the young emperor of Liyang."

The empress and Taiping Ling said a lot that night, and when it came to the kind of militaristic affairs involving the direction of the border war, the old woman was obviously a little tired and couldn't hide her upset, she slowly closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to be at the end of the path in the yang world in this life, and still couldn't get rid of the troubles of worldly things.

The old woman finally whispered, "It's the New Year." ”

......

After the New Year's pass, the two lines of Liyang officially sounded the horn of the counterattack.

Gu Jiantang, the general of the two Liao Jizhou on the Eastern Front, took His Majesty's holy decree in his hand and watched it repeatedly, this General Gu, who had been holding back a breath of anger in his heart since the Spring and Autumn National War, sat in the position of the secretary of the military department for a full twenty years, and now returned to the battlefield, and the smell of gunpowder in the war made Gu Jiantang, who was half a hundred years old, addicted to it.

The Eastern Front coach respectfully placed this decree in place.

The above will is very simple.

His Majesty wants to completely destroy the Southern Dynasty Yanjing in Beimang within half a year, and the 300,000 soldiers of the two Liao and the hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry of the Northern Liang can take the initiative to attack and kill the north, simply put, it is to support the bold and starve the cowardly.

"Xu Xiao."

"I, Gu Jiantang, want to achieve a great cause that even you have not completed, and the iron hooves of the Liyang Dynasty will really step on the Beimang grassland, how good as Xu? With your stupid young son Xu Longxiang, how can you compete with me for the immortal achievements of the Beimang Royal Court? ”

General Gu, who was a passerby in the Spring and Autumn Period, had a thick brilliance in his eyes.

At this time, the Wutong Garden in the Beiliang Palace, there was also a holy decree introduced into it, Xu Weixiong, Xu Longxiang and Chu Lushan, the most notorious eagle dog among the people Tu Yizi, Chu Qiuer, who was bloated like a ball, is now the Beiliang Duhu, Zheng Erpin, and is also the only one left among the six righteous sons of Xu Xiao.

Xu Xiao has six righteous sons, one tiger, two bears and three dogs.

Soldier Immortal Chen Zhibao and White Bear Yuan Zuozong fell at the Tiemen Pass in the Western Regions, Ye Xizhen and Yao Jian were slaughtered by Xu Xiao and killed after the Tiemen Pass, and Qi Dangguo, the bearer of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry Xu Ziwang Banner, died in last year's Liang Mang War.

Now only the eagle dog Chu Lushan is left alive in a good manner.

And now, this Chu Qiuer is also leaving Beiliang Wangfu and leaving Beiliang at the same time.

"I Chu Lushan has a habit of cleanliness, and I change everything, but I don't change the master."

"Now that Beiliang has no risk of invasion by the reckless army, it is time for me, the protector of Beiliang, to give way."

Xu Weixiong and Xu Longxiang are both silent.

Now the atmosphere in Beiliang is extremely complex and indescribable, Lu Ze of Tai'an City has successfully separated Beiliang and the Xu family with many means, in this Liang Mang War, everyone on the border can clearly feel what it feels like to have a heavy dependence behind them, just as the Xu family army at the time of the Spring and Autumn War was able to destroy the Six Kingdoms alone, and the Liyang Zhao family at that time stood firmly behind the slaughter.

At this time, there were still many people in the three states of Liangdi who were thinking about the people under the nine springs to slaughter King Liang.

But now it is time to really divide it, and there is no problem with this edict issued by Emperor Liyang, but it invisibly gives everyone in the Beiliang Army two choices, accepting the will of Tai'an City when they are in a difficult situation, and obeying Emperor Liyang's decree to defeat the Northern Mang Southern Dynasty at this time, are two meanings.

The previous Great Snow Dragoons made a choice.

These elite cavalrymen who had really faced the emperor of the world in the heavy snow, and saw with their own eyes that Lu Ze, who was still the king of Shu at that time, came to Beiliang alone and sent Xu Xiao, the king of Beiliang, on his last journey, and later Lu Ze also fulfilled his promise with personal actions, so there was a picture of the snow dragoon army going down to the south of the Yangtze River to quell the rebellion against Yan Dao that day.

Chu Lushan doesn't blame these people.

Because people need to look forward.

But he couldn't lick his face anymore to serve the young emperor in Tai'an City in the south.

Xu Weixiong looked sad, but he did not stop Chu Lushan, who put down the seal of the capital and the official uniform and armor and left, Beiliang has now come to a real fork in the road, Xu Weixiong looked at the silent brother in front of her, she wanted to speak and stopped.

Xu Longxiang slowly got up at this time and smiled brightly at his sister in a wheelchair.

"Sister."

"I want to ride north with Beiliang Tie."

Xu Weixiong nodded, of course she knew what her brother meant.

Beiliang Iron Cavalry is the world.

Of course, the first to break through the Beimang Royal Court must be the Beiliang cavalry, and the first to attack Yanjing City and Beidi City must also be the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, even if Gu Jiantang has been polishing his foundation in Liangliao for many years, how can the cavalry under his command be compared with the Beiliang cavalry?

In the house of Wutong Garden, Xu Weixiong was soon the only one left.

The woman lowered her head, and became even more grieved.

The way of the world is gradually getting better.

It's just that there are too many people missing by her side.

......

Inside the majestic palace.

The voice of King Lu Ze resounded in everyone's ears.

"The Northern Expedition begins!"

"Wherever I look, I leave the land of Yang!"