In the spring of 827 in the Holy Tang Dynasty, the cold wind was bleak, the rain and snow were all over the sky, and there was no sign of warming up in the Central Plains.

And at this time, the complex situation of the world war has quietly undergone new changes.

From the point of view of Emperor Li Bing, he received three pieces of mixed news in a row: Jing Xiangjun, Poison Soldier and King Huaiyang.

The reason why it is neither good nor bad, or mixed, is that these three aspects of the problem seem to have made some progress, but they are not exactly in line with his best expectations.

First of all, the Jingxiang army is on the side.

A few days ago, Dong Tianxing sent a telegram saying that the Jingxiang army had elected Ma Hongjie, who had a central position, as the new commander, and was willing to obey the emperor's dispatch and go north to fight the Turks as soon as possible. Of course, this so-called dispatch is only for foreign enemies, and the 500,000 ironclad lions do not want to easily get involved in the battle for imperial power at the moment.

In other words, it is to listen to the tone and not to listen to the propaganda: to fight the Turks, we recognize you as the supreme leader of the Shengtang; Fight the civil war, sorry, we do not participate.

Although this result was a bottom-line countermeasure that Dong Tianxing had discussed before he set off, when Li Bing finished reading the recital, he was still very depressed.

As the monarch of the Holy Tang Dynasty, it is a great shame that he cannot obtain the allegiance of the army in the true sense, and he has to attach additional conditions when transferring troops.

However, the situation is stronger than the people. No matter how unhappy he is, he can only accept it intellectually.

At the same time, the appearance of Feng Kun, the commander of Ezhou, also caused Li Bing's other worry: the Xuanjia Legion, which had hidden in the Jiangnan region, had already joined forces with the naval army under Bao Yuchun at this time, and became ready to move again, which was tantamount to adding a more complicated clue to the chaos in the Central Plains.

As soon as Shen Lie received the news, he immediately rushed to Xiangcheng in person, intending to find a breakthrough for Lao Jianhua and the Xuanjia Army from Feng Kun. However, even this will certainly not be able to completely solve the threat from the southeast in a short time.

Li Bing was deeply worried that Jingxiang's army had finally gone north to join the war, but a terrible enemy suddenly appeared on his side, and it was difficult to predict what the consequences would be at that time.

The second news is related to the poison soldiers.

After this period of unremitting efforts, Wu Rong and Amunta, the masters of drug use in Miaojiang, Yunnan, have gradually made some gains, and further grasped more information about the poisonous soldiers. According to the two of them, the antidote to the toxins in the monster's body is maturing day by day, and the last two small-scale trials have yielded good results.

It is estimated that it will not take long for the trouble of the poisonous soldiers to be solved.

But it is a pity that Wurong Amunta did his best, but the enemy was not idle.

The Turkic madman Brother Shuxuan seems to have gone completely insane recently, and he desperately created an even larger number of poisonous soldiers, which were dropped in batches in the vast area east of Tongguan. And the source of those new poisonous soldiers, of course, can only be the people of Shengtang near Gyeonggi, I don't know how many innocent lives have been tragically killed by that demon.

And the more poisonous soldiers, the greater the attrition of Li Bing's army, and the panic of the people became more and more intense. For a while, all kinds of bizarre rumors flew all over the sky, and even spread to the southern state capital thousands of miles away.

In this regard, Li Bing was so anxious that he couldn't sleep and eat every day, but the only thing he could do at present was to send more troops and continue to separate the encirclement and suppression.

As for the third news, it came from the side of King Huaiyang.

Before Dong Tianxing set off, he asked Murong Xue to choose an appropriate time to send troops to attack Li Jiong. In doing so, firstly, it can send a signal to Jingxiang's army, so that some people who were originally wavering choose to lean towards Li Bing's side, and secondly, a short and powerful attack can also knock and knock the king of Huaiyang, so that he can't collude with the Turks with peace of mind.

Murong Xue did this after asking Li Bing.

The 20,000 horses of the Liaodong Governorate, plus the 5,000 troops of the Yinshan Governor's Mansion, joined forces to raid Bozhou, the northern important town of the Huaiyang Wang's army.

But what they didn't expect was that the Huaiyang Army, which had been in the nest, actually stood up this time. After the loss of Bozhou, Li Kui immediately organized the forces in his hands and launched a counterattack against the Liaodong Metropolitan Protectorate.

The Huaiyang army, which was mixed with 30,000 infantry and cavalry, galloped to the aid of the stars and nights, and directly fought with Li Bing's army outside Bozhou City.

The two sides fought fiercely back and forth for five days, and there was no victory. However, as more Huaiyang army reinforcements arrived on the battlefield one after another, Chang Tao, the deputy capital of Liaodong, was worried that he would be dragged by the other party, so he had no choice but to temporarily evacuate Bozhou City and retreat to a safe place to make plans.

Unexpectedly, their initiative to retreat made the other party's arrogance even higher. Li Kui was unforgiving, and immediately ordered the whole army to pursue, and the troops approached the Bianzhou defense line of the Liaodong Protectorate.

Fortunately, Murong Xue was prepared in advance and arranged a large number of strategic reserves in the direction of Bianzhou, which did not allow Li Jiong to counterattack and go further.

However, the battle curtain between Li Bing and Li Kui's imperial power was completely opened.

Just as a new major war in the Central Plains was about to break out, a grim situation also appeared in the west.

Xu Youchang led 100,000 Zhenjiang troops out of Zijin Pass in the east, went straight to Liangzhou, caught Yun Qianxue and Tanli by surprise, and successfully conquered the capital of Liangzhou in just two days.

Although Yun Qianxue suffered a sneak attack, he was experienced, and he moved his troops to the Yongzhou area in time and waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

After hearing the news, Ashina also reacted immediately, asking the Temple Prince Ronia, who was originally going to be sent to the eastern battlefield, to quickly lead his troops to the west to help.

Ronia acted quickly, and immediately led the Third Army, the Fifth Army and the Tenth Army under his command to urgently go to Yongzhou, join forces with Yun Qianxue and others who retreated there, and then regained his strength and launched an attack on Xu Youchang.

The third, fifth, and tenth legions of the Golden Clan are all veteran powerhouses in the Turkic Empire's army, even after repeated battles, the total strength at this time is still maintained at about 70,000 people, and the strength should not be underestimated, plus Yun Qianxue's Blood Guard Iron Cavalry and Prince Tanli's Eleventh Legion, more than 150,000 soldiers and horses surrounded Liangzhou, obviously there is a plan to swallow Xu Youchang in one bite.

In the face of a strong enemy, Xu Youchang was not chaotic in the face of danger.

Relying on the fortifications of various cities, he commanded his troops to resist the army of Ronia inch by inch, slowing down the enemy's advance, and finally completely shrinking his forces, retreating to three major towns, and withstanding five large-scale attacks of the Turks with the momentum of a corner.

For a time, the war was in a stalemate.

Li Jiangyao, who was in the rear, was not idle. While ordering the Zhenjiang Fifth Army and the Seventh Army to quickly reinforce Xu Youchang to supplement the huge loss of soldiers, he also fully activated the logistics machine, allowing Ma Mu and Situ Wushou to mobilize all the forces of the Zhenjiang Military Government, together with the Shenhua family, the Persian merchant group, and various Western Xinjiang vassal states, to do their best to transfer war materials to Zijin Pass.

Grain, armor, horses, weapons, medicines, cotton cloth, everything that could be used in a war was piled up on the front line, piled up like a hill, and there was no end in sight.

At the same time, the Second Army stationed at Shengyuguan also received Li Jiangyao's order to send a larger number of guerrilla light cavalry to intercept and harass the supply lines in the rear of Ronia, so as to make it difficult for the other side to run out of food and grass.

Large-scale fierce battles broke out one after another on the two battlefields in the east and west, and the Jingxiang army, which had been gaining momentum for a long time, also hurriedly sent the first batch of vanguard troops with 120,000 troops to advance north along the Shangyu Mountain and approach Wuguan.

Wuguan is located in the south of Tongguan throat point, guarding the southwest gateway in and out of the pass, once this is broken through by the Shengtang army, the 500,000 army can not attack Tongguan, but directly through Shangnan, Danfeng, Shangluo, Lantian line, from the southeast to threaten the imperial capital.

The old Turkic marshal Helian Xiong did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly transferred the third and fourth armies of the Golden Clan's polar army and the Blood Wolf Clan, and rushed to Wuguan to assist in the defense.

He also deliberately gave a death order: unless people fight out, they must not take half a step back!

At this time, judging from the situation of the entire war, the general situation is as follows:

Located in the Bianzhou battlefield in the east, Li Kui, the king of Huaiyang, was the main attacker, and the emperor Li Bing was the main defense, with a total strength of about 160,000 on both sides;

Located in the Liangzhou battlefield to the west, the Turkic Temple Prince Ronia was the main attacker, and the general of the Zhenjiang Army, Xu Youchang, was the main defender, and the troops invested by both sides were about 330,000;

The Wuguan battlefield in the central part of the country was the main attack of the Jingxiang army and the main defense of the Turkic army, with a total strength of nearly 200,000.

In addition, there are still 10,000 or 20,000 poisonous soldiers and monsters that are wreaking havoc in the Central Plains, directly dragging down the nearly 100,000 city garrisons under Murong Xue.

At this point, the first full-scale wrestling between Shengtang and the Turks officially debuted.

[The real war is about to break out!] Heroes, shake your little hands, vote, like, and shout for the soldiers of the Zhenjiang Army, and make a strong voice! 】