Since Dong Tianxing made an analysis of the battlefield situation last time, Li Bing has been thinking about whether the idea of counterattacking the imperial capital is really a little impatient.

Later, Murong Xue returned to Luoyi from the front line, and Li Bing specifically asked the imperial general's opinion. Unexpectedly, Murong Xue, like Dong Tianxing, thought that it was indeed necessary to counterattack the imperial capital, but now it was too risky and undesirable to implement the strategy of east-west advancement.

Murong Xue's weight, of course, is incomparable to Lao Dong, Li Bing immediately accepted the advice of his cronies and important ministers, and decided to give an order to the Zhenjiang Army and the Jingxiang Army, retract the previous order, and change to a strategy of steady and steady and step-by-step.

Anyway, the imperial capital is there, and it won't grow legs to run away, so let's wait for the best time before making a move.

With a new will, Li Jiangyao finally put his mind at ease. In the final analysis, their Zhenjiang army is also the army of the Holy Tang Dynasty after all, and if it is not a last resort, no one wants to be infamous for disobeying the emperor.

Now that the monarch and ministers had reached an agreement for the time being, he immediately concentrated his energy and devoted all his mind to the reorganization of the armament and warfare.

In the Battle of Zijin Pass, the losses of the troops were too great.

Five legions took part in the battle, and four of them lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses each, and countless more were wounded.

The entire city was scarred, and the consumption of arrows, ammunition and various supplies was almost astronomical.

However, fortunately, the defection of 100,000 subordinate troops in Western Xinjiang into a whole system is equivalent to an additional living force out of thin air.

Li Jiangyao was not polite, and immediately showed his banner as the Holy King of Western Xinjiang, and reorganized the 100,000 soldiers and horses on the spot.

60,000 men were transferred to the 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 7th legions respectively for replenishment.

The remaining 40,000 formed the Ninth Army of Zhenjiang, codenamed "Wild Sand".

After consideration, Li Jiangyao decided to set up an expeditionary camp west of Zijin Pass. Winds, fires, thunders, angry waves, torrential rains, cold waves, and wild sands, seven legions were stationed here, resting and training at the same time, ready to march eastward and expedition to the imperial capital.

The Shenhua Fourth Army guarded Shengyu Pass, and the Jushi Fifth Army guarded Zijin Pass, and at the same time guarded the hinterland of Western Xinjiang to prevent chaos.

Xie Tanzhi stayed in Metasequoia City, commanded the Zhenjiang Military Government, and assisted various countries in resuming production and stabilizing the people's hearts.

Situ Wushou was in charge of the official and municipal bureaus under the military government, and cooperated with Effantia to gradually restore the Silk Road trade with the western continent.

As the chief quartermaster, Ma Mu concentrated on hoarding all kinds of war needs, and continuously transported those massive material resources to the expeditionary camp.

Yudra adjusted the direction of the Intelligence Division's actions, from the original monitoring of Western Xinjiang to the rapid transformation to the strategy of the Holy Tang.

Xiahou Ninghan was not idle, she assisted Xia Lian to further expand the scale of the field medical hall, recruited a large number of experienced doctors Langzhong as military doctors, and configured an exclusive team for each army. Li Jiangyao also proposed to them that at the same time, select more young girls from Western Xinjiang to join the field medical hall and serve as military medical assistants. In this way, it can not only effectively treat the wounded soldiers, but also receive military salaries to subsidize the family's life.

When it comes to military salaries, it is impossible not to mention the rich man Emeni.

After learning of the current situation of the Turks, the Persian emperor strengthened his determination to join forces with the Shengtang, and immediately instructed Ameni to fully support the Zhenjiang army.

With the emperor's approval, the old man personally served as the captain of the transport, escorted a thousand truckloads of silver coins to the expedition camp, and directly issued a special allowance for Li Jiangyao to all the soldiers to celebrate the victory of Zijin Pass.

The Zhenjiang army is full of talents, and they have done all the work. This made Li Jiangyao feel that he was much more relaxed, and he could also focus more on the war situation and political situation in the east.

Recently, Li Jiangyao has received several very important news.

The first one is that the Turks counterattacked Wuguan.

Since Li Bing retracted his order and changed the strategy of active offensive to active defense, the army led by Ma Hongjie did not choose to rush forward after sweeping several county towns in the northwest of Wuguan, but focused on consolidating the defense line around Wuguan.

In this way, the Turkic army could not find opportunities to fight in the plains and wilderness, and could only honestly gnaw at the city walls. The Jingxiang army gave full play to its superiority in strength and took turns to defend the Wuguan defense line.

After several tough battles, the Turks had nothing to gain, so they could only return with a feather and temporarily retreat to the imperial capital to recuperate.

The second message is about the poison soldiers.

Dong Tianxing planned and set up a clean-up battalion, and with the help of Wu Rong and Amunta, he won successive battles. A large amount of antidote smoke and antidote insect Gu were put into the Central Plains region, so that the unconscious poisonous monsters gradually returned to normal, and there were many poisonous people who were not too deeply poisoned, and after the toxicity was relieved, they also took the initiative to flee to the clearance camp for help.

The demons of the Central Plains are being controlled and strangled.

In addition to the battlefield, the changes in Emperor Li Bing also attracted Li Jiangyao's attention.

As the situation against the Turks became more favorable to the Holy Tang, the prestige of the new emperor also grew. At this time, the Yizhou court had fully recognized Li Bing's status and began to discuss a plan to move to the eastern capital Luoyi as a whole.

Once the yamen of the three provinces, six ministries and other official offices returned to Li Bing's side, then a complete court system could be re-established. After nearly a thousand days and nights of separation, the Holy Tang Emperor was finally able to become one with his court again.

The dynasty will also be awakened as a result.

Of course, Li Jiangyao is happy to see this happen.

Without an efficient governance group, there is no way to talk about war or people's livelihood. If the time drags on a little longer, let alone against the Turkic foreign enemies, I am afraid that the entire Shengtang will be divided to pieces.

However, behind the stability of Emperor Li Bing's throne, there are also parts that worry Li Jiangyao.

For example, Shen Lie.

The loyalty and merit of the long history of the reverse scales are naturally self-evident. However, when the world was not yet completely stable and the internal and external enemies were still very strong, Li Bing hurriedly made a move against the heroes, which was not a good sign.

In addition, those upstart ministers favored by the emperor also have problems. According to some intelligence, the officials of the Shaozhuang faction in the Eastern Capital, headed by Wei Zixuan, Tian Mu, and Gong Chengze, are forming a hidden force and gradually controlling various important positions in finance, supervision, and the military.

Especially Tian Mu, who succeeded Shen Lie in commanding the Northern Ya Reverse Scale Division, many commanders and flag envoys have been removed or excluded, and the cooperation with the Intelligence Department is no longer as close as before.

Even, Yudra reported that the Reverse Scale Division actually sent spies to infiltrate the western frontier and began to collect targeted intelligence about the Zhenjiang army.

The smell of hostility is getting stronger.

Li Jiangyao specially wrote to Murong Xue for this reason and asked what was going on? Unexpectedly, Murong Xue was also at a loss, and reminded Li Jiangyao that he was also under the supervision of the Reverse Scale Division, and if he could not communicate in the future, he would try not to communicate, and if there was anything important, he would send someone to deliver a message to save him from being stolen by secret agents.

The eastern capital was overcast, so Li Jiangyao had to worry about Murong Xue's situation, and the drastic changes in the situation in Jiangnan also made him worry about Shen Lie's safety.

The 80,000 Shengtang naval army, and suddenly Chen Bing had several fortresses on the south bank of the Great River, which was tantamount to cutting off the connection between the north and the south of the Shengtang in disguise. Fortunately, Shen Lie warned in time, and the state capitals on the north bank properly protected the boats and boats in advance, so that they were not destroyed by the naval army one by one, otherwise the entire river would be completely blocked by the other party.

And Shen Lie went deep into the tiger's den, although they had the full support of the personnel of the Intelligence Department, they were weak after all, and their opponent Lao Jianhua was also a master in this area. Therefore, in the last few battles, Shen Lie has suffered big losses in a row, not only losing Puma and others, but also himself being injured twice, trying his best to avoid Lao Jianhua's search.

The most odious thing is that the situation is so bad that Tian Mu even refused to help, and strictly ordered the Reverse Scale Division not to accept Shen Lie.

In desperation, Yudra had no choice but to cooperate secretly with Zhou Xing, and continued to dispatch a large number of masters to Jiangnan as soon as possible.

Of course, in addition to supporting Shen Lie, this also has the intention of spying on the Xuanjia Army.

Due to being far away from the battlefield in the Central Plains, Lao Jianhua's strength grew stronger and stronger in Jiangnan. When they first arrived in the south, their total strength was only 1230,000, but in more than two years, the rebel army had expanded to 250,000, which was fully doubled.

And, with the cooperation of Bao Yuchun's army, the Xuanjia Army attacked from all sides, successively occupying important cities such as Yuzhang, Minzhou, and Ezhou, and the troops arrived close to Lingnan.

It can be said that at present, half of the south has become Lao Jianhua's territory, and a large number of population, resources, and finances are controlled by the rebels, and the foundation is getting thicker and thicker.

This also became one of the reasons why the Yizhou Imperial Court considered moving to Luoyi as soon as possible.

If you don't leave, you may be blocked by the Xuanjia Army and won't be able to get out of Bashu!

The situation in the world is unpredictable, basically the north is favorable, the south is unfavorable, and the victory or defeat is still between five or five. Any one that is taken lightly will lead to the failure of the hard-won victories ahead.

Just as Li Jiangyao was thinking about how to deploy next, a series of unexpected events suddenly occurred in the eastern capital of Luoyi, which was pulling Murong Xue and Dong Tianxing into the abyss of a conspiracy.

And the source of all this is Tongguan.

Although there is no hurry to start a decisive battle and attack the imperial capital now, it is natural to recover Tongguan. Such a choke point, in the hands of whichever side is in the hands, which side will be more active.

In order to prevent the Turks from jumping over the wall in a hurry and suddenly concentrating their forces to advance into the Central Plains, both Murong Xue and Dong Tianxing agreed to use troops against Tongguan.

The question is, where to use the soldiers.

Murong Xue's idea was that the problem of poisonous soldiers was being alleviated, and Li Jiong, the king of Huaiyang, had also been beaten up, and he should concentrate the emperor's direct troops to attack Tongguan.

However, Tian Mu and Gong Chengze put forward different opinions.

They suggested that the southern army under Ma Hongjie be mobilized and handed over to Murong Xue's command.

Of course, Li Bing prefers the latter. Moreover, he also wanted to use this incident to test whether there were any new changes in the attitude of the Jingxiang army towards the emperor compared with before.

However, no matter how stupid people are, they also understand a truth:

The question of military power usually costs human lives.