"But none of this is the decisive factor, little Dongzi!"

"Now that the Great Zhou is in a stormy moment, if Houjin moves south at this moment, he may be able to shake the country's capital, do you understand?"

The empress frowned slightly, and with a phoenix in her eyes, there was a coercion that belonged to the king.

However, for these, Yang Dong has long been immune, but he feels a special sense of stimulation.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, this is just a temporary delay for Houjin's army. What I'm really talking about is the third. ”

"Xiao Dongzi, if you talk such nonsense again, I don't mind making you a real eunuch!"

The empress snorted coldly, and a touch of displeasure flashed between her eyebrows.

"Don't think that if I believe you, you can do whatever you want!"

"Okay, okay, got it!"

Today's Yang Dong is like a piece of hob meat, and he doesn't care about the threat in the empress's mouth at all.

However, he also understood that he couldn't go too far, after all, his handle was still in the hands of the other party, so he said in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty doesn't know, now I have opened up all the joints on the Wucheng side, and have begun to build the high-speed official road from the capital to Wucheng."

"Even with today's capacity, the caravan can continue to transport supplies over, and then use the existing walls and troops of Wucheng, it can drag on for at least a few months."

"In fact, the reason why Youzhou fell so quickly was because the military salary was deducted from the deficit and could not be paid as scheduled. The sluggish momentum of the fighters gave Houjin an opportunity. Now, not only have I made up for their previous shortfalls, but I have also invested in them. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Dong's cheeks showed a sinister smile of successful conspiracy.

"Your Majesty doesn't know that the toll of the high-speed official road leading from the capital to Youzhou has been auctioned off."

"These wealthy merchants in Wucheng, as long as they want to keep their wealth, they have to defend the city for us honestly. Even if they want to transfer assets, it is not possible to do so in a moment. ”

Hearing this, the empress's originally tight cheeks gradually turned soft.

"Little Dongzi, since this is the case, I am relieved."

"But then again, on the way back, did you hear the information of the great general Yang Yan?"

"I have calculated the days, and according to the speed of the ordinary march of the Great Zhou, I should have arrived at the outskirts of the capital yesterday. Isn't it Pingzhou, what's going on? ”

This time, Yang Dong did not choose to deceive the empress like the blue bird.

After all, he has already returned, even if Yang Yan doesn't lead the army to rescue the capital?

is just a Lin Chunqiu, and it is not a problem for the master to clean him up.

"Ahem, before talking about this matter, Your Majesty, you have to prepare first."

Hearing this, the empress's face couldn't help but become tense. She stared at Yang Dong with a pair of phoenix eyes, and said word by word:

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"General Yang Yan...... It's the other way around. ”

Yang Dong opened his head, and then like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, he told all the information he knew.

"General Yang Yan, now based on Pingzhou, declares his independence."

"Throughout the Great Zhou, there were a total of thirteen armies, including the recently formed Yongwu Army."

"Now, except for the four armies stationed in the capital and Luozhou, the Guardian Army, the Yongwu Army, the Huwei Army, and the Longwu Army, all the rest are under the command of the great general Yang Yan and bow down to him."

"And now the rebellion of Lin Chunqiu's old dog in the capital has gathered nearly half of the Huwei army and Longwu soldiers, and then cooperated with the Shangcheng defense army to set off this rebellion."

"That is to say, in the hands of His Majesty, in addition to the most complete Spirit Guarding Army, the Tiger Wei Army and the Dragon Martial Army each have only half of their strength left. And the warrior army ......"

"Alas...... My Great Zhou, has it fallen to this! Xiao Dongzi, you don't have to comfort me, I still understand the situation of the brave army. The number of people itself is small, and even if they all return now, it will not affect the overall situation. ”

"But little Dongzi, your vision is very gratifying to me. If you hadn't proposed to form a warrior army, I would have one less card in my hand. ”

Hearing this, an unnatural look flashed on Yang Dong's cheeks.

He coughed lightly and spoke:

"Uh...... Your Majesty, you seem to have misunderstood me. Today's brave army, it is not an exaggeration to say that it can defeat two enemies with one! If it can be equipped with the latest thunder fire tube developed by the Cold Palace Manufacturing Institute, it is probably not impossible to defeat ten enemies. ”

"What did you say!?"

The empress was startled at first, and then a look of disbelief appeared on her cheeks.

"Xiao Dongzi, how did you do it?"

"It's actually very simple, it's just a matter of taking money to open the way."

Yang Dong scratched his head embarrassedly, as if he had said something unsightly.

"Youzhou itself is poor and poor, and the people have no livelihood. In fact, many of the soldiers who were defeated by the Houjin Iron Cavalry did not die, but just fled. ”

"In this way, I took the opportunity to pick up a leak, most of these people are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they still have feelings for Da Zhou in their hearts. It's a pity that the military salary has not been paid for a long time, and there is no rice at home. ”

"Later, I took out the silver, saying that it was reissued by the imperial court, and they didn't even hesitate to join the brave army."

Hearing this, the empress's eyes lit up slightly, and Yang Dong's operation made her can't help but applaud.

Obviously, Xiao Dongzi also saw Houjin's wolf ambitions, so he did not hesitate to use money to open the way, but also to strengthen his power as much as possible.

Merely...... I'm afraid this kind of method can only be imagined by him.

After all, the amount of silver consumed to support an army is simply astronomical. Even in the heyday of the Great Zhou, at most it only supported sixteen armies.

And it was the existence of these sixteen armies, even the most powerful Great Qin at that time, who still treated the Great Zhou with courtesy and did not dare to take a step beyond the Lei Chi.

It's a pity that today's Da Zhou is no longer what it used to be.

Thinking of this, the empress sighed faintly again.

Soon, though, another question popped into her mind. That is, even if these armies have rebelled, with the poverty of Pingzhou, what does he Yang Yan rely on to feed so many troops?

Could it be ......

In her mind, she seemed to think of some possibility, and her face became gloomy again.

"Little Dongzi, I don't understand something."

"You said that Pingzhou is bitterly cold, what does Yang Yan rely on to support a full eight armies?"

"Even if half of these eight armies are lost by more than half, the consumption of those military salaries is still an astronomical amount!"

Hearing the empress suddenly ask this question, Yang Dong was also stunned for a while.

Not to mention, he didn't think about this issue either.