Naoli, Kyoto Castle.

Now Kyoto Castle has been captured by various coalition forces, and their territories have been divided according to their own strength.

One of the strongest team leaders named Huadong, originally a small landowner in Yuzhou, scattered his wealth when the drought struck, gathered a lot of soldiers and horses, until today there are tens of thousands of troops under his command.

Among them, Huadong was also one of the first forces to start cooperating with Zhao Qinghe and other families, relying on their own strong strength to directly occupy the palace and live.

Other local government soldiers such as Wanzhou and Xuzhou had already begun to return to their respective territories when Kyoto was breached, and did not lead their troops into the city.

After all, in this feudal era, betraying one's monarch and country is to be labeled as a rebel.

Unlike the rebel army, these officers and soldiers were paid in the name of the imperial court, and now they turned around and attacked Kyoto, and they would inevitably be spurned if they spoke out.

And Huadong, a dominant family in Kyoto City, saw that he already owned the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and unconsciously began to flutter.

You must know that according to the current power structure, the role of the emperor is like a magic force that tempts countless people to moths to the fire.

As everyone knows, when the ambition swells and there is no strength to support it, it will eventually die and there will be no scum left.

Now that Great Xia has announced the death of the country, it is obviously not easy to create a new dynasty.

Their peasant rebel army, either nominally or in strength, could not make those who really held military power in the states, counties, and localities bow down to their orders.

Now that the Kyoto Imperial Palace has been occupied by East China, East China feels that it is natural that it should become the co-owner of everyone, and wants to send letters to various places to test the other party's situation.

However, before Huadong could send letters to various places, there were many voices within the rebel army in Kyoto Castle against Huadong's occupation of the imperial palace.

Most of these people have some strength of their own, but there are only a few thousand people in the subordinates, and they dare not join forces with East China to create momentum.

East China, who was still thinking of climbing to a high position, saw that most people were against it, and knew in his heart that it was not the time.

Just when the battle for power and profit in Kyoto City was in a mess, this fierce siege battle was being launched in the northern Huya Pass.

After receiving the news of the fall of Kyoto, the Rong tribe of the grassland outside the Guanwai changed their previous posture of harassing only catapults and siege equipment, and began a fierce siege battle.

The grassland coalition army is fierce, and it has the posture of taking the tiger tooth pass with all its might.

If the Huya Pass is breached, the grassland people of the six border states and the soldiers of the puppet Xia regime can drive straight in, and after entering the plain, they will no longer be unfettered.

Huya Pass is a vital strategic point in Great Xia, and without reinforcements at this time, it is a good time for the Rong people outside the Guanwai to take it in one go.

In Huya Pass, Zhu Cong and Yun Bi each brought a group of generals belonging to their own factions to discuss in the military tent.

Although the army outside the Guanxi is now pressing, because Qin Yu did not transfer back the garrison troops in the Guanwai because of the Kyoto Rebellion before, he is still well prepared at this time.

The only thing to worry about is the problem of grain and grass, you must know that these soldiers in Huya Pass used to rely on the Kyoto court to distribute military salaries, but now that Kyoto has changed hands, they are like rootless duckweed cut off supplies.

Yun Bi, as a general promoted by Qin Yu, has no doubt in terms of ability or loyalty.

But now that Kyoto has fallen and Qin Yu is dead, the loyalty in Yun Bi's heart makes him unable to recognize the rebel army in Kyoto.

But Zhu Cong, as a person from Wang Meng's faction, although he relied on the imperial court, he saw the situation very thoroughly.

Now that Great Xia has perished, if their small Huya Pass cannot get supplies from the Guan, and they don't need the Rong people outside the Guanguan to attack the city, there will be a mutiny among the soldiers themselves.

If you can't even eat, who will give you your life?

At present, there are two roads, either to reach an agreement with the rebel army in Kyoto and the prefectures in the north of Kannai, and the Kannai will supply the food and soldiers of Huya Pass.

Either they can only harden the grassland Rong coalition forces outside the pass, and wait for the enemy outside the pass to retreat and then go south to clear the rebellion.

At present, the grassland coalition army is attacking fiercely, and it is obviously preparing to break the city in one go, and if it breaks with various states and counties in Guannai at this time, it will undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on itself.

Not to mention how tragic the siege battle is, as long as the enemy outside the pass drags on for a month, the defenders inside the Huya Pass will collapse on their own because of the problem of food and salary.

Now Zhu Cong and Yun Bi have their own opinions, and most of the guards in the Guannai are more supportive of Zhu Cong and want to negotiate peace with the Guannai to get supplies.

But because of Yun Bi's official position and his own identity, he didn't dare to refute it directly, so he could only plot secretly.

The situation in the north is changing, and the states in the south are also ready to move after receiving the news of the fall of Kyoto and the fall of Great Xia.

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Yangzhou, south.

At this time, in the city of Yangzhou, all the officials who originally belonged to the imperial court sent from Kyoto were centrally controlled, and a kind of white terror swept through the officialdom of Yangzhou.

As one of the few wealthy places in the south, Yangzhou can be said to have been basically unaffected by the disasters of the past two years.

Originally, it was a large grain-producing state in Great Xia, but when the power of the Great Xia court fell, the local families united to divide up the actual power.

Although the imperial court sent a large number of officials to Yangzhou, most of them went against their original intentions under the co-optation of local wealthy families and large landowners.

In the end, all the military and political power in Yangzhou fell into the hands of local officials.

Now that Kyoto has fallen, and the Great Xia, which has long existed in name only, has become a thing of the past, then these officials appointed by the Great Xia court seem a little embarrassed.

Before, it may have been hindered by their identity, in order to give the court basic respect.

But now it is different from the past, these royalist officials have lost the protection of Great Xia, and they have lost the talisman to save their lives.

Soon after, after the purge of officialdom in Yangzhou, many officials who had previously held high positions were dismissed and arranged to be beheaded or imprisoned for many crimes, and only a small number of officials escaped.

Not only Yangzhou, but also coups d'état occurred in various parts of the southern border, and local separatist forces began to be established one after another that were not subject to the control of others.

Some forces still follow the old system of Great Xia, pulling the banner of Great Xia to frantically recruit troops, while others directly establish themselves as kings and open up small courts.

Counting the various forces in the world, the stronger states in the north include Yuzhou, Jizhou, Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

Among them, the rebel army in Yuzhou united with many state capitals or rebel armed forces in Xuzhou, Anhui and other places to break through Kyoto, and the limelight was in full swing at this time.

In Xuzhou, on the other hand, the forces of the officers and soldiers of the local state government and some peasant rebel armies were mixed with each other, and it was no longer possible to distinguish between soldiers and bandits.

Although Jizhou is divided at this time, as the first state in Great Xia, its own heritage is still there, but the military power of each county is in the hands of local officials, but when foreign enemies attack, they will still unite.

Qingzhou naturally doesn't need to say much, although Lu Yaoliang has repeatedly eaten in the hands of Xiaojiu, but because he has not been affected by the disaster, the soldiers are full of food.

If it weren't for Jin Zi and Heizi to lead the soldiers of the Xiao Zi Battalion to go deep into the hinterland on sea ships and repeatedly harass them, the current Lu Yaoliang could even be said to be the strongest party in the entire northern territory.

Among the various forces, only Xiao Jiu, the county guard of Yangcheng, is independent of all parties, and the world is undecided at this time, and it is bound to become the target of many forces.

Unlike the northern border, although the southern territory has eight prefectures and counties, and occupies half of the territory of Great Xia, it has always been regarded as a wild land because it has not been effectively developed.

Although the southern states were nominally part of the imperial court's territories, the imperial court's control over these regions had always been weak since ancient times.

In the past, the officials sent to the southern states were basically degraded, not to mention how many died of exhaustion and disease on the road, but quite a few were killed by the local natives.

Among these states and counties, only one Yangzhou has become a rich land because of its proximity to the north and fertile land.

Among the regions of the southern kingdom, there are three strongest forces.

The first is You Yichun, the governor of Yangzhou, who has all the troops in Yangzhou in his hands, as well as the family's continuous support in terms of money and food.

You Yichun represents the interests of these wealthy families in Great Xia, and if it is possible to send troops to attack the city, the landlords of neighboring Jianzhou and Yuanzhou will basically respond.

The second is Sun Ke, the vassal king of the westernmost Shu region, who hesitated for various historical reasons, and the land of Western Shu has never been truly recovered.

Just like since the founding of the country, because Xishu is remote, the rugged road to Shu acquiesces to the other party's self-reliance.

Although Shu is nominally a state and county in Great Xia, it is more like a vassal state.

Sun Ke, the governor of Shuzhou, is the most powerful person in the local area, and his family has great influence in the central Shu region.

History is always wonderful, although Shuzhou was the first to establish itself and declare autonomy when the power structure of Great Xia collapsed, but the people in the territory were the same people as Great Xia.

In such a multi-ethnic place like the southern border, the Shuzhong region did not know how much competition and killing it had to go through before to obtain this land of peace.

The third force is not the Great Xia ethnic group, but the ethnic minorities in Jiangzhou and Daizhou.

The local Tusi regime or the tribal chiefs joined together to form a government dominated by ethnic minorities.

At present, the head of this regime is named Zhong Sang Degong, and because he is the fourth in the family, there is also a Great Xia name called Zhong Ah Si.

This Zhong Ah Si was appointed by the Great Xia court as the governor of Jiangzhou, and although Great Xia was destroyed at this time, he still followed the past military and political system in Jiangzhou.

In addition to these three strongest forces, the rest of the southern border of Great Xia are big cats and small cats, and there are no strong interest groups or armed forces.

Of course, the southern frontier is still full of uncivilized barbarians and primitive tribal forces, but they have not been recorded in the long course of history.

Now that the world is torn apart, the emergence of a new unified dynasty will inevitably go through a period of chaos, and the pain of war will eventually be borne by the people at the bottom.