Yangcheng County, the county seat.

At this time, Jin Zi and his cavalry, who had gone to Kyoto City to support, had already returned to Yangcheng and were summoned by Xiao Jiu as soon as possible.

In the city lord's mansion, Xiao Jiu listened to what happened to Jin Zi in Kyoto expressionlessly, and did not say a word the whole time.

Through Jinzi's oral account, Xiao Jiu learned that the plan to aid Kyoto had been declared bankrupt, especially when he heard that Yun Bi led his army out of the city alone to fight to the death, his heart inevitably throbbed.

Not to mention that Xiao Jiu's Lingshui Chamber of Commerce and the Kyoto Forbidden Army have always maintained a cooperative relationship, just from the attitude towards the Rong people, the two are friends of the united front.

It's just that what makes Xiao Jiu feel disdainful is that he didn't expect that the Xuzhou army, which has not been moving, will unite with the Rong people outside the border at this time.

Only half of the cavalry that Kaneko brought back from Kyoto was, and half of them remained on that battlefield.

Not long after, news came from Kyoto again that Lu Renyi chose to commit suicide before surrendering, but those innocent soldiers of the forbidden army were brutally killed.

One by one, one by one, Xiao Jiu despised this Ma Ze of Xuzhou.

This is a villain who likes to plot behind his back, like a poisonous snake that will bite you when you are not paying attention.

But now it's useless to talk about this, Kyoto City has been taken over by the Xuzhou Army, and Xiao Jiu's Yangcheng County is powerless to take care of it, so it can only suffer a dumb loss.

Similarly, the Xuzhou Army, which had just entered Kyoto, could not make trouble at a time when its foundation was unstable.

Eventually, the Xuzhou army occupied the city of Kyoto, while the rest of the counties in the Zhili region were divided with the allied state of Anhui.

In this raid on Kyoto City, the Xuzhou Army sent 40,000 troops, and the Wanzhou Army sent 20,000 troops, and the main force was mainly cavalry.

When the war ended, they became the biggest winners, but it was the menacing Rong army that had previously retreated in the direction of Huya Pass.

Zong Yu, who had withdrawn from Kyoto, had already withdrawn from Zhili with the remaining troops of the Rong clan, and there was only about a day to go before Huya Pass.

However, the arrow wound on Zong Yu's body became more and more serious, because after a long time with the troops and no effective treatment, the wound had begun to become infected.

On horseback, Zong Yu, who was over forty years old, was pale and walked tremblingly in the middle of the team.

Seeing Zong Yu's state like this, a personal guard couldn't help but start to worry.

"Sect Master, let's change into a carriage."

Hearing the inquiry of the attendant next to him, Zong Yu turned his head to look at the other party, and then waved his hand.

"Even if a steppe man dies, he should be on horseback, not in a cart."

When the guards who followed him heard this, and listened to Zong Yu's firm tone, they knew that there was no point in persuading again.

When the team arrived not far from Huya Pass, the team that had hastily withdrawn from Zhili also began to slow down, and it took another two days to reach the pass.

It was only after the withdrawn army withdrew to the Guannai that Zong Yu began to enter the residences in the city, ready to recuperate from his wounds in peace.

This time, Zong Yu raised troops outside the gate and returned for the second time, it is impossible to say that there is no opposition within the Rong clan.

It's just that although Zong Yu has been defeated now, the loss of the troops is not large, and these people are all descendants of the troops brought out by Zong Yu, so although those people outside the gate are slanderous in their hearts, they don't dare to show it in the open.

On the night Zong Yu returned to Huya Pass, in the luxurious military tent in a corner of the military camp in the city, a middle-aged man frowned and pondered.

The middle-aged man's name was Salaben, and he had been in charge of garrisoning Huya Pass before Zong Yu set out on the expedition.

Although Sarai was originally a member of the Zongyu faction, he was a complete Rong clan ideaman on the inside.

Since the Rong people came to dominate the six border states, the Sinicization faction, dominated by Zong Yu, has been committed to promoting ethnic integration.

Now that the six border states are governed in an orderly manner, Zong Yu has made great contributions, but in this way, it has also pulled the cake of some people's interests.

Cooperating with the landlords of the Great Xia tribe in the six border states will inevitably weaken the benefits that the tribes that originally belonged to the Rong tribe should receive.

And in today's era, the Rong people on the grassland and the Daxia people in the Guannai have always been feuding.

For most of the steppe people, they naturally regarded themselves as masters after entering the six border states, and did not think that the Great Xia people had the same rights as they did as citizens.

It's just that under Zong Yu's tough hand, no one dares to stab, but now it's different.

Zong Yu led the army of the Rong tribe in its prime to suffer defeats one after another, and his own prestige has inevitably declined within the Rong tribe.

For example, the current Salaben is thinking in his heart whether Zong Yu has the ability to lead the revival of the Rong people? Is it right to choose to cooperate with the family of Great Xia?

When he was approached by some Rong people from other tribes outside the Guan, he refused at first, but now he had to revisit the issue.

Zong Yu was seriously injured, and at this juncture, there was no need for both sides to tear their faces, as long as they secretly did something, Zong Yu could be completely erased.

As the second-in-command of the garrison in Huya Pass, Saleben is not simply greedy for power or wealth, but more disagrees with Zong Yu's political opinions.

From his point of view, only by bringing down Zong Yu can some of his ideas be implemented, and if he doesn't let him, he will only be pressed down forever.

Saleben paced back and forth in the tent, thinking for a long time, and finally his eyes became firm.

Early the next morning, Salai went to Zong Yu's mansion to visit each other in the name of visiting.

When the army entered the city yesterday, Zong Yu, who had been riding a horse, was still trying to maintain a good condition, but at this time, he was on the sickbed, and his face was full of haggardness.

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At dusk, a domestic servant in Zong Yu's mansion changed into a military uniform and quietly slipped into Saleben's tent.

Saleben looked at the young man in front of him, his face sinking like water.

"I went to see him today and the situation is really bad."

The young man listened to Saleben and did not answer himself.

Immediately afterwards, Saleben took out a small cloth bag, handed it to the young man in front of him, and said, "Find a way to put this in the medicine he decocted, you don't need too much each time, just one is enough, you need to do it three or five times." ”

The young man took the cloth bag, nodded slightly, and without saying a word the whole time, turned around and walked out of the tent, his figure drowning in darkness.

Looking at the young man's distant back, Saleben hesitated for a long time.

He didn't know whether it was right or wrong, or where the outcome would ultimately lead.

As soon as Zong Yu dies, the Rong clan, which was originally put together temporarily, is bound to collapse soon, but is it really right to return to the original situation of separation?

Eventually, Saleben shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and returned to his place to prepare to send a letter to Kanwai.

The next day, when the young man who had visited the camp in Saraibon in the afternoon returned to Zong Yu's house, he carefully hid the cloth bag he had brought.

It wasn't until the housekeeper gave Zong Yu a decoction that the young man began to approach the decoction for the reason of taking care of the dishes in the back kitchen.

The young man had been Zong Yu's domestic servant for a long time, so no one in the house would suspect him at all, so the young man added some condiments to Zong Yu's herbs almost effortlessly.

For several days, Zong Yu did not get better after treatment, but his condition worsened and he began to have a fever.

As the backbone of the Huya Guanrong garrison, Zong Yu can be said to be the existence at the pinnacle of power.

So Zong Yu fell ill, and the political atmosphere in the Huyaguan army began to become delicate.

First of all, Zong Yu's Saleben and some generals who cooperated with the Great Xia family had a difference of opinion, because without Zong Yu's decision, the contradiction between the two groups of people was completely aroused at this time.

In Zong Yu's mansion, several army generals came to the sickbed alone to look for him and ask for his opinions and orders.

Back and forth a few times, Zong Yu, who was already seriously injured, began to feel more and more depressed, and in addition to the sickly yellow on his face, he also had a sad expression.

If Zong Yu was healthy, he would naturally be able to balance the relationship between the two factions, but now that he had just suffered a defeat and was seriously injured, if he didn't handle it well, there would be a big mess.

Therefore, Zong Yu, who is now dealing with political affairs with a high fever, will think for a long time before giving an answer to deal with it whenever someone asks to see him, and his style of doing things has begun to become more cautious.

But as time passed, the heavy government affairs completely crushed this ambitious generation of heroes.

After slashing several doctors in charge of treatment in a row, Zong Yu's wound from the arrow was already rotten, and the person was as thin as dry grass.

Zong Yu knew that time was running out, so he quickly summoned a group of generals in the army to his mansion to make the final arrangements.

As the second-in-command of Huya Pass, Saleben is naturally no exception and is also among the invitees.

Not surprisingly, as the second-in-command in Zong Yu's system, Saleben took over all the military and political power of the garrison in Guannai before Zong Yu's death.

In fact, the internal power of the Rong people is not monolithic, although each tribe is under the unified jurisdiction of Zong Yu, in fact, they are independent individuals.

Therefore, the court of the Rong people is essentially a federal regime, and there is no vassalage relationship.

Just like the Black Wolf Country where Zong Yu himself is located, after Zong Yu's death, he will inevitably be suppressed by other tribes, and even attacked by a group.

Therefore, Zong Yu chose to delegate power at the last moment, in order to pray that his tribe would not become the target of public criticism.

But Zong Yu would not have imagined that within a month of his death, the high-ranking officers of the Rong clan led by Saleben began to overturn all his previous efforts.

With Salebon taking power, the Rong tribe in the six border states quickly split up and embarked on a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing.

The first to bear the brunt were the wealthy families and big landowners in the six border states, who lost their shelter after Zong Yu's death, and became fat sheep to be slaughtered in an instant.

It was only then that these moths, who had chosen to betray their own people, began to reap the consequences of their own betrayal.

Similarly, a series of purge operations in Saleben have completely pushed the wealthy families in the north to the opposite side, and the six border states have also begun to be chaotic.