Yao Qingyun took the sword of cutting clouds, and there was a faint flow of cloud patterns on the scabbard. Holding the hilt of the sword, he pulled out a section slightly, and the cold light was breathtaking, as bright as the stars in the sky. His own hesitant face was reflected. killed Li Xiangyang and took it to ask for credit, then all the rumors will naturally be self-defeating, and the Yao family's charges will not be established.

Yao Qingyun's fingers holding the sword tightened and tightened, his knuckles turned white, and he suddenly sighed: "It's still too late for you to leave now, don't wait for me to change my mind." As he spoke, he flicked across the blade of the sword, and the sound of the sword was like a dragon's roar, and the blade swayed like a ray of light.

Yao Wanrong pushed Li Xiangyang and said, "You go quickly! This is not where you should stay." ”

Li Xiangyang smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "I won't let you face danger alone." "He's gambling, or take Yao Wanrong away, or just die here, and don't have to look at her as a Xichu concubine anymore.

Yao Qingyun sneered: "Then I will do what you wish." Dragged his sister away, the sword slashed into the air and let out a sharp roar, like a thunderbolt suddenly striking down. Li Xiangyang closed his eyes and did not move.

Yao Wanrong almost fainted, and out of nowhere, she jumped up and hugged Yao Qingyun's arm.

"Hey, my sister who got married, and the water that spilled out. Before you get through the door, you're heading towards someone else. A few strands of green silk drifted in the wind, Yao Qingyun grinned and put his sword back into the sheath, lifted his sleeves, and saw blood on the deep tooth marks on his arms.

Yao Qinghao, the second son of the Yao family, said with a smile: "She is biased when she fights a child, when will she pass towards us? ”

The hairband on Li Xiangyang's head was cut off, and a few strands of hair were cut off. He sat on the ground and gasped for breath and laughed. For a while, it seemed to be back to the days when I was a teenager and laughed with the Yao brothers.

The Yao brothers discussed for a while, and they all thought that Xichu could not settle down, but fortunately, Tuoba Lao'er's eyeliner was capable, and it would take a night to avoid Yao Qingyun's interception and send the news back. Yao Qingyun was ruthless, ordered his cronies' soldiers and horses, escorted the Yao family's daughters, and took Li Xiangyang out of the Western Chu territory with a swagger.

When he arrived at Weishui, Yao Qingyun said to the soldiers of Western Chu: "General Ben can't stay in Western Chu and continue to endure the bird's spirit of Tuoba Lao'er." If you are willing to continue to follow me, you will not be dishonored. If you don't want to, you might as well disarm and return to the field here and live a peaceful life. ”

These soldiers were worried that their relatives and friends at home would be involved after the incident, and asked Yao Qingyun to lead them to pick up their relatives.

This rebellion, once you take the first step, you will either be doomed, or you will become famous, otherwise you can't stop at all, Yao Qingyun sighed and said to Li Xiangyang: "You won, but it's a pity that you can't compete on the battlefield!"

Li Xiangyang said with a smile: "If you talk about the art of war, the eldest prince is on par with me; is also suspicious of the heroes, Tuoba Lao'er has a longer life. I originally wanted to fight against you in an upright manner, but a friend named Feng Qingyan said that if I gamble with you with the military disasters in the entire northwest and the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, he wishes me a son in the future. ”

Yao Qingyun said: "Yes, these years of war and catastrophe, it's time to settle down and recuperate." ”

Li Xiangyang bowed down and said: "Please also ask my brother to help me, we will join forces to pacify the northwest, so that the casualties of Dayong and Western Chu will be minimized." ”

The discussion was established, Yao Qingyun and Li Xiangyang's soldiers divided into two routes, captured the pass overnight, repaired on the spot for a while, and waved their troops north to break through three cities in a row. At this time, Emperor Tuoba's eyeliner had just sent the news back to the palace, and Tuoba Lao'er had not had time to discuss with someone. When the soldiers of Western Chu suddenly saw the rebellion of the former commander Yao Qingyun, their hearts were greatly stimulated, their morale plummeted, and many generals surrendered.

Yao Qingyun's reputation in Western Chu is not weaker than Li Xiangyang's reputation in Dayong, and it is even stronger, and individual generals want to lead troops to resist, but their subordinates can't raise morale at all when they see Yao's banner. The two brothers sang white faces, gave preferential treatment to the subordinates and generals, and used the silver of the cities in Western Chu to give comfort money to the soldiers who surrendered. A black-faced, anyone who is broken after resisting will die a miserable death.

In just seven days, Bai Yujing, the capital of Western Chu, almost became a lonely city. Emperor Tuoba compensated his wife and lost his soldiers, and he couldn't afford to fall ill. Send a peace envoy to ask for a truce and negotiate peace, promising to pay tribute every year. and sent eighteen beauties, asking for Yao Guifei to be exchanged.

This happened to poke at the scar, and Yao Qingyun remembered that he was forced to send his sister into the palace. Li Xiangyang was also angry, how could he let his confidante Pipa not hug him? So he detained the Western Chu mission, sent troops overnight, and besieged Bai Yujing.

The Western Chu peace mission was locked up by Li Xiangyang for three days and three nights, and when they were released, Li Xiangyang had already set foot in Western Chu, killed Emperor Tuoba, and divided the treasury of Western Chu with Yao Qingyun.

The two countries are at war, and it is really unexpected that it will end like this. Li Xiangyang and Yao Qingyun joined forces, and there were millions of people. At this time, the only 100,000 recruits who stayed in the Yongdu Luojing were rumors for a while, saying that Li Xiangyang wanted to replace the Ji royal family.

Li Xiangyang was in charge, and let Emperor Zhaozong's confidant Guan Zhen lead 200,000 troops back to Luojing first, and Yao Qingyun's 400,000 generals were also unmoved. From the remaining 400,000 troops, 100,000 elite soldiers were selected to stay, and the rest received generous pacification expenses, disarmed and returned to the fields on the spot, and settled in Yuyang City. Uniform distribution of farming tools and grain seeds.

Yao Qingyun was unwilling to rely on the vassal, and entrusted his cronies Xue Ming and Ding Yong to Li Xiangyang. Hundreds of huge ships were built, and they crossed east with their troops. Soon after, he established himself as king and established the Qinglan Kingdom.

The territory starts from Liubo Mountain in the west, reaches Qiongzhou in the east, stretches for thousands of miles in the north, south, east and west, and many old ministers of Western Chu go to annex. Qinglan mountains and rivers are beautiful, rich in jewelry and gold. From time to time, fleets from the Qinglan Kingdom came to Dayong to exchange jewelry and gold for silk and porcelain from the Southern Dynasty.

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More than 50 miles out of the city, Weishui turns to the northeast. King Wucheng ordered the army to be stationed on the spot, and after a series of orders were issued, he led Li An to watch Jiang Feng's fishing boat, and suddenly said: "An'er, what do you think of this place?" Li An looked at the marching map, and replied in a moment: "Here is the left Fukun Pass, the right is to control Longchu, and the waterways extend in all directions." Since ancient times, all the business travel and freight from all over the country have been transferred here, which is really a battleground for soldiers. Get the west out of the valley, go north to the grassland, go straight to the Central Plains, go south to Luojing, the morning and the evening come, and there is no disadvantage. ”

King Wu Cheng smiled and asked, "If you garrison troops here, how do you arrange it?"

Li An broke a tree branch and drew a sketch map on the river beach and said: "Here, here, and this position, follow the Changshan snake formation, the enemy is coming, the head is the tail, the tail is the first, and the middle is the end." You can take it by surprise when you enter, and you can guard Yuyang when you retreat. If the grassland cavalry wants to go south, they can only take advantage of the Jiukuo Ridge, and they can send light cavalry to set up an ambush in Fulong Valley and attack with fire. ”

This year, the grasslands in the northwest were attacked by demon beasts, with countless deaths and injuries of cattle and sheep, and many Qiang herdsmen had no food to survive the winter, so they had to be prevented from sacking the border cities. What the defenders of Yuyang need to do is to support the border army, if the border city is lost, Yuyang is the strongest barrier to prevent the grassland iron horse from stepping on the Southern Dynasty.

"Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent. Some people live too comfortably, and would rather let the grassland iron ride south to herd horses, but also get rid of me, a person who has high merit and shook the master. I'm afraid that it will not be the grassland tribes that will go south in the future, but the demon beasts in the misty forests in the northwest. ”

Li An suddenly felt that the autumn wind was cold through his clothes, and many questions that he couldn't figure out were faintly answered. Dayong seems to be stable, but in fact, there is a Baiyue witch sacrifice in the south and a black swamp in the south, and the Qiang cavalry grassland in the north dominates.

For Zhaozong, the hidden danger on the border is not yet in danger of Dayong, the most important thing in front of him is nothing more than that his health is not as good as day by day, and in the future, the new monarch will succeed to the throne, and the situation of the weak lord and strong ministers will be more serious, and the ancestral foundation is not guaranteed, so far he has not been able to choose the prince. It doesn't matter whether my father is against him or not, what matters is that he has the ability to change hands.

Although there are groups of demon beasts in the Northwest Misty Forest, those demon beasts generally don't come out.

After arranging everything, King Wucheng rode lightly, snatched the coachman's horsewhip, and drove the car for the princess, so frightened that the coachman trembled and did not dare to breathe. This guy drove the carriage gracefully, talking and laughing with the princess.

Another cavalry squad of 200 men escorted the prisoner chariot of Shen Ji, the governor of the three sides, to open the way and inform the provincial officials along the way to welcome King Wucheng's chariot. Inevitably, there are some dinners and entertainments, like this, stop-and-go, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and it takes four days to arrive in Luojing.

Shen Ji was assassinated three times along the way, and the three souls lost seven souls, and they couldn't get up. At night, when I was alone in the small single room of the prison dedicated to the detention of important ministers, I always heard the strange sound of rustling in my ears. Thinking that the killer was coming again, he waited anxiously for a while, and found that it was rats and cockroaches that came to grab food, and he couldn't help but cry.

In the middle of the night, a fire broke out next to the small single next door, and thick smoke filled the air. Shen Ji knew in his heart that he was coming for himself, and sure enough, those jailers were screaming, but no one came to save him. Life is like singing, and the person who kept saying that he wanted to conspire with you yesterday to help the community may want to keep your mouth shut forever today.

Just then, footsteps were heard in the hallway......