During the melee between the nine generals in the capital and the four generals in the border areas, Li Zhao and Li Lie have been staying in the Zhennan Governor's Office in Guizhou City. Although they were willing to return to the side of the lord Ma Renju to help, they were both old now and their martial arts have already regressed a lot compared to before.

Finally, under the persuasion of Li Bin and Li Meng, Li Zhao and Li Lie had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​returning to the side of the lord Ma Renju.

But when Li Zhao and Li Lie learned that the Ma family's forces were about to be defeated in Qizhou Prefecture, they went to find Li Bin together and asked Li Bin to give them a group of troops and go to Qizhou Prefecture to bring the main stallion Ma Renju back to Guizhou City.

Li Bin did not refuse the request from his father and his second uncle, so he directly sent the third town of the personal guards to accompany Li Zhao and Li Meng to Qizhou Prefecture, and also asked Wang Yanzhang, Yang Dayan, Xia Luqi, and Gao Aocao to follow his father Li Zhao to protect Li Zhao's safety.

The commander of the third town of the Personal Guards is Li Meng, with 35,000 Personal Guards. Each Personal Guards is equipped with three Dongman horses wearing double-layer leather vests, which can be used as light cavalry or as heavy armored cavalry.

Li Zhao, Li Lie and Li Meng led the third town of the personal guards. When they passed by Bozhou Prefecture, they learned that the last city in the Ma family in Qizhou Prefecture was also in danger. The guardian of this city was Ma Renju, the lord of Li Zhao and Li Lie.

So Li Zhao and the others immediately led their troops to the county town of the Ma family in Qizhou Prefecture, but they still did not arrive at the county town before the city was broken. Fortunately, when Ma Renju's family was about to be caught up by the Xiao family cavalry, Li Zhao led the Third Battalion's personal guards as the vanguard and rushed over.

When Li Zhao heard that a general of the Xiao family wanted to fight against the Zhennan Army, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and then sent Wang Yanzhang up. Before leading troops to Qizhou Prefecture, his son told him that Wang Yanzhang, Yang Dayan, Xia Luqi, and Gao Aocao were all real master warriors. The general of the Xiao family took the initiative to fight against him, which was equivalent to causing humiliation to himself.

Wang Yanzhang urged him to move forward and then he straddled his iron spear, "Wang Yanzhang, Zhennan Army!"

Xiao Rui's weapon was also an iron spear. Xiao Rui pointed the iron spear in his hand at Wang Yanzhang, "Xiao Rui, Qizhou Prefecture!"

After the two met each other, they rushed towards each other at the same time.

Xiao Rui is a powerful general of the Xiao family in Qizhou Prefecture. Xiao Rui, 27 years old this year, was promoted to a master warrior at the age of 20. However, in order to hide his strength, Xiao Rui has always been unknown before.

In the battle between the Xiao family and the Ma family for Qizhou Prefecture, Xiao Rui killed two master warriors of the Ma family in a row, so that the outside world knew that there was such a powerful general in the Xiao family.

However, after Xiao Rui fought with Wang Yanzhang, he found that the opponent completely suppressed him in terms of strength or tricks. After Xiao Rui barely fought with Wang Yanzhang for eighteen rounds, the iron spear in his hand was picked away by Wang Yanzhang. If Wang Yanzhang had not intended to hurt Xiao Rui, Wang Yanzhang would have to take Xiao Rui's life with just one shot.

Picking up an iron spear from the ground, Xiao Rui plucked his horse with a gloomy face and returned to the front of more than a thousand cavalrymen in the Xiao family, and then waved his hand: "Go! Let's go back!"

Then Xiao Rui suddenly turned his head and shouted to Wang Yanzhang: "Wang Yanzhang, the green mountains remain unchanged, and the green water flows forever. If I meet on the battlefield in the future, I will not show mercy!"

After Wang Yanzhang finished calling, he took more than a thousand Xiao family cavalry back along the same route without looking back.

Xiao Rui's words made Wang Yanzhang confused. Didn't he win just now?

Wang Yanzhang turned his head and asked Yang Dayan beside him, "Big Yan, what does that Xiao Rui mean by saying this?"

Yang Dayan laughed and said, "What he meant was that he was giving in to you just now, but next time he was on the battlefield, he would not let you go."

Wang Yanzhang glanced at the corner of his mouth, "It's only good at verbalizing. If our Zhennan Army hadn't been going to intervene in this battle between the generals, I'd just shot him."

Just when Li Zhao rescued Ma Renju's family, Zhuge Liang reported to Li Bin in a hall in the Nan Grand Governor's Office in Chengzhen, Guizhou: "Lord, now the officials of our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office have taken over all the yamen in the former Jinluo Kingdom's Capital Road, Luzhou Prefecture, and Yizhou Prefecture. In addition, according to the lord's intention, the original Jinluo Kingdom's Capital Road was renamed Jinzhou, and Jinluo City was the capital city of Jinzhou."

At this time, in addition to Li Bin and Zhuge Liang, there were two young men dressed as literati in the hall room. These two young men were also two Chinese historical figures - Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who were summoned by Li Bin from the Tai Chi Bagua Picture in the battle to annex the Jinluo Kingdom.

Fang Xuanling, whose name is Qiao, was named Xuanling, was a famous prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty. At the age of 18, he was appointed as a Jinshi in our province and was appointed as a Yuqiwei. After he threw himself into Qin King Li Shimin in Weibei, he gave advice to Li Shimin. He was the Secretary of the Dianguan and was one of Li Shimin's capable advisers.

In the ninth year of Wude, Fang Xuanling participated in the Xuanwu Gate Incident and was awarded the title of the five people along with Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, Yuchi Jingde, and Hou Junji. After Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty Li Shimin ascended the throne, Fang Xuanling was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat. In February of the third year of Zhenguan, he was appointed as the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe, and was granted the title of Duke of Liang in the eleventh year of Zhenguan. In July of the 16th year of Zhenguan, he was promoted to Sikong.

Du Ruhui, whose courtesy name was Keming, was a famous prime minister in the early years of the Tang Dynasty. He served as the Weiwei of the Sui Dynasty in his early years. In the late years of the Sui Dynasty, he became an important counselor under the tent of King Li Shimin of Qin. Li Shimin conquered Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, and Du Ruhui planned and planned for him, and was deeply respected by people at that time.?

When Li Shimin established the Literary Museum, Du Ruhui was appointed as the chief of the eighteen scholars. During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling participated in the planning. After the completion of the work, the two ranked first. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, Du Ruhui was granted the title of Duke of Cai and was promoted to the Minister of Shangshu Pushe. He worked together with Fang Xuanling to assist in the administration, selected talents for the Tang Dynasty, and formulated laws.

After Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were summoned by Li Bin, they were immediately appointed as military advisors by Li Bin, and were ranked as the six major military advisors of the Zhennan Army along with Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liang, Pang Tong, and Chen Ping.

Li Bin nodded slightly, then asked, "Have you found any clues about Xiahou, the Emperor of Jinluo?"

Fang Xuanling immediately replied: "Lord, we have invested a lot of people in Jinzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture to hunt down the Jinluo Emperor Xiahou Zhen and the royal members of Jinluo State, but so far, there has been no progress."

After Li Bin led his troops into the imperial palace in Jinluo City, he found that Emperor Xiahou Zhen, all his sons and daughters, as well as dozens of concubines in Xiahou Zhen's harem, had disappeared.

There were also a group of important officials and generals of the Jinluo Kingdom, who disappeared after the loss of Jinluo City.

Li Bin immediately said, "Xahou has always been ambitious. I think he will not be willing to let Jinluo Kingdom fall into ruin. If he doesn't do it, he will pop up and cause trouble for our Zhennan Army. So don't relax when he really pursues Xiahou. By the way, how are the newly formed twelve external guards now?"

Du Ruhui said: "Report to the lord, the twelve newly formed outer guards' imperial guards have all been in place. The officers and soldiers are basically drawn from the various prefectures and towns. It only takes some time to get started. The combat effectiveness of these twelve outer guards' imperial guards should not be much worse than that of the other imperial guards of our town's southern army."

Before the war in Yong'an City broke out, the Xie family, Cui family, Luo family, Tang family, Zhou family, and Cao family in the capital transferred all the external guards of the Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture to Yong'an City.

After the end of Yong'an City, due to the obstruction of Zhennan Army, the troops of the Xie family, Cui family, Luo family, Tang family, Zhou family, and Cao family never returned to Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture.

After the Zhennan Army annexed the Jinluo Kingdom, Li Bin decided to form two new outer guards in Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture, Junzhou Prefecture, and even Jinzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture.

The commanders of these twelve newly formed outer guards were Wu Yunzhao, Wu Tianxi, Lu Junyi, Lu Wenlong, Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Yao Zhen, Xu Qing, Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, Wang Yin and Fang Jie.

In addition, Li Bin transferred the Fubing Town under Du Ji from Xiangzhou Prefecture and the Fubing Town under Wu Song from Guizhou Prefecture to Jinzhou Prefecture.

The two prefecture-branch towns of Zhu Yu and Ju Jing of the Eastern Mansion were transferred to Luzhou Prefecture, and the two prefecture-branch towns of Liu Quan and Fang Song of the Southern Mansion were transferred to Yizhou Prefecture.

As a result, there were still fifty-eight Fubing Towns under the jurisdiction of Zhennan Army, but the number of the outer guards under the jurisdiction increased to fifty-two.

However, Wu Yunzhao, Zhang Xian and the twelve generals were summoned by Li Bin in the Luolan Empire. There was no problem with letting them serve as the commander of an Imperial Guard of the Foreign Guards, but they were obviously not qualified to serve as the garrison of Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture, Junzhou Prefecture, Jinzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture.

So Li Bin changed the garrisons of several outer guards, and drew the six outer guards of Fan Kuai, Long Qi, Huang Zhong, Yuwen Chengdu, Gao Chong and Xu Chu, and sent them to Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture, Junzhou Prefecture, Jinzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture, Wu Yunzhao, Wu Tianxi, Lu Junyi, Lu Wenlong, Zhang Xian and Wang Gui, and replaced the six outer guards of the front six outer guards and entered Xiangzhou Prefecture, Guizhou Prefecture, Dongman Protectorate and Nanman Protectorate.

Fan Kuai, Long Qi, Huang Zhong, Yuwen Chengdu, Gao Chong and Xu Chu were immediately appointed as the garrison commanders of Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture, Junzhou Prefecture, Jinzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture respectively.

Li Bin asked again: "How many immigrants have been recruited from the other fifteen prefectures of Dayan to the Eastern Mansion and the Southern Mansion? "

Zhuge Liang replied: "Report to the lord, thanks to the continuous outbreak of wars between major generals in the past two years, our Zhennan Grand Governor's Office has immigrated about nine million people of Dayan to the Eastern Mansion Protectorate and about six million people of Dayan to the Southern Mansion Protectorate. If nothing unexpected happens, at least four or five million people can be immigrated to the Eastern Mansion Protectorate and the Southern Mansion Protectorate by the end of this year."

It is April of the third year of Ruikang, and Ruikang is the year name of Emperor Zhao Xin.

Emperor Zhao Xin was promoted to the throne by civil servants, but Zhao Xin is only eleven years old now, and is actually just a puppet in the hands of civil servants.

Li Bin sighed and said, "I don't know when this chaos will end. Now the Ma family is also defeated in the war for Qizhou Prefecture. This is already the fifth top general who has lost."

Before the Ma family failed to compete for Qizhou Prefecture, the Wei family, Cui family, Du family, and Cao family in the capital had been defeated in this melee between the generals and the territory was annexed by other generals.

Nowadays, except for the Li family in Zhennan where Li Bin is located, there are only eight top generals left in the Dayan Empire, namely the Xiao family who controls Qizhou Prefecture and Xuanzhou Prefecture, the Lu family who controls Xinzhou Prefecture, the Pan family who controls Yuzhou Prefecture, and the Lin family who controls Weizhou Prefecture and Yunzhou Prefecture.

There are also the Xie family who controls Hengzhou Prefecture, Xiongzhou Prefecture, Xinzhou Prefecture, Luo family who controls Huaizhou Prefecture, Haozhou Prefecture, Tang family who controls Kunzhou Prefecture, Chizhou Prefecture, and Zhou family who controls Laizhou Prefecture.

At present, these eight top generals have a large number of troops of millions and at least hundreds of thousands of troops. If you add the civil servants who control the capital and Li Bin, who controls the twelve prefectures and two protective palaces, the Great Yan Empire has been essentially divided into the top ten forces.

However, the top ten forces, including the Xie family, Luo family, Tang family and Zhou family who retreated from Yong'an City, all recognized on the surface that Zhao Xin was the new emperor of the Great Yan Empire, but after the imperial edict left the capital, it had almost no effect.

Zhuge Liang, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui immediately looked at each other. Fang Xuanling said to Li Bin: "Lord, in fact, only the Zhennan Army in Zhen can do it if we want to end the chaos in Dayan at this time. Now our Zhennan Army has 52 outer guards and 58 palace soldiers, as long as..."

Fang Xuanling's words were interrupted by Li Bin, "Since the situation is already like this, I, Li Bin, are not a stubborn person. Some things should be fought for, but I, Li Bin, will still fight for them. However, I feel that the Zhennan Army is not the time to join this chaos. It is precisely because the Zhennan Army is still holding its troops aside, and the many nomadic peoples on the grassland dare not take advantage of the situation at this time. Once the Zhennan Army also joins in, then maybe the millions of barbarian cavalry on the northern grassland should go south to fight Qiufeng."

After pausing, Li Bin said again: "In addition, the Liang Kingdom is standing between the Grand Governor's Office in Zhennan and the northern grassland, which always makes me feel like I am in my throat. I am going to send troops to defeat Liang Kingdom. I wonder what you think? If our Zhennan Army can occupy the capital road of Liang Kingdom, Meizhou Prefecture and Daizhou Prefecture, then our Zhennan Army's cavalry can send troops to the grassland at any time, and even expand the power of our Zhennan Army into the grassland!"

In the last war with the Zhennan Army, Liang State lost his wife and troops. Not only did he not get any benefits, he was stabbed by his allies. In the end, he was forced to ced Dazhou Prefecture and Caizhou Prefecture to the Zhennan Army, and compensated the Zhennan Army with 10 million taels of gold and 60 million taels of silver.

Now, the entire Liang Kingdom is only Jingcheng Road, Meizhou Prefecture and Daizhou Prefecture, with a total population of only about 8 million. Although it still has hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops, it is not difficult for the Zhennan Army to annex Liang Kingdom.

Zhuge Liang immediately agreed: "The position of Liang Kingdom is very important. As long as our Zhennan Army can capture the entire Liang Kingdom, then our Zhennan Army can change from defensive to offensive against the captives of all ethnic groups in the grassland."
Chapter completed!