Xu Ziyuan is not particularly outstanding in Wuwei Academy. Studying and studying can only be considered average. His advantage is that he is particularly outstanding in eloquence and is a person who can even make up three points of reason. It is precisely because he likes this that Zhang Hui recommended Xu Ziyuan to go to Hedong in front of Li Ze.

However, what Zhang Hui and Li Ze did not expect was that this person had a kind of tenacity hidden in his bones. After receiving the order, the path he chose was something that Zhang Hui and Li Ze did not expect.

He actually entered Weizhou first from Yizhou, and then set out from Weizhou to Yunzhou.

Where is Weizhou?

It was an area where Gao Pian fought repeatedly with Lu Long's army when he was alive. After a series of battles, the Dingkou here had been no more than one ten, and there was no one in a hundred miles of people. It was not a legend, but a fact.

The two sides were stalemate here for a long time, but later they were captured by Zhang Zhongwu and led their troops to Daizhou and seized Yanmen Pass. However, this year, Gao Pian's counterattack before his death, while recapturing Yanmen Pass, drove Lu Long's army back. Weizhou was already ruined in the continuous battles.

Next, Lu Long's army withdrew and gave up its rule here.

In Gao Pian's orders, the Hedong Army also gave up its management here. Li Cunzhong's Yunzhong Guardian Army stationed at Yanmen Pass and Han Qi guarded Taiyuan.

It’s not that everyone doesn’t want this place, but if there is nothing on this land, what’s the purpose of your coming? Even the surviving people either fled within Yanmen Pass or were plundered by Lu Long’s army to Guizhou.

On this desolate land, without the official principles of the government, there is only one kind of person and thief.

The evil consequences of the warlord chaos that Li Ze had worried about actually happened in Weizhou.

Xu Ziyuan brought only twenty guards and entered Weizhou.

It originally took only ten days to go, but they walked for almost a month. In this month, Xu Ziyuan, a native Chang'an man, was greatly shocked in his heart.

Whether it is the thieves who seem to be extremely vicious or the people who survived by chance, in Xu Ziyuan's eyes, they are just a living walking corpse.

When they first encountered a small group of bandits, what they were doing made Xu Ziyuan extremely angry because they were eating people.

There were about forty or fifty bandits in this group. When they saw Xu Ziyuan and his group had only more than ten people, but were carrying twenty war horses, they attacked them without hesitation. At that moment, Xu Ziyuan felt that in their eyes, he was not a living person, but a pile of delicious food.

He did not escape, even though they could completely avoid those people with the speed of the war horses, Xu Ziyuan drew out the horizontal sword on his horse and issued an order to attack.

All twenty guards were from Li Ze's personal guard Yicong. They were well-equipped and well-trained. In less than a cup of tea, these extremely vicious criminals who seemed to Xu Ziyuan were all buried in the wilderness.

Xu Ziyuan exhaled a sigh of anger.

But in the days to come, he could no longer laugh.

Because of the same situation, he appeared in front of him one after another.

This place is already a ghost realm on earth.

Xu Ziyuan was not able to rescue these people, and the supplies he carried with him were only enough for their group of people. Along the way, he kept defeating the bandits who tried to loot them. Sometimes when they encountered bandits with too much power, they even had to take a detour and had to lie out day and night.

When he finally saw the outpost set up by the Heavenly War Army, he finally couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He reached out to his waist, took out the water bag, and raised his neck to take a sip, but found that there was no drop inside.

Yunzhou, where the Heavenly Bing Army is now surviving.

Now this place is not a good place, it is just a little better than Weizhou.

Li Ze admired Gao Pian himself very much, but he had great resentment for Gao Pian's final arrangement.

Xu Ziyuan and many people also had a fierce discussion on this matter in Wuwei Academy. From a purely military perspective, although Gao Pian's final action severely defeated Lu Long's army, it was actually a failed action. Because after this battle, the once powerful Hedong Army was dismantled. The Kelan Army, the Tianbing Army, and the Xinzhou Army were severely damaged, but Han Qi and Li Cunzhong, who had preserved their strength, could only defend and could no longer attack. If Gao Pian had just handed over the military power to Li Ze before his death, such a thing could have been avoided.

After discussion, everyone finally came to an amazing conclusion.

That is, Gao Pian did not trust the general manager of the Northland marching and Li Ze, General of Qianniu Guard.

Of course, this distrust is not that I do not believe that Li Ze can destroy Zhang Zhongwu. On the contrary, Gao Pian believes that Li Ze will definitely defeat Zhang Zhongwu. What he distrusts is Li Ze's loyalty to the Tang Dynasty royal family. Once the Hedong as a whole falls into Li Ze's hands, Li Ze's power will be invincible.

Now it seems that Hedong is powerless, which has caused Li Ze to attack Zhang Zhongwu to cause many difficulties. However, under such arrangements, he has set up many obstacles for Li Ze in the future. Han Qi and Li Cunzhong are the two supporting forces left by Gao Pian for the Tang Dynasty.

Standing from the perspective of Gao Pian, a loyal minister who has fought for the Tang Dynasty for the rest of his life, it seems that there is no way to criticize him.

Or in Gao Pian's view, Zhang Zhongwu is just a clown who will eventually fail, and people like Li Ze are the dangerous figures who will truly threaten the Tang Dynasty.

The students of Wuwei Academy who came to this conclusion were speechless for a while.

Among them, except for Ding Jian, who did not argue about this, the rest of them, even if they had been officials, their positions were not high, and it was difficult for them to understand Gao Pian's ideas for a while.

Li Ze could not ignore Hedong's involvement in Lu Long, but now it is obvious that even as the chief marching manager of the Northland, Li Ze could not command Li Cunzhong and Han Qi. Li Ze could only reach out to the only one he could use, the Heavenly Soldier Army stationed in Yunzhou.

This is also Li Ze's official hand to Hedong. The Heavenly Soldier Army now seems to be the weakest among all the forces in Hedong, but it is precisely because of this that Li Ze has given a chance.

Others, such as the Kelan Army and Xinzhou Army, were sandwiched between Li Cunzhong and Han Qi, and had not yet reached the point where they could not continue. Naturally, they would not risk obey Li Ze's command. Once they did this, they would be very likely to be suppressed by Li Cunzhong and Han Qi.

All of these things made Li Ze choose to support the Tianbing Army and become his spokesperson in Hedong.

When Xu Ziyuan saw Yunzhou City, the base camp of the Heavenly Bing Army, he was speechless again. I was afraid that any small county town from Wuwei would be much more glamorous than Yunzhou City.

The rammed city walls were covered with weeds, and many places had long cracks, and some places simply collapsed directly. Many soldiers with ragged clothes came in and out from the collapsed places, and the city gate was almost useless. Under the scorching sun, the flags of the Heavenly Soldiers on the dilapidated city gate tower drooped listlessly, which looked very similar to their current situation.

After Zhang Jia, the commander of the Tianbing Army, came to Yunzhou, there was only less than 10,000 troops left. He tried hard to collect all the Dingkou in Yunzhou and moved them all to the surrounding area of ​​Yunzhou City to gather people to live, barely giving this dilapidated city a little vitality.

"Why did it fall to this point?" Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but sighed when he sat in Zhang Jia's dilapidated command yamen and looked at the meals Zhang Jia prepared for him in front of him.

Zhang Jia was both surprised but happy about the arrival of Xu Ziyuan, the special envoy of Li Ze, the general manager of the Northern Region. He was almost at a loss. Xu Ziyuan's arrival gave him a glimmer of hope.

"Shishou Gao doesn't trust me." Zhang Jia, who is over 40 years old, looked a little aggrieved. "I have followed the Shishou Gao for many years, but I didn't expect that in the end, I could not resist the Hu man Li Cunzhong."

Xu Ziyuan sighed in his heart, thinking that during the days when Gao Pian was seriously ill, your actions were indeed not worthy of his trust. Li Cunzhong was indeed a Hu person, and the Yunzhong Guard Army was mainly mixed with Hu, but the Heavenly War Army was actually similar. The main body was the nine Turkic surnames of the past. However, over the years, Hu Han has been mixed with each other and it is difficult to distinguish.

"Ship Gao has gone, and the dead are the most important, so we will no longer discuss his gains and losses." Xu Ziyuan still respects Gao Pian and is unwilling to complain to him with Zhang Jia. "What are the plans for General Zhang in the future?"

"Peng Fang sent someone to find me, hoping I could join them." Zhang Jia looked at Xu Ziyuan and said flickeringly. "I'm thinking. Li Cunzhong and Han Qi are not tolerant of me. I'm about to survive now. If Peng Fang can provide me with help, I can only join Yiwu."

Xu Ziyuan couldn't help laughing. At this time, Zhang Jia was still thinking about bargaining with him. The one Peng Fang was interested in was probably not Zhang Jia, but about 3,000 elite cavalry he still had. These cavalry were basically composed of Turkic people and their combat effectiveness was still very considerable. If Zhang Jia really wanted to join Yiwu, it was hard to say whether he could have a good ending in the future. I think Zhang Jia also understood this, so he was still holding on. But it was hard to say how long he could hold on. He wanted to hold on, but his subordinates might not think so.

"General Zhang, I came here on the order of my family's commander. You think you know the meaning very clearly, so we won't bend around. You are like this now, and I'm afraid that the morale of the army will collapse. I'll ask you first, if you are willing to accept the order of my family's commander, we can only talk about other things." Xu Ziyuan went straight in one fell swoop.

Xu Ziyuan has great experience in this conversation, and he wants to hit the bull's-eye with one blow.

Sure enough, under Xu Ziyuan's seemingly aggressive attitude, Zhang Jia hesitated, but in the end, he nodded: "Ship Li is the chief supervisor of the Northland marching, so I am naturally willing to take orders."

Xu Ziyuan smiled.
Chapter completed!