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On the seventh day of the first lunar month in the year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Fanyang City fell, and the entire Jingchu provinces had become yellow territory, directly threatening the safety of the capital.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Huang Fu declared himself to the world, proclaimed himself the King of Chu, and declared that he would lead a large army northward to destroy the already ruined Great Zhou Dynasty.

After learning the news in the capital, people became panic in an instant. Wei Ran urgently summoned all the ministers to discuss strategies to fight the enemy, and planned to send people to discuss peace with Huang Fu, agreeing to the legitimacy of his self-proclaimed King of Chu.

Huang Fu decisively decided on the court's peace talks and killed the court envoys sent to the peace talks to correct his ambition to conquer the world.

Huang Fu was so decisive because he had gained an experience in his many years of war, that is, he had already seen through the fact that the Great Zhou court had no credit at all, and everything he had done was just a delaying strategy to delay his journey north.

Seeing that his plan failed, Wei Ran could only make it public and fight to the death with Huang Fujiu, and intensified the convening of troops from all over the capital, set up various checkpoints along the Long River to make a resistance.

However, just as the court was eager to mobilize its only force to prevent the Chu army from heading north, Huang Fu suddenly slowed down the pace of the attack.

The reason is still because of the war, which caused the three provinces of Jingchu to be floating in the fields, the fields were deserted, the people in the three provinces were empty, and the army was short of food and supplies, so we had to slow down our pace of advancement.

The three prefectures of Jiang, Ru and Qing originally had more than 50 million people, and there were more than 300 million acres of fertile land on the plains alone. Because of war, the people were established in Chu State under the raging of hunger, natural disasters and plagues, with less than 15 million remaining.

The lost people either died of life or fled their homes that had been born for a long time to avoid war, becoming rootless floating floating paddlings...

The destructive power of war once again appeared before the world, turning the wealthy central strategic area of ​​the north and south into ruins...

But Huang Fu's slowdown in attack on Jingji did not mean that he was willing to defend only one of his own acres of thirds of the land, but was just to raise enough food and grass for the Northern Expedition from the southern provinces. The clouds of war always enveloped the people of Jingji.

However, Huang Fu's move also gave the court time to do its best to prepare for the decisive battle.

On the 17th day of the first lunar month, Wei Ran summoned all ministers in Taiji Hall, intending to dispatch troops to wipe out Huang Fu to the south of the Long River. At the worst, he would force Huang Fu's army to not dare to go north.

The Changhe defense line is the last barrier in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Without the easy defense and difficult attack of the three provinces of Jingchu, the Jingchu, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack, all the center of gravity was transferred to the Long River. If the long river changes, then the Great Zhou will no longer have the power to attack the capital.

"The state affairs have become corrupt and the Great Zhou has reached a storm. I want to ask all the ministers, how to resist the yellow and the northward journey?"

Wei Ran was exhausted. At the age of twenty-four, he now looked like an old man who was about to die. In order to support this corrupt country, he almost exhausted himself.

Yao Zhong said after hearing this, "Emperor, I think that the most important thing at the moment is to send a warlike general to deal with Huang Fu.

The Huang Fu disaster and decay are all due to the misfortune of our court. We should take the initiative to send troops to conquer when Huang Fu occupied the three provinces of Jingchu and had not yet established a foothold."

Wei Ran nodded: "Yao Aiqing's words are reasonable, but who should I order to go and fight against Huang Fu?"

As he said that, Wei Ran swept his eyes to the ministers in the hall, and when the ministers and officials saw Wei Ran’s eyes swept, they all tacitly avoided it, obviously they were unwilling to take on this thankless and very likely to be killed.

Wei Ran was very disappointed and finally glanced at Li Suwen for help...

But Li Suwen remained motionless. After self-defense Ran moved his strategic focus from Liu Ce to the south, he felt very uncomfortable and had never made any plans in the court.

Wei Ran also knew that Li Suwen hated him very much. This was a sensation from his wife Princess Yuxiang Wei Ying, who had returned to the palace to see him and cried to Li Suwen for his indifference to him.

The most important thing is that Wei Ran heard Wei Ying crying that Li Suwen had not touched him for several years. No wonder he has not given birth to a child or a daughter for six or seven years.

Wei Ran knew that he was in the wrong, so he couldn't blame Li Suwen for his rudeness. After looking at him for a while, he swept his eyes to Xu Chongming...

Xu Chongming was also a general. He made considerable contributions to recapturing the capital and supporting himself as emperor, but he has always been in the position of deputy and has no experience in leading large-scale legion battles alone. He asked him to resist Huang Fu. This prestige alone is afraid that it will not be enough to convince the public.

After thinking about it, Wei Ran felt irritated and simply said to Yao Zhong again: "Yao Aiqing, do you have the right person to be competent for this responsibility?"

Yao Zhong pondered for a moment and went out again and said, "Your Majesty, there are still two people who may be allowed to be selected by the emperor, but..."

"Yao Aiqing, it's time? Just say it's okay!" Seeing Yao Zhong hesitating, Wei Ran hurriedly persuaded.

Yao Zhong bowed and said, "Please forgive me for my courage. This person who chose is the Marquis of Hanling. As long as the army of Hanling Hou conquered Huang Fu, it will be able to be completed in one battle!"

Before this was said, all the civil and military officials in the Tai Chi Hall, including Wei Ran, were stunned, and looked at Yao Zhong incredibly.

Liu Ce's reputation was at its peak. Even the country of Mengluo married the princess to show friendship. Moreover, his military achievements were great. He took action to deal with Huang Fu, and there was no big problem.

But Huang Fu is a wolf, and Liu Ce is also a tiger? What is the difference between his actions in the northern part and rebellion? He will fight against the rebellion and Huang Fu, for fear that after Huang's destruction, he will directly occupy the capital of the capital. Who can compete with him then? Is there anyone in the capital of the entire capital?

Wei Ran coughed awkwardly and continued to ask, "So Yao Aiqing, who is the other person you are talking about?"

Yao Zhong sighed in his heart, knowing that the recommendation of Liu Ce would be like this, so he said again: "The other candidate is Bai Shi, who is waiting to report his job in Jingjin, Gu Qian..."

"Gu Qian?"

Everyone thought Yao Zhong would say it was Li Suwen, but unexpectedly, Gu Qian came and he was a little at a loss.

Zhang Fuguo immediately stepped out and said to Wei Ran: "Emperor, I'm afraid the emperor, I'm a little confused. Gu Qian is only in the fifth rank. He was promoted to the third rank military with Duan Ni in the Northern Expedition.

But he was dismissed for hitting his boss only one month after taking office. How can he lead the army to compete with Huang Fu?"

Yao Zhong replied: "Your Majesty, don't forget that Lord Gu once led his troops to fight Duan Ni. At present, he is the only one in the entire court who can handle this important responsibility. Please give a clear explanation..."

Wei Ran frowned and thought carefully, thinking about Yao Zhongqiu Gu Qian's suggestion. Everyone in the Tai Chi Palace also focused on Wei Ran, waiting for him to make the final decision.

After a long time, Wei Ran stood up and said, "The situation is critical. I should use the wise and capable position. Then, I ordered Gu Qian to go to the imperial study to meet..."

Yao Zhong breathed a sigh of relief and narrowed his eyes, thinking that he had finally solved the current problem of using the generals for the court.

...

At this moment, Gu Qian was in a private house in the capital, looking at the paper covered on the wall, and was stunning.

This is what he and Liu Ce used to paint according to the appearance of the Jingwei Camp military in his memory when he returned to Beijing. In the painting, soldiers with spears and iron armor formed a formation against the enemy, which was lifelike.

"well……"

Gu Qian sighed, took off a portrait from the wall, and looked at it and shook his head.

"If I had such military appearances in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the state affairs would be more than deteriorating? How could Huang Fu be so threatening the capital..."

After Gu Qian sighed, he took another piece of white paper and wrote down all the experiences he learned from Liu Ce. He didn't know if these records had the opportunity to apply them to the country.

"Mr. Gu..."

Just as Gu Qian was writing hard with great concentration, a sound suddenly sounded outside the door. He looked back and saw Yao Zhongzheng standing outside the door.

"Come in, the house is messy, sit there..." Gu Qian pointed behind him and continued to write.

In recent years, Gu Qian's life has been secretly taken care of by Yao Zhong, and even this private house was rented by Yao Zhong for him. Otherwise, for someone like him who has no income, he would not even be able to pay for food, pen, ink, paper and ink.

After Yao Zhong entered the house, he looked at the masterpieces from Gu Qian on the wall and nodded, "Are you still studying the battle formation of the military governor?"

Gu Qian stopped the pen in his hand, shook his head with a wry smile, got up and came to Yao Zhong, and looked at the painting on the wall with him: "What's the use of studying it anymore? The court's finances are tight, let alone the cavalry in the painting, even the armor of infantry cannot be popularized..."

Yao Zhong sighed and quickly changed his mood and said to Gu Qian: "By the way, Lord Gu, the emperor ordered me to call you to the palace to discuss matters about Huang Fu..."

Gu Qian was stunned when he heard this: "Do you mean the emperor wants to enable me?"

Yao Zhong said: "It's hard to say, but I'm afraid I'm almost in line with the attitude of the emperor. Lord Gu, this is a chore for you. I don't know whether it's right or wrong to hand over such a heavy burden to you at this time..."

Gu Qian was very calm: "Since that's the case, it's not appropriate to go to the palace without delay. You and I can quickly enter the palace to share the worries of the emperor and benefit the people of the world. This is what an official should do!"

Yao Zhong said: "It's great if Lord Gu thinks it. Since this is the case, let's go to the palace to meet the saint..."

"good……"

Gu Qian was about to go out. When he was about to step out of the threshold, he seemed to have thought of something. He quickly turned around and brought all the paintings on the wall and the experiences on the table, followed Yao Zhong and walked towards the palace gate.

...

In the imperial study room, Gu Qian had seen Wei Ran and handed him the paper he carried with him. He then followed Yao Zhong and waited for Wei Ran to speak.

Wei Ran was shocked when he looked at the weapons and armor of Liu Ce's army listed on the white paper and the arrangement of the battle formations. He put down and looked at Gu Qian for a long time, and asked in confusion: "Gu Qian, are you planning to arm all my Great Zhou official army like this?"

Gu Qian shook his head and said, "Reporting to the emperor, Caomin thought so, but considering the actual situation, he would never make such crazy words. If the emperor wants Caomin to fight against Huang Fu,

Then the Caomin dared to ask the emperor to contribute funds. At least 20,000 new recruits were trained, and all of them were formed according to the military style in the drawings! Otherwise, it would be difficult to defeat Huang Fu..."

"Twenty thousand people?" Wei Ran frowned when he heard this, "That is to say, you only need twenty thousand people to defeat Huang Fu?"

"With more than 200,000 Shenwu troops stationed in Changhe, it is almost the same to defeat Huang Fu..." Gu Qian said confidently.
Chapter completed!