In the territory of Tianping Army (Yun Caopu Town) on Henan Road, in Yuncheng, the capital of Yunzhou. Cao Xiang, the governor who was young and strong, was also dressed neatly with the help of his wife and concubines. He carefully sorted out every fold on his body against the huge bronze mirror, wiping each piece of armor particularly brightly.

Looking at the figure reflected and reflected in his faint mirror luster, Cao Xiang felt familiar and unfamiliar. At this moment, he seemed to have just had an extra long dream, and finally ushered in the end of this dream.

He pinched his wife's slightly rough hand and gave her concubine an encouraging and comforting look. In the end, he didn't say anything. He then lifted the curtain of the inner room and pushed open the outer door. In an instant, with the bitter cold air coming in, and the reflections of continuous armor and swords and weapons guarding the corridor.

With Cao Xiang's appearance, the armored soldiers also turned around in one go, bowing solemnly and saluting together; then, with Cao Xiang's wave of his hand, he stood up and followed closely behind his striking figure.

While passing through one courtyard after another, the porch, archway, and aisle, it also gathered into a metallic surging that became stronger and heavier. When he finally passed through the vestibule of the City of Teeth and arrived at the school ground outside the main entrance, there were more soldiers wearing armor standing in line.

However, compared to these soldiers and yamen soldiers who were surrounded by Cao Xiang, wearing vermilion cloaks and the bright light armor, who remained silent and could only breathe out smoke. The soldiers of the Balance Army, who were violently outside, seemed a little noisy and noisy, and their hands were not as strong as the knife cards and bows that they usually used to guard.

He stood in the cold wind with bare hands, and filled the empty schoolyard in the city. Until the moment he saw Cao Xiang appear, he seemed to have poured a large piece of ice and snow into the boiling pot, and gradually stopped the low buzzing sound and became silent.

Looking at this scene, looking at the look of looking forward to each other with different expressions, Cao Xiang's thoughts and words seemed to suddenly disappear at this moment. Only the emptiness of some important matters in his heart and the indescribable attachment in words were left.

After all, with the support and effectiveness of these armored men, why can't we be authoritative and self-centered at this moment because of the great world? Why should we be humble and surrender to others and accept the unpredictable fate and future? However, the next moment, the light of the sword that began to shake slightly was quickly calm and awakened because of the impatience of waiting.

After all, the Tianping Army is really unsustainable. Although he still has these seemingly strong soldiers and the food, grass, armor and equipment stored in the warehouse; but since he took over the Tianping Army, he has been fighting for almost years, which has exhausted the potential people and material resources of the four prefectures, and has also made people lose their desolate people and land desolate.

If it weren't for the fact that he had relied on the territory of Duji Road and maintained communication and supplementation with the Taiping Army's Shandong East Road, which was dominated by the Taiping Army, he would have caused a famine early. In order to maintain the current situation, the things he experienced before and after returning to the Tianping Army were enough to make him exhausted both physically and mentally and unwilling to hold on to it.

Although he could defeat the invaders from Hebei again and again with his personal courage and family traditions, and even eat from the enemy's territory again and again; but he had no way to make the abandoned land in the war grow food again and again, nor was he able to make those people who fled to the city to avoid disasters and no longer cry when they were hungry and cold.

What's more, if the trend of the general trend is already very clear today, if he is greedy for the last little power and is attached to it, he may not have to make enough correspondence with Chang'an; the desperate troops in the internal and external troubles will use his family and the Cao family to send a wave of votes to the Xin Dynasty without hesitation.

After all, with the continuous exchanges over the past few years, we have eliminated those who were invited from the south to help Hehui and his colleagues openly; in private, we still don’t know how many soldiers have been attracted and infiltrated by the other party, or they simply directly apply for and submit to the other party in secret, and are just waiting for an opportunity to show their loyalty?

The next moment, Cao Xiang used his best strength and determination to shaking his head at the sergeant who was whispering to the sergeant who was whispering:

"All the soldiers obey the orders! Follow me to the outside of the city to welcome the envoys from Chang'an..."

Cao Xiang's words were then repeated by the generals around him, spreading in all directions, and then becoming a reaction with different expressions; some were relieved, some were lost, some were numb, some were drifting with the flow; some were happy and danced

However, after thousands of discussions among the soldiers present, they finally slowly gathered into a repeated voice:

"Abide by the orders"

"Get orders!"

"promise.."

At this point, Cao Xiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, moved away the palm of his hand on the hilt of the sword, and stopped the tooth soldiers around him who were loyal to him and had already given orders to take further actions and misses. At least there was no need to shed another blood.

According to his worst plan, he just retreated to the Yacheng City and held on for a while, or waited for an opportunity to rush out of the city under the escort of these Yacheng soldiers. Then he met with the foreign aids who came to receive and waited for an opportunity to rebel in the palace city. However, in this way, the scholars and people in the city would inevitably suffer from military disasters, and the level of attention they could receive would be severely deducted.

After all, in this another accident and cleaning, those who are unsatisfied with ambitions and dissatisfaction, who are stubborn, who are not thinking about the past or keep the incomplete, and are not smart enough, have been filtered and eliminated in disguise in a disguise. Perhaps there are some people who are lucky enough to escape the net or speculative people who are both at the end of the rat, but they are not harmful to the overall situation.

He also understood how heavy and cruel the words before leaving, "Can you protect the people?" were so heavy and cruel. In this battle-torn Northland, it was really a luxury and delusion to rely on personal or local power to protect the safety of a corner.

In order to protect the relatives from being destroyed, he needed to maintain an armed force in the name of the Tianping Army. In order to ensure that this armed force is loyal and reliable, he must do his best to protect his territory and exploit the people under his rule to obtain enough rewards and military supplies, and at the same time use iron fist methods and severe punishments to control it.

However, when encountering famine and war, even the people who kill chickens and get eggs cannot survive, they can only raise troops to rob other people's territory and plunder other people's population, wealth, food and grass. If they cannot grab them, they will lose. While the loss of troops and generals weakens their own protection and support, they will inevitably be backfired by dissatisfied subordinates.

As a result, a new round of military chaos and riots eventually evolved into the process of Yishuai's death and destruction. The soldiers who have repeatedly tried the following benefits of rebellion will become more greedy and unsatisfied with the taste of the martyrdom. This is undoubtedly the paradox and vicious cycle that most of the military commanders in the world cannot get rid of and transcend.

However, at least with the relationship between the Taiping Army, which is about to be established in the new dynasty, Cao Xiang can finally transcend it and deliver the cycle of governance and chaos that has entered a dead end and the corresponding relationship of responsibility.

Half an hour later, at the west gate of Yuncheng, near the mouth of Wuzhang River, Cao Xiang, who was standing in front of the bare hands, stood up to greet him without hesitation and bowed his knees in the snow without hesitation, and received the envoy from the Taiping Governor's Office as an envoy, and some of the late arrival of Chang'an orders;

Following this, in addition to the eight garrison battalions and four temporary battalions that had been trained in Dugi Province, the Silang General and Henan Daoying Ambassador Zhang Juyan, a garage full of canned dry food, grease, diesel, carbon, and clothes, blankets. Several particularly visible hills were piled up outside the west gate of Yuncheng.

Then, in the Tianping Army soldiers who were queuing up to collect, they completed the most basic defense in a happy atmosphere almost unrestrained and quiet manner. Zhang Juyan, who looked thick, gray-haired and gray-haired, then grasped Cao Xiang's arm and said warmly:

"Don't worry, the king still approves of what you do in the north. There will be more usefulness to those who will be there."

"Thank you for your kindness, I can also lead my family to Chang'an to serve with peace of mind."

Cao Xiang, who was much more relieved after hearing this, quickly said humbly:

"You are wrong. The king's meaning is the banner of the Tianping Army. You still need to continue to fight for a while."

Zhang Juyan smiled slightly and said:

"The king is so trustworthy. Why should he call me?"

Cao Xiang asked more and more cautiously when he heard this:

"I came to take over the old place of Balance, so of course I am not only to prevent Hebei, but also to make plans for future management. The banner of the Balance Army is even more useful, but the period of working together is long..."

However, Zhang Juyan smiled more and more kindly.

"I don't dare to take it. Please give me more advice in the future."

Hearing this, the last stone in Cao Xiang's heart completely fell; as a surrender who had already registered in the Taiping Military, he was not afraid of the dangers of the war on the battlefield, but was afraid that he would be useless to the new dynasty, which was the greatest sorrow.
Chapter completed!