Chapter 174: One Word in the World

"I'm so sad that I ask the vast earth, who is the ups and downs?"

Xu Yuanshou recited this poem over and over again, and drank three pots of wine in a row.

Nothing else, he only for his students to finally have the consciousness of being the master.

When Lantian County had only one county, Yun Zhao was humble and said that he was wise.

Now, Lantian has covered 68 states, with more than a thousand miles of territories, and has ruled 10 million people and 100,000 soldiers. There are countless heroes hidden in the countryside. Just by waiting for Yun Zhao's order, a million troops will surely sweep the world.

Nowadays, Lantian is full of civil and military affairs, and the country is prosperous and the people are strong under the rule.

If it is a hidden dragon, it should fly with its scales and claws; if it is a breasted tiger, it should roar on the hills.

"I'm so sad that I ask the vast earth, who is the ups and downs?"

After hearing this poem, Emperor Chongzhen stopped dinner...

I sighed in the hall and knew that the sky was dawn.

Jiannu, he can have a peace talk, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong and others, he can use the power of the world to clear it out, Yun Zhao... His wings have been completed.

Count the power in your hands carefully, a strong sense of powerlessness invades the whole body.

In the early morning, he forced himself to eat two bowls of food, killed two annoying eunuchs, changed into dragon robes and went to the hall.

Today's court meeting is exactly the same as usual, and the bad news still comes as scheduled.

All the officials were still talking and attacking each other. If they listened carefully, they could still hear deep fear from their words.

Yun Zhao's army left Guanzhong without any concealment for the first time. Although the forefront pointed directly at Xiangyang under Li Hongji's rule, the army still felt that civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were still fearful.

Each of them knew that the emperor's purpose of the court meeting today was, but no one mentioned Yun Zhao in Guanzhong.

I just want to disturb the emperor's thinking with one bad news after another, and hope that the emperor can forget Yun Zhao's existence.

No matter how many bad things happen, there will be a certain degree. When the court meeting opened from sunrise to afternoon, and when the important officials felt that there was nothing to say, the emperor still sat high on the dragon throne and had no intention of resigning.

When the chief assistant Zhou Yanru saw that the important officials stopped talking, he sighed and said in secret: "Your Majesty, the eldest daughter of the emperor is already in her prime, and the etiquette should be chosen. I think it is the official, military, civilian, etc., who are thirteen and fourteen years old, have good qualities, have a pure and talented family, sign up and go to the inner palace to choose."

Emperor Chongzhen said expressionlessly: "The emperor's eldest daughter's wedding is approved, and the crown and clothing are used, and the officials will be ordered to do the same."

After the words of the king and his ministers ended, the quiet fallen leaves in the hall could be heard.

After a moment, the court was bustling like a vegetable market. Everyone began to praise the eldest princess for her noble and elegant nature, and her beauty and wisdom. She must not be looked down upon by the princess's son-in-law. She is not enough to match the princess if she is a hero.

Everyone knows what it means to propose a princess marriage at this time, but no one is willing to say the word Yun Zhao.

No one said that the emperor refused to leave the court... So the monarch and ministers stalemate until evening.

"I'm sad and ask the vast earth, who is responsible for the ups and downs?

Back to the King of Chuang, Yun Zhao's writing of these half poems means, who can still take charge of the world besides him?

It is the same as the Chu King asked the Zhou Emperor about the importance of the tripod.”

Niu Jinxing answered Li Hongji's question and stepped down.

"Hahaha, Huangkouruzi, the former Huangkouruzi, finally got tough today. Grandpa thought he would be ready to be a turtle for the rest of his life. Unexpectedly, Huangkouruzi grew all his hair and finally dared to say something in his heart.

However, the world is so big, where can he not go? Why did he only like Grandpa Xiangyang?"

Niu Jinxing said: "What Yun Zhao is thinking about is that King Chuang and the Eight Kings merge with each other. As long as he occupy Xiangyang, he can connect the already occupied Kuizhou Prefecture Shizhou Wei into a line, and then completely encircle Shuzhong in his territory.

In other words, Yun Zhao occupied Xiangyang, one to separate the King of Chuang and the Eight Kings, two to protect Hanzhong, three to facilitate his plots on Shuzhong and even Yunnan and Guizhou.

Yun Zhao is ambitious, and everyone knows that Sima Zhao's heart is aware that King Chuang must not let him succeed. The subordinates think that King Chuang should quickly untie his hatred with the Eight Kings at this time, give up his pursuit of Luo Rucai, and work together to deal with Yun Zhao."

Li Hongji smiled bitterly and looked at Niu Jinxing and said, "We have never been spoiled with that wild boar. Ask Liu Zongmin, ask Hao Yaoqi, and ask Li Jin and the others who took advantage of it again?

If you can't beat it, you can't beat it. Do you think you can fight it by joining forces with Zhang Bingzhong?

The Lantian army is not the imperial army. We used the usual method and it was useless in front of the Lantian army. They don’t want money and only have their lives. The generals and officials are all from the Yun clan. The wild boar spirit gave the order and would not give up until they achieve their goal.

Over the years, if the wild boar spirit had not been targeting Jiannu, our lives would have been even harder.

Grandma, this wild boar spirit regarded the Ming Dynasty as his meal on the plate for a long time. No wonder he would rather take people to the grassland to fight against the Mongols and Jiannu, but he ignored us.

He fundamentally looked down on us, thinking that we were a group of bandits and a group of mud legs.

Damn, when did the robbers start to be divided into different places?

His Yun clan has been a bandit for almost a thousand years, is he better than those of us who have been bandits for more than ten years?"

Song Xiance said on the side: "King Chuang should make a decision quickly. Yuan Zongdi is already feeling as if he is in pins and needles in Xiangyang. If we want to defend Xiangyang, we will send reinforcements as soon as possible. If we don't want to fight with Lantian, we will give up Xiangyang."

Li Hongji looked at Song Xiance and said, "Do you have to hear the saying of giving up Xiangyang from me?"

Niu Jinxing sighed and said, "Since the idea of ​​breaking the king has been decided, we will issue a document to order General Yuan to evacuate Xiangyang."

Seeing Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance leave, Li Hongji said to Liu Zongmin: "The territory is useless to us, and there is nothing worth nostalgic about in Xiangyang."

Liu Zongmin said: "What the King of Chuang said is that people and horses are our lifeblood. As long as people and horses are still there, we will have territory."

Li Hongji said helplessly: "I'm afraid that Yun Zhao will chase him wherever we occupy. At that time, our brothers will become his pioneers."

Liu Zongmin said: "Every time we go to a place, we will rob you, leaving a piece of white land for Yun Zhao. We want money and people, and Yun Zhao wants land. As long as we have people and have money, the world is so big, where can we go!"

Seeing his subordinates leaving one by one, Li Hongji couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "I can't beat you, but I really can't beat you..."

Strength is an eternal decisive condition!

Both Emperor Chongzhen and the bandit Li Hongji had a deep understanding of this thing.

Of course, Yun Zhao is the same, and he is also a veteran power theorist.

After ten years of development and ten years of birth, Lantian County's accumulation is almost the best in the world.

To the east, Gao Jie was fighting against the Jianzhou hero Yue Tuo. On the vast grassland, gunpowder was filled with smoke and arrows were flying.

With every cannon sound, a dark shell would penetrate into the Jianzhou people's team fiercely, smashing the tall wooden shields and storm all the way.

The bird gunman was still as motionless as a mountain, and wisps of flames ejected from the barrel again and again, shooting the Jianzhou infantry who was approaching halfway.

The cavalry on both sides slowly moved closer to the main formation, and the war horses had already taken small steps to charge in front of them.

The shield formations of the Jianzhou people were laid out again and again, and were shattered by artillery again and again. They slowly retreated. Although they suffered heavy casualties, their military appearance was still unconfused.

Gao Jie put away his telescope and said to the messenger beside him: "Blooming bullets, three consecutive shots, rapid fire."

As the flag swung, the cannon's muzzle began to rise up, and then, shells burst out from the running port, and rushed into the sky with Mars, drew a high arc in the air, and then fell down.

At the same time, the cavalry led by Yun Jue put away their short guns, drew out their long swords, and shouted and rushed towards the Jianzhou people's army when the horses were speeding up.

The shells fell to the ground, and countless black and red flowers exploded, once again ruthlessly blew up the complete military formation of the Jianzhou people.

Facing two cavalry like long dragons, the desperate Jianzhou Gushan Ezhen shouted, and waved the saber in his hand and met the cavalry fearlessly. Behind him, the Jianzhou people who had just woken up from the explosion wave did not care about their formation and rushed down from the hillside with their weapons in their hands.

The brave Gushan Ezhen fell to the ground by a grenade. Even so, he still stood up shakingly, encouraging his subordinates to continue charging.

The explosion of the grenade frightened the war horse. Yun Juan controlled the war horse and continued to advance with a grim smile.

The rain of arrows poured down like heavy rain, falling into the cavalry group, jingling on the armor and helmets, and screams caused by feather arrows piercing the weak parts of the armor.

The war horse that was caught in the arrow fell to the ground...

At this time, Yunjuan's war horse had already rushed to the top of the mountain. He did not stop and continued to penetrate the Jianzhou military formation.

The arrow rain had only had time to send out a wave of arrow rain. As soon as the feather arrows took off, dark shells fell into the group of archers wearing only leather armor. The fragments of shells stretched out by gunpowder splashed everywhere, easily penetrated the leather armor and bodies of these archers.

The cavalry was raging in the Jianzhou infantry army, but Yue Tuo seemed to be not very concerned about it. Until now, the most elite Jianzhou cavalry has not appeared.

Gao Jie looked at his cannon position, and then, the bird gunners slowly advanced with muskets amid the captain's shrill whistle, and their connection with the cannon position was no longer so close.

The artillery continued to send the shells to the places where they needed the most. As long as the Jianzhou people who had already collapsed there had a tendency to assemble, the shells would land there and disperse the newly assembled people again.

The Jianzhou infantry finally could not resist the Yunjuan cavalry's charge and began to disintegrate. Yunjuan turned around and looked at the place where Gao Jie was. Seeing that the flag of the commander had not changed, the flag representing the cavalry was still leaning forward.

He then raised his long sword and pointed at the scattered Jianzhou infantry and said, "Kill!"
Chapter completed!