It was late at night, and in Xingqing Palace in Chang'an, Li Ye stood with his hands in front of the Tang Dynasty mountains and rivers made of glutinous rice, mercury, colorful silk, etc. in the palace, and it was difficult to calm down for a long time. The black eagle flag representing the Qin vassal was made of small red colored silk on the sand table, which was gradually approaching the Central Plains from the east. In just half a year this year, the territory of Qin vassal had expanded a large area, swallowing Chengde, Wei Bo, Hedong in Hedong, Hedong in Hedong, Heyang and Luoyang in Henan, Li Jing swallowing the five towns, Hezhong and Zhaoyi in Hedong were also in danger. Seeing that Li Jing had already gone from a hero who dominated the East to the overlord who occupied half of the country, how could Li Ye sleep peacefully?

Zhaoyi and Li Jianrong held a silk cloak in his hand and slowly walked behind Li Ye, gently putting on him.

"The dew is heavy late at night, will your Majesty still rest?"

Li Ye stared at Li Zhaoyi and tears came out, "I know you never interfere in political affairs, but you should also know that the current situation is really bad. I can't pretend that nothing has happened. Zhaoyi, Li Jing, he is going to usurp the Tang Dynasty. Yang Jianjun was captured and Li Keyong died in battle. Who else can stop Li Jing in this world?"

Li Jianrong comforted Li Ye's arm, "Lieutenant Yang has joined forces with the Supreme Emperor and Zhu Wen, and a total of twenty-one towns of troops jointly attacked Li Jing? Your Majesty should not worry too much, just wait for the good news."

Li Ye smiled bitterly: "My dear concubine, you can pretend not to know Li Jing's power and place your hopes on Yang Fugong and others. But I can't pretend not to know Li Jing's power. Li Jing has been swallowing it all the time, but now it has become a climate. I swallowed it directly. See how many vassal states he has annexed in recent years? Ziqing, Pinglu, Andong, Lulong, Yiwu, Cangjing, Chengde, Wei Bo, Datong, Yanmen, Taiyuan, Tianping, Influence, Yicheng, Taining, Hedong, Henoi, Luoyang, and Fujian, eastern Zhejiang, Huaixi, Shannan, eastern Lingnan, western Lingnan, Annan... There are not so many vassal states that I can command. Li Jing has turned into a dragon and is unstoppable. The Tang Dynasty is about to perish in my hands."

"Li Jing is indeed very strong. However, if you don't have the last step, Your Majesty must not give up. Think about how rampant the thieves were during the Anshi Rebellion, but in the end the imperial court also regained the mountains and rivers. Not long ago, Huang Chao also ran rampant in the world and captured the two capitals. But now Huang Chao has been strangled?"

"They are not Li Jing, nor are Li Jing. The dynasty has risen and fallen for three hundred years, and the Li family has enjoyed the country to this day, and it is finally abandoned by God." He sighed a long time ago, and people became more and more haggard. During this period, many white hairs have grown on his head, but in fact, he is only sixteen years old now. "Only people can stand firm when they step forward and backward. People cannot always stand with two feet one by one. Li Jing has already stepped forward and his other foot will follow immediately. I have already retreated one foot. Now for our own sake, we can only retreat one foot and retreat together to stand firmly."

Li Ye was full of pessimism about the coalition forces brought up by Yang Fugong and the upcoming decisive battle. "I want to live!"

Li Zhaoyi looked at the young emperor in surprise. In her eyes, the emperor was a strong person. Even when he was the King of Shou, Huang Chao had never been so negative when he attacked Guanzhong and left the capital with him.

Li Ye stroked the sand table with his hand and sighed, "If it's just for me, I'm not afraid of death, but I have to think about Li's family. Since it's inevitable that Li Jing usurped the Tang Dynasty, I have to leave a way for Li's family. I heard that Li Jing has always treated surrendered people with preferential treatment. Not only were the Jieshang who had been annexed by him, but even the tribal chiefs conquered by him were living well. I think. If things are not done at this time, I will take the initiative to abdicate him, and perhaps Li Jing can protect the Li family."

Central Plains, Luoyang City.

Just after the first transfer was officially rejected and persuaded the ministers to enter, Li Jing immediately convened a high-scale meeting of imperial officials.

At the meeting, Gongsun Lan reported the most anti-public information to the Imperial Front Meeting on behalf of the Supervision Department. Yang Fugong and Tian Lingzi reached an alliance, and this time he also won over Zhu Wen, the eight towns of Guanzhong, the three towns of Sanchuan, the five towns of Jianghan, the three towns of Hedong, and the three towns of Henan. A total of twenty-one towns were united, and a large army of 350,000 was formed, divided into five routes, preparing to attack Luoyang.

"Please go back to Taiyuan to supervise the battle and attack Hezhong, Zhaoyi!" Shangshu Zuo Pushe Zheng Cong-sei said loudly.

"I'm going to discuss it!" The second prime minister Zheng Ting and others also agreed.

When Li Jing saw the expressions of the people, he immediately guessed what they meant. This was obviously to let him leave the front line of Luoyang, but in order to take care of his face, he used the excuse of returning to Taiyuan to supervise the battle. Li Jing smiled and said, "The generals come to block the enemy, and the water comes to flood the soil. How can Gu avoid the battle and fear the enemy? You don't need to say more. Since Gu has come to Luoyang, unless Gu wants to leave, no one will be scared away."

Li Jing would not leave Luoyang easily, especially at this moment, the Qin army had just taken over Heyang and Luoyang, and his morale was strong. If he ran away when he saw the arrival of the imperial coalition forces at this time, who would be willing to defend the enemy? How could the morale of the army remain? Although the Qin army now has only 50,000 troops in Luoyang City. It is not a problem to have water and land passages, and it is not a problem to mobilize troops to reinforce. Another thing is that Li Jing did not take the coalition forces seriously. Although there are twenty-one towns, it sounds scary, but in fact it is just a mob.

350,000? It is amazing to have a real elite of 100,000. These troops do not even have unified command and are divided into five routes. This is obviously a chance to defeat each of the Qin troops. Another one, such as the Baoda and Dingnan in Guanzhong, who have produced 40,000 people, but in fact they can only be considered 40,000 people. The four towns are not working hard at all. For example, the five towns in Shannan, although there are tens of thousands of people, they are still far away in Xiangyang. According to Li Jing's estimate, even if the war is over, these tens of thousands of people will not be able to escape from Shannan. With the legion of Qin Zongquan, it is enough to deal with them.

There are also the second towns in Hedong. Now they are surrounded by Li Jing and are too busy to take care of themselves. How can they be considered a whole army? No matter how you look at it, the situation of the Qin army is very good, so there is no need to worry at all. How could he, the commander, be scared and retreat to Taiyuan?

"No need to say more, I will never go anywhere."

"Your Highness, the son of a thousand gold, can't you sit in the hall..."

Li Jing shook his head and interrupted Luo Yin's words, turned to Cui Anqian and said, "Ship Zeng, how can the General Staff Academy respond to the enemy?"

Seeing that Li Jing had decided, it was hard to persuade him again. Besides, Li Jing was not the kind of Taiping Emperor. He was a general who started a hundred battles. Although the enemy was making great noises at the moment, everyone knew that it was just a silver-like wax gun head and a sheep dung egg surface. Not to mention a strong city like Luoyang, it was connected to Henoi on the north side by the Yellow River: "The combat plan of the General Staff Academy is to defeat each one before the enemy arrived. First, while adding troops to Luoyang, we will launch a fierce attack on the second towns in Hedong. The attack was divided into four routes, one along the Fen River attacked the Hezhong, and one along the southeast of Taiyuan to attack Luzhou. The third route attacked from the newly collected Weizhou to the Xingmeng prefectures east of the Taihang Mountain in Zhaoyi Town. The fourth route attacked Tianjing Pass from Henoi and crossed Taihang Mountain to attack Zezhou. The four routes were launched at the same time. Before the five-way coalition forces of the imperial court encircled Luoyang, we first captured the second towns in Hedong."

The resolution was determined, and the Qin army's war machine immediately accelerated.

According to the strategy set by Li Jing, each strategy was implemented for the coalition forces, and among them, they first attacked the two towns of Hedong, and Zhaoyi Town was the most important goal.

Zhaoyi Town, also known as Zelu Town. A vassal town with jurisdiction located in the southeastern part of Shanxi Province and southwest of Hebei Province began in the Middle Tang Dynasty. The capital was Luzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Xing, Ming, Cizhou, and Ze and Luzhou, west of Taihang Mountain. The establishment of this vassal town was to curb the three towns of Heshuo. Over the past hundred years, it was generally loyal to the court, but there were also rebellions such as Lu Congshi, Liu Congjian, and Liu Zhen. Among the towns of the Tang Dynasty, Zhaoyi Town had a number of mutinies over the past hundred years in the past hundred years.

The current Zhaoyijie commander Meng Fangli came to power through mutiny.

Meng Fangli was originally from Xingzhou. When Huang Chao attacked Guanzhong in the first year of Zhonghe, he served as the defense envoy of Tianjing Pass in Zezhou. At that time, Zhaoyi Jie was Gao Xun. He led his army to serve the king Guanzhong, but was killed by his general Cheng Lin. After Cheng Lin killed Gao Xun, he seized military power and returned to Luzhou. When Meng Fangli heard the news, he led his subordinates to attack Cheng Lin. After winning, he killed Cheng Lin.

After killing Cheng Lin, Meng Fangli did not stay in Luzhou, Yacheng, but led his army back to his hometown Xingzhou. At that time, the Ya army in Luzhou recommended the eunuch Wu Quanxu as the governor of Xingzhou in the second year of Zhonghe. The court appointed Meng Fangli as the governor of Xingzhou, but Meng Fangli refused to accept it and detained Wu Quanxu, saying that the eunuch could not be the queen of Liu. He wrote a letter to ask the court to send a civil servant to serve as the commander of Jie, and the court sent Zheng Changtu as the counterpart. As a result, Meng Lifang bribed Wei Bo Jie, Le Congxun, the son of Wei Bo Jie, to ambush and kill Zheng Changtu. The court had to make Wang Hui the commander of Zhaoyi again, but Wang Hui knew that Meng Fangli had already controlled the three prefectures of Xingli Ci, east of the Taihang Mountains, and ambushed and killed Zheng Changtu, so he refused to take office. In this way, no one was willing to go to Zhaoyi, and Meng Fangli actually controlled Zhaoyi Town.

In order to strengthen the control of Zhaoyi, Meng Fangli moved Zhaoyi's capital from Luzhou to his hometown Xingzhou, and claimed to be the commander of Jiezhou. He appointed the former general Li Yinrui as the governor of Luzhou. The reason why he moved the capital to Xingzhou was mainly because he believed that the Luzhou Ya soldiers were fierce, and he had overthrown Jiezhou several times in history. In order to weaken the Ya soldiers in Luzhou, he built a new Ya soldiers and forced the generals and wealthy families to move to three states east of Taihang Mountain. This action made the generals of Zelu and Luzhou west of Taihang Mountain very dissatisfied. The eunuch Qi Shenhui, the military supervisor, joined forces with Wuxiang Town to write a secret letter to Zhuge Shuang, the commander of Jieyang at that time, and asked him to send troops to intervene. Afterwards, Zhuge Shuang sent troops to Zelu and captured Zezhou.

During this civil strife in Heyang, Liu Jing returned Zezhou to Meng Fangli and led him into the aid, but in the end he was defeated. However, although many troops were damaged, Meng Fangli took back Zezhou north of Taihang Pass.

Although Meng Fangli controlled Zhaoyi for several years, the inside of Zhaoyi was not monotonous, especially the three states east of the Taihang Mountains and the two states west of the Taihang Mountains, which had many contradictions. The Military Intelligence Bureau had long been concerned about the internal contradictions of Zhaoyi Town.

I can touch it clearly.

The king's house was closed on the Zezhou courtyard in the north of Taihang Mountain. The guard Xi Zhongxin was in his arms. His wife had just given birth to a fat boy for him. Xi Zhongxin was in his forties and gave birth to seven daughters in a row. None of his wives and concubines gave birth to a son for him. He was often worried about this matter. He didn't expect that he would have a new eighth lady this year. He got pregnant shortly after entering the door, and actually gave birth to a fat boy for the first time. Xi Zhongxin was very happy and excited. He generously ordered the entire army in the pass to reward him for a banquet for three days.

The defenders of the entire Tianjing Pass were immersed in this joyful atmosphere and fine wine and meat. Xi Zhongxin sat in the general's mansion, his face was flushed, and he kept raising his glasses and shouting loudly: "Damn it!"

The generals and schools below raised their glasses and drank them all, and the dishes were served like flowing water. Everyone had a comfortable meal. Only one of them did not eat much. This Ma Jun lieutenant was under Xi Zhongxin's command who had just joined a year ago. At first, it was only Xi Zhongxin's personal soldiers, but because of his skill in bows and crossbows, he performed outstandingly in several battles and was promoted to Ma Jun lieutenant.

"Why don't you eat Lao Liu?" Zhao Dutou, a colleague next to him, whispered, "Don't fit the taste?"

"Ah, nothing." Liu Zhengwei said: "I just feel that I have joined the general's command and have not made any contribution. But I often treat the general well and feel sorry for him."

Zhao Dutou was a veteran soldier and said with a strange smile: "I heard an allusion from Zhang Jichen's room before. The emperor of the Jin Dynasty was probably Emperor Yuan. When he gave birth to Emperor Ming, the ministers said that the Prime Minister Wang Dao was as embarrassed as our Lieutenant Liu, saying that his ministers had no merits and felt ashamed of being accepted. At that time, Emperor Yuan laughed and said, "How can you make merit in this matter!"

Everyone was stunned at first, and then they came back to the scene and burst into laughter. Xi Zhongxin, who was slightly drunk, heard this and didn't think it was offended, and laughed loudly. Captain Liu's black face suddenly turned into a purple face, and he smiled helplessly.

He poured a glass of wine and stood up."

"General Xi, Liu is very grateful to the general for his kindness. Today is a happy day, Liu has something to say to take this opportunity to say it."

"If you have something to say, why are you so polite?" Xi Zhongxin was once the general of Zhaoyi and was the commander-in-chief of the capital. Later, he had a dispute with Zhaoyi general Ma Shuang. Ma Shuang tried to kill Xi Zhongxin, but Xi Zhongxin took action first. Ma Shuang fled to Wei Bo, and Xi Zhongxin bribed Le Congxun and killed him. For this matter, Meng Fangli finally demoted Xi Zhongxin by several levels. This time he was able to become a general of Tianjingguan Town because he had sent troops to Heyang before, and he made great contributions.

Liu Zhengwei glanced at the generals and schools in the hall and said something amazing. "The general is happy to have Lin Zi today. He shouldn't have said this. But it's not OK to say it. General, the Qin army has taken over Hedong Town, Chengde Town, Weibo Town, Heyang Town, Luoyang. Our Zhaoyi has now become an isolated island in the vast ocean of the Qin army. Seeing that the tide of the Qin army is about to come, are we still waiting to be swallowed?"

As soon as these words came out, the generals and schools present kept their smiles and became silent one by one.

No one knows the current situation, but no one has exposed it before, so everyone hasn't thought about it.

Xi Zhongxin stared at Liu Zhengwei, his eyes flashed. He had long seen that Old Liu was not simple. Now it seems that he was indeed not simple. It turned out that he thought it was a spy sent by Li Keyong. He had not touched him, but kept it by his side. In fact, he was planning to leave it as a way out. After all, as Zhao Yiya General, he had long been suspicious of Meng Fangli. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the same thing as Ma Shuang. Now it seems that Old Liu is most likely a chess piece arranged by Li Jing next to him.

At this time, a shout outside broke the tranquility in the hall.

"Meng Shuai Xingzhou is urgently ordered!"

The horse panted and took out the emergency document from his close-fitting pocket. Xi Zhongxin recovered from his sober and said, "Come on!"

The content of the letter surprised him. Li Jing had already sent troops to four groups and attacked Zhaoyi. Among them, the Hebei routes launched fierce attacks from Weibo prefectures to Xing, Ming and Cizhou east of the Taihang Mountains. Meng Fangli sent his generals Ma Gai and Yuan Fengtao to resist, but they were defeated. The two generals were captured. Almost on the third day of the war, the two states of Xingming and Cizhou in Shandong had already lost the two states of Ciming. Now Meng Fangli lost his troops and was huddled in Xingzhou, guarding to the end. Meng Fangli sent a messenger to hope that Xi Zhongxin and other generals of Zelu could lead troops to rescue Xingzhou.

The rapidity of the Qin army's offensive was beyond Xi Zhongxin's expectations. In just three days, Meng Fangli lost two generals and lost the land of the two states. Now he is trapped in Xingzhou and can no longer hold on. Thinking about it, the only one who attacked Meng Fangli was only one of the four Qin army troops. Xi Zhongxin's face changed a few times, and the weather was uncertain.

He stared at the emergency document for a long time without saying anything. All the generals put down their cups of chopsticks and asked, "General, what happened?"

Xi Zhongxin sighed and said in a heavy tone: "It was Meng Shuai's letter of help. The Qin army in Hebei launched an attack three days ago. In just three days, Ma Gai and Yuan Fengtao were defeated and captured. The two states of Ciming have been lost. Now, only Xingzhou is left in the three states in Shandong. Meng Shuai is still struggling to support us. Meng Shuai sent an order to transfer us to rescue."

All the generals and schools were silent together, and many generals and schools were lowering their heads and thinking about something.

When Lieutenant Liu heard the news, his eyes lit up and he quickly said loudly: "General, Meng Fangli is done. General, you should make a decision for yourself and for your brothers."

Xi Zhongxin raised his eyes and stared at Lieutenant Liu. After pondering for a long time, he smiled and said, "Seutenant Liu should also re-introduce his identity?"

Liu Xiaowei laughed, "I didn't mean to hide it from the general. Since this is the case today, I will introduce it again. Guo Wei, the lieutenant colonel intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau under the command of the King of Qin."

"I didn't expect that Brother Liu was actually a lieutenant colonel Qin Fan. He really didn't know Mount Tai." Xi Zhongxin was a little surprised at Guo Wei's level. He was actually a lieutenant colonel. This was not low.

After explaining his identity, everyone was surprised, but they did not react too aggressively. After all, Qin Fan was powerful and had not had any disputes with Zhaoyi Town in recent years. Now that he had clearly identified his identity, he became happy in the hearts of the generals. At least, there was a way out.
Chapter completed!