Chapter 224: Poling Confrontation

Yang Xuangan retreated quickly, but Yuwen Shu and Lai Hu'er attacked faster.

On the 21st, Zhou Fashang, the deputy commander of the Imperial Navy and the General of the Left Martial Guard, joined forces with the General of the Right Guard Qu Tutong, to lead the army to kill Beimang Mountain and fight with Wang Zhongbo in Jinyong City.

Yuwen Shu, the general of the left guard, and the general of the right guard, Lai Hu'er, then advanced and stationed his troops at Poling, with the troops aimed directly at Yang Xuangan's main force.

Yang Xuangan missed the best opportunity to enter Kansai west, and at the critical moment, he made a wrong judgment on the support speed of Yuwen Shu and Lai Huer. As a result, he made mistakes in one step. He had to stop retreating, set up a battle formation on the western front of Poling, and make a decisive battle.

Yang Xuangan did not dare to force the retreat. With the morale of the poor, the morale of the army was dispersed, and the enemy was pursuing relentlessly, the retreat would inevitably turn into a collapse. It was a disaster, so there was only one battle and retreating.

On the same day, Wei Wensheng, Li Dan, Dugu Wudu, Liu Xu and others rectified the remnants of the army in preparation for another battle. Most of the 40,000 troops in Xijing were lost and basically lost their combat effectiveness. Even if the rectification was well rested, they could only follow the main force and shout. However, the great contribution had been obtained, and it was not their turn to charge into battle.

Is the situation really so good? Li Dan, Wei Jin and others knew it well and were all worried.

When the Beim Mountain battlefield was fighting with flesh and blood, and the Xijing, Dongdu and Hanoi Allied Forces were in danger, Yuwen Shu and Lai Hu'er's support was not fast.

Yang Xuangan rebelled in Liyang on the third day of June. Yuwen Shu and Lai Huer did not arrive at Beimang Mountain until July 20, with a distance of 46 days. Jicheng, Zhuojun, is more than 2,000 miles away from the Dongdu, and Donglai, Shandong is more than 2,000 miles away from the Dongdu. In addition, the time for sending messages at the post station, under normal circumstances, this support speed is not slow. But the key problem is that this is not normal, but in an emergency that concerns the safety of the empire, the support speed should be very fast.

.Imagine that if the Xijing army failed to support more than 20 days, if Yang Xuangan happily agreed to a series of political demands put forward by the local nobles in Guanzhong, the East could still defend it? For this reason, Li Dan, Wei Jin and others had to maliciously speculate that the emperor's original intention was to make the storm bigger, or that the reform forces in the court conspired to set off a bigger storm, trying to make this storm sweep away the conservative forces in the Guanlong noble group.

Yuwen Shu and Lai Hu'er arrived in Liyang and learned that Yang Xuangan had failed to take down the Dongdu, and Yang Xuangan was unable to make political compromises with the local nobles of Guanzhong. As a result, he wasted precious time in vain and fell into extreme passivity. This situation was too far from the emperor's expectations of the reform forces, and could not achieve their expected goals. So Yuwen Shu and Lai Hu'er suddenly accelerated the support speed and rushed into the Dongdu battlefield. What strategy will they adopt next? Should they drag Yang Xuangan under the Dongdu city, wait for subsequent reinforcements to end the storm as soon as possible, or should they continue to use conspiracy to "drive" Yang Xuangan into Guanxi, and then drag a large number of local nobles of Guanzhong into this storm to complete the plan of the reform party's conservative forces?

Li Dan, Wei Jin and other powerful people unanimously agreed that the most important thing at the moment is to prevent Yang Xuangan from entering Guanxi, and it is necessary to annihilate Yang Xuangan to the east of Tongguan. In this way, it must rely on Yuwen Shu and Lai Bu'er, and this depends on the emperor's wishes. If the emperor intends to kill the local nobles in Guanzhong, the war will inevitably be delayed, and Yang Xuangan will inevitably "drive" into Guanxi to expand the attack and bring more local nobles in Guanzhong into this storm.

How to deal with it? Li Dan, Wei Jin, Dugu Wudu and Liu Xu had to temporarily put aside the conflicts and discuss countermeasures together.

The countermeasures are actually very simple. The conservative aristocrats in Xijing and Dongdu continue to cooperate, and the troops in Xijing and Dongdu fight together. Even if Yuwen Shu and Lai Huer delay the fight, they will fight, and they will fight at all costs until Yang Xuangan "run". Once Yang Xuangan "run", they will inevitably run towards Tongguan. Xijing has heavy troops in Tongguan, which is enough to stop Yang Xuangan. In this way, Yang Xuangan will fall into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides and his morale will inevitably collapse. Once morale collapses, Yang Xuangan will inevitably be defeated. At this moment of liquidation, the conservative forces of the two capitals should be able to withstand the crazy attacks of the reformists led by the emperor with their outstanding military achievements. Although they cannot be evenly matched with the reformists, at least they have the power to confront most of their power.

After all, at this moment, the conservatives and reformists of the empire were already drawing their swords and ready to fight.

At present, the conservatives in the two capitals control too few troops and have limited strength. If you want to achieve this goal, you must win the support of some Shandong nobles. The Cui family, Li family, and Sima family are all forces that have been fought for or can be won. For this reason, Li Dan suggested that Wei Jin ask his old friend Sima Tongxian to have a deep discussion, and he asked Cui Xun to discuss it in detail.

The troops of Wu Benlang General Chen Ling and Wu Benlang General Fei Qingnu's troops suffered heavy losses, but the war still had to be fought. After a day of rest, the two armies could cross Beimang Mountain on the 21st and join the Poling battlefield.

Li Dan, Wei Jin, Dugu Wudu and Liu Xuze led their troops across Beimang Mountain and arrived at the city of Jinyong, and met with the Eastern Capital Garrison led by King Yang Tong of Yue.

That night, Galan found the Imperial Guard and met with the troops of the headquarters.

What Jialan is most concerned about is casualties. He knew that the battle on the Beim Mountain battlefield was extremely fierce these days, and the combat power of the Northwest Wolf and the Northwest Jingqi is well known to everyone. Wei Wensheng had no reason not to throw them into the battlefield and make the best use of them. However, beyond Jialan's expectations, according to the West, since Jialan sneaked into the Eastern Capital, Wei Wensheng directly controlled the imperial guards and was with him from beginning to end. Whenever the war was most urgent, Wei Wensheng personally directed them to fight side by side with his own guard regiment. Wei Wensheng might have

He was not a qualified magistrate, but he was definitely a brave and warlike general. The Battle of Beimshan was due to his outstanding military command skills and held to the last moment. In the process of charging, his skillful use of the battle formation and precise prediction of the battle situation not only exerted the maximum combat effectiveness of the elite brigade, but also minimized casualties. During the fiercest days of the war, the Dragon Guard of the Imperial Guard followed Wei Wensheng to fight bravely, but miraculously died, with only a dozen serious injuries.

The Western Conduct admired Wei Wensheng very much. During the first Eastern Expedition, the Emperor's team was defeated, and only Wei Wensheng returned with the entire army, and only Xue Shixiong fought and retreated. All the rest were gone. Wei Wensheng therefore made several consecutive calls and became the Minister of Justice and one of the imperial chiefs, which caused countless criticisms. At the time when he went west, he also sneered at him and was very disdainful. This time he fought with him and witnessed it with his own eyes, but his attitude was immediately subverted and he praised Wei Wensheng.

Jialan's heart was suddenly relieved, and her nervous mood gradually soothed, and she was full of gratitude for Wei Wensheng.

Everyone gathered together to discuss the battle situation. Fu Duanyi and Xue Deyin stopped talking briefly, and several Northwest Wolves and Brigade officers did not say a word. Now Jialan's identity is different. Through a series of events, everyone also guessed that he had an extraordinary weight in the minds of the emperor and Pei Shiju. From this, he could guess his deep understanding of the storm, so everyone was waiting for Jialan to analyze and judge the situation.

"It's going to end soon." Galan paused, and after meeting everyone's eager eyes one by one, he added solemnly, "It's soon."

"When?" Asuna He Bao couldn't help asking.

Since crossing the river, he has fought bloody battles every day and struggled between life and death all day. The painful torture made him miss the past very much. In comparison, although the western land is wilder and barren, and although it is also killing continuously, the western land is vast. When you enter the vast desert, you can always find a place to rest. There are always times to breathe, and there are always places to stay away from death. However, the impression left by the Middle Land left him is not only killing but also killing. The endless killing not only has no time to breathe, no place to hide, but even in your sleep, you will be chased without a gate and no way out. You are so nervous that you almost collapse.

Galan stretched out his right hand, spread his five fingers, and flipped it forward and backward.

Ten days? Everyone couldn't believe it. Yang Xuangan still had more than 100,000 troops and reinforcements coming from all over Henan. He had considerable advantages in terms of military strength. Many people even believed that the reason why Yang Xuangan took the initiative to withdraw from the Beim Mountain battlefield was to lead the reinforcements Yuwen Shu and Lai Huer to the city of Dongdu, and then carried out front and back attacks with reinforcements coming from all over Henan, such as Han Xiangguo and others, trying to achieve their contributions in one battle. In other words, this battle still needs to be fought, and the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights, the more it fights.

However, Galan gave them an incredible answer. In ten days, the storm was over. How could this be possible?

"Your descend?" Buyi asked in surprise.

Galan shook his head, "We have said a long time ago that what determines the victory or defeat is not the number of troops, but the compromise of the interests of all forces. Now Yang Xuangan is a mad dog. After being beaten to death, everyone has meat to eat, so the result can be imagined."

But everyone didn't believe it. This was simply impossible. No matter how Galan's status changed, everyone still couldn't convince themselves to believe his words.

At this moment, Wei Wensheng sent someone to ask Jialan to see him immediately.

When Jialan arrived at Wei Wensheng's handsome tent, she saw Fan Zigai also. Fan Zigai was over 70 years old, with pale hair and beards, with many dark age spots on his face, and his vicissitudes of vicissitudes and wise eyes were bright and bright, revealing a timid sense of perseverance and tenacity. Wei Wensheng was much younger, in his fifties, and was over magnificent. Perhaps because of the tempering of his military career, his body showed the power and integrity of the strong old army, which made Jialan, who was also a warrior, feel a sense of closeness.

Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai met and told and analyzed what they had experienced one by one. They immediately discovered that Galan's series of actions in this storm all affected the development of the situation in the Eastern Capital. Of course, this could not be Galan's "super power". He was a secret soldier in the northwest and a garrison in Tulunchuan. He had never been involved in Middle Earth or such a complex and huge political storm. How could he have such extraordinary ability? There is only one explanation. Galan was faithfully implementing the emperor's strategy, and his amazing talent, and miraculously fulfilled the important tasks entrusted by the emperor.

There is no need to discuss the past, what is next is the key.

Although Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai were trusted and valued by the emperor and were the magistrates of the imperial government, they were not core members of the decision-making level. On the battlefield in the Dongdu today, Yuwen Shu was the core member of the decision-making level of the empire. Yuwen Shu was very powerful, and Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai could not be compared with him, and they were not even qualified to be on par, so there was no core secret to knowing the decision-making level.

How to fight the next battle, how the storm ends, and what the emperor and the imperial decision-making level want to achieve is the core secret of the decision-making level. Without Yuwen Shu, Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai had no way to know, and without knowing it, they could not formulate correct strategies, could not establish greater merits, and could not win more trust from the emperor.

Perhaps, Galan is a "secret trail" leading to the core secrets.

The three of them sat opposite each other, greeted, praised, flattered, and tested... After saying some illusory nonsense, Wei Wensheng became a little impatient.

Galan was determined to repay Wei Wensheng, and no longer circled around, and went straight to the topic. "The second expedition was unsuccessful. Although the crime was caused by Yang Xuangan, it was an indisputable fact that His Majesty and the Central Committee's prestige were hit again. Therefore, after the storm ended..."

The third Eastern Expedition? Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai looked at each other, and a chill flashed through their hearts. If the emperor and some core members of the decision-making level decided to launch the third Eastern Expedition, then the storm must end as soon as possible and cannot be delayed. But the question is, will the empire still have the ability to launch the third Eastern Expedition in the shortest time? How much harm will this cause to the empire?

"However, some people think that the Eastern Expedition is over, or that some people think that the Eastern Expedition should be over, and even mistakenly guessed that His Majesty would resolve the court dispute once and for all, so some people intend to delay the storm..."

Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai understood and no longer continued this topic. Both of them were the prime ministers of the dynasty, and as a younger boy, Jialan talked about the government with a self-esteem and could be interpreted as impulse, but if you say too much, it would be ignorant and rude.

"I heard that you are the grandson of King Guande." Wei Wensheng smiled and shook his head in disbelief, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it..."

Galan looked serious and said nothing.

Wei Wensheng seemed to think of something and smiled awkwardly.

Fan Zigai smiled and said, "Galan, you are a disciple of the monk. The monk takes compassion as his heart, "Great compassion and happiness to all sentient beings, great compassion to relieve all sentient beings'. Compassion means tolerance, to save the world, to benefit others. Do you know if Galan once understood?"

Jialan pondered for a long time, but suddenly fell to his knees, thanking Fan Zigai for his teachings.

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