After receiving the order, Tang Yuan immediately marched towards Mufu Mountain. Zhongfan, who had been living in Yuzhang, took his personal soldiers to Jiujiang. He had already known the news that Zhongqian was captured. Zhongjue was entrusted on the sickbed.

He must save Zhong Qian, which is what Zhongfan has appeared in people's sight again in the past decade.

More than ten years ago, two teenagers joking with him in Dongyang City came to his eyes again. Who would have thought that one would become the founding emperor of Daning, and the other would be dominated by two rivers, Yunmeng and Xingtan.

a prince of the country.

Zhongfan did not go directly to Jiujiang, but to Hukou Daying. He had to learn in detail how Zhongqian failed, why it was so miserable, and what was going on with that young man named Huo Youji.

Zhongfan's status is quite special. Everyone in the court knows the origins and outs of Zhongfan. Even if the Empress sees him, she will respect him three points. However, the Empress is very afraid of him and gives him the status of a marshal, but she never

He was allowed to lead the troops, but Yan Yu would definitely not be able to offend him. He respectfully said: "Secretary Yan Yu pays homage to the general!"

Zhongfan did not answer, but walked around him, looking at the soldiers' faces, he understood that it was impossible to defeat. Such morale, not to mention facing the Western Prefecture, even the South Vietnamese soldiers in the southern border may not be beaten.

Got it.

"Mr. Yan, what do you think of the battle in Jiujiang?" Zhongfan's tone was more disdainful in his tone.

Yan Yu knelt on the ground with his legs, stood up straight, and did not answer, waiting for punishment.

"Mr. Yan, get up, at least the navy has saved it, right?" Zhongfan couldn't go to chase Yan Yu deeply. After all, the main general was Zhong Qian, and the Fenyi Yan family was a wealthy family in the Great Chu. In addition to Yan Yu, the Yan family's children were in court.

There are many in the army.

Yan Yu slowly stood up and said, "Master, the navy is now all concentrated in Shunde Port, and can counterattack Jiujiang and Chaisangkou at any time."

Zhongfan shook his head and said, "The Xifu Navy is not a vegetarian. When I came, Luantai secretly reported that the Jiangxia Navy had arrived at Chaisangkou."

"What should I do with the general? It's still in their hands." Yan Yu whispered.

"Tang Gong is already on the way to Mufu Mountain. Let's wait for news from Tang Gong. I'm not here to save people and counterattack, stabilize the morale of the army, defend Hukou, and don't let Ningguo take advantage of the opportunity!" Zhong

Fan's tone gradually rose, and he was very disgusted by Yan Yu's arrogance.

The situation in Jiujiang was confusing and had already implicated all the garrisons of Xingtan, Jiangyou and Yunmeng, but for the Xifu soldiers who marched into Hanzhong, they would rather confront each other in Jiujiang at this moment, because the complexity of the situation in Hanzhong had exceeded their imagination.

First, Gu Xifeng's army was strongly resisted by the garrison and the people before they even arrived in Nanzheng. Gu Xifeng had to let the army stop at Dingjun Mountain to repair it. Secondly, Meng Huan's pressure, Hanyin's garrison directly held the Li family.

The fort acted like a decisive battle, and after Deng Ang and Zhou Ce divided their troops, they were attacked in Liangqiao Town at the foot of Ziwu Mountain. It was not a crushing defeat, but they dared not walk so swayingly in the road ahead.

The front-line war report returned to Meng Yan's place and made Meng Yan fall into reflection immediately. He looked like two days of deduction. Meng Yan confirmed that there was no problem with the combat plan and the generals who led the troops were not a problem, but the march was not smooth because he underestimated the people of Hanzhong.

The strength of Yang's support is too great.

"Boy, where do you think Zhou Ce is now?" Meng Yan said to Jing Mu, who was busy placing flags on the sand table, while looking at the sand table.

"Commander Zhou has always had no rules for using troops, so I can't guess." Jing Mu had no etiquette at all.

"Why don't we make a bet and bet ten taels of silver?" Meng Yan suddenly became interested and wanted to tease Jing Mu.

Jing Mu immediately became alert and whispered: "Prince, the prince is in the camp to be in charge of military law. You should be more at ease."

"It's okay, the bet between you and me, I guess he must be in Ziwu Mountain now, what do you think?"

Seeing that the prince was so elegant, there was no one who didn't stay with him. Jing Mu thought for a moment and pointed at Yonecangshan and said, "I think Commander Zhou is wandering around here and waiting for the opportunity."

"Oh? Let's talk about it?" Jing Mu's idea was bold and funny, but Meng Yan might as well be interested.

"Your Majesty, look at Ziwu Mountain, which is actually an extension of Micang Mountain. With Xixiang's troops, they can deploy defenses on Ziwu Mountain at most. Micang Mountain is so big, which is most suitable for hiding and looking for opportunities to take Ziwu Mountain. And behind Ziwu Mountain is a gorge

The mouth is the most suitable for ambushing." Jing Mu said boldly about his opinion.

Meng Yan looked at the sand table for a long time, then said, "Boy, the sand table you are thinking about is good. I tell the Grand Governor's Office that it can be opened to the local garrisons, but it must be kept confidential and Mingjian Department is responsible."

The mindless words made Jing Mu not react at once. Meng Yan looked at him with a smirk and said, "What are you stunned! Go and send the order!"

Jing Mu shook his head helplessly and turned away. Meng Yan's voice rang behind his back: "The bet is effective, I hope you are right. You young people's wild ideas may create some unexpected results.

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As soon as Tang Yuan's army arrived in Nanyan, he was harassed by a cavalry cruising outside of Xifu. Then Tang Yuan set up camp in Nanyan. Judging from his years of battlefield experience, a large number of Xifu soldiers must have ambushed the Mufu Mountain.

Tang Yuan immediately sent a letter to Zhong Roulan to explain his reasons for his judgments. He received a reply in just four days, with only one sentence: "If you can't do anything, you will retreat."

Just as Tang Yuan was about to withdraw his troops, three important news came, one was that Huo Youji sent Zhong Qian back to Hukou, the other was that Zhong Roulan took Chenjing at the cost of more than 13,000 people, and the third was that Zhong

Rounding carried a large amount of gold, silver and treasures and backbone power on board the treasure ship to flee to Nanyue.

Chen Chao temporarily withdrew from the Central Plains stage, and the original pattern of the seven heroes began to loosen. Then Zhong Roulan immediately returned to Yuzhang to preside over the overall situation, ordered Zhongfan to take over Hukou defense, escort Zhongqian back to Yuzhang for trial, and ordered Tang Yuan and Zhuo Xun to be at the same time.

Moving towards Hengyang, Yu Geng and Zheng Xi also converged outside Hengyang, and the battle in Hengyang was about to break out.

The battle in Hanzhong began with difficulties and ended in hasty. Meng Yan happily lost ten taels of silver to Jing Mu and sighed: "Adventure is the right of young people."

Zhou Ce was indeed hidden in Micang Mountain, but he did not take the gorge as Jing Mu expected, but chose to cross Micang Mountain and bypass Ziwu Mountain, the most difficult road, to go straight to Xixiang. It took only half a day.

In time, he took down Xixiang and beheaded the Xixiang garrison. He took down the granary without bloodshed.

Zhou Ce, a citizen who was close to the Yang family in Xixiang, did not feel soft-hearted and used violent means to suppress it. He set up ten wooden stakes in the center of Xixiang City, specifically used to tie up the people who were provoking trouble, save their lives, but they had to be shown to the public.

On the day, he was sent to Xichuan.

This method quickly stabilized Xixiang, but it quickly caused a chain reaction. Even Meng Yan did not expect that Nan Zheng and Hanyin would collapse so quickly to defend, especially Nan Zheng, who learned that Xixiangcheng was second after the breakup.

The Tianshou Army killed the Yang clan and surrendered to Gu Xifeng.

Although Hanyin encountered some resistance, they surrendered in just one day. The only thing that was troubled was Deng Ang. The small troops he encountered seemed to have not known that the camp had surrendered, and he harassed Deng day and night.

Ang, Deng Ang was so angry that he almost issued a killing order.

This year's New Year is destined to be extraordinary. After Zhong Roulan returned to Yuzhang, she held a grand funeral for Chongqi on the eve of the New Year. Unfortunately, the prince's funeral was not over yet due to excessive pain.

So with the strong recommendation of all the ministers, Zhong Roulan began to preside over the government. Although she had not ascended the throne, the empress had a loud voice.

Meng Yan hid in Hanyin and Meng Huan together. He was hesitating whether to return to Chengdu before the New Year.

"Brother Qi, I hope you will return to Chengdu as soon as possible. Brothers have been waiting for a day for a long time." Meng Huan persuaded with alcohol.

"Old Eleven, I have always been very resentful of this matter. I have established the People's Intelligence Institute and set up three units. I have built a cabinet to limit the imperial power. However, from the moment I see that I have lost, I have lost to this era." Meng Yan's drunken eyes were confused.

Said.

"Brother Seven, my brother begs you, stop competing with yourself anymore. Isn't the suffering that my Montessors has suffered enough? Our benevolence and righteousness cannot be exchanged for respect, only regret, even if you don't consider the Montessors, you still have to

Think about the brothers who started from scratch with you and have been here today.” Meng Huan spoke to Meng Yan for the first time.

Meng Yan stared blankly at the clan brother who was a leader, and had already started to grow his beard. He now had offspring and was no longer the timid child, but the general who commanded the side.

"Once I go on this road, you and me will be the king and the minister, and the brotherhood will be back. Do you understand?" Meng Yan said bluntly.

"Although you don't admit it, no one in the Western Palace treats you as a king? To put it bluntly, Jin Qian just did what his subjects did in advance. Although he was wrong to be a subject, he treated you

Loyalty has never changed. Have you ever been so rebellious to him over the years?" Meng Huan's words became heavier and heavier.

Meng Yan stopped, and the wine glass in his hand was creaking. It would be better to put it on the table, and said with relief: "You are right, tell the good man's defense and go back to Chengdu together.

You have to do it thoroughly. You are a relative, so you can’t let the eldest brother and the Thirteenth one bear it alone.”

Meng Huan smiled and got drunk as he smiled. He was very happy and finally waited for this day.

The battle between Hanzhong and Jiujiang has ended, and only Hengyang is becoming more and more serious. The confrontation between the two armies has reached an unprecedented situation, with a stalemate and no one gives in to each other, but everyone is very restrained, and there is friction every day, but none of them has formed a large scale.

The battle made Gu Qingfeng very satisfied in Changsha. She thought that Yu Geng's hot temperament would have long attacked Hengyang due to the end of the battle between Hanzhong and Jiujiang. However, it did not. Yu Geng's way of doing Hengyang was

Take steady steps and erode the surrounding areas of Hengyang step by step.

Chu Dian in Hengyang City was gradually undermined. Wen Renyan did not let down Zhong Roulan's trust and did a good job. When Tangyuan and Zhuo Xun's two armies arrived outside Hengyang, Chu Dian finally made up his mind to hand over the tiger talisman.

, asked to be transferred back to Beijing, Zhongroulan happily agreed and gave him the title of commander of the imperial guards and promoted to the Duke of Guangfeng County.

Later, Zhong Roulan issued an order to make Wenren Qiong the governor of Hengyang and Zhuo Xun the general of Hengyang jointly in charge of Hengyang's defense.

At the same time, Yu Geng secretly wrote to Gu Qingfeng. What he said in the letter was unknown. Only Gu Qingfeng smiled after reading it. Not long after, the Chengdu Grand Governor's Office stopped besieging Hengyang and set up a camp in Gangying Ridge to take Hengshan. Leiyang was at the boundary and the Great Chu quit the war. Then Santai and the Great Governor's Office jointly ordered the Tiger General's Office to move back to Changsha and be responsible for the defense of Jiujiang.

After learning about the actions of Xifu again, Zhong Roulan closed her eyes and said slowly: "Second brother, the three of us are finally on the opposite side."
Chapter completed!