The first month is almost over, but the chill is still bone-blooded. Press ctrl + d to quickly collect """" The sky outside has always remained blue-gray, as if it would never change the tragic phenomenon of the end of the world.

Not many people knew about Chen Kefu's arrival in Liyang, Jijun, except for a few people including Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shishen. After dawn, Chen Kefu did not enter Cang City of Liyang, but instead led his own thousand imperial guards and three thousand infantry to station on Dali Mountain southwest of Cang City.

Dayi Mountain is located in the southwest of Cangcheng, Liyang, blocking the Yellow River in front. At the foot of the mountain is Cangcheng. As the highest mountain near Cangcheng, it occupies this commanding height and strengthens its defense against Cangcheng a little. Moreover, stationed in Cangcheng can also avoid being discovered by those who are interested in it.

Chen Kefu came to Ji County in person and felt the urgency of the war in Ji County. Ji County was stuck between Li Mi and Wang Xuba. Now that the court wants to deal with Wang Xuba, a hero like Li Mi will definitely not sit idly by and eliminate Wang Xuba. In that case, it will be his turn next.

And on the other hand, Ji County was close to the capital of King Xubayan Yecheng, and defending Ji County, which was equivalent to being able to attack Yecheng as soon as possible. Chen Kefu has also studied bandits in recent years. Bandits are not as good as official troops. Basically, as long as they behead the bandits and courts, or directly destroy the bandits' base camp, eight or nine out of ten, the bandits will inevitably collapse.

The situation in Hebei has been delayed for too long. At present, Li Yuan, Yang Hing, Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong and other four forces fought fiercely on the east and south corners of the Dahe River. This is a war related to the future direction of the Central Plains world. He must pacify Hebei as soon as possible, withdraw his place, and join the competition in Hedong.

At this point, the whole situation has gradually become clear, and the Great Sui Dynasty is destined to be a past trend. Everyone understands that among the nine strongest forces in the world, Li Mi in the Central Plains and Wang Xuba from Hebei have almost been eliminated. Li Yuan in Hedong and Yang Hao from Bashu have also been at a disadvantage, and even Wang Shichong from Luoyang has gradually been dragged into a dead end by Li Mi.

In this world, the only ones who really occupy a favorable situation are Hebei, Yu Culture in Guanzhong, Yang Ming of Jianghan, and Chen Ming of Jiangnan. Among these four directions, the Chen Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan was blocked south of the Yangtze River by the Liaodong Army. In Jingzhou, Yang Ming's troops were forced to retreat eastward. Although it seems to be a large territory at the moment, it has been on the decline.

Yu Culture and Guanzhong have enough self-protection, but they lack military and horses. They are blocked in Guanzhong, but they are not enterprising for the time being.

Chen Kefu looked at it and found that the real strongest opponent was Yang Qing. Yang Qing occupied the Jianghan land, and the opponents from all sides were not strong. He defeated the Chen Dynasty in the east and captured many counties. The Bashu behind him was even more invincible. Now Yang Qing's army went north and captured the counties of Henan, crossed the Yellow River and attacked Hedong to block Li Yuan. Everyone could see that Yang Qing pointed at Li Yuan, but was aiming at Guanzhong. If Yang Qing entered Guanzhong, then Yang Qing would become a base camp at that time, and this battle for the world would not be known when it would take place.

Leaning on the soft couch, Chen Kefu also sighed.

As a prince of a country, he is still a prince of Hebei that is so popular that many people envied. But in fact, he has no time to experience the happiness brought by power. He has to fight south and north, east and west, and has to do too many things. And he has truly become the superior of a country, and only then has found that he is not just as simple as winning battles. External wars, power struggles, internal contradictions and balances, and everything has taken a lot of effort.

Just like the last time Hebei clan purge, I knew in my heart that if his attitude and technique were gentler, there might not have been such a great rebellion like that later. Although the rebellion was quickly quelled, there were still thousands of people who died for it. This feeling of contradiction made Chen Kefu feel heavier.

As the situation in the world became clearer, many people in Hebei had told him that he would officially replace Yang Gao and become the emperor. After all, now, all regions have already belonged to each other, and basically all separatist forces were all included. The banner of the Sui Dynasty had no effect. Direct establishment of the dynasty can not only stabilize the hearts of the people and subjects within, but also be more justified to the outside world.

At this time, becoming emperor is indeed in line with the times. After all, Hebei and Shandong are gradually becoming stable. However, Chen Kefu's heart is still a little confused recently. In the end, on the grounds that Hebei has not been pacified and Taiyuan has not been captured, he stated that it will not change for the time being. He only waits to pacify Hebei and then take Taiyuan before officially becoming emperor.

After sleeping for a while, and opening his eyes, Chen Kefu looked at the thick stack of unwatched documents on the desk, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. Everyone said it was good for the king and the emperor, but who saw the hard work behind it?

Some of these documents were official duties that the Secretariat of Beijing had already handled, and they were transferred to him for inspection. Some were first-hand information sent by the Secret Service Department and other departments, and Chen Kefu had retrieved the top one to inspect.

After reading a few lines, Chen Kefu frowned. This was an urgent report sent by the Special Service Office from Hedong, reporting on the latest battle situation in Hedong.

After Li Yuan and Yang Qing lost the initial battle in Fenhe, they slowly moved south. However, three days later, they were defeated by Yang Yichen's catapult. Li Yuan was defeated. Only more than 80,000 people fled south, and Yu Du was either killed or injured. Just when Li Yuan fled south, Li Shimin, who led 20,000 people to attack Puban City, was also defeated.

After Li Shimin arrived at Puban, he launched a fierce attack on the two brothers Pei Xingyan who were stationed in Puban City, and successfully lured Pei Xingyan out of the city, forcing Pei Xingjian to abandon the city to rescue Pei Xingyan's soldiers. Li Shimin was happy and hurriedly sent troops to seize Puban. However, at that time, he found that Puban City had been taken by Yuwen Chengdu, Pujin Pass on the other side of the river, and ambushed Li Shimin's troops to capture the city.

The vanguard of five thousand vanguards suddenly lost more than 2,000. After Li Shimin severely injured Pei Xingyan's brothers, he did not pursue the escaped Pei brothers. Instead, the entire army attacked Puban. As a result, the troops in Yuwen Chengdu continued to cross the floating bridge and rushed to Puban, and the troops were not inferior to Li Shimin. The two fought at Puban Pass for three days, Li Shimin lost his troops and generals, and most of the 20,000 troops were lost. On the third day, Li Shimin had to retreat, but Yuwen Chengdu took the initiative to go out of the city to pursue. The two armies fought overnight in the Weihe. Although Li Shimin had Xuanjia heavy cavalry and supported them, he was eventually defeated by Yuwen Chengdu's strong crossbow camp, and brought less than 3,000 people back to the north in panic.

Just as Li Yuan was defeated, Wang Shichong, who had been defeated by Li Shimin, suddenly broke out from Jiang County again, captured the entire Jiang County in one fell swoop, and quickly went north to capture Wencheng County and Linfen County. In addition, the Henei County and Jiang County that had been occupied previously, Wang Shichong occupied the four counties of Hedong at once, and completely cut off the southeast and north of the Hedong. The 50,000 army was approaching Huoyi Pass. As long as Huoyi was a moment, Wang Shichong's army would face Taiyuan directly.

After the Yellow Bird was in the future, Yuwen Chengdu, who successfully seized Puban Pass, seized the opportunity and transferred troops from the pass to Hedong, and quickly captured Zhucheng Pass in the southernmost part of Hedong County. Relying on Puban and Zhongtiao Mountains, Yuwen Chengdu cut off Yang Ming's retreat in one fell swoop.

Wang Shichong cut off Li Yuan's retreat route to the north, and Yuwen Chengdu cut off Yang Ming's retreat route to the south.

There is the Yellow River in the west, Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, Fire Mountain in the north, and Wangwu in the east.

In the basin in the southwest part of Hedong, Li Yuan and Yang Qing were completely surrounded by Wang Shichong and Yuwen Chengdu. Now, the passages in the north, west and south, east and south have been cut off, and they have suddenly become turtles in the jar.

The latest confusing situation in Hedong made Chen Kefu stunned. Yang Ming and Li Yuan both regarded Guanzhong as their target, and did not treat Guanzhong's Yu Wen as a evenly matched opponent. As a result, the two fought in Hedong first for Guanzhong, but no one expected that the Yuwen family in Guanzhong, which they didn't care about, suddenly came to recruit the Yellow Bird and plotted against both families in one fell swoop.

In addition, Wang Shichong, the old fox, pretended to be defeated in one move, which made Li Yuan feel at ease to go south to fight Yang Ming, but hid in Jiang County. When the time was ripe, he rushed out in one fell swoop, captured three counties in a row, and the troops rushed to Taiyuan.

Judging from the current situation, Chen Kefu has already believed 100% that Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong had reached an alliance with Wang Shichong, preparing to jointly encircle and annihilate the two armies of Li Yuan and Yang Qing in Hedong County.

At present, the main figures of Li Yuan and Yang Qing are surrounded. As long as their army is annihilated and Li Yuan, Yang Qing and others are killed, these two major forces will inevitably collapse. Wang Shichong can quickly go south to compete for Shannan and north to compete for Hedong. The Yuwen family can also eliminate two forces that have always been aiming for Guanzhong, and at the same time, they can also fight for Hedong and Hanzhong with confidence.

However, this sudden change is also related to the interests of Chen Kefu, the spectator. Although Li Yuan’s defeat is a good thing, it may cause Wang Shichong to break into Taiyuan immediately. If Taiyuan is lost, the situation in Hedong will change immediately.

He reached out and kneaded his forehead, and Chen Kefu couldn't help but frowned. Things in the world were indeed changing. In just a few days, the situation in Hedong changed again. It was really a matter of soldiers and water. What should I do? Should I really wait for Wang Shichong to seize Taiyuan first? If I really wait for Wang Shichong, the hero, to seize Taiyuan, I am afraid that I would want to take it back from him again, it would not be so easy.

After all, in this battle between the four heroes of Hedong, the final winner was obviously the old fox Wang Shichong. He had no losses at all. He was just a feint defeat in the previous battle. In the four sides, he successfully won the land of the four counties and went straight to Taiyuan.

On the contrary, Li Yuan and Yang Qing, who fought to the death, have now become the fish in the net. Although Yuwen Chengdu took advantage of the situation to seize Puban and cut off Yang Qing's retreat, Guanzhong has no foundation in Hedong. Although Yang Qing fought with Li Yuan, his strength has not been much lost. At that time, Yuwen Chengdu would only face a battle with Yang Qing.

Wang Shichong could not be so cheap, Chen Kefu murmured to himself.
Chapter completed!