In mid-May, under the command of Wang Xuba and Wei Daoer, the Yan Zhao rebel army divided into three groups to go to Taihang. One route was led by Zhao Wanhai, the leader of Hengshan rebel army, crossed Taihang Jingxing, and launched an offensive towards Taiyuan to restrain the imperial army in the direction of Taiyuan; one route was led by Huang Ziying, the leader of Shanggu rebel army, and launched an offensive to Hejian and Xindu to restrain the imperial army in northern Hebei; one route was commanded by Wang Xuba, Wei Daoer, Zhen Zhaier and other rebel army supreme commander, leading all the main forces of Yan Zhao rebel army to attack Yanmen County, trying to occupy Daibei, connect with the desert, establish an alliance with the Northern Lu, and then open up a foundation for the newly built Dayan Kingdom.

The Emperor and the Palace are located in Fenyang Palace in Taiyuan County. Fenyang Palace is only more than 100 miles away from Jinyang City, the capital of Taiyuan County, and only more than 300 miles away from Yanmen City, the capital of Yanmen County. Although the Yanzhao army knew that there was a tiger on the mountain, they still "took the tiger mountain" and devoted their main force to attack Taiyuan and Yanmen. There must be a deep meaning behind it.

After the Yan and Zhao rebel army launched a large-scale offensive, in order to ensure the safety of the emperor and palaces and the stability of the Jin area, the garrison troops in Dai and Zhao had to urgently draw elite troops from the Great Wall defense line to quell the rebellion, and the garrison forces on the Great Wall line on Dai northern Great Wall were weakened.

The center was in a difficult situation and was in a dilemma. The original intention of the emperor and the palace to sit in Taiyuan was to exert pressure on the northern enemy. However, the rebels in China were extremely rampant and they actually attacked Dai and Jin regardless of their lives, threatening the safety of the emperor and the palace. This made the situation take a sharp turn. The emperor and the palace not only did not show enough deterrence, but instead hit a group of domestic rebels, exposing the true face of Zhongtu’s internal and external difficulties, and the color of lust.

The imperial imperial guards encountered unprecedented difficulties. The emperor and the palace were in Taiyuan and even the northern tour of the border were intended to cover up the truth that the northern border was in danger. If this fact was known to the northern desert, it would inevitably arouse the northern enemy's ambition to invade south. The Civil War would inevitably break out, and the empire would inevitably fall into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides on the front line of the northern border, and would be unable to resist the joint attack of the northern enemy and the Yanzhao rebels. The consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, some left-behind ministers in the Eastern Capital and the central ministers of the palace made a series of memorials, begging the emperor to return to the Eastern Capital as soon as possible, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang's "Bai Deng Siege". Suppose, if the northern enemy invades the south and the emperor unfortunately defeated the northern border, the impact on the empire will definitely cause extremely serious damage to the emperor and the center. It may even shake the foundation of the empire.

The emperor was stubborn and conceited, and determined to stay in Taiyuan and patrol the border after the autumn. For this reason, he ordered the garrison troops in Jinzhen to do their best to suppress the rebellion and suppress the rebellion, supervise the dynasties, and the local counties in Jinzhen to prepare for war. They urged the Eastern Capital to collect money, grain, corvee service from Jiangzuo, Jingxiang and other places, and at the same time they did their best to transport war materials to the northern border towns.

The emperor gave the simplest answer to the ministers' request: I stay in the northern border, and the northern border will be able to defend it, but if I leave the northern border, the northern border will be lost. The ministers were disgraceful and speechless.

The emperor was telling the truth. Putting aside the third Eastern Expedition last year, just like this year's Northern Xinjiang towns, the opposition and condemnation of many political groups in the Eastern Capital, the imperial military and even local forces, were one after another. Even if the emperor personally took charge of Taiyuan, a series of edicts were issued for the upcoming Civil War. However, there were still few active responders. Whether it was the political groups in the Eastern Capital, the imperial military and even the local counties, they were all publicly or secretly obstructing or even directly opposing the emperor's launch of the Civil War. The actual situation is that although the emperor and the center that supported him had been working hard to prevent the development and invasion of the Northern Hu.

But at this point in the situation, their efforts over the past few years have failed. The Northern Barbarians still developed and actively prepared for invasion. The Northern Barbarians were the Northern Barbarians, not the emperor and the center, who really wanted to launch the Civil War. Unfortunately, the political struggle in the Empire has been out of control, and the various political groups in the Empire have been blinded by narrow interests and desires. In order to overthrow the emperor and the reforms he insisted, to seek the self-interest of the political groups and families to which they belong, they ignored the people of the Middle Land, and did not hesitate to tell lies against their conscience, to turn the black and white, and even to bury the empire for this, and to destroy the great cause of unity of Middle Land.

Under this political background, the emperor stayed in the northern border and stayed away from the whirlpool of imperial political disputes, but could do something. On the contrary, if the emperor returned to the Eastern Capital and worked hard to "fight wits and courage" with various political groups and local forces, he would definitely achieve nothing. In the end, he could only watch the northern border being trampled and ravaged by the northern border.

But in the eyes of the empire's powerful people, the emperor forced himself and the center of the empire in the northern border with his out-of-control and absurd perverted mentality and lost his rational determination, and tied himself to the northern border towns and garrisons. In fact, he used an almost desperate final means to use the empire and his own life and death to threaten the entire gentry group of the empire, forcing the empire's nobles to compromise and support him in launching the Civil War.

The facts were as speculated by the empire's powerful people. Since then, the emperor and the palace have repeatedly gone to the eastern capital. The Guards and local governments have issued edicts to demand money, food, army, civilians, and civilians. They have to carry out the Civil War at all costs.

The conflicts between the high-level power of the empire have thus intensified to the extreme, and even the division within the reform forces has become increasingly fierce. The moderate reformers led by Su Wei, Fan Zigai, Lai Huer and the radical reformers led by Yu Shiji, Pei Yun and Yuwen Shu have repeatedly had direct conflicts in major decisions. The emperor, the final decision-maker, was often at a loss and had to act as a coordinator to seek compromise and concessions between the two sides.

Pei Shiju was the main crafter and implementer of the empire's new defense and diplomatic strategy. His attitude towards the Civil War was crucial, but he was as pragmatic and low-key as ever, and sometimes even seemed too conservative and neutral, and even more timid and did not dare to disobey the emperor at all. Therefore, he was angrily condemned by many powerful people.

In early June, Pei Shiju secretly reported to the emperor.

According to Xue Shixiong's secret report, after his efforts and the assistance of Li Jing and Yang Gongren, Northeast Road dispatched fifty regiments from the garrisons of each town and secretly rushed to Yanbei in batches. It is estimated that all of them will arrive at the headquarters of Zhuolu by the end of this month.

According to the secret report of Galan, he is currently sending envoys to negotiate secretly with Ashin Duna, and rebuilding Huiyi between the two sides, striving to further distract his relationship with Yatan. At the same time, Galan sent envoys to discuss the reconstruction of Huiyi with Xi, Xi, Khitan, Shiwei and other tribes, trying to use the strategy of joining the Zongheng and crossing the line, and do his best to prevent his invasion of Yanbei during the Civil War. In addition, Galan also plans to send envoys to the North Taihang in the near future to negotiate with rebels such as Wang Xuba and Wei Daoer, trying to use various deception strategies to stop or delay the rebels' attack on Taiyuan and Yanmen during the Civil War, and destroy their conspiracy with the Northern Lu and the Northern Lu.

The emperor was worried and was very dissatisfied with Xue Shixiong.

At this moment, the emperor was under tremendous pressure. From his point of view, this battle must be fought, not because he wanted to fight, but because of the momentum. Tensions between China and foreign countries have forced him to desperate situations. If he doesn't fight, he will have a glimmer of hope to reverse the crisis. However, what disappointed him was that the imperial military and political circles understood him and supported him was very few. Today, the powerful people of the empire ignored the interests of the empire and the emperor, and focused on safeguarding the interests of the aristocratic families, and "popular words" pushed all the blame to the emperor and the reformists who supported him. The emperor is now like standing on the edge of a cliff, and he can only sacrifice his life. For this reason, he needs to be loyal to his army and more troops that can help him win the battle, but the result disappointed him very much.

"How many troops can Galan bring into the battlefield on the day of war?" The emperor was irritated and his tone was extremely cold.

"There are 84 regiments in Yanbei." Pei Shiju said carefully, "If there are fifty regiments secretly rushing to Yanbei, there are 134 regiments and 26,800 people." Pei Shiju hesitated for a moment and continued, "On the day of the war, Galan can bring at least 20,000 troops into the battlefield."

The emperor sneered. There were 20,000 people, some of which were local armed forces in Yanbei, and the horse army would not exceed 30. With such strength, there would be no chance of winning at all when he fought the invading Northern Territory.

“Where does Galan’s faith come from?”

"The soldiers are in the essence, not in the number of them." Pei Shiju comforted, "Weapons are in the way of deceit. From the beginning of the brewing of this battle, the so-called decisive battle was just a surprise attack. However, in order to succeed in the surprise attack, from His Majesty to the garrisons in Yanbei, they all tried their best to create illusions to deceive the Northern Territory. Therefore, the key to whether this battle can achieve the expected results lies with His Majesty."

In fact, it’s just a saying, fake plays are real, and the one who makes the play is the emperor. As long as you perform this play well, victory will be at your fingertips.

"This is not Liaodong, and the invading enemy enemy is not Goguryeo."

"Galan is still Galan." Pei Shiju's tone was very confident.

The emperor had no expression on his face and remained silent. Now he could only place his remaining hope on Galan.

"What else does he need?"

"What he needs is His Majesty's trust." Pei Shiju hesitated for a moment and added, "Absolute trust."

A trace of bitterness appeared in the emperor's eyes, "Now, who else can I believe?"

At the same time, Jialan also asked himself at the Zhuolu headquarters because he needed a special envoy to rush to Taihang Mountain to negotiate with Wang Xuba, Wei Daoer and other rebel leaders of Yanzhao. The difficulty of this negotiation can be imagined.

For Wang Xuba and others, their own survival is far more important than the so-called righteousness. They chose to attack Deyi and Jin at this moment, and their purpose was to bring the Northern Liberties in, and then use the Northern Liberties' force to defeat the imperial emperor and army, and find a place for themselves to survive, even if they regard the thief as their father.

Who can complete this special mission? Jialan thought for a long time and finally chose Kong Yingda, a great scholar in Hebei.
Chapter completed!