Emperor Taizong's Growth Plan

Chapter 123 It's over!
The army is mighty and mighty, and it is slowly advancing along the official road at this time.The army in front of him was the invincible soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who had swept across the northern border of the Yun Kingdom more than a month ago.

However, just yesterday, Qi Wang Yu Zhaoling ordered the army to abandon the rest of the city, and the whole army retreated to Jianchang Mansion.

In the hands of Cheng Bushi, Xia Guo's frontier army was defeated, with [-] to [-] casualties.

The Xia Army army that invaded the northern border of Yun Country was the Southwest Frontier Army stationed in Jiangyang County, with a total of only [-] battle-ready soldiers.Now after the big defeat, about half of the soldiers and horses have been lost.

The central and southwestern hinterland of the country was again attacked by a small cloud army, and all the supplies of the army were destroyed.

Under various factors, defend the captured city in the north of Yunguo.It is obviously a bit stretched to send troops to rescue the southwestern states and counties. .

In the end, what made the coach King Qi make his decision was the news that the frontier army of the Thirty Thousand Clouds, commanded by General Fenwu Chu Shi, would soon arrive in the north.

The [-] Yun army was against the [-] Xia army, and Xia's army was already at a disadvantage.

If Cheng Bushi had another [-] elite troops, with his steady and steady style of fighting every step of the way, relying on his superior strength, he would definitely be able to completely trap the remaining [-] Xia troops step by step!

King Qi is also a person who has been tempered in the army for a long time, how can he not see this situation?Without further ado, against the opinions of the generals in the army, he directly withdrew to Jianchang Mansion.

"Alas!" King Jin sighed faintly while riding on a war horse.

King Qi's eyes became deeper and deeper, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't notice King Jin at the side at all.

King Jin glanced at King Qi, seeing that he didn't respond, he couldn't help but sighed heavily, hoping to make King Qi notice him.

But after waiting for a long time, he saw that King Qi still ignored him, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Finally, King Jin couldn't bear it anymore and grabbed King Qi's sleeve.

King Qi came back to his senses, looked at King Jin who was pulling him, and said:

"Third brother, do you want to ask something?"

King Jin nodded when he heard the words, and said:
"Nineteen, you have lost a lot this time, but you have given up so many cities that you just captured on your own initiative. The Southwest generals who were originally overwhelmed by you with great momentum will inevitably join their forces in the court to take advantage of this to attack. I'm afraid this time, you will have a hard time!"

King Qi heard the words, looked at King Jin's face, shook his head calmly, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, third brother, I'm also prepared!"

As soon as King Jin heard what King Qi said, he couldn't help but rubbed his forehead, waved his hand and said:
"Pull it down, don't say that! You have prepared every time before, but every time you suffer from Yun Guo! This time, I have sent someone to inform Father in advance. My people in the court also I made a point. Sigh, I don’t know how serious the counterattack of these southwestern generals is, can it be settled?”

Xu Shi realized that he had talked too much, so King Jin paused.

King Qi looked at King Jin's appearance, he quickly waved his hands, and said with a light smile:

"It's okay, third brother. And this time, I can assure you that the plan is absolutely foolproof!"

"Is it really safe?" King Jin asked with some disbelief.

King Qi patted his chest and said:

"Absolutely foolproof! Their military power has been gathered back by me in various ways, why should I be afraid of them?"

King Jin nodded, and just as he breathed a sigh of relief, his heart jumped again, and he said in horror:
"You, shouldn't you, shouldn't you be using that simple and rude method again?"

King Qi frowned and said:
"Who does the third brother think of me? It's so rude to kill someone directly, and leave someone to talk about!"

King Jin relaxed again, nodded and said:
"That's right, when you encounter problems, you should use more means and less..."

"Hey, third brother, don't worry, they all died on the battlefield this time, and they are all heroes!" King Qi turned his head to look at King Jin, showing a reassuring expression, with an extremely bright smile.

The corner of King Jin's mouth twitched, and he quickly covered his forehead with his hands.

Well, this time I still know how to find an excuse, which can be regarded as progress, right?
"Report!"

At this time, a military report interrupted the conversation between the two.

Tanma quickly ran up to the two of them and said respectfully:

"Report to Commander, King Jin! At this time, the Yun Army has just settled in Hechuan County, which was abandoned by our army, and kept taking pictures of probing horses scattered around. As for the army, there is no sign of it!"

King Qi clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"How is it, third brother? I said before, don't hurry up! Cheng Bushi is too cautious. Seeing my army suddenly withdrawing, he must think there is a fraud. As long as he doesn't check it out for a day, he will Those who dare not send troops to pursue for a day!"

When King Qi said this, he sighed again, shook his head and said:
"This time I played against this Cheng Buzhi, so I lost! It's just that I'm good at intrigue, and I took the quick way to win. He used his troops steadily and uprightly. If it wasn't for the fact that he deliberately used up the general's strength before, this The northern border of Yun Kingdom has been taken by me long ago, how can we wait until he comes to turn the tide?"

King Jin heard the words and wanted to comfort King Qi, so he said:

"It's okay, as you said, just look for opportunities in the future!"

King Qi shook his head again and again, saying:

"In the future, with Cheng Bushi guarding the northern border of the Yun Kingdom, even with the Jianchang Mansion in hand, I'm afraid Daxia won't find the opportunity. Unless, ah, we can catch the Emperor of the Yun Kingdom!"

King Jin originally intended to comfort King Qi, but when he was told this, he became in a bad mood instead.

At this time, the guards beside King Jin suddenly came in a hurry and presented a letter to King Jin with both hands.

King Jin frowned, and quickly took the letter and opened it for a look.

When he saw the content of the letter for the first time, King Jin's entire face instantly turned livid.

King Qi noticed King Jin's strange look, and asked quickly:
"what happened?"

King Jin took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said:

"The Fengzhou general family, under the leadership of the Shao family, sent private soldiers to ransack the entire Fengzhou city. In addition, they raped and looted, murdered and set fire! The entire Fengzhou city has now become a hell on earth. .”

King Qi frowned when he heard the words, with a look of anger visible to the naked eye, and shouted:

"The soldiers ransacked the city? Does the Shao family really want to rebel?"

King Jin's face was heavy, and he continued:

"And your affairs should have been exposed! The generals in Fengzhou sued you for taking charge of the Southwest Frontier Army and secretly preparing for rebellion, so they sent troops to pretend to be the Yun army, slaughtered the generals, and sent Zhezi to the capital. !"

As soon as this remark came out, King Qi stared at him immediately, and laughed angrily:
"Okay, okay! Since you don't want to live, then this handsome will help them!"

Seeing King Qi's angry words, King Jin already wanted to do something, so he immediately pulled him back, and said in a deep voice:
"They first set your guilt as 'secret rebellion, intentional rebellion', which is to make it clear that they want you to return to Beijing to accept the court's questioning. As for what, suing you for sending troops to pretend to be a cloud army to slaughter, it is nothing more than killing you It’s just that the suspicion is involved, so that you will not dare to send people to exterminate them!"

After hearing what King Jin said, King Qi couldn't help but sneer, and said:
"Third brother, they are still afraid that I will suddenly send troops to intercept and kill them! Sure enough, to deal with these people, I have to use the steel knife in my hand!"

King Jin took a deep breath, did not reply, and began to ponder how to deal with this matter in his mind.

"Report!" came another urgent voice.

The messenger quickly ran up to King Qi, cupped his hands and said:
"Commander, Wuzhou has sent a message that Sanping Pass has already been occupied by the Yun Army! The Yun Kingdom cavalry you ordered to capture captured Sanping Pass after cooperating with the Yun Army."

Is it because of the battle of Sanping Pass that Xiao Cheng led more than a thousand cavalry to directly attack Sanping Pass?
Therefore, in order to avoid the blame from King Qi, the general of Wuzhou finally had someone polish the battle report before reporting it, which is what King Qi heard now.

It's just that no matter how much the person who handled the report polishes it up, the southwest gate, Sanping Pass, is still lost. This is not a fact that can be changed just by polishing it up.

Upon hearing the news, King Qi's already ugly face turned dark again.

"Trash! With so many generals, they can't stop more than a thousand cavalry even though they have set up a net all over the border?"

King Jin let out a long sigh and didn't speak for a long time.

He doesn't know how to fight, but there are some things he knows much better than King Qi!
In the first battle of Yunguo, soldiers and generals were lost.Another cloud army harassed the hinterland, and the southwestern general family impeached King Qi.In addition, it must be added now that Sanping Pass, the southwest gateway, fell.

Many things are superimposed, and for King Qi, the ending of returning to Beijing to question his crime and be punished is already unchangeable.

"It's over!" King Qi said with a hint of unwillingness.

Sanping Pass and Jianchang Mansion, one is just a pass, and the other is the state capital, there seems to be no comparison at all.

But there is one thing, the status of the two sides is almost the same!
Jianchang Mansion is an important city of Yun Kingdom guarding the northern border, without it, the northern border of Yun Kingdom would completely open the door to Xia Kingdom!

And Sanping Pass is also the most important gateway in the southwest of Xia Kingdom.This place is in the hands of the Yun army, which means that the southwestern hinterland will be harassed by the Yun army at any time.

The two countries are pinching each other for such an important place, but they are temporarily unable to attack with all their strength. The final result, at most, is that the two sides will stop fighting and return the territory.

This is why King Qi said it was over!
Although King Qi had never considered attacking Yun Kingdom as his main purpose before.But now that tens of thousands of soldiers have been lost, and the result is a strike and peace, how can he be willing?

King Jin sighed softly and said:
"Forget it, now that the Southwest General's power has been greatly damaged, it can be regarded as quite a gain!"

King Qi hesitated for a moment, pondered for a moment, and then showed determination, saying:

"How can it be so easy? The southwestern generals have a deep foundation, as long as they are given a chance to breathe, their power will spread all over the southwestern frontier army again in a short time. I will never allow this to happen!"

King Jin looked at King Qi with steadfast eyes, thinking of his character, his breath suddenly stagnated.

(End of this chapter)