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Chapter 449 When will the teacher enter my harem?
In early May of the first year of Taikang, the bloody Battle of Lujiang, which had lasted for several months, finally came to an end.

Xiao Jin, a member of the Xuanzhong Guard, dug up the West City levee and submerged all the attacking foreign tribes under Shouchun City. Under the command of Xie Lingwan, the well-prepared Dajiang Navy crossed the swollen moat and pursued the enemy. The foreign tribes suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to the camp in Huaibei, returning to a state of confrontation.

The Tuoba royal family's intention to win a quick victory was completely shattered, and the Great Zhou's Jianghuai defense line remained as solid as a rock, firmly protecting the vast land of Huainan.

This exciting news spread from Shouchun at an astonishing speed to all parts of the country. Along with it came the full support of the empress, the fame of Prime Minister Xie, the bravery of Xuan Zhongwei, and the desperate fight of the Northern Palace Army. Countless people were filled with tears, their hearts were filled with passion, and they felt that the depression after the emperor's death had been swept away.

"God bless my Great Zhou!"

The Great Zhou has stood in this world for a thousand years, and it will continue to stand. As long as the ruler and his subjects are of one mind, their country will never perish.

When this news reached the Sanguan camp, it naturally caused everyone to rejoice.

"Wei Lu, Lujiang won! Lujiang won!" Chen Yuxian rushed into the tent with his helmet under his arm, laughing ecstatically, "Wei Lu, your fiancée is really amazing. She actually..."

Inside the big tent, Fang Tang was standing next to Fang Weihan. The two were very close, pointing at the map on the table. When they saw him come in, they both looked up.

Chen Yuxian's voice suddenly stopped: "Ah... Your Majesty, I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Fang Weihan looked at him speechlessly, while Fang Tang smiled gently and kindly:
"General Chen, don't be nervous. Is this the victory report from Lujiang?"

"Yes!"

"Can you show me?"

"Of course." Chen Yuxian tremblingly took out the victory report and handed it to Fang Tang.

"Thank you, General Chen." Fang Tang took the victory report, smiled and waved his hand. Chen Yuxian immediately breathed a sigh of relief and retreated as if he had been pardoned.

For a moment, Fang Tang and Fang Weihan were the only ones left in the big tent, but Fang Weihan felt the air was becoming increasingly stuffy.

"What's written in the victory report?" Fang Weihan asked.

"Just like what teacher said about my prime minister's illegitimate ex-fiancée in the moonlight and reeds." Fang Tang said with a smile.

She used an extra-long attributive to describe their relationship.

Fang Weihan: "..."

With Mingyue Luhua in his possession, he could receive news faster than with Yushu messages. Naturally, he also knew that this battle was not as miraculous as the outside world said.

On the Great Zhou side, the casualties of the Northern Palace's new army were particularly heavy. Almost half of the more than 70,000 city defending troops died after the battle, and the entire northern wall of Shouchun was littered with corpses.

The Shouchun city defenses that had been painstakingly built were reduced to shatters. The Huai River flood affected an area of ​​hundreds of miles, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. The originally prosperous Jianghuai area was now in a state of decline in people's livelihood.

As for the foreign tribes attacking the city, their casualties were even more severe. Due to the damage caused by the flood, it is difficult to accurately estimate their losses. But according to conservative estimates, their casualties should be around 60,000. Half of them were surrendered soldiers from the five northern continents, and half were the foreign tribes' own troops and the Western Regions' vassal legions.

This loss may seem like a lot, but it should be viewed dialectically.

After all, surrendered soldiers and able-bodied men are inexhaustible. As long as the foreigners' holy blessing adds prayers for them, these cowardly Central Plains people will turn into beasts and raise their weapons against their former compatriots. They can be said to be very useful cannon fodder chess pieces. When such people die, the foreign leaders will not feel sorry at all.

Therefore, the actual casualties of the alien race in this battle were only around 30,000, which was roughly equal to the casualties of the Northern Palace's new army - and this was when Xie Lingwan won a surprise victory and took advantage of the time and location.

For the foreign race, although they were defeated in this battle, they had partially achieved their original strategic goal: the defense of Shouchun City was completely destroyed, and when the water receded, Xie Lingwan would not be able to resist the next attack.

As long as the foreign army crossed the Huai River again in half a month, Xie Lingwan and others would have to abandon Shouchun and retreat to Hefei.

Fang Weihan took the victory report, glanced at it and said, "You directly appointed her as prime minister... This is something I didn't expect."

In his memory, Xie Lingwan was also the prime minister of Southern Zhou, but she named herself that. Now the historical trend of this world has changed, Fang Tang traveled from the past, Fang Weihan thought he would never see another childhood sweetheart prime minister, but he didn't expect that they would end up in the same place.

"Then what can I do?" Fang Tang sighed, "Teacher's former fiancée is almost the local emperor of the southern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If I don't make her the prime minister, she will probably drive me off the throne immediately."

"Look at what you said. Is Wanwan the kind of person who doesn't understand things?" Fang Weihan tried to speak for Xie Lingwan.

But as soon as he said this, he regretted it.

As expected, the little queen was immediately saddened upon hearing this: "Yes, she is much more sensible than me. I knew long ago that in the teacher's mind, she is the only one who can be completely trusted. Is she really the one who can make the teacher lose his temper so much?"

Fang Weihan's scalp felt tingling, and he felt as if something heavy was pressing down on his head again.

"I suddenly thought of a question." Fang Weihan began to change the subject and threw a smokescreen, "Now one of you is the king and the other is the prime minister. Will your relationship be characterized by daily fights and bickering?"

"How could that happen?" Fang Tang forced a smile. "Teacher, you don't want that kind of thing to happen, right? On one side is your student, and on the other side is someone like your ex-fiancée."

"Even if it's for the teacher, I won't quarrel with her."

The heavy pressure he had just felt was not relieved, but rather aggravated. He began to sweat profusely.

"Tangtang, what role do you think I play in your court struggle?" Fang Weihan cautiously probed, "Could it be a relative by marriage? Like Dou Xian and Empress Dowager Dou?"

He sighed and said, "When you go back, you must keep a close eye on those historians and never let them ruin my reputation."

"Of course not." Looking at his uneasy look, Fang Tang curled his lips and his mood improved slightly. "Teacher will always be the greatest contributor and his name will be left on the national monument."

Even if Xie Lingwan was cunning and fanned the flames of evil, didn't the teacher bring the Eastern Palace Guards to rescue me from thousands of miles away? This was a fact that Xie Lingwan could not change!

A teacher is always a teacher, and a father is always a father. Fang Weihan may be someone else, but he must have these two identities.

She suddenly walked around to Fang Weihan, reached out her slender hand from her sleeve, and gently took his hand.

"Teacher, do you still remember what you promised me before?" Fang Tang raised his head, his phoenix eyes full of anticipation.

This time the heavy feeling was gone, but Fang Weihan suddenly felt inexplicably uneasy.

What happened? Why doesn't he remember?

"I promised you a lot of things. Which one are you referring to?" he asked cautiously.

"That is... When will you become my husband?" Fang Tang's ears were red. Even the queen who ruled the world would be embarrassed when she said something like "When will you marry me?"

Fang Weihan's expression was slightly stiff.

He now needs to figure out one question, that is, can the Queen's legitimate husband also be the husband of someone else?
If he can't, not to mention that he can't be a legitimate king, it's a serious question whether he can live with dignity. Otherwise, the evil Wanwan will definitely lock herself in the basement. "Your Majesty, I am a military general." Fang Weihan said awkwardly, "I have always admired Huo Qubing, and I appreciate his words 'How can I have a family if the Huns are not destroyed?'"

Bringing up this matter again! Fang Tang glared at him angrily, but then put on a sweet smile:
"Teacher, what you mean is that as long as I defeat the aliens, you will become my legitimate monarch?" Fang Tang asked, looking up.

"You're right, but..."

"Okay, I'll try my best!" Fang Tang interrupted directly, smiling, "For the teacher's promise."

She had said so much, what else could Fang Weihan say? If he showed any sign of denial, Fang Tang would definitely bring up this promise again.

He forced a smile, but in his heart he was thinking about how to come up with a way to have the best of both worlds. Now that the emperor was his student and the prime minister was his childhood sweetheart, it should be nothing wrong to modify the Zhou law and add some clauses to it, right?

Fang Weihan thought it was feasible.

"Are you two here?"

Tao Yunjiang walked in from outside the tent, exhausted, and subconsciously looked at the two people in front of him with some suspicion.

Even though they are siblings, these two are a little too close... Are the relationships between siblings so good nowadays?

It seems that Fang Tang is not planning to let others know about the relationship between her and herself. Could it be that the young master has noticed something?

Fang Weihan secretly thought that something was wrong, but Fang Tang remained calm and continued to smile politely. He even went a step further and took Fang Weihan's arm.

"Yun Jiang, you came at the right time. My brother and I just mentioned you."

Her open and frank attitude actually dispelled Tao Yunjiang's suspicion. Tao Yunjiang then thought that Fang Tang had misunderstood Fang Weihan before. Maybe Fang Weihan's journey to rescue Changming touched her and made her feel guilty and want to make up for it? Maybe, right?

Tao Yunjiang nodded contentedly, her ponytail trembling. Well, I am smart, and her frown relaxed.

"What did you mention about me?"

Tao Yunjiang moved closer and leaned her delicate body against Fang Weihan's other half, the scent of peach blossoms mixed with the fragrance of crabapples.

Fang Tang noticed Tao Yunjiang's little movement, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a spirit of unwillingness to admit defeat emerged in his heart.

She straightened her slender waist calmly and took light steps, almost standing close to Fang Weihan.

"I just want to ask how Yun Jiang's investigation is going?" Fang Tang asked with a smile.

"Thirty miles south of Sanguan, outside Chencang Road, Wang Yu's 100,000-strong army is camped on Qingshui Mountain." Tao Yunjiang had no doubts and told him all the information he had just gathered.

"The army is in disarray and looks strong on the outside but weak on the inside. They are probably just temporary recruits and don't have any strong fighting power."

"That's normal. Yizhou has been peaceful for a long time, and people there have forged swords into plowshares. People there may have long forgotten what war is like." Fang Tang commented, "The Wang family of Shangyuan rebelled against the court and was unpopular. It is inevitable that the army will be demoralized and weak."

"What do you think, brother?" Fang Tang bit her lips lightly, trying to hide the slight tremor in her throat. "Do you think they should be soft?"

"soft."

Fang Weihan felt that the softness she mentioned was not the same as the softness he himself mentioned.

"It looks huge, but in fact it is weak and incomplete. It will surely fall apart once it is hit." Tao Yunjiang analyzed confidently.

The little queen's expression froze slightly, and she gritted her teeth in hatred.

This... This must be a disguised way of talking about her, right?!

"Yun Jiang...are you so confident?" Fang Tang asked through gritted teeth.

"Hahaha, Yun Jiang has always been so confident." Fang Weihan jumped out to smooth things over, "A general must be confident, otherwise wouldn't he be timid before the battle?"

He quickly pulled his arm out from between the two people, and took Tao Yunjiang's hand and squeezed it gently to prevent her from saying anything to provoke Fang Tang.

"Well, I thought about it on the way back." Tao Yunjiang looked at him strangely, as if he didn't know why he pinched himself.

"We don't need to mobilize all our troops to solve the problem of Sanguan this time. I have a better strategy."

Fang Tang and Fang Weihan were both stunned.

So what Tao Yunjiang said was really serious? The two looked at each other, both feeling a little ashamed.

"What strategy? Yun Jiang, tell me!"

Fang Tang walked between the two of them, holding one of them, and his smile became a little more friendly.

"Wang Yu was originally a detachment commander and did not bear the main responsibility. In addition, he was a civilian and did not understand military affairs, so he made a serious and low-level mistake."

Tao Yunjiang pointed to the Hanzhong Valley in the south of Yongzhou.

"He has piled all his 100,000 troops at the Chencang Pass, but the supplies have to be transported over a hundred miles. If this continues, as long as we hold Sanguan Pass, these Shu troops will surely retreat without a fight."

"But now we have to strive for a quick victory. After all, after Wang Boguang has dealt with Fang Ying, his next step will be to advance westward to Tongguan." Fang Tang said.

"Right, so I have a faster way to force them to withdraw."

Tao Yunjiang's fingertips slid across the Qinling Mountains one by one.

"There are five Shu roads. In addition to the Chencang Road, there is the Longshan Road in the west, and the Baoxia Road, Tangluo Road and Ziwu Road in the east."

"The Longshan Road is remote, the Ziwu Road is desolate, and the Baoxiang Plank Road was burned down by Wang Yu, but the Tangluo Road is still there."

Her fingertips finally stopped at a line on the map. Fang Weihan looked along the line and found the words "Tang Valley" and "Luo Valley" marked there.

"Tangluo Road has been in disrepair for a long time and the road condition is poor. It can't bear the march of a large army." Fang Tang was a little worried. "Perhaps this is also a major reason why Wang Yu did not control this road."

"I'm not bringing a large army," Tao Yunjiang said. "I'm only bringing 10,000 infantry."

(End of this chapter)