Prime Minister take care

Chapter 464 Unscrupulous
Xiangcheng.

The water flows in waves and goes far away.

The Xiangshui Defense Line was built by Chu Hou Cai Tong to resist the Liang Army's southward advance.Relying on the special terrain around Xiangcheng and taking advantage of Chu's navy, it resisted the threat from the northern princes.

Jingzhou is the thoroughfare of Jiuzhou. In the past, Duan Hui was based in Nanyang, with the intention of advancing into the Central Plains and plotting the world.As for Cai Tong, who was based in Yingdu, he was completely in a corner.

Of course, it's not that Cai Tong doesn't want to make a difference.To a certain extent, both Jin Xiu and Cai Tong are the heirs of Duan Hui's legacy.The difference is that Cai Tong inherited most of the land in Jingzhou and used it to found the country in Ying, while Jin Xiu inherited the most powerful infantry force under Duan Hui.

Moreover, unlike Cai Tong's robbery, Jin Xiu's foundation was given by Duan Xiao.The predecessor of the Black Caps Army was the Golden Knife Camp under Duan Hui.The combat power of the Chu army was stronger than that of the naval army, but compared with the infantry army, it was completely unable to compete with Jin Xiu.

Over the past ten years, Cai Tong wanted to go north several times, but was blocked by Jin Xiu.He even abandoned his armor and returned defeated.

Then Jin Xiu surrendered to Huan Wu and Liang Jun entered Nanyang, which became the beginning of Cai Tong's nightmare.

Although Jin Xiu was strong, he was constrained by financial and material resources and had no ability to go south to fight against Chu. He could only defend his territory and borders.But Huan Wu was different. If he was willing, he could continuously pour hundreds of thousands of troops into Nanyang to fight the Chu army.

It is precisely because of this that Wu Chu made peace and formed an alliance.Cai Tong devoted all his energy to the Xiangshui defense line to stop Liang Jun.

Cai Tong knew that if Liang Jun was allowed to break through the Xiangshui defense line, the weak Chu infantry on the vast plains going south would not be able to match Liang Jun.

In fact, the dispute between Liang and Chu for more than ten years has revolved around this Xiangshui defense line.Liang Jun often gained the advantage on land, but lost in water battles.Cai Tong went north several times, and the one that was closest to success was to capture Wancheng, but in the blink of an eye he was beaten back by Huan Wu.

Only, this time is different.

After capturing Yongzhou, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty sent troops into Nanyang without even resting, seizing the old control area of ​​​​Liang Jun.

During this period, the Chu army wanted to take the opportunity to seize the land, but they were beaten back mercilessly by the Zhou army.

After that, Yang Xian, who was in Huangcheng, ordered all the troops to come out.

Han Buhuo led the Dongzhou soldiers to pass Kuimen, garrisoned and returned home, and advanced to Pingling.

Samoko led Zhaoye's army out of Dankou, stationed in Rangcheng, and organized the army to gather grain.

Liang Jun surrendered General Guo Wei and led an army of [-] soldiers southward to surround Qingyang.

General Yang An led the Zhechong Army to garrison Wancheng, and the Zhou army even fought several battles with General Zhang Rui's front army stationed in Yangdi on the Che and Ye lines.

Zhang Rui is the head of many generals in the Liang Army, and his troops are powerful.However, in fact, Liang Jun has no ability to intervene in the situation in Nanyang at this moment.

Moving the capital of the Huan family to Shenwuyang Zhai was one of the paths that the Huan family must take. Most of Zhang Rui's energy was concentrated on this matter and he had no time to intervene in the situation in Nanyang.

Of course, now that Zhou Jun has mastered most of the land in Nanyang, it is impossible for Liang Jun to stand up for Cai Tong after all.Because in this way, it will undoubtedly become a full-scale battle between Zhou Jun and Liang Jun.

Neither Zhou Jun nor Liang Jun were ready at this moment.

Standing on the vast city wall of Xiangcheng, with the continuous water flowing below the city, Cai Tong stood with his hands behind his hands, feeling a lot of emotion.

At the same time that the Zhou army marched out, an order from the Emperor Zhou's Xia Palace was sent to Haojing, asking Cai Tong to go to Haojing to see the emperor.Cai Tong was not worried that if he went, Yang Xian would take the opportunity to arrest someone. Yang Xian was not stupid enough.However, in this way, it represented Chu's surrender to the Great Zhou, and it represented that Cai Tong, a prince, formally recognized the Great Zhou as orthodox.

In today's world, the two emperors of Zhou and Liang are juxtaposed. From the source, their legitimacy comes from Emperor Zhou Xia Yunxuan.

Huan Qing's methods were rough, but his gesture was adequate after all.The legitimacy of Daliang came from the abdication of the emperor of Zhou Dynasty. Although the Huan family secretly kept strict surveillance on the Xia clan, they openly treated them favorably.

The Nirvana of Xia Gong was even simpler. After Xia Yunxiao passed away, he directly succeeded to the throne according to his posthumous decree.

In this case, princes like Cai Tong fought with an attitude of not pleasing both sides and not offending both sides, and were not eager to express their stance.

In fact, both Cai Tong and other princes did this.

But now, after Zhou Jun and Liang Deyong, Yang Xian is no longer satisfied with this state, but wants to force Wu and Chu to express their stance. Who does he support?
Cai Tong's eyes were clear, reflecting the ripples of the river, it looked very deep.

Su Zhe died, Huan Wu died, Chang Yu died, and Yang Chun also died.

These powerful opponents were eventually lost in time, but Cai Tong was not happy at all.What happened at that winter banquet seemed to outsiders like a dream.

Cai Tong was on the outside, so naturally he couldn't see everything clearly.But he knew that Chang Yu would not die of old age and illness.

Others don't know, so how could Cai Tong not know.

With Chang Yu's cultivation, who in the world can make him die of illness?
ha!Although he didn't know the inside story, Cai Tong clearly saw that after the rebellion, Huan's [-]-strong Northern Army was wiped out, Liang Army General Guo Wei surrendered, and the [-]-strong army entered Nanyang effortlessly.

From then on, in order to avoid the attack of the Zhou army, the Huan family decided to move the capital.Yang Xian entered Huangcheng and fully activated the Northern Xinjiang defense line that had been lost in time.

"How's it going over there with Hou Tao?"

Fan Yue stood behind Cai Tong. Cai Tong's words reminded the great master of something, and his expression was not good-looking.

"Yang Xian first sent an envoy to Gusu and ordered Hou Tao to go to Beijing to see the emperor. Hou Tao refused, so the envoy went back. However, I heard that the second edict was very harsh. The moment Hou Tao received the edict, his expression changed. They all turned pale. I heard that Hou Tao drew his sword on the spot. If his brother Hou Quan hadn't stopped him, he would have killed the envoy."

"Humph!"

Cai Tong smiled, so coldly.Cai Tong understood very well, what did Yang Xian's actions mean?
"My lord! I heard that Hou Tao, the Lord of Wu, sent a letter to Liang Ting to express his intention to become a minister. At the same time, he was preparing to send an envoy to our country to discuss the matter of jointly resisting the Zhou army."

It was a lie that Hou Tao professed his vassalship, but it was true that he and Chu attacked the Zhou army.Cai Tong knew Hou Tao's mood very well. Both he and Hou Tao were already quite fearful and dissatisfied with the Prime Minister of Zhou Dynasty.

"Now that the world's heroes are dying one after another, the Prime Minister of the Zhou Dynasty, who has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, has become more and more unscrupulous. I, Huan Qing, Hou Tao, and Jing Yun are afraid that we will not be able to join the Prime Minister of the Zhou Dynasty. Eyesight."

Cai Tong put his hands behind his back, looked at the changing clouds in the distance, and said something leisurely.

"Yang Zizhan, Yang Zizhan! Do you really think that no one in the world can cure you now? Hou Tao wants to give Yang Xian eye drops, we might as well cooperate."

(End of this chapter)