I, Altria, only want to rule China.

By then, the two sides will unite and attack Wei together, and the Han Dynasty will be able to recover its territory in no time.

But now that Liya has established a country, this matter is a bit difficult. It has never happened in history that a monarch married a woman from another country.

Therefore, after receiving this news, the State of Song immediately cut off contact with the State of Wu. In the view of the State of Song, since the State of Wu also wants to establish its rule in the Central Plains, it depends on who has the harder fist.

Although your territory seems to be very large now, don’t forget that although your territory is large, its population is fake.

At most, there are only 200 million people. If they want to compete with Song and Wei, they are still a little short. After all, their population base is small. Even if Wu suddenly has those firearms, they have also started to look for the production methods of such things.

They just didn't believe that they couldn't get the information about how to make gunpowder from the Wu State.

So, it is still unknown who will win!

Of course, although the trade relations with Liya were cut off, the Song State had no plans to go to war with Liya for the time being. After all, both sides regarded themselves as the Han Dynasty and were Han people. Therefore, the Wei regime headed by the Tuoba clan was their number one enemy.

Therefore, whether it was Liya or the Song State, both sides knew in their hearts that the things between them could be discussed later, and they should first eliminate the Tuoba regime.

It’s just like the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Although the rebels all had their own ulterior motives, they were all focused on fighting against the Yuan Dynasty. When the Yuan Dynasty was no longer able to do so, it was time for everyone to compete with each other.

On the other hand, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, who was in his 50s, heard that Liya had ascended the throne in Chang'an, so he immediately summoned all the ministers and talked about the matter.

"That girl from Hexi has now ascended the throne and called herself the emperor. She named her country Wu. It seems that she feels that she has grown strong enough. The funny thing is that she is just a woman, but she actually wants to be the emperor. It is really ridiculous."

However, the ministers below did not dare to say anything. In recent years, although Tuoba Tao had made use of Han people and promoted sinicization during his reign, he had made many contributions to social development.

However, years of war led to heavy burdens on the people, increased social contradictions, and continuous ethnic resistance and peasant uprisings.

Although most of the rebellions had been suppressed, the most serious one in Hexi was even impossible to eliminate.

Last year, Pi Baozi led 50,000 elite troops to quell the rebellion, but not only was he defeated, he even lost the interior of the country. One can imagine how angry Tuoba Tao was.

However, this matter was not over yet, as another Eastern Palace incident occurred in Wei.

Chapter 103: Wei State Sends Troops Again

When the crown prince Tuoba Huang was supervising the state affairs, he was shrewd and perceptive.

However, Zong Ai was sinister and violent by nature, and had committed illegal acts many times, so Tuoba Huang often expressed his disgust towards Zong Ai.

The Imperial Censor Qiu Ni Daosheng and the Assistant Minister Ren Pingcheng served in the Prince's Eastern Palace. Both were quite powerful, and both of them had a bad relationship with Zong Ai.

So in the first year of Zhengping (451), Zong Ai was afraid that Qiu Ni Daosheng and others would expose his illegal behavior, so he falsely accused them of crimes to Emperor Taiwu.

Emperor Taiwu was furious and ordered that Qiu Ni Daosheng and others be tied up and beheaded in the streets as a warning to all. Most of the officials in the Eastern Palace were also executed.

On June 15 of the same year, Tuoba Huang also died of fear and anger.

This incident can be said to have implicated many people, and some people are still afraid of it. It is said that Emperor Taiwu is missing his son now. What will happen to Zong Ai, the central figure in this incident?

Once Emperor Taiwu takes action against Zong Ai, no one knows how many people in the Northern Wei court will be implicated. So now almost everyone is in danger and no one has the mood to care about other people's affairs.

Seeing that no one in the court dared to speak, Emperor Taiwu snorted coldly. Doesn't he know what these people are thinking?

However, no matter what, this girl is planning to ride on their heads, and this matter cannot be ignored.

According to what Pi Baozi brought back last time, the other party had mastered a weapon called gunpowder.

According to Pi Baozi, it is a weapon that can explode and injure people when thrown out, called a grenade.

Although it can knock down a group of people at once, because it is a weapon that relies on human power to throw, it cannot be thrown too far, and its range is not as far as that of an archer.

Another thing called artillery

The range is long, but the firing speed is not fast, and the most it can do to kill people is to smash them into pieces, which is not a big deal.

Finally, there was the big explosion.

Afterwards he sent people to investigate and learned that the enemy had dug tunnels in the ground and buried gunpowder in advance, and then used cannons to ignite the gunpowder, which led to the annihilation of the entire army.

He firmly believed that as long as these things were sorted out, it was not impossible to fight.

After thinking all this through, Tuoba Tao decided to send another 100,000 troops to attack the State of Wu to see if he could force the other side to surrender.

After considering the problem of generals, Tuoba Tao re-employed Pi Baozi. Although this guy lost the last battle, he was the only one who knew the weapons used by the enemy. If he replaced him with someone else, he was really afraid of a repeat of the previous defeat.

However, Pi Baozi could not serve as the main general, but only as a staff officer. As for the main general, Tuoba Tao used his nephew, Tuoba Ming.

For Pi Baozi, he didn't want to go, as the last battle really scared him. But the emperor's order was hard to disobey, so he had to accept the order against his will and began to prepare to attack Wu State.

The mobilization of an army of 100,000 could not be concealed, and soon Leah received the news that the Wei State was planning to go on an expedition and attack them.

Now that she has established her capital in Chang'an, it is very close to Luoyang, and these 100,000 troops may arrive soon.

Leah also started preparing early.

In this way, after a month, the 100,000-strong army from Wei State had assembled and arrived near Tongguan, with a logistics support force of as many as 50,000 people, which showed the other side's determination to defeat them this time.

Some civil and military officials who saw the army outside the city for the first time were a little panicked. This time, Wei State brought 3 soldiers, but there were only soldiers in Tongguan. There was almost no possibility of victory in a head-on battle.

Fortunately, Leah didn't seem to be worried at all, and she looked very calm. Their panicked mood gradually calmed down.

Liya took over the command from Li Lin and stood on the city wall, quietly directing the soldiers to defend the city.

Morgan was watching Leah's command from the side, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and he saw everything Leah did.

This was her first time watching someone command troops, so it would always do good to learn more.

Although the enemy army this time numbered 100,000 and looked aggressive, Tongguan had natural barriers to defend and there were also 30,000 soldiers here, so it was impossible for the enemy to attack the city.

It would be a pipe dream to want to capture the city gate without more than five times their number of troops.

Seeing that the city gates were closed and it was already late in the day, it was not suitable to attack the city. The Wei soldiers just cursed a few times at the gate and quickly left.

However, the enemy troops did not go too far away, but chose to split into three groups, surrounded them, and then set up camp a few miles away.

Liya looked at the soldiers a few miles away and thought for a while. Although they only needed to defend Tongguan, there was no need to defend the city all the time.

Because the other party's posture clearly showed that they wanted to fight a protracted war with them, and a protracted war would be very disadvantageous for Leah's side.

The small number of people means that they will not have too much food. Although Leah's method of distributing land has allowed people to have surplus food at home, the taxes she collects are also low, which means that there is not much food in the treasury.

Unless she forcibly collects grain, but that would conflict with her policy.

Leah thought about it and came up with an idea.

Since the other party was determined to besiege the city, she might as well launch a surprise attack at night and try to assassinate the enemy's main general.

By then, once the enemy's main general is dead, the 100,000-strong army will collapse without a fight.

"General Li, have your soldiers prepare for a night attack tonight. I want to assassinate the enemy's main general." After thinking about it, Liya knew what to do.

"Your Majesty, you want to assassinate the enemy's main general?" Li Lin's expression was so wonderful when he heard this.

"Yeah." Leah nodded.

Although Li Lin had seen Liya break through the city gate with one sword before, he felt that it was too risky to assassinate the enemy's commander alone this time: "But if that's the case... isn't it too dangerous?"

You have to know that the enemy is divided into three groups. If you attack one of them, the other two groups will be surrounded and killed.

"Don't worry, there's nothing dangerous about this. All you have to do is prepare for the raid." Leah said confidently.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Lin managed to calm himself down and went downstairs to prepare.

.....+

On a quiet night, no one knew that death was coming.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, the whole camp was suddenly engulfed in fire. No one knew where the flames came from, it seemed to have appeared there suddenly, and more camps were burned down in more places.

The soldiers who were resting and sleeping were all terrified at this moment. The raging sea of ​​fire before their eyes was like the call of the god of death, so they all fled from their barracks and fell into chaos.

Many cavalrymen, as soon as they found their horses, could not wait to lead the way out. Outside the camp was endless darkness, and behind countless soldiers was a hell of fire.

Chapter 104: The British Trio

"Kill!!!" Another round of shouting and killing sounded, and there were several explosions of fire. A large number of soldiers running in the front fell down suddenly.

Everyone was shocked, and those who were already frightened began to run in another direction. Many of them didn't even know which direction the enemy was.

"Stop it, don't panic!"

Several generals seemed to want to regroup the troops, but in such a dark night, with tens of thousands of people fleeing for their lives, who would care?

An adult man in armor came out of the tent. Looking at the messy camp, his brows knitted together.

"General, it's chaos, everything is in chaos!" Seeing the backbone come out, several generals hurriedly surrounded him.

"These are all evil schemes of the enemy. Kill a few people first." The man called the general frowned when he saw some soldiers rushing into his camp.

"Yes, General!" Seeing the general speak, the generals also became murderous. They caught a few soldiers who were shouting there and killed them on the spot, barely intimidating those soldiers who were still shouting.

Just when these generals were planning to gather their troops again to resist the enemy, a sword wind came from a strange angle and attacked the enemy's Tuoba Ming among the thousands of troops.

Tuoba Ming seemed to sense it, and instantly drew his sword and held it forward. With a "clang" sound, Tuoba Ming took several steps back. His face looked very pale and he looked injured.

"Huh?" A slightly surprised voice sounded around.

"General! The enemy is attacking!" Seeing the general suddenly being attacked, several generals quickly surrounded their general and looked around nervously.

But there was a chaotic crowd all around them and they had no idea where the enemy came from.

"There!" Tuoba Ming pointed to a pillar in the distance.

The generals looked towards the pillar and saw a white figure standing on it.

"It's the enemy's assassin!" Seeing this, the generals shouted nervously.

"Call the experts who are accompanying the army over!" Upon seeing this, Tuoba Ming immediately ordered.

Among these 100,000-strong army, there are not only generals and soldiers, but also masters from the civilian population. The role of these people is to protect the safety of the generals.

"No need to shout. I have already dealt with them all in their sleep." Leah slowly descended from the sky and stopped ten meters away from these generals.

"Did you plan all this?" Seeing that Liya dared to keep such a close distance with them, Tuoba Ming frowned and asked Liya.

He was obviously an assassin, yet he dared to get so close to them. He was simply so confident.

One of the generals saw that Leah was so close to them, so he rushed towards her with his sword. However, he had only taken a few steps when Leah swung out a magical slash, splitting the opponent in half.

"Hiss!" Seeing this scene, the other generals took a breath of cold air. The sword energy was released, which required a master at least above the innate level to do.

This girl is so young, yet she is already a master above the innate level. Her future achievements are terrifying to think about.

"Are you the empress of Wu Kingdom?" Tuoba Ming looked at the girl's appearance and suddenly thought of something. He pointed at Liya and said

"You guessed it. Are you smart? Now if you can catch me, you may win." Leah smiled.

"Damn it!" Seeing that Leah actually looked down on them so much, they also had blood in their veins. Immediately, several generals drew their weapons and rushed towards Leah.

However, what responded to them were a few dark purple bombs thrown by Leah, and these generals just lay on the ground wailing.

As for why Leah, who has never learned magic, can suddenly throw something like magic bullets, everyone who understands will understand.

"What kind of magic?"

This move of Leah directly shocked the group of people. The ability displayed by Leah was a dimensionality reduction attack to the group of generals.

As time went on, the shouting and screaming became closer and closer. Many charging soldiers had already arrived here, but these soldiers were all Leah's army.

As the enemy was caught by surprise and there were no generals from Wei to take command, they had no idea what was going on and the situation was now in chaos.

"Sir, the general's main camp seems to have been attacked by the enemy. What should we do?" The shouting and killing sounds in the distance naturally attracted Pi Baozi's attention. Seeing this situation, he knew that the enemy had launched a surprise attack at night.

"Support immediately!" Pi Baozi didn't say much, and immediately asked his men to assemble the troops and prepare to support the enemy.

Just when Pi Baozi and his men were getting ready to support the coach's tent, pink petals suddenly fell from the sky, as if it was raining petals, but no one noticed this scene, which was very strange.

Just as these troops gathered and headed towards the main camp, they suddenly saw a vast expanse of white in front of them. They kept walking and walking, and finally returned to the starting point.

They continued to move forward, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not get out of the fog. They seemed to be trapped by something!

The last enemy force, a veiled woman suddenly appeared here. She looked at the enemy camp silently, and saw groups of soldiers patrolling around.

Morgan saw this and stretched out her hand. A dark purple ball of lightning kept flashing in her palm. Then she threw the dark purple ball of lightning directly into the sky above the camp.

The thunder ball immediately turned into dozens of thunders. The dark purple lightning fell from the sky like a net, all falling on the soldiers in the camp.

The soldiers' screams immediately attracted the attention of other tents, "Enemy attack!"

The horn was blown, and the soldiers who were still sleeping immediately ran out of the tents quickly.

But what greeted them was not the enemy, but the butcher knife from friendly forces!

The killed Wei soldiers stood up again, waving their weapons, and suddenly rushed towards the unprepared soldiers on the side, and then stabbed the Wei soldiers in the stomach with a knife.