In that splendid palace, literati and military men quarreled, literati and literati quarreled, and the military men attached to the literati's wings would also quarrel with the military men. Almost everyone seemed to be loyal to the country, and everyone's opinions were fair and upright. So everyone seemed so happy and enthusiastic, and there was nothing wrong with that.
In this form, Jiang Si, the empress of Western Chu, remained silent, sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall, watching all this happen indifferently.
With Jiang Si no longer in charge of politics, the battle in the Western Chu temple became more and more intense.
At the same time, unfavorable news continued to come back from the front line. Although the Xichu Navy led by Gu Dazu had another great victory, the navy had already lost more than half of it due to the accumulation of losses in many battles.
However, the Qingzhou Navy has Li Yang's full support and does not care about the lives of civilians.
Countless giant trees were transported from remote jungles to the shipyard on Jing'an Road.
With the craftsmen working overtime, they built Qinglong and even Huanglong level battleships and sent them to the front line in batches.
The price was that hundreds of thousands of civilian craftsmen died in heavy labor.
It corresponds to the saying, "When things prosper, the people suffer. When they die, the people suffer."
Li Yang did not care about the cost, and a group of experienced sailors grew up under the baptism of war and blood.
The Xichu Navy, which had suffered a lot of losses and could not get effective replacement, faced the increasingly powerful Qingzhou Navy, and was increasingly at a drop in the bucket.
Seeing that the Qingzhou Navy had gained an advantage, Lu Xiangsheng commanded more than 200,000 troops and began to prepare for crossing the river.
As for the Battle of the West Barrier, even though Zhang Bianguan and other famous Xichu generals worked together and tried their best, facing the most luxurious lineup in Liyang composed of Chen Zhibao, Gu Jiantang and other generals from the Spring and Autumn Period, it became more and more difficult.
With each battle, Xi Chu lost more and more soldiers.
This made Xichu, whose military strength was already at a disadvantage, even more unfavorable.
At this time, more than 300,000 people in Jing'an Road who could no longer endure Liyang's cruel oppression launched an uprising, killing the soldiers who were guarding them, burning the shipyard and unfinished warships, opening the armory, and arming Own.
Because the troops of the second line were concentrated under Lu Xiangsheng, the defense was weak.
In just a few days, the rebel army composed of civilians attacked numerous cities and villages and killed local county officials.
When Li Yang got the news, the government and the public were shocked.
This is the first large-scale rebellion among the people since Liyang ruled the world for more than 20 years.
Moreover, he still picked this critical moment when Chu was about to be destroyed.
Even Zhao Zhuan, the emperor of Liyang, looked very ugly after receiving the news.
If Lu Xiangsheng's troops were transferred back to quell the rebellion, Li Yang's hard-earned advantage would be in vain.
Fortunately, King Zhao Xun of Jingan came forward and was willing to personally lead the reorganized Qingzhou Army of 50,000 to put down the rebellion.
Liyang readily agreed and appointed Zhao Xun as the commander-in-chief to lead the Qingzhou Army and a few county soldiers to put down the rebellion.
The counter-rebellion process went smoothly at first. Although the Qingzhou Army was defeated by the Beiliang Army before, after more than a year of cultivation, and Zhao Xun absorbed the lessons from the previous defeat, he purchased elite soldiers and heavy armor, and practiced day and night. More powerful than ever.
He fought against the rebels and won several battles in a row.
A total of 200,000 rebels were defeated before and after, and more than 50,000 civilians were captured.
Because most of the troops in Jing'an Road are on the front line, in order to prevent the rebels from resurrecting. In order to intimidate the dissatisfied people and husbands of Jing'an and Jiangnan.
After Zhao Xun asked for instructions from Liyang Temple, he killed 50,000 civilians.
For a moment, Jing'an and Jiangnan were shaken.
Because of the heavy labor and wars in the past, almost every household in Erdao wore linen and mourning.
But because of the previous intimidation, most people dared not speak out.
Liyang's approach did work.
Therefore, the remaining rebels did not dare to go out of the city to fight. They stayed in the city and waited for Zhao Xun to lead his troops to knock them out one by one.
Within a month, the huge Jing'an Dao Uprising was about to be extinguished by Zhao Xun.
At this moment, Beiliang, which had been silent for nearly half a year, made a move.
Autumn is the fourth year of Xiangfu.
Xu Feng annually led 10,000 snow dragon cavalry, 20,000 Liangzhou cavalry, and 20,000 white horse cavalry, for a total of 50,000 cavalry.
Leave Beiliang and go down to Jiangnan.
In Liangzhou City, the civil and military officials of Northern Liang saw him off together.
The young King of Northern Liang gave an order, and after two years, the Northern Liang cavalry would once again gallop through the Central Plains.
What stood in front of Xu Fengnian was the Qingcheng Mountain defense line carefully built by Li Yang.
This line of defense, built by Lu Baijie himself and claimed to be "unbreakable" and "impregnable", has not played any role.
It collapsed under the attack from inside and outside by Beiliang Iron Cavalry and the six thousand soldiers hiding in Qingcheng Mountain.
The Tangxi Sword Immortal himself was even captured after his defeat.
The iron cavalry of Beiliang is the best in the world, and the snow dragon cavalry is the best in Beiliang.
The Xu family's iron cavalry, which shocked the world, during the Spring and Autumn National War, the soldiers' fronts were as powerful as the arrows, fighting all the way from north to south, and then back to the north. This time, they were heading south again.
Now, in the hands of Xu Fengnian, that unparalleled style has once again blossomed.
The Qingcheng Mountain defense line, which Liyang had high hopes for, was breached in less than three days. The Beiliang cavalry broke into Jing'an Road to wait for my news, leaving Tai'an City's morning meeting and the ministers all frowning.
At the court meeting, Emperor Zhao Zhuan even suppressed his overwhelming anger.
Xu Fengnian's move can be said to have hit him three inches above Li Yang.
At this critical moment to destroy Chu, except for the 100,000 elite soldiers who could not move in Liang Liao, there was no elite soldier in the territory who could compete with the Beiliang cavalry.
We can only hope that Cai Nan, the governor of the Lianghuai Road, can cooperate with Zhao Xun's Qingzhou Army to block Xu Fengnian's Beiliang rebel army in Jing'an Road and prevent Beiliang from joining Western Chu.
As early as the early years of Xiangfu, there were rumors in the capital that the Xu family of Northern Liang had harbored evil intentions for a long time, and the fact that they secretly hid the princess of the conquered Chu country was proof of this.
Under the advice of Jin Lanting, the Minister of Rites, the imperial court passed a series of policies on the spot without a small court meeting, and ordered Xu Cong, the defeated general two years ago, to lead 20,000 elite troops from the capital to go south to reinforce Zhao Xun.
Cai Nan led 100,000 troops from counties and counties along the Huaihe River, Zhao Xun's 50,000 Qingzhou troops, and the Xu Communist Party troops who came over. The three parties totaled 170,000 troops.
A decisive battle with the Beiliang cavalry from afar in Huxin County.
Facing the fierce Beiliang elite soldiers, Cai Nan, Zhao Xun, and Xu made the following arrangements after deliberation, and set up the pinzi formation.
The Cai Nan tribe with the largest number of troops was at the front of Pinzi. The purpose was not to kill the enemy, but to resist the charge of the cavalry and wear down the enemy's physical strength at the cost of the lives of county soldiers.
Zhao Xun and Xu Gong, who had fewer troops but were the most elite, formed formations on the left and right of Cai Nan.
As long as Cai Nan's tribe can entangle Xu Fengnian's 50,000 cavalry as they wish, Zhao Xun and Xu Gong can attack from the encirclement on the left and right and trap Xu Fengnian's tribe to death.
