At the end of October, the Xiliang army invaded the Central Plains and attacked Bianjing.
At the same time, Jiang Yuntian led the Western Expedition army out of Lanzhou to attack Fengxiang Mansion. The two major navies of Jingdong and Huainan went out of the Bohai Bay to encircle the points for reinforcements and contain the Dijon army.
Under the propaganda of the troupe, Ma Wei gained a bad reputation. People with lofty ideals from all over the country enthusiastically joined the army and joined the ranks of conquering the national traitors. For a time, the confrontation between the north and the south reached its peak.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the south is full of new soldiers. Due to financial shortfalls and insufficient weapons and equipment, the Xiliang army in the north has artillery and muskets, and Xiliang is originally a border guard force with rich combat experience. Due to various factors, Bianjing only Can be forced to defend.
The Western Expedition army led by Jiang Yuntian in the west has stronger combat effectiveness and adopts an active offensive strategy.
As long as Bianjing can resist the Xiliang army's offensive, within three months at most, the Western Expedition army will be able to break through Fengxiang Mansion and point directly at Chang'an City. By then, the Xiliang army stationed in Luoyang will surely withdraw to Chang'an.
In the past two months at the end of the year, Song Che traveled around, calling on the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce and various merchants in the south of the Yangtze River to donate money to the army and deliver large quantities of war supplies.
On October 22nd, under the raging war, the shopping festival was held as scheduled. Southern states and counties enthusiastically settled in, and the low prices and discounts on goods attracted a large number of customers to spend, and the country's fiscal revenue also increased linearly.
Until the end of December, when the shopping festival was over, Song Che had not carefully calculated how much wealth he had created, but including the lottery business, the property the South had contributed to the country in the past two months must have far exceeded 10 million.
When you have money, war will naturally be easier to fight.
As a steady stream of troops and supplies were transported to the front line, Bianjing, which had been defending for nearly a month, also turned from defense to offense and began to attack Luoyang.
In the spring of the fourth year of Tianyuan, on the third day of the first lunar month, the Western Expeditionary Army captured Fengxiang Mansion. At the same time, the Hu people defeated the Xiqiang and the army was stationed at the border of Yongxing Road. The Bianjing army besieged Luoyang City on three sides. The navy of Daliang harassed Dijon, and the naval battle was repeatedly warned.
The balance of victory began to tip towards the south.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Song Che took Guo Shuyun and Ning Yehong on the passenger ship to Jinling, preparing to complete their final mission.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Song Che arrived in Jinling, and Liao Heng personally greeted him at the dock.
"How, how, is it a boy or a girl?" Song Che grabbed Liao Heng's hand and asked as soon as he got off the boat.
Liao Heng sighed: "Unfortunately, it's a boy."
"What! The princess really gave birth to a son for him!" Song Che greeted with a smile: "Come on, let's go and have a look!"
So, everyone moved to the prime minister's house.
During the period of pregnancy, Zhao Qin lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion and was taken care of by Lingzhi.
"As expected of Brother Jiang's son, he's so fat!" Song Che hugged the infant baby and said to Ning Yehong beside him, "How about letting him be our home-in-law son-in-law?"
Ning Yehong smiled and said, "I think it will work!"
Milkman snorted twice.
"Lo and behold, he agreed."
"Hehehe..."
"I heard that the princess had given birth. Wenjun specially made some clothes and these diapers... Oh, by the way, these tonic prescriptions for confinement were specially prepared by me from the miracle doctor Jian Saixian. , eating it ensures that you will recover like a girl after childbirth.”
Song Che asked his servants to move all the large boxes of belongings to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Zhao Qin thanked him repeatedly, and then hurriedly pulled Song Che and Liao Heng to the side, looking anxious: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, when will Jiang Yuntian... come back?"
Liao Heng glanced at Song Che, "Only Brother Song can give an accurate answer on this kind of thing."
Song Che pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and said in a reassuring tone: "Princess, don't worry, I will definitely bring Brother Jiang back to reunite you, mother and son, in February."
Hearing this promise, Zhao Qin suddenly became enlightened and said with a smile: "Lingzhi and I have decided to take our son to Hangzhou for confinement tomorrow. It won't disturb my sister and their business, right?"
Song Che said with a smile: "I am on vacation at the beginning of the year. My business is not busy, and the Lantern Festival is coming soon. I just want them to take you to play. All the expenses will be recorded in my account!"
"Great, great!"
Subsequently,
Song Che and Liao Heng walked in the courtyard and discussed some matters.
"Since mid-December last year, six edicts have been sent from Chang'an, saying that war is a waste of people and money, demanding an immediate end to the war, and asking me to go to Luoyang for negotiations," Liao Heng said.
"What are we talking about? Do you want to talk about taking turns to sit in the country?" Song Che just thought it was a joke, "The more they ask for a ceasefire, the greater the internal contradictions;
Who is Mawei? People who are obsessed with profit.
What is the Xiliang Army? A mixed army of dragons and snakes.
Even if you give up the country and Zhao Sui is reinstated as emperor, his imperial power will be eclipsed by Ma Wei in the future. At that time, Ma Wei can really hold the emperor and command the princes. After a long time, this thief will usurp the throne and establish himself. "
"Brother Song, if Mawei defends Chang'an, will the war end in February?" Liao Heng was slightly worried.
Song Che snorted with disdain, "Ma Wei is qualified to defend Chang'an? What reason is there for him to defend Chang'an?
Now our two armies of nearly 600,000 people are attacking Chang'an City. The Xiliang Army's losses in the past few months are probably less than 100,000, and since November last year, Chang'an has been cut off from all supplies. , this is already an empty city,
Furthermore, the reason why Ma Wei rebelled was because he wanted to support Zhao Sui so that he could be promoted to a higher position after the restoration. But now that Zhao Sui's failure was a foregone conclusion, what reason did he have to support a useless person who could not bring him any benefits? Where is the king?
However, Ma Wei has become a national traitor that everyone wants to beat, and the Liang Dynasty has no other place to stand. If he wants to survive, he will definitely abandon the city and flee outside the customs.
Asler, the new leader of the Hu tribe, has surrendered to our government. The Xiqiang country is too weak to accept the national thieves, so Mawei can only flee to Dijon to ask for asylum;
At present, Dijon has been restrained by our navy. If he dares to send troops to respond to Mawei, our navy can directly land in the Bohai Bay.
The Dijon people couldn't be that stupid to give up their own bay for a national traitor that everyone shouted to beat. "
"Listening to Brother Song's analysis for a while, it was like an enlightenment. It made me enlightened and all the worries in my heart disappeared!" Liao Heng took out an imperial edict from his sleeve with a smile, held it up and shouted:
"Song Che accepts the order!"
"Are you so serious? Okay, I'll take it!"
"I will appoint you as the Imperial Envoy to go to Chang'an to hunt for the sky, eliminate the traitors in the country, and welcome back the Supreme Emperor!"
"I accept the decree!"
Song Che took the imperial edict with both hands, opened it and glanced at it, looking at Liao Heng in shock: "This edict..."
Except for the imperial seal, there is not a single word in the edict.
Liao Heng smiled and said: "You can fill in whatever you want in this wordless edict."
"Then I...fill in three thousand beauties, okay?"
"As long as you can bear the burden, I will give you not just three thousand beauties, but thirty thousand!"
"Hahaha... Thank you for your gift, Your Majesty. I am determined to fulfill my mission and regain Chang'an!"
