Chapter 426: The Battle to Pacify the World
After the child was born, Yan Xingchuan and Cui Si stayed in Yunzhou City for a full year. They even celebrated the child's first birthday, and then Yan Xingchuan sent the mother and child back to Xianyang City.
Two months ago, Jiang Shao rebelled in the Imperial City, captured the Imperial City and forced the old emperor to abdicate.
Duke Ping, who was tied down in the south to recover lost territory, was furious and turned around to lead his troops back, determined to retake the imperial city.
The father and son became complete enemies and fought to the death.
Beiyan naturally cannot miss such a good opportunity.
Yan Xingchuan sent his wife and children back to Beiyan City and entrusted them to the care of the Cui family. He also left enough people for protection. He stayed in Xianyang City for only two days before rushing to Miaozhou.
In July of the same year, just as the father and son of the Jiang family were fighting, the Northern Yan army crossed the Piaomiao River by boat and headed straight for Miaozhou to go to war with the Great Zhou.
Seeing this good opportunity, the kings of the southwest immediately joined forces to attack the seven southwestern states.
However, as soon as the kings' armies arrived at the border, they were stopped by the Northern Yan army.
Yan Xingchuan attacked the Great Zhou, bringing with him the brothers Shen Sui and Shen Mo, the brothers Cui Jing and Cui Yi, and many generals, while Shangguan Tong and General Cheng and his men were stationed in the southwest.
The armies of the southwestern kings joined forces, and although they were not forced to flee in panic, they did not make any progress at all.
You know, now as long as we stop the armies of the kings and wait for Yan Xingchuan and others to capture the Great Zhou, these people will be finished.
The kings in the southwest went crazy and decided to fight to the death, to tear open a hole in the southwest and fight for their own survival.
However, it was at this time that civil unrest suddenly broke out in the states of the southwestern kings. Many people took advantage of the fact that the kings' armies were not in the country, rose up in rebellion, and quickly captured the cities.
Now, the road ahead is blocked and the backyard is on fire, so there is no way to continue playing.
If they attack ruthlessly and cannot defeat the enemy in front, and if they retreat to put out the fire in the backyard first, the enemy in front will definitely chase them, and then they will be attacked from both sides, which will be very frightening.
What's more, when they were hesitating, they were stabbed in the back by their allies and were caught off guard.
It turned out that someone had defected to Beiyan early on and became a traitor behind the scenes.
Now, being surrounded on three sides, the situation has become even worse.
Soon, some people could no longer hold on and surrendered to protect themselves and their families.
Once someone surrenders, the enemy's strength will decrease and ours will increase, giving us the advantage.
In the past two years, Northern Yan has been recuperating and has not only been restoring production, but also storing grain and training strong soldiers. Shangguan Tong, Cui Jing and others have discussed it several times and have already arranged everything that can be arranged.
Even Cui Si gave some suggestions.
Jiang Shao rose from a suppressed and defeated general to rebel. Behind this, there was also someone who pushed him onto this path.
If it were the Jiang Shao of the past, he might have calmly analyzed whether this path was safe or not, but he was already a little crazy at that time. He was driven crazy by the Duke of Pingguo, by the humiliation of being a defeated general, and by the ambition of supreme imperial power.
However, compared to General Shangguan Tongcheng playing power games with the kings in the southwest, Yan Xingchuan, Chen Sui and others were much more direct in attacking the Great Zhou.
Those who surrender will be judged for their merits and demerits. Those who have made contributions will not be killed, but those who have committed mistakes will be killed.
Those who refuse to surrender will be killed all the way.
It's a pity that when the battle was halfway through, Duke Ping and Jiang Shao finally realized that if they continued like this they would die, so the father and son, who had been enemies and fighting each other to the death, put aside their past grudges and joined forces to resist the Northern Yan army.
The road to the Imperial City took twenty-seven years in the previous life, starting from the time Yan Xingchuan rebelled and proclaimed himself king in Beiyan City.
That year, he was ten years old and his family suffered a disaster. At the age of eleven, he fled back to Beiyan City and then started an uprising for revenge. It took him ten years before he went south to Pingzhou. After going south, it took him another seventeen years to reach the imperial city.
And in this life, he is even faster.
It also took ten years before he went south, and four years later to recover Yuanzhou, Yunzhou, Miaozhou and other places. Four years later, when his son was just one year old, he led his army across the Piaomiao River and headed straight for Lizhou, marching all the way north.
This journey took another three years.
Ten years passed, then four years, then three years passed again. By the time he reached the outskirts of the imperial city, seventeen years had passed.
It was a very cold winter that year, with heavy snow covering the mountains.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Jiang Shao also chose to commit suicide, intending to put an end to it all, but was eventually stopped by Duke Ping.
As for Duke Ping, he had long wanted to die since his beloved daughter died. In the past few years, in order to overthrow the Great Zhou, he used the Great Zhou to bury his daughter. In later years, knowing that his grandson was still alive, he wanted to regain the territory of the Great Zhou and leave everything to his grandson.
It's a pity that he played too big at the beginning, which led to him losing control of the final result and ultimately failing miserably.
A letter came from Duke Ping, saying that he was willing to open the city gates and surrender, and that he and his son could be left to the disposal of Northern Yan, but before he died, he wanted to see Jiang Cinian.
Yan Xingchuan asked Cui Jing and Shen Mo to come over to discuss countermeasures.
Cui Jing said: "Meet one person, avoid a battle, and exchange for a city. This is a very cost-effective deal. However, if Mr. Jiang shows up and his identity is known, I'm afraid there will be big trouble."
Not many people know about Jiang Cinian's identity. The Cui family, Yan Xingchuan and others, as well as the Duke Ping's Mansion, have not publicized it.
Jiang Shao wanted to spread the news and even planned to send a wedding gift to Jiang Cinian. Unfortunately, it was robbed by Yan Xingchuan's men. Later, he was warned by Duke Pingguo and did not dare to do it anymore.
"If you go quietly, it's possible."
Chen Mo frowned. "That's not right. Since he's already stayed out of this, we shouldn't involve him anymore. Besides, no matter how bad the Duke of Ping is, he's sincere to him. If he were to ask the Duke of Ping to surrender and die, he'd probably be upset."
Yan Xingchuan said, "These are all my concerns. I'm wondering if there's a way to have both."
Yan Xingchuan didn't want to use Jiang Cinian, but he also felt that it was better to avoid fighting if possible. Too many people had died along the way.
"Cui Jing, think about it again."
When it comes to quick thinking, no one is better than Cui Jing.
Cui Jing stretched out his hand and frowned, feeling it was difficult. Although those who accomplished great things did not care about trivial matters, those who held power should not be too kind and loyal. When necessary, they had to give up some things for the sake of the overall situation.
But they have not yet developed that cold look, and still want to be a person who is worthy of heaven and earth.
They try to find a way to have the best of both worlds.
Cui Jing thought for a moment and said, "The Lord wrote him a letter and told him that if Jiang Cinian showed up and his identity was discovered by someone with ulterior motives, he might die. Now that Jiang Cinian is staying out of the matter, please don't bother him anymore."
"Furthermore, promise him that after he dies, his remains will be burned to ashes and buried next to his wife and daughter."
In order to overthrow the Great Zhou, Duke Ping had buried his daughter with him over the years, and no one knew how many people he had killed. I'm afraid he couldn't get a complete body.
The only thing he could give him was to let him accompany his wife and daughter after he was burned to ashes.
In this way, everything has nothing to do with Jiang Cinian.
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