Jincheng is the capital of the prefecture, and the inn occupied a large area. However, many buildings in the inn had been removed, and bricks and stone beams were removed and the city walls were used to defend the city. At this time, a blocked earth wall was left in the courtyard, and only a few yards were still preserved.

King Jing Zhao Tuan did not go to bed when he returned to the inn. At this time, he was sitting with Qian Shangduan, Qiao Jien, Zhang Xin and Deng Gui under a pavilion in the small garden, drinking wild tea picked from the banks of the Qinshui River.

Princess Yingyun sat next to King Jing and brewed tea for everyone. From a distance, she saw Xu Huai and Zhu Han and others meeting each other at the door of the inn. She raised her hands to greet her, but she was embarrassed to make a sound.

"Where did you go? Why did you come back?" King Jing Zhao Tuanlang said, "Xu Huai and the others sat under the pavilion to drink tea."

At this time, the weather was getting hot, but it was still breeze after night. I didn’t know where to find a small stove, without charcoal or dry firewood. Some newly cut trees and cut off the boiling water, and the smoke infused people.

King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan, and Qiao Jien were able to share the joys and sorrows with the generals during this period. They sat under the pavilion and slurped with smoke and drank wild tea with astringent mouthful, but they were also quite happy.

The pavilion is small, and not everyone is qualified to sit down next to King Jing to have tea. Xu Wuli, Xu Xin'an, Lu Wenhu and others walked down the pavilion to pay tribute and then left first.

"Who is young and has devoted all his energy to national affairs. We are so sorry that he is not as good as that!" Qian Shangduan greeted Xu Huai enthusiastically, and Zhu Han and the others went into the pavilion to sit down.

When Yanling met, Qian Shangduan was influenced by various rumors and had great opinions on Xu Huai and had deep precautions. At first, he firmly opposed rushing to Gong County. However, King Jing Zhao Tuan insisted, so he had no choice but to rush to Caizhou with Lu Xiong to find Hu Kai to help the soldiers.

However, Qian Shangduan saw with his own eyes that the guards Gong County Decheng, the guards of the tomb army raided the enemy on the northern slope of Songshan Mountain and became the banner of the main war faction. He led the Yiqi Battalion to achieve great achievements, but he tried his best to avoid contact with local officials and gentry, so that the reputation of crossing the river and the north was gathered in His Highness. The front camp army, the middle camp army, and the rear camp army recruited more than 3,000 rebels. The Yiqi Battalion only recruited 2000 people in Jiang County, Qinshui and other places to supplement the wartime losses.

Regardless of how Xu Huai thought in his heart, he was so cautious that Qian Shangduan recognized his loyalty to King Jing at this time.

"Xu Huailuo knew about the military and combat, and he was also obsessed with it, and he was tired of it." Xu Huai smiled slightly, sat down and said humbly.

"Brother Zhu Han, my father, Wang Qiyong, and Wang Boqian, now all the prime ministers are facing the enemy in Hedong and Hebei?" King Jing Zhao Tuan waited Zhu Han to sit down, took the teapot from his daughter Princess Yingyun, and personally made tea for Zhu Han and Xu Huai.

Zhu Han accompanied Zheng Huaizhong and other Western generals to Linjincheng, and then entered the city accompanied by Liu Zhiyuan and Ma Sijing and other local generals.

During the inspection of defense, attend night banquets, we also talked about the situation of the court, the changes in the minds of officials and the ministers, but they are all general discussions.

In the past month, King Jing and Qian Shangduan had letters and Bianliang, but their understanding of the situation in the court was often not particularly thorough due to various concerns.

Now that Zhu Han came to Jincheng, as the main figure in the court of war, he had a high level of contact. Listening to his own story, he would certainly be clearer and more thorough.

Everyone returned from a banquet and did not sleep late at night. They just waited for Zhu Han to talk about the situation in the court before deciding their subsequent choices.

"I dare not take it," Zhu Qing took the teacup and hesitated for a while. He felt that there was no need to speak too obscurely in the current situation. He sighed softly, "The enemy soldiers invaded Hehuai in the south, and the emperor was very worried and worried about his mutual affection. When the enemy soldiers crossed Hebei, he thought about making achievements again..."

"I want to make achievements?" Deng Gui asked in disbelief.

"..." Zhu Han nodded with a wry smile. No matter how incredible it was, this was indeed a subtle change in the recent past.

Xu Huai sat quietly aside.

After Wang Bing died of illness and the incident of Kowtou Palace occurred, in Xu Huai's eyes, there was not much left in the city of Bianliang. Xu Huai took Zhou Jing and others with him, and there were few people who continued to stay in Bianliang to collect the situation.

However, Zhu Han, Wang Fan, Wang Kong, Zheng Shou and others were still in Bianliang, and Xu Huai had never interrupted his correspondence with them. In addition, his prediction of the current situation had not been too large. Therefore, he was very clear about the changes in the situation in the court.

The main reason is that he does not want to cause Qian Shangduan, Qiao Jien and others to be wary for no reason. There are some subtle changes in the court that are not so closely related to the Qinshui battle situation, so Xu Huai deliberately pretends to be confused and does not mention it.

It must be said that Emperor Tianxuan, Wang Qiyong, Wang Boqian, and most court officials who stand at the upper level of the pyramid of the sage ministers can describe the phrase "I am good at making plans, have no decisions, are harsh and brave, do big things but cherish my body, and forget my life when I see small profits."

The Chihu people invaded Hehuai. Emperor Tianxuan and many court officials were afraid of the fall of Bianliang and were imprisoned. They bowed to the beggar and had no bottom line.

As the Chihu people were forced to retreat north temporarily as the flood season and the hot summer season approached, they mainly wanted to beg for peace. Emperor Tianxuan, Wang Qiyong and others were mainly thinking about begging for peace, and secretly sent a peace envoy to Xiongzhou, Dingzhou and Taiyuan to pass on the orders.

The two important towns in northern Hebei, Xiongzhou and Dingzhou, all opened the city gates and sacrificed the city in mid-May. Tens of thousands of defenders abandoned the people of the two places and retreated to Weizhou. However, when the city was cut off and the peace envoy went to Taiyuan Xuanzhi, they were rejected by the Taiyuan defenders and had not yet fallen into the enemy.

However, as Chihu people retreated north, many scholars and officials in the court no longer felt imminent threat. Suddenly, they thought that there was still "conscience" and some things would be discussed with closed coffins.

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At this time, when there are important matters in the court to convene a group discussion, the voices of advocating peace have become much less and much weaker.

The voice of the war faction became louder, and there were even censors who impeached Wang Qiyong, Wang Boqian and others for peace.

The Taiyuan military and civilians refused to open the city gate and surrendered to the Chihu people, insisting on defending Taiyuan. No one in the court dared to publicly denounce the Taiyuan defenders for not following the orders.

Under the same background, of course, no one in the court would openly accuse King Jing Zhao Tuan of leading the tomb guards across the river and illegally as to Princess Yingyun was robbed to King Jing Zhao Tuan, everyone pretended to be deaf and dumb, as if they wanted to forget Princess Yingyun's existence.

On the one hand, the Taiyuan defenders refused to sacrifice the city to surrender to the Chihu people. On the other hand, Taiyuan, as the number one important city in Hedong, has an extremely prominent strategic position. The court's new defensive strategy was formulated, and no matter how hard it was to avoid Taiyuan.

During the several court discussions a few months ago, Emperor Tianxuan's attitude also tended to first remove the siege of Taiyuan and then discuss peace and war. He was even quite urgent, and even hoped that the siege of Taiyuan could create military miracles and severely injured the Chihu people, so as to completely dispel the intention of the southern invasion.

This is why Zheng Huaizhong was appointed as the Hedong General Commander and led his troops to go north through Taihang.

This is what Zhu Heng said, "Worry and fear when seeing the enemy, and think about success when the enemy goes away."

As the most determined pro-war faction, especially the 200,000 soldiers and civilians who have been in Taiyuan for more than half a year, they have always been able to defend the bottom line and not surrender to the enemy, and even refuse to offer the city according to the order. Xu Huai cannot say that he does not support the removal of the siege of Taiyuan.

However, all signs indicate that the "urgent" to lift the Taiyuan siege is destined to be a tragic defeat that Dayue is about to suffer again in military terms. It is very likely that Dayue's military resistance potential north of the Yellow River will be completely destroyed, which will make the fall of Bianliang difficult to avoid.

After seeing these clearly, Xu Huaicai truly realized what the trajectory of history is that it is impossible to reverse.

Can he object to resolve the Taiyuan siege? Or is his personal objection meaningful?

"The enemy is afraid of being close to each other, and the enemy goes to think about his achievements. How can we plan a big plan?" King Jing Zhao Tuan heard Zhu Han mention the court discussions several months ago, and even the peace talks were eager to lift the siege of Taiyuan and then discuss peace wars again. He was also quite shocked.

At this time, King Jing was no longer the time when he had just left Bianliang and encountered the enemy half a year ago. With the assistance of everyone, he led the guard army to defend Gong County and crossed the river to the north. He had a real understanding and thinking about the situation in the world, offensive, defense, war, and the real situation of the Dayue government and the opposition.

If the government and the country were united, all the generals and soldiers could work together to fight the enemy soldiers. Dayue gathered a total of 400,000 troops in Zhengzhou, Bianliang, Zezhou, Weizhou, Caizhou, and Songzhou, and could first establish effective defenses in Hedong and central Hebei, and finally lift the siege of Taiyuan.

The problem is that all these premises do not exist at all, and the current deployment of the Chihu people is waiting for the Dayue soldiers to rush to lift the siege of Taiyuan.

Qian Shangduan, Deng Gui, Zhang Xin and others also looked solemn after learning about the latest subtle changes in the situation in the court.
Chapter completed!