Chapter 622: Huanglong takes the lead, and Tsing Yi finishes
The world's storms converged on the two Liao dynasties.
When Gu Jiantang, Secretary of the Ministry of War, officially led the army to Jizhou, outside Hengshui City, which was located at the forefront of Jibei, the wisps of wolf smoke belonging to Beimang's cavalry were already approaching Chichi.
As the saying goes, a sad army will win. Although they lost the military god Tuoba Bodhisattva, Beimang fought particularly fiercely this time.
They divided their troops into two groups. The east group mainly attacked the two Liaos, while the west group was well prepared to guard the Longyao border with Beiliang and block the border between the two states. It was obvious that even if Beiliang took advantage, they would still take advantage of the two Liaos.
The idea of biting off a few pieces of meat.
The reason for making such a seemingly dangerous and unusual arrangement was mainly due to a wise man who had been away from Beimang for more than 20 years.
The Grand Master of the Chess, Sword, and Yue Mansion—the Order of Taiping.
This old man chose to leave Beimang and travel alone in the Central Plains because he was stimulated by Empress Murong's words: "If you think you can be on par with heaven and earth, then you can become the emperor's master."
It took him twenty years to almost measure the land of Liyang inch by inch, and became familiar with everything there, including its customs, customs, court system, civil and military conflicts, party disputes, and so on.
Then he returned to Beimang and spent seven days talking with Empress Murong about everything from the right time, place, and people, to the geography of the Central Plains, the people, the military, and customs, and the border wars between the two dynasties; from how to eliminate the hidden dangers in Beimang to win the hearts of the people.
In the future, how to destroy Northern Liang, occupy Western Shu, and swallow up the Southern imperial edict, direct troops to Tai'an City, and pacify the world; and how to manage and stabilize the country after unifying the world.
The affairs of the world, no matter how big or small, were explained in great detail by the Taiping Order, which lasted for seven days and seven nights.
After seven days of speaking full of knowledge, Empress Murong held his hand and said calmly: "I would like to worship you as the emperor's teacher."
This time Beimang's overall strategy was formulated in compliance with the Taiping Order.
Although this old Confucian scholar is not good at leading an army, he can see many things that the general in charge cannot.
For example, everyone knows that on the east and west fronts of Liyang, Beiliang is good at attacking, while Liang Liao is good at defending. Therefore, in the past, Beimang never put its main offensive force on the defense lines of Liyang and Liao, because that would give Beiliang
The risk of the army taking the opportunity to sneak attack on the royal court.
From a purely military perspective, this is indeed true.
However, after gaining an in-depth understanding of Liyang's politics and people's livelihood and the mainstream ideology of the court, the Taiping Order discovered that things were not actually that simple.
Does Li Yang have the strength to destroy Beimang?
He believes that it existed twenty years ago.
At that time, Liyang had just completed the unification of the Central Plains. Although he was exhausted, if he took advantage of the victory over the eight kingdoms and marched north, he still had a good chance of winning, because at that time, Empress Murong had just come to power, and the Northern Mang Dynasty was unstable.
period.
But the problem was that Emperor Liyang had been wary of Xu Xiao for a long time. He was afraid that the Northern Liang cavalry would use tigers to devour wolves, and after annihilating Beimang, they would take advantage of the situation to fight against Liyang's north and south, so he issued a secret edict to force Xu Xiao under the favorable situation.
Xiao retreated and signed a contract with Beimang. This created a situation where the three parties in Liyang and Liangmang coexisted.
So after twenty years of development, after absorbing the ideas and technologies brought by many Central Plains scholars from Hongjia Beimang, Beimang has been completely reborn compared to twenty years ago.
Whether Li Yang can destroy Beimang with all his strength is debatable, but it is impossible for Beiliang, which only occupies the resources of three states and has 300,000 troops, to really destroy Beimang Royal Court, which occupies half of the world.
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And the most important point is, is the Liyang Zhao family willing to resist the main attack of Beimang on the eastern front to create opportunities for the Beiliang army to make contributions?
You know, Tai'an, the capital of Liyang, is right behind Liang Liao. Once the defense line is broken, there will be almost no obstacle to Beimang's cavalry from knocking on Tai'an City!
If both sides really choose to put all their efforts at that time, and Beimang abandons the defense of the royal court and goes south to attack Tai'an City with all his strength, what will Emperor Liyang do?
Go into battle in person to defend Tai'an City and buy time for the Northern Liang Army to attack the Royal Court?
dream!
Based on what the Taiping Order had seen in the Central Plains over the past twenty years, he felt that the war could only develop in two directions.
First, if Beiliang breaks through Beimang's defense line first, and Beimang has not yet conquered the two Liaos at that time, then Emperor Liyang may secretly send people to discuss and directly send Beimang's army back to encircle and suppress Beiliang's army.
Secondly, if both sides explode the defense lines at the same time, Emperor Liyang will never gamble on the combat effectiveness and loyalty of the Northern Liang Army at the cost of his own safety, because they have a guilty conscience. So by then, the most likely possibility is
Emperor Liyang issued several imperial edicts in succession, asking the Northern Liang army to withdraw King Qin.
So no matter how you calculate it, Beimang will not suffer any loss if he fights like this.
He was convinced that Beiliang and Liyang were at odds with each other and were suspicious of each other. Especially Liyang, he would rather everyone suffer than suffer a loss himself and let Beiliang take advantage.
But in fact, the situation of this war exceeded everyone's expectations from the beginning.
According to the Taiping Order's analysis, they were still quite wary of the combat effectiveness of the Northern Liang Army, and it was only because Li Yang was holding them back that they dared to formulate such a bold plan.
However, this time it was Beiliang who took action first.
After receiving the imperial edict from Tai'an City, the King of Beiliang did not send troops to the north as promised to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. Instead, he also chose the Chen Bing border to confront Beimang's army, and then led the most elite Snow Dragon under his command.
The cavalry marched south brazenly and marched into Western Shu!
At the same time, the Western Regions also dispatched monk soldiers to help. The two sides joined forces and were unstoppable. When Beimang and Liyang were still pulling each other's hair outside Hengshui City in Jibei, Xishu, including Nanzhou further south,
Zhao has been completely occupied by the Northern Liang army.
That's not all. Cao Changqing of the Western Chu Dynasty was promoted to a Confucian sage in the West Barrier Site with a high profile, and then declared the restoration of the country in the name of Princess Jiang Si of the Western Chu! Another Confucian sage Xuanyuan Jingcheng who was also in Guangling Road expressed his support for this on behalf of Zhulu Mountain.
For hundreds of years, although Confucianism has flourished, it has been extremely difficult for a top master to reach the realm of a saint due to various reasons.
Two events have suddenly occurred in the past two years, which should have been a great joy for all the Confucian scholars in the world to celebrate, but now they are not happy at all.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Compared with Buddhism and Taoism, Confucianism pays more attention to learning and excellence, so the relationship between Confucianism and the court has always been the closest.
In other words, Confucian students basically serve as officials in court.
But it happened that their two Confucian sages were rebelling...
This had a strong impact on the thinking of many Confucian students.
Could it be said that this is the reason why Confucianism has been unable to produce saints for hundreds of years?
There is no future for working for the imperial court. Only by establishing one's own business can one break through the shackles?
The appeal of saints is quite terrifying, especially when the two remaining saints of Confucianism both chose to take sides, which even directly led to the split of Confucianism!
A considerable number of Confucian students actually chose to abandon their official positions and went directly to join Cao Changqing and Xuanyuan Jingcheng.
This series of changes made the emperor of Tai'an City, Zhao Dun, so angry that he vomited blood and suddenly became more than ten years older.
"Master Yuan, why did my great country in Liyang suddenly become like this?"
He lay on the hospital bed and looked weakly at Emperor Master Yuan Benxi.
At this time, Yuan Benxi no longer looked like he had the pearls of wisdom in hand and was busy with work. He was silent for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and spit out a name: "Huang Longshi!"
"The devil who claims to have killed three million people with his three-inch tongue?"
Zhao Dun was a little surprised, "His fuel was indispensable behind the Spring and Autumn Unification War. Isn't this what he wants to see? Why do he still want to provoke division?"
"Hmph, no one can see clearly what that guy is thinking."
Yuan Benxi snorted coldly, "But when this kind of layout is carried out, no one can notice it. Once it is launched, it will turn everything upside down. No one else can do it except him."
"Then what should we do? Beiliang has rebelled, Western Chu has rebelled, and Beimang refuses to retreat... My world... cough cough cough -"
As he spoke, Zhao Dun became so angry that he coughed violently, "Is it going to be like the Great Qin of the past, who died in the second generation? Will I also want to be the second generation of Qin?"
"Although the current situation is troublesome, it has not yet reached a point where it is completely out of control."
Yuan Benxi was not as panicked as Zhao Dun, "Although the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom has stirred up many scholars, but with the presence of Guangling King Zhao Yi, they will not be able to fight for a while. They can let Yanla King Zhao Bing send troops to attack from behind.
It’s just a disease!”
"What about Beiliang? They have already captured Xishu and Nanzhao. It seems that the Western Regions are also colluding with them... The Western Regions are the stronghold of Buddhism. Will the Buddhists in the Central Plains cause trouble? I heard that Beimang is being destroyed.
Buddha, do we want him too?"
Zhao Dun asked in panic.
"Beiliang is indeed a big problem, but their betrayal of Liyang this time can be said to have lost the hearts of the Central Plains. We will no longer have any scruples in dealing with them in the future. And we are not the only ones who are worried about Beiliang becoming bigger.
Maybe we can wait and see..."
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Yuan Benxi saw it accurately.
Beiliang's unconventional behavior not only confused Liyang, Beimang was also a little confused.
The empress urgently summoned the Taiping Order and the National Preceptor Qilin Zhenren.
"What should we do now? Should we continue to fight with Li Yang in the two Liaos, or should we take advantage of Beiliang's elite troops to move south and change direction to invade Beiliang?"
Compared with the panic of Liyang Emperor Zhao Dun, Empress Murong was much calmer. After all, the enemy's family was in civil strife now. They just wanted to choose a plan with greater profits, unlike Zhao Dun who had lost his own family.
The situation is different.
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The Taiping Order frowned and thought deeply about the suggestions he made after twenty years of traveling and returning. Among them, there are several relatively large strategic aspects.
The first is to emphasize the importance of harmony and to thoroughly digest the scholars of the Southern Dynasties who fled Hong Jiabei.
The second article is about religion. Liyang Longhushan has lost its qualification to be the leader of the Taoist sect, and the Taoist Sect in Beimang will take the opportunity to snatch it away. There is also the matter of the extermination of Buddhism in Beimang. The extermination of Buddhism itself is to raise military expenses.
But it cannot be cut across the board. It is necessary to destroy the Zen Buddha and establish the small Tantric Buddha. In short, it is just to recruit a group of people, and by the way, it can also show goodwill to the Western Regions.
The third point is the route to unify the world in the future. First, take advantage of the differences between Beiliang and Liyang to swallow up Beiliang, then take advantage of the trend to take over the Western Regions, Western Shu, Nanzhao and other places, and finally compete with Liyang for dominance in the Central Plains.
These are all major policies at the national policy level, but the problem is, judging from Beiliang's actions these days, several of them have been taken advantage of by others!
For example, they were still waiting for an opportunity to take advantage of the gap between Liyang and Beiliang to swallow up Beiliang, but they rebelled first. If they rebelled, then they rebelled. In the end, they actually connected to swallow up the Western Region and pacify Western Shu.
The actions to destroy Nanzhao coincided with the Taiping Order's plan for Beimang.
The key is that although the plans of the Taiping Order sound exciting, they are still on paper. But Beiliang has already begun to implement them and succeeded.
At this moment, Taiping Ling felt as if he was living in someone's shadow, and his every move and thought was completely seen through.
So the question now is that Beiliang has already taken the path he planned for Beimang to unify the world. Where should Beimang go now?
Taiping Ling rubbed his beard and analyzed: "If we turn around and attack Beiliang, the good thing is that we should be able to get support from Liyang, and we don't have to worry about them stabbing us in the back. The bad thing is, Xu
Xiao is not that easy to deal with, and when we fight Beiliang, Liyang takes advantage from behind. In the end, it is us who lose.
"If we maintain the current strategy unchanged, taking over Beiliang in the Western Region, Western Shu and Nanzhao will be enough to strain the Liyang Dynasty. It will then depend on whether Beiliang wants to advance eastward or northward.
If we advance eastward, Liyang will be attacked on both sides, so we must divide our forces, and we can also benefit from it. If we go north... we will have time to withdraw our troops by then. Moreover, after inserting Liyang's knife first, we can let them be injured without dying and come back to provoke us.
We, Xu Xiao, should not be so unwise."
His analysis basically agreed with the Empress and Master Qilin, so the layout of Beimang remained as it was for the time being.
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"He is worthy of being the Huang Longshi who easily provoked chaos in the nine kingdoms! Once he takes action, the world will be in chaos."
"Excellent."
The old man in Confucian uniform waved his hand and sighed, "You are really surprising. After a trip to Beimang, the luck accumulated in you is so profound that even I can hardly see clearly."
After a short business exchange, the two sat on the top of the mountain, looking down at the ant-like Beimang and Liyang soldiers below, and finally got down to business.
"Are you ready for the next step?"
After taking over the Western Regions, Western Shu and Nanzhao, although Northern Liang has not officially declared the founding of the country, it has formed a de facto three-part world situation, although it is the weakest family.
At this time, the reason why Li Yang and Beimang seemed to be doing nothing for the time being was because they were both waiting to see what happened in Beiliang, because no one could bear the consequences of being flanked by both sides.
But conversely speaking, the same goes for Beiliang. If given the chance, Li Yang would definitely have the courage to join forces with Beimang to kill Beiliang first.
So despite the current momentum of Beiliang, which seems to be in a great and prosperous state, it is still walking on the edge of an abyss and is in danger of overturning at any time.
"nature,"
Huang Longshi gently stroked his short beard and said in a manly voice, "I have already dropped the chess piece. Now let's see if Cao Qingyi, who claims to be invincible in the end, can really live up to his name."