Chapter 699 Today's Jiangshan

The scenery of the north, thousands of miles of ice and snow.

Zhao Changhe, who always has no poems in his mind when he needs them, kept reciting this poem in his heart when he rode his horse across the sky, without missing a single word.

Of course, it is because the author is the person he admires the most, but also because at this moment, his mood is similar.

Every time after seeing the evening makeup, he would unconsciously slow down his heart. No matter how tense and anxious the atmosphere is, she always has such magic.

Qinghe Langya, the pace is hurried, it seems to be flying in the sky, but in fact there is no time to see the mountains and rivers below. And this time out of Beijing, the speed is still about the same, but the heart is much calmer. Sitting on the black horse, he has the mood to look at the scenery, so the poem enters his heart.

Such a magnificent world, such a magnificent mountain and river.

The mountains and rivers are so beautiful, attracting countless heroes to compete.

Zhao Changhe didn't know who could be called a hero in the world today. Not to mention comparing with this lyricist, even if compared with the emperor in the lyric, no one could be even slightly similar.

It was said that the Jianghu was disappointing, only Yue Hongling reflected the dream in his heart.

But if we look at Yuxu Li Shentong and others from the perspective of Jianghu, each of them can be regarded as a high popularity, and the Jianghu is not bad. However, when looking at the world, their pattern suddenly feels lower, so the world is more disappointing than the Jianghu, but the Jianghu in memory becomes beautiful.

Fortunately, there is still Tang Wanzhuang in the world, both in the past and now.

And the Four Elephants Sect, which has changed from a demon sect to a state religion, has obviously shown a positive trend. Xia Chichi is determined to do what his father could not do, and to return a bright world to the world; Zhuque's mind is also to govern internal troubles and fight against foreign invaders. Although the current court is weak, lacking money, food, soldiers, officials, and everything else, it has begun to have a kind of vitality, a kind of power that everyone is united to move forward for the same goal.

What Jianghu, what world, the old generation's chaotic world list is gone, and even blind people are considering re-ranking it...

Let's see today.

Wuzhui hovered in the sky between Hangu Pass and Tongguan Pass. Zhao Changhe looked down at the guards of Tongguan Pass, which were gradually increasing their troops and strengthening their defenses, with a cold expression.

After each family rebelled, it was obvious that they quickly formed their own separatist areas based on their respective geographical locations. Just as the Wang family occupied the entire Qi and Lu land, the Cui family occupied Hebei, and the Yang family occupied Henan, the Li family also controlled the entire Guanzhong, and the watershed between them and the Yang family was these two strong passes.

The distance between the two strong passes is actually very close, and you can see both ends at the same time when looking down from a high altitude.

The west of Tongguan is the territory of the Li family, and the east of Hangu Pass is the territory of the Yang family. The two families each occupy a pass.

The two families were originally allies but not one. Each family still had troops deployed to guard against the other, but neither of them had heavy troops stationed. Since the Yang family was persuaded to retreat by Cui Wenjing, the Li family has a keen sense of smell. They don't need to know what decision Yang Jingxiu made. They only need to know that the Yang family did not fight the Cui family as promised during the Battle of Langya, so they know that something has changed, so they increased their troops in Tongguan and strictly guarded it.

Correspondingly, the Yang family's troops arrived in Hangu, facing the Li family. Of course, in theory, it can't be called the Yang family's troops at this time, but it's too early to reform. The army here is still managed by the Yang family, including logistics supply.

On the surface, this is a confrontation, but in reality, the Yang family is at a disadvantage. First of all, because Hangu Pass has been abandoned for a long time, it can no longer be considered a strong pass. The pass city is not complete and is not on the same level as Tongguan. This is also very close to Zhao Changhe's cognition in the present world. This is determined by geography. The culture of any world will lead to a similar inevitable trend.

Secondly, the Yang family's desire to secede or even compete for hegemony has never been strong. Its preparations cannot be as strong as the Li family, which has always been quietly accumulating strength. The gap in military strength and food is huge. It is not realistic to rely on the Yang family to hold on. Once they were able to break through the pass, they would go straight to Luoyang.

Fortunately, the Li family took a detour to the north of Taihang Mountain and headed straight for the capital, but they were ambushed. The Suzaku suffered heavy losses from the raging fire and they were unable to organize a new attack for a while. But their own strength was not that important. What was important was that they were mixed with the Hu people. The loss of those light cavalry by the Hu people was not a serious injury, but it was still a dark cloud that was suffocating the north.

Before leaving Beijing, I received news from Sanniang from the outside of the Great Wall.

Batu was defeated and lost all the small tribes that had originally depended on him. They then depended on the Khan Timur. Only his own War Lion tribe was left, and they suffered heavy casualties and fled in panic. They were driven all the way to the northwest desert. It was extremely miserable in this snowy and icy weather. I don’t know how they spent this twelfth lunar month.

Batu was miserable, but he was originally stationed in the frontier of the northern desert for everyone, and that was not just the Yanmen barrier - you have to know that the location of the capital is also a typical front line, and Xia Longyuan's presence here has a very strong meaning of the emperor guarding the country. This time Xia Longyuan is gone, Batu is gone, and Guanzhong has become a place where wolves are invited. It can be said that the Yanmen defense line alone is almost meaningless...

The only consolation is that Batu is not dead after all, and the War Lion Tribe still exists no matter how miserable it is. As long as they are not frozen to death or starved to death, they are a needle hanging behind Timur's side, making it difficult for him to attack the south recklessly.

After all, it is snowy and icy. It's okay to attack Batu by surprise. It's obviously too difficult to really attack the dangerous Yanmen Pass or cross mountains and ridges to attack the capital. No one can stand being stabbed from the back by Batu again.

From the current perspective, it will not be long before spring comes, and Timur's actions will be more focused on forcing Batu to death, and then waiting for the spring to come before heading south, which is the correct military approach. The various wars in the past few months are very contrary to common sense, and no one will do this all the time.

Sanniang's northward movement was extremely timely, otherwise Batu would have been chopped off, the War Lion tribe would have perished, and the situation everyone was facing would have been much more difficult. Now it has become a brief respite, just in time for the new dynasty that had just experienced great turmoil to take a breath, digest the results of Langya's victory and the Yang family's retreat, and let the nearly paralyzed capital city regain vitality.

It also allowed Zhao Changhe and Zhuque to leave Beijing and do what they planned.

Zhao Changhe stared at the torches above and below Tongguan for a long time, resisting the urge to go down and kill everyone, and finally squeezed his horse's belly and continued to head southwest.

The tacit understanding that Huang Yan kept talking about must be maintained. If you can massacre Tongguan, others can also massacre other places, then it will be a mess... The other party's masters are not less than his own, in fact, there are more. He violated the tacit understanding before, which was just a side step. In theory, he was really a person on the Earth List... This kind of side step can only be repeated once, and it won't work if it happens again.

It is not necessarily true that Hangu is weak. At this time, Yangyang is in Hongnong, not too far away... Maybe what the Yang family can do can surprise the Li family.

Miaojiang is far away, even if you fly, it will take a long time, and Wuzhui also needs to rest and eat. Zhao Changhe did not force it, and landed in Xiangyang at night.

This is also his own territory. When Lu Shiheng was killed, it was Tang Wanzhuang's people who came to take over the governor. Some of the city guards were still responsible for the Blood God Cult. Xue Canghai led the people to the north but did not take them all away. A small number of them stayed to serve as a branch.

Zhao Changhe originally planned to rest here for one night and leave, but he did not expect that even this stop by would encounter new events.

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PS: Transition chapter at the beginning of the volume.