Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 57

On the Lantern Festival, the Emperor of Heaven and the people celebrated together, which made Yanjing City lively for a while, and then the night of Yanjing City fell into the cold silence of curfew.

This is already the eighth year since the fall of Yanjing. It was also eight years since Ye Jier became emperor in Yanjing City. Although most of the officials trapped in Yanjing City chose to be attached at that time, the hearts of Yanjing City are still far from being discussed. to be attached.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the anti-Hu campaign in Yanjing City was even more turbulent, and there was a tendency to move from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and several assassinations were also carried out.

Jiucheng soldiers and horses also destroyed several secret strongholds of the resistance forces in the city, but they did not interfere with Huaidong’s intelligence line – thinking about it, everyone can think that Huaidong has a very deep eye in Yanjing Hidden, but unable to dig out, we can only use the brutal military means of curfew to suppress the role that Huaidong lurking personnel can play in Yanjing City.

The result of the battle of Jingxiang was a great shock to people’s hearts. Although Yan Hu’s princes and grand dukes still have strong self-confidence, for the Han people in Yanjing City and those Han officials who were not very willing to surrender to the Hu prisoners, they all believed that the date of the northern expedition of the king’s division could be expected. It is difficult to infiltrate Jiangning using Yanhu’s secret room and undercover agent, while it is easy to infiltrate and sneak into Yanjing with Huaidong’s secret room and undercover agent.

The only regret is that in the underground resistance forces in Yanjing City, there are many people who regard the Yuan clan as orthodox and have strong resistance to Huaidong, which makes Huaidong’s hidden network in Yanjing City unable to fully grasp the underground resistance forces. Many resistance forces, each acting on its own, did not follow orders and acted without authorization, which often resulted in unnecessary casualties, which also made it more difficult for Huaidong’s lurking personnel in Yanjing to work.

Not afraid of opponents like wolves, but of teammates like pigs – it was also a case of assassinating the prefect of Pingyuan a year ago, the assassination failed, and the assassins were arrested and could not stand the punishment, which led to the disclosure of the secret information station of the Ministry of Military Intelligence in Hebi. In the early stage of the Northern Expedition, nearly 20 hidden intelligence personnel were lost at one time. The secret bases from Jinan to Pingyuan to Cangzhou and Jinhai were all forced to be transferred. The communication line was not restored until the Lantern Festival, and the loss was huge.

The Beiyan Jiucheng Soldiers and Ma Si, who specialize in arresting and catching robbers, did not know that their destruction of the Hebi intelligence station would cause such a huge loss to the intelligence work of the Huaidong Military Intelligence Division in the North. According to the plan, a strict curfew will be imposed on Yanjing City after nightfall. Occasionally, people who are sick at night to rescue doctors will be stopped by patrolling soldiers and horses.

For a city with hundreds of thousands of mouths, such tragedies happen every night.

Among the nine gates of Yanjing City, after nightfall, only the Taiyang Gate of Xicheng is used for the entry and exit of firewood and water trucks.

With the stars and moon in the sky, Tong Huacheng, the supervisor of the Western Temple, who was in charge of intelligence affairs of the Southern Dynasty, rushed to the gate of Shengtai, under the guard of dozens of horsemen. As a street lamp, you can especially feel the gap between the north and the south.

Tong Huacheng is a Han citizen of Eastern Liaoning. Although he still looks like a Han Chinese, he was given the surname of Tong and entered the East Hu noble family. He has already regarded himself as a Hu person from the bottom of his heart. Unlike other ministers in charge of spying, Tong Huacheng has disguised himself twice. Dressed up, lurking in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places for several months to learn about the Southern Dynasty, he was actually one of the officials in Beiyan who had the deepest understanding of the Southern Dynasty and Huaidong.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Zier relied on him so much when it came to spying in the Southern Dynasties.

Tong Hua cost should return to Yanjing after the year, and tell the Emperor of Destiny face to face that the situation in Xushou and Yihai was abnormal in the Southern Dynasty, but it happened that Hebi destroyed a hidden stronghold of the Huaidong Military Intelligence Department and captured Huaidong alive. Sixteen lurkers. Tong Huacheng hurried to Hebi temporarily to arrest the torture in person, delaying more than half a month.

Although Huaidong’s military report base in the north was quickly transferred, Tong Huacheng’s trip to Hebi was still a great gain. After leaving Hebi, he rushed back to Yanjing on horseback.

Entering the city from Shengtai Gate, Tong Chenghua rushed directly to the office of the West Temple Supervisor in Yanjing City. His subordinates asked him, “Is Mr. Tong going back to the house to rest, or make do with a night in the small room at the back?”

“The emperor asked me to report the schedule immediately after returning to Beijing,” Tong Hua said to his subordinates, “you go with me to the palace, if the emperor rests, we will rest soon…”

Tong Huacheng and his subordinates had just left the office, and the courtier sent by Ye Jier rushed over: “Master Tong, the emperor knows that you have returned to the capital, and specially summons you…”

Hurrying to Yejier’s tomb, Tong Huacheng entered the hall to kowtow, and saw that in addition to Henan Governor Fan Wenlan, Chengji County King Yeji Luorong was also in the palace, and hurriedly saluted him: “What is the relationship between the eldest prince and Mr. Fan? Time to go back to Beijing?”

“I was going to meet you in Hebi, but something happened temporarily in Jinzhong. Wen Lan and I came back to Beijing through Jinzhong. I didn’t expect it to be two days earlier than your kid.” Ye Ji Luorong sat in Ye Ji’s seat. Beside Er, he responded to Tong Huacheng’s words.

Fan Wenlan was originally one of Ye Jier’s most reliant Han ministers in Eastern Liaoning; because the strategic focus of the previous years was on the western front, Ye Jier sent Fan Wenlan to Yeji Luorong as an assistant to be in charge of the grain supply on the western front. and the management of Hezhong Mansion.

Jingxiang was defeated, and Ye Jier had to keep Fan Wenlan in Hezhongfu to stabilize the defense of the west line of Hehuai. Now Dong Yuan has a different heart, and he and Huaidong can’t urinate in a pot, which has actually greatly relieved Beiyan’s military pressure on the western front. Ye Jiluorong was also responsible for the fiasco of Jingxiang. Ye Jier couldn’t immediately call him back for further use, but called him back temporarily to ask for advice. Later, he would still be sent to Hezhongfu to take charge of the defense of the western Hehuai line. , but Fan Wenlan will stay in Beijing.

Ye Zier’s health was getting worse and worse, Zhang Xie was an old fox again, and the other princes and ministers did not have particularly powerful figures, so Fan Wenlan could only be recalled from Hehuai as his assistant.

Tong Huacheng knew that Fan Wenlan would be transferred back to Yanjing, but he didn’t expect that Emperor Tianming would also summon the prince to Yanjing for advice. It can be seen that Emperor Tianming also regarded the current situation as a critical moment in his mind.

“Get up quickly,” Ye Jier asked Tong Huacheng to get up, and asked the courtier to bring Tong Huacheng a small couch to give him a seat, and asked impatiently, “What do you gain from going to Hebi…”

“The chief of Huaidong’s military intelligence in Hecheng died after arresting and resisting. If he failed to capture this key person, the information he could pull out would not be complete,” Tong Chenghua said, sitting at risk, recounting the results of his trip to Hebi, “but I still took out some things that the West Temple Supervisor did not know before. First, a big man in Huaidong passed through Shandong recently and sneaked into the Taihang Mountains. The specific person is unknown, but his level will not be lower than that of the brigade commander. When the slaves arrived at Hebi, they missed the roundup. The timing is a pity. In addition to this unknown big man, Huaidong has transferred as many as 100 people to Taihang Mountain via Hebi in the past six months. The servant estimates that, plus other lines, Huaidong has sent to Taihang Mountain in the past six months. There may be more than 200 people in Taihang Mountain…”

“It’s so dense!” Ye Ji’er took a deep breath after hearing this, patted the long table angrily, and instructed the courtier beside him with anger, “It is proposed that Ye Jiduo will take commanders from Hebi and Pingyuan. The officials were dismissed and investigated, and immediately cut off the passage of the lower reaches of the river. All business and travel transits were strictly enforced, and no one from the Southern Dynasty could be asked to pass through Shandong and Henan again…”

Ye Ji Luorong’s expression suddenly became solemn.

There were various signs before, including Yue Lengqiu’s rate of change of troops and horses in Zhengyang and Guoyang towns, and all the princes and officials in Yanjing tended to think that Lin Fu was preparing to usurp the throne and become emperor, but in the past six months, the Southern Dynasty has been so dense It also shows that the Southern Dynasty is actively preparing for the Northern Expedition.

Taihang Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, connected to Jinshan in the west, and Yanshan in the north. The terrain is intricate and the resistance forces rise and fall one after another. Together, it is a problem for Jinji’s confidants. It is very difficult to destroy it. Especially after the Battle of Jingxiang, the ordinary people of Jinji were eager to move, not only secretly exchanging supplies with the resistance forces, but also assisting in reporting messages from time to time, making it difficult to carry out the attack and go deep into the Taihang Mountains.

At present, Yanjing can only roughly know the scale of the resistance forces in the Taihang Mountains, from thirteen in the early years to today’s Five Armies Alliance, with a total force of about 20,000 people.

Although these resistance forces are poorly equipped and their military force is not strong, they have only used the steep and deep terrain of the Taihang Mountains to resist for many years, but their ability to fight out of the mountains is not strong. However, Taihang Mountain is bordered by Jinzhong in the west, Yanji in the east, Henan in the south, and also adjacent to Shandong Plain and Hebi Prefecture.

Once the Southern Dynasties organized an army from Hehuai and Shandong to attack the Henan and Shandong defense lines of Beiyan from the front, and these resistance forces united to get out of the Taihang Mountains and attacked the sides of the Henan and Shandong defense lines, the problem would be quite thorny.

“It is said that the East Sea Fox is good at using tricks,” Fan Wenlan frowned and said, “Jingxiang’s battle was too hasty, and I feel particularly deep at this time…”

Tong Huacheng can understand the deep meaning of Fan Wenlan’s words.

They previously thought that Lin Fu would usurp the throne and become emperor first, so they had to make an active attack on the defense lines of Henan and Shandong; not that they would really use troops against the Huaidong Army’s defense lines in Xusi and Yihai, but to give Dong Yuan, who guarded Xuchang, had the courage to fight against Huaidong.

If Beiyan’s troops did not press on, Dong Yuan would have a little resistance to Huaidong in Xuchang, and he would face attacks from Nanyang and Zhengyang in the north and Guoyang in the west. Xuchang’s foundation was too poor, and Lin Fuzhen called 100,000 elites to attack him. It was hard to imagine that Dong Yuan could last a month in Xuchang. And once Beiyan’s troops were pressed up, even if Dong Yuan refused to accept Lin Fu to usurp the throne, Lin Fu would not dare to use troops against Xuchang easily.

Lin Furuo usurped the throne and became emperor, Beiyan must win over Dong Yuan and support him to support the new emperor of the Cao family in Yuzhou.

Looking at the past six months, Huaidong has dispatched two or three hundred lurking personnel to the Taihang Mountains. According to the situation, Huaidong is going to go on the northern expedition first, but it is also very likely that Huaidong has made a suspicious formation and confused the sight here.

Once it is determined that Huaidong will go ahead with the northern expedition, especially its efforts to strengthen the control of the Taihang army’s resistance troops, Yanbei Africa cannot push its troops to the outer defense line, but also retains it in the northern Shandong and southern Jin regions that are connected to the Taihang Mountains. A fairly strong military force can ensure that when the peripheral defense line resists the expedition to the northeast of Huaihe, the buttocks of the Shandong and Henan defense lines will not be smashed by the Taihang Mountain resistance troops…

Ye Zier sighed in difficulty: “The information brought by Huacheng is very important, but if this information is a suspicious plan released by Huaidong on purpose, and we believe it to be true, we will focus on deploying the troops in the Shandong and Henan defense areas on the inside. It is equivalent to asking two or three hundred lurking personnel in Huaidong to stabilize 100,000 soldiers and horses!”

Beiyan’s troops deployed on the defense lines of Shandong and Henan have reached as high as 260,000, but at present the main focus is on the interior lines, especially the cavalry regiments, which are concentrated in the southern Jin and northern Shandong areas.

If these soldiers and horses don’t go south and don’t give Dong Yuan strong support, once Lin Fu usurps the throne and proclaims the emperor, Dong Yuan may not have the courage to directly raise the banner of supporting the imperial family of the Yuan family against Lin Fu’s proclaiming emperor – the foundation of Xuchang Too weak~www.mtlnovel.com~ Yue Lengqiu has joined Huaidong with a clear-cut stand. What happens to Xuchang? The Changhuai army in Guoyang and Zhengyang will most likely rush up and take a bite; Dong Yuan will resist Lin Bie, at least must be able to withstand the first wave of offensive.

Dong Yuan’s soldiers and horses in Xuchang were not monolithic. Lin Fu usurped the throne and proclaimed the emperor. Dong Yuan immediately raised the banner of supporting Yuan against Lin, and he could use this to tie all his soldiers and horses to a warship. Dong Yuan could not immediately raise the banner of supporting Yuan against Lin, and he would lose his righteousness in the future, so he could only be embarrassedly caught in the middle. Lin Fu would have enough means to divide Xuchang’s troops and horses to achieve complete elimination. The purpose of weakening and eliminating Dong Yuan.

“Yue Lengqiu chose to openly surrender to Huaidong at this time, just like a knife against Xuchang’s waist,” Ye Jiluorong said, “The deployment of troops in Shandong can be different, but in Guoyang On the front, we should send 20,000 to 30,000 elites to press up and press down the new commander Huai Army, so that Xuchang can be supported.”

“Adding 20,000 to 30,000 troops to the front of Guoyang will make Jinnan’s troops empty.” Ye Jier felt that the pain in his head was severe, which had seriously affected his thinking. He asked Ye Ji Luorong, Fan Wen Lan, “Can we draw 20,000 troops from Yanjing and Jinhai to make up for it? If things don’t develop as we expected, we must strengthen our efforts to suppress bandits in the Taihang Mountains, and we can’t let this elbow-and-arm problem harm the overall situation in the future. possible.”

Tong Huacheng was specialized in spying on the military situation, and did not dare to intervene casually on matters of strategy. After listening to the Emperor Destiny negotiating with the Great Prince and Fan Wenlan, he decided to transfer another 20,000 troops from the hinterland of Yanji to the southern line in case of emergency. He said: “In the intercepted information, in recent months, there have been many buildings such as fire crossbow, third-level battleship, fourth-level battleship, etc. The slave thought that he had to pay close attention…” My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter