The reborn general girl is the emperor

The new year at the beginning of the sixth year of Qianyuan was the most bleak new year in the capital.

The two princes passed away one after another, and King Shu's whereabouts, life and death were unknown, like a thick dark cloud over his head.

The hustle and bustle of the previous period disappeared without a trace, whether it was the palace or the people, it was all gloomy and gloomy.

Some keen ones have already taken advantage of the time of visiting relatives during the New Year to stay away from the capital.

Some people are sad, but some people are happy.

For example, because of the death of the princes, one of the two county kings who became candidates for the crown prince.

As the elder brother, Luo Kai thinks that he is more likely to become the future emperor than his younger brother Luo Qi, if his missing cousin never returns.

For this reason, he didn't take much trouble to manage it, but unfortunately he still couldn't get the exact whereabouts of his cousin.

But this does not affect his happiness.

The person who has been missing for more than two months is still being hunted down by someone who doesn't know. It is expected that even if he is alive, he will not dare to show his head at this moment.And as long as he shows up, it's no wonder that he has fallen into trouble.

Luo Kai's calculation was very good, he even thought that the assassin who chased and killed Meng Shulan belonged to his younger brother Luo Qi, but on the surface, his younger brother who was so timid that he dared not go out recently didn't seem like he would do such a thing people.

It's just that people's hearts are separated from each other. Who knows whether he is really timid or deliberately pretending?

However, if he did something bad, then the person who chased and killed him was not him, it had to be him.

Having made all the preparations, Luo Kai, who wanted to take the sudden throne into his pocket, was very happy.Although he didn't dare to entertain the officials with great fanfare, it did not prevent him from privately inviting the ministers of the DPRK and China to drink on a flower boat and play the lute and sheng.

From New Year's Eve to New Year's Lantern Festival, Luo Kai had a very happy time.

On the flower boat, singing and dancing, smoking cigarettes in the stove, pushing cups and changing cups, people are so drunk that they don't know where they are.

In the sixth year of Qianyuan, on the flower boat of the Lantern Festival in the first month, Luo Kai, the most likely prince of the county, fell into the water due to drunkenness, and drowned to death after being unable to rescue him.

The candidate for the crown prince fell on Luo Qi indisputably in an instant.

Luo Qi was not happy, when he was guarding his elder brother in mourning, he was always trembling, for fear that someone would jump out from the dark and end him.

Even some rumors about him coveting the throne and murdering his own brother can scare him into a panic.

Even if he knows that he is currently the last successor of the Wen family, even if the rumors are true, they will not be true.

From then on, Luo Qi, who lived in seclusion, even kept his house behind closed doors, refusing to see outsiders.

The government and the opposition were quite critical of this timid successor, but there were also some active minds and some other ideas.

For Luo Qi's safety and to better train him, Luo Qi lived in the East Palace, where Wang Weitao and several senior officials taught him.

Although Luo Qi is timid, he is knowledgeable, intelligent and kind, and is an excellent choice for the crown prince.

Everything seemed to be going in a good direction, until late spring and early summer, a cold epidemic took away the last crown prince.

The emperor mourned greatly, was overworked and sad, was knocked down by the epidemic, was bedridden, and died of illness in early April.

The head of the hundred officials, the prime minister Xu Xiangfeng fully controlled the government, recruited the guards from the four borders to return to Beijing, and discussed the major affairs of the society together.

The defenders of Eastern Xinjiang led the army back to Beijing, and the officials in charge of Southern Xinjiang also led their own soldiers back to Beijing after listening to the call.Only Bai Shu, who temporarily took over the military affairs of Xijiang, and Guo Youning, who has been complaining of illness since last year, have remained silent.

At the beginning of May, Xu Xiangfeng issued an ultimatum to the two of them—if they did not return to Beijing, they would be punished as treason, and they would send troops to conquer the western and northern borders, and would ask for help from the surrounding areas if necessary.

When the news was sent to Yangcheng, Guo Youning was negotiating with Yan Qing, and directly rejected Xu Xiangfeng's solicitation on the grounds that "the snow field has not retreated, and the master will not withdraw".

The battle between Beijiang and the Twelve Departments of Xueyuan has dragged on for nearly half a year from the end of the fifth year of Qianyuan to the present.

At the beginning of the sixth year of Qianyuan, on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, after Yan Qing arrived in Jingcheng, the news that Guo Youning was "in bed" spread throughout northern Xinjiang.

The high-level officials who knew the inside story knew that he was hiding back to Beijing to report on his duties, but the soldiers and people who didn't know the truth panicked.

Just as the Yan family is the pillar of the western border, the Guo family is also the anchor of the sea in the northern border.

After learning that Guo Youning was "unwell", although the soldiers in Jingcheng were not defeated, their morale was low.In addition, the Twelve Departments of Xueyuan sent people to the gate of the city to sing bad news about Guo Youning every day, and the Jingcheng soldiers were holding their breath in their hearts, and at the same time they were faintly worried.

When Yan Qing arrived in Jingcheng, Jingcheng had just fought a defensive battle with a lot of casualties.

After Yan Qing arrived, without saying a word, he directly ordered three thousand elite soldiers, who were lightly armed and ridden lightly, and chased after the tails of the retreating snowfield soldiers, catching them by surprise.

After driving people to a place three miles away from the river, the Xueyuan army reacted, and the whole army counterattacked, but at this time Yan Qing had already led the people back in triumph, and they had long since disappeared.

By the time they chased them, the battlefield had been cleaned up.

The Xueyuan people, who were mainly nomadic, were used to defending and attacking the city with the regular army in northern Xinjiang. At this time, Yan Qing was indifferent to the looting guerrilla of a desert horse bandit, but they stumbled in what they were best at.

The head of the Twelve Department of Xueyuan was so angry that he launched an army to attack the city.

At this time, Yan Qing was like a tortoise shrinking his head, dispatching troops and generals in the barracks, and sticking to the strong city wall of Jingcheng.

After Yan Qing led people to fight this little pursuit and brought the spoils back to Jingcheng, the feeling of aggrieved in Jingcheng soldiers' hearts instantly became fighting spirit.

There was no need for Yan Qing to say anything, the soldiers of Jingcheng were already so high-spirited in the defense of the city that they were a bit of a cat and mouse mentality.

When the opponent attacked the city, they defended, and when the opponent retreated, they chased them, but they did not pursue too deeply. They hung behind their tails and stopped chasing them after running for three miles. He ran back to the city in a hurry.

The two sides came and went dozens of times, both were exhausted, but the morale of Jingcheng was obviously higher than that of Xueyuan.

So, when both sides were exhausted, Yan Qing raised his troops suddenly, rushed into the enemy formation, beat up the scattered Xueyuan, and drove them to the river.

When they went back, the battlefield behind had been cleaned up. When the troops who rushed to the front retreated, there was no obstacle at all, but it was twice as fast as when they came.

A confrontation, a day and a night, Xue Yuan was not able to win at all.

After returning to the city, Yan Qing deliberately disgusted them, cooking meat and drumming music on the high wall, the smell of meat and the sound of music went straight to the snowfield base camp along the wind.

The head coach of Xueyuan No. [-] was so angry that he wanted to sneak attack while they were getting carried away, but all of Yan Qing's spies got under his nose.