Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Yu Chixin looked at Taiyuan on the map, and said to Qin Chuan:

"Taiyuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is one of the most powerful cities in the world. Although we have cannons, the terrain in Shanxi is too difficult to walk. If we attack Taiyuan step by step, it will take too much time."

Among the three towns in Hedong, Pinglu is the place where An Lushan established his military exploits and started his career, and Fanyang is the granary of the three towns, and it is also the most prosperous place.

But in terms of importance, no place can compare with Taiyuan.

The terrain of the entire Shanxi is mountainous. When Liu Zongyuan, a great writer of later generations, described his hometown, he used "the mountains and rivers of Jin are dangerous and solid on the outside and inside."

Translated into the vernacular, the land of Shanxi is full of mountains and rivers inside and out, and the dangerous terrain is as solid as gold.Mountains and rivers surround the territory of Shanxi, basically distributed vertically and horizontally along the provincial boundaries.

This sentence was later condensed into an idiom, the mountains and rivers outside and inside, to describe the steep terrain of Shanxi.

Qin Chuan nodded in agreement and said: "Shanxi is mountainous, it is not easy to attack step by step, and Taiyuan is strong, it would be a waste of time to attack, and we don't have enough troops to besiege the city for a long time."

After saying this, both of them fell silent.

Yu Chixin looked at Taiyuan on the map and said: "I never thought that the place where the Great Tang was founded in the past has become one of the most anti-Tang places. The history is really embarrassing."

At this time, Shi Siming received another piece of bad news that shocked him. An Qingxu's army was completely annihilated, and the crisis of the Tang Water Transport has been resolved!
An Qingxu is such a waste?
Shi Siming had no way to pass the news through the canal, and he got the exact news after receiving some of An Qingxu's remnants.

Like the previous reforms in Tangshan, the real estates of the major wealthy families will be "redeemed" and forced to move to Liaodong.

After moving out of Jiedushi's Mansion, Wei Jiansu found a remote place to work in Chengdu, and also rejected King Qi's invitation to attend the banquet.

And Yu Chixin also sent Tian Chengsi's family who surrendered in Kaesong to Longyou according to the previous agreement.

Although King Qi wrote to the emperor, he asked to be a soldier in Xichuan to kill the enemy.

King Qi pretended to decline for a while, and lived in the Xichuan Jiedushi's mansion in a grandiose manner.

The soldiers in the north can endure the bitter cold, but they are not used to the summer in Luoyang.

In this way, the situation in the world was changing quietly. At the end of May, King Qi's car finally arrived in Chengdu.

When the situation in Central Shu was so critical, the imperial court would send the king of Qi to add chaos. Wei Jiansu, the former prime minister, was also in a state of distress recently, and wished he could resign and go home.

Although the Zhang family racecourse is far less lively than the player's racecourse, it can be regarded as a foothold in Chengdu.

So he sent an urgent message to Hu Yu in Huichuan, asking Hu Yu to lead the Zhongyong First Army back to Chengdu for support.

After talking about Taiyuan, Yu Chixin pointed to several states in the south of Fan Yang and said:
"In addition to attacking Taiyuan, going south to support Qingzhou is also an option."

Qin Chuan said: "I'm already preparing to sneak into Taiyuan City, and see if I can find an opportunity to break through from the inside."

"If you don't attack by force, you still have to think of other ways. No matter how strong the fortress is, it will be breached from the inside. Taiyuan is a big city, and certainly not everyone is determined to follow Shi Siming."

Shi Siming looked at Shi Chaoqing, and then looked around at the expressions of the other generals.

Now that the Nanzhao Army is less than a hundred miles away from Xichuan, Xichuan Jiedu envoy Wei Jiansu did not hold a grand welcome ceremony to welcome Qi Wang, but still gave up the Jiedu envoy's mansion for Qi Wang to live in.

Shi Siming's youngest son Shi Chaoqing stood up and said:

Now that An Qingxu is dead, the crisis in Jiangdong, the tax-heavy land of Datang, has been lifted, but the food and grass prepared by Shi Siming are constantly being consumed.

In Taiyuan City, there is also the ancestral temple of the Li Tang royal family, but it is just such a place, and now he and Lu Fanyang are resolutely opposing the Tang court.

Wei Jiansu didn't expect that the Xichuan army had become so corrupted. Under the onslaught of the Nanzhao army, they lost several strongholds in the south of Chengdu. Now the Nanzhao army has camped less than a hundred miles away from Chengdu. , Ready to attack Chengdu City.

Now that Xichuan's army has been defeated, he is somewhat self-aware, knowing that he has no weight in Wei Jiansu's heart, so he doesn't dare to make trouble with Wei Jiansu.

Wei Jiansu was originally very supportive of the prince, and he was regarded as one of the most important allies of the Eastern Palace in the court.

Now that the Xichuan Army has been defeated, Wei Jiansu needs the first Zhongyong Army. Hu Yu is obviously dissatisfied with the sale of the racetrack license by the Jiedu Envoy.

The Zhang family gave out free horse race coupons again, and what kind of activities were they doing, and even asked Xichuan Jun to go to the street to lure people to the casino.

Shi Chaoqing immediately said: "Even if we take down Luoyang, we only get an isolated city. It's better to fight against Luoyang than to fight against Tongguan!"

But the Zhang family couldn't bear the closure of the racecourse. Now the Zhang family members gathered in the ancestral hall to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Looking at the people working on the city wall, Zhang Xun felt sad again.

Wei Jiansu could tell that the Xichuan army was really useless.

Shi Siming, outside Luoyang City, didn't know that his hometown had been taken away.

But since Wei Jiansu was rejected by the emperor and left Chang'an to serve as Xichuan Jiedushi, Donggong and Wei Jiansu became colder instead.

Yu Chixin nodded. Now that the strategic direction has been determined, Fan Yang's players will advance to Taiyuan while promoting land reform in Fan Yang.

Wei Jiansu heard the strings and knew the elegant meaning, and immediately ordered his subordinates to find a reason to temporarily seal up the Zhang family's racecourse.

But everyone from Wei Jiansu to Xichuan soldiers knew that King Qi did not come to Xichuan to be a small soldier.

The other generals nodded one after another, and Shi Chaoyi stroked his beard and said, "In that case, let's send troops to Tongguan!"

If the world is peaceful in the future, Zhang Xun must resign from the court and live in a city without city walls.

The last time the Jiedu Shifu sold a horse racing license, this license was bought by the Xichuan Army. Although this racecourse was quickly discredited by Yang Zhener's tricks, as long as the casino is opened, Don't worry about no customers.

Yuchixin looked at the map and said:

The current situation in central Shu can be said to be a mess.

Taiyuan, also known as Jinyang, is where the great ancestor Li Yuan started his family.

After Nanzhao's defeat in Huichuan Prefecture, instead of fighting the hard-boned Zhongyong First Army, he beat the soft persimmon Xichuan Army fiercely.

However, Zhang Xun was also afraid that this was Shi Siming's suspicious strategy, so he still strictly ordered Luoyang City to close the city gate, but Zhang Xun also sent an elite scout to find out the direction of Shi Siming's army.

However, Shi Siming has been in a very bad mood recently, and the long-term siege of Luoyang was fruitless, which made the morale of the entire army very low.

Guo Ziyi's military training in Tongguan has begun to bear fruit, and has begun to send some troops to harass Shi Siming's army.

Just as Shi Siming held the military meeting, Zhang Xun boarded the city wall of Luoyang again.

"Father, we should abandon Luoyang and attack Tongguan directly!"

Now everyone in the Tang Dynasty regards Zhang Xun as the god of defending the city, but what Zhang Xun hates most now is defending the city.

But after the official document was sent to Huichuan, Hu Yu procrastinated. Wei Jiansu was also a smart person, and soon understood what Hu Yu meant.

"Tell me."

Qin Chuan said: "Let's fight Taiyuan. Qingzhou can be handed over to Zhang Wu. I heard that he has already established a base in Liangshan. He is preparing to make Shi Chaoyi dumplings with Nan Jiyun."

The civilian husband who was repairing the city wall was no stranger to the left-behind adult. From the day he guarded Luoyang, Zhang Xun had been patrolling the city wall every day.

The content of Shi Siming's military discussion this time, the generals also knew the content in advance, that is, should they continue to besiege Luoyang?

Since receiving the food supply from the Xingyang airship, although the food in Luoyang City is still in short supply, it is necessary to strictly implement the rationing system to ensure that every commoner can eat.

But what Zhang Xun didn't expect was that Shi Siming began to withdraw his troops the next day.

However, Wei Jiansu, as a former prime minister, does not need to participate in such shabby matters as seizing the heir, nor is he like other officials in Sichuan who enthusiastically post about King Qi when they see him.

Although Zhang Bin was the envoy of the Xichuan Army, most of the Zhang family's children served in the Xichuan Army.

And as the weather got hotter, the army gradually felt homesick.

But the situation is much better than before, and both the military and civilians have the hope of sticking to it for a long time.

Jinyang raised troops, Li Yuan called Tang Gong, and then went south from Jinyang to Guanzhong, creating Li Tang's foundation.

However, the interests of the Xichuan Army and the Zhang family were not exactly the same. For example, this time the Xichuan Army was newly defeated. Naturally, the army wanted to keep a low profile, and no one wanted to fight the Nanzhao people anymore.

But for the Zhang family, giving up the interests of the casino is absolutely unacceptable.

The Zhang family had invested so much in the casino that they had already bet all their net worth. After finally regaining some vitality, if they were seized by the Jiedu envoy, they would not be able to recover at all.

The Zhang family gathered together in the ancestral hall, and Zhang Bin's nephew stood up and said, "Uncle, why don't you go to King Qi?"

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