"What!" Cui Yuan was so brave that he was so angry that he suddenly turned dark in front of him and he knew nothing.

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In early December of the second year of Xuanren, the news of the defeat of the officers and soldiers in Shu came to Chang'an. The court and the country were shocked. However, Cui Yuan suffered a stroke and died of illness. However, the news that shocked the court and the country did not end. Soon, another news came that Zhu Li had led an army of 200,000 north to occupy Yangping Pass. His vanguard had arrived in Hanzhong. He had already issued a bid, asking the court to grant him the King of Shu and actually grant him the thirty-six counties in Shu as fief. Otherwise, he would send troops to Chang'an and revive the court.

The news that Zhu Li went north made the court panic. Pei Jun immediately reached an agreement with Cui Yuan, who was seriously ill. With the Empress Dowager Cui Xiaofu, he signed Guo Ziyi, who was eighty years old as the marshal of the country, led the Qianniu Guard, Jinwu Guard and nearly 10,000 Longyou Army who fled from Kaiyang to Guanzhong, a total of more than 70,000 people marched into Hanzhong from Ziwu Valley, and urgently dispatched troops from various places to train troops to Beijing to serve the king.

At this moment, Guanzhong was empty, and there were less than 10,000 people defending the capital.

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After Zhang Huan captured the entire territory of Longyou, he had completed the army in ten days, including the Longyou surrendered army and a large number of newly recruited troops. He had nearly 120,000 troops. He divided them into eight battalions, stationed in Hexi and Longyou, and sent his own confidant generals as Generals of the Central Army to take charge of each battalion. Among them, he personally led 50,000 elite troops of the Xiliang Army stationed in Jincheng County, and he officially designated Jincheng County as Longyou and the headquarters of the Hexi Jiedu.

On this day, Zhang Huan was discussing Lingwu County with the new military counselor Du Mei and the judge of the Western Liang Army Pei Mingyuan. Du Mei suggested re-blocking Lingwu County and forcing Duan Xiushi to either surrender or return to the Xishoucheng City. Pei Mingyuan suggested taking the route of the empress dowager and asking the empress dowager to persuade Duan Xiushi to surrender, and at the same time canceling the food aid that the Wei family promised to him, both soft and hard.

Zhang Huan favored Pei Mingyuan's suggestion, but the food should be a little bit first to win the hearts of the people of Lingwu County.

Just when the three of them reached an agreement on the countermeasures of Lingwu County, the emergency information about Jiannan's defeat and Hanzhong's emergency was sent by Chang'an Feige.

No one of the three said at the moment. Zhang Huan stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and stared at the sky for a long time. Although he had expected that the court would lose this time in the southern expedition, he still did not expect that he would be defeated so badly. Especially when Zhu Li showed his ambition, he sent troops to Hanzhong and demanded to break the territory. This was a bit beyond his expectations. He was too impatient and wanted to rebel against the Tang Dynasty before the foundation of Shuzhong was stable. Don't you know that the people could overturn the boat? It seems that he was still above him. This chess piece has no effect on him now.

"Governor! The opportunity is here." Du Mei's eyes were extremely bright. He stared at the pigeon in front of him, as if he had discovered a gold mine. He said excitedly: "Now the Guanzhong army has been taken to Hanzhong by Guo Ziyi. Guanzhong is extremely empty. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the governor. If he seizes this opportunity, the governor can be the lord of Guanzhong. Advance can restore his royal status and directly ascend to the throne as the throne. When he retreats, he can follow Cao Cao and use the emperor to command the princes."

"The governor cannot!" Pei Mingyuan opposed loudly, "The governor seized Longyou, and he can still explain to the people that he wanted to regain Hehuang and take over the Wei family, which did nothing, and replace him. I think the people in the world are still understandable, but the governor takes advantage of the opportunity to march into Guanzhong, which means completely different. In this way, what is the difference between the governor and Zhu Li?"

"It's far and far-reaching!"

Du Mei shook her head gently and said, "Why do you need to consider the kindness of women too much? It is important to know that history was written by the king. Emperor Taizong killed his brother and forced his father to leave a bad reputation in history books? Emperor Xuanzong forced his father and brother to gain throne, Emperor Suzong planned the Mawei Slope Incident, and used mutiny to force the Ming Emperor. Can there be records in history books? As long as the governor works hard to restore the prosperity of Kaiyuan, and restore the power of our Tiankang Khan of the Tang Dynasty, a hundred years later, who will remember how the governor entered the pass from Longyou?"

Zhang Huan was still silent, his eyes were extremely complicated, Du Mei's words made him very moved and made him excited. He knew that this was a shortcut to reaching the sky, and he almost agreed without thinking, but a trace of reason in his mind told him that this could not be done!

He tried hard to control the desire in his heart, and finally calmed down slowly. He turned around and patted Du Mei on the shoulder, and said to him sincerely: "I understand your loyalty. There are some things I can think of, but I can't do them. Do you understand?"

Speaking of this, he opened the curtain on the wall and exposed a complete map of the Helong area. He pointed to Wenjun, the southernmost part of Longyou and smiled at the two of them, "Now Zhu Li attacked Hanzhong, but gave me a great opportunity to clean up the bad reputation of occupying Longyou. Zhu Li led a 200,000 army northward, and Shu Zhong would inevitably be empty. Why don't we send troops from Wenjun, and follow the river water to the Fu River and raid him Zhu Li's nest, thus forcing him to withdraw his troops? I think it's not too long to achieve such great achievements in the country and get the position of Longyou Jiedushi."

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In early December of the second year of Xuanren, just when Zhu Li was about to divide his troops into three groups to attack Hanzhong and Chang'an, Zhang Huan of Longyou suddenly sent troops to Shuzhong. Under Zhang Huan's personal leadership, the 50,000 troops were unstoppable and snatched passes. His pioneer general Wang Siyu arrived in Jiangyou County, an important town in Bashu, in just ten days.
Chapter completed!