The end of the battle between Yunzhong should have been the starting point of a war, but beyond everyone's expectations, although hundreds of thousands of troops gathered around Yunzhong Prefecture City, the Northern Army and Duoton Army seemed to have lost their spirits at once and had never started a provocation. Even the army besieging Yunzhong Prefecture City took the initiative to retreat, which surprised Kamapov, who was stationed in Yunzhong Prefecture City, holding the battle to the death.

However, this does not mean that the clouds of war will dissipate. Not only has the coalition forces in the Yunzhong area not reduced, but also the south of Cangzhou is also covered with clouds. The First Legion and two independent divisions have slowly pushed to the front line of Cangzhou. The entire battle situation shows a suffocating confrontation, which indicates that if the war does not break out, it will plummet like a volcano erupting in a dam. This will be a war that swept across the northern part of the empire.

The most embarrassing role is the Imperial City Guards, the Fourteenth Legion and the two remaining divisions stationed in the western edge of Zhongzhou. As the battle for Yunzhong began, even the fool knew that the hatred between His Highness King Qin and His Highness King Yan would only become deeper and deeper, and the nominal imperial emperor seemed to be powerless to do anything about this. Apart from some powerless shouts and meaningless persuasion, the entire empire center seemed unable to come up with any measures and suggestions that could be helpful to this war. This is also an endless battle of life and death. Whoever loses will not only lose the country, but may even end up dead.

The tendency of several major armed groups entrenched on the edge of Zhongzhou, which should belong to the central government of the empire, is very important at this time. No matter which side they join, it may have an unexpected impact on the entire battle situation. They also know that once they stand in the wrong team, they are afraid that the final outcome will be tragic. However, the confusing situation makes it impossible to see the development of the situation clearly. Even the most sober military scholars cannot predict at this time who will win the final victory once this war breaks out. There are many unpredictable variables in the middle.

The most important armed group among them is probably the Imperial City Guard Corps, which has retreated to the original garrison in Zhongzhou. As a long-time general who has experienced many wars and countless political struggles, Yusufu's political and military sophistication and experience made both sides use him as their main goal at the beginning. However, the outbreak of the Jinzhong Incident made Xijiang feel deeply distrustful of this fence-between. Although the struggle on the surface has not changed, both Yousu

Both the Western Xinjiang side realized that it would be impossible to resolve the gap caused by the Jinzhong Incident in a short time. But this does not mean that the City Guard Corps will immediately fall into the arms of the Northern Army. At least the City Guard Corps can also use the guise of the army directly under the Central Empire as a guise to avoid pressure from the north and the Western Xinjiang under this excuse. Yousufu's creed is that only if you have enough force in your hands can you be qualified to bargain, otherwise you will be worthless.

Faced with the ever-increasing military power of Jinzhong, the City Guards began to evacuate from the junction between Longquan and Jinzhong one after another after the Jinzhong Incident and returned to their original garrison. The City Guards, which were in a corner, were like a firm piece of iron-sucking stone to attract everyone's attention.

After inspecting the defense of Jinzhong, Wufeng inspected two divisions of the Third Army between Jinzhong, Longquan and Zhongzhou. The second division of the Fifth Army conducted a practical tactical exercise in this area. The First Division of the Fifth Army, which was stationed in the imperial capital, also sent a corps to coordinate the drill, aiming to test the army's rapid march speed and the coordinated combat capabilities of cavalry and infantry. The ground in the radius of hundreds of miles between Jinzhong and the city of the imperial capital and then to the southeast of Longquan Prefecture immediately became a drill site, especially the Third Legion of the Western Xinjiang, which was the third legion of the Western Xinjiang, immediately became a training ground.

The emergence of the triple cavalry division made the armed forces around this area involuntarily tighten their hearts. This was the first heavy cavalry division established by the Tanghe Empire since its founding. Its equipment and training were completely in accordance with the standard configuration and requirements of the most elite heavy cavalry in the Western Continent and Liberian countries. For this reason, Li Wufeng also specially asked the Military Affairs Office to hire military instructors from the Hansen Alliance and the Famini Empire in the Western Continent to conduct tactical training in order to achieve the goal.

Although this unique heavy cavalry division in Xijiang suffered a major loss in the first Qinghe battle, this was also the first time that the heavy cavalry division led by Mao Jin fought against a strong enemy on a large scale. The setbacks received not only experience, but also allowed the young heavy cavalry to see their shortcomings. The Military Affairs Office immediately selected the best Western Regions war horses and soldiers to supplement this division. Given that although the Western Regions war horses were not as durable as the Tenggeri horses, they sprinted at a short distance.

The speed, frontal impact force and weight-bearing ability are better than the Tenggeri war horses. The Military Affairs Office spent a huge amount of money to replace the original Tenggeri war horses with the Western Regions war horses, striving to restore the division and exceed the original combat power in the shortest time. It should be said that Mao Jin and the officers and soldiers of the Third Division completed this task well. The formation drills and cluster charges during the entire exercise fully demonstrated that this heavy-armed cavalry division after experiencing setbacks had completely surpassed the original and its combat power had reached a new height.

This large-scale military exercise did not hesitate to take the Northern Army gathered in Cangzhou as the imaginary enemy. Imagine how the Western Army stationed in Heshuo area will complete reinforcements to Qinghe or strike against the imaginary enemy of Cangzhou when the Northern Army launches an attack on Qinghe. Although this is an open military exercise against the Northern Army, several major armed groups entrenched in the western and northern parts of Zhongzhou felt this murderous aura from the west. In the confrontation between these two major military groups, they

The position is the most embarrassing and cannot be avoided. Although various signs from the central government of the empire indicate that important figures are already putting pressure on these armed forces to join the Northern Army, the chief officers of these armed forces, which are actually in a semi-independent position cannot ignore how they can grasp such a degree and win more observation time. It is good if they can sit and observe, but many things are often not transferred by personal wishes. The more you want to stay out of the matter, the more you cannot escape. This is a vicious circle.

Wu Feng and his party who returned to the west were also warmly welcomed by the gentry in Jinzhong. In particular, the business people in the business circle, mainly coal mine owners, flattered and invited favors to this high-high King Qin who not only held the power of the entire western region of the empire but also controlled the gate to the imperial capital. The enthusiasm was enough to make the entourage look at him. Many large coal mine owners even publicly expressed their willingness to donate huge amounts of military funds to support His Highness Qin's great cause.

Wu Feng naturally knew the mystery. Given that Jinzhong has been in a state of military control, although the mines of coal mine owners have been reopened one after another, Jinzhong City Guardian is actually in a state of stopping operation. The coal mine owners' coal mine transportation has to deal directly with the army to obtain military material transportation permits. The procedures are not only quite troublesome, but also make the mine owners who are psychologically unwilling to deal with the army. Of course, these are not the main reasons. Because the local coal mine owners are more or less related to the great nobles of the imperial capital, it is no secret that His Highness the King of Qin and the great nobles of the imperial capital are in a bad relationship. Will this involve these local coal mine owners? Think about it, many merchants in Heshuo area who were originally close to the Taiping Cult have to deal with each other in the military control state, just one word of traffic rebellion can make you fall into hell. Confiscation of property is considered good. If not done well, you will fall into prison and never turn over.

At the welcome party held by the gentry and merchants for Wufeng and his party, Wufeng also responded clearly to the request of the gentry and merchants. The Western Xinjiang Government and Military Affairs Office will soon discuss abolishing military control and restoring local administrative management in Jinzhong. At the same time, it also implicitly stated that although gentry and merchants who have always stood in opposition to the imperial capital of Western Xinjiang, Xijiang will not take actions beyond the law, but will never allow themselves to indulge their words and deeds that are openly hostile to Western Xinjiang. It also hopes that the gentry and merchants in Jinzhong will draw a clear line with those conservative forces who do not know the current affairs and are stubborn.

The soft and hard remarks of Wufeng immediately caused a climax of counterattacking the conservative aristocratic forces of the imperial capital in Jinzhong. The largest newspaper in Heshuo, Zhongyuan Daily, published a long-term publication of the welcome and supportive attitude of the industrial and commercial community in Jinzhong to the Western Xinjiang regime, and expressed their breaking with the conservative forces of the imperial capital, indicating that in the face of real interests, the merchants abandoned all unrealistic fantasies without hesitation and threw themselves into the arms of Western Xinjiang without hesitation. The nobles of the imperial capital could not find any means of counterattack except to hate them.

In Hejian Prefecture, Wufeng exchanged views with Fang Chengsong, the Governor of Kansai, who was welcomed here, on the establishment of Heshuo County and the candidate for the Governor of Heshuo. Wufeng considered that although the Heshuo area had been included in its jurisdiction, in fact, Longquan and Jinzhong were still on the front line of war and war could break out at any time. He originally hoped that Fang Chengsong would still temporarily take jurisdiction over the Heshuo area, but in the end he was persuaded by Fang Chengsong to streamline the administrative management system as soon as possible, restore local government management management, and promote rapid economic recovery, and agreed to restore the county-level administrative areas of Beiyuan and Heshuo as soon as possible, and rebuild the local economies of the two places.

Bo Jinchen's sudden arrival and departure did not make many people notice anything, but Wufeng took a long time to discuss with him and Su Qin and the other two. Only those around Wufeng could feel that Bo Jinchen's arrival this time was not a trivial matter. His complicated expression when he left Bo Jinchen, made people realize that perhaps there was an important burden to bear the remnants of Taiping, who was rising in the military system of the Western Xinjiang.

Bo Jinchen was indeed a little distressed. When he received Wufeng's notification to meet in Heshuo, he realized that there must be some tricky task to let him take over. However, he still did not expect that the task assigned by His Highness the King of Qin was such a task that he was not willing to face in terms of emotion or morality. The sound of the carriage was shaking, and the carriage was escorted north by a group of cavalrymen. Bo Jinchen sat alone in the carriage and rested his eyes, but his mind was still stuck in the conversation the day before yesterday.

It should be said that Su Qin's analysis is quite accurate. The merger of Situ Tai and Situ Biao has actually divided the empire into two major groups of forces, the booming Li interest group in the Western Xinjiang and the Situ family interest group that still has a certain degree of support in the empire.

Behind the Li clan of the Western Xinjiang region is the industrial and commercial class in the entire Western Xinjiang territory. Since the Western Xinjiang system attaches particular importance to the interests of industrial and commercial and farmers who have important status among the residents of the entire territory, and in recent years, as the territory of the Western Xinjiang has been continuously expanded, trade routes and commodity sales channels have been continuously opened. In addition, the government's investment and improvement of transportation facilities at an advanced scale, it has enjoyed the benefits brought by this prosperity of industrial and commercial not only by the industrial and commercial class, but also by a considerable number of people have transformed from farmers to hire workers and handicraftsmen.

Therefore, the supporters of Western Xinjiang even cover the entire middle and lower-class groups in Western Xinjiang. With such a broad public base, it should be said that the status of the Li family in the western region of the country has been no longer shaken. Even as the competitiveness of industrial and commercial in the Western Xinjiang territory continues to increase, the economic situation in the southeast region, which was once the empire's most proud, has plummeted. This makes the Southeast industrial and commercial class, which once provided more than 70% of the tax revenue to the empire, and also makes the industrial and commercial classes in the East China Sea and Jiangnan secretly support Western Xinjiang.

The main supporters of the Situ family, which represents the original interest groups, are naturally conservative forces headed by the great landlords and nobles. Faced with the rise of the industrial and commercial class and the struggle of the people living in the lowest class, if they want to safeguard their privileges and interests, they can only strengthen their dominance through various means. Li Wufeng and them can no longer go on the same path, and the Situ family has become their backer for a high hopes for, and their bases are Yanyun and Wuhu.

The two clearly divided interest groups are actually quite clear, which has also caused huge cracks to the original imperial military system, which is intertwined with various interests. The most obvious one is the Imperial City Guards and the 14th Legion, which have been stationed in the suburbs of Zhongzhou. This time, the task assigned by Li Wufeng to Bo Jinchen was to win over the 14th Legion, which is also the most troublesome thing that made Bo Jinchen feel.

The 14th Legion came from the Taiping Surrender Army, which was originally the most favorable factor for Bo Jinchen, but now Lan Bailin, as the commander of the legion, is the person Bo Jinchen hates the most. Thinking about the fact that if it weren't for his sudden rebellion, the Taiping Sect would have ended in such a short time. Although Bo Jinchen admitted that even the Taiping Sect succeeded in that military admonition would not stop the Western Xinjiang from moving towards the east, this feeling of being betrayed will be unforgettable to Bo Jinchen for the rest of his life.

But the words of Li Wufeng and Su Qin finally changed Bo Jinchen's attitude of refusing this mission. If you still have a little sympathy for those Taiping scholars in your heart, you should use this opportunity to get them out of the sea of ​​suffering and seek a new life. The empire has become a broken ship that is about to sink. There is no need to let these poor worms be buried for the empire. These words are still echoing in Bo Jinchen's ears. Lan Bailin is certainly hateful, but in that situation at that time, he was probably just for survival. However, he estimated You Daofang's ability too high. This believer who was gathered with almost obsessed religious fanaticism had no chance of winning when facing a regular army that had been strictly trained. Apart from donating more lives for the so-called holy cause, there was no other value. It was a pity that these people who were determined to follow the holy religion to conquer the world and win a happy life.

The intelligence department also provided sufficient intelligence preparation for Bo Jinchen's trip to Zhongzhou. Lan Bailin's 14th Legion was left aside after Situ Lang was addicted to A Furong Ointment. Sometimes there was no unsustainable military pay and lost its direction of struggle. This army composed of the most loyal Taiping scholars quickly declined. Although Lan Bailin used various means to try to maintain this army, in fact, except for the combat effectiveness of one or two basic divisions, the combat effectiveness of the other divisions was already

It is very suspicious. According to the information of the Western Xinjiang intelligence department, this recruitment force, which was not favored by the conservative forces in the central government, has dropped to a minimum of both loyalty and cohesion. If the soldiers had not had no way out, the Western Xinjiang intelligence department even suspected that this force might have mutinyed long ago. In this case, the Western Xinjiang intelligence department concluded that as long as there is a person with deep faith to persuade, at least 90% of the time can be taken to take this desperate army for its own use.

In this case, Bo Jinchen became the best candidate for persuading the 14th Legion. After all, Bo Jinchen's prestige in the Taiping Army is probably second only to You Daofang, especially his influence in the army is even more than You Daofang to some extent. In the current situation of being surrounded by enemies, as long as Bo Jinchen can give up his past grudges, I believe this should be a natural thing.
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