The situation in the capital was deadlocked.

The Southwest Army bombarded the western walls of the capital with thunder every day outside, but there was no large-scale attack and kept exploding like this. Although the imperial guards suffered casualties every day, it would be difficult to make greater progress.

It’s not that the Southwest Army is not able to attack the capital. With the firearms that Li Xin has reserved over the years, he will try his best and pay some more. There is absolutely no problem in opening the western wall of the capital. The question is whether the remaining Southwest Army can defeat the imperial guards in the capital after entering the capital.

In this way, in a blink of an eye, the Southwest Army had been in the capital for two months. After two months, the capital, which was originally panicked, gradually no longer feared the thunder of the Southwest Army. Although they were still worried about the situation, they were much better than the previous month.

However, there is not no good news for the Southwest Army. Since the last time the Southwest Army defeated the Imperial Army and the Local Fang Army, coupled with Zhao Jian's efforts in the rear, public opinion in the world has gradually begun to reverse.

At least, now almost no one thinks that the Southwest Army is a "rebel". Everyone thinks that this time the Southwest Army is coming to the capital, but the Ji family is fighting for throne, which is far from the point where the artifact is overturned.

Moreover, because of the last beautiful victory, Li Xin won the support of many forces. Many large clans in Jiangnan lost to wealthy businessmen, and had secretly contacted Li Xin and provided a lot of money and food to the Southwest Army.

The Southwest Army came all the way from Hanzhong, and it was obviously unrealistic to Zhao Jia transport food and grass in the rear. Fortunately, the Southwest Army was not a "king army". Although Li Xin prohibited the Southwest Army from looting ordinary people, there was no problem "borrowing" some food from local wealthy merchants and landlords when they were short of food and money.

After all, it is not a solution. These wealthy and powerful men who secretly support the Southwest Army helped Li Xin relieve a lot of pressure.

At this time, Li Shuo led the Ningzhou army to confront the defenders of the capital twenty miles outside the capital. At the same time, the Yunzhou army, who came to the north to serve the king, had been on the road for more than a month, and at most another month, they could arrive in the capital.

Yunzhou City is a serious border army, and its combat power may be better than that of the Central Imperial Army. Once the Yunzhou Army arrives in the capital, and there are still about 200,000 troops in the capital, even if Li Xin is capable, the Southwest Army will be forced to retreat to the southwest.

While everyone in Quantian was staring at the capital, Li Xin himself left the Ningzhou Army Camp and returned to the Luzhou City behind.

The current Luzhou City is considered to be the relatively stable "rear" of the Southwest Army. Once the capital's position cannot be held, the Southwest Army can retreat to Luzhou to defend. Now the Southwest Army has occupied Luzhou for almost three months. This big city is not much different from before under the rule of the Southwest Army. Several gates of Luzhou City can even enter and exit normally.

At this time, Li Xin was sitting under the pavilion in the back garden of a large mansion in Luzhou City. On the table in the pavilion, there were a few side dishes and a pot of strong wine.

A tall gray-haired old man sat opposite him. Li Xin personally picked up the wine pot and filled the wine glass in front of the old man. Then he smiled and said, "Brother Hou is in good health. He is like that kind of injury. Even a young man will probably have to lie in bed for half a year. It took him more than two months to recover."

Hou Jingde, who was sitting opposite Li Xin, picked up the strong wine in front of him and smiled bitterly: "Don't make fun of me, it's just some external injuries, so I will naturally not die."

After he looked up and drank a glass of wine, he looked at Li Xin and frowned and said, "It is said that your Southwest Army is in a stalemate with the imperial court. At this time, you, the general of the Southwest Army, are not on the front line, so why do you have free time to drink with me, a useless man?"

Li Xin raised his glass, toasted Hou Jingde, and said in a deep voice: "Of course, I have something to discuss with my brother."

Hou Jingde was also a black face. He frowned slightly when he heard this and said, "Brother Li, I probably know what you are going to do, but now the court probably thinks I am dead, and maybe all the pensions will be sent to my house. At this time, I just want to help you, and I am powerless."

Speaking of this, he paused and said slowly: "Besides, my wife and children are all in the capital, and I have two grandchildren who are only four or five years old. I can't harm them."

Li Xin smiled: "Brother, you entered the Zuoying camp of the Imperial Army in the early years of Taikang. Since then, you have been deeply rooted in Zuoying for more than ten years. At this time, it is useless for anyone to say that you are dead. As long as you can appear in the Zuoying camp of the Imperial Army in person, it is better than any imperial edict. Besides, I don't want you to help my Southwest Army rebel. I just need you to hold the Zuoying camp of the Imperial Army for two hours. After two hours, things will naturally be clear. In the future, the new dynasty is established, and you are a great hero again."

Hou Jingde frowned and said nothing.

Li Xin smiled and continued, "Brother, you have lived with me for more than two months. At this time, you have recovered. If I do nothing and send you back to the capital, even if I don't tell anyone where you have been in the past two months, after you return to Beijing, others ask you, what do you think you say?"

"Will the court still believe you?"

"In the future, the Southwest Army will retreat to the southwest, and I, Li Xin, will still be rich for a lifetime. But once Emperor Zhao of Yuan reorganizes the dynasty, how can you have a good end for your Hou family?"

"At that time, your wife, children, will be implicated by you, man."

Hou Jingde looked up at Li Xin and frowned deeply: "Is this what you had planned early in the morning?"

"You can't say that."

Li Xin shook his head slightly and said, "No one can predict everything. For example, I didn't expect that you would personally take the imperial guards out of the city to attack the camp. It would be a surprise that you could invite you back, Brother Hou."

Li Xin smiled and said, "Brother, think about the Renchen Palace change more than ten years ago."

More than ten years ago, Hou Jingde was the Zuo Lang General of the Yulin Guard. At that time, Li Xin used this method of restraining him to join the game and pulled him to the camp of the Wei Palace.

Hou Jingde frowned.

"More than ten years ago, Brother Li, you pulled me to join the Wei Palace. Now, you are pulling me to rebel. How can you be the same?"

“How is it different?”

Li Xin's face was calm: "It's all a gambling life, there's no difference. The current emperor is the legitimate son of His Highness the King of Wei, and the Sixth Prince is not the legitimate son of His Highness the King of Wei?"

Hou Jingde groaned: "You have a heavy army and have successfully entered the capital. Where can I do anything about the Sixth Prince?"

Faced with this problem, Li Xin smiled but said nothing.

Finally, Hou Jingde couldn't bear it anymore. He looked up at Li Xin and asked, "Brother Li, how sure are you?"

Li Xin smiled: "Now I'm sure I'm talking nonsense now, but I can promise my brother that as long as you nod, you will definitely be more confident than the Renchen Palace change back then."

"nonsense."

Hou Jingde frowned and said, "Can you control the Three Imperial Guards like you did back then?"

Li Xin shook his head: "I haven't been in Yulin Guard for a long time, so naturally I can't do it."

After pausing, he smiled and said, "But I can slightly control the right camp of the Imperial Army."

Hou Jingde's face changed slightly.

"How do you control it?"

General Li laughed: "Brother, have you forgotten that I have been the general of the Right Camp of the Imperial Army for many years!"

Hou Jingde sneered all over his face: "Your Right Camp general is just a name. How did you spend the night in the Right Camp camp in those years?"

Mr. Li smiled.

"My man said it's right. I was just a name in those years."
Chapter completed!