Tang Wei wanted to escape in the dark, but Yang Xuangan had already ordered the blockade of the camp and could not escape at all. In desperation, he had to enter Liyang City after dawn to find a chance to escape.

On the morning of the third day of the June 19th, Yang Xuangan issued a manifesto in Liyang City to attack the Holy Lord. In accordance with the old Kaihuang system, he established the Shangshu Province, established a center, appointed officials, and named himself the Shangshu Order. On this basis, the Shangshu Daxingtai was established, which is the Suijun Office when the Shangshu Provincial Governor went to war, and the temporary peripheral organization of the central government.

At noon, Yang Xuangan ordered the Daxingtai and the troops set out from Liyang and headed south to attack the Dongdu.

The attack route is to go west along the Yongji Canal, pass through Hanoi County to Dahe, enter Luoshui from Dahe, and kill Dongdu from Luoshui. Although it is a water route, this is the fastest route to attack Dongdu. Yang Xuangan recruited all the ships on the Liyang section of Yongji Canal, and the water route is just enough to make full use of everything. By attacking Dongdu from this route, the first pass is the Lin Customs clearance located at the junction of Ji County and Hanoi County.

Yang Xuangan ordered Yang Xuanting as the general of the selection army, Tang Wei, to lead the army to lead the lead, and to win the customs clearance with thunder, and to open up the first pass into the Eastern Capital.

Tang Wei's current official position is the governor of Huaizhou, and was appointed by Yang Xuangan, which is also a entrusted with important responsibilities. Huaizhou is the Hanoi County and its surrounding areas before the Holy Lord reformed the administrative division, and it is still Tang Wei's "territory". Therefore, he had an innate advantage in attacking Linqing Pass and was familiar with the road. On the way, Tang Wei found Yang Xuanting and volunteered to take the troops to Linqing Pass first. Taking advantage of the pass guards who knew nothing about the Liyang mutiny, they attacked the enemy and opened and closed the door easily. The soldiers easily took the pass without bloodshed.

Yang Xuanting agreed. In his opinion, Tang Wei has been "pulled into the water" and can only work together. Otherwise, the people around him will die sooner or later. It would be better to sacrifice his life. Unexpectedly, Tang Wei's idea was different. He would rather die than rebel with Yang Xuangan, and he would do his best to protect his relatives and family.

On the morning of the fourth day of June, Tang Wei and his subordinate Feng Chi Dianzhi rushed to Linqing Pass. While ordering to persevere, he urgently reported the rebellion of Yang Xuangan, the Heyang Duwei Mansion and the Dongdu. Considering that he was low in position and light in power, he reported the Yuewang Mansion, the Central Government Office and the Dongdu Left-behind Mansion may not be able to pay attention to his call to the police. Besides, even if he was concerned, he might not believe it. After all, Yang Xuangan is the Minister of Rites and the Central Prison.

One of the sects is powerful, who dares to easily suspect his rebellion? So Tang Wei used his personal relationship, first asking for help from the tribesmen of the Dongdu, and then wrote a secret letter to the secretariat proofreader Cui Chuzhi, who had a friendship with classmates. Then Tang Wei asked Hebei for arresting ambassador Cui Hongsheng, and called the police to Shandong wealthy families with close ties with the Tang family, such as Hebei and Dai Jin, and urgently asked for help from the wealthy families headed by the Sima family in Wencheng, Hanoi County.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the lunar month, Yang Xuanting led his army to Lin Customs Clearance, but what disappointed him was that what "welcome" him was not the pass that opened the door, but the deafening sound of war drums and dense long arrows.

Yang Xuanting was furious and rushed to report Yang Xuangan, while sieging the city.

Also on the fourth day of the lunar month, Han Yao, the right chief of the alliance, Hao Xiaode, the general manager of the alliance, and Liu Heita, the deputy general manager, led the sixth, seventh, eighth, fourteenth and fifteenth armies across the river to meet with Li Zixiong, who was guarding Li Yang.

According to the agreement between the two sides, the alliance helped Li Zixiong to defend Li Yang, while Li Zixiong opened Li Yang warehouse to the alliance to ensure the alliance's combat needs and ensure the food supply of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians. Both sides took the needs, and Li Zixiong exchanged food for the army, solving the dilemma of Li Yang's lack of troops, while the alliance exchanged army for food, temporarily solving the food crisis. As for how to cooperate next, both sides were unsure. Although the goals of both sides were to go north, Li Zixiong could only influence and could not control the decision of the King of Qi, once the King of Qi and Yang Xuangan formed.

As the alliance cooperates, he insists on going to Beijing to seize the imperial throne, Li Zixiong can only stare at and be unable to stop it; the situation of the alliance is even worse. Now Li Fengyun is trapped in the battlefield of Dongdu, and the alliance's large forces are trapped in the battlefield of Liyang. Once the situation deteriorates, both may be wiped out. So now, whether it is the alliance's "old man" Chen Rui and Han Yao, or the alliance's "newcomer" Hao Xiaode and Wang Bo, etc., Qilu Haoshang, under the pressure of survival, everyone put their personal interests and contradictions aside for the time being, and worked together to strive for survival. At this moment, there is an internal strife, which is purely a search for death.

On the same day, Wang Bo, the left-hand general manager of the alliance, and Huo Xiaohan, the right-hand general manager, was ordered by the Grand General Manager Office to command the army under his command to evacuate the Tongji Canal line in turn, crossing the Ji River north and entering the territory of the East County.

On the same day, in the direction of Qilu, Pengcheng was left behind. General Dong Chun of the Left Guard arrived at Xiaqiu, the capital of Lu County, and ordered the tent to go up to Jiyin County quickly. Then he followed He and Ji line to advance to Tongji Canal day and night, and chased the white-haired thieves.

On the same day, in the direction of Hanoi, Gao Pi, the general under the tent of General Wu Ben and Li Gongting of Gao Du, led his army to cross the Bishui city, and stepped onto the spacious river embankment of Yongji Canal, with only more than 200 miles left before the customs clearance.

On the same day, in the southern part of the capital, Wu Ben Lang General Zhou Zhong was ordered to support the Luoshui line and led his army to advance to the Baiting and Kuaixiang areas. He met with Henan Lingda Xi and joined forces to strengthen the Luoshui defense line and resolutely block the enemy's troops north of the Luoshui River. Wu Ben Lang Lang General Fei Yao was ordered to support the Yique battlefield and led his army to advance along the north bank of the Luoshui River. The Right Guard General Li Hun took the opportunity to command the army to launch a counterattack on Ganluo City, trying to attack Fei Yao from the east and west to regain Ganluo City to ensure the safety of the flanks of Xianren Palace.

Li Fengyun commanded the alliance army to block Fei Yao from the Eastern Capital, and launched a fierce attack on Xianren Palace, besieging Wei to save Zhao, forcing Li Hun to give up counterattack against Ganluo and shrink his defense.

The two sides fought fiercely for days and continued to increase troops to the battlefield. The scale of the battle became larger and larger, the situation became more and more intense, and the decisive battle situation was very good. However, both sides were actually determined to preserve their strength, and no one wanted to fight to the death before the situation was clear. So as time passed, the atmosphere on Yique battlefield became more and more strange. As long as it was not a fool, he could see that there must be endless mystery hidden behind the battlefield.

With the efforts of two generations of emperors, the transmission speed of the Zhongtu post station system has reached a new level, especially in the two capitals and their surrounding areas, and the transmission speed is even more amazing. In the past two years, China and Turkish have launched foreign wars. In extraordinary times, the post station system, especially the post station route connecting Liaodong and Dongdu, has a stronger transmission ability with the court's investment at any cost.

On the morning of the fourth day of June, only one day before Yang Xuangan launched a mutiny in Liyang, the "big bosses" of major political forces in the Eastern Capital received secret reports from Liyang without exception. Although Yang Xuangan had blocked all the stations in Liyang and their surrounding areas before launching the mutiny, he could not block the ubiquitous traitors and spies, and even more so could not block the water and land transportation lines that were connected to all directions. As a result, he raised troops in Liyang in the third year of the lunar month, and Dongdu knew about it. The next news will be transmitted throughout Central China in a short time under the transmission of the developed station system.

After Cui went directly to Li Yang to report secretly, he immediately found Cui Zi. Li Fengyun's prediction came true again. Although this made Cui more confident in Li Fengyun and had a higher assessment of Li Fengyun's secret strength, what followed was his concern for his own future and the losses that Hebei and even Shandong people might suffer in this storm.

"Tell me the white hair right away." Cui Jie was silent for a long time, raised his hand and shook it at Cui Chu twice, "The storm has begun, the crisis has arrived, the situation has gone out of control. We are powerless, so we can only judge the situation and follow the trend. Please be careful."

Cui Chuzhi nodded slightly, thought for a while, and asked, "Do you continue to keep in touch with the white hair?"

Cui Jie shook his hand flatly, "Tell him, cut off contact and maintain a tacit understanding."

Cui Chuzhi hesitated for a moment and said, "If we are trapped in the city, wouldn't it be difficult to make a decision if we know nothing about outside the city?"

"Since we are trapped, what else can we do besides sticking to the aid? What decisions are needed?" Cui Zi laughed at himself, "If we can defend Dongdu and protect King Yue, we can protect the Cui family. Otherwise, the Cui family will suffer a heavy blow, so we have no choice. It is our decision to defend Dongdu and protect King Yue."

Cui Chuzhi no longer insisted and immediately changed the topic, "Do you tell Mr. Xin (Zheng Yuanshou) to make him prepare?"

Liyang has undergone drastic changes, and how could the Zheng family in Xingyang, which is only separated by a river, not know? It’s just that Cui’s active and proactive way to tell Zheng family that the result is different from silent.

The Zheng family of Xingyang was located in the Central Plains. During the Three-legged Dingling Period, it belonged to Shandong in terms of region. After the unification, it was adjacent to Heluo in terms of geographic terms, and politically it was close to the Wei family of Guanzhong, and strengthened the ally relationship between them with in-laws. After the opening of the Grand Canal, the Zheng family of Xingyang was at the junction of the north and south, which brought it more and greater rights to a certain extent, but accompanied by a great increase in political risks. Therefore, the position of the Zheng family of Xingyang in this storm is really difficult to infer. If the interests of Shandong people are taken into account.

, it must advance and retreat with the Cui family. If it takes into account the Heluo noble group, it must support Yang Xuangan. If it looks at the perspective of the struggle for the imperial rule, it must take into account the interests of the Wei family to help the Guanlong people. If it comes from the standpoint of the Zheng family in Xingyang, it must maintain the unobstructed Grand Canal and firmly support the Holy Lord and the Eastern Expedition. Only in this way can he maintain the power and wealth of the family. Such a complex interest entanglement, not to mention that outsiders are dazzled and difficult to judge, even the Zheng family in Xingyang itself is also difficult to make decisions.

The Cui family took the initiative to inform Zheng of the radical changes in Li Yang, which was equivalent to starting from the interests of Shandong people and having a strong desire to persuade the Zheng family of Xingyang to obey the overall interests of Shandong. Under this pressure, Zheng must take into account both when making decisions. This is a good thing for Cui. Friends are always better than strangers and enemies.
Chapter completed!