The trees are full of flowers and lush branches and leaves. On the small stone path under the tree, a few fat pigeons walk around leisurely. Following Yangling, they fly lazily and fall on the rockery rocks in the fish pond.

The wives and concubines in the back hall were chatting and talking together. The young lady was lying on the Arhat bed, leaning on the tall brocade quilt, cracking the melon seeds, and chewing them into her son's mouth. The little guy grabbed his mother's clothes and tried hard to climb over, but unfortunately his low body was like an insurmountable ridge to him.

The little guy tried a lot of effort to climb up a little, and when he was relieved, he slipped out along the smooth mat. The little guy was so angry that he was about to open his mouth and cry when his mother's sweet kiss arrived. Lord Yang took the chewed melon seeds and continued to get up.

Gao Wenxin couldn't bear it anymore, so she hugged her son with heartache and said to Han Youniang: "Look at you, what do you always tease him? It's going to make the child tired."

Han Youniang laughed with her chin on her back: "Sister, a child is just active. If you don't let him use up all your energy, you won't stop at night and wake up in a while."

At this time, Yang Ling walked in, the room was full of Qiong Yaoying stood up, and said with a smile: "Master".

Yang Ling nodded, and saw Cheng Qiyun also in the room. Qiaoqiao looked at him with a good look and couldn't help but laugh: "You are free. If you have nothing to do, go out for a walk. Our family has few rules."

He sat by the kang, and several beauties returned to their seats. Yang Ling hugged his son from Wen Xin's hand, kissed him on the cheek, and said with a "oh": "Drink, this face is spitting, oh, my baby, are you washing clothes? The front is stammering."

Han Youniang sat up, tidyed her hair, and said coquettishly: "It's not just a group of them. Who kisses this person all day? If the child kisses too much, he loves to drool."

Tang Yixian smiled and said, "Yoyo, sister young lady, it's like she understands the first time she's a mother. Sister Wenxin is a miracle doctor. Tell me," said.

Han Youniang glared at her and said, "I also said, "You kissed so much, my son is almost your son."

Tang Yixian came to Yang Ling, shaved the baby's little face, and smiled proudly: "It's, um..... I'm my godson sooner or later." She teased Lord Yang with a smile: "Little guy, tell my aunt. Are you drooling by your aunt? You must answer no, otherwise you will be a big pervert, and you will follow your father."

The women in the room burst into laughter, and Yang Ling glared at her angrily.

Cheng Qiyun knew that Hong Niang had a place in Yang Ling's heart, and that Yan Shenggong was driven into Beijing by Hong Niang. Now that he knew the exact news about Hong Niang, he must have been worried, so he asked, "Has Yan Shenggong arranged it?"

Yang Ling lowered his smile and nodded. Then he lay on the couch and let his son lie on his chest. The little guy struggled twice, rolled down, grabbed his mother's clothes and got up hard.

Yang Ling, with an arm pillow, looked at the ceiling and said thoughtfully: "The Minister of Rites Wang and the Chief of Hanlin Academy, the prince's priests went to pick him up. Now the Ministry of Rites arranges his residence. I will meet the emperor tomorrow. Strangely, that is the descendant of Confucius, and these adults have not seen these adults respect too much."

Gao Wenxin smiled and said, "The scholars respected Saint Confucius. How could his descendants have such great prestige? The Master already exists like a god in people's hearts, and the descendants he left in the world are not so important."

Yang Ling shook his head and said, "I am not sure about it. In the court, if there are any acts of disrespecting sages and not following the rituals of the saints, the officials would rather die than give in. Sometimes they are simply foolish, but now the Confucius Mansion has been occupied by the white-clothed army. How could the scholars be angry?"

Yu Tangchun said, "They are thieves and robbers. If the robbers know etiquette and respect the saints, then will they still be thieves? Instead of this, they are strange. How could the scholars surrender their identities and reason with the robbers?"

Cheng Qiyun knew that he was worried that the Hongniang would cause a big disaster and smiled and said, "The saint was promoted by the imperial family. No matter who wins the world, they respect Saint Confucius in order to bribe the heart of the Shilin. The Shilin respects Saint Confucius as gods, and also to elevate the supreme status of scholars.

If there is any disrespect in the court, every word and deed are important, and it affects the status and welfare of scholars, so you must fight and not give in. As for what the bandits do, they say they are disdainful to take care of them. Isn’t it that there will be no threat to them or shake their status? To put it bluntly, no matter what they do, there is always someone who has a purpose, either for fame or for profit!"

The matter of Hong Niang did not lead to the serious consequences of gathering and denunciation by scholars from all over the world. Yang Ling felt relieved. Cheng Qiyun's statement was too lazy to care whether it was extreme. Yang Ling thought about his thoughts and subconsciously stroked the round thighs of Youniang and pondered: "Shandong is now completely a bandit world. The power of the court can only be used to protect some big cities and big monuments, basically defending, and there is no effective attack at all, let alone encirclement and suppression.

Although the number of horses in Bazhou is smaller than that in Shandong's white-clothed army, it is more sophisticated, with much higher combat power, and fewer people are fast. Although Xu Tai and Jiang Bin are brave, they can only follow them to clean up the mess. In this way, the thieves become more and more arrogant. Although they are still calm in other places, the war will probably spread soon. Bo Yan in the border area can lead the invasion. Although he is not very good at present, since he has come, he will not be able to make such a small fuss, and he can't underestimate it. Alas, it is really worrying to think about it."

It’s okay that Yang Ling was intimate in front of his wife and concubine, but there were Cheng Qiyun and Tang Yixian next to him. Han Youniang suddenly felt embarrassed. She blushed and pushed away her husband’s hand and said, “There are Grand Secretary and all the lords in the court. They will definitely find a way. Don’t worry too much. You are the Duke of the State now and you are always not good at interfering too much in the government.”

Yang Ling smiled angrily, "You're starting to practice kung fu again? Well, your thighs are much stronger."

The girls laughed, and Tang Yixian raised his nose and said, "Look, I said he was a pervert, so I care about this. But this is wrong with my sister. The Duke also ate the salary of the court. How can he ignore it when the country is in trouble? The emperor has been bothered by this matter recently. My elder brother has always been invincible. I think the officials in the court are all for a good meal. Brother, please give him some advice."

Yu Tangchun curled her lips and said, "You are not a woman. You are not a woman. You are not married yet, so you are looking at him. The master has entered the court as an official. He is busy all day long. Could it be that he has to lead troops and not go out to war? However, I also think that the officials in the court are too useless."

Yang Ling shook his head and said, "Otherwise, since ancient times, the most difficult thing to eliminate is the thieves. The best time to destroy them is that when they were just in the beginning of their initiation, if they had a good general and annihilated them in one go, they could be quickly pacified. Unfortunately, the court was in a hurry and had no time to take care of others, so they gave them the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and make them bigger.

Now their wings are formed. They have no strongholds, do not occupy cities, wander around, and do not require logistics, so they march very quickly. They have almost no weaknesses to take, and there is no need to defend the key points.

These thieves are strong and avoided, and they are weak and attacked, and they have no worries at all. Their advantage is the weakness of the court, while the court has almost no advantages. Even if they are all infantrymen, they are taking small paths and walking on mountain streams, they are elusive. What's more, the rebels have conquered a large number of military and horses, and the main force comes and goes like the wind, and the light cavalry is quick and cannot catch up or face it. The court's army cannot even guess the direction of their attack, and even if they are all cavalry, they are completely unable to do so."

Cheng Qiyun knew that he was telling the truth. Since ancient times, any rebel who does not have strongholds and only attacks but does not defend. No matter how wise the generals of the Divine Martial Arts are, they cannot quell the rebellion in a very short time. Because you can't find his landlord force to fight, and the country is yours. It is destined that you must defend first and then attack. If you follow the robbers to attack with all their strength, give up defense, give up responsibility, and let the country decay, you can only force more people to be dissatisfied, and then join the chaos and strengthen their strength.

Sure enough, Yang Ling said slowly: "Analysis from the general trend, the people are more or less dissatisfied with the court. When the riot first occurs, this kind of venting mentality will make them feel very happy, and even want others to make the court pay attention to their existence, which will encourage the rebels to be arrogant.

However, as the rebels' destruction becomes greater and their vital interests are lost without gains, the people will get bored and oppose it. The rebels are like a flood peak in the long river, and their initial unstoppable momentum will gradually weaken. As long as the court does a good job of comforting the rebels, they will not add firewood and raise their wages to encourage their arrogance. At the same time, they will strengthen the walls and clear the fields, guard the important passes of the city, encircle and suppress them according to the land, and each responsibility will be dedicated to them and not let them lead the nose, so that their power can be divided and gradually annihilated.

Therefore, the court must not be distracted. First, it must not be eager to achieve success, and must follow the steps and arrange it calmly. Second, it cannot ignore the comfort of the disaster area, otherwise it will be the source of the disaster in the new land. They will not hate the disaster of robbers, but will take anger at the court, believing that the court does not care about them, thus becoming a firm supporter of the White-clothed Army. Third, we cannot only focus on the local area and transfer all the heavy troops into Shandong. The court does not pursue them. They need food supply and will inevitably expand outward. If all the heavy troops are deployed in Shandong, the Central Plains will be empty and they will take advantage of the opportunity to enter. However, Shandong does not have enough troops and cannot try to annihilate them. This measure must be well controlled."

Tang Yixian whispered his words carefully, be sure that he remembered them almost the same. Fang Xi smiled diligently and said, "Ah, he asked me to go to the Leopard Garden, but I forgot, brother, I'll leave first." After that, he suddenly flashed out in a hurry.

Yang Ling sat up and looked at her back and smiled slightly. When Cheng Qiyun saw it, she couldn't help but shook her head slightly, thinking quietly: "He couldn't help but be involved again. Alas, when this strategy came out, it was from his own words, I'm afraid... I'm afraid that the emperor would follow it again. Focusing on the overall situation, it's easy to divide the troops, but if the commander lacks prestige and authority, how can the officials in the border areas be willing to bow down? At that time, he... has to lead his troops to fight again."

In Bazhou City, a large army gathered, but the city was already ruined. When the officers and soldiers left, the horse thieves came in. When the officers and soldiers returned, the horse thieves retreated, just like the tides rising and falling. The city had already been looted.

Jiang Bin led his troops back to Bazhou, and there were only a few people left in the city. Wang Mantang and his family didn't know where to escape. Jiang Bin was angry but had nowhere to vent, so he had to join forces with Xu Tai and Miao Kui to encircle and suppress the horse thieves.

Liu Liu and Liu Qi's troops had grown to more than 30,000, and several leaders led an army across Hebei. You advance and retreat, which was difficult to capture. Xu Tai was very happy to Jiang Bin, a tiger general, so he decided to adopt the tactic of attacking north and south. Xu Tai and Miao Kui were in charge of Gu'an, and Jiang Bin led his troops to attack Xin'an.

Xu Tai's army had just left Bazhou and received news. Liu Liu led his troops to bypass Xu Tai's main force and had already attacked Bazhou City. Xu Tai immediately returned to the army, abandoned the large brigade's supplies, and only led the light cavalry to support Bazhou City. He fought fiercely outside Bazhou City for half a day and defeated Liu Liu.

Liu Liu led his army to retreat, but unexpectedly, news came out that Qi Yanming's strange army emerged. Taking advantage of Xu Tai's return to the rescue, he robbed his supplies and food. Xu Tai took back the city, but lost his supplies and was very upset. Fortunately, a large amount of food and food was still placed in Bazhou City. However, Xu Tai did not dare to leave Bazhou lightly. If he wanted to send troops, he would leave a team of elite troops to defend the city to prevent it from being taken advantage of by the enemy.

Jiang Bin's army won a great victory in attacking Xin'an. Xing Laohu and Zhao Sui had no intention of defending to the death. They retreated in one battle. Jiang Bin captured an empty city and was useless, so he led his army to attack Gu'an. When he arrived at Zhengge Village in Gu'an, he was blocked by the lofty horses and Feng Lei. Both of them were fierce generals, and they each had casualties in a fierce battle. When Qi Yanming completed the task of robbing food and grass, he led his army to escape. Feng Leicai led his army to retreat. Jiang Bin heard that the battle of Bazhou was reported to fly to Bazhou and then went around and returned to the starting point.

Liu Liu's army retreated to Bali Bridge and was about to meet the Tongzhou Guard commander Jin Sheng and the Hejian Prefecture General Yuan Biao. He was caught off guard and was attacked by the two armies from both sides. The damage was really heavy this time, so he rushed his army to flee south. Jin Sheng and Yuan Biao were not as fast as Liu Liu, and Liu Liu's cavalry was in front and infantry was behind. If anyone was besieged, there would be no troops to rescue him at all, so the brigade was able to escape.

Jin Sheng and Yuan Biao came to see Xu Tai with more than a thousand prisoners. The army from all walks of life gathered together to discuss the strategy of suppressing bandits, but what worries them the most was that they could only follow Xiangmata thieves forever. Their food and grass were stationed in Bazhou, and Bazhou had to defend them. All counties were occupied, so they had to divide their troops to rescue them. However, Xiangmata thieves had no such concerns. Therefore, although Xu Tai, Jiang Bin and others were brave, they had only a lot of force in the face of this enemy who was leaving, they had no way to use it, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to ask the court for more troops.

At this time, the Xiangmao thieves also began to gather in Xiongxian and An's new generation. Zhao Crazy arrived in Xiongxian first. Xiongxian County Magistrate He Shizhen organized the township soldiers and civilians to fight against the Xiangmao thieves, but it collapsed as soon as it broke out. He Shizhen was captured alive.

Zhao Crazy Zi jumped into the city, followed by his relatives' vehicles. When he saw the people hiding from all over the world, he cried and called his parents, and said loudly: "Come here, tell the people in the county, and say that my Zhao Crazy Zi's men will not harm the good people, and will not commit any crimes whenever they surrender. He summoned gentry and celebrities, and each household only asked half of the money and food, and would not harm the body or life. Those who in the army would be killed immediately!"

Zhao Hao obeyed the order, Zhao Fengzi arranged for the family to step into the seventh-grade main hall with a horse whip. There were many bandits on both sides. Zhao Fengzi slapped the wood and shouted: "Come on, take that bold and powerful man, lead three yamen runners, and the strong people dare to fight against our army, and the magistrate He County robbed me!"

County Magistrate He is a weak scholar with a fair face. He looks only in his thirties. His whole family was tied up and brought to the court. Zhao Crazy Zi looked up and down and laughed: "Oh, you County Magistrate He, you are so stupid. You dare to be a car even if you are a mantis arm. Now that you see me, Zhao Crazy Zi, don't you kneel?"

Although the county magistrate He was thin, he was not brave enough to kneel down. He spat and scolded angrily: "Zhao Sui, you thief chief, you have the fame of all the gods. After reading the articles of sages, you actually rebel and harm the people. You can only be rampant for a moment when the clown comes. As soon as the imperial army arrives, it will collapse. I am the seventh-rank main hall of the Ming Dynasty. How can you kneel down as a bandit?"

Feng Lei roared and shouted, "You bullshit county magistrate, so bold, you dare to talk to my brother Zhao like this, and wait for me to chop your dog's head!" As he said that, he lifted his knife and stepped on.

Zhao Sui waved his hand quickly and said with a smile: "Mr. He County Magistrate, look at us. It's only two months since the army is launched. Now the army is strong and the horses are strong. It can be seen that the people's will and the general trend is in full swing. The Ming Dynasty has been exhausted. Now the court is corrupt, and one Zhang has skinned, causing countless families in Bazhou to separate their wives and children, and the other Liang Hong is the same. Although the court has defeated the traitor Liu Jin, will the world be clear? I think you are a man, why not join the party, make achievements in the future, split the land and make a title of marquis, and also a founding father!"

He Shizhen laughed to the sky: "Crazy Zhao, let your tongue be bright and the flowers are sweet. I, He, is a loyal minister in the Ming Dynasty. It is not difficult to ask my head. If I want my bandits to rebel, I must not!"

Feng Lei smiled grimly and said, "Brother Zhao, why bother with him? Wait for me to take him out of the lobby and kill the Qiqi."

He Shizhen was not afraid, raised his head and said coldly: "If you want to kill, you should kill. Why do you need to say too much?"

Zhao Caizi said: "Come on the street, I'll catch a few people. I'll ask him how the county magistrate is."

A few soldiers rushed out and brought several people from the street in a short while. The people just heard the bandits shouting that they had no harm to the people, neither hurt nor plundered, and were half-believing and half-doubted, but they were suddenly arrested, and they couldn't help but look scared. Zhao Sui pointed at He Shizhen and asked the people about his character. The people who were arrested were trembling and their answers were generally consistent. The county magistrate was honest and fair, and sympathetic, and he was a clean official.

After hearing Zhan Yan, Zhao Crazy said with a smile: "This person is loyal and honest and complimentary, and loves the people as much as his son. He is a good official. Let his family leave. You must not be embarrassed."

He Shizhen looked at him in shock. Zhao Crazy bowed and smiled, "I am a bandit now, can the big thing be accomplished? It was not decided at first, and you don't want to follow me, and I won't make things difficult for you. When we will win the world and make plans for the people, I still hope that Brother He can come forward to become an official."

He Shizhen looked around and saw that he was really about to let him leave, so he snorted coldly, took his wife and children and left, and Xie didn't say a word. Feng Lei said angrily: "Brother Zhao is so polite to this bastard!"

Zhao Crazyman smiled and said, "If you want to accomplish great things, you must win the hearts of the people and don't just kill them. We are now the rebel army, no longer the Xiangma. Please remember it!"

Although Feng Lei was brave, Zhao Fengzi was also very skilled in martial arts. What's more rare is that he had outstanding literary and martial arts. He had several battles in the horse army, which led Xu Tai and Jiang Bin to follow him, but he could not hurt him at all. He even divided his troops to attack Bazhou City and attacked him from the east to seize his food and grass. It was all due to Zhao Fengzi's idea, so Feng Lei respected him very much and stopped talking when he heard this.

Zhao Fengzi said: "Brother Feng, transfer all the troops into the city and restrain his subordinates. They are not allowed to burn, kill, loot, and do not violate the ordinary people at all. All wealthy and gentry can inquire from the surrounding people. Those who are unkind and bully men and women will be searched and beheaded. A kind family only needs money and food, and will not infringe on them!"

Feng Lei took the general order and took a team of people there. Zhao Fengzi arrived at the back house. After a while, Zhao Hao hurried back and said, "Brother, Brother Liu hastily defeated Dingxing and Xu Shui. Now he has reached Anxin. The vanguard has entered the west gate of Xiongxian. He has just entered the city and burned and killed him. I stopped him. Qi Yanming attacked Langfang and passed Tianjin. He also burned and killed him all the way. Wen'an is Brother Liu's hometown, so he did not harass him much. He took a detour and came here today."

When Zhao Fengzi heard this, he said unhappily: "How can they win the hearts of the people when they act like this? If this continues, no matter how many soldiers and horses are, they will still be bandits and robbers. Even if the officers and soldiers are unable to do anything for a while, they will definitely be defeated sooner or later. I reminded them repeatedly before leaving, but they still don't listen."

Zhao Pan whispered: "Brother, since our family has boarded the pirate ship, we can't get off. But if we want to do it, we have to do something big. In my opinion, although Liu Liu and Liu Qi are brave, they are not the ones who can accomplish great things. Just because of our strict military disciplines along the way, how can we win the hearts of the people? The elder brother's righteous deeds were wiped out by them."

Zhao Shui glared at him without saying a word.

Zhao Hao looked around and saw that there were only two personal soldiers at the door, who were the former servants of the Zhao family, so he whispered: "Brother, my second brother said that although we were forced to join the gang, we saw that the officers and soldiers were incompetent now. When we raised our troops, we only had a thousand soldiers. In just two months, we gathered tens of thousands of soldiers. If we were careful to manage, we might really be able to win the world. But Brother Liu did this and the people were lost. We...?"

"Silence!" Zhao Sui waved his hand solemnly to stop his brothers, without saying a word, and sat back on the chair silently. He was very dissatisfied with the corruption of the court, but he never thought of rebelling until he had to surrender to Liu Liu for his life. However, he really joined the thief. He realized that the court seemed not as powerful as he imagined. Look at this trend, it might not be impossible to gain the world. He really came to life.

However, what Liu Liu and others did not look at the long term, and they only burned, killed, looted, and showed off their power. This move was too unwilling to the people's hearts. How could it be done if they continued like this? To achieve great things, literati and gentry had to treat them differently. When the power grew, there would be many speculators, ambitious people, or forced to come to compete with each other due to the situation. Now, they would rob and kill them all, and they could only force these people to stand firmly on the side of the court. They would have to fight against the rebels. If this continued, their current momentum would be just a flash in the pan.

But the brotherly proposal was not feasible. The rebel army had just launched an army and had only tens of thousands of people. They began to have a strange intention and suspicion from each other. There was no need to fight the court. Just killing each other, they would be wiped out. However, it was not a solution to accommodate Liu Liu, and he refused to listen to his good advice. What should we do?

Zhao Sui stood up and walked slowly in the room for a while. His eyes flashed slightly. After thinking for a while, he slowly said: "I have my own concern for this matter. You two must remember that you must not say such words! You will never allow them, do you understand?"

The white-clothed army in Shandong once again attacked Xia Town, seized more than 40 grain ships and burned more than 300 ships of all sizes. Then they rushed north, passed through Zaozhuang, Linyi, Feixian, Pingyi, Mengyin, Xintai, and rushed straight to Tai'an.

At the same time, Hebei Xiangmao thieves gathered their troops. They avoided Xu Tai's main force and rushed south to attack Cangzhou. The two sides fought fiercely for nearly ten days. The court urgently transferred troops from Tianjin and Shanxi towns. At the same time, Xu Tai's army also left Bazhou to rush for assistance at night.

Liu Liu's army had no hope of breaking the city, and strong enemies were approaching from all sides. So at the suggestion of Zhao Sui, Xing Laohu and Zhao Sui took Feng Lei, and Liu Erqi led 8,000 elite cavalry and ran more than 200 miles a day and night. They penetrated through the gaps of Xu Tai's army, walked through Qingxian, crossed Jinghai, and fought back to Gu'an. The tiger looked at Dandan and looked straight at the capital.

The capital was shocked by this. Emperor Zhengde issued a decree for martial law. Zhang Yong urgently ordered the 12th Regiment Battalion, and four other troops were stationed inside and outside the city of Beijing. Xu Tai was shocked when he heard the news and returned quickly. Unexpectedly, Zhao Sui just acted as an attack on the capital. Before he reached the Heavenly River, the vanguard of the Beijing camp turned northwest and killed along Zhuozhou. He took advantage of the heavy troops of the imperial court gathering between Cangzhou and the capital to attack Baoding City.

Zhao Sui passed the city and killed generals, burned the government office, broke the prison, released prisoners, opened warehouses and released grain, recruited soldiers and horses, and had strict military disciplines, and did not violate the ordinary people. Even the gentry who had been blackmailed said that he was crazy but not crazy, and he had a spirit of a Confucian scholar.

When Zhao Shu killed in Baoding, he used Xing Laohu as Fengtian to recruit the Grand Marshal and served as the deputy marshal. Xing Laohu fought bravely, but his wisdom was far inferior to Zhao Shu, so he was the real leader of this army. Zhao Shui temporarily divided the 15,000 troops into five battalions, the front army was sealed by Lei, the rear army was in charge of four, the left army Liu Erqi, the right army Ma Wu, and they were also called the governor. He also raised two large flags and wrote: "Three thousand tigers, they went straight to the land of Youyan; the dragon flew nine five, and reopened the Chaos Heaven."

This was the battle flag when Taizu raised an army to resist the Yuan Dynasty. However, Zhao Shu replaced the word "Song" with chaos. His ambition can be seen from this. Li Hua, Shanxi, was originally a mountain king. Seeing this, he was very jealous. He really thought that the world was about to change. He was instigated by his subordinates and wanted to be a founding hero and a prince, and he wanted to be a prince, a general, and a general. So he rose up, attacked the county town, robbed the treasury, claiming to rebel. When Zhao Shu heard about this news, he immediately led his troops to Shanxi. Liu Liu, Liu Qi, Qi Yanming and others led another team to Shandong east. They bypassed Cangzhou and went straight to Dezhou, echoing Yang Hu of Tai'an. Jinan City was sandwiched in the middle and was in danger.

Xu Tai fought without success, and the thieves became more and more powerful. Xu Tai ran around, but there were few opportunities to let go of the battlefield. He was so annoyed that he was furious that he had to say frankly: "The thief's gains were all from the people, and they galloped hundreds of miles a day and night, but the few official troops and horses were unable to chase the enemy. Please take them to Zhili to Bei in Shandong."

Is there any horse in Zhili and Shandong? All the horses in Zhili can grab the land by Liu Liu. Shandong is all in Yang Hu's hands. There are many strong horses in the border army and the capital camp. However, these two armies protect the capital and the other guard the border, and both places must not be lost.

Emperor Zhengde almost lost his nose after reading his memorial: What a coward? It has been fighting for several months, and it is quite a bit boring. It turns out that the officers and soldiers have been following behind the horse's butt and have never fought seriously at all.

The horse thieves finally walked out of Hebei, attacked Henan first, and then took Shanxi, and the war had spread. Liu Liu's army rushed towards Dezhou. If Dezhou was lost, Jinan would be in danger, and Jinan would be lost again, and Shandong would all fall into the hands of the white-clothed army. At this time, Zhao Sui would kill back from Shanxi, and the two armies of Shanxi and Shandong would be blocked to Henan, and the capital would be pinched into a lonely place, breaking contact with the entire country.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty built the capital here with the "Emperor Guarding the Gate of the Country". It was to resist the northern Tartars, but it had never considered that this situation would occur. If Shandong, Shanxi and Henan were all under the hands of the white-clothed army, then the situation would be really gone. No one expected that the two bandits who did not take it seriously would have today's prestige.

Lu Wan discussed with the cabinet that he quickly sent troops from the canal to Dezhou. It was already June and July, and it was rainy, so the water speed was very fast, so that the troops in Dezhou were quickly replenished.

At this time, compared with more than 10,000 people from Zhao Sui, Shanxi, Shandong is undoubtedly the top priority. Once Shandong loses, the north-south water transportation is first cut off, while Shandong Xiangma can take the initiative, invade the capital in the north, attack the Central Plains in the south, and join forces with Zhao Sui in the west. Dezhou resists Xiangma in the north, and Jinan resists white clothes in the east, so it has become the focus of the world, and everyone is paying attention to it.

At this time, Li Dongyang had resigned as the chief minister of the cabinet. However, due to the tense war, he never left the capital. The cabinet invited the old minister back to discuss the situation. Although Yang Yiqing was the Minister of Personnel, he was also invited to the list because he was good at military tactics. The strategy of suppressing bandits in other places was roughly the same as that of Yangling, but they were all about the overall situation, coordinated adjustments, and completely eliminated the rebellion. The most urgent thing to solve was the tense situation in Shandong.

After hearing the military introduction, Yang Yiqing frowned and said for a while: "The thief chief may not have this gaze. He can set up an echo of things early, locking the river and shaking the capital's throat. They ran around without long-term plans, but this time they accidentally planted willows, which happened to form a situation that was beneficial to them.

Now Zhao Crazy has gone to Shanxi, while Yang Hu and Liu Liu have separated Chen Chongjun in Dezhou and Tai'an, and have been conquering the city for several days. This is different from their past habit of not fighting against the strong city and Dafu. I think the thief chiefs should have also noticed this situation that is beneficial to them. Therefore, they must have taken over Dezhou and Tai'an and attacked Jinan together.
To be continued...