Rebirth of the Four Seas Emperor

Only now did Ji Wenjun fully understand what Hou Yao meant: "Are you saying that people in other provinces have no food left at home and will rebel if they encounter natural disasters?"

Hou Yao sighed softly: "You finally understand. The only thing that can make people fight to the death is hunger. When a person is hungry, don't expect them to do anything sensible."

Ji Wenjun's expression suddenly changed: "Then...what should we do? We...how can we prevent this situation?"

Hou Yao gently scratched Ji Wenjun's face: "Little fool, haven't I been doing this all the time?"

Two blushes suddenly appeared on Ji Wenjun's face. She hadn't talked to Hou Yao like this for a long time: "It's annoying, it's mysterious. Please tell me how you stopped it."

Hou Yao nodded: "To put it bluntly, it is actually very simple. It is to make food and other daily necessities cheap and unprofitable, so that no businessman is willing to invest a lot of money to operate them. In addition, it is to increase The production capacity of basic daily necessities such as large grains is very rare. As long as they are no longer rare, they will naturally not be sold at a high price. As long as the basic necessities of life remain cheap, the people of Daxia will not be in chaos. With food to eat and clothing to wear, who would risk their lives to rebel?”

Ji Wenjun pinched Hou Yao's waist with her little hand and said, "You are really annoying."

As she spoke, she hugged Hou Yao's neck tightly and buried her head in it: "Hou Yao, why do you know so much? And I am a fool and can't do anything well."

Hou Yao smiled bitterly. If he hadn't traveled through time, he wouldn't understand this. How could it be so easy to break through the limitations of the times: "No, my little fool, you have done a good job. Just follow I also heard what you said from others."

Ji Wenjun immediately exclaimed: "You got it from others, ah..., the three young people you mentioned..., one is Uncle Zhang, and the other two are Master He and Grandpa? Oh my God, what is the handle in the father's hands?" , is the eldest imperial sister?"

Hou Yao pecked her on the mouth affectionately: "You little fool, you only realized it now? Uncle Zhang often talks about Da Xia Yin Xiang. Who do you think the Da Xia Yin Xiang he talks about?" ? It’s our grandpa. Besides our grandpa, who else can be so awesome? How can anyone be a Zhuge?"

Ji Wenjun saw Hou Yao's arrogant look and immediately smiled and said: "Our grandpa is indeed powerful, but I still think Mr. Xiang is the most powerful."

Hou Yao laughed loudly: "Of course, sir, I am..."

I wanted to boast a bit, but my family knew about my family affairs, so I was just a fool. In terms of resourcefulness, even if I flatter him, I can't compare to the extraordinary talents of Grandpa and Zhang Shuda.

When Ji Wenjun saw Hou Yao suddenly stopped talking, he immediately asked strangely: "What's wrong?"

Hou Yao smiled awkwardly: "I asked you to go back for dinner. I didn't expect to talk to you so much all at once. I'm afraid my parents will be impatient."

Ji Wenjun immediately jumped up like a spring: "Let's go back quickly."

After thinking for a while, he said: "Hou Yao, when my brother becomes the Nine-Five Supreme, can you be the chief assistant? Assist my brother to govern the world into a peaceful and prosperous era, and only Bao'an has become a paradise. , always too small.”

Hou Yao sighed and said, "Let's talk about it. This kind of thing is not something you and I can have the final say on."

Ji Wenjun looked up, then nestled his head on Hou Yao's shoulder, and the two of them walked slowly outside the public room.

Hou Yao stretched out his hand to open the door, and a figure rushed in in a panic, hitting him in the face.

"oops."

The two of them fell to the ground at the same time. Ji Wenjun staggered but stabilized himself.

Hou Yao stood up unsteadily and saw clearly that the person who bumped in was Chen Yu. He immediately said angrily: "What are you going to do? Are you frivolous? Why don't you just have a meal? What's so urgent."

Chen Yu also knew that she had been a little anxious just now, but she really had something urgent to do: "No... no, no... it's not good. Just now, the guards of His Highness King Xin came to ask for help,... His Highness King Xin , was besieged by Gao Xiaosong’s troops at a place called Horseshoe Mountain near Xiangyang.”

Ji Wenjun was shocked when he heard this: "What's going on? Zhu Liang'ao wrote to me before saying that they would attack Bashu first, then enter Chang'an, and finally transfer to Beijing. How could they go to Xiangyang? Isn't that the main force of the puppet king's army? Why do you want to have a head-on conflict with someone else’s main force?”

Chen Yu looked innocent: "Your Highness, I don't know about this either. You'd better go and have a look quickly. The guard was seriously injured and I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on for long."

Hou Yao asked hurriedly: "Why didn't you send that guard to the hospital?"

Chen Yu replied: "The guard refused to go. He has to see Her Royal Highness first whether he lives or dies. He said that his life and death is a small matter. The life and death of Her Royal Highness King Xi is now in our hands. If we can't rescue her as soon as possible, he is afraid that It’s necessary to remain suspicious.”

Ji Wenjun didn't say anything at this time and ran out. Hou Yao and Chen Yu also hurriedly chased after her.

The road from the Four Provincial Council Offices to Bao'an Yamen was not far away. The three of them hurriedly ran all the way back to the Yamen, but in the end they were still a step too late.

King Xi's guard had lost his breath. Ji Wenjun threw himself into Hou Yao's arms and said in pain: "Hou Yao, hurry...go and save my brother."

Hou Yao hurriedly comforted him: "Okay, don't worry. The three armies have not moved yet. Food and grass go first. I will make arrangements right away. Don't worry, with Zhu Liang'ao, Chen Kun, Liu Wei and other powerful generals around, your brother will be fine." of."

Ji Wenjun was already crying and said: "No, we have to rescue him quickly. Gao Xiaosong is holding Baoan's improved flintlock gun. The emperor's army still has old models and cannot be their opponent. Wuwuwu... …Why did he go to Xiangyang? Why?"

Hou Yao was also speechless for a while. He had already told King Xi about the relationship between the Tianwu Gang and himself. The last thing the Tianwu Gang did before leaving Beijing was to change the uniforms of all the new troops of the Shenji Battalion.

The entire Shenji Battalion new army is armed with Baoan's latest flintlock rifles. How can such an army be so easy to fight?

Zhu Liang'ao planned a detour to attack Beijing, just to avoid the opponent's main force. However, due to a trick from King Tan, he still faced the main force.

In fact, if it was a head-on battle, there wouldn't be much difference in combat power between the two sides. But the bad thing was that they were still trying to get a big advantage, but they were tricked into taking advantage of them.

Hou Yao couldn't help but lamented, this uncle was really worried.

Since he couldn't finish the New Year's dinner, Hou Yao changed his clothes and hurried to the Bao'an military camp to urgently recall all the generals on vacation.

Since the Baoan Army has expanded to [-] people, although the number of troops has increased, the actual combat strength has not increased but decreased.

So to be on the safe side, Hou Yao arranged for half of his troops to go out.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all supplies were ready for the expedition, and Hou Yao officially set off with an army of [-]...

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horseshoe mountain

King Yin sat dejectedly in the Chinese army's tent, never expecting that he would end up in such a situation.

So far, they still haven't figured out why Gao Xiaosong joined forces with King Chu to attack them.

After the narrow victory in the sneak attack on Gao Xiaosong that day, the Xinnan army actually had a considerable advantage against any party alone.

Neither Po Haijun nor Gao Xiaosong's troops were the direct enemies of the New South Army.

However, the Xinnan army tried to destroy its opponents in one fell swoop, but was unable to do so, so King Tan thought of surrendering.

Since Gao Xiaosong was a close confidant of his father, there was a high chance that he would surrender if he knew that his father was alive, so he wrote a letter and sent it to Gao Xiaosong's military camp.

Sure enough, Gao Xiaosong agreed to surrender after receiving Fang's letter, but he asked that he must see the old emperor himself.

King Yi sent people from the rear to invite Ji Honghe, who was training under King Ji, to the front line, and then revealed the news to Gao Xiaosong that his father had arrived at the front line.

Gao Xiaosong immediately agreed to surrender, and the two parties agreed on the details of the surrender.

Of course, King Tan was not a fool. In order to prevent Gao Xiaosong from pretending to surrender, he also took a lot of precautions.

As expected, Gao Xiaosong faked a surrender and wanted to take advantage of the New South Army's opportunity to launch a fatal blow.

However, the New South Army was also fully prepared, so the two sides launched a frontal and desperate battle.

Originally, with the strength of the New South Army, it was more than enough to deal with one of Gao Xiaosong's troops.

But who could have imagined that at this time, Po Haijun's entire army left the city and went straight to the New South Army barracks.

How could the empty camp block the attack of fifty to sixty thousand wolf-like and tiger-like Po-Navy troops?

In less than a cup of tea, the New South Army camp was broken, and the navy attacked the main force of the New South Army from behind.

They were already close in terms of strength, but now it's two against one, or a double attack from the front and back, how can they block it?

At the critical moment, Zhu Liang'ao and Chen Kun led the Sanqian Princess escort team to forcefully penetrate the military formation of the Navy, opening a way for the New South Army to escape, and avoiding the worst outcome of the collapse of the entire army.

Zhou Shi took on the task of rearguard again and led the New South Army to fight and retreat. After all, they were still at the foot of Horseshoe Mountain. The retreat was blocked by the New Army of Shenji Battalion and Po Haijun. He had no choice but to retreat to the mountain and rely on dangerous points. The terrain is defended.

Due to the confiscation of their baggage, the New South Army could only rely on portable rations to support themselves.

But how much rations can we carry with us? Even if we save on food and food, three days is already the limit.

And the worst thing is that there is no water source on the mountain. How can we eat the dry food we carry with us without water? Fortunately, it is winter now and we can boil snow and turn it into water.

After persisting like this for five days, the army has reached its limit. If we don't find a way to break out, we are afraid that we will unite and surrender here.

"Everyone, let's talk. There is only the last bit of dry food left. What should we do now?"

Zhu Liang'ao cupped his fists and said: "Our army still has the strength to fight. If we don't take this opportunity to break out, I'm afraid that if it's two days later, we won't even have a chance to break out."

Liu Wei spoke up: "General Zhu is right. If we don't break out now, we will be even less able to break out tomorrow."

King Tan nodded: "General Zhu, please arrange the details of the breakout."

All the generals looked surprised. King Xi had been suppressing Zhu Liang'ao overtly and covertly before, but now he changed his temper, which showed that he had lost confidence in himself.

Zhu Liang'ao did not refuse, and immediately said loudly: "Yes, now I will arrange the breakout. Chen Kun, I will order you to be the vanguard and lead the princess escort to break out from the south. You must put more pressure on the enemy. Liu Wei, I order you to lead the main force to break out from the north...".