Unparalleled Concubine

"My nephew has a lot of contact with Uncle Li. He is an extremely smart person. I believe he will not commit suicide."

"If he dares to come to the capital, he must be at least six or seven percent sure."

Ye Lin sneered: "Unless today's emperor suddenly falls ill, how can he, Li Chang'an, have any chance of survival?"

"What if?"

Ye Mao bent over to pour Ye Lin a glass of wine, and said slowly, "What if Uncle Li can be put to death and reborn?"

Ye Lin looked at his elder nephew, frowned and said, "Just say what you want to say, there is no need to beat around the bush."

"Fourth Uncle, our family is in danger now."

"Since grandfather, our family and Uncle Li's family have been inseparable. In Ningling, you and Uncle Li talked about the righteousness of the family and the country. At that time, my nephew also stood by your side. At this moment, returning to the capital from the southwest shows that even if he has ambitions, he also has the righteousness of his family and country."

"so what?"

Ye Lin glanced at his nephew, and said in a muffled voice, "What are you going to do?"

"Fourth Uncle and I are both imprisoned in the capital, what can we do?"

Ye Mao took a sip of wine himself, then raised his head and looked directly at his fourth uncle. Taking advantage of the strength of the wine, he took a deep breath and said slowly: "My nephew's idea is... If Uncle Li can get out of trouble, no matter what he does in the future, The Ye family followed."

Ye Lin stood up suddenly, startled and angry.

"He Li Chang'an, what he did was a calamity for the three tribes!"

Ye Mao looked calm, looked up at Ye Lin, and said slowly: "When the late emperor seized the throne, you also participated in the Fourth Uncle. Wasn't the Renchen Palace Change a disaster for the Yi clan?"

"Uncle Li won the bet, and you also won the bet. Only then did the Ye family prosper for the second time, and the present Jing'an Hou Mansion came into existence."

"You have already gambled with the Ye family once. Since that is the case, my nephew also wants to gamble with the Ye family."

The third Chen Guogong grinned: "Anyway, my Ye family started with only three generations, unlike the Zhong family, a big family that has been passed down for more than ten generations. I lost the bet and fell down."

Ye Lin stood opposite Ye Mao, silent for a long time.

After a long time, he sat down opposite Ye Mao.

"Forget it, you are the head of the house."

"You decide."

Chapter 991 The Enemy Is Coming

The situation in the northern border of the Great Jin Dynasty is getting worse, because the season changes from winter to spring and summer, when the grass grows and the horses are fertilized, and the calves and sheep on the grassland also begin to grow slowly. , Looting a large amount of food from the frontier of the Jin Dynasty caused the Xianbei tribe to temporarily solve the food problem, so these alien races attacked Jimen Pass more and more fiercely.

The Jin Dynasty was on the defensive in this war, and the side defending the city was the most passive, that is, it could only stick to one side, and it was difficult to be flexible.

Take the northern border of the Jin Dynasty as an example. In fact, if Yunzhou City and the Zhenbei Army join forces to form a force of 20 troops, it will be very easy to use the city, and there is even room to go out of the city to meet the Xianbei Army. One touch, but death is at stake, and the two sides have no way to support each other.

Because the initiative of the attack is in the hands of the Xianbei Department, there is also a Qigui Department on the side of Yunzhou City. Once Yunzhou City sends troops to support Jizhou, when Yunzhou is empty, it is easy for the enemy to easily break through. .

Even if there is support, it can only be limited.

Taking the 2 soldiers and horses in Yunzhou City as an example, the Chong family is willing to send [-] people to support Jizhou. Fifteen thousand soldiers and horses were sent to escort a batch of supplies to Jizhou City.

In addition to the support from Yunzhou, there is also the imperial court's Gyeonggi Forbidden Army. According to Zhong Xuantong's suggestion, the two battalions of the Beijing Forbidden Army divided into four Zhechong Mansions, with a total of more than [-] people, and slowly marched towards the north. As reinforcements in Northern Xinjiang, it didn't take long for Zhong Xuantong to return to Beijing. Although the imperial court was already working on this route of reinforcements, they had only just selected generals. The four Zhechong Mansions still had to escort the imperial court's supplies to Northern Xinjiang. Go, it will take at least two or three months for them to reach Jizhou.

However, whether Jizhou can survive for two or three months is still unknown.

On a high slope outside Jimen Pass, Yu Wenzhao in armor put down the binoculars in his hand, turned his head and frowned at Fan Cheng, his aide, and asked, "Mr. With no backbone and low morale, they should be able to win within two months, but it has been two months of fighting, and the Zhenbei Army is still very tenacious."

Standing behind Yu Wenzhao, Fan Cheng also frowned. He lowered his head and said, "The Ye family has been running Jizhou for so many years, even if they don't lead troops in Jizhou for a while, they should have the final say in the Zhenbei Army." , but the two uncles and nephews of the Ye family are not in Jizhou at the moment, and the Zhenbei Army in Jizhou is still working like this..."

He sighed, lowered his head and said, "It's my subordinates who underestimated the Ye family's mind."

Yuwen Tianwang said in a deep voice: "Then what should we do now? In the past two months, our troops have been killed and injured more than [-] people. If the fight continues, we will be hurt."

"The Zhenbei Army also killed a lot of people."

Fan Cheng said slowly: "My lord, in terms of military strength, the Zhenbei Army is not as good as ours. If the fight continues, they will be the first to be unable to support it. With the support of the king's tent behind the lord, they can send troops over at any time, but once If [-]% of the Zhenbei Army’s casualties reached [-]%, the morale of the army must be lost.”

"Besides, the fight has been going on for more than two months, and most of the supplies for defending the city at Jimen Pass have been exhausted. If the fight continues, the lord will take advantage of it more and more."

"We can't give up at this time, otherwise, when the support from the Southern Jin court arrives, it will be a long way off for the lord to restore the great cause of the old Zhou Dynasty."

Fan Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "At this time, the southwestern side has probably cooperated with the lord and made some moves. If the lord is guarding at this time, he will definitely miss a golden opportunity."

Yu Wenzhao stroked his beard, then put the binoculars in his hands back into his arms, frowned and said, "In the past two months, most of the casualties were people from the other three departments. If the fight continues, they will rebel."

"Then use the king's tent."

Fan Cheng bowed his head and said: "My lord, the three departments of Yuwen have already surrendered to the lord. Whether it is the people of these three departments or the people of the Wang Zhang, they are all the subjects of the lord. At this time, the lord must be willing to die."

"Otherwise... it will be difficult to achieve great things!"

"Being willing to die..."

Yu Wenzhao muttered something to himself, and looked to the south with far-reaching eyes.

Just as Yu Wenzhao was thinking, a spy from the Yuwen Department came over with a bow. He didn't dare to disturb Yu Wenzhao, so he handed the document in Fan Cheng's hand. After Fan Cheng opened it, he only glanced at it. , Immediately overjoyed, holding the document in his hand, he smiled at Yu Wenzhao and said, "My lord, the Southwest has raised troops!"

"The Southwest Army has already fought with the Hanzhong Army of the Southern Jin Dynasty. At this moment, the court can't look at both the north and the south. It's an excellent time!"

Yu Wenzhao snatched the document from Fan Cheng's hand, he read the information sent from the southwest with burning eyes, and his face instantly showed joy.

"God help me too!"

"Li Chang'an is really ambitious, I'm not mistaken about him!"

"Send the order down!"

Yu Wenzhao suddenly turned around, and said decisively: "Another 3 people will be transferred from the Wang Tent. This time, the people from my Wang Tent will rush to the front, and the dead will be the ones from my Wang Tent who will die first!"

"Take Jimen Pass at all costs!"

Fan Cheng bowed his head respectfully: "This subordinate obeys!"

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On the walls of Jimen Pass, there were dark red bloodstains everywhere. For more than a month, this grand pass has withstood the attacks of the Xianbei tribe again and again. Counting it, it has been more than ten times.

After a few months, although the Zhenbei Army left more than 1 barbarian lives under Guancheng, the Zhenbei Army also suffered a lot of casualties. Even though he was wearing leather armor with almost no defense, he dared to fight the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty head-on. The fierce aura made the morale of the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army low for a while.

It's not that the Jin people are timid, but that these Xianbei people fought and killed each of them. The reason is very simple. They know very well that if they don't grab enough things from the Han people, their wives and children, family members and relatives I am about to starve to death. Since I am on the battlefield, I am afraid that I will die, so I might as well give it a go. The military exploits of killing a Han can be exchanged for half a year's rations for a family of three!

This is the most cost-effective deal, and these prairie people are not very afraid of death because of their beliefs, so almost all of them are desperate to fight.