Dressed as the cannon fodder who died prematurely, I will marry the villain in anger

For four months, a full four months, Qin Sheng led his troops in and out of the grassland seven times, and he picked out all the tribes with combat effectiveness.

During this period, Tuoba Doji could not stand the pressure and wrote to Xie Zhan, hoping that he would send troops to attack Pingzhou, so as to share the pressure of Xianbei.

Xie Zhan simply ignored Xianbei's request for help. He would never do such a thing as diverting trouble to others.

Dali's inaction made Tuoba Duoji scold Xie Zhan, calling him "a young man who is not worthy of being consulted".

During these four months, Tuoba Doji was often very anxious and unable to sleep at night.

During these four months, the second son Tuoba Jin died in the territory of Dali, the seventh son was captured, and the third, fourth and sixth sons all died on the battlefield.

Now, because of the strength of Jintai’s army, countless Xianbei herdsmen came to him and begged, “Khan, shall we surrender?”

Tuoba Doji's hair had turned completely white by this time, his complexion was not good, and he exuded a deathly aura.

Hearing the herdsmen's plea, he smiled bitterly. It was not a question of whether he was willing to surrender, but whether Pingzhou was willing to accept their surrender.

Now, there are only this old man and his fifth son Tuoba Meng left in their Tuoba family. Oh, and there is also the seventh son Tuoba Lian who was captured in Pingzhou.

He now understood Pingzhou's intentions. If Pingzhou wanted to accept the surrender of the Xianbei, he, the culprit, must die, and the next Khan of the Xianbei must be Tuoba Lian.

Faced with Pingzhou's relentless pressure and the herdsmen's desperate pleas, Tuoba Doji knew that he didn't have much time left.

He first ordered the execution of his fifth son Tuoba Meng, and then called in Dugu Zhong, the only remaining general in the Xianbei royal court.

"Go ahead and cut off my head." Tuoba Doji said to Dugu Zhong.

"Khan!" Dugu Zhong knelt on the ground, his eyes filled with tears.

Tuoba Duoji sighed, "I am a sinner of the Xianbei, and my death is not a pity. This war started with me, and I will end it too."

It was a pity that his lifelong dream of ruling the Central Plains was lost. Three years ago, or seven years ago, he never doubted that his ambitions could not be realized. He even dreamed of the scene of him riding a horse across the Central Plains, and the entire Xianbei people followed their Tuoba Wang family to live a prosperous life in the Central Plains.

Now, the dream is shattered.

Lu Songli is really amazing.

Among the three leaders of the Hancheng Alliance, Song Mo has passed away and is about to die, leaving only Lu Songli's family in power.

Tuoba Doji seemed to have already seen the grand scene of Lu Songli unifying the Central Plains.

Three days later, Dugu Zhong held Tuoba Duoji's head and asked Qin Sheng for surrender, acknowledging on behalf of the Xianbei that all the territories previously occupied by Pingzhou would be ceded to Pingzhou.

Afterwards, he presented 10,000 taels of gold and 500 cattle, sheep and horses to Pingzhou as tribute to welcome back the seventh prince Tuoba Lian.

These are the greatest sincerity that the Xianbei can show.

In the second year of Daoming, the Xianbei begged for surrender to Pingzhou, and the governor of Pingzhou, Lu Songli, agreed, accepted their surrender letter and tribute, and released Tuoba Lian.

When Tuoba Lian was welcomed back by Dugu Zhong, at the last moment before leaving Pingzhou, he took a last look in the direction of Changli.

Now Pingzhou no longer needs to worry about the Xianbei invading the south again. At least as long as Lu Songli is in power, he will not have any intention of doing so.

In other words, he had no ambition to invade the south during his lifetime. Perhaps the next generation would still be content.

The Xianbei completely surrendered to Pingzhou, and the Pingzhou newspaper reported the event. The people of Pingzhou were proud of it, while the people of Dali were surprised and amazed at the strength of Pingzhou, and they yearned for it.

Pingzhou, Changli

The battle between Pingzhou and Xianbei lasted for four full months, despite the Pingzhou having the upper hand, until the Xianbei were subdued and had no power to resist.

When the manpower, material resources and financial resources consumed by this war were counted, the officials in Pingzhou were silent.

Many people do not understand why Lu Songli would spend so much manpower, material resources, military forces and financial resources to attack the Xianbei, and why he would pay such a huge price to continuously weaken the Xianbei and even want to wipe out the Xianbei clan.

But Lu Songli himself knew that the rise of foreign races and their control over the Central Plains would be the biggest disaster for the Han Chinese.

From the history she knew, whether it was the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China or the Ten Days of Yangzhou after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it was probably because they were not of the same race, their hearts must be different. These were all cases where foreign races entered the Central Plains on a large scale and carried out strict racial segregation and cruel oppression and exploitation of the Han people.

Their plunder and persecution of the Han people were extremely cruel.

The Five Barbarians invaded China, killing more than 10 million civilians, and the Han population dropped from 20 million to 4 million. The Central Plains was like hell, with only one in ten people left. The Han people faced severe genocide and oppression.

After the Manchus entered the Central Plains, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty frantically expanded their territory and massacred people wherever they went. In less than 30 years, the Han population south of the Great Wall had been reduced by two-thirds.

County annals in various places have descriptions that at that time in China, "there was no intact village in the county, no intact family in the village, and no intact person in the family." Bones were exposed in the wild, and no roosters crowed for thousands of miles.

These shocking figures are the result of the loss of many lives.

Lu Songli didn't care when the nationalities merged in later generations, but in this era, if she did nothing, the Han people in China would suffer such a disaster, which she could not allow.

"Governor, are we going to attack Dali next?" asked the official below.

Lu Songli nodded, "Fight."

Now that they had beaten the Xianbei to their knees and surrender, the Pingzhou Army could march south with the momentum of a great victory. And she had laid so much groundwork before, so now was the best time to fight Dali.

The officials below talked in low voices, saying that once the Xianbei surrendered, they in Pingzhou could pursue the victory and they should indeed fight.

Moreover, when the Jintai Army led by General Qin Sheng attacked the Xianbei, they adopted the method of fighting to support the war, and the consumption of food and grass materials was relatively small. The materials currently available in Pingzhou can still support a war.

Dali, Chang'an

When the news of the Xianbei's surrender to Pingzhou reached Chang'an, all the civil and military officials in the court fell silent.

The Xianbei were a dreadful threat to Dali. How could such an enemy be solved by Pingzhou?

They had no doubt about Pingzhou's victory, because Pingzhou newspapers had been reporting on the war between Pingzhou and Xianbei since it started, and they had read it. They had their own judgment on whether the results were true or false.

At this time, the eyes of the court officials were vaguely cast on Xie Zhan, the regent of Dali. Governor Lu Songli and Regent Xie Zhan, the former fiancée, were really powerful. Now they were both the leaders of their respective forces. If they had not broken off the engagement, the world would have ceased to be named Song long ago.

Xie Zhan ignored their gazes.

Xiao Qun frowned and said in an incredible tone, "When Pingzhou was fighting against Xianbei, what did Pingzhou want to do by disclosing these war details?"

"They mentioned everything about weapons, manpower, and combat methods. Aren't they afraid of leaking these military secrets and letting us find a solution from them?"

Could it be that Pingzhou was sure that Dali was completely helpless against the Pingzhou army? This was too arrogant!

Xie Zhan lowered his eyes and thought, Pingzhou was certainly doing this to scare the monkeys.

Xie Zhan has already seen clearly that Lu Songli's attitude towards foreigners and compatriots is very clear.

As for Dali, based on the same origin and ancestry, she mainly uses deterrence. If possible, she probably doesn't want to start a large-scale war on Chinese land.

Lu Songli loves this land and the people on this land.

When Xie Zhan realized this, he found it incredible.

Sometimes Xie Zhan really didn't understand why she could be so kind to the common people, but she was so ruthless to him? Every time she attacked him, she wanted to kill him.

While Xie Zhan was thinking about his own affairs, the court officials

"Will Pingzhou send troops to Dali next?"

"That's beyond doubt." The woman in Pingzhou is very ambitious.

Since it was confirmed that Pingzhou would attack Dali, some ministers asked a soul-searching question, "Can we withstand the attack of Pingzhou's army?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire court fell silent.

The most intelligent ministers kept silent. When their eyes met, they looked away immediately. On the contrary, some impulsive fools were shouting something like "asking this question will only boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige"...

"Wait, Pingzhou has so much food and grass?"

This reminded the civil and military officials of Dali. Yes, Pingzhou had just fought a four-month-long war. Could their food and grass support another major war?

One of the ministers reminded him quietly, "You forgot that Qin Sheng was fighting a war to support his war in Xianbei."

Upon hearing this, the court officials looked at each other in bewilderment. The Pingzhou army was short of food and fodder, and it was very likely that they would resort to this method of fighting to support the war again.

Hearing the discussions of the ministers, Xie Zhan sneered in his heart. Lu Songli would not let the Pingzhou army adopt the method of fighting to support fighting. Can't they even understand this?

But he didn't say much, just said, "Let the troops on the front line prepare for battle."

After the court session, Xie Zhan returned to the Regent's Palace.

He gathered in the study with a few confidants.

Faced with the current situation, the expressions of several confidants were heavy.

Fan Yang looked at Xie Zhan who was sitting in the main seat and boldly suggested to him, "Master, why don't you take the lead in opening the city gate and surrender Pingzhou?"

Xie Zhan was not surprised that Fan Yang made such a suggestion. Fan Yang, Jiang Boya and other confidants were much smarter than some idiots in the court. In addition, he had been collecting information about Pingzhou, so they saw the situation more clearly than those idiots.

"Let's talk about it later." Xie Zhan knew that Fan Yang and the others were just daydreaming. Even if Lu Songli valued his talent and was willing to let him go, the Qin family would not let him go in view of his previous engagement with Lu Songli.

What's more, Lu Songli will never let him go. The reason for not letting him go may not be because of personal grudges, but because of the difference in their governing lines.

Not long after, Xie Zhan adjourned the meeting on the grounds that he was tired.

Fan Yang was the last to leave. Before he left, he glanced at the regent standing by the window with his back to them, and felt that he was a little unsure of the master's mind. He was worried and felt that he was a little unpredictable about what the master wanted to do.

Xie Zhan put his hands behind his back and looked up at the stars in the night sky.

He said silently in his heart, Lu Songli, you still have one more level to pass. Only after you pass this level can you be considered the true master of the world.

At this level, either I help you pass it, or you will be eliminated and I will take over.