On the ruins, there was a woman standing. She was over forty years old and still had the shadow of the Yanjue Royal City back then.

The increase in age adds a bit of calmness and restraint to her.

These days of wars have made her earned from the pampering and elegant place in the deep home, and have been abrasived to a certain extent.

Those temperaments were tangled together, making her look like a noble and quiet king.

Instead of a simple woman who deaf ears and turns a blind eye to the things outside the window.

She is not like that of the past. In those years, women were more like men's accessories. Every brilliance was hidden in the great achievements of men, and passively became the shadow behind those men. When she married Liu Yong, she was not very willing. A person like her high-spirited person was always proud and conceited.

There are many things she doesn't want to admit.

For example, she has to admit that no matter how outstanding her talent and beauty are, in the eyes of those men, women are just decorations to support men's face. Women's talent is optional. At most, they will be praised and will win the favor of their husbands in the future.

What a ridiculous thing this is.

She hated most men in this world. In order to show her majesty and to give her a sensation at home, the emperor's cousin, who promised her to Liu Yong, a branch of the former royal family who was nestled in a small land in Runan. She never asked even a single opinion from the beginning to the end. The cousin who often called her cousin warmly and showed her concern for her. She once thought that he really regarded her as her sister. Until that moment, she deeply understood what royal ruthlessness is, love is empty, hatred is empty, and everything is a shadow floating on the water. It collapses with one blow. Only power is real and something that can be held in the palm of your hand.

She also hated her father and gave her meticulous care for the past ten years, saying that no one in this world could move a hair of her baby woman. However, at the end, when she was crying and unwilling to marry into Runan, what her father gave her was just a cold saying, "You can't help."

Of course, it also includes her husband and son.

There is no hatred, she is mostly indifferent. Her heart seems to have died when she is forced to break free from the identity of a girl to a marriage partner who is not valued by anyone.

Liu Yong was not killed by Liu Zhi, it was precisely because she sent someone to do it. She really looked down on Liu Yong's cowardly personality. Her son Liu Zhi was more bloody than him. She knew about Wen County and turned a blind eye. When the matter was exposed, she only thought about how to cover up the matter. The person was dead, and Emperor Huan would not pursue it too much, but Emperor Huan always had more precautions towards Runan, so she still had to do enough skills on the surface, and she was thinking in her mind.

Liu Yong also knew it, but his first reaction was not to think about how to solve it. The only reaction he could make was... shirk, complain, and almost fight his son. Memories from many years ago came over. She looked at Liu Zhi as if she was powerlessly saying to her father that she didn't want to marry into Runan, begging her father if she could think of a solution.

She got rid of Liu Yong and used countless thoughts and strategies on Liu's territory to finally solve the problem perfectly. No one doubted her, or no one was willing to doubt her. This kind of secret pride and pride made her know that women are not worse than men, and even the more men look down on women, the more difficult it is for women to do something, but more powerful.

The old man with long beard approached and bowed to Xuxu, "Princess."

The old man's name is Fan Meng, his beard is all white, but he is not very old. Guoyang looks into the distance, and Sishou Pass is hidden in the boundless loess. He looks over from a distance, with a bit of simplicity and spectacle, like a giant dragon, quietly entrenching there.

For thousands of years, these magnificent mountains and rivers have been fought over and stolen by countless people, but in fact they have never belonged to anyone.

"Mr. Fan, I suddenly feel that I have been put on by someone."

Fan Meng didn't say anything. When he chose Princess Guoyang, he was confident that he could defeat his senior brother Wei Ze. He was indeed successful. But now, he had to admit that those who have attained the Tao have many helps. He defeated Wei Ze, but he did not defeat Li Yan, the king of Jiangdong, and the people around him were all talented people that Princess Guoyang could not match.

Princess Guoyang laughed coldly and seemed to laugh as if she was self-deprecating.

The beautiful wife of Li Yan, who was far away in the secret city, gave her a fierce warning.

The day she first received the news was shocked, but she had no excessive concerns, so she decided to wait and see.

At that time, she was confident. After all, if she dared to keep Runan there, she would have enough confidence and capital.

Runan is not too close or far from Lingyang. Although the land is small, it is very special in geographical location. It is empty on all sides, but it is unexpectedly easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the past decade, Liu Zhi has continuously built post houses and built an extremely dense and unbreakable intelligence network. If any army wants to get close to Runan, it is impossible for any army to bypass the spy's eyes. Runan is full of military areas. Once there is a situation, those troops can immediately protect it. Therefore, few people have always thought about the attention of attacking Runan. This is also one of the reasons why the Liu family has occupied Runan for generations.

But Li Yan's first wife was very bold and arrogant, and her eyes directly reached into Liu's nest.

She originally wanted to wait and see. The guards of Runan were personally selected by her. There should be no need to worry about courage and wisdom. She recalled the defenses there and the number of troops in several surrounding cities before leaving, and no obvious loopholes were found.

She knew that the wife of Jiangdong Wang was probably demonstrating against her, but in her opinion, this move to surround Wei and save Zhao would at most make her and Li Yan think that she would not be mercilessly merciless and that nothing else would be useful.

But these days, news came intermittently. Ye Jinshu first got in touch with Yucang. The small city that had always been so low-key that it had no sense of existence quickly gathered 20,000 troops and horses, swept across Yanshui and headed straight to the southwest. The purpose was very clear, and he went to the hometown of the Yang brothers.

The Yang brothers have a deep relationship with the Liu family. It can be traced back hundreds of years ago. It is precisely because these relationships are too long that the connection is not reliable. This time, she pulled the Yang brothers who defected to Li Yan back, and promised that in the future, she would still divide the southwest to them. The Yang brothers did not have much ambitions, but they were very persistent in the southwest.

There is not a blessed land there. The terrain is complex and not developed. Most of the people are poor and the transportation is not convenient. In any case, they are not as good as those in the Central Plains. Therefore, most of the troops are in the Yanshui area. If you defend Yanshui, the southwest is almost safe. In history, wars have been fought, and few people will go deeper to the south of Yanshui. After the Yang family surrendered to Li Yan, their troops have been hoarded north of Yanshui so that Li Yan can be mobilized at any time. It is precisely because of this that Li Yan believed in the sincerity of Yang's surrender.

The territory of Yang family in the southwest is the territory of Yang family, crossing the Yanshui north, and to the west is the territory of Liu family, almost bounded by Yucang, and to the east is Li Yan's territory. Yucang has always been a not-so-conspicuous place. Relying on Linzhou, Linzhou has always been a military important place. Yucang is at most a blessing in granary land. It was originally the hinterland of Hanzhong. Because of its abundant grain production, it was also the territory of the King of Hunyang. It has always been taboo to war. The military power has always been in the court. Later, the royal city of Hanzhong retreated to the north. Yucang still experienced a period of chaos. Later, the military power has always been in Linzhou. Yucang was next to Shannan City. That was the first time Liu Zhi and Li Yan

In the fight, Liu Zhi was defeated, and Li Yan took the opportunity to establish a city defense in Shannan and sent tens of thousands of troops. Shannan is a small city. With the convenience of the terrain, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has been ahead of Yucang these days. After Liu Zhi's death, Guoyang once sent people to attack. The person who defended the city was a dwarf with a broken left arm and a chain. It looked a little funny. But after fighting several times, he felt that this person was terrifying. The man was a general. She once had the idea of ​​surrendering people, but she was also a dog who was extremely loyal to Li Yan. She threw countless flesh and bones and couldn't catch it.

It made her very annoyed for a while.

But Shannan didn't have much military force, and although it was a bit hard, he didn't care much and kept it there.

Yu Cang was completely ignored. After Li Yan took Yu Cang, he quickly married Ye Jinshu, the fourth daughter of Yu Cang's Hunyang Palace, and clearly wanted to marry and form an alliance to let Yu Cang firmly control himself, but he didn't seem to care much about that place, and there was not much force to guard the place in Shannan.

Not only Guoyang, but all forces did not take Yucang seriously.

I don’t know when, Yucang actually hid a cavalry and sailor, with a large number of about 10,000 each. At least judging from the rapid and violent situation of crossing the Yanshui River, it is very powerful.

The Navy was the army that Emperor Zhao devoted himself to training when he was alive. Emperor Zhao was an ambitious emperor. He even thought of crossing the ocean and conquering the continents on the water. His eyes were always far away. Later, those people sighed when they mentioned it. If Emperor Zhao could live for another fifteen years, the nine states were unified and the dynasties came from all directions, the existing territory could be at least doubled.

The same is true for cavalry, which is not as good as the grassland people outside the pass, which is always on horseback. The iron cavalry passes by unstoppable. There is no condition for cultivating good horses in the pass, and no matter how hard the training is, it is not as good as the natural bloody nature of the grassland people outside the pass, which has been struggling and fighting on horseback since childhood.

It was shocking that Yu Cang quietly formed such two armies.

Jinshu is now thinking about the beginning of her rebirth. Facing the crisis of Yucang and the two paths before her, the whole family was confused when they could not make a decision. Those scenes seemed to be something from the previous life.

When her father grabbed her hand and said that she would grow stronger than herself in the future, she was actually unsure and felt that everything could not be relied on others, but it was still a little embarrassed to let Yucang fight the autonomy.

Later, she married Li Yan, and unexpectedly Li Yan treated her very well. Later, Li Yan went to Yucang once and dealt with Liu Zhi there. At that time, Yucang was still in a state of relying entirely on Li Yan's breath and relied on Li Yan's troops in Shannan to garrison.

Later, when his family wrote to Ye Qiuping, he asked to form a cavalry. Because of the convenient exchanges between Yucang merchants and sufficient food and wealth, the Ye family was in a state of decline, but their political power no longer existed, and they had never lenient in making money. They had accumulated a lot of money over the years, and Yucang produced a lot of food and horses. So when Jinshu heard it, she felt it was feasible and asked Li Yan for his opinion. At that time, Li Yan also had good talents under his command, and even transferred some points to appoint a cavalry governor to help him train his troops.

The navy was Ye Chang's idea. When Jinshu was forced to marry the legendary wild and tyrannical Jiangdong Overlord for the Ye family, he seemed to be much more depressed in an instant. As a man of the Ye family, he was useless. At a critical moment, his sister needed to sacrifice himself.

He cultivated his character in Taoist temples. His master was a master who was away from the world. When Emperor Zhao was alive, he even worked for Emperor Zhao's navy plan. Later, Emperor Huan succeeded to the throne. Because Emperor Huan was weak and kind, he had no ambition of Emperor Zhao's ambition to invade, he regarded the formation of a navy as a useless risk. In disappointment, the master escaped from the world and disappeared.

In the current chaotic times, experts always look at the world. Ye Chang spent countless efforts to invite his master out. Yucang was close to Yanshui, which was the second largest water with countless tributaries. Yanshui has always been controlled by the Yang brothers. Yangshui had a navy army, which was specially built for Yanshui to adapt to water battles. When the Yang family made a rebellion, Hanzhong wanted to send troops to suppress it, but he suffered a loss because there was no navy, and he was not an opponent of Yangshui at all.

Because Yang had defected to Li Yan at that time, Yan Shui was also Li Yan's territory and it was convenient to train the navy. Ye Chang finally convinced his master to go out to train the navy. Li Yan even went to see the man and expressed his support.

Yucang, who had never been noticed, has been doing these two things all the time, silently practicing without being disturbed, and Jinshu suddenly remembered.

The moment she set out, she was thinking that she had to ensure that she could hit everything she might encounter next and could not achieve her goal in a mistake. If she wanted Princess Guoyang to turn back without hesitation, she had to give enough threats.

The Yang brothers' turnaround made Jinshu feel very uncomfortable. Jinshu saw Li Yan's trust in Yangshu. He was betrayed by the trusted people. Jinshu didn't know what Li Yan felt. She only knew that after she learned the news, except for the shock, the rest was heartache for Li Yan.

When she asked Yucang to send troops to cross Yanshui, she was stunned everywhere, and then she deeply felt that the lord's wife was not as soft and harmless as it seemed on the surface.

This move surrounded Wei and saved Zhao, and Jinshu put two circles in.

He put a trap for Guoyang and another trap for Yang.

Then he put a trap for Guoyang and Yang.

If Princess Guoyang let the southwest ignore it, then how long can the Yang brothers remain loyal to Guoyang?

Jinshu's third order was to let someone spread the news that Princess Guoyang sent her to her.

Jinshu is the daughter of King Hunyang. King Hunyang was originally the crown prince, and Emperor Huan actually usurped the throne. Princess Guoyang wanted to use this to make Jinshu ascend the throne.

These words of Guoyang are not entirely false. At that time, one was a slaughter of one stone. First, the negotiation was for Li Yan to show him so that Li Yan knew that he had a weakness here. Second, Ruo Jinshu hesitated that she could take advantage of the situation and lead to a little guidance, which could cause civil strife in the Li family. Moreover, Ruo Jinshu really agreed, it was not impossible to operate. It was easier to control Jinshu than Li Yan.

But unexpectedly, he shot himself in the foot in the end.

Princess Guoyang has become increasingly anxious to settle down recently, but because internal conflicts have reached the point where they are about to burst out, she is almost unable to control them, so she can cure them and rest and rest. She hopes that Li Yan can agree to this condition and let her take a breath and solve all these problems.

But now Jinshu is just pinching her weakness.

Those who followed Princess Guoyang are still working hard for her, just hoping that Liu will become the king and become a founding hero.

If it is drawn and cured, it will not have too much resistance. The front line will be longer.

But if Jinshu ascended the throne, it would be a completely different thing. Jinshu still had the surname Ye, reviving the Ye dynasty, so that Li Yan could never be called emperor. If Jinshu would agree, it would mean that Jinshu and Li Yan broke up, but Jinshu and Runan were not the same group, and Runan must give concessions with the same conditions, which means that Runan had completely lost the ambition to compete for the throne.

In order to solve the strong enemy Li Yan, Guoyang did not hesitate to support the third force to come out.

When those men who had long been dissatisfied with Guoyang's rule learned that the old woman was secretly planning to sell them, their anger and dissatisfaction suddenly surged out. Although they did not explode immediately, the threat to Princess Guoyang was already great enough.

Princess Guoyang, far away in Sishou Pass, felt deeply that she underestimated Li Yan's first wife too much, and even felt a deep sense of humiliation that was repeatedly posed by someone.

These things are nothing but a look. When combined, even Guoyang has to admire them. That woman is really meticulous.

He pinched her weaknesses one by one in all directions without any blind spots.

For the first time, she felt unable to breathe.

At the same time, I got the news that Li Yan outside the pass, and bypassed the valley corridor, and was about to break the pass.

From Sishou Pass to Gulang, there is a Liannu clan between them. The Liannu clan hated the people in the pass and wanted to use the passage, they would inevitably lose their skin. Therefore, Guoyang never felt that Li Yan would take the risk of taking this path when he was injured.

On this morning, she looked at the simple pass buried in the loess not far away, and had a strong intuition, as if the situation was over.

She dealt with Li Yan wholeheartedly, treating this man as her only strong enemy. She did not see the flaws and weaknesses exposed behind her, but did not care about it. She did not think anyone could touch it, because the heart that could threaten her was blocked by her. Before he made an effective counterattack, she thought she was safe.

As it turns out, she was wrong.

Outrageously wrong.

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It took two months to go from Micheng to Runan. Jinshu received news that Princess Guoyang led his troops south on the tenth day, but he didn't come here. He first took a detour to the southwest, and thought he had to deal with the Yang brothers first.

At that time, the subordinates asked her, "Madam, are we still going to Runan?"

They thought that the original intention was to act. After all, it was not easy to move Runan. They wanted to give Princess Guoyang and others the moveable posture, which means that if you insist on opposing your lord, we would even fight to the death to help Runan. But since Princess Guoyang has withdrawn his troops, there is no need to risk moving forward.

At that time, Jinshu lifted her eyelids and said, "Go, why not? The lord is about to enter the pass immediately, and Guoyang is going to the southwest again. If you don't take advantage of the situation, when will you have to wait?"

Everyone was stunned at first, and then quickly realized that the lord came out of the valley corridor. The closest one was Beicang. Beicang came down from Yingtai and Luyin. Because of the old thief Yuwen, there were heavy troops there. Princess Ruoguoyang went southwest. Including the journey, it took about half a month for the lord to go to Yingtai. At that time, Guoyang had about the west of the mountain. Ruoguoyang sent troops from Yingtai to surround Runan, and it happened to make dumplings with Jinshu and his troops to make Runan. At that time, Princess Guoyang was not too late to protect him.

By then, Runan would definitely not be able to resist the lord's troops and would choose a relatively weak place to make a breakthrough. If you follow that direction, you can retreat to the southwest and join the forces of Princess Guoyang. However, Jinshu had contacted Shannan, and Shannan's troops were coming here. At that time, they all thought it was Jinshu's safe attitude to want to have more protection, but now they suddenly felt that it was impossible... Is he trying to block Runan's only retreat? He completely trapped Runan to death.

These people are more meticulous and brave than Jinshu. Jinshu knows that what they lack is a person's lead. Once someone takes them and points them the direction, they are a sharp blade that can poke the enemy's pain at will.

As long as Jinshu starts a little, everything will start naturally.
To be continued...