Sheng Zhonghuai sat in the shadows under the mast, staring at the wilted leaves under the scorching sun.

The entire Liang Wang Mansion seemed extremely dull.

Even the cicadas who were chattering in the past could not hear their noisy sound at this moment.

There was deathly silence everywhere.

After all, he still failed.

The last attempt with all his strength was finally defeated when facing the Tang army.

Although I have prepared for this result in my heart, I still feel it is difficult to accept when the facts are truly in front of me.

Tang Jun, are you really that strong?

Sheng Zhonghuai looked carefully at the specific military newspaper sent back by Hanyang. Zhu Youzhen did not have any problems in command. He tried to pay a huge price to completely defeat the Tang Army's First Corps opposite in one fell swoop.

Victory is actually between two people.

But in the end, it was a breath!

And this tone is exactly the gap between the current Tang army and the Yizhou army.

Li Ze’s books and Sheng Zhonghuai were both read.

Sheng Zhonghuai also understands the concepts of country, nation, and people. The country and nation mentioned by Li Ze are different from the country and nation that Sheng Zhonghuai understands.

What Li Ze mentioned was to forge an army with his own soul, which once made Sheng Zhonghuai use his nose.

He believed that the army should be a puppet who obeys the orders of his superiors, and he would fight wherever he pointed. If the army had its own soul and thoughts, it would definitely cause trouble.

Did you understand it wrong?

Sheng Zhonghuai felt that the current Yizhou soldiers would never lose to the Tang army in terms of combat effectiveness, but when they had a huge advantage in terms of numbers, the battle between the two sides still ended with the defeat of the Yizhou soldiers.

Is the gap really here?

Sheng Zhonghuai couldn't understand.

He reached into his arms and took out the secret letter Zhu Youzhen wrote to him.

Then he asked him to find a reason to leave Yizhou and go to Bagan. After he stayed in Hanzhong for a while, he would return to Yizhou for the final struggle.

Hanzhong was no longer able to defend. A part of the Third Corps of the Tang people had arrived in Hanzhong under the leadership of Shi Zhuang.

The so-called struggle is just about doing our best.

At this moment, Tian Mantang had entered Bazhong from Shizhou, and Min Rou's troops of the Third Corps of the Tang Army had also entered Yizhou from Qianzhong.

In other words, Yizhou has been attacked several times at this moment.

Needless to say, Tian Mantang himself is a native of Yizhou and has a strong influence in Yizhou. After entering Bazhong, he responded to Yun Cong. With the failure of the Battle of Hanzhong, this group responded to oppose Zhu Youzhen's response will only become more and more intense, and eventually swept across Yizhou.

The Tang army entering Qianzhong was not too many, only two or three thousand people, but its political significance was extraordinary. Sheng Zhonghuai even believed that it would not take long to grow into an army of tens of thousands.

The complete fall of Yizhou will be completely completed as soon as possible within this year.

It's time to leave.

I have done all my strength to help Zhu Youzhen. Now I am exhausted and unable to make the world come true.

Sheng Zhonghuai was completely convinced by Li Ze.

It's time to leave!

Since you cannot be distinguished before the princes, then retreat and become a free and carefree farmer.

But not to go to Bagan.

Sheng Zhonghuai didn't think that it could become the last place for Zhu's family to settle down.

When a powerful central dynasty was officially formed, the pressure on the surrounding areas was conceivable. In the end, I was afraid that I would still not be able to escape the fate of being wiped out.

Perhaps in the end, these things would not even reach Li Ze's desk. A general from the border town would do it casually.

Sheng Zhonghuai stood up, dusted the dust from the sleeves of the robe, and turned around and walked into the house.

A few days later, a group of carriages slowly left Chengdu, the Yizhou capital, and followed the road that Hao Ren walked towards Bagan.

Just the tenth day after Sheng Zhonghuai left Chengdu, Zhu Youzhen returned to Chengdu and returned to his Liang Palace. At the same time, the Third Corps led by Shi Zhuang conquered Hanzhong.

Immediately, the First Corps and the Second Corps used Hanzhong as their logistics base to formally launch an attack on Yizhou.

At this point, Zhu Youzhen can only rely on natural dangers formed by the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains.

But the natural danger is something that people have to guard.

But the human heart has dispersed.

The defeat in Hanzhong made the locals in Yizhou see Zhu Youzhen's current weakness. After entering Yizhou, the other two attacking troops were almost invincible. This greatly affected the morale of the defensive soldiers in Dabashan and other places.

Escape happens every day.

Surrender has become another choice for many frontline generals.

As Liang Han's mountain special forces officially entered Yizhou to fight, the speed of the front line's defeat was carried out at a speed that exceeded everyone's estimate.

When Sheng Zhonghuai's convoy arrived at the junction of Bagan and Nanzhao, the First and Third Corps of the Tang Dynasty arrived in Chengdu and prepared to launch a final blow to Zhu Youzhen.

The convoy made a difficult journey along the rugged mountain road.

The still hot weather and the hard work of the long journey made everyone seem to be distracted. No one was interested in speaking, but just bowed his head and rushed forward in a quiet voice.

The sound of feather arrows breaks the silence. A coachman screams and falls from the carriage. Immediately, more feather arrows shoot out of the dense forests on both sides. The unexpected team suffers heavy losses in an instant.

Before these people could fully react, groups of men holding various weapons rushed out of the dense forest, and rushed towards the convoy with shouts.

Seeing the number of people on the other side, the escorts of the convoy who had just surrounded each other wisely chose to surrender. They dropped their weapons and squatted down with their heads in their arms.

A man with a squinting eyes walked to the carriage in the middle with a knife and laughed and said, "Sheng Changshi, you are here to the ground, someone Tao is here to greet you."

There was no echo in the car.

Dark Tao impatiently stretched out his knife and opened the curtain of the car and looked inside.

There was indeed a person sitting in the car.

And this person is really sixty-seventh-seventh-sixth-something with Sheng Zhonghuai, but Dad Tao knew that this person was not Sheng Zhonghuai at all.

"Who are you?" Dad Tao was furious.

He was ordered to intercept Sheng Zhonghuai at some point, and he must not let Sheng Zhonghuai enter Bagan.

As Hao Ren entered Bagan together, there were a large number of Zhu Youzhen's confidants. Once Sheng Zhonghuai entered Bagan, it would have a decisive impact on Hao Ren's complete control of this power.

Although Hao Ren is very conceited, he also knows that if he competes head-on with Sheng Zhonghuai, he is really no match.

Therefore, Sheng Zhonghuai must die.

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"Little man, villain..." The man who pretended to be Sheng Zhonghuai's teeth fights, but he couldn't even say a complete sentence.

"Where has Sheng Zhonghuai been going?" Dad Tao was nervous for a while, "When did he leave the convoy?"

If Sheng Zhonghuai came to a plank road openly, crossed Chen Cang secretly, and had already entered Bagan with light cavalry, then the trouble would be great. This itself means that Sheng Zhonghuai no longer trusts Hao Ren, and the interception of these people fully proves that Hao Ren was a bad intention and would become a mortal enemy in the future.

"Little man, the villain got into the car in Chengdu. I don't know anything else!" The person in the car said tremblingly.

Blind Tao couldn't help but be confused.

What should I do?

While Dark Tao was rushing back with all his heart, the real Sheng Zhonghuai was wearing a blue cloth shirt, leaning against the stern of a merchant ship, holding an expired Tang Dynasty weekly newspaper in his hand, reading with relish.

Sheng Zhonghuai, who had shaved his beard, looked at least ten years younger, with a gentle temperament and politeness. The ship he boarded in Bazhong had already fallen into the hands of the Tang army. His authentic Chang'an language and extraordinary insight made the boss of the merchant ship admire him very much. When he heard that he was going to Chang'an, he immediately invited him to board the ship.

Of course, Sheng Zhonghuai would not go to Chang'an. The destination of his trip was Zhejiang. Wherever he was, he would sail and leave overseas. On an unknown island, there was another person looking forward to his arrival.

For nearly a month, Sheng Zhonghuai was almost isolated from the outside. It was not until he got on the ship that he had a definite understanding of the recent situation through the Tang Dynasty weekly newspapers bought by the merchant ship owner.

The Tang Weekly is a place that can obtain information very well.

Because almost all the major events of the Tang Dynasty will be published on it, whether they are military or political.

The Tang army had already completed the encirclement of Chengdu, but was not in a hurry to attack. They seemed to be trying to force more people to betray Zhu Youzhen and then take Chengdu at the lowest cost. Except for Chengdu, it was believed that Yizhou was basically all under the hands of the Tang army.

In Jiangxi, Xiang Zhen was also surrounded by enemies, and he was trapped in Hengyang. Rongguan and the rebellion of Ma Xiang made Ma Xiang's rebellion so that the Southern Alliance troops were defeated in a very short period of time.

Gui Guan Gong made Zheng Zhe lose his troops and his whereabouts unknown. Qian Wenxi, who was defeated and died in Jiangxi, Rong Hong committed suicide, and Rong Ju was captured. It can be said that Li Ze's battle to unify the world can basically be declared over.

Sheng Zhonghuai just glanced at these military news and stopped paying attention, because it was as expected by him. His attention was actually aroused his great interest in the political reform of Hebei Governor Chen Wenliang in Hebei published in the weekly newspaper.

After nearly two years of hard work, Chen Wenliang's political reform in Hebei finally achieved success. In Sheng Zhonghuai's view, this was the Tang Dynasty's new tightening of the governance power above the local government, and the central government's control over the local government was further strengthened. The extensive management model in the past has been greatly refined. There are clear statements on which power belongs to the center and which power belongs to the local government.

If this set of political reforms can be promoted nationwide, then from then on, the Tang Dynasty will no longer be able to confront the central government.

After putting down the newspaper, Sheng Zhonghuai sighed lightly.

With Li Ze's approach, the next step is likely to implement this new set of political policies in newly recovered Yizhou and other places, because the newly returned place is the easiest to popularize these things without any hindrance. The knife is still hanging on your head, so where can you dare to bare your teeth in the place?

After carefully reading this page, Sheng Zhonghuai was attracted by another inconspicuous news, and was even a little scared.

The Tang Dynasty completely opened the sea ban and no longer issued licenses to those long-distance caravans.

In other words, as long as you dare to go into the sea, you can go.

If you occupy a piece of territory overseas and declare to the Tang Dynasty, promising that it is part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, then the Tang Dynasty court will directly appoint you as an official there and only send a tax official there.

As soon as Li Ze unified the continent, he extended his claws overseas.

It can be imagined that this order will enable countless capable people in the Tang Dynasty to sail far away and pursue greater achievements overseas. Moreover, without spending the Tang Dynasty’s national treasury, it will build a safe sea wall for the Tang Dynasty to overseas.

Of course, this order will also make places outside the Tang Dynasty bloody.

"Look, our warship!" The merchant ship owner suddenly shouted happily.

Sheng Zhonghuai looked up and saw several ships of the Tang Dynasty inland river fleet flowing downstream from behind. In a blink of an eye, they caught up with their ship. At the moment when the two ships were parallel, the people on the merchant ship cheered loudly and waved to the Tang soldiers on the warship, and the soldiers also responded with warm calls.
Chapter completed!