The tyrant empress is my wife, I am invincible and have been hiding

"The southern region of the Great Song Dynasty, with its large tracts of cities, is controlled by the King of Ye. He has a violent temper, is brave but not wise, and thinks he can fight, so he is arrogant. If he conspires with the King of Dongxuan, Zhao Yunfei, to rebel, it means that Jinling City will face threats and pressure from both the southeast and the Great Song Dynasty will be in danger."

"Now, if we defend the 18 cities of Yanyun, neither the Wei Dynasty nor the Jin Dynasty can threaten the security of the border. I will lead the army back in triumph, and naturally I will clean up the internal troubles."

"As long as we deal with Ye Wang Zhao Xiong, even if Dong Xuan Wang, Ping Xi Wang, and Nan Yu Wang want to rebel, they will have to consider whether they can succeed. They will be restrained and will be more cautious before taking action, which will give us more time."

Ye Feng is in charge of the Song Dynasty. What he lacks is time. What he wants is for the princes to not dare to rebel. The longer the time, the better.

Given the current strength of the Song Dynasty, if the four great princes rose up in rebellion and raised troops to defend the king, even if he had extraordinary abilities, he would be powerless to reverse the situation.

After all, in a battle of thousands of troops, Ye Feng could kill one person, but not ten thousand. Moreover, each of the four princes had an army of more than 200,000. Once they joined forces, it would be equivalent to a million-strong army. It would be too difficult to win.

The reason why Ye Feng led the army to fight was to win the battle and warn the four great princes. He wanted the four great princes to be more cautious and careful, and not dare to rise up easily. The longer the delay, the better it would be for him.

The most important point he took advantage of was that the four princes did not trust each other, so they could not reach a consensus and were scheming against each other, which gave him an opportunity to take advantage of.

"So what you just said is only the benefits brought by the Eighteen Cities of Smoke and Cloud. What I want is for the entire southern region of the Great Song Dynasty to return to the control of the imperial power."

Ye Feng looked indifferent. Chang Sun Ji only saw the plan of the Eighteen Cities of Yanyun, but what he wanted to plan was the entire Song Dynasty. When he set out from Jinling City, he already had a plan. Not only did he want to stabilize the borders of the entire Eighteen Cities of Yanyun once and for all, but he also wanted to completely get rid of King Ye Zhao Xiong.

Compared with the other three princes, Zhao Xiong was the easiest to deal with. Since they had decided to reduce the power of the vassal states, they would of course start with the weakest and slowly eliminate them.

If you want to destroy King Dongxuan right away, you will most likely fail to do so and instead let him counterattack with all his might. When the other three kings see that King Dongxuan and you are both injured, they will not sit still and wait for death but will certainly mobilize all their forces and force the four great princes to join forces. At that time, reducing the power of the princes will be tantamount to seeking death.

History has long proven that this will fail, and Ye Feng will never do such a stupid thing!

"I admire you so much!"

After hearing this, Chang Sunji suddenly understood and was shocked. In fact, everything in front of him was planned by Ye Feng.

Madam Xinling and the others were also shocked. They only knew to follow Ye Feng to fight everywhere, but they never expected that after winning, there would be so many plans involved. They could only admire him with all their hearts.

"Order the soldiers to transport the manufactured Nine-Star Crossbow to Tianyun City. I will also go to Tianyun City. I have something to tell Zhang Tai."

Ye Feng looked calm, he knew in his heart that what he was going to do next, whether it was Dongyun City or Tianyun City, must not have any mistakes.

"As ordered!"

Chang Sun Ji did not dare to delay and ordered the soldiers to load the more than three-meter-high Nine-Star Crossbows onto the carriages. Each carriage could only carry two Nine-Star Crossbows.

"Zhen Guojun, are you looking for me?"

Not long after, Yu Shouren came in front of Ye Feng. He had just received a message from his subordinates that Ye Feng wanted to see him, so he dropped what he was doing and came quickly.

"How many soldiers do you have now?" Ye Feng knew very well that among the soldiers he had now, the black-armored cavalryman Li Shanxiao would follow him to destroy King Ye, and the remaining 6,000 cavalrymen of Lady Xinling could not be left behind to guard Tianyun City for Zhangtai, not to mention that he was reluctant to let her go. With Lady Xinling accompanying the army, at least he could relieve his boredom when he was bored.

"Your Majesty, including the soldiers who surrendered recently, I now have 26,000 soldiers under my command." Yu Shouren reported to Ye Feng.

Hearing this, Ye Feng was slightly stunned. This Yu Shouren was really something. He found that this guy's ability to recruit soldiers to surrender was particularly strong.

Almost all of the more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers who had left after Ouyang Lun was killed were recruited by him.

"Leave 6,000 soldiers to take charge of the daily defense and patrol missions in Yancheng, and mobilize the remaining 20,000 soldiers and send them to Tianyun City to Zhangtai to guard Tianyun City."

Ye Feng knew very well that although Tianyun City had a great geographical advantage and could be infallible with the Nine-Star Crossbow, Ye Feng did not want to make any mistakes. Zhang Tai had more than 10,000 soldiers, plus these 20,000 soldiers, adding up to more than 30,000 soldiers. According to Chang Sunji's current progress in making the Nine-Star Crossbow, there were still two days left to rush out 200 Nine-Star Crossbows. Even if Sima Cuo had great ability, he could not break through Tianyun City.

"As ordered!"

Yu Shouren did not hesitate at all and turned around to mobilize the troops.

The 20,000-strong army marched towards Tianyun City in a mighty force.

"Yu Shouren, I think that with your talent, it would be a waste of your talent for you to stay in Linjiang City as a garrison commander. What do you think?" Ye Feng was riding a warhorse. Since he came to Linjiang City, he had witnessed Yu Shouren's ability, so it was naturally impossible for him to continue to be a garrison commander in Linjiang City.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. For a capable and virtuous official like Yu Shouren to be a mere border town garrison commander would be a waste of natural resources and talent.

"I am just a humble scholar. As long as I can protect my country, it doesn't matter if I serve as a soldier." After this period of contact, Yu Shouren was completely convinced by Ye Feng, the king who guarded the country. He hung the last two lines of "Liangzhou Ci" written by Ye Feng in his study.

"Haha... You are calm in the face of adversity, unperturbed by praise or criticism, and fearless in the face of danger. With your abilities, you should be qualified for the position of Minister of War of the Song Dynasty."

Ye Feng knew very well that if it were not for Yu Shouren's ability, Linjiang City would have been captured by Zhang Tai, and his subsequent series of deployments would have undergone tremendous changes, and he would probably not have been able to capture Dongyun City.

However, in the entire court, the position of the Minister of War had been vacant since Ye Feng exterminated his three clans. He had wanted to appoint Fan Jin as the Minister of War, but he knew very well that Fan Jin was not good enough to be the Minister of War, so he promoted him to the Vice Minister of War.

Ever since he learned that Yu Shouren fought alone but was able to mobilize the entire Linjiang City's people and soldiers, and that the military and civilians worked together to defend Linjiang City, he knew that this man could be qualified to be the Minister of War and take charge of the overall situation.

"Thank you, Lord Zhenguo!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Shouren dismounted from his horse. He never expected that Ye Feng had seen everything he had done. He was filled with gratitude and knelt down in front of Ye Feng.

"No need to be polite, Tianyun City is just ahead."

Ye Feng was riding on his warhorse and saw a dusty city standing on a hill-like place not far away. The weathered city walls were full of holes but still strong.

When the thousand-man captains such as Lao Xu saw Tianyun City, they finally understood why Zhenguojun and Changsun Ji were so confident that they could defend this border city in the face of Sima Cuo's army of 100,000.