Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 376
Jing Zhaoyin and Sun Kui led more than a thousand Ding Zhuang into Chang'an.

He used to be the military envoy of the Western Expedition Army, and he was very busy.After the Battle of Changwu City, Wang Shi was defeated, and his governor was irretrievable, so he galloped back to Chang'an.

Ding Zhuang was recruited in Chang'an and Wannian counties, equipped with armor, knives and guns, it looked like that.

The situation was urgent, and Sun Kui didn't care about offending this or that. He entered Chang'an first, and it was important to protect the saint.

He has been Jing Zhaoyin for several years, and he is not idle. In fact, he has acquainted with quite a few people.Especially those teenagers who ran amok in the countryside, who had always been his main target before, but now they have all been recruited, organized into a capital, and rushed into the city.

If necessary, he would even take the emperor to Boqian, and first tour Huazhou eastward.

The people in Chang'an City didn't know about it yet, but the high-level officials had already got the news from the palace in advance, so they prepared carriages and horses one after another, and took refuge in Sanyuan and Fuping in the north of Jingzhao Mansion.

Some people also ran to Lantian County in the south, which is close to the mountains and convenient for avoiding chaos.

And as soon as they ran away, the news naturally couldn't be concealed, and soon spread throughout the city at an astonishing speed.

On September 25th, as more and more news came back, most of the people finally knew: Shence Army was defeated in Jingzhou, the whole army was disintegrated, and the Jing Division had already attacked Chang'an, and they wanted to raise the division to question their crimes.

The city suddenly became chaotic.

That night, many youths in Fangshi covered their faces and held sharp knives, violating the curfew and setting fire to looting in the streets.

These people robbed together after Chao Jun entered Chang'an.

After the officers and soldiers regained Chang'an, they continued to rob along with them.

How to say they are good?Poor rascals may be too light, born thieves.

In Pingkang, people are panicking.

Zhao Guangyi returned to Jinzuoyuan with a gloomy expression on his face.

However, he went out and turned around to inquire about the situation, but he was overwhelmed by the panicked crowd and had to flee back in a hurry.

There are more than a hundred warriors with complete equipment in the Jinzuo courtyard, all of whom were the guards of the Chase Horse Company back then.

After the Kanto branches were closed one after another, most of the people turned to Hezhong, Guanzhong, and Sanchuan, and a small number of people were stationed in Chang'an to protect the business of the horse bank, while some were sent to Jinzhaoyuan as guards.

"Officer Zhao, I don't think you should go out these few days. Let's lock the gate and only leave a corner door to go in and out, and wait for the situation to calm down." Liu Sandou stepped forward and suggested.

He has been in Chang'an for a long time, and he has heard a lot about the famous "Floating Boy" in the city.

These people are indeed trouble, but there is nothing to worry about.

The more than a hundred warriors who entered the Zouyuan, although they are all "uncles" and "uncles" in their forties, they have excellent equipment and rich experience in battle. Rascals are much stronger.

With them guarding them, entering the Zouyuan is indeed safe and worry-free.But if you go out often, it is inevitable that there is something wrong.

"Don't lock it." Zhao Guangyi stretched out his hand to stop it, and said: "The sage has already issued an order to King Qin, counting the time, the commander's vanguard is coming soon, and we may need our help to find out the news. In addition, the court may also have something to look for Come."

The shouting and cursing sounded again on the street outside the door.

Liu Sandou's expression froze, and he ordered: "From now on, the two teams will take turns guarding, and we must not slack off."

"As ordered."

"If the neighborhood is in trouble, help as much as you can." Zhao Guangyi added.

Uh, the neighborhood seems to be mainly brothel girls...

Sun Kui led more than a thousand heroic youths along the way.

The Jingyuan army rebelled again!He was full of helplessness.

In the reign of Emperor Dezong, the Jingyuan Army had staged a mutiny, that is, the Chanshui Mutiny.

Yao Lingyan, who was born in the Anxi Army, led five thousand soldiers eastward to suppress the rebellion. As a result, the court only provided mediocre food and food, and there were no rewards. Shui returned to Chang'an.

The emperor hurriedly sent middle officials to comfort him and rewarded him with silk.When the sergeants heard that each person would be rewarded with two bolts of silk, they became even more furious. The envoys who were going to deliver the decree were shot by arrows and fled.

The Jingyuan army has never stopped!
The heroic young man from Ji County was indeed better at fighting than the capital rogues. After killing two groups of people along the way, Sun Kui arrived at Daming Palace.

Where did the Shence Army go?He was a little surprised.

Even if the main force has been destroyed in Jingzhou, there are at least ten thousand soldiers in the city!Why didn't I see a few along the way?
"Emissary Sun."

"Kong Xiang."

Sun Kui met Prime Minister Kong Wei in front of the Daming Palace, and the two sighed at each other.

Kong Wei knew that Sun Kui was very close to Zhang Jun.

During this western expedition, Sun Kui served as a military envoy.Master Wang's defeat, although he is not responsible for it, but if he really pursues it carefully, he may suffer a bit of failure.

But why not yourself?Kong Wei sighed, he also supported the Western Expedition.

"Du Xiang has left Beijing with [-] bolts of silk. Zhang Jun was demoted to Lianzhou Inspector, and the sage said that he does not need to return to Beijing, but he can go straight to his post." Kong Wei looked at the cloudy sky and said: " However, the rebellious army did not stop, and was still rushing to the capital. Five days ago, Li Yanling, the commander of Bin, rushed to report that the Jingyuan army was about to attack Binzhou, and he led [-] soldiers to form an array. direction."

"Yongshou..." Sun Kui recalled it carefully.

Yongshou is ninety miles away from Binzhou, and fifty miles southeast of Yongshou is Fengtian County, where Dezong used to go hunting.

After passing Fengtian, it is forty li to Liquan, and then eighty li to Xianyang.Xianyang is only forty miles away from Chang'an.

The journey of three hundred miles, with the urgent mood of the Jingyuan army, actually didn't take long.

"Where are the soldiers and horses of the kings from all walks of life?" Sun Kui asked suddenly.

He is self-aware that it is okay to scare people with the thousand heroic youngsters under his command. If they really go into battle, the Jingyuan Army only needs to send two or three hundred soldiers to fight in formation, and they will be defeated.

The only ones who can deal with the Jingyuan army are the soldiers and horses of the feudal town.

"The sage has sent envoys to Tongzhou and Huazhou to urge Hao Zhenwei and Wang Bian to lead the army to help the capital. Whoever can serve the king this time can be awarded the Jiedu envoy of the Zhen Guojun and the defense envoy of Tongguan. Same as Huazhou."

Sun Kui's face was shocked, there is a problem!

For Hao and Wang, no matter who becomes the Jiedu envoy of the Zhen Guojun, one of them must lose power. Can he be willing?
Wouldn't it be more dangerous to cause chaos on the spot than the Jingyuan army far to the west?

Who came up with the idea?Or did the saint himself think?
"The sage also sent envoys to Jinzhou to proclaim the decree, and promoted the defense envoy of Jinshangdu to Jiedu envoy, ordering Li Xiang to send his troops north to serve the king immediately."

This is a bit reliable, but I'm afraid it won't be able to quench the near thirst.Sun Kui looked at Kong Wei and continued to wait for him to speak.Both of them understood that the most important thing hadn't appeared yet.

"A Chinese envoy has gone to Yanzhou to order Shuofang's army to come in for help." Kong Wei said.

"Isn't it Xiazhou? Why Yanzhou?" Sun Kui was puzzled.

"Shao Shude has been stationed in Yanzhou for many days."

"This thief!" Sun Kui cursed angrily.

"Shannan Xidao, Fengxiang, Hezhong, Shanguo and other towns also went to pass the decree."

Will Wang's father and son from Hezhong and Shanguo really come?Sun Kui is not optimistic.

The two towns of Xingyuan and Fengxiang are also the henchmen of the Shao family, and they are far to the west. It is very difficult to enter Jingqinwang, and the possibility of occupying Jingyuan by taking advantage of the false attack is very high.

Shuofang Town may even send troops from Binning and Huizhou to attack the three prefectures of Jingyuan.

It is impossible for the Jingyuan Army to have no troops left behind, but there are very few of them. Most of them are eager to come to Chang'an, without any reason at all.

Alas, regardless of whether the rebellious army can be put down this time, Jingyuan Town is gone.What the hell is going on?Such a big mess was caused, and in the end Shao thief took advantage of it.

"What is the saint doing?" Sun Kui asked.

Seeing that the two of them share the same illness and pity each other, Kong Wei didn't want to say much when he talked to Sun Kui until now, but when he saw the thousand heroic young men behind him, he sighed secretly and said: "I am discussing with the Ximen palace supervisor. countermeasures."

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On the thoroughfare leading to the Zhenwu Army in Chang'an, the Cavalry Army with additional horses stopped.

The army had [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers, and originally had [-] horses. Shao Shude specially ordered that [-] horses be drawn from Feixiong's army to temporarily strengthen the cavalry army, ordering them to rush to the vicinity of Chang'an.

The Feixiong army lost more than 1000 people in the battle with the Hedong cavalry. The Hexi shogunate sent an order to Ganzhou a while ago to recruit recruits from the Uyghur, Sogdian, Longjia, Tubo, Tatar and other tribes to complete the establishment—the principle of recruits Make up for the auxiliary soldiers, and select elite soldiers from the auxiliary soldiers to make up for the shortage of soldiers.

After the horses were recruited, the silver guns became pike infantry, and they could only act with the large troops.

The iron cavalry army is advancing all the way.Departing from Ganquan County, where he was stationed, it took only three days to arrive at Sanyuan County, Jingzhao Prefecture.

About 110 miles south of the county, you can reach Zhongwei Bridge, and another [-] miles across the river is Chang'an.For a cavalry army with one man and three horses, this distance is nothing at all.

There has been news from Binzhou that on September 24, the Jingyuan army passed by Binzhou and wanted to attack the city.Later, seeing that the Binzhou army was waiting in full force, he thought that it was not worth fighting to death, so he gave up.

Commander-in-chief Li Yanling sent them a batch of military rations, and the Jing division left in a hurry after receiving them. The two sides concluded a deal tacitly—take the rations and go to Chang'an to make a fortune and don't want to cause trouble.

After giving the order to set up camp, Zhe Siyu spread out the map on the felt blanket and examined it carefully.

The rebel army left Binzhou five days ago. Given their marching speed, this matter should be at least 150 miles away from Chang'an, and most of them had just left Yongshou and entered Fengtian.

I really want to surprise them!Zhesi Yuya stared at several places on the map that were suitable for ambush.

The Jing division was eager to enter Chang'an to make a fortune, and knew that King Qin's troops would come, but he certainly didn't know that the iron cavalry could come so quickly.

If you do your calculations with your mind and your mind is unintentional, the chances of success are still very high.

However, helping the emperor defeat the rebellious army so easily, will it affect the commander's plan?
The iron cavalry can "do things cheaply", which is a privilege promised by the commander himself, but Zhe Siyu is not stupid and knows to carefully weigh the pros and cons.

The commander-in-chief's trip to the south this time has two purposes, Jingyuan and Weibei.

If the autumn wind swept away the Jingyuan army and defeated the Jingyuan army, wouldn't it be a cocoon for the sage to order the soldiers and horses of the kings of the towns to return to the town?
"Military envoy, there is a military order." The soldiers suddenly came to report.

Zhe Siyu took it, read it carefully twice, and couldn't help asking: "Did the messenger say anything?"

"Never."

"Li Keyong is really good at picking the time." Zhe Siyu sighed.

On Daibei's side, Li Keyong personally led the army to the north, facing more than [-] people from Youzhou and Datong coalition forces.

Helianduo also brought tens of thousands of miscellaneous beards from the grassland to strengthen his momentum.

Li Keyong's purpose was obvious. He focused on defense in the south, and the army went north to defeat the threat from the north, which seemed to be huge but was actually mostly mobs, and then went south to deal with Zhu Quanzhong.

This is a bit unexpected!

Moreover, if Li Keyong really succeeded, wouldn't the battle in the first half of the year be in vain?
Zhe Siyu had a hunch that the Yinshan Camp, which was disbanded a few months ago, might exist for a long time.

(End of this chapter)