Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 183
Jiangling North Gate!

"The king of Nanping is here, there is a small disturbance in the city, and a certain guardian king goes north, if you don't open the city gate, maybe you are with the rebels!"

In the flames, Sun Guangxian stood high on the carriage, holding a sword in one hand and Gao Baorong's arm in the other.

Although Sun Guangxian was tangled in his affairs and was not liked by Luo Youdu, there was no doubt that he had the courage of a scholar.

In his early years, in order to collect writing materials, he interacted with local Taoist priests and bandits in the East Valley of Fengcheng.

What he relies on is not only good swordsmanship, but also extraordinary courage.

At this moment, he is holding a sword in his hand, and he is majestic under the firelight.

Yang Qing, the city guard general, is Li Jingwei's confidant and has been notified by Li Jingwei.But before the time came, they did not inform the soldiers of the situation. Originally, they planned to say that someone in the city was plotting against them and closed the four doors tightly.

But now that Gao Baorong is right in front of him, he can't tell the soldiers that we are going to rebel in this emergency, right?
At this time, I also panicked.

Let Yang Qing kill Gao Baorong and Sun Guangxian directly, he dare not, he can only say: "The gate of the city is closed, if your majesty wants to leave the city, wait for your subordinates to consult the commander..."

Before he finished speaking, an arrow flew into the air and passed through his throat.

Before arriving at the city gate, Sun Guangxian had discussed with Gao Zhixun that if the city gate was not opened, he would directly shoot the guards and open the city forcibly.

Gao Congyi's imperial guards were just behind them, and they had no time to delay.

It's a matter of life and death.

Sun Guangxian raised his sword again and shouted: "If you don't open the door again, you will be the same as others, and you will be guilty of conspiracy!"

His boss was shot dead on the spot, and Gao Baorong, the monarch, was in front of him again. The remaining soldiers couldn't bear the charge of treason, and hurriedly opened the city gate.

At this time, the pursuers behind him had already arrived, and a burst of crossbow bolts fired.

There was endless wailing behind him, and there was an "aggressive" sound of a crossbow shooting at the carriage.

Sun Guangxian's face was pale, and he said: "Your Majesty, get into the car quickly."

He pushed Gao Baorong, and frantically waved his whip and fled forward.

None of the servants I summoned were wearing armor, so it was impossible for them to be opponents of the Imperial Army.

The hundred people under Gao Zhixun have some fighting power, but they are outnumbered, how long can they last?

Sun Guangxian didn't care whether his own people could catch up or not, so he fled north in his own carriage, as long as he brought Gao Baorong to Xiangzhou, everything would be safe.

Even if Gao Congyi had the courage of the sky, he did not dare to send troops into the territory of the Great Zhou.

"Your Majesty, the situation is urgent now. We should go north immediately to Kaifeng to seek help from Emperor Guo, and ask him to send out righteous soldiers to fight against the rebels!"

Sun Guangxian said righteously, he had already thought of how the history books would record the actions of his heroic savior today.

Thinking of Luo Youdu's mockery of "three characters, cross", he was a little dismissive.

"Your Majesty?"

Seeing that there was no response from inside the carriage, Sun Guangxian yelled, and looked back strangely, but saw his king sticking to the back wall of the carriage in a strange posture, a crossbow bolt passed through the back of his head, and blood flowed a puddle.

Sun Guangxian turned his head dully, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have pushed him.

Piercing the crossbow bolts of the carriage, pushing and shoving by oneself is equal to...

Sun Guangxian's face was distorted, the king asked me to kill him?
No, it was Gao Congyi, it was Gao Congyi who shot and killed the king.

It must be so, it must be!

Definitely is!
Dazed, Sun Guangxian brainwashed himself over and over again.

He stopped the carriage, took Gao Baorong off the wall of the carriage, lay flat on his back and held him in his arms, weeping: "My lord, my lord!"

Gao Zhixun urged the horse to come closer, looking at Gao Baorong who had been dead for a long time, he also stood on the spot in a daze.

Sun Guangxian looked at Gao Zhixun and said, "Your Majesty was killed by a traitor."

Gao Zhixun ignored the nonsense, but tremblingly said: "Then what should we do?"

Sun Guangxian's eyes were firm, and he said resolutely: "Go to Xiangzhou, ask for rescue soldiers, and avenge the king."

The city of Jiangling was in turmoil. With the death of the most important Gao Baorong, Gao Congyi had no way out.

In the past, they planned to force Gao Baorong to give way to a wave of routine operations, but now they can only bite the bullet and do it by themselves.

Kill anyone who refuses to accept it!

Kill until everyone takes it.

Just when Gao Congyi was about to raise the butcher knife, he got a message.

Zhou Jun entered the city.

Faced with Zhou Jun's soldiers approaching the city, Li Jingwei didn't have any impulse this time, and directly ordered the army to open the city to meet Zhou Jun, took the initiative to hand in all the equipment, and cooperated with Zhou Jun to control the four gates of Jiangling.

Surrendered cleanly.

While controlling the four gates of Jiangling, Hou Zhang personally led his troops to besiege the Nanping Palace.

Gao Congyi, who was at the end of the day, did not want to be captured and humiliated, so he directly set the Nanping Palace on fire, and shouted: "How can my Nanping royal family be a prisoner?"

Following Gao Congyi's self-immolation, Jiangling came under the control of Da Zhou.

Although there were minor changes in the process, Da Zhou still did not lose a single soldier.

Luo Youdu directly asked Sun Guangxian to talk about returning to Guizhou and Xiazhou.

Gui and Xia prefectures are just two small prefectures located in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. They had no strength or desire to resist at all, and they surrendered directly.

Especially with the arrival of the navy led by Lin Renzhao, Nanping was even more vulnerable.

The Nanping royal family also had a whimsical plan to support Gao Jichong, Gao Baorong's son, as the king of Nanping.

Luo Youdu didn't even think about it, and said directly: "I can't decide what to do, you go to the official's house to discuss this matter."

With a wave of his hand, he directly packed and shipped all the members of the Gao family to Kaifeng Mansion.

In this life, their group will never even think about returning to Jiangling.

The news of Dazhou's occupation of Jiangling first reached Wuping.

Now it is Zhou Xingfeng who separates Wuping.

Originally, the envoy of Wuping Jiedu was Wang Kui. Wang Kui was ordered by Guo Rong to go to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Because of his subordinates' slander, he forced Pan Shusi, the training envoy of the Yuezhou regiment, to be killed by Pan Shusi.

Pan Shusi knew that he could not convince the crowd, so he sent Langzhou generals to Tanzhou to welcome Zhou Xingfeng, while he returned to Yuezhou.

After Zhou Xingfeng took over the Wuping Army, he used tricks to get rid of Pan Shusi and obtained the territories of Wang Kui and Pan Shusi.According to Youlang, Tan, Heng, Li, Yue, Dao, Yong, Shao, Chen, and [-] counties in the ten prefectures, their strength has been greatly improved.

However, Zhou Xingfeng knew that he was not the opponent of Da Zhou, so he sent an envoy to Guo Rong very wittily, expressing his willingness to surrender.

Guo Rong currently has no intention of regaining Jingnan, so he was appointed Governor of Langzhou, Jiedu Envoy of Wuping Army, restrained Wu'an, Jingjiang and other armies, and was added as the inspector Taiwei, acknowledging his separatist rule of Jingnan.

Zhou Xingfeng had thoughts about Nanping, especially after Nanping was disliked by Guo Rong because of his ineffective deployment of troops, he had a strange idea.

Jiangling's geographical location is too attractive, with ships from south to horses from north, and the thoroughfare of seven provinces.

Not to mention the military status, just connecting the four commercial channels of Bashu, Jiangnan, Central Plains, and Jingnan is enough to make a lot of money.

Zhou Xingfeng knew that his strength was limited, and he was no match for Meng Shu and Nantang, let alone Da Zhou, but there was no reason why he would not be tempted to sit and collect money.

As long as there is any change in Nanping, Zhou Xingfeng will immediately go north under the banner of eliminating harm for the emperor of Zhou.

As a result, the spies that were sent out came the news that Luo Youdu was in Nanping and Jiangling had returned to Zhou.

"how can that be!"

Zhou Xingfeng's face was pale.

This is a big trouble now. The Jingnan water system is no less than the Jianghuai Jiangnan. The Jiangling navy can go south anytime and anywhere to attack any important place it occupies.

"Didn't they return to Kaifeng?"

"Luo Youdu was drinking and having fun with Qian Hongchu in Yangzhou not long ago, how did he take down Jiangling in a few days?"

An emotion called fear permeated my heart.

Nanping just didn't follow Guo Rong's order, and it was destroyed in just a few days?

Although he watched the process of Jiangling's destruction in detail more than a dozen times, there was no trace of Luo Youdu.

Zhou Xingfeng didn't believe that Luo Youdu took advantage of the opportunity to accept Jiangling just because he happened to pass by, and he must be pushing his hands.

terrible! ! !

"No wonder he is as famous as the prime minister!"

Zhou Xingfeng only felt a chill lingering in his heart, pondered for a while, waved his confidant Li Guanxiang, and said: "Sir, you choose some heavy gifts from the treasury. By the way, take my I also took the white tiger skin with me and sent it to Kaifeng, just to say something about my minister Zhou Xingfeng's kindness."

That white tiger skin is Zhou Xingfeng's favorite treasure.

Jinling.

After Da Zhou retreated, Li Jing finally regained his composure.

Start handling all government affairs after the defeat.

In this year's battle, Nantang suffered heavy losses.

The treasury bottomed out, and the country's elite disappeared.

Without ten years of interest, it will be difficult for them to recover.

But Li Jing is very open, at least the seat of the Jiangnan king is preserved, and he doesn't have to be the king of subjugation.

Before he could heave a sigh of relief, he learned that Lin Renzhao's navy stationed in Chaohu suddenly sailed into the Yangtze River. Li Jing was frightened like a frightened bird, thinking that Guo Rong followed the example of Han Gaozu and backed the alliance to destroy Xiang Yu.

Fortunately, it was discovered that the other party did not send troops to Caishiji, but went directly upstream to Jiangling.

Immediately afterwards, news came that Jiangling had been occupied by Luo Youdu.

The Great Zhou had already acquired Huainan, and jointly owned the natural moat in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River with him, and now he has occupied Jiangling, controlling the upper reaches of the river.

There is only one thought in Li Jing's mind, let's quit, whoever wants to be the lord of the south of the Yangtze River will go.

At this time, Li Jingsui, the emperor's younger brother, repeatedly asked to resign as the crown prince. Li Jing had already agreed, and changed Li Hongji, the king of Yan, who was expected by everyone, as the crown prince.

However, the abdication of the state reserve must be approved by Guo Rong.

Without any hesitation, Li Jing directly wrote to Guo Rong to request his abdication, and passed it on to Li Hongji.

This is not safe enough, Li Jing looked at the civil and military officials and said: "Now that the Yangtze River is no longer a natural moat, how about we move our capital to Hongzhou?"

Meng Shu, the palace.

Compared with the reactions of Zhou Xingfeng and Li Jing.

Meng Chang became much calmer.

After being forced to surrender by Luo Youdu, Meng Chang endured great pressure and turned his grief and anger into food strength. His already obese body became stronger, not to mention that it was difficult to walk on horseback, and he needed someone to carry him to walk.

Knowing that Luo Youdu had taken Jiangling, Meng Chang laughed heartlessly, and said, "Being an enemy of Prime Minister Zhuge, do you think your life will be long?"

Guo Rong presciently left Meng Chang with profligate capital.

The lord of the Western Shu Kingdom was really intoxicated, and his life was even more extravagant than before.

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