Late Tang

In June of the first year of the True Dragon, Taiyuan is generally not much different from the summer days of previous years.

As usual, the sky was clear and cloudless, the sun hung high like a fireball, scorching the streets and roads like a fire, and the heat waves on the ground made the hot people upset and sweat profusely.

People in Taiyuan City, the northern capital that has been the most important city in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty for many years, were even more surprised by the drastic changes in the situation.In recent years, border turmoil, especially in the eastern area of ​​Hebei, the land of Daibei has almost been reduced to the world of Hu people. Fortunately, Zheng Congxue served two terms in Hedong successively, and appeased Hedong.It was he who ended the turmoil in Hedong when Shatuo first rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and also ended the domineering military leaders of Taiyuan Town. With a group of talented and wise people he invited from Chang'an, he restored the peace in Hedong, and even made Hedong Town a small town. The name of the imperial court.However, in the end, Zheng Congxuan was forced to hand over Hedong Town to the Shatuo people. In this era, Zheng Congxuan has a strong character, but no matter how strong his character is, he can't turn the tide.

After a few years of peaceful life, the people of Beidu began to become turbulent again.

After Li Keyong took control of Taiyuan, various additional levies and apportionments brought the lives of the people back to a few years ago, and they dared not speak out against these crow soldiers.Many people cursed Li Keyong secretly at home, but it didn't take long for Fei Huzi to die in Bianliang.Not long after this shocking news came back, Li Kexiu, who stayed behind in Hedong, began to recruit soldiers and civilians on a large scale, and wanted to unite Hezhong, Heyang, Zhaoyi and other towns to attack Zhu Wen in the south.For a while, strong men were forced to be recruited, and money and food were levied again, and the northern capital of Taiyuan City was in dire straits.There was chaos.

The first [-] soldiers who went south to attack Zhu Wen had just gone south, but Li Jing had already commanded the Qin army to wipe out the only remaining towns of Chengde and Weibo and ten states in Hebei with lightning speed.

This was not only a surprise that exceeded the expectations of the Qin army before the war, but it also greatly exceeded the unexpected panic of other feudal towns.

At the beginning, the Yang brothers were willing to agree to Li Jing's conditions, and finally abandoned and betrayed the second town of Hebei. Firstly, it was because the second town of Hebei had always been unreliable, rebellious and impermanent, and it was difficult to really intervene in the affairs of the second town.Secondly, it was also the judgment of the Yang brothers that even if Li Jing marched south to the second town, with the strength and situation of the second town, if he switched from offense to defense.So let's not talk about keeping it for three to five years.At least it can last for a year or two.And at this time, they have slaughtered Zhu Wen, a fat pig, absorbed and digested it, and maybe even settled down with Chengdu.that time.Come back again.Hebei Second Town can only rely on them more.From then on, Chang'an can be aboveboard, and can intervene in the second town in a fair and just manner, and bring the second town under control.Then come to fight against Li Jing.

It's just that no one would have imagined that the two towns, ten prefectures and dozens of counties in Hebei have a place of great shape and are guarded.As a result, the battle lasted less than a month before it was completely wiped out.Even they had never fought a tough battle. Before they were destroyed, not to mention severely injuring the Qin army, they couldn't even consume a single bit of the Qin army.The Qin army pacified the two vassals with almost no damage.

Li Jing was extremely happy these days. After making up his mind to seize the great opportunity to attack Hedong, Li Jing personally set the tone of this battle: blitzkrieg.

Since you want to fight, let's defeat them like lightning before they come to their senses.

Therefore, Li Jing issued a new military order in Xuanhua on the same day, transferred four-star general Lin Wei to lead 3 soldiers and horses as the commander of the left army, and rushed to Shuozhou to gather some soldiers and troops from Yunshuo, Shanxi. A total of [-] troops from the frontier defense army and the city defense army directly attacked Shuozhou and Lanzhou border gates, attacked Lanzhou and Shizhou in the northwest of Taiyuan, and forced the west of Taiyuan to besiege the west of Taiyuan. Intercept the rescue of Baoda, Dingnan, Tiande, Zhenwu and other feudal towns that may come to the west of the Yellow River.At the same time, the soldiers and horses approached the northern part of Hezhong Town, threatening Hezhong at any time and restraining the soldiers and horses of Hezhong Town.

Afterwards, Li Jing took the post of Marshal of the Middle Road as the Seven-Star Generalissimo. He led [-] guards from Xuanhua along Qinwang Avenue to Xinzhou in the north of Taiyuan, and went out of Chitang Pass to attack Tianmen Pass, the north gate of Taiyuan. Taiyuan.

He also appointed Zhou Dewei, who is currently resting in Zhenzhou, as a four-star general, and appointed him as the commander of the right army. Wan Jingrui attacked Jingxing from Zhenzhou, crossed Taihang Mountain from Jingxing, and went straight to the east of Taiyuan.

In the end, Li Jing promoted Guo Chongtao, a three-star lieutenant general who had just shined in the Southern Expedition, to a four-star general. Xingzhou and other places east of Taihang Mountain approached and made a threatening posture to prevent Zhaoyi Town from sending troops to support Hedong Town.At the same time, the Yellow Sea Fleet was also dispatched to send sailors and marines directly to the southern part of Heyang Town on the Yellow River to contain Heyang Town.

If you don't move, you will be done, and if you move, you will be like thunder.

Several armies moved together, and the main force of the attack was Li Jing's center and Zhou Dewei's right. Lin Wei and Guo Chongtao were responsible for containing the other towns.

At the same time, other parts of the Central Plains were also smashed into a pot of porridge.

After Zhu Wen of Bianzhou killed Li Ke, the [-] Hedong troops were knocked out, and began to retreat into the city to show weakness, while secretly mobilizing troops from various states to encircle and suppress the [-] Hedong elites. .As a result, as soon as Zhu Wen made a move here, the Yang Fuguang brothers and Qin Zongquan and other forces attacked at the same time. Yang Fuguang attacked Shanguo first, killed Zhu Wen's second brother Zhu Cun, seized Shanguo, and then confronted his brother Yang Fuguang. Attack, and then attack Jinshang. Although Wuguan has a Bianjun general in command, he is ultimately defeated by the well-planned surprise attack. In addition, a group of soldiers and horses have just been ordered to go to Bianzhou.

At this time, Qin Zongquan also had the secret support of Li Jing, and rushed into Shannan, and the northern states of Shannan controlled by Zhu Wen also fell one after another. Then Qin Zongquan and Shannan Jiedu envoy Liu Jurong fought in Xiangyang.

At this time, Tian Lingzi's rescue of Zhu Wen came too late, and Yang Shili, the governor of Shannan West Road, led [-] soldiers and horses to fight out of Xingyuan, and fought with Yang Fuguang's brothers by the Hanshui River.Because Yang Shili came one step late, the Liang army of the Jinshang was defeated, and the important town of Wuguan had fallen into the hands of the Yang brothers.In the midnight raid, Yang Shili was defeated.

Yang Shili was captured in the melee. Yang Fuguang personally met Yang Shili, lured him for profit, and promised him a name. With various means, Yang Shili, one of the commanders of Sanchuan, fell to Yang Fuguang in this way.Yang Fuguang also reflected his ruthlessness, he did not doubt the employment of people, and the suspects did not ignore them, so he directly appointed Yang Shili as the king of Shu.And Sanchuan Jiedushi.One person served as the Jiedu envoy of the three towns, and let him continue to lead the troops of the headquarters to fight back and turn around to fight Tian Lingzi.

And Yang Xingmi in Huaixi was also unwilling to be lonely, and he sent troops to the Eyue states.On the one hand, he started to catch up with Lu Yongzhi from Yangzhou.

Lu Yongzhi now almost completely controls Huainan Town, which only has one Yangzhou left.For those fierce generals under Gao Pian, it was almost all kinds of framing and plotting.

The conflict between Huainan generals Yu Gongchu and Yao Guili and Lu Yongzhi intensified.The two were envoys of the left and right heroes, and they held an elite army in their hands. Yao Guili often reprimanded Lu Yongzhi for his crimes face to face.He was even so excited that he wanted to hack him to death several times. When Lu Yongzhi was drinking with his accomplices in the brothel, he sent his soldiers to sneak into the brothel to fight the flames. After creating chaos, he killed several people who looked like Lu Yongzhi. It's a pity that Lu Yongzhi brought many similar-looking people with him, and he changed clothes with his subordinates in the chaos and fled.After escaping, Lu Yongzhi immediately sent his scouts to investigate and found that Yao Guili's subordinates had assassinated him.Originally, Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were good friends and relatives-in-law, and Lu Yongzhi was recommended by Yu Gongchu to Gao Pian.In the past, Lu Yongzhi still had some old feelings, but after this conflict, there is no longer a relationship between them.So Lu Yongzhi spoke ill of these two people to Gao Pian from morning to night. Not long after, Gao Pian asked Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu to lead 3000 troops to Shen County to suppress the rebellion, and Lu Yongzhi immediately sent a secret message to Yang Xingmi. Letter: "Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu are trying to attack your Luzhou." Yang Xingmi immediately sent troops to attack them suddenly. Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were unprepared and were attacked and killed by Yang Xingmi. Then he reported to Gao Pian that they had rebelled However, Gao Pian didn't know that it was Lu Yongzhi's conspiracy, and he gave Yang Xingmi a generous reward.

After killing the two of them, Lu Yongzhi became even more rampant.Huainan general Bi Shiduo was originally one of Gao Xianzhi's ten voters. Later, Gao Xianzhi died in battle with Huang Chao and was captured by Gao Pian.He had a beautiful concubine, who was very beautiful. When Lu Yongzhi heard about it, he asked Bi Shiduo for it, but Bi Shiduo refused, and Lu Yongzhi secretly hated her.One day, Lu Yongzhi deliberately dismissed Bi Shiduo, and then with his minions, forced his way into Bi Shiduo's mansion. He and his subordinates wiped out Bi Shiduo's wives and concubines and humiliated them in turn.

After Bi Shiduo came back, he was very angry, stabbed his humiliated wife and concubine to death with a sword, then immediately bit his finger and wrote several blood letters, and sent someone to secretly contact Qin Yan, who was once the general of the Cao army, his in-laws, and his son's family. The father-in-law, the envoy of Gaoyou Township, sent Zhang Xiong, nicknamed Excalibur, and Bi Shiduo's deputy general when he returned to obedience, Gaoyou Township general Zheng Hanzhang and other generals, conspired to raise troops.

Bi Shiduo arrived in Gaoyou in secret, assembled troops with the generals, and formed an alliance with blood. Bi Shiduo acted as the camp envoy himself, drafted a statement stating that he would kill Lu Yongzhi, Zhang Shouyi, and Zhuge Yin, and appointed Qin Yan and Zheng Hanzhang as the deputy camp envoys. For the commander of the capital.Bi Shiduo and other soldiers besieged Guangling City in Yangzhou, and Lu Yongzhi rewarded his subordinate Mo Xiedu with a large sum of money to fight with them, but Gao Pian was still completely in the dark, blindly practicing.Although Lu Yongzhi's Mo Xie was created by him, these people are just rogues, etc. It's okay to bully the weak and fear the hard, but they are no match for Bi Shiduo, a general in troubled times like Bi Shiduo. Not long after, the city of Yangzhou was destroyed. , Bi Shiduo invaded Yangzhou and imprisoned Gao Pian. However, at this time, Qin Yan's troops had internal strife with Bi Shiduo. Qin Yan's people were still out of town, and only [-] soldiers were in Yangzhou. After burning, killing and looting, the city of Yangzhou was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. Lu Yongzhi fled Yangzhou, pretending to be Gao Pian, and sent reinforcements to Yang Xingmi.

But at this time, Bi Shiduo was serving as the deputy envoy of Huainan Jiedu. His in-law Zhang Xiong was rejected when he asked him for the post of marching commander.Then Gao Ba, the envoy of Hailing Township, Liu Jin from Quxi, and Jia Lingwei from Xuyi also led their troops to defect to Yang Xingmi. Zhang Xiong even sent grain and grass to Yang Xingmi from Gaoyou to support him.However, Qin Yan, Bi Shiduo's ally, was trapped on the way, but he was prosecuted by the former general, and later captured Suzhou. When the troops raided and finally broke through and rushed to Guangling, there were only more than [-] troops left.However, after arriving in Yangzhou, Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo quickly recognized the situation.Together, Bi Shiduo took the initiative to let Qin Yan be the Huainan Jiedu envoy, and he himself served as the Huainan Jiedu deputy envoy and marching Sima.

Later, Yang Xingmi finally led an army of 5 horses to the foot of Guangling City in Yangzhou. The soldiers and horses were divided into eight battalions and began to besiege Yangzhou.

And Wuyue, which is separated by a river, is also in constant war.First, Dong Chang proclaimed himself emperor, and Qian Liu immediately sent troops to crusade. As a result, Li Jing responded very quickly, and immediately appointed Zhang Rui as the recruitment envoy, and Zhou Bao as the deputy envoy.Only let Qian Liu be the vanguard.At the same time, the Qin army sent navy and marines to Zhang Rui's command.

When Dong Chang proclaimed himself emperor, he was very conceited, but under the crusade by several groups of soldiers and horses, the forces in the eight states to which he belonged were as vulnerable as ice melting and snow melting.soon.Qian Liu attacked Yuezhou.And Zhang Rui also broke through the rest of the states.Although Dong Chang was captured by Qian Liu.But Qian Liu was also happy for nothing, and Qin Jun's quick attack led to the fact that the fruit was ripe in the end.But Qin Jun picked it first, and he didn't even dare to complain.

Faced with the two selection conditions offered by Li Jing to Qian Liu, Qian Liu finally gave up going to Fujian to be a Jiedu envoy, and still chose to continue to be the governor of Hangzhou.Zhang Rui escorted Dong Chang to Yanjing and became governor of Zhejiang Province, while Liu Xun, a three-star lieutenant general of the Great Taibao, was appointed governor of Fujian Province.

Qian Liu, who did not get Zhedong, was not reconciled, but he did not dare to use force. He turned his attention to Zhou Bao, who served as the deputy recruiter this time, but did not see Zhou Bao, the navy of Zhexi Town, who was dispatched one by one. territory.

Zhen Haijun has also been undercurrents for a long time. Zhou Bao is old and more and more stupid. Not only is he indulging in wine and sex all day long, but he also established the same army as Gao Pian in Moxiedu. Gao, but they are all a group of domineering rangers.Generals Liu Hao and Diao Kai of the Zhen Navy, Du Zhi's reconnaissance envoy, and Xue Lang, the prince Zuo's concubine, all rebelled.Zhou Bao fled Runzhou overnight and defected to the general Ding Congshi in Changzhou.

Seeing the infighting in the town's navy, Qian Liu immediately sent troops to attack Changzhou from the sea under the banner of welcoming and rescuing Zhou Bao.

Chaos broke out in all directions, and Zhu Wen, who was beaten almost like a pig's head, also began to fight back.

In May, when Li Jing was attacking Hebei, Zhu Wen also assembled a force of tens of thousands of troops in Bianzhou after he lost control of more than a dozen prefectures in addition to Xuanwu, including Shanguo, Jinshang, and the northern part of Shannan Dongdao. The army began to double-team the Jin army with internal and external attacks.The two sides fought under the city of Bianzhou for several days, and the Hedong Army began to retreat due to hard work and poor logistics.Zhu Wen fought steadily this time and was not radical. The Hedong army set up several ambushes before and after without success, and was finally chased by the Bian army to Wangmandu on the border of Zhengzhou. He was repeatedly charged and killed by Liang Jun's cavalry, and they scrambled to cross the river, causing countless casualties.At the beginning, Li Keyong led [-] elite Jin troops to the south, but less than [-] of them crossed the river.Fortunately, the [-] reinforcements from Hedong and Hezhong arrived to save this army from being wiped out.

When the Bian army saw the reinforcements from the Jin army, they stopped pursuing them and stood firm on the border of Zhengzhou.The Jin army had just been defeated, and they didn't dare to cross the Bian River to fight again, so the two sides withdrew their troops.In Liang Jin's battle, both sides suffered losses, and no one got the slightest advantage.

Zhu Wen, who was betrayed by the Yang brothers, is now even more scarred, and he hates the Yang brothers in his heart.After leading the army back to Bianzhou, Zhu Wen, who had lost more than ten states in a row, did not give up. Instead, he raided Zhou Ji in Xuzhou. At the same time, Zhu Wen swallowed many soldiers and horses from Lu Yanhong, the former governor of Chenzhou.Lu Yanhong had to flee the Central Plains and fled to Luoyang.Eight of their generals also broke up at this time, and the third general Lu Yanhong went to Luoyang, while the five generals including Wang Jian and Jin Hui defected to Zhu Wen.However, Zhu Wen was not at ease with the five generals. Within a few days, he found an excuse to relieve them of their military power, and then sent them to Chengdu under the name of escort.

Wang Jian had worked with Zhu Wen on the battlefield back then. At that time, Zhu Wen was still under Huang Chao's subordinates, and he was under Cui Anqian, the Zhongwu Jiedu envoy.He also knew that Zhu Wen couldn't tolerate him, so he didn't say much, and the five brothers happily left Bianliang for Chengdu.After arriving in Chengdu all the way, Tian Lingzi valued these young warriors from his hometown in Xuzhou very much, and immediately gave them the title of escorting the five capitals, and let the five of them lead a 5000-strong magical forbidden army. Become his confidant general.

By this time, the defeated army in Hedong was still halfway back to Taiyuan.

By the Fenshui River, in the Hedong army camp, and in the tents of the Chinese army, An Jinquan, Li Cunzhang and other generals were all frowning. Before going south, although they had suffered several setbacks, they had never been pessimistic because of that tough one-eyed man. .But now, looking back, that brave King Shatuo had already lost his life by the Bian River.Shatuo's elite also lost more than half.

"Report!"

A hurried voice sounded, "Report to the general, just received the news that the Qin army has pacified Hebei!"

"What!" There was an exclamation in the tent.

"How is this possible, what are you kidding!" Li Cunzhang cursed in a low voice. The news was too shocking. When they sent troops to the south, the Qin army hadn't started to attack Hebei yet. What a joke, Hebei Chengde Weibo Second Town is an old-fashioned feudal town, controlling the territory of ten prefectures and dozens of counties!

The captain who reported the letter met the eyes of the generals, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and continued: "The latest news is that the Qin army has sent troops to three routes, and they are attacking on three routes. The soldiers invaded Hedong and pointed directly at Taiyuan!"

With a sound of clang, the water glass in An Jinquan's hand fell to the ground. An Jinquan, who hadn't changed his face when he was captured in Bianzhou City, now his face was ashen, and his eyes were full of despair! . )