Late Tang

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The ten vote commanders were not worried about the Tianping army's encirclement and suppression. To be honest, the four prefectures of the Tianping army, Cao Pu and Yunji, except for Yunzhou, where the Tianping army commander's mansion was located, the other three prefectures were successively attacked by them.Although the Tianping army boasted that they defeated the thieves and recovered the cities one after another, in fact it was the Cao army who voluntarily withdrew.

Besides, although they still occupy the cities of Jeju, in fact, the commander of the grass army, Wang Xianzhi, has already moved his camp to Qianfeng City among the mountains.But Qianfeng City is in Yanzhou.And Yanzhou has already left the territory under the jurisdiction of the Tianping Army, and is already in the territory of the four states of Yanhai, Yimi, which belong to the Taining Army.Just like when they started the uprising in Changyuan, Huazhou of the Yicheng Army, in the end Li Zhong led the army to come, and they jumped directly to Caozhou of the Tianping Army, but Li Zhong went back after reaching the border.

"General, I don't think we need to worry about Xue Chong and the Tianping Army. Please forgive me if I speak up rashly." Huang Chao's nephew, everyone in the front room knew that Lin Yan, the military envoy, was quiet, but whenever he Open your mouth, but it can make even tall people listen quietly.He is only in his twenties, but he is tall and tall, nearly eight feet tall, with red phoenix eyes, crouching silkworm eyebrows, and a very white face.Like Huang Chao, he is also a scholar.However, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, not only good in martial arts, but also good in literature. He once obtained the qualification of the village tribute, and entered Chang'an with Huang Chao to take the imperial examination. He was only 16 years old when he took the golden armor.He didn't win the first place that time either, and after returning home, he resolutely threw down his books and sold salt with Huang Chao.

Although he was young, he was Huang Chao's confidant. The thousand soldiers and horses in the front compartment under his command were the most elite soldiers and horses under Huang Chao's command.

Wang Xianzhi smiled: "General Lin, feel free to say anything, you are all from your own family, so don't be so polite."

Lin Yan's eyes are very thin, and always give people the feeling of squinting, but it also makes people feel that he seems to be staring at you all the time, which makes people upset. "If Xue Chong leads the army to attack, then we will directly withdraw our troops from Jeju and retreat to Qianfeng City in Yanzhou. According to the experience of the Yicheng Army last time, the Tang Army's various towns were all swept away. It’s snowing in front of the door, don’t care about the frost on other people’s roofs. As long as we retreat into Yanzhou, I’m afraid Xue Chong will not chase after Yanzhou, right?”

"We can indeed retreat into Yanzhou, but I think we now have [-] soldiers and horses, which can be described as strong. At this time, heroes and heroes all over the world are watching us. How can we always run away when we see the officers and soldiers? ?This will affect our morale. The bigger the team, the more important the people's hearts. Chong is the most idiot, and the Tianping Army is also the hometown of our Caojun brothers. I don’t want to take my brothers away from home. Why don’t we take this opportunity to fight Xue Chong fiercely? If we can defeat Xue Chong this time Chong, then we can directly kill the carbine again and seize the four prefectures of Caopu and Yunji together. At that time, we will directly ask the imperial court to be named the Tianping Army Jiedushi. From now on, the entire Tianping Army will be our own territory. How can that be? Isn't it better?"

Wang Xianzhi's words are very provocative. The backbone of the Cao army is all private salt dealers. They are just a group of desperate people who are desperate.They didn't have any lofty goals in the first place, just like Wang Xianzhi himself, they were just forced by the government to get along, and they had no choice but to do the opposite.But let them talk about military rebellion and domination, they never thought about it at all.Now Wang Xianzhi has described a bright future for everyone, which can't help but make Shang Junchang and others very excited.

"Brothers, the Shatuo people are strong, but they were still wiped out by the court. Although our grass army fought very powerfully, I think we are not as good as Li Guochang and his son, and compared to the Ya'er army. Since we can't fight If we want to mobilize the imperial court officers and soldiers, then we have to make some preparations earlier. I thought that if we can really have a piece of our own territory like the three towns in Hebei, then even accepting the imperial court's reward on the surface is nothing."

The generals were even more moved when they heard this.Who in the three towns of Hebei does not know that Lulong, Chengde, and Weibo are all self-reliant forces that support soldiers and separate regimes. The imperial court has no control over them. territory.It is basically a kingdom of reading ability. If they can do the same, it is naturally better than running around with their heads up all day.

Everyone wanted to hear some more details from Wang Xianzhi, but at this moment Huang Chao had already raised a hand expressionlessly.

"The general wants to recruit security?"

While speaking, Huang Chao stared at him coldly, like a hungry wolf in the dark night.

Being stared at by him like this made Wang Xianzhi feel a little uncomfortable, but he felt that he hadn't discussed it with the deputy governor beforehand, and he was also a little guilty, so he smiled and said: "It's said that murder and arson will be recruited, judging from the current situation, Although this Great Tang is rotten, centipedes are dead but not stiff, isn’t there a saying that a lean camel is bigger than a horse. I’m here to find a way out for my brothers.”

"Regard, welcome to the bird!" Huang Chao suddenly slapped the table heavily, and shouted angrily, and the room was shaken into silence.

Huang Chao glanced at the generals coldly, and said with a sneer, "Don't you all think that killing officials and rebelling is like playing tricks? Do you think it's so easy to recruit security? Think about it, the Xuzhou Chongxun Rebellion six years ago, when Chongxun even In the land of several states in the Jianghuai River, with 20 troops, how powerful is it. He repeatedly defeated the government army. At that time, didn’t he also write a letter to recruit peace, and wanted to get a military envoy from the Wuning Army? But in the end? Although the imperial court was repeatedly defeated , but they didn’t agree with Pang Xun’s request for security at all. In the end, didn’t they fight for several years to kill them all? Even the silver swordsmen of the Wuning Army of Xuzhou, the later official army, drove them away several times because of their coquettishness. The Jiedu envoy sent by the imperial court ended up fighting with Qiu Fu's rebels. He fought 83 times in three days and won 83 times in a row. Only 3000 soldiers remained."

Huang Chao became more and more excited as he spoke, "Think about it, Pang Xun was so powerful back then, with so many soldiers and horses, the court refused to recruit us. Why did they recruit us? Even if they recruited us, is the court credible? Officers and soldiers can kill a town of soldiers and horses, so you are not afraid of being killed suddenly after being recruited? Not to mention, it is the former Jiedu of the Tianping Army and the current Xichuan Jiedu envoy Gao Pian. You have never heard of him taking office. Empress Xi Chuan escaped unharmed because he took away the three thousand generals who had been promoted by his predecessor and forced him into a latrine. As a result, he restored the rewards for the promotion of the generals and said I will never pursue it afterwards, but what about the fact? In fact, a month later, Gao Pian suddenly sent him to take Tianping Festival to kill those who suddenly went from house to house in a dark night, ransacking their homes and destroying their houses."

Wang Xianzhi was left speechless by Huang Chao's words, and it was the first time for many other generals to hear these things.They couldn't help but lose their color, and their interest in recruiting security was greatly reduced for a while.After all, it would be a good thing to be able to recruit security, but it would be meaningless if it was such a life-threatening recruit.

Seeing Wang Xianzhi's face turned ugly, Huang Chao eased his tone, "General, it's not impossible to talk about recruiting security, but at the very least, we have to have that strength. If we reach the level of the three towns in Hebei, we will naturally not be afraid." At that time, the imperial court accepted the reward of a township to recruit security, which was a good thing for the general and all our brothers. But before we have that kind of strength, if we keep thinking of recruiting security in our hearts, I am afraid that we will not be able to achieve great things. "

"That's exactly what I mean." Wang Xianzhi said awkwardly.

The room was quiet for a while, and the atmosphere seemed a little dignified.

Seeing this situation, Wang Xianzhi had no choice but to say: "Then let's not recruit for security, even the bird security. We will fight with the officers and soldiers. We will beat them until they are painful, and they will come to recruit security when they are beaten. We will not mention him for the time being, but Xue Chong Now that we have [-] elite soldiers in hand, I thought he would probably send troops to deal with us. Moreover, this Taining Army Jiedushi Li Xi is the grandson of Xiping County King Li Sheng. Li Sheng was a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, and his son Li Min even broke through Caizhou on a snowy night and established the achievements that the world has sung. Among the generals who destroyed Hedong in the past, Li Jun, the envoy of Zhaoyi Jiedu, and Li Zhuo, the envoy of Heyang Jiedu, were both Brother Li Xicong. Then Li Jun and Li Zhuo are all good. I guess this person is much better than Xue Chongdang. If Li Xi and Xue Chong send troops together, I'm afraid we will be in trouble. Otherwise, we might as well go south and kill Xiangyi State, go to the Jianghuai area."

"I don't agree to go south at this time!" To Wang Xianzhi's surprise, Huang Chao objected to his proposal again.This made Wang Xianzhi's face darken. Could it be that Huang Chao specially came to oppose him today, which made him feel that his prestige as a general was somewhat damaged, and his face became even more ugly.

He saw anger flashing in Wang Xianzhi's eyes, but the flash of fire was fleeting, and in a blink of an eye he changed into the Wang Dadao who could always get along with his brothers. "Then Vice President Huang, what do you think? Tell us what you think."

Huang Chao sighed, "Li Xie is just a dandy, not much better than Xue Chong, but just another Zhao Kuo talking on paper." When he was in Chang'an, he had heard of Li Xi's reputation. , he was known as a child prodigy when he was young, and he has memorized military books and strategies.However, he has also heard that many people in this Li family are not optimistic, but it is because of his family background.Li Xi and Gao Pian's grandfathers were both crowned county kings. Compared with their grandfathers, Li Xi's grandfather Li Sheng was a famous general in the middle Tang Dynasty and had the merit of rebuilding the Great Tang Dynasty.And Gao Pian's grandfather is much worse.But if Gao Pian is compared with Li Xi, then Li Xi is far behind Gao Pian.

"Now around us, one is the idiot Xue Chong, the other is the Li family who talks about military affairs on paper, and there is another Song Wei who once served as the envoy of Yunqing, the general of Zuo Weiwei. Song Wei is quite famous, six Years ago, during the mutiny of Pang Xun in Xuzhou, Song Wei acted as envoy to the northwest of Xuzhou, captured Xiao County, and made great contributions to the final extermination of Pang Xun. Five years ago, Emperor Chief Dragon of Nanzhao invaded Tang for the sixth time, and he was General Zuo Wuwei at that time. Song Wei led [-] loyal military troops to rescue Chengdu, defeated the Nanzhao army in Xindu, and killed more than [-] enemies. This battle earned him Song Wei's "Wei" name. However, Song Wei is still busy rushing. The fire in his own backyard, Wang Jingwu's rebellion has not yet been quelled, and Dengzhouhezhen[***] under his jurisdiction has been divided into new feudal towns. This is a big blow to Song Wei. Therefore, in a short time, he is It is impossible to agree to threaten the grass army."

Huang Chao squeezed his gray beard, and said resolutely: "The general said a good thing just now, the team leader, the morale and morale are more important. If we keep avoiding and not fighting, the team will not be good in the future. I took it. Therefore, I think we can fight this battle to revive the prestige of our grass army and deter the official army. First destroy Xue Chong, and then defeat the Li family. There will be no one in the more than ten states east of Henan You can threaten us."

"General, I support your decision."

"Thank you, Brother Huang." Wang Xianzhi said, a sense of relief beneath the politeness on his face was clearly visible.

After a small dispute, the original cracks that had appeared were finally repaired as before.However, no matter how well the surface is repaired, once the cracks appear, they will always be there! (To be continued.)