subvert the late Tang Dynasty

After Zhu Wen took his seat, Huang Chao said: "According to the secret information, Liu Yanzhang, Wang Xianzhi's former subordinate who was in the south of the Yangtze River, has died. Wang Xianzhi's younger brother Wang Chongyin took thousands of people to the south of the Yangtze River after Wang Xianzhi's defeat, and he happened to accept Liu Yanzhang. Now Wang Chongyin is attacking everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, and the officers and soldiers are invincible. This shows that the main force of the imperial court is still in the north, and the purpose of the secret is to transfer the main force of our rebel army to the south of the Yangtze River. What do you think?"

Shang Rang and Wang Chongyin have also been friends for many years, but Wang Chongyin is Wang Xianzhi's clan brother after all, and now he has taken refuge in Huang Chao. If the rebels also cross the south of the Yangtze River, they will inevitably meet Wang Chongyin again, and it will not be very embarrassing.So he was the first to express his objection.

"Now the imperial court's troops in the south of the Yangtze River are weak because the main force of our rebel army is also in the north. Once we cross the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court will inevitably mobilize a large army to go south. After all, the imperial court's main target is us. And most of our rebel army are from the north. Heroes, although they fight bravely, most of them do not know how to swim, and the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are criss-crossed, and the rebel army may not be used to water warfare. It is not the best strategy to attack the enemy's strengths with their own weaknesses!" Shang Rang said earnestly.

Monk Meng Kai was a life-and-death friend, and besides, he also agreed with Shang Rang's point of view in his heart. He himself didn't know how to swim, and he would get seasick whenever he took a boat.So Meng Kai also hurriedly echoed.

Lin Yan just listened silently and did not express his point of view.He knew very clearly in his heart that besides Huang Chao in the rebel army, Monk Meng Kai gave them the most rights, and now that the two of them disagreed to go south, what others said would be meaningless.He didn't want to offend Monk Meng Kai to let the two of them go, and he didn't want to join in the fun with them, so he simply said nothing, but looked at Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen also wanted to go south to the south of the Yangtze River. After all, the south of the Yangtze River is much richer than the north where there are perennial wars, and it is suitable for the rebel army to serve as a long-term base.But he also knew that Monk Meng Kai made a statement at the same time, which basically meant that he could settle down. What's more, Shang Rang's words did have some truth to him. Everyone in the north is not used to water warfare. This is something that everyone knows.

Zhu Wen couldn't think of a suitable reason to refute for a while, but he wanted to hear the opinion of the second senior brother Yang Xingmi. "I'd like to hear the reason why the second senior brother wants the rebels to go south to the south of the Yangtze River."

Yang Xingmi said loudly: "The troops in the south of the Yangtze River are weak. We are absolutely sure to take several important towns in the south of the Yangtze River before the officers and troops are mobilized to the south, and then defend the city to cut off the traffic between the north and the south, so that the rich south cannot transport taxes and food to Chang'an. As a result, the already empty Tang Dynasty must be even more stretched.

"If you want to fight, you must have money and food. The money and food of the Tang Dynasty mainly come from the rich Jiangnan. Once the taxes and food from the south of the Yangtze River cannot reach the north, the Tang court will inevitably increase the taxes in the north to supply military supplies. In this way, the people in the north are already Under the circumstances of poor food and clothing, the court must not agree to increase taxes, which caused the contradiction between the general people in the north and the Tang Dynasty.

"Once this conflict intensifies, our rebel army will send some capable people over there, and they will surely respond when they ascend the heights. At that time, if we fight back to the north, even Luoyang and Chang'an will surely be destroyed by themselves," said Yang Xingmi. After he finished, he glanced at everyone in the room, and finally he looked forward to Huang Chao. Among the three giants of the rebel army, two had expressed their disapproval of going south, and the only one who had hope of turning the tide was Huang Chao.

After Zhu Wen listened to Yang Xingmi's words, he secretly praised Yang Xingmi. This Yang Xingmi is really not simple, and he can make such a careful long-term plan.In terms of thoughtfulness alone, none of the few people sitting here can compare with him.No wonder he was able to take down the entire Jianghuai region with nothing.

Just listen to Shang Rang: "Although your plan is thorough, you have somewhat underestimated the strength of the imperial court. Now the veteran general Gao Pian is sitting in Jiangling. He is capable of both civil and military skills, and I fear that there will be few in our rebel army who can match. Zeng Yuanyu and Zhang Zimian are leading various soldiers and horses, how can we allow us to go south calmly?"

Seeing that the two were arguing, Zhu Wen said: "Now is not the time to argue about whether to go south or not. Yesterday the scouts reported that Zeng Yuanyu and Zhang Zimian's army was less than three hundred miles away. How to deal with the enemy is the most urgent thing." question."

Huang Chao said: "Our army is growing day by day and consumes countless grains and grasses every day. Now we are running out of grains and grasses. I want to capture Bozhou by surprise first, replenish grains and grasses in Bozhou, and then go north to Shandong and Henan to force the imperial court to mobilize troops and horses. Protect the eastern capital of Luoyang. At that time, we took the opportunity to go south, crossing the south with lightning speed and attacking several important towns, how about it?"

What Huang Chao said was nothing more than a compromise method, that is, to mobilize the heavy troops of the court to the north, and then to attack Jiangnan in one fell swoop after transferring the tiger away from the mountain.This method seems simple, but it is a bit difficult to implement. Now that the imperial court has heard that Huang Chao said that the queen has sent troops from various towns, Zeng Yuanyu and Zhang Zimian, the two principal and deputy recruiters, will have more troops. Let the rebels come and go calmly?

Zhu Wen was about to express his inappropriateness, but Meng Kai and Monk Rang had already echoed and agreed.Monk Meng Kai let the two of them have great influence in the rebel army, but in fact they had to follow Huang Chao's lead.

Zhu Wen secretly sighed in his heart, knowing that even what he said would be useless, so he simply kept silent.

"Master, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is optimistic at this time. Although Wang Chongyin's army is not weak, he will go deep into the south of the Yangtze River alone, and he will be surrounded and wiped out by the court sooner or later. Our army should take this opportunity to join him in the south and make a joint plan for the south of the Yangtze River. Once Wang Chongyin's army is destroyed, our army will go south Wouldn't he become a lone army again after that? Don't miss this opportunity, Master!" Yang Xingmi said with a somewhat excited expression.

Huang Chao looked at this second disciple, and felt very emotional in his heart, why didn't he want to go south immediately?Ke Shangrang and Meng Kai's influence in the army is not much weaker than Huang Chao's. If he forces them to agree to go south, they will definitely feel unhappy, which will definitely affect the morale of the rebel army.

Of course he didn't want to see internal divisions in the rebel army, so he had always been very accommodating to Meng Kai.Shang Rang has 3 horses in his hands, and it is an external force. Although he is now under Huang Chao, if Huang Chao is asked to give orders regardless of his ideas, Huang Chao is afraid of arousing his dissatisfaction.

Huang Chao sighed secretly in his heart, and said solemnly: "I have made up my mind as a teacher, so there is no need to say more about secrets. You still have full power to deal with Jiangnan. Although you have two uncles by your side, the teacher is more at ease. You are in charge of Jiangnan's affairs, don't always accommodate your two senior uncles. Also, help me take good care of your little junior brother."

Yang Xingmi said dejectedly: "Tu'er obeys the order. Tu'er will cooperate with Wang Chongyin in secret and try to let him stay in the south of the Yangtze River for a while longer, waiting for the master's army to go south."