subvert the late Tang Dynasty

After occupying Puzhou led by Huang Chao, after a little reorganization, they expanded eastward with Puzhou as their base camp. In ten days, they successively captured Chanzhou (Puyang, Henan), Xiangzhou (Anyang, Henan) and Huazhou (Huaxian, Henan). ), approaching Bianliang and Luoyang, the eastern capital.

When the news reached Chang'an, the ministers were in a great uproar, and they hurriedly invited the emperor Li Xuan to call Zhang Zimian, the deputy emissary of the Taoist camp to recruit Zhang Zimian, to be the envoy to the east camp, and supervised and led all the Taoist soldiers to encircle and suppress the rebels. The flames of war spread throughout the Central Plains. .

Xuanwu Army, Yicheng Army, Tianping Army, Probation Army, Pinglu Army, Lu Long Army, Wei Bo Army, Zhongwu Army and more than ten military towns jointly dispatched troops to gather in Bianliang area to protect Luoyang, the eastern capital.

Zhu Wen sensitively felt that something was wrong. The rebel forces were scattered, but the official army gathered in the Bianliang area under the command of Xiao general Zhang Zimian.

Zhu Wen hurriedly reported the situation to Huang Chao, and Huang Chao urgently recruited Shang Rang, Meng Kai and others to discuss countermeasures.

Meng Kai was a big bastard, and said: "The soldiers come to cover up the water and the earth, so what if Zhang Zimian comes, I will really get up and go to Huazhou, and fight Zhang Zimian to the death."

Shang Rang also said: "Our army took three states with great difficulty, how can we give up easily? Since Brother Meng went to Huazhou, my younger brother went to Xiangzhou to support each other with Brother Meng. Huang Wang led his army to sit in Puzhou and wait for the good news. Can."

Zhu Wen wanted to say something else, but Huang Chao said: "That's fine, if things cannot be violated, don't make unnecessary sacrifices, and if you want to preserve your strength, we can have a decisive battle with Zhang Zimian in Puzhou."

Now that Huang Chao had made his decision, Zhu Wen could only sigh secretly, and kept silent, and he didn't bother to pay attention to what the people behind him said.

After the discussion, Huang Chao asked Zhu Wen to stay, and after Shang Rang and Meng Kai went out, Huang Chao said: "I know you are also thinking about the rebel army, but the rebel army is not in my hands alone. The troops account for the majority of the rebel army, if I insist on going my own way, the two of them will not look good, so it is okay to let them suffer."

Zhu Wen had to admire Huang Chao's intentions, but this decision would definitely cost the rebel army a lot of troops. Is it really worth it?Zhu Wen had doubts in his heart.

"But..." Zhu Wen was about to ask what he thought.

Huang Chao waved his hand and said, "If you were in my position, you would know that you can't do whatever you want, not to mention that Shang Rang and Meng Kai are also thinking of the rebels. I let you stay because I was afraid that you might have something in your heart." Why are you dissatisfied, the reason for not allowing you to participate in this war is because Shang Rang may personally command, if he wants to kill you before the battle, there are many ways."

Zhu Wen was grateful in his heart and bowed down to thank him.

Huang Chao seemed a little tired, so he waved his hand to let Zhu Wen back out first.

Sure enough, as Zhu Wen expected, Zhang Zimian's army was everywhere, and the rebels retreated one after another, losing soldiers and generals, and several groups of soldiers and horses retreated to Puzhou one after another.Shang Rang and Meng Kai came to see Huang Chao to apologize.

Although Huang Chao knew that this would be the result, seeing Meng Kai's left arm was bandaged, it was obviously injured, knowing that he had tried his best, he couldn't bear to blame them, but instead comforted them for a while and told them to go back and have a good rest.

In mid-March, Zhang Zimian's army finally arrived in Puzhou.Having fought several small-scale contact battles, Huang Chao also had to admire Zhang Zimian's military talent. He was able to command the reinforcements of more than ten road towns in just over ten days, which shows that he is rare. generals.

Huang Chao also seemed to realize that he had underestimated Zhang Zimian's ability and the ability of the Tang Dynasty, so he urgently asked Zhu Wen to discuss countermeasures.He didn't look for other generals, but Zhu Wen, which shows how much he attaches importance to Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen said: "If we talk about war, we won't lose to Zhang Zimian with our strength, but the imperial court has a steady stream of fresh troops to supplement our strength, so we can't do it. So we can't be trapped in Puzhou. The imperial court's army was held in the north, and then suddenly went south, flew across the Yangtze River, and established a foundation in the south of the Yangtze River. Now is the time for us to carry out the second step of the plan."

Huang Chao frowned and said: "There is the Yellow River in the north and Zhang Zimian's army in the south. How can our army rush out easily? If we cross the Yellow River in the north, Zhang Zimian will definitely attack when we cross the river. In that case, our army will surely suffer heavy casualties. .”

Zhu Wen's eyes flickered, and he said slowly: "My disciple has a way to get rid of Zhang Zimian's siege without any effort. I'm afraid that my mentor will not bother to do it."

Huang Chaoxi said: "Your boy is still playing tricks in front of the teacher, tell me quickly."

Zhu Wen just said two words: false surrender.

But with just these two words, Huang Chao was in trouble.Huang Chao is not worried that the imperial court will definitely accept this. What he is worried about is the morale of the rebel army.

If the rebel army is not allowed to know the truth, the rebel army will think that their respected King Huang is really going to surrender, and the army will be in chaos.

But if you let them know that this time is just a false surrender, there is no guarantee that the news will not be leaked.

Huang Chao hesitated.

Zhu Wen said: "Of course the false surrender must be kept secret from the soldiers, the less people know about it, the better."

Huang Chao hesitated and said: "But in case the imperial court claims to accept the recruitment, how can the soldiers of the rebel army not panic when they hear the news?"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "Leave this matter to me, and I will let the court not reveal a word."

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Zhang Zimian's camp is sixty miles away from Zhencheng, with about 8 horses. The commanders of each feudal town lead their own troops to form a camp. people.

On this night, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the cool breeze was breezy. It was a dark and windy day, suitable for night walkers.

During the second watch, a black shadow walked through the camp of the Tianping Army as swiftly as a civet cat. Under the cover of the night, the man in black gradually approached the big tent of the Tianping Army Jiedushi Zhang Yang.

Unexpectedly, there were not too many patrolling personnel outside the large tent, but a few people were chatting there from afar.

The man in black was Xu Huaiyu who was sent by Zhu Wen to drop the book, and he got into Zhang Yang's camp with almost no effort.Although it is already spring, the charcoal brazier is still burning in the tent, which makes people feel very warm.There was still an oil lamp burning in the tent, under the dim light Xu Huaiyu saw Zhang Yang, the governor of the Tianping Army, sleeping soundly, holding a naked woman in his arms.

The woman's white back and more than half of her sexy buttocks were still exposed to the air, and a slender thigh was tightly wrapped around Zhang Yang's body in a very indecent posture.

It was the first time for Xu Huaiyu, who was just 20 years old, to see such a scene, her heart was beating wildly, and her eyes unconsciously took a second look at the naked woman on the bed.Cursing secretly in his heart, the imperial court clearly stipulated that female relatives cannot be brought in the army, Zhang Yang didn't know how to get her here, no wonder there were no guards around the big tent, he was afraid of being disturbed by others.

Xu Huaiyu put Huang Chao's surrender letter and Zhu Wen's "threat letter" beside Zhang Yang's pillow.As soon as he looked up and saw the woman's tall breasts, he secretly swallowed, and resisted the urge to step forward and apply two strokes.

Xu Huaiyu thought to himself: "It's important, what's so good about a woman." Although he thought so, before he left, he turned his head and took another look, laughing at himself: It's nothing to look at, anyway, no one knows, don't look Don't look at it for nothing...