subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Li Tiao wrote to the imperial court twice, claiming that Huang Chao was the Jiedu envoy, but both were rejected by the imperial court. In the end, Lu Xie only agreed to give Huang Chao an official position as the leader of the government.The leader of the government is an officer of the Imperial Guard in the Prince's East Palace. He can't even be called a general. He is just a small official the size of a sesame mung bean. How dare he talk back to Huang Chao?

But there is no impenetrable wall. Huang Chao's subordinates have many eyes and ears, and they soon found out the news.

Huang Chao was furious and ordered the army to attack Guangzhou, an important city in Lingnan.After three consecutive days of siege, both sides suffered casualties, but the city of Guangzhou was still not captured.

Zhu Wen wanted to bomb the city gate and the city wall with explosives several times, but he was afraid of hurting the people in the city, so he had to dig tunnels like the last time he attacked Zhencheng in Puzhou, trying to bury the explosives under the city gate.But Li Tiao was very cautious. There were special facilities in the city to monitor the underground situation. As soon as Zhu Wen's men dug near the city gate, they would be discovered by Li Tiao's men immediately.Zhu Wen also had no choice.

Huang Chao recruited the generals several times in succession to discuss the strategy of breaking the city, but there was nothing he could do except to attack by force.

There is a place in Huang Chao's army that doesn't care about the battle situation at all, and this place is Zhu Cun's residence.

The room was brightly lit, and there were shrill screams coming from the room, several girls and two midwives were busy in the room.Zhu Cun rubbed his hands and paced back and forth in the yard with an anxious look on his face.

At this moment, a soldier entered the yard in a panic, and said anxiously: "Second Master, today Huang Wang discussed the strategy of defeating the enemy. General Shang and General Meng recommended that the third master lead the troops to break the city, but the city of Guangzhou The valley is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the third master can't refuse, saying that he will attack the city before dawn!"

Zhu Cun was startled, and said to the soldier, "Thank you very much."

The soldier said: "You're welcome, this is what I should do. The second master also wants to care about my general! General Zhu may have something to do with me in a while, so I'll go back first." After saying that, he left in a panic .

Since Zhu Wen, Zhu Cun, and Zhu Zhen joined the rebel army, Zhu Cun was by his side in every war Zhu Wen participated in, responsible for Zhu Wen's safety.This time when Zhu Wen attacked a big city like Guangzhou, Zhu Cun was really worried. He wanted to go and see the situation. His wife was giving birth here again, and he couldn't justify not saying it anymore.Feeling in a dilemma for a while, I don't know what to do.

Zhu Cun hesitated for a long time, and finally became ruthless, and wanted to go to Zhu Wen's army to have a look first.He turned around and said to the old lady who was hugging Zhu Youning: "I'll go out to the third master first, and help me look after my wife. If you have anything to do, come to the third master to find me."

The old woman said: "Second Master, Madam is giving birth in the room, if you, the father, are not around, it might not be very good, right?"

Zhu Cun said: "I can't care about that much anymore. I'm in a hurry and I'll be back in a while. If my wife can't see me after giving birth, you can tell me that there is something wrong with the third master and let me go over there, so she doesn't have to worry." Without waiting for the old lady to agree, she rushed out of the house.

At this time, Zhu Wen was studying the strategy to defeat the enemy, when he heard that the second brother was coming, he rushed out to meet him, saying, "Second brother, sister-in-law is about to give birth, why are you here?"

Zhu Cundao: "I heard that King Huang ordered you to attack the city. I'm a little worried. Come and have a look, and I'll be back in a while."

The two brothers were talking, and the soldiers came to report that someone in the city had turned over the city and surrendered.

The two brothers looked at each other, Zhu Cun said: "Bring him in."

Not a moment later, the soldiers came in with a man in his forties, and the man said: "The young general is Chen Jinxi, the general who guards the west gate in Guangzhou. Now that Guangzhou cannot be defended, he came here to join the general. I hope the general will ignore the past and take him in at the end." Will."

Zhu Zhen on the side gave Zhu Wen a wink, meaning I'll try him.

Zhu Zhen sneered and said, "Guangzhou City is high and deep, and the rebel army has been attacking for several days without breaking through. How can you say it can't be defended? Could it be that you are here to feign surrender?"

Chen Jinxi hurriedly knelt down and said: "The young ones dare not, the young ones dare not, the reason why I say Guangzhou cannot be defended is not because the rebels can easily take Guangzhou, but because today's Jiedu envoy Li Yu ordered young generals to lead 2000 troops tonight Sneak attack on the camp of your rebel army. General, you know that you have tens of thousands of troops. What are my 2000 troops? A sneak attack is no different from sending you to death. Therefore, I discussed with my soldiers and decided to vote for the rebel army. , is better than making unnecessary sacrifices."

Zhu Zhen just stared at Chen Jinxi closely, sneered and said nothing, with a look of disbelief on her face.Zhu Wenwen, Zhu Cun, and the others had been with Zhu Zhen for a long time, so of course they knew that he was testing Chen Jinxi, and the two of them had the same expression on their faces at that time.

Seeing that Zhu Zhen didn't believe it, Chen Jinxi looked at Zhu Wenwen and Zhu Cun again, and said: "If the three generals don't believe it, I can give the three generals a great contribution first, so as to be close."

Zhu Wen's heart moved, and he said, "Let's hear it!"

Chen Jinxi said: "I can trick the general into opening the west gate. Most of the people guarding the west gate are my subordinates. If they see me go back, they will definitely open the gate and let me in. I will seize the opportunity to occupy the west gate and let the army of rebels enter the city."

Zhu Wen's eyes lit up, and he said, "Is this true?"

Chen Jinxi said: "It's absolutely true, if not, you can let someone stay with me, if I have any abnormalities, the general can take my life at any time, how about it?"

Zhu Wen and the other three exchanged glances, and the three nodded slightly at the same time.Zhu Wen said sternly: "Okay, it's a deal, as long as General Chen helps us control the west gate, I promise to recommend the general to King Huang." Then his eyes suddenly became extremely fierce, and he said solemnly: "If you dare If you play any tricks, I guarantee that your head will fall to the ground."

Chen Jinxi prostrated himself on the ground and said, "The young one will definitely not disappoint the three generals!"

None of Zhu Wen and the other three saw that when Chen Jinxi kowtowed on the ground, there was a hint of cunning in his eyes.

After three o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhu Wen and others followed Chen Jinxi's strategy and lit several tall fires next to the camp to create the illusion that the camp was on fire.Afterwards, Zhu Wen and others brought their own 2000 men and horses to pretend to be Chen Jinxi's men, and followed Chen Jinxi to the west gate of Guangzhou.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, the large group of people followed closely not far behind.

Zhu Wen originally wanted Zhu Cun to go back to take care of his sister-in-law first, but he insisted on refusing, and Zhu Wen had no choice but to let him participate in this operation together.The main reason is that Zhu Wen didn't think that Chen Jinxi seemed to be a fake. At least he shouldn't make fun of his own life. If he made a slight change, he and others would definitely be able to make other people's heads fall in the first place.

Zhu Zhen and Xu Huaiyu pretended to be Chen Jinxi's personal soldiers, staying close to Chen Jinxi at all times, in case he played any tricks.

Chen Jinxi smiled wryly and said, "You don't have to be so tight, right? There are all your people in the front, back, left, and right. How can I play tricks?"

Zhu Zhen smiled and said: "Brother Chen, please forgive me, we are also helpless. After all, we are not familiar with you, Brother Chen. If something changes, we can invite Brother Chen to be a companion on Huangquan Road."

Half an hour later, the crowd arrived outside the west gate of Guangzhou City. Chen Jinxi stepped forward and knocked on the city gate. The defenders saw Chen Jinxi and opened the city gate without saying a word.Zhu Wen and others led two thousand brothers to file in with Chen Jinxi, and it went smoothly unexpectedly.

Just after the two thousand brothers entered the city, Zhu Wen was about to issue an order for the brothers to occupy the city gate, when Chen Jinxi suddenly shouted: "Brothers, if you don't do it, when will you wait?"

Zhu Wen and the others were shocked, knowing that they had fallen for the trick, and with a loud bang, the city gate that was already open was closed.