At noon on the 17th, Cao Li's 3,000 men also rushed back in time, and at this time, the strength of the Longdu Army under Zhang Xiaowu reached 28,000 people, including more than 10,000 Yinyi Guards, 10,000 Qinglong Army, 3,000 Zilong Army, 2,000 Imperial Forest Army, 1,000 Longdu Mansion soldiers, and 2,000 Longdu Mansion officials. Fortunately, when dealing with Zilongjun and Jinyiwei, Zhang Xiaowu did not lose a single soldier. There were no soldiers around Longdu Mansion who had not returned in time, so there were only 10,000 White Tiger Army and 3,000 Vermilion Bird Army.

Where it is easy in advance and then difficult, Zhang Xiaowu immediately solves the Vermilion Bird Army.

He sent Su Yu, who had served as the marching secretary of the Vermilion Bird Army, to persuade the Suzaku Army to stay behind as the main general Ji Sheng. In order to save his life and the whole army, Ji Sheng immediately chose to surrender, and said that the Suzaku Army was willing to accept the reorganization and join the Longdu Army.

On the other hand, Li Tao, the commander of the Dragon Capital of the White Tiger Army, took the initiative to surrender to Zhang Xiaowu, expressing his willingness to support the central order to make the Lord safe, Zhang Xiaowu immediately ordered Li Tao to be rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver, Li Tao was overjoyed, and continued to expose Bian Wen's rebellion to Zhang Xiaowu. After Zhang Xiaowu listened to the order, he immediately ordered all the Kaicheng Bobian family and the Dushan Boye family to be imprisoned.

During the day on the 17th, the people of Longdu City saw the scene of Kaichengbo and Dushanbo being escorted by the government, and immediately discussed, and the people finally understood, but they were afraid that there would be a big war next, so everyone returned to their homes and closed their doors. On the contrary, the students who came to Beijing to catch the exam did not know the situation, and they ran to the front of Guozijian to ask.

Zhang Xiaowu hurried to Guozijian and promised these talents that because some people were plotting against the country at this time, delaying the unveiling of the imperial examination, he would give everyone a food subsidy of ten taels of silver, hoping that the students would understand. Hearing that there were rebellious ministers and thieves, the students quit one after another, especially these people were full of romantic ideas in their minds, thinking that fighting a war was just a book of pride, so they rolled up their sleeves one by one and prepared to help the court eliminate the rebels.

Zhang Xiaowu felt funny in his heart, if these students went to the battlefield, they were afraid that they would drag themselves back, and at this time, the soldiers gave the order and the main force of the White Tiger Army appeared.

The Seventh Regiment, the main force of the White Tiger Army, actually came from Ping'an County, originally to catch Zhang Xiaowu off guard, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiaowu to see through their plan long ago. In particular, they received information from Wang Jingzhi that all the troops in Longdu City were uprooted by Zhang Xiaowu, and even Kaichengbo's family and Yedushanbo's family were also imprisoned.

As a result, the 7th Regiment of the White Tiger Army immediately warned the feint troops in Longyang County, but the news they received was indeed that the feint troops were completely annihilated. Chen Qing, the commander of the Seventh Regiment of the White Tiger Army, was shocked when he heard this, he didn't expect the other party to attack so quickly, and it only took one night to wipe out the three thousand White Tiger Army. He and Luo Xiu looked at each other, and there was deep worry in their eyes, they had miscalculated the combat effectiveness of the ghost guard after all.

Although the White Tiger Army is a division of a hundred battles, how can the silver-clothed guards composed of ghost guards not be? As for the Blue Dragon Army, it was killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and after the two armies were united, their combat effectiveness far exceeded their imagination.

"Do you want to move on?" Chen Qing asked.

Luo Xiu said: "Since it has been exposed, we will simply occupy Ping'an County generously, and wait for the main army to join forces." ”

Chen Qingdao: "I'm afraid that they will now occupy public opinion and lead the people of the world to denounce us as rebels." ”

Luo Xiu was also deeply worried: "I'm also afraid of this, the Seventh Regiment only has 10,000 people, and it can't capture Longdu, and because it is exposed, it can't be sneak attacked, so we can only use the excuse to go back to the camp to repair." Someone came and sent a message to the military headquarters, saying that the Seventh Regiment had been fighting the Jiangnan battlefield for many days, and now it needed to return to the camp for repairs. However, because there were too many sick people in the army, we decided to repair it in Ping'an County, and I hope that the Ministry of War will approve it. ”

Chen Qingdao: "Can they believe it? ”

"It's their business to believe it." Luo Xiu smiled bitterly, "It's a while to be able to delay for a while, let's take Fujishan as a meal, camp with 50,000 military stoves, don't avoid fighting, and defend Ping'an County." ”

Zhang Xiaowu naturally didn't believe Luo Xiu's excuses, he ordered Su Yu to announce everywhere that the White Tiger Army did not respect the order to use swords and soldiers to return to Beijing, and the whole city of Longdu City was prepared for war, merchants were not allowed to raise prices, and the people could take the opportunity to buy food and other items to avoid the war. After this news came out, it immediately caused the people of Longdu City to be angry, and they probably guessed that someone was rebelling, but what they never expected was that the rebel was the White Tiger Army.

Now the empire is peaceful and peaceful, since Zhang Xiaowu took power, the wind and rain have finally recovered the vitality of the people, and Zhang Xiaowu has killed a lot of corrupt officials to deter the world's corrupt officials, although the lives of the people are not so good, but everyone obviously feels that the living conditions are improving, and the scholars treat the people better.

The White Tiger Army rebelled at this time, which was really a great disapproval of the world.

"Please kill the entire Dushan Bo clan!"

Tens of thousands of students and ordinary people ran to the front of the palace to petition, demanding that the Dushanbo family be killed in the name of the country, but fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu was unmoved, and he even felt that some people among the people were stirring up public opinion. He then sent Kang Tianen to investigate, and Kang Tianen said that Hu Yanzhan and other southern students had done it, so Zhang Xiaowu called Hu Yanzhan and asked him why he was like this.

Hu Yanzhan said: "Dushan Bo is against the sky, we should naturally comply with the will of heaven, and the people's will will be under the will, so that the public will not give people a chance to take advantage of." ”

"Opportunity? What else do you think they can do? Zhang Xiaowu asked.

Hu Yanzhan said with a smile: "If I were Dushanbo, I would definitely invite the generals of the world, Qingjun, to return the Shengming, drive the commoners, and return the nobles." ”

Zhang Xiaowu frowned, and began to realize that his civilian background threatened the interests of the Shi clan in the world, and if more than 90% of the soldiers and generals in various places today are from the Shi clan, if Du Shanbo really used the reason that the Qing monarch returned to the Shi clan to govern the government, it was really possible to invite all the armies from all over the world to discuss Longdu.

It's just that once the world's heroes send troops to fight together, it will inevitably arouse the covetousness of the surrounding aliens, especially if they want to enter the Central Plains all the time, if they are taken advantage of by Inuyi to step into the Central Plains, he will become a sinner in the world. Suddenly, he broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly asked, "How can Mr. Huyan teach?" ”

Hu Yanzhan said: "Just straighten out the people's hearts, what is the general trend, the people's hearts are the general trend, so that the public needs to occupy the people's hearts before it can become a general trend." I suggest that the atrocities of Dushanbo be made public, and that the official residence should be used to spread the literature to the world, so as to win the hearts and minds of the people even more clearly than Dushanbo. In Hu Yanzhan's view, the scholars are the moths of the empire, they make the empire weak and barren, they are the ones who have emptied the empire's gold, silver and food, and if he can take power one day, he must let the common people and the scholars sit on an equal footing.

Zhang Xiaowu frowned, he understood that Hu Yanzhan was asking him to win the hearts of the people, as a civilian student, Hu Yanzhan didn't care what the scholars thought. He motioned for Hu Yanzhan to leave first, and he needed to think about one or two.

Hu Yan Zhan said goodbye, and when he saw Kang Tianen coming in a hurry, the two nodded and smiled.