After the last time Zhang Shicheng defected to the Yuan Court, Wen Xuan had already seen that he was not a determined person, so when he learned that Li Qi, the prefect of Gaoyou, planned to come to persuade him to surrender in person, he immediately decided to kill him and cut off Zhang Shicheng's retreat!

Because there is no room for error in this matter, Wen Xuan personally led people to do it, so that not long after Li Qi led the team out of Gaoyou, he was blocked by Mu Chong and Han Lingyue, who had set up an ambush in advance.

Li Qi was planning to go to Zhao'an, so he only brought more than 100 Yuan soldiers with him, how could this person stop the good hands brought by Mu Chong and Han Lingyue, Li Qi fled in a panic.

Seeing this, Mu Chong and Han Lingyue didn't chase after them, they just cared about killing all the Yuan soldiers in front of them.

Li Qi ran away with two guards, thinking that he had picked up a life, but as soon as he stopped to rest for a while, Mrs. Xu's dagger in Wen Xuan's hand smeared his neck.

Li Qi didn't even see Wen Xuan's appearance clearly before he fell in a pool of blood, and the two personal guards he brought with him were also solved by Wen Xuan himself.

In order to let Zhang Shicheng have no way out, Wen Xuan had already prepared a letter written in the name of Zhang Shicheng to provoke the Yuan court, and then cut off Li Qi's head, put it in a bag with the letter, and sent someone to throw it into Gaoyou's mansion.

In Gaoyou City, in addition to the prefect Li Qi, the largest official position is the provincial Zuo Cheng Zhedu. Yan Zhedu thought that Li Qi, who was quite confident, would succeed and persuade Zhang Shicheng and others to surrender again, but in less than half a day, he actually received Li Qi's head and the provocative letter like a war letter, so angry that he was furious and immediately sent troops to attack Zhang Shicheng.

When Zhang Shicheng learned about this, he was greatly surprised, although he suspected that Shen Fu did it secretly, but there was no evidence, so it was not easy to blame Shen Fu, the rich man who sent it to the door, so he could only face the Yuan soldiers head-on.

Zhang Shicheng originally didn't have much confidence in these horses summoned by his command, but after the battle, he found that the Yuan soldiers were so unbearable, and many of them had already become deserters before the start of the battle, and even surrendered directly, resulting in Zhang Shicheng almost winning this battle without a fight.

This head-to-head battle with Yuan Bing gave Zhang Shicheng and others a lot of confidence, no matter how the killing of Li Qi could no longer be explained by the Yuan Court, then the opposite would be the opposite, and it would be a big deal.

Zhang Shicheng took Taizhou and Xinghua as his base, stationed troops at Desheng Lake, and started a contest with Yan Zhedu.

At first, he mainly sent troops out of the city to attack, but after several battles, he found that his side had suffered very heavy losses, so he began to retreat and began to defend the city.

The stalemate between the two sides lasted for three months, and in the blink of an eye, it was May.

For such a long time, Wen Xuan and the others will not be idle, since they decided to secretly help Zhang Shicheng to gain momentum, then helping him win Gaoyou has become the most important goal at the moment.

Although Shen Fu provided military rations for the rebel army led by Zhang Shicheng, large siege equipment could not be obtained, so according to Wen Xuan's meaning, Gaoyou could only outwit it, and it was not appropriate to storm it.

As soon as the two sides fought, Wen Xuan and his party all disguised themselves as ordinary people and infiltrated Gaoyou, although there was no stronghold of Mingjiao in Gaoyou, but this time Han Lingyue, the holy daughter of Mingjiao, personally helped.

Wen Xuan had Shen Fu's strong financial resources as support this time, and Mu Chong and Han Lingyue fully assisted, so in three months, he had already attracted a lot of people and righteous people in the city, and even bought many low-level officers of the Yuan soldiers.

On this day, Wen Xuan and others were fully prepared, and when they were about to join forces with Zhang Shicheng to win Gaoyou, a message suddenly came from Haozhou: "Yuan Zhongshu Zuo Cheng Jialu died of illness, the Yuan soldiers were not handsome for a while, and the siege of Haozhou has been lifted." Peng Da and Zhao Junyong in Haozhou City immediately proclaimed themselves King Luhuai and King Yongyi, and jointly led Guo Zixing and Sun Deya and other five marshals. ”

This news was undoubtedly good news for the anti-Yuan rebels in various places, and Wen Xuan also saw this as an opportunity to capture Gaoyou, so he immediately started to act.

After Shen Fu secretly became Zhang Shicheng's staff, he naturally became his confidant, so when Shen Fu said that the brother who received him in the city was ready, Zhang Shicheng did not hesitate to order an attack on Gaoyou.

Yan Zhedu was originally a civil official, and he didn't understand anything about leading troops to fight, and the defense of the city was also handed over to the military attaché under his command, so it wasn't until Wen Xuan and others suddenly set fire everywhere in the city, and after the city gate was opened, Yan Zhedu didn't know that the big thing was bad.

At the critical juncture, Yan Zhedu had no other things to do, and fled with his family in a hurry, although Zhang Shicheng's department experienced a fierce battle with the Yuan soldiers, but still successfully captured the city and occupied Gaoyou in one fell swoop.

Zhang Shicheng's sudden uprising surprised the local provincial officials, but fortunately, they had already seen more about the peasant uprising, so they responded more calmly, and immediately mobilized people from the vicinity of Gaoyou to suppress Zhang Shicheng.

Zhang Shicheng and others now have no way to retreat, so they work together to defend the city, so that the Yuan soldiers can't help them for a while, and places like Gaoyou, Taizhou, and Xinghua are generally richer than the Central Plains, and Zhang Shicheng controlled many salt farms and granaries around under Shen Fu's suggestion, so Gaoyou's rebel army didn't worry about supplies at all, and was not afraid of the siege of the Yuan soldiers.

This is Gaoyou Mansion is subordinate to Yangzhou Road, which is classified within the Jiangbei Province of Henan, and is very close to Haozhou, and even the Red Turban Army Yuan soldiers in Haozhou have no way to suppress it, not to mention Zhang Shicheng, a rising star, so the local Yuan soldiers are not enough at all, and the provincial officials have no time to take care of Zhang Shicheng, so Zhang Shicheng is given enough time to develop in Gaoyou.

Su Sheng, who was far away in Dadu, immediately took action after receiving the news that Wen Xuan and others had secretly helped Zhang Shicheng to start the incident, and he suggested to Hama that it was time to suggest to Emperor Zhizheng that he should establish a prince.

Hama was eager for revenge, so he couldn't wait to find Queen Qi and Pu Buhua and express his opinion.

This matter involved the interests of Empress Qi in the future, and naturally won her full support, and Pu Buhua also agreed very much, so the three of them found an opportunity to raise the matter to Emperor Zhizheng without concealing it.

The prince Aiyu Zhili Dala was deeply loved by Emperor Zhizheng, and when the emperor completed the work of art in the Xianting Palace, Emperor Zhizheng, who was happy in his heart, approved their invitation on the spot, and personally ordered his prince Aiyu Zhili Dala to be crowned as the crown prince, and ordered the Zhongshu Province and the Ministry of Rites to immediately plan this major event.