The general Qin Qiong reported the news of the surrender of the Turks to the emperor, and his tone was full of excitement.

"These guys have finally relented."

Emperor Luo Chengzheng looked down at an urgent note, "The surrender of the Turks was expected for a long time, they were trapped here by us and could not fly, unless they were really prepared to shed their last drop of blood here, but obviously, the Turks did not have this determination. ”

"Did something happen?" Qin Qiong didn't seem to be too happy when he saw the emperor.

"It's Duvowe." The Emperor sighed.

"It can't be Du Fuwei's opposite, right?" Qin Qiong speculated with some concern that it was rumored that Wang Junkuo had conspired to contact important ministers everywhere, and it was said that Du Fuwei was involved.

The emperor shook his head, Du Fuwei did not rebel, but Du Fuwei suffered a big defeat in Jiangnan.

"Du Fuwei lost Jiangdu."

Qin Qiong was shocked, "How is it possible?" ”

Yes, how is it possible, now that Great Qin is in full swing, the anti-kings of the whole world are not the opponents of Great Qin, this battle in the north can be regarded as the last chance of the kings, but they joined forces to pull Jieli Khan up, and they were also not able to be the opponents of Great Qin.

Even the strongest anti-kings in the north have been defeated, how can Jianghuai go on a business trip.

Du Fuwei also has the title of the king of Jianghuai, how could he be defeated at such a time?

"Who could have capsized Duvoy?"

"Li Zitong!"

Qin Qiong thought about it for a while, and felt that she had some impression of this person, "Your Majesty, doesn't the minister remember that this person has already belonged to the imperial court?" ”

"Indeed, it was attached to the imperial court before, but who would have thought that this time it was reversed, not only did it reverse, but it also caught Du Fuwei off guard."

To say that this Li Zitong rebelled, in fact, it was different from Liu Wuzhou's situation. Li Zitong is a native of Pengcheng, in the year of the Great Cause, he first ran to Luo Cheng's old family Baishan, and defected to the earliest thief here, Wang Bo Wang Bo was them, and later Wang Bo and they were defeated and fled, Li Zitong voted for a new boss, and the boss was Zuo Caixiang.

He followed Zuo Caixiang also made a lot of contributions, and later Zuo Caixiang got Li Mi's help, shocked the Central Plains, and ran to Huaixi Shannan to call the emperor, Zuo Caixiang because of his generosity and prestige in the army, but he was suspicious of Zuo Caixiang and was forced to leave and start anew.

He took a vote of old brothers to go around, from Shannan to Huaixi, and from Huaixi to Huaidong, and then to Jiangnan, although this person is not small, but when he is alone, the environment is different, and it is difficult to have a stable territory at this time.

When Luo Chengnan surrendered to Chen Ling, the Huanghuai counties were subsumed into Daqin, and Li Zitong also obeyed the tide and led the troops to attach, to say that the imperial court was not bad to him, after all, although Li Zitong was old in the rivers and lakes, but this person had a good reputation before, not Zhu Can Zhang Jin called such a brutal bandit, and he had not done anything to hurt the heavens and harm the people, and he took the initiative to join him, so the court later awarded him a position as a Jiangdu Juncheng.

Originally, this is also a good result, if it is An An's share, it will be whitewashed into the new dynasty in the future.

Li Zitong also thinks so.

However, the imperial court handed over Huainan to Du Fuwei, Du Fuwei had worked hard in Jianghuai for many years, and he had no good impression of Li Zitong, who was not a confidant, not to mention that Li Zitong had fought several battles with Du Fuwei before he was attached, and even took advantage of Du Fuwei.

Du Fuwei is nicknamed the king of Jianghuai, but after all, people are also very young, people in their twenties, in the early years in the Jianghuai area, it was not so smooth, and there was no less defeat. Now on the side of the town, this temperament cannot be as stable as a veteran, and he will naturally vigorously promote his own henchmen, and some of his former opponents, such as the local officials and generals of the Sui Dynasty, will also give some small shoes to wear, as for people like Li Zitong, who were born as grass thieves and have defeated themselves several times, they will not have a good face.

And Li Zitong was also born in poverty when he was young, living on fishing and hunting, and he was kind and charitable. If the family has surplus wealth, they will help others. But he also has a shortcoming, that is, he is relatively narrow-minded, that is, he has less energy, and he is also very upright, he can't tolerate sand in his eyes, and he can't hide his anger in his heart.

Du Fuwei tried every means to make things difficult for him, but he couldn't tolerate it.

The relationship between the two sides is getting more and more stiff.

coincided with the rebellion of Wang Junkuo in the court, although Du Fuwei did not conspire, but after all, he was implicated, even if the emperor wrote him a personal letter afterwards, saying that he trusted him as always, and still handed over Huainan to him to guard. But even if the emperor is his eldest brother and a good brother who has followed him for many years, Du Fuwei is still unhappy in his heart.

He thought about how to show himself well to prove his loyalty to the emperor.

How to behave? Du Fuwei planned to find an opportunity to cross the Yangtze River and take down Danyang and Jiangning, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River. For this reason, he ignored the grand strategy of the imperial court and prepared in all directions, because Li Zitong had always been unhappy, so he was ready to let Li Zitong lead his troops to play the vanguard, and let Li Zitong, who was the commander of Jiangdu County, raise money and grain for the ship, and set a very short deadline.

The task is very heavy, and the key is that many people below deliberately did not cooperate, and it was clear that they would see Li Zitong punished.

Seeing that things were difficult to do, Li Zitong couldn't bear it anymore, so he discussed it with a few old brothers, and simply reversed it.

So, Li Zitong secretly planned.

On a dark and windy night, Li Zitong led his henchmen to raid Du Fuwei, who came to Jiangdu to inspect.

Du Fuwei was seriously injured and fell off the horse, but fortunately, the emperor's righteous son Wang Xiongdan desperately rescued him and fled into the reeds with him on his back, and escaped.

Although Li Zitong failed to kill Du Fuwei, but it was also a hit, after Du Fuwei was seriously injured and fled, he led his troops to quickly seize the Jiangdu City, and then gathered the old department, which was a big momentum.

Li Zitong had more than 20,000 people, and simply raised a banner in Jiangdu City and proclaimed himself the king of Yue.

Then he sent one of his sons to Shen Faxing in Jiangnan as a hostage and formed an alliance with him to fight against Qin together. Shen Faxing took Li Zitong's son as a hostage, and soon sent his son Shen Lun to lead 50,000 troops across the river to join forces with Li Zitong to attack Du Fuwei's army in Huainan.

Li Zitong took Jiangdu County, Zhongli and Liyang Counties, and simply took the emperor's throne, the country name Yue, and the year name Mingzheng.

Danyang thief Kou Lebotong also attached to Li Zitong, and Li Zitong got more than 10,000 Danyang thieves.

Shen Lun led the Wu army to capture Lujiang County, and took advantage of the situation to capture Tong'an.

At this time, Lin Shihong of Jiangxi saw the opportunity and immediately sent troops to cross the river and seize Qichun County.

Southern Liang Xiao Mo also took advantage of the fire to loot and sent troops to attack the four counties of Handong such as Yong'an and Anlu, intending to recapture the four counties that had rebelled against Liang and surrendered to Qin.

"Liang, Chu and Wu in the south of the Yangtze River are now joined forces by the four families, all of whom want to take advantage of my Great Qin Northern Expedition to seize the land north of the Yangtze River."

"These thieves who take advantage of the fire to rob!" Qin Qiong scolded.

Luo Cheng sighed, "In fact, Li Zitong rebelled, although the crime is unforgivable, but there are also reasons for Du Fuwei's improper handling, now Du Fuwei is seriously injured and has returned to Pengcheng to recuperate. ”

"Second brother, I plan to let you go to Jianghuai to take this burden."

Qin Qiong was stunned for a moment, "It's okay for the ministers to shoot on horseback, but if you go to the land of Jianghuai, I'm afraid you won't be used to it." ”

"It's nothing, I'll just get you a few more helpers."