Zhu Quanzhong chose to support Ma Yin, and as for Qian Biao, he naturally gave up. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In his opinion, Qian Biao now has only the city of Hangzhou left, and there are less than 30,000 soldiers, even if he saves him this time, after he withdraws the army, Qian Biao does not have the strength to counterattack, which means that he cannot recover his strength and cannot rely on his own strength to fight against Huainan.

In this case, the next time the Huainan army besieges Hangzhou again, you have to count on him to save you.

The purpose of his support for Qian Biao was to contain Huainan, but now Qian Biao is not only difficult to achieve the purpose of containing Huainan, but may become a burden to Zhu Quanzhong, and he will naturally give up.

What's more, although the Huainan army is besieging Hangzhou now, Huainan's troops on the front line of the Huai River have not moved a single soldier, and the defense system with Shouzhou as the core is relatively perfect, it is obviously difficult for Zhu Quanzhong to break through this line of defense in a short time.

After all, today's Huainan is not the Huainan of the past, and its strength has been greatly improved, and Zhu Quanzhong will no longer underestimate Huainan. In the current situation that the north is not calm, it may not be a good choice to go to the front line of the Huai River to confront Yang Xingmi.

On the other hand, Zhao Kuangning, although he has the land of Kyushu, his strength is much worse than that of Wang Shifan, and it is naturally much easier to deal with. Taking advantage of the current opportunity to eliminate Zhao Kuangning as soon as possible, he can not only get rid of this feudal town that has always been against him, but also quickly expand his territory, this choice is naturally much easier and more realistic.

In addition, after eliminating Zhao Kuangning and obtaining Jingxiang, he can not only threaten Huainan at any time and curb the direction of Huainan's expansion, but also connect with Ma Yin to support each other and deal with Huainan together. In the future, after unifying the north, he can go down the river from Jingxiang to take the Jianghuai River.

No matter how you look at this plan, it is better than going to the front line of the Huai River to save a Qian Biao who may not be able to save him.

After clearing his mind again, Zhu Quanzhong turned to Li Zhen and asked, "Is there any news from Luoyang now?" ”

"Great King, the current situation in Luoyang, the Son of Heaven has always been restless, it is said that he is secretly sending people to unite with the major feudal towns, and there are signs of calling them to raise troops to serve the king."

Zhu Quanzhong wanted to kill the king, which many of his subordinates could see, but the reactions of his subordinates were also different.

Among the people, Li Zhen, who had a grudge against the imperial court because of the failure of the imperial examination, was the one who supported Zhu Quanzhong's murder of the monarch the most, and now the situation in Luoyang is handed over to him to take care of.

"The king, in the opinion of his subordinates, when today's son has been in power for sixteen years in the world for sixteen years, and has a high prestige in the hearts of the people of the world, the king wants to easily manipulate him, so as to achieve the purpose of commanding the princes, I am afraid that it will not be easy. So the subordinates felt that it was better to get rid of it and replace it with a younger one. Li Zhen said while carefully observing Zhu Quanzhong's expression, and saw that he was not dissatisfied with his words, but thought it was true, and immediately knew that he had guessed Zhu Quanzhong's mind.

In fact, Zhu Quanzhong has always wanted to get rid of the Son of Heaven since he was assassinated by poisoned wine last time, but the time was not ripe at that time, so he endured it so far.

On the side, Jing Xiang listened to Li Zhen's words and hurriedly persuaded: "King, there are still many feudal towns in the world that do not obey the king at this time. Li Keyong in Hedong, Li Maozhen in Fengxiang, Wang Jian in Shudi, Yang Xingmi in Huainan, these feudal towns have not been eliminated, and they will kill the monarch at this time, I am afraid that it will attract criticism from people all over the world! ”

"Criticism? What's the criticism? These feudal towns have always been against the king, and no matter how polite the king is to the Son of Heaven, they will still feel that the king regards the Son of Heaven as a puppet and wants to raise an army against the king. In that case, why not change to a more obedient one, lest those feudal towns make a fuss about the edict of the Son of Heaven? Li Zhen said disapprerovingly.

Zhu Quanzhong nodded again and again: "What you said is right, when today's son is too good at something." Since last year, Lone's energy has almost been restrained by the Son of Heaven, so much so that it has given Huainan the opportunity to rise; In addition, there is Li Keyong, this old guy is now taking advantage of this time to regain his strength. If Lone wants to spare his energy to deal with these people, he must have a stable rear, so it is imperative to change the heavens! ”

In order to control the Son of Heaven in his hands, he has wasted too many opportunities and delayed too much time, so that now looking back, Huainan is about to eliminate Qian Biao, and Li Keyong also has signs of recovering his strength, but he still needs to have a headache for the things that the Son of Heaven makes from time to time, which makes Zhu Quanzhong, who has long been accustomed to killing people with a big knife, extremely dissatisfied.

After all, the current Son of Heaven is almost forty years old, and he was the real emperor for a period of time in the early days, and even suppressed the power of the eunuchs for a while, and sharpened his sword Huo Huo to prepare to cut down the feudal town, such an emperor is not so easy to control.

"Li Zhen, you will go back to Luoyang to coordinate with Jiang Xuanhui, and you must handle this matter well. What are the issues that need to be paid attention to in this, don't talk about it alone, right? Zhu Quanzhong pondered for a while and said.

"The subordinates understand that this matter has nothing to do with the king, it is the generals below who killed the king privately in order to show merit, but the king didn't know about it in advance!" Li Zhen hurriedly said.

Zhu Quanzhong nodded with satisfaction, the reason why he personally led the army south was another purpose was to clear up the relationship with the upcoming murder of the king.

After all, he is a courtier, and it is unreasonable to say that such a thing as a minister kills a king; In addition, he also knows that the Tang Dynasty has been established for nearly three hundred years, and although it has reached the point where it is so stormy now, there are still not a few people in the world who support the Son of Heaven. Even under his own command, there are some generals who are still loyal to the Son of Heaven in their hearts, and they are secretly dissatisfied with Zhu Quanzhong's behavior of oppressing the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, even if Zhu Quanzhong wants to kill the king, he needs to try to put aside his own relationship, at least in the future, he can pass the blame on his subordinates.

Jing Xiang sighed, knowing that this matter was a foregone conclusion, so he didn't persuade him anymore.

Although he is Zhu Quanzhong's confidant and adviser, many times his advice Zhu Quanzhong will not follow. However, he is a person who knows when to stick to his opinions and when to shut up, which is the reason why he can always gain Zhu Quanzhong's trust.

Outside the city of Hangzhou, the military camp of the Huainan Army stretched for several miles.

Although the men gathered from the states had been sent back, the remaining troops were still numerous.

At this time, after receiving that Zhu Quanzhong did not cross the Huai River to attack the Huainan and Northern Lines, but went to attack Zhao Kuangning, Yang Wu's first reaction was also full of disbelief, but when the news was recognized, he was ecstatic.

"Everyone, Zhu Quanzhong has given up on Qian Biao, and the elimination of Qian Biao is just around the corner!" In the camp tent, Yang Wu said to the generals with a smile on his face.

After attacking for so long and paying such a big price, he was never able to take the city of Hangzhou; When he had already turned his energy to repelling Zhu Quanzhong's army in order to completely dispel Qian Biao's will to resist, Zhu Quanzhong suddenly gave up on Qian Biao, which was too dramatic.

"Your Highness, since Zhu Quanzhong has given up on Qian Biao, the last general feels that this news can be spread throughout the city to undermine the morale of the defenders. Next, maybe you don't need to send someone to persuade you to surrender, and our army can break through the city! Wang Maozhang immediately asked.

"Yes, Qian Biao's gang has been holding the city for so long and causing such a big loss to our army, if he easily accepts his surrender, then won't other hostile forces have to hold on to the city in the future until they can't hold it anymore and then surrender? Therefore, the last general thought that our army must continue to attack the city, and after taking the city, kill all the defenders in the city to warn other forces! Wang Maozhang's subordinate Zhang Chong said even more murderously.

Yang Wu's face suddenly darkened by half, Qian Biao had always refused to surrender, and of course he was also very angry. However, if Zhang Chong's method is followed, after the city is broken, all the defenders in the city will be killed, I am afraid that in the future, it will not play the role of warning other forces, but the role of forcing other forces to resist resolutely.

What's more, not to mention how much the Huainan army will have to pay if it wants to break through the city next, let's just say that the defenders of Hangzhou are mainly the locals of Hangzhou, if they are all killed, the hearts of the people in Hangzhou and the two Zhejiang states will be gone, and will such a prosperous city in Hangzhou be pushed into ruins?

In addition, there are many excellent generals under Qian Bi's command, Gu Quanwu, Cheng Ji, Fang Yongzhen, Sima Fu, etc., who are also very good generals in the Huainan army.

Even the defenders in the city are also veterans of the battlefield, and if they can be directly recruited, it is better than recruiting new soldiers, right?

As for whether there will be a bad impact on the integration of these old troops into the Huainan Army, Yang Wu is even less worried.

He is not a fool, even if these remnants of Qian Biao are absorbed, they will be reorganized, and they will be disrupted and then incorporated into the Huainan army, if this can cause problems, it can only show that the entire Huainan army is unreliable.

Qin Pei saw that Yang Wu's face was not good, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Highness, it is naturally inappropriate to kill all the defenders, but after all, Qian Biao has been in trouble with my Huainan for so many years, and my Huainan army has fought with it so far, I don't know how many soldiers have been lost." Therefore, the subordinates felt that even if they had to accept his surrender, they had to give him enough punishment. ”

"Yes, you must give him enough punishment!"

"It's better to kill him directly to prevent future trouble!"

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The generals shouted one after another, and it seemed that they were not small in their resentment against Qian Biao.

Yang Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly, of course he wouldn't let go of Qian Biao easily, but killing him might not be the best choice.

In that case, it is difficult to say whether there will be turmoil in the two Zhejiang; At the same time, after killing Qian Biao, the next subordinates who surrendered Qian Biao may also have problems, why bother to ruin these major events for the sake of Qian Biao's life?

Of course, it is impossible not to punish Qian Biao at all, otherwise other forces will really resist until the end and then surrender in the future.