In October of the second year of Tianhe, Zhu Wen led the Xuanwu army and Qin Zongquan to start a decisive battle in Runan, both sides were angry, and finally Zhu Wen took advantage of Qin Zongquan's unpreparedness, successfully burned the grain and grass of the Qin army, and then defeated Qin Zongquan in the Longpo area, Qin Zongquan was in a hurry, left his subordinates, took a few personal soldiers, and fled back to Caizhou City.

The coalition army led by Zhu Wen also followed, and the large army surrounded the city of Caizhou, and after more than a month of siege and fighting, the Qin Zongquan army in the city was miserable.

At the end of December of the second year of Tianhe, there was a riot within the Caizhou army, and all the generals raised anti-flags in order to survive, and Qin Zongquan was sent to Bianzhou by the general Shen Cong.

After Zhu Wen caught Qin Zongquan, he didn't hesitate, so he sent Qin Zongquan to Luoyang and handed it over to Zhao Fan to deal with.

After Zhao Fan received Qin Zongquan, he didn't review anything, after all, such an obvious crime didn't need to be tried at all, and he was directly handed over to Qiao Xinchao to arrange beheading.

Qin Zongquan was still unconvinced before he died, and knelt on the ground and shouted, "My lords, it's not that I, Qin Zongquan, am disloyal to the Tang Dynasty, do you think I look like a person who will rebel?" I really want to serve the court, but I can't find a place. ”

Such a funny and ridiculous defense, not only did not get any sympathy and understanding, but was ridiculed by everyone fiercely, the murderous demon king Qin Zongquan actually said that he was a loyal minister, doesn't this make people laugh off their big teeth?

Qin Zongquan finally died, this demon who had brought countless injuries to the people of Luoyang, under the blade of the executioner, was completely killed, and his body was trampled into pulp by the angry people.

In the three battles of Luoyang, countless Luoyang children in order to protect their families and defend the country, and finally the horse leather shrouded and died on the battlefield.

After the fall of Qin Zongquan, the territories under his rule were quickly divided, and Zhao Delu and his subordinate Wang Jianzhao were attached to the Luoyang regime, and the Jingnan region under his rule and the Xiangzhou and Dengzhou regions in Shannan East Province also officially returned to the embrace of the Luoyang court.

Ram Che and others led the remnants of the Caizhou army and accepted Zhu Wen's reorganization on the spot, Caizhou, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou and most of Runan were occupied by Zhu Wen, and the strength of the Zhu-Wen coalition army rose greatly for a time.

At this moment, the Great Qi of Qin Zongquan has completely become history, and the originally powerful Great Qi army has also been completely wiped out.

……

On the other hand, Wang Jian, who was clearly arranged by Zhao Fan, also began to make trouble in Sichuan and Shu, with the support of Gu Yanlang, under the banner of avenging Xizong, brazenly attacked Xichuan Chen Jingxuan, captured Jinzhu and Hanzhou in just a few months, and joined Gu Yanlang's brother Gu Yanhui and successfully took Chengdu.

Chen Jingxuan couldn't lift his head after being beaten in a short period of time, and he barely had any power to fight back, so Wang Jian broke through the nest and lost his life in a daze.

After Zhao Fan received the information, he couldn't help but shake his head, and scolded Chen Jingxuan for being a fool, he had already said it so clearly, he gave it explicitly, and he also gave it a hint, who knew that this product was still beaten by Wang Jian so quickly.

Zhao Fan didn't expect that he had been so suppressed, and this guy could still jump, which was worthy of establishing the ruthless role of Houshu.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Wen is on the letter, please seal the history of the assassination of Yuzhou, and... There is also the king of Dongping. ”

In the court, Du Rangneng held a piece of music and recited it gently, but his face was iron-blue.

"Your Majesty, no, although Lord Zhu has some military exploits, he has also made a great contribution to defeating Qin Zongquan this time, but this is not a reason to be crowned king."

After listening to Du Rangneng's words, Kong Wei's face changed, and he quickly stood up and shouted loudly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the matter of a king with a different surname is really impossible, impossible." The ministers jumped out excitedly, and all of them strongly opposed the matter.

If you want to talk about this matter of being crowned king of the opposite sex, the previous emperors have not done it, and Xizong also once crowned Li Keyong as the king of the county, which is just a conventional means of buying people's hearts.

But now the situation is different, Zhao Fan also mentioned in public that he will not add any more festivals in the future, in order to no longer raise the feudal towns, so as to develop the centralization of power to the extreme.

Since the festival envoy can't be canonized, it can't be canonized even more canonized as the king of the opposite sex, not to mention that this Zhu Wen, without any instructions, sent such a letter to Luoyang, which is not so much a request as a threat, if it is agreed, then what is the face of the court.

"The minister seconded the proposal, Your Majesty, Zhu Wen's request is really excessive, and the minister looks at this person, there is no difference between that Qin Zongquan."

"The minister seconded the proposal..."

“……”

For a while, there was controversy in the Ziwei Palace, but everyone had no objection to the rejection of Zhu Wen's request for seal.

In the end, at the suggestion of Du Rangneng, Zhao Fan gave Zhu Wen a holy decree, appointing him as Situ and Marquis of An Yuan, and asking him to return to Beijing to report on his work, without any accidents, Zhu Wen resisted the decree, after all, he is not stupid, coming to Luoyang at this time, isn't it self-defeating?

Zhu Wen, who had already tried the taste of power, decisively chose to ignore Zhao Fan's holy decree, and proclaimed himself the assassin of Yuzhou and the king of Dongping.

Zhu Wen, whose strength was inflated, controlled Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin's brothers as soon as possible, and completely absorbed these two allies who came to help him into his own forces.

And Wang Jian, who was far away in Xichuan, married Gu Yanlang's daughter and successfully got his support, and suddenly the entire Shuzhong became Wang Jian's territory.

Wang Jian, who had capital, also began to float, proclaimed himself the king of Shu, commanded all the affairs of Sichuan and Shu, accumulated grain and trained troops diligently, and eyed the Central Plains.

And Li Maozhen in the northwest region is also ready to move, and the contacts with Yang Shouliang and Wang Xingyu are even more frequent.

It was another round of mutual annexation between feudal towns, and Zhao Fan could only carefully maintain the balance, and in the process, he worked hard to absorb the power he could absorb and strengthen his strength, in order to seek to regain the initiative one day.

This process is extremely painful, but Zhao Fan can only endure it, because he knows that if he can't bear it, he will make a big plan, and Tang Zhaozong in his previous life just couldn't help it, and fought a few fights with Li Keyong and Wang Jian, but in the end, his strength was greatly damaged, his elite was lost, and he was completely reduced to a plaything that was ravaged by others.

No matter what aspect it is, the current situation does not allow him to be capricious, his position is wrapped in the middle of many feudal towns, surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, the Heavenly Mandate Army has just started, and with a general combat effectiveness, it is not the time to do it.

Endure it, endure it again, keep enduring!

(End of chapter)