Unlike Zhu Yanshou, Tian Yan never intended to use "legal" means to become the queen of Jieduliu, and since returning from the humiliation of Guangling in June, his determination to rebel has become stronger day by day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, he knew that his strength was far inferior to Yang Xingmi, so he was secretly looking for allies while trying to expand outward.

However, after sending troops to Hangzhou a few days ago, the battle situation did not occupy Hangzhou as quickly as he imagined. Even though Xu and Xu both took refuge in him with Wu Yong, the Xuanzhou army continued to launch fierce attacks on the inner city occupied by Qian Biao, but Qian Biao's army fought back again and again, and even often defeated Tian Yan.

And on the last day of September, when Gu Quanwu led the Yuezhou army to suddenly kill, the Xuanzhou army was attacking the city with all its might, and was defeated by Gu Quanwu and fled, losing tens of thousands of troops.

Fortunately, the Yuezhou army was originally only a few thousand people, and they were tired after defeating the Xuanzhou army in order to raid the double road, and although they achieved a big victory, they were unable to expand the results of the battle, giving Tian Yan a chance to breathe.

Tian Yan gathered the defeated troops on the one hand and rearranged the defenses; While continuing to mobilize troops from Xuanzhou to help, he is now in a confrontation with Qian Biao's army in Hangzhou. However, with the arrival of reinforcements, Tian Yan's Xuanzhou army regained the upper hand.

"I heard that Zhou Ben's conquest of Suzhou relied on a new type of trebuchet, which can launch hundreds of pounds of stone projectiles from 500 steps away, I don't know if we can build this kind of trebuchet in Xuanzhou?"

For this kind of siege weapon, Tian Yan is naturally envious, five hundred steps away can fire hundreds of pounds of stone projectiles, and only a small number of soldiers are needed to operate, if he can build dozens or hundreds of planes, this is the inner city of Hangzhou day and night bombardment, why worry about Hangzhou can not be attacked.

"This, I'm afraid it's difficult!"

On the side, Shen Wenchang said with a wry smile: "The king is not ignorant of the fear of the marshal. Zhou Ben in Suzhou is very strict about the news of trebuchets, and the craftsmen who make trebuchets are all closely guarded, and our people can't get close to them at all. However, some general outlines have been clarified, and it is said that their trebuchets do not use human power to pull ropes, but use heavy objects instead of human labor. ”

"Replacing manpower with heavy loads? How is this replaced? ”

"This subordinate doesn't know, presumably there are other subtleties in it, but our people can't get specific news for the time being."

Tian Yan nodded, he also knew that this was the truth, "Then gather the craftsmen to find a way, I don't believe that Yang Wu can design it, I don't have such a capable person in Xuanzhou?" ”

"Yes, my subordinates will arrange it."

"Well, in addition, Yang Wu's kid was named the prince of King Wu, presumably Zhu Yanshou's guy must be very disappointed at this time, right?"

Tian Yan didn't have much thought about the position left by Jiedu, and what he was thinking about was how to rebel, so he didn't pay much attention to the news of Yang Wu's canonization as the prince, but said with some schadenfreude.

Last year, when Tian Yan sent Du Xunhe to contact Zhu Yanshou, Zhu Yanshou still dreamed of being able to legally become the queen of the festival, so he rejected his request for an alliance.

Now he must have realized that he could not be made a festival queen, right? Do you want to send Du Xunhe to contact again?

Tian Yan thought about it and made up his mind: "Let Mr. Du work hard again and go to Shouzhou to contact Zhu Yanshou." In addition, if Zhu Yanshou agreed, let Mr. Du not come back, go north directly to the Central Plains, and bring a letter to King Liang! ”

The king of Liang is Zhu Quanzhong, and if Tian Yan wants to rebel, he must look for Zhu Quanzhong's support, at least hoping that he can contain Yang Xingmi's army in the north.

"Alright, that's all. Let the army rest a little and continue the siege! ”

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Outside Fengxiang City, in the camp of the Bianzhou Army.

"I heard that there is a rebellion on the side of Qian Biao, the king of Yue, and Yang Xingmi has taken advantage of the fire to rob and has already sent troops to Suzhou, I don't know what the situation is now?" Zhu Quanzhong sat on the main throne and asked the strategist Jing Xiang beside him with a light smile.

Zhu Quanzhong is just 50 years old this year, tall, dark-skinned, wearing a purple robe and a black head, looking very majestic.

He participated in the Huangchao Uprising that year, but later saw that the Huangchao Army was about to go and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and was named the Xuanwu Festival envoy and owned Bianzhou.

Although Zhu Quanzhong was cunning by nature, cruel and easy to kill, and his personal morality was even more unbearable, he had lofty ambitions, and with the assistance of a group of capable ministers and good generals, he actually became stronger and stronger, and even rose suddenly in the land of the four wars in the Central Plains with the land of Bianzhou, and developed rapidly, and now it has become the strongest feudal town in the world.

Since the troops were sent to attack Li Maozhen in November last year, almost a year has passed, although the Bianzhou army has won many battles, and now it has surrounded Li Maozhen's old nest Fengxiang, but it is not possible to break through the city and eliminate Li Maozhen in one fell swoop.

Last month, the autumn rain continued on Fengxiang's side, and many of the soldiers who besieged the city fell ill because of this, and the siege lasted for a long time, Zhu Quanzhong was once ready to withdraw his troops back, but was dissuaded by his pro-army commander Gao Jichang and Zuo Kaidao commander Liu Zhijun.

Later, Gao Jichang suggested that Li Maozhen be deceived out of the city.

So Zhu Quanzhong recruited a dead soldier named Ma Jing, and took advantage of the opportunity to attack the city and pretend to surrender and blend into Fengxiang City.

Ma Jing reported to Li Maozhen that there was a plague in Zhu Quanzhong's army and had fled overnight, leaving only nearly 10,000 wounded and sick people to guard the camp; According to the arrangement, these wounded and sick soldiers who were guarding the camp would also flee tonight, so Li Maozhen was asked to hurry out of the city to attack them.

Li Maozhen believed Ma Jing's words, so he opened the city gate and asked all the defenders in the city to go out of the city to attack Zhu Quanzhong's camp; And Zhu Quanzhong personally beat the drum in the Chinese army, and the ambush soldiers under his command came out to attack Li Maozhen's army with all their might, and sent hundreds of cavalry to occupy the gate of Fengxiang.

Li Maozhen finally escaped back to the city, and from then on he was depressed, and began to think of making peace with Zhu Quanzhong, and constantly sent people out of the city to discuss with Zhu Quanzhong, preparing for the Son of Heaven to return to Chang'an.

However, there are still differences between the two sides on the specific details of the peace talks, such as Zhu Quanzhong's desire to kill all the eunuchs Han Quanzhi and others who had offended him; But Han Quanzhu is Li Maozhen's ally, and he naturally does not want to kill Han Quanzhu and others.

As a result, the two sides were at a stalemate, and although there were occasional fights, the two sides were still mainly engaged in peace talks.

However, Li Maozhen's imminent submission made Zhu Quanzhong's prestige reach its peak.

For example, in today's strong domain, Li Keyong, the king of Jin who is a mortal enemy with him, has long been disabled by him, Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, is now about to soften, and Wang Jian, the king of Shu, is even more bent on separating the land of Shu, looking at the world, the only thing that makes Zhu Quanzhong feel unhappy is probably Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu in Jianghuai.

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