Outside the city of Guangde, the remnant sun is like blood. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Dark clouds stretched across the sky, obscuring the setting sun, and the clouds were quickly dyed a brilliant gold by the afterglow of the setting sun. The battle, which had exhausted both warring sides, had finally come to an end.

In this decisive battle, the Huainan army successfully led the Xuanzhou rebels into the ambush circle by deceitful defeat and luring the enemy, and finally eliminated more than 6,000 people in Tian Yan's main elite Wuyongdu, and more than 2,000 Liu Ding's subordinates were caught up and eliminated by the Huainan army because they were exhausted and unable to escape.

In the whole battle, nearly 10,000 Xuanzhou troops were wiped out, and Xu Juan led hundreds of remnants to surrender when there was no hope of breaking through, but Yang Wu felt that this person was naturally rebellious and brutal, so he ordered him to be beheaded and dispersed his troops to various departments.

Of course, the losses of the Huainan army itself were not small, nearly 2,000 people were killed in the battle alone, in addition to 4,000 wounded soldiers. However, compared to the results they achieved, these losses were acceptable.

And the biggest result achieved by Huainan was not how many rebels were eliminated, but the victory itself. Two days later, when the news of the victory spread, Wang Tan and Wang Jian, who had confronted Li Shenfu in Wuhu for nearly a month, immediately led 15,000 men to surrender, and the other counties that were still under Tian Yan's control also quickly reversed.

When Yang Wu led the army into the siege of Xuanzhou, the army that was still loyal to Tian Yan was left with less than 10,000 people in the city, and most of them were old and weak, and they were unable to take on the task; The generals were desperate and panicked about the situation of the battle.

Considering that the conquest during this period of time caused heavy casualties and tired soldiers, Yang Wu did not rush to attack the city, but set up camp in Wuli outside Xuanzhou City, waiting for the arrival of Wang Maozhang's follow-up reinforcements.

Hangzhou.

When he learned that Tian Yan had been defeated again in Guangde and that Tian Yan had fled back to Xuanzhou with thousands of remnants, Qian Biao understood that this civil strife in Huainan was nearing its end.

At the beginning, when the rebellion in Wuyongdu had just subsided, he expected that there would be a civil strife in Huainan, and at that time he still wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and return all the things that Huainan had done at the beginning; However, the situation that followed was completely unexpected.

First of all, there were many instability in the local states that had nominally submitted to him, and there were turmoil in Muzhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou, Quzhou and other places, especially Chen Xun, the assassin of Muzhou, who openly raised troops to attack the counties under Hangzhou.

Qian Di's actual position is the envoy of the town navy and the envoy of the east army, of which the town of the navy is his own job, but his position is now completely unworthy of the name, in addition to Hangzhou, the place of governance, is still under his control, the rest of Runzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou and other places have been seized by the Huainan army, and the rest of Muzhou is now openly rebelling.

Among the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Zhendong Army, only Yuezhou, Taizhou, Mingzhou, Wuzhou and other places are still under his control, and the rest of the prefectures, Quzhou, and Wenzhou are all the same. Stand.

In this case, Qian Biao naturally did not dare to go to Huainan for trouble, and when the news of Tian Yan's rebellion came, he ordered Gu Quanwu to be the general to crusade against Muzhou Assassin Shi Chen Xun. Fortunately, Gu Quanwu did not live up to his expectations, and led his troops to launch a surprise attack one night a month ago, defeating the Muzhou army, and taking advantage of the victory to enter the siege of Muzhou.

After a month of siege, the current Muzhou City can not last long, and I believe that good news will come soon. Who knew that at this time, Tian Yan was so useless, and he was about to fail so soon. It would be great if he could hold out for a few months, and then eliminate the hidden dangers in Quzhou, Chuzhou and other places after he won Muzhou.

However, the matter has come to this point, and Qian Biao can only respond quickly.

"Ordered Du Jianwei to go to Yuezhou to recruit troops and prepare 10,000 people."

"Destiny and go to Mingzhou to recruit troops, and the establishment is also 10,000."

Qian Biao made up his mind to expand the army, this is also a helpless thing, the last Wuyong Rebellion lost too many troops, Suzhou alone, Huzhou had 35,000 people wiped out by the Huainan army, and Hangzhou also lost nearly 10,000 people in the defense of Hangzhou, plus Wuyong itself has 10,000 people, before and after Qian Biao lost a total of more than 50,000 troops, so that Chen Xun did not have too many troops to go to the town when he initially rebelled. Press.

The loss of Suzhou and Huzhou made Qian Biao lose two of the most important and prosperous prefectures and counties, and Hangzhou was beaten into ruins, and when the rebellion of Wuyongdu had just subsided, Qian Biao was also a little stretched thin in terms of money and food, and it was only recently that he had more money and food to recruit new soldiers, but it was difficult to maintain an army of the same size as before.

After a little silence, Qian Biao continued to order: "Send an order to Gu Quanwu, let him end the Muzhou war as soon as possible and lead the army back." Fang Yongzhen was ordered to be the new Muzhou assassin history, stay in Muzhou, and all the troops surrendered by Chen Xun were handed over to Fang Yongzhen to command. ”

Bianzhou.

Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, has been in high spirits recently.

In February, when Tian Yan raised the flag of rebellion in Xuanzhou, under his pressure, Li Ye, the son of heaven, issued an edict to kill the eunuch Han Quanzhu, and more than 700 people including the fifth eunuch Kefan were killed.

Zhu Quanzhong was particularly dissatisfied, and ordered all local feudal towns to kill the local town guards, but only Li Keyong, Liu Rengong, Yang Xingmi, Wang Jian, and other feudal towns that had always disobeyed Zhu Quanzhong ignored the edict of the Son of Heaven, while other feudal towns obeyed the edict and killed the local eunuchs.

Since then, the power of eunuchs, who had been authoritarian for a long time since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, has been completely attacked.

In March, the Son of Heaven crowned Zhu Quanzhong as the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, so that Zhu Quanzhong had the title of commanding troops everywhere, and his arrogance became even more arrogant.

And Zhu Quanzhong's ally Cui Yin relied on Zhu Quanzhong's power to monopolize the government and act arbitrarily, and the actions of the Son of Heaven had to be reported to him. The punishments and rewards of the court depended on his preferences, and the officials inside and outside the court were in awe of him.

Soon, Zhu Quanzhong changed the commander of the Son of Heaven's pro-army to his son Zhu Youlun, and appointed the general Zhang Tingfan as the palace envoy, Wang Yin as the imperial city envoy, and Jiang Xuanhui as the envoy of the street.

Since then, Zhu Quanzhong's henchmen have spread all over the palace and the palace, and they have completely controlled the power of the imperial court.

And Zhu Quanzhong can also withdraw his hand from Guanzhong and reconsider the problem of the next opponent. It's a pity that Zhu Yanshou has already been killed at this time, and the civil strife in Huainan has basically been calmed down, only Tian Yan is trapped in the lonely city of Xuanzhou, and he can't be used as Zhu Quanzhong's internal response, so he can't do anything in vain.

"At the beginning, Jing Xiang said that Tian Yan's rebellion would not last long and would be put down by Yang Xingmi, but he didn't believe it at that time, but now it seems that he sees it more thoroughly." Zhu Quanzhong sighed.

Now the question is not that he will lead his troops south to make trouble for Yang Xingmi, but whether Yang Xingmi will raise troops to the north to respond to Wang Shifan after quelling the civil strife. During this time, Zhu Youning led the army to attack Wang Shifan but could not open the situation, and besieged Bochang City for more than a month without conquering it, which made Zhu Quanzhong very dissatisfied.

"Send an order to Zhu Youning, let him speed up his attack, and be sure to eliminate Wang Shifan within three months! Otherwise, Hugh blames Gu for not recognizing him as a nephew! ”