Although Qin Zongquan was jointly exterminated by many jiedu envoys, with the defeat of Qin Zongquan, the former anti-Caizhou army alliance also quickly collapsed, and Zhu Quanzhong, Zhu Xuan, and Zhu Jin, the three former sworn brothers, also quickly broke up, and fought fiercely for the hegemony of the Central Plains. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a result, the remnants of Qin Zongquan survived, forming new warlord forces one after another.

Among these new forces, some of them, like Sun Ru, continued to brutalize the people, although they could run rampant for a while, but because they never won the hearts of the people, they were finally exterminated.

The other part learned the lessons of the rapid defeat of Qin Zongquan and others, and began to change, no longer wantonly killing the people as before, but appeasing them and resuming production, plus they were lucky, and there were no powerful feudal towns in the place where they were located, so they gradually survived and even developed among the many forces in the late Tang Dynasty. Among them, the most famous is Hunan Ma Yin, who is regarded by Yang Wu as a big trouble.

And in addition to these two cases, there is also a remnant of the Caizhou army that has also been preserved. The strength of this part of the remnants is actually not bad, not only retains the tiger and wolf style of the Caizhou Army at the beginning, but also has a lot of troops. It's just that their luck is poor, and their strength is far behind the surrounding forces, and they can't stand alone in the cracks of the surrounding powerful feudal towns. It exists, so it can only choose to take refuge in one side.

The situation in Gwangju is of this kind, located between the two powerful feudal domains of Huainan and Zhu Quanzhong. The possibility of existence.

However, as the remnants of the Caizhou army, they were also mortal enemies with Zhu Quanzhong, and although Huainan also exterminated the remnants of the Caizhou army, Sun Ru's army, they had no grudges with the remnants of the Caizhou army in Gwangju, so seven years ago, when Zhu Yanshou led the army to attack Gwangju with some tricks, the local remnants of the Caizhou army took refuge in Huainan.

However, at that time, the Qingkou War had not yet broken out, and Huainan was facing strong pressure from the north, so it was also very indulgent to these remnants of the Caizhou army in Gwangju. And in order not to irritate them, Yang Xingmi specially appointed the general of Sun Rujun, who was also a member of the Caizhou army, Chai Zaiyong was the Gwangju assassin, and at the same time, Chai Zaiyong brought only more than 1,000 troops, and the remnants of the local Caizhou army had more than 4,000, so Chai Zaiyong basically had no right to speak in the local area.

However, with the implementation of the policy of separating the military and the government this time, this equilibrium in Gwangju was naturally broken, and the remnants of the local Caizhou army realized that the situation was not good; And when Yang Wu officially announced the appointment of Li Yu as the assassin of Gwangju and led 5,000 troops to take office, this was obviously not good.

These remnants of the Caizhou Army are also not good, and they are extremely hostile to outsiders, so they have been empty of firewood for a long time.

In recent years, although the remnants of these Caizhou troops have been much more restrained than in the Qin Zongquan era, they are not much better than they were at the beginning in terms of mutilating the people, so they have also been criticized in Huainan.

And as time went by, the grudge between him and Zhu Quanzhong gradually faded, and many people were no longer satisfied with staying in small Gwangju for the rest of their lives; In particular, after years of exploitation in Gwangju, the people have long been out of poverty, and according to the habits of the Caizhou army, it is time to change places; In addition, Zhu Quanzhong's power has become stronger and stronger in recent years, and his momentum is far above Huainan. So many people gradually had the idea of betraying Huainan and taking refuge in Zhu Quanzhong.

Yang Wu still remembers that in history, just next year, there was a rebellion in Gwangju, and the local forces drove Chai Zaiyong away and took refuge in Zhu Quanzhong.

At that time, Zhu Quanzhong had already completely defeated Wang Shifan, had the momentum to fight all over the world, and completely controlled the situation in the DPRK and China, and his power had almost reached its peak, so after learning of the Gwangju rebellion, he immediately personally led the army south to respond, and the Huainan army besieging Gwangju had to withdraw.

The reason why Yang Wu mainly moved Gwangju was to use Gwangju to establish authority, and secondly, he wanted to intensify the contradiction in advance and solve the Gwangju problem before Zhu Quanzhong freed up.

Now, as Yang Wu began to implement the separation of military and government, his goal has obviously been achieved.

At the beginning of August, when the entire Huainan was busy with the autumn harvest, the Gwangju rebellion broke out, and the remnants of the local Caizhou army pushed a Dutou named Wang Yan as the leader and sent troops to attack the Thorn Shifu for Chai Zause.

Although Chai Zaiyong was prepared in advance, he was still outnumbered, and finally led his troops to escape from the city and wait for reinforcements.

On the same day, the rebels plundered in Gwangju and sent envoys north to ask Zhu Quanzhong to send reinforcements.

After the news reached Guangling, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that what should come is always coming. It is better for a rebellion to break out at this time than next year, at least without directly facing the army led by Zhu Quanzhong himself.

He knew that many people in Huainan were watching at this time, and if he dealt with it well, the separation of military and political affairs would almost be done; If you don't deal with it well, it is inevitable that there will be no waves elsewhere.

Yang Wu's way of dealing with it was, of course, to send troops to suppress it, and in the face of the rebellion, there was actually no other choice. However, now that Yang Wu needs to sit in Guangling, it is impossible to lead the troops in person, so the candidate for the commander of the army needs to be carefully considered.

At present, the generals who can fight in Huainan are naturally a few people who have been appointed by Yang Wu as the governor or the commander of the capital.

However, among the six governors, Li Shenfu and Wang Maozhang were outside, Zhou Ben was beside Yang Xingmi, Taimeng was guarding Xuanzhou, Li Chengsi was guarding Shouzhou, and Yang Wu himself wanted to guard Guangling, all of which could not be moved lightly, so they could only choose among the commanders.

In the end, Yang Wu decided to let Qin Pei be the envoy and lead an army of 5,000 people, plus the 5,000 state soldiers that Li Yu would bring, as well as hundreds of remnants of firewood reuse, which should be enough.

In fact, according to Yang Wu's thoughts, the best candidate to lead troops in this counterinsurgency is Chai Reuse.

Don't look at Chai Zaiyong, he was not famous during this period, and he served as the assassin of Gwangju for many years, but he could only be a puppet, so he was called an incompetent assassin by many people in Huainan and was very despised.

However, Yang Wu knew that the ability to reuse firewood was actually very strong, and he was the most capable general after Li Shenfu and Tai Meng, a group of veterans, and his ability to command the troops was no worse than Zhou Ben and Wang Maozhang. This time, Yang Wuli overrode public opinion and let him serve as the commander of the capital, which is the reason.

However, now that the reorganization of the army has not been completely completed, Chai Zai can only use the troops in his hands with a few hundred people, and it is obviously unrealistic to temporarily increase his troops, and the problem of uncoordinated command is prone to occur.

Fortunately, it is not bad to use Qin Pei as a general, and he can also brush up on his merits for him who has just been appointed as the commander of the capital. Therefore, on the day he learned the news, Qin Pei led his army to leave Guangling, and the speed made Huainan speechless.

PS: Someone mentioned that Yang Wu's sister's son should be Yang Wu's nephew, which is indeed the author's mistake, and it has been corrected, thank you for your advice.