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As a military envoy of Youzhou, Manor is listed as a senior general, and has been in Youzhou for many years, and knows a lot about Youzhou's military strength.

The manor told Li Mao that the army in Youzhou could fight well and fight tough battles, and that one was an embroidered pillow, just a decoration, the background of the generals, their personality preferences, resume anecdotes, and Zhu Xun's relatives, and told Li Mao one by one.

Li Mao was overjoyed, stayed in the manor in the staff hall as a senior staff officer, accompanied the left and right, and ordered the clerk to enter the town of Dong Gaozhou, Zheng Xiaozhang town Liaodong City, Kim Daoan town Pyongyang, Gaosu town Bezhou, Zhu Jiuzhen Gezhou, and did the best of the elite of Liaodong to enter the customs to quell the rebellion of Zhu Hui.

On the fourth day after the Youzhou Incident, Li Chun received Zhang Hongjing's report, was shocked, and said again and again: "What kind of fame Zhang Hongjing has done, I handed over a good Youzhou to him, how did I do such a ridiculous thing." ”

After losing his temper, he smiled again: "Fortunately, there are still Xiongwu troops who are loyal ministers, but only 20,000 Xiongwu troops, can they quell the rebellion?"

Prime Minister Li Jiang said: "Lu Longjun is not monolithic, like Cheng Weigong in Zhuozhou and Hao Jun in Danzhou, they are all loyal to the Liu family and his son, and they don't buy the accounts of the Zhu family and his son. As long as the imperial court does not abandon Zhang Yuanli and still allows him to preside over the rebellion, they may stand up at any time. ”

Li Chundao: "People's hearts are unpredictable, you are optimistic, I am not optimistic, Henghai Cheng Zhigong, Yiwu Zhang Maozhao are all watching from the wall, Chengde Wang Chengyuan is very active, I think he is the first to jump out." ”

Li Jiang said: "Wang Chengyuan is not worried, but Tian Hongzheng can be contained from the south." It's Liaodong."

Li Chun smiled bitterly: "I forgot about him, you see how he will react"

Li Jiang smiled and said: "He fought the Khitan, fought Silla, fought Silla and fought the Khitan and Murowei, captured the city of Yingzhou, and conquered the Bohai Kingdom in the east. He is now strong and strong, but he does not have enough food and clothing, like a mountain king, he doesn't come out to rob, sugar"

Li Chun said with a smile: "King of the Mountain, you said well, he is a King of the Mountain, raising too many soldiers, relying on those poor states and broken counties can't afford to raise at all, he still has to come out to rob, I heard that he built a pass called Shanhaiguan on the way in and out of the Central Plains, it can be seen that his strength is not as powerful as the legend, but the chaos in Youzhou gave him a great opportunity, I think he waved his army into the customs is an ironclad thing." Take precautions. ”

Li Jiang took the opportunity to suggest: "The case of Youzhou cannot be opened, please make up your Majesty as soon as possible, send a member of the important ministers to Youzhou to sit in the town, and order the armies of Chengde, Weizhou, Henghai, Yiwu, Hedong, and Liaodong to crusade against Zhu Huan, so as to calm the heart of the world." ”

Li Chundao: "Send a member of the important minister, you see who is suitable"

Li Jiang said: "The minister is neutral. ”

Li Chun laughed, on the second day of Yanying Palace, Li Jiang proposed in public that Pei Du should be appointed as the envoy of Youzhou from all sides, and lead the army of 150,000 troops in seven towns to attack Zhu Xun, and several prime ministers tended to agree after fierce debates.

So the edict ordered the six towns of Hedong, Chengde, Weibo, Henghai, Yiwu, and Liaodong to send 150,000 troops to quell the Zhu Hui Rebellion together with Zhang Hongjing of Youzhou. The prime minister Pei Du was sent to Youzhou to recruit envoys from all sides, and all armies were uniformly dispatched, with Qiu Shiliang as the camp supervisor.

The edict was still on the way, and the armies of Liaodong and Chengde had already entered the territory of Youzhou.

Chengde Wang Chengyuan sent the general Wang Ting out of Shenzhou, avoided Yingzhou and Mozhou and went straight to Pingzhou, claiming to copy Zhu Xun's lair, but in fact, he was stationed under the city of Pingzhou, and jointly defended the Andong army with the guard mother sea.

The situation reversed overnight, Zhu Xun suddenly became a chaotic minister and thief, he was not panicked, the imperial court sent troops to attack him in six towns, but the main force was only one part of Liaodong, and the rest of Weizhou was too far away, and it was bound to be contained by Chengde, and he was powerless.

Hedong has just changed his commander, and the new handsome Zhu Xie Zhiyi is a Shatuo person, who has risen too fast, and his foundation is too shallow to convince the public, except for his own 8,000 Shatuo army, only the outsider Yan Qin is willing to obey him.

Yan Qin's roots in Hedong were not deep, and his soldiers and horses were limited, so he could not play a big role. Moreover, there are mountains and mountains between Hedong and Youzhou, and it is not easy to come over

The strength of Henghai and Yiwu is too weak, Cheng Zhigong and Zhang Maozhao, one big and one small, will only bluff and will not really contribute, and the strength of the two towns is limited, even if he really takes the wrong medicine and is ruthless with himself, there is no need to be afraid of him.

He is the rebel of the court today, and he will repel the six-way army tomorrow, he Zhang Hongjing is rebellious, he is a loyal minister or a rebel, and now it all depends on the victory or defeat on the battlefield, and the winner is the king and the loser is Kou.

In the autumn of the ninth year of Yuanhe, Zhu Kerong gathered 30,000 troops and arrived directly under the city of Yanzhou, Zhang Hongjing's Khitan army with great hopes failed to come to the decisive battle with the rebels as scheduled, and the 20,000 Xiongwu troops stationed in the city belonged to three systems, Mu Quanwan, Han Yanlu, and He Hong did not belong to each other, each with different intentions, and the city of Yanzhou was originally small, and the grain and grass were insufficient, even Zhang Hongjing, a person who did not know soldiers, knew that it could not be defended.

Wei Yong privately advised: "It seems that Fuzhou can't hold it, and the minister should make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Hongjing sighed: "Although Youzhou is big, where is the place to live, Zhuozhou Cheng Weigong is unreliable, where else can he go?"

Wei Yong said: "Why don't you go to the camp of Yan Qin of the Hedong Army to take refuge, he is Yan Li's righteous son, Yan Li entered Beijing when he first entered Beijing, and Xianggong helped him speak." ”

Zhang Hongjing pondered for a moment, and said: "The Xiongwu army can't fight the rebels, can the Hedong army be fine Yan Qin is said to be a tiger general, but there are too few soldiers and horses, alas, I shouldn't have protected Zhu Xie and made the people rebel and leave." ”

Shatuo is a branch of the Western Turks, also known as Chuyue, who used to live in the Hexi Corridor, and in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Uighurs captured Liangzhou occupied by the Tibetans. The Tibetans feared that Shatuo was secretly colluding with the Uighurs and planned to relocate them to the north of the Yellow River. The leader of Shatuo, Zhu Xidu, led all his troops to defect to the Tang Dynasty. Tubo pursued and killed, Shatuo people fought and left, only 2,000 of the 30,000 people were left to reach Lingzhou, Zhu Xie was loyal to the battle and died, and his son Zhu Xie Zhiyi succeeded to the throne.

Fan Xichao, a veteran who took in the Shatuo Department that year, later moved to Hedong, and Zhu Xie Zhiyi also went to Hedong. Fan Xichao returned to Beijing in old age, Zhu Xie Zhiyi was squeezed out of Hedong, but Zhang Hongjing, who succeeded Fan Xichao out of Hedong, thought that this person was loyal and brave, and he was a material that could be made, so he vigorously promoted to Chang'an.

Hedong is the land of the Tang Dynasty, Taiyuan and Chang'an, Luoyang are tied to the five capitals, the officialdom of Hedong is intertwined, self-contained, and the yang of Chang'an is violated. Therefore, at the invitation of Zhang Hongjing, Zhu Xie Zhiyi became the envoy of the capital.

Zhang Hongjing was hated by the Hedong bureaucracy because of the promotion of Zhu Xie Zhiyi, and this time he talked about sending troops to quell the rebellion, and the crowd opposed it.

As soon as this kind of thing is talked about, it will be endless, Wei Yong persuaded: "The Anton Army has entered the customs, and we still have hope." ”

At the mention of Anton Army, Zhang Hongjing smiled bitterly, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, opened his eyes but did not speak, and walked out of the room to the courtyard. Wei Yong followed, and persuaded: "As long as Xianggong's Daxu does not fall, there is hope for the recovery of Youzhou, whether there are soldiers falling second, the six towns send 150,000 troops, Pei Xiang is also about to leave the town of Youzhou, Zhu Xun and his son will not last long." ”

Zhang Hongjing looked at a plum tree and was stunned for a while, and responded: "You can arrange it." ”

It is not easy to get out of the heavily defended Yanzhou, Wei Yong dressed Zhang Hongjing as a Taoist priest from the traveling side, and after walking around the street twice with a coat flag, he calmly came to the south gate of Yanzhou. ”

Zhang Hongjing went out alone and sat under the willow tree by the river until dusk, only to see Wei Yong and Zhang Zonghou, a small official pretending to be an errand officer, and a merchant pretending to be a merchant going home for funeral, all of them were disgraced.

The three of them will be together, Xiaoxing will stay overnight and go south, on the way always feel that there is a mysterious force secretly monitoring them, Zhang Hongjing is frightened, he has never been so sad since he was born in his mother's womb, every step is frightened, and he is riddled with nightmares every night.

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