At the end of July, Lingnan was still warm, but the contradiction between Liuzhou and Guizhou was becoming more and more acute. In the face of Geng Nanzhong's seizure of power, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan both chose to bow down and obey orders after a slight hesitation, which was not a smart choice for them.

When the Qi army came in, was it easy to be a general with heavy troops, or was it easy to be a high-ranking official at home? The choice speaks for itself.

But this also made the pressure on Xu Huiyan's shoulders suddenly heavy. Because he lost all his teammates, he faced the will sent by the small court to summon him to the court alone, and his heart was like pressing a big stone.

However, Xu Huiyan is also a decisive person, since he has already boarded Emperor Lu's ship, and the instructions of the others have been handed over, then just follow it.

In August, the "good news" began to reach the ears of Emperor Lu one after another.

Just when the matter of the fleet escort came naturally, Yidu, who was familiar with Emperor Lu's temperament, faced the waves that had been set off by the people, and the joint name of nearly 100 Chinese and foreign maritime merchants, while being silent, sighed in his heart: It is really a familiar formula, a familiar taste. Emperor Lu always looks for a white glove before doing something out of the ordinary. However, the person who promoted it was only a small naturalized maritime businessman, but it also surprised the bigwigs.

At this time, the contradictions of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty finally broke out.

Xu Huiyan's general Hu Yantong led 3,000 troops out of Liuzhou and arrived in Xiangzhou, and then waited until a heavy rainstorm was over, and then led the army straight into Xunzhou.

Xunzhou was once occupied by the pursuing Qi army, but after several battles with Xu Huiyan that seemed to be real and false, the Qi army withdrew from Xunzhou, and Xu Huiyan was like Liu Erzhou, which was ceded to the small court.

It's just that the Southern Song Dynasty was also weak, and after crossing the hurdle of fighting in Yongzhou, he let the old handsome master go to the town. However, the latter had run out of oil, and when he arrived in Xunzhou, he just started to form a garrison, and he fell ill, and the situation in Xunzhou was in chaos later.

The planter is bedridden, and the government decree does not go out of Xunzhou Prefecture. After that, the Tusi strategy of the small court made the chaotic situation in Xunzhou even more chaotic. Tusi's men and horses are in control of the county.

Huyantong took advantage of the rain break to send troops, chose a quick battle, and led troops all the way to Xunzhou Prefecture. There is only one purpose for doing this, that is, to threaten Guizhou from the side. This was not a direct threat to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it was a signal flare.

It took Huyan two days to rush all the way from Xiangzhou to Guiping, one of the only three counties in Xunzhou. Guiping in the west, the state city in the middle, and Pingnan in the northeast. Guiping County is not at all like Xiangzhou and Liuzhou cities that have not experienced war and war, and Guiping County has already suffered heavy losses after military disasters and man-made disasters, not to mention that with the fall of the Seed Master, with the recognition of the right of Tusi by the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, Guiping County has been controlled by a group of cave barbarians who came out of the mountains.

This is the disaster that Geng Nanzhong did. This guy canonized all over the raw and cooked people are toast, how can there be no additional when selling so well? In addition to winning over the people of Guangnan West Road, his biggest purpose was to take the opportunity to gather local soldiers and enhance the strength of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. The current county of Guiping is a victim of this indulgent policy.

After Guiping was 'controlled' by the Tusi soldiers and horses, the city was already very populated, and almost half of the city was empty.

There are about five or six hundred people stationed here under the Tusi Clan, and there are two reasons. One is to serve the Great Song Dynasty; The other is to ride on the head of the Han gentry a little bit to make a fortune.

The latter is still very attractive to toasts. It is not difficult to bully the flat-headed people among the Han people, and it is rare to be a large gentry in the city, and they are in collusion with the local government. But now that they have become officials, looking at the appearance of those gentry who dare not speak out, looking at their submissive appearance, that heart is sour.

As soon as the Huyantong army arrived, the wind swept into the city, and it didn't take much effort to break through the city and slaughter five or six hundred caves.

It was none other than Zhang Jun who went to Liuzhou to announce the decree. Although this person followed Geng Nanzhongli through regimental training and the fiasco of Nan'an, he lacked experience and did not participate in the fighting battle, but Hu Yantong was different, he was a person who followed Xu Huiyan to fight with Fang Lajun on Liangzhejiang Road. In those two years, what was killed was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and it was a mess everywhere.

Therefore, he will never be soft on killing, and Zhang Jun has some other scruples, those are all Tusi soldiers, and he persuaded Hu Yantong a few words, but Hu Yantong also has his own reason this time. His boss is about to turn his face with the small court in Guizhou, and he has repeatedly made enemies with Tusi, is it necessary for him to be scruple about that?

The generals under him all thought that these people looked down on the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. Some people even think that if the boss falls out with Guizhou, it is a good place to go straight to Lu Qi. So, Hu Yantong gave an order, and the soldiers and horses of the department completely let go of their hands and feet at the boundary of Xunzhou and started to kill.

In fact, anyone with a smarter brain will understand that Xu Huiyan sent Hu Yancheng to "suppress the bandits" at this time, and he did not ask Guizhou for any instructions in advance, which was completely a matter for Xu Huiyan to decide on his own, which in itself already means something.

This is like telling everyone that he, Xu Huiyan, has already arrived at the boat gang, and if anyone wants to make trouble, he will jump ship.

Hu Yantong captured more than 500 people in Guiping, but after a little screening, the heads rolled down, and there were two or three hundred people who made ghosts. Because of these people, there is either blood on their hands, or there are many evil deeds, or they themselves are Han people who fled into the mountains, and they are not wronged to kill.

The army did not delay at all in Guiping, and the next day Huyan led the army to leave the county town of Guiping, which was full of blood, and went straight to Xunzhou.

In Xunzhou City, the seed master is bedridden, and the seed Yanchong only stays by his side to serve, and the power cannot be said to be a side, where is the prestige of the seed master, can it be ignored casually? But at such a time, the Seed Master Dao can only acquiesce to Xunzhou Zhizhou taking over power.

The veteran Seed Master Dao naturally knew what the consequences of doing this would be, so his illness was even more serious, and Chong Yanchong could only stay by the bedside.

This Xunzhou Zhizhou is none other than Tang Ke. This person has a great enmity with the Fujian army, if he is not bent on going his own way, why did Li Heng die in Zhangzhou? But he escaped early. If Xu Huiyan said that the hatred in his heart was even worse than Geng Nanzhong's.

Therefore, Tang Ke will definitely not be caught with his hands tied, because it is likely to be killed with his hands tied.

However, the course of this battle is good, Hu Yantong personally led a group of 500 elite soldiers, and rushed to Xunzhou City at night to ambush, while the main force was encamped more than 20 miles away, and then set off after midnight. So much so that it confused the defenders in Xunzhou City and Tang Ke himself. Launching a surprise attack at dawn, the chaotic Xunzhou defenders were like a swarm of headless flies, powerless to resist in the face of a sudden blow.

Fighting against such a rabble, Huyantong is extremely experienced, and there is no need to be so particular at all, the more direct and rude the way, the more victorious he can be. He led people to climb the city wall first, and then led a team of men and horses to fight directly into the Zhizhou Yamen, captured Tang Kesheng alive, and then the entire Xunzhou was stable.

The seed master fell ill too early, and he didn't lay a good foundation for the Xunzhou army at all. However, Tang Ke didn't know anything about military affairs, and only blindly pulled people into the army, which was originally a group of rabble, and after the recent high-speed expansion and annexation, the number of people seemed to have doubled, but it was even more scattered.

Of course, this does not prevent Tang Ke from continuing to dream. He dreamed that he had defended the city of Xunzhou, and Geng Nanzhong of Guizhou took the opportunity to send troops to attack Xuzhou and Liuzhou, and finally assisted the imperial court to eradicate the stumbling block of Xu Huiyan in one fell swoop. Later, they will be able to fully integrate the existing forces of the imperial court and combine with the local cave barbarians, which may not be able to resist the Qi army.

At least when they can't do anything, they can still flee to Dali with the emperor, and then enter Shu through Dali. At that time, even if they lose politics, they will not have a good reputation, and this will leave a foundation.

The land thief's heir is still young, and this is his biggest short handle. Geng Nanzhong has already asked the Imperial City Division to spread rumors, comparing the land thief with Zhou Shizong, how can the latter not be peerless, heroic and domineering? But once killed, children and grandchildren are not free.

The three of them became tigers, and all of them were golden. I don't believe that the land thief can really not be suspicious at all, and he can still trust the generals who have heavy troops. And those who lead the troops can really not worry at all, as long as there is a gap between the monarch and the minister, this is their victory.

Time is what Lu thieves need most, and the Lu family can only be considered stable when Lu Qian's son becomes an adult. And they are not the most lacking in time.

Well, there is no need to elaborate, what Tang Ke thinks is very beautiful. But he is a man, not a god, and there is no way to make the whole world change according to his imagination. Therefore, when Hu Yantong took the lead in front of him, Tang Ke sighed, closed his eyes, and just waited to die.

But he still has a bit of decency, he didn't scream in fright, and he didn't pee his pants and shout for mercy.

Tang Ke knew that there was an inextricable contradiction between himself and Xu Huiyan, and it was useless to say anything now, and it was better to save face.

Hu Yantong didn't have a whip to smash his skull, this person was going to be sent to Liuzhou to relieve the hatred in the heart of the handsome.

And the first battle of Xunzhou didn't need to say anything, a group of rabble completely lost their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another. Those who dared to flee were all dealt with by the main force of the Xu army, which arrived in a hurry later.

It can be said that the defenders of Xunzhou were almost wiped out in this battle, and even if a few lucky people escaped by chance, they would be frightened.

Hu Yantong once again sacrificed the butcher's knife, so that Xunzhou was completely submerged in blood.

In the thick smell of blood, Huyantong sent people to Guizhou to send the heads of several "bandit leaders" to Emperor Zhao to show their merits, but did not send Zhang Jun back to Guizhou by the way, and then asked someone to escort Tang Ke to Liuzhou. As for the entire war, the ancestors and grandchildren of the farming family who have always stayed in the mansion, as well as the two or three hundred relatives of the farming family, Huyantong is enshrined like an uncle.

This is obviously killing chickens and monkeys, using the head of Xunzhou to subdue the vigorous toast; Second, he gave the small court in Guizhou a blow to make the latter sober and sober.

After the news reached Liuzhou, Xu Huiyan, who was 'sick', conveyed an invitation to the toasts in the 'territory' and invited them to come to Liuzhou for a while.

To his anger and amazement, only three or two people came, and the rest of the place did not ignore them, but each of them sent many gifts, but the people who came were not very important, and Tusi himself refused to come on the grounds that the road was difficult or that he was 'sick'.

After Xu Huiyan was annoyed, he smiled with satisfaction.

In fact, he didn't intend to subdue all the toasts in the territory in one fell swoop. The location of the latter is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, those Tusi are unwilling to submit, he wants to exterminate the latter, but the strength is not lost.

It's enough to scare the toasts like this now. The fact that they can send a generous gift proves the fear in their hearts!