[Please keep in mind the domain name of this site " ", or search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] It was a sunny morning, Zhang Huan in more than 100 personal soldiers under the maintenance, in Xiangyang City inspection, at this moment Xiangyang City has been full of devastation, the original 300,000 population of Shannan first city, now there are less than 20,000 people left, all are old and weak women and children, nearly 200,000 people fled, the meat shield in the war, tortured to death after the city was broken, arrested, died of illness, all kinds of reasons make this time Xiangyang City no longer has the glory of the past.

The fire burned down Sancheng of the houses, there were ruins everywhere, and the empty streets and alleys were as silent as death, Zhang Huan only looked around, and then he was not in the mood to look any further.

"Back to camp!" He had no choice but to give an order, everyone turned their horses' heads and headed towards the barracks, there were five or six large camps of 100,000 troops, two of which were in the city, with a total of more than 30,000 soldiers, and the rest were stationed outside the city, and some sporadic troops were sent to various places to station, such as Xinye, Zaoyang and other places.

Zhang Huan's tent was set up near the south gate, which was originally a military camp of the Wang family, with complete facilities, and when he returned to the tent, he happened to meet a messenger.

"Governor! General He Lou sent Shuofang's battle report, which was already placed on the governor's table. ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "Got it." ”

Shuofang's 130,000-strong army attacked Li Zhengji, with He Lou Wuji's steady advance, Wang Siyu's surprise attack, and most of Li Zhengji's army were Hedong recruits, Zhang Huan was not worried that the two of them who had experienced dozens of battles would be defeated by Li Zhengji, but he was very eager to know the battle situation of Shuofang, the sooner Li Zhengji's rebellion was quelled, the more beneficial it would be for his battle in Shannan.

He walked quickly into the tent and saw a thick booklet on the table. He sat down and drank tea slowly while flipping through the report of He Lou Wuji.

To Zhang Huan's surprise, things were not as simple as he thought, and Duan Xiushi from the Western Surrender City also participated in the battle. And Wang Siyu actually fought with Hui Hui, Zhang Huan was slightly surprised, he put down the teacup and looked at it carefully.

The first battle took place on January 10. He Lou Wuji ordered Cheng Lie's department to recover Yan'an County to cut off Li Zhengji's way to the east, but Cheng Lie was ambushed by Li Zhengji's deputy general Liu Wenxi, suffered a defeat, and lost more than 2,000 people, but Wang Siyu guessed Li Zhengji's attempt to send an army to attack Hexi, and he also set up an ambush in Yanran County, annihilating more than 10,000 enemy troops who came to sneak attack in one fell swoop, and fought a very beautiful annihilation battle.16 .n specially vacated the east to let Li Zhengji abandon the city, but although Li Zhengji abandoned the city, he retreated to the north.

Wang Siyu encountered a joint counterattack by Li Zhengji and 20,000 Hui people during the pursuit, and thanks to Duan Xiushi, who attacked Hui Hui later, Wang Siyu's troops were able to withdraw to Lingwu County.

Thousands of miles? Zhang Huan suddenly found this name between the lines, his old friend many years ago turned out to be the commander of the Hui army, Zhang Huan only then understood the meaning of the Northern Party Xiang Army, Tuoba Qianli naturally wanted to rebuild his party Xiang people kingdom somewhere in Shuofang. Become a vassal of the Hui Hui, and the Hui can also get a Shuo Fang through him.

In this way, Zhang Huan also understood Li Zhengji's scheme, the so-called army of the Hui people was his invitation, yes, he should have guessed this a long time ago, when his secret agent reported that Li Zhengji sent someone to return to the Hui, he didn't react for a while.

Zhang Huan shook his head regretfully. Continue to look at it, after encountering the failure of the pursuit, He Lou Wuji boldly gave up Lingwu County and retreated south, and sure enough, Li Zhengji and Tuoba Qianli had a conflict on the issue of whether to continue to go south, and Li Zhengji went south to Hexi alone. Attempt to seize Wuwei. was attacked by Wang Siyu and He Lou Wuji in Huijun, and Li Zhengji was defeated. Escaped into the Hui Dynasty.

The two then went north and attacked Lingwu County in a big way, He Lou Wuji used gunpowder to attack Lingwu City at night, Tuoba Qianli was ambushed by Wang Siyu on the way out, and most of the 20,000 Hui troops were annihilated, and only 1,000 people fled.

Seeing this, Zhang Huan let out a long breath, that is to say, Li Zhengji's rebellion has been quelled, he closed the fold, pondered for a moment, took a blank fold, and prepared to write a fold to the imperial court, recommending the veteran Ma Phosphorus as the new Shuofang Jiedu envoy.

At this moment, there was a report from the soldiers outside the tent, "Governor Qiyu, we have caught a person, and he said that he has come to defect to you." ”

"Bring him in!"

Zhang Huan was interested, he put down the pen, the curtain was lifted, and the soldiers brought in a person, only to see that the person who came was a thin old man in his fifties, with a burnt yellow goatee tilted forward, a pair of small triangular eyes flashing with a cunning gaze, his clothes were tattered, covered in muddy water, and he looked very embarrassed. ://.bsp; The soldier let go of his arm, he moved slightly, and saluted Zhang Huanshen: "Qi Lu, a savage in Xiashan Village, see Zhang Dudu." ”

Savages of the mountain village! Zhang Huan suddenly smiled, when did Zhu's military advisor and the governor of Hanzhong County become a savage in the mountain village?

"Mr. Qi, but Zhu sent me to negotiate?"

"Definitely!" Qi Lu shook his head and said: "In fact, I left Zhu when I heard that Zhang Dudu occupied Shangyong in Yongqing County, this person is perverse and brutally killed, and if he doesn't listen to my advice, he will be spurned by the people of the world sooner or later!" ”

Speaking of this, Qi Lu sighed and said: "On the contrary, looking at Zhang Dudu, I would rather give up Jiangxia than help the people get rid of suffering, and you can know the autumn in one leaf, and the one who will become a big thing in the future is none other than Zhang Dudu, Qi Lu has a little bit of learning, and he is willing to serve the king." ”

Zhang Huan smiled, glanced at him and asked, "Now that I want to fight with Zhu, are you willing to help me?" ”

After that, he looked at this person coldly, if he immediately turned his face to help himself deal with the old master, this kind of person should not be wanted.

Qi Lu understood Zhang Huandi's thoughts, he bowed down again and said: "Qi only wants to have a clear conscience in doing things, and destroying Zhu early will only be beneficial to the people of Jingxiang, and besides, I am sincerely taking refuge in the governor, and I have already drawn a clear line with the past. Zhang Huan looked up to the sky and smiled, nodding. "Well said, I'm a little narrow-minded."

He pointed at Qi Lu and said, "Take Mr. Qi to bathe and change clothes, and come to see me after eating!" ”

Several pro-soldiers took Qi Lu down, and Zhang Huan picked up the pen again and wrote a note. handed it to the messenger and said: "You go back to the capital quickly, hand over this fold to the squire of the military department, Yuan Zai, and then order him to make a fold in the name of the military department at the same time." ”

"Yes!"

The messenger took the fold and hurried away from the tent. In a moment, several pro-soldiers had already brought in Qi Lu, who had finished cleaning up, and Qi Lu, who had finished grooming and changed into new clothes, was still not good-looking, but he was also graceful, twisting his beard and smiling, with three points of domination, no! Zhang Song's taste. All the way

Zhang Huan stood up, arched his hand at him and smiled: "Sir, please take a seat!" ”

Qi Lu was also not polite, and happily sat down opposite Zhang Huan. Without waiting for Zhang Huan to speak, he said in a low voice: "If the governor wants to destroy Zhu, you must not be soft-hearted, this person is extremely ambitious, even if he temporarily surrenders to the governor, he will rebel one day, don't want to use him because he is a cabinet minister." ”

Zhang Huan groaned for a moment and asked quietly: "But he is a minister of the imperial court, how can I kill in vain?" ”

Qi Lu's triangular eyes narrowed. He smiled slyly: "Okay, if the governor doesn't want to see this person again, it's really easy." "To the south, at the same time, the 30,000 troops of Jiangling and the 30,000 troops of Fushui County also went north at the same time, and three days later, the 120,000 army surrounded the small Nanzhang County like an iron bucket, and Zhu wanted to break out of the encirclement several times. They were all shot back by Zhang Huanjun's arrows, and he sent people to Zhang Huan's camp to sue for peace, but Zhang Huan's deputy general Li Shuangyu told the envoy that the governor had returned to Longyou to deal with Li Zhengji, and he would not be able to return until a month, and he couldn't do it. It was only speculated that he would wait for the return of the governor before deciding whether to fight or to make peace.

Zhang Huan's army did not attack the city either. The two armies were deadlocked in Nanzhang County for ten days. Abnormal movements began to appear in Zhu Junzhong.

Nanzhang County was originally a middle county, about more than 2,000 households, but almost most of them fled to Changshou County, and later by Zhu Xueren once ransacked, there are less than 200 families left in the city, but the poor nearly 1,000 people hold a trace of luck and refuse to flee their homes, after Zhu Dajun entered the county, except for dozens of young women were selected to serve Zhu, the rest all became Zhu's military rations.

As the military rations were running out and the people in the city were exhausted, the old and sick soldiers in the army began to become a new source of food.

Several generals in the army went to Zhu to discuss breaking through, but Zhu refused to meet, and only issued an order, there were not many soldiers in the army, and there was not enough food, so they could draw lots in the camp to decide life and death.

Several people looked at each other, and one of them raised his arms and shouted angrily: "A soldier can't die on the battlefield, but he has to be eaten by his own people, isn't it chilling." ”

Another veteran named Ye Jian saw that there were a lot of Zhu guards at the door, he pulled the dissatisfied generals, a few people understood, all left with hatred, came to the camp, Ye Jian called several people into his tent, and ordered the guards to watch the tent door, he whispered to everyone: "I think this time Zhu will not escape the catastrophe, can you have the heart of self-protection?" ”

Several of them were silent, for a long time, and just now scolded Zhu Zhijiang and said: "We are all old people who follow his father's generation, and we should not betray him, but this person is too brutal, killing and eating people at every turn, and he is ruined by him like a ghost domain in the world, he has lost the hearts of the people in the world, if he follows him to the end, I am afraid that when I write a traitorous biography in the future, we will also be entered into it, what face to see the ancestors, it's just that I would rather die than follow him." ”

Another person also hated: "He just arrested a man as a soldier, and arrested other people's mother-in-law to the camp, such a shame, which man can bear it, I have persuaded him many times, but he turned a deaf ear, this person does not listen to the generals, only uses the clansmen, there are still a few veterans left with him, all of them were killed by him, even Mr. Qi left him, I only hate myself for being blind." ”

Ye Jian saw that the time was ripe, so he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "I want to kill this person and surrender to Zhang Huan, ask for a future, are you willing to help me?" ”

"Yes!" One person stood up and said angrily: "This person can't redeem his evil after a hundred deaths, I, Qin, am willing to be the vanguard of General Ye!" ”

Zhu lives in Nanzhang County, in order to prevent his subordinates from making trouble, he ordered 2,000 guards to protect around the county office, these days, Zhu seems to know that the general trend has gone, he is very depressed, every day only with the maid to have fun, ignore military affairs, only a glimmer of hope in Chang'an Zhu Tao, hope that he can persuade Cui Xiaofu to accept his allegiance, even if he loses the military power, at least he can be a free prince, Fugui for a lifetime, Zhang Huan besieged him but not attacked, but also in his arms, can delay time as much as possible.

In the afternoon, after he drank and had fun with a few maids, he was already in a half-drunk state, so he helped a few maids to go back to the room to rest, but unexpectedly, he just arrived in the courtyard, but suddenly heard the shouting of killing outside, only to see a bloody soldier stumbling and running to report: "Lord, the big thing is not good, Ye Jian and more than a dozen generals have rebelled and have been killed." ”

Zhu's drunkenness was suddenly awakened, through the half-hidden door, he had seen a group of soldiers rushing to this side with knives, and the backyard also came from the shouting of killing, he was so frightened that he trembled, turned around and was about to run over the wall, but he was too fat, he couldn't turn over at all, at this time, a soldier opened his bow is an arrow, hit the back of Zhu's neck, Zhu only felt that the sky was spinning, his hand was loosened, like a pig fell from the wall, the arrow passed through his throat, when he was dying, he saw more than 100 soldiers raising knives to rush towards him, Everyone's eyes were filled with bitter hatred.

He suddenly remembered Chang'an, remembered the Empress Dowager Zhang who moaned tactfully under him, when he was majestic and heroic, a silver hair flying in the wind, like a song board, the years had passed, he slowly closed his eyes, life was far away, and there was a proud smile on the corner of his mouth. One of his own soldiers came to report urgently: "Report to the governor, there has been a change in the city, and the defenders have thrown their armor and swords from the city." ”

Zhang Huan was overjoyed, knowing that Qi Lu was really right, Zhu was brutal and unkind, and his subordinates would have different intentions when the road was poor, but he didn't need to supervise a single soldier.

He walked out of the camp quickly, at this time the city gate has been wide open, a team of soldiers raised their hands to surrender, a moment, the soldiers brought several generals, one of the generals held a lacquer plate, he half knelt down, the lacquer plate was held high, "The sin general Ye Jian below, all hate Zhu for cruelty, kill him, and dedicate his head to Zhang Dudu." ”

A personal soldier stepped forward to remove the red cloth, only to see Zhu's face lifelike, and his eyes seemed to be full of nostalgia for life.

Zhang Huan exhaled lightly and resolutely ordered: "Pass my order and accept surrender!" ”

In February of the seventh year of Xuanren, Zhu of Hanzhong County was killed by his generals in Nanzhang County, Xiangyang County, and more than 30,000 people surrendered to Zhang Huan.

Two months later, Zhang Huan's army returned to Hanzhong and Longyou one after another, and left 30,000 people in Shannan counties for regimental training, Li Shuangyu as the Xiangyang regimental training envoy, subordinate to the military department, and appointed Lin Jiuhan as the Changsha regimental training envoy, and his 30,000 subordinates were also distributed in the counties of Jiangnan West Province and belonged to the military department.

At the beginning of March, when the spring rain dyed a stream of new green, Zhang Huan arrived in Lantian County, Chang'an, by a small hat in a flat boat, through Danshui, in the picturesque smoke and rain.

(The third monthly pass has been updated, thank you.) )

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