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Zhu Xun's connections and prestige in Lu Longjun are by no means comparable to Zhu Kejian, after being an unfilial son who killed his father, Zhu Kejian had to surrender to the imperial court and obtain the emperor's leniency, so as to save his life and the glory and wealth of the Zhu family. ，。 Read the full text of the latest chapter

The incident happened suddenly, the mother sea who guarded Pingzhou didn't know about it, and when he heard about the changes in Youzhou, he was shocked, and asked left and right: "This Erlang looks inconspicuous, but he can have such a means, and even Dalang has played with it, what should we do?"

Left and right persuasion: "The lord is dead, Lu Long's army will be torn apart, and he will no longer be able to fight against the imperial court, but the general still conforms to the general trend and makes a decision as soon as possible." ”

Mu Dahai smiled bitterly: "What did you make a decision earlier, didn't you want me to surrender to Li Mao, alas, I did it vigorously, thinking that I could do it, but in the end, I was tied up and became a prisoner of others." ”

That being said, the mother sea people are not confused, no matter who kills Zhu Hui, without Zhu Hui, the big tree of the Zhu family is unreliable, the tree is scattered, it is better to find a new tree to climb.

Mu Dahai sent someone to secretly contact Li Mao to discuss the matter of surrendering to the imperial court.

The change in Youzhou surprised Wang Tingcuo, the commander of the Chengde Army, and asked the left and right strategists several times: "Why did you get into this step, Zhu Shuai, a good man who is fierce and fierce, how to say that he will fall, who is the black hand?"

No one could give him the answer he wanted, and the strategist Fu Yalai persuaded: "As soon as Zhu Wei dies, Lu Long's army will be torn apart, and sooner or later it will be broken by the imperial court, and the general will make plans early" After Fu Yalai and Wang Tingcao were both Uighurs, Wang Tingcao did not trust the Han advisers, but in case of secrets, he only consulted with Fu Yalai alone.

So he asked, "Where to go, you show me the way." ”

Fu Yalai said: "Zhu Huan's death, Lu Long's army is divided, and each has one side. Coupled with the Yan Qin Department of the Hedong Army and Li Mao of the Andong Army, Youzhou is bound to be torn apart, after this chaos, the imperial court will also have the intention of dismemberment, I advise the general to immediately withdraw the army to occupy Yingmo Erzhou, which can not only get a piece of the pie from Youzhou, but also will not offend Heng Shuai. ”

Wang Ting was overjoyed, immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops, 10,000 Cheng German troops immediately marched south, with lightning speed to occupy Ying, Mo Erzhou, the two states border with Chengde in the south, border with Henghai in the east, border with Yiwu in the west, and the hinterland of Youzhou in the north.

The four major forces will carefully take care of this buffer land, and Wang Tingcuo can do it on all sides.

Wang Tingcao withdrew completely overnight, and the pressure on the mother sea doubled, and now there are two paths in front of him, either surrender unconditionally and accept the reorganization of the Anton Army, or stay and fight a battle, and win or lose on the battlefield.

When Mu Dahai hesitated, Li Mao had transferred Shixiong's third division out of the customs, and together with Huang Renfan's fourth division and Xue Bihua's ninth division, Pingzhou was besieged.

After being invited to watch from the city, Mu Dahai did not say a word, and immediately went out of the city to surrender.

Hearing that Pingzhou had fallen, Chengde had withdrawn, and the Andong army was marching towards Youzhou, Hao Jun, the defender of Danzhou, immediately killed the prison army sent by Zhu Hui in the camp and announced that he would return to the imperial court.

Zhuozhou Cheng Weigong, who is the best at seeing the wind and rudder, is not far behind, he ordered the prison army of Zhu Wei to be imprisoned, and closed the city gate in the name of guarding against thieves.

The Khitans were not slow to react, they sent people to inform the Hedong Army, and decided to abandon the Shencheng Cottage and march in the direction of Yanzhou to crusade against the rebels stationed in Yanzhou.

Fuzhou is the northwest gateway of Youzhou, there is no room for loss, the Khitan wolf ambition, please God is easy to send God, Zhu Kejian urgently transferred Zhu Keding to enter Yanzhou, the Khitan people out of the city.

Less than three days after Zhu Keding's army withdrew, a mysterious army suddenly appeared near the original station, occupied the old barracks of his department almost effortlessly, and used it as a base to march north to the city of Youzhou.

This large army crossed the sea from Liaodong by sea boats, changed boats at the mouth of the river, and marched along the inland waterways, the bottom of this kind of ships was wide and flat, suitable for inland river travel, and each ship carried 100 soldiers, which was the 11th Division of the Anton Army that was invincible in Liaodong.

The 11th Division, that is, the naval division of the Andong Army, used to take the Liao River as the axis, went south and north, or fought first, or cooperated with friendly forces, and repeatedly made war exploits, and never encountered an opponent.

In recent years, they have added large sea ships, in addition to continuing to dominate the inland rivers, they have also extended their tentacles to the sea, this time Li Mao used thirteen large ships to cross the sea expedition, just to catch Lu Longjun off guard, and now it seems that his goal has been achieved, and the sudden appearance of three thousand troops under Youzhou City has brought unimaginable shock to the defenders.

Even if Zhu Wei was still alive, such a blow would have made him panic and greatly speed up the war.

Zhu Kejian sent an envoy out of the city to finalize the surrender with General Xue by the river, Zhu Kejian wanted to surrender to Li Mao, but Li Mao did not agree, he insisted that Zhu Kejian surrender to Zhang Hongjing.

However, in order to show his sincerity, Zhu Kejian opened the city gate and invited General Xue to enter the city to take over the official office, barracks, city gate and treasury, and Lu Longjun handed over his horses and bows and arrows, locked in the barracks and waited for the reorganization of the imperial court.

At the end of October, Li Mao entered the customs and personally led the main forces of the 3rd, 4th, and 8th Divisions and the newly built Xiongwu Army in Pingzhou to Jizhou.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zheng Songguo, the defender of Jizhou, tied up Zhu Xun's adopted son Zhu Keliang and raised the city to surrender to the Andong army.

So far, the rebels east of Youzhou have been completely swept away, Pingzhou, Danzhou, and Jizhou were occupied by the Anton army, Ying and Mozhou were occupied by Wang Tingcuo, Zhuozhou Cheng Weigong remained neutral, and Zhu's territory was only left in Youzhou and Yanzhou, and Yanzhou was trapped by the Khitans, and the Youzhou garrison was waiting for angels, and the counterinsurgency battle was fully successful.

Li Maobing occupied Youzhou City without blood, but Zhang Hongjing in the Hedong Army still seemed to be in a dream, because the news was not smooth, he only learned of Zhu Xun's death three days ago, but the cause of death was unclear, Zhang Hongjing speculated that Zhu Hui would be succeeded by Zhu Kerong after his death, although Zhu Kerong was young, he was both wise and brave, and he was a powerful character.

Zhang Hongjing speculated that the counterinsurgency war would take another year and a half, and it was difficult to predict who would die.

The victory came suddenly, and Zhang Hongjing was in a fog.

Zhu Kejian replaced his brother Zhu Kerong in charge of the Youzhou military power, took the initiative to surrender to the imperial court, and gave up Youzhou City without firing a single shot, and seemed to be an authentic loyal minister.

Li Mao took over the official office and sealed the treasury, but he did not enter the city, waiting for him to come forward to accept the surrender, which was enough to give him face, and Zhang Hongjing was very moved.

Under the escort of Yan Qin's Hedong Army and Zhuozhou Cheng Weigong, Zhang Hongjing returned to Youzhou City in style, and accepted Zhu Kejian's surrender in front of tens of thousands of soldiers.

He wanted to slam the box to the ground and then step on it twice.

But Zhang Hongjing still held back, he was the envoy of the Youzhou Festival of the Tang Dynasty, how could he be so out of shape in front of tens of thousands of soldiers.

The imperial court has not yet expressed its attitude towards Zhu Kejian's merits and demerits, and Zhang Hongjing listened to Wei Yong's suggestion to downplay it.

However, Zhu Kejian was very active, and after the surrender ceremony, he put shackles on himself, got into the prisoner car, and became a prisoner with a cloak and a hairdress, waiting for the ruling of the imperial court.

Zhang Hongjing, Li Mao, Yan Qin hand in hand, accompanied by Manor, Cheng Weigong, Hao Jun, Wei Yong, Zhang Zonghou, Zhang Lu and others, returned to the Jiedu Embassy, sat in the lobby of the military mansion, and accepted the worship and praise of Youzhou generals.

With beautiful flowers and fire, he climbed to the highest peak of his life.

But Zhang Hongjing couldn't find the slightest feeling of returning home, his mood was extremely desolate, cold as ashes.

Entering Youzhou City, Zhang Hongjing is the master, although this master is now in a desolate state of mind and is not in a state, but the things in the ceremony are still indispensable.

Fortunately, he also had two right-hand men Wei Yong and Zhang Zonghou busy for him, the housekeeper Zhang Ruixian, the loyal guards Huang Kui and Huang She, and Zhang Lu, who hurried back from Liaodong, all did their best, but they did not treat the distinguished guests of Hedong and Anton slowly.

Although the chaos in Youzhou has subsided, the aftermath is still full of trouble. Li Mao and Yan Qin didn't want to bother too much, but the angel hadn't arrived, and it was inconvenient for everyone to leave without permission, plus they had been tired of saddle horses for many days, and they also needed to rest and recuperate, so everyone stayed.

Yan Qin and Li Mao were already friends as early as Xichuan, Li Mao was a few years older than Yan Qin, and Yan Qin had always treated him as a brother. Li Mao inspected the officers and soldiers of the Hedong Army and said to Yan Qin: "It's not as good as the men and horses when you were in Shannan. ”

Yan Qin smiled awkwardly, although he did not command many troops in Shannan, he was the elite of a town, and at the moment, this army was temporarily pieced together by various departments in Hedong, mostly old and weak, good and bad.

Yan Qin said: "Don't look at it now, give me a year, and I can train them into a division of tigers and wolves, which is by no means inferior to any of the strong teams under your command." ”

Li Mao said: "I believe what you say, but the Eastern Crusade is over, and this army is about to be disbanded."

Yan Qin was choked for a moment, looked at Li Mao and said, "Brother Maohua wants to take me under his command."

Li Mao laughed and said: "How dare you, how dare you, you and I are brothers, if you are willing to come over, at least be the deputy commander of my Anton Army." Yan Qin said: "How dare you, how dare you, the fierce generals of the Anton Army are like clouds, Shi Xiong, Changmu Cang is famous in the sea, I don't dare to run over to offer ugliness, if you take care of your brother's current difficulties, give me a hundred of your flowering bombs, I heard that you only used one to scare the mother sea." ”

Li Mao said: "The flowering bomb is very powerful, I ask you to open your eyes when you look back, but this thing is not perfect, there is a big shortcoming, this is not clear in a word, I will point it to you when I go back to my camp, if you still feel that it is available after seeing it, I can give you a few." ”

Yan Qin said: "It's just a few, Brother Maohua is too petty." ”

Li Mao said: "Hugh is not satisfied, there are no more than ten in the entire Liaodong, how can there be as many such big killing weapons, a flowering bullet is more precious than the same weight of gold." ”

Yan Qin didn't believe it, so he made an appointment to go to Li Mao's military camp to observe.

Li Mao returned to the garrison camp, saw Qin Mo hurriedly walking out, stopped and asked: "Has Li Yushi from Chang'an arrived" Qin Mo was stunned: "Which Li Yushi" Li Mao said: "Li Deyu, the secretary of the envoy camp in Youzhou, who was ordered by the Holy Emperor, was sent from all sides to ask for the secretary of the envoy camp. ”

Qin Mo said: "He, the rebellion in Youzhou has subsided, and the camps on all sides will be withdrawn immediately, he is a small secretary, it is difficult to say whether he will come to Youzhou or not." You ask him what he is doing, this person is not small, he is Li Xiang's son, do you have a relationship with him, do you still want to borrow him to tie Li Xiangyi I said that it is enough for us to have Li Shenzhi in the court, be careful to be greedy and chew too much, step on two boats, so tired, if you are not careful, the chicken will fly and the egg will be beaten, and no one will be seen. Why bother? ”

Li Mao exhaled, suppressed the anger in his chest, gritted his teeth and said: "I'll tell you again, you must invite me this Li Deyu, if I can't see him, you can handle it yourself." ”

Li Mao put down this cruel sentence and walked away. Qin Mo was stunned for a long time, and muttered: "A supervising imperial history, as for it, there is really a talent that has passed through the heavens and latitudes, I don't think it maybe." Be all abroad. ”

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