"Tianxiang, come and tell me, how much money did Li Maozhen's kid give you?" In the headquarters of the Tiance Army outside the city of Pizhou, Ma Laosan grabbed Xu Tianxiang like a curious baby and said with a smile: "I heard about it, after Cen Tianshi heard the news, he rode over from Xiazhou overnight with the director of finance." ”

Xu Tianxiang picked up the report that was put aside and said with a smile: "Teacher, don't talk about it, Li Maozhen, a miser, I am also helpless, and I would rather give up grain and grass than give an extra penny." I don't even have the face to go to see the civil chief. After a pause, he handed the report in his hand directly to Ma Laosan, and said with a smile: "So far, we have released a total of 53,000 Shence troops, harvested six military towns, seventeen large and small cities, and the people are about 400,000. Li Maozhen handed over money and property equivalent to 200,000 taels and 150,000 stones of grain and grass. ”

Ma Laosan didn't bother to look at these, he just came purely to find something to do. The lecture hall was relocated to Chang'an with the Tiance Mansion. At present, I can only stay here with the headquarters, but fortunately, Kansai was messed with by Li Maozhen, but it is not a big deal, and the original prepared 110,000 army of long snake formations is useless, so Ma Laosan then asked: "Since Li Maozhen has sent gold, silver, goods, grain and grass as agreed, what are you going to do next?" ”

Speaking of business, Xu Tianxiang pointed to the sand table made in the center of the hall and said: "Western Houchun has received Fengxiang, according to the agreement, they will open up Fengxiang and Hanzhong on their own, which is located in Yang Shouliang's jurisdiction, and they will hand over the obtained city to our army in exchange for our army, and in exchange, our army needs to send troops to contain Yang Shouliang so that he cannot be reinforced." ”

Ma Laosan nodded and said, "Li Maozhen gathered his troops to Nanzheng, thinking of entering Hanzhong from the west of Xingzhou through Wuzhou. Although the area of Hanzhong is not large, it is rich in products, the people are densely populated, and grain and grass are easy to obtain. It's just that Hanzhong is in the hands of Yang Shouliang. This guy isn't planning to occupy a magpie's nest with a dove, right? It is not qualified to beat us with his ability, but it is still very possible to beat Yang Shouliang. ”

Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "This has nothing to do with us, after we clear Guanzhong, I wish he was fighting Yang Shouliang in Hanzhong." In this way, we can free up energy from the south, so that we can safely go out of the pass to fight for the river, or defeat Li Ke in the north. At that time, even if he Li Maozhen defeats Yang Shouliang, what can he do? There is no enemy that cannot be defeated in front of our Tiance army. ”

Ma Laosan nodded and said with a smile: "That's what I said, you little guy follows the ghosts and ghosts of Xuanqingxue, and this chief of staff is getting more and more presentable." ”

When the two were talking and laughing, the Tiance army also released more than 50,000 Li Maozhen's troops in Jingzhou, Pizhou, Qizhou, Fengxiang, Wuding, Qinzhou and other places surrounded by themselves as promised, and immediately occupied all the cities in Li Maozhen's jurisdiction, and the 110,000 army was like a sieve through the vast Kansai land. In order to prevent these Shence soldiers from leaving the country with population and money when they leave, they even set up cards throughout the process and carefully inspect all passing soldiers, this kind of leakless practice made the soldiers of the Shence Army secretly grit their teeth and objectively accelerated Li Maozhen's determination to leave Kansai.

At the end of August 888, the Ministry of Civil Affairs urgently transferred newly trained officials as the backbone, and the 21 cities in Kansai under the Tiance Army finally ended the history of temporary military management, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to promulgate the latest policy.

But that's all for later. After the Tiance Army commanded by Xu Tianxiang took over Li Maozhen's territory, except for one unit that stayed in Xingzhou to watch and echo with Li Maozhen, who had already entered Yang Shouliang's defense area, the other departments threw all the logistics and military management tasks to the logistics department, and all the high-level generals gathered in Qizhou, the former Li Maozhen's administrative office.

At this time, this big change also made Yang Fugong, who was in Chang'an, restless, and the fall of Guanxi also made Chang'an completely face the soldiers of the Tiance Army, this shuddering feeling made him no longer care about Li Maozhen's retreat into Hanzhong, and hurriedly asked Yang Shouliang to send troops into Chang'an, while beginning to urgently arrange his own backhand.

I have to say that Yang Fugong's back hand is still very ingenious. Almost at the same time that Li Maozhen entered Hanzhong, after receiving the holy decree issued by Emperor Zhaozong from Yang Fugong, Wang Jian began to enter Sichuan. However, unlike historical records, the target of the crusade became Gu Yanlang of Dongchuan. As if there was a tacit understanding overnight, at the same time as Wang Jian made his move, Li Maozhen, who forcibly expelled Yang Shouliang, ignored the unstable situation in Hanzhong, and sent his general Hu Jingzhang from Wuzhou to enter the territory of Xichuan and fight with Chen Jingxuan.

This chaotic turn of events almost made Li Xuanqing, who was in Fengzhou, fall through his glasses, Li Maozhen's actions can be said to be forced out by his own troops, but what does Wang Jian mean by beating Gu Yanlang?

Li Xuanqing felt the map and looked at it for a long time, and after carefully comparing Yang Shouliang's Shannan West Road and Gu Yanlang's territory, he suddenly found that Wang Jian's capture of Gu Yanlang's Dongchuan was probably Yang Fugong's long-planned move, which should be one of Yang Fugong's backhands left for himself.

After thinking about these things clearly, Li Xuanqing didn't bother to care about this guy anymore. Yang Fugong has no former courage since he drove Tian Lingzi to power. Relying on intrigues and tricks to continue to control the emperor, it's a pity that even if there is no spoiler like himself, the first thing to do after Zhu Quanzhong defeats Qin Zongquan is to let Emperor Zhaozong go to the eastern capital, in the face of strong strength, all conspiracies and tricks are useless.

Thinking of this, Li Xuanqing suddenly remembered Hu Xiaosi's arrangement in Chang'an and smiled. Li Xuanqing was not interested in Emperor Zhaozong's departure, and when the Tiance army came to Chang'an City, if he wanted to leave by himself, he probably wouldn't be able to stop it. In this case, it is better to take Guanzhong as soon as possible, according to the danger of Cuihan, first restore the land of Yongzhou, and then calmly advance from which direction.

However, just when Li Xuanqing, the supreme commander of the Tiance Army, was planning the next step. Xu Tianxiang, who was in charge of the front-line command, also arranged the final battle of Chang'an in Qizhou.

In addition to Wang Houchun on the Western Front, who threw down Qian Ning to command the sixth battalion and a party cavalry battalion to be responsible for containing Yang Shouliang, he himself led the main force of the third battalion to converge with Yang Tiancheng's central corps, and rushed forward with the speed of the cavalry, and the third and second battalions from Qizhou marched more than 300 miles in a day and a night. Unlike the cavalry, which could only be pinned down outside the city, Wang Houchun's infantry brigade could attack the city at any time.

All of a sudden, the flames of war broke out again in Chang'an City. The Shence Army, who was responsible for defending the city, did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the Tiance Army in the field, and after seeing the infantry of the brigade outside the city, Yang Fugong also decisively gave up this idea.

And at this time, the most complicated mood was the emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty, because Yang Fugong was worried about the front-line war, so the shadows hiding under Chang'an City began to flood more and more at this time.

At this time, the Xuanying Wei Chang'an Branch also ushered in the supreme commander Hu Xiaosi. This biggest intelligence leader of the Tiance Army came to Chang'an to carry out his own plans in addition to implementing his plan. It was the back that was hiding behind Yang Yanlu when Yang Chongben was killed. And after arriving in Chang'an City, Hu Xiaosi was even more sure that this back was his old opponent, Zheng Fan, who was once caught by his own men in Chang'an City and later transferred to Yang Fugong.

"Commander, do we want to execute the plan now?" Zhao Si, the right-hand man by Hu Xiaosi's side, asked after listening to the report of the Chang'an branch.

Hu Xiaosi shook his head after pondering for a long time, and said: "Now that our army has come to the city, it is better to let the opponent make the first move at this time." After all, the lord is not like Zhu Quanzhong, and he still needs the emperor to decorate the façade. Our purpose is to take advantage of the chaos to leave behind the people's fat and ointment that these corrupt officials have looted in the past few years. And Yang Fugong, a dead eunuch, would not follow the emperor to the Eastern Capital. Therefore, Xuan Yingwei's current manpower in Chang'an is divided into two groups, one group follows the emperor, gives up the emperor when necessary, and leaves all the soft family background of our emperor, and the other is to block Nancheng and take down Yang Fugong. As for this old opponent—" Hu Xiaosi suddenly smiled and continued: "I'll deal with it myself." It's been so long that he's the only opponent who can get my interest, and I can't just let it go. ”

Just when Hu Xiaosi arrived in Chang'an and rearranged the target, Zhu Quanzhong also urgently received information from Chang'an, and Zhu Quanzhong, who was on the front line in Caizhou, began to transfer Zhang Quanyi and Niu Cunjie from the front line to secretly arrive at the border of the area controlled by the Shence Army after urgent discussion, and was also waiting for Zheng Fan's action.

However, unlike Hu Xiaosi's side, who only planned to keep his wealth, the instructions he gave were to bring Zhaozong to the Eastern Capital at all costs. even authorized Zheng Fan to negotiate with Tiance Army when necessary, and directly bid for the other party to release him. Zhu Quanzhong also guessed Li Xuanqing's plan, and the identity of the clan could get rid of himself or the emperor's control when necessary. However, Zhu Quanzhong did not intend to use the emperor's name to seek benefits from the Tiance Army. His calculation was to use the emperor in exchange for his expansion in the southeast or north, or even for Li Ke's political advantage.

So after Zheng Fan received Zhu Quanzhong's instructions, he planned how to get in touch with Tiance Army. However, because Xuanyingwei was a special organization formed by Li Xuanqing based on the development of intelligence in later generations, its concealment was incomparable to other similar organizations in this era. Therefore, Zheng Fan, who was at the center of the chaos in Chang'an, planned to find an opportunity to go out of the city and connect with the front-line generals of the Tiance Army, so as to pass on the information to Li Xuanqing.

And just when other forces stirred up the situation in Chang'an, Yang Fugong, who was the head of the land, was also extremely defensive against Zhu Quanzhong. He knows Zhu Quanzhong's thoughts, and he also knows Li Xuanqing's thoughts. If he and Li Xuanqing can't coexist, then he and Zhu Quanzhong are political opponents. Both have the same mind, to control the emperor for their own benefit.

So almost when Zheng Fan was about to make a move, Yang Fugong also began to close the net. The storm in Chang'an City is destined to explode on this day. And Wang Houchun and Chen Yu outside the city also set their goals on this day after the siege equipment brought by the follow-up troops was in place. And the hellfire brigade secretly sent by Li Xuanqing is also in place, and this epoch-making killing weapon is destined to start its own rise from the ancient capital of Chang'an City.

On the third day of September in 888 AD, the offensive and defensive battle of Chang'an officially began. But the change in the tide of battle is always unexpected, and just when all sides are setting the time for this day, the unexpected happens. Li Keyong, who plays almost the same "spoiler" as Li Xuanqing, always appears on unexpected occasions within a scheduled time, disrupting everyone's rhythm and bringing unpredictable drastic changes to all forces in Chang'an City.

Li Xuanqing, who was preparing for a head-on duel with Li Keyong's Hedong Army on the Fengzhou front, saw this drastic change, and also took a breath silently, this history was finally tampered with by himself. However, after this, Li Xuanqing let go of the last shackles in his heart, without the shackles and ties of history, Li Xuanqing's eyes suddenly burned, and with the glance of his gaze, this time and space completely entered another fork.