Chapter 206: The Wind Rises in Luoyang

The annual meeting of the Tiance military was held in advance, and this annual meeting has basically been regarded by the people as a way to implement the military policy, and after the annual meeting, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will announce economic decisions to guide the development of private industry and commerce. After this year's meeting ended ahead of schedule, the Department of Industry and Commerce, together with the Department of Finance and the Department of Civil Affairs, issued a report on the economic policy of the Tiance Government, and attached the industrial guidance plan of the Department of Industry and Commerce to comprehensively launch the industrial development plan formulated by Li Xuanqing before, guide the establishment of a basic and complete heavy industry system in the whole region, and guide the development of light industry among the people.

The industrial group took the lead in establishing a complete set of industrial systems, and promised to establish an industry leader led by shipbuilding and machinery forging within five years, and sent technical personnel to guide downstream industries to establish a complete industrial chain. The wealthy families in the old districts led by the five wealthy businessmen also began to intervene in the heavy industry industry around the industrial group, and some wealthy businessmen began to cooperate with the logistics and equipment department to carry out weapons pilot private work. In other regions, such as Youjing District, Sichuan and Shannan, the business community concentrated on the development of light industry. This arrangement of the Department of Industry and Commerce can be said to basically cover all aspects, and this is also the plan that Murong Hanhai has been researching and formulating for more than a year. This plan has also been supported by the local business community, and several political envoys from the new district have also rushed to various places to take up their posts with personnel assigned to various departments after urgent training.

As soon as the Ministry of Civil Affairs ended, the various departments of the military department led by the General Staff had almost no extra time to report their annual plans, but after discussing the plan for the coming year with Cen Tianshi, they hurriedly convened an operational meeting of the General Staff, at which Li Xuanqing issued an order to encircle and suppress Zhu Quanzhong, Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng jointly formulated the specific arrangements for the Central Plains Campaign, and refined all the specific orders issued by Li Xuanqing a few days ago, specifically for the Western Front to be based on the Modao battalion transferred back from Hexi by Wan Yi and the three infantry battalions of Qian Laoliu, starting from the base camp Chang'an, Attacking along Shaanzhou to the direction of the eastern capital, the southern line was commanded by Xue Yang to command five battalions in southern Sichuan and Shannan, starting from Jingzhou, the Central Plains region was divided into three parts, the 200,000 cavalry of Chen Fan on the northern line had begun to assemble with Jizhou and other places, Yang Tiancheng commanded most of the Shannan Group Army and the former Hanzhong Group Army, a total of 150,000 people were responsible for the vast area from Hezhong to Bingzhou, and the Ninth Army Corps merged with the original Cangzhou Corps to form the eastern front, which was responsible for Wang Houchun.

In this way, the field force of the Tiance Army has reached an unprecedented 600,000 people, and the huge army will only collapse if it is not supported by economic strength. Cen Tianshi, who attended the meeting as an observer, went against the previous norm and directly spoke and demanded that the army should not care about logistical pressure, and that it could increase the number of troops by 200,000 if necessary, and that the Ministry of Civil Affairs would devote all its energy to ensuring that the army would fight this battle well.

The assurance from Cen Tianshi made all the generals present happy, but at the same time, it also put a heavy pressure on them. The greater the support of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the more it shows the extraordinary nature of this campaign. The enemy he faced this time was the largest prince in the Central Plains except for the Tiance Army, and he had a strength of about 400,000 troops, plus the iron cavalry of the Northern Front, this kind of troop configuration still made everyone's mood heavy.

"Okay, I don't care how many allies the Xuanwu Army can hook up, but what I want to say is that this time the Tiance Army has taken out all the family funds, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs has cut half of this year's original budget in order to make way for the army to fight. Li Xuanqing suddenly stood up and said: "Now I order, with Wan Yi to form the Western Campaign Command, with Xue Yang to form the Southern Campaign Command, and Chief of Staff Xu Tianxiang to form the Central Plains Advance Command, to unify the command of this century-old war." Mr. Shum and I sat in the base camp, waiting for the good news of everyone's victory. ”

"Please rest assured, my lord, we will do our best to eliminate Zhu Quanzhong and complete the unification of the Tang Dynasty." Xu Tianxiang took the lead in getting up and saluting Li Xuanqing.

The meeting has basically ended here, and the follow-up orders need to be issued by the headquarters themselves, except for Chen Fan, all the remaining personnel let the headquarters issue specific orders after they are formed. This method of setting up a command structure, which is similar to a three-stage method, is also a helpless move that has to be adopted to solve unexpected problems under the condition that the communication conditions are extremely backward.

However, just when the base camp of the Tiance Army was urgently arranging to prepare for the war, Hu Xiaosi, who was in Luoyang, also formulated a plan for the wind to rise in Luoyang, which refined the previous idea, and then added a lot of details, completely and completely connected the entire operation, and implemented it in advance of the base camp after discussing with Su Xiaohu and others.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of 891, on the night of Shangyuan Festival, Han Quanhai met Hu Xiaosi in disguise in the Luoyang Palace, and the two conspired for a long time before reaching an agreement. Xuan Yingwei immediately mobilized the dragon group to enter the palace and assassinated Han Quanhai's top boss, Liu Jishu, a lieutenant of the Shence Army, and then killed a total of more than 400 eunuchs who did not obey Han Quanhai's wishes overnight.

The next day, Han Quanhai put all the charges on the head of Taifu Cui Yin, and the two major power groups made the contradictions public, and all kinds of attacks and insults began to fill the government and the opposition. And Zheng Fan also rushed to Luoyang City at this time, representing Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, to participate in the government affairs, and Cui Yin, who had received support, instantly overwhelmed Han Quanhai. At this time, Han Quanhai suddenly stood still, and all the previous edges were all reined, just when Cui Yin, who was gaining power, and Zheng Fan were discussing the plan, Emperor Zhaozong, who had been watching the play, suddenly made a decision that surprised everyone, and Han Quanhai concurrently served as the head of the escort capital, and gave the last military force of the Tang royal family to Han Quanhai.

After Hu Xiaosi learned the news, he immediately understood what Zhaozong meant, and secretly sighed that the emperor who had been a puppet for several years was not stupid, he had already seen the thoughts of Cui Yin and others, but he had no way to fight it, so he thought of using Han Quanhai to deal with Cui Yin. In fact, if Zhu Quanzhong is not considered, Zhaozong's method is actually not bad, and it has been the best means to use strength to fight with raze since ancient times. It's just that in the face of absolute force, all tactics don't work.

After feeling this, Hu Xiaosi simply went down according to Emperor Zhaozong's wishes, stimulated Zhongshu to order Wei Zhaodu to form an alliance with Han Quanhai, pulled the third force between the government and the opposition into this whirlpool, and successfully disrupted the Luoyang Imperial Court. After Wei Zhaodu joined, Han Quanhai stabilized the situation and fought happily with Zheng Fan and Cui Yin, and compared to Han Quanhai's lack of qualifications, Wei Zhaodu has a prestige above the court. Zheng Fan felt struggling at this time, and secretly planned whether he was going to implement the second set of plans.

But at this time, the situation was no longer in his control, after Hu Xiaosi grasped the situation, he began to promote his follow-up plan, and sent the Flying Eagle Brigade to intercept and kill Zheng Fan's messenger sent to Bianzhou in disguise, but deliberately showed a trace of Zheng Fan's finger at Wei Zhaodu, which made Zheng Fan completely lose confidence in the competition in the imperial court, and began to mobilize swallows from Bianzhou to let Jiang Xuanhui lead the way to Luoyang.

But at this time, it was already the end of the first month, and the layout of the Tiance Army in the north gradually came to light, and the strong troops made the Xuanwu Army suddenly feel great pressure. And Zhu Quanzhong couldn't bear it anymore after getting the huge number of troops in the north, and asked Zheng Fan to start Luoyang's plan as soon as possible, and on the other hand, let him send people to contact the allies he had snare before as soon as possible to disperse the forces of the Tiance Army and reduce the pressure on the northern front.

The powerful faction led by Xie Tong and Ge Cunzhou also competed at this time, sending most of the Xuanwu Army to the northern front, and in view of the layout of the Tiance Army, they also set up a former enemy headquarters on the front line, with Ge Cunzhou as the commander on the northern front, and commanded the 250,000 troops on the northern front. The western front was led by Niu Cunjie and Zhu Zhen, and the troops entered Shaanzhou to resist the western front of the Tiance army, and the southern line arranged a team of men and horses in the Dengzhou area under the command of Zhang Guihou, and transferred Wang Yanzhang over, hoping to use Wang Yanzhang to take the lead in opening the situation on the southern front and then join forces with Niu Cunjie to defeat the western front of the Tiance army against the trend, and the troops went out of Chang'an, forcing the main force of the Tiance army to return to help.

This arrangement can be said to have obtained the essence of the art of war, which is to attack from different routes and at the same time to take into account the key points, as long as one link can achieve the established results, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction, thus reversing the situation. In order to get the latest intelligence information as soon as possible, Xie Tong personally took over the intelligence organization despite Zhu Quanzhong's taboo, and aimed all his energy at the life-and-death enemy in the north.

After receiving Zhu Quanzhong's order, Zheng Fan of Luoyang quickly contacted his shadows arranged in the grassland to activate the northern front. In this way, around the Central Plains, most of China's forces were swept up.

The apparent strength of the two sides quickly turned into a confrontation between the armies on the front line, and each completed its formation and prepared for war. And these two old opponents in Luoyang City also ushered in the last battle. After Jiang Xuanhui entered Luoyang, Zheng Fan began to plan the implementation of the second plan.

At this time, after learning the news, Hu Xiaosi began to let the Flying Eagle Brigade secretly lurk around Yanzidu, monitor its movements, and secretly leak the news to Wei Zhaodu and Han Quanhai. Then let the dragon group set up inside the palace for the final clearance.

However, Hu Xiaosi didn't know why, he quietly entered the palace and glanced at Emperor Zhaozong Li Hua from a distance, and was silent in place for a long time before slowly leaving. At this time, Emperor Zhaozong was already thinking hard about good strategies day and night, and he instinctively felt that no matter whether this disaster could be avoided smoothly, the Tang dynasty would probably change hands. However, he would never know that the maker of the chaos in Luoyang actually came to the palace in person, just to take a look at himself.

Hu Xiaosi, who came back from the palace, once again adjusted his deployment accordingly according to Zheng Fan's plan, and implemented the last step of Fengqi Luoyang.

On the seventh day of the second month of 891 AD, after Zheng Fan got Zhu Quanzhong and the high-level of the Xuanwu army in Bianzhou to set off for Luoyang, he asked Jiang Xuanhui to lead the swallow capital to conspire against Han Quanhai and surround the Luoyang palace guards, that is, the camp that guarded the capital. It's just that Jiang Xuanhui was surprised that there was no one in the camp, and after realizing that he had been fooled, Jiang Xuanhui retreated with his troops, but was intercepted and killed by Han Quanhai, who had long been ambushed, and led his troops to intercept and kill, in order to completely exterminate the swallow capital, the Flying Eagle Brigade disguised himself as a subordinate who escorted the head of the capital to join the battle, the battle lasted for about two quarters of an hour and then the two sides quickly separated, and the palace guards naturally suffered heavy losses, Han Quanhai led the remnants to retreat to the palace under the cover of the Flying Eagle Brigade, and then took Emperor Zhaozong and the empress and others away, and retreated from the west gate of the palace. And Jiang Xuanhui himself was slashed by Su Xiaohu, and in desperation, all the swallows were handed over to the Longwu official Shi Tai to continue to pursue and kill Han Quanhai's party, and Zheng Fan and his family Shucong led the Luoyang defenders to escort Wei Zhaodu and other courtiers to the Luoyang Palace to sacrifice to the Temple of Heaven.

Han Quanhai and Emperor Zhaozong naturally couldn't compare with an elite force like Yanzidu, and was stopped by the defenders soon after leaving the palace, Han Quanhai finally broke out of the defenders' control and was about to seize the door when Shi Tai caught up, and the two sides fought again. The Flying Eagle Brigade involved in it didn't pay attention to more, and focused all their energy on Swallow Capital, while Shi Tai was bent on catching the emperor, so that almost no one cared about the personnel of Swallow Capital in the melee and were killed on the spot one by one.

However, the strength of Han Quanhai's team was too poor, even if the Flying Eagle Brigade secretly helped, it could not resist the attack of Yanzidu, and was quickly dispersed, and Emperor Zhaozong was also taken away by Han Quanhai and transferred from the lonely alley. Empress He was held by Shi Tai and immediately sent to the altar of heaven.

Shi Tai's approach almost killed Zheng Fan later, precisely because he took the queen away, but aroused the last trace of blood in Emperor Zhaozong's body, so that he and Zhu Quanzhong fought to the end, and destroyed the entire Chan Rang Hall at the last moment.

Han Quanhai and Emperor Zhaozong didn't go far before they were found by the guards dressed as the Flying Eagle Brigade, and Han Quanhai decided to find a hidden nest of his own first and make a decision after seeing the situation clearly.

On the other side, Zheng Fan, who didn't find the emperor, suddenly found a fatal problem. The people he sent out to find Han Quanhai's secret lair all went one by one and did not return, and the situation did not improve after the Luoyang defenders participated, but suffered even greater losses. At this time, Zheng Fan realized that his old opponent must have been involved all along, otherwise, Emperor Zhaozong would have been a turtle in the urn, how could he escape from Yanzidu's hands?

But the worst thing is that there is no time to pay attention to these at this time, and in a hurry, he decided to use the queen in his hand to make a fuss, forge the holy decree, and lie that His Majesty the Emperor has been killed by the rebellious party Han Quanhai in the chaos, and in the threat of the altar of heaven, Wei Zhaodu, Shangshu's right servant, Zhang Wenwei and Liu Can, etc., agree with the royal family Guozuochan to let Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang.

Originally, if Zheng Fan's plan could succeed, this Zen farce could be regarded as having a barely convincing result, but Liu Can, Zhang Tingfan and others, who were detained by Zheng Fan on the altar of heaven, were unwilling to surrender to Zhu Quanzhong, and angrily denounced Xuanwu Army as the culprit of the rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. Zheng Fan, who was angry for a while, directly asked Zhu Yougong, who was accompanying him, to kill Liu Can and Zhang Tingfan and more than a dozen people on the spot.

originally thought that the situation could be stabilized by slaughter, but what I didn't expect was that Cui Yin, the Taifu among the ministers, was secretly assassinated in the mansion later, and Cui Yin's death seemed to have opened a vicious circle, and the courtiers who took refuge in Zhu Quanzhong or were close to Zhu Quanzhong were slaughtered almost overnight, and hundreds of bloody heads were thrown outside the altar of heaven.

This accident almost made Zhu Quanzhong's beard, who had just arrived in Luoyang, fly up, and after calling Zheng Fan over and scolding him, he decided to take matters into his own hands and sent someone to bring Queen He over to personally ask him where the jade seal was hidden.

Empress He, a woman who did not have many records in the parallel world, delayed Zhu Quanzhong's major event at this time.