At the beginning of the first month of 887 A.D., when Emperor Xizong returned to Chang'an and rewarded the heroes of the quelling rebellion, Li Xuanqing, who led the army to break through the city first, led the army to set off from Chang'an, crossed the defense of Wang Chongrong in the river, entered Bingzhou, and entered the southern plains of the Yellow River from Bingzhou to the north, and arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River under the escort of Li Keyong, crossed the pontoon bridge at the Yellow River ferry, and entered Fengzhou.

In this long-distance migration, which lasted more than a month, Li Xuanqing led the army and civilians to not only overcome the bad weather along the way, but also to constantly deal with Wang Chongrong in Hezhong, Li Keyong in Hedong, Li Siyuan, and Li Cunxin. Therefore, this road is constantly approaching Toyoshu, and the team and baggage are also expanding. Everywhere Hu Xiaosi arrived, he began to encourage the poor people who had no food and clothing to go north with the large army.

At the beginning, Wang Chongrong originally wanted to stop Li Xuanqing's behavior, but when he saw that he chose basically the most poor people, he didn't ask much, and even supported a batch of farm tools and seeds in the name of funding the development of northern Xinjiang. At the beginning of him, Li Keyong in the back also learned the same. Originally, Li Keyong and others were all Shatuo people, and after occupying Hedong, they turned large areas of farmland into pastures, so the economy of Hedong under his rule has not developed, and the hardships of the Han people are particularly prominent. Li Siyuan, Li Cunjin and Li Cunxin, who were stationed along the way, were also happy to give these burdens to Li Xuanqing. So this matter was basically done quietly by both sides after reaching a tacit understanding.

In Hedong, Li Xuanqing also dug three feet into the ground in the name of Li Cunxiao, looking for the armies along the way to ask for grain and grass to help, and also won more than 10,000 sheep with Li Siyuan in a bet competition. This way of robbing and scoundrels really allowed this guy to get back 10,000 stone of grain, 20,000 sheep and 500 cattle, and even stole 1,000 horses from the Shatuo people. When he was in Xiazhou, he also teamed up with the Hedong Army to pretend to be robbers and robbed thousands of horses and 5,000 sheep from the party members entrenched in Xiazhou.

"Haha, lord, how do I think you are more powerful than my old blacksmith shopkeeper, you have done everything along the way." Chen Yu looked at the soldiers and civilians who had arrived on the north bank through the pontoon bridge in a long line, laughing happily, and also laughed at Li Xuanqing's shameless behavior some time ago.

Li Xuanqing also smiled, and said to Hu Xiaosi beside him: "Are blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and other technicians separated among the people?" "This time the search for ordinary people can be regarded as bringing countless laborers to the future development of the Toyosu area, and the technicians are naturally the most needed.

"Don't worry, my lord, I have already been separated, and I have arranged for someone to protect and ensure the meal. By the way, among the blacksmiths, there are still a few people from the Qin family in Guanzhong, and I have already focused on protecting. Hu Xiaosi patted his chest and reassured, and then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly reported.

Li Xuanqing frowned slightly, Qin family? It's a familiar name, but I can't remember where I've seen it for a while.

"Lord, the Qin family is the most famous weapon manufacturing family in Guanzhong, and all the Jiedu envoys around Guanzhong basically find the Qin family to build weapons, which is one of the three major weapon building families in the world." Just when Li Xuanqing was thinking hard about the origin of this Qin family, Cen Tianshi's voice came from behind.

"It's so famous, then I'll go and talk to them another day. Haha, I've found my old job. Chen Yu was immediately interested when he heard Cen Tianshi's words on the side, and laughed.

Li Xuanqing smiled when he heard this, and suddenly remembered the word "Qin" engraved on the weapon he saw when he was stealing armor from Han Zun's Jiedu envoy's mansion that night, and immediately nodded, and ordered Hu Xiaosi to take care of it, and then saw that Xu Tianxiang was also coming, and hurriedly asked what happened?

"My lord, we will arrive in Fengzhou soon, but according to the news of the scout team, Chen Wenyuan, the assassin of Fengzhou, and Hu Yide, the garrison general of the Tiande Army, are full of hostility towards our arrival, and even threaten to send troops to drive us back." Xu Tianxiang hurriedly told Li Xuanqing what he heard.

"It's okay, I've thought of this a long time ago. Chen Yu listened to the order-" Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, "You immediately take the headquarters and Hou Yong's personal guards as the vanguard of the army, and enter Fengzhou with the appointment letter of the marshal." ”

This order honestly couldn't help Chen Yu himself dumbfounded, even Xu Tianxiang couldn't figure it out for a while, they all looked at Li Xuanqing, their eyes full of doubts.

"General Chen, let it go, be sure to open Fengzhou City before the lord arrives." Cen Tianshi twisted his long beard and said with a smile: "General Xu might as well lead the army behind and sit back and watch General Chen achieve great achievements."

As soon as these words were spoken, the two of them immediately understood what was going on, and the feeling was that it would be good for these two bold lords to go. So Chen Yuxing rushed to find Hou Yong, and Xu Tianxiang also followed the order.

At the moment when Li Xuanqing gave the order, in the Assassin Mansion in Fengzhou City, Chen Wenyuan and the guard general Hu Yide were also convening everyone to discuss the arrival of Li Xuanqing and his party. As early as when Han Zun gave Li Xuanqing an order, he had notified the training envoy of the Tiande Army, but the Tiande Army only received the order from Lingzhou, so after several people discussed, they felt that Lingzhou should not be allowed to meddle in the internal affairs of the Tiande Army.

"General Hu, I don't know if Li Xuanqing's army will be able to deal with it once my Fengzhou defenders arrive?" Chen Wenyuan saw that everyone had the same opinion, so he asked Hu Yide, the commander of Fengzhou: "After all, he has the appointment of Han Dashuai, and my Fengzhou may not be able to get the assistance of the Tiande Army at that time." ”

Hu Yide couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth when he heard this, just because the defenders of Fengzhou City wanted to resist Li Xuanqing's army, the difficulty was not ordinary, but the matter came to this point, if Fengzhou was handed over, then how should these people in front of them deal with themselves?

"Lord Assassin Shi, I think I can concentrate the youth of the whole city, get four or five thousand people, plus the seven thousand soldiers under me, it shouldn't be a big problem to stop Li Xuanqing. He led the army from Chang'an, traveled thousands of miles, and went on an expedition, which could not last, and I think it can definitely be stopped. Hu Yide calculated the comparison of forces and slowly explained. His words can be regarded as dispelling other thoughts in everyone's hearts, after all, no one wants to give up the power in their hands.

After dispelling their doubts, others also suggested to speak, and for a while, Chen Wenyuan's face also showed a smile. At this moment, someone from outside hurriedly came, passed through the outside guards and came to the door instantly, and instantly broke into the report: "Report, the Lingwu army suddenly drove to the gate of the south city, and our army was caught off guard and had occupied the city gate." ”

This sentence shocked everyone present, Chen Wenyuan stood up suddenly, grabbed the shirt of the soldier who came to report, and said angrily: "Didn't I already order the city gate to be closed? Why is it so easy to open? Say, how many of them came? ”

The soldiers who came to report were also frightened by the appearance of Lord Thorn Shi in front of them, and stammered: "I heard that the Lingwu Army sent a master to secretly climb the city wall and open the city gate from the inside, and the others rushed in. They, they're already heading towards the Assassin's Mansion at this moment. ”

Chen Wenyuan's face turned dark, and he sat down on the chair, as if he had suddenly aged ten years. It's ridiculous that his group of people is still discussing how to deal with the Lingwu Army, and they have already been prepared.

However, Hu Yide on the side was a martial artist in the end, and when he heard that the city gate was broken, he immediately drew his long knife and shouted: "The generals immediately gather their soldiers and go to fight with me, and they will drive the Lingwu army out no matter what." Before the words fell, a sneer suddenly came from outside the door: "General Hu, who do you say you want to drive out?" ”

With this sneer, the sound of killing outside the door also rang out all of a sudden, and I saw that in the shadow of the sword and sword, a young general in yellow armor walked in with a few personal soldiers walking in with blood-stained footsteps.

"Who are you? What is the crime of trespassing into the Assassin's Mansion without permission? Hu Yide's long knife trembled in his hand and asked sharply. He originally wanted to break the increasingly heavy aura through questioning, but as General Huangjia advanced step by step, he found that these generals under his command were retreating step by step.

"Chen Yu, the former pioneer of the Datang Fengzhou Patrol Envoy, is not breaking in, this general is ordered to exterminate the rebellion." The person who came was naturally Chen Yu, but he sneered at these people in front of him, without the slightest interest, and the butcher knife he originally wanted to raise had no motivation, "Our army was ordered to come to take over, but you closed the city gates, resisted Shangguan, and wanted to rebel?" Come on, take them all down and wait for the inspector to deal with them. Chen Yu didn't even mean to interrogate, and directly ordered someone to come forward and take people.

"Bold, you dare to touch me? Yes! Hu Yide didn't expect Chen Yu to be so simple, he grabbed people directly without asking the reason, and the long knife in his hand instinctively slashed towards the pro-soldier who stepped forward, but was dodged by others, and then the pro-soldier with a hideous smile slashed Hu Yide's head with a thunderous force, and the blazing blood sprayed on the people around him, which also made these generals who tried to resist rest their minds, and obediently put down their weapons and were taken away.

"Chen Thorn History, long admiration." The others were taken away, and Chen Wenyuan, the master, was suddenly left in the study of the Assassin's Mansion, which was much more deserted all of a sudden. At this time, Chen Wenyuan also woke up from the shock just now, and saw Chen Yu slowly put away the silver-white Tang knife in his hand, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard the cold words in his ears.

"This official is a civil official and does not fall under the jurisdiction of the inspector. The Assassin's Mansion is not a barracks, and General Chen is still at his own convenience. Chen Wenyuan said stubbornly, but how wrong he was when he heard this. In the Tang Dynasty, the local governors were generally seized by the military and the government, and even if they were not grasped, the assassin had the right to control the garrisons in his jurisdiction. Chen Yu didn't know about this, but it didn't affect him to refute Chen Wenyuan's words.

"Lord Thorn Shi doesn't know if he will return to the jurisdiction of the patrol envoy, but Lord Thorn Shi gathered the generals of the defending army to conspire against the patrol envoy and stationed in Fengzhou, but everyone has gained all the money, so your assassin is considered to have done it. Come, take him down. The corners of Chen Yu's mouth flashed a cruel smile, and with a wave of his hand, he directly pronounced the crime of the supreme controller of Fengzhou, and then ignored what this guy was saying, and directly tied him up and threw him into the barracks.

"Send a signal to inform the follow-up army to enter the city immediately." Chen Yu saw that everything was almost done, and immediately sent someone to inform Xu Tianxiang.

Half an hour later, Li Xuanqing appeared in the Assassin's Mansion. Most of the Tiande army in the city was caught off guard and surrendered one after another, Li Xuanqing ordered Xu Tianxiang to lead most of the army into the barracks, leaving the personal guards and direct teams to patrol the city. This upheaval took place in an extremely short period of time, and most of them had already entered the city before they could react, so there were very few riots.

Li Xuanqing sat in the place where Chen Wenyuan had sat just now, and after a while, people came back one after another to report. Cen Tianshi sat on the side and said with a smile: "The lord has a good plan, he occupies Fengzhou without much effort, and Tianshi is here to congratulate the lord." ”

Li Xuanqing waved his hand, and after seeing that all the generals were basically there, he smiled and said: "Mr. has won the award, this is just a small skill of carving insects, and we haven't reached the time to celebrate yet." He glanced at the excited crowd below: "Fengzhou is restored, everyone is very happy, and I am also very happy." But now is not the time to celebrate. Now I command—"

Seeing that everyone stood up straight and prepared to receive the order, Li Xuanqing continued: "Yang Tiancheng received the order and ordered you to immediately lead the headquarters to Yongfeng day and night, and be sure to take Yongfeng City for me." Xu Tianxiang led Wang Houchun, Li Tianyi, and Chen Fanqian to the east to recover Jiuyuan and Feng'an. After the recovery, Wang Houchun guarded the nine plains, and Chen Fan guarded Feng'an. ”

"The above headquarters will set off immediately after an hour, and we must take the three cities before the Tiande army reacts." Li Xuanqing's light voice revealed a strong battle intent, "The other generals immediately selected young and strong people from the box soldiers to be incorporated into the regular army, and stepped up training. ”

"Mr. Cen, the government affairs of Fengzhou City will be handed over to you, the personal guards and the direct team will be under your control, and the original Fengzhou Assassin and the arrested general's home will be copied to me, and the money, grain, and grass will be put into the treasury immediately, and the people with the army will immediately enter the city to settle down, and start our second step plan." With Li Xuanqing's order, the sky of Fengzhou quietly changed, and at the same time, as Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng's troops began to pull out, this land that has been full of blood and war since ancient times quietly woke up in this troubled era, and the history of China also began to take another fork in the road at this moment.