Rencheng, a heavy snow has been blowing, almost in a day, the sky and the earth have been dyed white, after the Tang army stationed, took over the deployment of Rencheng, with the SD counties declared allegiance to the Son of Heaven, the situation around Rencheng seems to have improved. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the news of Kaifeng came back to Rencheng, Yang Lian knew the seriousness of the matter, Guo Wei took advantage of controlling Kaifeng, mastered most of the courtiers of the Han State, and most importantly, the Queen Mother was in his hands. Therefore, Guo Wei randomly found a person to kill, saying that he was Liu Chengyou, the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, and the queen mother and ministers had to admit that the deceased was the son of heaven in order to survive. Now that the Son of Heaven is dead, the next thing is easy, that is, to set up another Son of Heaven.

Of course, the new emperor is just Guo Wei's puppet, and it is even very likely that he will replace him without waiting for the new emperor to ascend the throne. After stabilizing the situation in SD, Yang Lian paid attention to Xuzhou, if Fu Yanqing, who was guarding Xuzhou, chose Liu Chengyou, with the superior geography of Xuzhou, the Tang army would be able to connect Chuzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou together, using the hilly layout of the SD area, if Fu Yanqing did not choose so, the Tang army could only go to Yizhou and then convey to Yanzhou, which was more time-consuming, especially the transportation of grain and grass was more difficult.

However, Xuzhou can make full use of the canal and Surabaya to transport troops and grain, which is relatively fast. Yang Lian asked Liu Chengyou to write a letter to Fu Yanqing and Liu Chong, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, in the name of the Son of Heaven, to order the two to be the king, and without waiting for the edict of the Son of Heaven to arrive in Xuzhou, Fu Yanqing's excerpt was handed over first, and he said that he wanted to return to his hometown.

Fu Yanqing knows very well that the situation is delicate now, and he is caught in it, and it is a little difficult to do things, especially in the current uncertain situation, which makes it difficult for him to make a choice, so he can only take a step back and wait and see what happens. Yang Lian immediately asked Liu Chengyou to agree, and sent henchmen to take over the position of Wuning Jiedu envoy, the Tang army soon entered Xuzhou, and Li Jinquan led 5,000 troops to defend the important land of Xuzhou.

Fu Yanqing had long expected this situation, he handed over the military power of Xuzhou and only had fun at home, Li Jinquan was instructed by Yang Lian to send troops to defend Fu Yanqing's mansion.

The envoy to Hedong was a little slower, coupled with the heavy snowfall, the road was difficult to travel, and it was almost the Spring Festival, so the envoy arrived in Hedong and conveyed Liu Chengyou's will. At this time, Liu Chong was a little hesitant, he had already received news from the imperial court that Guo Wei planned to take Liu Yun as the son of heaven. Liu Yun is his own son, if he can be the Son of Heaven, it is naturally good, even if the real Son of Heaven is not dead. It was with this selfishness that Liu Chong did not reply in time.

The weather became colder and colder, and Liu Chong's advisers persuaded him to enter the army to exterminate Guo Wei, at least to put pressure on him, but unfortunately Liu Chong felt that he couldn't be the emperor, and it was also excellent for his son to be the emperor, so time passed like this.

In January, shortly after the end of the New Year, Guo Wei sent people to detain Liu Yun, who rushed to Kaifeng to be the emperor, and in the name of sending troops to conquer Yanzhou, he recruited a large army, and soon after he came out of Kaifeng, his subordinates Zhao Kuangyin, Guo Chongwei, Wang Yanchao and others added yellow robes and supported Guo Wei as the emperor, Guo Wei reluctantly accepted, and immediately killed Liu Yun.

Guo Wei called the emperor, the incident happened suddenly, the queen mother learned the news, fainted to the ground, disappeared in the chaos, Feng Dao led the ministers to take refuge in Guo Wei, Guo Wei called the world, the country is called the Great Zhou, and at the same time rewarded the ministers, and summoned the adopted son Guo Rong into Beijing.

The mutation in Kaifeng spread to all directions, and Yang Lian got the news and immediately sent someone to send the news to Jinling.

During this time, Li Jing was relatively happy, and Yang Lian said that it was good to help Liu Chengyou, in fact, the monarch of the Han Kingdom was controlled by the Tang Dynasty, which means that the Han Dynasty existed in name only. Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Mizhou, Qingzhou and other places, it is a matter of time before they belong to Datang. can expand the territory in the troubled times, Li Jing is naturally eyebrows fluttering, and he is very happy.

The news that Yang Lian sent back surprised Li Jing, Guo Wei was self-reliant, and the situation in the north became more and more complicated, it can be expected that after Guo Wei cleaned up Kaifeng, he would definitely wave his army to the east, and the Tang Dynasty took Liu Chengyou as the name, ostensibly to restore the country for him, but actually seized the land of the Han Dynasty. Li Jing had already regarded SD everywhere as meat to eat in his mouth, how could he easily spit it out, he immediately ordered, Liu Yanzhen, Liu Renzhan and others led 30,000 troops to support Yang Lian.

Hedong Jiedu made Liu Chong get the news that his son was killed, he was very angry, he regretted not listening to the words of the strategist, while reorganizing his soldiers and horses, preparing to go south from Taihang Mountain, attack Luzhou, and avenge his son.

When the news came, Guo Wei was very depressed, and Guo Wei was very clear about everyone's intention to support him as the emperor, nothing more than to get more capital, but at that time, he was difficult to ride a tiger, so he could only take advantage of the situation and become the son of heaven. Hearing that the soldiers and horses were frequently transferred from all over the country, Guo Wei hurriedly made deployments and made a series of appointments, among which the adopted son Guo Rong stayed in Kaifeng, and the generals Guo Chongwei and Wang Yan went beyond Bingluzhou to resist Liu Chong, and he personally led the army to kill SD.

When Guo Wei sent troops, Yang Lian found out that Rencheng had been built into a fortified city, and a large amount of grain and grass had been hoarded in the city, enough to support a year. Outside the city, a lot of fortresses were also built, and after Guo Wei led his troops to arrive, he was also surprised to see that Rencheng had been built in just a few months.

Seeing that Yang Lian had been prepared, Guo Wei did not rush to attack the city, but sent a large number of scouts to check the situation around Rencheng. Before there is absolute certainty, Guo Wei will not attack the city, at this time, Guo Wei must not be defeated in this battle, and the newly established Great Zhou Empire is likely to collapse if it is defeated.

After receiving the news of Guo Wei's killing, Yang Lian rushed to the city, and at the head of the city, the banner of Guo Wei's camp was faintly flying, and the camp stretched for several miles, and the army brought by Guo Wei was at least 50,000 people. Guo Wei has been in the army for many years, has a wide range of contacts in the army, and has a high prestige, and only he can unite the military spirit at this time.

On the one hand, although Guo Wei has a very high prestige, most of his subordinates are in yellow robes, most of them are for the sake of increasing officials and becoming knights, but they are united because of interests, in fact, they are not really united, and Guo Wei is far away, and his morale is booming, so he can't fight with him. On the other hand, the Tang army was rushing to support, and when Liu Renzhan's 30,000-strong army arrived in Rencheng, Yang Lian had enough troops, and then fought Guo Wei, the situation would be much better.

Yang Lian had already prepared, Liu Chengyou saw the big camp outside the city, remembered the battle of Qilidian and the defeat of Murong Yanchao being killed, and couldn't help but panic in his heart, and kept asking Yang Lian to send troops to attack Guo Wei, as if he could feel at ease. Yang Lian comforted him with kind words, and asked the soldiers to send Liu Chengyou back to rest, and instead think about how to fight this battle.

In the next few days, the scouts of the two armies tested each other outside the city, and when they met, there was a fierce battle, each killed and wounded more than 100 people, such a loss Yang Lian could not afford to lose, after all, there were not many cavalry in the Tang Dynasty, and excellent scouts took a long time to cultivate.

The two sides have been fighting for a while, and the time has entered March, and Guo Wei has not launched a formal attack. At this time, there was news that Liu Chong's attack on Luzhou was unfavorable and he had to retreat. This news is very exciting for Guo Wei, the three armies got the news, and their morale was also greatly boosted, Guo Wei took out money, rewarded the three armies, and prepared to attack the city.

After more than a month of preparation, Guo Wei built a lot of siege equipment, but also very familiar with the situation of Rencheng, he sent Shi Shouxin, Zhao Kuangyin as the vanguard, attack the fortress around Rencheng, the two sides in order to compete for the initiative, around the fortress to fight, just three days, the fortress around Rencheng will be destroyed five, the defender lost nearly 1,000 people, and the attacker lost more, more than 3,000 people.

Yang Lian was forced to abandon the few fortresses outside the city and concentrate his forces to hold Rencheng, Guo Wei seized the fortress, sent troops to garrison it, and used the fortress as a base to advance layer by layer.

Two days later, Guo Wei led his troops into a large castle, built of stone and surrounded by plains, where Guo Wei's army was stationed and prepared to attack the city. Yang Lian concentrated his forces to hold Rencheng, preparing to consume Guo Wei's morale.

At this time, Guo Wei finally couldn't hold it anymore, and sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead his troops to attack the city, and the two sides launched a battle for the city. In just five days, the city of Rencheng was already full of corpses, blood flowed all over the ground, stained the ground red, stepped on the soil, and became soft.

The war has been white-hot, the Tang army has been recuperating for several months, full of physical strength, the only disadvantage is that the troops are slightly insufficient, after a period of fighting, there have been nearly half of the casualties. Among them, Yang Lian's newly built new army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, which made Yang Lian very painful.

Reinforcements from the south are delayed, and I don't know what happened?

Guo Wei attacked for several days with a fierce face, losing almost 5,000 people, such casualties made him a little unacceptable, and at the same time gave him a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, all said that the Southern Dynasty was weak, and now it seems that at least this army, the combat effectiveness is still very strong. Moreover, the other party knew that the Han army had a large number of cavalry, and it did not directly fight in the field at all, but used the city to offset the advantages of the Han army.

On the evening of this day, Guo Wei held a military meeting, and if the battle continued like this, the losses were very large, not to mention that Guo Wei could not accept it, and even others did not accept it. However, Ren Cheng couldn't help but fight, SD fell into the hands of others, and the threat to the hinterland of the Central Plains was too great, especially the Hedong Jiedu in Bingzhou made Liu Chong also look at the Central Plains.

Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin, and many generals who rushed to support were crowded in the big tent, paying attention, but a lot of attention was a bad idea and could not be implemented. While the crowd was talking, a messenger hurried in and gave the latest information.

The reinforcements of the Tang army did not go directly north to Rencheng, and the general Liu Renzhan directly attacked Suzhou, which almost became an isolated city at this time, and the Suzhou county order surrendered without a fight, and then, Liu Renzhan once again approached the Song City recovered by Guo Wei.

Guo Wei was taken aback, if Song City was lost, the Tang army would be able to directly attack Kaifeng, such a result was obviously something Guo Wei did not want to think, he immediately asked Guo Chongwei, who had changed his name to Guo Chong, to lead 20,000 to support Song Zhou, and the Tang army must not be allowed to take Song Zhou.

Guo Chong's order immediately rushed to Songzhou, so that the strength of Guo Wei's main force was weakened, but he still had an advantage over Yang Lian. Zhou Jun's abnormal movements did not hide from Yang Lian's eyes, after all, more than 20,000 people left suddenly, and it was difficult not to be noticed.

Yang Lian also held a military meeting to discuss the military with Chen Tie, Murong Yanchao and others, and several people guessed that something must have happened, forcing Guo Wei to let his subordinates leave with their troops.

Yang Lian stared at the map for a while, calculating the time, Liu Renzhan should have been able to reach Rencheng a long time ago, but he did not arrive, which proved that he did not take this route, and it was very likely that he would occupy Suzhou. Murong Yanchao was very excited, he proposed that since the strength of the Han army was reduced, and Guo Wei's siege was unfavorable during this time, the morale would inevitably be low, and if he chose to counterattack at this time, it would definitely be effective.

Yang Lian was very opposed, Guo Wei had many soldiers and horses, even if he was transferred 20,000, the troops still had a great advantage, and Yang Lian was unwilling to take risks. On the contrary, he hoped to stay up for a while longer, waiting for the civil unrest in Zhou, and once Guo Wei could not hold on to withdrawing his troops, the Tang army would pursue again, and he would definitely be able to make some gains.

Murong Yanchao's temper was a little irritable, and when he saw that Yang Lian disagreed, he was very angry, and argued with Yang Lian, seeing that Yang Lian always insisted on it, his voice became louder, which made the soldiers outside the camp panic, for fear that the two would fight. Murong Yanchao saw that he couldn't convince Yang Lian, so he flicked his sleeves and left angrily.

Yang Lian also ignored him, making people take strict precautions, and he was still mainly defensive. When the night was approaching, Chen Tie hurriedly came to report, saying that Murong Yanchao had secretly taken 3,000 troops out of the city, thinking that he had attacked the Zhou army.

Yang Lian sat up when he heard this, hurriedly put on his clothes, and rushed to the west gate.

Chen Tie was a little puzzled and said, "Could it be that Murong Yanchao has succeeded?" ”

Yang Lian shook his head in disbelief, what kind of person Guo Wei was, how could the camp be easily attacked. Yang Lian thought about it for a while, and passed the order, if someone outside the city wanted to enter the city, no matter who it was, they would definitely not be able to open the door without his order.

The fire lasted for most of the hour, and when the fire was about to be extinguished, hurried footsteps sounded outside the west gate, and by the moonlight, at least hundreds of people rushed towards the west gate.

Murong Yanchao was very embarrassed, hurriedly fled to the city gate, and loudly ordered to open the city, Yang Lian refused loudly, Murong Yanchao heard Yang Lian's voice, first stunned, and then scolded, in his opinion, Yang Lian occupied the dove's nest and gave orders in the land of the Han Dynasty, which was unbearable.

Murong Yan scolded a few words, and when he saw that the city still did not open the door, and there were chasing soldiers outside the city, his face changed greatly, and he fled in a hurry with a slap of his horse.

The chasing soldiers came, led by Zhao Kuangyin, who saw that Rencheng was heavily defended and the crossbowmen were ready, knowing that there was no chance, so he had to retreat and tell Guo Wei the results of the incident.

Guo Wei pondered for a moment and understood that there was something strange about this matter, but Murong Yanchao's sudden attack in the middle of the night was due to Liu Chengyou's instructions or his own caution? This question is very critical, because if it is Yang Lian's instructions, it is impossible for the Tang Army not to open the door, if it is Liu Chengyou's instructions, does it mean that Rencheng has been divided, and Liu Chengyou wants to break away from Yang Lian and stand on his own?

Thinking of Liu Chengyou killing the heroes of the imperial court, Guo Wei felt that it was very possible, and this could be used. (To be continued.) )