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Liang Dezhong was defeated, and the Xuzhou Zhuying Yang lost Yan zhòng after this battle, and then Xuzhou, whether it was a rebellion or a suppression, could only temporarily rely on the 20,000 army of Yang Lan, the king of Qi.

Liang Dezhong had just defeated Taoyuan, and Yang Lan, the king of Qi, defeated the rebels at Panshi Mountain, followed and killed, and quickly arrived at the battlefield of Taoyuan. Li Fengyun was caught off guard and evacuated in a hurry, and on the way, a group of captured officers of Wei Yunyue were taken by Peicheng Yingyanglang to flee. Li Fengyun decisively crossed Yishui and captured Tancheng again.

Considering the defeat of the Xuzhou army, the panic of the people of Pengcheng, and the critical situation, the king of Qi could just take advantage of the fire and take the opportunity to enter Pengcheng to control the overall situation, so he decisively stopped the pursuit and rushed to Pengcheng under the pretext of supporting Cui Deben.

The situation in Xuzhou is changing, dazzling the followers.

King Shichong of Jiangdu County, on the south bank of the Huai River, was originally full of confidence in "containing" the King of Qi, but he expected that Liang Dezhong was defeated by Li Fengyun in a blink of an eye, and then in a blink of an eye, Li Fengyun was defeated by the King of Qi again.

Wang Shichong's confidence was hit and he was extremely aggrieved. Obviously, there is a conspiracy behind the sudden change in the battle situation in Xuzhou, Liang Dezhong was not defeated by the white thief, but fell into the trap set by the King of Qi, but there is no evidence, even if he guesses correctly? However, this matter involved the dispute between the emperor and the eastern capital, and Wang Shichong did not dare to openly intervene in it, so as not to become the target of the public, so he tried to seek truth from facts and played the eastern capital, and at the same time evacuated the main force of the Jiangdu Zhuyingyang to the south bank of the Huai River, and did not dare to continue to "threaten" the king of Qi to bring trouble on himself.

The king of Qi stationed in Pengcheng, backed by force, and under the pretext of stabilizing the situation in the Dìng area, he quickly seized the military and political power of Xuzhou.

Cui Deben was powerless to compete with him at all, so he could only swallow his anger. The local forces in Xuzhou, with the Xiao clan of Lanling, did not dare to openly "offend" the king of Qi, so they could only be false and wronged, and before the shape was clear, they would never dare to trust the promise of the king of Qi, let alone gamble their lives to support the king of Qi.

Li Fengyun took the opportunity to command the alliance army, swept through the two counties of Xiapi and Donghai, and did everything he could to loot money and grain.

At the beginning of November, when the news reached the Eastern Capital, the Holy Lord was furious.

The Holy Lord's intuitive feeling about the situation in Xuzhou was that the political forces with the King of Qi as the emperor tried to use the control of the situation in Xuzhou to indirectly control the main transportation artery between the north and the south, and then affect the Second Eastern Crusade, and their real purpose was to use the victory or defeat of the Second Eastern Crusade as a threat to coerce the Holy Lord and the center to make compromises and concessions on the matter of imperial reunification.

This summer's Tongji Canal crisis was also for the same purpose, and in the end, the Holy Lord and the Central Center compromised and did not forcibly recall the King of Qi, but allowed the King of Qi to live outside the palace to cause chaos. This gave the King of Qi a chance to show his strength, but at the same time, it also brought considerable potential risks to the Holy Lord and the central center in the political situation, once the King of Qi "hardened his wings", under the "encouragement" of some ill-intentioned people, repeating the mistakes of Yang Liang, the king of Han, and seizing the imperial throne by force, it would inevitably bring a huge political disaster to Middle-earth.

However, the "greed" of the King of Qi exceeded the expectations of the Holy Lord and the center, and the crisis in Xuzhou was actually his "gain of an inch", and the defeat of Liang Dezhong and Xuzhou Zhuyingyang on the battlefield of the rebellion put the Holy Lord and the center passively, making them helpless in the face of King Qi's "pressing step by step".

The Lord and the Center were quick to respond.

The edict dismissed Dong Chunwenshan from the post of Taishou, transferred to Zuo Xiaowei's mansion, served as Zuo Xiaowei's general, suppressed Xuzhou, and concurrently served as Pengcheng's stay-at-home and took charge of Xuzhou's military and political power.

Dong Chun's "comeback" is the biggest concession that the Holy Lord and the Central Center have to compromise with the King of Qi again and make to the political forces to which the King of Qi belongs for the Second Eastern Crusade.

On the same day, the Holy Lord decreed that Hu Benlang would dismiss Liang Dezhong to suppress the thieves, dismiss him, and rush to Huaiyuan Town in Liaodong with a guilty body, and report to Li Jing, the general of the Right Military Guard, as a soldier.

Liang Dezhong went to Liaodong as a sin to participate in the Second Eastern Crusade, which was the Holy Lord's "protection" for him, and it was also a warning from the Holy Lord to the king. The truth of the battle situation in Xuzhou, God knows, you know and I know, this matter is indispensable, if you intensify and endanger the overall situation, then the consequences will be severe. The purpose of my compromise with you this time is to hope that you will stabilize Xuzhou, protect the main artery of north-south transportation, and ensure that the Second Eastern Crusade will proceed smoothly.

On the same day, the Holy Lord issued an edict to remove Duan Wencao from the post of Taishou of Lu County, transferred to the Youtun Guard Mansion, and served as the general of the Right Tun Guard, and immediately rushed to the front line in Liaodong.

The compromise is two-sided, Dong Chun "made a comeback", returned to Weifu, and returned to Pengcheng, so of course the Holy Lord wanted to take this opportunity to promote a cronie to Weifu to lead the army, but after Duan Wencao resigned, the position of Lu County Taishou became a "hot commodity".

At present, the situation in the north and south of the river is not good, especially Qilu, two consecutive years of natural disasters, rebels one after another, and Lu County is a "hard-hit area", not only Li Fengyun, the world's first thief in Mengshan, but also Qi Wang Yang Lan, the political zhì "disaster star" watching aside, you can imagine how difficult it is for Lu County to be too guarded, Duan Wencao can hold on to it It really took a lot of effort. It stands to reason that after Duan Wencao resigned, Lu Jun Taishou should be avoided by everyone, but the King of Qi is different, he wants to show his strength, not only Xuzhou, but also Qilu, so the King of Qi is bound to win this position.

The king of Qi has already controlled Xuzhou, and now he wants to control the southwest of Xuzhou, not to say that the holy lord and the center do not agree, and the political opponents of the king of Qi will not fulfill their wishes, so everyone "flocked to the top", all went to rob, and all set up obstacles for the king of Qi, and in the end, even the military "intervened", and some of the commanders of the Twelve Guards jointly recommended the candidates, which actually alarmed the holy lord and the center.

The candidate put forward by the military is called Li Zixiong, from the Bohai House of the Li family in Longxi, who is highly respected in the army, has made outstanding achievements, and has won the trust of two generations of emperors. However, Li Zixiong was a staunch conservative who opposed reform, and was dismissed from office by the first emperor in the late period of his reign. After the Holy Lord ascended the throne, the Han King Yang Liang rebelled, and the shape was critical, and under the recommendation of Yang Su, the old Yue Guogong, Li Zixiong came back and went to Youyan to quell the rebellion, and since then he has been trusted by the Holy Lord. However, after the Yulin Incident broke out in the third year of the Great Cause, and the conservative forces led by Gao Ying were purged, the reform of the great unification was promoted, but Li Zixiong became the "banner" of the new conservative forces in the center. The Holy Lord was furious at this, believing that Li Zixiong had betrayed him, and deposed him, and later because the Western Expedition was imminent and needed to stabilize the military, he used it again, but Li Zixiong did not repent and continued to hinder the reform of the military system in the Wei Mansion. On the eve of the Eastern Crusade, the case of King Qi's "loss of morality" broke out, and Li Zixiong, as the veteran of the local forces in Guanlong in the military and one of the supporters of King Qi, was attacked, and was driven out of the Wei Mansion by the Holy Lord and the center, removed from the people, and even deprived of his title.

In such a special period, the military recommended such a veteran who was famous in both military and political circles, making it clear that he wanted to take advantage of the defeat of the Eastern Crusade and the opportunity of the Holy Lord and the center to fall into extreme passivity, forcing them to lift the ban on Li Zixiong and let him "make a comeback".

The Holy Lord and the Central Committee knew very well that this was the strategy of "retreating as advance" at a critical moment, with the King of Qi as the core force of the political zhì group with the Wei's, the Li family and other local nobles in Guanlong as the core force. I don't want Lu Jun to guard this position too much, and I can not extend my influence into the Qilu region, but the condition is that Li Zixiong wants to make a comeback and enter the Weifu again.

It stands to reason that the Holy Lord and the Center have already compromised to let Dong Chun come back, and they will not compromise again to let Li Zixiong come back, because these two are military veteran-level commanders, and once King Qi gets their support, his influence in the military will definitely "rise in a straight line", which is obviously not good for the Holy Lord and the Center. However, contrary to the expectations of many political forces in the Eastern Capital, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee compromised once again.

In the process of this game, the Holy Lord and the Central Center finally chose to compromise, not only because Li Zixiong was supported by the local Guanlong aristocratic group with the Wei family, but also by the Heluo aristocratic group with Hongnong Yang as the support, and this is a rare thing, the two largest political forces in the Guanlong aristocratic group joined forces to "fight", and the Holy Lord and the reformers with him were really difficult to contend with.

Li Zixiong is the old subordinate of Wei Xiaokuan, a famous general in China, and is a powerful general under Wei Xiaokuan's account, the relationship between the two families is very good, there is a marriage, Li Min's wife is Wei Xiaokuan's great-granddaughter, the daughter of Wei Yuancheng, the Duke of Yunguo, so it is natural for Li Zixiong to get the support of the local aristocratic group in Guanlong, with Wei as the support. And the reason why he will also get the support of Hongnong Yang is because since the death of Wei Xiaokuan, Li Zixiong has been following the old Yue Gong Yang Su to fight, whether it is to pacify Jiangzuo or expedition to the north, Li Zixiong is in front of the battle, invincible, and is valued by Yang Su, which is also the reason why Yang Su spared no effort to help him come back at the beginning of the Holy Lord's accession to the throne. Because of this relationship, Li Zixiong also has a very good relationship with Yang Su's son, Yang Xuangan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and also maintains close contacts with many of Yang Su's old subordinates, so whenever there is a conflict between the local aristocratic group in Guanlong and the Heluo aristocratic group, Li Zixiong must be one of the mediators who run among them.

In addition, the Holy Lord and the Central Pivot really need Li Zixiong in this special period, and the military's recommendation actually just solves their urgent needs.

After the sailors returned to Donglai, Lai Hu'er, Zhou Fashang, and Cui Junsu, like the commanders of the 6th Route Army, were all detained and returned to Beijing to wait for processing. The expedition of the sailor division was defeated, the morale was low, and now there is "no dragon", the military spirit is even more chaotic, after a long time, I am afraid that something will happen, and a respected commander of the Weifu is urgently needed to appease, but there is no military commander who is familiar with the sailor division and is recognized by the soldiers of the sailor from Jiangzuo.

Li Zixiong participated in the reunification battle to pacify Jiangzuo, participated in the battle of Jiangzuo's rebellion and suppressed thieves, and once commanded Jiangzuo's naval division during this period, and was very familiar with the naval division. During the period when the Holy Lord was in charge of Jiangzuo, Li Zixiong successively served as the assassin of Chenzhou and Jiangzhou, and was in charge of military and political affairs, and his official reputation was very good, which was accepted by the people of Jiangzuo.

So at this moment, Li Zixiong is the best candidate to appease the sailors, and more importantly, the military that bears the responsibility for the defeat of the Eastern Crusade is about to usher in a storm, and all the senior commanders who participated in the Eastern Crusade will be punished, and so many military commanders will be "wiped out", which will inevitably intensify the already very acute contradictions between the Holy Lord, the center and the military, and lay a terrible hidden danger for the Second Eastern Crusade. At the critical moment, the Holy Lord and the Central Center lifted the ban on Li Zixiong and let him return, which will definitely cause a certain positive impact on the military, which may effectively alleviate the fierce contradictions between the two sides and help the Second Eastern Crusade go smoothly.

Since Li Zixiong is to be reactivated, since he wants to use Li Zixiong's influence in the military and political circles, it is natural to eliminate Li Zixiong's grievances as much as possible, and if you want to eliminate Li Zixiong's grievances, the most effective and direct means is of course to make up for the loss of interests he suffered in the political attack, so the Holy Lord and the center Yu Crisp "good people do it to the end", and gave the position of Lu Jun Taishou to Li Zixiong's eldest son Li Min.

Li Min was deposed because of Li Zixiong's involvement, and the Holy Lord and the center put him in the position of the Taishou of Lu County, which not only restored his official career, promoted his official, and made up for his losses, but also forced Li Zixiong to rush to Donglai Water Division, do his best to appease the soldiers of the Water Division, and do his best to restore the combat effectiveness of the Water Division, because the situation in southwest Lu is too bad, Li Min will be in trouble when he arrives in Lu County, if Li Zixiong does not give him support, the official hat that Li Min just put on his head will definitely be shaky, Even lives are at stake.

On the fourth day of the first month of November, the Holy Lord decreed, taking into account the needs of the Eastern Expedition, decided to reinstate Li Zixiong, restore his title, and appoint him as the general of the Zuo Imperial Guard.

Another edict appointed Li Min as the Taishou of Lu County and took office immediately.

Li Zixiong's father and son lifted the ban on the same day, came back on the same day, and were entrusted with important tasks by the Holy Lord on the same day, which immediately caused a sensation in the eastern capital.

However, what is even more sensational is the revenge of the Holy Lord's "naked". The edict of the Holy Lord, for slandering and ridiculing the government crimes, killed the former Imperial Doctor, one of the most powerful supporters of the King of Qi, and Zhang Heng, who had made great contributions in the battle for the Holy Lord to win the imperial unification, and had won the favor of the Holy Lord.

The veteran Li Zixiong was just released here, and the strategist Zhang Heng was killed over there, and the Holy Lord's revenge was too intense.

On the eighth day of November, the long-brewing storm that swept through the Twelve Guards Mansion finally exploded.

The Holy Lord told the world that the Eastern Expedition had failed, and the three supreme commanders of the expeditionary force, Yu Zhongwen, the general of Zuo Yiwei, Yu Wenshu, and Liu Shilong, the right general of Shangshu, were directly responsible, among which Liu Shilong's appeasement decision was the most important reason for the fiasco of the expeditionary force, so Liu Shilong was killed to thank the world, and Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu were removed from the people.

Obviously, the Holy Lord and the Central Pivot took into account the Second Crusade and eventually took on part of the responsibility implicitly. Among the three supreme commanders of the expeditionary force, only Liu Shilong, the right man of Shangshu, was a civilian official, and the killing of Liu Shilong and the sacrifice of Liu Shilong were actually the Holy Lord and the central center slapping themselves in the face and admitting their mistakes in decision-making in disguise. Leaving the lives of Yu Zhongwen and Yuwen Shu is tantamount to making concessions to the military in order to ease the fierce contradictions between the two sides as much as possible.

However, the next edict not only detonated the contradictions within the military, but also completely detonated the contradictions between the Holy Lord, the center, and the military, and the break between the military and the political circles was inevitable.

The Holy Lord decreed that Wei Wensheng, the general of the Right Waiting Guard, would not be punished for his merits in the Eastern Expedition, and the official would be reinstated, and he would continue to return to the center to be the secretary of his criminal department, and he would be removed from the post of General of the Right Waiting Guard. The remaining commanders of the 6th Route Expeditionary Force, Zuo Xiaowei, General Jing Yuanheng, General Xue Shixiong of the Right Yiwei, Cui Hongsheng, General of the Left Wuwei, Zhang Jin, General of the Right Imperial Guard, and Zhao Xiaocai, General of the Right Houwei, were all removed from the list of the people, and dozens of senior officers such as Yang Yichen and Wang Rengong were dismissed or demoted, and none of them were spared.

This is incomprehensible, why is Wei Wen's promotion greater than his fault, and he is not punished? Just because he is a close confidant of the Holy Lord, a former central minister?

According to the edict of the Holy Lord, the chief of the sailors, Lai Hu'er, the deputy governor, Zhou Fashang, and the chief of the army, Choi Junsu, made outstanding achievements in the first battle of Pyongyang, and were promoted to the rank of knight and rewarded heavily. Among them, the greatest contribution to the protection of the child, the title of Rongguo Gong, the official worship of the right Yiwei general, and the head of the water division, and the gift of 5,000 paragraphs, with the fifth son to Hong as the Ducheng Mansion Eagle Yang Lang general, to the previous Xiangyang Gong to give his son to the whole.

Rumble...... The court is in chaos, the Weifu is in chaos, and the eastern capital is in chaos.

The naval division was defeated in Pyongyang, and 40,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, how could this be meritorious? The naval division attacked Pyongyang in advance, and the strategy of the Shui 6 to attack Pyongyang prepared by the commander of the expeditionary force failed, and the commander of the expeditionary force put all the troops on the frontal battlefield, and the 6th Route Army of the expeditionary army not only lost the effective response and cover of the naval division in the process of retreating, but was also surrounded and intercepted by all the troops of Goguryeo. The death of 200,000 expeditionary soldiers, the sailor has an unshirkable responsibility, and the crime of protecting the children is unforgivable.

When Yu Zhongwen in the prison heard this unbelievable news, he was so angry that he vomited blood and fell to the ground, fell unconscious, and died a day later, and a generation of famous generals died in grief and indignation with the infamy of the ages.

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