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In early October, the alliance marched south out of Lu County, marched along the junction of Pengcheng and Langya counties, then went out of Baoqi Mountain, passed Lanling County, entered Xiapi County, crossed Yishui, and stormed Tancheng.

Tancheng is only more than 100 miles away from Linyi, the capital of Langya County, more than 300 miles away from Suyu, the capital of Xiapi County, and more than 400 miles away from Pengcheng, the first important town in Xuzhou. Dou Xuan, the Taishou of Langya County, was anxious, worried that the purpose of the rebel army was to attack Langya County from the east and west, so he hurriedly reported to Donglai and begged Zhou Fa Shanghuo for support.

Tancheng is separated from Donghai County by a Shushui River, close at hand, the righteous army attacked Tancheng at the same time, a part of the army entered the territory of Donghai to plunder.

Donghai Fuqushan is about 200 miles away from Tancheng, after learning the news that the Mengshan rebels are heading south, the Donghai people can only hold on to the city except for asking Pengcheng for help. Although the East China Sea was rich, its geographical location did not have strategic value, so it only set up an Eagle Yang Mansion, and the garrison force was weak, and it did not dare to confront the rebels head-on. The Mengshan Rebels have already made a name for themselves in the world when they loot the Tongji Canal this summer and threaten Gyeonggi, and the people of the East China Sea must be cautious when they encounter such a strong opponent, so as not to lose their official hats if they lose the battle.

At the beginning of the year, Tancheng was attacked by the Mengshan Righteous Army, when the strength of the Righteous Army was limited and there was an urgent need for food, so the main target of the attack was the small town of the township and the Wubao Manor, and the Tancheng was besieged but not attacked, and the main purpose was to contain the officials and troops in the city. Since that attack, Tancheng has realized that the crisis is coming, after all, the Mengshan Righteous Army is nearby, without eating or drinking, they came down to rob, in the long run, the loss of property is secondary, only afraid of life, for which they strengthened the city defense, and called the young and strong to increase the defensive force, and the surrounding nobles and rich people have also moved into the city, with them into the city there are also some township regiments, so that the defense ability of Tancheng has also been strengthened a lot.

However, the Mengshan Righteous Army is not the Wuxia Ameng of the past, after the westward expedition to the Central Plains, the overall strength of the alliance has developed by leaps and bounds, especially the main force of the alliance based on the Cangtou Army, the strength is growing by leaps and bounds. In this attack on Tancheng, Li Fengyun personally went to the front line to command, and the three armies of the Inner Government and the five armies of the Outer Government, totaling more than 26,000 people, launched a tidal attack on Tancheng.

The number of defenders of Tancheng was less than 1,000 people, including the township regiment and the young and strong people, who were not opponents of the alliance soldiers at all, and collapsed after only one day of defense, and Tancheng fell.

Almost at the same time, news of the rebels' march south reached Pengcheng.

Liang Dezhong and Cui Deben received an edict from the Eastern Capital to suppress thieves as early as September, but neither of them was active, because this time the thieves involved Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and all those who had a relationship with Yang Lan, the king of Qi, were actively or passively involved in the battle for imperial unity, coupled with the drastic changes in the political situation in the eastern capital after the defeat of the Eastern Expedition, Yang Lan, the king of Qi who was in turmoil outside the country, added many unpredictable variables to the political situation, and these variables made the king of Qi and the people close to the king of Qi fall into a clearly visible danger, so this time the thief, For Liang Dezhong and Cui Deben, who absolutely don't want to have anything to do with King Qi, it's not a matter of whether they want to be positive, but they can't be positive at all.

However, the two of them can't be too negative, if the thief is not good, the king of Qi will certainly bear the responsibility, and their vital interests will also be harmed, which must grasp a proper "degree", but this matter is easy to say, too difficult to do, especially Liang Dezhong, who is responsible for the suppression of Xuzhou, is the person directly responsible for the rebellion and thieves, and once he does not complete the task delivered by the eastern capital, he will be punished. As for Cui Deben, he was only in charge of one Pengcheng county, and he was the chief executive, and the military power was granted temporarily, and he was militarily controlled by the Wei government, so he assumed much less responsibility than Liang Dezhong, and there was no positive reason at all.

Cui De could have been appropriately negative, but Liang Dezhong couldn't, he still had to do what he had to do, but fortunately, there wasn't much he had to do. Previously, Yang Lan and Li Fengyun, the king of Qi, had been entangled in the line of Hehe and Si, which directly threatened the security of Pengcheng, so Liang Dezhong deployed all the eagles of Pengcheng and the local army composed of local township regiments and sects on the northern border of Pengcheng to strictly guard and resolutely prevent Li Feng from going south to the south. Now that the Eastern Capital has come to the edict, clearly requiring the Xuzhou officials and troops to encircle and suppress Li Fengyun, then of course it is necessary to gather more troops and allocate more grain and grass to make an "active" posture of suppressing thieves.

However, contrary to Liang Dezhong's expectations, he had just made an "active" move to suppress the thieves, and Li Fengyun led the army into Xuzhou. The rebel army went south, which quickly changed the situation in the region, which can be said to affect the whole body, not only Liang Dezhong felt tricky, Cui Deben was also caught off guard, but for Duan Wencao of Lu County, this is good news, and for Chen Binghe and Yang Nan, the king of Qi on the first line of Si, it is even better news.

Cui Deben was very annoyed, he immediately found Xiao Hao and asked him if he had received the news of Li Fengyun's trip to Yunnan in advance.

If Li Fengyun did not inform Xiao Hao in advance, it means that Li Fengyun's commitment to the Cui family has been shaken, and the root cause must be related to Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and the Guanlong people with Wei as the leader, which will force him to make adjustments to the cooperation between the two sides. On the contrary, if Li Fengyun told Xiao Hao in advance, and Xiao Hao did not report it out of consideration of his vital interests, the problem would be even stricter, which means that there are many mysteries behind Li Fengyun's descent to Yunnan, which involves important interests, especially the interests of the local aristocratic group in Xuzhou, so that there are more contradictions that need to be resolved and more complicated.

After Xiao Hao learned the news that Li Fengyun went to Xuzhou in Yunnan, his expression was very solemn, and his feelings were very complicated, and in the face of Cui Deben's questioning, he replied for a long time, "I know." ”

Cui Deben's anger was suddenly difficult to contain, but when he saw Xiao Hao's heavy expression, he guessed that there was a reason for this, and he had to hold back. The reason why the Lanling Xiao family maintains a generational cooperative relationship with the Cui family is that the two sides can echo the north and south in politics and complement each other's interests. On the territory of Xuzhou, the real one who counts is the Lanling Xiao family, Cui Deben, Liang Dezhong, if you want to gain a foothold in Xuzhou and seek benefits in Xuzhou, you must win the cooperation of the Xiao family. At this moment, Cui Deben had already felt a premonition of the crisis and urgently needed Xiao's help, so he didn't dare to offend Xiao's.

"What's the mystery?" Cui Deben asked.

Xiao Hao hesitated for a moment and said the reason.

After the alliance returned to the front line of Hehe and Si, Xiao Yi maintained close contact with Lanling. With Li Fengyun's acquiescence, many secrets of the alliance's top leaders are known to Lanling, including the "tacit understanding" established with Yang Lan, the king of Qi, the secret agreement reached with Duan Wencao, and the secret about Li Fengyun's identity, and the key point of this secret is the mysterious appearance of Li Baiyao, a famous man in Shandong. These secrets were shared by Xiao Hao with Cui Deben, and they joined forces to deduce a lot of things from them, and what surprised the two the most was the mysterious appearance of Li Baiyao and the strategy of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, to seek the imperial domination by outreach.

The former is related to Li Fengyun's identity secret, if Li Fengyun is really from the Li family of Zhao County and is a descendant of Li Delin, it is directly related to the overall interests of the Shandong aristocratic group, and the Cui family and the Xiao family should not only pay attention to it, but also pay attention to it unprecedentedly; The latter is related to the exhibition of the political situation in the Eastern Capital, and even directly related to the fate of Middle-earth, and once the King of Qi "spreads his wings and soars", he will definitely leave a strong mark in the history of Middle-earth, but the "soaring" of the King of Qi is not in line with the interests of the Shandong people and the Jiangzuo people, but the Cui family and the Xiao family are very unfortunate to be swept into the storm set off by the King of Qi with a very bleak prospect, and they can't hide if they want to.

The high-level debate of the alliance on how to counter the encirclement and suppression this winter is also known to Lanling, but because Li Fengyun has never made a final decision, and the deployment of troops is focused on the Jishui line, and the change in the political situation in the eastern capital has given the king of Qi the hope of impacting the prince, this hope Yan zhòng has destroyed the "tacit understanding" between him and Li Fengyun, so that there is no trust between the two sides, and Li Fengyun is full of vigilance against the king of Qi, so Xiao Hao and Cui Deben both deduced that Li Fengyun is the most likely to go north.

However, the situation suddenly changed, at the end of September, Xiao Yi sent back two news in one day, one was that Li Fengyun suddenly decided to go south to Xuzhou, and the other was that Li Fengyun went to Heshui again to meet with the secret envoy of the King of Qi.

Xiao Hao could not look at these two news independently, whether from the political level or from the military level, he took it for granted that they were analyzed as a "whole", and the result of the analysis was that the political situation in the eastern capital had changed significantly, and the king of Qi lost the hope of impacting the prince, so the king of Qi must take advantage of the opportunity of the chaos to expand his strength wildly, so that the relationship between the king of Qi and Li Fengyun changed from "tacit understanding" to "cooperation", which is Li Fengyun's sudden decision to go south to Xuzhou, Simply ignore the reason why the coalition army is in danger of total annihilation. Now Li Fengyun is a "knife" that kills people, and this "knife" is in the hands of King Qi, so King Qi's purpose is the most important thing.

What is the purpose of King Qi? Of course, it is necessary to control Xuzhou to expand its strength. How did the king of Qi control Xuzhou? The most convenient and effective means is to replace people, drive away the current military and political governors of Xuzhou, replace them with their own people, and at the same time use Li Fengyun's "knife" to threaten the local aristocratic group in Xuzhou, forcing them to "bow their heads" to the King of Qi and use them for the King of Qi, otherwise they will join forces with Li Fengyun in black and white.

The arms can't twist the thighs, although the local forces in Xuzhou have financial resources, but they lack force, but Qi Wang Yang Lan and Li Fengyun have strong force in their hands, which forces the local forces in Xuzhou to bow their heads.

Concerned about personal interests and local interests in Xuzhou, the Lanling Xiao clan told the Xuzhou family of the bad news as soon as possible, and convened the family heads, elders, and Confucian celebrities of all ethnic groups to discuss countermeasures.

Cui Deben understands that Xiao Hao did not deliberately conceal it, but did not dare to leak it lightly before coming up with effective countermeasures, this matter is related to the interests of the local aristocratic group, and it is too important and urgent. Once the news is leaked and reaches the ears of the military and political governors of Xuzhou who are not native citizens, new changes that are not conducive to the local aristocracy will inevitably arise, such as the bureaucrats ignoring Xuzhou for their own selfish interests, "wantonly plundering", and not hesitating to "harm" or even maliciously destroy Xuzhou for the sake of the political interests of the group, which will be a disaster for the local forces in Xuzhou, and the consequences of this will definitely be more severe than the burning and plundering of the rebels.

"What's going to happen?" Cui Deben knew the reason, and the heavier his mood became, the more concerned he was about the crisis faced by the local aristocratic group in Xuzhou.

"I came here to ask for help from Ming Gong." Xiao Hao bowed his hand and spoke sincerely.

"As long as you can, you will do your best." Cui Deben didn't think twice and promised.

Xiao Hao smiled and said in a low voice, "I received news a few days ago, and it was said that the target was Liang Dezhong. ”

Cui Deben suddenly had an epiphany and blurted out, "Dong Chun." I see, good chess, good chess" and then he said solemnly, "It is not a wolf from the eastern capital, but a tiger, and it is very difficult for you to seek skin with the tiger." ”

Xiao Hao sneered, "A tiger that grew up in a cage, with fangs and sharp teeth? White thieves can play with it, let alone those of us. ”

Cui Deben shook his hand and warned, "King Qi is indeed not afraid, but the people around him are very powerful, Wei Fusi is a treacherous and slippery, if Dong Chun comes back again, and there is one more brave and good general, Xuzhou's life will not be easy." ”

Xiao Hao's eyes showed disdain, "Dong Du will let it go?" Will the Holy Lord allow the King of Qi to repeat the mistakes of the Han King Yang Liang? From a certain point of view, if Dongdu really fulfilled the wish of the King of Qi and transferred Dong Chun back to Xuzhou, it could only mean one thing, indicating that the Holy Lord was ready to destroy the King of Qi. ”

Tridbon was silent. Xiao Hao also made sense, if he wanted to perish, he would make him crazy, and he transferred Dong Chun back to Xuzhou and let him assist King Qi in the rebellion, which did enhance the strength of King Qi, and at the same time pushed King Qi to the road of madness.

Xiao Hao left quickly, he got his wish and got Cui Deben's promise, and Cui Deben also saw clearly the hidden mystery behind Li Fengyunnan's trip to Xuzhou, considering that Cui Hongsheng has been deeply trapped in the political storm and is unable to extricate himself, and Cui is very likely to be hit hard again with the fall of Cui Hongsheng, Cui Deben resolutely decided to "protect himself", so that no matter how the situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou changes, he can be invincible, and the big deal is that he was transferred out because of "inaction", and the transfer is much better than dethronement, at least he can keep his career, Keep the official hat

At this moment, Liang Dezhong took the initiative to "come to the door", and his intention was to ask Cui Deben for help.

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