Yan Fu finally sent two pieces of information from the capital, the first one was the information of peace, Yan Fu set up a restaurant in the capital, according to the practice in Liangzhou, arranged some of the scouts in the restaurant, Guy Restaurant is the best place to spy on intelligence, the three sects and nine streams enter the restaurant, when eating and drinking, they will unconsciously say a lot of things, as for those court officials, when they enter the restaurant, as long as they eat in the private room, they will talk about the government and politics, they think that it is the safest to talk in the private room, This allowed Yan Fu to obtain a lot of information without much effort.

There are also some scouts, Yan Fu arranged to go out, most of them went to find things to do, and it was best to be able to enter the mansions of high-ranking officials in the imperial court to be subordinates, so that they could also obtain a lot of information.

The second piece of information was about the imperial court's defense arrangements for Huang Chao after crossing the Yangtze River.

Cao Quanhui was appointed as the envoy of the Tianping Festival, and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the eastern side, responsible for resisting and exterminating the Yellow Nest.

Cao Quanyang's fame is very great, especially in conjunction with Liu Jurong, defeated Huangchao, and became famous in this war, if it were not for Liu Jurong taking into account the attitude of the imperial court, Cao Quanhui would be able to lead the army at that time and annihilate Huangchao, and now Huangchao has crossed the Yangtze River, and it may threaten the capital and the eastern capital, so the imperial court thought of Cao Quanyang at this time, and appointed Cao Quanhui as the envoy of the Tianping Festival, and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the east, to assist Gao Biao to exterminate Huangchao.

The imperial court believed that Huang Chao was afraid of Cao Quanyang, and had great confidence in Cao Quanyang's fight against Huang Chao.

After receiving Yan Fu's information, Li Rupei quickly checked the map, the Tianping Jiedu envoy controlled the southwest of Shandong Province, which has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and it is also the place where Huangchao has been attacked many times.

Huang Chao's army has occupied Tianchang and Liuhe, and the next target is Qingzhou, once Huang Chao controls Qingzhou, he will occupy the absolute initiative on the battlefield.

Li Rupei drew a heavy stroke in the place of Qingzhou on the map.

His mood is still a little contradictory, he is familiar with history, although after a thousand years, there are not many historians who study the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the information about the end of the Tang Dynasty is not very complete, but there are still detailed records of several influential battles involved in the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Should Cao Quanyang be reminded that after taking office, he must send heavy troops to guard Qingzhou, this is a question that Li Rupei needs to think about, no matter what, he still doesn't want Huangchao to occupy the capital and the eastern capital, although such a situation may be very beneficial for him to dominate the world.

After careful consideration, Li Rupei still made a decision, sent scouts, found Cao Quanxi, and told Cao Quanhui to pay attention to Qingzhou's defenses.

The news that Cao Quanhui was appointed as the envoy of the Tianping Festival and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the eastern capital soon spread to the army of Huangchao.

At this time, Huang Kuo had just led an army of 20,000 to leave and go to encircle and suppress the Iron Army, and Huang Chao quickly summoned Shang Rang, Zhu Wen, Zhao Zhang and other core strategists and generals to discuss how to deal with Cao Quanxi.

Huang Chao still attaches great importance to Cao Quanxi, after all, he was defeated by Cao Quanhui and almost lost his life, but at this time, Huang Chao has full confidence that he can defeat Cao Quanxi, a few months ago, he once defeated and killed the biggest rival Zhang Xuan, which gave him full confidence, and the current situation is different, in order to be able to protect himself, he will not send a large army to fight at all, Cao Quanyang is difficult to support alone.

The opinions of everyone were very unanimous, and the goal was directly aimed at Qingzhou, especially Shang Rang, who once fought directly with Cao Quanyang, suffered a fiasco, and was bent on revenge.

The discussion ended quickly, Huang Chao personally led an army of 150,000 to conquer Cao Quanyang, Shang Rang, Zhao Zhang and others followed him to fight, and Zhu Wen stayed behind to protect Tianchang, Liuhe and other places to prevent Cao Quanhui from suddenly attacking the back of the army.

A big net is gradually spreading, this is a life-and-death decisive battle, if Huang Chao can exterminate the army led by Cao Quanyang, or even kill Cao Quanyang, it can be said that in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, no one dares to confront his army.

Cao Quanyang's attention is also in Qingzhou.

After taking office, Cao Quanyang took over the Tianping Army, which has a total of 8,000 soldiers, which can be regarded as a brave and warlike army, but Cao Quanyang has just taken office after all, and it is difficult to completely run in the army in a short time.

As soon as he grasped a lot of information, Cao Quanhui wrote a letter to Gao Biao, explaining the many arrangements of the imperial court, and imploring Gao Biao to send a large army to exterminate the Yellow Nest with him, and Cao Quanhui also informed Gao Biao of his basic plans.

As long as Gao Biao can send a large army, then Cao Quanhui has sufficient certainty that he can defeat the army of Huang Chao, at least be able to resist the offensive of Huang Chao's army, it should be said that Cao Quanyang's plan is not very much pressure on Gao Biao, and the battle with Huang Chao's army is dominated by Cao Quanyang and Tianping's army, and the army sent by Gao Biao is only reinforced at a critical moment.

The military situation was urgent, and after Cao Quanyang wrote a letter to Gao Piao, he led the army to set off for Qingzhou, and his eldest son Cao Yi led two thousand sergeants as the vanguard to open the way in front.

When the scouts sent by Li Rupei arrived, Cao Quanyang led the army and had already set off for two days, and the scouts calculated the distance, and it was basically difficult for him to catch up, and at the same time, from the discussion of the Jiedu envoy Yamen, the scouts knew that Cao Quanyang led the army and went to Qingzhou, which was consistent with Li Rupei's analysis, and there was no need for the scouts to do more.

Then the scout's mission changed, he had to stay where he was, wait for all the news of the battle, and report it to the prince as quickly as possible.

The two armies are advancing in the direction of Qingzhou from different directions, and the war is about to break out.

Both sides sent a lot of scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding situation, and from the comparison of the situation of the two armies, Huang Chao has a clear advantage, both in terms of strength and in terms of familiar sergeants.

This advantage quickly turned into a victory.

The scouts sent out by Huang Chao first detected the vanguard led by Cao Yi, after careful reconnaissance, the vanguard led by Cao Yi was only 2,000 people, after learning the news, Huang Chao made a decisive decision not to occupy Qingzhou for the time being, mainly to exterminate Cao Quanyang's army.

Shang Rang led an army of 50,000 and set up an encirclement, waiting for the 2,000 vanguard troops led by Cao Yi to enter the encirclement.

The battle began at midnight and lasted until noon, ending in half a day.

The attack of an army of 50,000 was far from being able to withstand 2,000 sergeants.

In this battle, the 2,000 vanguard troops led by Cao Yi were all wiped out, no one escaped, and Cao Yi himself was killed in battle.

Three days later, Cao Quanyang, who had already entered Qingzhou City, finally learned the news.

This is a heavy blow to Cao Quanxi.

Cao Quanyang once began to doubt his own judgment, the Huang Chao at this time, I am afraid that it is not the Huang Chao of more than a year ago, and the combat effectiveness is much stronger, after all, the army of the Yellow Nest defeated Zhang Lan and killed Zhang Lan, you must know that Zhang Lan is a brave general recognized by the court.

Six thousand troops were already stationed in Qingzhou, and even if they wanted to withdraw, it would be too late.

The 150,000 army led by Huang Chao firmly surrounded Qingzhou.

This is a great battle with an extraordinary disparity in the strength of the enemy and us.

Cao Quanyang, who has a strong sense of self-esteem, is unwilling to completely wait in the city of Qingzhou, he chose to take the initiative to attack, with 6,000 soldiers to deal with the 150,000 army, which sounds a little unbelievable, but Cao Quanyang dared to do this, and the reason why he dared to be so bold was also very simple, he thought that he had mastered Huang Chao's mind and knew the combat effectiveness of the army under Huang Chao.

There is no problem with Cao Quanxi's analysis, but the biggest problem lies in the disparity in troops.

In the first few battles, Cao Quanhui led the army and fought desperately, but he still occupied a certain advantage, which made people surprised, after all, Huang Chao had an army of 150,000, 150,000 against 6,000, and there was no need to predict the outcome at all.

When Cao Quanxi attacked again, preparing to defeat the Huangchao army in one fell swoop with less than 6,000 soldiers, the Huangchao was also fully prepared and asked for all the 150,000 troops to attack.

An eternal battle unfolded outside Qingzhou City.

Facing the opponent who came like a tide, Cao Quanxi's heart was dripping blood, he wrote a letter to Gao Biao for a long time, it is said that at this time, Gao Biao should have sent a large army, but unfortunately the person who went to deliver the letter did not reply to the message for a long time.

Facing an opponent with an absolute advantage in numbers, Cao Quanyang suddenly felt that he was completely in danger.

Although he took the lead, despite his desperate fighting, the opponent had no intention of retreating at all.

When more than half of the 6,000 army suffered casualties, Cao Quanyan could no longer hold on, he took the initiative to abandon Qingzhou, led the remaining sergeants, and retreated in the direction of Sishang.

This was a harbinger of the collapse of the whole army, Cao Quanyang realized it, but he was powerless to return to the sky.

More than ten days passed, Gao Biao's army was slow to disappear, and by this time, Cao Quanyang had already understood that Gao Biao would not send a large army to reinforcements, and his fate could only be controlled by himself.

The army retreated to the direction of Si, but the enemy army led by Shang Rang pursued frantically, and many sergeants were either killed or surrendered along the way, and when they retreated to Sishang, Cao Quanyang gathered a large army, which was already less than 2,000 people.

Cao Quanyang's face showed a resolute expression, the eldest son Cao Yi died in battle, he was surrounded by a large army led by Shang Rang, and the surrounding sergeants had long lost the courage and energy to resist, what is the next outcome, it goes without saying, at this time, Cao Quanyang remembered that he had defeated Huang Chao last year and crossed the river to pursue, but unfortunately because of the imperial court and Liu Jurong, he finally gave up the pursuit and let Huang Chao breathe, but for more than a year, the situation was completely reversed.

The army led by Shang Rang broke through the low defense line and continued to kill.

Cao Quanyang roared angrily, picked up his broadsword, and killed the enemy