After all, Luoyang is not too far from Xiangyang, and Liu Ziheng has always paid attention to Li Rupei's situation, so he got a lot of news at the first time, to say that Liu Ziheng has more worries, it is because when Huang Hua led an army of 20,000 to attack Liangzhou, he secretly supported it, which is also agreed by Tian Lingzi, as long as Huang Yu defeats Li Rupei, Liu Ziheng can be at ease in Shannan Dongdao to be a festival envoy.

It's a pity that it backfired, Huang Kui's army was wiped out by the iron-blooded army, which made Liu Ziheng worry for a long time, the only thing he could do was to completely control the tooth army in Xiangyang with the fastest speed, and the officers who replaced the tooth army on a large scale, including Liu Di and others, were all put aside by him for various reasons, and the officers were all his henchmen, or people he trusted.

The iron-blooded army galloped to Luoyang and won a huge victory, and the bitterness in Liu Ziheng's heart was unspeakable.

At this time, the most unfavorable news came, Li Rupei led the iron-blooded army, occupied Quanzhou, and set up an ambush in Quanzhou to defeat Huang Chao, who was preparing to raid Liangzhou, so that Huang Chao fled to Huainan Road from the direction of Lizhou.

When Li Rupei left Quanzhou, he left behind 5,000 soldiers of the Iron Blood Army, and announced in a high-profile manner that Quanzhou would be directly under the jurisdiction of Shannan Xidao from now on.

This is unbearable for Liu Ziheng, and in a fit of rage, he was even ready to personally lead the army to Quanzhou to conquer, defeat the iron-blooded army, and recapture Quanzhou, but he did not act in the end, because he knew very well that the tooth army under his command might not be able to defeat the iron-blooded army, if this battle was really triggered, maybe Li Rupei would lead the iron-blooded army and kill directly to Xiangyang, so that he would lose the entire Shannan Dongdao.

Liu Ziheng, who couldn't swallow this breath, quickly reported to Tian Lingzi.

What Liu Ziheng didn't expect was that the timing of his report was not good, the day after the end of the early dynasty, his secret letter came to Tian Lingzi's hands, because the early dynasty's proposal failed, Tian Lingzi's arrangement did not get the emperor's permission, or the emperor saw the clues, at this time Tian Lingzi was thinking about what to do next, after all, among the eunuchs, there are also people eyeing him, such as Yang Fuguang and Yang Fugong and others, waiting for him to make mistakes and control power.

After reading Liu Ziheng's letter, Tian Lingzi was not angry, and arranged for Liu Ziheng to serve as a festival envoy in Shannan Dongdao, in order to be able to lay more strength below, but it didn't take long for Liu Ziheng to encounter so much trouble in Xiangyang, Tian Lingzi is not a fool, he got some news, the evidence of Liu Ziheng's fornication with Huangchao is said to have been mastered by Li Rupei, maybe when, Li Rupei will throw out this evidence, then he can't protect Liu Ziheng.

In addition to being angry, Tian Lingzi's reply to Liu Ziheng was very unkind, asking Liu Ziheng to handle the affairs of Shannan Dongdao, everything must be focused on the overall situation, and now bluntly said that Li Rupei is now in the limelight and is sought after by many people, and this is not the time to find trouble.

After receiving Tian Lingzi's reply, Liu Ziheng locked himself in the room and scolded, this time he not only scolded Li Rupei, but also scolded Tian Lingzi, he thought that Tian Lingzi was still a eunuch after all, and the disabled person did not have much ability to bear it, and he knew how to vent his temper when he encountered trouble, and he couldn't find a good way to deal with it, Li Rupei was obviously a provocation, he occupied the whole state today, he could occupy Lizhou tomorrow, and he could kill Xiangyang the day after tomorrow.

Liu Ziheng is not a good stubble, he climbed up step by step from the Shence army, and he can be regarded as a member of the army, in the face of Li Rupei's naked provocation, he will not be silent, no matter what, he must give Li Rupei a little bit of power.

After careful consideration, Liu Ziheng decided to let Liu Di come forward and lead 10,000 soldiers to Quanzhou to exterminate the Iron Army.

Such an arrangement is wonderful in Liu Ziheng's opinion, Liu Di is Liu Jurong's son, and Liu Jurong's most valued son, now Liu Jurong is already the prime minister of the imperial court, no matter what, he is powerful and powerful, if Liu Di has an accident in the process of exterminating the iron-blooded army, then Liu Jurong must count this account on Li Rupei's head, so that Li Rupei can have more enemies, if Liu Di wins the victory and can take back the whole state, it will be better, Li Rupei will also hate Liu Jurong and Liu Di, There is no end to the fight with Liu Jurong, no matter what, such an arrangement can provoke trouble.

Liu Di is now doing things in the Yamen of Jiedu, when Liu Jurong left Xiangyang, he once thought about taking Liu Di away, but unfortunately this idea was rejected by Tian Lingzi, and he had to leave Liu Di in Xiangyang, when Liu Ziheng just took office, he was still complaining in his heart, why not let Liu Di leave Xiangyang, then he would better control power, and now Liu Ziheng finally understands that Tian Lingzi is old and spicy after all.

After a period of getting along, Liu Ziheng has long mastered Liu Di's character, maybe there are too many people who are touted by a thousand, Liu Di is too confident, and always thinks that he can do a great career, after his father Liu Jurong became the prime minister of the DPRK, such an idea can be said to be inflated, Liu Ziheng naturally wants to seize this opportunity and take advantage of Liu Di's weakness.

After some preparation, Liu Ziheng specially found Liu Di, and the two had a long talk.

Liu Ziheng clearly told Liu Di that he was ready to appoint him as a tooth general, but the requirements for appointing him as a tooth general were also very simple, that is, to lead 10,000 troops to take back Quanzhou, which was originally the territory of Shannan Dongdao, and now it was occupied by the iron-blooded army under Li Rupei, which was taken by Li Rupei and was condemned, so this crusade had a moral victory.

Liu Ziheng also knew Liu Di's worries, mainly because the Iron Blood Army was too brave.

Liu Ziheng is highly Liu Di, Xiangyang's tooth army is also very powerful, once almost wiped out the army of Huangchao, that battle, Liu Di participated, and also made military achievements, the iron-blooded army sergeants stationed in Quanzhou, only 5,000 people, Liu Di led an army of 10,000, defeating the iron-blooded army is not a problem.

Liu Ziheng specially emphasized that the Iron Blood Army is now very famous, Liu Di can lead the tooth army in Xiangyang to defeat the Iron Blood Army, and the reputation will rise rapidly, as for whether the Iron Blood Army will retaliate for defeat, there is no need to worry too much about this, Li Rupei's identity is different, and the court will naturally uphold justice at that time.

Liu Ziheng's flickering made Liu Di dispel his worries.

The 10,000-strong army quickly prepared and headed in the direction of Quanzhou, and at this time, it was already on the edge of the twentieth month of the lunar month.

Li Rupei had already planted eyeliner in Xiangyang, and he quickly learned the news that Liu Ziheng sent a large army to Quanzhou.

This time, there were generals of the iron-blooded army such as Gao Chibang and Huang Biao, as well as civilian officials such as Liu Yunzhang and Qian Shiqu.

The opinions of everyone are very clear, and they unceremoniously exterminate the invading Xiangyang Tooth Army.

As for how this battle should be carried out, the scheming Liu Yunzhang put forward a suggestion, he believes that this is actually a special arrangement made by Liu Ziheng, so that Liu Jurong's son Liu Di will command an army of 10,000 as the commander to encircle and suppress, the purpose is to provoke the contradiction between the prince and Liu Jurong, there is nothing to be afraid of, the iron-blooded army can plan and destroy the Xiangyang Ya Army at the same time, capture Liu Di alive, and directly send Liu Di to the capital and give it to Liu Jurong, so that Liu Jurong can understand everything.

Everyone fully agreed with Liu Yunzhang's proposal.

Li Rupei naturally agreed, but how to exterminate the Xiangyang Tooth Army, he had special thoughts.

The Iron Blood Army is stepping up training, this time there are a lot of newly recruited sergeants, the total number is more than 40,000, to train these 40,000 people, it will take at least three months to half a year, in this process, to face the Xiangyang Tooth Army, or to dispatch the main force of the Iron-Blooded Army, and the number of people must be fully guaranteed, Liu Di led 10,000 Tooth Army, then the Iron-Blooded Army will dispatch 20,000 troops, completely overwhelming the Xiangyang Tooth Army from the number of people.

Li Rupei did not mean to despise the Xiangyang Tooth Army in the slightest, he knew very well that this Xiangyang Tooth Army was trained by Liu Jurong with hard work, and he had defeated Huangchao and had good combat effectiveness, plus Liu Ziheng was also born in the army, and he knew how to train sergeants and how to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, so this battle must not be easy.

In his heart, Li Rupei's wish is also in the planning, that is, to directly take Xiangyang, combine Shannan East Road and Shannan West Road into one, restore the original Shannan Road, the territory is larger, and if you build well, you can gather greater strength.

The year is approaching, this battle, Li Rupei will not personally move, his focus will be temporarily shifted to the people's livelihood, there are still many things waiting for him to do, and this is not a crucial battle, in the future, when he swings his army to Xiangyang, he will personally lead the army again.

Gao Chibang needs to work hard to train the newly recruited sergeants, so the commander of this battle is Huang Biao.

In order to win the battle smoothly, Liu Yunzhang asked himself to follow the army and become a military advisor, Li Rupei was also happy, and let Liu Yunzhang become the supervisor of the army, which means that many things about Huang Biao must be discussed with Liu Yunzhang.

On the twenty-first day of the lunar month, after dark, the 15,000 soldiers of the iron-blooded army stationed in Liangzhou quickly set off and headed in the direction of Quanzhou.

The actions of the army are top secret, and there can be no leakage in the slightest, within the scope of Shannan West Road, it is not very difficult for the army's actions to be kept secret, after all, this is the base of the Iron Army, and for nearly a year, the Iron Army has a good mass base here and has been recognized.

Li Rupei personally sent the iron-blooded army out of Liangzhou Prefecture and told Huang Biao to end the battle as soon as possible and return to Liangzhou for the New Year.