Although Zhou Xingfeng's death was almost a month later than recorded in the history books of his previous life, this did not affect the committee's judgment that Zhang Wenbiao would have raised an army to rebel after learning that Zhou Baoquan had successfully succeeded his father. Therefore, about a month after the imperial court canonized Zhou Baoquan's holy decree, the crossing team committee decided to set up the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army", and formed a vanguard force of about 12,000 men and horses of the Fourth Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army", which had just formed an army, under the leadership of Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin, in the name of long-distance training, and marched slowly but methodically in the direction of Xiangzhou along the line of Xuzhou and Dengzhou. Behind this vanguard team, the Chinese army, which consisted of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 1st Independent Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Independent Artillery Regiment, the 1st Marine Corps, the "Wolf Tooth Battalion", and the 10 regiments of the "Security Army", totaling about 38,000 men and horses, was personally led by Wang Kunjun and followed up with a time lag of five days behind the vanguard troops. At the same time, Liang Ziyue also conveyed the orders of the main hall to the "Dark Feather" branches along the way and in Nanping (Jingnan) and Wuping (Hunan), asking the relevant branches to make every effort to do a good job in the secrecy of the army's southward movement, and to clear all the details and hidden piles in Nanping (Jingnan) and Wuping (Hunan) in their jurisdiction, so as to ensure that the two families could not get any relevant news before the army arrived in Xiangzhou.

In the face of the all-out attack of the "Dark Feather" branches, Nanping (Jingnan) and Wuping (Hunan) were destroyed one by one in the blink of an eye in the already limited number of spy personnel and spy networks in the Later Zhou Dynasty, enabling the Beiping Army to achieve the intelligence blocking of the above two secession regimes within a certain period of time, and laid a good foundation for the battle of Hunan.

The crossing team was actively preparing to pacify the land of Jinghu, but Zhang Wenbiao, who had long been seen through by his brother Zhou Xingfeng, had no idea about the various actions of the Later Zhou court because of the fruitful work of "Dark Feather". As a brother who started with Zhou Xingfeng, Zhang Wenbiao was naturally unconvinced after learning that Zhou Baoquan was canonized by the Zhou court and became the new lord of Hunan. When he discussed this matter with his subordinates, he said very angrily: "A certain and Xingfeng brothers started from humble beginnings together, fought in the south and the north, and fought in the east and west for more than ten years, creating this great foundation. Now, when the brothers go, with a certain meritorious service, how can they do something to Zhou Baoquan, a yellow-mouthed child. ”

Zhang Wenbiao felt that his merits were prominent, and his reluctance to assist the eleven-year-old Zhou Baoquan was not just a momentary quick talk, but he really had the intention of raising troops to rebel and compete for the power that he thought should belong to him. Therefore, almost at the same time as receiving the news that the Later Zhou court added Zhou Baoquan and ordered him to inherit the foundation of Zhou Xingfeng, Zhang Wenbiao had already begun to prepare for a rebellion. In Hengzhou, where he was stationed, he recruited troops, reorganized his training department, and accumulated grain and grass, waiting for a suitable opportunity to raise the anti-flag.

On the 29th day of the 11th lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, this opportunity was finally waited for by Zhang Wenbiao. On this day, Zhou Baoquan ordered to send a group of elite soldiers from Langzhou to Yongzhou to replace the original soldiers and horses to take over the task of guarding the palace. Zhang Wenbiao, who got the news, immediately realized that his opportunity had come. So, after some preparations, Zhang Wenbiao first led the troops to raid the Langzhou elite army passing through Hengzhou, in order to achieve the purpose of weakening the strength of Zhou Baoquan's faction, and then went north under the pretense of going north in the name of Zhou Xing's funeral, and led the army to go straight to Tanzhou, the only place to go to Langzhou.

It should also be Zhang Wenbiao's luck, when the Tanzhou Wu'an Army stayed behind and marched Sima Liao Jiansu looked down on Zhang Wenbiao, who was reckless and had no background. When he heard that Zhang Wenbiao was leading the troops, he didn't take it seriously at all, and he didn't make any necessary preparations in advance. When Zhang Wenbiao was already in the city, he still had a banquet in the mansion with his subordinates, without taking the other party and his 30,000 soldiers and horses to heart, and said to the guests present indifferently: "That Wenbiao is just a reckless man, why worry about it." When he entered the mansion, he was captured in one fell swoop after seeing Benliu, and sent to Langzhou to be disposed of by the Taiwei. ”

After speaking, not only did he still eat and drink with the guests, but he also did not order his soldiers to be on guard. As a result, by the time Zhang Wenbiao drove straight in, led his men and horses to break into his mansion, and appeared in front of him, Liao Jian was already drunk. said that Zhang Wenbiao was captured alive, and at this time, Liao Jian couldn't even hold the bow and arrows steadily, and the only thing he could do was to recline on the couch and scold the other party. In the end, Liao Jian and more than ten guests present were all killed by Zhang Wenbiao. And Zhang Wenbiao, who obtained Liao Jian's seal, immediately claimed that Quan Wu'an Jun would stay in the aftermath and go to Langzhou.

After receiving Zhang Wenbiao's seal, Zhou Baoquan and his cronies knew that there was no room for turning things around, so they summoned their subordinates and ordered Yang Shifan to circulate Zhang Wenbiao's seal to everyone, and conveyed to everyone what Zhou Xingfeng said to him and a group of ministers before he died.

Since Zhou Xingfeng had confessed before his death, the civil and military ministers of Wuping (Hunan) naturally had no more disputes, and unanimously agreed to take Yang Shifan as the commander and lead more than 30,000 soldiers from Langzhou to the south to meet Zhang Wenbiao. In addition, considering that Zhang Wenbiao had been on the battlefield for a long time and his generals were also quite proficient, so while ordering Yang Shifan to lead the troops to quell the rebellion, Zhou Baoquan also sent envoys to Nanping (Jingnan) and the Later Zhou court respectively to ask for help.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, after receiving a rescue letter from Wuping (Hunan), a report from Nanping (Jingnan) about the civil strife in Wuping (Hunan) and Zhang Wenbiao's rebellion, as well as a self-defense seal from Zhang Wenbiao's side, the crossing team, which had already made all preparations, issued a decree through the Later Zhou court almost at the same time as receiving the rescue letter, appointing Wang Kunjun as the deployment of the Hunan Provincial Camp, with Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhi as the vanguard commanders, and led 50,000 troops to attack Zhang Wenbiao.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, after receiving the will of the imperial court, he left Beijing and went south in the name of training, and the fourth composite infantry division of the "Flying Dragon Army" of the "Flying Dragon Army" under the command of Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin in Xiangzhou for a few days was successfully met with the main force of the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" led by Wang Kunjun and secretly went south, and immediately turned into a counterinsurgency army to conquer Zhang Wenbiao, and immediately left Xiangzhou to go south, and went straight to Nanping (Jingnan) Jiangling Mansion, and killed the past.

On the 24th day of December of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of Xiande, the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" approached the border of Nanping (Jingnan). On the one hand, Wang Kunjun ordered the army to suspend its advance and set up camp, and on the other hand, he sent an envoy to Jiangling Mansion to ask Gao Jichong, the envoy of Nanping (Jingnan) Jiedu, to go south by means of a road and pass outside the city of Jiangling Mansion to quell the rebellion of Zhang Wenbiao in Wuping (Hunan).

Regarding this request of the Later Zhou army, the ministers of Nanping (Jingnan) had different opinions. Among them, the general Li Jingwei resolutely opposed the invitation to borrow the way, and said: "Soldiers, treacherous ways." The general uses soldiers, and he has always emphasized surprise soldiers and scheming to win. The Zhou army is menacing this time, and it is by no means a good type, and its covenant outside the city is definitely not credible. The last general thought that we should dispatch troops and horses and wait for the battle to prevent the Zhou army from cheating. ”

Sun Guangxian, the judge of Jiedu, disagreed with Li Jingwei's statement and refuted: "You are not from a small group of people in Xiajiang, where can you recognize the benefits and disadvantages of success or failure. Moreover, since the time of Zhou Shizong, the Central Plains has had the ambition of mixing the north and the south and pacifying the world. What's more, the person who led the troops to the south this time was the envoy of the Beiping Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the inspection in front of the palace, and the prince of the Song Kingdom. With the soldiers and horses under his command, especially the strength of the 'Flying Dragon Army', how can a small Nanping of his own family be able to resist it. ”

After speaking, Sun Guangxian told Gao Jichong Chen about the benefits and disadvantages, and repeatedly persuaded him to agree to Hou Zhou's army to take advantage of the request, withdraw the scouts along the way, explore the horses, and count the grain and grass in the treasury, in case of unforeseen needs when the Zhou army crossed the border. In this regard, Gao Jichong also thought so, and immediately ordered his subordinates to follow the rules.

Seeing that the lord Gao Jichong did not listen to his own persuasion, the general Li Jingwei looked up to the sky and sighed after leaving the Jiedu Mansion: "If you don't listen to my advice, the general trend of Nanping will go, what is the use of me living in this world." With that, the loyal general choked himself, crushed his own throat bone, and died of exhaustion.