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In June of the first year of the real dragon, Taiyuan is generally not much different from the summer days of previous years.

As usual, the sky was cloudless, the sun hung high in the air, the streets were scorched like fire, the heat waves on the ground were bursting, and the hot people were upset and sweating.

For many years, the people of Taiyuan City, the northern capital of Taiyuan, which has been the most important city in the north of the Tang Dynasty, were even more shocked by the drastic changes in the situation. In recent years, the border passes have been turbulent, especially in the eastern region of Hebei, and the land of Daibei has almost become the world of the Hu people, but fortunately, Zheng Congyan has served two terms in Hedong and pacified Hedong. It was he who ended the turmoil in Hedong when Shatuo first opposed the Tang Dynasty, and also ended the dominance of the military leaders of Taiyuan Town, and returned Hedong to peace with a group of talented and wise people he invited from Chang'an, and even made Hedong Town known as a small court. However, in the end, Zheng Congyan was finally forced to hand over Hedong Town to the hands of the Shatuo people, in this era, Zheng Congyan has a backbone, but no matter how hard he is, he can't turn the tide.

The people of the northern capital, who had just passed a few years of peace, began to be turbulent again.

After Li Keyong took charge of Taiyuan, various levies and apportionments made the lives of the people suddenly return to a few years ago, and they dared not speak out against these crow soldiers one by one. Many people cursed Li Keyong at home behind their backs, but it didn't take long for Feihuzi to really die in Bianliang. Not long after this shocking news came back, Li Kexiu, who stayed behind in Hedong, began to recruit soldiers, horses and people on a large scale, and wanted to unite Hezhong, Heyang, Zhaoyi and other towns to go south to crusade against Zhu Wen. For a time, it was another forced conscription of strong men, and another levy of money and grain, and the northern capital of Taiyuan City was in chaos for a while.

The first 20,000 soldiers and horses to go south to attack Zhu Wen had just gone south, but Li Jing had already commanded the Qin army to sweep away the only remaining towns and ten states of Chengde and Weibo in Hebei with lightning speed.

This was not only a surprise that exceeded the Qin army's expectations before the war, but also a surprise that greatly exceeded the expectations of other feudal towns.

At the beginning, the Yang brothers were willing to agree to Li Jing's conditions. In the end, he abandoned and betrayed the second town of Hebei, firstly, because the second town of Hebei has always been unreliable, rebellious and impermanent, and it is difficult to really meddle in the affairs of the second town. Second, it is also the judgment of the Yang brothers, even if Li Jing conquers the second town in the south. With the strength and situation of the second town, if the offense turns to defense, then not to mention holding on for three or five years, at least it can still hold out for one or two years. And at this time, they have already slaughtered and swallowed the fat pig Zhu Wen and digested it, maybe even maybe. Even the Chengdu side has been settled. At that time, looking back, the two towns of Hebei can only rely on them more, and from then on, Chang'an can meddle in the two towns openly and honestly, and bring the two towns under control. Then come to fight against Li Jing.

It's just that no one could have imagined that there are dozens of counties in two towns and ten states in Hebei, which have a beautiful place and are guarded. As a result, the battle lasted less than a month before it was completely destroyed. They didn't even fight a slightly better battle, before they were destroyed. Not to mention the heavy damage to the Qin army, he didn't even fail to consume the Qin army by a star. The Qin army pacified the two feudatories, and almost all of them were unharmed.

Li Jing was extremely happy these days, and after making up his mind to seize the current opportunity to attack Hedong, Li Jing personally set the tone of this battle: blitzkrieg.

Since you want to fight, let's defeat them like lightning before they come to their senses.

Therefore, Li Jing issued a new military order in Xuanhua on the same day, and transferred the four-star general Lin Weiqin to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses as the commander of the left army, and quickly rushed to Shuozhou. Gather a total of 30,000 soldiers and border guards and city defense troops from Yunshuo, Shanxi, directly attack Shuozhou and Lanzhou border gates, attack Lanzhou and Shizhou in the northwest of Taiyuan, force the west of Taiyuan, and besiege the west of Taiyuan at the same time. It also blocked the Yellow River and intercepted the rescue of Baoda, Dingnan, Tiande, Zhenwu and other feudal towns that might come to the aid in the area west of the Yellow River. At the same time, the soldiers and horses approached the north of Hezhong Town, threatening Hezhong at any time and containing the soldiers and horses of Hezhong Town.

Then, as the seven-star generalissimo, Li Jing personally led the post of marshal of the middle road, led 50,000 guards, from Xuanhua along Qinwang Avenue to Xinzhou in the north of Taiyuan, out of Chitang Pass to attack Tianmen Pass, the north gate of Taiyuan, and directly attacked Taiyuan.

He also appointed Zhou Dewei, who was currently resting in Zhenzhou, as a four-star general, and appointed him as the commander of the right army, and led the southern expeditionary troops that had just pacified the two towns of Hebei Province to send 50,000 elites from Zhenzhou to attack Jingcheng from Zhenzhou, from which they crossed the Taihang Mountains and penetrated directly into the east of Taiyuan.

In the end, Li Jing promoted Guo Chongtao, a three-star lieutenant general who had just shined in the southern expedition, to a four-star general, and ordered him to lead 30,000 horses from Weizhou, Xiangzhou, and Beizhou in the former Weibo to Xingzhou and other places east of Taihang Mountain in Zhaoyi Town, and make a threatening posture to prevent Zhaoyi Town from sending troops to support Hedong Town. At the same time, the Yellow Sea Fleet was also dispatched to send sailors and marines directly to the Yellow River in the south of Heyang Town to contain Heyang Town.

If you don't move, you will be like thunder.

Several armies moved together, of which the main force of the attack was Li Jing's middle and Zhou Dewei's right, and Lin Wei and Guo Chongtao were responsible for containing the other towns.

And at the same time, other places in the Central Plains were also made into a pot of porridge.

Zhu Wen of Bianzhou began to shrink into the city to show weakness after killing Li Ke with joy and sorrow, and after the 20,000 Hedong troops were not swallowed, but were knocked out of a mouthful of teeth, but secretly mobilized soldiers and horses from Zhuzhou to encircle and suppress these more than 10,000 Hedong elites. As a result, as soon as Zhu Wen made a move, Yang Fuguang's brothers and Qin Zongquan and other two forces shot at the same time, Yang Fuguang first attacked Shaanxi, killed Zhu Wen's second brother Zhu Cun, captured Shaanxi, and then attacked with his brother Yang Fuguang on both sides, and then attacked Jinshang, although Wuguan had the general of the Bianjun army, but after all, he was defeated by the well-planned raid, and a group of soldiers and horses were ordered to go to Bianzhou, and the territory of Jinshang Town was captured by the Yang brothers one after another.

At this time, Qin Zongquan also had Li Jing's secret support, and he entered Shannan in a big way, and the northern states of Shannan controlled by Zhu Wen were also lost one after another, and then Qin Zongquan and Shannan Jiedu made Liu Jurong start a big war in Xiangyang.

At this time, Tian Lingzi's rescue of Zhu Wen was also too late, and Yang Shili led 50,000 soldiers and horses to kill Xingyuan and Yang Fuguang's brothers in the Hanshui River. Due to Yang Shili's late arrival, the Liang army of Jin Shang was defeated, and the important town of Wuguan had fallen into the hands of the Yang brothers, and the Xingyuan army came from afar, the soldiers and horses were tired, and Yang Fuguang set up an ambush halfway, and attacked in the middle of the night, and Yang Shili was defeated.

Yang Shili was captured in the melee, and Yang Fuguang personally met Yang Shili. Tempting him to take advantage of it, promising it to be famous, under various means, Yang Shili, one of the commanders of Sanchuan Town, fell to Yang Fuguang in this way. Yang Fuguang also reflects his ruthlessness and does not doubt his employment. The suspect didn't need it, he directly appointed Yang Shili as the king of Shu, and the envoy of the Sanchuan Festival, and one person served as the envoy of the three towns, so that he could continue to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to kill back, and turn around to fight Tian Lingzi.

And Yang Xingmi in Huaixi is also unwilling to be lonely. On the one hand, he sent troops to the Eyue Prefectures, and on the other hand, he began to connect with Lu Yongzhi in Yangzhou.

Lu Yongzhi now almost completely controls Huainan Town, which is only one Yangzhou town left, and there are almost all kinds of frame-up plots against those fierce generals under Gao Yu.

The contradiction between Huainan General Yue Gongchu and Yao Guili and Lu Yongzhi became more and more intensified, the two were left and right Xiaoxiong military envoys, holding an elite in their hands, and Yao Guili often counted Lu Yongzhi's crimes in person. Even several times excited to hack him to death in person, he took advantage of Lu Yongzhi and his accomplices to drink in the Qinglou, sent his subordinates to sneak to the Qinglou to set fire, and killed several people who looked like Lu Yongzhi after creating chaos, but unfortunately Lu Yongzhi brought a number of people who looked similar to him, and changed clothes with his subordinates in the chaos and fled. After escaping, Lu Yongzhi immediately sent a chazi to investigate and found that it was Yao Guili's men who stabbed him. Originally, Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were friends and in-laws. And Lu Yongzhi was recommended to Gao Biao by Yu Gongchu at the beginning. In the past, Lu Yongzhi still remembered some old feelings, but after this conflict, they were already incompatible. So Lu Yongzhi said bad things about these two people to Gao Biao from morning to night, and it didn't take long for Gao Biao to let Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to Shen County to suppress the rebellion, and Lu Yongzhi immediately sent a secret letter to Yang Xingmi: "Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu tried to attack your Luzhou. Yang Xingmi immediately sent troops to suddenly attack the two, Yao Guili and Yu Gongchu were defenseless and were attacked and killed by Yang Xingmi, and then he reported to Gao Biao that the two of them rebelled, Gao Biao did not know that it was Lu Yongzhi's conspiracy, and gave Yang Xingmi a generous reward.

After killing the two. Lu Yongzhi became more and more rampant. Huainan general Bi Shiduo was originally one of Gao Xianzhi's ten votes, and later Gao Xianzhi died and was captured with Huang Chao to fight with Gao Piao, and since then he has surrendered to Gao Piao, and has made many military exploits over the years, but because he was a grass thief. Always not reusable. He has a beautiful concubine, who is very beautiful, and when Lu Yongzhi heard about it, he asked Bi Shiduo for it, but Bi Shiduo refused, and Lu Yongzhi secretly hated. One day, Lu Yongzhi deliberately transferred Bi Shiduo, and then took his minions to forcibly break into Bi Shiduo's mansion, and humiliated all Bi Shiduo's wives and concubines with his subordinates, and took turns to humiliate them.

After Bi Shiduo came back, he was furious, stabbed to death the humiliated wife and concubine with a sword, and then immediately bit his finger and wrote several blood letters, and sent someone to secretly contact Qin Yan, who was once the general of the grass army, as well as his in-laws, his son's father-in-law, Zhang Xiong, who was nicknamed Shenjian, and Bi Shiduo's deputy general when he returned to Shun, Gaoyou Town General Zheng Hanzhang and other generals, plotted to raise troops.

Bi Shiduo secretly arrived in Gaoyou, gathered men and horses with the generals, and made an alliance with blood, Bi Shiduo appointed himself as the camp envoy, drafted a document to declare that he wanted to kill Lu Yongzhi, Zhang Shouyi, and Zhuge Yin, and appointed Qin Yan and Zheng Hanzhang as the deputy envoys of the camp, and Zhang Shenjian as the commander of the capital. Bi Shiduo and other soldiers besieged Guangling City in Yangzhou, and Lu Yongzhi rewarded his subordinates Mo Ye with heavy money to fight with them, but Gao Biao was still completely in the dark and blindly cultivating. Although Lu Yongzhi's Mo Xie Du was built by him, but these people are just some hooligans and scoundrels, etc., it is okay to bully the soft and fear the hard on weekdays, and once they fight, they are not the opponents of Bi Shiduo in this troubled era, not long after, Yangzhou City was broken, Bi Shiduo invaded Yangzhou and imprisoned Gao Yu, but Qin Yan's department was in conflict with Bi Shiduo at this time, Qin Yan was still in the field, only 3,000 soldiers and horses were in Yangzhou, they felt that the reward was unfair, so they made chaos, wantonly burned and looted, Yangzhou City fell into a sea of fire, Lu Yongzhi fled Yangzhou, pretending to be in the name of Gao Biao, moved troops to Yang Xingmi.

At this time, Bi Shiduo appointed himself as the deputy envoy of Huainan Jiedu, and his in-law Zhang Xiong asked him for the post of marching Sima and was refused, so he couldn't help but be furious, and turned to Yang Xingmi, who led 30,000 soldiers and horses. Then Hailing suppressed Gao Ba, Liu Jin from Quxi, and Jia Lingwei from Xuyi also led their troops to defect to Yang Xingmi, and Zhang Xiong even sent grain and grass from Gaoyou to Yang Xingmi for support. And Bi Shiduo's ally Qin Yan, but he was trapped on the way, but he was originally a probationary general, and later took advantage of the chaos to capture Suzhou and called himself the assassin Shi, but later was defeated by Zhou Bao's subordinate general Xu Yue and rushed to the sea Zhang Xiong's troops raided, and finally broke through to Guangling, there were only more than 10,000 men and horses left. However, after arriving in Yangzhou, Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo quickly recognized the situation and united, and Bi Shiduo took the initiative to let Qin Yan be the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, and he appointed himself as the deputy envoy of Huainan Jiedu and the marching Sima.

Later. Yang Xingmi finally led an army of 50,000 horses to the city of Guangling in Yangzhou, and the soldiers and horses were divided into eight battalions and began to besiege Yangzhou.

And Wu Yue, who is separated by a river, is also in constant war. First, Dong Chang was proclaimed emperor, and Qian Biao immediately sent troops to fight, but Li Jing reacted very quickly. Zhang Rui was immediately appointed as the envoy, and Zhou Bao was also made the deputy envoy, and only Qian Biao was the vanguard, and at the same time, the Qin army sent sailors and marines to be transferred to Zhang Rui.

Dong Chang was conceited when he became emperor, but under the crusade of several soldiers and horses, the forces of the eight states to which he belonged were like ice melting and snow melting. Vulnerable. Soon, Qian Biao broke through Yuezhou, and Zhang Rui also broke through the rest of the states. Although Dong Chang was captured by Qian Biao, Qian Biao was also overjoyed, and the rapid attack of the Qin army led to the final ripening of the fruit. But he was picked by Qin Jun first, and he didn't even dare to complain.

Faced with the two choice conditions that Li Jing gave Qian Biao, Qian Biao finally gave up going to Fujian to be a festival envoy, and still chose to continue to be the assassin of Hangzhou. Zhang Rui escorted Dong Chang to Yanjing and took up the post of governor of Zhejiang Province, while Liu Xun, a three-star lieutenant general of the Great Taibao, was appointed governor of Fujian Province.

Qian Biao who did not get Zhedong was not reconciled. But he didn't dare to use force, he turned his attention to the territory of Zhou Bao, who served as the deputy envoy this time, but he didn't see Zhou Bao, the navy of West Zhejiang Town, who was dispatched by a single soldier.

The town navy has long been undercurrent, Zhou Bao is old, more and more mediocre, not only immersed in wine all day long, but also the same as Gao Yu established the Mo Ye Capital, and also established the same tooth soldiers Houlou Capital, the treatment is extremely high, but they are all a group of domineering rangers. Liu Hao, the admiral of the town navy, Diao Hao and Duzhi urged the survey envoys, and Xue Lang, the prince's left concubine, all rebelled. Zhou Bao hurriedly transferred the Houlou to quell the chaos, but the Houlou turned against the enemy and rebelled together. Zhou Bao fled Runzhou overnight and defected to Ding Congshi, the general in Changzhou.

Seeing the infighting in the town navy, Qian Biao immediately waved the banner of rescuing Zhou Bao. Send troops to attack Changzhou from the sea.

The Quartet was in chaos, and Zhu Wen, who was beaten almost like a pig's head, also began to fight back.

In May, when Li Jing was storming Hebei, Zhu Wen also gathered an army of tens of thousands in Bianzhou after losing the territory of more than a dozen states in addition to Xuanwu, including Shaanxi, Jinshang and Shannan Dongdao, and began to attack the Jin army inside and outside. The two sides fought hard under the city of Bianzhou for several days, and the Hedong Army fought hard and began to retreat. Zhu Wen fought steadily this time, not aggressive, the Hedong army set up several ambushes before and after without success, and was finally pursued by the Bianjun army to the border of Zhengzhou Wang Mandu, just in time for heavy rain, the river water soared, the pontoon bridge on the river was washed away, the Jin army crowded and rushed to cross, was repeatedly rushed by the cavalry of the Liang army, rushed to cross the river, and suffered countless casualties. At the beginning, Li Keyong took 20,000 elite Jin troops to the south, and less than 3,000 crossed the river. Fortunately, 20,000 reinforcements from Hedong and Hezhong arrived, and this army was saved from being completely annihilated.

When the Bianjun saw the arrival of reinforcements from the Jin army, they no longer pursued and stuck to the border of Zhengzhou. The Jin army had just been defeated, and they did not dare to cross the Bianhe River again, so the two sides retreated. Liang Jin had a big battle, both were defeated, and no one got any cheapness.

Zhu Wen, who was betrayed by the Yang brothers, is even more scarred now, and he hates the Yang brothers very much in his heart. After leading the army back to Bianzhou, Zhu Wen, who lost more than ten state territory, did not say defeat, but raided Zhouqi in Xuzhou, and the loyalty and martial arts were not prepared, and the army was defeated and the city was killed. Lu Yanhong had to flee the Central Plains and flee to Luoyang. Their eight generals also cracked at this time, Lu Yanhong three generals went to Luoyang, while Wang Jian, Jin Hui and other five generals defected to Zhu Wen. However, Zhu Wen was not at ease with these five generals, and within a few days, he found an excuse, relieved them of their military power, and then sent them to Chengdu under the name of escort.

Wang Jian fought with Zhu Wen on the battlefield back then, when Zhu Wen was still under Huang Chao, and he was under Cui Anqian, the envoy of Zhongwu Jiedu. He also knew that Zhu Wen couldn't tolerate him, and he didn't say much, and the five brothers left Bianliang for Chengdu happily. After arriving in Chengdu all the way, Tian Lingzi attached great importance to these young generals from Xuzhou's hometown, and immediately sealed them with the title of escorting the five generals, so that the five of them led a 5,000-person Divine Strategy Forbidden Army and became his confidant generals.

At this time, the defeated army in Hedong was still halfway back to Taiyuan.

By the Fenshui River, in the camp of the Hedong Army, in the tent of the Chinese army, An Jinquan, Li Cunzhang and other generals all had sad faces, before going south, although they had been defeated several times, but with the tenacious one-eyed man, they had never been pessimistic. But now, looking back, the brave King Shatuo has thrown his life away on the edge of the Bianhe River. Shatuo's elite also lost most of it.

"Report!"

A hurried voice sounded, "General Report, I just received the news that the Qin army has pacified Hebei!" ”

"What!" There was an exclamation in the tent.

"How is this possible, what are you kidding!" Li Cunzhang cursed in a low voice, such news is too shocking, when they sent troops south, the Qin army had not yet begun to send troops to attack Hebei, why did the Qin army sweep Hebei just after a month? What are you kidding, the second town of Weibo in Chengde, Hebei Province is an old feudal town, controlling the territory of dozens of counties in ten states!

The captain who reported the news met the eyes of the generals, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and continued: "The latest news, the Qin army has sent troops in three ways, and is attacking in three ways, and the soldiers are attacking Hedong and aiming at Taiyuan!" ”

With a bang, the water cup in An Jinquan's hand fell to the ground, and An Jinquan, whose face had not changed when he was captured in Bianzhou City, was like ashes at this time, and his eyes were full of despair!