Wang Chengzong is not without compassion, but Mr. Liu is still dead, as Wang Chengzong himself said, he wants to live, and the remaining resources in Hebei are no longer enough to support the two masters.

Wang Chengzong understands this, and Mr. Liu also understands, otherwise Mr. Liu would not have told Wang Chengzong at the end that he could use his private seal to mobilize the remaining Lu Long's soldiers and horses.

Mr. Liu was extremely frank at the last moment, and Wang Chengzong also fulfilled his promise to Mr. Liu very happily.

Wang Chengzong specially sent people to send Mr. Liu's body back to Youzhou, and completed the purge of more than 100 Tianzhu sect temples in the entire Lulong Eight Prefectures, including Bao'en Temple, and more than 2,000 members of the Tianzhu sect were killed on the spot.

In addition, the remaining two thousand members of the Tianzhu Sect with fine skin and tender meat, the sacrifice of President Liu when he was buried, were martyred.

A full 2,000 people were martyred, not to mention in the Han and Tang dynasties, even if it was pre-Qin and ancient, it was definitely a big deal.

Even in the case of ups and downs and the end of the road, Wang Chengzong gave Mr. Liu a relatively beautiful funeral, perhaps in Wang Chengzong's eyes, this can be regarded as burying himself in advance.

Of course, there is no love for no reason, and there is no hate for no reason, and the bloodbath of the Tianzhu Sect is not simply to give Mr. Liu a funeral.

You must know that the Tianzhu Sect is nominally a sect that teaches people to endure and endure suffering, but in fact, it is the largest landlord in the entire Tang Dynasty.

After killing his brother and father and usurping Lu Long, his heart was empty and restless, and the Tianzhu Sect became the harbor of Mr. Liu's mind and body, and Mr. Liu also became the biggest protector of the Tianzhu Sect in the entire Hebei region.

Compared with Mr. Liu, Wang Chengzong actually has no sense of the Tianzhu Sect, but it is too troublesome to clean them up, and it is easy to cause civil unrest, so he didn't do it before.

However, as the situation deteriorated, Wang Chengzong also had to use a knife on the last big piece of fat in the entire Hebei territory.

The Bao'en Temple named by Mr. Liu is Wang Chengzong's first knife.

With the opportunity to prepare for the funeral for Mr. Liu, the bald donkeys of the Tianzhu Sect of Bao'en Temple were killed cleanly, and then Wang Chengzong was stunned by the wealth and strength obtained by clearing Bao'en Temple.

There is only one Bao'en Temple, which occupies almost one-twentieth of the cultivated land in the entire Youzhou.

The amount of grain he hoarded exceeded 500,000 yuan, and the amount of silver, copper, and gold seized exceeded 10 million yuan, which actually exceeded the annual income of the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenyuan period.

In addition to these wealth, what surprised Wang Chengzong even more was that more than 20,000 tenants were nominally protected by Bao'en Temple, but in fact became more than 20,000 tenants who were squeezed by Bao'en Temple.

From these oppressed tenants and tenant farmers, Wang Chengzong directly captured 30,000 strong men.

Just one Bao'en Temple has obtained 20,000 tenants and 30,000 dingkou, which almost makes Wang Chengzong, who is shaky and desperate, and has entered a state of madness, his eyes red.

However, Wang Chengzong is not the only one who is jealous of the fat and oily temple.

Originally, the soldiers of Lu Long's army, and even the people of Lu Long, and even the tenants themselves who were exploited by the temple, had long been envious, jealous, and hated these non-fat-headed and big-eared guys to the extreme.

In other words, in the entire Lulong Town, except for Mr. Liu, no one likes the bald asses of the Tianzhu Sect above these parasites.

It's okay for the so-called guardian forces to bully ordinary people, but when it comes to the heavily armed army of the feudal towns, it seems powerless.

It is true that the Tianzhu sect in Hebei is very fat, and Wang Chengzong's appetite is also very large, but whether it can be eaten smoothly or not, the fundamental determining factor is not in Wang Chengzong's hands.

In the direction of Weibo in the south, after the imperial army's army completed the river crossing, there was no large-scale advance as expected, on the contrary, these dozens or millions of soldiers and horses returned to the state of preparation before the river crossing after completing the river crossing.

No one knows what the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are waiting for, but the pressure caused by the posture of dozens of troops besieging but not attacking is quite amazing, especially after these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses have no obstacle from the big river, otherwise, Tian Ji'an would not ask for help from him three times a day.

Of course, Tian Ji'an's watch

Now it is what Wang Chengzong sees, in his opinion, as long as Tian Ji'an can still ask for help from himself, then he can still become his shield and substitute for the dead.

As long as this shield is still there, it doesn't matter what tricks the court is playing.

Of course, what Wang Chengzong didn't know was that three waves of requests for help a day were also what Guo Rong wanted Wang Chengzong to see.

In the direction of Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou in the west, their own hundreds of thousands of elites and hundreds of thousands of patchwork miscellaneous cards were all wiped out, and Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou were all lost.

However, according to the scouts' investigations, after completing such a great victory, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court also showed no signs of continuing the attack, but chose to rest in Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou.

Although there was no attack, such a team with a large number of elite cavalry was like a sharp dagger against its neck.

In order to meet the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court, he made enough preparations, a strong Yecheng, more than two million stone of grain and grass, countless arrows and other weapons, and a large number of elite or non-elite soldiers, waiting for the imperial army to attack.

As a result, people just didn't come!

The army pressed the border, besieged but not attacked, and led but not attacked......

This familiar recipe and familiar taste reminded Wang Chengzong of the complicated battle situation before the Battle of Zhenzhou.

Wang Chengzong, who suffered losses more than once, almost didn't need to use his brain to know that the more accurate statement of the imperial court was Guo Rong, and he was engaged in that set of strategies of cultivating plank roads in the open and secretly Chen Cang.

However, there is no way to do this trick by itself.

If there is no defense, whether it is the imperial court division that raided Zhaoyi, took Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou and annihilated their main force, or the hundreds of thousands of troops after crossing the river, they can defeat themselves in one wave.

The problem is that the west and south sides are still only open cards, and according to the lessons of the previous Zhenzhou fiasco, what is hidden in the shadows is the real killer move.

For these killing moves, Wang Chengzong and the generals under his command had no clue at all.

In terms of troops, the imperial court occupies an overwhelming advantage, strategically the imperial court has an absolute initiative in the battle situation, and strategically the plank road is dark and Chencang......

If there is any problem, it is that it is unimaginable for the imperial court to maintain such a large army and the food needed to maintain oppression!

It is true that Wang Chengzong knew that Li Chun and Guo Rong cut a wave of leeks through the glass, but didn't they all say that the imperial court was short of money?

Since you are short of money, then you can cut leeks and use them well, so you can spend millions of stones of grain and grass to maintain hundreds of thousands of people in front of you.

Could it be that you spend so much effort to cut leeks just to hold up the cards in me?

I thank you for thinking so highly of me!

However, no one could give him an answer.

Wang Chengzong felt that his pressed nerves were about to collapse, and this kind of life was even more uncomfortable than death.

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Sometimes Wang Chengzong hoped that when he got up the next day, he could hear the news that the imperial army was on the verge of attacking Yecheng......

As everyone knows, the fundamental reason why Guo Rong wants to hollow out the crazy suspicious soldiers and crazy yang conspiracy, and does not hesitate to spend millions of stones, grains and grass

Because Yecheng is too strong, the defense system is too perfect, and Mr. Liu and Wang Chengzong have hoarded at least two million stone grain in Yecheng and mobilized more than 200,000 elites, they have almost built Yecheng into a real fortress.

Even if the forbidden army already has gunpowder, even if the catapults of the forbidden army have surpassed this era, they are powerless in the face of this kind of defense system that has been perfected to the extreme.

If Guo Rong wants to conquer such a city, he can only fill it with human lives.

However, this is precisely what Guo Rong is most unwilling to.

Guo Rong didn't want to risk human lives to fill the pit, so he had to use various methods to divide, disintegrate, and weaken Yecheng's defenses.

For example, through Tian Ji'an's repeated requests for help, a false shield was constructed, creating a false security environment for Wang Chengzong.

For example, using Yang Mou, the city of Ye

The elite was transferred to Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou, and the suspicious soldiers cooperated with the regular soldiers to gather these elites and annihilate them.

For example, Guo Rong fooled Wang Chengzong through Tian Ji'an, and transported the grain of millions of stones in Yecheng to Weibo in the name of supply, reinforcement, and maintenance.

As Wang Chengzong was surprised, how could Guo Rong be willing to take out millions of stone grain to set up suspicious soldiers, but as everyone knows, what the army consumed before crossing the river was indeed the treasury of the imperial court, but after crossing the river, it did not spend a penny.

Part of it came from the grain and grass that Wei Botian Ji'an had scavenged, and the other part was sent by Wang Chengzong from Yecheng on his own initiative.

Thanks to the martial law order issued by Tian Ji'an from the beginning, when all the gates of the city were closed, coupled with the frantic strangulation of the forbidden army scouts, until Mr. Liu died in Yecheng, Wang Chengzong still did not know that Tian Ji'an had already defected.

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Thinking of Mr. Liu's evaluation of himself before he died, this time, Wang Chengzong, who felt that there was no way out, went straight out.

On the one hand, Wang Chengzong, who still didn't know that Tian Ji'an had completely defected, continued to let Tian Ji'an be his cannon fodder in order to stabilize Tian Ji'an, and still kept sending grain and grass from Yecheng to Wei Bo.

On the other hand, Wang Chengzong left Yecheng and went north directly when he felt that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court would not attack Yecheng in a short period of time, to clean up the biggest legacy left to him after President Liu's death, the Lu Long Army, which had at least 100,000 elite soldiers, and the Tianzhu Sect, which was extremely fat.

As for Yecheng, according to the advice of his own generals, Wang Chengzong greatly shrank the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses left behind, and set up a false empty city plan, trying to lure the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to attack.

If the soldiers and horses of the imperial court don't come, forget it.

If the soldiers and horses of the imperial court really thought that Yecheng's defensive strength was empty and attacked because of the large reduction of the strength of the Yecheng defenders, then they were destined to break their heads under Yecheng.

When the attacking soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses and their morale was low, he Wang Chengzong led the integrated Lulong-Chengde army to return and give a thunderous blow to the soldiers and horses of the imperial court besieging the city.

It's just that the final result is a pity, although the posture has been done sufficiently, but whether it is the main force of the imperial court on the southern front, or the soldiers and horses of Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou on the western front, they have all chosen to stand still.

Since the soldiers and horses of the imperial court did not move, Wang Chengzong also completely let go, and while integrating Lu Long's remaining military strength, he began a bloodbath against Lu Long's Tianzhu sect.

Within half a year, the Bazhou range of Lulong Town was soaked in blood for the third time, but this time the bloodbath occurred in the middle of winter, near the wax moon, and a blizzard came unexpectedly, hiding the blood under the white snow.

With the increase in the time spent in Lulong, Wang Chengzong's abundant money and food, and the sufficiency of troops, Wang Chengzong felt that he could do it again.

It's just that what he doesn't know is that when he was frantically expanding his strength, Guo Rong and the entire counterinsurgency officers and troops were not idle.

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On the western front, the Hedong Army to which Yan Shou belonged and most of the cavalry drawn from Zhenwu and Shuofang armies stayed in Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou for rest.

However, what Wang Chengzong could not have known was that at the end of the Battle of Zhenzhou, Mo Lingjun, the real actual commander of the battle on the Western Front, had quietly led about 10,000 cavalry to quietly go north into Ulzhou, Hedong, and rested in the camp reserved near the front line of Ulzhou.

After receiving the news that Wang Chengzong was going north, under the cover of heavy snow, Mo Lingjun led this elite cavalry to enter the territory of Lulong from Yanzhou again.

This time, their target was the Youzhou Governor's Office where the Bao'en Temple was sitting.

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In the north of Weizhou and in the west of Beizhou, a dense mountain forest hides an elite force of about 25,000 people composed of Wei Boya's soldiers and forbidden troops.

This team, led by Guo Rong himself, has been hiding in this mountain forest for half a month.

As Wang Chengzong moved north, the defenders of Yecheng shrank in a large area, and Guo Rong finally waited for the gap he needed.

On a dark and windy night in the month, twenty-five thousand

Thousands of people forcibly marched for forty miles, crossed the narrowest section of defense west of Yecheng, and broke into Shenzhou, the junction of Chengdu and Lulong.

In fact, it cut off the connection between Lu Long in the rear and Yecheng in front, and similarly, it also cut off Wang Chengzong's return to Yecheng in the south.

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Since Li Yu led his army north, the first line of Cangzhou, Jingzhou, Dezhou, and Dizhou has become the neglected eastern front.

Just when Guo Rong led his troops and horses to lurk quietly, another elite group of about 25,000 people, also composed of Wei Boya's soldiers and the forbidden army, had already entered Cangzhou under the command of Zhang Taicheng.

With the news that Wang Chengzong led his troops to the north, 25,000 soldiers, plus nearly 10,000 people, broke north along the corridor of western Liaoning, where Li Yu had walked, and rushed straight to Jizhou, with the aim of cutting off the last contact between Youzhou and western Liaoxi to Lu Longjun.

The huge noose was already in place, and the battle to pacify Hebei finally came to an end before you knew it......