In the last month of the fourth year of Yuanhe, the Hebei rebellion, which had been triggered by the Liaodong rebellion at the beginning of the year, entered its final stage.

On the fourteenth day of the lunar month, under the coordination of Guo Rong, the general and general of the Hebei Provincial March, the three-way soldiers and horses set out from Ulzhou, Hedong, Cangzhou, Hebei, and Weibo Weizhou drove straight into Youzhou, the core of the rebels.

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, all the soldiers and horses of the assault in three directions arrived near Jixian County, began armed reconnaissance, and began to prepare for the final attack.

……………………………… Guo Rong attacked in three ways, smashed Huanglong, and although the tactics of capturing the thief and capturing the king were very good, once they succeeded, they would solve the problem of the Hebei rebels in the shortest possible time.

However, the risk of such an effect is also the same, and no one dares to guarantee that Guo Rong will definitely be able to capture the thief and the king.

Therefore, a backup plan is a must. If there is an accident, they are the only ones who can rescue Guo Rong.

If Guo Rong's plan is successfully completed, then they will also attack as quickly as possible to minimize the impact of the war on the rebel-held areas.

When Guo Rong, Mo Lingjun, and Zhang Taicheng's troops attacked, the remaining units of the Northern Expedition Army also began preparations before the final battle.

……………………………… In the previous stage of the operation, the Shuofang and Zhenwu cavalry blitzed Lulong, raided Zhaoyi, Zhaozhou, and Zhenzhou, and successfully annihilated the main force of the Chengde army under the coordination of the infantry of the Hedong Army, which was a well-deserved main force in the previous stage.

However, under the high-intensity raid for more than half a month, the losses were also quite serious, and at this moment, after a month's rest, it was re-loaded.

Among them, 30,000 Shuofang and Zhenwu cavalry, along the route of more than 10,000 cavalry under Mo Lingjun's department, went north into Ulzhou.

In the end, the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry continued to be attached to the Hedong infantry who had also finished their rest and entered a state of preparation, and they were ready to attack at any time.

……………………………… On the front line of Weizhou, Beizhou, and Bozhou, Tian Ji'an, who has been pretending to be a grandson for several months, has also changed his grandson's demeanor.

After Guo Rong led the army to attack, the remaining Changying Army and Wei Bo's Ya soldiers took over Beizhou as soon as possible, blocked the passage from Wei Bo to the north, and locked a total of 30,000 elite German troops sent by Wang Chengzong to Wei Bo twice before.

Long before Guo Rong sent troops, Tian Ji'an used various orders to successfully disperse a total of 30,000 Chengde elites in the six states of Weizhou, Beizhou, Bozhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and Luozhou.

Subsequently, in the name of assisting in the defense, the size of these elite Chengde troops continued to be separated from thousands of people, and successfully dismembered these elite Chengde troops to less than the size of 1,000 people.

Then he ordered the states, with an overwhelming advantage in numbers, to directly forcibly disarm the 30,000 Chengde elites who were dismembered, and under the absolute disadvantage of numbers, even though the Chengde soldiers were more elite, they had to honestly lay down their arms.

Disintegration, division, and oppression, the seemingly simple three operations, will be the best of the soldiers who surrender without a fight.

At the same time as clearing the internal hidden dangers, Tian Ji'an's official document was sent to all states and counties, and the official document directly stated that Tian Ji'an had surrendered to the emperor Li Chun, and the emperor also accepted Tian Ji'an's surrender, and at the same time, Princess Jiacheng had also been promoted from the princess to the eldest princess and named Wei.

After completing these necessary operations in just three days, Tian Ji'an personally led the only remaining more than 1,000 Wei Boya soldiers around him, with more than 10,000 recruits, to go directly north to Beizhou, join the soldiers and horses left in Beizhou, and nominally take over the front line in Beizhou.

Subsequently, with the assistance of the accompanying staff officers and officers of the forbidden army, Tian Ji'an reorganized the garrison into the second temporary forbidden army in the mode of the forbidden army.

……………………………… In the direction of Cangzhou, after Zhang Taicheng attacked according to Guo Rong's instructions, Dong Jia, who temporarily led General Zuo Wuwei, led Zuo Qianniuwei to follow up immediately, temporarily acting as the envoy of Hebei Jiedu, and took over the defense and garrison of Cangzhou, Jingzhou, Dezhou, and Dizhou under the rule of Hebei Jiedu envoy.

After the takeover was completed, Dong Jia, as well as the staff officers and low-level military academies who came with Dong Jia, imitated the establishment and mode of the Changying Army in the war, and used the garrison of Hebei Town to form a temporary army belonging to the forbidden army.

This force is composed of Zuo Qianniuwei and Zhang Taicheng's Tiance Army, Wei Boya Soldiers, and Hebei Zhen Army, and the total number of soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and people is close to 40,000.

The remaining ministries of the temporary forbidden army were responsible for the defense of Cang, Jing, De, and Di. With the support of generals and local officials in the northwest, Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou in the southwest, Beizhou and Weizhou in the southwest, and Cangzhou and Jingzhou in the southeast, with the support of generals and local officials, it can be said that at several garrison points on the edge of the rebel-controlled area, the soldiers and horses of all walks of life have already made sufficient preparations, and they will immediately send troops as soon as the information from Jixian arrives.

…………………………………………………………… Compared with the situation of preparations for war in areas near war, the north bank of the Great River is a different picture.

More than a month ago, in order to cooperate with the sneak attack strategy, hundreds of thousands of troops crossed the river to the north.

However, after the crossing of the river was completed, in addition to the scouts and light cavalry belonging to the various divisions, the army of hundreds of thousands returned to its calm state as before, and was stationed on the north bank of the river for more than a month.

This kind of protracted wait is like a year for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed on the front line and the auxiliary soldiers attached to them.

However, the unexpected time provided precious time for others other than the soldiers and auxiliaries.

In the past month or so, the accompanying auxiliaries, civilian soldiers, servants, and conscripts have transported hundreds of thousands of stones, grains, grass, and countless ordnance that had been prepared long ago to the north of the river.

The war is fought against the economy, and the fight is based on comprehensive strength, with these enough grain and grass as a support, even if Tian Ji'an does not surrender, even if there is no grain and grass they pit from Wang Chengzong, the Northern Expedition army can still push all the way through.

Compared with logistics, Chang'an is actually the biggest beneficiary of this month. In the 14th year of Tianbao, the number of households in Hebei Province reached 1.47 million, and the total population exceeded 10 million, accounting for more than one-seventh of the entire Datang.

Whether it is geography, population, and wealth, it is the best in the world, and its value and status in the territory of the Tang Dynasty do not need to be repeated.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the population of Hebei Province has decreased sharply. After the Anshi Rebellion, although there were constant wars in Hebei, the population was still slowly rising.

By the beginning of the fourth year of Yuanhe, the number of registered households in Hebei Province had exceeded one million, and the population exceeded 8 million.

Due to the serious war and secession in Hebei, according to the estimation of the household department, the proportion of fugitives, hidden households, slaves, soldiers, and monks is better than that in other areas of the Tang Dynasty, and it is likely to exceed 30% of the registered people.

In other words, sixty years after the Anshi Rebellion, the total population of Hebei has once again exceeded 10 million.

The population of tens of millions has also become the reliance of the feudal towns against Chang'an, and it is precisely with such a population base that the three towns of Weibo, Lulong, and Chengde can cobble together an army of more than one million in a ratio of seven to one.

In Chang'an, both the imperial court and the people knew one thing clearly, the purpose of the Northern Expedition was to completely flatten the entire Hebei and return it to the central government.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Hebei Province and part of Hedong Province were de facto out of Chang'an's control.

After 60 years of wars, Hebei Province now has seven towns, including Lulong, Chengde, Weibo, Zhaoyi, Yiwu, Hebei and Heyang.

However, before the Northern Expedition, only one town and four prefectures in Hebei were completely controlled by Chang'an among the seven towns and twenty-five prefectures in Hebei.

Hebei Province plus several prefectures and counties adjacent to Hedong Province also means that after the success of the Northern Expedition and the fall of Hebei Domain, there will be a power vacuum in at least 30 state capitals.

You must know that there are only 300 state capitals in the entire Datang, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the Datang, and if it is calculated by population, it is more than one-seventh of the proper capital.

Taking into account the ratio of population and area, these more than 30 state capitals, at least at the level of a central state. The grade of the Tang Dynasty Thorn History is only divided into upper, middle and lower states, of which the Shangzhou Thorn History is from the third grade, the Zhongzhou Thorn History is the fourth grade, and the Xiazhou Thorn History is the fourth grade.

In Chang'an, because of the reform of the system of ministers and courtiers, the value of grades is more precious than before.

The fourth rank is already equivalent to obtaining the status of a courtier, and has the qualifications to enter the cabinet, while the third rank is the real elder and is qualified to serve as the existence of the first assistant.

The fourth grade has become a real watershed for civil officials, and the civil officials above the fourth grade have gradually had another title, the prince, that is, the reserve of the important ministers.

This is not yet calculated, after Hebei was completely recovered, the reaction of other feudal towns. Rao is like this, the opportunity of more than 30 princes is enough for all the factions in Chang'an to fight in the dark, and there is no result at all in a mere month or two.

It is precisely for this reason that Guo Rong and Li Chun had to temporarily recruit the students of Guozijian and temporarily fill in the rights of these areas.

However, with Tian Ji'an's surrender and the change of plans, the extra month of more than a month provided enough time for the Chang'an court to fight for power and profit.

At this moment, Chang'an not only had the governors of the entire rebel area in place, but also had enough staff and subordinate officials for them.

Soldiers, auxiliaries, hunger and thirst; Logistics, grain and grass, piled up; power, officials, eager to penetrate; By the time Guo Rong attacked, all the preparations had been completed, and the army, which had been waiting for more than a month, finally received the order to attack.

On the same day that Guo Rong, Zhang Taicheng, and Mo Ling all attacked, with the elite of the forbidden army as the vanguard, the local army followed up, and hundreds of thousands of troops began to push all the way.

……………………………………………………………… Just as the other soldiers and horses were serving him as much as possible, Guo Rong's mind was all on Jixian County.

Wang Zheng, who led his troops into the enemy camp as a spy, unexpectedly sent back the most critical information. On the twentieth day of the lunar month, taking advantage of the chaos of the rebel organization near Jixian County and the opportunity for the rebels to relax their vigilance under the heavy snow, they attacked Jixian County successfully.

Wang Chengzong, the leader of the rebel army who was sitting in Jixian County to coordinate troops, horses, money and food, learned that Jixian County had broken the city, and he committed suicide knowing that his crime was unforgivable.

Long before the imperial court counterinsurgency army attacked, Wei Bojiedu made Tian Ji'an take the initiative to lead the army to surrender, and now he has led the army to fight back.

Once the leader of the Hebei rebels, Mr. Liu, the envoy of Lu Longjiedu, died in the rebel civil strife after the defeat of the Chengde army in Zhenzhou.

With the suicide of Wang Chengzong, the last leader of the Hebei rebels, with the three towns of Heshuo as the core, the global attack on Tang composed of the Liaodong turmoil, the Hebei rebellion, the Jiaodong thief, the invasion of the island country, and the invasion of Tibet finally came to an end at the end of the fourth year of Yuanhe.

……………………………… In order to prevent the collapse of a large number of rebels gathered around Jixian County, they became routs and mountain bandits, which became the source of turmoil in the entire Hebei region.

After taking Jixian County, Guo Rong did not make a large-scale announcement at the first time, but asked the soldiers and horses stationed around Jixian County to continue to strictly guard the camp before Wang Chengzong and not go out at will.

At the same time, messengers were sent to the main camp of the Changying Army, where Li Yu was located, on the north bank of the Great River, and to the nearest garrisons to Jixian in Zhenzhou, Zhaozhou, Ulzhou, Cangzhou, and Beizhou, requesting that troops be dispatched as quickly as possible to support Jixian.

After receiving Guo Rong's letter of help, the departments of Zhenzhou, Zhaozhou, Ulzhou, Cangzhou, and Beizhou quickly dispatched.

The remaining Shuofang and Zhenwu cavalry in the direction of Ulzhou directly broke east into Yanzhou, which belonged to Lulong, ignoring the defenders of Fuzhou and marching in the direction of Jixian; The Hedong Army in the direction of Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou marched directly along Dingzhou and Yizhou to Youzhou and Jixian in the northeast; In the direction of Beizhou, the temporary forbidden army built with the forbidden army as a template, after starting from Beizhou, went directly north, ignoring all the enemies, including the defenders of Yecheng, and went straight to Jixian, while Tian Ji'an stayed in Jixian; In the direction of Cangzhou, another temporary forbidden army composed of Zuo Qianniuwei, Tiance Army, Wei Boya Soldiers, and Hebei Town Defenders marched along the West Liaoning Corridor Road to the direction of West Liaoning and East Liao.

As for the Northern Expeditionary Army, which set out from the Great River, it continued to advance northward little by little in a steady and flat way, invisibly forming the momentum of Mount Tai to the top.

In the fourth year of Yuanhe, on the twentieth day of the lunar month, Wang Cong, the general of Lulong Town, at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, led 20,000 Lu dragon cavalry to take the initiative to surrender to Guo Rong.

On the twenty-first day of the lunar month, 30,000 cavalry broke into Jixian from Yanzhou, making Guo Rong's soldiers and horses expand to 40,000 cavalry and 20,000 foot soldiers.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the history of the Yanzhou assassination, Guan Zhen, the envoy of the Yanzhou soldiers and horses, deduced that there was a change in Jixian County through the cavalry that broke through from his own defense, and directly sent messengers to Jixian County to surrender.

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, Li Chun led a large army to Weizhou, and under the order left by Tian Ji'an, the defenders of Weizhou surrendered directly; On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Princess Jiacheng was the eldest princess of Jin and Wei; On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Cui Xiansun of Danzhou Thorn Shi surrendered on the table, and Cen Gui of Yizhou Thorn Shi surrendered on the table; On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Tian Qi, the military envoy of Jizhou Thorn Shi and Jingsai Army, led 8,000 soldiers under his command to surrender.

………… On the thirty-first day of the lunar month, the fifth year of Yuanhe, and the thirteenth day of the first month, Emperor Li Chun led his troops to the city of Yecheng, and the defenders of Yecheng surrendered.

The last city belonging to the Hebei rebels surrendered, and the Hebei Domain, which was once in the Tang Dynasty, has completely become a term of the past.

Except for the fifth round of the 50,000 Lulong elite led by Pingzhou Assassin Shi An Zongyu to collude with the Liaodong rebel army, the rebels from all walks of life completely surrendered.

On the second day of February, Li Chun led his army into Jixian County.