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Jiangnan Province is about 2,000 miles away from the two capitals in Kannai.

Jiangzhou and Hongzhou are located in the center of Jiangnan Province in Guangliao.

According to the 800-mile expedited, it is 800 miles a day.

It takes at least half a decade for an emergency military intelligence to be transmitted back to the divine capital Luoyang along the fastest canal and official road.

And that's not even counting the unexpected delays on the way.

And at present, what is adopted by the Great Zhou is still the ten ways of the world divided by Taizong in the early Qianchu Dynasty.

Above the counties and prefectures, there is no specific administrative unit within a single unit, and the prefectures are considered to be independent.

The so-called duties such as a supervisory envoy and a festival envoy are not permanent except for the border.

In other words, these official positions exist at present, but they have not yet formed the powerful real power that integrates the military, the people, and the financial government in the history of Ouyang Rong's previous life.

In short, the administrative units at the provincial level are not used for the time being.

The Great Zhou Dynasty's centralization of power and bloated internal emphasis and external lightness were both good and bad.

The advantage is that the land is cut into states and counties, each supervising it, not easy to cause chaos, and the rear is stable.

The disadvantage is that once something happens, the response is slow and there is no one on the platform.

So, at present, the rebellion of the Beigui soldiers in Hongzhou, before the news has been transmitted back to Shendu and the court has not reacted,

The message is transmitted back and forth for nearly a decade within the window period.

Only the chief officials of the Jiangzhou Hall and the Hongzhou Hall themselves responded.

This is the chaotic and panicked situation right now.

In the main hall, Jiangzhou officials gathered, and the atmosphere was silent.

Facing the gazes of Ouyang Rong, Hu Fu and others.

Wang Lengran frowned, and couldn't help but glance at Ouyang Rong's calm expression.

His face was cloudy for a while,

Shaoqing, reluctantly nodded:

"Gonggong Hu is a little calm, don't be impatient, this official will go and discuss with the generals of Zhichong."

Wang left the main hall in a hurry.

Go and summon the generals of Ochichong Prefecture.

In any case, at this moment of crisis, the interests of Ouyang Rong and Wang Lengran are the same.

Hongzhou and Jiangzhou are horns of each other, and their lips and teeth are cold.

As the chief and adjutant of Jiangzhou, once something goes wrong in Jiangzhou, it will not be beneficial to both parties.

At the door of the main hall, Ouyang Rong withdrew his gaze, and it was only then that he had the energy to observe the Khufu who had not been seen for a long time around him.

I saw this personal envoy of the Son of Heaven, with a messy soap robe, which may be the reason for the hurry, with a haggard face and deep dark circles.

His palm was still tightly gripped on the hilt of the short knife at his waist, like a stress reaction left by the night of floating in the water and escaping.

Also.

Anyone who experiences such a sharp turn and escape from death will be shocked and their heartstrings tight.

It's just that Ouyang Rong still remembered in his mind that when he received Khufu in Xunyangdu before, this young eunuch with a sticky beard looked mature and steady.

The contrast between the two is quite large.

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips.

The personal envoy of the Son of Heaven is also an ordinary person.

Even the Qincha Angel who came from Luoyang, the capital of the gods, has the authority of the emperor and has his own noble rank.

It is just a mud bodhisattva plated with a layer of gold edges, and it is difficult to protect itself when crossing the river.

Ouyang Rong suddenly thought that on the night when the incident scared away Khufu, did Cai Qin and the other guards think the same way.

In a sense, it is a kind of disenchantment of the imperial authority.

There is a sense of revenge that Zhu Zigong and the powerful people of the gods are just so free.

The prince will have a kind of Xiangning.

Let's ask which man throughout the ages can resist this earth-shaking pride pleasure.

Maybe this is also the reason why most of the mutinies that broke the solid order throughout the ages and finally came to a violent end.

When the front is restrained, the more it is pressed, and the back breaks the old order, and when it breaks free, there are many days and seas.

"Ouyang Changshi isn't worried about something happening in Hongzhou?"

Walking out of the main hall together, Hu Fu saw Ouyang Rong's face next to him and couldn't help asking.

"It's useless to worry, it's useless to be anxious."

Ouyang Rong shook his head: "There are a lot of things that worry me, I can't be in a hurry all the time, I don't eat any food." ”

Khufu was silent for a while, rubbed his face, and nodded: "That makes sense." ”

"That's right."

As if remembering something, Khufu touched the knife on his waist and said quietly:

"Thank you Ouyang Changshi for giving the knife that day."

Ouyang Rong's eyebrows raised slightly, and he heard some off-string sounds.

He looked left and right, and then led Khufu to the other side of the corridor where no one was around, and asked, "What happened that night?" ”

Khufu sighed and told in detail about the things that he was saved by Su Qian after waking up that night.

Although Captain Su didn't say much, he was as careful as a hair. If he hadn't opened the net, the miscellaneous family wouldn't have seen Ouyang Changshi today. ”

Khufu sighed.

Ouyang Rong listened quietly.

Suddenly, he asked: "My father-in-law only brought a waist knife and ran back at night, what about the official documents and seals?" And the retinue. ”

Khufu's face was sneering, "This ...... It's useless to be miscellaneous, and he escaped too hastily, which makes Ouyang Changshi laugh......"

"It's not a joke, it's just a worry...... Forget it, it's over, let's talk about something else. ”

Ouyang Rong shook his head and asked:

"Father-in-law Hu still remembers Cai Qin's attitude before and after, did he have any subtle and unusual measures?"

Khufu pondered for a while, choking his hatred:

"It's all to blame on those local petty officials, who are short-sighted and don't care about the overall situation...... Since Raozhou, along the way, strict guards have been set up to guard the checkpoints.

"It was also from that time that Cai Qin and them were shocked, and the follow-up situation worsened."

"Wait, where did you say?" Ouyang Rong interrupted and asked, "Raozhou?" ”

Khufu nodded: "That's right, Raozhou." ”

Ouyang Rong was silent.

Khufu looked at Ouyang Rong's squinting expression and asked, "Is there anything different about this state?" ”

Ouyang Rong asked rhetorically: "When Lord Hu passed through Raozhou, did he not see the new Raozhou Sima. ”

"Raozhou Sima?" Khufu frowned and said:

"That day, when the miscellaneous family went to the Raozhou lobby to discuss the law, there were many people, and the miscellaneous family only remembered that Raozhou Zhao Changshi, but the little Sima did not pay attention.

"Ouyang Changshi asked why this is the case, does it mean that there is something wrong with this person?"

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips and was silent, not saying anything about Li Zhengyan.

There were no outsiders here, and the tall and tall Khufu sat on the stone bench in the corridor rather decadently, sighing a little:

"By the way, there is also the captain surnamed Du, there is something wrong, since he came, ......"

"Surname Du?"

"That's right."

"What is this man?"

Hu Fu spoke carefully, and Ouyang Rong closed his eyes and sighed after listening to it: "What is this person's accent?" ”

"a Chang'an official voice." He has been in the Luoyang court for a long time, and all the people he has come into contact with are the elites of the empire, and he is used to listening to the official dialect of Chang'an.

Ouyang Rong said softly: "Most of the Beigui soldiers are local sons and daughters of Hongzhou and Jiangzhou, and they speak the Wuyue dialect with a gentle tone. ”

Khufu hesitated: "But the miscellaneous family looks at the southern side, and there are not many people who say official voices, so I didn't care about it at that time." ”

"But even if you say Chang'an official voice, you will bring a little bit of it, think about it, is this Captain Du like this."

Ouyang Rong stood up, lowered his eyes and asked:

"Whether this Captain Du has an official voice in Chang'an is extraordinarily standard."

Khufu was stunned, and faintly remembered the muffled voice of the young man in the wooden felt hat......

His face was shocked.

Looking at Khufu's expression, Ouyang Rong already knew the answer.

In the two-person room in the corridor, the atmosphere fell silent.

It's night.

The night is as cool as water, drink ice fast, inside the house.

Ouyang Rong, who couldn't sleep, flipped out of bed, covered the bareback Ye Weilai with the quilt, he got up in his clothes, and in front of the desk, flattened a map.

Ouyang Rong took out a string of keys from Dragon City, as well as a felt hat left behind by the "Xunyang Passerby".

The key and felt hat were pressed on the intricately marked map, and the map was densely packed with small print, as if the owner had made a lot of notes.

Under the lamp, Ouyang Rong leaned back in the chair, rubbed his face and said to himself:

"Is the picture just a Hongzhou......

The next day, Ouyang Rong came to the Jiangzhou lobby and immediately learned a piece of news.

Wang Lengran had already discussed with the generals overnight and decided to send troops to help.

There were only 1,500 soldiers in service in a Zhichong Prefecture, about five regiments.

And this time to rush to Hongzhou, it was Yang Xin, the commander of Jiangzhou, who led 900 troops.

Only 600 people remained in Jiangzhou.

Nine hundred elite soldiers who were skilled in riding bows left the military camp in the north of Xunyang City.

Ouyang Rong, Wang Lengran, Hu Fu and others watched them leave with different thoughts......

The following month.

In addition to the imperial court's belated and expected order to all the states of Jiangnan Province to work together to exterminate the rebels, detailed news about Hongzhou also came one after another.

At first, it was Zhu Lingxu, the governor of Hongzhou, who discussed with the generals as early as after receiving Cai Qin's petition.

He then ordered Luan Xingjun, the commander of the fourth fold chong mansion in Hongzhou, to be the general, and led 3,000 troops to conquer Cai Qin.

At the same time, he ordered the two prefectures of Jiang and Fu, which were closest to Hongzhou, to send troops to invite an attack.

Because under the persuasion of Ouyang Rong and Hu Fu, the soldiers of Jiangzhou Zhichong Mansion led by Yang Xin set off early, and happened to meet Luan Xingjun's large army, with a total of 4,000 troops.

Compared with Jiangzhou, the Fuzhou reinforcements reacted slowly and were still on the way.

The 4,000 officers and men faced 1,500 soldiers, focusing on "the superiority is mine," and their morale was greatly boosted.

Luan Xingjun's army didn't have time to wait for reinforcements from Fuzhou, and arrived at Lead Mountain first.

But Cai Qin was suspicious of the dummy under the mountain, but he quietly marched in the direction of Fuli on the border of Hongzhou and Fuzhou.

In the dark night, Luan Xingjun's army found out, but he was afraid of an ambush, retreated to the south of the city, and waited until dawn to catch up.

At this time, Cai Qin's army had reached Fuli, and 500 Fuzhou officers and soldiers who were reinforced fought on Fushui.

There were no more soldiers in the city of Fuzhou, and the officials fled one after another.

After Cai Qinjun entered Fuzhou City, he distributed wealth and rice, selected strong men, and gathered thousands of people in one day.

Cai Qin then divided his troops to defend the city, claiming to be the rear of the soldiers and horses.

The next day, Luan Xingjun led the army to arrive, stationed outside the camp, Cai Qin used a rocket to set fire to the hut outside the city, the fire extended to the official camp tent, Cai Qinjun killed out of the city, a sudden attack, wiped out nearly 300 officers and soldiers, returned to the city.

In the dark night, the people of the city helped to defend the city, and the women beat the watch with drums, and Cai Qin concentrated 300 large ships in the city, filled them with food, and went down the river.

It wasn't until dawn that the officers and soldiers knew that Cai Qin had gone, and they chased after him in embarrassment, and they didn't even eat breakfast, and everyone was hungry when they were chasing.

At this time, they saw Cai Qinjun's ships lined up under the embankment, and several teams of soldiers on the shore found that the officers and soldiers were coming, and they hid on the embankment one after another.

Luan Xingjun thought that Cai Qin was about to cower and drove his troops to attack.

Unexpectedly, Cai Qinjun fought all the way out of the boat, all the way out of the embankment, and attacked from the two sides, from noon to evening, and the officers and troops were defeated.

Luan Xingjun led the troops to retreat and fell into Heze.

Cai Qinjun chased after him, Luan Xingjun, Yang Xin and other generals died in the chaos, about 1,000 soldiers died, and the rest surrendered to Cai Qinjun.

Cai Qin inquired about the soldiers and learned that Hongzhou was empty, so he immediately led troops to cross Fushui to the north and attack Hongzhou in a roundabout mountain......

The news of the defeat of the Luan Xingjun army in Hongzhou came quickly, and Xunyang City, which was the main water transportation route in the south of the Yangtze River and the flourishing merchants, was completely broken.

It is different from the stunned and trembling of Wang Lengran, Khufu and others, and the sweat is like rain.

After reading the battle report, Ouyang Rong's first reaction was surprise, in addition to frowning.

This kind of arm-like troop transportation is a strategy that was previously unknown to the border Duyu?

But when I thought of the "Captain Du" described by Khufu, and the figure of a certain Raozhou Sima faintly appeared behind him.

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips and fell silent.

"It's not just the organization, it's the ideas, the clear and concise way of thinking...... There are high-ranking people. ”

He frowned.

Sure enough, a few days later, another piece of bad news came back:

Zhu Lingxu, the governor of Hongzhou, realized that Luan Xingjun was defeated, and urgently asked for help from neighboring states, closed the city gate, and selected Ding Zhuang to garrison, but the whole city panicked and had no solid will.

In mid-July, Cai Qin's army of six or seven thousand people had arrived at the city of Hongzhou, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Thanks to the fact that the soldier was born in Hongzhou.

Cai Qinjun gave kind words and comforted to the residents outside the city, did not disturb him, and was supported and helped by the people of Hongzhou, and the city of Hongzhou was crumbling.

Seeing that there were no more reinforcements, Zhu Lingxu, the governor of Hongzhou, surrendered and offered the city.

Cai Qinjun entered the city, and Qiu did not commit any crimes,

At the same time, Zhu Ling, a knowledgeable person who had not hurt 1,200 families before, was treated hospifully.

turned his head, but the coaches who insisted on advocating the postponement Yuan Gongsi, Zhichong Changshi Shiqi and others were all arrested, dissected their stomachs, and executed on the street, and the people applauded.

Cai Qin's reputation was shocked, and there were more than 10,000 people in Hongzhou City who were willing to follow.

In the summer of the second year of Tianyou, a group of soldiers who originally had only 1,500 people returned to the north told Her Majesty the Empress who was far away in the Luoyang court, and the whole world, one thing:

They should be recruited, not surrendered.

The news of the fall of Hongzhou was transmitted back to Jiangzhou City.

A very straightforward and hard logic is placed in front of everyone.

Of the 1,500 soldiers who returned to the north, 1,200 Hongzhou soldiers returned home, so what about the remaining 300 Jiangzhou soldiers?

Cai's next goal is almost obvious.

King Jiangzhou Assassin Shi coldly summoned the officials in the Jiangzhou hall, followed the advice of Ouyang Rong and Lieutenant Envoy Khufu, collected supplies on a large scale, and held Xunyang City, while waiting for reinforcements from neighboring states.

At the end of July, Hongzhou was quiet, and I don't know if it was preparing or waiting for something.

But everyone knows that a great chaos is brewing in Hongzhou.

Just as the storm in Hongju was about to sweep through Gangnam Province.

A piece of news from the west of Lingnan Road, thousands of miles away, suddenly came, adding fuel to the fire again:

On July 25, Guizhou Governor Shi Lan Changhao was killed by the Son of Heaven's private envoy "Khufu" who rushed to Guizhou for the crime of conspiracy and rebellion.

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