Chapter 59: The World Has Changed
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Maoshan.
Heavy snow covers the mountains.
Huang Chao was dressed in a green robe, standing at the top with his hands on his back, the rolling mountains under his feet were covered in silver, and the world was white.
The howling cold wind swept the goose feathers and the heavy snow kept falling, hiding the delicacy of winter barrenness, but it was all shattered and scattered three feet away from the yellow nest body.
Huang Chao frowned slightly, quietly looking at the great rivers and mountains, and had been standing solemnly for two hours. In the meantime, he didn't move a single bit, not even a finger.
In a clearing behind him, there were more than a dozen ironclad generals standing solemnly, and at the front of the clearing, several Taoists were arranging incense cases and spiritual positions.
"Shuai, it's all in order. "The pro-soldier Zhu Wen went to Huang Chao to report behind him.
Huang Chao came back to his senses from his contemplation, came to the incense case in the open space, took the sandalwood handed by the Taoist, knelt down on the futon, faced the spiritual position for a moment of silence, and suddenly said in a loud voice: "Brother Wang, you are a hero, you have been fighting in the south and the north for several years, crisscrossing dozens of states and counties, and the officials and soldiers are not afraid everywhere you go, the little brother has always respected you, but now he is dead in the hands of the villain, you can rest assured, your revenge, the little brother will definitely help you avenge!"
In other words, three buckles and nine bows.
More than a dozen ironclad generals, punching their chests at the same time, shouted loudly in unison: "Avenge Wang Shuai!"
These people were obviously Qi practitioners, and the roar resounded through the sky, echoing in the mountains.
The person who died was Wang Xianzhi.
Huang Chao took his own soldier Zhu Wen to the side, and there were several black-robed Taoists waiting there, that was the head of Maoshan Mountain, and the Zhongnan Mountain Daoist who had been following Huang Chao to fight, and when they saw Huang Chao coming, everyone saluted.
A white-skinned Zhongnan Mountain Daoist asked Huang Chao in a low voice: "Wang Shuai unfortunately died, the situation is very unfavorable to us, now that the heroes have lost their heads, the rest of Wang Shuai doesn't know where to go, what are Huang Shuai's plans?"
Huang Chao pondered for a moment.
Soon after Li Ye took office as the envoy of the Pinglu Jiedu, the imperial court ordered Gao Yu, one of the arms of the former empire and the envoy of the Xichuan Jiedu in Shuzhong, to lead the troops out of Sichuan. Although Gao Biao was not the commander of the official army, wherever he went, the rebels did not taste a single victory and suffered heavy losses, so they had to avoid his troops far away.
It was in this situation that Yang Fuguang, the superintendent of the army, sent someone to recruit Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xianzhi accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and sent the general Shang Junchang and others to contact the officials and soldiers and ask to be the envoy of the festival. Unexpectedly, after Shang Junchang and others arrived at the territory of the official army, they were captured by Song Wei, the commander of the official army, and played to the imperial court, saying that they had defeated Shang Junchang and others and captured them, without mentioning the matter of surrendering, and beheaded Shang Junchang and others.
Shang Junchang and others are Wang Xianzhi's confidants, countless achievements, after his death, Wang Xianzhi was furious, raised troops to attack Song Wei, to avenge it, but the army was defeated, the main force was lost, and Wang Xianzhi himself was killed.
Since Wang Xianzhi took the lead in raising the matter, Huang Chao echoed, and many rivers and lakes took the opportunity to echo, large and small rebel armies are no less than dozens of roads, dozens of small people, large tens of thousands of people, among which Wang Xianzhi has the most supporters, and he is also a well-deserved leader of the rebel army.
Now that Wang Xianzhi is dead, it is a big blow to the rebels.
Huang Chao said to everyone: "I want to avenge Wang Shuai, what do you think?"
The Taoist who spoke out earlier said: "In this way, you need to order the rebels from all walks of life first. ”
Huang Chao nodded, Wang Xianzhi is dead, and he has to carry the banner of the rebel army.
Soon, Huang Chao converged with the remnants of Wang Xianzhi, called himself "General Cupola", changed the Yuan Wangba, set up hundreds of officials, and raised troops to attack Xiangyang, winning more and losing less all the way, and the troops approached Luoyang, the eastern capital.
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Chang'an, Weiyang Palace.
"A bunch of garbage, rice buckets!"
Li Yan rolled up the wine on the desk and kicked the table to pieces, but he was still angry, stomping his feet back and forth and scolding.
The singers, who were still playing songs and dances, were all prostrated in the hall at the moment, trembling.
Tian Lingzi glanced at a eunuch behind him, and the other party hurriedly retreated with the singers.
"A gang of grass thieves, after four years of peace, they didn't calm down, and finally killed Wang Xianzhi, I thought the world was going to be peaceful, but what happened? Wang Xianzhi died, but a sky-high general appeared, a pariah, dare to call himself a general? I have hundreds of thousands of troops, so many handsome generals, and they can't even beat this untouchable, and now they let him fight to the eastern capital?!"
Li Yan turned his head and stared at Tian Lingzi: "You say, is it that in a few days, the grass thieves will come to Chang'an, and I can't even stay in this palace?!"
Tian Lingzi hurriedly relieved: "Your Majesty is angry, the grass thieves can't get to the Eastern Capital, there are so many generals outside the Guan, and the Huangchao guy is dancing happily, it's useless." If the eastern capital is broken, the minister is willing to apologize for his sins with death!"
Li Yan sat down on the imperial case and snorted coldly: "If you died, if the grass thief could be peaceful, I would have let you die a long time ago!"
Tian Lingzi smiled.
Li Yan sighed: "I knew that now, I shouldn't have let Brother Ye go to Qingzhou......"
Speaking of this, Li Yan suddenly remembered something, and said to Tian Lingzi eagerly: "You say, how about I call Brother Ye back? I see that those so-called famous generals are all wasted people, these old guys, except for the corpse vegetarian meal, have no ability at all, and they should have abdicated a long time ago." I summoned Brother Ye back and asked him to be the commander, with his talent, those grass thieves are not even?"
Tian Lingzi smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, King An has only been in Qingzhou for more than a year, and it doesn't make sense to recall King An now." And King An is young after all, His Majesty took the liberty to make him the commander of the three armies, and there is no place for the old faces of those old guys, so don't toss hard, this is harming King An!"
Li Yan was out of luck, and said angrily: "Then what do you say?"
Tian Lingzi thought for a while, "The ministers will go to the prime ministers to discuss and promise to come up with a plan within three days, what does Your Majesty think?"
Li Yan waved his hand, and said excitedly: "Go, go, go." I really don't believe that the huge country can be overturned by a bunch of grass thieves!"
Tian Lingzi walked out of the hall, the flattering smile on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by a ruthless anger, he beckoned to call a confidant eunuch: "Go and pass the word to Lu Yan, if he can't solve the grass thief again, let our family scold him in front of His Majesty, and he, the prime minister, will not have to do it!"
The eunuch's shoulders shook, and he hurriedly responded.
Tian Lingzi looked at the sky, it was very gloomy, he twisted his neck, "King An, if King An comes back, what else is going on with our family in this court? If King An investigates corruption and perverts the law, won't our family and Lu Yan end up with Wei Baoheng and Liu Xingshen?"
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Before the army, Huang Chao looked at Xuanzhou City, his face gloomy.
The attack on the eastern capital was frustrated, and he suffered several defeats in a row, Huang Chao had no choice but to lead his troops back to the south, but found that the soldiers and horses he left in Huainan had been defeated by Gao Yu, and now he has lost his foundation, and the army has not entered the city for a long time, and the supply has become a big problem, and he must take the Xuanzhou City in front of him.
"Siege!" Huang Chao shouted.
At this moment, the city gate suddenly opened, and from inside, a torrent of iron armor with no end in sight rushed out, and slaughtered the rebels.
Huang Chao's face became more and more gloomy: "They are looking for death!"
The two armies had already begun to fight, Huang Chao watched the battle from the watchtower, and before he could see the hope of a great victory for the righteous army, suddenly, a Taoist flew up to the watchtower and said to him eagerly: "Gao Yu's army is coming from the left, and it is less than twenty miles away from here, and there are tens of thousands of people!
"What?" Huang Chao's face changed greatly, Gao Yu's tooth soldiers were strong, and they were definitely not able to be defeated by the righteous army, he gritted his teeth and looked at Xuanzhou City fiercely, the two armies fought in front of the city, and the battle situation was stalemate, and it was impossible to tell the winner for a while.
"Withdraw the troops!" Huang Chao couldn't care so much, so he had to order the army to retreat, although it was inevitable to be chased and killed, but it was better than being surrounded by Gao Yu's tooth soldiers and destroying them all, and now the rebel army was defeated all the way, and it was almost desperate.
Leaving Xuanzhou, Huang Chao led the troops south, without Gao Yu's army, he conquered the state and county along the way, and he was invincible, and the mourning soldiers must win, Huang Chao now understands.
In the sixth year of Qianfu, Huang Chaobing besieged the city of Guangzhou.
Before attacking Guangzhou, Huang Chao took the initiative to let the Jiedu envoy who was trapped in the city write to the court for him, asking for Zhao'an, and be the envoy of the Tianping Army.
When the news reached Chang'an, Tian Lingzi and Lu Yan did not allow it.
Huang Chao had no choice but to lower his requirements and ask for the protection of Annan.
The court did not allow it.
Huang Chao was furious and ordered the siege of the city.
One day the city was broken.
After entering the city of Guangzhou, Huang Chao proclaimed himself "the commander of the righteous army of millions", and widely disseminated the text, reprimanding the court for being dumb and unreasonable.
After occupying Guangzhou, Huang Chao planned to make a good living, and this place became his own foundation, but the epidemic in the army was very serious, and a third of the soldiers died, and the soldiers all asked to leave Guangzhou and go north again.
Huang Chao thought about it for a long time, so he had to listen to everyone's opinions and go north again.
This time, no one thought that the rebels, who had been chased by the officers and soldiers before, would make a big fuss.
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Steppe Tatar Department.
The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep low.
On the banks of the clear river, there is a tribe with dozens of tents.
Several horsemen galloped down the gently undulating mountain bag and came to one of the rather large tents, and the first to turn over and dismount was Li Keyong.
At this time, Li Keyong is no longer as frivolous and flamboyant as he was back then, his young face is quite vicissitudes, his edge is restrained, but his eyes are more profound.
Lifting the curtain and entering the tent, Li Keyong saw Li Guochang on the main seat, hugged his fists and asked, "Father is in a hurry to recruit Keyong back, what is the matter?"
At this time, Li Keyong noticed that there were still two monks sitting in the tent, which were monks from Juexiao Temple, whom he knew.
Li Guochang said to Li Keyong: "I just received the news that Huang Chao attacked Huainan again, and Gao Biao was defeated. ”
Li Keyong was taken aback: "Gao Yu was defeated?"
A round-faced monk answered: "After Huang Chao went north from Guangzhou this year, he won many battles, and his subordinates reached hundreds of thousands, but after attacking Huainan, he was repeatedly defeated by Gao Yu and suffered heavy losses. Huang Chao wrote a letter to Gao Biao, asking for surrender, and paid a lot of money to buy Gao Biao's generals. Gao Biao has been invincible all these years, too proud, gullible to Huang Chao's words, and wrote to the imperial court to let the soldiers and horses of each town retreat. ”
"Unexpectedly, after the soldiers and horses of the towns retreated, Huang Chao launched a fierce attack again, and killed the general Gao Pi who received a lot of money from him, and annihilated his main force. Now, Gao Biao is powerless to stop Huang Chao, and Huang Chao's power is no longer what it used to be, Gao Biao is the only remaining famous general of the dynasty, and after he is unable to fight again, you can imagine what the situation will be. ”
Li Keyong quickly figured out the joints: "Huang Chao is unstoppable, isn't the opportunity of our Shatuo tribe coming?"
A few years ago, after Li Keyong returned to the town from Chang'an, because of Lu Longjun's calculations, Li Guochang was framed as the mastermind behind the assassination of Kang Chengxun.
Before today, Li Guochang's father and son were both lost dogs, except for the only remaining troops of the Shatuo tribe, there was no capital, if it was not taken in by the Tatar department, it was not impossible to completely annihilate.
Now that he heard that he had the opportunity to be recruited by the imperial court, Li Keyong was naturally excited.
The monk of Juexiao Temple smiled and said: "The poor monk has long said that the young marshal is a person who has achieved great things, this is fate, and it can't be wrong. ”
Li Keyong was quite excited, and he was fed up with the hard life under the fence, so he asked, "When can we return south?"
Li Guochang motioned to Li Keyong not to be impatient: "When Huangchao will attack Guanzhong, and when Your Majesty will call on the soldiers and horses of all towns to Qin Wang, we will lead our troops south." ”
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