Chapter 29: Money and Food

The most fatal shortcoming of the Huangchao army is the lack of food and grass, and it is naturally difficult for them to win the war hungry.

There is a secret agent report, Li Shen and Zhu Wen colluded, ready to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Huang Chao was furious, and he sent troops to strengthen the defense of Huazhou, because he knew that Li Shen was also unreliable as the defense envoy of Huazhou.

Huang Ye sent troops to rescue Huazhou, and at the same time, Huang Ye killed Li Shen at the reception banquet.

Li Shen's hardcore Wang Yu led a large army to force Huang Ye away, and then surrendered to Wang Chongrong. Huang Chao ordered someone to be sent to kill Li Shen, but this was actually a mistake.

Although the Tang army defeated Li Shen, it did not enter Huazhou.

What's more, before Huang Chao killed Li Shen, Zhu Wen was actually very dangerous.

Because, Yang Fuguang advocated killing Zhu Wen. However, Wang Chongrong opposed this. Wang Chongrong said: "Staying in Zhu Wen can break the thief!" Yang Fuguang also had to agree with his opinion, because Zhu Wen's surrender was indeed extremely beneficial to the Tang army, and it had a very bad impact on Huang Chao's army.

Wang Chongrong gave Tang Xizong a lesson, Tang Xizong was overjoyed when he heard the news, he said: "I have the Huangchao in the future, and the good days of the Huangchao are coming to an end." ”

At this time, he realized that his sister Princess Suining was missing.

Tang Xizong found the letter she left for himself in the mansion of Princess Suining.

After reading the letter, Tang Xizong was silent, and after a while, he said to the left and right: "I want to quickly quell the war and return to Chang'an City!" ”

Tang Xizong still devoted his main energy to counterinsurgency. He specially gave Zhu Wen the name "Quanzhong" and awarded him the post of general of the right Jinwu and deputy envoy of the Hezhong Xingying.

After Zhu Wen's attack, Huang Chao's army immediately launched a fierce attack.

At this time, the sky of war had already fallen to the Don Army.

In this way, the eastern strategic places in the east on which Huang Chao's Great Qi Jing Division Chang'an relied and Hua Erzhou all took refuge in the imperial court, and Huang Chao only had a lonely city of Chang'an in his hands.

In order to change this situation, Huang Chao personally led his troops and recovered Huazhou.

At this time, Tang Xizong took Li Keyong as the northeast camp capital, Yang Fuguang and Chen Jingyong surrounded Huazhou, and divided troops into Weibei.

Chen Jingsi and Li Keyong then went to Chang'an, the capital division, with 17,000 infantry cavalry.

In the first month of the third year of Zhonghe, that is, in 883 AD, Li Keyong sent troops to the river and stationed troops in the pit. Due to the defeat of Huang Chao's troops in many battles by Li Ke's Shatuo soldiers, they had a sense of fear for this army.

Li Keyong said to his subordinates: "We will break through Huazhou and recover Chang'an." It takes less than half a year. ”

In the Shidi Valley, Huang Ye, the general of the Huang Chao Army, led 50,000 troops to fight with Li Keyong.

As a result, Huang Ye was defeated by Li Keyong. After that, as soon as he saw Li Keyong in black, his troops arrived.

Huang Chao's army was horrified and said, "The Crow Army has arrived." Because he likes to wear black, the Shatuo cavalry used by Li Ke is called the Raven Army.

Many Tang feudal towns rushed to be the first, pointing to Chang'an, for fear that they would suffer losses.

Tang Zhangwei saw that the Tang army had already taken the advantage, so he quietly moved the army to his own defense area. Because the generals of the Tang army were rushing to besiege the Huangchao rebels, his actions were not noticed by everyone.

Only Tian Lingzi paid attention to this, he said: "I originally thought that Tang Zhang Zhangwei was a person who was in power, but I didn't expect him to know how to advance and retreat, it seems that he just wants to be a rich man, and I don't have to worry about it!" ”

Tian Lingzi's righteous son, Wang Jian, said to Tian Lingzi: "Father-in-law, Tang Zhangwei's troops are concentrated in my defense area, and I suspect that he wants to attack the land of Sanchuan. ”

Tian Lingzi said: "My son should be careful, but don't provoke Tang Zhangwei's troops. ”

Fortunately, Tang Zhangwei's troops did not stay in the territory of the Jinshang Capital Defense Envoy who forgot to love you for a long time, and they all withdrew to Shannan Dongdao.

Wei Wan'er asked: "Now is the season to pick peaches, march into Guanzhong and occupy Chang'an, just so that you can coerce the Son of Heaven to make the princes addicted, why don't you go?" ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "I don't want to get involved in the struggle for power and profit, I am originally a person with no ambitions. ”

Wei Wan'er smiled and didn't say anything more.

At this time, Princess Suining looked at everything in Shannan Dongdao, and she saw those sturdy men and women walking swaggering on the streets.

The two maidservants were also amazed, and they looked at the new world of the Tang Dynasty.

Everything is too fresh here, and in Shannan Dongdao, the people who patrol the streets are militiamen, they have machetes in their hands, and the market is in order.

As soon as there were thieves and pickpockets, the militiamen with machetes immediately surrounded them and slashed them with machetes, killing the thieves on the spot.

Princess Suining was a little uncomfortable with this cruel punishment, but the two maidservants were very excited.

The maidservant Xue Luqiao said: "In today's Tang Dynasty, thieves are rampant, only here, thieves are attacked by the people, it is really happy." ”

Huo Hongyu said: "However, in that case, these thieves who were hacked to death would be too pitiful. ”

Xue Luqiao said: "What is the pity of the thief, I think the person who was stolen is pitiful." ”

The two maidservants were arguing about it, not wanting to have eyes on them for a long time.

Gong Ming, an official of the Tang Dynasty and a member of the Intelligence Department, was transferred to Shannan Dongdao with his boss Le Zijun, and Liao Yuan came with him. However, Liao Yuan is mainly in charge of the affairs of the refugee camp.

After following these three women dressed as men for a long time, Gong Ming and his two subordinates judged that they might be the family members of which Tang Dynasty official went to Shannan Dongdao on a whim.

Tang Zhangwei's intelligence department intercepts many such people every day, or they are the children of high-ranking officials and nobles, who visit Tang Zhangwei's territory out of curiosity.

Because these people do not pose a threat, they must be entertained with good food and drink after they or their identities are known. Therefore, Wei Wan'er ordered her subordinates, after judging that these people were not spies, to pretend to be confused and let them tour by themselves.

Gong Ming followed for a while and found that the three of them were only interested in female celebrities and new gadgets. He judged that the three men were just prodigal sons and daughters of a large family, so he withdrew with his men.

Huang Chao's only subordinate general, Ge Congzhou, who succeeded in lurking and stealth, was eyeing them.

Ge Congzhou has read countless people and has a flexible mind, otherwise he would not be able to deceive Tang Zhangwei's intelligence department.

In the past few days, Ge Congzhou has been doing odd jobs, and he has found that there is a great danger of theft and robbery in Tang Zhangwei's Shannan East Road, and he has watched several thieves being hacked to death by the militia on the spot. This made Ge Congzhou, who regarded human life as a mustard, a little frightened, as for the assassination of Tang Zhangwei, with Tang Zhangwei's strict protection, he seemed to be unable to do it for the time being.

The plan now is to get some gold and silver first and then think about the rest.

After Ge Congzhou earned some copper money by doing odd jobs, he wandered the streets, hoping to find some business travelers, and then destroy them like breaking the necks of chickens and ducks.

Thinking of this, a cruel smile appeared at the corner of Ge Congzhou's mouth.

But now in Tang Zhangwei's territory, there are silver horns everywhere, and the merchants don't carry a lot of money with them at all, which makes Ge Congzhou desperate, but fortunately, he immediately shifted his target.

Ge Congzhou found that there were many clans from other feudal towns and the Sanchuan area, as well as ministers, who came to Shannan Dongdao for tourism and shopping.

Ge Congzhou set his sights on these fat sheep, and on this day he finally found three out-of-town tourists disguised as men, they were Princess Suining and her maidservant.