Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Return of the King

In Yangwu Fort, long live the voices came and went, and everyone cheered for Zhang Tianxi's return! After a long time of despair, fear, and worry, they finally waited for their leader.

After 10 years of hardships, Zhang Tianxi, who has been unable to sleep well day and night for 10 years, finally returned to his homeland and returned to that familiar place after going through a lot of hardships, running dead more than a dozen horses on the road, and breaking through the nomadic areas of many tribes in fear, but the most important thing is that Zhang Tianxi seems to have changed as a person.

Today, he is as approachable and affinable as ever, but at the same time, he also has a lot of prestige, although he can't go in and out like when he was the king of Liang in the past, and he doesn't have all kinds of pomp and circumstance at the beginning, but now Zhang Tianxi, towards that station, gives people invisible pressure. In the past 10 years, although he had to grovel in front of Fu Jian, Zhang Tianxi's heart has never yielded, he can't forget the great achievements of his ancestor Zhang Liang, his father Zhang Jun, and his brother Zhang Chonghua, and he can't forget the prosperity of Liangzhou at the beginning, and he can't forget the majesty of the Liangzhou iron cavalry in the past, and he can't forget the humiliation of being forced to surrender when the Qin army was in the city!

Fu Jian actually treated him well, let him be a scholar with real power, and gave him the title of Marquis of Guiyi, if he was honest, he could have no worries about food and clothing in the second half of his life, and he could still be a rich idler, and he could indulge in wine, just like he did when he was the ruler of Liangzhou.

However, the closer Fu Jian was to Zhang Tianxi, the more Zhang Tianxi felt humiliated, in his opinion, it was the mercy of the victor to the loser, what does it mean to return to Yihou? You have come to me, and this is righteousness. Zhang Tianxi's family is Han, who has been guarding Liangzhou for generations and is familiar with poetry and books, how can he endure such humiliation? But there was no way, for the sake of his wife and children, and because the Qin State was in full swing at that time, he really had no choice but to endure it!

Although due to Fu Jian's policy, the Qin State maintained considerable respect for him, for those of the Murong family, and for all the monarchs and ministers of the defeated countries, but the eyes of the Di people were still full of disdain. I still have to clamp my tail and be a man, and talk small things all day long to please them, lest they enter into slander and harm themselves.

Zhang Tianxi endured for 10 years, from the age of thirty-five to the middle age of forty-five, but although he was only forty-five years old, Zhang Tianxi's hair was already gray, and now when he returned to Liangzhou, his hair was white, looking like he was seventy or eighty, but his spirit was even stronger!

Now, Heaven has finally given me a chance to get back what I lost! I can't miss this opportunity, I will do whatever it takes to get back Liangzhou and the glory of my ancestors!

Zhang Tianxi is back, the commander of this army has naturally returned to his hands, holding the seal letter of the year, looking at a few old ministers who are older than himself, who have been in seclusion but are now back in the mountains, Zhang Tianxi seems to feel that he is full of strength!

There was nothing to doubt, Zhang Tianxi soon proclaimed himself the Duke of Liangzhou, supervised the Chinese and foreign military, announced the resumption of his rule over the Liangzhou region after ten years of "quiet recuperation", and sent a message to the counties of Liangzhou asking them to be loyal to him.

All this that happened in Yangwu in just a few days shocked the entire Liangzhou, and all forces were surprised, because everyone did not expect Zhang Tianxi to come back at this moment.

All people, naturally, including Duan Ye.

Duan Ye's intelligence organization has initially formed a scale, and now it has manpower in all counties of Liangzhou, and Hu Kai has also fulfilled his promise and brought the people of the beggar gang over, no matter what the chaos is in the world, there are always beggars, they are the most well-informed people in the city, and naturally know about Zhang Tianxi's affairs before ordinary people. And through the fast horse, the information was quickly sent to Duan Ye.

Now the Jiuquan Army has been completely in the hands of Duan Ye, Duan Ping, Liu Guo, Zhang Meng and others have gained a firm foothold, and the morale of the army is high.

And because of the battle of Guyan Haizi, the Jiuquan army suffered a lot of losses, and with the approval of Lu Guang, Duan Ye was authorized to recruit troops in Zhangye, which was a great opportunity to expand his strength, so Duan Ye accepted it unceremoniously, and did it in a hurry.

In Zhangye City, Duan Ye was also assigned a house, and now the back hall has been transformed into a confidential room by Duan Ye, because his army was authorized to garrison in Zhangye City, for convenience, Jiuquan Army meetings are often held here.

When discussing the regulations for recruiting troops with Duan Ping, it was Zhang Meng who came over with a secret letter from Yangwu, and Duan Ye saw that there were three plum blossoms on the fire paint, indicating that the matter was urgent, so there was no need for everyone to open the letter on the spot.

After reading the ten lines at a glance, Duan Ye's face also became solemn.

"General, what's wrong?" Among these people, Duan Ping's identity is the highest, and he is the earliest and most trusted with Duan Ye, so seeing that Duan Ye was silent, his index finger lightly knocked on the table, or Duan Ping asked first.

"Oh." Duan Ye came back to his senses and said with some solemnity: "There is a big incident now, Zhang Tianxi has actually returned, and now he has entered Zhang Dayu's army." Let's all take a look. "What?" This is almost everyone said in unison, this news, is really shocking.

After all, Zhang Tianxi was the ruler of Liangzhou before, no matter how generous Fu Jian was, he had to guard against such a person, and now he actually ran back, what does it mean? Is the Central Plains already erosive to the point of being out of control? How much impact will it have on Liangzhou?

The secret letter was quickly circulated, although they were all Duan Ye's henchmen, but Duan Ye still burned the letter very carefully, and then said in a deep voice: "Everyone, you have also seen it, Zhang Tianxi can actually run back, this matter is completely unexpected by all of us, I know it now, I must know it soon, Lu Shuihu, Bald Department, Liang Xi, we should know soon, we have to discuss in advance." ”

"Your Excellency." Duan Ping spoke first, "Zhang Tianxi can come back, probably the Central Plains has become a mess, and His Majesty the Heavenly King is afraid that it will ......."

After all, Duan Ping has always been born and raised in the Qin Empire, so he is a little cautious in speaking, but Duan Ye has no feeling, now Fu Jian is definitely about to finish, and Lu Guang is not a loyal person, so he took over the conversation without any scruples, and said: "What you said is right, now that the Central Plains is full of smoke, Fu Jian may not be able to hold on, otherwise Zhang Tianxi will not have a chance to escape." ”

Duan Ye said this easily, but it was like thunder in the ears of his henchmen!

Although they are all Han Chinese, although the folk customs are far more open than those of the Song and Ming dynasties, and although the monarchs and ministers are not so powerful in troubled times, in any case, what kind of courage is it to call the monarch by his name before the fall of a regime? The way they looked at Duan Ye was different.

Duan Ye didn't notice this stubble at all, he just said smoothly, "Now the Jin Army's three-way army is on the Northern Expedition, but due to internal constraints, the struggle between the scholars and the Han has begun to intensify, I think this time, it is impossible for them to recover the rivers and mountains, at most recover a few important towns in Huaibei and Henan, whether they can hold it is still questionable, but in any case, this will greatly boost the resistance in all parts of the north." In addition, Murong Chui, Yao Chang and others, who are ambitious, in the past, Fu Jian's prestige was as high as the sky, and they could still rely on Huairou and military might to trap them, but now that the millions of troops are mourning, they can't be replenished at all, I expect them to rebel! ”

"Not bad." Zhang Meng also interjected at this time, "My lord, according to the current news, Murong De confronted Liu Yu of Liu Jiaozhi on the front line of the slippery platform, Murong Chui is still honest Hongnong, and half of his own soldiers and horses have been handed over to the Heavenly King, but we have received absolutely reliable news that Murong Bao has returned to Yecheng!" ”

"Murong Bao?" Liu Guo was a little surprised, "Are you sure?" ”

"Absolutely reliable, but these are thanks to the Hu gang leader." Zhang Meng said jokingly.

I can't help but be surprised by Liu Guo, Murong Bao is now Murong Trai's most admired son, in other words, Murong Trai's heir, although Murong Trai tried his best to show his loyalty to Fu Jian after the Battle of Weishui, but the whole world knew that he was going to rebel against the Yan Kingdom, no matter how he confessed himself, it was useless, and now he sent his henchman and most beloved son back to Yecheng, is he going to officially break with Fu Jian?

Obviously, if Murong Trai also rebelled, it would be almost a fatal blow to Fu Jian! In history, the reason why Fu Jian was defeated and died in just two years after the Battle of Weishui was not directly moved by Murong Chui, but it can be said that Fu Jian's death was due to him!

And the Hu gang leader naturally said Hu Kai. Since these people are all Duan Ye's henchmen, their identities are not hidden, and everyone can't help but be curious when they know that Hu Kai, who is now in charge of intelligence work, also has the identity of a beggar in Anding County.

Of course, Duan Ye enveloped people, not by empty mouth and white teeth, but gave a lot of dry goods, the first is to take advantage of the empty to send Duan Ping people with capable forces to Anding County to avenge Hu Kai's family revenge, regain the position of the beggar, and then use his own reserves to fully support Hu Kai, and this Hu Kai really has some ability, both grace and power, obedient pull disobedient killing, and actually quickly unified the beggar gang in Tianshui, Nan'an, Guangwu and other places, and there is a tendency to become the beggar head of Liangzhou, and once Duan Ye jokingly called Hu the gang leader, So this nickname spread, and Hu Kai also felt that the gang leader was much more majestic than the beggar, so he didn't refuse.

has become the biggest scoop of the Longyou beggar gang, and naturally has to restore the relationship with the former beggar brothers, although Hu Kai can't go in person, but now that he has a lot of money, compared with those beggars who can't mix in other states and counties, it is naturally easy to repair the relationship with them. So the intelligence pipeline was established.

Murong Bao returned to Yecheng, other people may be able to hide it, and even hide it from Fu Pi who guarded Yecheng, but they can't hide it from the beggars in Yecheng, and this news may not be worth much to them, but Hu Kai is willing to offer a price of 200 Shu brocade, so two days after Murong Bao returned to Yecheng, a team of horse gangs set off from Yecheng and went to Liangzhou to ask for business.

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