As soon as Wang Zhen's brothers and sisters left, a large number of people came one after another to intercede for Pei Mian, Cui Youfu, Yuan Zai and a large number of officials, these people are either relatives of the emperor or a noble family, none of them are small roles, Zhao Ziliang is under huge pressure this time, and he no longer sees anyone who intercedes, no matter what the identity of the other party is. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang handed over these people to Du Fu to deal with, regardless of whether Du Fu could cope with it or not. He himself went to instruct Wu Zhen to tell the prison that the relatives of the prisoners were allowed to visit, but it was necessary to strengthen supervision to prevent the prisoners from dying in the prison before they were executed.

After sending Wu Loss away, Zhao Ziliang was about to go to the backyard for a lunch break, when Xuan Shibai came over and reported: "King, Fan Yang has a letter!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's spirit was shocked: "What news?" ”

Xuan 18 said: "On July 24, instigated by Liu Daoqian, Li Huaixian was killed by the generals Zhu Xicai, Zhu Zhu and Zhu Tao, Zhu Xicai claimed to be Youzhou, Lu Longliuhou, but just a month later, Zhu Xicai was angry and resentful because of improper governance, and the deputy Li Ying was first dissatisfied, and instigated other generals to kill Zhu Xicai together, Li Huaixian's department Zhang Zhongzhi got the news and immediately led the troops to Fanyang under the banner of avenging him, but Li Ming, Zhu Zhu and others joined forces to kill Zhang Zhongzhi, but Zhang Zhongzhi left, The brothers Li Ying and Zhu Jun began to fight again, and now the Youzhou and Lulong regions can be described as chaos, and the generals support their own troops, and no one obeys anyone. Since from the end of July to the middle of August, it rained heavily for more than 20 days in Hebei and Henan, causing extremely serious flooding, many roads were washed away by floods, and no one dared to cross the river because of the water potential, so the transmission of news was somewhat delayed. ”

After listening to the report, Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "The time has come to make a move against the three towns of Heshuo!" Someone came, and the staff officials of the royal palace and the chief officials of the provinces and ministries above the third rank of the DPRK and the central government hurried to discuss the matter! ”

"Yes, King!"

In less than half an hour, more than a dozen of the most important staff officials of the Regent's Mansion and the main ministers of the imperial court rushed to the hall.

Zhao Ziliang was not polite anymore, and went straight to the topic: "Everyone, I just received the latest news, more than a month ago, in the early morning of July 20, Youzhou and Lulong Jiedu made Li Huaixian to be killed by the generals Zhu Caixi, Zhu Zhu and Zhu Tao brothers, and then Zhu Xicai subdued the generals of Youzhou and Lu Long, claiming to be the queen. But on August 25, Zhu Xicai provoked the anger of the generals under his command because of his brutality and inhumanity, and Li Ming, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, provoked the anger of the generals and killed Zhu Xicai together. Now Youzhou and Lulong are in chaos, and the leading generals are fighting each other for the position of the overlord of Fanyang. Ben Wan believes that the time has come to pacify the three towns of Heshuo, and if you wait for Youzhou to divide a winner and lose, it will be much more troublesome! This king decided to attack Youzhou and Lulong from the north and west first, and then recover Youzhou and Lulong!"

"Now this king has ordered that the soldiers and horses of all counties bordering the three towns of Heshuo are ready to attack the three towns of Heshuo at any time, and mobilize soldiers and horses and grain and grass to hoard the border areas and stand by! Especially Hedong and Henan! ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately sent 800 li to Yunzhong and Mobei to send the edict, in which Zhao Ziliang ordered Zhang Shouyu in Mobei and Gao Xiuyan in Yunzhong to lead troops to attack Youzhou and Lulong respectively.

The area occupied by the Youzhou Jiedu is not large, but the area under the jurisdiction of the Lulong Jiedu is large, and a large part of it is the direct jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. In the second year of the reign of the Emperor (761), under the influence of the Anshi Rebellion, the Andong Prefecture was abolished, but the territory under the jurisdiction of the Andong Prefecture was incorporated into the jurisdiction of the Lulong Jiedu Envoy, including Jilin, Liaoning, part of Heilongjiang, Pyongyang, North Korea, and a large area on both sides of the Yalu River to the north.

After Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan received Zhao Ziliang's edict, they led their troops into Youzhou quickly in two ways, and the Youzhou warlords who were in the chaotic period could not form a unified resistance, and were broken by Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan, first Zhang Zhizhong was defeated by Gao Xiuyan, and Zhang Zhizhong committed suicide in defeat.

After Gao Xiuyan defeated Zhang Zhizhong, he quickly occupied Zhuozhou, Yingzhou and Mozhou and other southern areas of Youzhou, which undoubtedly brought great pressure to Li Baochen, who immediately organized heavy troops to go north to confront Gao Xiuyan's army, but Xue Qianxun, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, immediately led the Hedong Army to approach the western Hengzhou and Zhaozhou regions under the jurisdiction of Chengde Jiedu, Li Baochen was shocked, and he had to transfer most of the troops deployed in the northern region to the west to guard against Xue Qianxun, after all, most of Gao Xiuyan's soldiers and horses were cavalry, There are fewer infantry, and most of Xue Qianxun's Hedong army are infantry, which can attack cities and conquer cities, and the threat is greater.

At the same time, Li Baochen sent someone to ask Tian Yue for help, hoping that Tian Yue would send troops to reinforce him, but Tian Yue was severely injured by Li Sheng in the Battle of Bianzhou, and his troops suffered serious losses, and his self-protection was still insufficient, so how could there be extra troops to reinforce Li Baochen? Therefore, he directly rejected Li Baochen's request for help.

Weizhou, the mansion of Tian Yue's staff Xu Shize.

On this day and night, Xu Shi invited the general Li Changchun to eat wine, and during the banquet, Li Changchun saw Xu Shi frowning, so he asked: "Lord Xu, why are you depressed?" Could it be that there is something wrong with the last general who has offended the adults? ”

Xu Shi hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, no." The official is just worried about his future, isn't the general worried? ”

Li Changchun is not a fool, how could he not hear what Xu Shize said, and asked: "Lord Xu is saying that the current situation is not good for us?" We can't stop the attack of the imperial army? ”

Xu Shize drank a glass of wine and said with a wry smile: "General Li, the current situation is not just unfavorable to us? It's too unfavorable, in the past, our three towns in Heshuo supported each other as a whole, and the imperial court couldn't do anything about us, but now there is chaos in Youzhou, Mobei and Yunzhong sent troops to attack together, Chengde Li Baochen wanted reinforcements but was suppressed by Gao Xiuyan and Xue Qianxun, and now we want to ask for help and take care of ourselves, now more than eighty percent of our troops are transferred to the north bank of the Yellow River to confront the imperial army Zang Xiyan, the hinterland is empty, if there is another army to kill in, it will be all over! Judging from the current situation, Youzhou Lulong's side is bound to be finished, who is next? Li Nazheng was beaten back one after another by Li Sheng's army in Qingzhou, Shandong, and he was too busy to take care of himself, and the official could already predict that Wei Bo couldn't stand it, but I was afraid that it wouldn't be long before you and I would be sent to the guillotine! It's just that the official is dead, it's a pity, but there is still a big family in the family, more than 100 people! ”

Li Changchun was so cold by Xu Shize's words that he was all interested in drinking, and he asked nervously: "Lord Xu, is the situation really so serious?" What are we going to do? Do you want to ······ Persuade Lord Tian to return to the court? ”

Xu Shi shook his head and said: "If it is Lord Lao Tian who is in power, it is still possible, but this Lord Tian is young and vigorous, and this official does not think that anyone can convince him!" ”

I have to say that none of these advisers who assisted the generals of the feudal towns to cut off the alleged king were narrow-minded, all of them were very shrewd, and they were very sensitive to changes in the situation, and in the absence of other ways, if they didn't want to die, they could only surrender.

Li Changchun suddenly became anxious: "Then what should I do?" Could it be that our people are going to die with him? ”

Xu Shize pondered for a moment, waved his hand and asked the singers and maids to retreat, and when there were only two people left in the hall, Xu Shize said: "Don't hide it from General Li, I've been thinking about this matter for many days, if we don't want to die, there is only one way left!" ”

"What's the solution?"

Xu Shi got up and walked to the door to look, and saw that there was no one outside the door, so he returned to the hall and beckoned to Li Changchun, Li Changchun got up and stepped forward to attach his ear to the past, Xu Shi said in a low voice: "The only way is to kill Tian Yue, and then lead the army to surrender to the court, if the general takes the lead in doing this, the court will reward the meritorious deeds in the future, and the general will definitely be the first merit!" If the general dares to do it, Xu is willing to help! ”

After Li Changchun heard this, beads of sweat instantly fell on his forehead, and he was frightened by Xu Shize's words, this matter is too big, let him kill Tian Yue, isn't this a rebellion? If it doesn't work out, won't he die without a place to be buried? But then again, if he succeeds, he will lead his army to surrender to the imperial court, and he will definitely get the first credit, but the risk of this matter is not ordinary.

Xu Shize also did not persuade Li Changchun, he knew that Li Changchun had to be given time to think about it, it was useless to persecute him, if this matter was done without Li Changchun, it would not work at all. Now Tian Yue's generals Lu Ziqi, Xing Caojun and others are stationed in the north, while Huo Guorong, Meng Xiyou and others are leading troops on the north bank of the Yellow River to guard against Zang Xiyan's imperial army.

After nearly a quarter of an hour of psychological struggle, Li Changchun finally chose to attack Tian Yue, he looked up at Xu Shize and asked, "Lord Xu, I did this, but what good way do you have to kill Tian Yue?" You must know that I am not the only one leading the troops in this Weizhou City! ”

Xu Shize said: "General Li promised to do it, and this thing will be easy to do!" Recently, Tian Yue was a little irritable due to the tense situation, I took a time to suggest that he go out of the city to hunt, now it is autumn, it is the time when the prey comes out to forage, hunting is just right, presumably Tian Yue will not refuse! What the general has to do is to set up an ambush outside the city in advance, and just wait for Tian Yue to enter the ambush circle and immediately do it! ”

Li Changchun was still a little uneasy, and asked, "How sure is Lord Xu that he can persuade Tian Yue to go out of the city to hunt?" ”

Xu Shi said: "Even if he doesn't want to hunt, the official has other ways to let him go out of the city, please rest assured, the general can rest assured, you wait for me to inform, if I send someone to inform you, you will prepare immediately!" ”

Li Changchun gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will hand over this more than 100 catties to Lord Xu at the end!" ”