Under the Neixiang Pass, Zhu Cang led another 30,000 elite Chu troops to attack Guanlou with all their might.

Zhu Cang became more and more anxious, seeing that the defenders in the Guanlou were strong and tenacious, and they could not capture it for a while, and there was no sign of the emptiness of the pass defense mentioned in Zhen Mingku's intelligence, Chu Junerlang had already killed and injured more than 3,000 people, and more than an hour had already passed since the agreed time with Zhen Mingku, and there was no sign of turmoil in the inner countryside and city.

Just as he was about to change to another team of men and horses to continue attacking the pass, a sudden news came that he almost fell off his horse.

Yang Shilin, together with his subordinate Tian Zhan, rebelled in Miyang, together with the soldiers of Dengzhou City, led the army to the southeast to attack Nanyang City, and the people in Nanyang City took advantage of the chaos to attack the soldiers defending the city, opened the city gate to meet the rebels, and Nanyang City was in an emergency.

Zhu Cang was already in chaos at this time, and he had no intention of attacking the Inner Township Pass, so he hurriedly waved his army back to Nanyang in an attempt to protect his old nest.

When he reached the middle of the canyon, the mechanism set up on the canyon was suddenly released, and a large pile of stones blocked the way for the army to return to Nanyang.

Zhu Cang was so hateful that his teeth were about to crush, trembling all over, he had vaguely guessed that all this was caused by Zhen Mingku, but he still couldn't believe that Zhen Mingku would not hesitate to risk him and his wife's death, and designed to frame him, but before he could figure out what was going on, his bad luck did not end there, and the sentry sent the news that the Tang army was out of the customs to pursue the Chu army.

Zhu Cang had no choice but to wave his army north, halfway through, was caught up by Li Jing's cavalry, and retreated while fighting, and at this time, the dark guards who had been lurking in the Chu army began to spread the news that the military rations were exhausted in the Chu army, and Zhu Cang wanted to kill the wounded soldiers in the army for the news of the military rations, for a while, the soldiers fled one after another, coupled with Li Jing's pursuit, the Chu army collapsed, and when the 30,000 Chu troops fled to Jutan Fort, only 3,000 guards remained.

Zhu Cang led the army to capture Jutan Fort, slaughtered thousands of old and young people in Jutan Fort to vent his anger, and then burned the fort, trying to block the pursuit of the Tang army.

Zhu Cang saw that the general trend had gone, although he had the courage of ten thousand people, but it was useless, he knew that there was no way out, and was about to draw his sword and commit suicide, but he was shot right by the dark guard with a anesthetic silver needle, fell off the horse, was captured by the dark guard, and was escorted to Nanyang City.

When he passed out and saw that the person who commanded the ambush was Li Daliang of the Dark Guard, he finally understood that everything was Zhen Ming's troubles behind his back.

……

Nanyang City was in full swing at this time, and Yang Shilin and Lu Zizang led their troops to attack Nanyang City from the southeast two gates respectively.

When the Dark Guard rushed back to Nanyang with Zhu Cang, who was captured alive, they escorted Zhu Cang to walk around the city gate, and the five thousand guards of Nanyang saw that the general situation had gone, and they surrendered one after another.

Yang Shilin led the army into the city, tied up all the surrendered troops of Zhu Cang's army, escorted them to the Baihe River, beheaded them all, burned them to ashes, and scattered them into the river to feed Wang Ba.

……

In the Nanyang Palace.

Zhu Cang knelt on the floor of the palace that originally belonged to him, looking at Zhen Mingku, who was sitting on the dragon chair that originally belonged to him, unharmed, and gritted his teeth with hatred, "Zhen Mingku, don't you want your life and your woman's life?" How dare you betray me! ”

Zhen Mingku took out the two golden boxes that Yu Wenqing gave him that had once contained antidotes, Zhu Cang's face changed greatly, and he quickly understood, and scolded Yu Wenqing with his mouth, his words were vicious and obscene, Zhen Mingku casually threw a gold box towards him, hit his front teeth, smashed his mouth full of blood, and then scolded silently.

"You don't have to curse her, she has gone to another world, today, I want to make a wish for her, I hope your screams can make her soul at peace."

Zhen Ming said bitterly and coldly, and ordered the Secret Guard to post a notice throughout the city, and parade Zhu Cang on the streets for three days, leaving it to the people.

In less than a day, the secret guards sent back the news that Zhu Cang had been stoned to death by the angry people of Nanyang with gravel before he was halfway through the trip, and was buried under the rubble and piled up as high as a hill along with the prisoner cart parade through the street.

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After Zhu Cang's death, Zhen Mingku, as the pacification envoy of Nanyang, recommended Yang Shilin as the assassin of Nanyang City, and formed an alliance with Dengzhou, but the matter did not end there, after the Tang Army and the Dark Guard Army jointly defeated Zhu Cang's army, the Tang Army's surrender envoy immediately arrived in Nanyang, and Yang Shilin, Lu Zizang and Tian Zan and others discussed the surrender.

Yang Shilin and Lu Zizang, Tian Zan and others sat in the conference hall, discussing, seeing Zhen Mingku coming in, they got up and invited him into the house, let him sit on the head, Zhen Mingku tried every means to excuse himself, Yang Shilin then sat on the head, mentioned the surrender of the Tang Army, and asked him for his opinion, Zhen Mingku asked him what he thought, Yang Shilin just said that he didn't want the people of Nanyang City to suffer from the war anymore, and wanted them to recuperate.

Lu Zizang also meant this, but when he knew that the purpose of Zhen Mingku's visit to Nanyang this time was to act as a lobbyist for the emperor, he became cautious.

The people of Nanyang and Dengzhou have experienced a series of wars, and they are unwilling to get involved in the war of either side, whether they join the camp of Luoyang or the camp of Chang'an, it is always the people of the two cities who suffer from the war.

The only way is to remain neutral, become a buffer between the two camps of Chang'an and Luoyang, and then join the camp of the victorious side after leading the two sides to divide the winners and losers.

Before that, Nanyang and Dengzhou did not help each other.

Zhen Mingbitter listened to their proposal quietly, and at the request of Yang Shilin and others, he took Yang Shilin and Lu Zizang's handwritten letters and agreements into the camp where the Tang Army was stationed.

Different from Li Jing's simplicity, the young coach's camp is luxurious and extravagant, and it can be seen that he is the kind of person who pays more attention to the quality of life.

"General Zhen, I have admired the name for a long time, please take a seat."

After a few people took their seats, Zhen Mingku, who was not polite, directly expressed his intentions, and handed over the peace proposal with the signatures of Yang Shilin and Lu Zizang.

Li Xiaogong looked at it, his face gradually sank, slapped the letter on the table, and said in a deep voice: "General Zhen is not joking with this king?" My Li family army is now huge, the heroes of Guanzhong are all under my Li family's account, it is only a matter of time to seize the world, Nanyang Dengzhou will surrender, if you want to be a wall grass, ride the wall and watch, how can my Tang army let them be happy. ”