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At the time of the Jinge Iron Horse in Liaodong, the Central Plains was also surging.

Under the city of Qizhou, the grass army was divided into three parts, Shang Junchang took the fake Wang Xiancao and the commanders to the west into Shannan Road, while Liu Yanzhang, the general of Wang Xiancao, set up his own door and led the army south to Jiangxi. At the same time, Huang Chao failed to recruit Wang Xiancao's old department, and chose to go north to fight back to his hometown.

Huang Chao returned all the way to Cao Pu, and successively fought with Tianping Kang Chengzhi, Taining Cui Yunqing, Ziqing Wang Jingwu, etc., and the most rear-end soldiers committed the Zhenguo Army. However, although Li Jing is not in Dengzhou, the Zhenguo Army is not a place where Huang Chao can plunder casually. Wang Pu led the Tielin Army, Wang Chong led the Japanese army, and Guo Shunli's Black Flag Army ambushed and defeated the grass thieves in the territory of Qiancheng in Qingzhou, killing more than 3,000 and capturing more than 20,000.

Then Huang Chao went south to fight the Taining army, and captured Yizhou for the third time after the last one, and after a lot of looting, Huang Chao fled westward again before Cui Yunqing and Kang Chengzhi and others were encircled.

The two armies of Shang Junchang and Huangchao joined again, and the two armies met at the Rongshan Mountain at the junction of Yuzhou and Shannan Dongdao in Henan, and then joined forces to attack the important town of Songzhou in the northeast.

Because Zhang Rui, the assassin of Songzhou, gave his daughter to Li Jing, Songzhou and the Zhenguo Army vigorously cooperated, and Songzhou became an important distribution place for the Zhenguo Army's goods in Henan, so it attracted prosperity in commerce and trade. In particular, the salt transported to Songzhou by the Zhenguo army was not only of good quality but only half of the official salt, attracting many salt merchants from Hedong in Henan and even in Shannanguan in Hebei. Coupled with all kinds of other hot businesses, Songzhou has far surpassed the prosperity of the last time the grass thieves invaded.

The Grass Army is striking again. First, the towns of the official army were still left behind by Huang Chao. The Biansong area is empty. Second, Songzhou is prosperous and wealthy. If you take Songzhou, you will be able to get a great supplement, and even threaten the eastern capital and shake the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, Huangchao and Shang Junchang have both suffered losses under Li Jing, and Songzhou Thorn Shi is Li Jing's father-in-law, if he takes Zhang Rui, it will undoubtedly be better.

Songzhou was besieged. Xuanwu Jiedu forced Mu Renyu to attack, but as a result, Zeng Yuanyu was defeated, hid in the city, and did not dare to attack again.

At the time of Guan Jian, Xuanwu Town's Yingzhou Assassin Shi Zhang Zimian led seven Yingzhou soldiers to help, and Shang Junchang and Huangchao allied forces lined up to resist. Under the command of Zhang Zimian, more than 3,000 people were killed in this battle of 7,000 Yingzhou soldiers. And the two deputy marshals Du Xian and Cui Anqian were also about to arrive, and Huang Chao and the two saw that they couldn't take Songzhou, so they broke the siege and left. Shang Jun Chang to the south, Huangchao to the north. Continue to each his own way.

After the Battle of Songzhou, it was a good news that the imperial court had received again for more than a year, but the court itself fought again.

Prime Minister Lu Xi believed that after the siege of Song Prefecture was lifted, Zhang Zimian's army should be under the command of Song Wei in accordance with the usual practice, so as to unify the powers.

However, Lu Xiangguo's opinion was not unanimously approved by the political affairs hall, and the opponent was his opponent, Zheng Jin, who was relatively the most upright of the four prime ministers at this time. And Zheng Xiangguo, who has repeatedly proposed to remove Song Wei from the throne and proposed to replace Song Wei with Cui Anqian and Zhang Zimian. Song Wei had already entered Beijing to recuperate, and he was not suitable to serve as a solicitor at all. Now Yang Fuguang, Cui Anqian and Du Xian are all deputy envoys, and he thinks that Cui Anqian should be used to replace Song Wei. In addition, Zhang Zimian performed well several times, but it was the dereliction of duty of Mu Renyu, the marshal of Zhongwu Town, that it was not appropriate to continue to let Zhang Zimian belong to Mu Renyu! The imperial court should immediately appoint Cui Anqian as the envoy, and Zhang Zimian should take over as the commander of the Xuanwu Army and be promoted to deputy envoy.

The factional contradictions are sharp, and the two do not give in to each other, and the third prime minister, Wang Duo, seeing that the power of the faction of Gonggong Tian and Lu Xian is greater, also saw the wind and changed the rudder, and echoed Lu Xi's opinion. Zheng Jin saw that even Wang Duo, who he recommended to enter the court, was on the opposite side, and he was so angry that he asked to resign and return to Chanchuan to recuperate.

This kind of drama will change, and Lu Xian and Wang Duo will not show weakness, and they will also request to be removed from office. For a time, three of the several Tongping officials in the political affairs hall threatened to provoke each other, and the court was in danger of being paralyzed.

There was no way, even Tian Lingzi couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to invite back the Son of Heaven Li Yi from the polo field, and the Son of Heaven had to suspend his beloved polo and come back to deal with the matter. Li Yu then issued an edict: the resignation applications of the three prime ministers were not approved. Then and once the mud was made. Zhang Zimian was promoted to the position of deputy envoy, but his 7,000 elite soldiers were to be handed over to the general Zhang Guan, under the command of Mu Renyu, the commander of Xuanwu Town, and he went to Cui An's submarine army to take up his post alone.

In this way, Zhang Zimian won the battle, relieved the danger of Song Zhou and Mu Renyu, and did not hear the reward, but was deprived of military rights first, and Mingsheng actually surrendered, and even the position of assassin was dismissed. The Tang Dynasty once again proved what Song Wei had said to Li Jing at the beginning, and it was indeed unfair in rewarding and punishing.

Although the situation was chaotic, Shang Junchang cooperated with Huang Chao again before and plundered Songzhou once. However, Shang Junchang did this for the sake of his recruitment. Last time, because I ran too far and went to Qizhou, I couldn't recruit An. This time he hit Songzhou, just to make a big move and attract the imperial court to make a good price. Who would have thought that Sorrow and Cui Anqian were led away by them, Mu Renyu was surrounded by them, and in the end, they were defeated by the 7,000 people of Zhang Zimian, the assassin of Yingzhou.

Although Song Zhou parted ways with Huang Chao again, Shang Junchang's idea of Zhao'an never broke.

Shang Junchang wrote letters to the two deputy marshals Du Xian and Cui Anqian, hoping to recruit An and serve the imperial court. It's a pity that Du Xian and Cui Anqian are both from top families, and they are the most disdainful of grass thieves, and their letters asking for surrender were all detained by the two, like stones sinking into the sea, and they never even bubbled.

However, after the Battle of Songzhou, things in Zhao'an finally improved again. Shang Junchang bypassed the two deputy marshals Du Xian and Cui Anqian, and directly connected with Yang Fuguang, the deputy envoy and capital supervisor who was in Dengzhou.

Shang Junchang attaches great importance to this Zhao'an, and last time Qizhou Zhao'an made a joke, and the imperial court recruited the fake Wang Xianzhi. In order to show his sincerity in surrendering and to prevent the recurrence of the Qizhou incident, Shang Junchang personally took several generals to Dengzhou to meet Yang Fuguang secretly to discuss the specific affairs of the feudal officials.

But this is a top-secret piece of information. But it was not much known to Mu Renyu by the Xuanwu Festival. The marshal who was almost captured by the grass thieves in the first battle of Songzhou. At this time, he reacted very sensitively, he immediately made a decision, sent light cavalry to set up an ambush on the way, and ambushed and captured Shang Junchang and his party who disguised themselves as a caravan to Dengzhou, and then reported to the court very shamelessly, he fought a big victory in Yingzhou, and captured Shang Junchang, the deputy leader of the grass thieves, and several grass thief generals.

Yang Fuguang didn't expect such a thing to happen, and he immediately played. It shows that Shang Junchang and others came to discuss surrender, not captured by Mu Renyu on the battlefield. But his original secrecy action has now become a flaw in the counterattack of Mu Renyu and his backstage Tian Lingzi, Lu Xian and others.

For a time, Mu Renyu and Yang Fuguang kept flying to Chang'an, fighting lawsuits, and the political affairs hall broke out again with the participation of several big eunuchs in the palace.

After arguing and arguing, Li Yi, the most popular son of heaven, still came to the conclusion very casually, Shang Junchang and others were considered Mu Renyu's military merits, and then Shang Junchang, who was bent on recruiting An, was escorted to the suburbs of Chang'an City to be beheaded and shown to the public.

The message came back. Shang Rang, Cao Shixiong and other voters were furious.

The angry Shang Rang and others connected Anzhou, Suizhou and other places in the south of Keshan, and defeated the forward troops of Zhongwu and Xuanwu towns. Zhang Guan, who had just succeeded Zhang Zimian and commanded the 10,000 soldiers and horses, was defeated and defeated. Escape back from the Shen and Cai Erzhou trails. After the victory, the grass army took advantage of the victory and marched forward, and successively captured Fuzhou and Yingzhou, and the troops were headed, pointing directly to Jiangling Mansion, where the Jingnan Jiedu envoy was stationed.

Yang Zhiwen, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, was the Jingzhao Yin Yang Zhizhi who had reported to the imperial court that after the locust swarm entered Chang'an, he did not harm the crops, but instead died of thorns. Like his younger brother Yang Zhizhi, Yang Zhiwen is also a master of playing with the pen, but his ability to deal with practical problems is very bad.

It was the dry season in the middle of winter, and the Han River was narrow and shallow, and the movement of the grass thieves to the south was already obvious. Yang Zhiwen's subordinates reminded him that Wang Xianzhi's men were not far from Jiangling and could not be taken lightly. However, Lord Yang, who regards the troubled times as the rule of the world, still thinks that this argument is full of defeatist emotions and belongs to fallacies to confuse the public, so he does not take any precautions.

On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of Qianfu, heavy snow fell in Jiangling, and Yang Zhiwen was celebrating the New Year with his subordinate officials, Wang Xianzhi's men and horses suddenly appeared under the city, and the outer city of Jiangling was immediately captured by grass thieves because of no preparation, and the generals of the Jingnan Army hurriedly retreated to the inner city and resisted desperately.

After Li Fude reported the report, he led his troops south to the rescue.

When Li Fu went south, he brought a cavalry of 500 people, all dressed in black and black armor, and as soon as this cavalry went into battle, he immediately broke the interception of the grass thieves and killed the Chinese army. Li Fu took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and the grass thief retreated in defeat.

This black-clothed army is the famous Shatuo Black Crow Army, which is the vanguard of the Shatuo army led by Shatuo general Li Changyan.

Shang Rang and the others were terrified when they saw the arrival of the Shatuo army. Although Shatuo was defeated by the imperial court's Eight Towns Army and Horse two years ago, there were still thousands of soldiers and horses left, and Li Guochang led him to Xichuan to help Luo Diao serve Yu Gao Yu to deal with Nanzhao.

Now that the Shatuo army has arrived in Jiangling, it is very likely that the famous general Gao Biao has also arrived.

Shang Rang and the others didn't dare to fight against Gao Biao at all, although they all called Li Jing a generation of famous generals today, and he was unparalleled in battle. But two years ago, the title of the most famous general in the world deservedly has always been hung by the eagle servant Yu Gao. This general, who defeated the party and the Uighurs, and defeated hundreds of thousands of troops in Nanzhao, was a real famous general.

Thinking that the heroes did not suffer the immediate losses, Shang Rang and the others gave up the siege of the inner city of Gangneung and broke the siege and left. In order to let out the evil anger in his heart that has not been fully vented, he also set a fire to the outer city he captured when he left, burning this famous ancient city beyond recognition.

According to the official version of the imperial court, this fire and the previous looting of the grass army reduced the population of Jingzhou, the metropolis of central China, which claims to have 300,000 households, by three or four percent.

The government of the Tang Dynasty was one level higher than the state, such as the capital Chang'an is the Jingzhao Mansion, the eastern capital is Henan Mansion, and the northern capital Jinyang is Taiyuan Mansion. And Jiangling Mansion is from Jingzhou to the government, to this purpose, the entire Tang Dynasty is counted as Jingzhao, Henan, Taiyuan, Fengxiang, Chengdu, Hezhong, Jiangling, Xingyuan, Xingde, Xingtang. And gradually became a system, where the capital, the capital and the state where the emperor was stationed, were promoted to the government.

Gangneung Province is the metropolis of the Han River, and although the territory is not large, it has a very large population in the late Tang Dynasty. Especially after the Anshi Rebellion, the Central Plains had many deaths, and the people of Xiangdeng were killed. Liangjing is well-dressed. Throw yourself into Jiangxiang. Therefore, Jingnan Jingyi is ten times its beginning. This means that the population of Jiangling has increased tenfold compared to the early Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Jiangling was the capital of the Western Liang Kingdom, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was the capital of the Jiangnan Xiao Mill.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Milling was set up as Jingzhou, and Tianbao was changed to Jiangling County. In the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758), it was renamed the Jingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the Jingnan Festival was placed as an envoy during the Zhide period. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (760), Jingzhou was the southern capital, and the state was Jiangling Mansion.

After more than 100 years, Jiangling has 300,000 households and more than one million people, no less than Chang'an, Luoyang and other capitals.

But because of Yang Zhizhi's incompetence, such a big city was easily attacked by grass thieves, and the population plummeted by more than 100,000 households. Central China Metropolis. In the blink of an eye, it was in ruins.

However, Shang Rang and the others did not be arrogant for long, after evacuating from Jiangling. They were finally caught by Cui Anqian, the new marshal, in Shenzhou.

The grass thieves, who had just lost their real leader and were frightened by Gao Biao and Shatuo in Gangneung, ran into Cui Anqian, who had just taken office, had a strong fighting spirit and carefully planned plans. After a great battle, the grass thieves were defeated again, with more than 10,000 killed, and more than 10,000 people were captured and surrendered. Shang Rang and the others were seriously injured, so they had to flee for their lives in the southeast direction.

Cui Anqian, who won the battle, was unwilling to give the grass thieves a chance at all, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and with the command of the envoy, he sent messengers to mobilize soldiers and horses in various towns to chase and intercept, and formed a huge net, ready to catch them all.

At the same time, Gao Biao and Shatuojun, who had previously made Shang Rang and others frightened, had indeed arrived in Jingnan. Not long ago, the first emperor of the Dali Kingdom, who had fought against the Tang Dynasty for 16 years, finally died in the front line of confrontation with Gao Yu, and the new emperor retired from the army, and the southern Xinjiang was peaceful. Tian Lingzi transferred his brother Chen Jingxuan to take over the post of envoy of Xichuan Jiedu, and finally transferred the most powerful general from Xichuan to Jingnan to accept the position of Jingnan Jiedu envoy of Yang Zhizhi, who had just been defeated.

At the end of the first month, Cui An sneaked into the net, and the Zhulu officials and soldiers blocked the grass army of 'Wang Xianzhi' and Shang Rang in Huangmei County, east of Qizhou.

Under the command of Cui Anqian, Du Xian, Gao Biao, Li Guochang, Zhang Zimian and other battle-hardened Tang army generals, the Tang army in Zhuzhen fiercely attacked 'Wang Xianzhi'. At this time, although the grass army had a lot of soldiers and horses, it was always dominated by hungry people along the road, and there were not many experienced old grass thieves. It was inferior to the Tang Army in quality, and after being surrounded, after losing its mobility, it gradually fell into chaos under such a powerful attack.

After barely parrying for a while, he soon lost the ability to resist, and the battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Under the light of Tang Jun's saber, the flying flesh and blood, and the terrible screams, were intertwined, shaking the sky, rendering the wilderness of Huangmei into a tragic image of purgatory.

At night, the slaughtering battle finally ended, and more than 50,000 corpses were lying dozens of miles away in Huangmei County. Although the vast majority of these corpses were just civilians who had just been brought in, this was a great victory for the generals of the Tang Army.

Because of the experience of the Battle of Song Wei Yizhou, Cui Anqian did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately began to search the whereabouts of the bandit leaders in a dragnet-like manner. The result was satisfactory, and after careful examination and identification, Wang Xianzhi's bloodstained body was also found from the pile of dead people. Then, his head was ceremoniously cut off, and after a simple embalming treatment, he was put into a box and ready to be sent to Chang'an for inspection!

Looking at Wang Xianzhi's dead eyes in the box, Cui Anqian felt a burst of heartfelt relief and pride. The "grass army" led by the predecessor to kill hundreds of thousands of people under the leadership of Song Wei was almost complete in less than two months after he took office! The number one thief Wang Xianzhi has been killed, and it is rampant for a while, and there is only a lonely yellow nest left, it shouldn't be difficult to solve, right?

Except for a few thieves such as Shang Rang, a large number of other Wang Xianzhi's subordinate generals have been killed or surrendered.

Of the three grass thieves, Wang Xianzhi, who is the most famous, has died twice, important generals like Shang Junchang have also died, and others such as Liu Hanhong and Bi Shiduo have surrendered. Another Liu Yanzhang, who was partially split from Wang Xianzhi, had been exterminated by General Gao Yu from Xichuan not long ago, and Wang Ying, who had made a lot of noise in western Zhejiang, was also exterminated by the Zhenguo army!

Now, there is only a small yellow nest left, and its destruction is just around the corner.

Nanzhao's old friend Chieftain Shilong finally died, this reigned for 18 years, because of the Taizong Emperor Li Shimin and Xuanzong Emperor Li Longji were heavy on a word, and resolutely refused to change the name, the Tang Dynasty therefore refused to give canonization, the most angry and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and brazenly changed the name of the country Dali and became the first emperor of the Southern Barbarians, eighteen years, six times more than 200,000 people entered the Tang Dynasty border, and the small war was fought every year. Now he is finally dead, and his son who has ascended the throne is only a teenager. Now a peace and pro-armistice agreement has been reached with the Tang Dynasty.

And Li Jing, the youngest famous general in the Tang Dynasty, is now also a good news, he led the army to cross the sea into the Northern Liaobei Expedition, won many battles, and has recaptured most of Liaodong Island. even occupied Pingzhou, a Youzhou town that had never been educated by the imperial court for more than a hundred years.

With Li Jing's current offensive, it is also very promising to take Liaodong, or even Liaoxi, and then recover the entire Andong Protectorate.

Datang Zhongxing seems to be just around the corner! (To be continued......)