Hezhong Town Festival has made Han Wang Chongrong a little uncalm recently, Zhang Juyan has been a little uneasy recently, this guy who has always been just the logistics director of Huangchao has been the secretary of Huangchao since he entered Chang'an, and he is not a general who leads troops on the front line. Speaking of which, under Huang Chao, compared to Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba, Zhu Quanzhong, Lin Yan, and even Meng Kai and others, he is considered to be a person with low seniority in the army. is such a guy, in a short period of time, he has defeated the soldiers and horses of the six towns of the Tang Army in a row.

Now Wang Chongrong no longer wants to beat the water dogs and establish any Zhongxing meritorious deeds. What he thought was that due to the several defeats of the coalition forces on the Eastern Front, it was very likely that Huang Chao would bring the main force to his Hezhong Town. This is not just his speculation, but more and more evidence shows that Huang Chao is likely to abandon Chang'an and come to Hezhong. On the western front, there are Wang Duo and the Yang brothers, two armies that have been standing still, adding up to more than 100,000 horses, which has made Huang Chao dare not easily take the road of Lantian Wuguan in the southwest to get out of the pass.

Moreover, the area around Jinshang Hanshui is also poor now, and there is no food and grass to raise on the road. On the eastern front, the coalition forces have been defeated several times and are unable to intercept them, but as long as they cross the Yellow River, Hezhong Town will be extremely rich, and even the adjacent Heyang and Hedong towns are relatively rich.

There is also secret and uncertain news that Huang Chao intends to accept the Qin Domain's recruitment, and wants to enter Hebei through the river and surrender to Li Jing. This message is somewhat implausible, but it is not impossible. Li Jing now has a lot of generals under the former Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao who have surrendered to him.

Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang are now cowering in Tongguan, and Tonghua and Erzhou are basically in the hands of Zhang Juyan. After the defeat of the Baoda army in Longshang, the town also refused to accept Wang Duo's military order to send aid, although Li Sigong, who was determined to be difficult, sent troops. But the turtle crawled at the same speed. It was impossible to expect him to rush in for reinforcements to intercept Huang Chao. Even the Yang Fuguang brothers and Wang Duo are two armies. It's also hard to count on. The more nowadays, the more shrewd these guys are, and they are all holding soldiers and horses and refusing to really fight hard.

It's all about preserving strength!

Wang Chongrong is really under pressure now, and when he sees that those outlaws have already stared at him with blood-red eyes, it won't be long before the Qi army all over the mountains and fields will hold white flags and kill in the direction of Hezhong, and he feels a headache.

What to do?

Wang Chongduo immediately asked for help from Wang Duo, the capital of the capital, not long ago. Wang Chongrong, who was already Yang Fuguang's righteous son, recognized Wang Duo as his uncle again. Although Wang Duo and Wang Chongrong are both surnamed Wang, they are actually not the same family at all. However, this did not prevent him from climbing relatives, and Wang Duo did not refuse this nephew who took the initiative to recognize him, but was very satisfied. Although he was appointed by Tian Lingzi to be the capital commander, but as soon as he was in Sanchuan, he had already immediately fallen to the Yang Fuguang brothers, and he clearly saw that Tian Lingzi could be a soil emperor in Sanchuan, but he could only be a soil emperor in Sanchuan, even if he held the emperor hostage. But he is not the opponent of the Yang brothers, and it is impossible for him to come out of Sanchuan again. Therefore. He was very familiar with current affairs and fell to the Yang brothers for the first time, and now Wang Chongrong wants to recognize him as his uncle, of course he is very happy. recognized Wang Chongrong, a nephew, and he can be regarded as a relationship with Yang Fuguang in disguise and become a pair of godbrothers.

Wang Chongrong asked his uncle for reinforcements, but Wang Duo was still in the west of Chang'an, and he had tens of thousands of horses in his hands, but he didn't dare to bypass Chang'an. He immediately gave Wang Chongrong an idea, you go to your godfather, he is close to you, and there are many soldiers.

The letter for help was transferred to Yang Fuguang, and Yang Fuguang, who was stationed in Fengtian City, shook his head after reading the letter in the face of the envoy, and said a lot of words, in short, it was nothing more than that they were preparing to counterattack Chang'an, so it was difficult to walk away for a while. said that they needed to keep an eye on Mukden, the southwest of Chang'an, and prevent Huang Chao from escaping from Lantian Wuguan. However, Yang Fuguang did not completely ignore his godson Wang Chongrong, after all, Hezhong Town is a big town, and it is a wealthy town, even his eight capitals, most of the military salaries come from Hezhong Town.

In the end, like Wang Duo, he also gave Wang Chongrong an idea.

"Li Ya'er, the king of Jin in Hedong, has always been a powerful martial artist, and Feihuzi and Chongrong are also the righteous sons of a certain one, and now there is trouble in the river, you can find him for help. As long as he sends a messenger to Hedong, he will inevitably lead the army immediately, at that time there are Hezhong and Hedong, plus the Zhenguo Army, the Heyang Army, and the Dingnan and Baoda Second Army, even if Huang Chao really dares to send troops to the east, his destruction is just around the corner. ”

In fact, Yang Fuguang did not have no soldiers in his hands, he had a large army in his hands, but he was unwilling to save Wang Chongrong. First, he thought that Huang Chao would most likely choose to go from the southwest of Chang'an to Lantian and Wuguan to Shannan, and then go directly to Jingnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and even Guangdong and Fujian, and other weak feudal towns, to replay their way of warfare. Second, Yang Fuguang's soldiers and horses were stationed in Fengtian, and he was unwilling to leave Chang'an too far at this time, and when he was waiting for Huang Chao to take the initiative to evacuate Chang'an, he could lead the army to recover Chang'an as soon as possible.

The merit of recovering Chang'an is significant, and the territory of Chang'an cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of other feudal towns. The Yang brothers have now left the Son of Heaven, and if they want to establish a troubled career, they need the territory of Chang'an. There is another one, when Li Keyong was sent to Hedong, it was because he had a deep grudge with Li Jing, and he had rich experience in fighting against the Qin army, but Li Ke had been in Hedong for so long, and there was no movement at all, but he kept recruiting troops and horses, storing grain and building a city, which made the Yang brothers a little dissatisfied and reassured. Just took this opportunity to summon Li Keyong down to destroy the Yellow Nest first, so as to take the opportunity to add a hoop to his head, which was difficult to control.

In June, Li Keyong received a joint order from Wang Duo, the capital commander, Yang Fuguang, the capital supervisor, and Yang Fugong, the twelve envoys of the Guanjun, asking him to lead the Hedong Army to the south, and work with Wang Chongrong, Zhuge Shuang, Li Quanzhong, Li Sigong, Dongfang Kui, etc., to stabilize the eastern front and prevent Huang Chao from running from Tongguan into Henan, or from Pusaka to Hedong, and ordered Zhu Wen, Qin Zongquan, Zhou Qi, Zheng Congyan and others to deploy defenses on the front line of Shannan Jinshang to prevent Huang Chao from escaping from Wuguan.

The Yang Fuguang brothers and Wang Duo built three lines of defense around Chang'an, east, west and south, and began to advance towards Chang'an step by step.

Although Li Keyong scolded him for his repeated untrustworthiness for many people, he has a characteristic, that is, he is straightforward and less heartless, Wang Chongrong gave him food and salary support when he lost his nest in Yanmen, and Yang Fuguang won him the territory of Hedong when he was down, and he was still very grateful. And he also knows in his heart who is a friend and who is an enemy at the moment. Although he had won the important town of Hedong, he knew that now his enemies were even stronger, and without allies such as Yang Fuguang and Wang Chongrong, he would be unable to support him alone.

In mid-June, Li Keyong left 10,000 elites and 40,000 recruits to stay in Hedong, and then he personally led 20,000 veterans and 50,000 recruits south to Hezhong.

At the beginning of July, Li Ke used 70,000 horses to arrive in Hezhong, and Wang Chongrong took the initiative to undertake all the grain and grass supplies of the Hedong Army. By the time this army arrived in Hezhong Province, it had completely changed its appearance, and it was no longer the same as when it went north to Hedong. They were all dressed in black clothes and black armor, uniform military robes, and the 20,000 veterans were all equipped with iron armor, most of which were stored in the warehouses in Hedong, and some were sent by various towns, which now gave Li Keyong's army a little bit of the momentum of the Shatuo army. The remaining 50,000 recruits, although not long ago they were just a group of rabble, at least now they are all wearing uniform and neat black military uniforms, and they look a little bit like an army.

When the 70,000 horses arrived in the river, it was like a dark cloud with a storm of thunderclouds sweeping across the wilderness, exuding an astonishing momentum.

After Li Keyong arrived in the river, Wang Chongrong came to labor with a large amount of wine and meat. At this time, Huangchao's army had completely occupied Tongzhou, and Zhang Juyan and Lin Yan's troops and horses converged together, arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, and as the vanguard of Huangchao, tried to conquer the Puhan Bridge to open the passage to the east of the river, and waited for Huangchao's army to withdraw from Chang'an.

Although the Hezhong army had many soldiers and horses, Wang Chongrong had no will to fight at all. He pinned all his hopes on Li Keyong, counting on Feihuzi to show his might. Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang, Dongfang Kui and Li Sigong had no hope at all, and none of them arrived as scheduled.

After eating and drinking, Li Keyong sent the general Li Cunzhang and asked him to lead five hundred elite real Shatuo iron horsemen to cross the river from the Yellow River by night and quietly land in Tongzhou. When the Qi army heard the news, Li Cunzhang had already completed the landing across the river, and the two armies were fighting.

There is almost no suspense, the Qi army, which has been winning many battles recently, was defeated this time after a surprise attack by the Shatuo Iron Cavalry, which was as much as six times as large as the Shatuo Iron Cavalry.

Although it was only a skirmish, the ferocity of the Shatuo army began to spread rapidly among the Qi army.

Many people said in a frightened tone, "Li Ya'er is here!" ”

After Huang Chao received the news that Li Keyong led the army south and the forward had entered Guanzhong, he immediately sent more than 100 Li Keyong people who had stayed in Chang'an and had no time to evacuate as a meeting gift to Li Keyong's military camp, and sent a hundred carts of gold and silver jewelry with the army, which were of astonishing value and shining brightly. Even the generals of Shatuo, who have seen many of the world, can't help but look at them with straight eyes.

The envoy of Huangchao, who sent the treasure, proposed to Li Jing that the Tang Dynasty was an enemy of the Qi army, but it was also an enemy of the Shatuo tribe. The enemy of the enemy, that is the friend. Why kill each other, it's better to work together.

"After defeating the Tang army, the two sides took the Yellow River as the boundary, and the east of Hedong, Hebei, Liaoxi, and Liaodong north of the Yellow River all belonged to the Shatuo State, and the Guanlong, Sanchuan, Jianghan, Henan, and Jiangnan south of the Yellow River all belonged to the Qi State. (To be continued......)