Guangming only used one year, the Son of Heaven Li Yi couldn't wait to change another year name, in 881 AD, Li Yi changed the year name to the first year of Zhonghe, at this time the late Tang Dynasty war situation also entered a new stage.

In the first month, the Yellow Nest, which has lost the piece of Guanzhong that only leaves all the territory outside the territory around Chang'an, is still fighting for trapped beasts. After half a year of rest, the Huangchao Army and the towns in Guanzhong, where Chang'an was defeated last time, also recovered some vitality. In the last battle of Chang'an, Huang Chao successfully killed the two town marshals, including the deputy marshal of the coalition army, severely damaged the first marshal and repelled the first marshal. In that battle, Zhu Mei, the deputy marshal of the Suining Army, who was stabbed in the throat and pierced it, was defeated and returned to Xingping, and got a Fengxiang reinforcement sent by Zheng Jin, and gathered the remnants of the Jingyuan Army that originally belonged to the fallen deputy marshal Cheng Zongchu, he took the opportunity to gather troops and built a strong camp here, known as 'Dingguo Yan', like a grain of sand, rubbed in the eyes of Huang Chao, and like a thorn, inserted on Huang Chao's back.

Like a thorn in the man, rubbing sand in the eyes, Huangchao is difficult to sleep. After recovering some energy and stabilizing his position, he finally decided to pull him out.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhonghe, just after the Lantern Festival, Huang Chao immediately ordered Wang Fan to be the commander, with Lin Yan as the deputy, and led the Qi army to besiege Xingping and Dingguo, although Zhu Mei gathered a lot of soldiers and horses here, but still could not withstand the fierce offensive of the Qi army, and was defeated again, so he had to lead the Ning army all the way back to Fengtian, and the Fengxiang army also followed closely to retreat to Longweipi.

Huang Chao wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack and eliminate Zhu Mei in one fell swoop, but he didn't want to be at this time, the Yiwu army that fled from Chang'an last time made Wang Chucun, and just transferred 20,000 reinforcements from Xichuan to arrive. Under the command of the yellow-headed army envoys Li Ling and Gong Xian, and the Shenji battalion envoy Gao Renhou. The 20,000 Yellow-headed Army captured Xingping again. Forced the Qi army to retreat and engage in battle.

Wang Fan, Lin Yan and Gao Renhou and other Xichuan generals fought fiercely many times. It was impossible to squeeze the Xichuan army from afar out of Xingping.

At this time, the marshal of the Guanzhong Coalition Army and the Fengxiang Army also saw the opportunity, and then sent the general Li Changyan to lead the main force of the Fengxiang Army to support Wang Chucun and others in Xingping.

In March, taking the opportunity of the Xingping war, the Tang Dynasty's Yanfang Jiedu made Li Xiaochang and Xia Jian Jiedu made Li Sigong, two party members. The joint army of the two towns was formed again to start from the martial arts of Guanzhong, turned a big bend from the north, and went straight to the Dongwei Bridge outside Chang'an, and cooperated with the Zhenguo army of Li Quanzhong, which had occupied Tong, Hua, and Tongguan, to directly threaten the east of Chang'an.

Seeing that the western front could not open the situation, and the eastern front was in an emergency, Huang Chao hurriedly transferred Zhang Juyan, the secretary of the ministry, and asked him to lead the army to the East Weiqiao Bridge, blocking the two armies of Dunfang and Xia Chuan on the north bank of Weishui, and at the same time, concentrating troops and horses to counterattack Huazhou.

May. Tang Zhaoyi made Gao Xun and Huazhou, who fled in panic last time, and was lucky to be spared death, and this time Li Shen, who was able to make meritorious contributions, fought in Shiqiao. The two sides fought fiercely for three days and three nights, the Zhaoyi army was defeated, Li Shen took advantage of the victory to march, and Li Quanzhong's son Huazhou assassin Li Kuang prepared to fight in Huazhou, Li Kuang fought lightly against the enemy, and as a result, Li Shen's trick to lure the enemy by deception, the ambush was defeated, and Li Shen occupied Huazhou. Huang Chao was overjoyed and ordered Li Shen to resume his original position and be promoted to the first level.

After Guiyi Jiedu made Gao Xun defeated and fled, his prestige was swept away, and he was soon killed by his subordinate general Cheng Lin, and then another Zhaoyi general, Meng Lifang, killed Cheng Lin in the name of counterinsurgency, and left himself behind. Zhaoyi Town, which is second only to Lulong Town in terms of the number of mutinies in history, has since completely fallen into the hands of local military groups. Zhaoyi suddenly had such a huge change, as a neighbor close to him, Wang Chongrong of Hezhong Town was very sensitive and reacted quickly. Just like Qi Kerang, who learned of the Xuzhou mutiny, he quickly withdrew his troops from the eastern capital Luoyang and retreated into the river just in case.

The defeat of the soldiers and horses of the three towns of Zhaoyi, Zhenguo, and Hezhong temporarily lifted the threat of the Qi army in Huazhou in the east, and Huang Chao was able to draw troops led by Shang Rang to support Zhang Juyan and counterattack the Dongwei Bridge.

It was another big battle, and the two party members, Fan Fang and Xia Zhuan, were bent on preserving their strength, but they were defeated by the Qi army that was fighting the trapped beasts. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Xiaochang and Li Sigong, two cousins of the party members, immediately withdrew their troops and retreated to Fuping. Zhang Juyan took advantage of the victory to pursue and went down to the two cities of Gaoling and Liyang. However, in the end, because the Tang army on the western front was close to Xingping, it had always maintained strong pressure on Chang'an, and Huang Chao did not dare to let the main force led by Shang Rang and Zhang Juyan stay away from Chang'an, and the counterattack offensive of the Qi army was temporarily terminated.

Who knew that in October, something happened that surprised Huang Chao, the marshal of the Tang Guanzhong Coalition Army and the commander of the Jingxi Zhudao camp, that is, Zheng Jin, the most vocal Fengxiang Festival envoy of the anti-Qi Dynasty, was actually pulled off the horse.

At the beginning, due to Zheng Jin's unremitting efforts, the Fengxiang army once expanded to tens of thousands of horses, and the Fengxiang army was shocked for a while and became the leader of the towns in Guanzhong. However, while the number of soldiers and horses has increased greatly, it has also brought huge logistical pressure to Fengxiang Town. Fighting wars and increasing the number of soldiers and horses have greatly increased expenditures. Fengxiang Town is narrow and poor, and the foundation is already thin, and it has always relied on subsidies from the imperial court, but now that the imperial court has been exiled to Chengdu, no one in the feudal towns is naturally willing to contribute money and grain to help. Although Zheng Zhen is loyal to the country and is a capable official, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and she can support it for a while, but after a long time, problems gradually arise. In particular, he refused to indulge his soldiers and let them plunder to solve the problem of provisions. By the time the first snow fell in the first winter of Zhonghe, Fengxiang's warehouses were almost as smooth as a monk's head.

In the late Tang Dynasty, these soldiers in various towns were the most arrogant group of people, and they were absolutely unwilling to fight without money. At this time, the main force of the Fengxiang army was stationed in Xingping, led by the marching Sima Li Changyan, and Zheng Zheng himself had returned to Fengxiang's town to raise military salaries, and there were only a few handsome soldiers around him.

One night, Yang Fugong's righteous son, Yang Shouliang, disguised himself as a businessman to visit Li Changyan, and they discussed secretly in the tent all night.

The next day, the rumor that Zheng Zhen deliberately withheld the soldiers' salaries spread quickly throughout the whole army like the wind, and Li Changyan was expected to return, and as the leader of the whole army, he left the Xingping front line without permission with the angry Fengxiang soldiers, killed back to Fengxiang, and went to Zheng Zhen to ask for an explanation.

Feng Xiang, who had just heard the news, climbed the city tower in shock, looking at the tens of thousands of Fengxiang soldiers under the city who he had managed to pull up with great difficulty. Suddenly, I felt that a basin of ice water was splashed from head to foot on a snowy day in October. These are still the things he desperately tried to put away. Will you join him in defeating the loyal and brave soldiers of the thief army in Longweipi?

I am sincere. Worked hard, shared weal and woe with the soldiers, and fought bloodily with the yellow thief, is it for today's ending?

The tragic stories of Duan Wenchu, Zhi Shen, and Xue Neng are going to be repeated on themselves?

Duan Wenchu was originally Datong's defense envoy, but he fell under the knife of Li Ke under his own command, and was cut by thousands of knives, and the meat was eaten by the generals of Shatuo. Details. The original probation army was the envoy of the festival, and he was expelled by his general Shi Pu later, and the whole family was wiped out halfway. Xue Neng, the envoy of the Zhongwu Festival, was beheaded by his general Zhou Qi.

In addition, there have been many times in recent years, Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen, Wang Chongrong, these people have not come to power in this way.

Zheng Zheng knew very well that in today's chaotic era of feudal town separation, it is difficult for a literati to be modest. Whether you are a good official, you should be kind to the people. Even if you show favor to the generals, those feudal generals are all a bunch of white-eyed wolves who can't be fed. Once the melon teeth are abundant, they will immediately bite back.

The soldiers will chase the generals, and they will rebel! This has become the imprint of this era!

Zheng Ji has not deducted the military salary of a Kaiyuan Tongbao, and even he has been using his family property to subsidize the military in recent years. But what about these facts, he knew very well that his rebellion was not just instigated by people with good intentions. He knew very well that his consistent principles of action had long made these martial artists look down on him, and he was a literati after all, and he was incompatible with them. Today they want to expel themselves because of their food, and even if they make it clear, tomorrow they will expel themselves because of other things.

With a long sigh, Zheng Zheng called Li Changyan. He knew very well that all this today must have been secretly instigated by this marching Sima. Last time, he once led people to surrender to Huang Chao and put him under house arrest in disguise.

"In the future, as long as the general restrains the soldiers, loves the people, fights for the country to destroy the thieves, and acts in the right way, he will always be able to make meritorious contributions, and he will inevitably be crowned a king." After saying these words, maybe the other party would not take it to heart at all, Zheng Ji took the initiative to hand over the seal letter and affairs of the Fengxiang Jiedu envoy to Li Changyan, and then set off for Chengdu on the same day.

As soon as Feng Xiang left here, he only walked to Xingyuan Town, and Li Yi, the son of heaven in Chengdu, had immediately relieved him of his position as the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival and the commander of the Jingxi Zhudao Camp, and retired from the rank of the second prince and young master, and at the same time, Li Yi issued an order to officially crown Li Changyan as the envoy of the Fengxiang Army.

After Huang Chao learned the news, he was very surprised. Fengxiang's army withdrew from Xingping to Fengxiang, which immediately reduced the threat to the west of Chang'an. Huang Chao immediately seized this opportunity and pulled out a rapid reaction force composed of veterans, led by Meng Kai and Zhang Juyan, two generals of the Qi army, to strike the Eastern Front.

In November, the Qi army attacked Fuping, and the combined forces of Dunfang and Xia Huan met the battle, this time the two towns did not blindly preserve their strength and go all out to fight, but the result was still a big defeat by Meng Kai and Zhang Juyan, Li Xiaochang and Li Sigong saw that the situation was not good this time, and finally no longer insisted on staying near Chang'an, and each led the remnants of the defeated army to flee back to the town.

The two towns of Dunfang and Xiasui were the feudal towns that sent troops to King Qin earlier, although they lost more and won less, but after all, they were in good spirits, and the imperial court was also worried that they would not come out after defeating the battle, which would affect the morale of the army, so they decided to give praise. It's just that the current imperial court is also so poor that it has to give two cheap spiritual rewards: renaming Dunfang as "Baoda" and Xia Sui as "Dingyan" to commend Li Xiaochang and Li Sigong for their loyalty in defending the Tang Dynasty and quelling disasters.

However, although the battle of the Qi army was won, it produced a by-product that Huang Chao did not expect: the cooperation between his two members of the generals Meng Kai and Zhang Juyan was not pleasant, and the veteran Meng Kai couldn't get used to Zhang Juyan, who had always only known that he was planning behind the scenes, and he had made many meritorious contributions recently, and he was frequently reused, and he was jealous and hated him; And Zhang Juyan felt that Meng Kai was just a brave man, and scoffed at the gap between his high position and his actual ability.

As a result of the encounter between the tip of the needle and Mai Mang, the two fell out, Meng Kai took the main force back to Chang'an, and Zhang Juyan led 3,000 people to the north and continued to beat Li Xiaochang. Zhang Juyan first captured Meiyuan and Fengxian, then crossed Luoshui in the north, went down to Danzhou, and advanced to Yanzhou. After repeated defeats, the Bao army became a frightened bird, shrinking into Yanzhou, allowing Zhang Juyan's small Qi army to clash vertically and horizontally, as if entering a no-man's land.

At the end of the first year of neutralization. Huang Chao arranged a new position for Zhang Juyan, the secretary of the ministry. The Zhenguo Army is also the history of the same state assassination. I don't know what happened to be behind this personnel order. With or without the influence exerted by Meng Kai, this order means that Zhang Juyan cannot return to Chang'an for a long time, and if he wants to take office, he must also use the 3,000 soldiers to snatch Tongzhou back from the hands of Li Quanzhong, the envoy of another Zhenguo army. Everyone knows that Li Quanzhong is a Hebei warrior who retreated from Li Jing's hands, and it is much more difficult to deal with than Li Xiaochang

Zhang Juyan was not afraid, and brazenly led 3,000 men and horses to march to Tongzhou. With Li Quanzhong's eldest son, Li Congwei began the battle for Tongzhou.

And during the same period, Tian Lingzi, who felt the danger approaching step by step in Chengdu, finally couldn't hold his breath anymore and began to strike first.

In December of the first year of Zhonghe, Tian Lingzi directly took the jade seal of the Son of Heaven Li Yi and issued an edict in the name of the emperor, removing Yang Fuguang from the post of supervising the military envoy of the world, and changed it to the royal flying dragon envoy, that is, the eunuch who was responsible for raising horses, and reappointed Yang Fugong as the envoy of the Xuanhui Academy, Xuanwei Yuan, which was completely the eunuch who managed the miscellaneous things in the palace. He was dismissed from important positions such as lieutenant in the Shence Army.

On the same day, in the name of the emperor, he appointed his godson Tian Kuangyou to take over Yang Fuguang's post as the military envoy of the capital of the world.

Tian Lingzi's actions are not over yet. He drafted the edict again,

The prime minister Wang Duo was appointed as the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu and the northern capital to stay in Taiyuan Yin.

Zheng Ji was transferred to serve as the defense envoy of the eastern capital of Jidu, Henan Yin, and the eastern capital remained behind.

Zheng Congyan was appointed as the envoy of the Fengxiang Army, Xijing stayed behind, and Fengxiang Yin.

Wang Chongrong was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Zhenguo Army, and the defense envoy of Tongzhou Thorn History and Tongguan.

Zhu Quanzhong was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival, and the history of Luzhou was assassinated.

Transferred Qin Zongquan to serve as the envoy of the Jin Shang Festival, and the history of the Jinzhou assassination.

Li Quanzhong was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, and the history of Puzhou was assassinated.

Li Changyan was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Shaanxi Festival, and the history of Shaanzhou was assassinated.

Transferred Meng Lifang to serve as the envoy of the Zhongwu Festival, and the history of Xuzhou Assassination.

Zhou Qi was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Loyal Army, and the history of Chenzhou was assassinated.

Tuo Lu Yanhong served as the envoy of the Xuanwu Army, and the history of Bianzhou Thorn.

The transfer of the king was saved as the envoy of the Fengguo Army, and the history of Caizhou was assassinated.

This is a big transfer of the twelve towns in Hedong, Guanzhong, Henan, and it is almost a rotation circle, and the festival marshals of these transfers have a characteristic, Yang Fuguang's eight righteous sons and Yang Fugong's righteous sons are included, in addition, the remaining Wang Duo, Zheng Jin, and Zheng Congyan are all Xiangguo, and the prime minister is out of the town, and he is not too close to Yang Fuguang's brothers, so let them go to Hedong, Dongdu, Fengxiang, the three important towns, precisely to occupy a key position and deal with the Yang brothers.

Of course, Tian Lingzi may not be able to fight, but there is still a set of conspiracies. His string of false edicts is just a trick. The real killer is to prepare for something else.

On the day of Laba in the first year of Yuanhe, Tian Lingzi sent the patrol department established by his subordinates to find the trouble, set fire to Chengdu City, killed people, and deliberately left various clues pointing to Yang Fugong's brothers, and at the same time sent people to spread rumors, so that everyone thought that Yang Fugong was plotting to kill the Son of Heaven.

At the same time, Tian Lingzi broke into the bedroom of the Son of Heaven Li Yi with a soldier, and pulled the emperor Li Yi from the arms of a concubine directly from the dragon bed, "Your Majesty, Yang Fugong rebelled, we can't stay in Chengdu anymore, please move to Guangdu as soon as possible." ”

As soon as Li Yi saw Tian Lingzi entering the harem with heavily armed armor soldiers, he was already very dissatisfied, and at this time, he heard what he said Yang Fugong rebelled and asked him to move to Guangdu City in the south. I still don't understand what Tian Lingzi is thinking. Although Chengdu is the domain town of Dongchuan Town, Yang Fugong is now also very infiltrated into Chengdu. What Tian Lingzi was most worried about was that Yang Fugong was using the name of the Son of Heaven to deal with them. Therefore, his idea was to take the Son of Heaven directly to Guangdu, which was not far from Chengdu, and was still under the rule of the Xichuan Jiedu Envoy, but there was no Yang Fugong's power at all. Bring the Son of Heaven there, and you can have complete control over the Son of Heaven in your hands.

Li Yi finally endured Tian Lingzi's flying and domineering in the past few years, and for the first time shouted loudly to the big eunuch who once recognized him as his father: "No, I won't go anywhere, just here." ”

Tian Lingzi was stunned for a moment, and finally realized that the current emperor was already twenty years old, and he was no longer the little child who coaxed him to say a few words. But now, how can Tian Lingzi really care about his words? If it weren't for the life-and-death situation, he still wanted to maintain a certain friendship with the Son of Heaven. But now, at the moment of life and death, there is no turning back when the bow is opened, how can you hesitate? His words were orders, not requests, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of warriors of the Shence Army rushed in, directly grabbed the Son of Heaven, who was only wearing a small coat, and dragged him up from the frightened and trembling beautiful concubine, and walked away.

The Son of Heaven is the biggest trump card, and with him by his side, it is a talisman. How could Tian Lingzi be willing to lose this trump card? Yang Fugong wants to snatch the Son of Heaven from him, how is this possible?

Li Yi yelled, feeling extremely humiliated, he was the emperor of the empire, the lord of hundreds of millions of people, today he was actually forced by a eunuch to take it, damn eunuch, he should have taken the first step and slaughtered this old dog directly.

Chengdu was already in chaos, and fires were raging everywhere, and Tian Lingzi's Shence army and Chen Jingxuan's Xichuan army were raiding Yang Fugong's men and horses in the city. Tian Lingzi walked to the city gate with the little emperor, looked back at the fire-filled Chengdu, sneered, and bowed down to Li Yi, the son of heaven who was afraid and angry in the night wind, and made a gesture of please: "The old minister serves His Majesty and gets off the car and moves to Guangdu!" ”

Despite his reluctance, Li Yu was invited into a carriage and went to Guangdu under the "escort" of a group of wolf-like Shence sergeants. (To be continued......)