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Li Keyong woke up slowly.

The bell rang in the darkness, that faint, unfamiliar ringtone. He reached for the lamp at the head of the bed, and then to the matchbox on the table, and struck a match to light it. He squinted his eyes and looked around, and found that it was a luxurious bedroom full of post-Xuanzong style, Jiangnan furniture. The room is decorated with many new luxury items from Shandong, glass mirrors, horse lamps, a large four-poster sandalwood bed and a pair of duck down calfskin upholstered chairs. On the transparent and crystalline glass coffee table, a set of glass tea sets.

Where the hell am I?

A pair of gauze tent gold hooks hanging from the bedpost are inscribed with a line of handwriting: Dongdu General Hotel.

He got up and looked at his pocket watch, it was only four o'clock in the morning. He stretched out his hand and shook the bell on the wall, in this kind of luxurious restaurant, the news bell from the Qin Domain has begun to be installed in the past two years. The bell is a magical bell with copper wires installed in the walls that connect to a message room on each floor. As long as the guest of each customer rings the bell, there will be a corresponding bell ringing in the message room. It's a bit more complicated, and there are even several different bells in each room, which represent the different needs of guests. As soon as you ring the bell, the service you need will arrive immediately. It's like an emperor's enjoyment, luxurious yet comfortable.

"King Jin is well, I hope the little one didn't wake you up!" A small brass horn on the wall made a noise.

Lick took a microphone next to him with a wire connected from the wall, "What's the matter?" ”

Sleepy-eyed, he looked at the gold pocket watch around his neck again. Four o'clock in the morning. He had just slept for a while, and he remembered that he slept at two o'clock in the morning, but he felt like he had slept for a long time.

"Back to the King of Jin, I am Mi Rong, and a messenger from Yanmen wants to see you, and he insists that the matter is very urgent."

Li Keyong was still a little confused when he had just gotten up, and rubbed the one-eyed, the messenger of Yanmen? It is probably Shi Yan or his uncle Li Delin's people. At this time, his eyes looked at a yellow silk on the table, on which was a holy decree, and the pile of ornate words in front of the holy decree passed by. looked directly at the back row.

"Ke Yong can be in the book order, plus the Taifu. And serve as the marshal of the Eastern Metropolitan and Shannan Provinces, and add the right to stay in Tokyo! ”

Li Keyong snorted, Zheng Congyan and other old thieves trapped him in the Hedong Coalition Army, but Li Keyong couldn't be willing. He knew that Brother Yang Fugong was bent on winning him over. Although Shatuo has fought several defeats over the years. But Shatuo's soldiers and horses are still the strongest army in the world. For Yang Fuguang's wooing. Li Keyong did not refuse, and after making a statement, Yang Fuguang was really overjoyed. He mentioned that he wanted to get rid of Zheng Congyan's constraints. Yang Fuguang immediately helped to operate. In a short period of time, the Son of Heaven has issued a holy decree to transfer him from the Hedong coalition army, and now, he is no longer under the command of Zheng Congyan, but the marshal of Dongdugi and Shannan Zhudao, and he has also gained a right to stay in Tokyo.

After receiving the holy decree, Li Keyong led his headquarters with 50,000 soldiers and horses and 100,000 people to separate from the Hedong coalition army. He wanted to return to Yanmen directly, but the old thief Zheng stubbornly guarded the road back to the north, and Yang Fuguang urged him to go south to break the thief, so as to make military merits and reward the Son of Heaven. In desperation, Li Keyong had no choice but to cross the Yellow River with his men and horses and enter Shaanzhou.

Originally, Li Ke thought that there would be a big battle in the south, but who expected that the rebels in Henan would almost surrender under the pressure of the army.

Li Ke took Shaanzhou without spending a single army, Zheng Congyan and others also entered Heyang, Yang Fuguang and Zhu Wen and others entered Ruzhou, and Zhu Wen then sent a letter to Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guimou generals, successfully surrendered these old bureaucrats, and recovered Haozhou and Yingzhou.

Subsequently, Li Keyong from the west, Yang Fuguang, Zhu Wen and others from the south, Zheng Congyan, Wang Chongrong and others from the north, all three ways to the east of the city. In the eastern capital, the Huangchao thief army directly opened the door and surrendered the city, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court easily recovered the eastern capital Luoyang.

Now, he is in the luxurious General Hotel in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and Dongcheng is now the territory occupied by Li Keyong. The general's shop is his temporary military headquarters of the marshal's mansion.

can't return north, and Li Keyong can only abandon those Hu people who went south. Uncle Li Delin proposed several times that he should find a way to return to Yanmen, even if the army was left in Henan, and he could return alone. Cheng Huaiyi sent several urgent letters in a row, saying that the generals who stayed behind asked to go out of the customs to fight, but he refused them one by one, and Shi Yan also sent a few people, but it was the Hu people who urged him to send troops.

Li Ke was annoyed, if he could send troops, he would have been out a long time ago. As for his uncle asking him to return to Yanmen alone, he refused. Tens of thousands of troops have finally been recaptured, how can they let go easily? And now there are important things to the south, and he can't go back. finally attacked Luoyang, it was the time to grab money, food, people and territory, and he would not leave easily. As for those Hu people, let them fight with Li Jing, if Datong is lost, it will be lost, anyway, it has been lost for many years, and it was only captured by Li Siyuan before. As long as the Yanmen army does not go out of the pass, the Qin army will not have the strength to go south for a while.

Li Ke kept his tone as calm as possible, "This king is tired, and"

"But, King Jin?" This thing in my hand is really magical, a thread connects the two ends, so that two people can talk to each other from a long distance and heavy walls. But maybe that's why the guy over there dared to doubt his words.

"He said there was something urgent!"

There is no doubt that it must have been Hu Ren urging him to send troops, or Li Delin asking him to return to Yanmen, or Cheng Huaiyi couldn't control the generals who stayed behind. Since the First World War in Ulzhou, he feels that Shatuo is really getting worse and worse now, and it is simply too far worse than three years ago. I think that the Northern War of the First Dynasty was defeated, and they were defeated so badly at that time, but the people's hearts were cohesive and never wavered. He suddenly remembered Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and Kang Junli, these were all generals who were once so loyal to him, loyal and capable. It's a pity that he even has some regrets in his heart.

"Write down the things reported by the people, reward the king, and talk about it after dawn." Before Mi Rong could speak, he put the copper cylinder down.

Rick sat up and stared wearily at the beautiful mercury mirror next to him. Looking back at him was a stranger, a terrible stranger. His hair was unkempt and tired, a black blindfold on his face covered one eye, and a hideous scar that slashed across the entire face, the purple-red flesh of the scar protruded.

He couldn't believe that the person in the mirror was himself, he was only twenty-five years old, but looking at the face in the mirror, it looked like he was fifty-two years old.

He has been really disappointed and unlucky in the past few years, but he is unwilling to feel sorry for himself in the mirror. His snarky eyes looked blurry and dull tonight. The shriveled chin is full of black curly beard. He even noticed that white hair appeared on the temples of his ears, digging deep into his already thick, thick and black hair.

Just yesterday, Li Keyong, who received the canonization decree from the Son of Heaven, reluctantly but took the initiative to recognize Yang Fuguang as his father-in-law. Yang Fuguang was in front of the palace gate in Luoyang yesterday. received several righteous sons at one time. Yanmen Festival made Li Keyong, Hezhong Festival made Wang Chongrong, Heyang Festival made Zhuge Shuang, Xuanwu Festival made Zhu Quanzhong, Fengguo Army Festival made Qin Zongquan, Zhongwu Festival made Zhou Qi, Loyal Army Festival made Lu Yanhong, Zhenguo Army Festival made Li Quanzhong!

This time to regain Luoyang. On merit. Yang Fuguang's theory is the first, he successfully rebelled against many feudal towns to return to the Tang Dynasty anyway, and contacted the towns. In the end, he recovered Henan and Luoyang without bloodshed.

And now the spies in Chengdu from various towns have sent back the news, and the Son of Heaven is now reusing the Yang brothers, favoring Yang Fugong internally, and Yang Fuguang being trusted externally. Especially Yang Fuguang, who holds soldiers and horses, is even more valued by Li Yi. Under the pull of Yang Fuguang's fangyi, Li Quanzhong, who was driven out of Hebei by Li Jing, Wang Chongrong, Zhuge Shuang, and Qin Zongquan, who had descended to Huangchao, Wang Chongrong, Qin Zongquan, Zhou Qi, Lu Yanhong, etc., who mutinied and sat on the throne, as well as Li Jing's rivals Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong, all finally gathered under his command, wanting to borrow shelter under the big tree of the Son of Heaven through him.

A eunuch has become the father-in-law of the marshal of the Eight Towns Domain, which is only possible in this world.

Although he was unwilling in his heart, Li Keyong had no choice. He had already seen that the feudal towns in Hebei couldn't stop Li Jing, and the Hu people in the north didn't seem to be able to compete with Li Jing, he struggled and worked hard, but he could only watch Li Jing fight step by step, growing stronger, growing to the point that the gap between them was getting bigger and bigger. He could no longer fight against Li Jing on his own, and could only contact all the forces that could be contacted. And now, the Son of Heaven seems to have been unhappy with Li Jing for a long time.

For the sake of Shatuo, even if he was a son of the eunuch, he endured it.

became the son of a eunuch, and there was a group of messy righteous brothers.

Zhuge Shuang, Zhu Quanzhong, and Lu Yanhong are all from some traitors and rebels, Wang Chongrong, Qin Zongquan, Zhou Qi, and Li Quanzhong are all military leaders who committed crimes and started in military chaos. Think about yourself, aren't you just like them? Now that such a group of people have gathered, although everyone is not from a good background, but now they are each in charge of a town, and the power of joining forces is still very strong. whole

Both sides of the Yellow River, west of the canal and east of Tongguan, were under the control of their eight brothers.

However, among these people, Zhu Quanzhong was a little unhappy. This guy is now the largest of all, and he is also a king like him. However, he looked down on Zhu Asan, because he used to be a small soldier under Li Jing, and later took refuge in Huang Chao, and later betrayed Huang Chao's wealth, among the generals, he can be said to be the least famous, and his background is very low, the son of a cook and a maid, he was just a pig feeder before the age of twenty. After betraying Huang Chao and getting the envoy of King Liang and Zhenguo Army, he took the initiative to get close to Wang Chongrong, and the age difference between the two was not much, but he brazenly called Wang Chongrong his uncle. But now a few days later, in a blink of an eye, he began to call Wang Chongrong brother again, and also called him brother.

Fuck, dead swineherd, when he was twelve years old in Xuzhou to exterminate the thieves, Zhu Asan at that time only knew that Lu Dao was feeding pigs to the landlord's house in Xiao County, Xuzhou. Such a guy has the face to dare to be his brother?

In short, he didn't like it when he saw Zhu Asan, and he was born with discord. Maybe it's because he was once under Li Jing, maybe because he is now the commander of the Zhenguo Army, and maybe because he has struggled for so long and has repeatedly failed, this damn guy has so many state territories so smoothly, and he also named King Liang. Maybe it's jealousy, maybe, anyway, he just looks at Zhu Asan unhappy.

When Zhu Asan took the initiative to show him goodwill, he didn't pay attention to it, just nodded indifferently and turned his head away. He could see that Zhu Asan was a little embarrassed at that time, but he didn't care. A pig herder, who started by constantly betraying himself, for this kind of guy, how many are not enough for him to destroy. Although Zhu Asan just said that he was willing to take out some grain and grass to give to Sha Tuojun, this did not make him look at him squarely. To gain his respect, you have to have strength, and he doesn't think Zhu Asan has the strength to make him respect. It's just a shit guy who has taken a shit luck for the time being.

The ringing in the room interrupted Rick's thoughts.

He picked up the microphone and said dissatisfied, "Hey! ”

Unsurprisingly, it was his personal bodyguard, Mirong. "King Jin, please forgive me for the interruption, it is really a very urgent military situation. General Cheng Huaiyi was defeated and killed, Yanmen Pass was lost, Daizhou was lost, Xinzhou was lost, and the entire Yanmen Town had been captured by the Qin army! ”

Li Keyong suddenly lost his sleepiness, "Bring that messenger to my room immediately, and immediately notify Cunzhang and other generals to come." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Rick walked up and down the study next to the bedroom with an anxious face. This is simply a bolt from the blue, how could Yanmen Town suddenly lose it?

"How could the Qin army conquer Yanmen Pass all at once? Yanmen Pass is known as a one-man pass, and the first day of the fortress is not opened! He finally couldn't help himself, and roared loudly at the messenger who had told the news.

"Because, because" the envoy's face was pale, terrified, and his voice trembled: "Because, General Cheng Huaiyi and others saw Zhang Zimian retreating north in a hurry, and the Hu people in the north continued to win, so all the generals unanimously asked to go out of the pass to pursue. As a result, General Cheng Huaiyi took 20,000 and 50,000 people out of the customs with 20,000 foot riders, and three days after leaving the customs, he was ambushed on the bank of the Gray Water River in the south of Shuozhou City, and the whole army was annihilated. Then the Qin army sent troops to pretend to be our army to escort the captives back to Yanmen Pass, opened the city gate by fraud, and took Yanmen, and then the cities and passes of Yanmen Town were captured by the Qin army in one fell swoop. Yanmen Town is completely gone. ”

Li Cunzhang and the others, who had just rushed over, happened to hear these words, "Didn't King Jin ask Cheng Huaiyi to guard Yanmen Pass and Taixi Pass several times and not to fight?" ”

"All gone? The cities of Yanmen Town are lost, but what about the army? ”

"It's all gone, 20,000 soldiers and horses in the Greywater River, more than 10,000 were killed in battle, and the rest were captured. The guards of the two counties of Yanmen Town, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left behind, were all killed. The messenger wept and mourned.

"What about the family? What about our families?" Li Cunzhang roared.

"All of them were captured by the Qin army, and the Qin army captured 100,000 people in the cities of Yanmen, and all the Shatuo people, as well as the families of the Shatuo army, regardless of men, women, old and young, were all captured."

"Poof!"

Li Ke used his qi and blood to surge, he couldn't control it anymore, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the whole person fell backwards! (To be continued......)