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After Wang Jingwu was defeated, he went south to attack Mizhou, captured Anqiu, Gaomi, Zhucheng, Juxian, and occupied the entire territory of Mizhou. Although the Taining army sent Cui Yunqing to send troops, although Wang Jingwu was repulsed, Mizhou was almost like a locust crossing the border, not only the city was broken and the village was destroyed, but even the population was robbed.

"If God wants to destroy man, he must first make him mad!" After Li Jing received the report and learned about Wang Jing's frenzied actions, he could only shake his head and sigh. But the more this is the case, the more Li Jing doesn't have to worry about Wang Jingwu. Ziqing Town has become a ruin by him like this, he has conscripted all the young and strong into soldiers, how long can he last, without Li Jing's action, he will perish by himself.

Gongsun Lan sat next to Li Jing and sighed loudly. Wang Jingwu went crazy, but Li Jing didn't seem to plan to send troops to destroy him.

"Destroy one Wang Jingwu, and there will be more. Troubled times are coming, and such tragic things will only be more in the future! We can't help everyone, only by growing stronger can we shelter more people. Li Jing sighed, Wang Jingwu's behavior now, if compared with the remnants of the Tang Dynasty after the Huangchao Uprising in history, is really nothing. The three armies of Huang Chaojun, Qin Zongquan, and Sun Ru are real cannibalistic armies.

In October, Wang Xianzhi led his army to break through Tangzhou, and Huangchao led his army to attack Dengzhou. In November, Wang Xianzhi's troops entered Shannan and captured Ying, Fu Erzhou, and the momentum became stronger and stronger. In December, the grass thieves marched east into Huainan, and in less than a month, the two grass thieves cooperated tacitly and swept through the five prefectures of Shen, Guang, Lu, Shou and Shu. Frequently asked the imperial court for help from other towns. Among them, he sent people to Dengzhou several times. Please ask Li Jing to send troops to the rescue. However, although Li Jing received several requests for help, he never sent a single soldier to the south.

The previous arrangements of the imperial court were to protect Luoyang and Chang'an to prevent thieves from advancing westward.

At the end of December, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's men and horses arrived at the important city of Qizhou.

"Have Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao teamed up?" Li Jing asked.

Li Jing had already known that Wang Xianzhi had already died under the city of Yizhou, and the current Wang Xianzhi was actually just a puppet stand-in for Shang Junchang and Wang Xianzhi's old department. looks a little similar to Wang Xianzhi, so they used it as a banner. But the effect has been good, with this name. Shang Jun's department was able to be independent of the Yellow Nest and sit on an equal footing.

"I heard that Huang Chao has recruited Shang Junchang and others several times, but because of the battle of Yizhou, the two grass thieves have long distrusted each other."

"Then why did they work together so well in this series of battles?" Li Jing was a little strange, the grass thieves did cooperate very well, and they almost advanced and retreated together.

"The situation forced it, after the battle of Yizhou, the two troops led by Huang Chao and Shang Junchang were only more than 1,000. If they didn't rely on each other, they would have been annihilated by the officers and soldiers long ago. But even so. They also never came together. Gongsun Lan said.

Gongsun Lan is right, after the Battle of Yizhou. The two grass thieves hid for months to lick their wounds. Then they flowed all the way to the vicinity of the Eastern Capital, and suddenly shot together. Li Jing estimated that the two teams should have been in contact a long time ago, but they have always distrusted each other, and in the end, the two sides were too weak to become the current situation. It seems to be a tacit understanding of action, but every time it is very close, it is a separate attack.

After they captured Ruzhou, it can be said that they regained some strength.

The city of Ruzhou is not very large, but it is very close to Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty. In Luoyang, there are many courtiers who have no old age, and the mansions and estates of famous families are built here. The grass thieves went straight to Luoyang City, so that many gentry and bureaucrats with heads and faces, as well as rich and wealthy businessmen who were afraid of being evenly compensated by the sky, began to flee Luoyang in batches.

This is the biggest shock to the court since the grass thieves raised their troops.

Although there were hundreds of thousands of grass thieves and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses reported to the imperial court, those were just a string of numbers, and for these princes of the imperial court, they were just a group of rabble of displaced people, and no matter how much they were, they would not be frightened.

But when these grass thieves, who had been exterminated, regathered again in a blink of an eye, and killed directly at the foot of the Eastern Capital, and it was not far from Chang'an, these officials finally felt the threat of the thief army at close range.

Therefore, since the grass thief uprising, no one has ever mentioned Zhao'an, and finally someone proposed.

The highest official who advocated Zhao'an was Wang Duo, the prime minister of the original Yizong Dynasty who was transferred back to the court from Xuanwu Town, and once again entered the political hall as the prime minister, although Wang Duo was only ranked third, but after Ruzhou was breached, he began to change his tone sharply and strongly demanded that Zhao'an grass thieves.

Wang Duo, whose name is Zhaofan, comes from the famous Taiyuan Wang family, and his uncle Wang Bo was in the Muzong and Wenzong dynasties, and served as the prime minister twice. Wang Duo himself wrote very well, in the Wuzong Huichang period in the examination of the Jinshi, and then the career went smoothly, successively served as the right to fill the que, Jixian Hall straight bachelor, in the scholar, the Ministry of Rites waiter, to Yizong Xiantong 12 years promoted to Tongping Zhangshi. In terms of personal quality, Wang Duo's ability is average, he is a typical big bureaucrat in the late Tang Dynasty, his diploma is not low, his level is not high, and he has a lot of wine, sex, wealth, and gas.

The main reason why Wang Duo was so anxious was that the captured Ruzhou Assassin Wang Shackles was his cousin.

Tens of thousands of people died in the war, and Wang Xiangguo would not blink an eye. But if it was his own brother who was captured, then Wang Xiangguo couldn't sit still.

Fortunately, the younger brother was only captured instead of killed, which made Wang Duo see a chance to rescue his brother.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Duo immediately relied on his old qualifications, but found Li Yi, the son of heaven, and pulled the emperor not to let him play ball and chess, but said baskets of words. After the last day, Li Yi finally couldn't bear this verbosity, and was worried that if the east was attacked by grass thieves, it would be troublesome. Therefore, on September 11, Li Yi issued an edict to Zhao'an, as long as Wu Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and others surrendered, they would be pardoned for their sins, and Hou decreed that they would be crowned officials.

However, although Wang Duo received the holy decree of forgiveness, he suddenly found that it seemed more difficult to send this decree to the grass thief.

These grass thieves are all wandering and plundering, and do not stay in one place for long, and there is not even a nest of thieves.

Although brave forbidden troops and bold eunuchs were sent to deliver the decree, every time they rushed to a place, they only found the ruins of the city that had been breached and looted, and Wang Xianzhi and them could not be found at all. For several months, Wang Duo's hair turned gray in a hurry, but the holy decree was still not delivered to the grass thief.

In fact, 'Wang Xianzhi' is now waiting for Zhao'an, to be precise, Shang Junchang and others are waiting for the day of Zhao'an.

Since the boss Wang Xianzhi was cut off from his head, the ambition of this group has almost been extinguished. It was dangerous to be a salt seller back then, but the risk of rebellion was even greater. Even Wang Xianzhi didn't want to be famous and faced, and fled many times, but the most Lu Hou was still sent to Chang'an Weizhong with his head cut off, and even now, Shang Junchang and his gang don't know whether Wang Xianzhi died at the hands of the officials and soldiers or Huang Chao, the former salt gang brothers.

At the beginning, the big boss wanted to kill people and set fires to be recruited, but unfortunately he didn't succeed.

After the defeat of the Yizhou army, someone proposed to join the official army. Some said to vote for Song Wei, some said to vote for Li Jing, and some said to vote for Simon Sigong. However, this proposal was directly rejected by Shang Junchang, even if he wanted to recruit An, he had to make a move, and it was only possible to be recruited when he was in the limelight. They have just been defeated, there are only a thousand soldiers and horses, and even the boss is dead, how can they be recruited.

After hiding in the mountains for a long time, Shang Junchang accidentally found a person who looked like Wang Xianzhi. immediately pretended to be Wang Xianzhi, and then re-raised the banner of the grass army. Huang Chao contacted them several times and wanted to reunite, but Shang Junchang refused to agree. In his eyes, Huang Chao is a natural anti-bone person. Although the most reluctant agreed to Huang Chao's other proposal, the proposal to act together but maintain independence, it was just that Shang Junchang thought about taking this opportunity to make some more noise so that he could accept Zhao'an. It is precisely for this reason that when he learned that the Wang Thorn Shi he had just captured was actually the cousin of the prime minister of the dynasty, he immediately felt that he had seized a stepping stone to Zhao'an and glory and wealth.

Shang Junchang had a sense of strange goods, and he ordered to treat Wang Shackles well, and wrapped him in the army, waiting for the price to be sold.

After discovering this secret in Shang Junchang's heart, in order to survive, he was busy doing what he liked, and swore that he was willing to use his cousin's power in the court to realize the transformation of the general from a bandit to an official. It's just that Shang Junchang's thoughts and Wang Lian's suggestions to him, the Tang Dynasty court also didn't have a chance to know.

On the one hand, the court is intended, and on the other hand, Shang Junchang and others are affectionate, but this trick has not been achieved for a long time.

The messengers sent by the Tang Dynasty Emperor and Wang Xiangguo rushed to chase Shang Junchang and other grass thieves all the way, but Shang Junchang and others were still worried about taking Wang Lian and those brothers, constantly flowing in all directions, and turned to the north and south.

The two sides have repeatedly passed by and missed each other.

When Shang Junchang arrived at the city of Qizhou, the grass thief finally had a chance.

Song Wei was still recuperating in Chang'an, and although the two deputy envoys Du Xian and Cui Anqian hurried all the way, they were still far away from Qizhou.

The thorny history of Qizhou saw the grass thieves surrounding Qizhou, and he was as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

However, Wang Lian, one of the grass thieves outside the city, was excited, because he had finally met a suitable person who could deliver news to the court and take him out of the thieves' den.

Pei Wu, the assassin of Qizhou, was born as a Jinshi, and the chief examiner of his exam was Wang Duo, who was Wang Duo's protégé. Wang Wei and Pei Wu are also old acquaintances, he hurriedly proposed to Shang Junchang to suspend the siege, he is willing to contact Pei Wu, let him pass the word to his cousin, and let his cousin Wang Duo fight for the court's recruitment.

Pei Wu in the city was also taken aback when he saw Wang Xuan, but he didn't expect him to be alive, and after hearing his request, he nodded and agreed without any hesitation. Regardless of whether he should recruit these grass thieves or not, all he is thinking about now is how to keep Qizhou and keep himself from falling into the hands of thieves, as for the rest, what's wrong with him! (To be continued......)