Chapter 828: Zhu Wen descends to Tang

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The Battle of Chang'an in May is simply a copy of the Battle of Longweipi.

It's just that the winners and losers have swapped places. In this battle, the Tang Army's four towns were defeated, and the losses even exceeded Shang Rang's defeat in Longweipi, and the four town marshals were killed, wounded and fled, losing nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses. poured a basin of ice water on the coalition army of Guanzhong Towns, which had just won a great victory in Longwei and was in high morale.

The rest of the towns in Guanzhong, hearing the news of this defeat, retreated for hundreds of miles. Zheng Zheng had the intention to unite the towns and continue to attack Chang'an, but unfortunately no one responded. The battle of Chang'an made them see clearly that Huangchao was not exhausted. Emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and hundred-legged insects die but do not stiffen. On the contrary, the more Huang Chao was on the verge of defeat, the more powerful his last desperate blow might be. Now, no one wants to fight with Huang Chao anymore. And who is willing to fall on the eve of victory?

Anyway, after this battle, although Huangchao recaptured Chang'an, at least the threat to the towns in Guanzhong has been greatly reduced.

After the defeat of Huangchao, on April 6, he first withdrew from Chang'an City, and then held a grand ceremony to enter the city.

However, when he returned to Chang'an, Huang Chao was very angry.

In particular, after Zhilu said that after he left, the people of Chang'an welcomed the officials and soldiers, spontaneously searched for the soldiers and family members of the Qi army who had not evacuated, and also robbed him of some ordnance, grain and grass materials hidden in Chang'an City.

"I waited for them to be merciful, but they turned against Tang Jun. In that case, don't blame me for being rude. In the Xingqing Palace, which was not destroyed in the war, Huang Chao sneered, "Spread my will." Hunt down all those who collaborate with the enemy. One person collaborates with the enemy. The men of the whole family were executed, the women were enlisted in the army, and the property was confiscated! ”

This is a city purge, and Huang Chao completely abandons the appearance of benevolence and righteousness that he had barely maintained, and begins a tragic massacre.

This was already the third massacre by Huang Chao in Chang'an City, but this time the scale was far greater than the previous two.

On the third day of the city's washing, a total of 100,000 people died in this disaster, and there were more than 100,000 women. He was beaten as a prisoner of crime and put into the army as a prostitute and slave.

Huang Chao used bloody slaughter to show his brutality nakedly, and maintained his rule with high pressure and cruelty.

The battle of Chang'an soon spread all over the world.

Li Jing had already received the results of the battle on the third day after the war, and he was not too surprised by this. After all, the battle of Longweipi made the Guanzhong coalition army overconfident and underestimated the enemy. And Zheng Zheng is also a civil commander. It is not really a command to live in the towns. Such a big defeat is also a common occurrence. Even if Huang Chao is not good, it is also a thief who has once run rampant in the world, he has defeated so many feudal towns, how can it be so easy to defeat.

The defeat of Chang'an, the Guanzhong coalition army, cast a shadow on the rebellion war and poured cold water.

However, for Li Jing, this is not necessarily a bad thing, and it is even beneficial to him.

If Huang Chao is over so soon, he, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, will be the end, and Li Yi of Chang'an will not want to make small moves with him.

The bird is all hidden, and Li Jing needs the bird Huangchao, so that he can retain the power of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses. Of course, Li Jing can't let Huang Chao live an easy life, otherwise, if he doesn't make the slightest move, he can't play a role, and Li Yi and the imperial court will not rely on him so much.

Now, the battle of Chang'an slapped Li Yi hard, making him understand that he was too happy before. Moreover, after this war, it also gave other feudal towns in the world time to re-examine the current situation. He, Li Jing, is still the strongest feudal town in the world, if they can't even deal with a yellow nest, who would dare to have the slightest disadvantage for the Qin Domain?

Let Huang Chao and the court spend it, if there is no Huang Chao, Li Jing will definitely become the next target. At the moment, Li Jing doesn't have the time and energy to deal with the imperial court, and it is when he needs Huang Chao to help him in front. However, after this battle, he is not worried that the Yellow Nest will rise again.

Although Huang Chao's military performance this time was remarkable, he was still in a passive position in the whole strategy, especially his political strategy of massacres and reigns of terror, which was a complete failure. Military achievements without political guarantees have been proven by history to be absolutely unlasting.

For this reason, Li Jing published a signed commentary on the Battle of Chang'an in the Yenching Times, using a wonderful sentence to describe the battle: Huang Chao beat the jailer, but he himself was still locked in a cell!

Not only that, but after this Battle of Chang'an, Huang Chao's cell area has also shrunk greatly. The area he actually controlled in Guanzhong was only Chang'an City and the areas around Tongzhou, Huazhou, and Tongguan. The rest of the area under control has been completely lost.

And just when Huangchao was newly victorious, the envoy of the Yiwu Army, the deputy marshal of Hebei, and the world were all over the vanguard Li Quanzhong, but he led his troops all the way to the vicinity of Tongguan.

Wang Pufeng, the assassin of Tongzhou in Daqi, heard that Huang Chao had withdrawn from Chang'an, but did not receive news that it was just a tactical feint, so he panicked. At this time, Li Quanzhong's vanguard army was in Shayuan, which was very close to Tongzhou, and Wang Bo knew that he was invincible, so he could only hope that Huangchao would send troops to rescue. But he received the news that Huang Chao even lost Chang'an, thinking about it, thirty-six plans, Wang Pu went as the best plan. He abandoned Tongzhou, took his headquarters with him, and fled all the way to Huazhou. As a result, Li Quanzhong's soldiers were bloodless and recovered Tongzhou.

Li Quanzhong, who was driven out of Hebei by Li Jing and had no place to settle down, immediately proclaimed himself the assassin of Tongzhou.

After Wang Pu fled to Huazhou, Huazhou assassinated Shi Qiaoqian, met with Wang Pu, and after some discussion, he immediately felt sympathetic to each other, and the hero saw the same thing. At this time, they heard that the Great Qitong Guard, Cheng Lingjiu, also fled. And the Hedong and Henan coalition armies of the imperial court were killing from the north and east.

As a result, these two salt sellers simply stopped guarding Huazhou and fled to Shangzhou together.

When Li Quanzhong received the news, he couldn't believe that there was really a good thing about pies in the sky.

Immediately, Li Quanzhong's troops and horses were swift, and one soldier moved one after another to take Huazhou and Tongguan, which were guarded by no soldiers.

Huang Chao didn't know what to do, for the sake of tactical secrecy, he did not notify Tongzhou, Huazhou, and Tongguan in the east, but such a dramatic scene would happen. He had just exhausted his efforts in Chang'an to lure the enemy into a light advance. Defeat of the Tang army. Steady your ground. In the blink of an eye. But he lost the three important places of Tongzhou, Huazhou and Tongguan, and the east of Chang'an, and lost all the domains. Before the Hedong Army arrived, Tongguan, one of the important passages between Guanzhong and Henan, had already been lost.

It's really time for heaven and earth to work together, and heroes are not free.

When people are unlucky, they drink cold water and stuff their teeth!

Li Quanzhong took shit luck. A large pie smashed directly on the head. Not long ago, he had no choice but to lose all the territory of Yiwu and Lulong towns and was forced to leave Hebei. In the blink of an eye, he actually had the territory of Tongzhou and Huazhou again, according to the East Gate of China.

Li Quanzhong immediately promoted himself again, and he immediately appointed himself as the envoy of the Zhenguo Army as the vanguard envoy of the grass thieves in the world, and the marshal of Tongguan, and let his eldest son Li Congwei take over as the commander of the Tongzhou Assassin History and the Zhenguo Army Ma Bujun, and the second son Li Kuang was appointed as the Huazhou Assassin and the commander of the Zhenguo Army.

In a New York minute. The old hen turned into a duck, and he had a good piece of land again.

Wang Pu, Qiao Qian, and Cheng Lingjiu, who had just fled to Shangzhou. Unexpectedly, Song Yan, the assassin of Daqi Shangzhou, was also infected with panic, and at that moment, Song Yan and the three of them left their posts without permission and fled to Dengzhou with their people.

At this time, in Dengzhou, there was an elite of Qi stationed here, and the main general was Zhu Wen, who had just arrived all the way from Bianzhou.

Zhu Wen had just fought with Zhuge Shuang in Biankou, relying on the advantage in the number of soldiers and horses, plus surprise, Zhu Wen did a beautiful and cost-effective deal.

In that battle, Zhu Wen defeated Zhuge Shuang, beheaded more than 10,000 people and captured more than 15,000 prisoners. If it weren't for Zhu Wen feeling that the Hedong coalition army was about to go south, the land of Heyang would not be easy to take, otherwise, he would have chased Zhuge Shuang's ass all the way into Heyang Town.

In this battle, Zhu Wen made a lot of money, killing 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 15,000 people, and his own losses were only more than 3,000 killed, making a lot of money.

After the victory, Zhu Wen took advantage of the victory and continued to advance, all the way to Dengzhou, south of Luoyang, preparing to choose another passage into Guanzhong besides Tongguan, Wuguan to enter Guanzhong, in order to avoid the interception of the coalition forces in the river. Who would have thought that as soon as he arrived in Dengzhou, he heard the news that Emperor Huang Chao of Great Qi had evacuated Chang'an.

Zhu Wen had to stop the march and rest in Dengzhou to find out the next news.

After waiting for several days, Zhu Wen finally contacted Huang Chao, the emperor of Great Qi, and it turned out that the evacuation of Chang'an was nothing more than a military tactical feint. Now, Emperor Huangchao has defeated the soldiers and horses of the four towns in Guanzhong, killed two Tang army commanders, recaptured Chang'an, and the rest of the towns in Guanzhong have retreated.

With this news, Zhu Wen was preparing to continue to move forward in Guanzhong.

Who would have thought, at this time, the horse was in a hurry, and the three states of Tongzhou, Huazhou, and Shangzhou had a history of assassination, and the Tongguan guards all left their posts without permission and abandoned the three states and one pass. Now, the official positions and territories that the Emperor of Great Qi had just awarded to him not long ago such as the envoy of the Zhenguo Army, the Assassin of Tongzhou, and the Marshal of Tongguan have all been taken over by a Hebei guy named Li Quanzhong.

Hearing this, Zhu Wen was furious.

He came all the way to lead his troops to take over the territory of Tong, Hua, and Tongguan. Because Bianzheng's territory was too close to Li Jing's potential range, Zhu Wen often felt that it was difficult to sleep and eat. The territory of Tonghua and Huazhong in Guanzhong, located between Guanzhong, Henan and Hedong, has always been a place for soldiers to fight, if you take over here, not only can you stay away from Li Jing, but also very suitable for the two military advisors said that the time to wait for the opportunity to return to the Tang Dynasty.

But now, this piece of territory, which was already its own, was actually robbed by a defeated general of Li Jing's subordinates.

At this moment, a patrol soldier came to report, saying that outside the camp, there were four people outside the camp who claimed to be Wang Pu, the assassin of Tongzhou, Qiao Qian, the assassin of Huazhou, Song Yan of Shangzhou, and the guard of Tongguan.

"Straight lady thief, they still have the face to see Lao Tzu." Zhu Wen said angrily, "Let them all in." ”

Wang Pu and the other four people were invited by Zhu Wen into the big tent of the Chinese army, as soon as they entered the account, before they had time to see the salute, Zhu Wen immediately faced each other coldly, and shouted angrily: "Where is the knife and axeman, take down the four people who left their posts without permission and abandoned the land and fled, immediately beheaded, sent to Chang'an, and reported to His Majesty!" ”

Wang Pu and others fled for their lives all the way, but at this time they didn't know that Huangchao had defeated the four towns and recaptured Chang'an.

Hearing this, he was shocked and said: "Zhu Dashuai, Your Majesty has already evacuated Chang'an, the Tang army is strong, and we are just waiting to preserve our strength." ”

Zhu Wen waved his hand again and again as if he was looking at a few piles of shit, and turned his head away.

Several sergeants rushed into the tent and dragged them out of the tent despite the shouts of the four people. A moment later, the four soldiers brought into the four wooden plates, on which were placed the heads of Wang Pu and the other four, and the blood stains were not dry.

After beheading the four people, Zhu Wen was still frowning, and Zhu Zhen's generals also sighed.

No one thought that things would change like this.

They had just defeated Zhuge Shuang, and Huangchao had also defeated the towns of Guanzhong, but at this time, a few useless people made the situation of the Qi army take a sharp turn again.

The Zhenguo Junzhen, which belonged to them, had fallen into the hands of Li Quanzhong.

"Dashuai, why don't you just descend to Tang." Xie Tong said.

"At this point?"

"This is the time."

Zhu Wen was puzzled: "Didn't Mr. Xie say before that the time has not come?" ”

Xie Tong shook his head and smiled, "The so-called one time, the other time." I feel that this is the time when the time is ripe, the previous Guanzhong coalition army Longweipi won a big victory, if we surrender to the Tang Dynasty at that time, I am afraid that Li Tang Tianzi will not take us in his eyes at all, let alone treat us kindly. But now, Huang Chao defeated the four towns of Guanzhong in Chang'an, killed the second marshal in the first battle, seriously injured the first marshal, and annihilated nearly 40,000 Tang troops. It can be said that the morale of the Guanzhong coalition army has been completely lost, and there is no longer a fighting spirit. Moreover, we have just defeated Zhuge Shuang, who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, in Bianzhou, and annihilated more than 20,000 prisoners. It completely shows the strong strength of the marshal and our Xuanwu army. ”

"But just now, Huangchao also lost important places such as Tongzhou, Huazhou, Shangzhou, and Tongguan." Zhu Wendao.

Xie Tong said: "It was just an accident, and it didn't affect the current situation too much." No matter what, now, Huang Chao still has strong strength, and the soldiers and horses of Zhuzhen are definitely not willing to fight Huang Chao at this time. And the marshal has shown our strength, if we are willing to surrender to the Tang at this time, it will be a charcoal in the snow for the Tang army, and if the marshal returns to the Tang, not only can we cut off an arm of the Huang Chao, but also can greatly increase the morale of the Tang army. They'd be absolutely happy to see it. ”

Hu Zhen also nodded on the side, descending Tang is like selling fruit, you have to pick a suitable time to sell it. And now, it's the right time to do that. This time can't be too early, it's too early, the fruit is not ripe, no one wants to buy it, even if it is sold, there will be no high price. If it's too late, it may be smashed in your own hands, rotten and unable to sell.

"Dashuai, if we want to be more valued by the Tang Court, we only need to fight another battle, a beautiful battle."

"You mean to take the three states of Shang, Hua, Tong, and Tongguan?" Zhu Wen asked.

Hu Zhen smiled: "If you can really win the first pass in Sanzhou, it will definitely be different." However, Li Quanzhong is not an idle person, and we don't need to take risks and fight hard. Now that Shangzhou is not occupied, it is better to take Dengzhou according to this, and then take charge of Shangzhou, and then bring the land of Shangzhou, Deng, Bian, and Zheng, 100,000 soldiers, and the power of the new victory to Tang anyway, I believe it is enough! ”

Zhu Wen groaned, "But who should we contact about returning to Tang?" ”

Xie Tong said, "A certain proposal to contact Yang Fuguang, he is the world's soldiers and horses are in charge of the army, and at the same time, his brother Yang Fugong is a powerful eunuch in the palace, serving as a lieutenant in the left army of Shence, I heard that the Yang brothers have been very favored by the Son of Heaven recently, if they can get their protection, great things can be done." ”

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to Mr. Xie and Mr. Hu to handle together." Zhu Wen thought for a long time, and nodded after the most stubbornness. "I'll leave the matter of contacting Yang Fuguang to you, and now, let's discuss how to take Shangzhou as a meeting gift for returning to Tang." (To be continued......)