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Neutralization three years, spring.

After the generals of the Qi army discussed, they accepted Li Jing's nominal recruitment, and his department was officially reorganized into the 18th Army Corps of the Qin Army, Shang Rang served as the commander of the corps, and Zhao Zhang, Meng Kai, Wang Bo, Lin Yan, Zhang Juyan and other generals were assigned to the positions of the 18th Army Corps.

After the change of flag, the Qin army immediately sent supplies to the east through the Huai River. However, if Shang Rang and others want to get this batch of materials, there must be a prerequisite. They had to invade Caizhou to get this batch of supplies. Because the transport ships of the Qin army could only reach the westernmost part of Shouzhou and the southeasternmost part of Caizhou on the Huai River for the time being.

Li Jing gave a lot of materials, not only tens of thousands of stone of food, but also 5,000 sets of ordnance and equipment in the early stage. For the Qi army, which had just retreated all the way from Chang'an, this batch of materials made them very excited. In order to obtain these supplies, after some urgent discussions, Shang Rang and others decided to immediately send the third in command of the current Qi army. The march of the Eighteenth Army Corps, Sima Mengkai, was the vanguard. led 10,000 old battalions to open the way. A big attack on the Don Army. Their first target was also the target specified by Li Jing, the former rebel general of Zhongwu Town, who had surrendered for a time, and now changed to the Tang Dynasty, worshipping Yang Fuguang as his godfather's current Fengguo Army Jie Du envoy and the base camp of Qin Zongquan, King of Qi.

As one of the three towns separated from the loyal army, Qin Zongquan's own strength is still good, although it has been swaying in recent years. But it was this kind of rudder that made Fengguo Town not hurt, but secretly strengthened a lot.

However, at this time, Qin Zongquan was still in Chang'an City, and many of his troops followed to Guanzhong, and the troops left in Caizhou were not much, or rather, maybe they had been doing wall grass for too long, so the troops under his command were a little bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and when they saw Meng Kai leading 10,000 horses to rumble and kill, as a result, Qin Zongquan's general Sun Ru only fought with Meng Kai, the former leader of the Salt Gang. It's already lost. In just one day, Sun Ru lost Tongbai City. Returned to the territory of Caizhou.

Hearing the news, Qin Zongquan led his troops to hurry back to Caizhou and personally led his troops to meet the battle, but as a result, Meng Kai won a big victory with a small number of blows. Qin Zongquan retreated, once again gathered troops and horses to fight, this time Shang Rang led the follow-up troops in person, the two sides fought under the city of Caizhou, fought for three days, and injured each other. As a result, in the early morning of the fourth day, Shang Rang's army suddenly used firearms, and the whole army played the banner of the Qin army, and suddenly the Caizhou army in the city was greatly frightened and lost. asked Xuanwu's godbrother Zhu Quanzhong for help, but there was still no response.

On the fifth day, something unexpected happened.

Qin Zongquan, who still held tens of thousands of horses in his hands, actually asked for surrender in Kaicheng to everyone's surprise, and surrendered to Shang Rang and others.

This accident can be said to have been beyond everyone's expectations, Zhou Qi, the marshal of the Zhongwu Festival, and Zhu Wen, the marshal of the Xuanwu Festival, heard that Qin Zongquan actually surrendered to the enemy so simply, and they were so angry that they almost vomited blood. They didn't come to the rescue immediately before, because they felt that Shang Rang couldn't wait for some defeated remnants, and Qin Zongquan still had tens of thousands of horses in his hands. They originally wanted to use the hands of the Qi army to weaken the strength of Qin Zongquan's neighbor. Who would have thought that Qin Zongquan was already a little stunned when he saw the banner of the Qin army, and when he heard that these remnants of the Qi army had indeed been recruited by Li Jing, he was even more shaken. He asked for help from several surrounding towns, but one by one he could not be saved. In this case, Qin Zongquan is very simple, he is not willing to fight to the death with the Qi army, especially since this Qi army has already surrendered to the Qin army. You must know that the Qin army is not far away, and the southeast corner of Caizhou is just separated from the northwest corner of Shouzhou controlled by the Qin army.

It turned out that Qin Zongquan, who was vacillating between the Tang Dynasty and the puppet Qi, had his own ideas, and in the troubled times, all loyalty was false, and only the soldiers in his hands were real. As long as there are soldiers in hand, it is not the same with any master. Therefore, to everyone's surprise, this envoy of Fengguojie, who had just been canonized as the king of Qi by the new emperor of Chang'an, had become a subordinate of the Qin clan again in the blink of an eye, and in fact, he had become Shang Rang's subordinate.

On the day of the surrender, he finally figured out the current relationship between Shang Rang and Li Jing, the king of Qin, and Shang Rang and Li Jing are not so much an up-and-down relationship as an alliance. Although he felt that he had been cheated a little, Qin Zongquan still did not regret it. Now that it's gone, let's leave that alone for the time being. In his opinion, they are still under the banner of Li Jing, the banner is so easy to fight, sooner or later they will not be able to escape from Li Jing's palm, he is now nominally Li Jing's subordinate, maybe this is a good result.

Shang Rang and the others unexpectedly got the help of the powerful Caizhou army, and their strength was greatly boosted in a blink of an eye. However, Qin Zongquan was not simple, he soon reached a new agreement with Shang Rang and others, and contacted the base camp of the Qin domain through Zhang Guiba, who was in the Eighteenth Legion, and soon, the Caizhou Army was given the number of the Fourth Legion. The Caizhou army and the Qi army became more of an alliance of mutual cooperation, and they were both nominally subordinate to the Qin domain.

Shang Rang's Eighteenth Army and Qin Zongquan's Fourth Army joined forces and continued to advance eastward.

In March, the two armies marched into Yingzhou, which is now the territory of Zhu Wen in Xuanwu Town, but the assassin is Zhang Guimou, and the garrison is basically Zhang Guimu's subordinates. After the recovery of Luoyang, the Qi army in Henan suffered a catastrophe, especially after Zhu Asan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the situation was even worse. In the end, Zhu Quanzhong persuaded Zhang Guimu of Yingzhou and Ge Congzhou of Haozhou to let the two generals take their subordinates and territory and attach them to him. But until now, the territory of these two states. In fact, it is still under the actual control of Zhang Guimu and Ge Congzhou.

When Shang Rang and Qin Zongquan's 50,000 allied troops were killed from the west to Yingzhou. When his brother Zhang Guiba personally entered Yingzhou City to persuade him to surrender. Zhang Guimu did not hesitate and surrendered directly.

Zhang Guimu had to surrender, and Shang Rang and Qin Zongquan surrendered to Qin, so that the west of Yingzhou was cut off, and the Qin army occupied Su and Xu in the west of Yingzhou, and Shouzhou in the south, so he had no choice at all. What's more, his brother brought him a very good condition. Li Jing will confer on Zhang Guimou, Shen Qiubo, and the commander of the brigadier general of the 19th Army Corps. Its troops, horses, and territory remain unchanged.

What reason did he have to refuse such a condition?

To say that there is only Shang Rang and Qin Zongquan who are dissatisfied with this, Zhang Guimu's surrender made Qin Zongquan and Monk let him rob the opportunity to rob. However, although he was a little dissatisfied, Li Jing also compensated them, and the original support materials were all withdrawn, and an additional batch was added, and Zhang Guimu also transferred a batch of materials to the two. In such a situation, everyone laughed at each other and said no more.

After Zhang Guimu of Yingzhou surrendered to Qin. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Guiba persuaded another brother to surrender to Qin. Millizhou Thorn Shi Ge Cong Zhou, was also persuaded. resolutely accepted Li Jing's conditions similar to those offered by Zhang Guimu. Awarded to Ge Cong Zhou Yongchengbo, the commander of the brigadier general of the Twentieth Army Corps.

Although there were no more than 10,000 elites in the old battalion under Zhang Guimu and Ge Congzhou, and there were no 30,000 people together with the miscellaneous old and weak, Li Jing still generously awarded them the position of corps commander and the number of the new legion.

On the surface, Li Jing won four surrendered armies at once and formed four legions, and externally, Shangrang's 18th Army Corps claimed to be 150,000, but in fact it was 50,000 for the old and weak. Qin Zongquan's Fourth Army claimed to be 80,000 to the outside world, but in fact it was only 30,000. Zhang Guimu's Yingzhou army claimed to be 50,000 to the outside world, but in fact it was 20,000 for the old and weak, and Ge Congzhou's Haozhou army was claimed to be 100,000 to the outside world, but in fact there were only 20,000 in total.

The Fourth Legion claimed to have a total of 330,000 troops, but in fact they only had a total of 120,000, of which there were only 60,000 real soldiers, and the elite soldiers did not even exceed 30,000.

Sometimes, however, it doesn't matter what the truth is.

At least, in the late spring of the third year of Zhonghe, Yang Fugong in Chang'an City was already a little worried. And Zhu Quanzhong, who had already been suddenly attacked by the Qin army, and the soldiers and horses were approaching Zhouqi and Xuanwu Town, Zhongwu Town, under the city, was even more anxious.

In Bianzhou City, Zhu Wen's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his face was ugly and scary.

He stood quietly in front of the screen in the festival hall, on which was hung a map of Henan. On that map, Yingzhou and Haozhou were painted in bright red colors, with two Qin characters written on them.

"Bang!" Zhu Quanzhong turned around violently, slapped his palm heavily on the old case, and swept his eyes over the generals like wolves.

"We have lost Yingzhou and Haozhou!" He shouted, "We have lost Yingzhou and Haozhou!" ”

Zhu Wen couldn't have imagined that because he didn't rescue Qin Zongquan in time, it would lead to such a bad chain reaction and make it so unbearable.

The two states of Yingzhou and Maozhou, which were not completely controlled in the first place, have now been completely lost all of a sudden. After losing Yinghao, Zhu Wen's Xuanwu Town suddenly left only Zheng and Bianzhou on the edge of Luoyang, although he still had Jinshang Town, where his brother was located, and Jinshang Tang Deng, Ru, Shaanxi and Qizhou, Xuanwu Town was very important to him. As soon as he misses it, his Xuanwu is almost really hard to do.

Originally, Zhu Wen imagined that he had the territory of the three towns and eleven states of Jinshang, Shaanxi, and Xuanwu, as long as they worked harder and found a way to take down the three states of Zhongwu, then his three towns could be connected together, or even semi-surround Luoyang, and then his territory could become a powerful feudal town among the towns in the Central Plains. It was precisely because of this that he did not respond immediately after receiving Qin Zongquan's Caizhou request for help. Originally, he wanted to kill people with a knife, take the opportunity to weaken Caizhou, and even let the Qi army disturb the three towns of Zhongwu, and when the three Zhongwu three towns with only one state territory were eroded, he took the opportunity to send troops to defeat the remnants of the Qi army, and at the same time, he also swallowed the three towns of Zhongwu by the way.

People are not as good as heaven, Li Jing actually recruited the remnants of the Qi army at this time, and Qin Zongquan, a damn guy, actually surrendered to Qin? He is the king of Qi who has just been crowned in the new dynasty, could it be that after the surrender of Qin, Li Jing can still give him a higher reward?

"Dashuai, Shang Rang, Qin Zongquan, Zhang Guimu, and Ge Cong's Fourth Army, the next target is undoubtedly Chenzhou, and then Xuzhou, Bianzhou, Zhengzhou, Ruzhou, and Luoyang, so that they will encroach all the way. Li Jing was so cunning, he was not confused by the bait thrown by the imperial court, but made a strange move, he recruited An to lure Shang Rang and other traitors, and without spending Qin Fan's single soldier, he had already shaken the Central Plains and alarmed Luoyang, such a ruthless trick, a good yin trick. ”

"There is no yin and ruthlessness in tricks, only good and bad. Li Jing's tricks are very threatening. Zhu Wen sighed. He had to admit that Li Jing's use of troops was sometimes really whimsical and always unexpected.

"Dashuai, what should we do then?" Xie Tong asked on the side, the meaning of his words was very clear, whether he would continue the previous strategy, borrow a knife to kill people, and borrow Shang Rang and other opponents to deal with their neighbor Zhongwu Sanzhen.

Zhu Wen shook his head, "No, we have to rescue Chenzhou." At this time and then, now that Li Jing has been inserted into it, we can't take it lightly. Not only do we have to save Chenzhou, but we also have to go all out! (To be continued......)