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Volume 2: Hu Qi Xiliu Zhe Chapter 140: National Weapons (2)

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    PS: I would like to thank Tiantian Reader, Wuyun Taxue and Banshi Fengyan for their rewards. Of course, I would also like to thank my brothers who continue to vote for me.  Since the news of Shangdang¡¯s decisive battle with the Yan army came out, Zhao Kuangning, the king of Chu who lived in Shannan, began to make preparations to send troops.  Zhao Kuangning's original intention was to take advantage of Liang Jun's defeat to attack Mayin, which was entrenched in the six northern states of Shannan East Road.  Ma Yin is the sworn enemy of the Zhao brothers and a die-hard loyalist of the traitor Zhu Quanzhong. For Zhao Kuangning, this is the first obstacle that must be removed if he wants to revive Li Tang.  Ma Yin was granted the title of Jing, occupying Shangzhou, Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Junzhou, Xiangzhou and Suizhou. He happened to be stuck on Zhao Kuangning's way north. Zhao Kuangning wanted to march into Luoyang to defend the emperor.  To revitalize the imperial court, we must open up these six states.  At the end of the first year, when the Yan army left Taihang south, the official news finally arrived in Jingzhou. King Ma Yin of Jing was dead!  So Zhao Kuangning began to take action, gathering 20,000 troops to go north and attack the six states.  At the end of February, the Chu army fought a fierce battle with the resisting Jing army on the banks of the Zhang River. How could Ma Cun and Ma Bin, Ma Yin's brothers, be opponents in front of the brave and skilled Zhao Kuangning?  After a huge defeat in the first battle, the two brothers led the remaining defeated generals and fled into Xiangyang City to defend themselves.  Zhao Kuangning then led his army to Xiangyang and began to storm the "capital" of the Jing Kingdom.  In mid-April, Xiangyang, which had been besieged for nearly two months, finally failed to withstand the Chu army's onslaught. Zhao Kuangning's Yong Yidu first climbed onto the tower and then let go of the south gate. The Chu army swarmed in and occupied Xiangyang.  Ma Cun led the remnants of his troops to flee north to Dengzhou. Ma Bin had bad luck, but was blocked in the city by the Chu army. After surrendering, he was beheaded by Zhao Kuangning.  Although the important town of Xiangyang was captured and the Chu army's Northern Expedition was almost 70% successful, Zhao Kuangning was still filled with doubts despite his joy.  What he was worried about was none other than his younger brother Zhao Kuangming.  At this time, it had been more than five months since the Shangdang War, and the news of King Liang's death in Yanzhou had already reached Xiangyang.  But Zhao Kuangming's life or death has always been uncertain.  Various messages came in one after another, and there were different opinions. Some said that he had surrendered to the Yan army, some said that he fled to Yanzhou with the King of Liang and died, and some said that he died in the Bohequan rebellion. In short, there is no accurate answer at all.  letter.  So Zhao Kuangning sent an envoy to Henan to inquire about Zhao Kuangming's movements from the Yan army.  The envoy came to Bianzhou, but did not see King Yan Li Chengzhong.  Li Chengzhong is meeting with Teacher Wang in Mount Tai at the moment.  The envoy asked to see Jiang Miao, who was staying in Bianzhou, but Jiang Miao was busy reorganizing various matters of the Henan garrison, Taining army and Qi army at the moment. It was a time when he was busy with everything, and he had no time to explain Zhao Kuangming's affairs. He just sent  A Marquis of Yu received the Chu envoy.  The Yan army defeated the allied forces of the princes, turning a group of Yan army soldiers into arrogant and powerful generals.  Marquis Yu, who was in charge of the reception, was very arrogant and did not pay attention to the envoy from Chu State.  It¡¯s not to blame this Yuhou. The Chu army was one of the coalition forces of the princes that participated in the Northern Expedition led by King Liang. It was also the enemy of the Yan army. It would be strange for him to be angry with this envoy from Chu!     What?  Is Zhao Kuangming dead or alive?  ¡ª¡ªHow do I know this?  Let me ask for you?  ¡ª¡ªAre you mistaken?  We are busy here. There are so many troops stationed in Henan and there are tens of thousands of Taining troops.  The entire Qi Qing army is waiting for our Yan army to reorganize. Where can we find the time?  Whereabouts?  ¡ª¡ªhave no idea!  ??Prisoners?  ¡ª¡ªIt really doesn¡¯t happen. I¡¯m not kidding you. If there had been, military merit would have been recorded long ago!  Marquis Yu simply answered a few questions from the Chu envoys, and then dismissed them impatiently.  Before getting up, Marquis Yu suddenly remembered something, so he sent a message to the Chu State: I heard that Zhao Kuangming and Zhu Yougong were stationed in Zezhou together.  But after the city of Zezhou was destroyed, there was no trace of the two of them. If you want to find out, you can go to Zezhou and talk.  Of course, Marquis Yu would not tell the Chu State envoys. Zhao Kuangming and Zhu Yougong were probably blown to pieces when the Zezhou city wall was blasted into the sky - this is a military secret, and of course it is impossible to tell the Chu State envoys.  explain.  When the envoy returned to Shannan, Zhao Kuangning was besieging Dengzhou.  As long as the last remaining Jing army led by Ma Cun in Dengzhou City is eliminated, the road to Luoyang will be opened.  After hearing the messenger's reply, Zhao Kuangning immediately fainted.  The brother of a noble prince in a country has never been seen alive or dead.  It is really intolerable that the instigator is still so arrogant!  So under Zhao Kuangning's desperate urging, the Chu army exploded with powerful combat power and actually captured Dengzhou in one fell swoop and captured Ma Cun.  On the same day, Ma Cun was killed by Zhao Kuang Ning, which barely relieved Zhao Kuang Ning's bad mood.  At this point, most of Shannan East Road was in the hands of the Chu army, but the Chu army was also exhausted and had to stop at Dengzhou.  Although Zhao Kuangning wanted to directly raise his troops to go north to Henan and ask the King of Yan personally about the whereabouts of his brother, he was not a reckless person and had been working hard to regain his strength and sit in Dengzhou, waiting for the supply of troops and baggage.Waiting until the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, when the edict from Luoyang came, Zhao Kuangning finally couldn't bear it anymore. He became furious and tore the edict into pieces in front of his subordinates and generals!  "Traitor! Treason! The evil of Yan Ni is even worse than that of Liang Ni!" The civil servants and generals were frightened by the furious Zhao Kuang Ning. Everyone watched him draw his sword and cut off the head of the case, and then kicked over everything that could be kicked over.  Something, everyone was trembling.  After venting his thunderous rage, Zhao Kuangning's face turned red, with tears in his eyes. He looked up to the sky and sighed: "Why is our Tang Dynasty so difficult" "Swear to kill Yan Ni and revive the Tang Dynasty!"  Their angry shouts soared into the sky, seeming to shake Dengzhou City three times!  Regardless of whether it is for righteousness or personal reasons, the Chu army is already full of anger and is preparing to embark on another Northern Expedition.  Zhao Kuangning immediately sent a letter to the King of Shu, Wang Jian, to contact the Shu army and move northward.  When Zhao Kuangning thought about it, Shu general Wang Zongji also died in Shangdang, and the bones of thirty thousand Xichuan disciples were still cold. Even if the king of Shu did not want to expel the treason, he would always go north with him to take revenge, right?  Zhao Kuangning sent an envoy with his own handwritten letter to Junzhou, which is adjacent to Dengzhou.  In fact, when Zhao Kuangning attacked Xiangzhou and Dengzhou, the Shu army was not idle either. They also took Junzhou and Shangzhou into their hands.  Compared with Zhao Kuang Ning's successive battles, the attack by the leading Shu general Tang Dao was much easier - the main force of Jing State was defeated by Zhao Kuang Ning. All the Shu army had to do was to occupy the cities one by one.  The originally confident Chu envoy was frustrated in Junzhou. This is not to say that the Shu army had a bad attitude. On the contrary, Tang Daoxi received the envoy very enthusiastically and with such thoughtful etiquette that the Chu envoy was not wrong at all.  Can't pick one out.  What depressed the Chu envoy was that the Shu army had no interest in another Northern Expedition.  Speaking of which, the death of Wang Zongji and 30,000 Xichuan disciples in the battle brought not anger to the King of Shu and his ministers, but fear.  As early as after the Shangdang War, Chengdu had discussed how to deal with this matter. Some low-level generals once clamored to send troops again to ask for an explanation from the Yan army. However, during the discussion in the palace, this topic was met with silence.  treatment.  Revenge for Wang Zongji and brother Xichuan?  Easy to say, who will go?  The king of Shu pointed out the ministers in the palace and asked, who is willing to lead the army?  No one in the palace dared to answer.  Feng Juan is old and trembling all day long. Isn¡¯t it a joke to let him lead the army?  I'm afraid I'll die before walking halfway.  Du Guangting, Wei Zhuang, Zhang Ge and others are all famous scholars all over the world. They can write books and write poems and songs. They are also good at managing government affairs, but they can only lead troops.  Haha.  After much discussion in the end, we decided that the troops would still be sent out, but it would definitely not be the Northern Expedition. Instead, we would take advantage of the death of King Jing Ma Yin to seize more territory, and take the opportunity to find out what the newly rising King Yan had in his belly.  The secret?  To be honest, although the small court of Shu did not dare to legitimately send troops to provoke the Yan army, which was in full swing, it was in danger in the middle of Shu and felt that it was no problem to protect itself.  Wang Jian felt that he should get in touch with King Yan. It might be difficult to take advantage of King Yan, but the most important thing was to test how much wealth he could leave behind.  When Zhao Kuangning was bathing in blood in Dengzhou, Tang Daoxi, who was ordered to do so at the last moment, had already occupied Junzhou and Shangzhou, and Tang Daoxi's messengers had already gone to Luoyang no less than four or five times.  Tang Daoxi was also not an expert at leading troops, but the small court in Sichuan felt that he should be allowed out of Sichuan. Who said he had a close relationship with Li Zhen?  During the back-and-forth messenger communication, Tang Daoxi had reached a tacit understanding with Li Zhen, or it could be said that he had reached a tacit understanding on behalf of their respective masters.  The King of Shu recognized King Yan's control of the court and did not have much objection to King Yan's leadership of the emperor's Zen throne. He even acquiesced in King Yan's coveting of Jiuding.  Li Zhenze, on behalf of the King of Yan, recognized the rule of the King of Shu over some prefectures and counties in the two Sichuan and Shannan West and East Roads.  But there is one thing. King Yan asked King Shu to change his country. Li Zhen said that this was the bottom line of King Yan.  Tang Daoxi understood this. Long before leaving Sichuan, the King of Shu had already regarded this as a condition for concession and entrusted Tang Daoxi with full authority to negotiate - although the King of Shu was very reluctant and reluctant to "go to the country".  The focus of the dispute between Tang Daoxi and Li Zhen has always been the intrusion of the Shu army on the states within the pass.  Li Zhen asked the Shu army to stop marching northward to Guannei and Longyou, and demanded that the occupied Shanggui, Qingshui and other places be returned to the imperial court.  Of course Tang Daoxi did not agree. As a condition for supporting King Yan to control the court, Tang Daoxi believed that King Yan should give him some benefits. In addition to Shanggui and Qingshui, he should also cede Longzhou to King Shu.  After much fighting, the two sides finally agreed to use the actual control area as the dividing line. The territory that the Shu army had occupied would be under the jurisdiction of the King of Shu, but they would not cross the border in the future.  Although the negotiations were difficult, when the news came back to Chengdu, the King of Shu expressed satisfaction. At least it can be seen that the King of Yan was still very sincere about the peace talks.    Therefore, when Zhao Kuangning's envoy came to Junzhou, he naturally gained very little.  Tang Daoxi even sent an envoy back to Dengzhou to persuade Zhao Kuangning, asking Zhao Kuangning to comply with the general trend and calm down.  Tang Daoxi said that he could mediate the situation and help Yan and Chu reach a reconciliation.
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