Chapter 383

They had previously attacked Shule, kuizi, Yanqi, Xizhou and Yizhou in the western region. These areas originally inherited the culture of the Tang Dynasty. Even if all local residents are Hu people, they also believe in Buddhism, mixed with Taoism and fire worship.

However, Huihe Khan ordered all people in these areas to convert to green religion and destroyed temples of Buddhism, fire worship and other religions. With its fanatical religious belief, it began to move eastward. The first state to bear the brunt is the SHAGUA two states in Yumen pass.

The Guiyi army has been in Chengping for a long time these years, and it is not as sharp and powerful as the yichaogong in the past. Therefore, in the face of the Huihe offensive, they can only guard the city and dare not go out to fight in the city.

So he sent the letter of request for help to Liangzhou and asked Zhao Hui to help send troops to resist. The two states of SHAGUA are located in several of the most prosperous oases on the Silk Road, and their geographical location is very important.

Naturally, Zhao Hui could not sit idly by. He led the rescue of elite troops first, and issued an order to many warlords under his command, including Wei Ran.

Wei Ran knew the importance of the two states of SHAGUA, which directly related to the safety of the Silk Road, so he did not hesitate to call troops immediately.

This time, 8000 cavalry are still the main force. Starting from guide, they meet with Zhao Xuanqing in Shanzhou. The total number of cavalry on both sides exceeds 20000. After passing through Liangzhou, go through the Qilian Mountains, enter Suzhou and Ganzhou, win over the local warlord Longjia soldiers and horses in Ganzhou, gather up to 30000 cavalry, and then meet Zhao Hui in Guazhou, gather all field forces and launch a decisive battle against the main force of Huihe.

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In Xiangyang, where Li Chengye entered in winter, he highlighted the strange soldiers in the snowy season. When everyone did not expect, he broke through the two fortresses where the Huangchao army stored military grain and burned its military grain.

Hundreds of thousands of troops in Huangchao collapsed, and the passers-by were chased and killed by Li Chengye and fled to the south. In addition to the main camp, tens of thousands of people fled successfully, hundreds of thousands of troops almost collapsed.

Li Chengye wanted to continue to pursue and kill. When the North was stable, he wiped out the Yellow nest at one fell swoop. However, Zuo Shence's army did not pay wages, and suffered heavy casualties in the northern and southern wars.

Coupled with acclimatization, the sergeants were infected with many diseases and had no morale. They had to retreat to Jiangling for a rest and collect money and food to reward the sergeants.

In Chang'an City, on the eve of the Spring Festival, it was another scene. Dark clouds covered the Daming Palace. Although the lights in the palace were bright, it could not hide a gloomy atmosphere.

Zhang Zhen, together with his sworn enemy Tian Lingzi, went to the emperor's study and persuaded him for a common reason. The purpose was to kill Li Chengye!

"No! Everyone knows that the Marquis of Li county is the pillar of the Tang Dynasty. If I kill him, who dares to work for the Tang Dynasty! Besides, if you kill him, who can help me calm down, it's up to you? "

The emperor looked at Zhang Zhen, the defeated general, with a sarcastic look in his eyes.

Zhang Zhenxin was angry, but there was no expression on his face.

"Your Majesty, when the former Emperor was there, Li Chengye was loyal. But after the previous Shence mutiny, only Li Chengye can control these arrogant soldiers and valiant generals. In addition, his son Li Dingguo openly destroys peace and relatives and establishes his own vassal town. Do you dare to say that he is loyal? "

Tian Lingzi looked at Zhang Zhen, hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, the right Shence army can't be driven. The last time the left Shence mutiny, the right Shence army was vulnerable. It's enough to know that they are just a bunch of wine bags and rice bags.

Now the Zuo Shence army, the most capable of fighting in the court and more and more disobedient to the orders of the court, ignored the officials sent by the court and looted places many times. Such an army is no different from the tooth soldiers in the border town.

They only serve Li Chengye. It would be easy for Li Chengye to lead these proud soldiers into Beijing, control the lives of all civil and military officials in the court, and then control the whole Daming Palace. Your majesty, can you rest assured? "

The emperor was stunned and thought down Tian Lingzi's words. He found that the most important thing now was not whether Li Chengye was loyal or not, but whether he had the strength to subvert the imperial court.

Obviously, Li Chengye has this strength and prestige. Moreover, since he forced him to send troops south before, he would rather go to prison than lead the troops. It can be seen that he did not pay attention to his emperor.

At the thought of this, the emperor was shocked. No one in the imperial forbidden army could stop him. His own life was really controlled by his hands. This feeling that he could not grasp his own destiny made him more and more uneasy.

Zhang Zhen and Tian Lingzi looked at each other, and Zhang Zhen lit the fire again.

"Your Majesty, this time, Li Chengye attacked Qidan in the north and retreated the rogue in the south, which is even more powerful in the world. Your majesty has ever thought of Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao as a general who returned home with a great victory, has the palm of military power and has access to foreign vassal towns? "

The emperor asked in a trembling voice, "what are you going to do?"

Zhang Zhen's eyes were cloudy and said, "there's no other way but to kill him!"

Tian Lingzi said, "although there are still more than ten thousand evils left in Huang Chao's rebellion, it will not be a great disaster. As long as you order local saving envoys and regiment exercises to encircle and suppress everywhere, it will not be a disaster.

As for how to kill Li Chengye in the Zuo Shence army, Zhang NEISHI must have his own way. "

Zhang Zhen said grimly, "our family will do it in person. Your majesty can send someone to Weizhou to bring all the relatives in Li Chengye's ancestral house back to the capital. It can also be used to threaten Li Dingguo, a wolf cub. Hum, Li Chengye went to Beijing to lead the army, but he didn't leave relatives and hostages in the capital. Obviously, he was thinking of infidelity! "

The emperor hesitated, "if you do so, would it not be..."

Zhang Zhen hinted: "Li Chengye calmed down the bandits in Huangchao, but he didn't kill them all. There must be a lot of fish missing the net waiting to take his life at any time, and anything can happen in the place of war... Isn't it right time to push the disordered soldiers in Huangchao?"

"Well... What if his son Li Dingguo doesn't believe these words and leads the army to rebel in anger?"

Zhang Zhen said gloomily, "now Huihe attacked Shazhou, he and Wuwei army have led troops to support. Zhao Hui has been suppressing the military leaders in the army in recent years, offending many local giants in Liangzhou. I have made contact with those Liangzhou giants. I just want to wipe out Wuwei army and Li Dingguo's Fenglin army in Shazhou through this Huihe invasion! Please rest assured. "

Zhang Zhen thought of many things that the emperor was worried about, and gave a seemingly feasible scheme. The emperor was still indecisive and finally gave only a vague promise.

Then Zhang Zhen and Tian Lingzi began to take formal action. First, through the resentful Wen ministers in the court who were taken to their hometown by the left Shence army, they guided them to write a letter to impeach Li Chengye and ask for his punishment.

Then they put these books together, focusing on the official with the greatest influence and position, secretly changed the content and changed the severe punishment of Li Chengye into asking him to be beheaded.

At this time, they also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to eradicate the dissidents in the court. Once Li Chengye died, they could arrange whatever they wanted to do with such a memorial.

Then, the emperor approved a word "Ke" on the memorial and issued a will to make Li Chengye return to Beijing for trial.

In fact, Zhang Zhen took the strongest killers on the first floor of the sky and set off for Jiangling with this vague will.