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The so-called imperial camp is the ceremonial guard before the emperor.
The selection of soldiers is strict, with certain requirements on height and appearance. Most of them are children of nobles, and they wear uniform bright silver armor, which is the most gorgeous in the entire army.

The soldiers in the imperial camp are good at everything except fighting.
It is no wonder that Emperor Zhou assigned this fancy army to Kang Lu. It was because he had no trustworthy soldiers at hand.

However, according to the prior plan, the Imperial Camp could still play the role of boosting the morale of Eunuch Kang.

But no one expected that the fragile balance between Chu and Zhou would be suddenly broken just because of a little-known battalion commander named Jie Tianlu.

Under the general trend, all kinds of small characters, some loyal, some ambitious, or simply being swept up in it, have shown their prowess.

However, there are also some high-ranking officials who fell into the abyss because of their careless choices.

The night of May 16 was a chaotic scene, and there were many different opinions about what exactly happened.

Some people said that it was the soldiers of the Lu Camp of the Tianxiong Army who were anxious to rescue their chief officer who killed the soldiers of the Imperial Camp first.

Some people also said that it was the arrogant imperial guards who first drew their swords.
In short, at the beginning of the Xu hour, Kang Lu and Wang Yuan in the camp heard the noise and hurried out of the tent, only to find that there was already a fierce battle at the camp gate. The soldiers in the imperial camp had armor, so they didn't even have to change clothes to distinguish between friend and foe.

Kang Lu shouted several times at the fighting, but no one responded to him as the imperial envoy. This even attracted the attention of the rebellious Jinghu Army. If it were not for the desperate resistance of his personal guards, the two of them would have almost been killed on the spot.

The rebel army was in great confusion due to lack of command, but they had the advantage in numbers and forced the imperial camp to retreat again and again.

When the battle lasted until 2:15 pm, almost all the soldiers in the imperial camp, who were on the battlefield for the first time, were defeated. However, because the camp gate was blocked by the insurgents from Jinghu who kept coming, they could only flee in all directions within the camp surrounded by fences.

Zhu De'en led a team of brothers and rushed in through the camp gate on the east side. On the west wall, more than a dozen soldiers from the imperial camp had already dropped their weapons and were struggling to climb up, trying to climb over the wall and escape out of the camp.

But the heavy armor became a death warrant at this time. Just when he was halfway up, he was stabbed through by Zhu De'en and others who came rushing over from behind and nailed to the wall.

Another person was about to climb over the fence, but saw a group of Jinghu rebels coming from outside the wall. He was so scared that tears flowed down his face. He turned around and shouted, "Don't kill me, my father is Zhang Kui, the inspector general! Don't kill me, let me go back to Lin'an, and I will let my father reward you!"

Coincidentally, the Jinghu Army outside the fence also arrived nearby. With the help of the firelight, they saw that it was Pang Bingzhong who was going to connect the camps.

The Inspector General was a high-ranking official of the dynasty. Not to mention them, even the commander-in-chief of the Jinghu Army, Wu Gong, would feel three points shorter when he saw him.

After this man introduced himself, the Jinghu soldiers, who were full of murderous intent, could not help but stagnate. It seemed that only at this moment they realized that what they were doing with Shangguan was a business of killing nine generations of a clan.

Zhu and Pang looked at each other, and saw the former immediately hold the goose-feather knife in his mouth, leap forward, and climb up with all four limbs at the same time. In just a few breaths, he climbed to the side of the son of Zhang Taiwei who was stuck in a dilemma. "Good man, don't hurt my life. My father will give you wealth and honor."

Before Master Zhang could finish his panicked words, Zhu De'en had already stabbed the knife with one hand through the gap in the armor under his ribs.

"Ah~"

With a scream, Master Zhang fell to the ground.

Unexpectedly, he was a man with a strong desire to survive, and even after suffering such serious injuries, he did not die on the spot.

Zhu De'en jumped down from the fence and glanced at Master Zhang who was still twitching. He originally planned to stab him with a knife, but changed his mind. He turned to look at one of his subordinates and said, "Erliang, come and see some blood!"

Erliang had been in the army for more than a month, but he had never killed anyone, not even a chicken.

Just now he was just excited and followed Captain Zhu without thinking, but he didn't kill anyone. Now he heard the captain wanted him to do it himself, he couldn't help but agree loudly and walked forward heroically.

In the firelight, he saw that the seriously injured young man was probably less than twenty years old, about the same age as him, but with fair skin and tender flesh, and looked quite handsome.

"Momo, kill me."

Young Master Zhang had only come out with the army to gain experience, but he didn't expect that he would lose his life here. In fear, he was spitting blood foam and tears were streaming down his face.

Erliang couldn't help but hesitate, but when he looked up, he saw that all his brothers were looking at him. Erliang knew that if he hesitated and was timid, he would be looked down upon by everyone, so he turned his head away from Mr. Zhang and gritted his teeth and chopped down with a knife.

"Ah~"

There was another scream, but it was much weaker. Because he avoided the sight and did not chop accurately, the knife directly cut off half of Master Zhang's chin and did not hit the vital part of his neck.

"I found the commander of the camp! I found the commander of the camp!"

There was a cheer from afar. Zhu De'en didn't waste any more time on this. He stepped forward and kicked Er Liang away, cursing, "Coward!"

Then he stabbed down with his backhand, and the tip of the knife went straight into Master Zhang's throat. The latter convulsed all over, and after a few breaths, he was completely motionless.

At three quarters past the hour of Xu, the bravest soldiers from the Lu Camp rescued the camp commander Jie Tianlu.

Xie Tianlu was already covered in wounds after being captured just two hours ago. His remaining undergarment was covered with whip marks, stained black and red by the blood that seeped out.

"Yingzheng!"

"Relieve the head"

Surrounded by the crowd, Xie Tianlu looked at the chaotic situation in front of him and immediately asked in a serious tone: "What's going on?"

"Sir, I am guilty of the death penalty! I heard in the evening that you were detained by the imperial camp, and I was very anxious."

Zhu De'en gave a brief explanation. Xie Tianlu never expected that he would cause such a big trouble, but he had always enjoyed prestige among his brothers. He knew that once the arrow was shot, there was no turning back. If he took a step back at this time, he would lead his brothers into an abyss.

After a brief thought, he immediately instructed: "Report, quickly take your brothers and gather the families of each family. If the war goes badly, we will take our families to Jiangbei! Old Zhu, follow me to find the imperial envoy!"

"Boss, I have sent people to Jiangbei to ask Commander Jiang to come and take over the defense."

Zhu De'en quickly whispered to Xie Tianlu and explained, indicating that the latter did not need to send anyone to pick up the family. Xie Tianlu looked at Zhu De'en in surprise, and then said, "Okay! Then let's meet the Imperial Envoy!"

The imperial camp has become a closed and dead place.

The soldiers from various camps that Pang Bingzhong had just linked up surrounded the place tightly, and when they saw the soldiers from the imperial camp, they started to cut them into pieces with their swords. There was no order at all.

When Xie Tianlu found Kang Lu, the latter's personal guards and even the commander of the imperial camp, Wang Yuan, had all been killed. He was the only one holding a sword, surrounded by a part of the Jiesheng Army. He dodged the old eunuch's weak blows like a monkey, sometimes joking and sometimes laughing.

Xie Tianlu found the leader of the Jiesheng Army and wanted to get Kang Lu back. After all, the latter was an imperial envoy, and capturing him alive could be considered a gift to Commander-in-Chief Jiang.

But after he reminded him, the captain of the Mingshengjie Army also reacted and couldn't help but said with a smile: "Zhengying Zheng, everyone came to save you tonight, and this old eunuch was also the first one captured by our army. You can't just rob him like this, right?"

Although Xie Tianlu's military rank was higher than that of the captain, the two of them belonged to two different armies and had no command relationship, so he naturally could not use force.

But Jie Tianlu looked around the battlefield where the sounds of fighting had gradually died down and said, "Captain Li, the armor on the soldiers in the imperial camp is quite valuable. The incident happened suddenly tonight, and many friendly troops are still crowded outside the camp. Once they all come in, there won't be much armor left."

Upon hearing this, the captain's eyes lit up.

According to the standards of the Imperial Camp, these armors would cost at least several hundred coins per set if sold on the black market!

If you can collect a few hundred sets first, that would be a business worth tens of thousands of dollars!

Isn’t he more valuable than this old eunuch?
"Thank you Jie Yingzheng!"

The victorious general, who was suddenly enlightened, immediately led his men to strip off their armor.

Zhu De'en looked at Xie Tianlu in confusion, then looked at the corpses of the imperial soldiers scattered on the ground in the distance, as if he was also coveting those armors.

Xie Tianlu said, "It's not that easy to get the weapons."

After that, he raised his finger and pointed at Kang Lu, and ordered: "Tie him up!"

"Who dares!"

Kang Lu had lost his hair crown, his imperial uniform was covered in dirt, and his face was stained with blood, whether it was his own or someone else's. His silver-white hair fluttered in the bloody night wind.

However, he clumsily thrust a sword into the air and shouted, "I am the military supervisor appointed by His Majesty. If you commit treason, you will bring disaster to your family!"

"Hahaha, you eunuch, you are quite tough! But you don't know that the fate of the Great Zhou has come to an end. Why don't you join us and surrender to the Great Chu, so that you can live the rest of your life in peace."

Zhu De'en said with a grin, as if he was looking at a clown.

"Hahaha"

Unexpectedly, Kang Lu laughed even louder than him, but then the laughter stopped abruptly. Kang Lu pointed at Zhu De'en with his sword and said, "You are such an unrighteous and reckless man, now you know what loyalty is!"

"I don't know your loyalty, but I know that if you continue to resist, your life will be in danger!" "Fool, do you think I am the kind of person who would betray his promise and live in disgrace?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Kang Lu suddenly put the sword on his neck, then turned around and knelt down in the southeast direction, tears rolling down his face. "Your Majesty, I have not done my job well. I am ashamed of your trust."

After saying that, he twisted his wrist suddenly around his neck and a stream of blood gushed out.

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On an early summer night, amid the noisy background sounds of fighting and clashing weapons, this corner suddenly became quiet.

After three or four breaths of silence, Zhu De'en became angry for some reason and wanted to kick the corpse to vent his anger, but Xie Tianlu stopped him, "Don't be rude! Find a coffin and bury the body."

Xu Shizhong.

The Jiangnan camp, which stretched for thirty miles, had become a sea of ​​fire and chaos was everywhere.

The Chu army from Jiangbei that Zhu Deen had imagined had not yet arrived.
As the eye of the storm tonight, the Imperial Camp was even more unbearable as more soldiers poured in. They had just been attacking the various units of the Imperial Camp side by side, but now they were fighting each other to grab armor and other trophies.

Before long, the relatively restrained fight turned into a blood-thirsty fight.

Only at this moment did Zhu De'en understand what Xie Tianlu meant when he said, "Weapons and armor are not that easy to obtain."

The people of the Lu Camp went into battle lightly, destroyed a section of the fence, and escaped from this troubled area from the west side of the Imperial Camp.

But the scene outside is no less spectacular.

There are 70,000 people in the Jiangnan camp, only 20,000 of whom followed the Chu army to the north last year, and only a few thousand at most participated in the riot tonight.

But in the darkness, some people shouted "The Chu army is coming", and some people shouted in panic "The fire broke out".

The chaos spread rapidly like a virus, eventually leading to the most terrifying "Howling Camp".

There were small groups of soldiers of varying sizes everywhere. In the beginning, they were robbing each other of spoils and property, and later on, they began to launch surprise attacks in darkness.

In order to protect themselves, it has developed to the point where once they encounter other tribes, they will fight without asking the reason.

The Lu Camp was not obsessed with spoils of war and stayed together lightly, hoping to stay away from the chaos. However, they unexpectedly encountered a melee one mile east of the Imperial Camp.

At first, the situation was unclear and the Lu Camp was lying in ambush on the roadside and did not participate in this sudden battle.

A quarter of an hour later, both sides were exhausted and only twenty people were left on the victorious side. The level of tragedy was even more intense than when they killed the enemy on the battlefield.

After these twenty people relit the torches, Xie Tianlu and others could see clearly in the red flames that the people coming were Sun Wei and Lu Dechen, commanders of the Tianxiong Army and Shengjie Army, and Wu Gong, commander-in-chief of the Jinghu Army.

Xie Tianlu hurriedly led his subordinates to meet up with them. Sun Wei, who was still in shock, saw that they were his subordinates and asked hurriedly, "What happened in the imperial camp? Where is the imperial envoy now?"

Xie Tianlu quickly reported: "The camp has been destroyed. The Imperial Envoy died in the chaos."

Upon hearing this, Sun Wei and Lu Dechen almost fainted. They had been hoping to use this to negotiate conditions for surrender from the State of Chu. But now that the imperial envoy was dead, there was no room for easing tensions with the Great Zhou. Where did they have the right bargaining chips?
"Fuck him! Who killed the imperial envoy? I'll chop him up!"

In a rage, Lu Dechen swore violently, but no one in Lu Camp responded to his question.

Xie Tianlu, Zhu Deen, Pang Bingzhong and others communicated silently with their eye contact.

Fortunately, Wu Gong finally reacted and said subconsciously: "Jie Yingzheng, aren't you detained in the Imperial Camp? Who let you out?"

Sun and Pang were not stupid. They just wanted to take advantage of the soldiers' trouble tonight to put pressure on the imperial envoy and see if they could extort something from the Zhou Kingdom.

However, he never expected that things would develop to the point where they were completely out of control, and his mind was inevitably blinded by anger.

At this time, Wu Gong said a word and the two of them instantly woke up. All the members of Lu Camp were here, and Xie Tianlu was free again. Isn't it obvious that Lu Camp had a big game tonight!
"Brother Tianlu, how are your injuries?"

Sun Wei immediately put on a amiable smile, but it was too late. Zhu De'en seemed to be afraid that the night would be too long and he shouted loudly: "Brothers! Kill them and take their heads to the Chu!"

The son of the Grand Marshal was killed, and the imperial envoy was forced to death, so what’s left is these two commanders!

How could the remaining twenty or so soldiers withstand the siege of hundreds of people? The short battle was over in just a few dozen breaths.

When Sun Wei was dragged off his horse and fell into the chaos of swords, he only had time to shout out the last sentence, "I can also surrender to the Great Chu! Don't kill me!"

Commander Sun could indeed love the Great Chu, but he did so a little late.

Just now, that wrong remark he made was at most just a fuse.

Now that there is no turning back, with one less superior, the contributions of these low-ranking officers will be more prominent.

If they surrender to Chu tomorrow, it will be led by their superiors, and the rewards will be discussed afterwards. They, the team leaders and squad leaders, will get nothing!

Zhu Deen was the first to realize this, but now everyone has realized it.

When it comes to surrendering to Chu, they are in competition with Shangguan!

However, under Xie Tianlu's special protection, the commander-in-chief of the Jinghu Army, Wu Gong, managed to keep one person.

Wu Gong, who was surrounded by the crowd, saw that Jie Tianlu had no intention of killing him, so he pretended to be calm and said, "Jie Yingzheng, what do you want me to do?"

"Commander!"

Xie Tianlu knelt on one knee and clasped his fists, saying: "Now there are flames everywhere in the camp. We are willing to follow you to quickly quell the civil strife and reduce the casualties among our comrades!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Gong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that his life was indeed saved. Now the whole camp was in complete chaos, and it was impossible for him, a small camp commander, to pacify it.

Only when Wu Gong stepped in personally and gradually gathered the defeated troops could the situation be stabilized.

"Okay! Please ask Jie Yingzheng to follow me to suppress the rebellious soldiers."

Wu Gong said politely, but Xie Tianlu still knelt on the ground without getting up. He only heard him say: "General, hundreds of brothers in my Lu camp have tied their heads to their waists tonight. I dare to ask, General, do you have any way to survive for us?"

How could Wu Gong not understand what he meant? He immediately assured: "Don't worry, Jie Yingzheng, I will cross the river and go to Jiangbei at dawn tomorrow! I will find a bright and smooth path for the 70,000 soldiers of the Jinghu Army! When I meet with Commander Jiang, I will report the events of tonight truthfully and will not bury Jie Yingzheng and his brothers!"

After saying this, Wu Gong couldn't help feeling a little bitter. Originally, he could have surrendered to Chu in a more decent way, and with his status, he could not escape the credit for surrendering to Chu.

Not only is he in such an embarrassing situation now, but the Emperor of Chu will also have the impression that he was forced to defect to the Great Zhou.

What happened tonight seemed accidental, but in fact it was inevitable.

The world is changing, dynasties are changing, it's all about benefits and power. The trend of the unification of the Great Chu is already established. Under the pressure of the general trend, people of all kinds have different choices.

On May 16, the Zhou Kingdom’s Jiangnan camp was blown up.

The imperial camp was destroyed and the imperial envoy died.

In addition, almost all the generals below the rank of commander were killed, with only the commander-in-chief Wu Gong escaping.

After a night of chaos, by the early morning of Mao, Wu Gong gathered more than 40,000 defeated soldiers, and the rest fled to the countryside.

In the early morning, Jiang Huaixiong, who had received the news from different channels, confirmed that this was not a self-torture trick by the other party. Then, after daybreak, he ordered his son-in-law Yang Erlang to lead the way and cross the river to the south.
The Jinghu Road camp had been operated by the Zhou State for more than three years and was easily changed hands.

The Jiangnan Camp was the last elite division of the Zhou Kingdom, and the troops along the river immediately fell into panic.

On May 19, Chen Chu and his family arrived in Caizhou, but did not stay. After settling his family there, he hurriedly led Peng Er and Zhou Liang's troops south.

On the same day, Sang Yanting, the prefect of Jiangning in the eastern Jiangnan route of the Zhou State, announced his surrender to Chu.

On May 21, Zheng Huaihan, the prefect of Jinling in Zhejiang East Road of Zhou State, announced his return to Chu.

On May 23, the military newspapers in Quanzhou and Xinghua of Fujian Province changed their banners.
As soon as the Chu Emperor's carriage arrived in Huainan, more than ten prefectures in Zhou State had already changed the imperial flags on the city walls.

It was originally planned to take three years to bring Jiangnan into the territory of Da Chu, but because of a small camp, the situation between the two countries was pushed to a crazy acceleration in an instant. (End of this chapter)