The Bad Guys: Everyone, let’s revive the Tang Dynasty together!

Chapter 321 Leave it to you
Li Renfu of Dingnan and Han Xun of Shuofang both had plans to use military force against Qi State. Although the two towns blocked the flow of intelligence, Qi Wangwei eventually noticed some clues and quickly sent the message to Fengxiang.

However, during this period, Qi Wangwei obtained intelligence from Xiazhou and Lingzhou, then returned to Yanzhou, and had to send it back to Fengxiang from Yanzhou without stopping. There was a time difference of two or three days in between.

It seems that just two or three days are enough to produce too many variables. The troops of the two towns may have left the town and reached the territory of Baosai Army. By the time Fengxiang reacts, the situation over there may have already started.

The northwestern border is often hundreds of miles away, and the vastness of the territory leads to too many variables. Even someone as calm as Li Maozhen changed his expression the moment he received the military report.

The fake Li was even more furious, pacing back and forth, saying, "It must be that person! It must be that person behind the scenes! Without Xiao Yan's instigation, how dare these two idiots, Li Renfu and Han Xun, mobilize their troops!?"

Li Maozhen had a gloomy face, holding the military report with his hands behind his back, thinking.

The timing was too accurate. Bao's army was just transferred from the north by him and just arrived at Fengxiang camp two days ago. Therefore, the only army left in the north of Qi State was Baosai's army. The whole town had more than 6,000 soldiers and more than 920 horses. More than 2,000 soldiers could be gathered to guard several passes. All of them were capable of fighting, and their armor rate could be considered upper-middle among the entire Qi State army. The rest that could be mobilized were only local soldiers.

It seems that there is no big problem to guard the northern territory of Qi State with 8,000 combat soldiers. However, the territory of Weibei Town (Baoda and Baosai armies) is too vast, and 8,000 soldiers are a little stretched even if they only guard the prefecture. Just by thinking about it, Li Maozhen can predict how many people can be captured by the two towns of Dingnan in this invasion.

And the most crucial thing is that due to the urgency of the situation, King Wei of Qi did not have time to confirm how many troops Dingnan and Shuofang towns had. If it was a small fight, the Baosai Army would be enough to stop the two towns of Dingnan in Weibei.

However, if the two towns of Dingnan launched a large-scale attack, I am afraid that the three towns of Jingyuan, Bining and Weibei in the north would be affected to varying degrees, because the two armies of Zhangyi and Baoda in the former two towns had been transferred to Fengxiang by Li Maozhen.

Tricky, very tricky!
Li Maozhen frowned, glanced at the fake Li, and said in a deep voice: "Why are you in such a hurry? A piece of news has made you so confused, and you still want to replace Xiao Yanxingtang? It's embarrassing."

The fake Li sighed. Of course he was unwilling to accept this. Judging from the current situation, Qi State could no longer use its military force against Guanzhong. This was completely different from what he had imagined. How could he not be anxious?
However, he calmed down immediately, knowing that it was still up to Li Maozhen to make the decision, so he hurriedly asked, "What does the King of Qi want to do?"

Li Maozhen's eyes turned cold. He knew that without Zhu Liang's support, the two towns of Dingnan would never dare to take the initiative to raise an army. Thinking of this, his decision to take over Shuofang and Dingnan first and then slowly attack Guanzhong was the right one.

But now that things have come to this, there is no point in regretting, so he immediately said: "I will write a letter immediately, and you should find a way to send it to Taiyuan as soon as possible. I don't care what Li Keyong decides to do, just tell him that if you want me to send troops to Guanzhong, you should immediately send troops to Dingnan Town to buy time for easing tensions in Qi State!"

The fake Li thought for a moment and realized that Li Maozhen was obviously still reluctant to give up the fat piece of meat in Guanzhong. This was in line with his plan, so the fake Li would of course give his full support. And at this point the safest way was to let Jin State put pressure on Dingnan Town.

After all, Jin State and Dingnan are adjacent to each other. Although there is the Yellow River between them, the river is still frozen. Li Maozhen wants Jin State to threaten Dingnan Town's old nest, Xiazhou, and force the Dingnan army to return for support.

If this is possible, with only the Shuofang Army left, the Qi State will have some room to respond.

The fake Li did not dare to delay. On the one hand, he asked someone to prepare a carrier pigeon to deliver the letter, and on the other hand, he prepared fast horses and messengers. As soon as Li Maozhen's letter was written, it would be sent out immediately.

The situation was not so urgent after all. The fake Li calmed down, frowned a little, and said with gritted teeth: "It seems that there are still spies from the fake Liang in Fengxiang... Maybe Xiao Yan's people have not been completely eliminated!"

Li Maozhen had no intention of intervening in the matter for the time being. The military discussion outside had not yet ended, and he did not want to shake the morale of the army at this time. He only ordered the fake Li to act according to his discretion, and then went out to clean up the situation.

The fake Li Chang breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Li Maozhen's intention did not waver, he was filled with murderous intent. He immediately summoned the Qi Wang guards from all over the place and declared a secret curfew in the entire city. He closely monitored the movements in Fengxiang and was determined to find out those fake Liang spies.

At the same time, he sent someone to inform Fanyintian, asking him to prepare to let Huanyinfang cooperate with Qi Wangwei. With Li Maozhen's words to do things in a convenient way, the fake Li's power was much greater, and he had no pressure to command a Huanyinfang.

During this period of time, Fengxiang has been tracking Xiao Yan's movements without interruption. The fake Li Zhiqi is still on his way back to Beijing. There are many people on Xiao Yan's official ship returning to Beijing, and he will meet with some local officials from time to time wherever he passes. It is easy to get news.

But the fake Li now believes that this is most likely a trick of Xiao Yan or the Zhu Liang court. Xiao Yan himself may have secretly returned to Bian Jing long ago. In short, the dispatch of troops from the two towns is most likely related to Xiao Yan.

When the fake Li thought of this, he became quite afraid of Xiao Yan. He knew that if he could meet the latter on the battlefield, he would make him die at the hands of Li Maozhen at all costs, otherwise he would definitely be his biggest enemy in the future.

He hurried down to arrange personnel and sent out all the more than ten bad men assigned to him by Yuan Tiangang to catch the spies in Fengxiang City.

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After Li Maozhen returned to the military meeting, his face was calm, so the generals did not have too many doubts due to his long absence, and they continued to discuss the dispatch of troops step by step.

But Li Maozhen's heart was not at peace. He felt as if he had carefully put on new clothes but stepped into a toilet before going out.

The feeling of being precisely controlled was not pleasant. Li Maozhen listened to the opinions of the generals with an expressionless face, but he was thinking in his mind that he must not give up the offensive against Guanzhong no matter what.

Why could the two small towns of Dingnan pose a threat to the State of Qi? There is only one reason.

The power of Qi State was too weak, and it could support too few soldiers. If Qi State was as wealthy and powerful as Zhu Liang, and could set up military forces everywhere to guard against foreign enemies, how could Li Maozhen feel so stretched?

Guanzhong must be conquered, as it is the first step for Qi State to take on the road to hegemony. If they miss this opportunity, it will take who knows how many years to wait for the next opportunity.

So when all the generals had finished speaking and were waiting for Li Maozhen to finalize his opinion, they discovered that their King Qi was inexplicably sitting there with a cold face and remained silent for a long time.

Everyone was stunned and looked at each other, not knowing whether they should speak up to remind him.

Liu Zhijun, who had been in Qi for more than half a year, stroked his short beard lightly, frowned, and was about to ask, but he heard Li Maozhen's voice suddenly as if it was the final word.

"I have decided to send out troops five days ahead of schedule, based on the original plan!"

The generals were stunned, and then there was a slight murmur.

Five days in advance, doesn't that mean the troops will be dispatched the next day?
Liu Zhijun was also stunned and stood up to persuade: "Prince Qi, please think twice. Isn't this too hasty..."

Li Maozhen waved his hand and said coldly: "Speed ​​is of the essence in war. Zhu Liang has withdrawn his defense and may have become alert. The longer the night, the more trouble there is. We should fight this battle sooner rather than later. Instead of giving the Liang army more time to prepare, we might as well seize the initiative as soon as possible!"

There was nothing wrong with this statement, but the generals still had objections, especially the logistics officer, who was under increasing pressure and wanted to persuade him again, but saw Li Maozhen waving his hands heavily.

"We will mobilize tomorrow and start the war the day after tomorrow. I will reward the entire army by then. Generals, make your preparations quickly!"

Seeing that Li Maozhen had made up his mind, everyone, including Liu Zhijun, no longer had any objections. Moreover, delivering the meeting five days earlier was not a big deal, and if there were rewards, they would have some reasons to talk to the soldiers, so they all stood up and responded to the order.

Li Maozhen left the table, and his ideas changed over time until they were finally finalized.

It is too far-fetched to wait for Jin State to contain Dingnan Army. It may take at least half a month to get any news. If we wait for Zhuliang and Dingnan towns to respond from afar, that would be really tricky.

The Baosai Army could hold out in the north for a while. Before the expedition, they could order the towns to relocate as many people as possible, and leave a general to recruit local soldiers and state soldiers for defense, which would also be considered a fighting force. Dingnan and the other two towns were vast and sparsely populated, and most of them were foreigners. There were only a small number of elite soldiers, so the threat they posed could not be reduced.

Thinking like this, Li Maozhen finally felt a little comforted. At worst, he could free up his hands after the war and kill those two bastards Li Renfu and Han Xun in one go!
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In the room, a man dressed in sackcloth walked in quickly and clasped his fists to Xiao Yan.

"My lord, after the news was released, the Qi Wang Guards really took action. They have placed people in various places in Fengxiang. They must be looking for our people. I have asked the brothers to withdraw to avoid alerting the enemy."

Xiao Yan supported himself on the table with both hands, his eyes wandering over the map on the table, and said calmly: "Show them a flaw and attract the attention of the Qi Wangwei."

"Here!"

The man in sackcloth clothes left immediately, and after a long time, another person walked in quickly.

At that moment, there was almost no one in the house except Xiao Yan. Two men responsible for transmitting information went in and out at staggered times, which did not attract much attention in this crowded residential area.

"My Lord, according to the speculation of my brothers below, the station of the Qi Wang Guard should be empty. Now most of the Qi Wang Guards are deployed at several city gates, and our contact with the outside world has been cut off."

The man paused, and then said, "But there was news beforehand that the Qi army camps outside the city had different movements..."

"This 'martial arts performance' must be brought forward." Xiao Yan smiled. He could guess what Li Maozhen was thinking to some extent. The news from Dingnan had come. No matter whether Li Maozhen wanted to continue to use troops in Guanzhong or planned to advance north to fight against the two towns of Dingnan, it was a matter of urgency and Li Maozhen would not have time to delay.

However, the gathering of troops from several towns in Fengxiang is a recent occurrence. If they are to take action again immediately, it is impossible for them to not complain at all. This is a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Li Maozhen wanted to take the empress with him to join the army. Xiao Yan could not wait until Li Maozhen left Fengxiang before taking any action, so he overturned all the previous plans.

Moreover, if the empress waited until Li Maozhen led his army to leave Fengxiang before starting the rebellion, even if she succeeded, she would still be at a disadvantage. As long as the military power was in Li Maozhen's hands, she would always be invincible.

Xiao Yan's eyes moved and fell on the "Arsenal" on the map, and said: "Tell Gong Yangzuo to act according to the previously established plan."

"Here!"

After the messenger left, Xiao Yan was the only one left in the house. He tapped the table slowly, calmly.

In fact, he was not very sure whether it would succeed or not. If he really looked into it, the chance of success might be less than 30%.

But 30% is enough for him to take risks, and he has the cooperation of the Empress and can borrow some power from Huanyinfang. For him, this is a rare opportunity.

This is a personal exercise for Xiao Yan.

A drill called "coup d'état".

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Huanyinfang. The empress was calm and composed, and she still had the leisure to continue practicing calligraphy. On the paper was a copy of the "Lanting Preface" by the calligrapher, but the font was not running script, which seemed a bit strange.

Guangmutian was feeling a little uneasy beside him. He sat up from time to time, walked back and forth from time to time, wanted to say something but stopped himself several times, not daring to disturb the empress's mood. After waiting for a while, even his palms were sweating.

It was too depressing. Obviously nothing had happened, but Guangmutian had the illusion that a storm was about to come, like the calm before the storm, which made people feel both expectant and fearful, and extremely torturous.

Previously, Fanyintian secretly sent a message saying that the Qi Wangwei outside had a big move and seemed to be arresting people all over the city, and even Huanyinfang had to cooperate honestly. However, there was no movement from Xiao Yan's side. He still said the same thing as before, asking Huanyinfang to cooperate, and the empress herself just had to wait for his arrangements.

As for the "arrangement", Xiao Yan did not say it clearly, and Fanyintian and Guangmutian also found it difficult to understand, but the empress was not in a hurry, as if she knew what opportunity to wait for.

This wait has made Guangmutian feel dry-mouthed for no reason. He watched the sun set and the night enveloped the entire city.

Afterwards, she watched the sun rise and the sky became bright. On the second day, there was still no movement outside.

During this period, Li Maozhen sent Fanyintian to come once, telling the empress to prepare to go with the army. It was rare that he did not come in person, perhaps because he was entangled in a bunch of trivial matters.

However, Fan Yintian secretly told them that the Qi Wang Guards seemed to have discovered something. Someone, perhaps one of Xiao Yan's men, had been exposed and was being wanted by the whole city. The Qi Wang Guards were becoming more and more aggressive. This was the first time in half a year that they had appeared in Fengxiang to arrest people. Judging from the situation, it seemed that the Qi Wang Guards would gain something within a day.

Guangmutian became more nervous when he heard this, but the empress remained unmoved. She kept her composure and practiced calligraphy over and over again.

This made Guangmutian depressed.

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How could my master trust Xiao Yan so much? !
The empress naturally couldn't tell her, and at the moment, she could only trust Xiao Yan wholeheartedly.

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As night fell, the whole city of Fengxiang was silent. Due to the grand action taken by the King of Bai Riqi, the common people in the city had no choice but to stay in their own houses and complain.

After the establishment of the Qi Wang Guard, it didn't actually do anything to anger God or people, but what people fear most is comparison. Although Huanyinfang was also feared by ordinary people in Fengxiang in the past, it still had a positive image. During festivals, it would represent Qi Wang to distribute porridge and charity in various places in the city, and its reputation has always been good.

Moreover, the ladies in Huanyinfang are much more pleasing to the eye than a bunch of rough guys. Although they are cold, they have a halo around them and they would never lower their status to get entangled with ordinary people. Instead, they give people the illusion of being close to the people.

So when it comes to the Queen of Qi, it is hard not to make people resent her. Not only is she overbearing, but because she can go directly before the King of Qi, she is not too polite to the officials below or the common people. She is even more straightforward and domineering when performing her official duties. During the day, she said something about arresting spies from Liang State. I don't know how many innocent people she has wrongly arrested. It was okay before, and ordinary people had no contact with her, but after today, it is hard for people to have a good impression of her.

In a restaurant somewhere in the south of the city, many people had already gathered before dinner in the evening.

People from several major tea merchants gathered together, and each of them had complaints, especially the Shu merchants. A large group of them sat together, their faces flushed with anger.

It was because the Qi Wang guards arrested people in broad daylight, and most of the "spies" who were captured were their tea merchants. Damn it, how did we tea merchants provoke you, Qi Wang?

We crossed mountains and rivers to deliver tea from Jiangnan and Shu to your Fengxiang, just for commercial profits and for the good reputation of you, King Qi. But what happened is that you arrested nearly a hundred of us just for a disagreement, without even a specific reason. Isn't this just taking advantage of us tea merchants?
But merchants at that time did not dare to go against the military leaders. No one would do anything that would cost them their lives, so they could only stay in their respective shops and complain. However, somehow the news spread to the ears of tea merchants throughout the city, saying that tea merchants of all sizes had gathered here to seek an explanation from the Fengxiang Shogunate. As a result, in just an hour or two, many people came to this restaurant to inquire about the news.

When these men gathered together, if someone took the lead, their words would naturally carry some military spirit. Moreover, behind the tea merchants present were tea gangs of all sizes from all over the place, with many gang members, all of them were hot-blooded men. No one knew who started it, but they really planned to go together to find King Qi to seek an explanation.

Finally, an old man who claimed to be from the Qianzhong Tea Gang took the lead and led hundreds of people straight to the Prince Qi's Mansion. Amid the complaints of the crowd just now, most people's anger had been aroused, but now no one thought that there was anything wrong with mobilizing hundreds of people to go to the Prince Qi's Mansion.

There were some people who were confused and did react a little, but after being infected by the atmosphere, especially the instigation of the old man from Qianzhong, who seemed to have the momentum to take responsibility for everything, no one spoke out in opposition from beginning to end.

From the south of the city to Prince Qi's mansion, the movement of hundreds of people should have been stopped and questioned by someone, but for some reason, there was no obstruction during the process. Even the Qi Wang Guards and the people from Huanyinfang did not show up.

Until the end, the hundreds of people who were furious suddenly heard a shout from the front: "Who is trespassing into the armory? Don't you know how to write the word death?"

Everyone was a little confused. Aren’t they going to Prince Qi’s Mansion? Why were they in the armory?

The crowd began to murmur, but before they could make any move, they heard some bastard in the team yell, "Who cares if you have an arsenal or not? King Qi has no right to arrest people for no reason! If the tea gangs of the world do nothing about this incident today, won't they be bullied by the world at will in the future!?"

As they were talking, several people in the crowd suddenly raised their arms, cold lights flashed, and several sleeve arrows shot straight at the armory guard.

Isn't this right...

The tea merchants were panicked, but before they could flee, the Qi army shouted in front of them: "If anyone is causing trouble, kill them without mercy!"

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"puff."

In the corner, a man in linen clothes cut Yiqi Wangwei's throat, and together with his companions, they gathered the body into the corner. Then they hurriedly shouted loudly at the doors of various tea gangs and businesses.

"It's a disaster! King Qi wants to kill all the tea merchants in Fengxiang and collect the money to reward the troops!"

As soon as he finished shouting, the man had disappeared, but his voice continued to echo everywhere, leaving the members of the tea gang looking at each other in bewilderment, feeling a chill.

You know, most of their shopkeepers have just gone to Prince Qi's mansion with a large number of troops. Isn't this walking into a trap?

It turns out that arresting people in broad daylight was just a cover. They said they were arresting spies, but it was obviously targeting our tea gang. Now they are thinking of defeating them one by one, killing all the shop owners first and then clearing out the tea gang!
Is King Qi going crazy?!
It was too late for people to think too much. There were shouts of fighting and killing everywhere, and it was impossible to tell what was real. The leaders of the tea merchants were gone, so there was no one in charge. Immediately, some people spontaneously organized themselves and gathered to go to Prince Qi's mansion to rescue people. Countless tea gang members took to the streets holding torches, with their weapons flashing in front of everyone.

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Phantom Square.

Fanyin Tianzheng covered his mouth and laughed sweetly. He poured tea for the fake Li himself and said with a smile: "Mr. Li is really capable. The Qi Wang Guard has only been established for half a year, but it has become so powerful. In my opinion, sooner or later, Huanyinfang will have to rely on the Qi Wang Guard..."

The fake Li had a cold expression on his face, but he finally released some of the depression he had been feeling over the past two days. He had been suppressed by Yuan Tiangang for too long, and was actually very satisfied with Fan Yintian's flattery this time, but he did not show it.

He let Fanyintian's seductive figure rub against him, and said coldly: "Saint Ji Fanyin avoided people a few days ago, how can you have the leisure to invite me so attentively today?"

Fanyintian covered his mouth and laughed, pointing at the female servants who were drinking tea and playing with more than ten Qi Wangwei below and said: "Please don't blame me, Li Lang. I saw that you Qi Wangwei have made another contribution and have worked hard for two days. I am here to reward you on behalf of Qi Wang. Besides, my sisters have not had a partner for many years. Now that Qi Wangwei is in power, the sisters have long begged me to find them a good man..."

A sneer appeared on the fake Li's lips.

These women are like this. They ignore others before they gain power, but they rush to get close to them after they gain power.

What is Huanyinfang? Isn't she no different from other women?

Fake Li was somewhat bored. He said impatiently, "Just now you said that the empress invited you for something. What is it? I have something important to do and cannot afford to waste time with you."

Fanyintian rolled his eyes and just tried to delay time, "How dare I guess what the empress is thinking? Li Lang, please wait a little longer. Come, have some tea..."

Fake Li had no patience, so he pushed the door aside and was about to go in and meet the empress himself, but he suddenly stopped and saw a bad guy walking in quickly, whispering in his ear: "Something is wrong..."

The fake Li frowned, glanced back at the smiling Fan Yintian, frowned, and walked out in a hurry without saying a word.

Fan Yintian clenched his fists and hurried up to the attic, not caring whether he would be seen by Li Maozhen's men or not, and strode into the attic.

Inside the door, the empress, who was already wearing the Qi Dynasty dress, raised her head.

Fanyintian suppressed his excitement and his hands and feet were shaking.

"Empress, the Crown Prince just sent a message--"

"Leave the inside of the city to him. Outside the city, I leave it to you."

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In the north city, there is a neighborhood southeast of the armory.

The chaos outside could be heard from here, but no one paid any attention. Nearly ten of the remaining Qi Wang guards had become corpses. A man in linen clothes wiped his blood-stained Tang sword, searched the corpses for the keys, and opened the prison doors one by one.

Duo Wentian, dressed in green, and Yang Yantian, who was in the cell opposite, looked at each other. Neither of them was in a hurry to escape, and both looked at the men in sackcloth clothes with vigilance.

"What are you waiting for?"

Outside, someone walked in casually, first looked around, then smiled and said, "The Empress asked me to pick you up."

The man had an ordinary appearance, but a very good temperament. Duowentian and the other two did not dare to be fooled easily and just kept silent.

However, the two girls only heard several sounds of people kneeling to the ground. They turned around in surprise and saw that the 18 bad people who had been detained here were half-kneeling, with their hands clasped together. Their faces, which were obviously extremely pale from being tortured, were all filled with tears.

"Subordinates, please pay your respects to the Captain!!"

(End of this chapter)