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Zhonghe three years, spring. .

After discussions among the generals of the Qi Army, they accepted Li Jing's nominal offer of security, and his troops were formally reorganized into the No.18 Army of the Qin Army, with Shang Rang as the head of the army. Waiting for the generals to be divided into various positions in the Eighteenth Army.

After changing the banner, the Qin army immediately transported supplies eastward through the Huaihe River.However, if Shang Rang and others wanted to obtain this batch of supplies, there must be a prerequisite.They had to break into the territory of Caizhou in order to obtain this batch of supplies.Because the Qin army's transport ships can only reach the westernmost part of Shouzhou and the southeasternmost Huaihe River in Caizhou for the time being.

Li Jing gave a lot of supplies, not only tens of thousands of shi of grain, but also [-] sets of military equipment in advance.For the Qi army who had just retreated all the way from Chang'an, this batch of supplies made them very excited.In order to obtain this batch of supplies, after some urgent discussions, Shang Rang and others decided to immediately send the third in command of the Qi army, the Marching Sima Mengkai of the Eighteenth Army, as the vanguard, leading [-] old battalions to clear the way and aggressively attack the Tang army.Their first target was also the target designated by Li Jing, the former rebel general of Zhongwu Town, who surrendered at one time, and now surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the current [***] Jiedu envoy who worships Yang Fuguang as his godfather , Caizhou, the base camp of King Qin Zongquan of Qi.

As one of the three towns divided by the Zhongwu Army, Qin Zongquan's own strength is still good. Although it has been swaying here and there in the past few years, it is precisely this kind of wind and wind that makes Fengguo Town not suffer any damage. On the contrary, it grows secretly a lot.

However, at this time, Qin Zongquan was still in Chang'an City, and many of his troops followed him to Guanzhong. There were not many troops left behind in Caizhou. In other words, maybe they had been fooling around for too long, so the troops under them were a bit bullying. , as soon as Meng Kai led 1 people to kill them rumblingly, Qin Zongquan's general Sun Ru only fought against Meng Kai, the former leader of the Salt Gang, and he lost.In just one day, Sun Ru lost Tongbai City and returned to Caizhou.

When Qin Zongquan heard the news, he led his troops back to Caizhou in a hurry, and led his troops to fight in person. As a result, Meng Kai defeated the crowd with a small number, but won a big victory.Qin Zongquan retreated and assembled his troops again to fight. This time, Shang Rang led the follow-up troops in person. The two sides fought under the city of Caizhou. The battle lasted three days and caused mutual damage.As a result, in the early morning of the fourth day, the Shang Rang army suddenly used firearms, and the whole army played the banner of the Qin army. The Caizhou army in the city was frightened and lost. Next, Qin Zongquan sent troops to ask for help from the loyal brother Zhou Ji ,no respond.Then he asked Xuanwu's dry brother 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, unexpectedly surrendered to Shang Rang and others by opening the city to everyone's surprise.

This accident can be said to be beyond everyone's expectations. Zhongwu Jieshuai Zhou Ji and Xuanwu Jieshuai Zhu Wen were so angry that they almost vomited blood when they heard that Qin Zongquan had surrendered the enemy so simply.They didn't rescue immediately before, because they felt that Shang Rang could only wait for some defeated and remnant troops, and Qin Zongquan still had tens of thousands of horses in his hands.They originally wanted to use the hand of Qi Jun to weaken the strength of Qin Zongquan's neighbor.Who would have imagined that Qin Zongquan was already a little dazed when he saw the flag of the Qin army, but after hearing about the remnants of the Qi army, he was even more shaken after he was indeed recruited by Li Jing.He asked for help from several surrounding towns, but none of them could be saved.Under such circumstances, Qin Zongquan was very single, and he was unwilling to fight to the death with the Qi army, especially the Qi army that had already surrendered to the Qin army.You know, the Qin army is not far away. The southeast corner of Caizhou is just separated from the northwest corner of Shouzhou controlled by the Qin army by the Huai River.

It turned out that Qin Zongquan, who was wavering between the Tang Dynasty and the puppet Qi, had his own ideas. In troubled times, all loyalty is false, and only the soldiers in his hands are real.As long as you have soldiers in your hands, it doesn't matter which master you follow.Therefore, to everyone's surprise, this Fengguo Jiedu Envoy, who had just been canonized as the King of Qi by the new Chang'an Emperor, has become Qin Fan's subordinate again in a blink of an eye. In fact, he has become Shang Rang's subordinate .

On the day of surrender, he finally figured out the current relationship between Shang Rang and others and Qin Wang Li Jing. Shang Rang and Li Jing were not so much a relationship as a superior, but an alliance relationship.Although he felt that he had been tricked, Qin Zongquan still did not regret it.Now that it has been lowered, let's ignore those for the time being.In his opinion, Shang let them use the banner of Li Jing, that banner is so easy to fight, sooner or later they still can't escape Li Jing's palm, he is now Li Jing's subordinate in name, maybe this It's a good result.

Shang Rang and others were unexpectedly assisted by the powerful Caizhou Army, and their strength was greatly boosted in the blink of an eye.However, Qin Zongquan was not simple. He quickly reached a new agreement with Monk Rang and others, and got in touch with the Qin Fan headquarters through Zhang Guiba in the Eighteenth Army. Soon, the Caizhou Army was awarded the designation of the Fourth Army.The Caizhou Army and the Qi Army have become more of an alliance of mutual cooperation, and they are both under the command of the Qin Fan in name.

Shang Rang's No.18 Army and Qin Zongquan's Fourth Army joined forces and took advantage of the momentum to continue to advance eastward.

In March, the two armies moved towards Yingzhou. Yingzhou is now the territory of Zhu Wen in Xuanwu Town, but the governor is Zhang Guimou, and the garrison is basically Zhang Guimou's subordinates.After the recovery of Luoyang, the Qi army in Henan suffered a catastrophe, especially after Zhu Asan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the situation was even worse.In the end, Zhu Quanzhong persuaded Zhang Guimou of Yingzhou and Ge Congzhou of Haozhou to let the two generals bring their subordinates and territories to join him.But up until now, the territory of these two states is still actually controlled by Zhang Guimou and Ge Congzhou.

When Shangrang and Qin Zongquan's [-] coalition troops marched to Yingzhou from the west, and his elder brother Zhang Guiba went into Yingzhou city to persuade him to surrender, Zhang Guimou did not hesitate and surrendered directly.

Zhang Guimou had no choice but to surrender. Shangrang and Qin Zongquan surrendered to Qin, which cut off the west of Yingzhou, and the Qin army occupied Su and Xu to the west of Yingzhou, and Shouzhou to the south. He had no choice at all. .What's more, his elder brother brought him a very good condition.Li Jing will award Zhang Guimu, Shen Qiubo, and the head of the brigadier general of the No. 19 Legion, and the troops and territory of his troops will remain unchanged.

What reason does he have to refuse such a condition?

To say that the only ones who were dissatisfied with this were Shang Rang and Qin Zongquan. Zhang Guimou's surrender gave Qin Zongquan and monk Rang the opportunity to rob.However, despite some dissatisfaction, Li Jing also gave them compensation. The original support materials were provided in full, and an additional batch was added, and Zhang Guimou also transferred a batch of materials to the two of them.Under such circumstances, everyone laughed at each other and said no more.

After Zhang Guimu of Yingzhou surrendered to Qin, Zhang Guiba persuaded another brother to surrender to Qin.The governor of Haozhou, Ge Congzhou, was also persuaded, and resolutely accepted Li Jing's offer which was similar to Zhang Guimou's.Awarded to Ge Cong Zhou Yongchengbo, head of the No.20 Legion's brigadier general.

Although Zhang Guimou and Ge Congzhou had no more than 3 old battalion elites, and no more than [-] old and weak men, Li Jing still generously granted them the post of regiment commander and the designation of the new regiment.

On the surface, Li Jing got four surrendered troops at once and formed four legions. To the outside world, Shang Rang's No.18 Legion claimed to be 15, but in fact it was [-] old and weak.Qin Zongquan's Fourth Army claimed to be [-], but in fact it was only [-].Zhang Guimu's Yingzhou army was claimed to be [-], but in fact it was [-] old and weak. Ge Congzhou's Haozhou army was claimed to be [-], but in fact there were only [-] in total.

The Fourth Legion claims to have a total of 33 troops, but in fact they only have 12 in total, of which there are only [-] real soldiers, and no more than [-] elite soldiers.

But sometimes, the truth is not absolutely important.

At least, in the late spring of the third year of Zhonghe, Yang Fugong in Chang'an City was already a little worried.However, Zhou Ji of Zhongwu Town and Zhu Quanzhong of Xuanwu Town, who had already been attacked suddenly by the Qin army, were even more devastated.

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, with two characters of Qin written on it.

"Bang!" Zhu Quanzhong turned around sharply, and slapped the old case heavily with his palm, his eyes swept across the generals like wolves.

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

Zhu Wen also didn't expect 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 prefectures, Yingzhou and Haozhou, were not completely under their control, but now they were completely lost.After losing Yinghao, Zhu Wen’s Xuanwu Town suddenly only had Zhengzhou and Bianzhou on the edge of Luoyang. But Xuanwu Town is very important to him.If there is no mistake in Ying, his Xuanwu is almost really hard to do.

Originally, in Zhu Wen's vision, he owned Jinshang, Shanguo, and Xuanwu's three towns and eleven prefectures. As long as they worked harder and found a way to win the Zhongwu three prefectures, then his three towns would be able to connect. Together, even if Luoyang is half surrounded, then his territory will become a powerful vassal town among the towns in the Central Plains.It was also for this reason that he did not respond immediately after receiving Qin Zongquan's request for help from Caizhou.Originally, he wanted to use a knife to kill people, take the opportunity to weaken Caizhou, and even let the Qi army disrupt the three Zhongwu towns. , By the way, swallow the three towns of Zhongwu in one gulp.

It's not as good as the sky, 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 by the new dynasty. Could it be that Li Jing can give him a higher award after he surrendered to Qin Dynasty?

"Commander, Shang Rang, Qin Zongquan, Zhang Guimou, and Ge Cong Zhou's army, the next target is undoubtedly Chenzhou, and then Xuzhou, Bianzhou, Zhengzhou, Ruzhou, and Luoyang. They will eat and attack all the way. Li Jing is so cunning, Unexpectedly, he was not at all fooled by the bait thrown by the court. Instead, he made a strange move. He recruited and lured Shang Rang and other rebels. Without Qin Fan's effort, he had already shaken the Central Plains and alarmed Luoyang. What a ruthless move. , What a sinister trick."

"There are no evil or ruthless moves, only good and bad. Li Jing's moves are very threatening." Zhu Wen sighed.He had to admit that Li Jing's use of troops was sometimes really unconstrained, and it was always unexpected.

"Marshal, what shall we do?" Xie Tong asked on the side, the meaning in his words was very clear, whether to continue the previous strategy, to kill people with a knife, and to use Shangrang to wait for opponents to deal with their neighbor Zhongwu Sanzhen.

Zhu Wen shook his head, "No, we have to rescue Chenzhou. Now that Li Jing has inserted himself into it, we can't take it lightly. We not only saved Chenzhou, but we have to go all out!" (To be continued.)