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Li Changjie never expected that Nong Zongtan, who had always regarded as his confidant, would betray him and secretly surrender to the Song Dynasty. Taking the opportunity of holding a birthday party for him, he arrested him and the generals who were loyal to him in one fell swoop. However, Nong Zongtan did not kill them, but temporarily imprisoned them, and then cleaned the army and court. All those who were unwilling to surrender to Nong Zongtan were killed or imprisoned by him. Although this greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Shenglong Mansion army, it finally allowed Nong Zongtan to initially master the army that originally belonged to Li Changjie.

After imprisoning Li Changjie, Nong Zongtan immediately reported the message to Zhao Yan. In fact, more than a month ago, he had secretly sent a letter to the officials of Shenshui Port. He contacted Zhao Yan through the other party, indicating that he was willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty. In order to show his loyalty, he was willing to help the Song Dynasty pacify the entire Jiaozhi.

Zhao Yan did not choose to believe Nong Zongtan, the Jiaozhi man who took the initiative to climb up to him, but secretly asked someone to investigate and then put forward the conditions. If you want to gain his trust, you should show some strength. After all, Nong Zongtan is only a general under Li Changjie and does not have too many troops, so he is not qualified to be valued by Zhao Yan. As a result, Nong Zongtan is really cruel and actually seizes military power directly from Li Changjie.

"What a good Nong Zongtan, he actually made him successful. Unexpectedly, the old fox Li Changjie capsized a boat in the gutter and actually let his subordinates imprison him!" Zhao Yan in the study couldn't help laughing after looking at the letter Nong Zongtan wrote in his hand. Although he reminded Li Changjie last time and told him that Li Rizun wanted to harm him, he just wanted to provoke their relationship. In fact, Zhao Yan had no good feelings for Li Changjie, especially thinking that tens of thousands of people in Yongzhou died in history, Zhao Yan hated Li Changjie very much. Now that he learned that the other party was imprisoned, Zhao Yan was naturally very happy.

"Haha, third brother, you have a vision. At the beginning, I thought this was a trap set by Li Changjie, but I didn't expect that Nong Zongdan really had a rebellious heart. It seems that the sky is about to perish!" Xu Yuan, who was sitting in the study room, also smiled.

"That's right, this matter is indeed a matter of third brother. At the beginning, I thought it was Jiaozhi's conspiracy and kept advising third brother not to be fooled, but I didn't expect that the other party would actually imprison Li Changjie." At this time, Wang Shiyi, who was sitting opposite Xu Yuan, also smiled and said. At that time, he and Xu Yuan didn't believe Nong Zongtan's words, but Zhao Yan thought he could give it a try. Anyway, there was no loss for the Song Dynasty, but he didn't expect it to be successful.

"Haha, I just wanted to take a gamble, but I didn't expect it to be successful. Now Nong Zongtan has controlled Shenglong Mansion. Although his strength has been greatly reduced, it is still a strong force. It depends on how we use this force to completely calm Jiaozhi!" Zhao Yan also smiled and said at this time. When he received Nong Zongtan's letter, he was actually a little suspicious. It was just his intuition that Nong Zongtan should be worthy of trust, so what happened next. Now it seems that his intuition is indeed very effective.

"I heard from your words, third brother, that seems to have already been used to solve Jiaozhi with Nong Zongtan?" Wang Shiyi saw Zhao Yan's appearance and asked immediately.

"Hehe, I do have some ideas, but I just don't know if Li Rizun will take the bait?" Zhao Yan smiled again and said, "The news of Nong Zongtan imprisoning Li Changjie will spread sooner or later. With Li Rizun's personality, I'm afraid there will be some action soon. Then it will be his chance. Of course, in order to let Li Rizun take action as soon as possible, he can also do some tricks from it."

In the temporary palace of Nanding City, Li Rizun raised a vase and threw it hard on the ground. As a result, with a "bang", the valuable Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain was smashed into millions of pieces. The other generals in the hall were frightened to take a few steps when they saw Li Rizun's angry look, but no one dared to persuade him. Because today's news was so angry that no man could bear it, let alone Li Rizun, the King of Jiaozhi.

"Nong Zongtan! I must tear you apart! None of you in the Nong family wants to live!" Li Rizun roared with a ferocious look on his face. He never expected that news came from Shenglong Mansion that Nong Zongtan actually broke into his palace and put his queen and several daughters into bed. In other words, not only is he covered in green on his head, but he also has a cheap son-in-law. When he thought of this, Li Rizun immediately went crazy and wanted to bite Nong Zongtan to death now.

However, Li Rizun didn't know that Li Changjie had been imprisoned by Nong Zongtan, so although he was very angry, when he thought of Li Changjie's methods and the troops in his hands, he did not dare to act rashly. After all, he did not think that he would be the opponent of Li Changjie, a veteran of the hundred battles. He even doubted whether this news was deliberately released by Li Changjie, in order to anger himself to attack Shenglong Mansion. At that time, with Li Changjie's methods, he might never come back.

It is precisely because of the above that after Li Rizun got angry, he asked everyone to retreat. He needed to calm down himself. Although his wife and daughter were occupied by others, as a king, he must put state affairs first, and such personal honor and disgrace can only be put in the last place. From this point of view, Li Rizun is still a relatively qualified king.

However, Li Rizun did not calm down for a few days. Soon he received the second news, to be precise, two news, and for him one is good news and the other is bad news. The good news is that Nong Zongtan and Li Changjie had an internal conflict. Now Li Changjie has been imprisoned by Nong Zongtan, and Li Changjie's original army has also been cleaned up. Now his strength must be greatly damaged. However, the bad news is that Nong Zongtan actually blatantly moved into the palace, and his queen, concubine and daughter have all become Nong Zongtan's pillows.

When these two news came, Li Rizun didn't know whether he should be happy or angry, but he knew that his opportunity had come, so he immediately gathered troops to attack Shenglong Mansion. After all, although Nong Zongtan had mastered Li Changjie's original army, his strength would definitely be greatly damaged after being cleaned. In addition, Nong Zongtan was not Li Changjie, so Li Rizun had no scruples at all. He even imagined in his heart whether he would cut him into pieces after breaking Shenglong Mansion and grab Nong Zongtan, or light a sky lantern, or other more cruel punishments?

A few days later, Li Rizun, who was ready, led a 50,000 army to fight back to the Shenglong Association again. These 50,000 troops were already all the troops he could use. It can be said that if he failed, he would be successful. In addition, he also issued a king's order, calling on all parts of Jiaozhi to accompany him to clear the rebellion. However, some time ago, with the Shenglong Mansion being captured by Li Changjie, Li Rizun's prestige in Jiaozhi also dropped to the lowest point, and various forces were also waiting and watching, so no one paid attention to the king's order issued by Li Rizun.

Li Rizun had expected this situation, but he still couldn't help but be very angry. He thought that he was the king of Jiaozhi, but now he couldn't even order the local forces, which made him feel hated and planned to wait until he regained the power of Jiaozhi and then settled with those people bit by bit.

Li Rizun raised his troops with hatred. The army advanced very quickly and soon arrived near Shenglong Mansion. Nong Zongtan had already made preparations, but he also knew that his strength was greatly damaged. If he fought head-on with Li Rizun, he would probably suffer a defeat. So he made up his mind to defend himself from the beginning, so he laid many obstacles on Li Rizun's way forward, intending to use this to consume Li Rizun's power.

Li Rizun sneered at Nong Zongdan's plan. Shenglong Mansion was his capital. He knew more than anyone else about the situation here. Even though Nong Zongdan changed his defense method, he could quickly break through with his familiarity with geography. So in less than ten days, he fought from the periphery to the city of Shenglong Mansion from the outside.

Nong Zongtan was also very surprised that Li Rizun had hit the city so quickly. He had thought that it would take at least half a month to break through his own defenses, but he didn't expect that it only took half of the time. However, he was not in a hurry, because the previous news was deliberately released by him, in order to attract Li Rizun to attack him. Calculate the days, and the Song Dynasty should have taken action.

At the same time, the docks of Deepwater Port were extremely lively. One after another, the troop transport ships arrived here from Chameng. Teams of native troops came down from the ship, and then entered the barracks under the command of the Song generals. Hu Yanping also took his men to walk down from one of the ships. When he saw Zhao Yan on the dock, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Three brothers, I didn't expect you to come here too!"

Zhao Yan had just arrived at Shenshui Port from Guangzhou a few days ago. When he saw Hu Yan, who had not seen him for several years, he was very happy to meet him and smiled: "This battle is related to Jiaozhi's belonging. How could I not come for such a big thing!"

Hu Yanping's army was mobilized by Zhao Yan's order. After all, the climate in Shenglong Mansion was almost the same as that in Chameng. The Song Dynasty's army suffered a great loss in attacking such places. Last time, the Xixia surrendered army led by Guo Kui attacked Shenglong Mansion, half of the casualties were non-combat reductions. Zhao Yan didn't want the Song Dynasty army to consume their lives in the tropical jungle. The war in Chameng had just ended, so Hu Yanping's native army came in handy again.

After the Chameng native army gathered in the deep-shui port, they only rested for two days before pounced on Nanding City under Hu Yanping's command. This place has become Li Rizun's back. As long as they are captured, Li Rizun will become rootless duckweed, and it will only be a matter of time before they can be destroyed. (To be continued.)
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