Zilong heard that the guards came to report that someone was inciting trouble among Chen Jun's frontier troops who were building a river channel by the Wen River. He took a few pro-soldiers and rushed over. From a distance, he saw hundreds of Chen Jun soldiers surrounded by Qi Jun soldiers. In the middle, both sides were shouting.
Among Chen Jun's noisy crowd, there was a big man, who stood in front of everyone and was obviously half a head taller than the others. He was also big and round, with a loud voice, and he couldn't stop making noise. "I don't have enough to eat, and they ask me to do some hard work. I would rather fight." Even if I die, I will never suffer from this bird spirit again!"
Zilong walked over coldly and shouted: "Shut up!"
Someone in the Chen army saw Zilong from a distance. Everyone knew that this young general was the general of the Qi army. He was very capable, so they gradually became silent. The big Chen Jun also knew that someone was coming, so he turned around to watch. Seeing him Zilong turned his head to the side in disdain. Zilong asked him: "Who are you and why do you gather people to make trouble?"
"Ask me, a man can change his name but not his surname. I am Wang Tianyuan, the captain of the Chen Guoping Pass Guard Army. I was captured by your Qi army because your Qi army was outnumbered. Although I was defeated, I was still a soldier of Chen's army. We must not let you come and drink and do hard labor! I was imprisoned here and never had a full meal. You Qi Jun are so stingy? Are you afraid of letting me tell you?"
Zilong snorted lightly and asked, "Then you are dissatisfied?"
Wang Tianyuan raised his head again and replied loudly: "Of course, you want to convince me, unless you can really beat me!"
Zilong said: "Okay, then I will beat you into submission today!" Then he ordered the left and right to guard the rioting Chen Jun separately, and cleared an open space. He first stood in the center of the open space, and Wang Tianyuan looked at Zilong. , he made a calculation in his mind, and then walked up to Zilong nonchalantly. "You are Zilong, the general of the Qi army, right? I know that in ancient times, there was a Changshan Zhao Zilong who was a victorious general. The first person I admired was He, you, Zilong, don’t know what you are capable of. But let’s make a deal first, if I accidentally hurt you with my fists or kicks, you will have no choice but to consider yourself unlucky! Don’t make things difficult for me and my brothers.”
Zilong nodded and asked, "Then what do you want to compete with?"
"I don't know where my war horses and weapons are, so let's compete with you!" After Wang Tianyuan finished speaking, he shouted loudly and rushed towards Zilong with a fist. Zilong saw that he was coming with a fierce force, and his fists and kicks were fierce, but He dodged, and after three or five people came face to face with him, when he flew towards him and kicked his legs, he suddenly stretched out his hand to grab his ankle, moved back, and slapped his lower back with his left hand. Wang Tianyuan was far away. He fell to the ground. That Wang Tianyuan was really thick-skinned. He slapped the ground and stood up. He turned around and looked at Zilong: "How can you be a hero if you use tricks like this? You can fight with fists and feet. Touch, see flesh to bone, a real test, I know I am clumsy, so I can't defeat you with such skill."
Zilong didn't say anything. He just stretched out his hand and nodded to indicate for him to continue. When Wang Tianyuan saw it, he shouted: "Don't hide if you can." He punched Zilong in front of him. The fist was as big as a small alms bowl. He came over with the sound of wind. Zilong did not dodge, raised his left arm to block, and swayed away his incoming force, and then hit his weak spot with his right fist. Wang Tianyuan originally relied on his own strength, so he punched Zilong. If he dodges, he will just laugh at him and loses. If it's a hard fight, Zilong can't dodge with his fists. But he never thought that when Zilong waved his hand to block it, he was restrained and moved to one side, while Zilong was blocked. The dragon's fist had already come, and it was too late to hide, so he could only grit his teeth and bear it. With a bang, Wang Tianyuan was directly punched, and his body was almost off the ground. He staggered back more than a dozen steps, and suddenly fell back. Sitting on the ground, Wang Tianyuan grinned and almost shouted as he felt burning pain in his ribs and buttocks.
Zilong put his hands behind his back. Wang Tianyuan's body was really strong. After blocking this blow and punching him, Zilong's left arm also felt a faint pain. At this time, Zilong looked at Wang Tianyuan on the ground and grinned, his face
He smiled and asked: "Do you want to compete again?"
"Compare!" Wang Tianyuan stood up and shouted loudly. He was not stupid. Although Zilong looked smaller than his height and weight, his kung fu was definitely much higher than his own. If he competed with fists and feet, then
He must have been beaten badly. "I'll compete with you in drinking! If you can outsmart me, I'll give in!"
Qi Jun and Chen Jun who were surrounding heard that Wang Tianyuan was going to compete with Zilong, and burst into laughter. Zilong also laughed out loud, "Competing with each other, okay, then I'll compete with you, come and go."
Get some jars of good wine."
The Wen River was still flowing slowly in the afternoon, and the sky was gradually filled with gray clouds. The first snow in early winter also came unexpectedly, falling thinly. In the Chen Army Prisoner of War Camp, Wang Tianyuan was lying in the tent.
, he was so drunk that he muttered: "Drink, drink some more~"
The next day, when Zilong came to the Chen Army prisoner-of-war camp by the Wen River again, Wang Tianyuan and a group of Chen Army were already waiting there. The little snow that fell yesterday had melted immediately, and the ground was slightly muddy at this time.
Zilong and Wang Tianyuan knelt down, "General, I have never served anyone in my life. Now that I have served the general, my brothers and I are willing to listen to the general's orders! We will go through fire and water without hesitation!" Thousands of Chen Jun also
Kneel on the ground together.
It has been three days since the prince arrived in Xiangcheng, and the soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city continue to celebrate.
In the meeting hall of King Xiang's palace, King Xiang was sitting on the main seat, and the generals of the Qi army stood behind the prince and King Wuyou respectively; opposite were the civil servants and generals of the state of Xiang.
The Kingdom of Xiang was restored, the original civil and military ministers were restored to their posts, and the subordinates who followed King Xiang in exile received generous rewards. Now it is time for the two sides to discuss how to deal with the Chen Kingdom and pay the rewards to the Qi Kingdom.
Before the king went to borrow troops from the King of Qi, he promised Xiang Guo ten years of taxes. King Xiang had never and did not dare to refuse these taxes. Naturally, the prince would not make additional requests. Dai Rongzhen, the prime minister of Xiang Guo, proposed to give
The soldiers who died in the Qi army were paid double the standard of Xiang Jun. King Xiang agreed, and the prince accepted it calmly. King Wuyou proposed the military order he had issued to Zilong and promised him a fiefdom. Although King Xiang felt extremely sad,
Reluctantly, but still with a smile on his face, he generously let Zilong choose. Zilong did not refuse and chose Lincheng, a remote place in the north of Xiangdi. Lincheng is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Qi, Chen and Xiang, with mountains and rivers crisscrossing the land.
With the barren land and year-round wars, Xiang's officials could basically only rule the city of Lincheng, and the surrounding countryside was basically out of control. King Xiang felt relieved when he heard that Zilong wanted that place, and he agreed without hesitation.
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Regarding the nearly 50,000 captured Chen soldiers, the two sides agreed to keep them under the custody of the Qi army until they negotiated with the Chen state to cede land, exchange gold, silver, grain and grass, and then return them all. The prince proposed that the Qi army would lead the army back home after resting for a few days in the Xiang state.
However, King Xiang knew that Xiang’s army would not be able to form an official body at this time. Chen Bing had assembled large armies in Yancheng, Tacheng, and Pingguan, which bordered Xiang State. Once the Qi army withdrew, Xiang land would still be Chen’s fish and meat. In King Xiang’s case,
Under the hint of the Prime Minister Dai Rongzhen, he proposed that the Qi army must not withdraw in the short term, and that it must participate in negotiations with the Chen army and make an oath to never invade again before it can return to Qi. King Wuyou pretended to say that there were many troops and military expenditures were too large.
Moreover, the troops had been deployed for many days, and the soldiers wanted to return home, so it would be better to return home as soon as possible. Xiang Guo and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military tried to dissuade him. Finally, King Xiang personally promised that all military supplies for the Qi army would be allocated by Xiang Guo. They must wait for Xiang Jun to rebuild and Chen Guo signed the contract.
He then led his army back to the country. The prince took advantage of the situation and agreed.
At the same time, the two sides agreed that King Wuyou and Prime Minister Xiang would go to Chen as an envoy to promote the power of Qi Xiang to Chen and force Chen to cede territory, pay compensation, and withdraw troops.
After the discussion was completed, the prince sent a letter to the king of Qi to change the name of the one hundred thousand Qingzhou army that attacked Chen to the garrison army. He appointed Wuyou King Qi Si as the commander-in-chief of the garrison, Zilong as deputy commander, Zhuge Qingyun as military adviser, and the Qi soldiers who were mobilized.
The military border army was returned to its organizational structure; at the same time, King Wuyou Qi Si was appointed as the special envoy, and he went to Chen State with the envoys of Xiang State to seek benefits. During King Wuyou's mission, General Zilong temporarily took over the position of commander-in-chief; on the generals of Qi Army
After the situation in Xiang State stabilized, the whole army returned home with great honor. The King of Qi granted permission one by one, and the prince stayed for two more days. When everything was settled, he returned home with his entourage. This expedition was a complete victory.
The prince took the Qingzhou Army under his command, and at the same time, on the pretext of preparing food and grass, he also placed more of his cronies in the administration of the various states. Now the prince's voice in the court became much more important.
In early winter, the State of Chen sent letters of credence to Qi and Xiang, inviting the two countries to send missions to Luocheng, the capital of the State of Chen, to negotiate peace and negotiate on prisoners of war and compensation after the Battle of Xiangcheng. During this period, the State of Chen had already dispatched several additional troops to the border.
Tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of Qi Xiang's coalition troops also stationed in Yicheng, and the two sides started a confrontation between Pingguan. The Qi army on the border with Chen State also entered a war preparation posture.
When King Wuyou sent an envoy to the State of Chen, Zilong selected a hundred strong Yulin troops from the Qi army to accompany him as escorts; the envoy sent by King Xiang was much stronger. Prime Minister Dai Rongzhen led several ministers to form a thousand-man army.
of the convoy.
The mission successfully entered Pingguan. The general Chen Jun in Pingguan is Zhou Yongkai, the favorite general of the eldest prince Chen Cheng. There are more than 40,000 forbidden troops brought by the eldest prince stationed in the pass, plus the original defenders of more than 10,000 people. Zhou Yongkai is arrogant.
After the prince led the Chen army to break out of Xiangcheng and was captured, he originally wanted to rush out to defeat the Qi army in Yicheng, and then rush to Xiangcheng to rescue the eldest prince. However, King Chen ordered him to quickly return to Pingguan and hold on. Zhou Yongkai had been waiting for many days.
He has been sending spies to Xiangcheng to inquire about the eldest prince. Although Zhou Yongkai was extremely dissatisfied when he heard that Chen Guo and Qi Xiang were negotiating peace, he thought that once the peace was negotiated, the eldest prince would be able to come back, so he did not resist. Today I saw the prince outside the pass.
Qi Xiang treated the envoy with courtesy and entertained them for a day, then personally escorted the envoy thirty miles past Pingguan before returning to the pass. Although Zhou Yongkang was a fierce general and not good at strategy, he also had his own plans.
In the name of hospitality, I carefully identified King Wuyou and Dai Rongzhen, and secretly calculated that if the peace negotiation failed, when the Qi Xiang delegation passed Pingguan again, they would be taken down and go to Xiangcheng in exchange for the eldest prince.
There was no conversation all the way. After half a month, the mission arrived in Luocheng. Thirty miles away from the city, King Chen arranged for the third prince Chen Yi to go and greet him. Chen Yi and Prime Minister Xu Boxiong saw the Qixiang mission’s car battle from a distance.
Chen Yi was a young man and was deeply ashamed of Chen Jun's defeat in Xiangcheng. He resented his father-in-law many times in front of his father-in-law for not knowing how to employ people, so he sent his eldest brother out to fight. However, the rescue failed and he was captured by the Qi army. If he had gone out on his own, he would have won the battle and defeated the Qi army.
The old prime minister just advised him not to say such rebellious words, and repeatedly told him to keep a low profile and bide his time. Now the Xiang envoys arrived at the Changting Pavilion, and hurriedly drove their horses forward to worship King Wuyou.
Prince, the four of them greeted each other and then rode together towards Luo City, each talking in Mandarin on the way. A general led a Xiang Army group to camp outside the city, and a hundred elite soldiers from Qi Army, Yulin Army and Xiang Army each entered the city.
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After entering Luocheng, Chen Yi and Xu Boxiong first arranged for the envoys to stay in the post house, arranged a banquet to entertain them, and then asked King Wuyou and others to rest first, and then meet with King Chen the next day. King Wuyou and
Dai Rongzhen also listened to their arrangements and stayed in the post house to wait for King Chen to receive him. The accompanying Qi army and Xiang army carefully guarded the post house to ensure its safety.
King Wuyou is no stranger to Luo City. Two years ago, he brought Ying'er here disguised as a businessman. He also stayed for two days at You'an Temple in Chen State. Zen Master Jingming of You'an Temple is a contemporary Buddhist master.
, traveled around various countries, preached Taoism, and all countries in China believed in him. King Wuyou received his precepts when he was a child. In You'an Temple, King Wuyou also met Xiao Tianyou, nephew of Empress Dowager Xiao of Chen Guo. Although the two were different in age,
Quite a few, but they had similar interests and we got along well. King Wuyou became a brother with Xiao Tianyou in the name of Qi Letian. Now after dinner in the post house, he was thinking that if he had some free time, he must find Brother Xiao to find him in the snow.
Plum blossoms, listen to the wind and the moon.
The captain of the guard who accompanied King Wuyou to the Kingdom of Chen was Lu Zheng. He escorted King Wuyou back to his dormitory to rest, and then ordered the Yulin army to post guards everywhere. He also carefully inspected the post house before returning to the side room.
When King Wushu came back, a handsome guard in the house took off his outer cloak, and another man went to stir up the charcoal fire in the brazier. Although it was winter outside, with a cold moon and cold wind, it didn't feel cold inside the house.
King Wuyou took the warm pillow from a guard and asked: "Has the princess rested?" The guard replied softly: "Go back to your lord, the princess was originally waiting for you to come back. Maybe she is really tired from walking these days.
I’m tired, I just lay on the bed and seemed to have fallen asleep.”
"Oh, then how about you wait for the princess to eat?"
The guard listened to King Wuyou's question and quickly replied: "We were afraid that the princess would not be used to the food here, so we went to the kitchen to prepare another meal. We have already served the princess, but the princess can't eat much by herself."
"I know, you guys should go to bed early." These two guards are Ying'er's personal maids. One is named Mingliang and the other is called **. They came to Luocheng with Ying'er disguised as guards. King Wuyou whispered to them.