"The deaths of those who died side by side were all minor and implicated, and the supporting evidence was beyond the reach of the law." [Miscellaneous Notes from Prison]
Fan Chou, Wang Fang and others had completely settled down and had no intention of repeating themselves. The imperial troops and their respective tribes totaled more than 80,000 people. These 80,000 people could not be easier to deal with than a leaderless and panic-stricken group of 60,000 people.
But that's it.
Everyone agreed that they would first recruit Yang Feng and Wu Xi with military orders. Regardless of whether they surrendered or not, they would be temporarily detained. Then they would use Fan Chou and Zhang Ji as a group to recruit more than 20,000 troops, responsible for surrounding the most powerful Li.
Dong Cheng and Wang Fang formed the Jue military camp, with a total of 13,000 troops, responsible for surrounding the slightly weaker Guo Si military camp.
Jia Xu, on the other hand, led more than 2,000 people from his headquarters, and a total of more than 8,000 people from Li Meng's tribe, to the outskirts of the camp. On the one hand, he was responsible for responding to Huangfu Song, and on the other hand, he was responsible for intimidating or obeying or coercing him to defect from the imperial court. Not long ago, the military morale was the most unstable.
, Hu Zhen, who had the most complicated organization, was under the command of Yang Ding.
The banquet in the Chinese army's tent was still going on. Li Li and others were getting drunker and drunker, and Che'er's sword dance was getting faster and faster.
Li Liyou didn't realize that he was about to die. He only vaguely heard loud noises coming from outside the tent and the sounds of panic and panic from the troops.
He raised his sleepy head with difficulty and asked inarticulately: "What happened outside!"
The military officer Song Guo stumbled in and shouted: "No! General Li and General Guo are dead. General Fan and others have defected to the court and want to hold us accountable!"
"What are you talking about?" Li Li looked around blankly and saw that Guo Pu and others were drunk and unconscious. Only Zhang Xiu was sitting at the table with a calm expression. He smiled at Zhang Xiu and said: "You
Look at the bastard things he said. He even said that my uncle was dead. It was so presumptuous."
At this time, Che'er stopped dancing his sword and stood upright in the middle, looking unkindly at Li Li and the others.
Zhang Xiu took the wine bowl and stood up slowly. His eyes were clear and there was no trace of drunkenness except for the redness of his cheeks: "He is right. Your uncle and Guo Bin are both dead. You
I’m going to accompany him soon.”
Li Li suddenly stood up from the desk where he was lying, staggered back a few steps, barely stood still, and looked at Zhang Xiu in panic.
"you you……"
Che'er had already turned around and killed Song Guo, who was at a loss. He was slowly walking towards Li Li with his sword in hand.
"I told you to drink more. Wouldn't it make you feel no pain at all when you get drunk? But you have such a good drinking capacity." Zhang Xiu poured all the wine from the wine bowl in his hand onto Guo Pu's sleeping face, with a look on his face.
A trace of intolerance.
After all, they are both in the army, and they are the children of generals. It is not bad to get along with each other in private. If it were not for the fact that the two people he respected the most, Zhang Ji and Jia Xu, both chose to submit to the imperial court, and their positions were different from now on, he would not have killed him.
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Perhaps this was a special training given to him by Zhang Ji and Jia Xu, seeing that he had a soft nature and lacked the decisive temperament to kill.
Li Li said no more words, turned around and ran behind the tent. Outside the tent were nearly 20,000 troops and horses left by his uncle. Now that Li Jue is dead, he is the natural leader. As long as he runs out safely, he can call on
If the whole army is mobilized, then the situation is still under control.
After all, Che'er was a Yuezhi barbarian, tall and long-legged. He walked up behind Li Li in a few steps and slashed his back with his sword.
Li Li was cut down to the ground, and he hurriedly begged for mercy: "Brother Zhang, spare your life, spare your life! I am willing to submit to the imperial court, I am willing to submit to the imperial court!"
"late!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a man wearing armor walking into the tent with a number of soldiers whom Li Li had never seen before.
When Zhang Xiu saw the respectful uncle Zhang Ji and the calm-looking Jia Xu beside the man, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.
"Uncle, Mr. Jia." Zhang Xiu said respectfully: "I have followed Mr. Jia's plan and got them all drunk. Now they have all fallen to the ground, and there will be no more trouble."
"Well done. Now the imperial court has sent a large army out of the city. Li Jue, Guo Si and other troops have been controlled by us. From now on, the entire army will obey the imperial edict. Anyone who rebels or rebels will not be killed.
Spare me!" Zhang Jichong waved his hand behind him, and a dozen soldiers immediately ran over and killed Li Jue and Guo Si's relatives who were drunk on the table in their sleep.
Li Li looked at all this, feeling extremely sad in his heart, and said miserably: "My uncle used to regard you as brothers. What's wrong with him that you actually want to turn against me and betray me?"
At this time, the unfamiliar young general among them spoke: "Li Jue and others have no regard for the emperor. For their own benefit, they deceived Zhongliang into rebelling against the imperial court. Shouldn't they die? General Zhang and others are loyal to the country and have been coerced by thieves. Now,
It is surrender anyway, how can it be called betrayal?"
Jia Xu glanced at the young general and introduced to Zhang Xiu: "This is Yulin Supervisor Gaishun, the son of the old Jingzhao Yin Gaigong. Since you have made great achievements, if you have the opportunity in the future, you should get closer and closer.
"
Zhang Xiu was overjoyed when he knew that Jia Xu was pointing the way for his future and hurriedly said hello to Gaishun.
After Che'er killed Li Li, who had nothing to say anymore, among the 100,000 rebels outside Chang'an City, there was no one with the strength and ambition to provoke the rebellion.
The current situation is that Fan Chou, Dong Cheng and others have surrendered to the rebel generals. Each led his troops to guard the remaining troops of Li Jue and others, so that they did not dare to act rashly. Huangfu Song led 40,000 soldiers including Yu Lin, Huben and Sou soldiers.
Many people were outside the rebel camp, not only to intimidate Li Jue's remaining troops, but also to intimidate Fan Chou and others.
After a while, all the die-hard loyalists to Li Jue and others in the army were eliminated. Fan Chou, Wang Fang, and Li Jue's general Yang Feng and others saw the situation clearly and consciously expressed their allegiance to the future general, while Guo Si's confidants
Wu Xi and others, however, loved their old master and chose to die heroically.
After Dong Cheng annexed Li Jue's troops with the support of Song Ye, Yang Ang, Yang Feng and others, before he had time to digest it, he learned that Guo Si's remaining troops had been led into the camp by Gai, who had brought more than a thousand Yulin cavalry in advance.
Shun was recruited with the cooperation of Zhang Ji and others.
Originally, these 100,000 rebels should be in his pocket. Dong Cheng was naturally not happy to see the imperial court take a share of the pie. Now, Jia Xu has used his methods to conquer Hu Zhen, Yang Ding and other nearly 20,000 rebels.
In addition to Guo Si's subordinates who turned to Gaishun, who represented the imperial court, as well as Zhang Ji and Jia Xu's subordinates, there were nearly 40,000 to 50,000 people who were not under his control.
Even if Dong Cheng had already obtained the allegiance of Fan Chou, Wang Fang and others, he still had 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, but it was different from the three armies he had envisioned in advance.
The plans are obviously not comparable.
Zhang Ji has always listened to Jia Xu's advice. If Jia Xu turns to the court, Dong Cheng's current strength will be difficult to dominate the court.