Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 214 The Chenzhou Incident
The battle in Bozhou is getting more and more serious. In a mere state, the imperial court and Xuanwu have assembled 11 horses.

In the battle with Li Si'an, Zuo Xiao's cavalry was half-disabled and 500 casualties were scattered. Zhu Yezinu was seriously injured and had a lance in his abdomen. It is not known whether any organs were injured. Stitching, disinfection with alcohol every day, it is up to God whether he can survive.

Zuo Xiao's cavalry army is temporarily led by deputy general Hu Yexuan. In the past few days, he has gathered one or two hundred stragglers, which can be regarded as regaining some vitality.
What His Majesty the Emperor is now focusing on is the main force of the Chenzhou Zhongwu Army led by Zhang Cunjing.

Zhao Ji, the governor of Chenzhou, is now sent to Luoyang by imperial edict to serve as Luoyang's left guard. Zhao Ji's other identity is Caizhou Jiedushi, which was conferred by Li Ye's good brother Tang Xizong.

However, Caizhou was occupied by Qin Zongquan at that time, so the Jiedushi of Caizhou was just a name. In fact, there was no local governance power in Caizhou, but the military power of the loyal military army, because there was only Chenzhou, and the number of loyal military troops was also small. Just thousands of people.

Qin Zongquan's soldiers came under pressure, Zhao Ji asked Xuanwu for help, Zhu Wen sent general Zhang Cunjing to lead thousands of troops, and joined the Zhongwu army.

Because Zhao Ji admired Zhu Wen very much, he handed over all the military power of the Zhongwu Army to Zhang Cunjing.

And Zhao Ji is Zhu Wen's son and daughter in-laws. In order to win people's hearts, Lao Zhu presented Zhao Yu's third younger brother Zhao Xu as the soldier and horse envoy of the loyal military army.

As for Zhao Ji's second younger brother, Zhao Chang, he was designated by the court as the governor of Chenzhou.

"Your Majesty, the Zhongwu Army has a lot of supplies, and the march is slow, only more than ten miles a day. The general thought that he could send a large army to destroy Zhang Cunjing's troops to prevent the Zhongwu Army from joining forces with Ge Congzhou's Bian Army."

Li Ye nodded, agreeing with Wen Zefeng's words. He is still in the learning stage, and he thinks about successful cases. No matter how many ways he comes, I will only go to one place. Concentrating our forces and cutting off one finger is the best policy.

"The Zhongwu army is all infantry. I want to gather more than [-] cavalry to defeat Zhang Cunjing. General Wen will lead Zuo Huwei's army and Commander Zhu Zhen to join forces and set up camp under the city of Bozhou. What do you think?"

Wen Zefeng said: "Your Majesty, you must not go into danger yourself. The last general is willing to lead the rest of Zuo Huwei's army to loot the bandits. The Zhongwu army advances slowly. The last general will lead the army to rush forward. He will definitely stop the thief in Luyi."

Li Ye shook his head and said, "This matter about the Zhongwu Army must be attended by me personally!"

With Zhao Ji's relationship, the Zhongwu Army can completely solve it by political means.

"The Zuo Shence Army has arrived in Xihua County, Chenzhou. I have sent someone to order the Zuo Shence Army to separate the three capitals, and the deputy general Ma Zijun will lead the garrison in Chenzhou..."

Wen Zefeng said: "Half of the Zhongwu Army is Chenzhou soldiers. If the imperial court is stationed in Chenzhou, these people will not dare to act rashly."

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The next day, Chenzhou

The Zuo Shence Army had also experienced bloody battles. They were quite brave when stationed at Yique Pass and fought Qin Zongquan to death.

After the battle of Luoyang, he rested locally and was called to Bozhou at this time.

It took only one day for Xihua County and Chenzhou, and they were already under the city of Chenzhou.

Zhao Chang, the governor of Chenzhou, stepped onto the gate tower as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Emissary Zhao, according to the emperor's decree, the Zuo Shence army is stationed in Chenzhou, open the city gate!"

Zhao Chang said: "The last general has not received the emperor's edict, so I dare not obey it."

Zhou Xian said to the angel with a smile: "Thank you, the angel has called the door."

Zhao Xi stepped forward to the gate of the city, took out a piece of imperial edict from his pocket, and said, "Here is your imperial edict!"

The gate tower put down the hanging basket and hung the angel up to the gate tower. After Zhao Chang received the order, he said to Zhao Xi: "There are no bandits in Chenzhou. The Zhongwu army can garrison by themselves. There is no need to bother the imperial army."

Zhao Xi's complexion was condensed, and he said: "Your Majesty's strict order, each feudal clan guards its own town, what do you want to do when you send troops to Xuanwu, the main force of Xuanwu is fully deployed, and the troops in the city are only one or two thousand city guards, so there is no danger."

"This……"

Zhao Chang was speechless.

"The elder brother of the envoy is now staying behind in the Eastern Capital. The envoy is the governor of Chenzhou, the envoy of the Zhongwu Army, and the imperial court has favored your family. Then, the envoy does not want to report and wants to resist the order?"

"No...this..."

Yu Jun, the Jiedu judge beside Zhao Chang, took over the imperial decree, and said to Zhao Xi with an unfriendly expression: "The imperial decree is not printed under the book, I will not obey it!"

"A traitor, you know the emperor's decree." Zhao Xi turned to Zhao Chang and said, "Does the envoy also think so?"

Yu Jun accepted the words and said, "That's it!"

If there were imperial troops stationed in Chenzhou, they would definitely wipe out Xuanwu's forces. What would the soldiers, horses, money and food have to do with Xuanwu in the future?

Zhao Xi said: "Do you want Chenzhou to fall into war?"

"Angels calm down, we have absolutely no intention of that?"

"Then open the door to welcome Master Wang!"

"..."

"Hmph!" Zhao Xi flicked his sleeves, and said, "Send our family down! Your Majesty ordered you not to pick me up, and our family will move Zhao Ji to stay here!"

Zhao Chang's face was earthy.

Yu Jun hurriedly said: "My lord, when the guest army enters the city, Chenzhou will be in chaos. When the time comes, the people will be slaughtered, and it will be our fault!"

Zhao Chang hesitated when he heard this.

Zhao Xidao: "Where the imperial army went, they did not offend the people. Why do you disturb the people? Your Majesty strictly enforces military discipline. Looters will be killed without mercy. Who are you? How dare you deceive the people with your demonic words."

"The last general is Yu Jun, the judge of the Zhongwu Army. It is the last general's duty to keep our place safe."

"A mere judge, what's the duty?" Zhao Xi said to Zhao Chang, "Qin Zongquan was just sentenced to Ling Chi in Bianzhou, and Zhao Shijun wants to use this rebel as an example to defy the Holy One?"

Zhao Chang hurriedly said: "We all have loyalty, how can we agree with Qin Zongquan, the angel wait a moment, I will order to open the city gate now."

Yu Jun said anxiously: "Mr. Zhao can't do it!"

Zhao Chang looked at Yu Jun, shook his head, and ignored him. Just as he was about to go down the gate, Yu Jun grabbed his arm.

"Your envoy should go back and rest. In Chenzhou, let the last general do the work for you."

"you……"

Zhao Chang was shocked that Yu Jun dared to seize his military power in front of the angel, but at this time Zhao Chang only had seven or eight personal guards, and there were already crossbowmen on the gate tower aiming arrows at his guards.

"Hey!"

The soldiers of the Zhongwu Army were all led by his third brother Zhao Xu, and followed Zhang Cunjing to Bozhou. There was no soldier around him.

Now that I think about it carefully, the Zhao family has no reservations about Zhu Wen, but Zhu Wen is not sure about their Zhao family.

"Judge Yu, why is this? The imperial army is ten times larger than mine. Do you remember the war?"

Yu Jun shook his head and said, "I'm also doing it for the people of Chenzhou. Chenzhou must never take in guest soldiers. Please, Mr. Zhao!"

After finishing speaking, dozens of soldiers walked towards Zhao Chang. Just as the guards around Zhao Chang were about to move, the crossbowmen on the gate tower fired all their arrows, and each of them died on the spot like a hedgehog with arrows stuck in their bodies.

Zhao Chang's face was pale, but the angel Zhao Xi pretended to be calm and said, "Your family has nothing to do with the internal affairs of Chenzhou. Now our family has to return to the emperor to report to the judge. Send someone to send me back!"

Yu Jun bent down to salute, and said with a smile: "The angel was frightened, and he saw the post to rest!"

Zhao Xi waved his hand and said: "No, the emperor's order is important!"

Yu Jun looked at Zhao Xi and shook his head helplessly. After all, this world is still ruled by the imperial court. Even if it is a feudal town that listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement, in more than 100 years, it has never been heard of detaining an angel.

After thinking about it, that's all.

People put Zhao Xi down in a hanging basket and leave the city.

"All officers and men listen to my general's order, and all armies step up their preparations!"

"Gather all the civilians in the city and help defend the city!"

"Send a messenger to report the military situation of Marshal Chenzhou!"

"promise!"

……

As soon as Zhao Xi returned to the camp, he felt his back was completely wet.

Zhou Xian, the commander of Zuo Shence Army, asked, "Why are the angels so panicked? How is Chen Zhou doing now?"

"Chaos, chaos, Chenzhou mutiny..."

(End of this chapter)