At the end of April, Yang Chenglin, a general under Zhu Youzhen of Yizhou, led 20,000 troops in Shizhou headquarters, and gathered more than 50,000 troops under the jurisdiction of various local chieftains to launch an attack on Badong County, the governor of Guizhou County. Tian Mantang, who had just surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, personally led 10,000 troops to fight. With the cooperation of the navy led by Zheng Wenchang, Yang Chenglin defeated Yang Chenglin in Badong County, killed nearly 10,000 prisoners of Yang Chenglin's troops, and Yang Chenglin returned in defeat.

Tian Mantang took advantage of the situation to lead his troops into Shizhou. He advanced along the water and land, forcing Yang Chenglin to retreat step by step. Apart from trying to defend important towns, he was powerless to fight back. At this time, Yizhou was facing greater military pressure from the Tang army in Hanzhong, and he was unable to withdraw troops to support Yang Chenglin.

Seeing that the situation was over, many chieftains in Shizhou began to turn against each other.

After all, what the Tang army did in Xiangxi has made these chieftains figure out one thing, that is, after surrender, even if the privileges are not guaranteed, they can at least survive and still have property. If they resist stubbornly, their final outcome will probably be the same as those tribe leaders who followed Ding Sheng to the black side. After being tried publicly, they will be cut off with one another. Their life is gone, and their property has been accumulated for several generations. The family is even beaten to the dust, which is worse than the slaves in the past.

As for the advance to Enshi, the Third Corps stationed in the southwest of Datang did not move except for the navy, but instead transferred Min Rou's troops stationed in Zhijiang.

Min Rou's troops were transferred to the Huaihua area of ​​Hunan Province. In the Xiangxi area of ​​Hunan Province, there were also the Zuo Army of Hou Fangyu and the 3,000 mountain troops commanded by Liang Han. Shi Zhuang drew his sword and pointed his sword at that family, but he understood the truth.

Qianzhou is Shi Zhuang’s next goal.

Of course, whether to fight or not is still a question of choice.

However, this multiple-choice question was not done by Tang Jun, but by Qianzhou itself.

Now, Shi Zhuang's Third Corps is actually facing two enemies, one is Yizhou. The enemy facing him is Cao Bin's troops in Hanzhong, Xiangyang. Obviously, Shi Zhuang is more interested in this enemy. In this direction, Shi Zhuang sent 40,000 troops of the Third Corps, and his own general headquarters also moved to Jingnan.

In Qianzhou, Min Rou is the main force, commanding his subordinates and Hou Fangyu's troops, plus Liang Han's troops, a total of 20,000 people.

It was precisely because of the movement of Shi Zhuang's general's head, the clouds of war enveloped the sky in Xiangyang and other places, making Zhu Youzhen no longer care about Yang Chenglin who was defeated by the rebel general Tian Mantang in the direction of Shizhou.

After all, compared with Shizhou, Xiangyang, and Hanzhong, places like Shizhou are regarded as the foundation of the defense of Yizhou. Shizhou can be lost, but Hanzhong is absolutely unaffordable. Once the Tang army controls Hanzhong, the demise of Yizhou can enter the countdown.

And in Guizhou, under the pressure of the army, internal disputes arose again.

After more than a month of internal struggle, I finally decided to negotiate with the Tang army, depending on the result of the negotiation.

For the Tang army, it would be the best thing to go to Qianzhong without a fight, so after learning about the negotiations between Qianzhong, the Tang Dynasty also responded positively.

As the main commander of this negotiation, Hou Fangyu went to Wannian County to conduct relevant negotiations with Qianzhong.

As Wannian County, the most important strategic important place under the jurisdiction of Qianzhou, the Yang family stationed heavily here, with a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Wannian County. The one they are dealing with is the current Minrou army.

Yang Qiu was not only the leader of Qianzhou's troops stationed in Wannian County, but also the commander of this Qianzhou negotiation.

On the border, Yang Qiu came to greet the Tang army's negotiator Hou Fangyu.

The Tang army did not dispatch a large number of troops as Yang Qiu imagined. Seeing that Hou Fangyu was only one hundred guards coming on the opposite side, Yang Qiu suddenly felt a little embarrassed because he brought 3,000 people. These 3,000 people were the most elite and fully armored core troops under his selection.

Originally, he didn't want to lose face in front of Tang Ren, and he also wanted to show his strength to Tang Ren, but unexpectedly, if he put all his strength into it, the other party was a cotton ball, which was not at all, which made him feel a little flickering.

"Yang Du Yu Hou, I can't really bear such a big battle!" Hou Fangyu laughed and turned over and dismounted, bowed to Yang Qiu who was coming from the opposite side.

It seems that he doesn't know the other party's true intention, and Hou Fangyuquan treats him as the other party respecting him.

"General Hou is famous and has both civil and military affairs. He has always been the object of Yang's admiration. He can't respect you too much!" The other party smiled and Yang Qiu also took advantage of the situation. Haha, he revealed it.

His praise for Hou Fangyu's both civil and military affairs is not all polite. Hou Fangyu is really both civil and military affairs. His father Hou Zhen was also the former governor of Hebei Province, the core ruling area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. He was one of the strong supporters of Li Ze's wealth. The influence of the Hou family in the Tang Dynasty cannot be underestimated.

"Mr. Yang Du Yu looks down on me so much." Hou Fangyu said with a laugh: "I'll introduce our deputy envoy to Mr. Yang Du Yu!"

Hou Fangyu flashed, and a person flashed out from behind, bowing to Yang Qiu awkwardly: "Yang Du Yu Hou, we are meeting again!"

Looking at the visitor, Yang Qiu was stunned for a while. The other party was really his acquaintance, the chief adviser under Ding Sheng, and Jin Yunzhi.

After looking at the other party for a while, Yang Qiu sighed and shook his head and said, "No wonder Ding Sheng lost so simply. It turns out that you have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty long ago."

Jin Yunzhi said: "It's not all that Yang Du Yuhou guessed. I decided to join the Tang Dynasty this year."

Yang Qiu nodded: "Ding Sheng's final decisive attack was encouraged or even planned. On the day he was dispatched, the Tang army knew all the plans clearly. I said, how could the tens of thousands of troops collapse so simply? Ding Sheng's sneak attack on Jishou is the biggest secret, but he dared to be trapped by Tang army in advance and surrounded him in Jishou, and he hated him. With you as an insider, it is really not difficult to do these things."

"Those who know the times are heroes." Jin Yunzhi's face turned red.

Hou Fangyu, who was on the side, smiled and smoothed out: "Jin Yunzhi is about to go to Chang'an Ministry of Rites to serve. The letter of appointment has arrived. This time, he will come with me to negotiate, which is one of his jobs."

Yang Qiu smiled and bowed, "Then I want to congratulate you." After saying this, he turned his head and looked at Hou Fangyu: "General Hou, you will not have buried chess pieces in my Guizhou center, right?"

Hou Fangyu spread his hands, "Yang Duyu Hou, you ask me this, but I really asked Yu Blind. These things are the responsibility of my Tang Dynasty Intelligence Committee. Even if it is Jin Yuanwailang's affairs, we only knew about the war before the war started. As for where you are, I really don't know."

Yang Qiu nodded: "I believe General Hou's words, but Gao Xiangsheng is indeed scary. This time, he took Tian Mantang with his own strength. To be honest, I am now trembling."

"All of these are based on the strength of our Tang Dynasty. Without the strong strength of the Tang Dynasty, Vice Chairman Gao had great skills and could not use them." Hou Fangyu said: "It is precisely because of the strong national strength of the Tang Dynasty that people with knowledgeable people know that being an enemy of our Tang Dynasty is a mantis arm to block the chariot. How about Tubo? The country of thousands of miles was destroyed by our Tang Dynasty in half a year, let alone others."

Listening to this naked threatening language, Yang Qiu was silent for a while and said: "This place is not that place, there is a place with the charm of each place, so General Hou doesn't have to summarize it all."

"Although it's not too far!" Hou Fangyu laughed: "Yang Du Yu Hou, it's not the time for us to negotiate, why don't we go first?"

"That's right!" Yang Qiu smiled.

More than a hundred Tang troops integrated into the large army brought by Yang Qiu, and their hooves were sounding and heading towards Wan'an County.

It was not until this time that Jin Yunzhi relaxed. To be honest, it was indeed a bit embarrassing when he first met Yang Qiuzhi. At this time, he was walking among the army, surrounded by more than a hundred Tang troops. Among the three thousand Qianzhou troops, he seemed like a Bianzhou in the vast ocean. But for some reason, Jin Yunzhi felt very at ease.

One hundred soldiers rode their horses, but they were so arrogant that they rode on the horse and looked around, looking at the countless soldiers around them as if nothing had happened.

Yang Qiu was also looking at the more than a hundred Tang soldiers.

As a commander of the army, the more than a hundred soldiers' temperament that has been terrified by murder on the battlefield can never be played. It is like a dog. No matter how similar he looks to a wolf, his ruthlessness cannot be played.

What interested Yang Qiu even more was the equipment of these soldiers.

These soldiers were not armed. The clothes on their bodies were colorful, as if they had failed to dye in a dyeing vat. The clothes were sewn into square pieces, with pockets everywhere, a cowhide belt around their waists, with horizontal knives and many small pieces hanging on them, and the helmets were neatly buckled on their heads like iron pots.

What Yang Qiu didn't know was that the equipment on the soldiers brought by Hou Fangyu was exactly the same as Liang Han's mountain troops. The clothes on his body were not without armor, but all of these armor pieces were inlaid in the clothes. This was thanks to the increasingly sophisticated iron and steel smelting technology of the Tang Dynasty today. The armor pieces with higher protection and lighter protection were made. These specially made military uniforms were extremely light and were completely on the same level as the soldiers had to carry 10 or 20 kilograms of plate armor when they had to carry tramples. More importantly, it was extremely convenient to fold and repair. As the saying goes, it was broken and a piece of armor was broken. Take it out and replace it with another one.
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