In response to Li Tianqu's willingness to support his side, Wang Shifan responded quickly. The envoy from the Ziqing Army who went to Xiaqiu, Yanzhou submitted a letter to Li Tianqu, which stated that Wang Shifan was very grateful for Li Tianqu's support for the timely assistance, but also asked the Taining Army to send troops to help eliminate the Zhang Chan rebels occupying Dizhou in the vassal states.

Such a begging and begging was exactly the same as Wang Shifan and Liu Xiu's previous plan to lure Lu Hongdayi, and first showed weakness and begging the other party to spare his life.

Liu Xiu suggested that Wang Shifan also showed a low attitude towards Li Tianqu, and might as well plead for mercy and send troops to help quell the rebellion. During the period when Li Tianqu helped the Ziqing Army to consolidate the chaos, he also had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to rob and attack the governor Wang Shifan and coerced and control the Jiedu.

Of course, Liu Xiu made such arrangements, and the Yidu seemed to be empty in the jurisdiction of the Yidu, but in fact, if Li Tianqu was really ulterior motives and intended to invade the Ziqing Army. While Yidu immediately closed the city gate and guarded it strictly, the advantage of the base area would immediately cut off the Taining Army's retreat, thus forming a trend of closing the door and fighting against dogs.

Not only that, Liu Xiu, who was best at calculating, would of course consider that Li Tianqu might also contact the rebel Zhang Chan secretly, and then turn around to erode the territory of his own vassal states. However, following Liu Xiu's arrangement, a fast horse and light cavalry located in the southwest of Qizhou was on standby at any time. If Li Tianqu was greedy and swallowed the elephant, and exposed any intention of invading the state and seizing the county in his own territory, the group of light cavalry would immediately go to the Tianping Army's vassal states and suggested that Zhu Xuan take advantage of Li Tianqu's division of troops to plan for the Zibo Qing army, and his military strength was dispersed and he temporarily entangled with the troops of Wang Shifan's troops, and he also launched a full attack on his rule, Yicheng and Taining vassal states.

Even if Zhu Xuan and Wang Jingwu and Wang Shifan and his son were not close in the past, he is now the opponent of Li Tianqu who will fight to the death whenever they have the chance. As a result, Zhu Xuan has the opportunity to defeat Li Tianqu, how could he miss it?

In short, if Li Tianqu really supports his lord, it would be fine. Liu Xiu would not launch any plan that was unfavorable to him. Otherwise, he would directly call him in a combination of tricks... He insisted on tearing his face apart. Although the Ziqing Army would inevitably be severely damaged, Li Tianqu's conspiracy to annex the neighboring Tao will not succeed, and he will not lose any rice, but will instead threaten the gains and losses of his own territory.

However, since Li Tianqu sincerely wanted to form an alliance with Wang Shifan, there was no need for Liu Xiu to take any strategy against him... or damage.

After all, he took too much steps and was easy to pull the ball. Li Tianqu knew very well that he was originally aides of the Taining Army's vassal states, and gradually the direct descendants he trusted were divided into military and political powers. This also required a process of boiling frogs in warm water.

According to historical records, Wang Shifan not only likes literature, advocates Confucianism and Taoism, set up academic museums under his rule, treats Confucian scholars well, and collects tens of thousands of books... At the same time, he also has the art of controlling the masses. When his subordinates are very approachable and properly politically, the people in the vassal states can live and work in peace and contentment, and are more willing to maintain diplomatic relations with other warlords. For a considerable period of time, he had no intention of expanding and launching wars...

Wang Shifan was raising his energy for a long time, and the only opponent who was determined to fight against him was Zhu Wen.

However, although Wang Shifan was able to manage the Ziqing Army and later commanded more than 100,000 troops, he was no longer as strong as Zhu Wen, who had already been under his command, and his elite soldiers were like a sea of ​​elite troops. In addition to Ge Congzhou, who was still fighting each other, the Liang army directly invaded Qingzhou, the central part of the Ziqing Army. Wang Shifan could no longer bear the huge pressure, and begged to surrender to Zhu Wen, so he had to let him slaughter.

Therefore, Wang Shifan in the official history was ultimately inevitable that Zhu Wen, who was moody, was treated kindly first, but then suddenly remembered his nephew Zhu Youning died in battle during the battle between Qingzi Army, and suddenly turned against him and killed all his clan...

However, even if Wang Shifan's ability and ability as the hero is not as good as Zhu Wen and Li Keyong, his character and talent are quite outstanding compared to other vassal states. At least for now, with his existence, he can serve as a barrier to the north of his own forces, and there is almost no need to be suspicious and guard against him. Moreover, when he is finally going to be an enemy of Zhu Wen in the future, Wang Shifan will be a powerful ally with more than 100,000 troops. The ending of many wars in the future where heroes compete for hegemony may be rewritten. Li Tianquxin said that the benefits of the alliance with Wang Shifan are far greater than the disadvantages, so why should I beat him?

Therefore, Li Tianqu simply agreed to Wang Shifan's request to send troops to help suppress the rebellion. However, on the grounds that the people of the Taining Army's vassal states had not yet fully accepted, the two vassal states only gathered 7,000 troops. Although the military strength was not large, because of this, it was not a big threat to the interests of the Ziqing Army's governing capital, which could also dispel Wang Shifan's inconvenience to make a clear warning.

As for the commander of Li Tianqujun to command these 7,000 troops to aid the Ziqing Army, Ge Congzhou, who was fully capable of leading troops outside the country.

Ge came to Zhou to get a letter from Li Tianqu, respecting Jun's order and gathered with the Taining Army into the territory of Ziqing Army, and went to Dizhou in accordance with Wang Shifan's requirements. In addition to taking the process, he asked the Ziqing Army to provide certain food and fodder supplies, and there was no violation of everything. You asked our army to go wherever you asked our army to go, and our army would be able to master the march clearly.

Until Ge Congzhou, who represented Li Tianqu's forces, met with Liu Xiu, the general who relied most on Wang Shifan, under the rule of Dizhou...

"General Liu, I'm lucky to meet, I'm lucky to meet."

"General Ge, I am very lucky to have the fate to pay homage to you."

Liu Xiu, who had already discouraged Li Tianqu's defense, was naturally particularly friendly to the friendly general Ge Congzhou. Moreover, this pair of typical representatives who were also wise generals in the late Tang Dynasty exchanged greetings and chatted with each other, and found that they could chat with each other particularly, and they also had similar interests.

This was naturally Li Tianqu was intentional. After all, in historical records, Liu Xiu was able to seize Yanzhou from Ge Congzhou, who was serving Zhu Wen, according to the original trajectory, and captured all his family members alive. However, Liu Xiu treated Ge Congzhou's family very favorable and never threatened him with qualifying;

Ge Congzhou, who had always been resourceful, was plotted by Liu Xiu, and killed the rebel general who was sincerely planning to surrender in Jucheng. After losing Yanzhou, he could not fight back. This became one of the few records in his military career that he could not defeat the enemy. Ge Congzhou did not hold any grudges until his lord Wang Shishi surrendered to Cong and Liu Xiu left the city to submit to Zhu Wen. Ge Congzhou respected him more and treated him with generous gifts, and strongly recommended that the wise general who had caused him to suffer a great loss must be used greatly...

According to their original trajectory, they have been in a stalemate around Yanzhou, which is currently within the sphere of influence of Li Tianqu, for nearly two years. Instead, they have developed feelings for each other. Now they know each other, but they are all discussing military affairs as the head general of a friendly army. It is also conceivable that they will be closer and respect each other. In the end, it will play a more advanced role in Li Tianqu and Wang Shifan reaching a close alliance.

However, once these two representatives of the early intelligent generals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms joined forces, Zhang Chan, who was struggling to defend Dizhou, would of course not last long...

"Just now, the rebels in Guizhen fell into power and had to defend Yangxin, the capital of Dizhou. I believe General Liu had a good plan to defeat the enemy... Ge was ordered by the lord Jun to help Guizhen. Since he was the guest general, he was of course the guest was at will. General Liu needed how our army would support him, even if he spoke, Ge would also help him."
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