Seeing the team that was rashly attacked but fell into the enemy's siege under the city, rushing left and right but still unable to escape, but became smaller and smaller in the battle of the death, the Chenzhou defense commander Zhao Feng felt more and more cold and sad. Because his other brother, Chen Xu, was in it.

The responders and restrained troops sent by him on the front did not play a corresponding role; just as the thief army had many whirlwind cannons and rods, the sudden rocks suddenly broke out like rain and were disrupted. Then they were attacked by the horse team behind the hidden camp of the thief army, and in the end they could only get back less than half of the people.

This includes the corpse that his son Zhao Quan was killed by a cannon stone and was desperately snatched back by his subordinates. The moment he saw the bloody corpse, he seemed to have grown several years old all of a sudden.

However, no matter how he wanted to be mourned, the stone cannons of the thieves under the city continued to fire like rain, and the frequency and accuracy were gradually increasing. After more than a dozen rounds of bombardment, it quickly made the pits on the city as bumpy as dogs.

But in this rash battle, he almost lost most of the mobile people in his hands to respond; and there were two relatives who could rely on. At this moment, he looked at Zuojin's face filled with panic and fear, and continued to hold on and wait for a turnaround. After all, he could not persist in making up.

When the sound of attacks quickly approaching under the city began to resound throughout the sky, Zhao Yuan, who had made up his mind, also began to explain the affairs of the family generals he had been with since childhood.

"Although I have long been effective in the practice of Zhang Zhongcheng's ambition, I can't bear to join the descendants of the clan to go to the national crisis with me. The inner city has a hidden place to connect to the outer wall and store food and water inside, which is enough for more than ten people to use for several months..."

"Once the thief army gained power, you cut off my head and threw it, maybe you can save your life... Then, be waiting for an opportunity to find some ways to get them out of the city..."

As his words seemed to make God feel something, a cold feeling suddenly began to fall on his exposed back of his hands and face, but there were quite tiny snow particles.

At the same time, in the first light snow in early winter that was falling, floating all over the sky. As the leader of the team under the eastern defense commander, Wang Chongshi, who was a swordsman from the north, also stepped on the stacked corpses and flowing blood, holding a long-handled sword full of cracked gaps, slowly climbing to the walls of Chenzhou;

Just through the corpses everywhere, the flesh-and-blooded city appeared in Zhao Feng's vision; and at this moment, he also recalled his life again like a lantern.

His family was a loyal general, and he was wise since childhood. When he was playing with his neighbors and children on the road, he arranged troops and became a marshal and commanded with appropriate command. His father was happy to see what he saw: "My family is a thousand miles away, and he will definitely be a big family!"

After becoming an adult, because of his knowledge and knowledgeable nature, he was good at archery and horses, and his brave and decisive personality, he was promoted to a dental school by the county magistrate. During the Huichang period, the governor of Zhaoyi, Liu Zhen, caused chaos, and Zhao Quan followed his father to fight and participated in the battle to recover Tianjing Pass.

Not long after, he followed the barbarians and fought in Xidong for a month before conquering them. He won a lot of results. Zhao Quan was named the Marquis of the Zhongwu Army, the Marquis of the Horse and Budu of the Zhongwu Army. It was not until the second year of Qianfu that Wang Xianzhi led his people to rebel in Cao and Puzhou and attacked Ru, Zheng and other prefectures in the south. Zhao Quan was ordered to lead thousands of infantry and cavalry to attack him in the middle way, and defeated Wang Xianzhi to flew south.

After the contemporary Zhongwu Army was in ruins, Zhao Yuan was elected as the leader. With an isolated city in Huaiyang, Chenzhou, he repeatedly defeated countless sieges and cages by the bandit army. But now all this persistence and persistence are obviously time to end.

"I wish I could kill myself to serve the country..."

He took the initiative to raise the sword in his hand and roared at the thieves who had already climbed the city and came forward.

——I am the dividing line—

The imperial city of Chang'an, the capital of Daqi, was also swaying like the light snow sprinkled with salt.

Huang Chao, who was enjoying the singing and dancing exercises of the Great Dynasty, was also nodding slightly and holding his new favorite. A petite and charming concubine was the noble daughter of Princess Yongshou and Princess Xue Tong from the royal family.

The new "Weihe Mansion" who was responsible for guarding and patrol outside the hall was already selected from hundreds of thousands of rebels, and was known for his loyalty, bravery, and magnificent. As for the Xiaowei, who was originally following, it was expanded into a separate Gonghuan Army, guarding the three major inner and palaces in Chang'an City today.

As for the current trend, he felt a little satisfied. Although Zheng Ting, the old prime minister of Fengtian City, Fengxiang Prefecture in the northwest (now Gan County, Shaanxi), once again refused to persuade him to surrender, and peeled the envoy to hang it to the city to show his determination; however, the Fengtian City, where many villages and the gates have been removed, was just a dead place hanging alone.

Although Dasan Pass, the gateway to Sanchuan, could not be taken down for a long time, he could only defend himself for a while, and allowed the rebels to build their continuous villages outside, gradually surrounding and trapping them in a mere city of passes.

Not to mention that the two remaining enemies in the north and south are fighting each other, and they can no longer use and echo each other. Except for some remnants of roaring in Taibai Mountain and Louguan Mountain for trouble and rebellion, there are still no one in the huge Guanzhong hinterland that can block and resist the footsteps and existence of the rebel army.

As for the north, although the ineffective food and winter clothes were still insufficient, the aggressive offensive in Fangzhou was slowed down; there were already several representatives of Guanbei vassal states in Chang'an City, secretly discussing the conditions and prices of corresponding changes of flags and surrenders.

Once this matter was accomplished, in addition to the existing three towns of Hezhong King Chongrong, Heyang Zhuge Shuang and Heshuo, a small number of them still surrendered to the title of the New Dynasty of the Great Qi Dynasty.

The various people under the banner of the Great Qi court in Guandong were also among the siege and robbery areas. From time to time, the official army was defeated and the good news of the removal of the entrenched places was sent one after another.

This led to the continuous improvement of the external strategic situation of the Daqi regime; the southwest was still under the rule of the cheap son-in-law who was also a rebel of the rebel army; with his ability and ability, there were unexpected threats and invasions of foreign enemies in a short period of time south of Wuguan.

In the southeast, Gao Pian, the only old thief in Huainan who can still fight, is now in line with his old dynasty and regards himself as a side. He is just an unimprovement-oriented thief. The other opponents who have been elected and destroyed are just like this in his eyes when he has fought along the way.

Although there are still many remnants of the old dynasties in Hedong, before threatening and intruding into the Guannei Road they occupied, they must first deal with Wang Chongrong, the Hezhong Guardian (Judgmentary Commander) who had already surrendered to the Daqi Dynasty. This should be a natural barrier on the road.

The only regret is that the cheap son-in-law, who occupied most of the southwest, occupied most of Hunan, Jingnan, Shannan, Lingnan and Annan, has been "exporting" since the founding of the New Dynasty, but has always formed a system and is basically not subject to official positions and appointments from the New Dynasty.

But this is a question that his son only needs to consider for his generation; before the two children grow up enough to become adults, he still has plenty of time to manage and concoct this matter. At present, Da Qi started the uncertain interests in the world, and the Da Qi court still needs to continue to win over and maintain its relationship with this person.

Therefore, before this, he had always been moved to the idea of ​​giving him a title of king, even the lowest-level title of king. However, he was unexpectedly opposed by the newly appointed Shangshang Rang, Pingzhang served Cui Miao, the right servant of the Secretariat Li Junru, and the Minister of Personnel Huang Rui.

Their reasons for their respective positions are also sufficient, nothing more than:

"At the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, it will be difficult to reward and control it in the future..."

"The old brothers in Henan followed the king and fought bravely for many years. Do they still have to be a newcomer who emerged from the Guangzhou Mansion in fame and title?"

"This generation has always been away from the military office and issuing orders. If the new dynasty gives Hou Jue, wouldn't it be more and more necessary to do what they want to do."

"Sometimes he has the virtues and abilities to be able to be the king of all the clans. Isn't this a heartbreaking and cold-hearted?"

After all, these people represent the old brothers in the army, the scholars and subordinates who contributed after the uprising, the new affiliations formed by the old dynasty surrendered people, and the positions of the same blood relatives and clan members who have always followed each other. Even Huang Chao could not easily deny or ignore their opinions.

However, when the new dynasty was first established, we must never ignore the lord of the Taiping Army or exclude that person from the rebel system; so he could only settle for the second best and ask someone to give a county duke.

As a result, there was a mistake in this matter. He did not continue to inquire and notice it later, so he asked someone to draft the title of Duke of Beim; however, Liu Tang was sent to send it to the envoy of the Imperial Examination.

If it weren't for being rejected by the other party in disguise, the minister Zhao Zhang found out that the problem came to him, and he would have been kept in his bones. After all, as the basic common sense of a scholar who had been to Beijing for the exam, Beimang Mountain outside Luodu City was not a good place, but the tombs of emperors and generals of all dynasties.

There was neither land, household registration nor cities, towns, but only abandoned side halls, temples and wild tombs. Giving them to others as fiefs would mean deliberate humiliation and derogation. Therefore, Huang Chao couldn't help but become furious and ordered to be investigated.

However, after the last search, it was only punished several scholars responsible for drafting and drafting edicts, and the sects were all punished; the relationship behind it could never be found out again. Because some of them quickly confessed their crimes, saying that they wanted to "want to make all the thieves attack in civil strife", and then they committed suicide during torture.

Then, out of the decency and authority of the new dynasty, it is impossible to proactively admit mistakes and lose sincerity to the subordinate forces under the name; therefore, this matter can only be continued without mentioning it and deliberately ignore it.

However, the good things about communicating with the south are still obvious. At least when he stood on the wall of the Imperial Road in the Imperial City, he could find that fewer and less and less residents gathered in front of the relief sites. The clean and cold markets of the east and west cities have also restored some popularity and hustle and bustle.

As the attack in three consecutive directions was blocked, some people recently proposed to send troops south to Shannan and attack the remnants of the old dynasty in Sanchuan.

"House of Xuancheng came to see you,"

He was watching singing and dancing and enjoying the beauty, thinking about it all over the place, and suddenly an inner envoy with a whisk came in respectfully and reported:

"Present..."

Huang Chao waved his hand and said. Then, in the cold wind blowing into the hall, Huang Xin, the nephew of Xinfeng, who was the servant of Xuancheng and Chengxuan of the Privy Council, was entrusted in, and at the same time brought a good news from Kanto.

"Zhu Saner?...has he beat Chenzhou down?...is he a capable person..."

At this moment, a face with thick eyebrows and big eyes and honest expressions appeared in front of Huang Chao's eyes.

"But it was the last bit of regret and regret for our old brother who died back then. I should give him a good reward and be a role model."

However, he saw Huang Xin staying there when he wanted to speak. Huang Chao couldn't help but waved his hand and left and right, and then said warmly to the woman in his arms:

"Let's go to the hall to play, and watch the singing and dancing with you later..."

"The Lord, there are other inside stories in it..."

With the swaying fragrance breeze blown away by the cold wind and then indoors, Huang Xin spoke with a little carefree look.

"At present, General Li (Bintang) of Zhu's army sent people to report, saying that his troops had many excellent armor and siege equipment, all from the south. Some people who were practicing walking in the army... Now, I'm afraid that the two are too close to each other."

"...I'm afraid that someone will criticize you in the future. Is Zhu San's troops a subordinate of the king or a vassal supported by the Taiping Army?"

"It's outrageous. Zhu San is loyal to his life and hard work for the country in front of him, so why does it make people jealous? Isn't he a jealous person from Yu Yi's hand? Don't say such jealous words in front of you anymore..."

Huang Chao interrupted impatiently.

However, after reprimanding Huang Xin, Huang Chao pondered for a moment but the Xue concubine was called back without her new favorite. Instead, he sent someone to summon the censor Zheng Hanzhang and the right servant of the minister, Gai Hong;

"I want to lead the order of the current Five Armies, Seven Wings and Eleven, and guard (several states), stay in the order of staying in (big states), defending (small states), and guarding (county) and performing the order of the military supervisor's envoy... "

"This is a great thing..."

Gai Hong, who had a long face and a ravine face, contrasted with his luxurious clothes, immediately said.

"Does the Lord plan to send corresponding personnel to the third courts of the Censorate?"

Zheng Hanzhang, the censor who had a little literary atmosphere, also knew the elegant meaning of the songs.

"That's true that the old dynasty is good at using eunuchs for me; the military supervisors represent the dignity of the country and the court, how can they be entrusted to the incomplete people of the Five Bodies and Five Bodies?"

Huang Chao nodded in praise.
Chapter completed!