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Li Keyong woke up slowly.

The ringtone rang in the dark, the faint, unfamiliar ringtone. He reached out to touch the horse lantern at the head of the bed, and touched the matchbox on the table, and lit a match to light the lamp. He squinted his eyes and looked around and found that this was a luxurious bedroom full of the style of Xuanzong and the furniture of Jiangnan. The house was decorated with many new and luxurious items from Shandong, glass mirrors, horse lanterns, and a wide four-poster sandalwood bed and a pair of duck down calfskin upholstered chairs. On the transparent and crystal glass coffee table, there was a set of glass tea sets.

Where am I?

A pair of gauze tents hanging on the bed posts are engraved with a line of handwriting: General Dongdu Hotel.

He got up and looked at the pocket watch. It was just four o'clock in the morning. He reached out and tilted the bell on the wall. In this luxurious restaurant, the message bells from Qin Fan have been installed in the past two years. This kind of bell is very magical. It is installed with copper wires on the wall and connected to a message room on each floor. As long as each customer's guest rings the bell, a corresponding bell will ring in the message room. It is a little more complicated, and there are even a few different bells in each room, representing the different needs of the guests. Once the bell is ringed, the service required will arrive immediately. It is like an emperor's enjoyment, luxurious but comfortable.

"Hello, King Jin, I hope the young one didn't wake you up!" A small copper speaker on the wall made a sound.

Li Keyong took a microphone next to him connected to the wire from the wall, "What's the matter?"

He looked at the golden pocket watch on his neck again with sleepy eyes, at about four in the morning. He had just slept for a while, and he remembered that he slept at two in the morning, but he felt that he had been sleeping for a long time.

"Go back to King Jin. I am Mi Rong. A messenger who came from Yanmen wanted to see you, but he insisted that the matter was very urgent."

Li Keyong was still confused when he just got up, and rubbed the one-eyed envoy of Yanmen. It was probably Shi Yan or uncle Li Delin. At this time, his eyes looked at a yellow silk on the table. There was an imperial edict above. The pile of magnificent words in front of the imperial edict passed by, and his eyes directly looked at the last line.

"Kei Kezhongshu Ling, appointed Taifu, and served as the marshal of the Dongduji and Shannan, and was appointed as the remaining guards of Tokyo!"

Li Keyong snorted, and Zheng Congxian and other old thieves trapped him tightly in the Hedong coalition. But how could Li Keyong be willing to do so? He knew that Yang Fugong's brothers were determined to win him over the years. Although Shatuo had suffered several defeats over the years, Shatuo's troops were still a strong army in the world. Li Keyong did not refuse Yang Fuguang's win. After making a statement, Yang Fuguang was indeed very happy. He wanted to escape from Zheng Congxian's constraints. Yang Fuguang immediately helped to operate. In a short time, the emperor had issued an imperial edict to transfer him from the Hedong coalition. Now, he is no longer under Zheng Congxian, but the marshals of the Eastern Capital and Shannan. He also has the right to be left behind in Tokyo.

Since receiving the imperial edict, Li Keyong led his 50,000 troops and 100,000 civilians to separate from the Hedong coalition. He wanted to return directly to Yanmen, but the old thief Zheng guarded the road to return north to death. Yang Fuguang urged him to go south to defeat the thief to make military achievements and repay the emperor. In desperation, Li Keyong had to bring his men across the Yellow River and enter Shanzhou.

Originally, Li Keyong thought there would be a big battle to go south, but he expected that the rebels in Henan would almost all surrender under the pressure of the army.

Li Keyong took Shanzhou without any effort, and Zheng Congxi and others also entered Heyang. Yang Fuguang and Zhu Wen entered Ruzhou. Zhu Wen followed him and wrote to Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guimu and other generals, successfully surrendered these old officials and recovered Haozhou and Yingzhou.

Then, Li Keyong went from the west, Yang Fuguang, Zhu Wen and others from the south, Zheng Congzi, Wang Chongrong and others from the north, three routes advanced together and drove to the bottom of the Dongdu City. In the Dongdu City, Huang Chao's bandits directly opened the door and surrendered, and the troops from the court easily recovered the Dongdu City Luoyang.

Now, he is in the extremely luxurious General Hotel in the eastern capital Luoyang. Dongcheng is now occupied by Li Keyong. The General Store is his temporary General Office.

If he could not return north, Li Keyong could only abandon the Hu people who went south. His uncle Li Delin several times asked him to find a way to return to Yanmen, even if he left the army in Henan, he could return alone. Cheng Huaiyi sent several urgent letters in a row, saying that the remaining generals asked to go out of seclusion to fight, but he refused one by one. Shi Yan also sent a few people to pull him out, but it was the Hu people who urged him to send troops.

Li Keyong was very upset. If he could send troops, he would have been out. As for his uncle, he would not have agreed to return to Yanmen alone. He would not have let go easily with the army of tens of thousands of years. Moreover, there are still important things in the south, so he cannot go back. He finally attacked Luoyang, and it was time to grab money, grain, and people and territory. He would not leave easily. As for those Hu people, let them fight with Li Jing. If Datong is lost, it will be lost. Anyway, it has been lost for many years. It was just Li Siyuan who was captured before. As long as the Yanmen army did not leave the pass, the Qin army would not have the spare energy to go south for a while.

Li Keyong tried his best to keep a calm tone, "I am tired, and..."

"But, King Jin?" The thing in his hand was indeed magical. A thread connected to both ends of the head could allow two people to talk to the walls at a long distance. But perhaps because of this, the guys over there dared to doubt his words.

"He said something urgent!"

There is no doubt that it must have been the Hu people who urged him to send troops, or Li Delin asked him to return to Yanmen, or Cheng Huaiyi could not control the left-behind generals and schoolmen. Since the Battle of Weizhou, he felt that Sha Tuo is getting worse and worse now, and it is far worse than three years ago. Thinking about the defeat of the Battle of Daibei, they were defeated so miserably at that time, but people's hearts were gathered and never wavered. He suddenly remembered that Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and Kang Junli were all the generals who were so loyal to him, loyal and capable. Unfortunately, he even felt a little regret in his heart.

"Remember what people have reported and give me rewards. Let's talk about anything after dawn." Before Mi Rong could speak, he put down the copper tube.

Li Keyong sat up and looked at the exquisite mercury mirror next to him. He stared at the mirror opposite him tiredly. He looked back at him with a stranger, a terrible stranger. His hair was messy and exhausted. A black eye mask on his face covered one eye, and there was a hideous scar on his face that had crossed the entire face, and the purple-red scar on the scar was prominent.

He could not believe that the person in the mirror was himself. He was only twenty-five years old, but he looked like he was fifty-two years old when he looked at the face in the mirror.

He has been frustrated and unlucky in the past few years, but he is unwilling to pity himself in the mirror. His originally sharp eyes looked blurry and dull tonight, his shriveled chin was covered with a curly black beard, and he even found that there were white hair on his temples around his ears, and he was deeply crawling into his originally thick, thick and black hair.

Just yesterday, Li Keyong, who received the emperor's imperial edict, was reluctant but took the initiative to recognize Yang Fuguang as his adoptive father. Yang Fuguang accepted several adopted sons at one time in front of the palace gate in Luoyang yesterday. Li Keyong, the governor of Yanmen, Wang Chongrong, the governor of Hezhong, Zhuge Shuang, the governor of Heyang, Zhu Quanzhong, the governor of Xuanwu, Qin Zongquan, the governor of **, Zhou Ji, the governor of Zhongwu, Lu Yanhong, the governor of Zhongzhou, and Li Quanzhong, the governor of Zhenzhou!

This time, when he regained Luoyang, Yang Fuguang was the first in his merits. He successfully instigated many vassal states to return to the Tang Dynasty and contacted the towns. In the end, he recovered Henan and Luoyang without any bloodshed.

Moreover, spies in Chengdu in various towns have sent back news that the emperor now relied on the Yang brothers, favored Yang Fugong in his own right, and believed in Yang Fuguang outside. Especially Yang Fuguang, who held troops, was valued by Li Yan. Under Yang Fuguang's intention, Li Quanzhong, who was driven out of Hebei by Li Jing, had been surrendered to Wang Chongrong, Zhuge Shuang, Qin Zongquan, Qin Zongquan, and Qin Zongquan who had been in charge of the position of commander in the mutiny, as well as Li Jing's mortal rivals Zhu Quanzhong, Li Keyong, etc., eventually gathered under his command, hoping to borrow under the emperor's tree to enjoy the shade.

A eunuch became the adoptive father of the eight vassal commanders, which is only possible in this world today.

Although he was unwilling to accept it, Li Keyong had no choice. He had seen that the vassal states in Hebei could not stop Li Jing, and the Hu people in the north seemed to be unable to defeat Li Jing. He struggled and worked hard, but he could only watch Li Jing fight step by step, growing stronger and bigger, until the gap between them became bigger and bigger. He could no longer fight against Li Jing with all his strength, so he could only contact all the power that could be connected. Now, the emperor seemed to be unhappy for Li Jing for a long time.

For Shatuo, even if he is the son of the eunuch, he will endure it.

As the son of the eunuch, he also had a group of messy righteous brothers.

Zhuge Shuang, Zhu Quanzhong, and Lu Yanhong were all born into rebels and rebel soldiers. Wang Chongrong, Qin Zongquan, Zhou Ji, and Li Quanzhong were all the military leaders who started their military chaos. They were really divided into groups and feathers flocked together. Think about it, aren’t they the same as them? Now that such a group of people gathered together, although everyone is not well-born, they are now in charge of a town, and the united forces are still very powerful.

Both sides of the Yellow River, west of the canal, east of Tongguan, are within the control of these eight brothers.

However, among these people, Zhu Quanzhong was a little unhappy. This guy is now the largest territory among all people, and he also has the title of king like him. However, he looked down on Zhu Asan because he was once a soldier under Li Jing's subordinate. Later, he defected to Huang Chao and finally betrayed the wealth of Huang Chao. Among the generals, he was the youngest and very low-class. He was a son of a cook and servant. Before he was twenty years old, he was just a pig feeder. After betraying Huang Chao, he took the initiative to get close to Wang Chongrong. The two were not very different in age, but he shamelessly called Wang Chongrong his uncle. But a few days later, he began to call Wang Chongrong's brothers again and called him brother.

Fuck, the dead pigherd. When he was twelve years old, when he wiped out the rioters in Xuzhou, Zhu A-san only knew that he could feed pigs to the landlord's house in Xiaoxian, Xuzhou. Such a guy also had the face to be his brother?

In short, he was disliked when he saw Zhu A San, and was born with disagreement. Perhaps it was because he was once under Li Jing, perhaps because he is now the coach of the **Journal of the Town, or perhaps because he had been struggling for so long but repeatedly failed. This damn guy has so many state territories so smoothly and has also been named King of Liang. Maybe it was jealous, maybe, he was just unhappy about Zhu A San.

When Zhu A San took the initiative to show his goodwill to him, he ignored it, just nodded coldly, and turned around and left. He could see that Zhu A San looked a little embarrassed at the time, but he didn't care. A pig seller started his business by constantly betraying him. There were not many things he could destroy. Although Zhu A San just expressed his willingness to take out some food and grass to give to Shatuo Army, this did not make him look at him directly. To gain his respect, he had to have strength, and he did not think that Zhu A San had the strength to respect him. He was just a guy who had lost his luck for the time being.

The ringtone in the room interrupted Li Keyong's thoughts.

He picked up the microphone and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey!"

As expected, it was his personal bodyguard Mi Rong. "King of Jin, please forgive my disturbance. It is really an urgent military situation. General Cheng Huaiyi was defeated and killed, Yanmen Pass was lost, Daizhou was lost, Xinzhou was lost, and the entire Yanmen Town had been captured by the Qin army!"

Li Keyong suddenly lost his sleepiness, "Take the messenger to my room immediately, and notify Cunzhang and other generals to come here immediately."

“What the hell happened?”

Li Keyong walked around the study next to the bedroom anxiously, his face unstable. This was simply a bolt from the blue. How could Yanmen Town suddenly be thrown away?

"How could the Qin army conquer Yanmen Pass in an instant? Yanmen Pass is the first dangerous fortress that can only be opened by a man and ten thousand men!" He finally couldn't help but roared loudly at the messenger who reported the news.

"Because, because..." The messenger's face was pale and terrifying, and his voice was trembling: "Because, General Cheng Huaiyi and others saw Zhang Zimian hurriedly retreating north, and the Hu people in the north continued to win, so all the generals unanimously asked to go out of the pass to pursue. As a result, General Cheng Huaiyi finally brought 20,000 infantry and cavalry and 50,000 civilians out of the pass. As a result, three days after leaving the pass, he encountered a hidden shore on the Huishui River in the south of Shuozhou City, and the entire army was wiped out. Then the Qin army sent troops to escort the prisoners back to Yanmen Pass, opened the city gate, and took down Yanmen. Then, Yanmen Town was captured by the Qin army in one fell swoop. Yanmen Town was completely gone."

Li Cunzhang and others who had just arrived happened to hear all these words, "Didn't the King of Jin ask Cheng Huaiyi to guard Yanmen Pass and Taixi Pass City several times and not be allowed to fight?"

"All gone? All the cities in Yanmen Town are lost, what about the army?"

"It's all gone. The Huishui River has 20,000 soldiers and horses, more than 10,000 were killed in battle, and the rest were captured. The defenders of each county in Yanmen Town, and more than 10,000 left-behind soldiers and horses were killed." The messenger said sadly.

"Where are our family members?" Li Cunzhang roared.

"All of them were captured by the Qin army. The Qin army captured 100,000 people in the Yanmen cities. All Shatuo people and the families of Shatuo, regardless of gender, age, were arrested."

"puff!"
Chapter completed!