Zhaozong was stunned, but fortunately, he knew that Li Shunjie was a rude warrior. If he was a scheming person, he would definitely understand the emperor's favor. It was just a temporary use and might not really betray Yang Fugong.

"Well, I'm ordering you to send troops to arrest Yang Fugong." Zhaozong had no choice but to say.

"I received the order." Li Shunjie responded respectfully.

"Okay, after the matter is done, I will reward you with great rewards." Zhaozong said a cliché.

Li Shunjie said: "Your Majesty, after taking down Yang Fugong, can you lead your troops south and take over Kuizhou and Guizhou?"

Zhaozong was surprised to find that the Zhenjiang Jiedushi was just a void position symbolizing honor. He asked, "Your family wants to take office in Kuizhou?"

"I am willing to serve Your Majesty in Chang'an City, but I am the governor of Zhenjiang. How can I let others occupy the rule? I want to take charge of it, and then I will leave the deputy envoy to guard it. When I come back to Chang'an, I will continue to serve Your Majesty." Li Shunjie said.

Zhaozong nodded and said by the way: "Your family is brave, so you can take charge of Kuizhou and Guizhou."

"No! I'll take Yang Fugong now." Li Shunjie replied firmly, and after that, he took a step back and turned around and left.

Looking at Li Shunjie's burly back, Zhaozong's face became gloomy. He asked Li Shunjie to arrest Yang Fugong, mainly aiming to suppress the instability of the Shen Ce Army.

Li Shunjie's arrest of Yang Fugong was a fight in the nest, which made many Yang Fugong forces tend to wait and see.

The reason why Li Shunjie wanted to take over Kuizhou and Guizhou was related to Yang Hui.

Yang Hui was ordered to send a letter to greet Yang Fugong's members of the Yang Fugong forces he met. Li Shunjie was a general who betrayed Yang Fugong, and his situation was somewhat similar to Yang Hui.

All Yang Hui's letters were presented to the Governor of Jinzhou for review. Wei Fufeng's grandfather had read them and instructed Yang Hui to instigate Li Shunjie and his subordinates.

The general meaning of the letter is that the Jiedushi is the overlord. Since Li Shunjie has obtained the position of Jiedushi, he should obtain military and political benefits under his rule.

Yang Hui said that he was the supervisor of the Southern Sichuan Army. Li Shunjie led his troops to take charge of Kuizhou and Guizhou, and he could send 20,000 troops to assist in the battle.

After that, they will seize the upper reaches of Kuizhou together. Once they are successful, the Sichuan Army and the Zhenjiang Army will form a long alliance and help each other to fight against the Dongchuan Army, the Xichuan Army and the Jingnan Army.

Yang Hui also said that there are many variables in the court. Once the emperor is dismissed from his favor, the consequences will be dismissed from office, and the worst will be killed. Why not seek the local foundation as soon as possible and manage a retreat?

Li Shunjie and his subordinates were moved, and Yang Fugong's fate was a wake-up call. Although Li Shunjie was rude, he was not stupid. The reason why he defected to the emperor was to be promoted and power, but his subordinates attached importance to the official positions and interests under the rule of the Jiedushi.

Wei Fufeng didn't know about the matter of encouraging Li Shunjie, and the Governor of Jinzhou had his own opinions.

Because everything Wei Fufeng did was in line with his grandfather's wishes, the grandparents and grandchildren worked together and had a happy life.

The strategy of the governor of Jinzhou was to attract wolves to fight against tigers. Yun'an Yanjing in Kuizhou was the lifeblood of the governor of Jingnan. If Li Shunjie took office in Kuizhou, Cheng Feng would not give in to him.

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Li Shunjie led the order to leave the Daming Palace, and returned to Tianwei Barracks to lead three thousand soldiers to send troops to Zhaohuafang to capture Yang Fugong.

Although Yang Fugong was a eunuch, he had his own official residence and had more than a thousand family soldiers in Zhaohuafang. He was dismissed and could no longer have the Shence Army Hall for his rightful use.

Before Li Shunjie sent troops, he used his confidant to go to Zhaohuafang to report the message, telling Yang Fugong that he was reciting his previous kindness and asked Yang Fugong to take the initiative to escape from Chang'an City.

Of course, Li Shunjie was not thinking about his previous grace.

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Instead, he was moved by the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's death. After becoming a high-ranking official, he also learned to win people's hearts and avoid being criticized. After all, he was once Yang Fugong's adopted son.

When Yang Fugong heard that the emperor wanted to arrest him, the charge was for his rebellion, and he couldn't help but scold Zhaozong for being ungrateful.

In fact, Yang Fugong had no intention of rebelling and just wanted to restore his post. He was a eunuch, but he could not become an emperor after rebelling.

With the news, Yang Fugong was unwilling to arouse his anger and immediately sent someone to inform the supporters of the Shence Army, trying to rebel, and the mutiny forced Zhaozong to abdicate and establish another.

As a result, only the Yushan Army envoy responded to Yang Fugong, and other supporters decided to wait and see.

The Yushan Army envoy was also the adopted son of Yang Fugong. He heard the news and brought thousands of troops outside Zhaohuafang to meet the slowly arrived Tianwei Army on a narrow road.

When Li Shunjie saw it, he was immediately furious. He had already given Yang Fugong the opportunity to escape. The two armies faced off. The Yushan Army envoy accused Li Shunjie of being ungrateful and not being able to die a bad death.

Li Shunjie was extremely angry and ordered an attack. The two armies fought outside Zhaohuafang.

Yang Fugong's family soldiers also rushed out to participate in the war, but Li Shunjie was quite capable of governing the army, and his soldiers under his command were stronger than Yushan Army.

Li Shunjie was unwilling to fight hard, so he suppressed his anger and still hoped that Yang Fugong could leave when the opportunity came. As a result, the battle between the two sides became a "practical military exercise" that most of them were watching behind.

From morning to afternoon, Zhaozong, who was waiting for news in the Daming Palace, could no longer bear it and ordered Sun Kui to attack.

Sun Kui led three thousand troops to leave the previous dynasty of Daming Palace and rushed towards Zhaohuafang in a mighty manner.

There was a peek at Li Shunjie, and Li Shunjie shouted: "Mr. Sun is leading his army. Will you surrender?"

Yang Fugong also understood Li Shunjie's intention. Seeing that other old members refused to come and responded, he had to evacuate with hatred. He evacuated Zhaohuafang with Yushan Army, went to Tongyuan Gate to leave Chang'an City, and fled to Xingyuan Mansion.

When Sun Kui arrived, he naturally failed. He congratulated Li Shunjie on a few words of confrontation and went to Daming Palace to join him.

Yang Fugong fled, and Zhaozong said that Yang Fugong's crimes were announced to the court and the country.

The imperial edict was issued to remove Yang Shouliang from the position of Jiedushi in the South West Road of Shan, dismiss Yang Shouzhen from the position of Jiedushi in Wuding, dismissed Longjian Jiedushi, and Jianzhou and Longzhou returned to the jurisdiction of Jiedushi in Dongchuan.

At the same time, Sun Kui was appointed as the governor of Shannan West Road, Xingyuan Prefecture's recruitment of the attack, and Tianwei Army envoy Li Shunjie was appointed as the deputy envoy of the attack, leading an army of 30,000 to the expedition.

The order was issued to the resignation of Wei Zhaodu, who remained in Luoyang, served as the governor of Wuding, and Wang Wenqing, the doctor of the Ministry of War, served as the governor of Yangzhou, and also served as the Sima of the Wuding Army. The envoy of Jincheng Army was the deputy envoy of recruiting and attacking Yangzhou.

This time, Zhaozong ordered Jinzhou to send troops, and took advantage of the situation to let Li Shunjie participate in the capture of Xingyuan Prefecture. After all, Yang Shouliang's power was strong.

The nearby feudal towns could naturally learn about what happened in Chang'an City, and Li Xian reported it in time.

When Jinzhou learned that while telling southern Sichuan, he was discussing how to deal with it. His second uncle insisted on responding to the imperial order, otherwise the imperial court would seize the handle to attack Jinzhou.

Wei Xuan believed that he should wait and see, and could not speak without trust. He also said that the emperor served as the eldest uncle as the governor of the Wuding Army, which was obviously a remote position.

After sending troops to Jinzhou, he could not have the right to take over the rule of the Wuding Jiedushi.

The Jincheng Army envoy Wei Liang was in charge of Junzhou, the eighth old Wei Kang was silent, and Wei Fufeng's fourteenth uncle Wei Xiong was eager to try and agree to send troops.

As a result, my grandfather adopted a perfunctory strategy and asked his fourteenth son Wei Xiong to lead the 3,000 regiments to train and send troops.

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In front of Wei Xiong, his grandfather Yan ordered his deputy general Gao Yan to go there as a bluff of Jincheng Army and could not really attack Yangzhou. Even if the enemy troops in Yangzhou evacuated, they would not be able to occupy it.

Wei Xiong was unable to understand and argued that the Wuding Jiedushi was the eldest uncle and could take over Yangzhou with justification.

The grandfather told his son that the piece of meat in Yangzhou could not be eaten. First of all, the emperor did not serve in his sincere position, and second, the Jinzhou needed to defend against Han Jian's Tongguan army.

Wei Xiong had no choice but to take the three thousand spearmen to the west.

When he left the city to march, Wei Xiong became very emotional because he got the wish and was able to lead the troops. He regretted that he had not been able to go to Hedong to see him. He blamed Wei Fufeng for being troubled and never felt the gratitude of avoiding a disaster.

After Wei Xiong left, his grandfather wrote a letter, sending someone to Yangzhou quickly, explaining that he had no choice but to send troops and absolutely defend his promise not to attack.

Half of the grandfather’s explanation was for his son, and he was worried that Yangzhou would take the initiative.

Yang Shouzhen, the former governor of the Wuding Army of Yangzhou, received a letter from Jinzhou and learned that the troops were trained by the regiment with low combat power, so he did not take any attack.

Wei Xiong arrived in Yangzhou by traveling west. Under the persuasion of the deputy general Gao Yan, he led his army to the foothills of Daba Mountain and adopted a conservative strategy of retreating into the mountains at any time.

Just three days after Wei Xiong's army was stationed at the foot of the mountain, Fengxiang Jiedushi Li Maozhen asked the court to serve as the deputy envoy of Xingyuan Prefecture, and Chen Cang sent 20,000 troops south to attack Fengzhou.

Fengzhou is under the rule of Shannan West Road and is located in the Qinling Mountains. It is a strategic location to guard Chencang Road.

After Fengxiang's army seized Fengzhou with thunder, it left Chencang Road to capture Xingzhou Shunzheng County, and then went on to capture Yangping Pass without stopping, controlled the Hanzhong gateway, cut off Yang Shouliang's retreat, and pointed the front of the troops towards the Hanzhong Basin.

Zhaozong received the letter and was furious to Li Maozhen's aggravated army, but then received a letter from Han Jian, the governor of the Chinese Shang Dynasty. He also asked to seek the counterattack of the deputy envoy, and without waiting for the emperor to report, he sent 20,000 troops across the Jingzhao Prefecture area and rushed straight to Yangzhou through the Ziwu Road.

Jinzhou obtained military information. While informing Wei Liang to defend Han Jianjun to attack the east and west, he organized 10,000 regiments to train troops to defend the Jinzhou city, and ordered Wei Xiong to lead his army back.

The changes in the situation were beyond the expectations of the Governor of Jinzhou.

The emperor intended to control Shannan West Road. Fengxiang Jiedushi and Huashang Jiedushi were both moved and sent troops to seize food from the tiger's mouth, destroying the emperor's plan.

Wei Xiong received an order and learned that 20,000 Tongguan troops were about to arrive in Yangzhou. In panic, he did not return with the order and ordered his troops to retreat into the mountains.

The soldiers and horse envoy Gao Yan explained that the way home could be staggered, and Wei Xiong insisted on refusing to return, because the Tongguan army could ambush on the way.

The 20,000 Tongguan troops could not take a detour to ambush the three thousand weak troops, and they left Ziwu Road to attack Yangzhou. Yangzhou had only two thousand troops to guard, and most of the troops went to attack Dongchuan.

Yang Shouzhong had no choice but to give up the Xixiang County, the capital of Yangzhou, and retreated to Xingyuan Prefecture to join forces to defend.

The Tongguan army easily occupied Yangzhou, leaving 5,000 troops to guard it, and 15,000 troops continued to advance westward to attack Xingyuan Prefecture.

The Fengxiang Army and the Tongguan Army were only one day away from reaching Nanzheng County, one blocked the West City Gate and the other blocked the East City Gate.

Two days later, the 30,000 troops of the court arrived at Xingyuan Prefecture, crossed the Han River, and stationed outside the northern city gate.

Xingyuan Prefecture City is tall and strong, with no less than 20,000 troops in the city, 10,000 Fengxiang Army, 15,000 Tongguan Army, and 30,000 imperial military strength, including Li Shunjie's 5,000 Tianwei Army.

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