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Chapter 311 The Emperor Runs Away

Zhou Xiang was ordered to go on an envoy to Nanzhao to promote Nanzhao's attack on Bozhou. He took advantage of Nanzhao's invasion, causing the Sichuan-South Army in Shu to dare not divide its troops to support Longyou.

Wang Jian said that he would walk the Yinping Road from Longyou and return to Shu to seize Chengdu.

Zhou Xiang understood Wang Jian's intentions. Yazhou was vast and sparsely populated, and it was not a foundation that could accumulate strength.

Wang Jian went north with the intention of occupying a foothold in Longyou.

That was a move. As for returning to Shu to seize Chengdu, it was basically impossible to achieve. Even if the Southern Sichuan Army was defeated, the Fengxiang Army would never allow Wang Jian to occupy Xichuan.

Longyou can be handed over to Wang Jian to become a barrier to resist Tubo.

Zhou Xiang sighed lightly, feeling bleak, maybe the rest of his life would be buried in a foreign land.

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At the end of June, Wei Fufeng received a message from Liangzhou. After watching, he was happy with anxiety, especially Zhang Ji gave Wang Dahu a letter of advice, which made him glad that he was able to employ people properly.

The great victory in Liangzhou means that the stability of Liangzhou will be restored.

Liangzhou is due to the melting snow in the Qilian Mountains, and agriculture will not suffer from natural disasters such as severe drought and flooding. With the stable backing of Liangzhou, Longyou has the foundation for a protracted war.

Han Zun's request for re-issue was very sincere, and he said that it was very embarrassing to stay in Liangzhou and hoped to work in Shu, mainly because his wife could not withstand the hot flashes in the south.

Wei Fufeng was in a good mood. After thinking about it, he wrote a reply, saying that the war with Fengxiang Army was too wide and the road was too dangerous. It was not advisable to leave Liangzhou at this time. When the road was safe, he could serve as the governor of Mianzhou.

In addition, my eldest brother inherited the great masters and nobles. I am willing to recognize them forever, and I will be the same as the heroes and nobles in the future.

As for the official positions of Jiedu and others, they are now overflowing with empty positions, so I hope my brother will laugh it off.

After the letter, Wei Fufeng considered a new military plan. He had already confirmed that Wang Jian traveled across the Songpan Plateau and headed north to Longyou. He also learned that the Nanzhao Kingdom stationed 100,000 troops and was eyeing Yelang Mansion.

Wei Fufeng was glad that the Nanzhao Kingdom did not unite with Wang Jian-military forces, mainly because the Dongchuan Army had too many variables.

If Wang Jian's military strength did not go north and the Fengxiang army was about to start a war, Wang Jian and the Nanzhao army launched an invasion, and Wei Fufeng must prevent the rebellion of the Dongchuan army.

Now it is different. Without Wang Jian's military strength, the rebellion of the Dongchuan Army is not very variable, which gives Wei Fufeng a calm response.

After considering it, Wei Fufeng ordered the Dongchuan Army to send 10,000 elite troops to Chengdu and stand by.

The command of Lu Qing, Rongzhou, once the Nanzhao army invaded Yelang Mansion, immediately led 30,000 troops out of Dousha Pass and attacked Nanzhao.

The subsequent 10,000 Dongchuan Army and 10,000 Chengdu Army went to Rongzhou to participate in the war.

The Dongchuan Army was responsible for the invasion of Nanzhao and defending the country.

Wei Fufeng has long paid attention to the situation in Nanzhao. Nanzhao was once cruelly killed by Gao Pian and its population dropped sharply.

It was just that the power in Nanzhao State was greedy and warlike, and the army was rampant and invaded the four sides.

The ratio of men and women in Nanzhao was one to ten. The Tang Dynasty had been in war for many years, so there was no one man or ten woman.

The men in Nanzhao Kingdom are basically soldiers, and production labor is the responsibility of women, but because there are too few male soldiers in Nanzhao Kingdom, there are also some female soldiers, mainly nobles listen to them.

The Nanzhao Kingdom gathered 100,000 troops, but its combat power was weaker than Fengxiang's military strength. The main reason was that the elderly and the young accounted for too much. The most difficult thing to overcome invasion of Nanzhao was not the Nanzhao military strength, but the terrain and land were not adapted to the land.

Wei Fufeng intends to send 60,000 troops to solve the most difficult enemy in the southwest region.

As the saying goes, the army is famous, and the morale of the army is unwilling to go to Nanzhao. During this period of the great war with the Fengxiang army, people will think that they should not attack Nanzhao.

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However, Wei Fufeng's idea is long-term. Although the Nanzhao region is barbaric, it has great potential for exploration. Nanzhao's waters are rich and suitable for planting rice, tea trees and various medicinal materials growing in the wild mountains.

Of course, if you are willing to send troops to Nanzhao, you mainly have the chance of winning by bullying the weak with the strong.

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Yelang Mansion, Tian Wen'er and Linghu Wan'er are preparing to fight against the Nanzhao army.

The Nanzhao army's rebellion had already reported the news of the close tribe, and Tian Wen'er ordered the close tribe to accept the rebellion.

Although he was prepared to fight, Tian Wen'er and Linghu Wan'er couldn't help but feel nervous, mainly because of the rebellion of the Liaoren tribe.

Once the Nanzhao army attacks, if there are many rebels of the Imperial tribes, the consequences will be backfired.

In normal military response, we should mobilize the military strength of the vassal tribes to form a strong military force with unified command. The military strength of the quasi-human tribes is very feasible.

However, Wei Fufeng wrote a letter and asked Tian Wen'er to lure the Nanzhao army into invasion.

Until the messenger of commander Zhang Tianyu arrived and informed him of the 20,000 troops from Fuzhou that he had been ordered to station in the Dalou Mountains, Tian Wen'er and Linghu Wan'er felt much more at ease.

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Zhaozong was happy to watch the battle between the Fengxiang Army and the Southern Sichuan Army, and also attached more importance to the military combat power and issued an order to supervise military training.

Unexpectedly, Li Maozhen, the governor of Fengxiang, has been paying close attention to the movements in Chang'an.

Due to the wars with the southern Sichuan Army everywhere and the situation that had not met the expectations was unstoppable, Li Maozhen was in a bad mood.

The war consumes a lot of financial resources, military supplies, rewards, pensions, and money is like flowing water. Of course, Li Maozhen does not want to fall into a protracted war.

Li Maozhen has his own bottom line in his heart. If he really can't win, he will decisively retreat.

The eyeliner came, and Emperor Zhaozong issued an order to supervise military training.

Li Maozhen was instinctively shocked, and his first reaction was that the emperor would take advantage of the situation to attack Fengxiang Mansion? Then he felt that it was impossible, and the military strength of the court was unusable.

"It is unusable and it is impossible to prevent it. Han Jian's military force retreated and joined forces with the Tongguan army before the war was to restrain the Hezhong army, the Fufang army, and the Jinzhou army. If the army joins the imperial army and invade the imperial army, Han Jian will even turn against each other."

Li Maozhen was shocked. If he lost Fengxiang Mansion, the consequences would be defeated, and Hanzhong and Binning would not be able to save them.

"Come here, I will send you a command to attack Jinzhou's 20,000 troops and immediately set off Fengxiang Mansion." Li Maozhen decisively ordered that he would take the initiative.

In early July, Li Maozhen assembled 30,000 troops, and his sudden attack pointed at Chang'an.

Emperor Zhaozong was extremely frightened when he heard the news and ordered the Chang'an army to stop it. The imperial army went to fight and confronted Fengxiang's army and was defeated.

When Zhaozong heard the news, his family fled to Chang'an in fear. The royal family and civil and military officials were also well prepared to follow him.

The city of Chang'an was in chaos, with people fleeing everywhere, and the city gates were crowded.

The Fengxiang army arrived in Chang'an City, entered the city to rob, rape, burn and kill, and the Daming Palace was not spared, and the smoke filled the sky and experienced the most tragic destruction.

Zhaozong fled in panic. The defeated army and the defenders also had more than 20,000 followers and guards, and thousands of officials and noble families, as well as tens of thousands of people following him.

After escaping from Chang'an, Zhaozong didn't know where to go to take refuge. He hurriedly discussed with his ministers. Some said that Wei Xiang was in Shangzhou and could go to Shangzhou and then go south.

But the rebutter said that the Fengxiang army was fighting with the Southern Sichuan Army. When His Majesty went to Shangzhou, the Fengxiang army would inevitably refuse to give up the pursuit. The only one who could make the Fengxiang army afraid was the Hedong Army. His Majesty went to Hedong and ordered the Hedong Army to attack Li Maozhen.

Some ministers said, Hedong

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The army was fighting with the Wei Bo army and was too busy to take care of themselves. Besides, the Shatuo people of Hedong Army could not truly be loyal to His Majesty.

When Your Majesty goes, he will inevitably become a puppet, and instead let the Hedong Army take over the orthodox order of the emperor.

The ministers expressed their opinions and summarized them in only two directions, going south or north, and finally saw how Zhaozong made a decision.

Zhaozong's face turned pale and he remained silent.

After a long time, Empress He was also in the car and couldn't help but whisper: "Your Majesty, Yu Tong is in the south."

Zhaozong frowned and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Go to Hedong, I want to seek rebellion."

With a final say, we headed to Hedong, and the large group of people drove out in a mighty way.

When the people behind learned that the people's hearts were deviant, and in chaos, half went south to Wuguan Road, half headed east to Tongguan, and most of them walked through Tongguan to seek refuge in the eastern capital Luoyang.

Officials also deviated from military power. Some officials either carried their families around, or followed the emperor themselves, allowing their families to leave, and thousands of soldiers fled to the pass.

The Hengwang family was also following the sage, and he asked the princess to take her children south.

The princess cried and regretted: "It was better to go south at the beginning."

King Heng smiled bitterly and said, "Leaving your hometown, that's willing, the situation in the south may not be stable at the beginning."

"You might as well go together, my husband." The princess advised.

King Heng shook his head and said, "I can't leave. At this time, the consequences of betraying the emperor will be bad. If you want you to leave, it is suspected of being unfaithful. Let's go quickly. Li Maozhen's bandits may be chasing him."

The princess was terrified, and the family and King Heng parted. Under the protection of hundreds of personal soldiers and slaves, she hurried south.

King Heng watched him, feeling sad and regretted that he had never thought that the Tang Dynasty's court would fall into such a situation.

When King Heng returned to the army, he was still the leader of eight or nine hundred military forces. He also hoped that the emperor could use other vassal states to fight rebellion and return to Chang'an.

Nearly 20,000 brigades were set off. One day later, Han Jian's son Han Congyun came to see the emperor and sincerely asked the emperor to move to Huazhou.

The emperor knew that Han Jian was unhappy and refused to go.

When the Holy Lord arrived at the Weihe Ferry Crossing and was about to cross the river to Weibei, countless military forces suddenly came to the other side.

The emperor and his party were frightened and thought that Li Maozhen's military strength in Weibei Bining was so scared that he turned around and ran away.

He fled for more than ten miles in a hurry, and suddenly he saw countless military forces appearing in front of him. He shouted: "Your Majesty, don't panic, we are the Tongguan army, and we are ordered to take over your Majesty."

The emperor was still in shock. When the chief general of the Tongguan Army met, Han Congyun said respectfully: "Your Majesty, my father is worried about your safety. Please move to Tongguan. My father swears to protect Your Majesty to the death."

The emperor asked: "Han Qing's family is loyal and commendable, but the thief is powerful. How can the Tongguan army resist?"

Han Congyun replied: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Tongguan army is brave and good at fighting, and is enough to resist Li Maozhen's 100,000 troops. Even if you can't resist, it will not be too late for Your Majesty to go to Hedong again."

Zhaozong hesitated and said nothing, he wanted to go south and rely on Wei Zhaodu.

He heard Han Congyun say again: "Your Majesty is the supreme emperor of the Tang Dynasty. My father said that if Your Majesty goes to Hedong or goes south to the Wei territory, the consequences will be puppets. He will never return to the court in this life. If Your Majesty is willing to abdicate, you can go."

Zhaozong's face changed slightly, and Han Congyun's words stabbed him in the weakness.

He heard Han Congyun say excitedly again: "Tongguan is considered Jingzhao Mansion, and Your Majesty remains in the pass, and he is still the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

Zhaozong's face was gloomy, and he suddenly raised his eyebrows and ordered: "Ship in Tongguan."

Han Congyun was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty's order is to be in Tongguan."

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