Yanying Palace.

The emperor wore a black dress today, with a golden crown on his head, and a Shangfang sword around his waist. In recent times, the emperor has lost a lot of weight, but there is a sense of heroism between his eyebrows. Since he was assassinated, the young emperor seemed to have matured a lot in a blink of an eye and began to truly care about military and political affairs.

For a long time, the emperor stopped betting on balls, gambling geese, watching operas, and playing chess. The emperor summoned important officials in Yanying Hall almost every day, and his usual activities and hobbies were all changed to riding horses, archery, and fencing.

Everyone was amazed that the emperor had become a different person.

However, in the hall, facing the several urgent reports from the Privy Council envoy Yang Fugong, the emperor's face became gloomy.

First of all, some time ago, Gao Pian, the commander of the military camps in various roads, assembled 110,000 troops in Huainan, including Li Jing who dispatched 40,000 towns to go south to Jiangxi to suppress Huang Chao.

At the beginning, Zhang Lin, a general under Gao Pian's subordinates, killed the Yangtze River. Huang Chao sent Wang Chongba, the general of the rebel army, to fight, but was defeated in one battle and surrendered. Huang Chao personally led his army to fight, but he was defeated again and again. The general of his subordinate Chang Hong led the crowd to surrender. Huang Chao had to retreat to Raozhou.

Gao Pian went south this time and fought very actively, without giving Huang Chao a chance to breathe.

General Zhang Lin even took advantage of the victory and advanced to attack Raozhou. Huang Chao had to lead his army again to fight with Zhang Lin in Dayuncang. As a result, he lost three battles and retreated to Xinzhou, Jiangxi.

Zhang Lin was aggressive and led his army to the outside of Xinzhou City.

At this moment, a plague happened to occur in Xinzhou again. Huang Chao's army, which retreated into the city, fell down 20 to 30% in less than a few days. The morale of the rebel army was very weak.

When the emperor who was far away in Chang'an received these successive reports from Gao Pian, he was already very excited. He believed that the Yellow thieves had finally reached the end and that the annihilation of these bandits was just around the corner. For this reason, the emperor also issued an order to commend Gao Pian and the generals and soldiers, and even promoted Gao Pian to the Grand Marshal. He looked forward to the famous general Gao Pian to quickly destroy the Yellow thieves and resolve the disaster in the southeast.

Huang Chao in the city was trapped in the letter, unable to win or escape, so he used the same trick again and asked Zhang Lin to surrender.

Huang Chao gave Zhang Lin a lot of treasures and asked Zhang Lin to stand for two days because he wanted to surrender to Gao Pian.

Just two days of truce, you can get such a large amount of money, Zhang Lin agreed.

However, when Gao Pian heard the news that Huang Chao was about to surrender, he sneered and didn't believe it at all.

I believe that Huang Chao will surrender and sows will climb trees.

Gao Pian thought he had seen through Huang Chao's tricks, and then he thought about it that maybe Huang Chao was really desperate, but he didn't want to accept the surrender of the thief. So he wanted to take a plan.

In his letter of surrender to Gao Pian, Huang Chao expressed his willingness to surrender to Gao Pian. However, he hoped that Gao Pian could recommend him to the court and help him find a position as a governor.

Gao Pian immediately replied to Huang Chao, agreed to Huang Chao's request at once, and asked Huang Chao to surrender and recruit him to Yangzhou.

At the same time, Gao Pian immediately submitted a memorial to the court, assured the emperor that Huang Chao would be wiped out by him soon. Therefore, the soldiers and horses of other towns asked the court to transfer back to the town. The memorial was passed to Chang'an, and the court was filled with joy. At this time, the four towns in Hebei rebelled, and the court was at the right time to use troops everywhere. If the troops and horses of Zhaoyi were transferred back, it would be a good thing. No one in the court doubted Gao Pian's words. After all, Gao Pian had almost always been invincible in recent years, and never disappointed the court. Prime Minister Lu Xie was even more arrogant because of his "providing people properly". For a moment, the court thought that the thieves were just around the corner, so he immediately ordered the transfer of Zhaoyi to influence and Yiwu towns, and the town ** that was leading a fleet to escort merchant ships in the Yangtze River, and asked them to withdraw their troops to return to the town.

Each town received the order from Chief Gao and returned to leave the Jiangxi battlefield.

As a result, Huang Chao used this period to cure the injured soldiers and boost morale. Then, after the troops in the town left, Huang Chao tore off Gao Pian's letter and declared war on the Tang army again.

Gao Pian, who was fooled, was furious and ordered Zhang Lin to attack. As a result, Zhang Lin, a nemesis of Huang Chao, started a decisive battle with the rebel army with a strong morale and full of revenge and anger.

As a result, the victory belonged to those who were prepared. Huang Chao won a great victory, and Zhang Lin was killed and the Huainan army was defeated. The official army south of the Yangtze River could no longer resist Huang Chao.

After the great victory, Huang Chao followed the trend to Muzhou, Wuzhou and Xuanzhou in eastern Zhejiang, and then crossed the Yangtze River north at Caishi Ferry, and directly fought to Tianchang, Huainan Zhen, **. It was only fifty miles away from Gao Pian's commander Yangzhou.

At this time, the Yuancao Army Commander Bi Shiduo, under Gao Pian, urged Gao Pian to attack and convene the town of Hu Douzhou to land in Yangzhou to assist in the war.

However, Gao Pian did not accept his advice. Instead, he conquered the remaining Huainan army near Yangzhou. Not only did he take the initiative to give up the road to Huang Chao to the north, but he also transferred the most elite cavalry troops to Hailing east of Yangzhou to guard against the town at the estuary of the Yangtze River. He landed in Yangzhou at this time.

At the same time, in order to shirk responsibility, Gao Pian sent 800 miles to urgently call the court.

In the emergency note, Gao Pian exaggerated his words: "Huang Chao's army has as many as 600,000, and has been stationed in Tianchang. It is less than fifty miles away from Yangzhou where I am defending!"

It was not long before Chang'an City had enough time to be happy. The soldiers and horses from each town had not even returned to the town. As a result, Gao Pian was beaten so hard that he dared not leave Yangzhou. He even dared to submit memorials, saying that there were 600,000 thieves?

Huang Chao had 300,000 people when he attacked Jingmen, but in the end he was annihilated by Cui Yunqing and Liu Jurong in one battle, and almost 200,000 were captured. The remaining 100,000 people fled to Jiangxi, and after sieging the cities and plundering 15 prefectures, another 200,000 people were restored.

Later, Zhang Lin was defeated in three battles and three times, and coupled with the plague, there were only about 100,000 people left.

There were 100,000 bandits, and Gao Pian had the nerve to say 600,000 people.

Moreover, at this time, Gao Pian still held about 50,000 troops in his hands, and there were more than 20,000 people in the town at the estuary of the Yangtze River. In addition, Zhou Bao, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, also had more than 30,000 people in his hands.

As long as Gao Pian was willing to fight, the official army was still stronger than Huang Chao. After all, although Huang Chao had 100,000, many of them were not old soldiers, but just young and strong people who were newly entangled.

The emperor's face became very gloomy!

It turns out that Li Jing, who regarded him as the country's city, played with self-respecting his troops when he was at the critical moment, and his attitude was ambiguous, and he looked up and watched.

Now, even Gao Pian, who he finally regarded as a pillar country, began to play with his own troops.

Looking at Gao Pian's memorial of lies, the emperor Li Yan, who was determined to be strong on the imperial throne, was in a mixed mood. Just now, the mountains and rivers were infinitely beautiful, and the spring scenery was infinitely beautiful when overlooking the garden. In a blink of an eye, it had fallen to the bottom of the valley and saw black clouds pressing against the city and destroying it.

Countless urgent memorials were sent to Chang'an in a hurry, and Huang Chao's army had approached the Huai River.

At this time, the emperor could not even raise the responsibility for pursuing Gao Pian. Gao Pian was far away in Yangzhou, and the mountains were high and the emperor was far away. Now Hebei has rebelled, Huang Chao went north, and Li Jing was unable to advance. At this time, the court neither rebuked Li Jing nor dared to scold Gao Pian.

Moreover, the situation has come to this point, and it is not urgent to hold the accountable accountable. The most important thing at the moment is how to deal with Huang Chao who is about to come north. Li Yan looked around the ministers with anticipation.

Henan is Huang Chao's hometown, and this area has been rampant by thieves several times. Coupled with the previous droughts, locust plagues, floods, and later great famines and military disasters, the Central Plains of Henan have long been full of holes, and the people's hearts are the most uneasy. Through the Yellow River, the four towns in Hebei have rebelled. If Huang Chao is asked to kill Cao and Pu, the hometown of Henan, then the thieves and the rebels of Hebei will be together.

The ministers in the hall are now anxious and worried. If Henan and Hebei are all in the hands of rebels and rebels, this is no longer a trivial matter. At that time, the entire canal will be controlled by them, and the Yellow River, Ji River, and the North and South Canals will all fall into the hands of the thief. If these arteries are lost, Chang'an will not be able to hold on for a few days.

Prime Minister Dou Lu Wang proposed to be appointed as the governor of the Lingnan East Road of Huangchao, and let him go to Guangzhou. Huang Chao always wanted to be a governor and asked him to be the governor of Guangzhou at the beginning. Now we simply grant him the position of governor. We no longer ask him to hand over his troops and let him lead his troops to Guangzhou directly.

In this way, Huang Chao went to Lingnan, far away from the Central Plains, Luoyang and Chang'an, so that the court could free up his hands to deal with the four towns in Hebei first. At that time, the court would then dispatch various troops to encircle Huang Chao and destroy the private salt dealer.

As the saying goes, this time, that time.

Emperor Li Yan agreed with this proposal. Anyway, Guangzhou had been slaughtered by Huang Chao. In addition to Guangzhou, a prosperous trading port, the Lingnan East Road is just a mad place that no one wants to go. It would be better to give it to Huang Chao for the time being, and it would be just enough to win time to destroy the four towns in Hebei first.

However, Lu Xie poured cold water on Dou Lu Yan and the emperor's wish. At the beginning, Huang Chao asked the governor of Guangzhou, but there was nowhere to go, the officers and soldiers chased each other, Lingnan was also very prosperous. But now the situation is different, Guangzhou has become a ruin. Huang Chao's situation is just right, and he has just defeated Gao Pian, who is famous all over the world. At the same time, the four rebels in Hebei also left a lot of pressure for Huang Chao. Now Huang Chao is eager to lean on the Yellow River. Unless the court grants Huang Chao the title of governor of the Tianping Army at this time, he can agree. But how can the court grant him the Tianping Army?

Therefore, because of Gao Pian's ally, Lu Xie, who lost a lot of points in front of the emperor, immediately proposed, "With Huang Chao's appetite, how could a Lingnan East Jiedu governor fill it? Even if he was granted the Guangzhou Jieyue, it would not be possible to stop him from continuing his attack. It would be just to let the court lose face in vain! What should be done now is to mobilize all the troops to defend Sizhou immediately, and use Xuanwu Jie as the commander of the army, and block the thieves in Huai and Si. As long as Huang Chao breaks through the defense line, he can only turn back and rob Huainan, and Gao Pian will not be able to sit upright, and Huang Chao can only fall into the attack of the army from the south and north, and eventually he can only destroy himself."

Li Yan compared the proposals of Prime Minister Lu Xun and Prime Minister Lu Xie in his heart. Finally, he felt that Lu Xie's proposal was more feasible, so he immediately made the decision and followed Prime Minister Lu Xie's plan.

Tian Lingzi held a white whisk in his hand and stood in front of the emperor's throne, closing his eyes slightly, as if dozing off, without saying a word about the resolutions of the monarch and ministers in the palace. The ministers in the palace seemed to have forgotten this powerful official for a while.
Chapter completed!