When the people of Fengzhou City woke up, they were frightened to find that the streets were full of Tada soldiers. "Tada" is the common name of the Shiwei people by the people in the border areas. What is puzzling is that these Tadas on the street are now wearing Tang army robes and taking over the defense of the Xining army under the banner of the Tang army.

Last night, the Hu Camp stationed in the south of the city suddenly broke out, and the rebellion burned the camp and quickly captured the southern gate of Fengzhou. The Fengzhou Camp in the south of the city and the Polu Camp in the east of the city were ordered to suppress it. However, both battalions symbolically shot a few arrows at the rebels, and then retreated back to the camp. The military commander of the Polu Camp, Soe, expelled the imperial guards who entered the camp at dawn, and drove the camp south across the Yellow River to Luoyanchuan to carry out military reclamation.

Luoyanchuan has a flat terrain and fertile soil, and is one of the twelve military reclamation areas selected by Yang Hao at the time. Fengzhou camp did not leave, and the commander of the military commander Yu Hong honestly and unceremoniously sent the Qingshu team sent by Zeng Chongyang out of the camp. He announced that the reorganization of the Fengzhou camp had been completed and there was no more royalist in the camp.

At this time, the Leopard Camp stationed in the north of the city also closed the camp gate all day long, not allowing a soldier to enter or leave, nor allowing the Qingsu team to enter the camp. Zeng Chongyang's most worried thing happened, and the deadly and hard elements in the Xining army changed from the original lip service to the open boycott. If this unhealthy trend spreads, the situation in Fengzhou may be out of control.

After conspiring with Zhang Huchen and others all night, Zeng Chongyang exercised the power of his imperial envoy and sent an envoy north to the grassland to invite Li Shaoqing's "Guiyi Army" to the city to take over the city defense. Li Shaoqing was a Shiwei native, and his original name was Mosmiluo. He lived in Yunzhou for generations. Because his ancestors were of great success to the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Jingzong gave him the surname Li. The "Guiyi Army" he led was under the jurisdiction of Youzhou Jiedushi, with about 8,000 people, with Shiwei people as the main trunk, including Shatuo people, Khitan people and Uighur people.

Although the Guiyi Army was nominally affiliated with Hedong, it was active in the northeast of Yinshan for many years. He listened to the military orders of Hedong if they were beneficial, and refused to listen to the military orders without profit. Li Shaoqing not only accepted the official positions granted by the Tang Dynasty, but also accepted the official positions and titles granted by the Khitan and the Uighurs, and even married a Khitan princess.

After receiving the secret letter from Zeng Chongyang, Li Shaoqing led 5,000 cavalry to help Fengzhou at night. The general of Jiuniang Pass followed Zeng Chongyang's will and opened and released the switch. Li Shaoqing divided his troops into Feng'an and entered Feng'an with 1,000 troops, and personally led 4,000 main forces to Fengzhou. Zeng Chongyang went out of the city to welcome him twenty miles away, and handed over the Fengzhou city defense to the "Guiyi Army".

Fengzhou has been in wars for a year, and all industries have declined and people's livelihoods are in pain. Although there is a million yuan in treasury, there is nowhere to buy food and grass in the city. The raising of the food and grass from four battalions has already given Zhang Huchen a headache, but now it has suddenly increased by 4,000 people to eat and drink, and Zhang Huchen is even more struggling and unable to continue.

Zeng Chongyang then ordered every two households in the city to support Guiyi Army and one horse. The soldiers lived in the homes of the people. The households mainly had good wine, food and food, and the horses were fed with essential ingredients. Those who were resentful and deliberately neglected were severely punished. As soon as this order was issued, the people of Fengzhou complained.

Li Shaoqing's Guiyi Army was used to being lawless on the grasslands in the northern border, and his arrogance after entering the city could not be restrained at all. Seeing that the government was always accusing, the soldiers even treated the people in the city as slaves, and wanted to eat, drink, and drink, and drink. If they were not served, they would be punished by insults and kneeling, and the worst would be to add fists and feet. If the people who were beaten resisted, the soldiers would lead their family to the county yamen and prefecture offices and let local officials punish them severely.

The officials rectified the officials who were slightly dissatisfied with their wishes, and even the officials in the yamen were insulted and beaten. Zeng Chongyang ordered that when handling cases involving the "Guiyi Army", officials from all over the county, yamen and prefecture offices must be "strict in discipline themselves and be lenient to others". The soldiers of the Guiyi Army who committed the crime should "not fight back if they beat them, not scold them, and be flattered with smiles". Violators will be dismissed on the spot and strictly handled them.

Zeng Chongyang's Quyi Yingfeng received full support from Li Shaoqing. After the Guiyi Army's subordinates finished, Zeng Chongyang decided to take action against Fengzhou camp, kill one to warn a hundred, and completely subdue the Fengzhou garrison. Before this, Zeng Chongyang announced the dissolution of the civilian army founded by Yang Hao as the supervisor of the imperial envoy. All officers at the whistle level of the civilian army were disbanded on the spot.

The people of Fengzhou are mostly dissatisfied with the civilian army founded by Yang Hao. The main reason for their dissatisfaction is to disturb the people. Going to battle and killing the enemy is a matter of joining the army. Since you have eaten the imperial grain, you should go to battle and kill the enemy and defend your territory for the country.

The young people grow their own food safely and do their own small business. Why do you need the young people to give up their livelihoods and dance with swords and guns? Take a step back and say that it is your government’s freedom to promote martial arts and train troops and defend the territory, but fighting wars is a man’s business after all. If you let the young and strong men join the civilian army, why don’t you let the big girls and little wives go? If this is not disturbing the people, then what is it?

Therefore, when Zeng Chongyang announced the dissolution of the civilian army, the people of Fengzhou were beating drums and cheering. Those civilian army captains and whistle commanders who had been dismissed were ordered to leave the country within a time limit and refused to leave after the time limit, they would be deported from the country by the yamen's tolerance.

At dawn on the third day of disbanding the civilian army, the four gates of Fengzhou were closed, and 1,200 Guiyi soldiers suddenly attacked the Fengzhou camp of the Xining Army. Fengzhou camp belonged to the security forces of the Xining Army. They had not had strong combat power. They had just been killed by the Qingsu team and nearly 100 "remnants of the royal party". They lost all their elites, panic, and their morale was sluggish. They were suddenly besieged by strong enemies three times as much as they were, and they were in an extremely unfavorable position from the beginning.

The battle started at dawn and lasted until afternoon. The Tadaren broke through the camp of Fengzhou Camp. Half of the soldiers in Fengzhou Camp died in battle, and half of them followed the orders of the command of the commander of the military commander Yu Hong. It was rumored that Yu Hong agreed to surrender because he received the guarantee from the imperial envoy Zeng Chongyang that the surrendered soldiers would not be investigated.

However, when the soldiers of Fengzhou camp put down their weapons, the Tada people immediately turned their faces. They led the 218 unarmed surrendered soldiers to the crossroads and killed them all. Before the execution, Yu Hong scolded Zeng Chongyang for being untrustworthy. The Tada soldiers cut off their tongues and tied them to the pillar at the gate of Zhenbaozhai. They cut sixty-eight swords one after another.

The blood of the surrendered soldiers dyed the streets red, and the crying of their families was even more earth-shaking. Most of the soldiers in the Fengzhou camp were locals in Fengzhou, breaking their bones and connecting tendons. The cruel trust of the Tada people angered the people in the city. According to the original organization of the civilian army, the people gathered in front of the governor's mansion and asked Zhang Huchen to severely punish the murderer.

Zhang Huchen tried to appease the excited people of Fengzhou and promised to give the deceased some pension. However, when the people asked them to severely punish the murderer, Zhang Huchen looked embarrassed and hesitated and could not speak. The angry people began to throw rotten eggs at the gate of the governor's mansion. Zhang Huchen hid back to the governor's mansion in a mess and refused to show up again.

That night, a autumn rain fell in Fengzhou and the weather suddenly became cold. The petitioners dispersed, but there were still hundreds of people in front of the governor's mansion who were kneeling in the rain. At the time of the Xu Dynasty, hundreds of guards in the imperial palace suddenly rushed out of the governor's mansion, regardless of whether they were men, women, young or old, or even women, children. The petitioners resisted a little, and were immediately labeled as rebellious and arrested on the spot and imprisoned.

After dispersing the petitioners in front of the governor's mansion, Zeng Chongyang ordered the whole city to search for the remnants of the royal party.

The second update of that night, thousands of Tada soldiers and hundreds of constables from the governor's office began a city-wide search from east, west, south, north and north. The search lasted only half an hour and turned into a blatant looting. The soldiers of Guiyi Army, who were under the guise of searching for rebellion, broke into the doors, and the wealth was empty everywhere. Women and children were plundered as slaves, and young men were treated as royal parties and killed without any hesitation.

The people of Fengzhou suddenly woke up under the butcher's knife. What was the imperial envoy who invited the "rebel army" to suppress the rebellion. A group of robbers came. They gathered together according to the organization of the civilian army, picked up kitchen knives, sticks, and hit the robbers who broke into their house. By dawn, the entire Fengzhou city was already boiling, and the rebel army composed of tens of thousands of people fought desperately with the invaders of the Tada.

Zeng Chongyang obviously did not expect such an ending. While forcing Zhang Huchen to send all officials to suppress the people, he sent people to the Leopard Camp to urge the military commander Gao Yang to send troops to quell the rebellion.

Gao Yang was slow to hold his troops. After Chen Shi, the Jinfeng Camp stationed in Bingyan Valley suddenly sent two posts into the city, quickly occupied the governor's mansion, and detained all the officials of all sizes and big cities in Fengzhou below Zhang Huchen. At the same time, Gao Yang led the Leopard Camp to attack the Guiyi Army's tent, and Li Shaoqing caught him off guard and only had a dozen people escaped.

Zeng Chongyang, who was supervising the quelling of the chaos in the south of the city, heard that the Leopard Camp and Jinfeng Camp turned against each other at the time of the battle. He was extremely embarrassed and had no choice but to lead the imperial guards to retreat to Feng'an.

The Feng'an defenders included five battalions of the Xining Army and one thousand cavalry of Li Shaoqing. The Jingqi Camp and Feng'an Camp among the fifth battalions of the Xining Army were Zhuang Yunqing's old subordinates, and the Tiedang Camp was Ling Tong's old subordinates. At this time, the main force was stationed at Jiuniang Pass, and the first police battalion was the old subordinate of Liu Yifeng, the former governor of Feng'an. At this moment, the main force was south of the Yellow River. Yang Hao's personal military camp had been incorporated into the imperial guards, and is now controlled by Zeng Chongyang's confidant Scarface Zhu Qi.

Li Shaoqing's "Guiyi Army" did not withdraw from Feng'an City until the afternoon. This melee actually caused losses to soldiers and generals, more than a thousand soldiers were killed and injured, and more than a dozen generals died. Even Zeng Chongyang and Zhang Huchen sent him did not have time to bring out. Li Shaoqing felt regretful and had a little doubt in his heart: What force made a mess of people who were scattered and slaughtered suddenly become so difficult to deal with?

Although Li Shaoqing was from Shiwei, he had studied many ancient Chinese scripts and books in the Central Plains. In order to understand the doubts in his heart, he ordered his subordinates to bring more than a dozen civilian soldiers captured to the tent to interrogate carefully. The civilian army was the organization called the civilian army who was forced to disband by Zeng Chongyang a few days ago. At a critical moment, a loose sandy common people organized themselves and took up swords and guns to defend their homes!

"It turns out that he is a strategist in the country, and his knowledge is superior to others." Li Shaoqing sincerely praised Zeng Chongyang's foresight. He was too lazy to know how many casualties the civilian army in the city were this time - it must be several times that of the Guiyi army.

"Come! I will order all the camps to be dispatched and the troops will be fought in Feng'an City!"

When he learned that Suo's Polu camp had crossed the river and was about to take his own way, Li Shaoqing decisively issued an order that the Guiyi army immediately attacked Feng'an, and the face he lost in Fengzhou must be retrieved in Feng'an.

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Chapter completed!