Pawn Crossing the River

Under the strategizing of the King of Liao, the uprising of the White Lotus Sect was suppressed.

During this period, Qi Xuansu still focused on developing himself. It was not that Qi Xuansu was short-sighted and did not know the truth of the cold, but it was Qi Xuansu who was sure that there would be a great chaos within the Liaodong faction.

The King of Liao suppressed the White Lotus Sect, which was already a huge achievement. If the King of Liao suppressed the Taiping Sect, the situation was complete. By that time, no one could stop the King of Liao who was lucky enough to transform into a dragon.

Qi Xuansu gave him the "Nine-section Staff" and the "Taiping Technique". Yin Zhengxin is considered a stranger in this world. Even if he is defeated, he can still save his life in the chaos. There is nothing anyone can do about him, and he can go anywhere in the world. . As long as Yin Zhengxin is not dead and no one takes over the world, then Qi Xuansu cannot be said to have lost.

Li Zhixing is now just the son-in-law and minister of the King of Liao. The King of Liao's taking over the world is not the same as Li Zhixing's taking over the world. Unless Li Zhixing can kill Yin Zhengxin, otherwise according to the rules of the chess game, it will be a draw in the end.

After all, Qin Lingge initiated this chess game, and Qi Xuansu only passively accepted the challenge. Qin Lingge must have wanted to win, otherwise all his efforts would have been in vain.

Therefore, Li Zhixing must prevent the King of Liao from transforming into a dragon and replace him with himself.

This is why it is better to believe in some bullshit Tathagata than to do it myself.

Qi Xuansu took a fancy to this and was just accumulating strength to wait for civil strife in Liaodong.

Sure enough, Qin Lingge finally gave birth to his third son.

Somewhere along the way, some subtle changes occurred.

Emperor Longwu hosted a banquet for the King of Liao in the palace. The King of Liao did not dare to be careless and brought three hundred guards into the palace. They seemed arrogant and domineering, but in fact they were cautious.

But even so, King Liao still missed a move.

Emperor Longwu did not ambush the swordsman, but poisoned the wine.

After the King of Liao returned to his mansion, the toxin broke out and treatment failed, and he died in his mansion that night.

Li Zhixing had been working hard in Liaodong for many years and had great power. At this time, he stationed troops at Yuguan and controlled all the troops deployed by Liaodong near Jingyu. When the news of the death of the King of Liao came, Li Zhixing immediately raised his troops and went straight to the capital.

The King of Liao had been operating in the capital for a long time, not only placing people in the court, but also directly controlling the soldiers and horses in the capital.

Although the King of Liao is dead now, it still takes some time for Emperor Longwu to regain control of the capital. Li Zhixing did not give Emperor Longwu this time.

After all, it was Qin Lingge who had made the arrangements himself, and the time was perfectly timed. The Beijing camp had just learned of the death of King Liao, and was at a loss. Immediately afterwards, Li Zhixing's envoy had arrived, even faster than the eunuchs in the palace.

The generals in the Beijing camp knew how to make their own decisions. Emperor Longwu still had the title of emperor. Without the King of Liao, he would have gone west hunting long before the Taiping Religion raised its troops. Choosing to follow Emperor Longwu is just sitting in the city of sleepiness.

Therefore, Jingying chose to cooperate with Li Zhixing internally and externally.

Qin Lingge's plan was successful, taking the capital, avenging the King of Liao, and taking advantage of the situation to seize the supreme power of Liaodong forces.

But since two people are playing chess, it is naturally not such a simple matter.

Qi Xuansu had already made a response. The King of Liao had another son who had just reached the crown. This was the legitimate heir of the King of Liao. Before the King of Liao died, Li Zhixing sent men in advance to take advantage of the fact that the son of the King of Liao was out hunting. Be on guard against assassination.

Yin Zhengxin's Taiping Religion developed rapidly and followed the bottom line. There were also a large number of Taiping Religion believers in Liaodong. After Yin Zhengxin detected the incident in advance, he sent people to rescue the son of the King of Liao at the critical moment and arranged for him to recuperate in a secret place.

Just when Li Zhixing captured the capital, Yin Zhengxin sent someone to secretly send the son of the King of Liao back to his hometown in Chaoyang Mansion in Liaodong. Then, with the support of a group of uncles and brothers of the same clan, he officially inherited the throne of the King of Liao.

This is the bottom line.

Brother-in-law and brother-in-law, one occupies the inside of the pass and the other occupies the outside, confronting each other.

Liaodong was divided.

Qin Lingge's plan to replace him also completely failed.

As a result, the situation in the world has changed again.

The forces in Liaodong are divided into two parts. Generally speaking, Li Zhixing is more powerful.

Because after the King of Liao entered Beijing, he not only infiltrated the court, but also deployed a large number of people in Jiangnan and other places in the process of suppressing the White Lotus Sect uprising. It can be said that the Jiangnan states have been nominally controlled by the King of Liao. In this process, Li Zhixing assisted the King of Liao and was regarded as the second-in-command. Therefore, after the death of the King of Liao, this part of the victory was naturally inherited by Li Zhixing, and he could control it. .

What Li Zhixing couldn't suppress was the Qin family's clan power, which was mainly concentrated outside the customs.

But there is another problem. The King of Liao has just put down the White Lotus Sect. The states in the south of the Yangtze River have only preliminary grasped the situation and have not yet digested it. Most of his subordinates are from the north, so the foundation must be unstable. At this time, the King of Liao dies. In order to seize power within Liaodong, Internal strife began, and there was an undercurrent surging immediately in Jiangnan.

It is said that the rebellion of scholars failed in three years, but there happened to be a down-and-out scholar named Chen Xianzhi who took the opportunity to start a rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River. At the beginning, there were only more than 2,000 people. Against Shangguan's army of more than 20,000, he actually defeated it in one go and took advantage of the situation to recruit the defeated army. The remnant general conquered eleven more cities, which gradually became a trend.

But here in the north of the Yangtze River, Li Zhixing, the New Liao King, and the Taiping Sect were engaged in a three-legged drama, and there was no time for him to take care of it. Among them, Li Zhixing was the most powerful, and the Taiping Sect and the New Liao King secretly joined forces to jointly fight against Li Zhixing.

In the eyes of the three families, no matter who wins, they can take the general trend south and pacify the world in one fell swoop.

This gave Chen Xianzhi an opportunity. He attacked the city and captured the territory, drove the officers and soldiers out of Jiangnan, and gained the support of the wealthy gentry in Jiangnan.

This is not surprising. In the eyes of the gentry in Jiangnan, the three in the north are not very good.

Needless to say, although Yin Zhengxin was born in Wuzhou, Jiangnan, and was quite famous in the literati in his early years, as he began to take the bottom line, he was cut off from the literati. How could scholars mix with mud legs? This kind of discrimination from scholars is very deadly. Of course, the key is that Yin Zhengxin's policies fundamentally shook the interests of the gentry. His means of cracking down on the big families in Jiangbei made the gentry in Jiangnan sad, which is absolutely unacceptable.

As for Li Zhixing and the new Liao King, they are both "Liaodong barbarians" in their eyes. In the past hundreds of years, they have always been representatives of military men.

The fear of civil officials for military generals is almost engraved in their bones. As the saying goes, when a scholar meets a soldier, he can't explain his reason clearly. The literati are also most afraid of military men gaining power.

On the contrary, Chen Xianzhi, because he was born as a scholar, knew how to respect the wise and humble. He was originally a candidate for the Jiangnan literati. He had no intention of taking the bottom route. He still had the old idea in the past, which naturally suited the appetite of the Jiangnan gentry, so the big families were willing to support him.

With the support of the Jiangnan gentry, Chen Xianzhi had neither talent nor money, so he could focus all his energy on military affairs.

In fact, Chen Xianzhi was able to stand out because of his ability to use troops and fight. It has to be said that some people are born with talent and can learn without a teacher.

In a blink of an eye, another three years passed.

The north has not yet decided the winner, and the south is basically unified.

Although the new Liao king was defeated, most of the Qin clan surrendered to Li Zhixing, and the new Liao king led the remnants of the defeated army to join Yin Zhengxin, but Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin fought several times, but still failed to decide the winner.

Instead, Chen Xianzhi received the support of the Yunjin Mountain Great Zhenren Mansion and Quanzhen Dao, and the great Confucian scholars also came out to help.

Although Chen Xianzhi's luck at this time was not as good as that of the old Liao King, it was not far behind.

In this situation, Yin Zhengxin and Li Zhixing did not dare to fight anymore, so they had to temporarily stop fighting and make peace, and join forces to deal with Chen Xianzhi in Jiangnan.

A year later, Chen Xianzhi was well prepared and personally led an army of 200,000 across the Yangtze River, heading north, and fought against the coalition forces of Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin in Pengcheng.

Pengcheng has been the site of dozens of large-scale wars in the past dynasties, and it is difficult to say the right and wrong, but historians have all noticed that it was on this ancient battlefield that the rise and fall of many dynasties was determined, so there has been a saying of competing for the Central Plains since ancient times.

Both sides of the war knew that whoever could win this battle would basically be the master of the world.

This was also the time to test Qi Xuansu and Qin Lingge's deployment of troops. This large-scale war in the era of cold weapons was exactly what neither of them was very good at.

Chen Xianzhi, wearing white clothes and white armor, led 3,000 white-robed cavalrymen to advance first, followed by the main force of the Chen army. Then Chen Xianzhi led the charge, and the morale of the Chen army was greatly boosted. The 3,000 cavalrymen were like a sharp blade, piercing directly into the hinterland of the coalition army, and then repeatedly penetrated the coalition army's position, causing chaos in the formation.

The main force of the Chen army pressed forward and began to split the coalition army's formation.

Chen Xianzhi led his personal guards to rush behind the coalition army and unfolded the Chen army flag here. The coalition army, which was lined up for 20 miles, saw that the Chen army flag had been planted in the rear, and they lost their fighting spirit and fell into defeat.

Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin were originally on guard against each other. At this time, the situation was chaotic, and the soldiers of both sides were not under each other's command, and they could not command each other. They had to lead their troops to retreat eastward, intending to retreat into Pengcheng and defend the city.

Chen Xianzhi did not give them this opportunity, and led the cavalry to bite tightly. Li Zhixing was injured and fell off his horse in the chaos, and was captured alive by Chen Xianzhi.

Yin Zhengxin's military advisor Lu Yunshan also died in this battle.

Yin Zhengxin led the remnants to retreat into Pengcheng and defend the city.

However, Chen Xianzhi surrounded Pengcheng, dug deep trenches, built barriers, cut off all passages between the city and the outside world, and defeated all reinforcements.

Soon, Pengcheng, which was already short of food, ran out of food. Even the grass roots and leaves in the city were eaten up, and they could only eat dirt. People's hearts were floating and centrifugal.

Song Guanying, the master of Taiping Sect, saw this scene and stole Yin Zhengxin's "Nine-section Staff" while Yin Zhengxin was sleeping, tied Yin Zhengxin up and opened the city to surrender.

This battle made Chen Xianzhi famous.

Pengcheng was defeated by 200,000 people, and Chen Xianzhi captured two kings in one battle.

Although Taiping Sect and Liaodong still had some troops, with Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin captured, there was no possibility of a comeback.

Chen Xianzhi continued to march northward, beheaded Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin by the Changhe River, then crossed the Changhe River, seized the capital, pacified Qizhou, defeated the Golden Horde who wanted to take advantage of the situation, and finally ascended the throne to become emperor.

His luck also completely changed from a big dragon to a real dragon.

It just fulfilled the prophecy of that year: Real dragons and pythons should not be complacent, and the white-clothed man may be beheaded together.

Seeing Li Zhixing and Yin Zhengxin's heads fall to the ground, Xiao Yin opened his mouth wide: "Ah?"