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Chapter 717 The Eight Capitals of Hangzhou

(The new year is coming, the new January begins, everyone is happy New Year's Day, please guarantee the monthly ticket!)

Mazhou, also known as Matusha, later generations were Jingjiang, Jiangsu. At this time, it was still a large sandbank in the Yangtze River. It was more than a hundred miles upstream of Hudozhou, slightly smaller than Hudozhou.

At this time, Hu Douzhou was fighting on the battlefield, but Zhou Bao, the governor of Zhenhai Army, stalked the cicadas, and the oriole was behind, secretly gathering troops. The horses carried the sandbank, and there was a army of Zhenhai Army.

This army is the Badu of Hangzhou, but strictly speaking, the Badu of Hangzhou is not Zhenhaijun.

The town of Zhejiang West was named Zhenhaijun, but the towns in the southeast have always been rich but not built. This place is a wealthy vassal state, but has no soldiers. The town of Zhejiang was only a few thousand soldiers. In the past few years, Wang Ying rebelled. At first, it was just dozens of soldiers in Langshan Town on Hu Douzhou. As a result, there were only a few people, but in just two or three years it swept over more than ten states in western Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang.

At that time, in order to protect themselves, the local prefectures and counties in the two Zhejiang provinces and counties established landlord armed forces and formed village soldiers.

Hangzhou City has successively formed eight such landlord armed forces, because each of them is not large in number, and the capital is the name. Among these eight capitals, the stone mirror capital is the main one.

The people were organized by the late Tang army. At first, they were thousands of people in one capital, but later they were often dissatisfied with the organization. By the beginning of the Song Dynasty, they had become hundreds of people in every capital. The soldiers of the Eight Capitals in Hangzhou were also different, with hundreds of people. After several years of development, the number of this Eight Capitals in Hangzhou, which was originally established to defend Wang Ying, has long exceeded 1,000 people.

The governor of Hangzhou under the Navy in Xizhen, Zhejiang has actually been undermined by these eight capitals.

The head of Shi Jingdu is Dong Chang, a very rich local tyrant in Lin'an City, Hangzhou. During the Wang Ying Rebellion, he began to raise a flag to recruit rural soldiers. He became a small overlord. At this time, Dong Chang's subordinate Shi Jingdu had already had 5,000 troops and was indeed a powerful man.

In history, Dong Chang started his business with Shi Jingdu, and later entered Hangzhou, claiming to be the governor of Dujiao and underestimated the governor of Hangzhou. Zhou Bao had no choice but to grant him the governor of Hangzhou. Later, Dong Chang's power continued to expand, and he served as the governor of the Yisheng Army and the procuratorial secretary of the Shangshu. After Huang Chao's uprising army withdrew from Chang'an, Emperor Xizong of Tang returned to the capital from Shu. Dong Chang took the collection of books of the Yuemin Pei family and presented it to him, and was given the position of interviewing and envoy of various ways.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the court successively granted Dong Chang the title of Taiwei, and was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat and promoted the title of Prince of Longxi.

After that, Dong Chang's ambition became increasingly great, and he asked the court for the title of King of Yue, but failed and was very dissatisfied. Later, Dong Chang established himself as emperor in Yuezhou, and the country was named "Da Yue Luoping". He called himself a saint.

Although there was no Dayue Luoping established by Dong Chang in the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Qian Liu, the founder of Wu Yue Kingdom in the Five Dynasties, was actually Dong Chang's subordinate. It can even be said that in history, Dong Chang could go from a rich man in Lin'an to eventually become a warlord who separatist Liangzhe in the late Tang Dynasty, and even became emperor. In the end, the Dayue Luoping Kingdom was quickly destroyed. All of this was success and failure.

It is said that when Qian Li was born, the room was filled with red light, accompanied by the sound of soldiers and horses. His father Qian Kuan was an unknown sign, and he wanted to abandon him in the well, but was blocked by his grandmother. Therefore, Qian Li got the nickname "Poliu". Qian Li learned martial arts since he was a child, and was good at shooting archery, dancing spears, and was a little familiar with the prophecy and the book of Wei. When he grew up, he did not engage in legitimate work and made a living by selling private salt.

This year, Qian Liu is twenty-eight years old and is the number one general under Dong Chang, the head of Shi Jingdu.

Like Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, Qian Liu was also from the industry of private salt dealers who were the most heroic and heroic in the late Tang Dynasty.

Five years ago, when Li Jing resolutely replaced the village chief's son to join the army, Qian Liu joined the army at about this time, at which time he joined the village chief recruited by Dong Chang. However, compared with Li Jing's legendary experience, Qian Liu's experience was not dull.

After the silence of the first few years, Qian Poliu finally made a shocking sound with the courage he had developed during his career in private salt trading.

During the years when Qian Liu first joined Shijingdu, he followed Dong Chang to fight against the anti-Tang armed forces such as Wang Ying, Zhu Zhi, Zhang Duan, and Cao Shixiong. However, due to his weak force, he did not show any outstanding performance.

When Huang Chao first attacked Hangzhou, all the eighth people in Hangzhou dared not resist and hurried aside.

But when Huang Chao's side troops rushed to Hangzhou for the second time, Shi Jingdu and the salt dealer named Qian finally had the opportunity to prove their own value.

When Huang Chao attacked Hangzhou for the second time, the Zhenhai Army governor was neither Zhou Bao nor Gao Pian. However, only a single army of more than 2,000 people entered Hangzhou at that time, but the number was more than Shi Jingdu's troops at that time.

At that time, when Qian Liu learned that Huang Chao's army was approaching, he advised Dong Chang: "The Huang Chao army has tens of thousands. If you want to cross the valley, it will inevitably be far away and difficult to respond to the front and tail. We should have chosen a suitable location to attack with ambush troops. We will definitely be able to defeat him, and it is possible to repel his attack on Lin'an." Dong Chang didn't want to be a mantis blocking the chariot. Isn't it okay to hide from the distance last time? But I couldn't stand Qian Liu's repeated persuasion, but he agreed, but only gave him twenty soldiers. The meaning was quite clear. If you dare not go if you were too young, you wouldn't blame me!

Unexpectedly, Qian Liu went there anyway. He hid in the mountains and forests and shot down the Huang Chao army general with an arrow, disrupting the Huang Chao army's ranks. In an emergency, the "rebel army" rushed into the army, and the shortcomings of low quality were exposed. Two thousand people were like ants poked in a nest, and they were just trying to escape. They were defeated by Qian Liu's twenty men, trampled on each other on the mountain road, with great casualties.

After repelling the vanguard of the Huang Chao army's partial division, Qian Liu knew that this ambush could not be repeated. So he stopped when he saw the opportunity and retreated. When he passed by a small shop on the side of the road, Qian Liu had a plan and said to the old woman who opened the shop: "Wait a moment, if a team of troops arrive, they ask if you have seen us, and you tell them that the army in Lin'an is stationed for 800 miles."

Afterwards, Huang Chao's army arrived, and the general led the team asked the woman, and the woman truthfully told Qian Liu what he said. The general did not know that Babaili was a place name in Lin'an, and he thought that Zhenhaijun mobilized the army in Lin'an.

At that time, this army was not Huang Chao's main force, but just a partial army. I couldn't figure out the specific situation at the moment. Thinking about the fact that there were only a few dozen people who had repelled two thousand people, he did not dare to take risks, so he simply turned around. Hangzhou avoided a military disaster, and Qian Liu and Dong Chang became famous in one fell swoop.

Later, in the battle where the Zhen** Navy went south to encircle and suppress Wang Ying, the Eight Capitals of Hangzhou also sent troops to beat the water dog. Dong Chang's troops recruited troops and bought a way out. The troops and horses were expanded a lot. Dong Chang was appointed as the general of Shijing Town, and Qian Liu, as the number one general under Dong Chang, was promoted by Dong Chang to be the commander of the Yanei Yan, Shijing Town.

After Zhou Bao took office as the governor of Zhenhai Army, the Eighth Capitals in Hangzhou were already a little too big, especially Shi Jingdu, with 5,000 troops, and the rest of them were also between 2,000 and 3,000. The combined force of the Eighth Capitals in Hangzhou was as high as 20,000 troops. Although most of the Eighth Capital soldiers were just local tyrants. However, because each capital was armed by landlords, the Eighth Capital Generals were also rich local tyrants who spent money to spend equipment, so they were also a force that should not be underestimated in the southeast where military preparations were not cultivated.

Even Zhou Bao, although he has been strengthening the Zhenhai Army in recent years, if he wants to move Badu, he has to worry about it.

However, Zhou Bao has been through the battlefield for a long time and has experienced many towns. He is not the civil servants sent by the court. Although he has not touched Badu on the surface, he has always regarded these Badu as a confidant. This time, Zhou Bao used both soft and hard work, transferred Badu from Hangzhou and directly sent it to the horse-drawn sand.

In the temporary military tent of Dong Chang in Matuoshazhou, the eight generals of Hangzhou brought their respective generals to discuss matters.

Dong Chang, Shijing Capital of Lin'an County, Chen Sheng, Qingping Capital of Yuhang County, Wu Wenju, Yuqian Capital of Yuqian County, Xu Ji, Yanguan County, Wu'an Capital of Yanguan County, Duling, Wu'an Capital of Xincheng County, Raojing, Tangshan Capital of Tangshan County, Wenyu, Fuyang County, and Ling Wenju, Longquan County. The eight generals gathered together. Although Qian Liu was only the deputy town of Shijingdu, Shijingdu was under 5,000 soldiers and horses, plus Qian Liu's fame, they also had a seat among the crowd at this time, and the generals of other capitals could only stand behind their own capitals.

"Everyone, General Zhou has sent an order. After dark, I will attack Hu Douzhou immediately." Dong Chang glanced at the generals and said in a deep voice.

Chen Sheng, the Qingping Capital of Yuhang County, immediately asked: "Does Zhou Shuai really want to fight with Huainan Gao Shuai?"

It is a fact that the former brothers, Zhou Bao, and Gao Pian, who were the former brothers, have been in conflict now, especially since Li Jing stationed troops at the Yangtze River estuary between the two families, the atmosphere has become more solemn. The two families finally used force, as if they were expected, but they really were going to fight, and everyone was shocked.

No matter what, today, the two generals were Li Tang's generals and princes. At this time, regardless of the order issued by Li Jing, the King of Qin, who had previously issued the order to start a war in the Central Plains, the people under the people were still a little confused. Although the eight capitals are now powerful, each capital is one of the top families in Hangzhou counties, and now they have military power. They usually don't even take even the governor of Hangzhou seriously. However, facing a general of the generals of Zhenhai Junjie, Zhou Bao, a general of the imperial guards, who came from a family of imperial guards, no one dared to have any idea of ​​lip service.

Qian Liu sat on the side and sneered a few times, "If you don't really do it, can you pretend to do it? The Gao Dashui on the opposite side has already attacked the King of Qin. The King of Qin has the seal of the military commander of the Kwantung. The Gaoshui not only did not obey the order of the King of Qin, but also dared to raid Hu Douzhou to the Qin army. This is like a rebellion. The Eight Capitals of Hangzhou, our loyal to the Tang Dynasty and obeyed the Zhou commander's mobilization, and now we will naturally send troops to attack the Chief of the Gao."

Everyone naturally knows the relationship between Gao Pian, Zhou Bao and Li Jing.

Although he was still shocked by Gao Pian's courage to attack Li Jing, everyone understood Zhou Bao's intention. Gao Pian dared to attack Li Jing, and then he dared to attack Zhou Bao. If Zhou Shuai didn't want to be beaten passively, it would be the most suitable time to take action at this time.

However, everyone was also smart and had already heard some implications from Qian Liu's words.

"Did Zhou Shuai only send troops to eight of us?"

"Although Liang Zhang has almost captured Hu Douzhou, his subordinates have suffered heavy casualties, with 50,000 troops. According to Zhou Shuai, there are only less than 20,000 troops left. Our eighth capital in Hangzhou also has 20,000 troops. Zhou Shuai means that we can go downstream and surround Liang Zhang on Hu Douzhou first, and the other brothers of Zhenhai Army will come to reinforce later." Dong Chang expressed the meaning of Zhou Bao, who was sent by the visitor.

Although some people still suspect that Zhou Bao wants them to consume with the Huainan Army, since the military order has been issued, no matter what, they can only trust Zhou Bao for the time being and send troops first.

"After it was dark, we sent troops immediately, and horses carried the sandbank to Hudouzhou for more than a hundred miles and went downstream. We could arrive in the middle of the night, just in time to kill Liang Zhang and caught him off guard!" Qian Liu sneered, clenched his fists.
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