Chapter 203: The Coward Zhao Heng! Angrily Killing Wang Linquan! (13)

Although the cavalryman who reported the news was nervous, he still had to tell the truth about the military situation.

"Your Majesty, six thousand cavalrymen suffered heavy casualties in front of the Modao formation."

"Li Changan's black-armored cavalry charged from the side and rear, and the cavalry from this state were unable to stop them at all."

"The black-armored cavalry charged forward with armor on both horses and men, and the six thousand Qingzhou cavalry were completely wiped out!"

Zhao Heng couldn't believe his ears at all. "What? All my six thousand private soldiers are gone!"

These six thousand cavalrymen are the result of his hard work!
It is not easy for a vassal king to maintain an army!
Before he could recover from the shock, the infantry scouts came back!
"Report to the prince!"

Zhao Heng asked quickly, "How about the infantry? You have 24,000 men!"

The scout's face flushed red, obviously he was very angry!
"Your Majesty, the cowards of the navy were scattered as soon as the black-armored cavalry charged."

"Ten thousand sailors were killed, and another ten thousand escaped into the water!"

Zhao Heng asked hurriedly, "Where are our 4,000 infantrymen? They are elite!"

The scout said angrily, "Once the navy's formation is disrupted, our infantry will also be scattered!"

"We finally gathered the remaining troops, but lost most of them!"

After listening to this, Zhao Heng sat down on the chair.

Thirty thousand infantry and cavalry were unable to defeat Li Changan's five thousand men!

Zhao Heng knew that the Qingzhou navy was corrupt, so he mobilized all 40,000 troops.

But he could not have imagined that Li Changan's Black Armor Army was so ferocious that they could actually disperse more than ten thousand infantrymen!
Zhao Heng sat in the chair in a cold mood and couldn't help talking to himself.

"Li Changan, the black-armored cavalry... sounds similar to the Northern Liang Iron Floating Figures!"

"My ten thousand troops!"

"Li Changan, damn it!"

Wang Linquan, who was sitting in the corner, didn't dare to breathe.

He had some understanding of Zhao Heng's bipolar disorder, and if he was not careful, he would be used as a punching bag by Zhao Heng.

After a long time, Zhao Heng had to accept the reality.

"Since the troops left in the central army are so powerful, Li Changan should be left with nothing."

"Xun'er and Wei Dong are in Tianmu Mountain. I wonder how things are going now?"

"With the help of my foster father's second disciple, Li Changan will surely be captured easily!"

Zhao Heng and Wang Linquan waited until late at night, but there was no news.

Several more scouts were sent out, but none of them returned.

An ominous thought rose in Zhao Heng's heart!

The two men sat there anxiously until dawn, when the provincial government's bailiffs hurried over!

"My Lord, something big happened at the city gate!"

"Sir Governor, please come over and take a look!"

Zhao Heng said angrily, "What's the big deal? Why doesn't the governor come and report it in person?"

The yamen runner said, "This is a serious matter. The governor dare not leave without permission. Please go there in person!"

Seeing that the yamen runner spoke so seriously, Zhao Heng did not dare to be negligent and immediately took a sedan chair to the city gate.

When he arrived near the city gate, Zhao Heng heard someone reading the notice posted by the King of Tang.

"This king arrested a group of members of the Green Clothes Alliance last night and interrogated them overnight."

"I didn't expect these rebels to have colluded with the officers in the army and the wealthy merchants in the city and dared to besiege my carriage."

"I was personally appointed by the Emperor. Attacking me is treason. Fortunately, with the blessing of Heaven, I was able to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop."

"I have already beheaded the culprit and will now hang his head on the city gate!"

"I hereby show you, Tang King Li Changan!"

Most of the people were illiterate, and at this time a scholar was reading the notice.

Hearing these words, Zhao Heng's legs went weak.

Li Changan is not dead!
So, Xun'er and Gong Banque failed!

Zhao Heng’s first thought was, where is Zhao Xun?
"No matter how bold and reckless Li Changan is, he wouldn't kill Xun'er!"

“I don’t think so!”

"Last time he captured Xun'er, and although he humiliated her severely, he still let her go!"

While he was thinking, the scholar had already started reading the list.

"The fallen prince of Western Shu, Su Su! The core members of the Qingyi League have been beheaded!"

"The former Grand Secretary of Western Shu, Zhao Dingxiu! A core member of the Qingyi League, has been beheaded!"

"Navy Commander Wei Dong and his son Wei Wei, who teamed up with the Qingyi League to assassinate the King of Tang, have been beheaded!"

"Admiral Li Hun, Zhang Kang, etc., are guilty of the same crime as Wei Dong and his son. They have been beheaded!"

……

"Wang Linquan, a merchant from Qingzhou, provided financial support to the Qingyi League. His entire family has now been executed. The heads of his six sons and one daughter are here!"

Hearing this, Wang Linquan, who was outside the sedan chair, felt his legs go weak and he fell to the ground.

Wang Linquan's face turned pale, tears streamed down his face, and he couldn't even utter a curse word!

Li Changan, you have such a vicious mind!

Just when Zhao Heng breathed a sigh of relief, the last person on the list shocked everyone!

"Zhao Xun, the prince of Jing'an, was bewitched by Wei Dong and his son and tried to assassinate the King of Tang!"

"The prince broke the law and is guilty of the same crime as the common people! Zhao Xun has been killed on the spot, his head is here!"

Zhao Heng rolled out of the sedan chair as if struck by lightning.

He crawled and rolled to the gate of Xiangfan City.

On the city wall, there were dozens of bloody heads!

Right in the middle is his son Zhao Xun!
Zhao Heng's eyes were filled with tears, and he was filled with shock and anger. "Xun'er! My son!"

"It was your father who harmed you!"

"Li Changan! You are going too far!"

Despite his extreme grief and anger, Zhao Heng still discovered something fishy.

The heads of several main criminals of the Qingyi League were all cut open by swords.

I'm afraid that Li Changan is harboring the remnants of Western Shu and Western Chu.

However, Zhao Heng only had 20,000 remnant naval soldiers left, and they had no fighting spirit at all.

Without any soldiers, whatever Li Changan says is the final word.

At this moment, the city gate was once again filled with people. The Xiangfan City was really lively these days.

Several major events have happened since Li Changan came.

Now this case of the Crown Prince's treason is truly earth-shattering!

At this time, the sound of galloping horses came from not far away.

As everyone looked from afar, they saw a team of black-armored cavalrymen galloping towards them like ghosts!

These black-armored cavalrymen are fierce and aggressive!
At the front of the cavalry was Li Changan, wearing black Ming Guang armor!

Zhao Heng’s guess about the treatment of the core members of the Qingyi Alliance was correct.

The real members of the Qingyi Alliance have been hidden in the military camp by him.

The heads on the city gate are just scapegoats who look similar.

Li Changan came to Xiangfan City for Wang Linquan.

Among the Wang family now, Wang Linquan is the only one who has escaped the net.

The sound of horse hooves shook the earth, and soon they stopped at the gate of Xiangfan City.

Zhao Heng pointed at Li Changan with one hand, trembling all over and unable to utter a word!

He only has a few personal guards around him, how can he be a match for Li Changan's hundreds of black armored soldiers!
Zhao Heng was angry, but he was also afraid!
The blood had not yet dried on the heavy armor of the black-armored soldiers and horses.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood, which made Zhao Heng feel very uncomfortable.

A scout of the Black Armor Army handed a scroll to Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng was puzzled and took a look at it tremblingly.

This is a military commendation order, but it is not from the Black Armor Army.

But it’s from the Northern Liang Army!

The commendation order is very old and its content is very ordinary.

However, the scroll was preserved intact by its owner.

From this, it can be seen that the owner of the commendation order attaches great importance to his identity as a member of the Northern Liang Army.

"Wang Linquan, the vanguard soldier of the Tiger Pulling Camp of the Northern Liang Army!" Zhao Heng was both shocked and angry!
Wang Linquan was actually Xu Xiao's hidden chess piece!

Li Changan, who was on horseback, had a cold face and said nothing.

Zhao Heng had already pulled out a saber from his personal guard.

"Wang Linquan! I will chop you down!"

Wang Linquan is the richest man in Qingzhou, and he also deliberately tries to curry favor with King Jing'an and his son.

Even Pei Nanwei was initially connected by Wang Linquan.

A man as scheming as Zhao Heng had already guessed most of the details.

King Jing'an of Qingzhou exists to contain Beiliang.

Wang Linquan was a hidden man of Beiliang, and then he disguised himself and joined the Qingyi Alliance.

His original purpose was to use the Qingyi Alliance to weaken Prince Jing'an.

But later, in order to deal with Li Changan, Wang Linquan turned around and sold the Qingyi Alliance to King Jing'an.

Zhao Heng was very angry. Wang Linquan really treated them and his son as fools!

Wang Linquan stared at the head on the top of the city wall with lifeless eyes and a sneer.

"General!"

"I have tried my best!"

"I don't know...how I was discovered..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Zhao Heng's knife cut off his neck.

Knife after knife!

Zhao Heng's madness was revealed once again!

In a short while, he chopped Wang Linquan into a bloody mess.

The grief of losing a son and the anger of being cheated were fully vented!

Then, the prince with white hair and beard slowly walked up to Li Changan.

He leaned forward and said, "Brother Changan, all of this was instigated by Wang Linquan..."

Li Changan could not have imagined that Zhao Heng would be so cowardly.

My son is dead, so I don’t even dare to fart.

As expected, all people with the surname Zhao are cowardly.

Before he could finish his words, Li Changan had already ridden away.

Zhao Heng stood blankly at the city gate, watching the Black Armor Army moving further and further away.

Li Changan destroyed Zhao Heng's private army, but left this commander alone.

The Qingzhou navy is very bad, and Zhao Xun bears a lot of responsibility for this.

In the original timeline, after Zhao Heng's death, the imperial court quickly reorganized Qingzhou.

The corrupt Qingzhou navy also underwent a complete transformation.

If Li Changan killed Zhao Heng now, the imperial court would be able to take over and reorganize Qingzhou.

Li Changan is not the fire-fighting captain of the Liyang court, and he will not help Zhao Chun to reduce the power of the vassal state.

Since Qingzhou is rotten, let it continue to rot.

Keep the suspicious villain Zhao Heng and let Qingzhou maintain the status quo.

Li Changan led the Black Armor Army back to the military camp.

The military camp was in good order and was not disrupted by the battle last night.

In the central army tent, the Embroidered Uniform Guard reported the seizure.

"Your Majesty, Wang Linquan's property, including the discounted price of his artifacts, is worth more than six million taels of silver!"

Gu Dazu couldn't help but sigh, "Hey! Killing and arson for a gold belt!"

Li Changan laughed and said, "Mr. Gu, you are overthinking. It's not easy to meet a rich man like Wang Linquan!"

I thought that the richest man in Qingzhou would be very rich if he had one million taels of silver.

But what is unexpected is that Wang Linquan is even more capable of making money than Wu Lingsu.

But to be honest, Wu Lingsu only makes his living from the money from incense offerings, and does some no-cost business on the side.

Wang Linquan is truly a big businessman who knows how to make money from money.

In just over a decade, Wang Linquan was able to save so much money for Beiliang. He is indeed a talented person.

Li Changan made some arrangements and asked Zhuge Liang and Gu Dazu to continue purchasing food and recruiting soldiers.

Food and fodder can be purchased openly, but horses can only be purchased privately.

Either dig out the bandits' lair, or buy it on the black market on the border of Beiliang.

After arranging these things, Li Changan came to the tent where the members of the Qingyi League were imprisoned.

There were more than 40 people arrested, led by the fallen prince of Western Shu, Su Su, and Grand Secretary Zhao Dingxiu.

Among the more than 40 people, more than half were survivors of Western Shu, and the rest were survivors of Western Chu.

When Li Changan arrived at the military tent, there were only Su Su and Zhao Dingxiu.

Su Su is about the same age as Li Changan, and Zhao Dingxiu is already a white-haired old man.

Although Li Changan looked intimidating without even getting angry, he was too young and neither of them dared to confirm his true status.

Bluebird said in a cold voice, "I haven't met His Royal Highness the King of Tang yet!"

After hearing this, the two of them bowed and said, "Greetings, King Tang!"

After greeting each other, Su Su asked again, "Are you really the Tang King Li Changan?"

Li Changan sat down in the upper seat, "It's genuine."

Hearing Li Changan's affirmative answer, Su Su actually kowtowed.

"Su Su, on behalf of the six sisters, thanks Prince Li."

This prince of a fallen country choked up when he talked about his six sisters who were tortured to death by Chu Lushan.

Li Changan said, "It's just a small favor. Please stand up, Mr. Su."

After Zhao Dingxiu helped Su Su up, he said to Li Changan, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life."

"We were betrayed by the beast Wang Linquan this time and almost died!"

"If it weren't for the prince, the restoration of Xishu would have been completely ruined!"

Su Su and Zhao Dingxiu spoke very carefully because the King of Tang was extremely majestic.

Zhao Dingxiu couldn't help but compare him with Su Su. The two were really too different.

Su Su seems like a simple-minded scholar, while Li Changan is already a prince with great power.

Li Changan said calmly, "Let's not talk about the restoration of Western Shu anymore."

"You two don't have the talent to restore the country."

"You can't even see that Wang Linquan pretended to join, so how can you talk about restoring the country?"

Li Changan was telling the truth. These two men, one a student and the other a corrupt scholar, could indeed not accomplish anything great.

Being a local official and managing a county is fine, but it is far from enough to restore the country.

Hearing Li Changan's words, Zhao Dingxiu's face turned red.

Scholars are sometimes like this, unable to recognize reality and unable to let go of their pride.

"Your Majesty! Although you saved our lives, you must not humiliate us!"

Li Changan said directly, "You know very well whether you have the ability to restore your country."

"What I want to tell you is that I want to repay you for saving you this time."

Li Changan allowed the members of the Qingyi League to fake their own deaths and escape, which was a grace of saving their lives.

Although Zhao Dingxiu is pedantic, he is a man who knows right from wrong and has integrity.

"Your Majesty, I understand this principle."

"I wonder what the prince wants?"

Li Changan said, "Come with me to Shazhou and serve as a county official for me for three years."

"Don't think about restoring your country all day long. It will be more beneficial for you to do something practical."

Su Su and Zhao Dingxiu discussed it and agreed immediately.

Qingzhou's many years of operation have been destroyed.

Li Changan helped them fake their death and would not let them go easily.

Instead of this, it would be a good idea to go outside the Great Wall to avoid the limelight.

The matter of the Qingyi Alliance is settled.

(End of this chapter)