Chapter 389 Zhu Yuan surrendered to Zhou

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Just when Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao attacked Dong Zunhui's troops, Guo Rong also sent Li Chongjin and others to attack the Tang Army Camp in Zijin Mountain. It was only because Zhu Yuan personally took charge and commanded that he saved his own camp.

With Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao's troops retreating, Li Chongjin and others also led the troops to retreat slowly, with no flaws in the formation. Zhu Yuan stopped the counterattacking troops, and then stood at the gate of the camp to watch Xu Wenzhen. Bian Hao and others led their troops to retreat in a mess. Especially Xu Wenzhen was bitten by the cavalry troops suddenly released by Dong Zunhui during the retreat, and he almost couldn't retreat. Now Xu Wenzhen was disguised and his face was full of embarrassment!

Seeing that the two of them did not obey their orders, Zhu Yuan laughed and said, "I have said that the Zhou army is in great power and cannot fight hard. They can only use fortifications to block them layer by layer. As a result, you two didn't believe me and wanted to go out to the camp to die. Now, you have a great defeat! Tsk tsk!"

Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao were not willing to admit their mistakes, so they could only say: It’s not that we don’t work hard, but the enemy is too cruel! In order to reduce our mistakes, Xu Wenzhen even complained to Zhu Yuan, why did he not save him when he saw the two armies hit their heads in front of Dong Zunhui?!

Zhu Yuan said angrily: "I kindly remind you that not only do not appreciate it, but also mocked me in all kinds of ways. Now I am here to hold me accountable. It is really outrageous! If I lead my army out of the camp to pick you up today, then our camps on Zijin Mountain will be taken advantage of by Li Chongjin and others. Then you will not have a foothold. Dong Zunhui's troops, who have long been chased by the tail, will be wiped out in one fell swoop!"

After saying that, Zhu Yuan left in anger and angrily.

Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao were bloodless. Zhu Yuan said these words angrily, and he clearly declared that he would not help the two of them cover the cover. Perhaps Zhu Yuan would still take the blame and step on Xu, so Bian would take the lead!

Xu Wenzhen lowered his voice and said, "Now, we can only see who is moving faster. If Zhu Yuan's memorial is first introduced to Beijing, you and me will be killed!"

Bian Hao nodded repeatedly and whispered: "I still have fifty elite cavalrymen who have not taken the battle, and their spirits are very good. I will order them to set off and ambush outside the King of Qi camp to kill Zhu Yuan's messenger!"

Xu Wenzhen nodded immediately: "It's great. I'll write a memorial immediately, saying that Zhu Yuan is not inferior to his merits, refuses to save him when he dies, is arrogant and rude, and secretly forms the Zhou army!"

This time, the two were afraid that Zhu Yuan would reveal his true feelings, so they immediately wrote the memorial and stamped their seal when they returned to the camp. Now the two offended Zhu Yuan to the end. If Zhu Yuan did not step down, they would only be able to wear small shoes every day in the future! However, Xu, the two of them also had confidence. The military commander Chen Jue had always been incompatible with Zhu Yuan, and Li Jingda, the King of Qi, would probably not support Zhu Yuan in order to avoid suspicion. Moreover, Zhu Yuan was a defector from the Central Plains, not like Xu, and the two of them were natives in the Southern Tang Dynasty. You can smile and skip this difference in the past, but now it is the deadly moment of life and death of the Tang Kingdom. The experience of defection was Zhu Yuan's fatal injury!

Soon, the memorials of Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao were handed over to the desk of the military supervisor Chen Jue. Chen Jue had impeached Zhu Yuan a few days ago and was not inferior to Xu. After receiving Xu, Bian's memorials, he felt like he was even more treasured. He immediately sent someone to write a letter to the court to impeach Zhu Yuan to conspire to treason!

After telling the lie several times, it became the truth. After reading several memorials by Tang Li Jing, the Lord of Tang, he also felt that Zhu Yuan was suspicious. Moreover, it was the time when the Tang Dynasty was alive and dead. Before Li Jing could review the credibility of Chen Jue's memorials, he hurriedly sent Yang Shouzhong, the governor of Wuchang Army, to replace Zhu Yuan and stationed in Zijin Mountain. As for King Li Jingda of Qi, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not say a word!

When Chen felt that Yang Shouzhong was here, he immediately falsely spread the order of King Li Jingda of Qi and asked Zhu Yuan to rush to Haozhou to discuss the matter.

Zhu Yuan had already heard about Yang Shouzhong coming here at this time. He sighed and said to his confidants: "Changing generals in front of the formation is a taboo in military strategists. His Majesty and the King of Qi ordered Yang Shouzhong to come here quickly, which clearly had lost basic trust in me! The so-called recruitment of me to rush to Haozhou to discuss matters was just to take the opportunity to imprison me! I, Zhu Yuan, worked hard for the Tang Kingdom, but ended up like this!"

All the trusted people sighed, and many excited people even began to curse Chen Jue. Zhu Yuan also sighed several times and said to everyone: "Chen Jue, a villain, stealing the position of military commander, does not have any talent that a general should have. On the contrary, he is jealous of his skills and gazes and has no mind. If this continues, most of the entire Huainan and Jiangbei will be completely ruined by him! Since he will die sooner or later, it is better to take advantage of the fact that they have not poured dirty water on me, and I will deal with myself first!"

After Zhu Yuan said that, he pulled out the sword from his waist and tried to commit suicide. Everyone hurriedly stopped him. At this time, Zhu Yuan's confidant Song Yan said, "The general committed suicide in anger, just because he was worried about the wives and concubines in the Jinling Mansion, and was afraid that they would be implicated! However, according to the general's martial arts and military strategy, he would be valued everywhere, and he would never be covered in dust! A real man could not get rich wives and concubines, so why should he seek death for them?!"

The man told the matter that Zhu Yuan was worried about. He was shocked and pressed the hilt of the sword and asked the disciple Song Yan: "Do you want me to surrender to the Zhou army? Do you want me to betray the new master and the old master (Li Shouzhen)?"

Song Yan shook his head and said to Zhu Yuan: "This is a wise move, how about betrayal? The old lord (Li Shouzhen) was defeated by the Han army, not the Zhou army, and it was not a shame to surrender to the Zhou army. As for abandoning the Tang army, the emperor and his ministers, they were unrighteous first, and the general was just protecting himself! Now staying here is just waiting to die, and he has no value at all. It is better to choose a master and work!"

Zhu Yuan sighed, and after a moment of silence, he finally let go of the hilt of the sword and said to everyone: "These incompetent monarchs and ministers of the Tang Kingdom are not worthy of our service for them! If the Tang Kingdom is unrighteous to us, I will not care about my reputation and integrity!"

Everyone here is the confidant Zhu Yuan has won over in recent years. Everyone eats Zhu Yuan's, takes Zhu Yuan's, and spends Zhu Yuan's, and all regard themselves as dead soldiers raised by Zhu Yuan, and has no emotion to the Tang Kingdom at all. After hearing Zhu Yuan's decision, no one expressed opposition and all agreed.

Zhu Yuan immediately sent someone to go down the mountain quietly to the Zhou army camp to beg for surrender, and at the same time sent someone to recruit Houqing to enter the tent to discuss matters. Houqing was a Tang Dynasty man and never worked with him. Now it was the time to deal with him.

Although Shi Houqing was ordered by Chen Jue to secretly monitor Zhu Yuan, he did not expect that Zhu Yuan would really want to rebel against Tang and surrender to Zhou. He was almost unprepared to be captured by Zhu Yuan. In order to order the three armies, Zhu Yuan later cut off his head.

Just when Zhu Yuan killed Houqing, Guo Rong also smiled and said to the ministers: "Today is the destruction of the enemy!"

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Chapter completed!