The people in Luoyang City were in a mess, and each city gate was crowded with people who wanted to take refuge in the city, they desperately begged to open the city and let them go, but the defenders of the city were unmoved, Ge Shuyao led a team of cavalry from the city, only to see the city crying father and mother, and many women holding their children and crying bitterly.

An old woman shouted at the door with a cane, "Hide the child in the cellar, and kill me to die for him!" ”

At this time, a white-haired old man ran out and knelt in front of Ge Shuyao and cried: "Master Jun, please persuade General Ge Shu!" Let him surrender, my two grandsons are still young, they are innocent! ”

Ge Shuyao sighed lowly, "I'll tell you for you, old man, get up!" ”

Ge Shuyao had no intention of patrolling anymore, turned the horse's head and said, "Go back to the camp!" ”

Time gradually passed, the barracks were brightly lit, Ge Shuyao summoned all the generals to the Chinese army tent, Ge Shuyao said to them: "I am determined to sneak attack the enemy camp at night, if we can break the enemy, we will win, if we can't break the enemy, we will break through to the south, you are willing to go with me?" ”

Everyone knelt down on one knee and said, "I am willing to advance and retreat with the handsome!" ”

Ge Shuyao nodded and said: "Immediately gather the soldiers, at two o'clock, we will break through from Jianchun Gate, in order to prevent the news from being revealed, from now on, no one is allowed to go out of the barracks!" ”

General Li Bowen's face suddenly changed greatly, he lowered his head to hide the horror in his eyes, now he is really going to be finished!

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When the time reached two watches, Ge Shuyao led 6,000 soldiers to appear in front of Jianchun Gate, and he shouted in a low voice: "Open the city!" ”

The city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Ge Shuyao took the lead and took the lead in killing out.

At this time, there were a thousand soldiers in ambush outside the city, and when they saw that a Tang army came out, the leader immediately greeted him and asked, "Is it General Li Bowen?" ”

Ge Shuyao was stunned, and then he was furious, he said coldly: "I am Li Bowen!" ”

He urged his horse to gallop and stabbed him with a shot, but the enemy general could not dodge, and was pierced through the chest by a shot, and the soldiers fled in all directions.

Ge Shuyao turned around to kill Li Bowen, but he didn't find it, and a soldier reported: "General Li just said that he forgot something important and went back to the city to get it." ”

Ge Shuyao sneered, let Zhu Zhu kill him!

He shouted, "Brothers, kill me!" ”

With a shout, the 6,000-strong army followed Ge Shuyao to kill the enemy camp.

It is also the will of heaven, Zhu Zhu's army has entered a wartime state, waiting to enter the city, Ge Shuyao led the army into the camp, but found that the enemy army has been prepared, the enemy army is coming from all directions, not sleeping, he suddenly woke up, Li Bowen is going to sacrifice the city tonight, and the other party must be waiting.

Ge Shuyao immediately shouted: "Break through and go south!" ”

But it was too late, Zhu Jun had already received the news that the enemy army had broken into the camp, and he immediately ordered: "Surround them, don't let them escape!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums in Zhu Zhu's camp were loud, and tens of thousands of troops guarding the east of the city surrounded Geshuyao's army from four directions, and reinforcements continued to come from other city gates.

The difference in strength between the two armies was huge, the 6,000 army was gradually killed and dispersed, Ge Shuyao was surrounded by thousands of enemy regiments, and the soldiers around him were killed, leaving him alone, he brandished a spear to kill left and right, and never could kill the encirclement, only to hear the enemy soldiers shouting: "Catch Ge Shuyao!" ”

At this time, a cold arrow came and hit his horse, and the horse fell to the ground, overturning Geshuyao, and the surrounding enemy soldiers were overjoyed and rushed up to capture Geshuyao alive.

Ge Shuyao pulled out his sword and killed several people in a row, so frightened that the soldiers retreated, thousands of people surrounded him in a small circle a zhang wide, everyone's eyes flashed with wolf-like fierce light, in the face of the eagerness of the prey, ready to move, Ge Shuyao knew that it was impossible to escape, he sighed, and killed himself with a horizontal sword!

In May of the fourth year of Jianzhong, Zhu Zhu led an army of 200,000 to surround Luoyang, and Jiedu made Ge Shuyao fail to break through the siege.

Zhu Jun felt the loyalty of his brother Shu Yao, and ordered a thick burial of his brother Shu Yao, and the army immediately entered the city, and the Luoyang officials surrendered the city.

Since then, large areas of land west of Zhengzhou and north of Xiangzhou have been occupied by Zhu Zhu.

The consequences of the loss of Luoyang were very serious, which meant that Ma Sui and Zhaoyi's army made Li Baozhen a lone army in Hedong Jiedu.

At this time, Hedong had completely fallen, Ma Sui's troops were too small, only more than 8,000 people, could not stop the attack of Li Huaiguang's 30,000 army, he had to abandon Hedong, led the army to retreat to Xiangzhou, and Li Baozhen joined forces, only Xiangzhou and Weizhou were left in the place of control, less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, they sent people to Chengdu, begging the Son of Heaven to approve their retreat to Bianzhou in the south.

At this time, there was also a change in Hedong, Li Huaiguang was very ambitious, after he occupied the southern part of Hedong Province, he proclaimed himself the king of Jin, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, built a royal palace in Linfen County, Jinzhou, and established a feudal town.

He no longer pledged allegiance to the Yuan family, but sent people to Chang'an to ask the Son of Heaven Li Zhishi to be sealed.

After Li Huaiguang's rebellion, the Northern Tang Dynasty, which was controlled by the Yuan family, was reduced to 30,000 troops, suffered serious losses in strength, and fell into an unprecedented crisis.

Among the three Tang dynasties that appeared at the same time, Taiyuan in the Northern Tang Dynasty was the most low-key, but also the weakest party, although it was the crown prince Li Yu who ascended the throne, but it was not recognized by the world, Li Yu issued several edicts to announce Ma Sui and Li Baozhen into the dynasty, all of which were rejected by him without hesitation.

Not only that, the old ministers and celebrities living in Taiyuan also fled, lest they were contaminated with the relationship with the Northern Tang Dynasty, so that the Northern Tang Dynasty could not find the court officials, so they had to promote the low-level officials as officials, for a time, the officials and officials were promoted, or for the squire, or for the minister, they did not know how to govern the country, but they were proficient in corruption and bribery, exploitation and extortion, so that the Northern Tang Dynasty court was full of miasma, and the people were full of complaints.

If there was no Li Huaien self-reliance incident, maybe the Northern Tang Dynasty would have lived in such a mess, but after the Li Huaien incident, it would be a little difficult for the Northern Tang Dynasty to maintain.

Once Li Huaien counterattacked Taiyuan, the Northern Tang regime would be destroyed in an instant.

In addition to the imperial palace Jinyang Palace, the second largest mansion in Taiyuan City is the Wei Palace, that is, the Yuan Mansion.

Yuan Xuanhu was named the king of Wei and the prince, he did not serve as any real official, but he was the real ruler of the Northern Tang Dynasty.

Among his three sons, the eldest son Yuan Jin was named the Duke of Jin and served as the prime minister of Zhongshu Ling, the second son Yuan Lu was named the Duke of Lu Guo, and he was the general of the hussars, and served as the right servant of Shangshu and the Shangshu of the Military Department, mastering 20,000 Tiance forbidden troops and 10,000 Wei Fu soldiers, which was also the last 30,000 troops of the Northern Tang Dynasty, and the third son Yuan Chu was named the Duke of Chu Guogong, serving as the left servant of Shangshu and the Shangshu of the Hubu and mastering the financial power of the Northern Tang Dynasty.

In addition, Han Jinxing, the secretary who holds the personnel power, is the son-in-law of Yuan Xuanhu, and all the generals of the forbidden army are the children of the Yuan family.

Another person who can compete with the Yuan family in the Northern Tang Dynasty is Li Huaiguang, he was named the king of Fenyang County, the champion general, and mastered 30,000 troops, although the title is only below Yuan Xuanhu, but the official rank is only three grades, Mo said that it is far inferior to the three brothers of the Yuan family from the first rank of high-ranking officials, even if the son-in-law of Yuan Xuanhu is not comparable, he can only stand side by side with a group of Yuan family sons and nephews, this is of course the Yuan family to suppress Li Huaiguang, but it also planted the seeds of Li Huaiguang's betrayal and self-reliance.

In the lobby of the Wei Palace, more than a dozen members of the Yuan family gathered together, and the head of the family, Yuan Xuanhu, sat on the soft couch, looking a little tired, he waved his hand and said, "Since they have all arrived, let's start!" Kuro, you name it. ”

The Jiulang mentioned by Yuan Xuanhu was his nephew Yuan Zheng, the official secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who had just returned from an envoy to Hui and brought an important statement from Hui Khan.

"I stayed in the Hui royal court for nine days, met with the Heavenly Khan three times, and met with the Hui Xiangguo Duoluos, the attitude of the Hui was very clear, they opposed the Northern Tang Dynasty, only recognized Li Shi as the legitimate monarch of the Tang Dynasty, and the Hui Hui was willing to support our Yuan clan, but the premise was to abolish the Northern Tang Dynasty, once the Northern Tang Dynasty was abolished, the Hui Hui would garrison 10,000 troops in Yunzhou, and according to our needs, they would go south at any time to help."

"What about their conditions?" Yuan Chu asked.

"There are only two conditions for them, one is to abolish the Northern Tang Dynasty, and the second is to require us to pay 100,000 horses of silk every year, and nothing else."

Yuan Chu, who was in charge of finance and taxation, was taken aback, 100,000 horses of silk a year, which is equivalent to 50,000 yuan, which is a lot of pressure!

Yuan Xuanhu said slowly: "At present, our territory is one prefecture and seven prefectures, the prefecture is Taiyuan Prefecture, and the prefecture refers to Shizhou, Xizhou, Lanzhou, Daizhou, Shuozhou, Ulzhou and Yunzhou, with a population of more than three million, mainly concentrated in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the army is only 30,000 people. ”