In the sixteenth year of Liyang, at the end of March

After half a month of siege by the Jin army, the Fengxian rebels were finally unable to resist the offensive of the Jin army, and announced their surrender to Fang Rui in the evening.

The defender of Feng County, that is, Li Ji's younger brother Li Yuan, was unloaded by his subordinates who advocated surrender and sent them to the Jin army's tent, and then let Yan Kui make the decision to transfer it to Li Ji, who was trapped in Shou County.

When Li Ji, who was ten years old after being tortured by the battle for half a month, saw the broken body of his own brother, he could no longer bear the pressure and despair in his heart, spit out a few mouthfuls of blood, fainted to the ground, unconscious.

Li Ji's fainting almost caused the already chaotic Shou County rebels to almost collapse directly, but fortunately, Li Ji's father-in-law Qin Kuan came out in time to stabilize the situation, and barely let the situation fall to an irreversible point.

That night, under the treatment of dozens of Langzhong in Shou County, Li Ji finally woke up, but under the exhaustion of many days and today's major stimulation, Li Ji's body suffered serious losses and could not recover in a short time, so he could only lie on the sickbed.

Fortunately, Li Ji was still in his senses, and after waking up, under the reminder of his father-in-law Qin Kuan, he recruited several henchmen and asked them to pacify the rebels in the city and try to ensure that the situation in the city did not deteriorate further.

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A few henchmen took the order to leave, and Li Ji had time to look at his father-in-law, and smiled bitterly: "Father-in-law, thanks to you before, thank you, son-in-law." ”

Qin Kuan glanced at Li Ji, his eyes were very cold: "Don't thank the old man, the old man is also for my daughter and grandson, otherwise he won't be full of food to take care of this matter." ”

With that, Qin Kuan turned his head and left the room, leaving only Li Ji, who looked sneering, half-leaning on the bed, his face full of embarrassment.

There is a reason why Qin Kuan and Li Ji's son-in-law are so stiff, the Li family and the Qin family are big families in Shou County, and the two families have intersected for generations, Li Ji's father and father-in-law Qin Kuan were close friends when they were young, and later when their children grew up, they got married.

Qin Kuan's heirs are thin, and he only has one daughter in his life, fortunately, the Qin family has another house and grandson to inherit the incense, but Qin Kuan is still very concerned about his own daughter, and later Qin and Li Ji gave birth to a son, and Qin Kuan has another grandson who hurts his eyes.

Also because of the care of his daughter and grandson, Qin Kuan resisted the rebellion with Li Ji's life, and the two even quarreled several times about it, and broke up with each other.

Now that the rebels are in decline, Qin Kuan is even more disgusted with Li Ji's obstinacy, but for the sake of his daughter and grandson, he still stepped forward at a critical moment to help Li Ji stabilize the situation, so as not to affect his daughter and grandson.

However, although he was helping, Qin Kuan's heart was still full of anger towards Li Ji, and even because of the difficult predicament of Shou County now, his resentment towards Li Ji was stronger than before, yes, of course, the old man would not give Li Ji any good look.

Li Ji also knew his father-in-law's thoughts, but now, it was he who was to blame, and in the face of Qin Kuan's cold words, he could only smile bitterly.

What's more, in the face of the desperate situation in front of him, Li Ji did not regret it in his heart............

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However, it was too late for Li Ji to regret it in his heart, and there would never be a regret medicine sold in the world.

After Yan Kui took the three counties, in addition to leaving a small number of garrisons to garrison, he withdrew the remaining soldiers and horses to the city of Shouxian.

At the beginning of April of the sixteenth year of Liyang, Yan Kui ordered his soldiers and horses to surround Shou County, and then asked people to persuade the city to surrender, as expected, Li Ji did not make any response.

Yan Kui is not in a hurry, anyway, the Hongyang rebels have this city left, and it is a matter of time before they take it, so they can't let the soldiers fill it with their lives, and keep it for the reward after the war.

Besides, Yan Kui has been sending troops since the beginning of February, and now he has only been in his early two months since the full battle, and the battle has come to this point, and no one can fault it.

So, Yan Kui began his siege life leisurely, and compared with him, the rebels in the city were in a much more difficult mood.

Yan Kui has a smart brain, and he operates a lot of sassy operations, although he does not send people to attack Shou County, but he does send troops in shifts day and night to make a feint, and from time to time he mixes a real siege in it, so that the rebels of Shou County do not dare to be careless every time the Jin army attacks the city, and they are nervous day and night, and they are about to be tortured into nerves by Yan Kui.

In addition, Yan Kui also sent many highly eloquent sergeants, holding copper trumpets every day, to persuade the rebels on the city wall to surrender and lobby, shaking the hearts of the army.

Later, Yan Kui heard from somewhere that many of the rebels in the city were from the three counties of Gushan, so he tried to find some relatives of the rebels in the city and launched a family offensive.

In May, after Yan Kui's various manipulations, Li Ji already clearly felt that he was beginning to lose control of the rebels in the city, and at this time, Li Ji, who was flustered, made a faint move.

He let his henchmen quietly control the four gates in the city, and then in the name of deliberations, deceived the generals in the city who gradually did not obey his orders to the general's mansion and put them all under house arrest.

After that, Li Ji sent his diehards to receive the generals' troops, and announced that if anyone did not obey the orders, he would cut off the supply of food and grass for the troops.

Li Ji's original intention was to suppress his dissident subordinates, collect the power of the army for himself, and then control the troops with grain and grass, and continue to resist Yan Kui.

As a result, what Li Ji didn't expect was that the rebels in the city were besieged for more than a month, and they were attacked and harassed by the Jin army day and night, and the morale of the army had long been sensitive and uneasy by Yan Kui's noise.

As soon as Li Ji detained the rebel generals, the newly sent people did not have the ability and prestige to pacify the soldiers below, and then Li Ji threatened to run off food, and the rebel soldiers were completely irrational.

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The fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival

From the early hours of the morning, I don't know who started first, countless rebels began to stir in the camp, shouting to surrender to the Jin army.

In an instant, the entire Shou County was like ice water thrown into a hot oil pot, and it exploded at once.

At noon, after shouting slogans all morning, nearly thirty percent of the rebels finally took action, led by a few small leaders, declared an uprising, and then rushed to the four gates of the county town with a roar, trying to open the city to welcome Yan Kui into the city.

It's a pity that Li Ji was prepared for a long time, and sent his henchmen to guard the city gate early, these rebel rebels had no generals to command, and could not form an effective combat force.

Seeing that the offensive was frustrated, I didn't know that the clever ghost proposed that since the city gate was heavily guarded, the Governor's Mansion must be weak, they could attack the Governor's Mansion, as long as Li Ji was captured, they could threaten the defenders of the city gate to open the door.

As soon as this proposal came out, it was immediately responded to by the rebels of the uprising, and soon, thousands of rebels were gathered and killed in the Governor's Palace.

Guessed correctly by the clever ghost, Li Ji transferred all the heavy troops to guard the city gate, and he himself supervised less than a thousand soldiers and horses loyal to him nearby.

And more importantly, as the rebellion of the Han army in the city became more and more noisy, many neutrals who were originally wavering also announced an uprising and joined the rebels of the uprising.

By the evening, the proportion of the rebels in the whole army had reached almost 50 percent, and Li Ji's die-hard loyalists accounted for about 30 percent, and the rest were neutrals who were still hesitating and waiting.

Just after nightfall, the rebels of the uprising killed the Governor's Mansion, and after learning that Li Ji was in the Governor's Mansion, they immediately launched a fierce attack, and similar sounds such as "Capturing Li Ji alive" spread all over the Governor's Mansion within a radius of five miles.

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Inside the Governor's Palace

Li Ji's hair was messy, his face was pale, he was dressed in gold armor, and he was holding a long sword in his hand, and he sat silently in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion with a calm look in his eyes.

His father-in-law, Qin Kuan, dragged his daughter and grandson into the lobby quickly, and when he saw Li Ji who was still sitting quietly, his face was furious.

"What are you doing sitting here, run away."

The corners of Li Ji's mouth moved, and he pointed to the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound outside: "Run, where am I going to escape, even if I can escape from the Governor's Mansion, there are still eighty or ninety thousand Jin troops outside, father-in-law, I am dead." ”

When Qin Kuan saw Li Ji's appearance, he knew that his son-in-law had already died and wanted to persuade him, so he opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, stomped his foot, and pulled his crying daughter and grandson out of the lobby.

There is a secret passage to the outside of the Governor's Mansion, although the exit is still in the city, and it is likely to be searched by the Jin army in the future, but there is a chance to escape from it, it is better than sitting here and waiting for the rebels to come in.

Li Ji was born with the will to die, Qin Kuan didn't want his daughter and grandson to die with Li Ji, no matter what, he had to fight.

Soon after Qin Kuan's father, daughter, ancestor and grandson left, the rebels broke through the governor, and when they reached the lobby, they found that Li Ji had already killed himself with his sword.

The rebels of the uprising were not polite, they tied Li Ji's body to the big flagpole, and once again slaughtered the city gate.

Not unexpectedly, Li Ji's henchmen who were still desperately resisting the impact of the rebels of the uprising last time, when they saw Li Ji's corpse, except for a few who wanted to avenge the Lord, the rest of them all laid down their weapons or directly joined the rebels.

After two incense sticks, the west gate of Shou County was opened, and the Jin army, which had been listening to the movement outside the city for a long time, stepped on the steps of victory, and entered Shou County with high spirits.

On the fifth night of the fifth month of the sixteenth year of Liyang, the Hongyang Rebellion officially ended, and the leaders of the three-way rebels, Li Ji, the Cheng brothers, and Gao Xinggong, were all ambushed.

Yan Kui personally wrote a good news and sent someone to send it to the capital in an expedited manner for 800 miles.

The next day, after suppressing the final counterattack of Li Ji's remnants, Yan Kui came to Li Ji's Governor's Mansion and was visiting the lobby where Li Ji committed suicide at the end when his guards came to report.

Li Ji's wife, children, and father-in-law were found in a private house in the city, and in order to prevent the captives from being humiliated, they committed suicide one after another.........

Yan Kui sighed, since ancient times, he has become a king and lost a king, nothing more than this, Li Ji rebelled, and his wife and children also suffered a big crime.

According to the criminal law of the Northern Jin Dynasty, the rebellious family members should be confiscated into official slaves at the lightest, compared with it, suicide is also a kind of dignity now.

"Don't make a noise about this matter, quietly find a few coffins, bury them, and tell the outside world that Li Ji's family died in the war and were buried in a mass grave." Yan Kui commanded.

"Yes."

The guards were ordered to go out, and after a while, they turned back to another thing.

"The black-clothed guard was at the gate of the city, and found a few people who were sneaky and wanted to leave the city, and after the black-clothed guard stopped the people, he carefully interrogated them, and found that two young people in this group seemed to be afraid of us, and they were suspicious, so they detained them.

Afterwards, He Duwei looked for the rebel generals who had surrendered and came to identify them, and found that these people were Li Ji's number one strategist Fang Lianhai and his family. ”

"Fang Lianhai?"

Yan Kui was a little surprised: "Didn't you say that this person was burned to death a month ago, why did he come out again now." ”

The guard replied: "He Duwei has interrogated, Fang Lianhai thought in advance that Li Ji's defeat was decided, so he let the whole family cheat to death, but secretly hid in the city, and when the war is over, he is ready to flee quietly."

I don't want our black-clothed guards to have amazing eyesight and see that something is wrong with them, so I dug up their family. ”

"Interesting."

Yan Kui became interested and explained: "Look at it this way, this Fang Lianhai is still a talent, go, tell Fu Qing, and say that I will let him go to He Chun to find out the bottom of this surname Fang." ”

As I said before, the number of advisers under Yan Kui is really small, and he received a Fuqing in Hongshi County before, and his ability is good, Yan Kui is very satisfied, and now seeing that this Fang Lianhai seems to have some means, he can't help but feel moved by his love for talent again.

"Yes, my subordinates will go to Counselor Fu."

The guards were ordered to turn around and leave, while Yan Kui led people to continue to wander around the Governor's Mansion.