Chapter 177: The Battle of Wuwei (3)

"Emperor?" Qiu Niang frowned and said.

"Yes, Emperor Shi Jingjiao." Li Wenyuan said: "Soon after, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the first was the Huangchao Uprising, which completely destroyed the last pillar of Li Tang's rule.

However, the children of the salt merchants of Huangchao, even if they have a full stomach, they cannot fight with one enemy and a hundred, although the soldiers of the righteous army under their command can fight bravely, but they cannot effectively govern the territory they have taken, which makes Huangchao Although he has a base of thousands of miles, he still hated and died in the end.

During this period, there was a person named Zhu Wen, and his brother Zhu Cun joined the Huangchao Rebel Army, and later when the Huangchao Army attacked Lingnan, Zhu Cun died in battle, and you were made up as the captain because of your military exploits, which is equivalent to the position of battalion commander in our army. This Zhu Wen is resourceful and good at fighting, and is very much used by Huang Chao, and finally made the defense of Tongzhou, which is not far from the west of the current Hedong County, and let Zhu Wen take it by himself.

What do you mean by self-picking? It is to give Zhu Wen a false title, but he does not give Zhu Wen extra soldiers and horses, how can there be such a good thing in the world, if you want to get the land under the title, you have to personally lead the troops to attack those lands, this is also the favorite trick of those rebel leaders, use this way of drawing a big pie to seduce you to contribute, but you can sit on the benefits of the fisherman, if you win, you can strengthen the prestige of the rebel army, if you lose, there will be no loss, and you can even take the opportunity to cut the domain and stabilize your rights.

After Zhu Wen captured Tongzhou, he was defeated by the Tang general Wang Chongrong, and had no choice but to retreat to Tongzhou City. Zhu Wen had no choice but to ask Huang Chao for help, and successively delivered ten copies of the distress recital, but these ten distress documents were hidden by Meng Kai by Huang Chao's left army, so that Zhu Wen never got reinforcements from outside.

At the same time, the Tang army continued to release news to the Zhu Wen soldiers and civilians who were stubbornly defending the city of Tongzhou, saying that Huangchao had been defeated by the army that had gone to suppress the bandits, and had already fled to the east, and there was no way to come to the rescue of Tongzhou City, which was surrounded by the Tang army.

Hearing this news, the soldiers under Zhu Wen were all a little disheartened, so his henchmen Hu Zhen and Xie Tong persuaded Zhu Wen to surrender to Tang and save his life and that of his soldiers. Zhu Wen himself also knew that although Huang Chao had hundreds of thousands of troops, the fighting force among these hundreds of thousands of people was still the Xuzhou Rui soldiers who originally followed Huang Chao's uprising with more than 10,000 people. Therefore, at this time, since Huang Chao has been defeated by the Tang army and fled eastward, it is impossible for him to recover his combat effectiveness in a short time, let alone launch a rescue for himself.

After calculating the inevitable defeat of Huangchao's rebel army, Zhu Wen no longer hesitated, followed the advice of his subordinates, and led the soldiers and civilians of Tongzhou to open the city gate and surrender to Wang Chongrong, who commanded the Tang army outside the city. Wang Duo obeyed the edict and named Zhu Wen as the envoy of the Tonghua Festival, Wang Chongrong played the matter to the imperial court, and Tang Xizong shouted: "This Zhu Wen is the general given to me by God!" So Zhu Wen was also reused in Li Tang, and he was in the limelight for a while.

Later, Zhu Wenfu rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and established the Liang State on his own, known as the Later Liang State in history, and the Jin King Li Keyong refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Liang State, so he still used Li Tang's Tianyu year name to compete with Zhu Wen's Liang State.

Later, Li Keyong died, and his son Li Cunqiao inherited Li Keyong's official title and title, and continued to compete with the Liang State. Li Ke used thunderous means to quickly suppress the instability in the territory, and then defeated Zhu Wen's Liang army many times, and later Huairen ran his own territory, and was elected by his subordinates as Shang Shuling, and prepared hundreds of officials in the territory.

Li Cunmiao was later killed in a mutiny by Guo Congqian, who was commanded by his subordinate Cong Ma Zhi at Bishui Pass. Later, Shi Jingjiao rebelled, betrayed the Later Tang Dynasty, and hurriedly asked the Khitans for help when they were besieged by the Later Tang Dynasty, and in September of the same year, the Khitans went south, defeated the Later Tang army, and saved the Shi Jingjiao army that was on the verge of extinction.

So in November of the same year, Shi Jingjiao accepted the canonization of the Khitans and was canonized as the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty. After Shi Jingjiao was canonized by the Khitans, he was even more servile, not only paying tribute to the Khitans every year with 300,000 horses of silk cloth, but also giving all the strategic places of the Central Plains to guard against the northern nomads 'Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures', so that the Han people in the Central Plains were always at a disadvantage when they were nomads outside the Saiwai for hundreds of years.

Not only that, Shi Jingjiao also called himself the son emperor in the documents to the Khitans, but instead made Yelu Deguang, who was ten years younger than him, his father emperor. The entire Great Jin Dynasty of Shi Jingjiao is like a puppet state of the Khitans, which is slaughtered by the Khitans. When Li Wenyuan talked about history, he finally let go of the taciturn appearance he had been talking about, and said endlessly.

"Then you mean that Tuoba Shishu wants to turn the entire Eastern Turks into a puppet state under his secret control? So how can it be done? Although Qiu Niang didn't know much about that period of history, she still keenly captured the key points in Li Wenyuan's words.

"I don't know the specifics, but it is estimated that after poisoning Shibi Khan, he designed to put him on the throne, and then he was thinking of some ways to remove him, and then used his interests to constantly balance and win over the various forces of the Eastern Turks, and finally won over the majority who supported him to suppress the minority, so as to achieve the transformation of the puppet of the Eastern Turkic regime to the control of himself as the king." After Li Wenyuan kept browsing the various and different forms of throne battles in his memory, he slowly expressed his guess.

"I know, I'll pay attention to the news of the Eastern Turk Khan's throne next." Qiu Niang felt that the infiltration of the Eastern Turks on her side was too insufficient, and she thought that she could completely grasp the movements of the Eastern Turks, but now it seems that her intelligence access to the Eastern Turks is still very rare, and there are still many deficiencies, so Qiu Niang is secretly determined to expand the intelligence network of the night owl in the Eastern Turks again.

After Li Wenyuan heard Qiu Niang's words, he also nodded, Qiu Niang was extremely relieved to do things, so he didn't ask any more, and then Li Wenyuan suddenly remembered something and said: "By the way, Qiu Niang, what about Gai Suzhen?" I haven't seen her in a long time. ”

"Oh, you said that little lady in Goguryeo, I sent her back to be in charge of the intelligence network in Goguryeo." Qiu Niang paused and said.

(End of chapter)