Chapter 289: Three Hatreds
Just when Zhu Quanzhong gathered his army and planned to go south again to compete with Huainan, outside the city of Yanzhou, Li Keyong, the king of Jin, who had been dormant for three years, also regained his momentum and began to show his minions again. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
And this time, Li Keyong chose his target as Liu Rengong, the envoy of Lu Longjiedu.
As early as 20 years ago, when Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong were crusading against the Huangchao Army together, once Li Keyong led the army to pass through Bianzhou, and Zhu Quanzhong hosted a banquet at Yuanyi to entertain him.
That night, after the banquet had dispersed, Rick fell asleep drunk. At this time, Zhu Quanzhong's soldiers in ambush suddenly came out and set fire to the house, but fortunately, the fire was extinguished by heavy rain, and Li Ke escaped with his life and escaped into his army under the protection of the guards.
Since then, he and Zhu Quanzhong have become bitter enemies.
Since then, Li Keyong has regarded Liu Rengong as an enemy second only to Zhu Quanzhong, and always wants to take revenge on him.
In addition to Zhu Quanzhong, the number one enemy, Liu Rengong is Li Keyong's number two enemy.
At the beginning, Liu Rengong was just a junior general in Lu Long's army, and later relied on Li Keyong's power to become the new Lu Longjie envoy.
However, not long after he became the envoy of the festival, he betrayed Li Keyong. In a fit of rage, Li Ke personally led the army to the conquest, but who knew that it would lead to a great defeat.
Since then, Li Keyong has hated Liu Rengong to the core.
As the leader of the Shatuo clan, Li Keyong has always regarded revenge as extremely important.
So in the next twenty years, Li Keyong became the vanguard of dealing with Zhu Quanzhong, as long as it was conducive to eliminating Zhu Quanzhong, he was very proactive in doing it.
However, what he didn't expect was that Zhu Quanzhong, who was located in the land of the four wars in the Central Plains, actually miraculously rose, and became stronger and stronger the more he fought, and now his strength has completely surpassed him.
As for Liu Rengong, now that he is the envoy of Lu Longjie, his power is getting stronger and stronger, but Li Keyong wants to take revenge, but there is little hope.
Three years ago, he led the army to fight with the Liang army and was defeated repeatedly, and even Jinyang was surrounded by the Liang army.
Since then, Li Keyong has been a little sluggish, and he is no longer as active in attacking Zhu Quanzhong and Liu Rengong as he was in the past.
Therefore, in the past three years, the strength of the Jin army has recovered a lot, but the morale and mentality of the generals are far less than before.
And this time, the person who made Li Keyong recover his fighting spirit and regain his hope for revenge was his son Li Cunqing.
On the high post, Li Keyong couldn't help but smile when he looked at the young general in front of him who was galloping on horseback and could cause a burst of cheers from the soldiers everywhere he went.
That young man was his eldest son Li Cunxuan, who was eleven years old when Li Cunqiao accompanied Li Keyong to conquer Wang Xingyu and reported to the Son of Heaven Li Ye; Li Ye admired Li Cunmiao very much, and later praised him as "Keya his father", which means that Li Cunmiao can surpass his father and make his father the runner-up.
So since then, Li Cunqiao has been called Li Yazi again.
Now in Li Keyong's opinion, Li Cunqiao has indeed surpassed his father. In terms of age, Li Cunmiao is just twenty years old this year, which is the time when he is in the prime of life, but he is already dying; In terms of ability, Li Cunqiao is brave and good at fighting, even more than he was back then; In terms of appearance, he himself is a famous one-eyed dragon, and Li Cunmiao is handsome, so he is naturally above him.
So Li Keyong had to admit that he was no longer as good as his son Li Cunmiao.
In the distance, after showing off his skilled riding skills to the soldiers, Li Cunqiao turned his horse's head and ran towards Li Keyong.
"Father, how is the child's riding skills?"
"Hehe, well, it's much better than when I was a father! As a father, at your age, riding is not as good as yours! Li Ke said with a little pampering.
"So what if the child is compared with Yang Wu, the son of King Wu?"
"I think that Yang Wu is just a southern barbarian, if it is a comparison of horsemanship, he is naturally not as good as me!" Li Keyong said with a smile.
Li Cunmiao became more and more happy, and then asked: "Then what if it is more capable of leading troops to fight?" ”
In the past two years, Yang Wu led his troops to win many battles, especially the battle in which he personally led the army to eliminate Qian Biao, which made him famous, and Li Cunmiao, who was far away in the north, also heard of his reputation.
Break Suzhou, take Huzhou, peace and benevolence, Tian Yan's rebellion, and go south to defeat Qian Biao, and then break through Hangzhou City in one fell swoop, forcing Yue King Qian Biao to commit suicide, and the limelight is unique for a while.
Among the many rumors about Yang Wu, some say that Yang Wu is resourceful, victorious in a hundred battles, and a rare famous general in the world; Some say that Yang Wu was just a fluke victory, and the southern feudal towns were weak, so it was nothing that he could continue to win there.
But no matter what kind of statement you make, you can't deny the fact that Yang Wu is already a famous general in the world, but he doesn't have a reputation in the world, which makes him naturally want to compete.
Both are about the same age, Yang Wu is nineteen years old this year, and Li Cunqiao is twenty years old this year; In terms of identity, Yang Wu is the eldest son of King Wu, and he is the eldest son of King Jin. The similar identity and similar age determine that he will regard Yang Wu as his opponent in his heart.
Of course, Li Cunqiao also knew that now Huainan and Hedong are still allies, and there is still a common enemy Zhu Quanzhong between the two sides, so he doesn't want to compete with Yang Wu on the battlefield in a short period of time.
Listening to Li Cunmiao's words, Li Keyong laughed, "What, feel pressured?" That Yang Wu is indeed a rare character, and it is his luck that Yang Xingmi can have this son as his heir. And as a father, you can have you as the heir, but it is no worse than him! ”
Li Keyong didn't answer positively, Li Cunqiao was suddenly a little dissatisfied, Li Keyong said that he was no worse than Yang Wu, that is, he was taking Yang Wu as a benchmark.
And what he wants is not his answer "no worse than Yang Wu", at least Yang Wu is not worse than him.
Of course, he also knew that he didn't have any combat achievements at the moment, but it was difficult to get Li Keyong to give a higher evaluation.
Li Keyong talked with his son for a while, and then turned to Zhang Chengye, the military supervisor beside him, and asked, "Where is the army of the Abaoji brothers?" Why haven't you rushed over to join Lone? ”
This time to attack Yanzhou, Li Keyong only led 30,000 troops, and the rest of the army stayed in Jinyang to guard against Zhu Quanzhong.
It is naturally difficult to rely on only 30,000 troops to deal with the strong Liu Rengong, but he has an ally who is with him, and his ally is the 70,000 cavalry led by the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji.
More than half a month ago, Li Keyong invited the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji to come to join him in Yunzhou.
Strictly speaking, today's Yelu Abaoji is not the Khitan Khan, he is just the Khitan Yu Yue, which is equivalent to the prime minister in charge of military and political power in the Central Plains Dynasty.
The Khitan people have risen since the Sui Dynasty, but their customs are still in the primitive tribal alliance era.
According to today's practice, the leaders of the Khitan tribes take turns to be the Khitan khans, and each khan can only serve for three years, and after three years, he will be replaced. The Khan of today is the Khan of Hind.
And Yelu Abaoji is the leader of the Khitan Diera tribe, and he is also the most powerful clan among the Khitan tribes today.
Two years ago, he led the Khitan army south to sweep the border, and the harvest was extremely rich, so he was appointed as Yu Yue and became the actual controller of the Khitan.
This time, Li Keyong invited him to go south to join the alliance, preparing to deal with Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, and Liu Rengong, the envoy of Lu Longjiedu, and Yelu Abaoji happily led 70,000 cavalry after receiving the invitation.
After a meeting, Li Keyong chatted very well with Abaoji, and he held a grand banquet in the camp outside the city to entertain Abaoji.
When the two sides drank to their heart's content, Li Keyong put forward his request, hoping that Abaoji could lend him troops to crusade against Liu Rengong, the envoy of Lu Longjiedu.
In the face of Li Keyong's request, Abaoji readily agreed, and made an appointment with Li Keyong as brothers, ready to crusade against Liu Rengong together.
However, what Li Keyong didn't expect was that when the army he personally led attracted Liu Rengong's main force under the city of Yanzhou, the agreed Khitan army never arrived.
However, the news that his scouts found out was that the Khitans were looting in other states and counties.
"When my brothers have grabbed enough, my brother and I will naturally bring them to converge, and when the time comes, everyone will capture this city together, and all the things in the city will belong to my brother!" When Li Keyong sent an envoy to the Khitan army to inquire, Abaoji replied like this.
And today is the day of convergence agreed by both parties.
At this moment, dust rose in the distance, and a sound of horses' hooves came, "Oh no, the Khitans have retreated after looting!" ”
"What? The Khitans are gone? Rick trembled with anger.
He spent so much effort to come to crusade against Liu Rengong, but now he has become a wedding dress for Yelu Abaoji.
What's more, now that Liu Rengong is not contained by the Khitans, it is likely that he has already killed him, and he is in an extremely dangerous situation at this time!
Two days later, Li Keyong was raided by Liu Rengong's army on the way to withdraw and suffered heavy losses.
"Zhu Quanzhong, Liu Rengong, Yelu Abaoji, these are the three hatreds of Lonely, you must not forget it!"