In the afternoon of the second day after Li Shidao fell ill, the west gate of Yunzhou City was opened by a group of soldiers who claimed to have revolted and returned to the right.

Since Li Shidao said those depressing words in the Jiedu Embassy, the hearts of the army, officials, and people in the city have all collapsed, the officials have fled, the army has dispersed, and the people have scattered and guarded their homes, and there is no decent resistance in the city.

The Yicheng army was invincible and killed Yunzhou City in an instant.

Then Wei Bojun, Zhaoyi Army, and Wuning Army also entered the city successively, and the fire in the city was everywhere, and thick smoke was billowing out.

After Li Quanzhong took control of Yacheng, he led his troops into the Jiedu Embassy, did not encounter any resistance, and went straight into the back house, where he saw Li Shidao's two sons kneeling in official robes in front of the door, and their families were there, but Li Shidao and his wife Wei were missing.

Li Quanzhong ignored the crowd, went straight into the inner hall, and saw the dying Li Shidao and the crying trance Wei on the sickbed, searched and checked no one left and right, and verified Li Shidao's body, Li Quanzhong ordered the sergeant to drag him to the courtyard, took a bowstring and put it on Li Shidao's neck, crossed his hands with force, and strangled him alive in front of his wife and son.

Li Shidao had run out of oil and dried up, and he had not made any struggle from beginning to end, and his wife Wei was in a trance, not shouting, not screaming, and not asking for mercy. However, Li Shidao's two sons claimed that they did not want to live and were willing to die with their father, and Li Quanzhong fulfilled their filial piety and ordered the sergeant to behead the two in front of Li Shidao's body.

He also searched for Li Shidao's younger brother and nephew, but he was captured, and he was beheaded after verification.

He also sent people to arrest Li Shigu's wife and son, but they were taken into the camp by Tian Huaiji, properly resettled, and preserved.

Li Quanzhong occupied the Jiedu Embassy, carefully searched the inner house and the outer hall, did not see Ziqing's secret files, some people reported that Li Shidao betrayed his relatives before his death, except for the concubines and a few concubines, no one was willing to believe that all the concubines had fled, and now there are only a few concubines left in the city, and most of them have been hidden, only Xia Rui and his family not far from the next door are still there.

Li Quanzhong immediately brought people to Xia Ruihe's house, but saw that the door was pasted with the receiving seal of the Youzhou Army, and there was a pale-headed old man holding a letter and kneeling in front of the door. The tooth general took a letter to Li Quanzhong, but it was a letter from Li Mao, saying that Xia Ruihe was an old friend, and asked the troops entering the city not to enter the harassment and take care of Yunyun.

When the generals saw that Li Mao had taken the lead, they were deflated and were about to withdraw, but they saw Li Quanzhong throw off his big stride, push down the old man, reach out and pull the seal on the door, kick open the door and break in.

There was no one in the courtyard empty, neatly cleaned up inside and out, wiping a handful of bookcases, and even a fine layer of dust, obviously people had been gone for a long time, and they went very calmly.

Li Quanzhong was furious, and ordered the old man to be questioned, and the old man replied that Xia Ruihe was a neighbor, and he usually helped their family repair the house, buy and sell vegetables, make the carriage and horses, do some rough work, and get some money and food to support the family, ten days ago, Xia Ruihe suddenly handed him a letter, some seals and a bag of copper coins, saying that his family was going to leave the hospital, and if there were many strange military horses in the city one day, and they wanted to break into his home, they could paste the seal on the door and then present the letter.

He is entrusted by men, and he is loyal to people.

Ask the neighbors left and right, and what the old man said is true.

Li Quanzhong snorted angrily: "Sure enough, he is an old treacherous and cunning, and he has already left his back hand." ”

I went into the house and got pen and ink and wrote a letter, and sent it to Yanzhou by my confidant.

The city of Yunzhou was broken, Li Shidao was killed, and the judges of the festival Jia Zhiyan and Li Gongdu led the shogunate generals to kneel to welcome the heavenly soldiers, contributed the edition, and announced that the twelve states of Ziqing would be returned to the imperial court.

Both of them had Liu Wu as a guarantee, and Li Quanzhong did not dare to act rashly, but he killed a group of other generals who had returned to the country, and confiscated their property and slaves and maids to reward the soldiers.

As soon as the news of the death of Li Shidao spread, the guards of Zizhou and Laizhou had no intention of fighting, and they all asked to surrender the city to the imperial court. Li Yingtan, the defender of Zizhou, and Li Yacheng, the assassin of Laizhou, all surrendered to Li Mao.

Tian Huaizhi was unhappy, Tian Huaizhi thought that he had contributed the most in this battle, but he got the least, Yunzhou was broken by Li Quanzhong, and the first credit was attributed to the Yicheng army, his Tianxiong army was made a great effort but let the family pick peaches, which was thankless, after the persuasion of staff officer Wu Cifei and Jiang Shize, Tian Huaizhi ordered the Tianxiong army to enter Zizhou and Laizhou, and forced Zizhou Li Yingtan and Laizhou Li Yacheng to surrender to the Tianxiong army.

Li Yingtan and Li Yacheng are very dissatisfied with this, they are also the army of the imperial court, is there a difference between surrendering to Li Mao and surrendering to you Tian Huaiji, if there is no difference, why are they forced each other, the surrender table has been handed to Li Taiwei, but they have reversed their word, how to explain to Li Taiwei in the future that the two of them invariably expelled the envoy, closed the city gate, and claimed that they would never surrender to anyone except Li Taiwei.

Tian Huaizhi was furious, and he was indignant, claiming that he had received a hint from Tutu Chengguang, that Youzhou Jiedu made Li Mao have a heart of disobedience, and he was a rebel and thief appointed by the imperial court, and he would settle the account in the future, how could such a person be compared with himself, Li Yingtan and Li Yacheng were ignorant of the general situation, and sooner or later they would suffer a big loss.

The news came out from the Nanshan Society, which accompanied the army, and it immediately caused an uproar.

The Youzhou soldiers stationed in Lishan Town, Chengwu County, and Gushan Town were excited, surrounded Li Mao's camp, and asked to send troops to the east, asking Tian Huai to understand, Li Mao could not be appeased, and the troops did their own thing, and pulled out the camp to the east to fight the Tianxiong army.

Tian Huaizhi knew that he was speechless, but since Youzhou was a bright guy, he couldn't pretend to be wrong, so he set up a position in two clicks. In order to seize the advantageous terrain, the Tianxiong army set 70,000 military horses into a long snake formation: the main force, under the personal leadership of the general Tian Rong, attacked Yunzhou City to expel the Yiwu army, and then attacked Puzhou strongly, captured Lishan Town and Puzhou City, and then turned south, attacking and occupying Gushan Town and Chengwu County. The Youzhou army went east to join up with Li Yingtan's troops in Zizhou, and while the Tianxiong army had not yet been formed, they attacked Qingzhou in one fell swoop, oppressed Wang Qirui and moved 10,000 generals south to Mizhou, and uprooted the Wang family forces that had been entrenched in Qingzhou for many years.

Li Quanzhong saw that Yunzhou was taken by the Tianxiong army, he was furious, and there was a conflict with the Tianxiong army in the city of Yunzhou, Pei Du heard the words, and urgently ordered the Yicheng army to withdraw, Li Quanzhong was defeated for a while, and was pulled away by Pei Du, and he hated it in his heart, and returned to Huazhou in a rage, expelled the officials, and appointed his cronies to preside over government affairs.

In the middle of this, the Youzhou Army and the Tianxiong Army also opened a posture, one occupied the three prefectures of Qi, Yun, Pu, Gushan Town, and Lishan Town, and the other occupied the three prefectures of Zi, Qing, and Lai, and received the support of the Dengzhou side.

Seeing that the two armies were about to merge, Pei Du hurriedly left Yanzhou to Yunzhou to appease Tian Huaiji, and after careful investigation, it was confirmed that someone deliberately spread rumors to divide the two towns, Li Taiwei is an important minister of the imperial court, a loyal minister, and is by no means a rebel minister who is about to be found out

After returning Tian Huaiji's innocence, Pei Du rushed to Zizhou non-stop, but Li Mao avoided it on the grounds of inspecting military affairs, and generals such as Hu Nanxiang, Shi Xiong, Yan Qin, and Shi Xianzhong did not come forward, and it was Mu Dahai, Xue Laojun, and Hao Jun who came forward to receive him.

The three of them slapped the table to Pei Du in public, yelling at the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty and the commander of the armies, but Pei Du had no choice but to listen with a smile, and when half of the anger of the three of them was gone, they reported their investigation results in a hurry, and returned Li Mao's innocence.

Pei Du's face was embarrassed, Mu Dahai yelled and lifted the table, pointed at Pei Du's nose and scolded, if it weren't for Senior General Xue and Hao Jun hugging his waist and pulling his arm, Pei Du would have to eat some flesh and skin.

Facing the arrogant generals of the feudal town, Pei Du could only shake his head and sigh, he, the prime minister of the dynasty and the commander of the armies, was actually not a fart in their eyes.

After two days, Li Mao returned to the city, heard that Mu Dahai was disrespectful to Pei Du, and was furious, so that Mu Dahai was pushed out and beheaded, and all the generals were dismissed together, Li Mao insisted on refusing, and finally Pei Du personally came forward to intercede to save Mu Dahai from death, demoted to the head of the team, and beat eighty military sticks.

Li Mao had a long conversation with Pei Du, accepted his mediation, and immediately ordered the army to withdraw to Zizhou City and disengage from contact with the Tianxiong army. Ensure that everyone does their duty and does not do anything again.

It was not until this moment that Pei Du sadly found that he may have been calculated by Li Mao and Tian Huaiji, the two shouted that the fire was fake, and it was true to take the opportunity to grab the territory, after such a toss, the fattest Yun, Pu, Qi, Zi, Qing, Lai, Denghexiong Town, Lishan Town, and Gushan Town were all divided by the two, Li Mao occupied the four prefectures of Zi, Qing, Lai, and Deng, and looked at Liaodong across the sea, Tian Huaiji occupied the three states of Yun, Qi, Pu and Gushan, Lishan, and the two military towns of Weiboben across the river, and the two families had their own place.

The fat is in the mouth, and it is difficult to get them to spit it out.

Pei Du returned to the Yanzhou camp without dismounting, and went directly to the Tutu Chengxuan camp. Seeing that the old eunuch was gathering a crowd to gamble, he turned around to leave, and Tutu Chenghuang hurriedly chased him out, and said: "The soldiers in front of me used their lives, but I was so bored, playing two, without money, it is not considered gambling." ”

Pei Du smiled and handed over a letter from Li Quanzhong that he had received earlier to Tutu Chengguang to read.

Tutu Chengxuan also received one, but he pretended not to know, pretended to read it, and exclaimed: "Neutrality, such a big matter, why didn't you discuss it with me earlier, this is a mistake." ”

Pei Du smiled bitterly: "Xia Ruihe is just a secret prostitute, the brothers of the Li family are greedy for their beauty, worship under their pomegranate skirts, although time has passed, and their faces are old, but Li Mao's amorous and lustful is famous, he stayed in Yunzhou, and in the old days, he could only look at it with his eyes, but he couldn't get his mouth, and now he has the opportunity to not fulfill his long-cherished wishes, which is also human nature." Based on this alone, it is said that Li Mao and Li Shidao have colluded, how can they convince the public, if you don't get it right, you and I will fall into passivity. ”

Tu Tu Chengguang nodded: "Pei Zhongli is really scheming, what you said is reasonable, but what to do now, we were played by him and Tian Huaiji, this time it can prove that he has a bad heart, in my opinion, without further ado, it is better to do it as soon as possible." ”

Suddenly, he asked uneasily: "You went to Zizhou to see him this time, didn't you startle the snake." ”

Pei Du glared, suddenly vomited Chengguang and hurriedly apologized, and said with a smile: "I just asked casually, don't blame me for being too talkative, this person is used to walking the night road, and he has experienced more storms than you and me combined." You know what I mean to be cautious in this kind of business, and if he is aware of it, it will be troublesome, and there is no room for sloppiness. ”

Pei Du pondered for a moment and nodded silently.

Three days later, at dusk, a Shence army general Pegasus came to the camp outside Zizhou City, announced the order to recruit Pei Du, and asked Li Mao, the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, to immediately go to the Yanzhou camp to receive the order.

Sima Hu Nanxiang, the marching officer of the big battalion, came forward and replied: "I received an urgent report from Youzhou today that the Khitan remnants violated the border and killed my civilians. ”

The person who came was dumbfounded, and said for a while: "The Ziqing war has not yet ended, how can you say goodbye without saying goodbye." ”

Hu Nanxiang took out a letter and said: "This is the letter that the Taiwei ordered me to hand over to the chief and deputy envoys, I wanted to leave for Yanzhou tomorrow to face Lieutenant Pei Xiang and Tutu, but now I ask the envoy to bring it back." ”

The tooth general had no choice but to return to Yanzhou, Pei Du and Tu Tu Chengguang read Li Mao's letter, looked at each other, and sighed separately.

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