At the beginning of September 889, Li Ke raised an army in Xinyang to exterminate Li Cunxiao in the name of conspiracy and rebellion, and the Shatuo people in Hedong began to split. Li Cunxiao held out of the city, and sent an envoy out of the city to explain the reason for the incident to Li Keyong, but they were all blocked by Li Cunxin's design, and Li Keyong was never seen.

This scene, which happened in history only four years later, happened in advance in this world, and although the process is different, the result is strikingly similar. It's just that Xinyang is not a criminal state, and half of Li Cunxiao's henchmen have not been able to follow him at the moment, and generals such as An Xiuxiu and Gao Siji have been sent to other places. There are only more than 5,000 Flying Tiger Cavalry in Xinyang City. And this incident happened very strangely, not only the surrounding princes did not know what happened, but even Li Sixun, Li Cunjin and Kang Junli of the Thirteen Taibao who participated in the siege of Li Cunxiao did not know the details. But Li Ke said categorically that Li Cunxiao conspired against everyone, and everyone couldn't say anything.

On the eighth day of the ninth month, Li Cunxiao led his army out of the city to fight in the field, and defeated more than 5,000 people in Li Cunxin's department in the first battle. Shatuo people did not dare to meet Li Cunxiao's posture at all, the Flying Tiger Cavalry galloped invincible in Li Cunxin's army, and it was a battle to break the encirclement, if it was not for Li Sixun to lead the army to come to the rescue, Li Cunxin had no way to survive at all, in the face of Li Cunxiao's strong strength, although Li Sixun arrived in time, but he could only fight and retreat.

After this battle, Li Cunxin escaped with his life and returned to Li Keyong's camp, crying about his experience, and took the opportunity to say: "Cunxiao has strong combat power, although he is at a disadvantage, but his people are like gods in his own clan, wherever the army goes, the soldiers have no heart, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. We are afraid of death, and there is no place to bury. ”

Li Cunxin's words made Li Keyong fall into deep thought for a long time, but he also strengthened his determination to eliminate Li Cunxiao and eliminate the trouble in his heart. So the next day, he began to lead a large army to besiege Xinyang City. And Li Cunxiao saw that Li Keyong's banner no longer went out of the city to face the battle, and the two confronted each other outside Xinyang City.

At this time, a scene in history reappeared, and Yuan Fengtao, the general of Hedongya, under the instruction of Li Cunxin, sent people to secretly enter Xinyang City and said to Li Cunxiao: "What the general fears, the king of Jin is also." The king of the present Jin Dynasty dug a trench outside the city, but he did not want to confront the general personally. If a trench is built, and the king retreats, the rest of the generals are not opponents of the general, so what is the use? ”

Yuan Fengtao's words allowed Li Cunxiao to let the army outside the city complete the trench step by step, but the deep ditch and high fortress could not be approached. At this moment, the power in Li Cunxiao's hands was simply unable to break through this anti-cavalry facility. And little by little, the food and grass in the city gradually ran out.

Time has come to a point here, Li Cunxiao climbed the city tower and said to Li Keyong under the city: "My son is blessed by his father, he regards it as his own, and he is grateful." Although he has a very personal relationship with Li Xuanqing, how can he ignore the righteousness for the sake of personal feelings? This is because Li Cunxin, a villain, was framed. I hope to be able to meet my father, even if I die immediately, I will die without regrets. ”

Li Cunxiao's affectionate words also made Li Keyong outside the city very sad, and asked the former army to open a road for Li Cunxiao to go out of the city and come to the camp. Li Cunxiao saw Li Keyong, and that familiar appearance reminded him that many years ago in Daizhou, this man took himself away from that small mountain village, and since then there has been an invincible general and an additional Thirteen Taibao in this world. For so many years, he has been charging into battle for himself, cutting generals and capturing the flag, just to repay his kindness, but now that he has fallen to such a point, the seven-foot-tall man can't help but cry, knelt on the ground and said: "Filial piety has no merit, and the reason why I have come to this point today is because Li Cunxin, a villain, has sowed discord and made my father misunderstand me again and again." Father, please see. ”

Originally, Li Cunxiao's words had already moved Li Keyong, but at this time, there was no evidence that Li Cunxiao wanted to take refuge in Li Xuanqing. But sometimes things in this world can't stand up, and some people are so framed that even the evidence can be faked. Li Cunxin was also in the big tent at this time, so when he heard this, his face remained unchanged at all, he took out a letter from his arms and threw it on the ground, and sneered: "Is the handwritten letter you wrote to Li Xuanqing also something that I can frame?" Do you see if it's your own handwriting? ”

The letter that Li Cunxin took out was opened, but Li Cunxiao's face changed suddenly, this was originally a private letter written by himself to Li Xuanqing, mainly to explain that he could not send his son to him to study art for the time being, but the letter also revealed a little unsatisfactory thing about himself in Hedong. Coupled with the joke that the two have been making to each other, one day they will go to you if they can't get along. But at this moment, in front of Li Keyong, this sentence made him unable to explain it at all.

The change in Li Cunxiao's face made Li Keyong completely dead, and let Li Cunxiao follow the army back to Taiyuan Mansion, discuss the crime in front of the account, and sentence Li Cunxiao to split the car. This surprised the generals, but no one interceded for him, which surprised Li Keyong. Originally, he thought that the other righteous sons around him would intercede for Li Cunxiao, so he would be sentenced to such a heavy punishment, and when someone gave him a step, he would be able to exonerate Li Cunxiao. The scene was deadlocked, and Li Keyong had no choice but to maintain his original intention to escort Li Cunxiao to the court to prepare for execution.

Time rewinds to a few days ago, when Li Cunxiao was besieged in Xinyang City, Li Cunxiao's right-hand man An Xiuxiu was stationed in Youbei at this time, and after hearing the news, he originally wanted to lead the army south to join Li Cunxiao. The relationship between him and Gao Siji and Li Cunxiao is different from others, and he is one of Li Cunxiao's few henchmen. But his lieutenant persuaded him not to act rashly for the time being, stay in Youbei, if Li Cunxiao really raised troops to rebel, then we will not leave in Daizhou, and we can echo Li Cunxiao from afar.

An Xiuxiu was actually unsure about Li Cunxiao's rebellion, and stopped after hearing this suggestion, but he deliberately grabbed all the military power in Daizhou into his own hands, and used the reason that Daizhou was short of grain, and mobilized a batch of military grain from nearby states and counties to supplement the Daizhou grain depot. After doing all this, he found that the situation in Xinyang had deteriorated, and Li Cunxiao was arrested and returned to Taiyuan Mansion, which made An Xiuxiu not know what to do. After thinking about it again and again, Anxiu secretly sent someone to contact Gao Siji, who was far away on the front line in Shandong to monitor Zhu Quanzhong, and prepared to ask him what he thought. As a result, the messenger had not yet left the city, and Gao Siji had already secretly arrived at the gate of his town guard's mansion. The two discussed secretly in the mansion for a night, and the next morning, Gao Siji secretly went out of the city. An Xiuxiu sent his lieutenant to secretly enter the Hetao with his parents and children to the west, and went to Fengzhou to find the Tiance army.

But the two still didn't expect Li Keyong to execute Li Cunxiao so soon. Almost on the third day after he returned to Taiyuan Mansion, he sentenced Li Cunxiao to split the car, and even Xuan Yingwei had no way to rescue him. Therefore, in desperation, Hu Xiaosi could only instruct the dragon group to go to Xinyang to rescue Li Cunxiao's family who had been imprisoned, hide in secret, evade the pursuers, and send them to Fengzhou. At the same time, the Flying Eagle Brigade led by Su Xiaohu also began to enter Taiyuan Mansion in batches in disguise, in addition to seeing if they could rescue Li Cunxiao, they also had to complete the task of killing Li Cunxin.

It's just that when all this was reported to the Chang'an base camp, Li Xuanqing looked at the information but sighed silently, shook his head, and walked out to explain Hu Xiaosi's idea of giving up the rescue of Li Cunxiao, and ordered Yang Tiancheng of the frontal corps to send troops to Hezhong Mansion at the end of September.

Li Xuanqing's judgment was correct, Li Cunxiao was escorted to the court to prepare for the execution, and the weather in Taiyuan Mansion was overcast, but Li Cunxiao's heart was much safer, and many things were also figured out at this moment, and even he could predict that his wife and children in Xinyang City would definitely be rescued by his brother, and even as long as he resisted, the brother who was far away in the northwest would definitely be desperate to save himself. But Li Cunxiao doesn't want to do this, Li Ke needs to repay him for his kindness, so use his life to pay it back. So he allowed Li Cunxin to tie his limbs to the ropes hanging from the five horses, without the slightest struggle.

But when it was time for the execution, it was found that when the five horses tried their best to pull out, Li Cunxin actually reflexively contracted inward in an instant, and the force was so great that the five horses were dragged back. So more than a dozen times in a row, the car did not die, but affected a few horses. All this made Li Cunxin, who was a prison officer, pale and at a loss. However, Li Cunxiao glanced at him, saw him walk to his side, and said, "Fourth brother, you and my brother don't say anything at this point." You can't kill me like this, and you can't give an account to your father. It's better for you to let people break my hands and tendons, so that my hands and feet can't exert strength; Shatter my knee and elbow bones, so that my limbs cannot be connected, and it will take the strength of five horses to kill me. You and I have been brothers for so many years, just look at my brother's face and give me a good time. ”

Li Cunxin was stunned by Li Cunxiao's words, but at this moment there was no other way but to take the long knife of the guards next to him and personally cut off Li Cunxiao's tendons and tendons, and then the five horses galloped past, and Li Cunxiao followed and fell apart.

Li Cunxiao, the legend of five dynasties and ten kingdoms and the unparalleled famous general through the ages, ended his life in this way, because of the arrival of Li Xuanqing, Li Cunxiao in this world did not live longer in the original history, and he was only 33 years old when he died.

After Li Cunxiao's death, heavy rain fell in Taiyuan City, and the clouds did not disperse, as if God was also regretting the last grievances of this famous general. Even when Li Cunxin went to Li Ke to give the order, he saw his father-in-law's face pale, and there was a devouring cold light flashing in his eyes, which made him almost fall to the ground.

And on the same night, Li Cunxin was killed inexplicably, and the head disappeared along with Li Cunxiao's bones, and at the same time, Li Cunxin's body with his head was also hung on the gate tower of Taiyuan Mansion. All these strange changes seem to illustrate how many secrets this change itself contains. However, Li Keyong ignored political affairs for more than ten days because he was sad that Li Cunxiao passed away, and no one told him about it, and even Li Cunxin's death was only known to him a few days later, but by then it was too late.

The assassination of Li Cunxin was naturally the Flying Eagle Brigade, Su Xiaohu after doing all this non-stop north into Fengzhou and the dragon group that had arrived here to rendezvous, took over the task of escorting Li Cunxiao's wife and children, Li Cunxiao's wife buried Li Cunxiao's bones on the grassland north of Fengzhou City, and after sacrificing Li Cunxin's head, several people were reluctant to go to Chang'an, and planned to live in Fengzhou. So after Su Xiaohu got Li Xuanqing's reply, he let them live in a house in Fengzhou in Li Xuanqing's early years, and asked the Fengzhou government to take more care of it.

After Tiance Jun did all this, the time also came to the middle of September, and Li Keyong also knew about Li Cunxin's death, under the continuous blows, Li Keyong's personality even changed dramatically, and he couldn't listen to the advice of the outside world at all, and his self-righteous temperament developed to the extreme. At this time, the arrangement of the Xuan Ying Wei in the Youji region has also been ignited.

In 889 A.D., there was a large-scale riot in the Yunzhou area of Youbei, the people clashed fiercely with the local garrison for the food for the winter, and evolved into an uprising, under the leadership of some inexplicable characters, the uprising team grew rapidly, and in less than a few days it captured the three county towns under Daizhou, killing more than 1,000 officers and soldiers.

After the first place, other areas such as Ulju, Wuzhou, Youzhou, Yizhou and other places continued to ignite the flames of war, and these people were awakened overnight, and began to use force to overthrow the local government and resist the rule of the Shatuo people. All of a sudden, the twenty-four states ruled by Li Keyong were completely overturned, and the majestic Shatuo people in the past became the ground rats that everyone shouted and beaten. And as time went on, this wave also spread southward, and sparks began to emerge in Cizhou and other places.

All this happened so that Li Keyong was stunned and began to mobilize troops to quickly go to these areas to quell the rebellion, and the troops from Taiyuan Province and the military towns in the north were in an endless stream, and went to the Youyun area to fight a big battle with those peasant rebels.

It's just that these peasant rebels basically don't fight head-on with these Shatuo people, they always come and go without a trace, and they will hit you when they are cold, and run away after they have been beaten. The Shatuo people did not adapt to this tactic at the beginning and suffered several big losses, the army composed of these people could not fight, but setting fire to grain and grass, digging traps or something was at the god level, and it was impossible to prevent it at all, and I don't know when these people will come out.

In this battle to counter-insurgency, An Xiuxiu of Daizhou always stood still, ignored the military orders issued from Taiyuan Prefecture, did not send a single soldier, and allowed the chaotic army of Daizhou to snatch all the three county towns under the jurisdiction of Daizhou, but shrank the main force into the city of Daizhou.

Time was in this chaos to the end of September, before the arrival of winter in the northwest, the 100,000 troops of the Tiance Army who had hoarded in Tongguan were like tigers out of the gate, and arrived outside Hezhong Mansion and Danzhou City, relative to Danzhou, the city gate named Liu Yiqing of Hezhong Mansion opened the city gate of Hezhong Mansion for the first time, and 100,000 troops swarmed in, almost within an hour announced that this important town guarding the east gate of Chang'an changed hands. The Tiance Army officially launched the entire content of Plan No. 1 from today.