Chapter 244: After the War

Although Song Jingang was defeated, Liu Wu and Zhou still occupied Jinyang, an important place in the east of the river, if he could stabilize and regain his strength with this, he would not be able to compete with Li Yin again.

However, when Liu Wuzhou heard that Song Jingang was defeated and Li Yin came to Jinyang non-stop, he felt greatly frightened, so he led five hundred horsemen, gave up Jinyang, and went north to the Turks to avoid trouble.

In Liu Wuzhou's view, even a warlike person like Song Jingang, with all his elite divisions, is not Li Yin's opponent, and he is even more unable to defeat Li Yin.

Song Jingang did not have the heart to die, he fled north, while packing up the remnants, ready to fight Li Yin again, but his subordinates after hearing that Liu Wuzhou had fled to the Turks, they refused to follow Song Jingang to fight the Tang army again, and there were many people who led their men and horses to surrender to Li Yin every day.

Seeing this, Song Jingang had no choice but to give up resistance, and fled to the Turks with more than 100 cavalry and joined Liu Wuzhou.

Li Yin led the army to Jinyang, Liu Wuzhou's appointed servant Yang Funian surrendered to Jinyang City, Tang Jian, who was the first to enter the city, sealed Liu Wuzhou's warehouse, left for Li Yin to dispose of, after a few months, Jinyang, the important land in the east of the river, returned to the hands of the Tang Dynasty again.

At that time, Wei Chi Jingde, Xun Xiang, Zhang Wansui and other generals packed up the remnants and still stayed in Jiexiu, and Li Yin sent Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, and Yu Wenshi to go to tell Yu Chi Jingde to surrender.

After careful consideration, Wei Chi Jingde and others finally surrendered to Li Yin with two important places of Jiexiu and Yong'an, and so far, the prefectures and counties occupied by Liu Wuzhou have all been reincorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty one after another.

Li Yin was very happy to get Wei Chi Jingde, that is, he appointed Wei Chi Jingde as the commander of the right government, and let him still command the original 8,000 old troops, mixed with the battalions, without any defense.

Qu Tutong was afraid that Yu Chi Jingde would repeat it, and repeatedly proposed to Li Yin to kill Yu Chi Jingde, but Li Yin did not listen to him.

Soon after, Song Jingang, who was very unhappy in the Turks, planned to run back from the Turks to Shanggu County, where he had started his army, but was chased and captured by the Turks.

The Turks beheaded Song Jingang and sent his head to Jinyang, and Li Yin's head to Chang'an.

Liu Liu'er, the governor of Tang Lanzhou, who surrendered to Song Jingang in May last year, didn't know what to think when Song Jingang fled north, and actually rebelled and followed Song Jingang. Liu Liu'er's brother Liu Jizhen abandoned Shizhou and fled to Gao Manzheng, a general of Liu Wuzhou and a native of Mayi, but was killed by Gao Manzheng.

When Liu Wuzhou invaded the Tang Dynasty in the south, his internal history order and sister-in-law Yuan Junzhang once advised: "Tang lord Li Yuan took Chang'an directly with the strength of a county, and he was invincible, which is the help of God, not manpower." South of Jinyang, the road is narrow and dangerous, the lone army is deep, and there is no reinforcement after the army, if the advance attack is unfavorable, how to return to the army? It is better to unite with the Turks in the north and make friends with the Tang in the south, and it is a good strategy to be the king and hegemon on this side. ”

Liu Wuzhou didn't listen to Yuan Junzhang, and stayed with Yuan Junzhang to guard the old nest Mayi County. After Liu Wuzhou failed, he said to Jun Zhang with tears: "I really regret that I didn't adopt Jun Zhang's opinion, so that it has come to this point!" ”

After some time, Liu Wuzhou planned to escape from the Turks back to Mayi, but the matter was leaked, and the Turks killed Liu Wuzhou. In the eyes of the Turks, Liu Wuzhou was just a hound that assisted him in shepherding sheep, and at this time, the hounds had lost their original role, and it was nothing to slaughter them.

Liu Wuzhou from the great cause of the thirteenth year of February according to the Ma Yi army, take Loufu, Dingxiang and other counties, and capture Linfen Palace and other important places, the Turks set up it as Dingyang Khan, to the end of November of the second year of Wude for Li Yin to break, lasted more than three years and died.

After the Turks beheaded Liu Wuzhou, they appointed his sister-in-law Yuan Junzhang as the Daxingtai to command the rest of Liu Wuzhou's troops, and ordered the general Yu Jie to set up overseers to assist in guarding Mayi and other places, and continued to be a border trouble for the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan was very happy when he heard that the state had been pacified. At the beginning of December, the ministers were invited to a banquet, and the silk was given, and the people were allowed to enter the palace by themselves and try their best to take it for themselves.

After receiving the good news from Li Yin, Li Yuan took the lead in restoring Tang Jian's official title, and appointed him to appease the ambassador with the state road, and rewarded Tang Jian with all the fields and houses confiscated by the government, in order to reward him for his behavior of not forgetting to serve the country even though he was in the enemy camp.

Li Yuan was also ready to order Li Zhongwen to stay in the town and annex the state, because Liu Wuzhou repeatedly sent troops to attack Hexi City, but they were all repelled by Li Zhongwen, and Li Zhongwen also conquered more than 100 castles.

But Liu Wenjing objected, "Although Li Zhongwen has made great contributions, he is Li Mi's cousin after all, and Li Mi still covets Hedong, so it is not appropriate for Li Zhongwen to guard and annex the state." ”

After hearing this, Li Yuan felt that it was very reasonable, so he dispelled the idea of letting Li Zhongwen guard and annex the state, and changed his appointment to the governor of Shizhou.

Li Yuan also issued an edict asking Li Yin to lead the army back to Chang'an as soon as possible, but Li Yin made a twist and turn, asking Li Yuan to let him postpone his return to Chang'an on the grounds of pacifying Li Mi, deterring Yuan Junzhang and clearing away bandits, but agreed to let Qu Tutong, Yu Wenshi and other officials who accompanied him on the expedition lead the soldiers and horses that originally belonged to Chang'an to return first.

Li Yuan didn't think much about Li Yin's request, so he agreed, and Li Yin was able to continue to stay in Jinyang City.

Li Yin pacified Liu Wuzhou in a few months, which had a lot of impact on the situation in the world.

Hedong is the place where the Li family raised troops, when Liu Wuzhou's soldiers and horses crisscrossed the east of the river, repeatedly defeated the Tang army, and conquered the city, so many people had the idea that the strength of the Tang Dynasty was not so, so there were countless states and counties that rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. (The strategy of the Tang Dynasty to conquer the world is to first send pacification ambassadors to various places to recruit all the states and counties in the north and south of the Great River, so even Shandong, Henan, and even Lingnan and other places, there are many states and counties belonging to the Tang Dynasty at this time, but these surrendered states and counties are easy to rebel.) )

And when Li Yin pacified Liu Wuzhou, the prestige of the Tang Dynasty was restored to the same as before, or even better, so after that, there were many states and counties that asked Chang'an to surrender, as before, every day.

Some local governors who originally belonged to other forces also felt that it was more promising to mingle with Datang, and many people began to take refuge in Datang with prefectures and counties.

On the ninth day of December, Dou Jiande's Gongzhou County ordered Tang Gang to kill the assassin Shi and surrender Tang to Gongzhou. On the same day, the local wealthy families in Dengzhou caught the Dengzhou assassin appointed by Wang Shichong and came to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

On the thirteenth, Zhang Ju, the stone fort of Liang Shidu, led more than 1,000 people to surrender to Tang, and soon after, Liu Min, the general of Liang Shidu, also surrendered to Huachi, and Li Yuan appointed him as the governor of Linzhou, and the strength of Liang Shidu became even more decayed.