The emperor knew that after this coup d'état, his life had been pinched by Wang Shichong, and his previous words were just to test whether Wang Shichong had the intention to kill him.

At this time, after listening to Wang Shichong's tearful story, he knew that he was not so ruthless for the time being, so he ordered Wang Shichong to go to the palace, talked with him for a long time, and entered the harem with Wang Shichong to see the queen mother.

So the emperor took Wang Shichong as his left servant, and the governor of the military inside and outside. At noon, Wang Shichong caught Zhao Changwen and Guo Wenyi in the "Seven Nobles", killed these two, and then inspected the whole city and announced the reasons for killing Yuan, Lu and others.

At this point, after the coup d'état here, Wang Shichong finally took over the power, moved from Hanjiacheng to Shangshu Province, and gradually united with the same party, and arbitrarily acted as a prestige.

Wang Shichong appointed his elder brother Wang Shiyun as the internal history order, living in the palace, whether the children of the clan are talented or not, all of them have military power, and all the political affairs of the eastern capital are handed over to the same party to preside.

When the emperor was in power before, the "Seven Nobles" still had a heavier right to speak, and at this time he completely became a puppet of Wang Shichong.

Li Mi was already preparing to enter the court to take power, but when he arrived in Wen County, he learned that Yuan Wendu and others were dead, so he returned to Kim Yong City, often sighing that he had lost such a good opportunity.

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Li Yin and Xue Rengao's general, Zong Luohu, had been holding each other for nearly a month in the first fifty miles of Gaoqi City, during which time they had insisted on not engaging in large-scale battles with Zong Luohu's army, but the local battles never stopped.

While confronting Zong Luohu and Li Yin, Xue Rengao intended to capture Jingzhou City as a base for the army to attack and retreat, so he marched to besiege it.

At this time, it was the hussar general Liu Gan who guarded Jingzhou City for the Tang Dynasty, and after Xue Rengao surrounded Jingzhou for more than a month, the grain in Jingzhou City was eaten up, Liu Gan killed the horse he rode and distributed it to the soldiers, he did not eat a little meat, only mixed with sawdust in the soup of boiling horse bones.

The city of Jingzhou was on the verge of falling several times, and finally Li Yin sent Li Shuliang, the king of Changping, to lead his troops out of the camp and go to rescue Jingzhou.

On September 13, Xue Rengao sent people from Gaoqi City to pretend to surrender to Tang with the city. Li Shuliang sent Liu Gan to lead his subordinates to Gaoqi City; On the 17th, Liu felt that he was under the city of Gaoqi, knocked on the city gate, and the people in the city said, "If you are afraid of a sudden attack by thieves, you can climb the city wall and enter the city." ”

Liu felt that there was a deception, so he ordered to burn the gate of Gaocheng City, and someone in the city immediately poured water and poured it down, Liu Gan knew that the people in the city were deceitful, so he let the infantry return to the division first, and he led the elite soldiers to walk in the end.

After a while, three beacon fires were lit in the city, and Xue Rengao's army poured down in large numbers from the southern plains and engaged Liu Gan's army at Baili Xichuan, the Tang army was defeated, and Liu Gan was captured by Xue Rengao.

Xue Rengao then besieged Jingzhou City again, and ordered Liu Gan to shout to the city: "The reinforcements have been defeated, it is better to surrender as soon as possible." ”

Liu Gan first pretended to agree, but when he got to the city, he shouted loudly: "The thieves are starving without food, and they will soon perish, the king of Jin led hundreds of thousands of troops from all sides, don't worry about the people in the city, try to defend the city!" ”

Xue Rengao was very annoyed, caught Liu Gan, buried Liu Gan alive to his knees next to the city, and ran on horseback to shoot Liu Gan with arrows; Until he died, Liu Gan's voice became higher and higher, and his attitude became more and more angry. Li Shuliang held on to the city of Jingzhou, and could only defend himself, unable to save Liu Gan.

Liu Gan is the grandson of Liu Feng, the king of Gaochang and Situ of Later Wei, and is famous for his fairness and courage in the Tang army.

Li Yin is also quite guilty, although he knows the general trend of history, and also knows a little about the general course of a battle in this history, but the specific details are unknown, and the current battle with the enemy mainly depends on his own military quality, as well as the help of Fang Xuanling, Song Zhengben, Su Dingfang and others.

When he learned that Jingzhou City was besieged, Li Yin sent troops to rescue, and at that time Li Shuliang, the king of Changping, took the initiative to ask Ying, he was Li Yuan's cousin, an elder of Li Yin, although it was under the jurisdiction of Li Yin, but since he took the initiative to ask Ying, Li Yin was not easy to refuse, and after telling him, he let him go.

But he didn't think that after Li Shuliang temporarily relieved the siege of Jingzhou, he would meet Xue Rengao's plan and send Liu Gan out of the city to receive the deceitful Gaocheng City, so that Liu Gan died tragically at the hands of Xue Rengao.

In the face of the generals' invitation to fight at this time, Li Yin finally refused, for the commander is the most jealous, although he also wants to avenge Liu Gan, but at this time the confrontation with Zong Luohu's army has reached a critical moment, he does not want to waste his efforts for a momentary spirit.

On September 18, Shi Changda, the assassin of Longzhou, sent troops to attack Xue Rengao's army in Yiluchuan, beheading more than 1,000 ranks.

Xue Rengao was furious and gave up the siege of Jingzhou, and turned to attack Changda, but failed to win for a long time, so Xue Rengao sent his general Qi Shizheng with hundreds of people to surrender fraudulently.

On the 23rd, Qi Shizheng waited for an opportunity to take his subordinates to kidnap Changda, and surrendered Xue Rengao with 2,000 people in the city, and Longzhou fell.

Chang Da saw Xue Rengao, his words and expressions were unyielding, and Xue Rengao let him go because of his heroism. Zhang Gui, a slave-turned-thief, said to Chang Da: "Do you know my general?" ”

Chang Da said: "Aren't you just a slave thief who deserves to die and ran away? "Zhang Gui was very angry and wanted to kill Chang Da; Someone rescued him, and Chang Da was saved from death.

When the news of the fall of Longzhou came, Li Yin felt the pressure doubled, not long ago an important general Liu Gan died, at this time there was a loss of Longzhou, at this time there was already a lot of discussion in the army, many generals in private doubted Li Yin's decision.

Of course, most of the generals who were suspicious of Li Yin were transferred to him by Li Yuan from Chang'an City, and Li Yin's own descendants had no objections.

In addition, Li Yin also learned that because he had confronted Zong Luohu for a long time, the battle was successful, and Chang'an City at this time was already full of rumors, and even some officials thought that he was raising his own dignity at this time and had bad intentions, so he wrote to Li Yuan to ask for a change of commander.

Although Li Yuan would not make such a taboo as changing commanders in battle, he was afraid that he was also uneasy in his heart.

On the tenth day of October, Li Yin's army had been facing off against Zong Luohu's army for nearly two months, and even Li Yin felt a little impatient, let alone other generals.

And at this moment, Fang Hong, who had been sent to the northwest of Longyou to recruit the four counties of Lintao, finally returned, and under Fang Hong's persuasion, the four counties of Lintao had agreed to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and before Fang Hong set off, he had sent troops to lightly rao the Longyou region.

After Li Yin learned the news, he breathed a sigh of relief, and once again strengthened his confidence in continuing to hold on to the enemy.