When Li Yin returned victoriously from Gyeongju, it was already May, and the battle to quell Yang Wengan's rebellion was spent on the road.

And when Li Yin first entered Chang'an City, he learned bad news: a rebellion broke out in Hebei!

When Dou Jiande was defeated, many of his generals stole the property in the warehouse and hid it, and after Hebei surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, many people went to the people to settle down, but many of them were tyrannical and rampant in the countryside, becoming a scourge to the common people, and the officials of the Tang Dynasty brought them to justice, sometimes whipping them, so Dou Jiande's old generals were terrified.

Gao Yaxian and Wang Xiaohu's homes were in Caozhou, and they planned to escape with their family wealth in private, but the officials sent troops to hunt them down, so Gao Yaxian and others fled to Caozhou and took refuge in Fan Yuan here.

When Dou Jiande rescued Wang Shichong, Fan Yuan guarded Caozhou and guarded the rear, which shows his trust in him, and Fan Yuan's prestige in Dou Jiande's old department is also very high.

Soon after Fan Yuan accepted Gao Yaxian and Wang Xiaohu, Li Yuan issued an edict to recruit Dou Jiande's old generals Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Cao Zhan and Gao Yaxian, and asked them to rush to Chang'an on the same day to serve the Tang Dynasty.

Fan Yuan immediately summoned Dou Jiande's old ministry and said to them: "Wang Shichong surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Luoyang, and his generals Wang Long, Meng Xiaoyi and others were all beheaded; If we go to Chang'an, we will definitely not be able to escape. Since the great cause of the past ten years, those of us who have been through a hundred battles should have died a long time ago, so why should we spare the rest of our lives now instead of doing great things in our lifetimes?

Moreover, after King Xia captured Tang's Huai'an King Li Shentong, he treated him with the courtesy of a guest, while Tang killed him immediately after catching Queen Xia. We are all treated well by King Xia, if we don't avenge him now, how can we see the people of the world in the future? ”

After Fan Yuan's words fell, the crowd was immediately indignant:

"If we don't avenge King Xia, we are ashamed to be human!"

"Instead of going to Chang'an to die, it's better to fuck it off!"

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around!"

Seeing this, Fan Yuan nodded with satisfaction, and began to plan a rebellion for the rest of his life, and after divination and asking the gods, it was most auspicious to take the person surnamed Liu as the leader, so he went to Zhangnan County together to meet Liu Ya, the old general of Dou Jiande, and told Liu Ya about the plan.

Liu Ya didn't want to rebel, he excused himself and said: "The world has just stabilized, I am planning to spend the rest of my life in the countryside, and I don't want to raise troops again!" ”

Everyone was very angry after hearing this, and they were afraid that the plan would be leaked, so they killed Liu Ya.

But after killing Liu Ya, Fan Yuan and others started to worry and wanted to rebel, but they couldn't find anyone to be the leader, which was really distressing.

At this time, Gao Yaxian suddenly patted his thigh and said, "Isn't Dou Jiande's fellow of King Xia's hometown and Liu Heimin, the Duke of Handong, also surnamed Liu?" As far as I know, he is now living in seclusion in Zhangnan! ”

After hearing this, the generals immediately went to meet Liu Heimin and told him the plan, Liu Heimin was planting vegetables at this time, and after listening to everyone's plan, he happily obeyed.

Liu Heimin immediately killed the ploughing ox and agreed on a plan with the generals while eating, and after gathering a hundred people, he took the lead in attacking and occupying Zhangnan County.

On the twelfth, Liu Heimin captured Juan County, and Dai Yuanxiang, the authority of the Tang Wei Prefecture Assassin and the Beizhou Assassin Dai Yuanxiang, fought with him, all of them failed and died, and Liu Heimin regained his original remnants and all his weapons and equipment.

At this time, Dou Jiande's old department went to Liu Heimin one after another, Liu Heimin had 3,000 men and horses, built an altar in Zhangnan, paid tribute to Dou Jiande, and reported their intentions to Dou Jiande's soul, after that, Liu Heimin called himself a general.

Subsequently, Liu Heimin led the army to capture Liting County, captured Wang Xingmin, the general of the Tang Dynasty's Tunwei, and asked him to salute, but Wang Xingmin refused to pay homage, so he was killed by Liu Heimin.

At that time, if there was a war in each province, it would set up Xingtai Shangshu Province, and if there was no war, it would stop, and the Tang court learned that Liu Heimin was in turmoil, so it set up Shandong Xingtai in Weizhou, Hebei, Ding, Cang and other prefectures. On the 22nd, Li Yuan appointed Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, as the right servant of Shandong Daoxingtai, to preside over the crusade against Liu Heimin.

After that, Li Yuan also issued an edict to transfer 3,000 cavalry in Guanzhong, led by the general Qin Wutong and Li Xuantong, the governor of Dingzhou, to assist Li Shentong in attacking Liu Heimin, and ordered Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, to lead troops to attack Liu Heimin together.

At the beginning, after Luoyang was pacified, Xu Yuanlang asked to surrender, and was appointed by Li Yuan as the governor of Yanzhou, and was named the prince of Lu County.

On June 26, when Li Yuan's Ge Gong Sheng Yan Division went to pacify Henan and walked to Rencheng, Xu Yuanlang sent troops to arrest Sheng Yan's Division, raised troops against Tang and served Liu Heimin as the main officer.

Liu Heimin took Xu Yuanlang as the marshal of Daxingtai, and the heroes of Yan, Yun, Chen, Qi, Yi, Luo, Cao, Dai and other eight prefectures all raised troops to respond to Xu Yuanlang.

Xu Yuanlang treated Sheng Yanshi extremely favorably, and asked Sheng Yanshi to write a letter to his younger brother, ordering him to surrender with the entire Yucheng.

However, Sheng Yanshi wrote in the letter: "I was ordered to send an envoy who was incompetent, was captured by thieves, and was disloyal as a courtier, and swore to die; You should take care of your old mother, and don't worry about me. ”

After Xu Yuanlang looked at Master Sheng Yan, his face immediately changed, and Master Sheng Yanshi's expression was free, so Xu Yuanlang smiled, "General Sheng is very brave and upright, and he can't be killed." Then he treated Sheng Yanshi as before.

Henan Province pacified the ambassador Ren Gui to Songzhou, happened to meet Xu Yuanlang rebellion, deputy envoy Liu Jun persuaded Ren to return to Bianzhou to defend himself, Ren Gui smiled and said: "Why is Liu Gong so bold? ”

Xu Yuanlang captured Chuqiu again, led his troops to prepare to besiege Yucheng, and Ren Gui sent his subordinate generals Cui Shu and Zhang Gongjin from Yanling to lead more than 100 children of Haoqiang hostages from various states to guard Yucheng.

Liu Jun said; "Cui Shu and Zhang Gongjin turned out to be Wang Shichong's subordinates, and the fathers and brothers of the hostages in various states have also rebelled, so I am afraid that they will rebel this time."

Ren Gui did not answer, and continued to let Cui Shu and Zhang Gongjin lead the troops to set off.

Cui Shu went to Yucheng and assigned hostages to let them defend the city together with the locals in a mixed formation. The rebels gradually approached, and if there were hostages who rebelled, Cui Shu killed their captain.

So the captains were scared and killed the hostages in the team one after another, and Cui Shu did not prohibit it, cut off the hostages' heads and hung them outside the city gate, and sent someone to tell Ren Gui.

Ren Zhuo pretended to be very angry and said, "I let the hostages go with me, I plan to use it to recruit their father and brother, what crime do they have to kill them?" ”

After Ren Gui retreated, he said to Liu Jun: "I knew that Cui Shu could do this. Since the people of Yucheng County have killed the hostages and deepened their hatred with the rebels, what else am I worried about? ”

When Xu Yuanlang's rebels attacked Yucheng, the soldiers and civilians of Yucheng defended desperately, so the rebels failed to conquer and withdrew as Ren Gui expected.