Chapter 202: Xiao Liang's Civil Strife (4)
The news of Dong Jingzhen's rebellion reached Chang'an, and Li Yuan was overjoyed:
"Good! All right! Someone, someone! "Li Yuan's personal eunuch, Father-in-law Wanyue, will arrive soon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"What does Your Majesty command?"
"The crown prince, the king of Qin, the king of Qi, Pei Xiangguo, Lord Liu, and Lord Wu came to meet him!"
"Yes! Slave obeys! When everyone came, Li Yuan couldn't hide the joy on his face:
"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the civil strife in Xiaoliang has risen, our opportunity to calm down Bashu has arrived." Hearing Li Yuan's words, everyone present congratulated Li Yuan, only Li Jiancheng did not speak, Li Yuan looked at him, and was a little unhappy in his heart:
"Built, you bow your head and are silent, are you thinking about something?" Li Jiancheng replied:
"Father, my sons think that now is not a good opportunity to cut down Shu!"
"Oh! You said! ”
"Father, first, although Xiao Liang is located in the south, but there are many people, when Yang Guang has not ascended the throne, he has been running the south, after ascending the throne, he has strengthened the development of the south, and since the death of the Great Sui, although there have been successive military disasters, and have never affected the south, the damage is very small; Second, the Jingchu area is Xiao Liang's old base, after a hundred years of operation, the network is very extensive, Dong Jingzhen and others wanted to raise troops against the Sui, that is, they knew that their Xiao family was the old signboard of Jingchu Bashu; And thirdly, Erchen thought that although they fought this time, they had not all reached the point of breaking their bones, and if we attacked now, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would have the same hatred for the enemy, even if we took Jingchu Bashu, the price we paid was too great, so Erchen's opinion was to let Xu Shao, the assassin of Xiazhou, send troops to attack Minzhou first, so as not to think that the world would think that we Li Tang was treacherous and disregarded our allies. Before Li Jiancheng came back, he had already discussed with Xu Jingzong and others, and through their analysis and planning of Xiao Liang's situation, Li Yuan kept nodding his head:
"Good! Jiancheng is reasonable! Just follow His Royal Highness the Prince! The others nodded yes. Only Li Shimin's eyes suppressed jealousy and anger.
In the city of Changsha, Zhang Xiu mobilized Xiao Liang's army to besiege Changsha, in addition to Zhang Xiu and the officials and troops under the other kings, Zhang Xiu also according to his personal friendship with the major leaders of the Lingnan natives, Feng An, Li Guangdu, Ning Changzhen and others, asked them to lead their own soldiers to block the road from Changsha to Lingnan, and led the army from Changsha to confront Dong Jingzhen, the entire Changsha city siege was impassable, Dong Jingzhen knew that Zhang Xiu was shrewd, and quite capable of leading troops, he was not his opponent, And Li Tang's reinforcements will not arrive in a short time, in order to save his life, Dong Jingzhen came to the north gate of Changsha City:
"Dare to ask the city, but General Zhang Xiu?" Zhang Xiu replied under the city:
"Da Sima is okay?"
"Zhang Xiu, you and I used to be comrades in the army, and we were comrades-in-arms who rose up together against the Sui, and we supported Xiao Milling together, and now this Xiao Milling is just like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who will kill the heroes after sitting on the emperor, Peng Yue the year before last, and Han Xin in previous years, haven't you heard of it? Why fight each other? Today is my death, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow may be your King of Qi, it is better for you and me to stop the army, and everyone will return to the domain. Be your own prince. Zhang Xiu didn't answer, and shouted directly to Changsha City:
"Ladies and gentlemen of Changsha, I am the general of counterinsurgency and the king of Qi Zhang Xiu, who was personally appointed by the Holy Lord, that Dong Jingzhen is rebellious, does not think about Jun's grace, colludes with Li Tang, and intends to subvert the imperial court, as the father and elder of the Liang Kingdom, don't follow Dong Jingzhen's traitor to help the abuse." Dong Jingzhen's generals whispered when they heard Zhang Xiu's words. Dong Jingzhen waved his sword and said:
"Don't listen to Zhang Xiu's demagoguery, don't surrender, this king heard the secret report, after Zhang Xiu pacified Changsha, he wanted to kill the entire people in Changsha, and we can only resist to the end to survive and hold on to me." Zhang Xiu continued to shout:
"Changsha rebellion, the saint is only guilty of Dong Jingzhen alone, as long as he lays down his arms, the saint will be forgiven." Someone heard Zhang Xiu's words, and slowly put down the knife and gun, Dong Jingzhen was in a hurry:
"Give this king all the swords and guns, or they will all be beheaded." Fast! Yes! Suddenly, Dong Jingzhen had several more steel knives on his body. One of Dong Jingzhen's personal guards shouted:
"Lord Qi! We are willing to open the city and surrender, please Prince Qi for the sake of our surrender and do not harm our family. After Zhang Xiu entered the city, she came to Dong Jingzhen's corpse, knelt down and said:
"Brother Dong, I'm sorry, Your Majesty arrested my family, if I don't kill you, they won't be able to live! In the future, on your annual sacrifice day, I will definitely prepare a sacrifice to your grave" After pacifying Changsha, Xiao Mo promoted Zhang Xiu to Shangshu Ling. Later, Xiao Mo killed him on the charge of Zhang Xiu's pride. After the other princes heard about it, everyone was in danger, so they reported to the major separatist forces from within Xiao Liang, and there were more secret envoys who secretly sent Qiubo. After Li Jiancheng listened to Xu Jingzong's secret report, he entered the palace and said to Li Yuan:
"Father, now it's time for us to attack Xiao Liang."