It has been nearly half a year since he led hundreds of civil and military officials to surrender to Guo Chongtao in November last winter, and it has been nearly half a year since the death of Shu, and now every time he thinks back to the scene of that day, Wang Yan still can't help but feel sad, and hides his face and cries from time to time. Now living in Chang'an, seeing that the peony outside the post house will bloom, Wang Yan can only borrow wine to drown his sorrows, but he has a hangover all day long, and he can only reap the effect of drawing a knife to cut off the water and make the water flow.

In the remnants of the family and country in the past, how many soul dreams frightened the night rain.

Wang Yan had always thought that there was nothing terrible about losing the country, at least he could be a rich man, and the enjoyment of wealth and wealth would not be too bad, but now looking back, he realized that it was painful, from the king of a country to being reduced to a prisoner, what he lost was not only the powerful position above 10,000 people, but also the dignity of being a human being.

At the beginning of the year, Li Jiqi, the king of Wei in the Tang Dynasty, led the army to the division, because Kang Yanxiao rebelled on the way, Li Jiqi had to lead the army to quell the rebellion, delaying the trip, and then asked people to escort Wang Yan and his party first. did not stay in Luoyang, Li Cunqiao ordered Wang Yan and others to temporarily live in Chang'an, and they were not allowed to enter Luoyang without an edict. The reason for this is that Yedu mutinied, and Luoyang was inevitably panicked, in order to prevent Wang Yan from causing turmoil after entering Luoyang.

"Aifei, let's have another drink!" Wang Yan's drunken eyes were hazy, and he raised the wine bottle crookedly, and asked the concubine Liu who served him to pour him wine again. Since I was stranded in this post house, I didn't know what fate awaited me for several days, so I couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Liu was born extremely beautiful, is Wang Yan's youngest concubine in the past, hair like dark clouds, face like the morning glow, the most loved by Wang Yan, at this time she was in tears, Chu Chu pitiful, but the persuasion has already been persuaded, she poured a full glass of wine for Wang Yan, and said with a sad smile: "If the husband thinks that he can be less painful, drink more." ”

Suddenly, the door was kicked open, Wang Yan and Liu were stunned, and a team of armor soldiers broke into the door, and they dragged them up from the collapse like wolves and tigers, and held them in the house.

Xiang Yansi slowly walked into the door, glanced at the two people who didn't know why, took out an edict, and read it like a dog: "Wang Yan and his party, plotting to cause chaos, want to take advantage of the time when my Tang Dynasty pacified the rebellion, and plot to attack the eastern capital, and now order Xijing to stay and behead all his family!" ”

Wang Yan was shocked, the wine also woke up, and hurriedly argued: "Wronged, wronged!" Never, never! ”

Xiang Yanji sneered, put away the edict, "Take it away!" ”

It turned out that after Li Siyuan raised the army, Li Cunqiao gathered the generals and prepared to drive the east, before he traveled, the eunuch Jingjin said to him: "The two rivers have not been completely settled, Wang Yan has a lot of party, once they hear about the royal expedition, they must plan to change, for the best plan, it is better to get rid of it as soon as possible!" ”

Li Cunmiao didn't think much about it at all, and thought so, so he ordered Xiang Yanhei to hold the edict to Chang'an.

Suddenly, Wang Yan's family was all escorted to the post house courtyard, Wang Yan cried bitterly and couldn't help himself, and his soul was lost. Xiang Yansi read the contents of the edict to everyone again, and then he didn't delay any longer, and he didn't plan to let Yousi interrogate and convict, so he waved his hand and said directly: "Execution!" ”

The accompanying prisoner stood aside, watching his nose and nose, and refusing to say a word.

The armor soldier raised and fell with his sword, and Wang Yan took the lead in landing on the head.

The poor generation of emperors, who also had a great deal in the world, left this world where he could have done great things and left a great grace in such a humiliating way because of an unknown crime.

The headless body was lying on the cold mud floor, and the blood in the neck cavity was pouring out, and it was terrible to see.

"My son surrendered the whole country, but the Tang lord wanted to kill my whole family, what is the righteousness of such a thing?" Wang derives his mother Xu, the former and current Empress Dowager Xu of Shu raised her arms and shouted, "Although Shu is dead, although my son is dead, it is expected that your Tang lord will also be in great trouble!" ”

Xiang Yansi was furious, although Xu was beheaded, he still strode forward, desperately trampled on Xu's body, and kept scolding in his mouth: "Dead eight women, when you are dying, you will still spit out wild words, and feed your body to the dog later!" ”

At this time, the prison officer suddenly spoke to stop the armor, Xiang Yansi was puzzled, he walked in front of Liu, picked up Liu's jaw, and said to Liu with a smile: "The little lady was born so beautiful, I really feel sorry for her." Wang Yan is rebellious, it is not a pity to die, but the little lady does not have to accompany him to the funeral, as long as you follow the official, the official guarantees that your glory will not be reduced in the future! ”

Liu struggled to turn her head, and under the ring of tigers and wolves, her figure was thin and weak, but at this time she said generously and tragically: "The country is ruined, and the righteousness is not humiliated!" ”

Xiang Yansi was originally a eunuch, he had already seen that the Liu family looked like a fairy, but it was useless for him to come, and at this time, when he saw that the prisoner was deflated, he couldn't get the other party into his hands, and he couldn't help but let out a sneer.

The prisoner was annoyed and angry, and said, "I don't know what to do! ”

Seeing this, the armor soldier killed Liu with a knife. A generation of stunning beauty has disappeared.

After finishing the errand of killing Wang Yan's family, he returned to Beijing to return to Yanhe, and when he returned to Luoyang, Li Cunqiao had already led the soldiers and horses to aid Daliang.

Before deciding to drive the expedition in person, Li Cunmiao recalled Li Shaorong and inquired in detail about the battle situation and situation ahead. Please Your Majesty be anxious about the Kanto region and appease the armies so that they will not be confused by the rebels! ”

In this Eastern Expedition, Li Cunmiao still let Li Shaorong lead the cavalry to guard the flanks first, and led his own guards to advance slowly.

Soon after the army arrived in Xingze, Li Cunqiao sent Yao Yanwen, the commander of Long Xiangdu, to lead 3,000 elite cavalry as the front army, and went to support Daliang one step ahead of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and help Daliang guard the city.

When practicing for Yao Yanwen, Li Cunmiao's face was not very good. In fact, these days, Li Cunmiao has been in a very bad mood. There is no other reason, and today, the tens of thousands of troops of the Eastern Expedition from Luoyang have fled halfway. Especially the pro-party and old subordinates who have a relationship with Li Siyuan, almost all of them have escaped!

It's appalling, but it's true.

This time it is still Li Cunmiao's personal expedition, if not, I am afraid that the situation will be worse, and the Eastern Expedition army, I am afraid that before it reaches the Great Liang, it will be dispersed!

Since the world was in turmoil, Li Cunqiao followed Li Keyong to lead the army to fight, and he has never encountered such a situation for decades. Even when the war was unfavorable in the past, there were no soldiers who fled like this, not to mention that they had not yet fought with the enemy at this time!

Recalling the attack on the pseudo-Liang back then, it was so enjoyable, his troops and horses did not move, and Liang will look at the wind to return. When the heavens and the earth were all working together, once the Nine Heavens Dragon chanted a shocking change, and entered the Central Plains and became the master. And for now

Li Cunmiao remembered that the day before yesterday, he was preparing for the Eastern Expedition in Luoyang, and in order to improve morale and stabilize the morale of the army, he specially moved out of the inner treasury of gold and silver and gave them to the officers and men of the army. Li Cunqiao thought that this move would make the soldiers of the army feel grateful and willing to fight, but the soldiers cried on the spot: "I am waiting for my wife and children, I have already starved to death, what is the use of this gold and silver cloth today?!" ”

Only then did Li Cunmiao know that because of his suspicion of the generals and his lack of kindness to the army, he has chilled the hearts of the soldiers over the years, and the military funds he allocated have been exploited layer by layer, and which people's private pockets have entered!

Regret is useless, Li Cunqiao eased his mood, and said to the soldiers behind Yao Yanwen: "You and the others are all Bian, I will lead the army into the countryside of Er and so on, and do not let other troops go first, and let you and others be the forerunner, so as not to disturb your family, and you should experience my kindness!" ”

Yao Yanwen hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty is kind, the soldiers should save themselves!" ”

Li Cunmiao nodded, and Yao Yanwen set off immediately.

After Yao Yanwen went first, Li Cunmiao continued to lead the army on the way. When he arrived in Wansheng Town, he received an urgent military report from the front line, showing what happened to Yao Yanwen's department.

The messenger knelt down to Li Cunmiao: "Yao Yanwen has betrayed the country and surrendered to the rebellious army!" ”

Li Cunmiao's expression changed drastically, his face turned pale, and he said angrily: "How can this be? How dare Yao Yanwen do this! Then he rebuked the messenger, "What is the matter, I have not yet told me in detail!" ”

Once occupied by Li Siyuan, the situation will immediately deteriorate, and the imperial court will be difficult to deal with, because Li Cunqiao will send cavalry to help. Yao Yanwen also knew the stakes, so he traveled all the way day and night. When he rushed to the city of Daliang to call the door, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he looked closely at the city, he found that Daliang had asked Li Siyuan to occupy it first!

"Daliang is an important town, it's only been a few days, how can Li Siyuan be so easily attacked?" Things were unexpected, Yao Yanwen panicked, and he really couldn't figure it out.

It turned out that after Li Siyuan raised troops, Kong Xun, the governor of Daliang, on the one hand, greeted Li Cunxuan, saying that Daliang would definitely stick to help, and on the other hand, he saw that Li Siyuan contacted Qi, Bei and other prefectures and Taining and Pinglu towns overnight, and the army was greatly boosted, and he curried favor with Li Siyuan, wanting to meet the source left and right. In this case, Li Siyuan and Kong Xunxu on the one hand made a snake to let him relax his vigilance, and on the other hand, he secretly sent Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao as the vanguard, rushed to Bianzhou in the starry night, and entered the Fengqiu Gate, so that he won the beam overnight.

When Yao Yanwen found that Daliang City had been occupied by Li Siyuan, he couldn't leave if he wanted to turn around and escape, so he immediately made a decision, took off his armor, and entered the city alone to see Li Siyuan.

In front of Li Siyuan, Yao Yanwen immediately bowed down and said: "The Jingshi is in danger, Your Majesty is confused by Li Shaorong, we have no power to return to the sky, and I still hope that Li Shuai Qingjun will be on the side and protect Sheji!" ”

Li Siyuan didn't buy Yao Yanwen's account, and sneered: "If you yourself are disloyal to the imperial court, don't slander others!" "After that, take away Yao Yanwen's handsome seal and take the three thousand horsemen under his account for himself.

The messenger did not know the details of Yao Yanwen's meeting with Li Siyuan, but only knew that soon after Yao Yanwen entered the city, his cavalry had surrendered to the gir, so he believed that Yao Yanwen had defected—which was not far from the truth.

After hearing these words, Li Cunmiao was half stunned and couldn't sit down.

Not long after, Li Cunqiao received military reports one after another.

Qizhou Yiqi.

Bay State Yizhi.

Yunzhou Yizhi.

Slippery Prefecture Yiqi.

Taining Yizhi.

Pinglu Yizhi

Li Cunqiao couldn't have imagined that Li Siyuan would get so much support in ten days when he did something in one day, and almost all the places he passed were used by him!

Is Li Siyuan highly respected, ambitious as a wolf, and has a plan early, or is he Li Cunqiao lost the hearts of the people in the world?

Li Cunmiao had no intention of marching into Daliang and stayed in Wansheng Town for a while. On this day, the weather was still good, and he climbed high to look east, but he couldn't see the head of Daliang City.

remembered that the Liang was destroyed that day, but he never thought that his country was taken away, and it was only in the evening. Li Cunmiao looked depressed, and his heart was like ashes.

"Nothing is over!" Li Cunmiao shook his head in gratitude and ordered the class teacher to return to the court.

But he was a little unwilling. Over the years, he has indulged in pleasure and gradually forgotten the iron and blood on the battlefield, and the powerlessness in the face of the situation at this time made him think of his demeanor on the battlefield in a trance, and his heart was difficult for a while. Back then, he was so invincible and almost invincible.

He recalled that he often led only a hundred horsemen to provoke the enemy, attracting thousands of enemy troops out of the camp, and he could always leave in style after a while. If the enemy pursues him, he will be led into a trap and crushed by his army.

Li Cunmiao felt shameless to face his former self, and even more shameless to face his current self.

He suddenly stepped on his horse and galloped in the direction of the girder.

"Your Majesty!" The guards hurriedly followed

It was getting dark, and night was falling.

Arrival at the girder is still far away.

Li Cunqiao stopped his horse, shook his head helplessly, looked up to the sky and sighed, and then laughed at himself.

Is it necessary to be so angry with yourself, like a child?

Sure enough, every time I am sober, I still can't accept that I am not as good as before. It's just that over the years, there have been fewer and fewer times when I am really awake. More often than not, it's drunk and dreaming of death. The queen said that the world is beaten down with both hands, and it is the destiny of our husband and wife to reign in the world, do you really think that the human heart is not enough to fear?

That's it, that's it.

"Let's go back!" Li Cunqiao pulled out his horse and turned back.

"Your Majesty, someone is coming!" The guards suddenly whispered warnings.

Li Cunmiao turned around again and found that in the direction of the girder on the official road, a horse team was rapidly approaching.

"Hugh is panicked!" Li Cunmiao spit out a sentence lightly and looked at the road ahead calmly.

From time to time, a fine cavalry appeared in front of Li Cunqiao. At the head is a heroic and extraordinarily young general. The elite cavalry did not play the flag, and the young general did not have any signs left and right, but even if it was far away, Li Cunqiao still recognized who the other party was at a glance.

When he met each other here, Li Cunmiao was not surprised.

The young general dismounted, ignored the sword drawn by Li Cunmiao's guards, stepped forward, and saluted in front of Li Cunmiao, "See Your Majesty!" ”