Because Fengxiang was too close to Chang'an, Tian Lingzi was afraid that Li Keyong would catch up again, so he asked Li Yi to take refuge in Xingyuan (now Hanzhong, Shaanxi).

Li Yi has been "fighting in the south and in the north" in the past few years, and he really doesn't want to run around anymore. Anyway, even if he is just a mud bodhisattva, whoever falls into his hands will have meat to eat, which is unprecedented and refutes Tian Lingzi's face. Tian Lingzi was very angry: "I can't help you today!" "Led the troops into the palace and forcibly robbed Li Yi and ran to Xingyuan. Because of the haste of the matter, he only took a few hundred attendants and eunuchs on the road, and the ministers were all dumped. Hanlin scholar Du Rang can hear that the emperor has run away, so he naturally wants to chase him. It's a pity that there is no horse, so I have to talk with my legs, and I ran for more than ten miles easily, and when I met a good man, I gave him a horse, but there was no leash. Du Rangneng was really able to show his appearance, untied the jade belt and strangled it on the horse's mouth, and slapped the horse's ass wildly, so that he caught up.

This is good, the other courtiers waited until dawn to find that the emperor was gone, and then rushed on foot, and met a group of Jiangyang thieves halfway, even the temple of Tang Ancestor and the private property and clothing of hundreds of officials, and robbed a fine light. Prime Minister Xiao Yu counted this account on Tian Lingzi's head and wanted to get rid of it for a long time, but because he had no soldiers in his hands, he sent someone to let Zhu Mei lead troops to rescue him. Zhu Mei was overjoyed and led 5,000 cavalry to chase after her. Tian Lingzi was terrified and took Li Yi into the Great Dispersion Pass.

The Qinling mountain road is difficult to walk, Li Yi almost fell into the abyss, but fortunately, the Shence army made Wang Jian open the way in front and helped Xi Zong walk, so he escaped. Although Zhu Mei did not rob the emperor, she snatched Li Xuan, the king of Tang Sixiang, and the hundred officials and brought them back to Fengxiang.

Zhu Mei really has the ability, she didn't capture the emperor of the Tang Dynasty alive, so she simply set up another one. In May of the second year of Tang Guangqi (886 AD), Zhu Mei was enthroned as emperor in Chang'an by Li Xuan, the king of Xiang, and changed to Yuan Jianzhen. Yao respected Li Yi as the Emperor Taishang. Zhu Mei is the prime minister, the envoy of the Ten Armies of the Left and Right Divine Strategy, the servant, and the salt and iron transport envoy of Zhudao, and the other civil and military forces are indiscriminately sealed. Zhu Mei forced Li Xuan to send an edict to Bianzhou. Win over Zhu Wen and let Zhu Wen work hard for himself.

Zhu Wen thinks long-term. Although Zhu Mei and Tian Lingzi are the emperors behind the scenes, in terms of the use value of the two, Tian Lingzi is far more valuable than Zhu Mei. Therefore, leaving Tian Lingzi, a big traitor, is more beneficial to Zhu Wen, which is to put a long line to catch big fish. Zhu Wen scolded in front of the civil and military: "This hypocrisy is also a false edict, Wen will never be disloyal!" "Burn the false edict at the moment and drive it out.

Out of the same consideration as Zhu Wen, among the feudal domains in the world, Li Keyong of Hedong, Wang Chucun of Dingzhou, and Wang Chongrong of Hezhong did not recognize Li Xuan, but other towns recognized Li Xuan. Anyway, for them, it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor, as long as they guarantee their own interests.

In June, Hezhong, Hedong, and Yang Shouliang, the commander of the world's soldiers and horses, marched north and south to besiege Chang'an, Zhu Mei sent the puppet Tianping army to make Wang Xingyu lead 50,000 troops to Fengzhou (now Fengxian County, Shaanxi) to prevent the imperial army and horses from going north, Zhu Mei put the main energy on dealing with Wang Chongrong and Li Keyong here, and the imperial court sent Baoluan to lead Li Rong, Li Maozhen, and Chen Pei to confront the army in Datang Peak. and Wang Xingyu have offense and defense against each other.

In order to get more benefits, Li Keyong said: "The minister is willing to send troops to rescue the driver, and the head of the rebel is dedicated to His Majesty." However, Li Keyong has not forgotten Zhu Wen's account, and asked Li Yi to punish Zhu Wen again. Li Yi especially needs Li Keyong now. Of course, you have to give him three points of face, otherwise Li Xuan will occupy his position forever. It's just that now he can't give up Zhu Wen either, and he just replied vaguely: "Wait until Chang'an is pacified." I have my own ideas. ”

Li Yi has Zhu Wen in his heart, but Zhu Wen doesn't take Li Yi seriously. The most important thing for him now is to deal with Qin Zongquan. As for Zhu Mei, let Wang Chongrong and others be loyal. He didn't have the time to pay attention, after all, holding Bianzhou was the only way for Zhu Wen to survive.

Soon after, Qin Zongquan's younger brother Qin Xian led a large number of minions to plunder Songzhou and Caozhou, and on the way back to the division, Qin Xian was worried that Zhu Wen would copy their back road, so he sent the big minion Zhang Diao to Bianzhou to see Zhu Wen, Zhang Diao told Zhu Wen what Qin Xian meant: "Our army has no grudge against your army, the lord will send me here, and agree to divide the land, the north of Bian belongs to the duke, and the south of Bian belongs to me." ”

The existence of Qin Zongquan was the biggest threat to Zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen was naturally unwilling. However, out of strategic considerations, Zhu Wen pretended to agree, and Zhang Diao reported back to Qin Xian, and Qin Xian was relieved to cross the Bianshui. Qin Xian was born as a horse thief in the end, his hands and feet were extremely unclean, and the places he passed were burned endlessly.

Zhu Wen was furious, how could his territory allow Qin Xian to be presumptuous? Zhu Wen first cut Zhang tune, in order to encourage the morale of the army, Zhu Wen said: "I will send ten generals, and I will break this fang!" "Nai Du encouraged the three armies, and rushed to attack the Cai army, Qin Xian was defenseless, and was killed by the Bianjun army and went away.

Qin Zongquan has never forgotten Zhu San, in July, Qin Zongquan led an army to attack Xuzhou, first beheaded Zhu Wen's wings, and then killed Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen knew the stakes and hurriedly sent the general Ge Congzhou to rescue him. It's a pity that Ge Congzhou went a step late, and before he arrived in Xuzhou, Cai's army had already broken the city, and captured and killed Lu Yanhong, the envoy of the loyal army that killed Zhou Qi not long ago, and Ge Congzhou had to return to the division.

Zhu Wen would not let go of every opportunity to expand his territory, and the south was controlled by Qin Zongquan, so Zhu Wen focused his attention on the north. In November, the neighbor in the north of Bianzhou, Yicheng Army, made An Shi Ru Chi in the military and politics, and the Tianping Army next door made Zhu Xuan want to seize Huazhou (now Huaxian County, Henan), Zhu Wen got the news and urgently ordered the generals Zhu Zhen and Li Tangbin to lead the elite horse infantry to attack Huazhou in front of Zhu Xuan.

Zhu Zhen is a number of generals under Zhu Wen's account, brave and invincible, Zhu Zhen and Li Tangbin invaded the territory of the Yicheng Army, when it was snowing heavily, Zhu Zhen did not let the soldiers avoid the snow, and attacked the city of Huazhou with lightning speed. The Bianjun braved the snow and drove the ladder straight up, the defenders of Huazhou were defenseless, and the city was broken by the Bianjun army, and An Shiru was captured alive.

At this time, Li Yi was crying in Xingyuan, and he didn't blame Li Yi for crying, he had been an emperor for more than ten years, and he didn't enjoy a few days of good life, either running for his life, or being angry, it was really difficult for this young man. Tian Lingzi, one of the culprits who caused the chaos in the world, also began to prepare a way back for himself, he didn't know that his sins were really serious, even if he was cut with a thousand knives, it would be difficult to solve the hatred of the people in the world.

Tian Lingzi decided to return to Chengdu and seek wealth with his brother Chen Jingxuan, isn't it much better than following Li Yi, a fool, to suffer? Tian Lingzi pretended that he was sick and needed to go back to Chengdu to see a doctor, and asked the emperor to let him return to the south. Every time Li Yi saw this old eunuch, he was on pins and needles, wishing he would get out. Tian Lingzi returned to Chengdu with a smile.

As soon as Tian Lingzi left, the chief eunuch beside the emperor was Yang Fuguang. Yang Fuguang "took power" for the first time, so he naturally wanted to make some contributions to subdue everyone. Yang Fuguang first passed on to Guanzhong. Meaning: "Those who get the head of Zhu Mei will be rewarded with quiet and difficult festivals." This is a policy of disintegration, Wang Xingyu, who worked hard for Zhu Mei, learned the news, and his heart was moved, he was less and less optimistic about the prospects of Zhu Mei and Li Xuan, it was better to reverse the water and take Zhu Mei, and the position of the envoy of the Jingyan Army was still worried?

After the idea was decided, Wang Xingyu was in December of the second year of Tang Guangqi (886 AD). Led the troops back to Chang'an and came to see Zhu Mei. When Zhu Mei saw Wang Xingyu withdraw his troops without authorization, she was naturally furious: "Who asked you to come back?" If you dare not listen to my words, do you want to rebel? Wang Xingyu laughed: "I don't dare to rebel, I'm just here to punish the thief Zhu Mei!" Before he finished speaking, he ordered Zhu Mei to be taken down left and right, and hundreds of Zhu Mei's henchmen were killed. Wang Xingyu is not a good thing, conniving at the soldiers to burn and plunder Chang'an City, and the weather is cold. Countless people froze to death.

The puppet prime minister Zheng Changtu fled to the river with the puppet emperor Li Xuan, thinking that Wang Chongrong might give them a way to live. Who knew that Wang Chongrong was more ruthless than Wang Xingyu, killing Li Xuan on the spot and imprisoning Zheng Changtu and others. Wang Chongrong painted Li Xuan's head and sent it to Xingyuan. Li Yi was overjoyed and cried wildly.

Li Yi is not as good as his father Yizong, who doesn't count when he speaks, because Wang Xingyu has made the most meritorious service. He worshiped Wang Xingyu as the envoy of the Jingyan Army, and Li Maozhen as the envoy of the Wuding Army. Li Cheng was the observer envoy of Qianzhong, and Chen Pei was the observer envoy of Xuanxi. Other meritorious personnel have thick seals. Then Wang Chongrong escorted hundreds of people such as the puppet prime minister Pei Che, Zheng Changtu, Xiao Yu and so on, Li Yi didn't want to see them, and was ready to be executed.

After the catastrophe, Li Yi was in a very happy mood, and felt that his wings were also stiff, and he no longer needed that damn old eunuch Tian Lingzi. Tang Xizong ordered the national thief Tian Lingzi to be exiled to Duanzhou (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong), Tian Lingzi was eating meat under his brother Chen Jingxuan, and he didn't pay attention to you at all, a piece of waste paper, Li Yi sighed helplessly.

In the end, Li Yi is just a golden Buddha statue, and everyone worships as usual, but they just don't listen to him, how happy everyone is. Look at who is the closest, find someone to make friends, the relationship is hot, such as Zhu Wen and Qin Zongquan in Zhongzhou, these two can be regarded as dealing with each other, like glue and paint, so not affectionate.

Qin Zongquan's power is far stronger than Zhu Wen, but he has nothing to do with Zhu Wen, if Zhu Wen doesn't die, he won't want to live a stable life. Qin Zongquan decided to take out all his family funds and fight Zhu Wen to the death, Qin Zongquan did not believe that Zhu Wen could really withstand his Baidao offensive.

Zhu Wen saw that Qin Zongquan had set up a posture of wanting to eat people, and he was very worried, although he had repeatedly defeated Cai Jun, but it was all won by the advantage of relative conditions. As far as a single battle is concerned, Zhu Wen's forces are far from superior, so he does not dare to be careless at all.

Zhu Wen raised a hundred guards to guard against Qin Zongquan, but at this time, there was news that Heyang (now Mengxian County, Henan) had made Zhuge Shuang die of illness, and the generals Liu Jing and Zhang Quanyi had established Zhuge Shuang's youngest son Zhuge Zhongfang as the queen of Heyang. Soon after, Zhuge Shuang's fellow villager Niu Cunjie looked down on Liu Jing, an idiot, and privately called the township party: "The world has been in turmoil for a hundred and fifty years, heroes and heroes, and there are many heroes. I heard that General Xuanwu Zhu is heroic and martial, so it's better to mess with him. Everyone eloped to Bianzhou and surrendered to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen was overjoyed, and promoted Niu Cunjie to be a partial general.

Zhuge Shuang is Zhu Wen's old friend, Zhu Wen is very concerned about the situation in Heyang, and often sends people to investigate. In December of the second year of Tang Guangqi (886 AD), Liu Jing personally led his troops to attack Li Hanzhi, but was beaten head-on by Li Hanzhi in Mianchi (now Mianchi, Henan), and Liu Jing fled back to Heyang.

Li Hanzhi chased after him, and Liu Jing sent Zhang Quanyi, the No. 2 person in Heyang, to defend against Li Hanzhi. Who knows that since Zhang Quanyi saw Liu Jing using Heyang, many generals were dissatisfied with Liu Jing, and they didn't want to be Liu Jing's senior horse boy anymore, and united with Li Hanzhi to counterattack Heyang. Unexpectedly, Liu Jing opened the theft this time, defeated the Li and Zhang coalition forces, and the two fled to Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan) to settle down.

In order to deal with Liu Jing, Li Hanzhi sent people to Taiyuan to ask Li Keyong to send troops to help. Li Keyong considered: If Li Hanzhi and Zhang Quanyi can be caged in their sleeves, they can be used as a springboard to enter Henan in the future, capture Zhu San alive, and export their evil anger. Liu Jinjun and Li Zhang, the assassins of Paize Prefecture, joined forces to attack Heyang. This time, Liu Jing couldn't hold on, and the coalition army invaded Heyang, and Liu Jing took Zhuge Zhongfang's children to Bianzhou to find Zhu Wen for refuge.

Li Hanzhi asked Zhang Quanyi to guard Luoyang, and he became the envoy of the Heyang Festival (this chaos). Zhu Wen didn't catch Heyang, so he could only focus on Qin Zongquan, knowing that Qin Zongquan was going to come to him for tea as soon as possible.

In February of the third year of Tang Guangqi (887 AD), Zhu Wen sent Zhu Zhen to go to Zizhou (now Zibo, Shandong) to recruit troops and buy horses, prepare for battle, and make an appointment to train the new army to return to Bianliang in the summer. Bianzhou and Zizhou are not boundaries, and there is also a Taining military festival in the middle to make Qi Kerang, Qi Kerang heard that Zhu Zhen was ready to borrow the road, and felt that it was a pity not to do this deal, and ambushed Sun Shipo to try to destroy Zhu Zhen. Zhu Zhen led the army to attack the ambush army, won a big victory, and then entered Qianfeng (now Tai'annan, Shandong).

Pinglu Jiedu made Wang Jingwu angry that Zhu Wen went to his land to make a fortune, raised 20,000 horses, and set up three villages in Jinlingyi to prevent Zhu Zhen from coming. It's a pity that Wang Jingwu met Zhu Wen's top brand Zhu Zhen, and the Bianjun broke through the three villages in a row, seized countless military funds, and then came to Zizhou and began to recruit troops. This scene is so funny, Zhu Wen recruited troops in Wang Jingwu's territory, Wang Jingwu knew that he couldn't beat Zhu Zhen, so he could only look at Zhu Zhen in a daze.

In April of the third year of Tang Guangqi (887 AD), Qin Zongquan's brigade had been killed in Bianzhou, Qin Xian's Tunban Bridge, and Zhang Hui's Tunbei Force, each with tens of thousands of soldiers, and the company camp for 20 miles, which was huge. Zhu Wen was deeply worried, and in a hurry, Zhu Zhen returned to Bianzhou with more than 10,000 newly recruited recruits and more than 1,000 horses. Zhu Wen was overjoyed: "With this life force, what are you afraid of Qin Zongquan!" Then the generals said: "The thief deceived me and was outnumbered, and I didn't know that Zhu Zhenzhi had increased my troops. The generals arched their hands: "Dare not obey orders!" ”

In the middle of the night, Zhu Wen selected the elite, went out of the city, and attacked Qin Xianzhai. When the Bianjun army reached the outside of the village, Zhang Bing attacked directly and shouted to kill for days. Zhu Wenrong subdued the horse, commanded the battle, the morale of the Bianjun was great, and the Cai army was defenseless at all, so he broke through the four villages of Cai Zong, beheaded tens of thousands, and the Cai army shouted and scattered.

Zhu Wen won a major victory in the defense of Bianzhou, but this was not the final victory, because Qin Zongquan sent the general Lu Jin to lead more than 10,000 Cai troops to kill, Lu Jin guarded Wansheng Town (now northwest of Zhongmu, Henan), and divided the north and south villages across the two banks of the Bianhe River, preparing to choke the main river transportation and trap Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen can't sit still, he must knock out Lu Jin. (To be continued......)