In April 920, Zhu Youqian, the king of Ji, took advantage of the Liang and Jin dynasties to compete for hegemony and had no time to look westward, led his army to seize the Tongzhou of the Liang Dynasty, drove away Cheng Quanhui, the envoy of the Zhongwu Jiedu, and let his son Zhu Lingde serve as the acting envoy of the Zhongwu Jiedu, and wrote to Zhu Youzhen to request that he be converted as soon as possible.

Zhu Youzhen began to behave very gentlemanly, and spit out two words very firmly: dreaming. Later, he was worried that Zhu Youqian would rebel, so he forced a smile and said: "It's not that I don't agree with you to be a festival envoy, but I don't agree with your son to be a minister, now you can take on the role yourself." ”

By the time the edict arrived in the river, Zhu Youqian had already turned his head and asked Li Cunqiao for an appointment. Anyway, he didn't give his own things to others, Li Cunmiao was very happy to complete the entry procedures for him and did a favor. I won't bother you with this matter, Zhu Youzhen, or let me Lao Li do it for you.

If something is robbed by someone else, you have to get it back. Zhu Youzhen then appointed Liu Cheng as the envoy of Hedong Province, and led Yin Hao, the envoy of the probation festival, Wen Zhaotu, and Duan Ning, the envoy of the Zhuang Zhai, to crusade against Zhu Youqian.

The position of Zhuang Zhai envoy was set up by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, mainly to manage all the Zhuang fields and mills, mansions, vegetable gardens, and car mills of the imperial court in the Liangjing area. In addition, the envoy of the inner village is in charge of the Zhuang Tian and his personal property directly under the emperor, and the eunuch serves as the eunuch.

Duan Ning, whose real name is Duan Mingyuan, is Zhu Wen's beauty, so Duan Ning is Zhu Wen's eldest brother, according to Chinese tradition, no one can be indebted to his uncle, plus Duan Ning is very good at things, so Zhu Wen regards Duan Ning as a confidant. In December of the first year of Qianhua (911), Zhu Wen returned to the north to return to the division, passing through the prefectures and counties, Duan Ning paid tribute to a lot of goods, and Zhu Wen was very happy.

Zhu Wen went north again, Duan Ning paid tribute to a lot of things, even richer than last time, Zhu Wen was almost unable to close his mouth with a smile, this uncle, he really has nothing to say.

When Zhu Wen arrived in Xiangzhou, Li Si'an was a little negligent in welcoming and serving, and Zhu Wen was furious, so he demoted Li Si'an.

And ordered: "Huaizhou Assassin Duan Mingyuan, very young to govern the state and county, do things wholeheartedly, twice to welcome the emperor, several times in the state of camping and eating, no omissions, everything is very thoughtful and abundant, can exhaust the family wealth, and strive to show the feelings of reward and condolences."

Seeing Duan Mingyuan so loyal and diligent, it would be too arrogant and sloppy to look at Li Si'an again!" So Duan Ning relied on nepotism to add things to the meeting, and his official fortune was prosperous. Skyrocket.

Liu Cheng attacked Zhu Youqian, and Zhu Youqian asked for help from Yu Jin. Li Cunxuan sent Li Cunxian, Li Sizhao, Li Jianji, Li Cunzhen and others to lead a large army to the rescue.

The Liang army has always underestimated the Hezhong army, and every time he fights, he must chase after Tom, the bad cat in "Cat and Mouse", when he sees the mouse Jerry, and the Hezhong army will definitely flee like Jerry.

Li Cunxun selected two hundred elite Jin soldiers and mixed them in the Hezhong army. Approaching the camp of the Liang army, Liu Jun sent a thousand soldiers to pursue them, and the soldiers chased after them again, and after catching up, they fixed their eyes, damn, it was the Jin army, so they withdrew to the camp one after another, and did not dare to fight easily again.

In the past, Hezhong served the Liang Dynasty for a long time, so the soldiers all had two hearts. After the meeting of the soldiers and horses, the price of grain and grass soared all the way. Zhu Youqian's son persuaded him to temporarily surrender to the Liang dynasty so that the Liang army could retreat.

Zhu Youqian said: "In the past, when we fought with Kang Huaiying, the King of Jin personally came to rescue us, and even fought at night, but now we are fighting against the Liang army, and the King of Jin sent troops to come in the starry night. and also to provide us with food and material goods, how can we turn our backs on them? ”

The Jin army divided its forces to attack Huazhou. Destroying the outer city of Huazhou, Li Cunxian did not move for dozens of days before he sent troops to attack Liu Cheng again, Liu Cheng poured out of the nest, and was defeated, and then packed up the remnants and retreated to Luowen Village.

Another dozen days passed. Li Cunxian said to Li Sizhao: "If the beast is forced to be in a hurry, it will fight with people in turn, it is better to open a road for him to escape, and then chase and kill him from behind." ”

So he sent people to graze horses in Shayuan, Liu Yan led the army to flee at night, and the Jin army pursued to Weishui. And they defeated him, and killed many people.

Before the battle, Liu Cheng had written to Zhu Youqian to analyze the stakes with him, and advised him to return to the imperial court in time. However, friendship is friendship, work is work, and Zhu Youqian is very clear, so the persuasion work ultimately failed.

Duan Ning and the others were already very jealous of Liu Jun, but this time they finally found an excuse, so they reported to Zhu Youzhen, "Liu Cheng is staying behind, this is to give the enemy a chance to breathe, so that they can wait for the arrival of reinforcements." Zhu Youzhen believed it.

After Liu Cheng came back from defeat, he clearly knew that his situation was very critical, so he resorted to the last strategy in his life, that is, the thirty-six strategies were to leave this place of right and wrong. He asked to be relieved of his military power on the grounds of illness, and the emperor allowed him to go to Luoyang, the western capital, to recuperate and seek medical treatment.

Soon after, Zhu Youzhen thought of him again, and thought about it and felt that it was not safe to let him stay in Luoyang, so he ordered Zhang Quanyi to stay in the western capital and gave him a traditional Chinese medicine, but it was not a good medicine used to treat his illness, but a poison used to kill him, on the second day of May in 920, Liu Jun was poisoned and killed at the age of sixty-four. After Liu Jun's death, Zhu Youzhen posthumously presented him with a Zhongshu order.

There is also a person to mention here, after Liu Yan's death, the Wang family, who had been married to him for only two years, became a widow from then on.

Wang, a native of Binxian County, Shaanxi Province, and his father was a flatbread maker. If the five dynasties and ten countries want to hold a beauty contest, Wang can definitely enter the top three. Wang's rare beauty, known as the flower is ashamed. Gone with the Wind is destined to have an extraordinary life.

In the business of helping his father usher in the delivery, Wang has cultivated a set of human skills, which has also laid the foundation for survival in the cracks in the future. After that, the seventeen-year-old Wang was accepted as a concubine by Liu Jun.

Liu Yan was close to the age of sixteen at that time, and the girl was matched with the old man, but he was also quite happy. After Liu Yan's death, the trees fell and scattered, and the slaves and others left one after another, leaving only the Wang family with a maidservant and an old servant to bury her husband according to the rites and observe the festival in the tomb. person

We often see Wang wearing a white dress, staggering beside the tomb, mixed trees and flowers, and the wind blows, like a fairy in the wind, leaving the world independent.

In the Tang Dynasty, the social atmosphere was relatively open, and women often did not receive any criticism when they remarried, not to mention that they were ashamed of the flowers that were embarrassed when they were closed. There are many wealthy families in the city who have the media to agree. He wanted to marry her as a concubine, but he was refused.

In 923, Li Siyuan was appointed as the envoy of the Tianping Festival and stationed in Bincheng. coincided with the death of Li Siyuan's wife, Mrs. Xia, and wanted to find another spouse.

At this time, someone told him about Wang's beauty. Li Siyuan immediately summoned her. If you look closely, it is really gorgeous.

This general, who dared to bend his bow and shoot a tiger, but was illiterate, was immediately overwhelmed by the Wang family and soon married her as a concubine. Since then, the Wang family has started another legendary life, and Liu Yan's two sons have also been reused because of the Wang family. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it here.

The tomb of Liu Cheng is located about 300 meters south of the West Shima Cemetery in Liu Jiayao Town, 15 kilometers northeast of Anqiu City. The tombstone sits north and faces south, with a height of 3.32 meters and a width of 1.53 meters. Limestone, for a stone to carry the burden.

Today, the tombstone is partially mutilated, severely eroded, and the inscription is illegible. The head of the stump is raised and slightly mutilated, but the whole is intact.

In 1932, the villagers reinforced and repaired the tombstone, inlaying the back, sides and top of the tombstone with blue bricks and tile roofs. Form a stele tower, and the back is inlaid with a square rebuilt stele with a side length of 30 cm. In 1984, Liu Cheng's tombstone was announced by the Anqiu County People's Government as a county-level key cultural relics protection unit.

However, thousands of years later, how many people still remember this once powerful step. In the cold west wind, there were vague familiar and heavy sighs:

Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water,

The waves sweep away the heroes.

Success or failure turns empty.

The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times.

After the Battle of Huliupi. Li Cunxuan appointed Li Cunxian to replace Zhou Dewei as the head of the inner and outer Han Mabu, and Li Cunxuan built the north and south cities on both sides of Deshengdu for defense. Soon, He Gui attacked the southern city of Desheng, marched in parallel with a hundred roads, and connected more than a dozen warships together with bamboo cables. It was made into a veritable giant on the river, an aircraft carrier, covered with cowhides, like a city wall with a short wall and wooden fence for defending against the enemy, and then the ship was crossed over the Yellow River.

In order to cut off the Jin rescuers, so that they had no way to cross the Yellow River. The strategy is a good strategy, but this scene seems a little familiar, oh yes, Cao seems to have used this trick six hundred years ago.

Li Cunxuan personally led the army to the rescue, lined up on the north bank of the Yellow River, but was blocked by aircraft carriers and could not advance, so he sent a man who was good at swimming to the south of the city to meet the guard general Shi Yansheng, who told him that the tools to defend the city were about to run out, and the city could fall at any time.

Li Cunmiao watched his little brother being beaten by the enemy there, and he was very anxious, but there was no way at all. So he piled up a large number of gold and silver treasures in front of the door, and asked for people who could break the warships of the Liang Dynasty.

At this time, the fierce man Li Jianji stood up and said: "He Gui poured out of the nest, hoping to win this battle, if our troops do not cross the river." Then he will succeed, and in today's situation, Jian Ji asks for a desperate decisive battle with him,"

So he selected three hundred loyal and daring men, put on armor, took axes, and launched a charge in a small boat, when approaching the battleship, the arrows of the Liang army fell like raindrops, Li Jianhe sent the axe to help the soldiers assault into the middle of the battleship, cut the bamboo rope connecting the ship,

Then put firewood on the wooden jar, poured oil, and then lit the fire, the jar went down the river from the upstream, rushed to the position of the Liang army, and then Li Jianji carried the soldiers with a huge ship, scolded the ancestors and launched an attack, and the Liang warship was cut off due to the connected bamboo cable,

Drifting down the river, it was ignited by fire pots one after another, and the Liang army was burned to death, and as many as half of them drowned, so the Jin army crossed the Yellow River.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, He Gui lifted the encirclement and withdrew his troops, and the Jin army pursued from behind, and only retreated back until Puzhou, and He Gui was stationed in Xingtai Village after retreating.

Not long after, He Gui passed away. The Liang Dynasty appointed Yin Wangzan of Kaifeng as the envoy to the northern camp. Wang Hao is the son of Wang Chongying, the envoy of the former river festival.

In the early years of Tianfu, Zhu Wen pacified the river and remembered Wang Chongying's old kindness, so he brought Wang Hao out to mix with society. So Wang Zan led 50,000 troops, crossed the Yellow River from Liyang, quickly attacked Shanzhou and Weizhou, and fought until Dunqiu, until he encountered the Jin army and retreated.

Wang Zan was very strict in governing the army, and the order must be carried out, occupying Yang Village, eighteen miles upstream of Desheng Village, building fortresses on both sides of the Yellow River, transporting bamboo and wood from Luoyang, building pontoon bridges, and then transporting food and wages from Huazhou.

Li Cunjin, the fifth Taibao of the Jin Kingdom, also followed the example, and also built a pontoon bridge in Desheng, so the two sides competed in the field of construction.

Li Cunjin, Shanxi Daibei Zhenwu people, formerly known as Sun Chongjin, a young martial artist, known for his bravery, when Li Keyong broke through Shuozhou, Sun Chongjin joined the army, was given the name Li Cunjin, adopted as an adopted son.

After that, he followed Li Keyong to fight everywhere. After Li Cunmiao got Wei Bo, he appointed Li Cunjin to deploy for the Tianxiong army, and was responsible for managing the troops of Houliang. Li Cunmiao fought hard with Houliang Jiahe, and Li Cunjin had military exploits and was promoted to the envoy of the Zhenwu Army.

At this time, someone persuaded him: "To build a pontoon bridge, we need bamboo cables, iron oxen, and stone ropes (which are placed on the shore to fix bamboo ropes), and we don't have these things, so how can we build them?" ”

Tang Bohu ordered the autumn incense in Tang Bohu to tell the deadly scholar with practical actions, the dead man who stabbed without a gun, Li Cunyong also told his subordinates with practical actions, there is no building materials can still be built into a pontoon bridge, he ordered people to tie the giant ship with reed cables, and then fixed it on the giant tree in the earth mountain, and the pontoon bridge was built after a month.

Since then, the north and south cities have become one, and the boat is no longer used, Li Cunqiao was overjoyed, took off his own clothes and put them on him personally. Sometimes using more brains and not taking the usual path will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Li Cunmiao went to Weizhou, requisitioned tens of thousands of peasant workers, expanded the northern city of Desheng, and fought with the Liang army every day, fighting more than 100 battles large and small, and the two sides won and lost each other.

In a battle, Li Siyuan's son-in-law Shi Jingtang fought with the Liang army on the edge of the Yellow River, and the Liang army wounded his war horse, thanks to Liu Zhiyuan's timely arrival, saved Shi Jingtang, and let Shi Jingtang ride his own war horse.

He himself rode Shi Jingtang's wounded war horse to protect him, and finally the two returned to the camp safely. What kind of spirit is this, this is the spirit of self-sacrifice and no return.

Since then, Shi Jingjiao has become more friendly to Liu Zhiyuan. Please remember this pair of good friends, both of them are the characters who influence the general trend of the world behind.

The Liang army had a grain depot in Panzhang, fifty miles away from Yang Village, and in December 919, Li Cunmiao once again exerted his adventurous nature of desperately fighting with San Lang, and led his own soldiers to rob the Liang army's grain transport troops.

finally escaped from the encirclement with a few relatives, and was chased by hundreds of elite cavalry of the Liang army to surround it again. Li Shaorong saw that Li Cunmiao was once again under siege, and single-handedly killed him back, and it took a lot of effort to pull him out of the crowd.

Soon after, Li Cunqiao led a large army to seek revenge, but was defeated by Wang Hao. Many people in the Jin army were arrested, including the general Shi Junli. Zhu Youzhen wanted to take it for his own use, but Shi Junli said: "I am the defeated general of the Jin Kingdom, if I am used by the Liang people, even if I am willing to serve loyally, who will believe it?"

And every man has his own aspirations, so how can I be used by the enemy? Zhu Youzhen saw that persuasion was ineffective, so he killed him. Feng Shui took turns, and soon after, the two sides fought again, this time Wang Zan was defeated, retreated to Yang Village, and lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Then, Li Cunmiao launched another attack and captured Puyang. Zhu Youzhen therefore recalled Wang Hao and asked Dai Siyuan to be the commander of Beiying and stationed along the Yellow River to resist the Jin army. (To be continued......)