Chapter 11 [Great Liang Empire]
In front of Zhu Wen, the two went toe-to-toe, Zhu Wen was neutral as a judge, but Zhu Wen was not a good judge, not to solve disputes, but to choose to be a peacemaker, and settle the case through mediation.
On the surface, the two solved all the problems, but in reality, the problems still exist, and the relationship is completely deadlocked. Originally, the government agencies have the principles of the government units, and if there is anything that can be reflected internally, if it really doesn't work, find a direct superior.
It's okay to fight between generals, but you can't go beyond the level to petition, and you can't be a little spy of the leader to supervise your colleagues, how can you maintain a harmonious relationship between colleagues.
Junhou Fan Quan was Zhu Zhen's person, so he relied on Zhu Zhen's power to punish him. Beat the dog and look at the owner, Li Tangbin had a feeling of being despised and came to Zhu Zhen angrily to settle accounts, Zhu Zhen was also very angry,
After shouting at Tang Bin's rudeness, he pulled out his sword and slashed at Li Tangbin's head, and before Li Tangbin could react to what was going on, he went to see Marx, oh, no, at that time, our Marx grandfather and his Marx grandson had not yet been born. Li Tangbin is dead,
Zhu Zhen is not frightened, the flesh does not beat, Lao Tzu has done a lot of murder, it doesn't matter if you have one more Li Tangbin, anyway, I am a good employee of the boss, and the boss will definitely forgive me. And Zhu Wen, who heard the news of Li Tangbin's death, only thought of one thing,
That is, more than ten years ago, he directly surrendered to the imperial court after killing Huang Chao's prison army, and later Huang Chao died under their constant blows. And now, Zhu Zhen is doing exactly the same thing as she did back then, and she can't care anymore.
Thereupon. Zhu Wen moved to kill. He first sent someone to arrest Li Tangbin's wife and reassured Zhu Zhen. Then he set off and set up camp thirty miles away from Xiao County. When Zhu Zhen heard that the boss was coming, she hurried over to meet her. By the way, I was going to explain what happened, but as soon as I arrived at the place, Zhu Wen tied him up,
Accusing him of unauthorized killing, he ordered Ding to execute him. Maybe Zhu Zhen still has a chance to live, but at this time, dozens of generals knelt down to intercede for Zhu Zhen, which violated Zhu Wen's taboo even more: Zhu Zhen. You are very popular, and you have made so many friends in private,
What do you want. So he was even more angry, picked up the bed and threw it at the crowd, and then said decisively: "Kill!" So a generation of famous generals Zhu Zhen died like this.
The earth will rotate without anyone, and anyone can operate without the company, Zhu Zhen is dead, and things are still progressing according to the established track.
In 890, the Suzhou teenager Zhang Yun expelled the assassin Zhang Shaoguang. When he took refuge in Shi Pu, Zhu Wen sent people to attack, killing more than 1,000 people, and Zhang Yun returned to the city.
Shrunk his head, revealing only a turtle shell to Zhu Wen: Zhu Wen, see what you can do to me. Zhu Wen will attack Suzhou for Ding. Zhang Yun is still the same old-fashioned, shrinking into a turtle shell and not coming out. Ding would think: Boy. I'm really not afraid that you won't come out, you won't come out. I still have a way to clean you up.
So he built a dam outside the city of Suzhou to block the Bianhe River, and when the water became larger, he opened the embankment and released water to flood the city. In October, Zhang Yun finally climbed out of the turtle shell and surrendered to Zhu Wen. Sometimes, the river can protect the city, but it can also flood the city, things are dead, people are alive, and victory and defeat are only a thought away.
In November, Guo Shaobin, the deputy general of Caozhou, killed the assassin Guo Rao and surrendered, and Liu Zhijun, the general of Xuzhou, also surrendered with his troops, and since then, the Xuzhou army has been in a slump. Later, Zhu Wen sent Zhu Youyu to attack Xuzhou.
Zhu Youyu, Zhu Wen's eldest son, is good at riding and archery, follows Zhu Wen to fight in the south and north, treats people generously and kindly, and is very popular with soldiers.
After Zhu Wen surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, he and Li Keyong pursued Huangchao. One day, the two besieged Huazhou together, and Huang Chao's younger brother Huang Ye first used the strength of a soldier to defend Huazhou, and then used the soldier's mouth to scold Li Ke for using this minority and Zhu Wen as a traitor. Both of them are short-tempered people, how can they stand this nest of anger, but both of them are stupid and can't scold each other.
So, Li Ke ordered his men to release arrows into the city, Li Ke used to be an ethnic minority, and riding and archery was their housekeeping skill. The "Raven Army" led by him was the elite of the elite, only to see them one by one, with bows, aiming, and archery, and the arrows flew over like meteors.
But unfortunately, none of them could shoot the enemy who was cursing. Zhu Wen saw that Li Keyong's subordinates missed one after another, so he glanced back at Zhu Youyu. Zhu Youyu is a careful person, and he found that the reason why Li Keyong's soldiers couldn't shoot that person was because of a problem with the angle.
So I found a suitable angle, took the arrow, drew the bow, and hit it with one arrow. The soldiers of the two armies cheered in unison, and the sound shook the valley. Although Li Keyong's subordinates were fierce generals, they still praised Zhu Youyu and gave him a good bow and a hundred arrows.
At this time, Zhu Jin sent troops to rescue Shi Pu, and when Zhu Youyu was defeated, Pu was at the foot of Shifo Mountain. Zhu Jin withdrew his troops and left, but Zhu Youyu did not chase after him, he thought: The main contradiction at present is the contradiction between Zhu Wen, the teacher of justice, and Shi Pu, a reactionary, and the main contradiction should be grasped instead of the secondary contradiction.
But Zhu Wen blamed Zhu Youyu for being able to attack but not attacking, and delaying the fighter. In this world, there is no shortage of villains, and at this time, Zhu Yougong, the Marquis of Duyu, thought that Zhu Youyu must have other intentions for doing this, so he wrote to Zhu Wen.
Zhu Wen was also afraid that this brave and scheming son would rebel, so he wrote a letter to order Zhu Youyu to command the troops of the ancient Pang Shi Zhu Youyu, and let Zhu Youyu temporarily preside over the affairs of Xuzhou. But this letter fell into the hands of Zhu Youyu, and according to his understanding of his overly suspicious father, Zhu Youyu was greatly panicked, so he ran into the mountains with his cronies.
Later, when I thought about it, I didn't have the intention of rebelling at all, so I didn't make it come true. So he sent people around, hoping to find his father's love and present his grievances. This matter let Zhu Wen's wife Zhang know,
She sent a letter to Zhu Youyu and asked him to enter Kaifeng dressed as a civilian. Zhu Youyu went to see Zhu Wen early in the morning, knelt in the court, wept and asked for death, Zhu Wen was furious, and asked him to pull him out and behead him.
Zhang hurriedly walked into the court, picked up Zhu Youyu and cried: "You are bound to blame, don't you want to know what is wrong?" Later, Zhu Wen pondered it, and it seemed to be such a reason, so he forgave Zhu Youyu. But at this time, Zhu Youyu's military power had been handed over to Pang Shigu.
In the second year of Jingfu (893), Pang Shigu attacked Xuzhou City, and Shi Pu and his wife died by self-immolation in the city tower. Gone. The people are not easy to be, and neither are the princes. Death and reincarnation are also a kind of relief.
So far, Xuzhou and Sizhou have all fallen into the hands of Zhu Wen.
XIII. Attack friendly forces
Year 884. Zhu Wen was attacked by Qin Zongquan and asked Zhu Xuan for help, but Zhu Xuan didn't say a word and sent his cousin Zhu Jin to volunteer for labor. After repelling Qin Zongquan, Zhu Wen was very grateful and recognized Zhu Xuan as his eldest brother. In 887, Qin Zongquan bullied Zhu Wen again, but Zhu Wen couldn't stand it anymore and asked Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin for help again. Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin still didn't say a word,
He came over with the guys, and Zhu Wen was able to defeat Qin Zongquan again. Zhu Wen was very grateful and recognized Zhu Jin as his second brother. In this way, Zhu Wen and the Zhu brothers should be regarded as friendly troops, and there is an old Chinese saying: the grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring.
It stands to reason that Zhu Wen will repay his kindness with a lifetime of tears in his life, but the actual situation is that after the elimination of Qin Zongquan. Zhu Wen didn't say a word, and repaid his former benefactor with his fist.
There are two theories as to the cause of the incident. One said: After destroying Qin Zongquan, Er Zhu saw that Zhu Wen's soldiers were very strong in combat, and he liked it very much. So I came up with the idea of digging the foot of the wall.
As the saying goes, as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down. Erzhu held a job fair in the Caopu area, the so-called recruitment. In fact, it is radish recruitment,
The recruitment conditions were completely tailor-made for Zhu Wen's soldiers. The salary package recruited is also enough to impress Zhu Wen's soldiers, and the soldiers have no political consciousness. So the GIs didn't even say hello, and just jumped ship and left.
didn't bully people like this, Zhu Wen was very angry, so he issued an announcement to condemn Erzhu, and Erzhu's reply was quite unkind. Well, since you have torn your face, let's just do it, so let's start fighting.
There is also a saying: Zhu Wen has long tried to balance and Taining, but because Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin have helped him, they are unknown in the fight, and it is not very good to spread out, although Zhu Wen doesn't care about any bullshit reputation. So he came up with a trick, under the pretext that the two of them lured the soldiers of the Xuanwu Army to desert, and accused Zhu Xuan in extremely rough language.
Zhu Xuan couldn't stand this evil anger for no reason, so he replied with a more sternly worded letter to express a very strong and strong protest. I'm not afraid that you have a temper, I'm afraid that you don't have a temper, since you have lost your temper, Zhu Wen will use this as an excuse to make a move on Er Zhu.
Today, more than a thousand years later, it is not known which is right and which is wrong, but in my opinion, neither of them is a good bird, chaotic times and chaos, both sides want to expand their territory and achieve hegemony, as long as they can eat each other, it can be said that they will do everything, anyway, they have also done everything they have done to send troops to annex others. The reason is not very important anymore, what matters is that they are about to fight. Now, let me introduce the representatives of the opposing side of this competition:
Zhu Xuan, a native of Xiayi, Songzhou. As mentioned above, Zhu Xuan served under Cao Cun's actual account at the Tianping Army. When Wei Bojiedu of the neighboring town made Han Jian attack Tianping, Cao Cun died in battle. Zhu Xuan took over the defense of Yunzhou, the capital of the Tianping Army, and finally kept Yunzhou, so Tang Xizong appointed Zhu Xuan as the envoy of the festival.
In the winter of 886, Yicheng Jiedu made An Shiru delegate power to the subordinate generals Xiahou Yan and Du Biao, causing the soldiers to be separated. The general Zhang Xiao led 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack Huazhou, the capital of Yicheng, and forced An Shiru to execute Xiahou Yan and Du Biao. Zhu Xuan wanted to send his cousin Zhu Yu to trap Zhang Xiao, and then take the opportunity to control Yicheng.
However, Zhu Wen was one move faster than him, and sent his generals Zhu Zhen and Li Tangbin to take advantage of the unpreparedness to attack Yicheng and capture An Shiru. From then on, Zhu Wen took over Yicheng and appointed Hu Zhen as the queen.
Zhu Jin, Zhu Xuan's cousin, is good at making a lance and is very capable of fighting. In the prosperous times, this is the unstable factor of society, but in the troubled times, this is talent.
Yanzhou Taining Military Festival made Qi Kerang like him very much, so Zhu Jin took the initiative to send it to the door, regardless of whether the other party's daughter was beautiful or ugly or pig, he firmly stated that he must marry Qi Kerang's daughter as his wife. Qi Ke let Le agree, this day, Zhu Jin came, and by the way, he also brought a lot of carriages, Qi Ke made him even more happy, this son-in-law came when he came, and he brought so many things.
On the day he was about to marry his bride, Zhu Jin suddenly launched an attack and expelled Qi Kerang from Yanzhou. Qi Kerang couldn't figure out where Zhu Jin's weapon came from, Zhu Jin said, it's very simple, in fact, the weapon is hidden in the carriage. From then on, Zhu Jin controlled Taining and was appointed as the envoy of the Taining Military Festival.
Here's a quick introduction to Zikjean. In 880, Zike made him the envoy of the Taining Army. At that time, Tang Xizong ordered the Dongfang Domain to garrison Lishui, among which Qi Kerang garrisoned Ruzhou to block the Huangchao marching northwest.
In the autumn of 880, Huang Chao relied on the absolute superiority of 150,000 to 6,000 to attack Cao Quanxi, Cao Quanhui fought desperately, and even broke Huang Chao, but the commander Gao Biao, who held the army, refused to support, Cao Quanhui was alone, retreated to Tunsi, and the whole army collapsed.
Huang Chao led the army to pursue, Cao Quanxi regardless of the small number of soldiers, swore to fight to the death, and finally died of exhaustion, so the army recommended Cao Cunshi to succeed Tianping, Cao Cunshi is Cao Quanxi's nephew. Soon, Xue Neng was killed by the Zhou Qi mutiny.
Fearing being ambushed by Zhou, Zikerang abandoned his defenses and retreated to Yanzhou. Seeing this, the other feudal towns followed suit and evacuated from Lishui one after another, so the Huangchao soldiers bloodlessly opened the way to march into the eastern capital Luoyang and the imperial capital Chang'an.
Later, the more Qi Kerang thought about it, the more ashamed he became, so he regrouped his army, returned to Luoyi, and saw that the Huangchao army was getting stronger and stronger, and decided to retreat to Tongguan to prevent the Huangchao from attacking Chang'an.
At that time, there was a big problem in front of Zikerang, that is, he had soldiers, but no food and grass. Zhang Chengfan sent Zhang Chengfan to lead an army to assist Qi Kerang, but Zhang Chengfan objected, saying: "The army has no supplies, so it can't fight." ”
Xi Zong said: "How can you be hungry, if you are hungry, who of you will give me a yellow nest, you can go with confidence, the food will arrive later." ”
Countless facts have proved that a person who is faced with an urgent need and wants you to help, he will agree to any request you make, even if you ask him for the stars in the sky, he will not hesitate to agree to you, especially a weak child like Xi Zong.
This time, of course, is no exception. On January 4, 881, Zhang Chengfan and Huang Chao's army arrived at Tongguan at the same time. Zikerang fought with the Yellow Nest for most of the morning, and at first he was able to repel the Yellow Nest.
But by noon, Zikrang's troops were crushed by hunger, and in the end he did not see any food as he had spoken. The soldiers fled to the valley known as the Forbidden Pit, trampled and destroyed the fortifications there, leaving Tongguan completely open to the rebels.
It seems that the project at the end of the Tang Dynasty was indeed not bad, although the bridge was collapsed by a car, but it was also a big truck, and the military facilities of the Tang Dynasty were actually trampled on, which is incredible. Qi Kerang had no choice but to flee, Zhang Chengfan persevered, but in the end he failed to hold it, and Huang Chao was finally able to capture Chang'an. In 886, Zikerang was expelled by Zhu Jin and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since. (To be continued......)