On the third day of the ninth lunar month, Zhu Youqi ordered Kang Huaiying to be the envoy of the Hezhong Capital, and Han Qing was the deputy commander to attack Zhu Youqian. Kang Huaiying and Niu Cunjie joined forces with 50,000 troops to garrison the west of Hezhong City and urgently attacked the city.

Li Cunxuan sent the Ninth Taibao Li Cunxian, the Seventh Taibao Li Sien, and Li Siqiu to lead the army to the rescue. The Liang army resisted and was defeated by the Jin army.

Soon, Kang Huaiying and others organized the siege of the city again, at this time it was already winter, Li Cunqiao led the army from Zelu himself, encountered Kang Huaiying in Xie County, broke the Liang army, beheaded more than 1,000 people, and chased until Baijingling did not stop. The Liang soldiers broke the siege and retreated to Shaanzhou for defense.

Zhu Youqian only took dozens of entourages, all in civilian clothes, without weapons, and personally went to the Jin army camp to thank him, and worshiped Li Cunqiao as his uncle.

Li Cunmiao was very happy, and there was a big banquet, and Zhu Youqian was drunk at the banquet. Li Cunqiao left him to live in the barracks, and Zhu Youqian slept peacefully, snoring freely. After Li Cunmiao looked at it carefully, he said to the people around him: "King Ji is really a nobleman, but it is a pity that his arms are short-eared. ”

Besides, Yang Shihou has always looked down on Zhu Youqi, but since he occupied Wei Bo, he has also served as the generalissimo of the sweeping north, and the soldiers around him are strong and strong, and the fierce generals are like clouds, and he doesn't take Zhu Youqi as a little doll in his eyes.

When dealing with problems, they often do their own thing and do not report it. Zhu Youqi was very worried that Yang Shihou's tail would not fall, so he issued an edict inviting Yang Shihou to enter Beijing, under the pretext of "discussing with him face-to-face the major military aircraft in the north." Yang Shihou was about to set off, and his henchmen persuaded him: "This is more than lucky, and it is better not to go, otherwise you will definitely suffer an accident." ”

Yang Shihou sneered and said, "For more than 20 years, I have helped the Zhu family fight the world, and there is no place to be sorry for them. If I don't go now, won't it prove that I am selfish? What kind of person is the emperor. I know it. He won't do anything to me. ”

So, Yang Shihou went very calmly. Of course, he didn't go alone. Instead, it was followed by a group of younger brothers, of course, the number of people was not very large, and there were tens of thousands of people.

When Zhu Youqi heard that Yang Shihou was here, and he also brought a group of younger brothers, his face changed greatly, and he regretted it in his heart, why did he invite him to the capital if he had nothing to do, this is good. It's a big deal. However, Yang Shihou was still worthy of his name, he was more kind, and when he walked to the city gate, he ordered the army to obey orders outside the city, and he only brought more than a dozen followers in

Zhu Youqi breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart finally fell into his stomach again, this time he didn't dare to play tricks anymore, and he was sweet again. It was a reward of gold and silver, pretending to be like a grandson, and after Yang Shihou ate and drank well, he took it well, and then burped and hummed a little song and left. Looking at the back of Master Yang, Zhu Youqi wiped the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Oh, mom." Finally gone. ”

King Yama can't afford to provoke it, and the little ghost should still be able to touch it. Zhu Youqi didn't know which tendon didn't match. He also sent Zhao Yan and Yuan Xiang to inspect Daliang first. Zhao Yan is Zhao Li's son and Zhu Wen's son-in-law. And Yuan Xiangxian is Zhu Wen's nephew.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen was stationed in Daliang, Zhu Youzhen was the sister-in-law of Zhu Wen and Empress Yuanzhen Zhang Hui, after Zhu Wen became emperor, he was named the king of Jun, and served as the military envoy of Zuo Tianxing and the commander of the Mabu army in Tokyo. In the second year of Liang Qianhua (912), after Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, Zhu Youzhen was appointed as the left-behind guard in Tokyo and Kaifeng Yin.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen was also quite suspicious of the cause of Zhu Wen's death. So he set up a banquet at home to entertain Zhao Yan, and when the wine was hot, he quietly said to Zhao Yan: "You and I are close relatives of Uncle Lang, you might as well tell each other bluntly, the first emperor died, there are many rumors outside, you are on an errand in the inner court, you should know the details, what is going on, please don't hide it anymore?" ”

Zhao Yan cried and replied: "Even if you don't ask, I have to say that the first evil person is really Zhu Youqi alone, and the ministers in the court have no military power and cannot crusade, so they can only count on the vassal kings outside." ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "I have long had this intention, but I don't have a right-hand man, how should this be?" Zhao Yan said: "Now the other towns have strong troops and hold great power, and there is no more than Yang Linggong of Weizhou, as long as he can say a word, the rebellion will be considered a success." Zhu Youzhen thought so, so he sent his henchman Ma Shen to Weizhou to contact Yang Shihou, tell him the truth of the matter, and said: "Although King Ying temporarily succeeded in usurping the throne, no one obeyed inside and outside the court, and King Jun is the desire of the people. ”

Ma Shen also promised that after the deed was completed, he would give 500,000 yuan to reward Yang Shihou's army. Yang Shihou convened his subordinates to discuss countermeasures and said: "At that time, King Ying killed his father and usurped the throne, and I couldn't recruit him in time, and now that the status of the monarch and minister has been decided, there is no reason to crusade against him, is this feasible?" Some of the generals under him said: "King Ying's great rebellion, killing his father and usurping the throne, is a sinner of the country,

Everyone has to be punished, and now the king is the first to raise a righteous army to rebel against revenge, this is a righteous thing, you follow the justice to levy the national thief, where is there any monarch and minister to worry about!

If you wait until King Jun's side succeeds in breaking the thief, what face will you have to meet him? Yang Shihou suddenly realized: "I almost delayed the big thing. So he sent his henchman Wang Shunxian to Luoyang, secretly planned with Yuan Xiangxian, and at the same time sent Zhu Hanbin to lead the army to be stationed in Huazhou as an external response.

Earlier, Zhu Youqi had sent 3,000 people from Long Xiang's army to Huaizhou to strengthen the defense, but there was turmoil on the way, and Long Xiang's army robbed the people along the way. Zhu Youqi immediately sent troops to levy, and soon defeated the rebels, captured the leader Liu Chong alive, and beheaded him.

However, this matter did not end here, in order to cut the grass and root out the roots and establish his authority, Zhu Youqi searched for rebels everywhere, and annihilated their entire clan after being caught, and the noise did not stop for more than a year. At that time, there was still a part of the Longxiang army guarding the main beam, and Zhu Youqi ordered them to be requisitioned into Beijing to defend.

Zhu Youzhen seized this God-given opportunity and provoked them and said: "Today, because of the rebellion of the Huaizhou Longxiang Army, I now plan to settle accounts after the autumn, and I am ready to transfer you to the capital and bury them all alive. ”

The soldiers were very scared and did not know what to do. Then, Zhu Youzhen reported to Zhu Youzhen that the soldiers of the Long Xiang Army refused to enter Beijing because of suspicion and fear. At this time, General Long Xiang begged to see Zhu Youzhen, with a handful of snot and tears, crying and begging him to save his life.

Zhu Youzhen said: "The first emperor and you have been fighting in the north and south for more than 30 years to lay down such a country. Now the first emperor has been victimized by traitors. How can you survive death? After that, Zhu Youzhen took out Zhu Wen's portrait and showed them it.

cried and said: "As long as you can go to Luoyang to take revenge, you can turn disaster into blessing." "Of course it's good to be alive. So the soldiers all enthusiastically shouted long live, asking Zhu Youzhen to issue them weapons to go to battle, and Zhu Youzhen happily met their request.

On the morning of February 17, 913, Yuan Xiangxian and others led thousands of forbidden troops to suddenly enter the palace. When Zhu Youqi heard that there had been a mutiny, he hurriedly ran to the bottom of the tower of the north city wall with his wife Zhang and his henchman Feng Tingge, preparing to escape across the city.

But thinking that even if he left the capital, there was nowhere to escape, so he ordered Feng Tingge to kill his wife first and then himself. After Feng Tingge did so, he also committed suicide by wiping his neck.

At that time, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses from all walks of life robbed in the capital, hundreds of officials of the imperial court scattered and fled, Zhongshu Shilang, Tongping Zhangshi Du Xiao, and Shishu Li Ting were all killed by the rebels, and the subordinate Shilang, Tongping Zhangshi Yu Jing, and Xuanzheng Li Zhen were also injured by the rebels. It wasn't until it was dark that the capital fell silent.

Yuan Xiangxian and Zhao Yan came to Daliang to greet Zhu Youzhen with the jade seal of the country, and Zhu Youzhen said: "Daliang is the country's entrepreneurial place, and it would be good to ascend the throne here." There is no need to go to Luoyang again! So, Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne and became emperor in Daliang, and at the same time posthumously abolished Zhu Youzhen as a concubine and restored all the titles of Zhu Youwen, the king of Bo.

Zhu Youzhen sent someone to appease Zhu Youqian again. Zhu Youqian then rejoined the Liang Dynasty. The country is still the same, just a new person, will Zhu Youzhen be the master of Zhongxing to revitalize the rivers and mountains?

Changes in Weizhou

March 915. Yang Shihou died. In the years leading up to his death, he had done a few things.

November 912. When Yang Shihou was summoned to Luoyang to meet Zhu Youqi, Zhao General Wang Deming took advantage of the master's absence. sent 30,000 troops to capture Yang Shihou's Zongcheng in Linqing. Yang Shihou learned the news on the way back to the army, and directly led his troops to the front line, and at the same time transferred troops to punish the generals, ambushed the troops in Tangdian, broke the Zhao army, and beheaded more than 5,000 people.

After the battle of Baixiang, the morale of the Liang army was damaged, and the color changed when talking about Shatuo, and Zhao Junhu pretended to be a tiger, scratching a paw of Liang Guo from time to time, seeing that Liang Guo did not react, and then scratching a claw, which made Liang Jun very annoyed. In April 913, Yang Shihou was furious, and Liu Shouqi led an army of 100,000 to invade Zhao State, and the army reached the city of Zhenzhou, burned houses, and wreaked havoc, and then transferred troops to attack Gaocheng and Shulu, until they reached Shenzhou, and did not collect troops back to the city until they reached Shenzhou.

In July 914, Li Cunqiao sent Zhou Dewei and Li Sizhao to invade Xingzhou together with Wang Rong, the king of Zhao. Yang Shihou led the army to the rescue and was stationed on the east bank of Zhangshui to confront the Jin army.

Later, the Jin army retreated without a fight, and the Liang army also withdrew and returned to the city, and the two sides entered a phase of stalemate. In August, Li Cunqiao returned to Taiyuan, and the war between the two sides came to an end.

As the mainstay of the Liang army in the post-Zhuwen period, through the unremitting efforts of Comrade Lao Yang, the Liang army finally got out of the psychological barrier of the siege of Luzhou and the battle of Baixiang to see the Jin army fleeing after hearing the news.

It stands to reason that the death of a pillar of the country like Yang Shihou is a huge loss to the country, and the whole country should weep bitterly, and then hold a grand memorial service for Comrade Yang.

At the same time, it launched an upsurge of activities to learn from Comrade Yang Shihou throughout the country, and sent a group to report on Comrade Yang Shihou's advanced deeds to tour the country.

But the reality is that the court is full of joy and joy. The reason is also that Yang Shihou relied on his high power in his later years, often looted money without authorization, and selected thousands of brave and warlike soldiers in the army, equipped with silver guns, and formed a silver spear army, which is the so-called tooth army and Yang Shihou's pro-army.

Although Zhu Youzhen treated him politely on the surface, he was very jealous in his heart, and over time, jealousy generated resentment, resentment and then grew teeth, it is estimated that Zhu Youzhen would draw a circle and curse Yang Shihou several times every day when he was fine.

Now that Lao Yang is dead, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, my mother, is finally dead, so he privately accepted the courtiers' celebration in the palace. Zhao Yan and Shao Zan took the opportunity to say to Zhu Youzhen: "The reason why Wei Bo became the heart of the Tang Dynasty is that

For more than 200 years, it has not been able to eradicate it because of its vast land and strong soldiers. Luo Shaowei and Yang Shihou occupied there successively, and the imperial court could not control it. If Your Majesty does not take advantage of the present to solve this problem, when will it be? This is the truth of the saying 'if you are not strict, you will be reunited', how do we know that Yang Shihou's successor will not learn from him?

Now we should divide the six states of Webber into two towns, thus weakening it. Zhu Youzhen slapped her thigh after hearing this, and said happily: "That's right, I think so too." So the two sides hit it off, and soon issued an order: appoint Hedelun, the envoy of the Pinglu Jiedu, as the envoy of the Tianxiong Jiedu;

Set up the Zhaode Army in Xiangzhou, divide the two prefectures of Bo and Wei under its jurisdiction, and then appoint Zhang Yun, the envoy of Xuanhui, as the envoy of the Zhaode Army, and divide half of the Weizhou soldiers and the treasury to Xiangzhou. After the order was issued, He Zhang and Zhang took office separately.

The imperial court was still worried that the Wei people would not be satisfied, and sent Kaifeng Yin Liu Cheng to lead 60,000 troops to Weizhou, under the name of crusading against Zhending and Ding, which was actually a bluff situation that threatened the Wei people. Weibo's army has always been a father-son inheritance, and for hundreds of years, it has formed a tradition.

is either a clan or an in-law, the relationship is intertwined, and they are all in a relationship with each other. Here, Hedrun is like a trafficker, pulling and urging constantly, and over there Weibo people sigh and cry.

Soon after, Liu Yan led his troops to garrison Nanle, and sent Wang Yanzhang, the assassin of Lanzhou, to lead 500 Longxiang cavalry into Weizhou and stationed Jinbo Pavilion.

Wang Yanzhang's ancestral home is Shouzhang County, Yunzhou, and he joined the army since he was a child and served under Zhu Wen's account. Wang Yanzhang has two iron spears, each weighing more than 100 catties, one hangs in the saddle during the battle, one is held in the hand, the horse runs like flying when charging into battle, and an iron spear also dances like flying, cutting the pass and breaking the base, invincible. It is said that when Wang Yanzhang was recruited into the army, there were hundreds of people who joined the army at the same time.

Wang Yanzhang said: "Brothers, I'll be your boss", everyone disagreed, and said disdainfully: "Why! What kind of green onion is you, Wang Yanzhang, who just came out of the mountains and grasses, and wanted to be our boss, it's too self-conscious! ”

When Wang Yanzhang heard this, he ignored them, and said directly to the chief general present at the time: "I am born with a strong spirit, and I feel that you are indeed inferior to me, so I asked to be your captain, and then kill the enemy together and make meritorious contributions." I didn't expect you to be so unappreciative, but instead talk aggressively and hurt my feelings. It seems that you will not be convinced unless you open your eyes.

Originally, as a man, he would talk about life and death, but today is not in front of the two armies, I will show you the kung fu on my feet first" Everyone thought he was going to perform light skills, but they didn't expect him to just drag his shoes and walk barefoot on the ground covered with thistles three or five times, and from time to time he stimulated everyone and said: "Don't accept two steps?" When everyone saw that there was nothing on Wang Yanzhang's feet, they couldn't help but be shocked, this really can't come.

After Zhu Wen heard about it, he also regarded Wang Yanzhang as a god. Because of his outstanding military achievements, Wang Yanzhang was reused by Zhu Wen. After Zhu Youzhen seized power, Wang Yanzhang was appointed as the commander of the Puzhou Assassin and Ma Bujun in 913. In the following year, he moved to the history of the assassin of Lanzhou and was named the "founding uncle". (To be continued......)