In July, the central army led by Zhang Jun came to Jinzhou (now Linfen, Shanxi), and although Zhang Jun accepted a bribe from Zhu Wen, he did not want Zhu Wen's power to grow, so he sent Sun Jun with 2,000 troops to "help" the Bian's army to defend Luzhou. Li Cunxiao learned that Sun Kuo was coming, and led 300 cavalry to ambush in the Valley of the Eldest Son. Sun Kui is also funny, holding the big cover and moving forward with great fanfare. In the Valley of the Eldest Son, he was defeated by Li Cunxiao in a battle and captured Sun Kui alive.

Li Cunxiao was very interesting, took Sun Kuo to the city of Luzhou, and greeted Ge Congzhou: "The imperial court has sent Sun Shangshu to Zhenluzhou, there is nothing to do with General Ge here, please go back to Bianzhou for tea." "Ge Congzhou is not a fool, of course he refuses. Li Cunxiao took Sun Kuo to Taiyuan, and Li Keyong wanted to persuade Sun Kuo to surrender, and promised to use Hedong as a vice-jiedu. Sun Kuan scolded Li Keyong: "I'm the son of heaven, how can I do anything to you Shatuo child!" ”

Li Ke was furious and ordered someone to kill Sun Kuo with a saw, and Sun Kuo laughed when he saw this: "Dead dog slave! Sawing people should be splinted, you are really the number one fool in the sky! Li Keyong was right to think about it, and found a wooden board and sawed Sun Kuan to death, and Sun Kuai scolded him to death.

In September of the first year of Tang Dashun (890 AD), the war became increasingly fierce and cruel, Youzhou Jiedu made Li Congwei and Yunzhou defense envoy Helian Duo and 30,000 Hu and Han soldiers attacked Yanmen (now Dai County, Shanxi), and were defeated and fled by Li Cunxin and Xue Atan of the Hedong Army. Li Ke used his strength to regain his strength and began a counterattack, asking Li Cunxiao to save Zezhou.

At this time, the Bianjun army was attacking Zezhou, and Li Fu loudly sarcastically mocked Li Hanzhi under the city: "Xianggong is willing to be Shatuo's lackey, and now the imperial court soldiers and horses are about to break through the east of the river, and the Shatuo people are beaten and have nowhere to hide, see where else can you escape?" Just as he was laughing, Li Cunxiao led five hundred brave Shatuo cavalry to roar and kill. scolded Bianjun: "I am the Shatuo man you are looking for who has nowhere to hide, and I will tell you clearly." I didn't eat today, and I plan to eat people. Pick some fat men. ”

The Bianjun was furious, Deng Jiyun jumped on his horse to fight, and Li Cunxiao's force index was unmatched in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, how could it be compared with Deng Jiyun? Several tricks to capture Deng Jiyun on the horse. The Bianjun army was in turmoil and fled at night, and Li Cunxiao pursued him all the way to Huaizhou, beheading more than 10,000 people. Then Li Cunxiao turned to attack Luzhou, Ge Congzhou and Zhu Chongjie heard that Li Fu and others had run away, and they didn't want to make Li Cunxiao's dumpling filling. Abandon the city and flee south. After recovering Luzhou, Li Keyong asked Kang Jun to defend Luzhou. When Zhu Wen heard that both roads were defeated, he was furious, and immediately beheaded Li Fu and Li Chongyin, and led the army to return to Bian.

Li Cunxiao saw that he had made a great contribution, but he let Kang Junli take advantage of it, and muttered to attack Jinzhou. Li Cunxiao was angry in his heart, and he didn't want to give Li Ke a real contribution, after defeating Han Jian. Li Cunxiao wrote to Zhang Jun: "Hurry up and get out of the city, otherwise you will be a real guy." "Zhang Jun is a smart man, and he can understand it at one point, and he led the army to escape back to Guanzhong.

Rick is unforgiving. The above table appealed: "The minister is not guilty, and the thief Zhang Jun colluded with Zhu Wen to leave the minister and His Majesty." Li Ye also knew that Li Keyong was more wronged, so he restored Li Keyong's official position and clan status. Later, Zhang Jun was demoted to Xiuzhou (now Guipingnan, Guangxi) as the household. A big battle that could have been a bang ended in a farce. Li Ye was angry and had nothing to say, he didn't want to fight. Zhang Jun must be beaten, and as a result, everyone will be embarrassed.

Since the court was useless, Zhu Wen simply came by himself. In October of the first year of Tang Dashun (890 AD), Zhu Wentun Bing Slipway (now Huaxian County, Henan). Zhu Wen first wrote to Luo Hongxin, the envoy of Wei Bo's army, intending to borrow some food, but the envoy was killed by Wei Bo's soldiers. Zhu Wen was angry: "What a dung rake looking for!" "Let Ding Hui go out of Liyang, Ge Congzhou out of Linhe, Pang Shigu out of Qimen (now Qimendu, Jun County, Henan), Huo Cun out of Wei County (now Wei County, Henan), Zhu Wen led the army to Luo Hongxin to ask for an explanation.

In the first month of the second year of Tang Dashun (891 AD), the two armies fought in Neihuang, and Wei Bo's army was defeated five times in a row, with tens of thousands of casualties, and the Bian's army went straight to Weizhou. When Luo Hongxin heard the defeat report, his soul was almost frightened. Hurriedly begged Zhu Wen for peace. Zhu Wen agreed, returned the Wei prisoners, Luo Hongxin was already splinted between Zhu Wen and Li Keyong, anyway, he had to offend the other, so he could only choose the one that posed the greatest threat to him. Zhu Wen showed off his might in the Wei Bo area and returned to Bianzhou.

At that time, the two major towns in the world, the Northern Jin Dynasty and the South Bian, were not convinced by each other, Zhu Wen had just dealt with Luo Hongxin, Li Keyong captured Yunzhou, defeated Helian Duo, and Li Ke used Shi Shanyou as the defense envoy of Datong. However, for Zhu Wen, there is still no way to use Li Ke now, so he can only pick some soft persimmons first. Among Zhu Wen's neighbors, Shi Pu is the weakest, and Zhu Wen will certainly not let Shi Pu go.

In August, Zhu Wen sent Ding Hui to attack Suzhou, which was taken over by Shi Pu, and Ding Hui sent water to irrigate the city and forced Zhang Yun, the assassin of Suzhou, to surrender. The momentum of the Bianjun was greatly boosted, and heroes from all walks of life in Xuzhou came to surrender Zhu Wen, including the famous general Liu Zhijun. Shi Pu had no way to live at this time, so he could only wait for death in pain.

Zhu Wen was thinking about how to eat Shi Pu, Zhu Xuan stretched out his idle legs to join in the fun, in December, Zhu Xuan asked his brother Zhu Jin to lead 30,000 troops to attack Shan Father (now Shan County, Shandong). Zhu Wen hurriedly sent Ding Hui to deal with Zhu Jin, and the Yanzhou army was almost wiped out by the Bianjun army in Jinxiang (now Jinxiang, Shandong), and only Zhu Jin escaped like a single. Zhu Wen felt that Zhu Xuan's brothers were always a scourge, so he got rid of Shi Pu and went all out to deal with Zhu Xuan.

In the first month of the first year of Tang Jingfu (892 AD), Zhu Wen led a large army to conquer Zhu Xuan, and let his eldest son Zhu Youyu fight against the army. Zhu Xuan knew that Zhu Wen was powerful, so he didn't dare to provoke Zhu Wen, so he went to greet Master Zhu first. Zhu Xuan brought more than 10,000 horsemen to attack Zhu Youyu at night. Zhu Youyu was unprepared and folded for a while. Zhu Wen heard that his son was in trouble, and hurriedly sent a large army to rescue him. Zhu Wen didn't know that Zhu Youyu had already run away at this time, and when he came to Doumen, he found the Yunzhou army, and Zhu Wen ordered to hunt down Zhu Xuan.

The Yunzhou army retreated to the Guhe River, but unfortunately it did not catch up, so it had to temporarily stay in the village, and happened to meet Zhu Youyu, who also retreated here. Zhu Wen felt sorry for his son and asked Zhu Youyu to follow him. Not long after, Zhu Xuan led the army to kill him, and the two armies fought. There were more cavalry in Yunzhou, and they attacked the Bianjun army back and forth, and the Bianjun army was slightly unfavorable. Zhu Wen ran south, but was discovered by the sharp-eyed Yun army, captured the thief first, and killed Zhu Wen directly.

Zhu Wen frightened the horse and fled, there was a big ditch in front, fortunately there was firewood piled up by the villagers in the ditch, Zhu Wen stepped on the horse and stepped on the firewood to escape across the ditch. Zhang Guihou, the general of the Bianjun army, counterattacked the Yun army after the big lance was broken, and Zhu Wen escaped, but Li Fan and others of the Bianjun army died in battle.

The strength of the Bianjun army was not damaged by small setbacks. In November, Zhu Wen asked Zhu Youyu to attack Puzhou (present-day northern Juancheng, Shandong). Broke the city in a battle and captured Puzhou Confucianism. Get Puzhou. Zhu Wen was able to encircle the Yanyun area where Zhu Xuan was entrenched. Zhu Xuan knew that Zhu Wen was not easy to deal with, so he was much more honest, so Zhu Wen freed his hand and moved his army east to capture Xuzhou.

Zhu Wen's pain is Li Keyong's greatest happiness, and Li Keyong's shame and humiliation of Uehara Station will never be forgotten, but Zhu Wen is so easy to destroy, Zhu Wen still wants to destroy him. Li Keyong also has a lot of neighbors around him, Li Congwei from Youzhou, Wang Rong from Zhaozhou, and Wang Chucun from Dingzhou, all of whom are ambitious. There is no noodle melon. But before Li Keyong could do anything to them, a fire broke out in his backyard, and it was Li Cunxiao who lit the fire.

The previous time Li Cunxiao had a meritorious service in saving Luzhou, but he only got a Pizhou assassination history, and he was extremely dissatisfied and secretly plotted against Li Keyong. In addition, Li Cunxin, the school of Fan Han and Mabu, repeatedly framed Li Cunxiao in front of Li Keyong, and Li Cunxin's degree of favor gradually surpassed that of Li Cunxiao, so Li Cunxiao was particularly disappointed in Li Keyong and mixed up with this kind of person. In the end, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape a rabbit and a dead dog.

After Li Cunxiao was reappointed as Xing Weiliu, he had the land of Xing, Wei, and Cizhou, and felt that he had the ability to fly alone. In October of the first year of Jingfu (892 AD), Li Cunxiao paid Wang Rong and Zhu Wen to envoy Zhu Wen. Relying on it as a backup, it will return to Chang'an again, and please return to the imperial court with Xing Weici Sanzhou. Li Ye has more territory in three states. Naturally, I was happy to worship Li Cunxiao as the envoy of Xing Wei's magnetic festival. Li Keyong learned that Li Cunxiao actually dared to fornicate with Wang Rong and Zhu Wen to rebel. Shocked and angry.

In February of the second year of Tang Jingfu (893 AD), Li Ke used the name of Wang Rong to privately accept rebellion. The elite of Dafa Hedong came to attack Wang Rong. When the Hedong army attacked Tianchang Town (now Jingjingxi, Hebei), Wang Rong sent 30,000 Zhao troops to fight. The Hedong Army defeated the Zhao army at the foot of the Qiri Ridge and beheaded 10,000 people. Because of years of war, the people fled in all directions, and they could not collect military rations, so the Hedong army had to pickle the dead to satisfy their hunger. After eating human flesh, the Hedong Army was in good spirits and came straight to Zhenzhou.

Li Cunxiao led his headquarters into Zhenzhou and defended the city with Wang Rong. However, there was a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and Wang Rong hurriedly asked Zhu Wen for help. At this time, Zhu Wen was trying his best to deal with Shi Pu, and he really couldn't spare his hand, so he wrote a letter to scare Li Keyong: "Tiger Brigade 100,000, stay here, as long as you dare to come, be careful of your dog's head." Li Keyong knew that Zhu Wen was fooling him, and replied and scolded: "Splash skin! Don't fool your master. There are really 100,000 soldiers, I found out earlier, don't talk nonsense, if you really have the ability, then come over and fight to the death. ”

Wang Rong saw that Zhu Wen was not in trouble, so he had to turn to Youzhou Jiedu to make Li Congwei ask for help. The town and the secluded are each other's lips and teeth, and they immediately led troops to save Wang Rong. As soon as Li Congwei came out of Youzhou, his baby brother Li Kuangchou occupied Youzhou and proclaimed himself the queen of Youzhou. Li Congwei once raped his brother-in-law Zhang after drinking, so Li Kuangchou hated his brother so much that he took advantage of the situation to cut off his brother's back road.

Li Keyong learned that Li Congwei was a mouse, so he had to withdraw his army. Li Congwei had a life-saving grace for Wang Rong, and Wang Rong did not forget him, and sent Li Congwei back to Youzhou with a generous salary of 200,000 gold silks. Li Congwei had just arrived in Shenzhou (now Shenxian County, Hebei), and a thunderbolt came from the sunny day, and Li Congwei almost fainted, scolding his younger brother for being shameless and indecent (you are not more shameful than Li Kuangchou). There is nowhere to go, what to do, Li Congwei has no choice but to go to the imperial court and return to Chang'an.

Because Li Congwei's reputation is too stinky, the people of Chang'an heard that Li Congwei was coming, and they all exclaimed: "The Golden-headed Demon King is here!" "They fled to the valley for refuge. The court naturally didn't like this evil star, ignoring him, Li Congwei became a stray dog, crying, Wang Rong knew the situation, felt that Li Congwei was still of some use, at least to help him defend the city, so he sent someone to welcome Li Congwei into Zhenzhou to enjoy happiness. Li Congwei went to Zhenzhou in shame, Wang Rong was very polite, and with his father's courtesy, Wang Rong was only seventeen years old this year.

Li Congwei saved Wang Rong, Wang Rong naturally wanted to treat Li Congwei well, of course, if Zhu Wen had to send troops at that time, Li Congwei might not have fallen into this step. If it weren't for Zhu Wen's fact that Shi Pu was still entrenched in Xuzhou, he would have gone over to save Wang Rong, Zhu Wen knew very well that with the strength of Hedong, if he won the German army again, Zhu Wen would have more difficulty fighting Li Keyong in the future, so Zhu Wen had to capture Xuzhou as quickly as possible. The eldest son Zhu Youyu was ordered to besiege Xuzhou, Shi Pu contacted Zhu Xuan to come to the rescue, Zhu Xuan sent Zhu Jin to rescue Shi Pu, just arrived in Xuzhou and was beaten back by the Bianjun, Zhu Youyu in order to preserve his strength, Zhu Jin fled.

Zhu Wen's righteous son Zhu Yougong reported Zhu Youyu to let Zhu Jin go, Zhu Wen was furious and sent someone to transfer Pang Shigu to replace Zhu Youyu, and then prepared to punish Zhu Youyu severely. Unexpectedly, the person who delivered the letter actually passed the order to Zhu Youyu, Zhu Youyu knew his father's temper, and once he was more serious, the king of heaven would not be able to save him. Frightened, he fled to Dangshan with 2,000 cavalry and hid in the house of his eldest uncle Zhu Quanyu. The matter was heard by Mrs. Zhu Wen's Zhang, and Mrs. Zhang felt sorry for her son, so she sent her own people to Dangshan to call her son back, and asked Zhu Youyu to admit his mistake to his father.

Zhu Youyu had the support of his mother, so he dared to return to Bianzhou, and cried on the ground to plead guilty. Zhu Wen was angry and ordered someone to launch and behead. Mrs. Zhang was so anxious that she didn't even have time to put on her shoes, so she ran to the hall barefoot, hugged Zhu Youyu and cried: "If you are afraid of death, do you dare to come back?" Being single and pleading, it can be seen that you have absolutely no objection. This is obviously said to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen thinks about it, and it is true, Zhu Youyu really wants to rebel, and he will never dare to come back, plus the nature of father and son, the relationship between husband and wife is here, so he has to give up and come out of Zhu Youyu for Xuzhou.

Zhu Wen started to take Shi Pu two years ago, and until now, he still hasn't taken it down, Zhu Wen doesn't want to wait any longer, he has a lot of dreams at night. In April of the second year of Tang Jingfu (893 AD), Zhu Wen ordered Pang Shigu to hurry up and do it. Shi Pu has been fighting with Zhu Wen in recent years, but the more he fights, the more wilted he becomes. Shi Pu lowered his face and asked Zhu Wen for peace, Zhu Wen and Shi Pu had no personal grudges, all he wanted was Xuzhou. Zhu Wen told Shi Pu: "I can not kill you, but you must leave Xuzhou and let the imperial court arrange a place for you." ”

In April, Shi Pu agreed to Zhu Wen's conditions, Zhu Wen reported to the imperial court, and Li Ye came to Xuzhou with the prime minister Liu Chongwang. But Shi Pu then regretted it, feeling that Zhu Wen was too unreliable, if he went out of the city and fell into Zhu Wen's hands, what if Zhu Wen turned his face? Shi Pu refused to leave the city, Liu Chongwang got the news and returned to Chang'an. Zhu Wen took the opportunity to attack the city, Niu Cunjie and Wang Chongshi broke through Xuzhou City at night, and Shi Pu and his wife boarded the Swallow Tower and set themselves on fire to death. Since then, Xuzhou has become Zhu Wen's territory, and Zhu Wen transferred Songzhou (now Shangqiu, Henan) to assassinate Zhang Tingfan as the queen of the probation army.

Xuzhou is an important town in the world, since ancient times there is a saying that "those who get Xuzhou get the world", Zhu Wen got Xuzhou, not only expanded his strategic depth, ensured the absolute security of Bianzhou, but also surrounded Zhu Xuan from the flank, and counted in one fell swoop. (To be continued......)