Li Keyong climbed the city wall, with only a few cronies around him, so he came out of the city. In this battle, Li Keyong lost more than 300 horses. And Yang Yanhong, who arranged the siege scene, was greedy for merit, and saw that Li Keyong was about to break out of the encirclement, so Pegasus went to chase him, but at this time, Zhu Wen just arrived at the scene, took him as Li Keyong, pulled the bow and shot an arrow, hit the red heart, and Yang Yanhong was killed on the spot. After returning to the camp, Li Ke used some soldiers and horses to take revenge.

Mrs. Liu stopped him and said: "There is no way for the people to be unreasonable, you should appeal to the imperial court, if you raise troops to meet each other without permission now, the people of the world will not be able to distinguish right from wrong." Li Keyu sent a letter to Zhu Wen, questioning Zhu Wen,

Zhu Wen said with a confused face: "Ah, you said what happened the night before, I was also in the dark, it was a conspiracy between the imperial court and Yang Yanhong, Yang Yanhong has killed himself, I hope you can see what happens." Of course, the imperial court has no way to deal with this matter, so it has to be resolved, but since then, Hedong Li Keyong and Xuanwu Zhu Wen have become incompatible enemies, and since then, the two families have faced each other and competed for power.

In the third year of Qianning (896), Zhu Wen attacked Yan and Yun, and Li Keyong sent Li Cunxin to rescue Zhu Xuan through Weizhou. Li Cunxin garrisoned Shen County, the army disturbed the people and plundered in Weizhou, Wei Bojiedu made Luo Hongxin very angry, ambushed the troops to attack Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin was defeated and retreated to Zhouzhou.

Li Ke led a large army to attack Weizhou, and sent his son Li Luoluo to lead an army of 3,000 to Huanshui, Ge Congzhou fought with him, Luoluo was defeated, Ge Congzhou captured Luo Jinxian alive, Li Ke was frightened with grief, and asked to restore the original friendly relationship to redeem his son, Zhu Wen did not allow it, and handed Luoluo to Luo Hongxin, Luo Hongxin then killed him.

In the first year of Guanghua (898), Zhu Wen sent Ge from Zhou to capture the three states of Xing, Wei and Ci. Li Keyong sent Zhou Dewei to send troops to Qingshankou, Zhou Dewei. The word Zhenyuan, nicknamed Yangwu, is a native of Mayi, Shuozhou (now Shuo County, Shanxi). week

Dewei met Ge Congzhou at Zhanggongqiao, and Zhou Dewei was defeated. In the winter of the same year, Xue Zhiqin, the defender of Luzhou, died, and Li Hanzhi took over Luzhou. and defected to Zhu Wen.

In the second year of Guanghua, Zhu Wen sent Shucong to break through the Chengtian army, and then broke through Liaozhou, reached Yuci, and approached Taiyuan. Among the generals, there was a man named Chen Zhang, nicknamed "Yaksha", just listening to the nickname, I also knew that this person fought more fiercely, and he made many achievements in the battle with the southern warlords.

At that time, in order to encourage morale, Zhu Wen ordered the three armies: "Whoever can capture Zhou Yang and the five will be rewarded with the post of assassination." Chen Zhang said to his uncle: "The Jin army is only fighting Zhou Yangwu alone. I'm willing to catch him and make a stab at him. So Chen Zhang looked for an opportunity to fight Zhou Dewei in front of the battle.

He deliberately rode a white horse and wore red armor, which looked particularly eye-catching, and he didn't put the famous Zhou Dewei in his eyes at all.

It seems that Zhou Dewei is already in his bag. After Li Keyong learned that Chen Zhang was looking for Zhou Dewei everywhere, he reminded him: "Chen Yasha is going to exchange you for the assassination history, you should be careful." Zhou Dewei smiled and said: "I don't know who killed the deer." ”

The next day. When the two armies fought again, Zhou Dewei warned his subordinates: "If you see Chen Yasha on the battlefield. But you have to pretend to flee,

I'll deal with him. Zhou Dewei changed into a soldier's outfit and asked his subordinates to come forward to challenge, and when Chen Zhang led the troops to chase after him, his subordinates pretended to be defeated and retreated, luring Chen Zhang over. Before Chen Zhang came back to his senses. Zhou Dewei has come out from behind,

With a hammer, Chen Yasha was knocked off his horse, captured him alive, and shocked the three armies. Therefore, you must be low-key. People who are too dragged may die a miserable death. In the autumn of the same year, Li Sizhao once again captured Ze and Lu Erzhou.

In the third year of Guanghua, Li Sizhao defeated the Bianjun army at Shahe and captured Zhouzhou again. Zhu Wen personally led his troops to surround Li Sizhao, Li Sizhao was defeated and fled to Qingshankou, where he was ambushed by the Bianjun army, and Li Sizhao was defeated.

In the autumn of the same year, Li Sizhao captured Huaizhou. In the same year, the Bianjun army attacked Zhen and Dingerzhou, and both Zhenzhou and Dingerzhou were separated from Hedong and attached to Zhuwen.

In the first year of Tianfu (901), Zhu Wen was named King of Liang. Zhu Wen captured Jinzhou, Jiangzhou, and Hezhong, and captured Wang Ke back. Li Keyong lost three allies one after another, so he wrote a letter to send money to Zhu Wen to ask for peace. Zhu Wen thought that Hedong was no longer vulnerable and could be captured quickly, so he said that the wording of Hedong's document was arrogant and rude, and then led the army to attack. In April, Shi Shucong entered the patio,

Zhang Wenjing entered Xinkou, Ge Congzhou entered Tumen, Wang went straight into Flying Fox, and Hou Yan entered the underworld. Shi Shucong seized Ze and Lu, his deputy general Bai Fengguo broke through the Chengtian army, Liaozhou defender Zhang E, and Fenzhou defender Li Jiao all welcomed the Liang army to surrender, and the people of Jin were panicked for a while.

At this time, food and grass were scarce, and it rained heavily, and many soldiers in the army contracted malaria, so Zhu Wen withdrew and went back. In May, the Hedong Army recaptured Fenzhou and killed Li Jin. In June, Zhou Dewei and Li Sizhao captured Ci and Xi prefectures.

In the second year, the Hedong Army attacked Jin and Jiang'er Prefectures and was defeated in Puxian. Zhu Wen's army took advantage of the victory to capture the three prefectures of Fen, Ci and Xi, and besieged Taiyuan. Li Keyong was greatly panicked, planning to flee to Yunzhou, and wanted to flee to the Xiongnu, but hesitated for a while. At this time, the Liang army had another large-scale epidemic and retreated, and Zhou Dewei recaptured the three prefectures of Fen, Ci and Xi again.

The road is long, although in the championship, Li Keyong has repeatedly been at a disadvantage, and the victory seems to be far away, but fortunately, this time, he has survived again.

Battle for Zhaozong

As mentioned above, as soon as Emperor Xizong ascended the throne, he made Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue, the two eunuchs who supported him, dukes. Liu Xingshen is very loyal, but he has an unfaithful adopted son - Liu Jishu. In the first year of Wende, Liu Jishu conspired with Yang Fugong to support Tang Zhaozong Li Ye as emperor.

Although Tang Zhaozong was established by eunuchs, he was very reluctant to eunuchs in his heart, so he relied on the power of courtiers and feudal towns to repeatedly weaken the power of eunuchs. However, there is a key force that has always been firmly in the hands of the eunuchs, and this force is the Shence Army, which was served by Liu Jishu and Wang Zhongxian as lieutenants at that time.

The Shence Army was originally a frontier army in the northwest. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), the Shence army was placed in Mohuanchuan in Taozhou (now Lintan, Gansu), with Cheng Ruxuan as the military envoy, commanding the army to garrison the border and contain the Tibetan. At this time, the Shence Army was still just a place name, a military stronghold on the border of the Tang Dynasty.

During the Anshi Rebellion, Cheng Ruxuan sent Wei Boyu to lead more than 1,000 people to the Central Plains to participate in the war. Participated in the battle of Xiangzhou, which besieged An Qingxu (son of An Lushan). After the defeat of Yecheng in Jiujiedu, Wei Boyu and the eunuch Junrong made Yu Chaoen retreat to Shaanzhou.

At this time. The hometown of the Shence Army has been occupied by Tibet, but the army under the command of Wei Boyu still uses the name of the Shence Army, and uses Wei Boyu as the soldier and horse. Later, Wei Boyu entered the court,

This army was under the command of Guo Yingyi, who was commanded by Guo Yingyi, and then Guo Yingyi entered the court, and the Shence Army was under the commander of Yu Chaoen. Thereafter. Yu Chaoen incorporated the army under the jurisdiction of the Shaanzhou Jiedu into the Shence Army, expanding it to an army of tens of thousands of people.

In the first year of Guangde (763), Tubo invaded Chang'an, the forbidden army was defeated, Daizong went to Shaanzhou, Yu Chaoen led this army to protect Daizong, after the Beijing division was pacified, Yu Chaoen led the Shence army to return to Da Nei.

In the first year of Yongtai (765), the Tubo army attacked Guanzhong again. The Shence Army was then stationed in the garden, divided into left and right compartments, and officially became the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven. In the fifth year of the Great Calendar (770), Yu Chaoen was killed for his crimes, and for more than ten years, the generals of his army were used as soldiers and horses.

In the fourth year of Jianzhong (783), Tang Dezong took Si Yiqing Bai Zhizhen as his envoy, but suddenly encountered the "change of Jing Pawn", and Dezong fled. Afterwards. Dezong thought that the civil and military officials could not be trusted, so. In the first year of Xingyuan (784), he ordered the eunuchs to lead the Shence army and serve as soldiers and horses for the left and right compartments.

In the second year of Zhenyuan (786), the left and right compartments of the gods were changed to the left and right gods of the army. In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan (796), he was placed as a lieutenant of the left and right Shence Army. In the Shence Army, the Guardian Lieutenant is the supreme commander. The Divine Counsel and the Commanders are subject to its control.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the other Jin armies existed in name only, and the Shence Army became the main force of the Central Forbidden Army, so the so-called Forbidden Army actually refers to the Shence Army. After the twelfth year of Zhenyuan. Eunuchs in charge of the forbidden army became the basic national policy of the country.

Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the commander-in-chief of the forbidden army was always firmly controlled by the eunuch group, and most of the generals of the Shence Army were filled by those loyal to the eunuchs.

Zhaozong showed his sword and successively got rid of eunuchs such as Yang Fugong, Jing Wuxiu, and Song Daobi. Preemptively, and then reprimanded, seeing that Zhaozong's next knife was likely to cut at him, Liu Jishu and the right army lieutenant Wang Zhongxian, privy envoy Wang Yanfan, Xue Qiwei and other eunuchs decided to take a big gamble.

In November of the third year of Guanghua (900), Liu Jishu took advantage of Zhaozong's sleep to lead the guards to launch a palace coup d'état, respecting the little prince as the emperor, and at the same time, in the name of the queen, he issued an order overnight saying: The emperor listened to gluttonous rumors, wantonly messed around, killed people casually, and rebelled.

The two Divine Force lieutenants were well aware of these things. Now for the sake of heaven, ask the crown prince to preside over the government. Subsequently, Liu Ji said that Chen Bing Palace,

accused the emperor of indulging in wine and was unworthy of presiding over the government, and showed the forged document asking the prince to supervise the state to the hundred officials, and made them sign and draw the pledge. People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, the matter has come to this point, and the civil official group headed by Prime Minister Cui Yin can only compromise and seek perfection.

He signed his name on the petition. Then the new emperor ascended the throne and became emperor under persecution, the old emperor handed over the jade seal under persecution, and then the new emperor entered the dormitory under persecution, and the old emperor was imprisoned in Shaoyang Courtyard under persecution.

The eunuchs can not only be meticulous in serving their masters, but also in preventing their masters. In order to prevent Tang Zhaozong from reporting to the outside, Liu Jishu ordered that not a pen or paper should be sent in.

In order to prevent accidents, Liu Jishu ordered that not a single needle or nail should be sent in. Every day, the emperor's food and drink were all passed through the small holes in the wall.

Lazar, I'm sorry, it's not in the picture, because it's not a necessity for survival. As prisoners under prison, Zhaozong and his wife can only make compromises, life is better than death, they can only wait, waiting for a miracle to happen.

A change of regime means the beginning of a purge. The eunuchs came to power, the reshuffle officially began, and the palace people and scholars who were usually favored by Zhaozong were all beaten to death, and even Zhaozong's younger brother Muwang Li Yi was not spared.

Normal people always like to cover up and destroy corpses when they kill people, and if they kill ten, they will often only admit one of the murders, but the ladyboy death pervert Liu Jishu is different, he often kills people in the dark moon and high night, and transports corpses in broad daylight.

Even if it is enough to transport corpses, he has to strengthen his momentum and make it known all over the city, for example, one car can be loaded with corpses, he has to load ten big cars out, so some vehicles can only load one or two corpses, forming a serious waste, just like that, the vehicles are constantly coming in and out of the palace, Liu Jishu saw it and smiled knowingly.

At this time, Zhu Wen was camping in Dingzhou, and when he heard that there was a coup d'état in the palace, he immediately returned to Daliang. In order to stabilize the political situation, Liu Jishu also urgently needed the strong support of local powerful factions, so he sent his godson Liu Xidu to Daliang to meet Zhu Wen and explain the reasons for the abolition of the emperor.

He also promised to hand over power to Zhu Wen in order to win Zhu Wen's support. In order to save the endgame, Prime Minister Cui Yin also wrote a letter to Zhu Wenxiu, asking him to lead troops to attack Liu Jishu.

Zhu Wen handed Cui Yin's letter to Liu Jishu, saying that Cui Yin was capricious and should be eliminated as soon as possible. Liu Jishu immediately called Cui Yin for questioning. The person who has been the prime minister is different, Cui Yin was in a hurry, and insisted that the letter was forged by a traitor.

The purpose is to destroy the deep friendship between them, and at this time, Prime Minister Cui almost burst into tears: "Father-in-law Liu, you must not be deceived, if you kill me, you will fall for the enemy's tricks." ”

Liu Jishu thought to himself, yes, you must not fall for the enemy's tricks. Then the prime minister and Liu Jishu made a bloody alliance and agreed to deal with Zhu Wen together.

I just swore to Liu Jishu here, and Cui Yin wrote to Zhu Wen over there, asking him to destroy the Liu family, Jingjun is difficult, and Qingjun is on the side.

Zhu Wen hesitated for a while under the efforts of both sides. So, he summoned his advisers to discuss the strategy, and most of them said: "The affairs of the imperial court are not the responsibility of the feudal town." ”

Only Li Zhen, the deputy envoy of Tianping Jiedu, objected, and he said to Zhu Wen: "The rebellion of Ji Diao and Yi Er can be used to achieve the cause of the overlord, and now the eunuchs are forbidden and humiliated the emperor, if you don't go to crusade, you can't command other Jiedu envoys." ”

Li Zhen's words involve two allusions: Ji Diao (also known as a vertical knife), a eunuch of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, this is a person who is not inferior to Yue Buqun and Dongfang Undefeated, in order to show his loyalty to Qi Huan Gong, he castrated himself and became a eunuch.

And Qi Huan Gong was really moved, and therefore took Guan Zhong's teachings as the wind in his ears, and from then on, his cronies were easy to teeth and erected.

However, Ji Diao did not insist on his loyalty to him to the end, and when Huan Gong was critically ill, Ji Diao made chaos and did not give Huan Gong food. When Huan Gong learned about it, he covered his face with his sleeves and starved to death.

Duke Huan has six sons, his son succeeded to the throne without treachery, Gongzi Zhao fled, erected Diao and led people to guard the main hall, confronted the princes, the palace became a battlefield of saber rattling, and also became a morgue with a compelling corpse, sixty or seventy days after the death of Duke Huan, no one was buried, maggots were everywhere in the bedroom, and the corpse was stinking.

Gongzi Zhao fled to the Song State, with the support of Song Xianggong, the soldiers pressed the border, the old minister Gao Wei took Yi Ya to lead the troops out of the city, please put Diao into the palace to discuss matters, Ji Diao entered the palace, and was killed by the ambush armor, so he welcomed Gongzi Zhao back to the palace, and was killed without treachery,

Yi Ya fled to the country of Lu. And Yi Er refers to Hui Wall Yi Er, this is not a Japanese, but a eunuch of the Song Kingdom, the inner teacher of the crown prince. (To be continued......)