(The original text is: Giving birth to a son should be like Li Yazi, and it will be used to be immortal!) To my child, guinea dog ears! In fact, Zhu Wen also had a son of an archer that Li Keyong envied, the aforementioned Zhu Youyu, but unfortunately, in 901, Zhu Youyu died of illness while crusading against Yang Chongben's rebellion.

Then Zhou Dewei and Li Cunzhang took advantage of the victory to force Zezhou, and the king of Zezhou was quite unpopular, and the people refused to serve him.

Niu Cunjie, the commander of the Dragon and Tiger Army, led an army from the Western Capital to meet the soldiers who had retreated from the village.

Niu Cun Festival, the word praise, Qingzhou Bochang people, formerly known as Niu Li. Once on an errand under Zhuge Shuang, after Zhuge Shuang's death, Niu Cunjie said to his subordinates: "The world is in turmoil, and heroes should be chosen." So he led more than ten people to join Zhu Wen.

Niu Cunjie was strong, loyal, and cautious, and Zhu Wen liked him very much, giving him the name Niu Cunjie and making him a petty officer. After Li Hanzhi besieged Zhang Quanyi in Heyang, Zhang Quanyi asked Zhu Wen for help, and Zhu Wen was familiar with the terrain of Heyang and knew the shortcut because Niu Cunjie sent him as a striker.

At that time, there was a famine and the army was short of food, so Niu Cunjie did not burn and loot like other armies, but exchanged gold silk for dried mulberries in the hands of the peasants for military food, and finally drove Li Hanzhi away. Zhu Wen attacked Wei Bo, Niu Cunjie captured Liyang and Linhe, killed more than 12,000 Wei troops, and commanded the envoy after the siege of Huazhou Prison.

When Zhu Wen attacked Yunzhou, Niu Cunjie told Wang Yan to hide the boat in the northwest corner of Yunzhou, intending to cross the army at noon. At this time, there happened to be a fire in the camp, the Yunzhou army boarded the city to look at the fire, Wang Yan did not dare to move, and Niu Cunjie lost the original agreed attack time, Niu Cunjie alone broke through the northwest gate of Yunzhou and captured the Hao Bridge. The army all entered the city and defeated Zhu Xuan.

Later, Niu Cunjie followed Ge Congzhou to attack Huainan. Ge Congzhou was defeated at the Luhe River, and Niu Cunjie gathered more than 8,000 defeated soldiers and returned. Promoted to Bo, Su Erzhou Thorn History.

After Zhu Jin fled to Huainan, he led the Huainan soldiers to attack Xu and Su Erzhou, and Niu Cunjie made a plan and said: "The Huai soldiers will not attack Suzhou first, because the Suzhou ditch is very strong, and they will be able to resist the enemy." ”

So he led his troops to the city of Xuzhou overnight, and after Zhu Jin arrived, he saw the dust flying, and said in shock: "Liang Bing has come, why is it so fast?" ”

So he fled away. Soon after, Zhu Wen's envoy arrived. The meaning of the military aircraft granted is exactly the same as that of Niu Cunjie, so all the generals admired his talent, so he was promoted to the commander of Luzhou. Niu Cun Festival is a general, and the laws and regulations are strict and good at winning the hearts of the people. When Zhu Wen attacked Fengxiang and sent a messenger to summon Niu Cun Festival to pass, many Luzhou people cried when they said goodbye.

Niu Cunjie arrived at Tianjing Pass and said to his subordinates: "Zezhou is a critical place, and it cannot be lost, even if there is no emperor's edict." We should also come to our aid. ”

The subordinates were very frightened and said: "The Jin Kingdom is now pursuing with victory, and it is unstoppable, and the enemy is strong and I am weak." The disparity between the crowd is probably irresistible. ”

Niu Cunjie said: "It is an unrighteous act to not save people when they are in danger; Fear of strong enemies and take refuge. This is an act of uncourage. So he whipped and led the crowd forward.

By the time we arrived in Zezhou, there was chaos in the city. The people were in a commotion and wanted to open the door to welcome the king of Jin. Wang Banzheng encouraged maintenance. Seeing that the Niu Cun Festival had arrived, I was so moved that I almost cried, my mother's family finally came, and if I came a little later, I would be done today.

The two sides joined forces together, the Jin army could not attack for a long time, so they performed the art of earth escape, leaned on the city wall to dig a tunnel and entered, Niu Cunjie struggled to resist, and the double anti-fierce battle lasted for 13 days, at this time Liu Zhijun led the army from Jinzhou, and Zhou Dewei retreated to Gaoping.

At this point, the siege of Luzhou ended with Li Cunmiao's complete victory. In this way, Hedong occupies all the passages west of Taihang Mountain, the east can attack Hebei, and the south can threaten Luoyang, this battle laid a solid foundation for Li Cunmiao to later compete for the power of Hebei, drink the Yellow River, and win Kaifeng.

Battle of Kashiwago

Shortly after the Battle of Luzhou, Zhou Dewei twice attacked Jinju in the south, but was unsuccessful. Since the southward advance could not be achieved, in order to fill his stomach, Li Cunqiao could only focus on the Hebei region east of Taihang Mountain.

At that time in Hebei, Wei Bo in the three towns of Heshuo had been annexed by Zhu Wen, and Wang Rong of Zhenzhou and Liu Shouguang of Longlu were nominally submissive to Zhu Wen, and another separatist force, Wang Chuzhi of Dingzhou, also became a vassal of Zhu Wen. Pulling a hair and moving the whole body, Li Cunmiao didn't dare to act rashly, it seems that if he wants to get involved in Hebei, he still needs a chance.

In 910, Wang Rong's mother died, and Zhu Wen sent envoys to mourn. At that time, the tourism industry was not very developed, and there were not many small hotels, inns, and bathhouses where you could sleep, and there were only post stations built by the government that could stay in the shops, so the messengers who went to mourn from the neighboring provinces were crowded into a small post station.

Because Zhu and Li can't afford to provoke anyone, Wang Rong usually flirts with Li Cunqiao and secretly sends Qiubo, and the relationship between the two sides is also close and ambiguous.

At this time, out of etiquette and courtesy, Li Cunqiao also sent people to come to condole, it doesn't matter, the envoys of Zhu and Li took a look in the post station, although they were in someone else's territory, the two sides did not face to face, drawing knives to each other, but the thing of stabbing the knife in the back can still be done.

After Zhu Wen's envoy returned, he said to Zhu Wen: "Wang Rong secretly corresponded with the Jin State, and now the two states are relatively strong, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to control in the future." ”

Zhu Wen thought so, so he actively prepared, intending to attack and calm the two prefectures by force, so as to achieve the de facto unification of the Hebei region.

At this time, Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan, sent troops to Laishui and wanted to invade Dingzhou in the south, and Zhu Wen took the opportunity to send Du Tingyin and Ding Yanhui to lead 3,000 Wei Bo troops to garrison Wang Rong's Shen and Hebei prefectures respectively, and the banner was to prevent the Yan soldiers from invading the south and help friendly troops defend the city.

The reason is quite high-sounding, Wang Rong believes it, but he can't help but not believe it, because Zhu Wen is a super, he can only be regarded as strong, and he is one of the strongest of the strongest, he doesn't dare to offend Zhu Wen, so he can only accept it, and what the boss says is what it is. But Shi Gonggong, the general stationed in Shenzhou at that time, did not think so, and he strongly asked Wang Rong to resolutely say no to Zhu Wen.

Wang Rong ignored him, ordered the city gates to be opened to welcome friendly troops into the city, and in order to avoid meeting with the Liang army and causing unnecessary embarrassment, he also transferred Shi Gong outside the city in advance.

When Shi Gonggong went out of the city, he pointed to the city gate and cried: "The surname Zhu has destroyed all the Sheji of the Tang Dynasty." Even a three-foot child knows what he is like. However, our king still relied on his in-law relationship (Wang Rong's son had married Zhu Wen's daughter before), expecting him to have the style of an elder. This is really an open door thief! I see that the city is about to fall into the hands of the enemy. ”

At this time, someone who had just surrendered from the Liang Dynasty told Wang Rong of Zhu Wen's conspiracy. Wang Rong was very scared. But he didn't dare to take the initiative to cut off relations with Zhu Wen,

So he sent an envoy to Luoyang to say to Zhu Wen: "The Yan army has retreated, and now the king of Yan is making peace with Dingzhou, and the relationship between the two sides has been reconciled as before, and the people of Shenji Erzhou saw that so many Wei Bo troops suddenly came, and they were all frightened and ran around, so they asked the emperor to recall the army." ”

After hearing this, Zhu Wen sent an envoy to Zhenzhou to appease him, telling him not to worry and to fully believe in the emperor's character. The emperor is the Ninety-Five, a noble person, a pure person, a person who is detached from low-level interests, how can he bully loyal ministers? Wang Rong believed it again with trepidation. It didn't take long for Du Tingyin to close the city gate and kill all the defenders of Zhao in Shenzhou City, and fortify the city.

Wang Rong then ordered Shi Gonggong to attack the city, but at this time, the offensive and defensive momentum was very different, and Shenzhou City could not be attacked for a long time. Wang Rong had no choice but to send envoys to Yan and Zhao for help.

When the envoy arrived in Taiyuan, it happened that Wang Chuzhi's envoy was also there, so the two sides planned to elect Li Cunqiao as the leader of the alliance. Join the armies of the three kingdoms to attack the Liang Dynasty.

Li Cunmiao convened the generals to discuss, and the generals all said: "Wang Rong has been subordinate to Zhu Wen for a long time, and he and Zhu Wen are sons and daughters. The friendship between them is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea, and I am afraid that there is fraud in this matter. It's best not to act rashly for the time being, and it's better to wait for the situation to be observed slowly before making a decision. ”

Li Cunqiao disagreed. Like a good debater at the debate, he refuted the generals' views point by point: "Wang Rong only made such a decision after weighing the stakes, he rebelled from time to time during the Tang Dynasty, not to mention Zhu Wen, is he willing to submit to the rebel beam forever?" Wang Rong's great-grandfather once married Princess Shou'an of the Tang Dynasty, is Zhu Wen's daughter comparable to a princess?

Now that he is afraid that it will be too late to save his life, where will he care about any marital relationship? If we don't save him because of suspicion, we are falling for Zhu Wen's tricks. Now should send troops immediately, if the two kingdoms of Jin and Zhao work together, they will definitely be able to break through the Liang Dynasty. ”

Therefore, immediately after the meeting, Zhou Dewei was sent out of Jingcheng and stationed in Zhaozhou.

After Wang Rong's envoy arrived in Youzhou, Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan, was hunting, and his staff member Sun He ran to the field to report to him: "Zhao Guo has come to ask for help, this is God's intention to accomplish the king's deeds!" ”

Liu Shouguang asked unhurriedly while searching for prey: "How do you say this?" Sun He replied: "Haven't we been worried about Wang Rong and Zhu Wen's deep friendship recently?

Zhu Wen is very ambitious, he will never give up if he does not annex the entire Heshuo, and now they are hostile to each other, if we work together with Wang Rong to break the beam, are we afraid that the calm Erzhou will not respectfully submit to us?

If the king does not send troops quickly, I am afraid that the Jin Kingdom will seize this opportunity first. Liu Shouguang said disapprerovingly, as always: "Wang Rong has repeatedly betrayed his promise, this time it just happened to let him and Liang Chao fight and lose both, we can sit and reap the benefits, why do we want to save him?" ”

In January 911, Wang Rong again complained to Li Cunmiao. Li Cunxuan stayed in Taiyuan with Li Cunxian, the deputy governor of the Nine Taibao and the Han Dynasty, and personally led the army from Zanhuang to the east, and joined forces with the king.

When he arrived in Zhaozhou, he joined forces with Zhou Dewei. Along the way, 200 soldiers of the Liang army were captured who went out to collect wages and cut grass, and it was learned from them that Zhu Wen had reprimanded his generals: "Zhenzhou is repeated, and it will eventually be a disaster for future generations."

Now I know that I will pay you with elite soldiers, and although Zhenzhou is a city with iron, it will be taken for me. In order to make Wang Rong know this, Li Cunqiao insisted on his heart to attach to Jin, so he specially ordered people to send these Liang soldiers to Zhenzhou.

Li Cunmiao led the army to set up camp 30 miles away from Baixiang, and then ordered Zhou Dewei to approach the Liang camp to challenge, but the Liang army did not move, and saw that the Liang army did not react.

Li Cunmiao once again ordered the army to push forward, and set up camp again in the north of the Wu River, 5 miles away from Bai Township, and sent cavalry to shoot at Liang Ying, while using foul language and shouting and scolding.

They all rode to the head to and pee, is it tolerable or unbearable, Liang General Han Qing was furious, so he led 30,000 troops and went out of the camp in 3 ways to meet the battle.

At that time, although the world was in turmoil, the Liang army was the central army, the supplies were relatively sufficient, and the dress was not comparable to the local miscellaneous army, and the soldiers' armor was wrapped in silk and decorated with gold and silver. After the Jin army in opposite formations saw it, he suddenly had a feeling that the poor dick saw the rich and handsome, and his morale suddenly became a little shorter.

After Zhou Dewei saw this, he sent Li Cunzhang to tell the army: "Have you seen those thieves? That is the so-called Bianzhou Tianwu Army athletes, in fact, they are all peddlers and pawns, just have their appearance, even if they are wearing fine armor, they are still not one in ten, but it is quite valuable to catch them. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Dewei had already led the elite cavalry to rush to the two wings of the Liang army, rushing several times and capturing more than 100 people. Zhou Dewei fought and retreated, and stopped at the camp of the Jin army. The Liang army also stopped advancing and retreated to their camp.

At that time, in terms of the strength of the two sides, although the Jin State joined forces with the two states of Zhending, it was still unable to compete with Zhu Wen's central army. After the war, Li Cunqiao and Zhou Dewei discussed a strategy to break the enemy, and Zhou Dewei said, "The enemy is outnumbered, we should first hold our troops and wait for their morale to be low before attacking." ”

Li Cunmiao looked down on this kind of unpleasant combat strategy, and said disdainfully: "The soldiers of our three towns are all rabble, and the advantage is to fight a quick battle, and I hope to act steadily, but I am worried that I can't do it." Zhou Dewei argued: "The army of calm and determination is longer than defending the city, and field battles are not their strong point.

Our army is full of thieves, all cavalry, and the plains and wilderness are easy to use. If we attack the thief camp and make them understand the reality of our army, it will be difficult to say whether they will win or lose. ”

Li Cunmiao was very unhappy after hearing this, threw down Zhou Dewei, and went back to the sleeping tent. Zhou Dewei was not at ease, and found Zhang Chengye, the overseer, and said: "The king wants to fight a quick battle and command the rabble, but he wants to defeat the enemy army quickly, which can be said to be beyond his strength." Now the two sides are separated by a water, and if the enemy crosses the river at night, we will all be captured.

If you retreat to Gaoyi and lure the enemy into pursuit, the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and we advance, and at the same time send light cavalry to plunder their grain and grass baggage, and within a month, the enemy will definitely be broken. ”

Zhang Chengye felt reasonable, so he entered the account and said to Li Cunmiao: "Now is the time to sleep soundly!" Zhou Dewei has a lot of experience, and what he said cannot be ignored. Li Cunqiao jumped up and said, "I'm also thinking about his words!" It happened that at this time, Liang soldiers came to surrender, and after asking, they knew that Liang Jun was rushing to make the pontoon bridge. Li Cunmiao then ordered the camp to be pulled out on the same day and retreated to Gaoyi. (To be continued......)