In November, in order to contain Zhu Wen and send reinforcements, Li Keyong ordered Li Cunzhang, the Eighth Taibao, to lead an army to attack Jinzhou, and then sent an army to attack Zhaozhou to respond to Zhou Dewei.

At that time, Zhu Wen was faced with a dilemma: if he did not reinforce Jinzhou, he would make Li Keyong go south and take the important western town of Hezhong, which might lead to Li Keyong and Li Maozhen uniting, thus posing a serious threat to him. Therefore, on December 19, Zhu Wen sent troops and horses from Hezhong and Shaanzhou to rescue Jinzhou, but this made it unable to reinforce Luzhou.

At this time, Li Keyong was seriously ill, and when he heard the news, Zhou Dewei had no choice but to retreat to Chaoliu. On the nineteenth day of the first month of 908, Li Keyong was critically ill and ordered the generals to support his son Li Cunmiao and let Li Cunmiao relieve the siege of Luzhou as soon as possible. After finishing speaking, he said to Li Kening and other generals uneasily: "I handed over Yazi to you." ”

Yazi is Li Cunqiao's nickname. After saying that, Li Keyong passed away at the age of fifty-three. Li Kening is Li Keyong's younger brother, at that time Li Kening had been in control of the army for a long time, ranking second in Hedong, and was known in history as "all military and political decisions are decided by Kening".

At that time, the siege of Luzhou had not yet been lifted, and the situation was urgent, and the generals in the army thought that Li Cunqiao was too young and inexperienced, so they discussed it in private, and people's hearts fluctuated. After Li Cunqiao found out, he was very scared,

was about to give up the throne to Li Kening, Li Kening said: "You are the eldest son, and you have the dying will of the previous king, who dares to rebel!" Then he led the generals to see Li Cunmiao, who cried inside because his father had just died, and did not come out.

Zhang Chengye went in and said to him: "The greatest filial piety is to be able to inherit my father's cause, and if it is not destroyed, what is the use of crying?" So they helped him out. Accept the congregation to pay homage.

Zhang Chengye, the word Jiyuan. People from the same state. His surname was Kang, and he became a eunuch in the last years of the Tang Dynasty. Later, he was adopted as an adopted son by Zhang Tai, so he changed his name to Zhang Chengye.

When Li Ke used troops in Shaanxi to crusade against Li Maozhen and other local forces, Zhang Chengye was ordered to go back and forth between the imperial court and Li Ke's army. After a long time, Li Keyong appreciated Zhang Chengye very much, thinking that he was different from ordinary eunuchs, who knew the general situation and knew strategy.

Later, Tang Zhaozong prepared to escape the threat of Li Maozhen and went to Li Keyong to take refuge there. Because Zhang Chengye and Li Keyong had a very good personal relationship, he appointed him as the supervisor of the Hedong army and went to Hedong to prepare first. However, in the end, Tang Zhaozong's trip to Hedong was stillborn, and Zhang Chengye was persuaded by Li Ke to stay in Hedong.

Later, Zhu Wen, with the cooperation of Prime Minister Cui Yin, killed the eunuchs in Chang'an, and in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Zhu Wen pretended to use Tang Zhaozong's edict to order the local eunuchs to kill all the eunuchs in the locality.

After Li Keyong received the edict. Hide Zhang Chengye in the temple, then change the tanuki for the prince, and kill a death row prisoner pretending to be Zhang Chengye. After Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong asked Zhang Chengye to come back to work.

With this life-saving grace, Zhang Chengye was even more loyal to Li Keyong and presided over internal affairs from then on. Planning grain and grass, and assisting Li Ke with one heart. The hope of reviving the Tang Dynasty was completely pinned on Li Keyong.

Although Li Cunqiao succeeded to the throne, his political power was still very unstable. When Li Keyong was alive, he raised many righteous sons. And these righteous sons are regarded as their own, and the righteous sons have held the military power for a long time, so they are unwilling to be controlled by Li Cunqing.

Although Li Kening resigned from the throne, many people still believed in him at that time and hoped to support him as king, including Li Keyong's adopted son Li Cunhao, who privately persuaded Li Kening: "My brother died, and my younger brother succeeded to the throne, and there has been such a situation since ancient times."

Now you are an uncle, but you want to visit your nephew, does it make sense? God gives you a chance, but you don't take advantage of it, and you will definitely regret it in the future. ”

Li Kening said: "Our Li family has been famous for its kindness and filial piety for generations, if someone inherits the cause of the previous king, what else do I have to beg for?" You stop talking nonsense

Be careful that I cut off your head. "Li Kening's road is impassable, but Li Kening has a wife Meng, who is very fierce and is famous for the roar of the Hedong lion, so he saved the country, and the adopted sons sent their wives to Meng's to take the lady's route.

Meng Shi felt that it was feasible, so he repeatedly forced Li Kening to take action, Li Kening was afraid of his wife, this was blown by Meng's pillow wind for a long time, so he was fascinated and moved.

At this time, Li Cunhao and others drew up a plan for Li Kening: take advantage of Li Cunmiao's visit to his house to kill Zhang Chengye and Li Cunzhang, and then respect Li Kening as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, return to the Liang Dynasty with Hedong Kyushu, and arrest Li Cunmiao and his wife Cao Shi and send them to Kaifeng. At this time, it seems that everything has been prepared, and only the east wind is coming. Li Kening is still not at ease, he wants to do things more securely, the so-called knowing himself and knowing his opponent,

was invincible, so he wooed Shi Jingrong, who was next to Li Cunmiao, and revealed the details of the incident to him. At this time, after listening to Li Kening's plan, he couldn't stop nodding yes, and echoed in a loud voice: "It's easy to say, don't forget me after the matter is completed." ”

Then after going back, he told Mrs. Tai about the matter, Mrs. Tai was shocked when she heard it, and found Zhang Chengye, pointed to Li Cunmiao and said to him: "When the first king was dying, he took this child's hand and entrusted him to you, assuming that you heard that someone outside was planning to disobey the last order of the first king, I only ask you to let our mother and son have a foothold, so that they will not be escorted to Daliang.

Besides, I don't dare to bother you with any more extravagances. Zhang Chengye said in horror: "Even if the old slave dies, he must respect the last order of the previous king, why do you say that, Mrs. Tai?" So Li Cunmiao told him Li Kening's plan, and said: "Don't kill each other among your relatives, I think if I give way, there will probably be no chaos." ”

Zhang Chengye said: "Li Kening wants to throw the king's mother and son into the tiger's mouth, if this kind of person is not removed, is there still heavenly reason?" So he secretly set up an ambush, and invited Li Kening and Li Cunhao, and then caught the turtle in the urn, closed the door and beat the dog, and solved the matter without blood.

Li Cunmiao counted their crimes with tears, and said to Li Kening: "My nephew used to want to give up the throne to my uncle, but my uncle refused, and now that the matter has been decided, why do you want to set up a conspiracy again,

What is the cruel one who wants to give our mother and son to the enemy? Li Kening said: "It's all villains who hurt me, what else is there to say about it so far?" So, he killed Li Kening and Li Cunhao that day. The matter of Hedong is tentative.

After the deed was completed, Li Cunqiao ordered Zhou Dewei's class to return to Jinyang. When Li Keyong was dying, Li Cunqiao said: "Li Sizhao is loyal and filial piety, and there is no second heart. won't lose me, but he is a little conflicted with Zhou Dewei. After Zhou Dewei comes back, you tell him what I mean, I hope he and Li Sizhao will break the enemy together, if you can't solve the siege of Luzhou this time, I won't be blind! ”

Before Zhou Dewei returned to Jinyang, because he had long held military power outside, and Li Cunqiao had just succeeded to the throne, people feared that he would take the opportunity to rebel. When Zhou Dewei arrived, he asked the army to garrison outside the city. He rode into the city on horseback to mourn.

He lay down in front of Rick's coffin and wept incessantly, grief-stricken. Li Cunqiao persuaded Zhou Dewei, and told him Li Ke's dying words, Zhou Dewei was even more moved, and he was determined to fight to the death to repay Li Keyong's hope.

Li Cunmiao discussed with the generals and said: "Shangdang is the barrier of Hedong, without Shangdang, there will be no Hedong, Zhu Wen is only afraid of the first king, and now I heard that I have just succeeded to the throne."

I must think that I am a hairy boy and that I am not to be worried, and I will definitely be proud and slack, and we should now select elite troops to work day and night to surprise them. You can definitely defeat them. The achievement of hegemony is in one fell swoop. So he led the army from Jinyang to Luzhou.

At this time, the Liang army could not attack Luzhou for a long time. The soldiers were exhausted, and the generals led tens of thousands of deserters. Zhu Wen suspected that Li Ke had cheated to death. I want to edict the army to return.

On the tenth day of March 908, Zhu Wen arrived in Zezhou. The generals all believed that it had been a year since Luzhou had been trapped, that the grain and grass could not be replenished, and the reinforcements had been evacuated. Zhu Wen then adopted the public opinion, and changed the Kuang Guo Festival to envoy Liu Zhijun to the Luzhou camp, and sent an envoy to recruit the Luzhou defenders.

Liu Zhijun, the word Xixian, a native of Xuzhou County, was the first to be a colonel under Shi Pu, who was the first to be a junior colonel under Shi Pu, because of his courage, he was very important to Shi Pu, but later he was suspicious because he was too resourceful. In the second year of Dashun (891), Liu Zhijun was afraid of being killed by Shi Pu, so he led 2,000 people to defect to Zhu Wen and was appointed as a military academy.

Liu Zhijun put on his armor and got on the horse, entered the enemy with a sword, bravely crowned the generals, and Zhu Wen gave him the two armies of Yisheng on the left and right, and appointed him as the commander of Zuo Kaidao, which was called "Liu Kaidao" at that time.

Later, he followed Zhu Wen to crusade against Qin Zongquan and attack Xuzhou, all of which were credited, and he was the commander of the Xuzhou Mabu Army. In the early years of Tianfu, he participated in the elimination of Wang Shifan, the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, and awarded the envoy of the Kuangguo Festival in the same state with merit.

At that time, the city ran out of ammunition and food, but in order to confuse the Liang army, Li Sizhao and his generals went to the city to feast and drink, and beheaded the envoy to surrender to show their refusal to surrender. Seeing this, Zhu Wen ordered Liu Zhijun to lead the army to attack the city, and occasionally won a small victory.

Liu Zhijun asked to stay in Luzhou, but Zhu Wen thought that Luzhou was in his pocket, and it was a matter of time before he took it, but now Guanzhong was empty, and it would not be good if Li Maozhen led the army to invade the Tonghua area, so he ordered Liu Zhijun to rest in his eldest son for ten days, and then withdraw his troops to Jinzhou to station, Zhu Wen also returned to Jingshi, and the army that stayed in Jiacheng also thought that victory was in sight, so they no longer fortified.

Just when the Liang army thought that victory was in sight, Li Cunqiao led the elite soldiers to march for 6 days and quietly rushed south from Taiyuan to attack Luzhou. On the first day of May 908, Li Cunxuan's department sneaked to Sanzhui Gang outside Luzhou City.

Twenty years ago, when Li Ke broke Meng Fang in Xingzhou, he returned to the army, put wine on the three hanging gangs, and played the "Centennial Song". When Li Cunqiao was on the side, Fang was five years old, and he stroked his beard with anger, pointed and smiled: "I am old, this strange child, after twenty years, he can fight here on my behalf!" ”

The "Centennial Song" here is a Yuefu poem written in the Wei and Jin dynasties. The poem is divided into ten paragraphs, with every ten years as a paragraph, telling about a hundred years of life. The full text is:

Ten o'clock: Yan Ruhui Hua Ye Youhui. The body is like fluttering, and the wind is like flying. The other and the children followed. Finally go out and return at dusk. Six emotions are not violated. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Twenty o'clock: The skin and body are colored. Beautiful eyes and beautiful appearance. The dress is beautiful and clear. Light cars and horses tour the capital. Talking about Yabu He Yingying. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Thirty o'clock: There is a reason to become famous. The power can carry the ambition of the dry cloud. Food is like leakage, and gas is like smoke. Dictionaries and views of the country. The high crown is full of radiance. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Forty o'clock: physical strength and ambition. Cross-state Yue County returned to Emperor Township. In and out of Chengming, he embraces Daju. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Fifty o'clock: Dutch Battle Festival Town Bangjia. The drum bell is noisy and Zhao Nu song. Luo Yi is a golden cuihua. Words and smiles and dances pass by. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Sixty o'clock: Nian Yiqi Ye Yilong. Ride the four peons into the Purple Palace. In the green clouds. The children and grandchildren are prosperous and the family is rich. Sake will be scorched. Sake will be scorched.

Seventy o'clock: Refreshing and sluggish. Shimizu Spiegel doesn't want to watch. Linle has no joy in wine. The shape of the hair is a long sigh.

Eighty o'clock: It is clear that the eyes and ears have been damaged. The preface is not in the past. Resign and return to Sangzi. Ann the cart and the horse into the old house. Joy ends, worries begin.

Ninety o'clock: The day is over, the month is declining. Although the form is intent. There are many fallacies in words and a lot of sadness in the heart. Children and grandchildren worship or ask whom. Pointing to the scenery and playing the day, worrying about safety. Grateful for his life, he burst into tears.

At the age of 100: the surplus has been listed on the intramuscular list. The four branches and 100 joints are still afflicting each other. The eyes are cloudy, and the mouth is salivating. It is difficult to breathe and turn sideways. The taste of the mattress is no longer safe.

The prophecy of his father Li Keyong came true, and Li Cunmiao, who had revisited the old place, couldn't help but sigh, "This first king also put the wine place!" That night, Li Cunqiao's whole army lurked in Sanzhui Gang and waited until the early morning of the next day, but the Liang army did not notice it.

At this time, heavy fog fell from the sky, and Li Cunqiao personally led the army to reach the village under the cover of dense fog. The Liang army was paralyzed and careless, and did not set up a sentry, and the soldiers had not yet gotten up, when they were suddenly attacked in their sleep, and they immediately panicked and collapsed.

After attacking the village, the Jin army was divided into two routes, Zhou Dewei attacked the northwest corner, and Li Siyuan of the Great Taibao attacked the northeast corner, filled the ditch and burned the village, beating drums and shouting.

The Liang soldiers were defeated and fled south, and the general Fu Daozhao's mount fell and was killed. Tens of thousands of people fled and died, and discarded supplies, grain, grass, and equipment were piled up.

More than a thousand years later, the Qing Dynasty poet Yan Suicheng returned to the ancient battlefield, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and made a poem "Three Vertical Gang", although the whole poem is only 56 words, but it is magnificent, and writes the heroic style of Li Ke with the father and son to cover Wanfu:

The hero immediately started Shatuo, and Zhu Liang was domineering.

It is difficult to support Tang Sheji with one hand, and the city still embraces the Jinshan River.

Under the wind and clouds, there are many old tears in front of the drum horn lamp.

Xiao Se three drooping gang down the road, so far people sing a hundred years of songs.

Zhou Dewei arrived at the city of Luzhou and shouted to Li Sizhao: "The first king has passed away, and the new king of Jin has personally broken through the enemy's village, and now the enemy has retreated and can open the city gate."

Li Sizhao didn't believe it, thinking that Zhou Dewei had rebelled, and he was going to shoot him with a bow. Left and right hurriedly persuaded him, Li Sizhao said: "If the new king really comes, can you invite him to come and have a look?" So Li Cunmiao personally came to the city to call, Li Sizhao saw Li Cunmiao wearing filial piety clothes, and knew that Li Keyong had passed away, so he opened the city gate and welcomed Li Cunmiao into the city. After this tribulation, Zhou Dewei also reconciled with Li Sizhao.

Zhu Wen was shocked when he heard that the village was lost, and sighed: "If you give birth to a son, you have to give birth to Li Yazi, Li Keyong is equivalent to not dying, as for my son, it is as useless as a pig and a dog." (To be continued......)