Then there was a good fight, and the beating made the skin open and the flesh open, and the body was incomplete. The next day, Li Cunmiao issued an edict to put Luo Guan to death, and Guo Chongtao persuaded Li Cunmiao: "Luo Guan is guilty, but the crime does not lead to death." Li Cunmiao said angrily: "The Queen Mother's spiritual drive is about to set off soon, and the Son of Heaven often travels here, but the bridge is not passable, and you say that he is not guilty, which is too protective of him." ”

Not to be outdone, Guo Chongtao said: "Your Majesty is the most respected person in the country, and it is my sin to be angry for a county order and let everyone in the world say that Your Majesty's usage is unfair." Li Cunmiao said angrily: "Since you are the person you like, then you can decide." So he got up and entered the palace.

Guo Chongtao followed behind him endlessly and continued to tell him about things, Li Cunqiao impatiently closed the palace door, and Guo Chongtao was turned away. In the end, Luo Guan was still executed, and his body was hung in front of the door for public display.

Soon, the people who returned from the envoy to Shu reported that the politics there were very corrupt and could be taken advantage of the situation. Weisheng Jiedu made Li Shaoqin (Duan Ning) usually curry favor with Li Shaohong, and Li Shaohong recommended him: "Li Shaoqin has a genius in the world, and his grandson and Wu Qi are not as good as him.

He can be entrusted with great things. Guo Chongtao objected: "Li Shaoqin is a general who has fallen to the country, and he is treacherous and flattering to the point of incomparable, and I can't believe him." "Everyone recommends Li Siyuan again,

Guo Chongtao said: "The Khitan side is fighting fiercely, and the governor Li Siyuan can't leave Heshuo. King Wei is the heir to the throne, but he has not made any special merits before, please follow the past practice,

He was appointed as the commander of the crusade against Shu to fulfill his prestige. This suggestion came to Li Cunqiao's heart,

Li Cunmiao said happily: "My son is still young, how can I let him go alone." I think I should find him a deputy commander, and I don't think anyone is better suited than you. So,

And so it was settled. On the tenth day of the first month, Li Cunqiao appointed Li Jiqi, the king of Wei, as the commander of the Xichuan four-sided camp, and Guo Chongtao as the envoy of the northeast camp, and all the affairs of the army were entrusted to Guo Chongtao.

He also appointed Gao Jixing, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, as the envoy of the southeast camp. Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Ji serve as the envoy for the transfer of the capital army, and Li Lingde served as the deputy envoy of the camp in the same state Jiedu.

Shaanzhou Jiedu envoy Li Shaochen (i.e., Kang Yanxiao) served as the envoy of the Han Dynasty and the commander of the Ma Bu army, and Zhang Yun stayed in Xijing to serve as the pacification envoy in Xichuan.

Huazhou Jiedu made Mao Zhang serve as the left chamber Mabu Du Yu Hou, the state Jiedu made Dong Zhang serve as the right chamber Mabu Du Yu Hou, and the guest provincial envoy Li Yan served as the envoy of Xichuan Guan, leading 60,000 troops to crusade against Shu.

When he set off, Guo Chongtao said to Li Cunqiao: "The minister has no talent, and he can barely take on this important task." With His Majesty's prestige in the four seas and the sacrifice of all the soldiers and soldiers, this expedition will definitely be victorious and return to the army. If you choose someone to govern Shuzhong in the future, you can use Meng Zhixiang, and if there is a lack of people to assist in the court, Zhang Xian, Li Qi and Cui Jujian can all be reused. Li Cunmiao nodded in agreement, and also set up a special banquet to see off the generals.

On September 18, 925, Li Shaochen led his army to attack Weiwu, and the former Shu commander made Tang Jingsi surrender. The city envoy Zhou Yan and others knew that it was difficult to hold on, and they also surrendered one after another.

Li Shaochen let go of more than 10,000 defeated soldiers in Qianshu. Then the starry night went straight to Fengzhou. Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Ji give all the food he had saved to the sergeants, but the monks had too much porridge and too little porridge, and they still couldn't be satisfied, so that people's hearts fluctuated. After Guo Chongtao entered the Sanguan, he said to the generals: "If our attack cannot be successful, we will not be able to return here."

Now that the grain brought in is almost exhausted, Fengzhou should be captured first. Feed the army with food there. ”

The generals all said that the Shu land should be strong and strong, and it should not be driven straight in, and the troops should not move, observe the movement of the Shu soldiers, and then make a decision. Guo Chongtao asked Li Yu about this. Li Yu replied: "The Shu people are very distressed by the debauchery of the Shu lord, and they don't want to work for him.

They should take advantage of the discouragement of the Shu people to launch a quick attack, so that they will all be frightened, although there are dangers, who will hold on for him? Don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, you should act decisively" Li Shaochen's good news came that day, Guo Chongtao was very happy to hear it, and said to Li Yu: "You expect the enemy to be like this, what else do I have to worry about." So he led the army on a hasty march.

On the 19th, Wang Chengjie came to surrender with the four prefectures of Feng, Xing, Wen, and Fu, and in this way Guo Chongtao got 8,000 troops and 400,000 grains.

On the 20th, Wang Yan, the former lord of Shu, arrived in Lizhou, and the defeated soldiers of Weiwu City fled back, and he believed that the Tang soldiers had arrived. Wang Zongbi and Song Guangsi said to him: "The armies of Dongchuan and Shannan are still very complete, as long as Your Majesty uses a large army to defend Lizhou, the Jin people will not dare to go deep alone." Wang Yan listened to their advice.

On the 21st, Wang Yan appointed Wang Zongxun, Wang Zongyan, and Wang Zongyu, who were also serving in the Qing Dao, as the three recruits, and led 30,000 troops to meet the Tang army. The army set out from Mian and Han to Shendu, connecting thousands of miles, and the soldiers were very resentful and said: "The emperor has rewarded the Longwu army with several times more grain and grass than other armies, but now he wants us to resist the enemy army, how can we defeat others?" ”

Li Shaochen led the army through Changju, and Cheng Fenglian, the commander of Xingzhou, led more than 500 people to surrender, and volunteered to repair the bridge and plank road to welcome the arrival of the Tang army. On the 22nd, Wang Chengjian, the assassin of Xingzhou, abandoned the city and fled, and Li Shaochen captured Xingzhou. On the 26th, Chengzhou Assassin Wang Chengpu abandoned the city and fled. Li Shaochen and Sanzhao fought in Sanquan, and the former Shu army was defeated and more than 5,000 people were beheaded, and the rest of the soldiers fled one after another. Li Shaochen won 150,000 tons of grain and went straight to Lizhou day and night.

Soon, Li Jiqi arrived in Xingzhou, Song Guangbao led Zi, Mian, Jian, Long, and Pu five prefectures after the former Shu Wude, Wuding Jiedu made Wang Chengzhao lead Yang, Peng, and Bi three states, Shannan Jiedu made Wang Zongwei lead Liang, Kai, Tong, Qu, and Lin five states, and Wang Chengyue, the assassin of Jiezhou, led Jiezhou, all surrendered to the Tang army, and the rest of the towns also looked at the wind and surrendered. Tianxiong Jiedu envoy Wang Chengxiu and deputy envoy An Chongba planned to ambush the Tang army, An Chongba held an opposing opinion, he said very solemnly: "If the attack cannot be victorious, then the big thing is over." Shu has 100,000 elite soldiers, and the terrain is dangerous.

Although the Tang army was brave, it could not reach the Sword Gate smoothly? The country has been very kind to you, and I can't help but go to trouble when I hear that the country is in danger, and now I want to return to King Qin with you. Wang Chengxiu was very excited.

Adversity sees the truth, Brother Chongba, you are really good. An Chongba asked for a bribe to the Qiang people to buy the road to Wen and Fuerzhou so that he could pass back to Shu, and Wang Chengxiu also listened to his advice.

And let An Chongba lead the Longwu army and the newly recruited more than 12,000 soldiers to follow him back to the court. Once on the road,

An Chongba knelt down in front of Wang Chengxiu's horse and said: "The country used all its strength to seize Qin and Longzhou. If I return with you, who will hold on here? I've thought about it for a long time, let's go,

I'm here to stay here. Wang Chengxiu had no choice but to advance south from Fu and Wen Erzhou with Wang Zong, the deputy envoy of the recruitment, and the Qiang people copied them from behind, Wang Chengxiu walked while fighting, and the soldiers were cold and hungry, and there were only more than 2,000 people left when they arrived in Maozhou. And here, Wang Chengxiu just walked on the front foot. An Chongba led Qin and Long Erzhou to surrender to the Tang army.

Before Li Shaochen arrived in Lizhou, Wang Zongbi abandoned the city and led his troops to retreat westward. Three tricks to ask the envoy to catch up with Wang Zongbi, Wang Zongbi took out the edict from his arms and showed it to them,

And said, "Song Guangsi ordered me to kill you." The three envoys hugged and cried with Wang Zongbi, and finally conspired to negotiate peace with Tang Jun. On the ninth day of the first month, Li Shaochen arrived in Lizhou. Zhaowu Jiedu made Lin Siwei abandon the city and flee to Langzhou,

Now he has sent messengers to ask for surrender. On the 15th, Li Jiqi arrived in Jianzhou. Wuxin Jiedu made Wang Zongshou lead the five prefectures of He, He, Chongqing, Lu and Chang to surrender. After Wang Zongbi arrived in Chengdu, he boarded the Great Xuanmen.

Strict self-defense. On the 16th, Wang Zongbi kidnapped Wang Yan, the Queen Mother, and the kings of the harem, moved them to the West Palace, confiscated their seals, and at the same time asked Wang Yan's cronies to collect the inner treasury gold silk at Yixingmen, and then sent them all back. Eighteenth. Li Shaochen occupied Hanzhou, and Wang Zongbi sent an envoy to Wei Lao,

and asked for surrender, and Li Shaochen sent Li Yan to Chengdu. On the 20th, Li Jiqi arrived in Mianzhou. Wang Yan sent someone to send the table. On the 25th, Li Jiqi arrived in Hanzhou, and Wang Zongbi personally greeted him.

On the 26th, Li Jiqi arrived in Chengdu. On the 27th, Li Yan led Wang Yan and hundreds of officials to surrender at Shengqian Bridge. Wang Yan was wearing plain clothes, with jade in his mouth, holding a sheep in his hand, and climbing his head with a straw rope.

Very embarrassed. Hundreds of officials, dressed in mourning clothes and barefoot, pulled the empty coffin in a car, crying loudly and waiting for Li Jiqi's order. Li Jiqi took Wang Yan's jade, and Guo Chongtao untied the straw rope around his neck,

And burned the empty coffins, and forgave them of their sins. On the 28th, the Tang army entered Chengdu. From the dispatch of troops in the Later Tang Dynasty to the destruction of the country in the former Shu, it took seventy days. He obtained ten jiedu envoys, sixty-four prefectures, and two hundred and forty-nine counties, and captured 30,000 soldiers, and the armor, money, grain, gold, silver, and silk were innumerable.

The history is so similar, during the Three Kingdoms period, Shu was also destroyed by the Wei State in the north, and Liu Adou also surrendered the city. There is such a saying in history that Shu is chaotic first and then ruled,

Although this place is relatively rich but the military strength is quite weak, once the northern army invades, there is no power to parry, the reason why Zhuge Liang often sends troops to the north, in order to attack and defend, enhance the country's military strength, because once the monarch and ministers are content with pleasure, Shu is difficult to hold.

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Qianshu was destroyed, but Guo Chongtao's fate did not improve at all, not only did it not improve, but it developed in a worse direction. The destruction of Shu was planned and commanded by him alone, and after the pacification, the old generals were appeased, the officials were set up, and the aftermath of the report was also handled by him alone.

He learned from Lei Feng to do good deeds and did everything, put all the limelight out, and won all the honors, but Li Jiqi, the king of Wei, was left aside like a fool, and he could only recite Zhu Ziqing's famous sentence in the moonlight on the lotus pond helplessly: The excitement is theirs,

I have nothing. Originally, Li Jiqi didn't hate Guo Chongtao, to put it mildly, Guo Chongtao was just a part-time worker, no matter how good he was, he was also a long-term worker of the Li family, and no matter how good he did, it was all for the Li family.

To put it bluntly, it was done for the future emperor Li Jiqi, and Li Jiqi himself did not have any ambitions, and he was young, so there was no big conflict with Guo Chongtao. But the eunuchs around Li Jiqi are a bunch of snobbish people who are greedy for money, seeing that Guo Chongtao's door is full of people every day, there is a lot of traffic, and there is an endless stream of people giving gifts, and he can only stare dryly, and he can't get any oil and water, so he turned from glaring to red, and red-eyed to hate, and then did everything possible to stir up right and wrong in front of Li Jiqi and frame Guo Chongtao.

Guo Chongtao didn't pay attention to these subsections, he thought that he was a loyal minister, he was not afraid of shadows, and if he was loyal, there was nothing to be afraid of. So he still went his own way,

and did not shy away from living in the house of the general Wang Zongbi. Wang Zongbi is also a villain in the camp, after the former Shu lord Wang Yan surrendered, Wang Zongbi got all the treasures and property in the palace to his own home.

After Guo Chongtao came, he selected Wang Yan's concubines and treasures to honor Guo Chongtao, and asked Guo Chongtao to appoint him as the town guard of Shu. Guo Chongtao said that it was easy to say on the surface, but in fact he was indifferent, because he had already recommended Meng Zhixiang to Li Cunqiao before sending troops.

The reason why I agreed to Wang Zongbi was just to appease him, anyway, it's one thing for me to be promoted, and it's another thing to succeed or not, and in the end, the decision is not on me. After a long time, Wang Zongbi saw that he had not been appointed,

So he retreated and brought the Shu people to see Li Jiqi, listed many reasons, and asked to leave Guo Chongtao to guard Shu. Li Congxi and others said to Li Jiqi: "Guo Gong's father and son are very tyrannical, and now let the Shu people ask for a commander for themselves, his ambition is difficult to guess, and the king must be unguarded against him." ”

"The Lord trusts you as if you were leaning on a mountain, and will not let you leave the temple, will you abandon the patriarch in this barbarian region?"

Besides, these are not things I dare to know, please go to the court and tell them for yourself! Under the provocation of the eunuchs, the contradiction between Li Jiqi and Guo Chongtao gradually deepened.

At this time, Li Cunqiao sent eunuchs to Yan Hei with an edict to Shudi.

Ordered Guo Chongtao's class to return to the dynasty, Guo Chongtao hated the eunuchs, and did not go to the suburbs to greet him according to the proper etiquette when he arrived.

Xiang Yansi was very angry, it was up to the master to beat the dog, how could our eunuch not be a thing, it was also the emperor's thing, Xiang Yansi was very hurt because of this, very hurt, Li Congxi took the opportunity to say to him: "The king of Wei is the crown prince, but the prince of Guo is in charge of the power alone, and he does not take the king of Wei in his eyes."

Yesterday, he just asked the king of Wei to be the governor of Shu, and his son Guo Tingzhi was even more supportive, arrogant, and dressed like a prince.

and the rich traitors in Shu have fun with prostitutes all day long, day and night. Recently, I heard that he asked his father Guo Chongtao to ask for the commander of Shu, and said that "Shu is very rich, and adults should plan for themselves".

Now the generals of all armies are Guo clan's comrades, and the king is in the mouth of the tiger and wolf, once there is a change, we don't know where our bones are lost! So they hugged each other and wept. (To be continued......)