Wang Yanzhang led the Praetorian Guard to prepare to attack Yunzhou, and Li Siyuan received the battle report and hurriedly sent Li Congke to lead the army to meet the battle. The vanguard of the two armies met unexpectedly in Difang Town, Li Congke broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and the first soldiers desperately rushed to kill, killing 300 enemies in one go, the Liang army was defeated, and more than 300 people did not escape in time, and became Li Congke's prisoner, Wang Yanzhang couldn't, so he had to surrender to Zhongdu.

The Yunzhou victory was transmitted to Li Cunqiao's camp, and Li Cunqiao was overjoyed and said to Guo Chongtao: "The Yunzhou victory is enough to strengthen the heart of victory for our army!" ”

As a result, Li Cunmiao ordered his soldiers to send their families back to Weizhou to prepare for an all-out crusade against the Liang Dynasty. In October of this year, there was a solar eclipse in the sky, and the ancients used the sun to replace the emperor, which indicates that an emperor or dynasty is about to perish, and who will it refer to this time?

Li Cunmiao himself also sent his family members back, and said to his wife and son: "Success or not, fight here." If God doesn't help me, you will gather our family together and self-immolate in the Wei Palace!" ”

Then on the one hand, he left people to defend Weizhou, Tokyo, and on the other hand, he led the army from Yang Liu to Yunzhou, and after meeting with Li Siyuan, he appointed Li Siyuan as the vanguard, and marched directly to Bianzhou.

The small walls of the central capital were thin, and there was no preparation in the city, and soon the heart of the Liang soldiers collapsed, Wang Yanzhang could not restrain them, and the Liang soldiers fled outside the city one after another, and were chased and killed by the Tang army all the way, and no one in the whole army was spared.

Wang Yanzhang had no choice but to lead dozens of cronies to escape, Li Shaoqi heard his voice, so he shouted and frightened: "This is Wang Tiegun!" ”

It's too late, it's too soon. Li Shaoqi pulled out the lance and stabbed Wang Yanzhang directly, Wang Yanzhang was old at this time. It is no longer as brave as it used to be, and it has gone through many political struggles. Physically and mentally exhausted, he didn't catch a move, he was swept in the back by Li Shaoqi, his mouth was spitting blood, and the old horse didn't stand firm when he sat down, and fell to the ground heavily, Wang Yanzhang was finally captured by the Jin army.

At the same time, more than 200 people, including Zhang Hanjie, the prison army, Li Zhijie, the assassin of Caozhou, Zhao Tingyin, and Liu Sibin, were captured, and several thousand people were killed in battle.

Wang Yanzhang once said to people: "Li Yazi is just a little devil who fights cocks, and he is not afraid!" Now that he was captured, Li Cunqiao asked him: "You used to say that I was a little devil who could only fight cocks." Are you convinced today? Then he asked: "Since you are a famous general, why don't you go to Yanzhou, where the city is high and thick?"

There are no barriers in China, how can you defend it? Wang Yanzhang replied: "The destiny of heaven is gone, and I have nothing to say." Li Cunmiao cherished his talent, wanted to keep it for his own use, sent the best doctor in the barracks to treat him, and sent ministers to persuade him to surrender many times.

Wang Yanzhang said: "I was originally a country horseman, thanks to the great grace of Liang Guo, and I was officially named a general. I have been at war with the emperor of the Tang Dynasty for more than 15 years, and now the army is defeated and the strength is poor, and death is my duty, even if the Tang Emperor has mercy on me and let me live. What face will I see again! Where is the truth that the dynasty is the Liang general, and the twilight is the Tang Chen! It's something I don't want to do! ”

Li Cunmiao still didn't give up, so he sent the general Li Siyuan to persuade him to surrender. Wang Yanzhang didn't even owe himself while lying on the hospital bed, so he called him by his name and said: "Aren't you Miao Jilie (Li Siyuan's nickname. When he was a child, did he have a name or a surname)? ”

Li Siyuan listened. Wander away. The great victory in the capital, the generals congratulated, Li Cunqiao raised the wine and said to Li Siyuan: "Today's success is the credit of you and Guo Chongtao. If we follow the advice of Li Shaohong and his ilk, we will be done with the game. ”

Li Cunqiao said to the generals again: "In the past, our army was only worried about Wang Yanzhang, but now he has been captured, this is the will of heaven to destroy the Liang country!"

Duan Ning is still north of the Yellow River, where should the direction of our army's advance and retreat be? The generals replied: "Now it is rumored that Daliang has no soldiers, and I don't know whether it is true or not."

The armies of all the towns in the east are under the command of Duan Ning, they are all empty cities, with the heavenly power of His Majesty, once they come, how can they not surrender?

If you take all parts of the East first, and then look at the movement of the girders, it is a foolproof strategy. Kang Yanxiao, on the other hand, insisted on requesting an immediate attack on Daliang. Li Siyuan agreed with his opinion and said: "The soldiers are fast.

Now that Wang Yanzhang is arrested, Duan Ning still doesn't know that even if someone goes to report the news, he will be suspicious and hesitate, I'm afraid it will take three days to make a decision.

Even if they knew of our movements and immediately sent rescue troops, if they wanted to take the straight road, they would be blocked by the Yellow River that they had broken by themselves, and if they made a detour to Baima and crossed the Yellow River in the south, tens of thousands of troops, I am afraid that the boats crossing the river would not be able to be fully prepared at once.

And here is close to the girder, and there are no mountains and rivers to block the road ahead, and our army array is rampant, day and night, and we will arrive in two or three days.

At that time, Duan Ning had not left the Yellow River, and Zhu Youzhen had already been captured alive by us. Please lead a large army to press the rear of the army, and the minister is willing to lead thousands of cavalry as the vanguard. ”

That night, Li Siyuan led the leading troops to drive directly to the girder. The next day, Li Cunmiao set out from Zhongdu and escorted Wang Yanzhang with him, and Li Cunmiao sent his close ministers to ask Wang Yanzhang: "Can we succeed in this operation?" ”

Wang Yanzhang flickered and said: "Duan Ning still has 60,000 elite soldiers, although he is not a general, but he will never surrender casually, it is really difficult for you to succeed." Only then did Li Cunmiao know that Wang Yanzhang could not be used for himself in the end, so he killed him at the age of sixty-one.

Ouyang Xiu: "The words said: "The world is chaotic and knows loyal ministers. Sincerely! On the occasion of the fifth generation, I can't be unmanned, and I have three people in the whole festival...... Woohoo, the world has been evil for a long time! Those who are born at the time of the misfortune of the scholars, can also be the ministers who do not do it, and those who eat people will die, such as those who are Yanzhang, can be said to be dead! ”

Wang Yanzhang died, and he embezzled a sentence from Chairman Jiang to evaluate him: It is not that the national army is incompetent, but that the communist army is too cunning.

The country is broken by mountains and rivers

The Tang army reached Caozhou, and the Liang army defended the generals and surrendered without a fight.

Some of the remnants of the defeated army fled back to Daliang and reported to Zhu Youzhen: "Wang Yanzhang has been captured alive, and the Tang army is now driving straight in, and it is about to come over." ”

Zhu Youzhen gathered his family and said bitterly: "The country's fortune is over!" He also summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures, but the ministers looked at each other, but they had no way to answer. Zhu Youzhen turned to Jing Xiang again. He said very sincerely: "I used to ignore your advice, which is why I am today.

The matter is already urgent. You must stop complaining, what should you do now? Jing Xiang cried and said, "The minister received the favor of the first emperor." It's been almost more than 30 years, nominally the prime minister of the country, but in fact the old slave of the Zhu family, the minister serves His Majesty just like a house slave serves the young master, and the minister has suggested to His Majesty several times before,

It's just that he wants to exhaust the loyalty of his servants, and when His Majesty began to appoint Duan Ning, the minister once tried his best to say that it was absolutely not allowed, and the villain in the court was a traitor. So that with today's situation, now Tang Bing is about to fight.

Duan Ning's army was blocked north of the Yellow River, there was no way to come to the rescue, the minister wanted to ask His Majesty to flee temporarily, His Majesty would not will, if His Majesty made a surprise strategy to fight to the death with the enemy, His Majesty must not be able to make a decision very decisively,

Right now. Even if Zhang Liang and Chen Ping are reincarnated, who can come up with a good plan for His Majesty? The minister is willing to ask His Majesty to give me death first, but the minister really can't bear to watch the temple be destroyed. ”

After that, the two of them wept for each other.

Zhu Youzhen sent Zhang Hanlun to Duan Ning as soon as possible. Zhang Hanlun is a gentleman's son. Usually the sedan chair is used to sitting, not accustomed to riding, just arrived in Huazhou. He fell off his horse and broke his legs. In addition, it was blocked by the river and could not move forward.

At that time, there were still thousands of crane control troops in Daliang City. The crane means riding the crane, and the ancients said that the immortals rode the crane to the sky, so the crane army is actually the emperor's personal soldiers.

Zhu Jue asked to be in command of the battle, but Zhu Youzhen did not obey, and only ordered Kaifeng Yin Wang Hao to drive the people to the city to defend.

At the beginning, Zhu Quanyu's son, Shaanzhou Jiedu, made Zhu Youzhi, the king of Shao, a smart and capable person, and the people's hearts were oriented to him. Someone falsely accused him of wanting to lure the forbidden army into rebellion, but Zhu Youzhen recalled him to Daliang and put him under house arrest along with his brothers Zhu Youliang and Zhu Youneng.

When the Tang army was about to arrive, Zhu Youzhen suspected that his brothers would take the opportunity to cause chaos, so he killed them together with his younger brother Zhu Youyong, the king of He, and Zhu Youhui, the king of Jian.

Zhu Youzhen climbed the Jianguo Tower, summoned his cronies, and gave them a very heavy reward, letting them wear the clothes of the common people, secretly carrying the wax seal edict, and went to Duan Ning's army to report the emergency, but as soon as the people who asked for help left the capital, they slipped away with all the treasures one by one, leaving Zhu Youzhen alone waiting for the news.

Someone asked Zhu Youzhen to go to Luoyang to avoid the Tang army's troops, and then collect various armies to resist the Tang army, even if the Tang army got the capital, it was bound to not stay for long.

There was also a request to move Duan Ning's military camp, and the commander of the control crane capital made Huang Fulin said: "Duan Ning is not a general in the first place, and now in a crisis, how can you expect him to win and turn defeat into victory."

Moreover, Duan Ning was already frightened when he heard that Wang Yanzhang's army had failed, how could he know that he would be loyal to His Majesty? ”

Zhao Yan said: "The matter has come to this, if Your Majesty goes down this building, who can be reliable!" Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to give up.

Zhu Youzhen brought the prime minister to discuss major matters, and Zheng Jue put forward his own high opinion: he was willing to carry the jade seal of the country to the Tang camp to surrender fraudulently, so as not to go to the country in a big disaster. Zhu Youzhen said: "It's not that I'm reluctant to give up the jade seal today, just do this, can the problem be solved?" ”

Zheng Jue thought about it for a long time, and only spit out a sentence: "I'm afraid it can't be solved." When the ministers heard this, they all shrunk their necks and snickered. Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to cry day and night, helpless.

He put the heirloom jade seal in the bedroom, but suddenly he couldn't find it anymore, and after thinking about it, he thought that he had been stolen by his cronies and sent it to Tang Jun for reward.

On the eighth day of the first month of October, someone reported that the Tang army had passed Caozhou, the momentum was huge, and the dust avoided the sun, and Zhao Yan, who had always prided himself as very reliable, said to his entourage: "I have always been very good to Wen Zhaotu, and he will definitely not let me down." ”

So he went straight to Wen Zhaotu for refuge. Zhu Youzhen said to Huang Fulin: "The Li family is my feud, I have absolutely no reason to surrender to him, I can't wait for him to kill me." I don't have the courage to kill myself, you can help me cut off my head. ”

Huang Fulin cried and said: "The minister can swing a sword for His Majesty to slash and kill the Tang Army, this can be done, to kill Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to obey the order." Zhu Youzhen said: "Does Aiqing want to betray me?" ”

Huang Fulin was helpless and was about to commit suicide, Zhu Youzhen grabbed him and said, "I will die with Qing!" Huang Fulin then killed Zhu Youzhen, who was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty or seven, and then committed suicide. So the Liang Dynasty fell, a total of three emperors, and enjoyed the country for 17 years.

In contrast to Li Cunqing's glorious image, Zhu Youzhen is often described as a faint monarch in history books, is this really the case? In fact, Zhu Youzhen's biggest flaw is not cruelty, laziness, low IQ, blindness and deafness, but weakness.

One of the symptoms of weakness is that it is easy to compromise, and when Liu Cheng did not listen to the command and insisted on going his own way, Zhu Youzhen chose to compromise. When Jing Xiang put the rope around his neck, he chose to compromise.

But when Zhao Yan and Duan Ning sued Wang Yanzhang, he chose to compromise. Let Wang Yanzhang be laid off and Duan Ning take over, but he still chose to compromise.

Everyone is their own people, and there are internal contradictions, everyone still values harmony, convinces people with morality, and does not fight to the death. Even if you want to fight, you should be unanimous with the guns to the outside world, and fight with the Jin army to break the net.

There is something to say, this is Zhu Youzhen's way of being the emperor. Zhu Youzhen is not brutal, nor does he have a life style problem like his father.

In general, he was still a passable person, but in those days, just getting by meant that he couldn't get by in the end. The country is ruined, just because it is not good enough, that's all.

On the morning of the ninth day of the first month, Li Siyuan's vanguard arrived outside the city of Daliang, attacked Fengqiu Gate, at this time there was no owner in the city, Kaifeng Yin Wang Hao opened the door and surrendered, Li Siyuan's army entered the city, pacifying the army and the people.

On the same day, Li Cunmiao also entered the Great Liang, and hundreds of civil and military officials of the Liang Dynasty stepped forward to greet him and took the initiative to ask for guilt.

Li Siyuan also rushed to greet Daohe, Li Cunqiao was so happy that he couldn't help himself, grabbed Li Siyuan's clothes and put them on his head and said: "I have the world, mainly because of Aiqing's father and son, I am willing to enjoy the world with you in the future." ”

Li Cunqiao ordered Zhu Youzhen to be captured, and after a while, someone offered Zhu Youzhen's head. Li Cunmiao ordered Wang Zan to collect Zhu Youzhen's body, stop at the Spirit Buddha Temple, and paint his head, put it in a box, and hide it in the Taimiao.

Soon, Zhao Yan's head was also sent by Wen Zhaotu in Xuzhou, and Zhao Yan's hundreds of millions of family fortunes were all taken by Wen Zhaotu as his own.

Li Zhen said to Jing Xiang: "I heard that there is an edict to exempt us from our crimes, do you want to go to the court to see the new monarch together!" Jing Xiang replied: "The two of us are both prime ministers of the Liang Dynasty, the monarch is mediocre and cannot be corrected, and the country cannot be saved from destruction. ”

That night, before dawn, someone reported to Jing Xiang that "Li Zhen has entered the court." Jing Xiang sighed: "Li Zhen, he can't be regarded as a man!"

The Zhu family and the new monarch have been enemies for generations, and now that our country is destroyed and the monarch is dead, even if the new monarch does not condemn and kill us, what face will we have to enter the founding gate of the palace? After saying that, he hanged himself and died. Besides, Li Zhen saw Li Cunqiao, counted his sins, bent his knees and bowed his head, completely losing the majesty and backbone that he had when he was regarded as a stalk.

Guo Chongtao said: "People say that Li Zhen is a generation of geniuses, and I think he is just an ordinary person today!" Because Duan Ning and others fell behind the well, although Li Zhen bent his knees and confessed, he did not escape death after all, and he and his clan were executed the next day.

Duan Ning crossed the Yellow River from Huazhou to Beijing to rescue, and appointed the troops to line up Du Yanqiu as the vanguard, and when he arrived at Fengqiu, he encountered Li Congke's troops, and Du Yanqiu surrendered first. On the 12th, Duan Ning led 50,000 troops to Fengqiu, where he was also disarmed and asked for surrender.

Duan Ning led the generals to Li Cunmiao's palace to plead guilty, and Li Cunmiao comforted and rewarded them, and comforted the soldiers and let them return to their stations. Duan Ning went in and out among the ministers, smug and guiltless, and the former ministers of the Liang State wanted to strangle him when they saw him with a villain face. (To be continued......)