Zhu Jun led 10,000 remnants of the army to leave Chang'an, and the Tang army pursued closely, and "the rest of the party surrendered". Chang'an was recovered, Li Sheng ordered, "The officers and soldiers of the Shence Army shall not contact their families within five days, and the violators will be beheaded", and sent Jing Zhaoyin and other officials to comfort the residents of Chang'an, and the people of Chang'an were very excited to see Wang Shi again.

The military discipline of the Shence Army was strict, and some people who stole the horses and official prostitutes of the rebels were executed in accordance with military law. Li Sheng beheaded the rebel leader, commended the mighty and unyielding loyal ministers, restored the normal operation of the administrative organs, and prepared to welcome Tang Dezong's return to Chang'an.

When the report was sent to Liangzhou, Tang Dezong cried, he had already experienced nine deaths, and finally relied on the loyalty and courage of the Tang Dynasty soldiers to help the crumbling country, this price is too heavy, how many dragons and phoenixes, made Zhu Zhu's ghost under the knife. The emperor said, "Li Sheng was born for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, not just for me."

Zhu Zhu was killed by his cronies, and his head was sacrificed as a gift of surrender. How to deal with Li Huaiguang has become a topic of controversy in the imperial court. Tang Dezong remembered Li Huaiguang's rescue work,

I hope to forgive Li Huaiguang's sins. Li Sheng resolutely opposed it and put forward five reasons that could not be forgiven, the most important of which was not to show weakness to the feudal towns and indulge their prying eyes.

Moreover, the treasury is empty and already stretched, and if the reward does not satisfy Li Huaiguang, it will provoke a rebellion and endanger the country. Tang Dezong appointed Ma Sui and Hun Ying to crusade against Li Huaiguang, and in just a few dozen days, Li Huaiguang betrayed his relatives and committed suicide in despair.

Jingzhou is located on the border, and the local defenders have killed the commander several times, not taking the majesty of the imperial court into account. Li Sheng invited himself to go to rectify military affairs and "restrain Xirong."

Tang Dezong canonized Li Sheng as the king of Xiping County, and worshiped Fengxiang, Longyou, and Jingyuan Jiedu envoys. Li Sheng came to Fengxiang and executed more than ten people including Wang Bin, the rebel general, in accordance with military law, and then went to Jingzhou to execute Tian Xijian, Shi Qi and others.

Li Sheng sent troops to defeat Tubo several times, and the Tibetan monarchs and ministers were terrified. came up with a plan for a Hongmen banquet, "The famous generals of the Tang Dynasty are just Li Sheng, Ma Sui and Hun Xuan, if you don't get rid of them, you will end up in a big trouble for Tubo's henchmen."

Tubo Shang Jiezan begged for peace with the Tang Dynasty several times. Ask for an alliance with Datang. Li Sheng persuaded Tang Dezong, "Rong Di has no faith and can't promise them." The prime minister at that time, Zhang Yansheng, was at odds with Li Sheng, repeatedly slandered Li Sheng, and finally in the third year of Zhenyuan, the emperor deprived Li Sheng of his military power. Li Sheng was appointed as a lieutenant and a book order.

Zhang Yansheng and Li Sheng's feud has been a long time, when Zhang Yansheng was a festival marshal in Sichuan, Li Sheng wanted to take away a Chengdu official prostitute Gao, at that time, the official prostitute had to go through the official consent, Zhang Yansheng refused to be accommodating, and sent troops to recapture Gao, which made Li Sheng very faceless.

Ordinary people just play with official prostitutes, but Li Sheng wants to bring the official prostitutes home, which shows that Li Sheng is an amorous and responsible man, and the man at that time had three wives and four concubines. It is completely allowed by the law, and even Tang Dezong gave Li Sheng eight female musicians at one time, although Li Sheng is lustful, it is not excessive.

Li Sheng's tombstone in Gaoling County, Shaanxi Province records that his wife is Mrs. Zheng Guo's Du, then the Jin State Mrs. Wang who raised his concubine Li Yu grew up is the side room, "Old Tang Book" records that Li Sheng has fifteen sons, and the Shinto tablet records that he has twelve sons, and three of them are named "亻",

It can be seen that several of his sons were born to concubines. Among the fifteen sons may even be sons born to official prostitutes. In any case, this was a minor section in the Tang Dynasty, and it did not affect Li Sheng's image of loyalty and fortitude.

Zhang Yansheng's false accusation made Li Sheng uneasy day and night. His eyes were swollen from crying, and he sent more than ten of his sons and nephews to Beijing and asked to cut their hair and become monks. Fortunately, the emperor was not confused, did not listen to and believe partially, and issued an edict asking for reconciliation.

In the middle of this, the words of the famous minister Li Mi should have played a vital role. "I hope that His Majesty will not harm the heroes, and can start and end well with them."

Zhang Yansheng is a literati, not as sassy and upright as a military general, but by focusing his personal grievances on state affairs, he deviates from the cross-fertility of being a courtier. He sang a duet with Li Sheng, advocating an alliance between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. In the alliance, tens of thousands of Tibetan ambush soldiers rushed out,

Thousands of Tang troops were wiped out, and the general Hun Yang escaped because of his superb martial arts, only to be spared. Zhang Yansheng was deposed as prime minister and paid a heavy price for his selfishness.

Li Sheng is a military general, with a straightforward and frank personality, he doesn't believe in fortune, but others believe in it, which causes him a lot of trouble. When he was prime minister, he saw a table in the council chamber that was so filthy that it had not been moved for fifty years, because someone had said,

If you move the table, you will lose the position of prime minister. Of course, Li Sheng doesn't take this kind of alarmism seriously,

Immediately ask someone to move the table and clean the council hall. However, there is another kind of alarmism

He must not ignore it. The hopeful person said that the trees in Li Sheng's deep house compound contained the spirit of the emperor, and Li Sheng hurriedly asked his family to cut down the trees, making the house bare.

So as not to arouse Tang Dezong's suspicions, the people and ministers are so open-minded, which is really a great blessing for Tang Dezong. The emperor placed Li Sheng's portrait on the side of the former minister of Taizong in Lingyan Pavilion, highlighting his merits in recreating the Tang Dynasty.

In 793 A.D. (the ninth year of Zhenyuan), Li Sheng died of illness at the age of sixty-seven. Tang Dezong made an oath in the form of an edict to "save the heir" for Li Sheng and declare the coffin.

When Tang Xizong took refuge in Sichuan, the imperial court edited the "Xingyuan Shenggong Record", which recorded Li Shengkuang's great achievements in supporting the Tang Dynasty, and "gave it to all the generals", hoping that they would all take Li Sheng as an example, be selfless and fearless, and be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

Among Li Sheng's sons, there are several people who are quite famous, they are Li Yuan, Li Xian, Li Yu, and Li Ting. "Li Yuxue entered Caizhou at night" is a famous example of long-distance running in Chinese history.

It has become a crucial achievement in pacifying Huaixi, and "Pinghuai West Monument" has made a high degree of praise and affirmation for Li Yu's contributions. Li Xian served as the deputy envoy of Princess Taihe, and after his return, he presented the "Uighur Daoli Chronicles" to the imperial court, and he and Li Yu were both known for their benevolence and filial piety, which shows that Li Sheng's family was quite rigorous.

Looking back at this flesh-and-blood Tang Dynasty famous general in history, I feel that he is a living man,

Courageous, responsible, and quite affectionate. Thousands of years of history, dusty words, we still clearly see his figure, on the dark battlefield, "one body can break two eagle arcs, and the captives ride a thousand weights only seem to be nothing." Sitting in the golden saddle and white feathers. They shot and killed five Dan Yu".

Lee Kwang Yan

He was born and died, he fought bravely, he was selfless and fearless, and he fought hard. He is not a Han person, but he loves the Tang Dynasty more than the Han people, he is not a literati, but he is more knowledgeable than a literati, he is Li Guangyan. He is the heroic and invincible god of war of the Tang Empire.

History flashes back to several unforgettable fragments, the battle of Shiqu, Li Guangyan charged ahead, the enemy shot arrows like rain, Li Guangyan was not afraid, he was shot like a hedgehog, still charging into battle, invincible, Wu Yuanji's rebels were defeated like a mountain, and the Tang army beheaded thousands. An exciting victory.

A beautiful woman with a beautiful national color walked into Li Guangyan's military tent, which was a gift from the coach Han Hong to Li Guangyan, Li Guangyan was unmoved, he said angrily, "Tens of thousands of soldiers have left their wives and fought with the enemy in the rain of white-edged arrows, how can I entertain myself with beauty?"

The Son of Heaven is as gracious to me as a mountain, and I am not with a traitor," he pointed to his heart. "Death is not the same". The stunning beauty was sent back, and the officers and soldiers of the three armies were deeply moved, and they all fought bravely on the battlefield.

Li Guangyan, who was successful and famous, wanted to choose a husband for his daughter, and others persuaded him to marry the Gaomen clan. This is the most glorious thing in the Tang Dynasty, Li Guangyan said, "In troubled times, how can you make small contributions?" "I actually married my daughter to a junior general in the army, which made all my colleagues fall through their glasses. Lee Kwang Yan. What kind of man is he?

Li Guangyan, whose ancestral home is Yuci, Shanxi, was formerly known as Aqiu Guangyan, and the surname Li was given by the Tang Emperor. A fall belongs to the Nandan in the left chamber of the twelve surnames, Tang Taizong Zhenguan years attached, was placed by the imperial court in Jitian Prefecture, hereditary Jitian Prefecture Thorn History, subordinate to the brave and good fighting Shuo Fang Army. After the outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion", Li Guangyan's father Li Liangchen and elder brother Li Guangjin defected to Tang Suzong and made great achievements.

Li Guangjin followed Guo Ziyi to fight in the north and south, recovered the two capitals, and during the Yongtai period, he was crowned the king of Wuwei County, and later became the crown prince. In the fourth year of Tang Xianzong's Yuanhe, the situation was turbulent, Li Guangjin was unyielding, and made military merits, and was awarded the title of Yinqing Guanglu doctor, Li Guangyan was also a doctor because of his military merits, so the army called Li Guangjin a big doctor, Li Guangyan a small doctor.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Li Guangyan brothers, who established the country with military merits and outstanding martial arts, naturally stood out and were not suppressed because of their Turkic status. In the sixth year of Yuanhe, because of "longing for sincerity and sincerity, and overcoming Maoxun", the Li Guangyan brothers were given the surname Li by Tang Xianzong and became the clan of the Tang Dynasty.

As a Turkic descendant, the Li Guangyan brothers followed their brother-in-law Sheli Gezhan to practice riding and archery since childhood, and they were talented and diligent, and they were fierce and fierce in battle, and had few opponents.

The Turkic custom is that when the old man is incapacitated, it is not reproachful for his children to throw them into the snow and ice to feed the wolves. When the mother of Lee Kwang Yan's brother died,

Li Guangyan "did not return to the dormitory for three years", rested his head on clods of soil, and held a funeral according to etiquette in a broken shed that could not shelter from the wind and rain, completing a filial piety that ordinary people could not do. It is precisely because this kind of filial piety is very difficult and hurts the body,

Therefore, the people of the time had great respect for the man who completed this kind of filial piety, and Li Guangyan won this respect with his practical actions.

After the death of his mother, Li Guangjin married a wife, before that, Li Guangyan's wife was in charge of family affairs, because the elders and young were orderly, Li Guangyan felt that he should give the right to be a housekeeper to his brother and sister-in-law, so he asked his wife to take out the family registration and property, and handed it over to Li Guangjin's newlywed wife.

Li Guangjin was very reasonable, he asked his wife to send him back, Li Guangjin told his younger brother, "My brother-in-law once served my mother, and my mother let her be in charge of the house, she did a good job, don't change it again", the brothers wept for a long time, they were very sentimental, and in the end, Li Guangyan's wife presided over the family affairs.

In the ninth year of Yuanhe, Li Guangyan promoted the Zhongwu Army to make the envoy and inspect the Ministry of Engineering, and led the people of the headquarters of the Shatuo people as the main force, together with other troops, to crusade against Wu Yuanji, who did not obey the king's orders, and a fierce battle began.

Wu Yuanji's father Wu Shaoyang is the Huaixi Festival envoy, has always been to the court Yang Yin disobedience, Tang Xianzong Yuanhe nine years (AD 814), Wu Shaoyang died, Wu Yuanji wanted to inherit his father's position, was rejected by Tang Xianzong. Wu Yuanji then plundered the army,

In danger, Tang Xianzong sent troops to fight for three years. In May of the 10th year of Yuanhe, Li Guangyan led his army to fight fiercely with the Huaixi army in Shiqu (now the downstream area of the confluence of the Shahe River and the Cao River in Luohe City, Henan), and the two sides fought in the dark.

Wu Yuanji's troops were far more than Li Guangyan's troops, and he gradually surrounded them on all sides, compressing the Tang army in one corner.

The situation is critical. Li Guangyan self-destructed the fence, took the lead, led the cavalry to break through, charged many times in a row, and was pressed back by the enemy's arrow rain, he was wounded in many places, but he ignored it.

The son stopped the horse and prevented the father from going into battle again. Li Guangyan waved his knife to drive away his son, took the lead, rushed into the enemy group, the big knife danced into pieces of snowflakes, the blocker died immediately, the battlefield was a ghost crying wolf, the Tang army was full of momentum, and the fish rushed out, breaking Wu Yuanji's Huaixi army,

sent Tang Xianzong the long-awaited good news. At that time, there were more than a dozen official armies to conquer Caizhou, and most of them were self-respecting.

Only Li Guangyan's troops did their best and were brave and invincible, which gave the imperial court great confidence and courage and laid a solid foundation for future victories.

In April of the twelfth year of Yuanhe, Li Guangyan defeated the Huaixi army in Yuncheng, 30,000 Huaixi troops died three-tenths, the Tang army captured 1,000 horses, 30,000 armor, the enemy won the air, Deng Huaijin, the defender of Yuncheng, and Yuncheng made Dong Changling have the idea of surrendering, but,

The soldier's parents and wives were both hostages in Caizhou, and if they didn't surrender without a fight, their parents and family would become ghosts under Wu Yuanji's sword, which made them hesitate again and again. Li Guangyan reached a secret agreement with them, and the Tang army took the lead in attacking the city,

The city raised fire for reinforcements, attracting Wu Yuanji's reinforcements, and when the Tang army defeated the reinforcements, the Yuncheng defenders opened the city gate to welcome the Tang army. The two sides acted according to the plan, Yuncheng was recovered, Wu Yuanji was frightened and mobilized heavy troops to defend against Li Guangyan's attack, so that Caizhou's troops were empty, and later Li Yu was able to perform a legend of entering Caizhou on a snowy night.

Li Yu led 9,000 elite soldiers to travel 130 miles in the wind and snow, lightning attacked, reached Caizhou City, captured Wu Yuanji alive, and more than 30,000 Huaixi troops surrendered to the imperial court. Wu Yuanji was beheaded in Chang'an, Huaixi was pacified, Tang Xianzong summoned Li Guangyan and Li Yu in the Linde Hall to show his merit to crown the generals, Li Guangyan became the inspector of the school, and rewarded more than 20 carts of rice.

Tang Xianzong's gaze turned to Li Shidao, who disobeyed the king's orders, Li Guangyan once again acted as a pioneer, and granted righteousness to become an envoy of the army, "Xu Yizhong soldiers followed", within thirty years, defeated the enemy army in Puyang, beheaded thousands of ranks, Li Shidao ambushed, and the twelve prefectures of Ziqing returned to the jurisdiction of the central government.

The situation of the division of feudal towns was temporarily over, and the Tang Dynasty almost restored its heyday territory. (To be continued.) )