In the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, because there were many political regimes, there were many famous military towns related to the life and death interests of all parties, and the more famous ones were Bianzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, Hedong, Yangzhou, Weizhou, Zhenzhou and other super towns. Basically, a regime owns a big town, Zhu Wen is lucky, left and right, and the security situation is relatively optimistic. Among these big towns, Wang Rong's Zhenzhou is surrounded by strong enemies, and it is indeed not easy to sit firmly in this family business.

However, Wang Rong is not a character given for nothing, although he is young, he is still a little capable. It's a pity that the "father-in-law" Li Congwei he just recognized felt that Wang Rong was young and easy to bully, and calculated: "If you lose Youzhou, if you get Zhenzhou, you won't suffer." Li Congwei designed to murder Wang Rong, but he didn't expect Wang Rong to have a big life and escaped from Li Congwei.

Li Kuangchou in Youzhou City was overjoyed when he heard that his brother had died, and now no one was fighting with him for territory. However, on the surface, he pretended to play the court and asked the court to send troops to kill Wang Rong and avenge his brother. Li Ye doesn't recognize you Li Kuangchou, you can't be lazy.

Wang Rong got rid of Li Congwei, and now it's time to think about how to face Li Ke. Li Keyong is still staying in Xingzhou because Li Cunxiao is still staying, and if he doesn't get rid of this scourge for a day, Li Keyong won't be down-to-earth for a day. In July of the second year of Tang Jingfu (893 AD), Li Keyong led the army to attack Xingzhou, passed by Wang Rong's territory, taught Wang Rong a lesson, and the Hedong army attacked Zhenzhou. Wang Rong was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, so he had to ask Li Keyong for peace and pay 500,000 gold and silk to reward the Hedong army. In order to curry favor with Li Keyong, Wang Rong abandoned Li Cunxiao and sent troops to destroy Li Cunxiao with Li Keyong, but Li Keyong failed to succeed for a while.

Zhu Wen on the other end was not idle, and Zhu Xuan was also a tiger. In one day, Zhu Wen couldn't sleep for a day. February of the first year of Tang Qianning (894 AD). Zhu Wen once again "drove the expedition" and took over with Zhu Xuan near Yushan. A scuffle between the two armies. God may think that the scene is not lively, and made a joke to the two surnamed Zhu, for a while the southeast wind, Zhu Xuan took the lead, and then the northwest wind, Zhu Wen got the first opportunity. Zhu Xuan is a stupid person, why not take advantage of the wind to set a fire? Zhu Wen didn't miss this opportunity, a fire burned the Zhu Xuan brothers in embarrassment. Leaving more than 10,000 corpses behind and fleeing back to Yunzhou.

Zhu Wen had just defeated Zhu Xuan, and Li Cunxiao of Xingzhou was deceived by Li Keyong to the Hedong military camp because of the exhaustion of military rations. It was all Li Cunxin's slander, and he had to do this as a last resort. Li Keyong was angry when he saw Li Cunxiao, and scolded: "Li Cunxin slandered you? Could it be that you also paid Wang Rong and Zhu San Li Cunxin? Li Keyong took Xingzhou, brought Li Cunxiao back to Taiyuan, and divided Li Cunxiao with five horses. In the City of Violent Corpses. However, although Li Keyong got rid of Li Cunxiao, when he thought of the old relationship, Li Keyong was still a little unhappy.

At this time, Zhu Wen couldn't care about how Li Ke used it, so he killed Zhu Xuan first. Zhu Xuan hurriedly asked Li Keyong for help. Li Keyong is willing to help as long as someone asks him to help deal with Zhu Wen. However, at this time, Li Keyong was preparing to use troops in the north to deal with Li Kuangchou, the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu. just sent three horses, An Fushun, An Fuying, and An Fuqian, to help Zhu Xuan.

In June, Li Ke used a large number of troops. went north to attack Yunzhou (now Datong, Shanxi), and soon broke through the city. Capture alive his old friend Datong Defense Envoy Helian Duo. Datong is an important town in the north of Taiyuan, and with Datong as a barrier, Taiyuan can sit back and relax. In December of the same year, Li Keyong turned to attack Youzhou, and broke Wuzhou (now Xuanhua, Hebei) and Yanzhou (now Huailai, Hebei). Li Kuangchou knew that Li Ke was not good at using it, and he also sent the elite of the department to Juyongguan (now northwest of Changping, Beijing), Li Ke used the general Li Cunzhen to fight, Li Kuangchou was defeated in several battles, and all the soldiers and horses were lost, so he had to flee to Chang'an with his family, and was killed by Lu Yanwei in Jingcheng (now Cangzhou West, Hebei). After Li Keyong entered Youzhou, he left Liu Rengong, the former Yan Shuai Li Congwei, and the old general Liu Rengong to guard Youzhou.

In the first month of the second year of Tang Qianning (895 AD), Wang Chongying died of illness in the Protector Army (Hezhong) Jiedu, and the Hezhong Army will appoint Wang Chongrong's stepson Wang Ke as the commander of the Hezhong Army. Wang Chongying's two sons, Wang Gong and Wang Yao, were extremely dissatisfied, and the three brothers began to fight for the handsome position. In order to find a backrest, Wang Hui and Wang Yao took refuge in Zhu Wen and sent a letter to Zhu Wen: "Wang Ke is an old man in the family, a little name worm, how can he be a handsome man like this?" ”

Wang Ke over there did not show weakness, but turned to Li Keyong, and wrote to defend himself: "The deceased father has meritorious service to the court, and the deceased father and son succeed him, why not?" "Li Keyong saw that Wang Ke's brother worshiped Zhu Wen's dock, which naturally favored Wang Ke, played the imperial court, and asked Wang Ke to be the envoy of the festival.

Because Zhu Wen was fighting in Yunzhou, he defeated the Shatuo reinforcements and captured the An brothers on the battlefield, but Zhu Xuan's life was hard, Zhu Wen was repeatedly defeated, and he didn't have much time to ask about the affairs in the river. Wang Hui turned to contact Wang Xingyu, the envoy of the Jingnan Army, Li Maozhen, the envoy of the Fengxiang Army, and Han Jian, the envoy of the Chinese Merchants, and asked them to help get rid of Wang Ke. The three masters played their own games, and they all said that Wang Ke was not the son of the Wang family, and he could not be the main festival in the river, so he asked Wang Heng to be the king. This time, Li Ye believed Wang Ke's statement and approved Li Keyong's sponsorship.

Wang Xingyu and the others were furious when they saw Li Ye so faceless, and the three masters decided to go to Chang'an in person to reason with Emperor Zhaozong. In May of the second year of Tang Qianning (895 AD), Wang Xingyu, Li Maozhen, and Han Jian each led thousands of ironclad soldiers to enter Zhaozong. Chang'an was in turmoil, and the people fled wildly. Li Ye saw that these strongmen were so unruly, and he kissed Anfumen with anger to meet these old people. Wang, Li and Han are still Tang Dynasty courtiers in name, and the etiquette still has to be spoken, and they dance three times under the city. Li Ye asked: "You are all ministers of the state, people who know the rules, how can you lead troops into the court without permission?" If you don't want to do it, get out of the way, and I'll appoint myself a virtuous minister to go to town! ”

These people did not dare to be presumptuous in front of the emperor, bowed their heads and were speechless. Li Ye didn't dare to force this group of strongmen to be in a hurry, so he had to deign to hold a banquet. Seeing that the three of them could not achieve their goal, they vented their anger on the ministers, and falsely accused Wei Zhaodu, Li Ling and others of being incompetent, and asked for an order to kill them, but of course Zhaozong refused.

"You don't want to? If we want, we can do it! The three of them sent troops to arrest Wei Zhaodu and Li Ling, the privy envoy Kang Shangbi and others, and beheaded them on the spot. The three of them asked Li Ye to appoint Wang Heng as the festival in the river again, and this time Li Ye knew the number. One is one, and two is two. I couldn't be sloppy and agreed.

Li Keyong saw that this gang of thieves actually dared to hijack the car. That's worth it, if you want to hijack it, it has to be him Li Keyong, which onion is Wang Xingyu and the others? In July, Li Keyong crossed the Yellow River with his 11-year-old son Li Cunqiao and committed the crime of committing three thieves. Li Keyong first captured Jiangzhou, beheaded Wang Yao, and then attacked Chang'an.

Li Maozhen and others were terrified when they heard this, and prepared to kidnap Li Ye and flee to Fengxiang, and Li Yunbu of the Shence Army led guards to protect Zhaozong. Feng Xiangjun didn't rob it. Li Ye took advantage of the chaos and took hundreds of princes and princesses to flee to Nanshan under the protection of Li Yun and Li Junshi, the head of Hujiaodu. Hundreds of thousands of people accompanied him. Halfway through, he was robbed by a local strongman, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and the people cried, shaking the valley.

In August, the Hedong army broke through Tongzhou (now Dali, Shaanxi), and Wang Xingyu prepared to take millet in the chaos and rob Zhaozong again. The only thing Zhaozong could rely on at this time was Li Keyong. sent the worship official Zhang Chengye to find Li Keyong and quickly rescued the driver. The Hedong Army defeated the Jingnan Army in Liyuan, Wang Xingyu's strength was greatly weakened, and Li Maozhen also weighed his weight. Busy to apologize and make peace with Li Keyong.

Li Ye worshiped Li Keyong to recruit envoys for the camp on all sides of Suining, and together with Li Siji, the envoy of the Dingyan Army, and Zhang Jie, the envoy of the Changyi Army, and others went to discuss the most disobedient Wang Xingyu. Li Keyong first asked his son Li Cunqiao to go and ask Zhaozong to return to Beijing. Li Ye saw that Li Cunqiao was a cute boy. shouted at the strange appearance and comforted the child: "You are a pillar of the country." In the future, he should be loyal to the court. Then he took Li Cunqiao back to Chang'an.

After settling Zhaozong, Li Keyong led his army to Pizhou. Wang Xingyu didn't have any soldiers, and he was frightened and babbled nonsense in the city: "The holy car was robbed by Li Maozhen, and it has nothing to do with me!" Li Gongke can arrest Li Maozhen, and I went to Beijing to plead guilty. Li Keyong didn't eat him, and sneered: "The edict ordered me to ask for three rebel ministers, including the prince, who offended." Wang Xingyu knew that it was hopeless, so he ran away with his family, and was killed by his generals on the way, and passed the head to Chang'an. In order to thank Li Keyong for saving the driver, Li Ye issued an edict, named Li Keyong as the king of Jin, 9,000 households, and gave "loyal and difficult heroes".

Hehe, this gang of strongmen in troubled times is really good, no one is trouble-free, everyone is mixed with the rivers and lakes, and it is not good to have no skills. The five dynasties and ten kingdoms were very chaotic, first, the existence time was short, and second, the overlap of political regimes was particularly frequent, and the main line was a mess. Every era has its own heroes specific to that era, and the same goes for the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The most recognized must be Chai Rong, the man hidden behind history, as well as Li Cunqiao and Guo Wei, all of whom are worthy of the hero level.

Zhu Wen, who was thousands of miles away, learned that Li Ke had a great scenery, and he was jealous, and Zhu Wen didn't eat fat, so he could only gnaw on the bones. At the end of the same year, Zhu Wen led the elite to defeat Zhu Xuan's Yun army in Caozhou (now Hezennan, Shandong), and pursued it all the way to Juye (now Juye, Shandong), capturing more than 3,000 Yun troops, and the main generals of the Yun army, He Gui and Liu Cun, were also taken alive. At this time, the wind was blowing, and Zhu Wen was ruthless, and he sneered: "Killing people is not enough, causing the wind to be so abusive!" "Ordered to kill all the captured Yun soldiers, but pardoned He Gui and kept it for use.

Zhu Wen's strict management of the army is famous in history, if the main general is killed in battle, all his subordinate soldiers must be killed, the so-called "pulling out the team and beheading". Although many soldiers were killed in the main general and escaped and did not dare to return, because Zhu Wen rewarded and punished strictly, and the reward of a thousand gold must have brave men, so the combat effectiveness of the Bianjun army did not decline.

Zhu Xuan knew that Zhu Wen would not let him go, so he hurriedly asked Hedong for help. Zhu Wen's enemy was his friend Li Keyong, the advance generals Li Chengsi and Shi Yan led thousands of elite horsemen to the south to rescue Yun. In the fifth generation, there were really not many people who could send 10,000 cavalry casually. In the era of cold weapons, the cavalry of ethnic minorities had a great advantage over the Han infantry.

In the first month of the third year of Tang Qianning (896 AD), Li Keyong sent Li Cunxin, He Huaibao and others to lead more than 10,000 horsemen to save Yunzhou. Li Cunxin was about to borrow Wei Bo, and Zhu Wenmi sent someone to tell Wei Bo's Luo Hongxin: "Li Ke's ambition is comparable to Dong Zhuo. Luo Hongxin was still hesitating, Li Cunxin was not strict in governing the army, and the Hedong Army plundered in Weibo, and the people's resentment was boiling. Luo Hongxin was furious and sent out to attack the unprepared Hedong Army at night, Wei Bo's army beheaded thousands, and the Hedong Army retreated to Zhaozhou. Since then, Wei Bo and Hedong have become enemies, Luo Hongxin concentrated on making friends with Zhu Wen, Luo Hongxin attached to Bian and blocked the northern return road of Li Chengsi and others, Li Chengsi and others could not return to Hedong, so they had to defend with Zhu Xuan.

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Li Keyong didn't want to offend Luo Hongxin, but since Luo Hongxin turned his face, you're welcome. In April, Li Keyong personally went out and forcibly borrowed Wei Bo, defeated the Wei army several times, and entered Weizhou. Zhu Wen was worried that Luo Hongxin would not be able to defeat Li Keyong, so he left Pang Shigu to continue the siege of Yunzhou, and led a large army to meet old friends, and the two armies confronted each other in Huanshui. Since Shangyuanyi parted, the two have not seen each other for twelve years, they were both high-spirited young people at the beginning, and now they are not confused people with gray hair, and the two must have a lot of emotions in their hearts.

When Li Keyong saw the enemy Zhu Wen on the battlefield, his eyes were extremely red, and he scolded Zhu Wen, but Zhu Wen was not polite, and opened his mouth to scold. Enough scolding, let's get to the point. Li Keyong sent his eldest son Luoluo to lead three thousand iron cavalry to call the formation, and the general Ge Congzhou came out of the Bianjun array. "Shandong is a Ge, nothing to do", it is Ge Congzhou, how can he be so fierce? Ge was captured from Zhou Sheng.

Li Keyong almost lost his breath when he saw his son being captured. He led the army to save his son, and just entered the battle, Li Keyong fell to the ground with the horse he was riding, and Bianren was overjoyed and hurriedly came forward to catch Li Keyong. Li Ke used good luck to shoot several people of the Bianjun army with arrows, and the rear army came to save him, so that he was spared.

Li Keyong sent someone to beg Zhu Wen to raise his noble hand, the adults don't care about the villains, the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, can let the child live, and make a cow and a horse. Zhu Wen first slowly enjoyed Li Keyong's low breath, and after enjoying himself, he gave an order: "Chop!" Li Ke felt distressed with this, hated Zhu Wen very much, but he couldn't win for a while, so he had to return to Taiyuan and continue to miss the years spent with his eldest son.

Zhu Wen did not withdraw the army, Zhu Xuan's existence is the greatest disrespect to Zhu Wen, for the sake of Zhu Wen's future, Zhu Xuan must die. The Bianjun army gathered on the side of Jishui, preparing to launch a final general attack. Pang Shigu took the lead and broke through Yunzhou, Zhu Xuan ran north with his family, but he was caught up by Ge Congzhou on the way, and he was dedicated to Zhu Wen. After Zhu Wen was ridiculed, Zhu Xuan was beheaded in Bianqiao, and Yanyun and other places were taken by Zhu Wen. Zhu Jin was chased and cornered, went south to cross Huai, and surrendered to Yang Xingmi. (To be continued......)