Li Cunsi's godbrother Li Siyuan was the vanguard and broke through the northeast corner of the Liang camp, and the Hedong army swarmed in. The reconnaissance function of the Liang army was completely ineffective, defenseless, and it was a pleasure to be killed by the Hedong army. The Liang army was almost completely annihilated, and all the ordnance and food were taken away by the Hedong army. Luzhou was besieged for nearly a year before it was rescued from the encirclement of the Liang army.

The Hedong Army wanted to take advantage of the situation to take Zezhou (now Jincheng, Shanxi), but the Liang Dynasty general Niu Cunjie led reinforcements into Zezhou. The Hedong army began to attack the city, digging tunnels at the edge of the city, preparing to "surrender to the ground", but Niu Cunjie was all turned away and was not allowed to enter. The Hedong army attacked for more than ten days, Zezhou did not move at all, and the Liang general Liu Zhijun was about to march to Zezhou, Li Cunqiao knew that Zezhou could not move for the time being, anyway, he had already taken a big advantage in Sanchuigang, which was enough

While Zhu Wen was escaping the summer, he got good news, but he didn't know that what he got was actually the annihilation of the whole army. Zhu Wenchang cried: "If you give birth to a son, you should be like Li Yazi, and the Li family will not die!" The sons of my family are guinea dog ears. ”

More than 800 years later, there was a poet named Yan Suicheng in the Qing Dynasty, who wrote a famous epic poem "Three Chuigang": "The hero immediately rises from Shatuo, but this Zhu Liang is 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 "Hundred Years Song". ”

Zhu Wen suffered repeated setbacks, in order to adjust his mood, in the spring of the third year of Kaiping (909 AD), moved the capital to Luoyang, but still took Bianliang as the eastern capital, and his status remained unchanged. The older Zhu Wen gets, the more suspicious and mean he becomes, and the Youguo Army who guards Chang'an makes Wang Chongshi manage the army in a good way and the people are good at governing during his tenure, and Zhu Wen feels that Wang Chongshi has two hearts. Zhu Wen was reappointed as the commander of the Left Dragon and Tiger Army, and Liu Han guarded Chang'an on behalf of Wang Chongshi, and let Wang Chongshi come to Luoyang.

Wang Chongshi didn't want to go to Luoyang to suffer. How comfortable is it in Chang'an? As soon as Liu Han arrived in Chang'an, he was scolded by Wang Chongshi and ran away. Liu Han was furious. After seeing Zhu Wen, some people said that Wang Chongshi had fornicated with Li Maozhen. Yin wants to rebel. Zhu Wen had already squeezed out the surplus value of Wang Chongshi, and it was a scourge to keep it, so he demoted Wang Chongshi as the assassin of Xizhou, and soon issued an edict to kill Wang Chongshi and raze his clan.

Wang Chongshi is just a little arrogant, but to say that he has a heart of rebellion, it is a great wrong. Zhu Wen was extremely harsh in governing the army, and he was also mean to the generals. "History of the Old Five Dynasties" combines several of Zhu Wen's generals Shu Cong, Zhu Yougong, Zhu Zhen, Wang Chongshi, Li Si'an and others into one biography, they are all Zhu Wen's famous kung dogs. But they were all killed by Zhu Wen on various charges. The old history criticized Zhu Wen, "Everyone can't die, don't you hesitate!" If you don't have a bird, you should be like this? Will Liang Zu's male guess, without Henkel's magnanimity? ”

Objectively speaking, Zhu Wen treats these people a little thinner, but if Zhu Wen is given a big hat of "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" with the Zhu family, Zhu, Wang and other personnel, it will be a little wronged to Zhu Wen. Because Pang Shigu, Ge Congzhou, Liu Jun, Niu Cunjie, Yang Shihou, Zhang Guiba and others, who were also famous generals of the Bian, either died in battle or died well, why didn't Zhu Wen kill them? Not only because they are Zhu Wen's first-class generals. What's more important is that they themselves don't have a handle that Zhu Wen can get, they must be cautious in their lives, watch the king, value their teachers, and benefit their trust.

Zhu Wen just killed Wang Chongshi. came the news that Zhongwu Jiedu made Liu Zhijun rebel, Zhu Wen was puzzled, Liu Zhijun was his old minister. How can you say the opposite? Zhu Wen wrote to Liu Zhijun and asked: "I treat you well, why do you want to betray me?" Liu Zhijun replied: "The minister did not dare to fail His Majesty. However, the king is also a loyal minister of His Majesty, and it is inevitable that the clan will be wiped out. The minister is afraid of it, so he has this. ”

Zhu Wen was punched by Liu Zhijun and was speechless, so he had to send an envoy to comfort Liu Zhijun: "Liu Han said that Wang Chongshi was connected with Li Maozhen, so I didn't notice it for a while, resulting in Chongshi's unjust death." Now that I think about it, I can't regret it. But if you come, I will live up to it. ”

Liu Zhijun has followed Zhu Wen for so many years, and he knows Zhu Wen's temperament very well. Liu Zhijun did not comply. Zhu Wen lost face, naturally became furious, and sent Liu Jun to quell the rebellion. Liu Zhijun was not Liu Jun's opponent, and in less than a month, Liu Zhijun was defeated and fled to Qijing, where he went to Li Maozhen for tea, and the situation in the west stabilized.

Unexpectedly, one wave after another, Liu Zhijun's rebellion had just been quelled, and Wang Rong of Zhenzhou hooked up with Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, and the relationship was very ambiguous. Zhu Wen was not at ease with Wang Rong, and in November of the fourth year of Kaiping (910 AD), Zhu Wen sent Du Tingyin, an enshrined official, to "help" Wang Rong to defend the city under the pretext that Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan, was preparing to attack the town and Ding. Wang Rong knew that Liang Jun didn't have any good intentions here, but it was not good to openly refuse, what kind of person Zhu Wen was, of course Wang Rong knew.

Du Tingyin led his army to Shenzhou (present-day Shenxian County, Hebei) and asked Wang Rong to put them into the city to "defend" the Yan army. Wang Rong did not dare to disobey, and the Liang army entered Shenzhou to defend it. Zhu Wen's intention is obvious, that is, to insert a thorn in Wang Rong's body, as long as Wang Rong dares to do wrong, he will be stabbed to death immediately.

Wang Rong has been hesitating to tear his face with Zhu Wen, even if he moves in Li Cunqing, is he sure that he will defeat Liang Jun? If it fails, all nine clans will be destroyed! War has always been so cruel, "Yiqi tribe", it is very light, who can understand the tragedy of it? People are flesh and blood, one person fails, but the life of the whole family has to pay, whether it is an old man or a yellow-mouthed child, there is nothing to say, just one word: kill!

At this time, some people in the Liang army defected to Zhenzhou and stabbed Zhu Wen's abacus to Wang Rong: eliminate Zhenzhou and eliminate future troubles. Wang Rong was still hesitating, but only wrote to tell Zhu Wen that Yan Jun had left (not at all!). ), I hope that the king will return to the capital. Zhu Wen pretended to be a good person and sent someone to comfort Wang Rong.

But within a few days, Wang Rong received that the Shenzhou Liang army annihilated the Zhenzhou army in the city. knew that Zhu Wen, a "shameless man", was going to be real. After a fierce ideological struggle, Wang Rong decided to jump out of the thief ship of Zhu Wen, switch to Li Cunmiao and ask for help from Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan.

Shine. He withdrew his troops and returned to Taiyuan to reward the three armies.

Liu Shouguang received Wang Rong's letter of chicken feathers, but he mechanically used the strategy of "Bian Zhuang shooting the tiger", saying that it was not too late to wait for the vitality of the two armies to be seriously injured before making a move, and did not listen to the correct strategic advice of the subordinate general Sun He to "aid Zhao to consolidate the periphery of Youzhou". Liu Shouguang is very interesting, he once seduced his father's concubine Luo, and was beaten by Liu Rengong. Liu Shouguang held a grudge and actually sent troops to attack his father. Capture Daddy and live in a secluded room.

Lao Tzu became a prisoner of his son. It's a story for the ages. The matter is not over yet, Liu Shouguang's brother Liu Shouwen saw that his father became a prisoner of his younger brother. came to attack Liu Shouguang, but the deception was discovered by Liu Shouguang in front of the battle, and Liu Shouwen was also taken prisoner. Liu Shouguang became a veritable envoy of Youzhou Festival, with a relatively large territory and strong troops, but his ability was relatively poor, and his character was even more inferior.

Liu Shouguang's eyes were bright. But Li Cunmiao knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and controlling the Zhending area could not only threaten the eastern front of the Liang Dynasty, but also encircle Liu Shouguang on three sides. Wang Rong sent a letter asking for help, naturally he didn't want to miss the opportunity. Jin Liang is a mortal enemy who is not a common man, and weakening Zhu Wen is to strengthen himself. Li Cunxuan first sent Zhou Dewei to lead the elite infantry of Hedong to the boundary of Wang Rong and garrisoned Zhaozhou (now Zhao County, Hebei). When Wang Rong saw the Hedong Army coming, he felt a little relieved, and he believed in the strength of the Hedong Army. Wang Rong officially broke with Zhu Wen and made Li Cunqiao the leader of the alliance. Honor the name of Hedong's blessed year.

Soon, Li Cunqiao personally led the main force of the Hedong Army to the south, and at this time, Zhu Wen also decided to use troops to calm down and set troops to cut off the northern threat in one fell swoop. Wang Jingren, the envoy of the state of Bianing, Han Qing, the deputy envoy of Luzhou, and Li Si'an, the assassin of Xiangzhou, sent troops to the north. See the real chapter with the Hedong Army.

The two armies confronted each other in Baixiang (now Baixiang, Hebei), and in order to find out the details of the Liang army, Li Cunqiao first sent Zhou Dewei to challenge. The Liang army held on without a fight. Li Cunmiao didn't want to go on like this, so he asked Zhou Dewei to come forward and scold. What is ugly and scolding, scold me fiercely!

Wang Jingren was really scolded in a hurry. and Han Qing sent the main force out of the camp to find Zhou Dewei for a decisive battle. Liang Jun first took a fancy to the Zhenzhou army, which was not very capable of fighting, and first knocked out Wang Rong's main force and knocked a gap. The Zhenzhou soldiers resisted desperately, but the Liang army was outnumbered, and the Zhenzhou army saw that it could not stand it, and the Liang army was about to cross the wild river. Li Cunmiao, who was on the north bank of the river, knew that the Liang army could not be allowed to cross the river, otherwise the general situation would be over.

Li Cunqiao ordered the general Li Jianhe to go out to fight against the Liang army, and the Hedong army was physically strong and good at field warfare. Sure enough, the Liang army was not captured, and the two armies were entangled in a brutal strangulation. The battle was fought until noon, and the Liang army was tossed by the Hedong army for a long time, and its strength gradually ran out. Wang Jingren didn't fight like this anymore, and wanted to go back to eat first.

How could the Hedong Army let go of the Liang Army, taking advantage of the opportunity when the Liang Army had just turned back, shouting "The Liang Army is defeated!" Brothers, kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds! "The morale of the Hedong army rose sharply, rushed into the Liang army formation for a burst of killing, the Liang army's position was in chaos, the situation was reversed in an instant, the Liang army was defeated, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, the rest of the Liang army saw that the situation was not good, life was important, and the disarming of the brigade surrendered to the Hedong army. Wang Jingren, Han Qing, Li Si'an and others fled in a hurry.

Li Cunmiao wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, hit Bianliang City in one fell swoop, and capture Zhu Wen'er alive. The Hedong army pursued all the way to Xingzhou (now Xingtai, Hebei), and the Liang Baoyi army stationed here made Wang Tan have been defeated and strictly guarded. The Hedong army hit the city, and saw that the Liang army was prepared, and it was inconvenient to attack it for a while, so they accepted it when they saw it and collected their troops back. And Du Tingyin, the Liang army who stayed in Shenzhou to "defend" the Yan army, knew that Li Cunmiao was not easy to mess with, so he led the army to drive the strong men nearby south and retreat to the territory of the Liang Dynasty that night.

The battle of Baixiang in the first month of the first year of Qianhua (911 AD) is a famous battle in the history of the five dynasties, the battle of Baixiang is the most strategically significant battle in the process of the Liang and Jin dynasties for hegemony, after the defeat, the elite troops of the Liang Dynasty suffered heavy losses, and the "Longxiang" and "Shenjie" armies that Zhu Wen was proud of were all annihilated. The situation in Hebei also underwent major changes, Wang Rong and Wang Chuzhi fell to Li Cunqiao in an all-round way, and the Liang Dynasty was in a slump from then on. Li Cunmiao basically controlled the Hebei region, and his advantage over the Liang Dynasty became more and more obvious.

After Zhu Wen was defeated in Baixiang, he was in a bad mood, so he took women as his venting object. Zhu Wen heard that Henan Yin Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter were stunning, so he infiltrated Zhang's mansion under the banner of summer vacation, playing with Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter, and even Zhang Quanyi's daughter-in-law could not escape Zhu Wen's clutches. For a time, Zhang Fuzhong was full of obscene sounds, and it was inaudible. Zhang Quanyi "learned a turtle method, and shrunk his head when he had to", pretending not to see it. What if you see it? For Zhang Quanyi, it is certainly a great shame, but no matter how big his face is, it will not be as big as his life.

But Zhang Quanyi's son Zhang Jizuo is still a little bloody, and when he saw his mother, wife and sister being humiliated, he was angry and wanted to fight with Zhu Wen, an old whore. "Old Turtle" Zhang Quanyi grabbed his son, and he was a big mouth, and said a big truth: "I have more than 100 people's lives in the hands of the other side, you can kill him, he still has a son, won't he destroy me?" When you Lao Tzu and I were trapped in Heyang, it wasn't the Zhu family who came to save me, how could there be you bastards? What are these things? Zhang Jizuo put the knife down.

In fact, Zhang Quanyi understands in his heart. His life and death are between Zhu Wen's thoughts, even if Zhu Wen has not helped him before. Now he didn't dare to do anything to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen is the number one evil star of the fifth generation, which annoys this master. Wang Shifan is his end.

Zhu Wen was almost a year old at this time, but the older he became, the more energetic he became, and after playing with the women of the Zhang family, Zhu Wen felt bored, and stared at his daughters-in-law with squinting eyes. Zhu Wen has a lot of sons, but Zhu Wen likes his godson the most (the early stage of the fifth dynasty was popular to admit fake sons) Bowang Zhu Youwen, and even Mrs. Zhang's biological son Junwang Zhu Youzhen is not as favored as Zhu Youwen, but the relationship between Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youwen is not bad.

Although Zhu Youwen is a beautiful man, he is erudite and talented. can also write poems, but these are not the deep-seated reasons for being favored by Zhu Wen. Because Zhu Youwen has a beautiful wife, Wang, and the beauty index ranks first among the concubines of the Zhu family, Zhu Wen drooled a lot for this goddaughter-in-law, and finally couldn't help but be horny and hooked up with Wang. The folk call the father-in-law hooking up with his daughter-in-law "picking up ashes", Zhu Wen only cares about his carnal desires, and what moral constraints does he care? The premise of moral restraint is that you want to be constrained, if you don't want to be constrained. That morality means nothing to you. In June of the second year of Qianhua (912 AD), Zhu Youqi bought off Han Qing, the general of the forbidden army, and Zhu Youqi, as the commander of the forbidden army, could freely enter and leave the interior. So he asked Han Qing to take five hundred tooth soldiers to infiltrate the control crane capital, and entered the palace at night, and found Zhu Wen, who was about to sleep. The guards around Zhu Wen were scared away when they saw the rebels coming. Only Zhu Wen, an old bachelor, was left looking at Zhu Youqi dumbfounded.

After Zhu Wen pondered Zhu Youqi's intention, he scolded: "Zhu Youqi, you beast dare to oppose Lao Tzu?!" ”

Zhu Youqi was also polite: "Yes! It's your son and me! ”

Zhu Wen trembled angrily: "I have long suspected that you have rebel intentions." I regret not killing you sooner, so today. How dare you kill your father. God has eyes and will never let you go! This is the last sentence that Zhu Wen left to the world.

Zhu Youqi still had the heart to reason with him, and shouted: "I'll kill you first." Handing the house slave Feng Tingge a look, Feng Tingge was quick with his hands and feet, and he rushed to Zhu Wen with an arrow step, and went down with a knife, Zhu Wen screamed miserably, fell to the ground and died, and was sixty years old when he died. In June of the second year of Qianhua (912 AD), Zhu Youqi bought Han Qing, the general of the forbidden army, and Zhu Youqi, as the commander of the forbidden army, could freely enter and leave the interior, so he let Han Qing take 500 tooth soldiers to mix into the control crane capital and enter the palace at night, and found Zhu Wen who was about to sleep. When the guards around Zhu Wen saw the chaotic soldiers, they were all scared away, leaving only Zhu Wen, an old bachelor, looking at Zhu Youqi dumbfounded.

After Zhu Wen pondered Zhu Youqi's intention, he scolded: "Zhu Youqi, you beast dare to oppose Lao Tzu?!" ”

Zhu Youqi was also polite: "Yes! It's your son and me! ”

Zhu Wen trembled angrily: "I have long suspected that you have the intention of rebellion, and I regret not killing you earlier, so today." If you dare to kill your father, God will never let you go! This is the last sentence that Zhu Wen left to the world.

Zhu Youqi still had the heart to reason with him, and shouted: "I'll kill you first." Handing the house slave Feng Tingge a look, Feng Tingge was quick with his hands and feet, and rushed to Zhu Wen with an arrow, and went down with a knife, Zhu Wen screamed miserably, fell to the ground and died, and he was sixty when he died

Zhu Wen, a generation of heroes who had been in the late Tang Dynasty for more than 30 years and buried the Tang Empire with his own hands, died like this, and his death was so worthless and abrupt that it even made people laugh: the son who connived at his wife and father's incest killed his father because he did not get the "reward" he "deserved" to receive.

Before Zhu Wen died, he may think of what his eldest brother Zhu Quanyu once said: "If you do this, you will be sent by heaven, and our Zhu family will be destroyed in your hands sooner or later." ”

Zhu Wen was extremely poor in history, and Ouyang Xiu said: "Woohoo! The evil of the world has been around for a long time! Moreover, when Ouyang revised the "History of the New Five Dynasties", he admitted Zhu Liang, and some opponents thought: "Liang is a great evil, and he should be punished!" Even later, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty and recognized the Zhu Liang regime, but was also criticized by Wang Fuzhi as "Song Zhi is not right in the world, because Xu Zhu Wen replaced the Tang Dynasty." ”

Zhu Wen's life, from "revolutionary" to "revolutionary traitor", from Tang Emperor Li Yi to give the name Zhu Quanzhong to abolish the Tang Dynasty as emperor, he has experienced countless swords and swords, bloody rain, and established a hegemony, in his era, Zhu Wen is indeed a character!

The Chinese people have always judged heroes by success or failure, and the heroes are the losers and the thieves, and being cruel and easy to kill is not an excuse for denying heroes, otherwise, many people in later generations should be denied, but now those who kill far more than Zhu Wen have become heroes in the minds of the descendants of the slaughtered. Zhu Wen is certainly not a hero, but in the fifth generation, except for Chai Rong, there was basically no hero to talk about, as for Li Cunqiao and others, they were more than one position behind Chai Rong, and they were not much better than Zhu Wen.

Zhu Youqi forged the edict and asked Zhu Youzhen, the king of Jun stationed in Bianliang, to kill Zhu Youwen and the great beauty Wang, and then ascended the throne with confidence. But after Zhu Youqi won his will, he became as shameless and cruel and tyrannical as Zhu Wen, and everyone was already dissatisfied with Zhu Youqi, and they were even more disappointed when they saw him behaving nonsense.

Zhu Wen's son-in-law, Zhao Yan, the commander of the horse, and his nephew, Ma Bujun, both commanded Yuan Xiangxian to decide to get rid of Zhu Youqi and replace it with Zhu Youzhen, the king of Jun. Of course, Zhu Youzhen wished that pie would fall from the sky, so she was naturally happy to agree. Zhao Yan told Zhu Youzhen: "The Chengde Festival makes Yang Shihou virtuous and grand, and he is served by the forbidden army. Zhu Youzhen knew the weight of Yang Shihou, so he secretly sent his confidant Ma Shen to Weizhou to lobby Yang Shihou.

Ma Shen handed over his copper mouth and steel teeth, and strongly persuaded Yang Shihou to fall to Zhu Youzhen: "King Ying dares to kill the monarch's father, it is a great rebellion, plus he has usurped the throne for several months, he is fierce and unreasonable, and his human feelings are turbulent, so why should the prince surrender to this thief?" If not, change the king. Before the servant left, the king promised the servant to Ling Gong that after the matter was completed, he would pay Wei Lao 500,000 yuan, and Ling Gong would still sit in this town. "Yang Shihou knows that Zhu Youzhen doesn't seem to be doing big things, but Zhu Youzhen will definitely be able to succeed? There was some hesitation: "King Ying has succeeded to the throne, the status of the monarch and the minister has been decided, if you oppose the king of the water and serve the king, there will be a loss of ministers, I am afraid that this matter will not be done!" ”

Ma Shenjiao chased after him: "The way of humanity, the monarch's father is respected, and the prince bends his knees to the traitor who killed the monarch and killed his father. In addition, the king is the son-in-law, and he fights for the thief, and everyone is expected to belong. If Ling Gong sits on the mountain and watches the tiger here, in case the king succeeds, will Ling Gong not succeed in opposing the king? A few words made Yang Shihou feel like an empowering, and decided to bet on Zhu Youzhen, and wrote a letter to the general of the forbidden army, knowing the big plan. and stationed troops in Huazhou to meet Zhu Youzhen.

After Zhu Youzhen was ready, he secretly ordered Yuan Xiang in Luoyang City to lead the forbidden army that had rebelled to attack the palace and kill Zhu Youzhen. Seeing this, Zhu Youqi was shocked and tried to escape from Luoyang. But all around were Zhu Youzhen's men and horses, and they couldn't run away at all. The desperate Zhu Youqi asked his "hero" Feng Tingge to kill the "queen" Zhang first, and then did himself. Feng Tingge knew his sins, and he also died, and he also wiped his neck.

Yuan Xiangxian and others saw that the event was successful, so they came to Bianliang with Zhao Yan to persuade them, Zhu Youzhen didn't want to go to Luoyang, after all, Bianliang was his sphere of influence. In February of the third year of Qianhua (913 AD), Zhu Youzhen succeeded to the throne in Bianliang.

Unlike Zhu Youzhen's biological mother Wu, who was born "lowly", Zhu Youzhen is a real "dragon born and phoenix", he is the crystallization of Zhu Wen and Mrs. Zhang's love. Moreover, Zhu Youzhen is gentle by nature, likes to make friends with scholars, and is very popular in the upper echelons of the ruling group of the Liang Dynasty. Therefore, after Zhu Youzhen became emperor, he quickly won the support of the upper echelons of the Liang Dynasty and quickly stabilized the situation.

However, Zhu Youzhen only stabilized the domestic situation, and when Zhu Youzhen faced a more complicated situation in the north, he soon realized that his real opponent was not Zhu Youzhen, who was ambitious and talented, but Li Cunqing, the king of Jin who dominated Hedong. (To be continued......)