As the ancients said, "The king is not a tyrant, and he will not be a li!" This sentence is not talking about Li Yuanba, the first good man of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the king of Zhao, and the tyrant here refers to the overlord of Western Chu; And Li refers to Li Cunxiao. Historical records record that Li Cunxiao "is brave and crowning, often riding as a pioneer, and has not been defeated;

From Li Keyong to save Chen and Xu, chase Huang Kou, and die in Shangyuan, every battle is invincible" His status in "The Romance of the Five Dynasties of the Remnant Tang Dynasty" is equivalent to Li Yuanba, the king of Zhao in "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", invincible in the world, known as the Flying Tiger General. With his innate divine power, coupled with excellent martial arts, Li Cunxiao fought in the south and in the north.

From the invincible. Even Wang Yanzhang, the second iron spear in the world of martial arts, couldn't go two rounds under Li Cunxiao. And Gao Siji, who ranked third in martial arts (said that the ancestor of Gao Pet, who once defeated Jin Wushu in one round in Yue Quanchuan, once suffered from a severe cold in Li Cunxiao, and after picking dozens of generals in a row, he took advantage of the situation to defeat many Tang generals.

After Li Cunxiao heard about it, he went into battle and captured Gao Siji, who was not much weaker than Wang Yanzhang in ten rounds, with a serious illness.

Later, after Li Cunxiao's death, Wang Yanzhang was no longer invincible, and even picked 36 fierce generals of the Jin army (this matter is also recorded in "Water Margin"), so anxious that Li Keyong cried: "If my son is filial, why is it here?" "At the critical moment, the military advisor made a plan and sent someone to pretend to be Li Cunxiao to go out of the battle, but he scared Wang Yanzhang away.

scared Wang Yanzhang's younger brother Wang Yantong to death (Wang Yantong was also one of the famous generals at that time). Of course, the above story only appears in the wild history, and there is no record in the official history, but. It can also be seen that Li Cunxiao is fierce.

Li Cunxiao and Li Cunxin had a discordant relationship, and as early as the first year of Dashun (890), Li Cunxin and Li Cunxiao attacked Zhang Jun. At that time, Li Cunxiao was brave and brave, and the army gave in to him, but Li Cunxin was the only one who competed with him, so the two sides disliked each other and were like fire and water. When it came to pacifying Luzhou, Li Cunxiao hoped to lead the post of Luzhou Jiedu envoy with military merits, but soon after.

Kang Jun was immediately awarded the title of Xuan Yue and became the envoy of the festival, which made Li Cunxiao furious. He wantonly plundered the residents of Luzhou, burned down the houses in the city, and made runny words, suspecting that Li Cunxin had rejected him.

Next year. Li Cunxiao obtained Xing and Wei two prefectures. Li Ke used his talents to make him a festival envoy. Li Cunxiao was worried about Li Cunxin's separation, and wanted to make a great contribution to defeat Li Cunxin, so he repeatedly asked Li Keyong to ask for troops, and asked to serve as the town and Hebei Prefecture.

At that time, the two were suspicious and jealous of each other, and stayed with each other to watch. There was no progress in the war, and Li Keyong had no choice but to reassign Li Sixun. defeated the Youzhen army, killing and capturing more than 30,000 people.

Li Cunxin returned to Li Keyong and slandered: "Cunxiao has two hearts, and he often avoids Zhao Bu Attack." After Li Cunxiao heard about it, he was very uneasy, but he didn't think about explaining it clearly, but secretly connected Zhu Wen and Wang Rong, and submitted a seal to the court to return to the three states of Xing, Huan, and Ci.

and asked him to be appointed as the envoy of the festival, and to join the armies of the provinces to crusade against Li Keyong. Current events seemed to be extremely favorable to the imperial court, so Zhaozong issued an edict appointing Li Cunxiao as the envoy of Xing, Huan, and Cijie, but did not agree with him to join the army, and only ordered Wang Rong to go to the rescue.

In the second year of Jingfu, Li Cunxiao asked Wang Rong for help. Li Ke used the policy of using the dollar to increase the stick, which is commonly known as the carrot and stick in China, that is, to beat you with a stick and then give you a date to eat.

Li Keyong first sent troops to attack Wang Rong, and then wrote a letter to recruit Wang Rong, and at the same time stormed Wang Rong's Pingshan. Wang Rong was frightened, so he sued Li Keyong for peace, and at the same time offered 500,000 horses, and sent troops to help attack Xingzhou. In the same year, Li Keyong attacked Tuyuhun again, killed Helian Duo, and captured Bai Yicheng, thus ending the resistance of the Tuyuhun people.

In March of the first year of Qianning (894), Li Cunxiao climbed the city tower and cried and said to Li Keyong under the city: "The great grace of the king and the great general, are you willing to give up the relationship between father and son and join the enemy?"

This is all due to Li Cunxin's false accusations. I hope to be able to live to see the king, even if I say a word and die, I am willing. (The son is deeply favored by the king, the most general, Gou is not slanderous and divisive, and he wants to give up the deep favor of father and son, and attach himself to the party of hatred!) Although the child is narrowly designed, the real faith is framed here, if he is born to see the face of the king, he will die with a word, and he will be willing. ）

Li Keyong was also very sentimental, so he sent Mrs. Liu into the city to offer condolences. Mrs. Liu came back with Li Cunxiao, and he kowtowed and pleaded: "My son Yu Jin has merit but no fault, so at this point, it is because of the letter!" (Rough and slight work, save the letter and force the child, lose the picture so far!) ）

Li Keyong scolded loudly: "The letter you wrote to Zhu Wen and Wang Rong slandered me, is this also what Li Cunxin forced you to do!" (Original text: Zhu Quanzhong and Wang Rongshu will destroy me, and you will also believe in religion!) So he was escorted back to Taiyuan and executed by splitting the car.

There is a legend here, which can further show Li Cunxiao's fierceness, it is said that on the day of the execution, when the five war horses used all their strength to pull outward, Li Cunxiao's wrists and ankles were actually because of the innate reaction, naturally gave birth to strength, and pulled the five war horses back alive! Connect more than a dozen times, all the same.

At this time, Li Cunxiao thought to himself, anyway, he has reached such a point that he is bound to die, so what good is it to struggle like this? thereupon

He said to Li Cunxin: "Fourth brother, our two brothers have reached this point, there is no need to say anything. But you can't kill me like this, and you can't obey my father's orders.

I tell you, if you want to kill me, there is only one way, and that is to break my tendons and tendons, so that my hands and feet cannot exert strength; Shatter my knee and elbow bones, so that my limbs cannot be connected, and it will take the strength of five horses to kill me.

You and I have been brothers for so many years, just look at my brother's face and give me a good time. Hearing Li Cunxiao say this, Li Cunxin's eyes were also full of tears, he nodded, and did the same.

This time, the five horses rushed together, and finally completely split Li Cunxiao. A generation of famous generals, the world's unparalleled thirteen Taibao, died unjustly.

In fact, Li Keyong didn't want to kill him originally, but the military law was like a mountain, there was no way, he hoped that the generals would intercede for him, so he was exempted from the death penalty, who knew that the generals were very jealous of him, and none of them were willing to intercede for him.

Li Keyong hated the generals for this. He regretted his filial piety and ignored political affairs for more than ten days. The strength of the army also gradually weakened, and Zhu Wen's power began to become stronger and stronger.

After Li Cunxiao's death, Li Keyong gambled with the generals every time. When talking about Li Cunxiao, he couldn't stop crying. In October of the first year of Qianning, Zhaoyi Jiedu made the 12th Taibao Kang Junli go to Jinyang to meet Li Keyong.

Kang Junli, a native of the Xingtang Dynasty in Ulzhou, was a strong and powerful border town for generations. During the Tang Qianfu period, Kang Junli served as a dental school under the command of the defense envoy Duan Wenchu.

At that time, Duan Wenchu was encountering the above-mentioned matter of Duan Wenchu's reduction of soldiers' salaries, so there were complaints in the army. Kang Junli conspired with Xue Tieshan, Cheng Huaixin, Wang Xingxian, Li Cunzhang and others: "Duan Wenchu is a cowardly person, and it is difficult to do big things together. Now there are thieves all over the country. The military power of the imperial court is sluggish, and if the husband cannot make meritorious contributions at this time, he is not a hero among the people.

Li Zhenwu and his son bravely crowned the army. We should take advantage of the situation to assist, then the land of Daibei will be pacified in a few days, and our fame and wealth will be just around the corner. And so. Kang Junli and others came to Ulju at night. I met with the thorn Shi Like,

He said to him: "If there is a great chaos today, the Son of Heaven appoints generals to stabilize the border, but this year when there is a little famine, we cut the salary, how can we and the people who guard the border sit back and wait for death!" We should get rid of the tyrannical commander together, and in this way we can apologize to the border soldiers! Li Keyong said: "Fang is on the ground today." There should be court rules and regulations for your actions, and you should not discuss them lightly.

My father was far away in Zhenwu. Let me make plans later. Kang Junli and others said: "The opportunity has been leaked, I'm afraid something will happen after a long time, where to wait for a thousand miles to report before acting!" So everyone supported Li Keyong as the handsome.

After that, Kang Junli followed Li Keyong to fight in various places and made great contributions. Therefore, it can be said that Kang Junli was the first hero of Hedong at that time.

On the 30th, Li Keyong gathered his subordinate generals to drink to their heart's content, and when he drank to the end, Li Keyong talked about Li Cunxiao, and tears kept flowing down. Kang Junli is usually close and friendly to Li Cunxin,

An accidental remark angered Li Keyong, who drew his sword and slashed at Kang Junli, then imprisoned him, and soon poisoned him.

In the winter of the same year, Li Keyong attacked Youzhou, and Li Kuangyu abandoned the city and fled. Li Kuangchou, the son of Li Quanzhong, and the younger brother of Li Congwei. In 893, he seized the throne of his brother Li Congwei's Lu Long Festival. Li Kuang raised funds to Jingcheng, and was attacked by Lu Yanwei, the envoy of Yichang Jiedu, and was killed after failure. Then Li Keyong appointed Liu Rengong as the queen.

In the second year of Qianning, Wang Chongying died in Hezhong Jiedu, and his sons Wang Ke and Wang Heng competed for the throne, Li Ke used the letter to ask Wang Ke to succeed to the throne, and Fengxiang Li Maozhen, Suining Wang Xingyu, and Huazhou Han Jian wrote to ask Wang Heng to succeed to the throne.

Tang Zhaozong was in a dilemma, so he agreed to Li Ke to use Wang Ke according to the principle of first application. Li Maozhen and others were very angry, and the three jointly raised troops to attack Chang'an, and later heard that Li Keyong also sent troops, so they collected their troops and went back.

In June, Li Keyong conquered Jiangzhou and killed Wang Yao. In July, Li Keyong came to the river and made an appointment with the king of Tongzhou to go to Chang'an, spreading rumors that "Li Keyong led the Shatuo army of 100,000 horses to kill!" Wang Xingyue wanted Tang Zhaozong to move to Pizhou, and Li Maozhen's godson Yan Gui also wanted to rob Tang Zhaozong to Fengxiang.

Li Keyong's army did not march in the direction of Chang'an in the river for more than a month, so Tang Zhaozong sent Yan Wang Jiepi and Dan Wang Yun to work in Li Keyong's place and inform Chang'an City of the critical situation. In August, Li Keyong marched into Weiqiao and was entrusted with the command of the camp on all sides of Suining, and Tang Zhaozong returned to Chang'an. In November, Li Keyong defeated Pizhou, and Wang Xingyu was killed after defeating Gyeongju.

Li Keyong collected troops to Yunyang and wrote a letter requesting a crusade against Li Maozhen. Zhaozong comforted Li Keyong, asked him to reconcile with Li Maozhen, and awarded Li Keyong the title of "Loyal and Peaceful Hero" and was named the King of Jin.

At this time, the Jin army encountered rain in Weibei for 60 days, and someone persuaded Li Keyong to march into Chang'an, but Li Keyong did not make a decision. Du Zhu Ya Gai Yu said: "Since the emperor came back from Shimen, he didn't dare to sleep well, if the Jin soldiers crossed the Wei River,

Can the emperor still feel at ease? At this time, King Qin, why did he enter Chang'an? Li Keyong said with a smile: "Gai Yu doesn't believe me, let alone other people in the world!" So he collected his troops and went back.

This year, Li Keyong was thirty-nine years old.

Liang Jin competes for hegemony

If you want to achieve hegemony, you must remove all the obstacles on the road to success, no matter who you are, kill people when you meet people, and kill Buddhas when you meet Buddhas. Once you embark on the road of hegemony, there are only two endings, either kill all opponents or be killed by other opponents,

You have no other way to go, so if you want to live, you have to take someone else's life first. Li Keyong and Zhu Wen are both contestants in the competition, and they are the best in it, so it is a matter of time before Liang Jin fights, but the fuse of the two of them stems from Zhu Wen's unkind behavior.

As the old saying goes: food, sex, and sex. There is nothing more important in the world than eating. In Chinese history, dinner and politics have always maintained a relationship of imminent separation. Every dinner is actually a contest between people. The dinner table can change history, and chopsticks can also change history books. There have been several famous dinners in ancient history, namely: the murderous dinner ——— Hongmen banquet.

The most domineering dinner ——— to cook wine and talk about heroes. The most pitiful dinner ——— the Heroes Party. The most glamorous dinner ——— the drunken concubine. Four or two thousand pounds of dinner——— a glass of wine to release the military power. The most luxurious dinner ——— Qianlong's banquet.

The most inspiring dinner ——— the Dongjin New Pavilion Meeting. The most fulfilling dinner party ——— the meeting of Michi, and the grievances between Zhu and Li were also caused by the dinner. In the fourth year of neutralization, Li Keyong defeated Huangchao, passed through Bianzhou, and took a break from Fengchan Temple for rectification.

At that time, Li Keyong and Zhu Wen were allies, and everyone was still nominally from the imperial court, and they all regarded the eradication of Huangchao as the top priority of their current work.

Zhu Wen invited Li Keyong to a banquet at Shangyuanyi, and Li Keyong went without thinking too much. At the banquet, it is estimated that both parties were drunk, and Li Keyong usually spoke more aggressively, and it was estimated that he said something that made Zhu Wen very unhappy, so Zhu Wen was very angry at that time.

After the banquet was dispersed, Li Ke slept with his head covered, and there was nothing to worry about in the territory of friendly forces. In the dead of night, it was an excellent time to do bad things, Zhu Wen sent Yang Yanhong to erect wooden fences, ox carts and other obstacles on the street, and then sent troops to besiege Shangyuanyi.

At this time, Li Keyong was still asleep in the house, and the attendant Guo Jingbai blew out the candles, helped the drunk Li Keyong to the bed, splashed him with cold water to wake him up, and then said that we are afraid that we have gone to the Hongmen banquet, and the enemy has been killed from all sides.

Li Keyong picked up his bow and arrows and began to break through, and at this time, Zhu Wen had already begun a new round of deepening weapon attacks—fire attack and smoke, and he was about to be unable to withstand it. At the critical moment, God helped Li Ke with a hand.

At that time, it was summer, and the weather suddenly changed, and thunderstorms were heavy, and the heavy rain suppressed the fire. Night, moisture, and smoke created a new deepening weapon, the smoke bomb, which temporarily obscured the enemy's vision, so Li Ke used the support of everyone to identify the road with the help of lightning, and killed a bloody road. (To be continued......)