Wen Yanbo left Chang'an City on the afternoon of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. In the evening, he arrived at the county seat of Jingyang.

Originally, Wen Yanbo wanted to stay overnight in Jingyang County and continue to hurry tomorrow at dawn. However, before the curfew arrived, the messenger from Chang'an City came to Jingyang.

The messenger conveyed Li Shimin's message to Wen Yanbo, saying that Li Yi had rebelled, and His Majesty the Emperor canceled Wen Yanbo's original mission and ordered him to return to Chang'an.

Wen Yanbo heard the news of Li Yi's rebellion, and couldn't help but sigh helplessly. Li Yi, Li Yi, why are you bothering to come here, as the king of the Tang Dynasty, you have reached the pinnacle of being a minister, but you are still not satisfied, and you have thought about the addiction of being an emperor. alas

So, after Wen Yanbo rested in Jingyang for a night, he returned to Chang'an City at dawn.

On the morning of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the army of the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong left Chang'an City and went north to quell the rebellion.

And just as the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong set off, Li Yi's rebels had already reached the city of Fengzhou, which was adjacent to Jingzhou. Note: 豳, pronounced "bin".

Fenzhou is located at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu in later generations.

Li Yi's army arrived at the city of Fengzhou, and Zhao Cihao, the governor of Fengzhou, who acted as the assassin of the history, and Yang Qi, the commander of the army, went out of the city to inquire about the reason why Li Yi led his troops south. Li Yi pretended to be under the emperor's secret edict and had an important task to lead troops into Chang'an. Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi did not suspect fraud, so they let Li Yi's army enter the city of Fengzhou.

As soon as Li Yi entered Fengzhou, he immediately imprisoned Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi. Immediately, Li Yi officially erected an anti-flag, used Li Shimin's Xuanwumen change to kill his brother and kill his brother, forced Li Yuan to abdicate and say something, saying that he would eliminate the unrighteous king for the Tang Dynasty and support Li Yuan to restore the throne.

It was only at this time that the middle and low-level officers and sergeants of the Tianjie Army knew Li Yi's true intention of leading the troops south. But it was too late for them to fear and regret it. Li Yi put up the banner of rebellion, and with the support of high-ranking officers of the Tianjie Army, these low-level officers and ordinary sergeants can only obey orders;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Li Yi made a big mistake, although he imprisoned Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, he did not imprison them in the military camp, but put them in the prison cell of the state government of Fengzhou. Moreover, not too many troops were sent to guard the cells. This created an opportunity for Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi to escape.

There are loyal prison guards, relying on their familiarity with the terrain of the cell, they sneaked into the cell at night and rescued Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, officials in Fengzhou.

Li Yi is indeed not the material for rebellion. Although he occupied Fenzhou without bloodshed, he did not order martial law on Fenzhou. Early in the morning of the 18th, the gate of the city of Fengzhou was opened as usual. Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi disguised themselves and mixed up in Fengzhou City.

As soon as Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi left the city, they immediately gathered the government soldiers of the counties of Fengzhou and counterattacked Fengzhou on the 20th.

Li Yi's rebellion was originally in a hurry, and the top and bottom did not have the same heart, and as soon as the government soldiers led by Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi attacked, the army's morale was scattered. The Tianjie army only defended the city for half a day, and the sergeants of the West Gate took the lead in surrendering Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, took the initiative to open the West Gate, and let the soldiers of the Fengzhou Mansion enter the city.

As soon as Li Yi received the news that the defenders of the West Gate had surrendered and the soldiers of the Fengzhou Mansion had entered the city, his will to resist immediately disappeared.

Li Yi didn't even care about the money and food of the Fengzhou Mansion, and only escaped from the city of Fengzhou with hundreds of guards. Li Yi, a famous general in the Sui and Tang dynasties, made outstanding contributions to the country's borders, but led the troops to rebel, but he fought like a family. The disagreement between the top and bottom is the biggest reason for Li Yi's failure. There is a lot of help for the righteous and little help for the unjust, and the reason is not the same.

After Li Yi escaped from Fengzhou, he thought about defecting to the Turks. So, Li Yi took the hundreds of guards and went to the northwest.

Along the way, many generals secretly left the team. After Li Yixing reached the southern part of present-day Ningxia, he was killed by his subordinates. Li Yi, the county king with a different surname, who is a very popular minister, has completed his life of glory and then shame.

When Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi recaptured Fengzhou, the army of Changsun Wuji and Wei Chigong was still 200 miles away from Fengzhou at this time.

At first, when Fengzhou was just occupied by Li Yi, Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, who had escaped from Fengzhou, immediately jointly wrote a memo to report to Li Shimin in Chang'an and ask for guilt. On the way, the messenger of Fengzhou encountered the army of Changsun Wuji and Wei Chigong. When the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong heard that Li Yi had occupied Fengzhou, they immediately accelerated their march.

However, when the army of the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong had just arrived two hundred miles away from Fenzhou, they encountered another wave of messengers from Fenzhou. The news that the messenger wanted to deliver this time was that Li Yi had escaped.

When the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong heard that Li Yi had been defeated and fled, they were immediately angry and funny.

"Li Yi Lao'er is also stupid, the famous Tianjie Army was actually defeated by the government soldiers of Fengzhou. Auxiliary, aren't we working in vain," Wei Chi grumbled angrily to the eldest grandson Wuji.

"Hehe, Jingde is not angry, Li Yi was extinguished, this is a good thing. Let's train the troops. The eldest grandson Wuji comforted Wei Chi Gong and said.

"Then what should we do now," Wei Chigong asked Changsun Wuji again.

The eldest grandson Wuji thought about it and said: "Fengzhou has been recovered, and there is no need to fight." But we have come to this point at this time, so let's go to Fengzhou to appease the people. As for the follow-up actions, we can only wait for His Majesty's will. ”

"You go to your Fengzhou, and you're going to go to war." Wei Chigong said.

"Jingde, where is there a battle to fight," the eldest grandson Wuji asked puzzled.

"A certain one only brought a hundred guards to chase Li Yi'er. caught him, and beat him up first. This old thing, Yu came all the way from Chang'an, but he slipped faster than a rabbit."

Wei Chigong dropped this sentence, and no longer paid attention to Chairman Sun Wuji, and directly went out of the handsome tent, lit up a hundred guards, and went to the northwest.

Regarding Wei Chigong's eagerness to capture Li Yi for meritorious service, the eldest grandson Wuji can also understand. He also let Wei Chigong act. However, he was not optimistic about Wei Chigong's actions this time. Li Yi has been running for a long time now, and he is running for his life, so naturally the speed can't be slow, and Wei Chigong is afraid that he won't be able to catch up with him.

However, two days later, before Li Shimin's will in Chang'an City arrived, Wei Chigong took Li Yi's head back to Fengzhou.

"Jingde, you really caught up with Li Yi" The eldest grandson Wuji was surprised.

"Bullshit Li Yi Lao'er was killed by his subordinates in Wushi City, and I met the boys who killed Li Yi on the way. Those boys are not things, and they didn't keep Li Yi for a certain person, and they ran hundreds of miles in vain. Wei Chigong scolded and said.

"Hahahaha Jingde has been in Chang'an for a long time, it's not bad to come out and walk around," Changsun Wuji laughed.

Although Wei Chigong didn't say it, the eldest grandson Wuji also guessed that it must be the people who killed Li Yi who wanted to go back to Chang'an to ask Li Shimin for credit, but they met Wei Chigong halfway. Those few people are estimated to be scolded by Wei Chigong at the very least, and it is even possible to be beaten by Wei Chigong. Who let them rob Wei Chi Laohei of the credit.

On the same day, Li Shimin's new will arrived in Fengzhou. In addition to rewarding Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, the decree also ordered the eldest Sun Wuji and Wei Chigong to enter Jingzhou and ask Li Yi's whole family for stealing their homes.

Three days later, the dust settled on Li Yi's rebellion. Li Yi is dead, Li Shimin deprived him of all his previous honors, and reverted to his original surname "Luo"; Luo Yi's entire family was raided and questioned, or beheaded, or distributed. Luo Yi's wife, Meng Shi, and the sorceress Li Wujie, who bewitched Luo Yi to rebel, were also beheaded.

Luo Yi went from rebellion to complete annihilation, and it took less than ten days. It's nothing short of a farce.

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