In terms of rank, Tang Chao, the former commander of the palace, Marquis Yu, and the general of the right Jin Wuwei are higher than Wang Feng's commander of the front of the palace and the general of the left Wuwei; In terms of seniority, Tang Chao, who ranks twenty-four, is also longer than Wang Feng, who ranks twenty-seven. In addition, Tang Chao was stationed in Taiyuan Town for a long time, and neither participated in the action of the Beiping Army to go south to Kaifeng, nor did he participate in the Zhou army's expedition in Jinghu and Jiangnan, in terms of merit, it is much worse than Wang Feng, who participated in the whole process of the Beiping Army's entry into Kaifeng, and personally led the troops to guard the Fengqiu Gate with Xu Xinsheng, repelled the attack of Zhao Kuangyin's army, and led the army to sit in Kaifeng when Wang Kunjun led the troops to the south, ensuring that he had no worries. Because of this, although after the Beiping Army entered Kaifeng, he was rewarded with a higher reward than Wang Feng and Mutr, who actually participated in the Battle of Kaifeng, Tang Chao not only did not feel comfortable, but felt very awkward, feeling that such a position was to take care of the possible dissatisfaction that he did not allow himself to participate in the Battle of Kaifeng, and was not a true reflection of his own merits, which was a consolation prize. He considered himself to be in vain, and that it was unfair for him to get a high rank in this way. Therefore, after receiving the order that he should lead the army to Luzhou and seize the Shangdang City with the Southern Front Cluster, Tang Chao repeatedly reported to the Military Department and the Committee, requesting that he be given the post of commander-in-chief of the Shangdang counterinsurgency battle so that his merits could match his current rank. In the end, Tang Chao successfully persuaded the committee and the military department to agree that after the "Flying Dragon Army" on the north and south routes was united, he would be the commander-in-chief of the army and be responsible for the operation.

Although he found out that the commander of the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city was not Wang Feng and Xu Xinsheng, whom he had dealt with, his heart sank, but it was a matter of his father, the life of the Li family, and even the safety of the people in the city. Therefore, Li Shoujie, who was recalled from the state of trance, was asked by Tang Chao to quickly collect his thoughts, stepped forward and saluted: "In the Lower Zhaoyi Army, Li Shoujie has met General Tang, General Wang, and General Xu. In the next place, he begged General Tang to suspend the siege of the city, and allowed him to enter the Shangdang City to persuade his father to open the city and surrender, so as not to suffer misery. In this way, the guilt of the father may be relieved. ”

Speaking of which, just now I heard the commander of the ranger platoon who was in charge of the security and vigilance of the perimeter of the camp report to Li Yun, the son of Li Yun, the commander of the Zhaoyi Army, and Li Shoucheng, the commander of the Yanei Du, asking to see him, whether it was Tang Chao, who had never met Li Shoujie, or Wang Feng and Xu Xinsheng, who had some dealings with him, they all felt a little surprised. Everyone didn't expect that in the face of the siege of the city, when Li Yun could not escape the defeat and punishment of the army, Li Shoujie, who could have escaped to save his life, would give up the opportunity to escape and run to the camp of the "Flying Dragon Army" by himself. What he didn't expect was that Li Shoujie did not come here or not just to fulfill his duty as a son of man and share the hardships with his father, but to express his willingness to go into the city to persuade his father to surrender. However, since the other party was willing to enter the city to persuade him to surrender, he was able to end the rebellion in a bloodless way, but Tang Chao and others were also happy to see it. After all, although the purpose of sending troops to Luzhou this time was to make an example of a hundred people and kill chickens to show monkeys, it may be more deterrent to deal with Li Yun in a violent way. However, in the hearts of the people, the interests of the people are still in the priority position, and even if the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Army" are careful and pay attention to the siege of the city by force, the bullets and shells are not long-sighted after all, and the innocent will inevitably be injured in the process of attacking the city. Now that there is an opportunity to quell the rebellion and capture Li Yun without bloodshed, it is natural that he will no longer blindly insist on storming Shangdang City.

Of course, as the two hostile sides, even if Tang Chao agreed with Li Shoujie's request, he would not show it on the surface, but pretended to be contemplative, and after a while, he pretended to exchange opinions with Wang Feng and Xu Xinsheng, exchanged glances with the two, and then said in a deep voice: "According to reason, the two armies are fighting, unless the strength is invincible, there is no reason to let the important generals of the enemy army enter the encirclement." However, reading in Li Yanei is for the safety of the people in the city, and in order to show the benevolence of the court, this marshal will believe Li Yanei once, make an exception, and allow Li Yanei to enter the city. However, after all, Ben Shuai has the emperor's order, and it is impossible to surround him for a long time without fighting. Therefore, Ben Shuai could only give Li Yanei one night to persuade his father to surrender in Kaicheng. If tomorrow and the hour are just before the dawn and the four gates of Shangdang City are opened, Li Yun and a group of rebellious Shangdang civil and military officials are bound out of the city to surrender, this commander will order the siege of the city without delay. ”

Seeing Tang Chao bowing his head and pondering for a long time, Li Shoujie thought that the other party would refuse his request. After all, what the enemy was forced to surrender voluntarily due to the situation was the prestige of the imperial court, and only by attacking by force and taking the city was the embodiment of the general's ability. Now that he asked to enter the city to persuade his father to surrender, it was tantamount to weakening the merits of the commander of the army in front of him and the other leading generals present, and it was reasonable for the other party not to accept it. Therefore, after hearing that Tang Chao actually agreed to his request to enter the city to persuade him to surrender, Li Shoujie couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, and he didn't know what to say for a while. After a while, he came to his senses, and hurriedly stepped forward to the ground, thanking Tang Chao for making an exception and agreeing to his unreasonable request, and on the other hand, promising that he would do his best to persuade his father to surrender, and promised that no matter how he talked with his father, he would pass the exact news to the "Flying Dragon Army" before Chen Shizheng.

On the evening of the eighteenth day of the third lunar month of Jianlong, Li Shoujie, accompanied by several entourages, left the camp of the "Flying Dragon Army" and came to the north gate of Shangdang City.

Although they expressed their amazement at the ability of Yanai to pass through the Zhou army camp with only a few retinues, the defenders of Shangdang City did not let the eldest son of the Jiedu envoy wait outside the city. While sending people to report the news to the Jiedu Mansion in the city, the head of the city guard ordered people to hang down several large baskets from the city and hang Li Shoujie and his entourage to the city.

Li Shoujie entered the city, didn't bother to explain to the city head guard how he broke through the enemy's heavy encirclement and came to the city, and directly asked him for a few war horses, and then galloped in the direction of Jiedu Mansion first, leaving only the bewildered city head guard in the same place puzzled.

Although Li Shoujie had realized that it would not be easy to persuade his father to surrender before entering the city, Li Yun's resoluteness in this matter still greatly exceeded his expectations. Although Li Yun knew very well that as long as the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city attacked the city, he would definitely be defeated; Although Li Shoujie conveyed to his father the promise of Tang Chao, the commander of the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city, that as long as he surrendered in Kaicheng, he would not embarrass the generals and people in the city, even the Li family; Although Li Shoujie was persuading his father to be reasonable, moved with affection, and even burst into tears, he pleaded with the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers in a city. But Li Yun never nodded in agreement with Kaesong's surrender, but complained that his son should not venture into the city when he had the opportunity to escape, and said that since he had raised troops to rebel, there was no reason for Kaesong to surrender and be captured. Otherwise, wouldn't he be ridiculed by the people of the world, saying that he was a clown who was incapable of his own strength and was afraid of war.

Just when Li Shoujie reluctantly admitted in his heart that his persuasion had failed, and the soldiers and generals and people in the Li family and Shangdang City could not escape the poison of the war, Li Yun suddenly said: "When he killed the court envoy for his father and erected the banner of 'Qingjun's side and eliminating traitors', he had put his personal life and death aside. When they found out that their opponents had already been prepared, and the 'Flying Dragon Army's northern and southern armies surrounded Shangdang City in a moment's time, they already understood that no matter whether they fought or surrendered, they were afraid that they would become the targets of those 'traitors' of the 'Beiping Army' to kill chickens and monkeys, and to make an example, and there was absolutely no possibility of survival. A manly man, he should have been born to stand up to the sky and died vigorously. What's more, for his father, as a party and a great Zhou official, how could he go to the 'traitors' in the court to beg for the sake of his negligible chance of survival. As for the soldiers and people in the city, it is up to the father to find a way to protect them, so that they will not lose their lives because of their father's incompetence. ”

Neither to open the city and surrender, but also to protect the lives of the soldiers and people in the city, Li Shoujie really did not understand how his father planned to do these two completely contradictory things. But when he wanted to ask about this, Li Yun just waved his hand, saying that he had his own opinions, and he didn't need to ask more, just come to the main hall of his Jiedu Mansion early the next morning, and there would be an answer. After that, he ordered someone to set up wine in the back hall, and the family had a dinner together. Although Li Shoujie racked his brains and couldn't figure out the key, but in the face of his father, who was just drinking and eating, but never mentioned this matter again, he could only stop asking questions helplessly, and patiently accompanied his father, who seemed to be very drunk and had a great appetite, to eat and drink, and finally got drunk on the wine table, and was carried to his room by the people in the house to sleep soundly.

Li Shoujie slept until the next morning, and when he woke up from a hangover and found that the light of day had already brightened, he couldn't help but feel anxious, for fear that the time agreed with the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city had passed, and he could not deliver news to the outside of the city, which would make the other party doubt his credibility.

Just as Li Shoujie was hurriedly dressing and preparing to talk to his father again before the deadline arrived, the door of his room was suddenly pushed open, and Shi Yi, the governor of Jiedu, walked in, bringing him a piece of news that he could never have imagined - in the early hours of this morning, Jiedu led five hundred of his closest personal soldiers to open the north gate that had been blocked before, and slaughtered the "Flying Dragon Army" camp. During this period, Li Jiedu and his 500 heroes lit torches, beat drums and shouted, sang war songs, and rode horses and galloped, which can be described as heroic and dry.

The result of such a huge "robbery camp" at night can be imagined, since the moment Li Yun led his troops out of the north gate of the party city, his every move has been watched by the night rangers of the "Flying Dragon Army". When it was discovered that this contingent of 500 people intended to "steal the camp and rob the village," the "Flying Dragon Army" ranger platoon commander, who had never seen such a fanfare, noisy and open operation of "stealing the camp and robbing the village," thought that he had seen it wrong, until the other party had approached about 200 steps away from his own ranger team, and then he came to his senses, and on the one hand sent people to the "Flying Dragon Army" camp to warn him, and on the other hand, he organized his soldiers to block the attack on the spot, so as to buy time for the camp to get ready.

In fact, even if the "Flying Dragon Army" did not have a peripheral guard on the side of the "Flying Dragon Army", the guard posts in the watchtower of its large camp had already discovered their traces when Li Yun led his own soldiers to "mighty" out of the north gate of Shangdang City. When the perimeter guards and rangers came back to give warnings, an infantry battalion of the 13th Regiment of the Fifth Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and some of the regimental artillery units had already completed their combat deployment and entered a defensive position in the direction where Li Yun's headquarters was coming. The two companies of the division's cavalry regiment were also ready to go out of the camp at any time by order to outflank and cut off the rear route of this small group of rebels back to the city from both flanks. At the same time, Tang Chao, Wang Feng, Xu Xinsheng and other leading generals who received the news also climbed to a watchtower closest to the gate of the camp in full uniform, carefully observed the small group of rebels looming in the dim morning light on the opposite side, and analyzed the reasons and intentions of the other party to come to rob the camp in such a noisy way when the sky had begun to gradually brighten.

Faced with the other party's robbery of the camp that was completely wrong from the beginning at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and in the wrong way, Tang Chao and the others thought for a while and did not find a reasonable explanation. It wasn't until more news came from the signal soldiers sent by the peripheral rangers, and reported that it was Li Yun, the former envoy of the Zhaoyi Army and the general leader of the rebels, who led the robbery of the camp this time, and combined with such a strange way of robbing the camp, Tang Chao and the others gradually had some clue and found the reason why the other party made such a crazy move - Li Shoujie should have tried his best to persuade his father, although Li Yun refused to surrender because he did not want to be humiliated, but he knew that he was unable to resist the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court, and he did not want the Shangdang City, which had been painstakingly operated for many years, to be destroyed in his own hands. So he had to resort to this self-defeating way to rob the camp, so as to realize his intention of dying on the battlefield and not losing his reputation. Only in this way can we explain why Li Yun behaved so unreasonably.

As leading generals, Tang Chao, Wang Feng, Xu Xinsheng and others can naturally understand Li Yun's desire to die on the battlefield and the horse leather shroud, as well as the insult of being captured and become a prisoner. So, after a little emotion in his heart, Tang Chao briefly exchanged views with Wang Feng and Xu Xinsheng, and then ordered the two cavalry companies that had been waiting for a long time to go out on the left and right to cut off Li Yun's retreat; The infantry battalion and the artillery attached to it, which had been deployed for battle, were ordered to make every effort to stop the rebels' "seizure of the camp", and not to allow one of the opposing sides to approach the main camp or to escape.

At the beginning of the early morning of the 19th day of the third lunar month of the third year of Jianlong, Li Yun and the soldiers and horses led by the original Zhaoyi Army were blocked by fire from the front and rear directions. However, in just one pillar of incense, Li Yun was shot and died, and his 500 personal soldiers were either killed or wounded, and none of them were spared.

At the beginning of the early morning of the 19th day of the third lunar month of Jianlong, after receiving the news that his father led 500 personal soldiers to the enemy camp and the whole army was destroyed, Li Shoujie was grief-stricken, but he also understood from the narration of the governor of Jiedu Mansion that this was the only way for his father to not only save his face and reputation, but also to protect the lives of the soldiers in the Shangdang City. Therefore, he did not put all the responsibility on the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city because his father died at the hands of the other party, let alone lose his mind because of this, and went to the "Flying Dragon Army" outside the city meaninglessly. Li Shoujie very calmly analyzed the cause and effect of the matter, and made the most difficult choice in the shortest possible time.

On the morning of March 19 of the third lunar calendar of Jianlong, Li Shoujie first led the Zhaoyi Army to stay in the Zhaoyi Army as the commander of the Yanei Du of the Zhaoyi Army, and then he ordered the four gates of Shangdang City to be opened, and he personally led a number of civil officials of the Zhaoyi Army and the Zhaoyi Army soldiers who had laid down their arms to go out of the north gate and surrender to the "Flying Dragon Army" counterinsurgency army outside the city.