Chapter 339: The Big Yellow Sparrow is behind
It is said that An Bing, the military transport envoy sent by the Southern Song Dynasty court, was a subordinate of Wu Xi's father and son, and was awarded by Wu Xi as the "pseudo-Shu" prime minister for a long history, and the power was all trouble-free, and he acted as the prime minister, which made him in a dilemma.
Wu Xi suddenly turned against the water, unpopular, many officials either abandoned the official and left, or openly refused to accept false orders, An Bing believed that many officers were Wu generals, and after accepting the appointment, they called themselves sick, in fact, they took a wait-and-see attitude to observe the changes in the situation, and then decided to stay. He treated the 200 warriors from Jinghu South Road with good wine and meat, but did not reveal the specific plan of the assassination.
At that time, two groups of righteous soldiers gathered around Yang Juyuan, the Cangguan of Hejiang, Xingzhou, and Li Haoyi, the general of the Xingzhou Central Army, to prepare to crusade against Wu Xi. Yang Juyuan and Pan told him and An Bing's assassination plan, Li Haoyi thought that the plan discussed by Yang Juyuan and An Bing was improper, and said: "If he goes out, he will be in the alley, and there will be thousands of people in the guard, and it will be difficult to help." ”
An Bing's attitude is not resolute, it is just a force that can be united, winning him is equivalent to isolating Wu Xi, assassinating Wu Xi on the street is too risky, once he misses, there is no second chance, he should kill Wu Xi during Wu Xi's deli festival in Dongyuan.
So Yang Juyuan forged the holy decree and stamped the seal of Hejiang Cang, so that even if the matter was revealed, it had nothing to do with An Bing, and he was afraid that it would be leaked for a long time in the future, so he decided to carry it out on the last day of February.
An Bing was afraid of losing his head, but he was still reluctant to come out to be the leading brother, although he participated in the discussion of the assassination plot. Forced by Yang and Li to have no choice, An Bingcai reluctantly stood up to preside over the discussion of Wu Xi: "I can only use my name to stabilize the morale of the army and leave it to me, as for the assassination, please leave it to the two of you!" "Actually, An Bing just wants the praying mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finches behind, and sit back to reap the profits.
Li Haoyi then made an appointment with Li Gui, a brave sergeant, Li Biao, Zhang Yuan, Chen Li, Liu Hu, Zhang Hai and others who were close to Li Gui, as well as 74 low-level officers and sergeants such as Huang Shu, Zhao Liang and Wu Zheng of Wu Xi's personal guards, plus Li Haoyi's brothers Li Haogu, Li Haoren, Li Haowen, brother-in-law Yang Junyu and other relatives, and later 10 sergeants led by Lu Yuan, a total of more than 100 people.
Yang Juyuan concealed An Bing, and selected more than 30 people from the Miao soldiers to join the assassination team, and the rest waited outside Wu Xi's palace as a reserve to prevent Wu Xi's subordinates from counterattacking during the assassination.
Under the leadership of Li Haoyi, before dawn rushed into Wu Xi's inner palace, Li Haoyi shouted and said: "In accordance with the secret edict of the imperial court, An Changshi is Xuanfu, and I will punish the thief, and those who dare to resist will destroy their clan." Yang Juyuan also rode to announce the secret edict, and Wu Xi's personal guards laid down their weapons and fled.
The door of the puppet palace opened, Li Haoyi pretended to carry the holy decree and broke into the puppet palace to announce the decree, and when Wu Xi knelt down to accept the decree, he was defenseless. Li Gui and Yang Guangyao took the opportunity to grab Wu Xi's hair bun and raised their knives to slash at his cheek. Wu Xi was not afraid, he was born with divine power, he grabbed the machete with both hands, and made a counterattack, and Yang Guangyao and the two fell to the ground. Wu Xi pressed up one of Taishan, stuck their necks with two hands, trapped them on the ground and couldn't get up, and the two sides beat each other.
Everyone was stunned, Li Haoyi hurriedly ordered Wang Changlian to cut Wu Xi's waist and slash the second axe, Wu Xi let go because of the severe pain, Li Gui grabbed the second when Wu Xi let go, jumped up, and slashed Wu Xi's head with a knife, blood gushed out, and Yang Guangyao was sprayed in the face. At this time, Wu Duan was still sleeping in the apse, still dreaming, not knowing what was happening outside, and the warriors who rushed in were cut into meat sauce with knives, and they were innocent!
Li Haoyi and Yang Juyuan led the crowd to support Wu Xi's head and left the puppet palace, and rushed to announce the edict. In the name of the deputy pacification envoy of Sichuan, An Bing sent soldiers to capture Wu Xi's two sons and his uncle Wu Shan, younger brother Wu Yan, cousin Wu Hui, fellow party members Yao Huaiyuan, Li Qi, Guo Zhong, Mi Xiuzhi, Guo Cheng, etc., as well as fellow party members Xu Jingwang, Zhao Fu, Wu Xiao, Dong Zhen, Guo Rong, and Lu Xi outside the city, and then killed them all. Wu Xi's head was put into a box and presented to the imperial court, and the traitor was eradicated, so Sichuan returned to the Southern Song Dynasty, and the soldiers and civilians worshiped and danced, and the joy moved the heavens and the earth.
Song Ningzong's edict ordered the execution of Wu Xi's wife, Wu Xi's own brothers were removed from their names, their original qualifications and official positions were cancelled, Wu Xi's descendants were moved out of Shu, and Wu Xi's descendants were exempted from joint sitting, not punished, and responsible for sacrificing Wu Lan.
After the counterinsurgency, Li Haoyi was promoted from Cheng Zhonglang to the vicarious envoy, Li Guite was promoted to the rank of martial arts doctor and regimental training envoy, and Yang Juyuan was promoted to the court Fenglang and sent by the general judge, and served as the senator of the Xuanfu Envoy Division. Li Haogu and other unofficial officials were awarded officials, and those who had officials were promoted, and they were all rewarded with money and goods. An Bing, who did not participate in the counterinsurgency at all, but only heard about it in advance and had a wait-and-see attitude, but he stole the first credit and was promoted to the governor of Xingzhou, the pacification envoy of Lizhou West Road, and the deputy envoy of Sichuan Xuanfu, and enjoyed the courtesy of the consul.
"Today's Shu Dao is disturbed, not relieved of worries, I started Qing Yan Xian, pay to the aspect, and Qing is loyal to the country, friendship is not resigned, I use people more than Tang Zong, Qing is worthy of Li, Guo Yi......" In the edict of the counterinsurgency, there was no mention of the active planner Yang Juyuan, and it had nothing to do with the counterinsurgency, but the killing of Wu Xi's henchmen who refused to bow to the edict that day, and Wang Xi, who commanded the White Army, was said to be "plotting to kill the rebels and preparing for loyalty and labor", not only was specially promoted to the envoy of the festival, but also was appointed to the important position of the commander of the army in Xingzhou.
This made Yang Juyuan feel quite unhappy because he was not rewarded for his merits, so he wanted to directly declare his merits in the counterinsurgency to the imperial court. In a letter to his friend Liu Guangzu, Yang Juyuan recorded An Bing's "words of reward" when he planned to kill Wu Xi, and engraved and spread it.
Pacifying the deputy envoy An Bing stole the first credit, fearing that Yang Juyuan and Li Haoyi would expose his wait-and-see attitude and the false situation of the counterinsurgency he declared, so he thought that Yang Juyuan was responsible for advocating righteousness, held a grudge, and conspired to get rid of it.
An Bing was restless and thought: "Since the two of them dare to kill Wu Xi, if they have any plans in the future, there is a wind and grass, once they find out, won't they want to become the second Wu Xi?" If you take the credit, it's better to kill him. It's a scourge to keep them, and I don't know when I'll be stabbed. ”
In June, An Bing ordered Peng Lu to lead troops to arrest Yang Juyuan on "trumped-up" charges. Because Yang Juyuan is a descendant of the Yang general, Yang Guangye, who learned the truth, was young and vigorous, and said angrily: "General Yang has meritorious service in quelling the chaos, what is the crime?" ”
Yang Guangye then pulled out the Miao knife and worked with all the guards to protect Yang Juyuan.
Peng Yu shouted: "I am just acting on orders, and I don't need to explain to you!" Get out of the way! ”
Yang Guangye said: "I'm afraid that Lord An wants to kill people, right?" ”
Peng Lu took out the arrest warrant and read it out, and after reading it, everyone understood what was going on. It turned out that when Wu Xi was assassinated, Yang Juyuan deliberately wrote a fake edict and an inverted Hejiang Cangseal, which An Bing said was a forged edict and a forged jade seal, and he had the intention of rebellion, and reading the fake edict was a rebellious act, which should be dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.
"Whew! I want Lord An to confront him face to face! Yang Guangye roared.
"Hehe, isn't this arrest warrant fake!" Peng Yan said with a dark smile.
"I think Master An has a ghost in his heart, so he doesn't dare to come out and speak!" Yang Guangye's eyes widened angrily,
"Brothers, fight with them!" Yang Guangye and the guards and the officers and soldiers who came had already faced each other, and a vicious battle was about to begin.
"Brothers, who is right and wrong, the Holy One will have his own judgment, and after resisting arrest, let Lord An have more things to do! Drop your weapon. Yang Juyuan persuaded.
"General, don't be foolish! They took you away, and you can't come back if you get out of here! Yang Guangye did not give in, still holding the Miao knife in his hand, making a desperate gesture.
"I believe that Lord Han will give me justice!" Yang Juyuan gently pressed the handle of Yang Guangye's knife and voluntarily restrained. At this point, Yang Guangye and the guards had no choice but to give up resistance, and watched An Bing's people shackle Yang Juyuan, and then went out of the gate.
A few hot tears fell, Yang Guangye knew that An Bing was treacherous and ruthless, Yang Juyuan would probably not be able to come back if he went like this, Yang Guangye followed the catchers out of the gate. Peng Lu ordered his subordinates to stop Yang Guangye back.
When Peng Lu and his entourage escorted Yang Juyuan to Langzhou (now Langzhong) Prison and escorted him to a forest in Da'an (now Luoyangnan, Shaanxi Province), they secretly killed Yang Juyuan on the way according to An Bing's plan, but An Bing reported suicide and concealed the facts. But they were too soon to get complacent!
They forgot one person, Yang Guangye, who was very worried about these people who came to arrest them at that time, and had been quietly following them. After the escort entered the woods, the light was dim, Peng Lu made a killing gesture in the back, and the soldiers with knives stabbed Yang Juyuan who was defenseless more than a dozen times one after another, blood splashed everywhere, Yang Juyuan didn't understand what was going on, struggled a few times in pain, and died of exhaustion.
The murderer shot too suddenly, too quickly, too ruthlessly, and Yang Guangye, who was hiding in the woods, was too far away to be rescued. After killing Yang Juyuan, the murderer directly threw Yang Juyuan's body in the bushes, disguised the suicide scene, and fled from the grove. After they walked away, Yang Guangye came out of the woods, hurriedly dug a pit with his sword, buried Yang Juyuan's body hastily, set up a wooden monument as a mark, and immediately returned to the army the same way.
Soon, the news that Yang Juyuan was killed by An Bing's subordinates quickly spread in the barracks, causing military speculation. The soldiers put forward one after another, demanding that the murderer be severely punished, otherwise An Bing will be the next Wu Xi!
An Bing was a thief and was very afraid, so he immediately played to the court and asked the court to punish him on the grounds of "human affection is raging, and the seal is forgiven". Considering the situation, the Southern Song Dynasty court did not remove An Bing from his position as deputy envoy to pacify, and sent Liu Jia to Sichuan to serve as the pacification envoy on the Sichuan Road, so as to stabilize people's hearts.
After Li Haoyi killed Wu Xi, he led his troops to gather at An Bing's house, but he didn't expect to accidentally omit one person when he assassinated Wu Xi - Wang Xi.
This Wang Xi was once the iron buddy of the traitor Wu Xi, he hid it very deeply, turned into a hero, and became a hero in the crusade against Wu Xi. He was extremely resentful of Li Haoyi and others organizing warriors to kill the old master Wu Xi, and he also followed Li Haoyi to An Bing's house on the same day.