【Don't look at me as just a sheep】
Wang Rong's Chengde Army encountered reinforcements led by Li Keyong himself. The result is self-evident. The Chengde Army was defeated by Li Keyong. No need to detail.
Li Keju sent general Li Quanzhong with 60,000 Lulong troops to attack Yizhou. Yizhou closed the city and stood firm, waiting for reinforcements. No matter how Li Quanzhong provoked the enemy and scolded the formation, the Yizhou defenders could not hold on.
At this time, a low-level officer came forward and said that he had a plan to break the city. This man's name is Liu Rengong, and his strategy is to dig tunnels and enter holes.
Under the command of Liu Rengong, sergeants from Youzhou successfully captured Yizhou City by digging tunnels under the cover of night. Liu Rengong also received a resounding nickname-"Liu Kutou".
Li Quanzhong was very proud and enjoyed the joy after victory.
He underestimated the enemy too much.
He was fighting Wang Chucun. Wang Chucun was by no means an easy man. After Huang Chao invaded Chang'an, Wang Chucun sized up the situation and acted flexibly. He sent troops to Chang'an first without waiting for the edict to be issued. After that, the elite force "Baitou Army" he led was not only the earliest One of the troops that invaded Chang'an was the only one to retreat intact after encountering a counterattack.
Wang Chucun is commendable for his loyalty, bravery and strategy. The reason why Li Quanzhong was able to win Yizhou was probably because they had a large number of people and carried out sneak attacks, which gave them an early lead.
A rookie is a rookie after all, and soon, Wang Chucun will teach him how to be a new man.
Wang Chucun sent three thousand elite soldiers, all covered with sheepskins, to flock to Yizhou City under the cover of night.
The background music at this time was very cheerful, "Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat... Don't look at me as just a sheep..."
The soldiers guarding the city saw it from a distance and did not distinguish the authenticity. They naively thought they had picked up the stray sheep. They were overjoyed. They opened the city gate and rushed outside the city to rob the fat sheep.
When I got closer, I was surprised to find that the sheep had become spirits and they stood up!
In this way, Wang Chucun retook Yizhou and defeated the Lulong Corps led by Li Quanzhong.
You can dig tunnels, and I can COS sheep. The short battle for Yizhou left a wonderful page in our country's military history.
Li Quanzhong gathered the remaining troops and defeated the generals, and returned to Youzhou with his head and brains drooping. In order to avoid the serious crime of being defeated, Li Quanzhong decided not to do anything but to directly launch the "Youzhou Mutiny" and attack Li Keju in Youzhou City.
Li Keju, the governor of the Lulong Army, never expected this result. In desperation, the whole family set themselves on fire and died.
Therefore, Li Quanzhong took over Youzhou and claimed to be the queen.
[Wei Bojun, the weak imperial court]
Another vassal town in Hebei, Wei Bojun and Han Jian, had previously launched a annexation war against the Yunzhou Tianping Army. Cao Quangui, the governor of Tianping Army, was killed in battle, and his general Zhu Xuan led his army to resist tenaciously for half a year.
Zhuge Shuang of Heyang, who had been expelled by Wei Bojun before, took the opportunity to attack Wei Bojun's back. Han Jian was forced to make peace with Zhu Xuan and returned to fight Zhuge Shuang, but was defeated by Zhuge Shuang.
Later, Wei Bojun general Le Xingda launched a mutiny and killed Han Jian. The imperial court then appointed Le Xingda to be the military governor of Wei Bojun, and later he was promoted to be the governor of Wei Bojun, and Le Xingda was renamed Leyanzhen.
Le Yanzhen and his son Le Congxun were cruel and ruthless. Not long after they arrived in town, they solved a shocking case.
At first, Wang Duo was slandered by Tian Lingzi and deprived of his position as commander-in-chief. He was then sent out to serve as the governor of the Yicheng Army in Huazhou and became neighbors with Zhu Wen of the Xuanwu Army in Bianzhou. When Zhu Wen surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Yang Fuguang and Wang Chongrong submitted the memorial, and Wang Duo finally approved it. Therefore, Wang Duo regarded himself as Zhu Wen's benefactor.
Zhu Wen was very respectful to Wang Duo. Over time, Zhu Wen found that Wang Duo no longer had any use value for him, so his attitude gradually became cold and he coveted his Huazhou.
Wang Duo was very sensible and went to the court to ask for a change of place so that he would not be the victim of a mutiny.
The imperial court appointed Wang Duo as the military governor of Cangzhou Yichang.
From Huazhou to Cangzhou, we have to take Wei Bojun.
Wang Duo came from a family of prime ministers. He enjoyed life very much, was extremely luxurious, paid attention to pomp, and had many concubines. His high-profile behavior of showing off his wealth led to his death.
When Wang Duo passed by Weizhou, Le Yanzhen's son Le Congxun laid an ambush and killed Wang Duo, his guests and entourage, including more than 300 people. He took all the wives and concubines listed as his own.
Afterwards, Le Yanzhen reported to the court that Comrade Wang Duo was ambushed by a group of unidentified bandits on his way to take office, and his whole family died.
As for the sudden misfortune of this political heavyweight, the imperial court was unable to avenge him, so it used Le Yanzhen's memorial as the official notification.
"The imperial court is weak and cannot correct its injustice, and the whole world will suffer." - "New Book of Tang"
Historically, the evaluation of Wang Duo has been mainly positive, affirming Wang Duo's performance in the "Huangchao Rebellion". Generally speaking, his merits outweighed his faults.
"New Book of Tang" praised both Wang Duo and Zheng Tian as "talents of the country" and bluntly stated that without Zheng Tian and Wang Duo, the Tang Dynasty might have accelerated its decline.
"Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains three poems by Wang Duo. One of them was written after the recapture of Chang'an, when he was excluded by Tian Lingzi, deprived of the commander-in-chief (capital commander), and sent to the Yicheng Army in Huazhou. The title of the poem is "The Work of Dismissing the Capital and Guarding the Town of Huazhou":
Why dare to delay the use of the army? It is because of the kindness and talent.
The deposing edict has come to the palace, but the letter has not yet spread in front of the army.
Su Qin's seal was completely released around his waist, and Fan Li's ship was greeted by the waves.
The stars support the North Pole, but they drive Gejia to suppress the Yan in the south.
I met the Lord of the Ming Dynasty on the earth, and the princes of Jiuhe felt ashamed of their past virtuous people.
Seeing the great cause of Zhongxing Fu, he committed suicide and had no way to return to his fields.
In the poem, Wang Duo expressed his grievances, saying that as the commander-in-chief, he had always fulfilled his duties and never dared to live up to the divine grace. Perhaps it was because of his limited talents and limited abilities that he could not repay the mighty emperor's grace. Then he used the allusions "Su Qin Liu Yin" and "Fan Li Chuan" to express that he had seen through the world of mortals and was willing to retire from officialdom and enjoy his old age.
I never expected that the last sentence would actually come true.
[The Imperial Court’s Weak Zhongwu Army]
After Yang Fuguang's death, the "Yang faction" forces were purged by the "Tian faction", Yang Fugong was squeezed out of the court, and the "Eight Zhongwu" factions also went their separate ways. Among them, Lu Yanhong led his troops southward, killing, burning, and plundering along the way, claiming that he was going to Chengdu to meet the emperor.
When they arrived at Xingyuan Mansion, they expelled Niu Xu, the envoy of Shannan West Road. Niu Xu is also one of the participants in the "Battling Betting on Sanchuan" and a minion of the "Tian Faction".
Lu Yanhong occupied Xingyuan and claimed to be the queen of Shannan West Road.
Wang Jian, Han Jian, Zhang Zao, Jin Hui, and Li Shitai from the "Eight Zhongwu Capitals" came to seek refuge one after another. The "Eight Zhongwu Capitals" found an organization and rejoined the group to keep warm. Because before the formation of the "Zhongwu Eight Capitals", Lu Yanhong was the commander of several of them, so after losing the control of Yang Fuguang, the other seven capitals gathered under the wings of the old commander Lu Yanhong.
However, Lu Yanhong was very suspicious of his seven brothers and always worried that one day they would launch a mutiny to seize power. So on the surface, Wang Jian and others were appointed as governors of the states within their jurisdiction, but in reality they were detained and prevented from taking up their posts.
Among them, Wang Jian and Han Jian have the closest personal relationship and move around most frequently in private.
So Lu Yanhong treated Er Jian particularly favorably, and often called them into the bedroom to talk and reminisce about the past.
But the more preferential treatment Lu Yanhong received, the more uneasy the second building became. They discussed privately: "The more the marshal talks sweetly to us, the more he becomes suspicious of us. There is no three hundred taels of silver here, so we are trying to hide it. We must be vigilant!"
It happened that Tian Lingzi, the head of the "Tian Sect", secretly sent people to lure Er Jian and others, using high-ranking officials and generous salaries as bait to persuade them to join the court and work for him.
Therefore, Er Jian, Zhang Zao, Jin Hui, and Li Shitai led thousands of people in their troops to escape from Lu Yanhong and fled to Chengdu to accept the reorganization.
Tian Lingzi recognized them as his adopted sons, first gave them tens of thousands of dollars in rewards, and then assigned them positions in the Central Forbidden Army. He also allowed them to continue to lead the troops of his own unit, and the unit designation was also changed to "Five Capitals with the Driving Force".
From then on, the "Eight Zhongwu Capitals" of the "Yang Faction" completely collapsed, and its main force was reorganized by the "Tian Faction" into the "Five Capitals of Suijia".
Tian Lingzi was well aware of the importance of military power. He recruited fifty-four new regiments in Chengdu, with each regiment having 1,000 men, totaling 54,000 men. He also organized them into ten armies, which were respectively affiliated with the Left and Right Shence Army. Strengthened the power of the Central Forbidden Army.
However, Tian Lingzi did not fully trust the Central Forbidden Army, so the "Five Capitals accompanying him" did not enter the ranks of the Forbidden Army, but were directly led by Tian Lingzi. The five regiment leaders were only responsible to Tian Lingzi himself, and the "Five Capitals accompanying him" actually did not It became Tian Lingzi's personal armed force.
Next, Tian Lingzi sent out the imperial army to attack Xingyuan Lu Yanhong. Lu Yanhong abandoned the city and fled. After many twists and turns, he decided to return to Xuzhou and the arms of Zhongwujun's mother.
Zhou Qi, the military commander of the Zhongwu Army, was no match for Lu Yanhong. Lu Yanhong killed Zhou Qi and settled in Xuzhou, claiming to stay in the rear.
"The imperial court was weak" and Lu Yanhong was appointed as the military envoy of the Zhongwu Army.
At this time, Lu Yanhong can no longer be regarded as a "Yang faction" figure.
First, he was no longer loyal to the Yang Fuguang Group, and second, he was no longer loyal to the Tang Dynasty.
Lu Yanhong became a free adventurer and wanted to conquer the Central Plains.
