After Yang Fugong was expelled from the imperial court, Yang Shouli regarded himself as "the first person to defeat Yang" and "the hero who defeated Yang". He became more and more arrogant and domineering. He had more than 300 personal bodyguards, swaggering around the city, shouting and drinking, and became a bastard. A rising star.
He forgot that the rabbit will die and the dog will be cooked. He forgot that Yang Fugong was not only the stepping stone for his rise to success, but also the soil on which he relied for survival.
Zhaozong conspired with the generals of the Forbidden Army to lure Yang Shouli into the palace and assassinate him secretly.
What followed was a bloody purge of Yang Shouli's remaining forces, such as his close comrade Jia Desheng. Yang Shouli's troops immediately mutinied, smashed, looted, and burned in Chang'an City, and then dispersed. More than a thousand cavalrymen under Jia Desheng's command fled to Fengxiang and defected to Li Maozhen.
The tree was about to be quiet but the wind was not stopping. Emperor Zhaozong thought that the "poplar movement" could end here, but he did not know that he had unintentionally opened Pandora's box. The development of the following story would be completely out of control. The victory of the "poplar movement" It will also be spit out with profit.
Not long ago, Gu Yanlang, the governor of Dongchuan, died in Zizhou, the headquarters of Dongchuan, due to ineffective treatment. The army recommended his younger brother Gu Yanhui to be a post in Dongchuan. The imperial court appointed Gu Yanhui as the Dongchuan Festival Envoy and sent people to deliver banners and symbols to the Festival.
From Chang'an to Zizhou, Shannan West Road is the only way. Yang Shouliang detained the imperial envoys who sent Fu Jie and attacked Dongchuan. Gu Yanhui asked Wang Jian of Xichuan for help. Wang Jian had long wanted to unify the two Sichuan rivers, so he secretly ordered the generals who came to the rescue to annex Dongchuan by killing Gu Yanhui at the celebration banquet after driving away Yang Shouliang.
At the critical moment, Wang Jian's adopted son Wang Zongbi couldn't bear it and secretly leaked the plot to Gu Yanhui, causing Wang Jian's Hongmen Banquet to fail. The situation between the two rivers has become increasingly delicate.
Fengxiang Li Maozhen also wanted to expand southward, so he joined forces with Jingnan Jiedushi Wang Xingyu, Zhenguo Jiedushi Han Jian, Kuangguo Jiedushi Wang Xingyue, and Tianxiong Jiedushi Li Maozhuang to jointly submit a petition to the imperial court, accusing Yang Shouliang of hiding in Shannan West Road. The rebel Yang Fugong asked Li Maozhen to be the commander-in-chief and send troops to conquer.
In the memorial, Li Maozhen stated that this military operation did not require the court to allocate food and military pay, nor did it require the court to send soldiers. It only needed the court to nod and let Li Maozhen make a name for himself.
Zhaozong refused and was not allowed to send troops.
In the Guanzhong, Guanxi, and Liangchuan areas, it is the most beneficial situation for the central government to have Yang Fugong, Li Maozhen, and Wang Jian check each other and achieve regional balance of power. In this way, after Zhaozong had thoroughly digested the results of the "Operation Yang Movement", he could continue to use the trick of killing three people with two peaches to instigate conflict between the feudal towns and the snipe and the clam, and then profit from it, cannibalizing the power of the feudal towns, and then achieve the great rejuvenation of the empire.
How could Li Maozhen miss this opportunity? Ignoring the imperial edicts, he sent troops to conquer without permission, burned, killed and looted along the way, committing all kinds of evil.
Seeing that the ship was done and the raw rice was cooked, Zhaozong had no choice but to grant Li Maozhen the title of "Shannan Recruiting Envoy", hoping that he would be bound by national laws and thus protect the people of Shannan West Road.
Li Maozhen's momentum was overwhelming, he fought consecutive battles and captured Xingyuan Mansion in one fell swoop. Yang Fugong, Yang Shouliang and others fled to Langzhou. No need to elaborate.
The brakes of the "Destroy Yang Movement" failed and Zhaozong lost the initiative. The "Back to Yang Movement" was forcibly started by Fengxiang Li Maozhen.
In the "Back to Yang Movement", Yang Fugong and his Yang family became soy sauce men, but the protagonists were Xichuan Wang Jian and Fengxiang Li Maozhen.
This is the charm of political games.
【Siege of Pengzhou】
After the defeat in the battle against Dongchuan, Yang Shouliang was concerned about Xichuan again, so he reached a secret agreement with Weirong Jiedushi Yang Sheng and jointly attacked Xichuan. The result was still a complete defeat. Wang Jian counterattacked and surrounded Pengzhou, the headquarters of Weirong Army. .
Yang Shouliang ordered his three adopted sons, Yang Zishi, Yang Ziqian, and Yang Zizhao, to reinforce the siege. In terms of seniority, the three of them should be Yang Fugong's grandsons.
These three grandsons were so great that they surrendered to Wang Jian with more than 20,000 troops.
Yang Sheng of Pengzhou wrote a letter of advice to Yang Shouzhen, Yang Shouzhong, and Yang Shohou, asking them to attack Zizhou in Dongchuan, encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, and reduce the pressure on Pengzhou.
This is where the relationship between Sichuan and Sichuan is delicate. Xi Chuan is Dong Chuan's biggest enemy and his closest comrade at the same time.
The reason is also very simple:
Wang Jian of Xichuan has coveted Dongchuan for a long time and tried every means to annex Dongchuan. Gu Yanlang, the former Dongchuan Jiedu, was his old colleague, old friend, and in-law, and he was extremely respectful to him, which created a huge psychological barrier for Wang Jianshe, making him embarrassed to directly attack Gu Yanlang.
After Gu Yanlang's death, Gu Yanhui succeeded him. Gu Yanhui had no direct friendship with Wang Jian, and Gu Yanhui made no secret of his contempt for Wang Jian. Therefore, Wang Jian got rid of all psychological baggage and began to formally plan the annexation of Dongchuan. For example, when he went to aid Zizhou last time, He just wanted to seize Dongchuan through the despicable means of Hongmen Banquet.
Wang Jian is the quasi-master of Dongchuan, so when external forces (such as Yang Shouliang and Li Maozhen) come to seize Dongchuan, Wang Jian will support Dongchuan without hesitation.
Wang Jian was like a guarding dog, baring his fangs at anyone who came near Dongchuan, "Oh my god, don't move!"
Gu Yanhui of Dongchuan also understood the stakes, so whenever someone invaded Dongchuan, he would immediately report to Wang Jian and ask Wang Jian to send troops to help. While repelling foreign enemies, it also consumed Wang Jian's strength. Dongchuan Gu Yanhui killed two birds with one stone.
That's why Yang Sheng, who was besieged Pengzhou, came up with the strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao.
The three of them thought this plan was very clever, especially Yang Shouhou, who had previously used a large amount of money to successfully instigate a garrison in Zizhou City. When the time comes, the inside and outside should cooperate, and Zizhou City is bound to be captured.
Yang Shohou, who was stationed in Mianzhou, was closest to Zizhou, while Yang Shouzhen and Yang Shouzhong were relatively far away. When Yang Shouhou came to exchange codes with the mole, he discovered that the mole had been found out by Dongchuan Gu Yanhui.
Yang Shohou was horrified and hurriedly led his troops to retreat. In his haste, he did not have time to notify Yang Shouzhen and Yang Shouzhong of the follow-up troops. As a result, the two people who followed fell into an embarrassing situation where they were unable to advance or retreat. They were beaten everywhere like headless flies and suffered extremely heavy losses.
The plan to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao ended in failure.
The Xichuan army surrounded Pengzhou and could not conquer it for a long time. The people fled into the valley to hide. Each camp of the Xichuan Army would go into the mountains every day to plunder, steal money, grain, and women, and they happily called them "hunting captives."
There was a soldier named Wang Xiancheng in the Xichuan Army. He was originally a scholar, but was forced to join the army due to circumstances. He secretly observed the generals and found that only Wang Zongkan, the general of Beida Camp, was good material, so he recommended himself to have a chat with General Wang Zongkan.
Corporal Wang Zongkan greeted this unusual soldier.
"What advice do you have, sir?"
