Dong Zhaoyi governs three states, Xingzhou, Cizhou, and Mingzhou. Ge Congzhou ate one-third of Dong Zhaoyi in one day.
It's only one-third, Ge Congzhou just stretched his muscles.
A few days later, Ge Congzhou led his troops to appear at the foot of Xingzhou City, the headquarters of Dong Zhaoyi, and the governor of Xingzhou abandoned the city and fled.
Ge Congzhou, who had no energy to use, immediately rushed to Cizhou. The governor of Cizhou committed suicide by cutting his neck.
Dong Zhaoyi, Li Keyong and the Meng Qian brothers fought back and forth for several years before taking it into their hands. They also experienced Li Cunxiao's rebellion and the tug of war with Zhenzhou King Rong. They paid a heavy price before finally controlling Dong Zhaoyi. It only took Ge Congzhou a few days to occupy and control them all, so that Li Keyong didn't have time to react.
When Li Keyong lost Dong Zhaoyi, he also lost all the land east of the Taihang Mountains, and the power in Hedong was compressed back to the west of the Taihang Mountains.
Zhu Wen ordered Ge Congzhou to do Dong Zhaoyi and stay behind.
In August of the same year, Zhaozong drove back to Chang'an. Zhaozong upgraded Huazhou to Xingdefu, granted amnesty to the whole country, and changed it to Guanghua.
Zhaozong sent a third-rank official to serve as a special mediator to mediate the dispute between Li Keyong and Zhu Wen. He issued edicts to the two men respectively and asked the prime minister to write letters to them to promote peace talks.
Li Keyong, who was at a disadvantage, was of course willing to accept it, but he did not want to lower his stature. Big bosses always want to save face, so he wrote to Wang Rong of Zhenzhou and asked him to help send a message to Zhu Wen, expressing his willingness to turn hostility into friendship.
Zhu Wen successively received the truce edict from Emperor Zhaozong, the personally written condolence letter from the prime minister, and the greetings from Li Keyong conveyed by Wang Rong. He smiled coldly and then refused.
It is better to use your remaining courage to chase the poor bandits, not to use your reputation as an academic overlord.
If you don’t take advantage of this moment to kill Li Keyong, why don’t you still keep him alive for the New Year?
Li Keyong was forced to fight back and sent his adopted son Li Sizhao and general Zhou Dewei to lead an army of 20,000 people out of Qingshan Pass to recapture Dongzhaoyi.
Li Sizhao took the lead and approached Xingzhou. Ge Congzhou went out of the city to fight, defeated Li Sizhao, and forced him to retreat back the same way. Ge Congzhou made another roundabout outflank, cutting off the retreat from Qingshan Pass. The Hedong Corps collapsed in an instant and fled in all directions. Li Sizhao was unable to control the situation. Seeing that his army was about to be wiped out, he prepared to break out and escape.
At this time, Li Siyuan, another adopted son of Li Keyong, arrived with his troops in time, stopped Li Sizhao's horse's head, held his reins, and said: "If you also run away, the overall situation will be irreversible! Please!" Allow me to launch an attack. If it fails, I will escape before it is too late!"
Li Siyuan once played a great role in the "Hedong Anti-Encirclement and Suppression" campaign, smashing the North Route Army Group. This man was steady, sophisticated, low-key and restrained. His appearance made Li Sizhao regain his senses, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Li Siyuan ordered all the cavalry to dismount, climb to high places, and prepare their bows and arrows, while he stood at the top, waving flags, and commanding the non-existent army.
Ge Congzhou pursued here and saw Li Siyuan dispatching troops and generals in a serious manner. He thought that there was a large number of Hedong troops behind Gaogang and did not dare to advance rashly.
Li Siyuan seized the opportunity of Ge Congzhou's hesitation and immediately ordered a counterattack, and Li Sizhao also cooperated with Ge Congzhou to attack from behind.
Ge Congzhou mistakenly thought he was ambushed and ordered a retreat.
Li Siyuan used a clever trick to scare away Ge Congzhou's pursuing troops. Sun Jian used it during the Three Kingdoms period and single-handedly scared off countless pirates; Zhang Fei also used bluff to scare off Cao Cao's pursuers at Changbanpo.
Those on the disadvantaged side rarely have a choice, and the Suspicion Strategy is one of the few dangerous moves available.
Although he scared away Ge Congzhou and won a small victory in the Battle of Qingshankou, it only allowed Li Sizhao to avoid the fate of being annihilated, and did not achieve the original strategic goal. Ge Congzhou suffered no substantial losses, and Dong Zhaoyi The three states are still in the hands of Ge Congzhou.
House seemingly endless rain. Li Keyong suffered rebellions from Li Cunxiao and Liu Rengong one after another, and after losing Dong Zhaoyi, another person rebelled, this man was Li Hanzhi.
Li Hanzhi and Liu Rengong were very competitive. They were both impoverished, ambitious, and clever in bribing Gai Yu.
When Li Keyong eliminated Wang Xingyu in the "Three Towns", Li Hanzhi made it clear that he wanted to succeed Wang Xingyu as the governor of the Jingnan Army in Pizhou.
After being rejected by Li Keyong, Li Hanzhi could not hide his inner disappointment and complained to Gai Yu, saying that it had been many years since he lost Heyang and received the protection of Li Keyong, and now he was getting older and older. It is no longer suitable for military warfare. The only hope is to get Li Keyong's mercy. In the name of his following for many years and in the name of his efforts to comfort him after the "Shangyuanyi Incident", he can give alms. It’s just a small change of position so that my wife and children can enjoy their old age in peace.
Gai Yu also kept recommending Li Hanzhi to Li Keyong, but Li Keyong always ignored him.
Within Li Keyong's sphere of influence, whenever there was a vacancy such as a military governor and a meeting was held to discuss suitable candidates, Li Keyong never included Li Hanzhi as a candidate.
Li Hanzhi became more and more frustrated, full of complaints and complaints.
Gai Yu seemed to be aware of it and was worried that Li Hanzhi would do something stupid, so he found Li Keyong in private and reminded Li Keyong to properly satisfy the appetite of such a person.
Li Keyong laughed "haha" and said: "How can I be stingy for a military governor? Have you ever heard of the theory of eagles and tigers? Li Hanzhi is an eagle. When hungry, it is used, and when full, it is gone."
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Li Keyong's eyes were indeed bad. When he looked at Li Hanzhi, he looked away again. Li Hanzhi is a tiger. If you are full of its meat, you will eat people if you are not full.
When Li Keyong lost Dong Zhaoyi, Xue Zhiqin, the military governor of Xizhaoyi, died of illness in Luzhou, his headquarters, due to ineffective treatment.
Li Hanzhi immediately led the Zezhou troops to Luzhou overnight, took over by force, and then reported to Li Keyong: "Xue Zhiqin is dead, Xizhaoyi is leaderless, and this place is under the threat of the Bian Army. I am afraid that there will be chaos here. , so I came here to appease you, and I respectfully ask your Majesty to give further work instructions.”
It is tantamount to tactfully announcing his actual control over Xi Zhaoyi, cutting off first and reporting later, asking Li Keyong to follow the trend and admit this fait accompli.
This situation happened a thousand years ago. When the Chu and Han Dynasties were fighting, Han Xin declared himself "King of Qi" and reported to Liu Bang that he was just a false king, guarding the land for his lord. Liu Bang was also furious, but he quickly recovered his senses and encouraged Han Xin to become the true king, thereby avoiding a substantial split, preserving the overall strength, and finally won the battle between Chu and Han.
At this moment, Li Keyong failed to recover from his anger. He remembered Cao Cao's theory of eagles and tigers, but forgot Liu Bang's "King of Qi" ambition. Perhaps it was because his "Eagle Theory" was slapped in the face by the "Tiger Theory" and it was too humiliating, so he became angry and refused to listen to dissuasion.
Not only did Li Keyong not approve Li Hanzhi's request to succeed Xi Zhaoyi as Jiedu envoy, he also sent an envoy to Luzhou to severely scold him, "You want to rebel?"
Therefore, Li Hanzhi sent his son to Bianzhou in person, used his own son as a hostage, and surrendered to Zhu Wen.
A good thing Zhu Wen never dreamed of! Pies really fell from the sky, and Xi Zhaoyi delivered them to his door himself!
Xizhaoyi is adjacent to Hedong Taiyuan Prefecture to the north. If Zhu Wen controls Xizhaoyi, it will directly pose a threat to Li Keyong's heart, and form an encirclement situation against Li Keyong with Dong Zhaoyi, Zhenzhou Wang Rong and others.
The importance of Xi Zhaoyi to Li Keyong is needless to say, and it cannot be overstated. Li Keyong, who had lost Dong Zhaoyi, could not allow Xi Zhaoyi to fall into Zhu Wen's hands again under any circumstances, and immediately ordered Li Sizhao to recover it quickly.
Li Sizhao also knew the stakes, so he withdrew from the Dongzhaoyi battlefield without stopping, and descended on Zezhou with lightning speed. He captured Zezhou on the same day, searched for Li Han's family members, and took them all to Taiyuan Prefecture.
Zhu Wenbiao appointed Li Hanzhi as the military envoy of Xizhaoyi, and dispatched troops to prepare to enter Luzhou and take over Xizhaoyi.
A pie fell from the sky, but there were two lumps on the pie.
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