Zhu Wen's eldest daughter, Princess Anyang (posthumously named), married Luo Shaowei's eldest son Luo Tinggui. Unfortunately, she died of illness in the first month of the third year of the Tang Dynasty (906).
When the bad news reaches Bianzhou, the pain of losing a daughter is inevitable, but as a politician, personal emotions must always give way to political interests. As a father, Zhu Wen was extremely sad, but as a political leader, Zhu Wen was happy.
Soon, Zhu Wen and Luo Shaowei made a plan to attack Wei Boya's army.
First, Zhu Wen mobilized a total of 100,000 troops from the towns south of the Yellow River. Led by General Li Sian, he gathered troops from Weibo and Chengde towns and stationed in the Heshuo area. He claimed to be attacking Liu Shouwen of Cangzhou because he had surrendered. Accept the rebels and take in Wei Bo's rebel general Li Gongquan.
Then, Ma Sixun, the general of the Ministry, led a condolence team of 1,000 people from her mother's family to Weizhou to assist her husband's family in handling the funeral arrangements. These one thousand people were all carefully selected warriors. They all took off their military uniforms, put on civilian clothes, and disguised themselves as porters and other servants to carry funeral supplies on their shoulders and carts. These funeral items were also carefully disguised. On the surface they looked like incense sticks, paper figures and horses, but there were weapons and armor hidden inside.
Finally, Zhu Wen personally led the main army to follow closely, claiming to be the second echelon to attack Cangzhou.
It was reasonable and Wei Boyajun had no doubts at all and did not take any precautions.
Just after the Lantern Festival, Luo Shaowei, in accordance with the previous secret agreement, sent his cronies to sneak into the armory and cut off the buckles on the bow strings and armor, making them unusable. That night, Luo Shaowei led hundreds of his domestic slaves, disciples and guests to secretly meet with Ma Sixun, and then launched a surprise attack on Yacheng under the cover of darkness.
Yacheng is the settlement area of Yajun. In the military compound, all the people are soldiers. They were shocked to hear that there was a change. They immediately opened the armory and prepared to fight, but found that there was no usable bow and no armor to wear. As a result, Luo Shaowei and Ma Sixun launched a bloody massacre in Yacheng, massacring more than 8,000 families, including women and babies in their arms.
In this battle, Ma Sixun was unfortunately injured and died of his injuries ten days later.
The next day, Zhu Wen led the main force to Weizhou City to appease the people.
After the Yajun in Weizhou was massacred, the Yajun scattered in other places in Weibo were also frightened, fearing that they would be implicated. Luo Shaowei's kind words and comfort to them not only failed to eliminate their doubts, but made them more suspicious. Finally, Ya general Shi Renyu raised his arms and gathered tens of thousands of troops. He used Gaotang (northeast of Weibo, close to the Yichang Army in Cangzhou) as the revolutionary base. He claimed to stay in the army and openly rebelled and seized power. However, most of Weibo's prefectures and counties In response, Wei Bo was in danger of changing his surname overnight.
This incident was also expected by Zhu Wen. Cutting off the Yajun in the feudal town was like cutting down the feudal vassal by the central government. It had to be done without stopping, so Zhu Wen sent a large army to respond.
Zhu Wen mobilized troops to attack Gaotang. This force consists of three parts, namely the Bian Army, Wei Bo Army, and Cheng De Army, and under the guise of attacking Liu Shouwen in Cangzhou, they assisted Luo Shaowei. On the way to Gaotang, Dr. Wei's soldiers got the news that Yacheng in Weizhou was massacred, so they immediately rebelled under the leadership of general Zuo Xingqian and responded to Shi Renyu.
Fortunately, the commander of the army responded quickly, acted decisively, and suppressed them efficiently. More than half (more than 40,000 people) of the Weibo rebels were killed, and Zuo Xingqian was killed. After stabilizing the internal situation, they continued to attack Gaotang. , captured it in one fell swoop and captured Shi Renyu alive.
Then, a bloody scene took place - the Gaotang Massacre. The counter-rebellion troops carried out a brutal massacre in Gaotang. All soldiers and civilians in the city, men, women, old and young, were beheaded, and Shi Renyu was dismembered. Later, Chanzhou and Bozhou were pacified, and more than 10,000 people were killed.
Zhu Wen's troops rarely slaughtered cities. They usually adhered to the principle of "killing only the first culprits and leaving the rest alone" to show kindness and generosity and win over the people. But why should Gaotang be slaughtered this time? Because it was Li Maoxun and Li Jizhao who commanded this army.
Both of them were generals from Guanxi. One was Li Maozhen's cousin, and the other was Li Maozhen's adopted son. They abandoned Qi and returned to Bian during the "Siege of Fengxiang".
Second Japs are always more hateful than real Japs. As surrendered generals - and the most junior surrendered generals in Kansai, the two must show extreme hatred and cruelty to Zhu Wen's enemies in order to express their loyalty to Zhu Wen's group. Any mercy and kindness will cause organizational problems. Suspicion.
When Shi Renyu openly rebelled, Li Keyong from Hedong and Liu Shouwen from Cangzhou, as expected, helped him and got involved in Heshuo affairs.
Li Keyong sent Li Sizhao to lead 3,000 cavalry out of the Taihang Mountains east to attack Xingzhou in Dongzhaoyi; Liu Shouwen sent 10,000 troops to attack the prefectures and counties in the north of Weibo and south of Chengde.
There were only 200 defenders in Xingzhou. Under the leadership of Bian general Niu Cunjie, they resisted tenaciously. Li Sizhao attacked for seven days in a row, but could not conquer it. Zhu Wen sent Zhang Jun to lead thousands of cavalry to assist Xingzhou. Zhang Jun set up an ambush and defeated Li Sizhao, thus relieving Dong Zhaoyi's crisis.
Liu Shouwen's troops were also repelled by the Bian army.
Later, Zhu Wen personally led the main force to patrol the Heshuo area to provide support, inspect the border defense, guide the work, and annihilate all the scattered Weibo rebels.
At this point, it took half a year for Zhu Wen to completely quell the civil strife of Wei Bojun and consolidate Bianzhou's rights and interests in the Heshuo area.
During these six months, Luo Shaowei was responsible for the daily supply of tens of thousands of troops. Historical records record that Luo Shaowei slaughtered a total of 700,000 cattle, sheep, and pigs, and consumed an equal amount of food and grass. As for military rewards, gifts, bribes, and other necessary money and treasures, There are countless more. Within half a year, Wei Bo's entire savings were almost exhausted.
Although Luo Shaowei eliminated the hidden danger of the Yajun, he also lost valuable military power. The army was gone, the money and food were gone, Wei Bojun's vitality was severely damaged, and he never recovered from the fall.
After thirty years of hard work, we returned to before liberation overnight. At this time, Luo Shaowei regretted so much that he called himself Weibo's sinner, and said to the people around him: "The iron gathered from the 43 counties of Weibo's six states cannot make such a big mistake!"
Wei Bo solved the internal troubles, but the external troubles were not eliminated. The father and son Liu Rengong of Youzhou echoed each other from afar, always threatening the stability of the Heshuo area. When helping Luo Shaowei eliminate the Ya army, Zhu Wen had already decided on the strategy of killing two birds with one stone and killing the rabbit. That is, he would first use the attack on Liu Shouwen in Cangzhou as a guise to eradicate Wei Boya's army, and then actually attack Cangzhou.
When Shi Ren encountered a rebellion in Gaotang, the Bian Army had already moved to the border between Wei Bo Army and Cangzhou Yichang Army, and had to turn back to Gaotang to quell the rebellion. Then the Yajun scattered in Weibo rebelled one after another, and a single spark turned into a prairie fire, seriously slowing down the pace of attacking Cangzhou and losing the opportunity to fight.
However, Zhu Wen never forgot about the Liu family and his son. After returning to Bianzhou to rest for a month, Zhu Wen once again mobilized his army and attacked Cangzhou via Weibo in an attempt to stabilize the Heshuo area once and for all.
The Bian army camped in the northwest outside Cangzhou City. The defenders did not dare to fight and closed the city gate tightly to wait for reinforcements. Liu Rengong of Youzhou went south to rescue, but suffered repeated defeats.
For the Liu family and his son, this was a devastating disaster, and the Liu family and his son were forced to the edge of death. In order to replenish the supply of troops, Liu Rengong issued an unprecedented conscription order: all men over 15 years old and under 70 years old were required to join the army, and they were required to bring their own food and weapons.
During the most arduous stage of the Great Patriotic War, the former Soviet Union issued a mobilization call that "everyone is a soldier" and the age for conscription was relaxed to men over 17 years old and under 55 years old.
In the late Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, the age range of Liu Rengong's conscription was outrageous. He also stipulated that as long as the army sets off, any man between the ages of 15 and 70 found in the territory will be immediately treated as a deserter and killed.
Some people dissuaded him, saying that in this case, only women and children would be left in the territory, and their physical strength was not enough to bear the heavy task of transporting grain and grass.
Liu Rengong then revised the conscription order: all those who can handle weapons will go out. What this amendment bill wants to express is that men who are sick between the ages of 15 and 70 can temporarily stay at home to recuperate, and then go to the front line after they recover.
In order to prevent the soldiers from fleeing, Liu Rengong tattooed three characters on their faces - "Dingbadu". Educated scholars can enjoy the privilege of not having their faces tattooed, but they have to tattoo four characters on their arms. ——"Serve the Lord with one heart and one mind." Therefore, in the entire territory under the jurisdiction of Lulong Army in Youzhou, except for children, there was no one who did not have tattoos.
In this way, Liu Rengong gathered 100,000 soldiers in the territory and stationed in Waqiao.
