【So many】
1. Wang Wen’s mutiny (February 17)
When Li Cunxu was confronting Houliang in Deshengjia City, he recruited warriors to go out to challenge the city. An actor he liked very much was suddenly recruited to fight. Not only was the actor outstanding in acting, but he was also invincible in bravery. He was like Jackie Chan or Wu Jing plus Donnie Yen, so Li Cunxu favored him even more. he.
He is Guo Congqian, whose stage name is Guo Menggao. Li Cunxu mobilized elite warriors from each army to form his own personal guard (Cong Ma Zhi) and set up four commanders (Cong Ma Zhi Commander), one of whom was Guo Congqian.
Before, Guo Chongtao gained power in both the government and the public. Guo Congqian, who had the same surname, treated Guo Chongtao as his uncle and recognized Li Cunyi as his godfather. Now, Guo Chongtao and Li Cunyi have been killed one after another, and Guo Congqian is terrified. It is said (probably according to the eunuchs, I guess) that Guo Congqian used his own money to reward his subordinates, cried bitterly, and complained about the injustice of Guo Chongtao and Li Cunyi.
On the evening of February 17, the fourth year of Tongguang (926), five people including Wang Wen, a sergeant from Mazhi, plotted a mutiny. They were discovered in time. Wang Wen and five others were captured alive and beheaded. Originally, the matter was over like this, but Li Cunxu accidentally joked to Guo Congqian: "You have been a licking dog for Guo Chongtao and Li Cunyi before, and now you are instigating Wang Wen to rebel. What on earth do you want to do?"
The emperor is a man of words and cannot make jokes, let alone such dangerous jokes.
Guo Congqian was frightened. After he came back (if Li Cunxu was not joking, how could he let him back), he gathered his cronies and said to them: "The emperor is suspicious of us because of Wang Wen, and said that he will wait until the Weizhou rebellion is put down." After that, they buried us all alive. You go home quickly, find all the valuable things and sell them, buy some good wine and food, and enjoy the last supper quickly, there is no need to make long-term plans."
The soldiers were all frightened.
Although Wang Wen's mutiny failed, Li Cunxu's personal guards (from Ma Zhi) were feared by everyone and became an important hidden danger.
2. Xingzhou Mutiny (February 13)
Xingzhou, now Xingtai City, Hebei Province, was formerly the headquarters of the Dongzhaoyi Army. Later in the Tang Dynasty, the Dongzhaoyi Army was renamed the Anguo Army, and Xingzhou was still the headquarters.
On February 13, the fourth year of Tongguang (926), Zhao Tai led 400 soldiers to launch a mutiny and captured Xingzhou City, claiming that the Anguo Army was staying behind.
Li Cunxu ordered Huo Yanwei to lead his troops to conquer.
3. Cangzhou Mutiny (February 23)
On February 23, there was a mutiny in Cangzhou. Wang Jingkan, a junior officer, put down the mutinous army and maintained order. He later called himself Cangzhou Hengjun (formerly Yichang Army, the word "Chang" was a taboo, so he changed it) to stay behind.
4. Sui and Yin mutinies (end of February)
At the end of February, the Yanzhou (today's Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province) defense army reported that there was a mutiny in Suizhou and Yinzhou under the rule of the Xiazhou Dingnan Army, and they looted the city and asked for support.
5. Qingzhou Mutiny (March 11)
Fu Xi, the military envoy of the Pinglu Army in Qingzhou, was ordered to lead his troops to attack and support the war in Weizhou. Halfway through the journey, he heard that there was chaos in Weizhou, so he turned around and returned to his own town. When he reached Lianzhou (now Zibo City, Shandong Province), Yang Hope, the eunuch who stayed in Qingzhou, sent troops to attack.
As mentioned earlier, Li Cunxu did not trust the officials in the feudal territories, so he reused eunuchs and stationed them in various military towns as military supervisors. He restored the old system of the Tang Dynasty, and these military supervisors and eunuchs had greater power than in the Tang Dynasty. Crush the town's Jiedushi, and even control the life and death of the Jiedushi. As long as they suspect that the Jiedushi has second thoughts, they can kill him first and then report him.
Now, Jiedu envoy Fu Xi was ordered to aid Weizhou, but he suddenly returned without permission on the way. The eunuch Yang Xiang, who was in charge of the army, insisted that Fu Xi was treasonous, so he sent troops to attack him.
Fu Xi was greatly frightened and cried out that he was wronged, so he quickly turned around again and continued to Weizhou as agreed.
The commander in Qingzhou City, Wang Gongyan, took advantage of the chaos to kill the eunuch Yang Hope, and then took control of Qingzhou. The incident occurred on March 11, the fourth year of Tongguang reign (926).
The Qingzhou Mutiny is a microcosm of the sharp opposition and fierce conflict between the local military eunuchs and the Jiedushi. Since the Weizhou Mutiny, incidents of killing eunuchs overseeing the army have occurred in many places:
Luzhou Anyi Army (formerly Xizhaoyi Army, changed to avoid Li Sizhao's taboo), the military eunuch Yang Jiyuan conspired to assassinate Jiedushi Kong Qing, the plot was not secret, the news leaked, and Kong Qing set up an ambush and killed him;
The eunuch supervising the army in Wuning, Xuzhou, suspected that Jiedu envoy Huo Yanwei was secretly colluding with the rebels, so he took control of the city and refused Huo Yanwei's return. Chun Yuyan, the temporary alternate commander (after Quan Zhiliu) mobilized his subordinates to kill the eunuch supervising the army. , control Xuzhou.
At this point, let’s do a brief summary to feel how busy and panicked Li Cunxu was:
January 7, killed Guo Chongtao;
On January 11, Guo Chongtao and his disciples were killed;
On January 23, Li Cunyi was killed during the day, and Zhu Youqian was killed at night;
In early February, the Beizhou mutiny occurred;
On February 6, Beizhou rebelled and took control of Weizhou;
On February 9, Kang Yanxiao mutinied;
On February 13, Xingzhou mutiny;
On February 17, King Wen from Mazhi attempted a mutiny but failed;
February 23, Cangzhou mutiny;
At the end of February, mutinies occurred in Suizhou and Yinzhou;
March 11, Qingzhou mutiny;
In March, after Qingzhou, eunuchs who were overseeing the army were killed in Luzhou and Xuzhou respectively...
If animated pictures or videos were made, and special effects of explosions were used to mark the places where accidents occurred as the event progressed, I believe that the Later Tang Dynasty ushered in a grand fireworks display at the beginning of the fourth year of Tongguang (926). In fact, one of the most important mutinies was deliberately hidden above: on March 8, the mutiny among the counter-rebellion troops under Weizhou City, the protagonist was Li Siyuan. We will discuss this separately later.
Looking at these times, we can also explain a small foreshadowing in the previous article: In early January, Wang Zongyan and his party were ordered to come to Luoyang, but when they arrived in Chang'an (February 18), they received an order to stay where they were and wait for further instructions. . The answer lies in the above. Because the world is in chaos, Li Cunxu is really unable to deal with Wang Zongyan and this group of senior political prisoners. He can only let them stop their progress and wait and see how the situation develops.
On March 18, Li Cunxu ordered Wang Zongyan and his party to be executed on the spot because the situation was developing in a bad direction. Li Cunxu was worried that Wang Zongyan would take the opportunity to cause trouble, such as restoring the country.
After Yuan Xingqin lost the first battle, he retreated to Chanzhou to rest and recuperate. Then he gathered reinforcements from all walks of life and launched another attack on Weizhou.
On February 23, General Yang Chongba led hundreds of death squads to successfully climb the city wall, but no follow-up troops followed up, resulting in the death of Yang Chongba and all others.
The rebels also saw the imperial court's determination to suppress the rebellion. Since they were going to die no matter what, it was better to resist to the end and maybe there was a glimmer of hope. So the morale of the Bian army was high and they would rather die than surrender.
Yuan Xingqin was defeated repeatedly in battles and his morale was low. He could only keep asking the court to send more reinforcements.
Li Cunxu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. All the elite forces of the Later Tang Dynasty followed Li Jiji into Shu to fight. Now that Shu has been leveled and Li Jiji is on his way to the army, Li Cunxu can only send eunuchs to urge Li Cunxu. Jiji continued to travel day and night and returned to the division as quickly as possible, the sooner the better.
At that time, Kang Yanxiao launched a mutiny in Shu. Li Jiji's main force was attacking Kang Yanxiao and could not escape.
Yuan Xingqin, who suppressed the rebellion in Weizhou, was defeated repeatedly, and Huo Yanwei, who suppressed the rebellion in Xingzhou, also made no progress. The main force was trapped in Shu, and news of mutinies from various places flew like snowflakes in Luoyang... Li Cunxu had no choice, so he decided to conquer it personally. , personally crusade against the Weizhou rebels.
When news came that the emperor wanted to lead a personal expedition, civil and military officials and eunuchs tried to dissuade him, saying that it was not appropriate for the emperor to leave the capital without permission.
Li Cunxu nodded and said, I know that too, but there are really no generals around me!
"How can you say there are no generals?" Everyone said in unison: "One veteran general can quell the rebellion."
Li Cunxu glanced at the civil and military officials of the dynasty. Finally, the name Li Cunxu didn't want to hear was said by everyone, "Li Siyuan!"
