Li Siyuan sent General Fan Yanguang to communicate and explain, "Don't be so tense. I just came to have a meal..."
Fan Yanguang told Li Siyuan that once the misunderstanding started, it would be difficult to explain it with words. At this point, we must launch a decisive and swift attack to capture the city before it completes its mobilization. If it is delayed for a few days and Bianzhou completes its city defense deployment, it will be It's not easy to fight!
The butt determines the head. Throughout his military life, Li Siyuan has always been decisive in killing and acting sharply and swiftly. However, he is now an emperor rather than a general, so his first choice is peace negotiation.
Fan Yanguang's analysis hits the mark: the initiative is now in Li Siyuan's hands, but will be transferred to Zhu Shouyin in a few days. No wise man should relinquish the initiative and place his fate on the mercy of his opponent.
Therefore, Li Siyuan immediately woke up and must take advantage of the initiative to ensure the smooth resolution of the problem. The emperor only cares about the results, not the process. Therefore, Fan Yanguang's petition was immediately approved, and Fan Yanguang led five hundred cavalry to Bianzhou to launch a blitzkrieg against Zhu Shouyin.
Fan Yanguang set out in the evening and traveled two hundred miles overnight. He arrived at Bianzhou City before dawn. The defenders in the city were rubbing their sleepy eyes. Before they could complete their war preparations, they suddenly discovered that Wang Shi's troops were approaching the city, and they were frightened and at a loss.
At the same time, Li Siyuan had sent a second echelon of troops, led by Shi Jingtang, to support Fan Yanguang. Li Siyuan had also personally led the main force to slowly press towards Bianzhou, and arrived outside Bianzhou city the next day.
At this time, Zhu Shouyin's defense system was still incomplete, and he couldn't help but marvel at Master Wang's decisive action. All the soldiers, civilians, officials and servants in Bianzhou City came out one after another and surrendered to the king's army.
Seeing that Bianzhou was about to collapse without a fight, Zhu Shouyin knew that the situation was over, so he gathered the entire clan, men, women, and children, to kill everyone, and finally ordered his men to kill him.
After Zhu Shouyin died, his tribe rushed to open the city gate and surrender.
Li Siyuan issued an edict to whip Zhu to guard Yin's body, and then hung the body in the downtown area for public display for seven days, and then sent it to Luoyang.
Sun Sheng, the staff member who advised Zhu Shouyin to stay in the city, took advantage of the chaos and fled to Huainan. He went to Xu Zhigao (the adopted son of the powerful minister Xu Wen and the founding monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty) and became Xu Zhigao's staff.
8. Dingzhou Volunteer Army
Now the Jiedushi of the Yiwu Army in Dingzhou is Wang Chuzhi's adopted son Wang Du. Eight years ago, Wang Chuzhi ordered his own son Wang Yu to defect to the Khitan and conspired to collude with the Khitan for aid and separatist rule in Dingzhou. His adopted son Wang Du imprisoned Wang Chuzhi. He surrendered to Li Cunxu. From then on, the royal capital was located in Dingzhou.
During these eight years, the Dingzhou Yiwu Army had a high degree of autonomy, appointing officials and collecting taxes independently, making it seem like a small independent kingdom.
Li Siyuan was very disgusted with his act of killing his father and seizing power, and An Zhongjie also advocated the reduction of vassals. The king could clearly feel the unfriendly attitude from the core power elite of Li Siyuan's court, and felt uneasy in his heart.
At that time, Khitan cavalry often harassed the territory under the jurisdiction of Youzhou, so the imperial court continued to send troops to station and rotate in Hebei. Frequent troop movements constantly irritated the fragile nerves of the royal capital. They were deeply afraid that Li Siyuan would take the opportunity to attack Guo and take Dingzhou with him. Therefore, whenever an imperial army passed by, the royal capital would secretly assemble troops. , and were on tight alert, which often caused friction and misunderstandings with the imperial army.
The staff of the royal capital reminded the king to be prepared to break with the imperial court, so the royal capital made a marriage request to its neighbor, Zhao Dejun, the governor of the Lulong Army in Youzhou, hoping to drag Zhao Dejun into the water through a political marriage; at the same time, he asked Zhenzhou Cheng The German military commander Wang Jianli offered him an olive branch and wanted to become brothers with different surnames because Wang Jianli was also ostracized by An Zhongjiao.
We will introduce in detail the love and hatred between An Zhongjiao and other vassals (Dingzhou Wangdu, Zhenzhou Wangjianjian, Xichuan Meng Zhixiang, Jingnan Gao Jichang, etc.).
The royal capital conspired to create a "Greater Hebei Co-Prosperity Sphere" to restore the situation in which the Hebei vassals were separatist and dominant in the late Tang Dynasty.
To this end, the royal capital not only wanted to drag Youzhou and Zhenzhou down, but also secretly colluded with Qingzhou Pinglu Army Huo Yanwei, Xuzhou Zhongwu Army Fang Zhiwen, Luzhou Xizhao Yijun Mao Zhang, Xichuan Meng Zhixiang, Dongchuan Dong He also sent people to lobby Wang Yanqiu, deputy commander-in-chief of the Hebei Front Army.
If these people can be persuaded by Wangdu, then Li Siyuan will definitely be finished. But the problem is that it is absolutely impossible for them to be persuaded by the royal capital.
These people vote with their feet and know how to choose.
Among them, Wang Jianli ostensibly agreed with the "Greater Hebei Co-Prosperity Sphere", but secretly informed Li Siyuan and reported Wangdu's plan to the central government; Wang Yanqiu expressed his opposition to Wangdu on the spot. Wangdu became angry and bribed Wang Yanqiu's men with large sums of money, planning to The assassination attempt on Wang Yanqiu failed, and Wang Yanqiu also reported the plot to Li Siyuan in the capital.
Wang Du, the adopted son of Wang Chuzhi, seizes power through a mutiny and kills his father. He has bathed in the spring breeze of the appeasement policy of the Hedong Group and is able to separatize Dingzhou. In Dingzhou, he is arrogant and domineering... Who would betray him for his own selfish interests? Being called a "traitor" and openly opposing the imperial court? Wangdu’s initiative to spearhead the “Greater Hebei Co-Prosperity Sphere” is simply out of the blue.
Li Siyuan issued an edict depriving the royal capital of all official positions and titles, and ordered Wang Yanqiu to lead the expedition; An Shentong was appointed deputy commander-in-chief; Zhang Qianzhao was appointed general political commissar. He gathered troops from all walks of life in Hebei and launched a massive attack on the capital of Dingzhou.
On the same day, Wang Yanqiu captured the North Gate of Dingzhou and broke through the first line of defense.
The history of the Central Plains people is relatively vague about this record. It only says that the royal capital asked the Khitan for help, and then the Khitan came to help. In fact, the "History of Liao" clearly records the criminal behavior of the royal capital treason and surrender to the enemy:
"The Tang Yiwu Army Jiedushi Wangdu sent people back to Dingzhou. The Lord of the Tang Dynasty sent out troops to beg for him, and his envoys came to beg for help, and ordered Xi Tuli Tiela to rescue him..."
In other words, the Khitan records state that the royal capital surrendered the land of Dingzhou to the Khitan, and then Li Siyuan sent troops to recover it, while the Khitan sent the Xi tribe chief Tuli Tiela (also known as "Tuonuo" and "Tude", which are obviously transliterations , "Tuli Tiela" and "Tuono" should be more neutral, while "Tu Nei" is obviously a transliteration with obvious emotional color, such as "Shilong" is written as "Chiefong") went to support.
In any case, the label of "traitor" and "traitor" in Wangdu cannot be taken off, and the Khitan army is lured to fight against the central court.
Led by Tuli Tiela, the Khitan reinforcements broke into Dingzhou to assist in the defense. Wang Yanqiu broke the siege and retreated. Wang Du and Tuli Tiela pursued the victory, but fell into Wang Yanqiu's trick of luring the enemy deeper and were ambushed, causing heavy losses.
So both sides called for reinforcements from the rear.
