The fierce fighting lasted for nearly two months, until mid-July, when Guo Weicai captured the outer city, and Li Shouzhen gathered the remaining defeated soldiers and retreated to the inner city.
The generals asked to take over the inner city in one go, but Guo Wei stopped again, explaining that rabbits bite people when they are anxious, let alone an army! "What's the rush to catch fish from dry water?" Li Shouzhen is now a turtle in a urn, just like a fish in a pond. The pond is about to dry up, so why are we anxious?
Sure enough, a few days later, in despair, Li Shouzhen, along with his wife, son Li Chongxun and others, set themselves on fire and died.
Li Shouzhen's ancestral home was Heyang. When Shi Jingtang was in charge of Heyang, he recruited Li Shouzhen into his command, and he became Shi Jingtang's immediate confidant. When Ma Quanjie conquered Li Jinquan in Anzhou, Li Shouzhen was the supervisor of the army. During the Shanxi-Liao War, Li Shouzhen rushed to the aid of Yunzhou, defeated Yeluma, and was promoted to Yanzhou Jiedushi for his merits. Then he attacked Yang Guangyuan of Qingzhou and won his highlight moment. From then on, Li Shouzhen's records were mostly negative.
After Yang Guangyuan was pacified, Li Shouzhen rewarded the sergeants with worthless rags such as bad tea (spoiled tea leaves) and dyed wood. As a result, the soldiers were furious and wrapped the rewards in cloth. They were round and round like a human head. Everyone called this thing Make it a "chastity head" and hang it on a branch to vent your anger.
It is estimated that this should be a reward and appeasement to Yang Guangyuan's troops, because historical records have repeatedly mentioned that Li Shouzhen was very generous to his direct troops and won the hearts of the military.
For example, when Du Chongwei took command of the Northern Expedition, Li Shouzhen was the supervisor of the army. The two worked together, harassing the people along the way, just like the Japanese invaders entering the village, and looted the people to reward their own troops. It is also necessary to create clever names and levy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. For example, "money for attaching armor" is collected before sending troops, and "money for removing armor" is collected after returning to the army.
"The entry and exit fees are often no less than 300,000 yuan, which makes Jin's public and private affairs difficult."
After Li Shouzhen and his wife set themselves on fire, the Central Army turned into firefighters, found Li Shouzhen's half-burned body, and sent his head to the capital.
Guo Wei entered the inner city and captured alive Li Shouzhen's other son Li Chongyu, as well as a bunch of pseudo-officials including the pseudo-prime minister appointed by Li Shouzhen in the name of the "Emperor", and of course the "National Preceptor" and the great protector demon monk Zong Lun. Guo Wei kidnapped them and took them to Bianzhou, where they were executed late in the busy streets.
Li Shouzhen's brother-in-law Qiao Da was sentenced to death in February as a "Li Shouzhen party member". Also executed together with Qiao Da was his brother Qiao Rong, the "return envoy" appointed by the Khitans.
Among the "Li Shouzhen's followers", only Zhao Xiuji was summoned to the Central Committee and granted an official position. Because he once urged Li Shouzhen not to rebel, and therefore resigned and went into seclusion.
In addition, Zhu Yuan and Li Ping sent to Huainan by Li Shouzhen luckily escaped the disaster of overturning their nests. After Li Jing heard about Li Shouzhen's defeat, he appointed Zhu Yuan as Wailang, a member of the driving department, and Li Ping as Wailang, a minister of the Shangshu.
Guo Wei seized a large number of top-secret letters, most of which were chat records between Li Shouzhen and central officials and local feudal towns. Guo Wei originally wanted to package these evidence of treason and hand it over to the court, so as to catch all these rebellious and counterrevolutionary elements.
Wang Pu, the administrator of the National Library and Archives (Secretary Lang), hurriedly dissuaded him. Do you know the story about Cao Cao burning Yuan Shao’s chat records after the Battle of Guandu? Nowadays, the Central Plains has been in chaos for a long time, the political situation is turbulent, and it is common to make a show on the spot. Don't make a fuss out of a molehill and go online, otherwise everyone will be in danger and more trouble will inevitably arise.
Guo Wei suddenly realized this, so he gathered everyone and burned all Li Shouzhen's documents and files on the spot.
Before Li Shouzhen set himself on fire in Hezhong, Zhao Siwan of Chang'an had already been put down first.
The person in charge of the Chang'an battlefield was Guo Congyi. Following Guo Wei's orders, Guo Congyi also adopted a strategy of containment first and attack second.
Chang'an is located east of Fengxiang and west of Hezhong, and Zhao Siwan is the weakest among the three towns. Since the war broke out, he has been hiding behind the two big bosses, so the war has lasted for more than half a year, and has always presented a "two ends" "hot" situation.
As time passed, Chang'an Zhao Siwan also faced the problem of food shortage. And his way to solve the problem is very pornographic, very violent and violent - cannibalism.
Generally speaking, only when one is forced into a desperate situation will one have no choice but to stage a tragedy of cannibalism, but this is not the case with Zhao Siwan. He enjoys the delicious taste of human flesh very much. His favorite liver is liver, and it must be the freshest and most lively one. Liver sashimi, according to historical records, he likes to eat livers from living people on the spot, harvesting them and then cutting them into thin strips on the spot. After he finished cutting, the person whose liver was removed was not dead yet (he tasted the liver and was surprised) After all, people are still not dead).
He also likes to use human gall as food and drinks, and often says to his neighbors: "If you eat enough gall from a thousand living people, you will gain endless courage!" Who gave you the prescription? If you eat a thousand pairs of roasted wing tips, will you become a bird?
Zhao Siwan ordered the women and children in Chang'an City to be rounded up and used as military rations, which were distributed to the army according to the amount every day. And whenever he held a banquet to reward the army, he would slaughter hundreds of people at once, just like slaughtering livestock (every time he rewarded the army, he would slaughter hundreds of people, like sheep and hogs).
"Zhao Siwan on the Bite of the Tongue" must be accompanied by descriptions from the original historical records to prove that I did not deliberately sensationalize or create rumors. I am just a porter of history books.
People will always be eaten up one day. How to do it?
On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year (949), Comrade Liu Chengyou, the Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty, delivered a warm and joyful New Year's message to the people across the country.
In it, Liu Chengyou first reviewed this troubled period, "treacherous ministers rejoiced in misfortunes to seek danger, and bandits took advantage of misfortunes and waited for opportunities";
Then he summarized his work in the nearly one year since he ascended the throne: "Destroy the three rebels in the west, caress their backs and strangle their throats; defeat the tribes in the north, break their arms and break their spines. Next, Ba and Qiong Xiao gathered, The Huaihe River and the sea are rampant, and I have only heard of the arrows clashing. I have already seen the mountains destroying the shores, the bandits are in danger, and the master and the disciples have no loss."
To put it simply, the rebellion in the three towns in the west has been basically controlled, and the imperial court has taken the initiative; "Northern defeat of the Tibetans" refers to the confrontation with the Khitan, which will be shown later, and it was also the advantage that the Later Han Dynasty took advantage of; Then he mocked Houshu and Huainan. In short, the meaning of this passage is that the road is tortuous, the future is bright, and I am very awesome.
Immediately afterwards, as usual, a general amnesty was announced and the whole world celebrated. Then he changed his mind:
"Li Shouzhen of Hefu, Wang Jingchong of Fengxiang, Zhao Siwan of Yongxing (Chang'an), etc. have never had any quarrels with the country. Occasionally, they rebelled due to suspicion and fear.": The three of you have no grudges against this dynasty in the past and have no grudges recently, but it is because A little misunderstanding, just to scare yourself, just a moment of confusion, it doesn't matter.
"However, with his soul, my innocent son..." But it has harmed the common people!
"If you can turn over and surrender, I will treat you as before, keep it forever, and enjoy your wealth..." Even if you abuse me thousands of times, I will treat you like my first love.
This is also an old routine for counterinsurgency, to persuade rebels to surrender.
Zhao Siwan was very hesitant and planned to escape to Houshu by digging a tunnel, but he was not completely sure; he wanted to surrender, but he was afraid of following in the footsteps of Fan Yanguang, Yang Guangyuan, and Du Chongwei.
