Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 766
Chapter [-] The situation in Hebei has taken a turn for the worse
Dai Yuanxiang has been the governor of Beizhou since the fourth year of Wude.Later, the Tang Dynasty moved Beizhou out of more than [-] people, and reduced the original Beizhou from Zhongzhou to Xiazhou. Dai Yuanxiang, the official fourth-rank Beizhou governor, was reduced by one level.Perhaps in order to take care of Dai Yuanxiang's emotions, Dai Yuanxiang was transferred from the position of Governor of Beizhou to Captain Zhechong of Mingzhou.

Captain Zhechong of Shangzhou was a fourth-rank official, and Dai Yuanxiang was transferred at the same level.The point is that although the captain of Zhechong and the governor of the state are at the same level, the civil servant in charge of a state's civil affairs has much more power than Dai Yuanxiang, the captain of Zhongzhou Zhechong.There are five regiments under Zhongzhou Zhechong Mansion, each regiment has 200 people, a total of [-] soldiers and horses.However, the Tang Dynasty was especially important to the military. Even if they wanted to embezzle, the provisions and armor of the army were all stipulated, and it was clear at a glance that there were fewer.Dai Yuanxiang didn't dare to stretch out his hand either.

When he just left Mingzhou City, Dai Yuanxiang had a faint feeling.Because he didn't meet any people along the way.

It is the hottest time of June now. It is the most normal thing for the common people to hide in the shade of the trees to enjoy the cool, or set up nets by the river to catch fish. Dai Yuanxiang felt that something was wrong when he did not see normal common people. up.

To say that the historical Liu Heita rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the Tang Dynasty, especially in the "Cambridge History of Qin and Han Dynasties", which described Liu Heita's power as "the most serious new challenge to the Tang Dynasty regime."The main reason is that Li Yuan is too afraid of Dou Jiande. Even if Chen Ying reminded Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng also listened to Chen Ying's words and pleaded with Li Yuan many times not to kill Dou Jiande, but Li Yuan called himself an orphan because of Dou Jiande. As a widow, not killing is not enough to deter disobedient ministers, so he resolutely arrested Dou Jiande on trumped-up charges and let Dou Jiande be executed.

Although Dou Jiande was killed, Li Yuan was not at ease. Not only did he agree to Chen Ying's request, he transferred more than [-] young men from Hebei, and then relocated tens of thousands of households. At the same time, he imposed heavy taxes on Hebei.Li Yuan's original intention was good, that is to drain all of Hebei's wealth. In this way, Hebei people who have no money, no food, and no iron will not be able to rebel if they want to.

However, it was precisely because of this that the root of the chaos in Hebei was planted.

Do not suffer from widowhood, but suffer from unevenness.

Hebei people were taxed heavily by the court, so they naturally complained.In particular, most of the elite officers under Dou Jiande's command were sentenced to hard labor for various crimes, which caused Xia Jun's soldiers to complain and resent.After Liu Shishan rescued these officers of the Xia Army, when these suffocated generals saw Liu Shishan, maybe they knew what was going to happen the moment they saw Liu Shishan.

After learning about Liu Shishan's Chuxiushan cottage, an altar was set up to commemorate the spirit of Dou Jiande.Gao Yuan, the former general of Gao Yaxian's command, heard that Liu Shishan had rebelled in Guangping County. In order to show his determination, Gao Yuan slaughtered his cattle on the spot, called a group of Hebei heroes to talk and drink, and made a plan together. More than 100 people.So Gao Yuan took these more than 100 people to join Liu Shishan!
Then Dou Jiande's general Wang Xiaohu's son Wang Fuchun, Cao Zhan and Dong Kun, who were lucky enough to survive, all followed the trilogy to capture Liu Shishan.

In just three days, Liu Shishan had more than [-] troops under his command.

When Liu Shishan, Wang Fuchun, Cao Zhan, Dong Kun, Gao Yuan, etc. were discussing how to destroy Mingzhou City, they suddenly heard that Dai Yuanxiang led more than a thousand troops to put down the rebellion.

As a matter of fact, any one of Xia Jun’s veteran generals can completely defeat Dai Yuanxiang, who is not good at military affairs, with the same number of people. Liu Shishan set up a game when he was mentally unprepared, and Dai Yuanxiang led his troops More than a thousand soldiers of the Tang army.They plunged into Liu Shishan's ambush circle.

Taking advantage of the hazy sky, Dai Yuanxiang suddenly felt something was wrong. He felt a vague figure moving in the woods outside the camp. He rubbed his eyes and finally saw clearly. Tens of thousands of people came out of the trees densely, javelins densely Like reeds, spears like forests, and thousands of undressed men standing in front of the formation holding rattan shields and scimitars.

Liu Shishan slowly uttered four words: "Surrender, or die!"

Dai Yuanxiang only struggled for a long time before choosing to put down his weapon and surrender.Now that the camp is surrounded on all sides, he has no hope of breaking through, nor can he wait for reinforcements to resist. The whole army will die, and there is no other way.

After Dai Yuanxiang dispatched troops, Lu Chengqing felt a little uneasy. He wanted to use the way of practicing pens to force himself to calm down, but the effect was not satisfactory.

Just when Lu Chengqing threw away his writing brush in an atmosphere, the staff quickly rushed into the study and said, "Your envoy, I'm overjoyed, I'm overjoyed!"

Lu Chengqing said angrily: "Where does the joy come from?"

The staff laughed and said, "Master Dai, Captain Dai is back! They successfully defeated the rebels and captured hundreds of prisoners!"

Lu Chengqing heaved a sigh of relief, jumped up excitedly, and said, "I knew I would be able to win! Hmph, those mobs can only run amok in the countryside for a while, and the army will be wiped out as soon as they arrive! Let's go and see!"

Lu Chengqing was surrounded by a group of entourages like stars holding the moon and came to the city gate tower. Standing on the city gate tower and looking out, I saw a forest of swords and guns outside the city gate, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers held their heads high and their fighting spirit was high. Hundreds of skinny captives were tied into long strings with ropes, their heads downcast.

Dai Yuanxiang rode that passable war horse, and shouted at the man on the top of the wall: "What do you mean? I fought life and death, and finally came back from victory, yet I am not allowed to enter the city?"

He Zhi, a soldier of the defending Tang army, didn't know Dai Yuanxiang, and was yelled at by his own captain like a grandson, but they really didn't dare to fight back.As the governor of Mingzhou, or the direct son of Fan Yang's Lu family, and the son of Lu Chisong, who led the leadership of the Eastern Palace, no matter what their identities, they could not afford to offend Lu Chengqing.

But in the same way, they couldn't afford to offend Captain Zhechong of Mingzhou.In the army, a Zhechong captain wants to take care of a school lieutenant or ordinary soldier, and if he doesn't make you shit, you're done.

At this time, the guards and soldiers of the city were like mice in the bellows, suffering from the splint gas.Fortunately, Lu Chengqing is here. Seeing so many captives, he is very happy. This is a great achievement. As long as he has a clever pen and clears up the relationship, not only can the disaster of the Mingzhou rebellion be covered up, but the court may There are also many rewards!He excitedly called: "Captain Dai is back?"

Dai Yuanxiang arched his hands towards the city gate and said: "Thanks to the envoy Tolu, Lieutenant Ben led a large army to fight, and encountered the main force of the rebel army at the foot of Chuxiu Mountain. After a fierce battle, the rebel army was defeated and more than 300 people were captured. prisoners, including their leader, Liu Shishan!"

After Dai Yuanxiang finished speaking, he waved his hand, and several soldiers escorted a tall and thin young man in black to him.The young man's clothes were torn, his face was covered with blood, he was very embarrassed, but his head was still held high, and he looked at Lu Chengqing coldly.Lu Chengqing said happily: "Open the city gate and let General Dai bring the prisoners in!"

The school lieutenant guarding the city found that apart from Dai Yuanxiang, including his own soldiers, they were all unfamiliar faces.The captain guarding the city felt that something was wrong, and said cautiously: "Mr. Lu, be careful of fraud!"

Lu Chengqing waved his hand and said with a disapproving smile: "What kind of fraud can there be? Can so many captives still cheat? Open the city gate!"

The guard guard had no choice but to carry out the order.Amid heavy creaking sounds, the city gate slowly opened, and Dai Yuanxiang led his men to escort the prisoners in one file at a time.

Lu Chengqing danced with his hands and feet, and said incoherently: "Thank God, the ancestors bless you, this disaster has finally been settled, and this test has finally passed...Let's go, let's go and see that rebel leader together!"

Before the words fell, there was a sudden killing sound at the gate of the city, and the ropes binding the captives were broken like hell. The listless captives conjured up a dagger and rushed at the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate. The poor officers and soldiers did not know what happened. Something happened, and he fell into a pool of blood.The more than 1000 "Tang army soldiers" roared in unison: "Kill Tang dog, revenge!"

All the rebel soldiers poured into the city like a flood that broke a bank, and the city suddenly became chaotic!
The loss of the Mingzhou city gate directly caused Mingzhou city to be like a big girl with her clothes ripped off, letting everyone ravage her.Liu Shishan was already very brave, he took the lead, and all the rebel soldiers followed Liu Shishan into the city.

On June 29th in the sixth year of Wude, the city of Mingzhou was broken.

At the same time, Liu Shishan, who had great political foresight, set up an altar outside the Wanchun Palace of Xiaguo in Mingzhou to pay homage to Dou Jiande, and told the people in Shandong and Hebei that the reason for his rebellion was to avenge the death of King Xia. The general, the Turks in the north, connected with the former Ministry of King Xia, and at the same time contacted other forces that rebelled against Li and Tang, preparing to launch a larger-scale military operation against the Tang Dynasty.

Cui Yuanxun, the former general manager of Dou Jiande's Shenzhou, also immediately responded to Liu Shishan. Cui Yuanxun, who had abandoned his official position, secretly summoned more than a dozen dead men, hid them in a fruit and vegetable cart, and directly entered the camp of the Tunwei Army General Wang Xingmin in Liting Tunwei .Originally, Cui Yuanxun was planning to take the opportunity to burn Wang Xingmin's food and grass, or take the opportunity to poison and kill the soldiers of the Tang Army Tunwei Army.

Never thinking that man's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations, Tang Tunwei General Wang Xingmin took only a few dozen guards to the Huotou Army barracks to inspect the food provided by the Huotou Army to the soldiers.Cui Yuanxun was really kind, and he directly launched an attack, killed Wang Xingmin in the army, and created panic in the army.

The leaderless Tunwei Army was defeated by two thousand rebels led by Cao Zhan. Nearly half of the Tang Tunwei Army soldiers fled, and the rest surrendered.Xu Yuanlang, who had surrendered to the former Wang Shichong of the Li Tang Dynasty and was now worshiped as the governor of Yanzhou, also rebelled. Liu Shishan appointed Xu Yuanlang as the Marshal of Daxingtai.Liu Shishan transferred his letter to Zhao Wei and passed it on to the world. Most of Dou Jiande's old minions responded by killing officials. For a while, Yan, Yun, Chen, Qi, Yi, Luo, Cao, Dai and other eight prefectures responded.

When the news reached Chang'an, Li Yuan did not dare to be careless.On the one hand, he ordered Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, to send [-] soldiers from Guanzhong to attack Liu Shishan. Li Shijiyi attacked Liu Shishan from behind.At this time, the Turks also echoed Liu Shishan from afar, and marched to besiege Daizhou.

On July [-]th of the sixth year of Wude, Liu Shishan led his army to attack and capture Dingzhou, and captured Li Xuantong.Liu Shishan valued Li Xuantong's talent and wanted to appoint him as a general. Li Xuantong sighed and said: "I have received great favor from the imperial court. I was the commander-in-chief of a military mansion. I was isolated and helpless, so I was trapped in the court of thieves. Now I should maintain the integrity of my ministers and repay the country with loyalty. How can you suppress your ambition and accept the official position of a traitor?"

Liu Shishan took Li Xuantong into custody, but while the guards were not paying attention, Li Xuantong used his waistband to hang himself in the prison.

At this time, Liu Shishan connected Turks and Gao Kaidao to the north, echoed each other from afar, and the soldiers were very sharp.In August, Yimao and Liu Shishan attacked Jizhou (now Jizhou City, Hebei Province), an important town in Hebei Province, and assassinated Shi Quling.Gengshen, Tang Tunwei General Yi'an Wang Li Xiaochang sent troops to attack Liu Shishan.

Li Xiaochang fought Liu Shishan, Li Xiaochang lost to Liu Shishan, and then retreated to Xiangzhou!

Hebei Daoxingtai Shangshu Zuo Servant shot Li Shentong and led Xing, Xiang, Wei, Heng, Zhao and other states with a total of more than [-] soldiers and horses, intending to fight Liu Shishan decisively, but Liu Shishan keenly grasped Li Shentong's army. Opportunity, Liu Shishan's soldiers were few, he just leaned against the Raohe embankment, and also lined up a long line of individual soldiers to meet the Tang army.

At this time, it was catching up with the strong wind.Li Shentong took advantage of the wind to attack Liu Shishan. Unexpectedly, this guy was very unlucky. On the way of attack, the wind direction suddenly changed. It was the more than [-] elite cavalry of the Eastern Turks who suddenly broke out and defeated Li Shentong in one fell swoop. Li Shentong lost two-thirds of his army and horses.

(End of this chapter)