A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 503: According to the war in Yizhou, Shu County, Li Xiong moved to Luoyang and changed

Besides, Li Te defeated Luo Shang, the governor of Yizhou, rejected him in Chengdu, and occupied Guanghan County.

Li Te began to call himself Envoy Chijie, Grand Governor, and General Zhenbei.

Appointed his eldest son Li Shi as General Wuwei, his second son Li Dang as General of the Zhenjun Army, and his youngest son Li Xiong as former General;
His brother-in-law Li Han was the captain of the Xiyi School, and Li Han's son Li Guoli and other generals were promoted.

With Yan Shi as the mastermind, he began to integrate the forces within his family.

Then Li Te began to imitate Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty and made a three-part agreement with the people of Shu. He extended favors, canceled labor, provided relief and help the people, treated the wise with courtesy and respect, promoted people from poor families, and rectified the army and government affairs to make them serious and orderly.

With a series of actions, Li Te's army quickly became regularized and gradually transformed from miscellaneous soldiers to regular soldiers. This also made Luo Shang's resistance more and more difficult, and he lost battles one after another.

Luo Shang had no choice but to set up camp along the Pi River, with a front line of 700 miles, to confront Li Te.

The first year of Tai'an (the second year of Yongning)
At the beginning of the new year, Sima Zhong issued an edict to change the name of this year to "Taian", which means peace and prosperity this year.

In Sima Zhong's view, after Sima Lun was put down last year, although Sima Juan became a bit domineering, he enjoyed himself in Prince Qi's Mansion all day long and had no intention of usurping his throne.

Except for some local unrest in the remote Chengdu country, there were no major problems in other places.

In addition, now that the position of crown prince has been decided, Queen Sheep also has a quiet temperament, unlike Jia Nanfeng who wants to find trouble for herself.

It can be said to be a scene of vigorous vitality and all things competing.

Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long, and a piece of news touched the heartstrings of his uncles and brothers again.

March
The emperor's grandson Sima Shang died of illness when he was only fifteen years old.

Sima Zhong was very sad and gave him the posthumous title "Chong", but he didn't know whether he was sad that his grandson died early, he was sad that he had no descendants, or he was sad that his tragic fate was about to start to change.

May
Military reports came from Yizhou that the rebel Li Te defeated the imperial reinforcements, then occupied Zitong and Jiameng, and captured Zitong County. The Prime Minister of Brazil County, Maozhi, led Brazil County to surrender to Li Te.

The important officials in the imperial court were discussing it non-stop.

It turns out that since Li Te captured Guanghan, Luo Shang asked for help from everywhere.

Nanyi captain Li Yi also sent 5,000 Ningzhou soldiers to support him. Together with Zhang Gui, the supervisor sent by Luo Shang, a total of three armies were gathered to attack Li Te.

Among them, Sima Yong sent the governor Ya Bo and the Guanghan prefect Zhang Zheng to lead troops to station in Zitong to intimidate Li Te's army.

Li Te sent his second son, General Li Dang, to fight against Yabo, and he personally led troops and horses to fight against Zhang Gui.

In just one month, Li Dang attacked Ya Bo and Zhang Zheng one after another. Most of their tribesmen surrendered to Li Dang. Ya Bo fled and Zhang Zheng died.

Instead, Li Dang occupied Zitong County and forced the surrender of Brazil County.

Li Te on the other side also defeated Zhang Gui's army, and Zhang Gui fled with the remaining soldiers.

Then, Li Te stayed in Biqiao to defend Luo Shang and other troops, and defeated Luo Shang's troops who wanted to attack while Li Te's main force was away.

Qian Shuo, who was appointed by Li Te as the governor of Deyang, also received good news of conquering the city and occupying land as far as Dianjiang in Bajun.

After this war, most of the entire north and east of Yizhou were occupied by Li Te.

Not only that, Li Te also successively defeated the reinforcements sent by Xu Xiong, the governor of Jinliang Prefecture, and Luo Shang's navy troops, and took the opportunity to occupy Chengdu.

In the end, Luo Shang retreated to the big city and waited for reinforcements. The prefect of Shu County led the soldiers and civilians of the small city to surrender.

Li Te lacked the siege skills to attack the big city, so he could only sigh at the sight of the city, and sent Li Dang to station on the west bank of the river to cut off all roads to the big city where Luo Shang was.

After completely forcing Luo Shang into the isolated city, Li Te, surrounded by generals, took over the military affairs, generals, and governors of Liang Yizhou and Liang Yizhou. He changed the reign name to Jianchu and pardoned the territory under his jurisdiction. of sinners.

Although Li Te followed Yan Shi's advice and implemented a lot of good governance in order to win the hearts of the people.

However, Li Te's behavior inside and outside Chengdu was too brutal and almost destroyed Chengdu. In addition, most of his troops were refugees and there was no military discipline to speak of.

This made the people around Shu County hate him very much. In addition, Li Te was from outside the state and could not really be trusted by the people of Shu. Now that Li Te was powerful, the Shu people felt fear and hatred.

Therefore, the people in each village connected their villages with each other and built forts to support each other, which were called "earth fortresses".

Li Te had to send people to appease them many times, and this made the castles feel relieved and expressed their willingness to surrender to him.

October
The Gonggun princes of the imperial court finally made a specific plan to attack Li Te, and sent Zongdai, the governor of Jingzhou, and Sun Fu, the prefect of Jianping, to lead 30,000 naval troops to rescue Luo Shang and pacify Li Te.

The second year of Tai'an
New Year
Thirty thousand Jin troops came from Badong County. Zongdai approached Deyang with Sun Fu, the prefect of Jianping, as the vanguard.

Li Te had no choice but to send Li Dang, Li Huang, and Ren Zang to jointly resist Zong Dai and Sun Fu, and he himself besieged Luoshang in the big city.

February
At the suggestion of Ren Rui, a military officer in Yizhou, Luo Shang decided to contact the earthen forts in various places in Shu County to attack them from both inside and outside.

Luo Shang asked Ren Rui to slip down from the city on a rope at night and go to various castles to announce his will and agreed to jointly attack Li Te on February 10th.

Ren Rui spent the night wandering among several earthen forts, trying to explain the advantages and disadvantages to them, and emphasized the cruelty of Li Te's robbery of Chengdu.

The leaders of each castle agreed to send troops together with Luo Shang to defeat Li Te, a foreigner.

However, on the way back to the city, he was discovered by soldiers under Li Te's command. Ren Rui was so anxious that he came to his senses and said that he was here to surrender.

The soldiers took Ren Rui to see Li Te, and Li Te did not make things difficult for him and asked him how the situation in the city was.

Ren Rui lied to him and said: "The food reserves are about to be used up, and only some money and cloth are left. It is precisely because of this that I saw that Luo Shang was bound to be defeated, so I defected to the general."

Li Te was very happy, thinking that it would be easy to break through the city and capture Luo Shang alive.

Ren Rui took the opportunity to propose that he had been in the big city for many days and had never had time to see his family, and requested to leave the camp to visit his mother.

Li Te agreed, so Ren Rui left Chengdu and reported the results to Luo Shang.

February
Luo Shang suddenly opened the city gate and all the soldiers in the city came out. Li Te was unprepared and had to resist reluctantly and quickly mobilized troops from other places to come for reinforcements.

At this time, the militiamen from various earthen forts also abided by their agreement and attacked Li together with Luo Shang's army. After fighting for two days and two nights, Li Te was defeated because most of his troops were in Deyang and there were few soldiers around him. He gathered the remaining troops and prepared to retreat to Xinfan.

Luo Shang saw that the soldiers were tired and no longer prepared to pursue them, so he ordered a retreat.

At this time, Li Te listened to the advice of his generals and actually led the exhausted army to attack again.

At first Luo Shang was indeed unexpected and suffered repeated defeats, but soon Luo Shang's follow-up troops arrived and surrounded Li Te's army.

Li Te suffered a disastrous defeat. He himself was beheaded by Luo Shang. All of his generals were also in the middle of the battle, and most of them were trapped in the formation. The remaining defeated generals who escaped had to retreat to Chizu and wait for Li Dang, Li Te's son, to take over.

After Luo Shang killed Li Te, he quickly gave Li Te's head to Zong Dai.

Zong Dai immediately asked someone to hold Li Te's head and pass it on to Li Dang's army in Deyang.

When Li Dang saw Li Te's head for the first time, he was so sad that he ignored the troops around him and went into battle alone, resulting in his death in the battle.

Seeing the death of two leaders in succession, the soldiers under Li Dang lost their morale. Sun Fu found an opportunity and attacked Deyang in one fell swoop.

His successor Li Liu was very frightened when he saw that his father and brother were dead. In the end, not only did he not think about revenge, but on the persuasion of his brother-in-law Li Han, he surrendered to Sun Fu, the vanguard of Jingzhou soldiers and the prefect of Jianping County, in May.

However, his younger brother Li Xiong firmly refused to surrender. Instead, he led his army to attack Sun Fu's army alone and killed him heavily.

It happened that Zong Dai, the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Army and the governor of Jingzhou, died of illness in Dianjiang. Without the commander-in-chief, the Jingzhou troops had to return to Jingzhou.

June
Li Xiong captured Picheng
September
After Li Liu died of illness, Li Xiong claimed to be the governor, general, and shepherd of Yizhou, and lived in Picheng.

In the same month, Luo Shang sent people to attack Li Xiong, but was defeated by him. Li Xiong personally led an army to attack Chengdu at night. The small city of Chengdu was destroyed, and Luo Shang once again retreated to the big city.

In order not to repeat the same mistake, Li Xiong sent general Li Xiang to attack Jianwei and cut off Luo Shang's grain transportation route.

December

Luo Shang's army, which was defending the city, was already very short of food, and Li Xiong wanted to avenge his father, so he attacked in a hurry.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Luo Shang left only Yamen General Luo Te and his troops to defend the city. He quietly abandoned the city under the cover of night and fled to Jiangyang County.

On the next day, Luo Te surrendered at Kaicheng, and then Li Xiong captured Chengdu.

From then on, half of Yizhou and half of Liangzhou to the north of Shu were in the hands of Li Xiong. However, Li Xiong ran out of supplies and had to temporarily stop the expedition and lead his troops to eat in the land of Xi and dig wild taro to eat. .

The people in various earth forts in Shu County were afraid of Li Xiong's revenge, so they fled eastward to Jiangyang and southward into Qijun.

Luo Shang, who fled to Jiangyang County, was thinking that the court would send reinforcements again. He sent several letters asking for help, but they all fell silent and there was no news.

This is because the Luoyang court today is too busy taking care of itself and has no energy to take care of Yizhou affairs.

in December last year
Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, was bewitched by Li Han, a lieutenant of the Yi Army who fled to Chang'an after being wanted by Sima Juan because of his defeat in the battle for the throne.

He submitted a petition to Luoyang, detailing various crimes against King Sima Ji of Qi, and threatened to lead one hundred thousand troops to meet in Luoyang with King Sima Ying of Chengdu, King Sima Xin of Xinye, and King Sima Gai of Fanyang to judge his crimes.

After Sima Yong's confession was received, Sima Jiong was very frightened and gathered his officials to discuss countermeasures. Unexpectedly, Situ Wangrong and Sikong Donghai King Sima Yue persuaded Sima Jiong to hand over his authority and respect courtesy, so as to avoid this disaster.

He was reprimanded by Sima Juan, and therefore lost the hearts of all his ministers.

This allowed Sima Yi, the king of Changsha in Luo, to see an opportunity. He claimed that he had received the secret agreement from the kings, led his troops into the palace, and then sent troops to attack Sima Jiong's mansion.

Soon, the palace guards were defeated by Sima Yi and successfully captured the emperor.

Now Sima Yi followed Sima Zhong's order to kill Sima Jiong.

At this time, Sima Jiong asked Huang Menling to steal the flag marked Zouyu from the palace and shouted loudly:
"The king of Changsha pretended to entrust him with an imperial edict."

Sima Yi showed the emperor Sima Zhong and retorted:
"Da Sima rebelled, and those who helped him will be punished by the five tribes."

That night, there was a great battle in the city, with flying arrows as dense as rain, and fire blazing into the sky.

And Sima Zhong was held hostage by Sima Yi and carried to the east gate as a barrier.

The night was dark, and Sergeant Sima Juan below the city could not clearly see the situation on the city, so many flying arrows hit Sima Zhong's throne, and the officials were busy putting out the fire. The dead lay one on top of the other.

As the war progressed, Sima Juan, who had not captured the emperor, became increasingly depressed.

On the third day, Sima Jiong was finally defeated and was captured alive by Sima Yi and brought to the main hall.

Sima Zhong thought that when he was in power, he only indulged in wine and sex without any disobedience to him, so he felt pity and wanted to keep him alive.

But when Sima Yi saw this, he didn't give Sima Zhong a chance to speak. He shouted at his men to pull him out and behead him quickly. Finally, he was beheaded outside Changhemen and his head was patrolled by the six armies.

More than 2,000 of Sima Jiong's party members were killed, and all three tribes were wiped out.

His sons Sima Chao, King of Huailing, Sima Bing, King of Le'an, and Sima Ying, King of Jiyang, were all imprisoned in Jinyong City.

Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, became the new powerful official in Luoyang.

But Sima Yi killed Sima Juan and took over, which was extremely inconsistent with the expectations of another person, Sima Yong, the king of Hejian.

As the first rebel, Sima Yong originally thought that Sima Yi's troops were weak while Sima Jiong's troops were strong, and hoped that Sima Yi could be captured by Sima Jiong.

Then, using Sima Yi as an excuse, he announced that all parties in the world would jointly attack Sima Ji, thus deposing the cowardly Sima Zhong, and establishing Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, as the emperor and himself as prime minister.

At that time, he will be able to act arbitrarily on the affairs of the world and regain the prosperity he had during the time of Emperor Wu.

As a result, Sima Yi was weak and killed Sima Jiong, which made Sima Yong extremely dissatisfied. He then contacted Sima Ying in Yecheng and attacked Luoyang together.

The three kings, with a total of hundreds of thousands of troops, launched a fierce fighting north of Luoyang for several months.

It lasted until the third year of Tai'an, which is why the reinforcements Luo Shang expected came to nothing.

(End of this chapter)