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

Chapter 891: The warriors are arrogant and the scholars are incompetent; the saints migrate and things become more corrupt

October of the fourth year of Jianzhong
In order to suppress Li Xilie in Huaixi, Li Shi had to mobilize the Jingyuan Army guarding the northwest to march south.

On October 3, Yao Lingyan, the governor of Jingyuan, led 5,000 soldiers to the suburbs of Chang'an. Because the Tang Dynasty practiced a conscription system, according to the rules, when the emperor sent soldiers and the army passed through the capital, there should be rewards.

Even if the emperor did not pass through the capital, he should send an envoy to deliver the reward to the army.

In this way, the soldiers will fight for you wholeheartedly and responsibly. After all, they earn the reward money, which is professional ethics.

Therefore, the Jingyuan Army stayed outside the city of Chang'an, waiting for the emperor's reward. If nothing unexpected happened, after receiving the reward, they would shout "Thank you, Saint!" three times under the leadership of the generals, and then obey the imperial edict, leave Guanzhong, and go south to quell the rebellion.

Li Shi had also led troops before and was well aware of the situation. He ordered Jingzhao Yin Wang Xu to go to the inner treasury to get silk and other things to reward the troops.

However, Wang Xu came from a noble family and did not understand the intricacies of the matter. He had never been part of the military system and thought that the current army was the same as the Han army in the book and could be used at will.

Therefore, he only sent people to reward them with simple tea and food, and strictly ordered Yao Lingyan to restrain the soldiers and not to harass the civilians, and to let them pass through the capital quickly and not stay in the capital for a long time.

Outside the north gate of Chang'an, five thousand Jingyuan troops were stationed, longing for the generous rewards given to them by their great emperor.

Even many soldiers were talking to their colleagues about receiving the rewards and planning to buy more land when the war was over and make a few better sets of clothes for their families when they returned home.

"Hahaha, old man Sun, you are so old, but you are still thinking about young ladies. Aren't you ashamed?" A group of soldiers surrounded an old soldier with half-white hair and teased him without any scruples.

The old soldier surnamed Sun has been in the army for more than 20 years. He has followed Guo Ziyi and Pugu Huai'en. He is considered a veteran in the army and is respected by the soldiers.

But from their crude language and the casual gestures they used when talking, it was clear that respect in the military was different from that in other places.

However, even though his language was rude, it did not prevent these soldiers from regarding Old Sun as their elder brother in the army. Even the commander-in-chief and the military commander might not be able to speak as well as he did.

These old soldiers who have served in the army for many years are the soul of the army.

Just as the soldiers were chatting happily, exchanging martial arts and discussing the next battle.

"The angel has come, and the emperor's reward has come."

The soldiers quickly lined up amid the general's shouts and curses, but when they saw the bland food and rice wine on the carriage, the scene suddenly became quiet.

"Why don't you come and collect your things? The prefect said that you should leave as soon as you get your things. Don't stay around here. The emperor is under the feet of you, a bunch of beggars, so you can't touch him."

Hearing the envoy's contemptuous words constantly coming out of his mouth, Yao Lingyan and other senior generals of the Jingyuan Army, who were originally very happy, broke out in cold sweats and kept hinting to the envoy to shut up.

However, under the watchful eyes of the public, they did not dare to have too much contact with the envoys, for fear that the soldiers would think that they were colluding with the court and insiders and oppressing their own army.

"Wow!!!"

In an instant, looking at the simple food on the field, the soldiers became furious and pointed at the angels on the stage and cursed them.

The messenger's face flushed when he heard these vulgar words, and he shouted angrily: "General Yao Jie, are these your soldiers? How can such soldiers win a battle?"

Yao Lingyan was speechless at this point. He knew that things were no longer under his control, and he looked at the messenger as if he were looking at a dead person.

Under the envoy's puzzled gaze, a dozen soldiers suddenly jumped out from the stage, led by Old Sun.

He beheaded the messenger with one stroke of his sword, and the men behind him killed all the people who were escorting the food.

I saw Old Sun standing on the stage, holding up a bloody sword and saying excitedly:

"Brothers, we left our parents, wives, and children to fight the enemy to the death, but now we don't have enough food to eat. How can we fight against the swords with our lives?"

"I heard that the country has two warehouses, Qionglin and Daying, with countless precious goods piled up. If we don't use these to make a living, where else can we go!" Under the instigation of Lao Sun and more than a dozen old soldiers, the entire military camp was excited.

Yao Lingyan came out sweating profusely and persuaded them: "There will be a generous reward when you reach the Eastern Capital Luoyang. Don't act rashly. This is not a way to survive."

But at this time the soldiers were already very angry and didn't care about anything else, they were determined to get back what belonged to them.

So the crowd used long spears to carry Yao Lingyan out, and took the generals in the army with them, forcing them to command them in battle with swords.

Yao Lingyan, who was thrown out of the camp, hurried back to Chang'an and reported the mutiny to the court.

Li Shi was shocked when he learned about it. He did not bother to blame Wang Xu. He hurriedly ordered a reward of twenty carts of cloth and sent Prince Pu and scholar Jiang Gongfu to appease them.

It was too late. When the two men reached the palace gate, the mutinous Jingyuan Army had already cut off the city gate, entered Chang'an City, and deployed their troops under the Danfeng Tower.

When Li Shi learned about it, he immediately fled with his harem concubines, princes, and other civil and military officials through another gate and moved to Fengtian.

After the emperor fled, Chang'an was leaderless, and the imperial guards were disbanded on the spot. Most of them even joined forces with the Jingyuan Army, looting the city and breaking into the capital's treasury, taking away all the property.

By the next day, the rebel soldiers, who had had their fun, had calmed down and were ready to think about a way out.

Hearing that the former commander of the Jingyuan Army, the old Taiwei Zhu Ci, was living in retirement in Chang'an, he forced his superior Yao Lingyan to go and welcome Zhu Ci as the commander-in-chief.

Soon, Zhu Ci, who was supported by the rebels and was already old, decided to enjoy himself for the last time. With the support of the rebels, he entered the Xuanzheng Hall and proclaimed himself emperor, named the country Daqin, and hunted down and killed members of the Li Tang royal family in Chang'an.

On the one hand, he wrote a letter to his younger brother Zhu Tao in Youzhou, asking him to lead his troops to Beijing so that the two brothers could create hegemony together.

On the one hand, he sent Jingyuan general Han Min to lead 3,000 cavalry to Fengtian, falsely claiming to welcome the emperor's carriage back to the capital, but in fact he was going to hunt down Li Shi.

Therefore, at this time, part of the imperial guards in the capital were fighting a decisive battle with Wei Bo in Huaizhou, part was in the northwest to guard against Tubo, and part was in Luoyang to suppress Guandong.

The rest were scattered throughout Guanzhong and could not be gathered in a short time.

So now there are only a few hundred people under the command of Fengtian Wei and a few hundred guards following Li Shi in Fengtian, and the imperial carriage is empty.

However, the rebel general Duan Xueshi believed that the rebels in Chang'an were gaining momentum now because the imperial court had failed to react. By the time the imperial court reacted and mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress them, they would all be doomed.

So he prepared to surrender and wanted the court to issue an amnesty, so he wanted to protect Li Shi and kill Zhu Ci, and gain credit with this head.

He then forged a document to recall Han Min's 3,000 cavalrymen.

When the cavalry returned to the capital, Duan Xueshi persuaded Zhu Ci to stop the rebellion, but Zhu Ci refused, so his subordinates killed him.

The rebels then sent troops to besiege Fengtian.

Fortunately, with the two days gained by Duan Xueshi, General Hun Yu of the Left Jinwu Guard was able to lead his troops into the city and hold out until help came.

Li Shi felt a little relieved after receiving Hun Yu's guard, but the rebels were outside the city day and night, so he sent people to Shuofang for help.

November

Li Huaiguang, the governor of Shuofang, and Li Sheng, the governor of the Shen Ce Army camp, arrived in Fengtian one after another.

When Zhu Ci saw that all the Tang troops had arrived, he knew that the situation was hopeless, so he led his troops back and retreated to Chang'an to garrison.

(End of this chapter)