Late Tang

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Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Zhuo and Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy Li Jun who died in the battle were brothers.Li Zhuo was originally a servant of the imperial court in Beijing, and he was transferred to Heyang Town only for this time to quell the chaos.Li Jing had a good impression of Li Zhuo, and the two greeted each other politely.

At this time, a person behind Li Zhuo caught Li Jing's attention.

The seats in the tent are divided into two rows, one row is the imperial court's Han people Zhuzhen Jieshuai and several important generals they brought.In the other column, there are five foreign armies of Dangxiang Tuoba, Tuyuhun Helian, Tiele Qibi, Zhaowu Anqing, and Zhaowu Sage.

Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Zhuo sat next to a general, and behind the general stood three people.

One of them stood a little in front, and seemed to have a higher position than the other two. This person had a big shaved head, which was very conspicuous in the tent.

Li Zhuo saw that Li Jing was staring at his subordinates, so he turned his head to look back, and seeing that Li Jing was looking at the monk, he smiled.

"General Zhuge, you haven't introduced your subordinates to Li Zhenguo yet," Li Zhuo said.

Heyang Jiedushi is located on the north bank of the Yellow River in Luoyang and south of Wangwu Taihang Mountain. Therefore, although it is north of the Yellow River, it actually belongs to the Henan Road.The territory of Heyang Jiedushi was very small, and he was stationed in the three cities of Heyang. In the early days, he had jurisdiction over Huaizhou, Weizhou, Zhengzhou, Ruzhou, and Shanzhou.Later, Zhengzhou belonged to the Yongping Army, Shanzhou belonged to the Jiedu Envoy of Shanguo, the defensive envoy of Jidu, the eastern capital of Ruzhou, and Weizhou belonged to the Jiedu Envoy of Weibo. Only Huaizhou remained in Heyang, and the three cities of Heyang were merged into one Mengzhou.

Up to now, there are only two states of Huai and Meng as Heyang Jiedu envoys.Li Zhuo served as the Jiedu envoy of Heyang and concurrently served as the governor of Mengzhou. This Zhuge general named Zhuge Shuang is currently the governor of Huaizhou.Speaking of Zhuge Shuang, his experience is also very legendary.

In his early years, Zhuge Shuang used to be a low-level official of Uncle Wu in Bochang County, Qingzhou. He was scolded by the county captain for some reason, abandoned his official position, and became a beggar.In the ninth year of Xiantong, Pang Xun rebelled, and Zhuge Shuang defected to the rebel army, and his military achievements reached the small school.After Pang Xun's defeat, Zhuge Shuang reacted quickly, and immediately surrendered to the court with Sizhou defender Yang Qun and led more than a hundred people to surrender to the court, and was appointed as the defense envoy of Ruzhou.This year, he was just transferred to Huaizhou governor, and this time he led his troops to send troops to Hedong with Li Zhuo.

The fourth-rank official of the governor of Huaizhou is not small, but compared with Li Jing who is recruiting deputy envoys, Qi Guogong, and the provincial envoy, he is nothing.Seeing that Li Jing was interested in the monk behind him, he quickly introduced him.

Introduced by Zhuge Shuang, the bald man turned out to be a monk.His name is Li Hanzhi, and Hanzhi is not his real name, but his dharma name when he became a monk. After calling him for a long time, he abandoned his real name and called him Hanzhi's dharma name directly.Jie Li Hanzhi himself introduced that his family was originally the home of a small landlord in Xiangcheng, Chenzhou. From a young age, Li Hanzhi was extremely strong and physically strong.When he was young, his father asked him to study literature, but he failed.Later, due to a catastrophe in his hometown, his family was destroyed.He became a monk, but when Li Hanzhi became a monk, he couldn't keep the rules and regulations. He was a rascal, and he didn't abstain from drinking and meat.As a result, in the surrounding area, because of their bad reputation, they often sneaked around. As a result, after going down the mountain, they didn't get a drop of rice from morning till night.He was so angry that he threw his bowl on the ground and destroyed the monk's clothes.It happened that when Zhuge Shuang first arrived in Huaizhou, he recruited soldiers and horses, so he joined Zhuge Shuang.

Although Li Hanzhi was a monk, he was extremely brave and powerful, so he soon became Zhuge Shuang's captain.Right now, all of Zhuge Shuang's subordinates will be serving.

Hearing Li Hanzhi's fame and his status as a monk, Li Jing finally found out the information about Li Hanzhi in the history books of later generations from his memory.Legend has it that this Li Han was born with great strength, and when he fights with others, hitting the left cheek can make the right cheek bleed.After joining the army, every time he was sent to suppress bandits, there was no stronghold that could not be broken.

However, in history, Li Hanzhi first defected to Zhuge Shuang's men, and then defected to Huang Chao.Later, he went south with Huang Chao, but was defeated by Gao Pian's general Zhang Lin, and he surrendered Gao Pian with Bi Shiduo and others.He served as the governor of Guangzhou. After that, Gwangju was attacked by Qin Zongquan, one of the three murderous kings in the late Tang Dynasty.Later, Zhuge Shuang ordered Li Hanzhi to stay behind as Henan Yin and Dongdu.At this time, Li Keyong, the Jiedu envoy of Hedong, fell out with Zhu Quanzhong, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu, and married Li Hanzhi.Later, after Zhuge Shuang's death, his son succeeded him as commander-in-chief, and Li Hanzhi competed with other generals in Heyang for the position. After being defeated, he defected to Li Keyong.After defecting to Li Keyong for several years, Li Hanzhi betrayed Li Keyong and switched to Zhu Wen.

The history of Li Hanzhi can be said to be a history of sloppy walls. During his life, he kept changing families and never had the so-called loyalty.He has defected to Zhuge Shuang, Huang Chao, Gao Pian, Zhuge Shuang, Li Keyong, and Zhu Wen successively. In his 58 years of life, he has changed his family six times.If you count his experience of first learning Confucianism and then entering Buddhism when he was young, Li Hanzhi's life is indeed quite legendary.

However, Li Jing is not interested in such a rebellious boy who is naturally rebellious. What he is interested in is the two armored young generals behind Li Hanzhi.At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he is very handsome and handsome, with a beautiful appearance, standing there, with a dignified appearance and a heroic look.The other one was in his twenties, but he was quite burly and sturdy, with a hulking waist, seven feet tall, black face and wide mouth.The two stood there, the contrast was too strong.

Seeing these two people, Li Jing immediately remembered the two young generals under Li Hanzhi in the early days recorded in the history books.One is Fu Cun and the other is Yang Shihou.Fu Cun is Li Cunshen, one of Li Keyong's later Thirteen Taibao.Fu Cunshen's father, Fu Chu, used to be a general of the Chenzhou Army of the Zhongwu Army, but when Fu Cun was young, his family was in decline.But even so, the ancestors of the Fu family also had generals, such as Fu Dunmin, the Jiedu envoy in the early Tang Dynasty, Fu Lingqi, the king of Langya County, and Fu Lin, the general of Fuguo and the king of Yiyang County.These are the ancestors of the Fu family.

When Fu Cunshen was a teenager, he had a heroic personality and emphasized chivalry; he was also resourceful and resourceful, and liked to talk about the art of war.Later, he joined Li Hanzhi's subordinates. According to historical records, when Li Hanzhi defected to Zhuge Shuang for the second time, Fu Cunshen followed him to Heyang. After Zhuge Shuang died, Li Hanzhi failed in the battle with the Heyang generals. His subordinates ran away one after another. Li Cunshen followed Li Hanzhi to defect to Li Keyong, and stayed in Hedong all the time. Later, Li Keyong liked him and became one of Li Keyong's thirteen eunuchs.

Fu Cunshen has made great military exploits throughout his life. Zhu Wen once led 30 to attack Li Keyong's Zhen and Ding prefectures.At that time, Fu Cunshen, who was stationed in nearby Zhaozhou, led his subordinates Shi Jiantang, Li Sigong and 800 people to rescue him.He first went to arrest the horse herders for the Liang army, captured hundreds of people and executed them all, but deliberately let a dozen of them escape.Those who were lucky enough to save their lives returned to the village, still in shock, and shouted that the main force of the Jin army had already overwhelmed the formation, which made Liang soldiers panic.The next day, Fu Cunshen assaulted Liang Jun's camp with 600 cavalry in disguise, killed the opponent's deputy general He Delun, and set fire to Liang Jun's Dazhai before retreating.Zhu Wen saw that his side suffered numerous losses and the situation was in chaos, so he pulled out the stronghold immediately and fled overnight. He was killed by his son shortly after he returned to Luoyang after healed his illness.

He once led an army of 30 with Li Siyuan to Youzhou and defeated the [-] Khitan soldiers who besieged Youzhou.

Later, the Hedong rebel general Zhang Wenli murdered Jiedu envoy Wang Rong, and the Chengde army in Zhenzhou ceded land to stand on its own. Li Sizhao and Li Cunjin in the [-]th Taibao fought successively but were killed one after another.Fu Cunshen went to the city in the dark, captured and killed the rebel generals, and put down the rebellion.

After Fu Cunshen's death, he presented it to the King of Qin, but the most powerful thing is that Fu Cunshen's family of three generations and three dynasties produced two kings and three queens and generals. The Fu family was more married than the Song Dynasty's clan. In the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, the Fu family also developed to its heyday.

Each of the nine sons held important positions in the imperial court, and the fourth son, Wei Wang Fu Yanqing, was especially famous.Fu Yanqing, named king of Wei, great general, was able to ride and shoot at the age of 13, and served as the assassin of Jizhou at the age of 25. He challenged the king's capital in Dingzhou, defeated the Liao soldiers in Jiashan, repelled the Liao soldiers who besieged Yangcheng, and was a tired official. Envoys, do obeisance to the Taifu, and add the title of Taishi.Among them, there are three noble women who are Empress Zhou Shizong, Empress Gong, and Empress Taizong of Song Dynasty. Among them, Empress Fu of Emperor Gong once listened to politics behind the curtain.

The Fu family was famous all over the world in the Five Dynasties, especially in the later period of the Five Dynasties.

As for Yang Shihou, he was also a general of Houliang. It can be said that in the later period of Houliang, Yang Shihou had already become the pillar of Houliang. Once Yang Shihou died, Houliang would also destroy the country.Yang Shihou also defected to Li Hanzhi in his early years. Later, when Li Hanzhi was defeated, he went to Li Keyong, and Li Keyong asked Li Hanzhi for troops.

Li Hanzhi sent more than 100 soldiers including Fu Cunshen and Yang Shihou, who were not well-known, to Li Keyong. Fu Cunshen returned to Jin from then on, but Yang Shihou was very satisfied with this behavior and fled to Zhuhai Wen's men.Since then, he has become a general of the back beam all the way.

In the Five Dynasties, there was an extremely elite army named Yinqiang Efficiency Festival, which was the most effective army in the Five Dynasties. After Yang Shihou died, the Yinqiang Jiaojie Army transferred to the Later Tang Dynasty.As a result, Hou Liang lost Hebei, and was subsequently destroyed by the Later Tang Dynasty.

With excitement, Li Jing tried his best to maintain a calm tone, and said casually to the two behind Li Hanzhi: "These two are handsome and tough, they are very interesting to watch, I wonder if they have any jobs?"

Zhuge Shuang glanced back and saw that Li Jing was asking about two small schools, so he signaled Li Hanzhi with his eyes.

"These two are the leaders of my personal army. One is Fu Cun and the other is Yang Shihou. They are skilled in martial arts." Li Hanzhi replied.

Li Jing looked at the two of them carefully, and they were indeed the rumored two generals.Li Hanzhi's vision was too wrong, but the two treasures in his hand were given to others in the end, making them the two most brave generals in Houliang and Houtang.Fu Cunshen was granted the title of King of Qin in the Later Tang Dynasty, and Yang Shihou was awarded the title of King Ye in the Later Tang Dynasty. These are famous generals of the Five Dynasties.

"These two young generals look very tough. I like them very much. I wonder if General Zhuge and Lieutenant Li can give up their love and transfer the two young generals to me?" Li Jing said with a light smile.

Zhuge Shuang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Li Jing to make such a request.

"I don't want it for nothing, how about I give General Zhuge a thousand-mile horse in exchange?" Li Jing said with a light smile, as if joking.

Zhuge Shuang heard that two of his soldiers could be exchanged for two first-class war horses, and his heart was already tempted.He didn't know much about Li Hanzhi's two soldiers, but he felt that it was really worth it to exchange for a horse for the two soldiers.

Li Hanzhi hesitated a little, Fu Cun fought bravely with Yang Shihou, otherwise he would not be the leader of his personal army.It can be seen that the boss has already agreed, and it is not easy to refuse.One was his boss, and the other was Li Jing, whom he couldn't offend, so he had no choice but to agree.

"Fu Cun, Yang Shihou, don't hesitate to go over and thank Li Shuai. You will have a bright future with Li Shuai in the future." Zhuge Shuang was only thinking about the horse that Li Jing had promised, and hurriedly urged them to say.

When Fu Shen and Yang Shihou heard that Zhuge Shuang and Li Hanzhi sold them for the price of one horse, they both felt angry, but there was nothing they could do.In the end, the younger Fu Cun took the initiative to bow to Li Jing, then turned around and bowed to Li Hanzhi and Zhuge Shuang, and it was regarded as a change of court.

The other generals didn't care about this little episode, but felt that Zhuge Shuang had made a fortune.A war horse that travels thousands of miles a day is at least worth a thousand gold. Compared with two small soldiers, it is worth it no matter what.

Among the full tent, only Li Jing smiled happily.Two famous generals, what level can a general be crowned king.Now that one horse has been exchanged for two famous generals, it is really profitable.

Because of this matter, Li Jing has been a little absent-minded in the tent afterwards.After the meeting was over, Li Jing hurried back to the barracks with Fu Cun and Yang Shihou, and immediately asked Zhao Jiang to pick one of his horses and send it to Zhuge Shuang, so that he would regret it.

"Fu Cun, Yang Shihou, do you have words?"

Both of them shook their heads, standing in front of Fu Cun and Yang Shihou, who were only the leaders of a small personal army, who were famous all over the world and were posthumously regarded as the best generals of the young generation in the Tang Dynasty. Very stiff.They didn't know why Li Jing was willing to exchange them for a thousand-mile horse after they met.

Li Jing pondered, and then slowly said: "Why don't I take a table character for you, Fu Cun, the table character Cunshen, and Shihou's table character Tianxiong, what do you think?" In history, Fu Cun used to be called Li Cunshen, and Yang Shihou once served as the military governor of the Tianxiong Army, and became a trembling courtier who made the emperor afraid of Houliang.

"Thank you, Marshal, for the word!" Both of them were very satisfied with the word.

Li Jing asked them what weapons they used. Fu Cun used to use a two-handed five-foot sword, while Yang Shihou used to use a long spear.Li Jing asked someone to fetch from his collection a good two-handed sword Dragon King Poshanjian and a good long spear zhanger red gun for the two of them.And one person was given a set of high-grade mountain armor.However, based on the lessons learned by Li Cunxiao and others last time, Li Jing did not directly promote the two to lead the army this time.

"The commander-in-chief intends to accept the two of you as disciples. I wonder if you two are willing?" You can't let them lead soldiers directly, but you can't just let them be a small soldier.Such generals must be recruited, so Li Jing proposed to accept them as disciples.

Both of them were a little overjoyed, and naturally there was no reason to object, so they worshiped Li Jing as their teacher when they were a little dizzy.

In this way, Yang Shihou became Shi's fifth disciple, and Fu Cunshen ranked sixth.Li Jing called Li Cunxiao and four of them, and they were very happy to receive the gift from the two junior brothers, especially Li Cunxiao, now he got rid of his identity as the youngest and became the fourth brother.

ps: There was a mistake about Li Jun being the Jiedu envoy of the Yicheng Army earlier, and Li Jun was the Jiedu envoy of Zhaoyi.It was the Zhaoyi Army that was wiped out, and Li Zhong was the governor of the Yicheng Army. (To be continued.)