Chapter 179: The situation in Hebei is turning directly

Dai Yuanxiang became the governor of Beizhou since the fourth year of Wude. Later, the Tang Dynasty moved more than 30,000 Beizhou out and demoted the former Beizhou from Zhongzhou to Xiazhou. Dai Yuanxiang, the fourth-ranking governor of Beizhou, decreased by one level. Perhaps in order to take care of Dai Yuanxiang's emotions, Dai Yuanxiang was transferred from the position of Beizhou to the governor of Mingzhou to the commander of Zhechong.

The Zhechong Commander of Shangzhou was a fourth-rank official position, and Dai Yuanxiang was a transfer at the same level. The key point is that although the Zhechong Commander and the governor of the state were at the same level, the civil servants in charge of civil affairs in a state were much greater than those of the Zhechong Commander of Zhongzhou. There were five regiments under the Zhechong Prefecture of Zhongzhou, each regiment of two hundred people, totaling one thousand soldiers. However, the Tang Dynasty was particularly important to military affairs. Even if he wanted to embezzle, the military supplies and armor were all fixed rules, and it was less and clear at a glance. Dai Yuanxiang did not dare to reach out.

When he just left Mingzhou City, Dai Yuanxiang felt something was wrong. Because he had not met the people along the way.

It is now the hot day in June, and it is the most normal thing for the people to hide under the shade of trees to cool off or set up nets by the river to catch fish. It is not seen by normal people, which makes Dai Yuanxiang feel something is wrong.

The Liu Heita Rebellion in history hit the Tang Dynasty very hard, especially in "Cambridge History of Qin and Han Dynasties" to describe Liu Heita's power as "the most serious new challenge to the Tang Dynasty regime." The main reason is that Li Yuan was too afraid of Dou Jiande. Even if Chen Ying had reminded Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng listened to Chen Ying's words and pleaded with Li Yuan many times to not kill Dou Jiande. However, Li Yuan claimed to be alone and widowed because Dou Jiande was arbitrarily accused of being alone and not killing it is not enough to deter the unjustified ministers. He resolutely arrested Dou Jiande on false charges, causing Dou Jiande to be executed.

Although Li Yuan was actually not at ease when he killed Dou Jiande. Not only did he agree to Chen Ying's request, he transferred more than 30,000 young and strong people from Hebei, and then migrated tens of thousands of households. At the same time, he also imposed heavy taxes on Hebei. Li Yuan's original intention was to drain all the wealth of Hebei. In this way, Hebei people who had no money, no food, no iron could not rebel.

However, it is precisely because of this that it laid the root of disaster for the Hebei Rebellion.

Don’t worry about being weak, but worry about being uneven.

People in Hebei were given heavy taxes by the court, so they naturally had complaints. In particular, most of the elite officers under Dou Jiande were punished for various crimes and were punished for labor, which made the Xia army soldiers complain and resentful. As Liu Shishan rescued these Xia army officers, when these generals who were holding their birds' breath met Liu Shishan, perhaps the moment they saw Liu Shishan, they knew what was going to happen.

When he learned that Liu Shishan Chuxiu Mountain Village was set up to pay tribute to Dou Jiande's spirit. Gao Yuan, a general under the former Gao Yaxian, heard in Guangping County that Liu Shishan had rebelled. In order to show his determination, Gao Yuan slaughtered his plowing ox on the spot, summoned a group of Hebei heroes to talk about drinking and make a big plan together. More than 100 people were accumulated at that time. So Gao Yuan took more than 100 people to Liu Shishan!

Then, Wang Fuchun, the son of Wang Xiaohu, the general under Dou Jiande, Cao Zhan and Dong Kun, who were lucky enough to die, all followed the troops to capture Liu Shishan.

In just three days, Liu Shishan had more than 8,000 troops.

Just when Liu Shishan, Wang Fuchun, Cao Zhan, Dong Kun, Gao Yuan and others were discussing how to destroy Mingzhou City, they suddenly heard Dai Yuanxiang lead more than a thousand troops to quell the rebellion.

In fact, if any of the Xia army's generals were picked up, they could be defeated by Dai Yuanxiang, who was not good at military affairs, without knowing how to behave in the same number of people. With the intention of making plans, Liu Shishan set up a game, and Dai Yuanxiang led more than a thousand Tang army soldiers under his command and inserted into Liu Shishan's ambush circle.

With the help of the hazy sky, Dai Yuanxiang suddenly felt something was wrong. He felt a faint figure shaking in the woods outside the camp. He rubbed his eyes and finally saw clearly that thousands of people emerged from the trees, with javelins as dense as reeds, long spears as forests, and thousands of people undressed in front of the formation holding vine shields.

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

Dai Yuanxiang struggled for only a long time before choosing to put down his weapons 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, and all the soldiers in the army die, there is no other way.

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

Just as Lu Chengqing threw away his brush in an atmosphere, the staff rushed into the study and said, "Eunuch, please be very happy, please be very happy!"

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

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

Lu Chengqing felt relieved and jumped up excitedly, saying, "I knew I would definitely win! Humph, those mobs could only rampant in the countryside for a while, and the army was destroyed as soon as it arrived! Let's go and take a look!"

A group of followers hugged Lu Chengqing like stars and came to the city gate tower. Standing on the city gate tower and looking out, they saw that there were swords and guns outside the city gate, with more than a thousand officers and soldiers holding their heads and chests high and fighting spirit. Hundreds of thin prisoners were tied into long strings by ropes, and they were dejected.

Dai Yuanxiang, with the decent war horse, shouted at the top of the city: "What do you mean? I beat you to death and finally returned to victory, but I didn't let me enter the city?"

The soldiers of the Tang army defending army did not know Dai Yuanxiang, and were yelled by their own chief lieutenant to be like a grandson. They really dared not retort. As the governor of Mingzhou and the legitimate son of the Lu family in Fanyang, the Eastern Palace of the dynasty led the son of Lu Chisong. No matter which identity they had, they could not afford to offend Lu Chengqing.

But in the same way, they can't afford to attack the Zhechong Commander in Mingzhou. In the army, a Zhechong Commander wanted to deal with a lieutenant or ordinary soldier. If you don't make you shit, you'll be clean.

The soldiers guarding the city were simply rats in the bellows at this time, and they were full of splints. Fortunately, Lu Chengqing came, and he was happy to see so many prisoners. This is a great achievement. As long as he writes a brilliant idea and clears his relationship, he can not only cover up the disaster of the Mingzhou rebellion, but perhaps the court will also have a lot of rewards! He shouted excitedly: "Is the Duwei Dai back?"

Dai Yuanxiang bowed to the city gate tower and said, "The blessing of the envoy, Tolu, led a large army to fight. He encountered the main force of the rebels at the foot of Chuxiu Mountain. After a fierce battle, he defeated the rebels and captured more than 300 prisoners, including their leader, Liu Shishan!"

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

The lieutenant guarding the city found that except for Dai Yuanxiang, his personal soldiers, were all innocent. The lieutenant guarding the city felt something was wrong and said cautiously: "Envoy Lu, be careful of fraud!"

Lu Chengqing waved his hand and smiled disapprovingly: "What can be done? Can so many prisoners still commit fraud? Open the city gate!"

The city guard had no choice but to execute the order. With a heavy creaking sound, the city gate slowly opened, and Dai Yuanxiang led the prisoners into the crowd.

Lu Chengqing danced and said incoherently: "Thank God, my ancestors bless me, this disaster has finally been settled, and this level has finally passed... Let's go and see the rebel leader together!"

Before he finished speaking, the sound of killing suddenly broke out at the city gate, and the rope that bound the captives was broken like a magic trick. The originally listless captives turned into a short knife and rushed towards the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate. The poor officers and soldiers didn't know what had happened, so they fell into a pool of blood. The more than a thousand "Tang soldiers" roared in unison: "Kill the Tang dog and take revenge!"

The rebel soldiers rushed into the city like a flood that broke into the dam, and the city was in chaos!

The loss of Mingzhou City Gate directly led to Mingzhou City like a yellow-flowered girl with clothes torn off, and was ravaged by others. Liu Shishan was already extremely brave, and he led the way, and the rebel soldiers followed Liu Shishan into the city.

On June 29, the sixth year of Wude, Mingzhou City was destroyed.

At the same time, Liu Shishan, who had great political vision, set up an altar outside the palace gate of Wanchun Palace in Xia State in Mingzhou to pay tribute to Dou Jiande, and informed Shandong that the people of Hebei that the reason for his uprising was to avenge the revenge of the King of Xia who died. Later, he claimed to be a general, joined the Turks in the north, and connected the old subordinates of the King of Xia, and at the same time contacted other forces rebelling against the Li Tang, preparing to hold a larger-scale military operation against the Tang Dynasty.

Cui Yuanxun, the former general manager of Shenzhou of Dou Jiande, also responded to Liu Shishan. Cui Yuanxun, who had already abandoned his official position, secretly summoned more than a dozen dead soldiers, hid the dead soldiers in the fruit and vegetable cart, and directly entered the camp of the guard general Wang Xingmin, the general of Litingtun. 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 guards of the guards of the Tang army.

Unexpectedly, people's calculations are worse than heaven's calculations. Wang Xingmin, the general of Tangtun Guard, only brought dozens of guards to the camp of the Hutou Army to inspect the food for the soldiers. Cui Yuanxun was really in charge and started a sudden attack, killing Wang Xingmin in the army, creating panic in the army.

The leaderless Tun Guards were defeated by Cao Zhan, and nearly half of the soldiers of the Tang Tun Guards fled, and the rest surrendered. Xu Yuanlang, who had surrendered to the former subordinate of Wang Shichong, who had surrendered to the Li Tang Dynasty, and was now appointed as the chief magistrate of Yanzhou, also rebelled. Liu Shishan appointed Xu Yuanlang as the marshal of the Daxingtai. Liu Shishan transferred his letter to Zhao Wei and sent a letter to the world. Dou Jiande's old subordinates killed officials and responded. For a time, the powerful people of the eight states, such as Yan, Yun, Chen, Qi, Yi, Luo, Cao, Dai, etc., responded.

When the news reached Chang'an, Li Yuan did not dare to be careless. On the one hand, he ordered Li Shentong, King of Huainan, to send 30,000 infantry and cavalry in Guanzhong to attack Liu Shishan. Li Shentong ordered General Qin Wutong and Chief of Dingzhou, Li Xuantong led his troops to attack. On the other hand, he ordered General Anton General Li Shijiyi to send troops to attack from behind Liu Shishan. At this time, the Turks also echoed Liu Shishan and marched to siege Daizhou.

On July 14, 2016, Liu Shishan led his army to attack and capture Dingzhou, capturing Li Xuantong. Liu Shishan attached great importance to Li Xuantong's talent and wanted to appoint him as a general. Li Xuantong sighed and said, "I have received great kindness from the court and commanded a military palace. I have no help in the city, so I am trapped in the thief court. Now I should maintain the moral integrity of the ministers and repay the country with loyalty. How can I suppress my ambitions and accept the official position of the traitor?"

Liu Shishan held Li Xuantong in jail, but in prison, Li Xuantong took advantage of the guard's inattention and used his belt to hang himself in prison.

At this time, Liu Shishan connected to the Turks in the north, opened the way high, and echoed each other from afar, and the soldiers were very fierce. In August, in Yimao, Liu Shishan attacked Jizhou, an important town in northern Jizhou (now Jizhou City, Hebei), and killed the governor Qu Ling. Gengshen, and Li Xiaochang, the general of the Tang Tun Guard, led his troops to attack Liu Shishan.

Li Xiaochang fought against Liu Shishen, who lost to Liu Shishen and then retreated to Xiangzhou!

Li Shentong, the Minister of Xingtai of Hebei Province, led more than 50,000 troops from Xing, Xiang, Wei, Heng, Zhao and other states, with the intention of a decisive battle with Liu Shishan. However, Liu Shishan keenly seized the opportunity of Li Shentong's army for more than ten miles. Liu Shishan's soldiers were young, and he only leaned against the Raohe River embankment and also lined up a long single line to fight against the Tang army.
Chapter completed!