On September 30th, the fifth year of Dashun, Chang'an. An army came out of the city gate in a chaotic manner and headed east.
In the past two days, the sergeants who had plundered enough in Chang'an City became more and more sober and knew that they had caused a big trouble. From time to time, some people deserted and escaped without knowing their whereabouts.
But their end may not be so good.
The counties in Gyeonggi are still in order. If the rebels are separated, the outcome will probably not be too good. During the Jingshi Rebellion a few years ago, the small groups of Jingyuan rebels who were scattered outside were gradually summoned by the Tutuan Township in each county.
The husbands were wiped out, and some were even arrested by the villagers and tortured.
These people can only seek happiness for themselves.
The palace is a bit messy and dilapidated, with many signs of collapse and scorch. In the remaining palace rooms, Ji Wang Li Bao, who has been "promoted" to oversee the country, has no joy at all on his face.
Guo Baosi, the former Ji Wangfu who was also promoted to prime minister, was full of sorrow. This farce of supervising the country was not something they wanted to do, but they had to do it with a knife on their necks.
Originally there might have been some possibility, but after Xia King Shao Shude sent his troops into the pass, there was no longer any possibility.
Tianwei City and Yushan City are now plundered, and the soldiers and soldiers have no fighting spirit. This can be seen from their attempts to rob Fangshi, but were repulsed. The officers are not even able to control the troops.
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Maybe in another ten days and a half, the soldiers can regain their composure and return to the camp to obey orders, but is there such time?
"Thieves Shao gathered four soldiers and horses, numbering 200,000, and surrounded them. I wonder what the grand master's strategy is?" The atmosphere in the palace was a bit dull. Guo Baosi didn't want to sit still and wait for death, so he looked at Li Kuangwei who was sitting at the foot of the steps.
Li Kuangwei is not tall, but stocky and stocky, with thick calluses on his hands and an obvious scar behind his ear, which shows his bravery and suffering in battlefield fighting in his early years.
He is also an ambitious warrior and extremely conceited.
Li Keyong attacked Chengde, and Li Kuangwei led his troops south to rescue him. As a result, Li Kuangchou launched a mutiny and appointed himself as Youzhou Liuhou. At that time, Li Kuangwei commented on the matter in front of Wang Rong, bluntly saying that Li Kuangchou mutinied and came to power, and Li Kuangchou's position as commander-in-chief was still there after all.
In the hands of the boss, as the saying goes, the wealth does not go to outsiders, but the ability to raise funds is so poor that it is impossible to hold the position of commander in chief for only two years.
The result was that he was right. In fact, within two years, Li Keyong came over. Li Kuangchou was defeated and killed. His wife and daughter fell into the hands of Li Keyong. There were many military leaders in Youzhou, and the people were in ruins.
Wang Rong respected and was wary of Li Kuangwei. On the one hand, he was grateful for the source of his troops, but as a result, he could not return home. He not only spent huge sums of money to build a mansion for him, but also treated him with great respect as a father... But this was only superficial.
If Li Kuangwei continues to stay in Zhenzhou, if he can't keep it for a long time, he will covet Wang Rong's position, and a life-and-death fight will be inevitable.
Being able to serve as an official in the court would be a good thing for Li Kuangwei and Wang Rong, and even the thousands of Yan soldiers under his command. If he continues to stay in Chengde, the outcome is unpredictable.
"What other strategy can there be? It's just a battle." Li Kuangwei said disapprovingly.
"I dare to ask Grand Master, given the current situation in the city, can we survive the battle?" Guo Baosi asked.
Li Kuangwei hesitated for a moment and said, "It's a little difficult."
What he said was so straightforward and upright that it actually surprised King Ji. His brows furrowed and he sighed repeatedly in his heart.
He knows very well what kind of temper he has today. Once he returns to Beijing, he will definitely not end well. There is no warmth at all in the power struggle in the Tian family.
"Grand Master, I heard that Fu Daozhao led his defeated troops and fled to Hu County. I am in panic all day long. Why don't we send an envoy to recruit him to surrender, which will give us more strength?" Guo Baosi suggested.
In fact, he didn't think Fu Daozhao's few remaining defeated generals could play any role, but in today's bleak situation, every extra person was always good.
"Pengri has been crippled, I'm afraid it's of little use." After thinking about it, Li Kuangwei said: "Forget it, just send the envoy to surrender and promise him an official position. He has nowhere to go now. He shouldn't be as big as a lion.
Open your mouth."
Fu Daozhao left in a hurry, and his family was trapped in the capital. His wife took the children back to her parents' home to seek refuge. Li Kuangwei did not feel embarrassed and instead sent troops to protect him. It can be seen that Fu Daozhao had long been thinking of surrendering. Fu Daozhao's wife was not a Hou family.
He later met him in Hebei. In the fifth year of Kaiping's reign (907), he was snatched away by Li Cunxu and kept in his house.
"Where is Taibao Shi? I haven't seen him since I went to court today. In this critical autumn, I didn't come to discuss the big plan. What are you going to do?" Guo Baosi looked around and originally made an appointment to come to Lin together.
Although Shi Zan had not come yet, he had a slightly bad premonition.
Could it be...
Thinking of this, beads of sweat broke out on Guo Baosi's forehead.
King Ji's brows furrowed even more tightly. To be honest, he didn't want to do any of these things to supervise the country. He just wanted to run away. Even if he stayed anonymous and became an ordinary citizen, it would be better than staying in Chang'an and waiting for death.
Li Kuangwei also realized that something seemed wrong. He stood up suddenly and said, "I'll go find him."
After Li Kuangwei strode away, the expression on King Ji's face immediately became rich. He whispered: "Wang Fu, the situation in Beijing is about to change drastically, why not"
Guo Baosi stopped King Ji with his eyes, and after thinking silently for a while, he said: "Now there are Yan soldiers outside the palace, so we still need to act with cameras."
King Ji nodded slightly.
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Smoke and dust billowed in the wilderness, and hundreds of horsemen chased the fleeing enemy horsemen as if in a playful manner.
From time to time, they would shoot an arrow, hit a rider or a horse, and then burst out laughing.
They chased through Ba River, across the Dongwei Bridge, and across Changle Slope, all the way to outside Tonghua Gate. Hundreds more horsemen rushed out of the city, with bright armor, sophisticated equipment, and even silver ornaments on their saddles.
The pursuers reined in their horses and slowly retreated.
On the way back, more than ten riders came from other city gates to join them, and then disappeared into the vast wilderness.
Within the main camp of Weiqiao Town, Shao Shude quickly received a military report from the scouts: "There are few guards at the gates in the east and south of Jingdong, and their fighting spirit is not strong."
"Wang Qianyu!" Shao Shude sat back in his chair and shouted.
"The general is here!" Wang Qianyu, the envoy of Feng'an Army, responded loudly.
Shao Shude glanced at him a few times. In the past few years, Feng'an's army had been stationed everywhere and had not fought any serious battles. I thought that when he attacked Hexi, Wang Qianyu led his cavalry to attack the Tibetan rear in Liugu, so he was left behind.
Very impressive.
"Tonight, you lead the cavalry of your headquarters and make loud noises outside Tonghua Gate and Chunming Gate to attract the attention of thieves."
"As you command!"
"Send an order to Zhe Congyun and ask him to send out 500 cavalry and make noise outside Qixia Gate and Mingde Gate, display big torches, and prepare more war drums."
"As you command!"
"Qian Shousu!"
"The end is here!"
Shao Shude took a deep look at him and said: "Choose two battalions of soldiers, feed them well, and enter the city tonight to attack and disrupt the morale of the army."
Someone has reported the situation in the city, and now there are probably more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, with 5,000 Yan soldiers as the core, and a large number of Shence sergeants who have been dragged in, mainly soldiers from Hebei and Henan.
During this period of time, Li Kuangwei was not idle. He had been selecting talented people to add to his subordinates to increase his strength.
As for the Xuzhou soldiers in Yushandu, haha!
Shao Shude kicked Shi Zan, who was kneeling in front of him, and said angrily: "What did I tell you when I first entered the capital?"
Shi Zan did not dare to resist. After getting up from the ground, he knelt down and cried: "The crime will be blinded by Kuangwei, and the soldiers also made noise and coercion. In the end, they committed a big mistake. I hope your Majesty will forgive me."
"Hmph!" Shao Shude snorted coldly and said: "Xuzhen fell, and your Majesty burned himself in the Yanzi Tower. You don't want to take revenge, but you get involved in such bad things in the capital and rob the people. I want to kill you with one knife, and
What can you say?"
When Shi Zan heard about Shi Pu's self-immolation, he cried bitterly.
Shao Shude stood there with a straight face, his hand touching the handle of the knife, as if he might chop it off at any time.
"The city of Xuzhou was destroyed, and more than 200 generals and captains were killed in the battle, all of whom are your relatives. The great revenge has not been avenged, but you are drunk and dreaming all day long, oppressing the people. What's the use of you? Why don't you kill them all, so as not to live in shame in the world."
Shao Shude sat back and sneered: "I don't have the guts to go to Luoyang to fight with the Bian bandits, but I have the guts to rob the people in Chang'an. Okay, what a great skill!"
When Shi Zan heard this, he felt ashamed and grabbed the ground with his head. He banged on the frozen hard ground and cried: "Please take me to the battle with your Majesty. From now on, I am willing to serve your Majesty as a father. All I want is to be beheaded."
Zhu Quanzhong’s head was laid to comfort his late father’s spirit in heaven.”
Shao Shude looked at Shi Zan without speaking, as if he was wondering how sincere his words were.
Shi Zan kept kowtowing, and after a while, his forehead was already bloody.
"How many soldiers do you have on hand?" Shao Shude suddenly asked.
"There are still eight thousand people." Shi Zan raised his head and replied.
Blood flowed down his eyes, looking like he was bleeding and crying. Shao Shude was slightly moved when he saw it.
"Eight thousand people, that's a lot of Shence troops."
"Most of them are from Shence Youjun."
"Can it be fought?"
"Not very resistant to fighting." Shi Zan said truthfully: "If you want to go into battle, you have to practice hard."
"Then practice quickly."
When Shi Zan heard this, he was overjoyed. He kowtowed twice more and choked with sobs: "My son, please remember your teachings."
"I don't have a son like you!" Shao Shude angrily yelled.
Shi Zan's face turned pale, he knelt forward and hugged Shao Shude's thigh. Just as he was about to cry bitterly, he was suddenly slapped again.
"What kind of heroic figure is Shi Sikong? Zhu Quanzhong was shameless and treacherous, causing Sikong to close his door and self-immolate and die." Shao Shude pulled Shi Zan up and said: "What does it look like for a seven-foot-tall man to cry and moan all day long? Shi Sikong is the only one left.
You have so little flesh and blood, how can you be my son if you still have to be the lintel of Shi family?"
Shi Zan stopped crying for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he said: "If your Majesty is willing to avenge us, the three thousand sons of Xuzhou will not hesitate to send you."
Chen Cheng watched for a long time and saw Shao Shude sitting back and Shi Zan being led down to pack the bandages, so he came closer and reported: "General Mo Zaisi has arrived in Gaoling County with three thousand sergeants."
Mo Zaisi just didn't hide Zaisi. His identity is now known to almost everyone who cares.
The saint was not at ease with him, so he sent Dao Shence to station in another town, not in Chang'an city.
"Let him come to see me tomorrow." Shao Shude said.
"As you command!"
After dealing with these issues, Shao Shude chatted with Chen Cheng about the many things he would face after entering Beijing.
That night, Wang Qianyu and Zhe Congyun personally led people to make noise outside the gates and staged a charge to kill.
The city of Chang'an was so big that the Yan soldiers could not defend it at all, so they were mobilized here and there. In the middle of the night, Qian Shousu and Han Xun each led 500 soldiers to climb over the wall and opened the Shenwu Gate. No one was there the whole time.
Prevent.
Shao Shude, who was woken up in a hurry, immediately ordered that the main force of Feng'an Army immediately go around to Shenwu Gate and enter the city.
At the same time, several orders were sent to the Yi Cong Army and Shunyi Army who were still on their way, urging them to speed up their march and come to join them immediately.
Chang'an City is still the same as before, no one can defend it.
