Li Fuguo replied in Guanzhong Mandarin with a smooth voice: "Princess Qi, Li Siye, the father of Li Chongyun, has openly rebelled. Now the army has moved to Tongguan to capture Guanzhong. Both his father and son will be prosperous and suffer losses. No matter which dynasty or generation, the emperor
I will not allow the son of a traitor to run around in front of my eyes. Your Royal Highness, Princess, if you can understand His Majesty's difficulties, you should not stop me here as a little daughter, but should comply with Your Majesty's righteousness and kill the family."
Princess Yonghe knelt down on the ground with a plop and said sadly: "I beg Wu Lang to be kind and allow me to meet my father. After I meet my father to plead for mercy to no avail, my husband will kill or behead him as he pleases."
Li Fuguo sneered at Yonghe's plea: "Humph, you only plead for your husband. Do you know that your father is in pain every day? He is lying on the bed dying because he was angered by your consort's grandfather. You
You are a princess, you are a princess of the Tang Dynasty! Ever since you were born in the royal palace, you should always remember this sentence: the personal relationships of children should be placed after the country and the country. You should learn more from your elder sister and Princess Zheng.
Although she is a close relative of the Yang family, when the Yang family was trying to kill her, she did not even dare to say the word Yang."
"Really?" The princess smiled sadly: "Don't think I don't know, Wulang, who was the matchmaker in the past? What you originally valued was the military power in Chongyun's father's hands, and that's why you pushed me to his side. Now he
My father parted ways with you, but you want to destroy my love!"
Li Fuguo put his hands into his sleeves, squinted his eyes and said: "As a daughter of the royal family, it is ridiculous to believe in love. I would like to advise you, you are lucky enough. I think An Lushan's eldest son was cut in half.
Yes, even the princess who was married to him was sentenced to death. Your Majesty already loves you enough, what else do you want?"
"Come here, take the princess away and execute Li Chongyun."
Four or five big-bodied palace maids immediately gathered around, grabbed the princess's arms and calves, and forced her out of the dungeon. The princess struggled and screamed, swearing all the words she had ever used in her life.
Li Chongyun sat cross-legged on the ground silently. Li Fuguo led the soldiers to him and said with a chuckle: "You are very lucky. His Majesty knows that you are not Li Siye's biological son, so he only needs to die, otherwise you will be
Even being beheaded alive can't dispel the hatred in his heart. Come on, Bai Ling!"
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In June of the second year of Qianyuan, Guo Ziyi said goodbye to her relatives at home and led her two sons to prepare for the battlefield in Tongguan. The women knelt in front of the hall and cried, as if their husbands were about to die.
Guo Sikong felt irritated and shouted loudly: "Don't cry! I have gone through hundreds of battles in my life, and all of them are safe and sound. This time I go to guard Tongguan, and nothing will happen to me. You all should be good to me at home, don't let the saints
Don't worry, when I return safely in the future, you will also be safe and sound."
He put on his armor under the steward's service, and his two sons were already waiting in the courtyard with their pockets in their arms. The father and son came to the door of the house all the way. The two thousand soldiers of the Guo family were ready to go, and Yu Chaoen and Guo Yuanzhen also
Lead Long Xiang's army and Long Wu's army to order Mao.
Yu Chaoen was accompanied by an ox-drawn pallet cart, with a corpse wrapped in silk cloth.
Guo Ziyi greeted the two eunuchs humbly and said something about how they would work together in the future. Yu Chaoen laughed and said: "Guo Sikong is really approachable and has no airs about Sikong at all. We will work under you from now on."
I feel more at ease.”
Guo Ziyi smiled teasingly and said: "Two father-in-laws, whether Guo can defend Tongguan requires the two of them to work together to guard the mountains and rivers for His Majesty."
In a blink of an eye, he saw the body placed on the car and asked in surprise: "What's going on?"
"Oh." Yu Chaoen explained with a smile: "This is the dead body of Li Chongyun, the son of the traitor Li Siye. Your Majesty hopes that you can hang him on the top of the city of Tongguan so that these rebels can see the consequences of rebelling against the imperial court.
.”
Guo Xi, the third son of Guo Ziyi, could not help but mutter on his horse: "Can a mere corpse scare the rebels? This may anger Li Siye, but besides..."
"Shut up." Guo Ziyi stopped her son's complaints in time and signaled the two eunuchs to set off.
After he accepted and even announced his appointment in Chang'an, Li Guangbi would relinquish all his posts and return to Chang'an. As the two ministers of the Tang Dynasty, it was normal for the two to alternate back and forth.
Before leaving the city, Guo Ziyi wrote three memorials to the emperor in succession. One was asking the court to recruit Shi Siming to surrender again. After the surrender, he ordered him to go south to attack Li Siye and regain Luoyang. If Shi Siming was ambitious enough, this move should be effective. The second one was to ask the imperial court to recruit Shi Siming to surrender again.
The memorial requested the emperor to issue an order to Hedong Jiedushi Deng Jingshan to lead troops south to Luzhou and Puzhou to prevent Li Siye from sending troops into Hedong from Jingjingkou and to attack Guanzhong from Pujin Ferry and Longmen Ferry in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The third memorial was written below.
The order ordered Lu Jiong, who was stationed in Nanyang, to go north to attack Luoyang.
These three memorials were approved by Li Heng. Once they are effective, Li Siye will be attacked from both sides and will eventually be defeated in the Central Plains. Of course, the premise of all this is that he can hold on at Tongguan for several months. He believes that with the strength of Tongguan, it will definitely be possible.
After Guo Ziyi entered Tongguan, Li Guangbi retired sadly. After the two met at the city gate, they saluted each other and exchanged somewhat complicated expressions in their eyes.
When Tongguan was replaced by generals, the flag with Li characters hanging on the city wall naturally had to be replaced. General Pugu Huai'en saw that his old boss had returned and regained power, so he personally went to the observation tower to pull out the flag and replace it.
Guo Ziyi stepped forward to stop Pugu Huai'en from pulling down the flag, and said to the generals behind him: "Changing generals at Tongguan will definitely arouse Li Siye's vigilance and make him change his strategy. We don't have to change the flag to make him mistakenly believe that
Now it is still Li Guangbi who is stationed at Tongguan, firmly attracting him to the city."
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Li Siye personally led the army to assemble in Lingbao County. The artillery battalion and grain and grass supplies had also been assembled. In addition to sending people to challenge in front of the pass every day, he also personally called Duan Xiushi and Xu Bin to prepare for them to lead the flying tiger cavalry from the well.
Jingkou entered Hedong and captured Shangdang, then captured Puzhou, crossed the river from Jinpu in Puzhou and entered Guanzhong, attacking Tongguan from both inside and outside.
However, the situation suddenly changed, and this change came from a corpse hanging on the head of Tongguan City.
He was explaining the offensive route to Duan Xiushi in the military tent that day. Li Chongbao suddenly opened the curtain and broke into the tent. He knelt on the ground and said with tears on his face: "Master, master!"
Li Siye was quite displeased and glared at his son and said, "As a man, you shouldn't be so panicked no matter what happens. Why did you break into my military tent privately? What happened?"
"Grandpa, go and take a look, brother, he is hung on the city wall!"
Li Siye immediately got up and stepped out of the tent, called his soldiers to prepare his horses, got on his horse and ran towards the gate of Tongguan City.
He looked up against the dazzling sunlight and saw that Li Chongyun was hanging from his neck by a black iron chain. His skin was black and shriveled, as if he had been pickled and dehydrated by quicklime.
Anger boiled in his chest, and he held on to the horse's reins with both hands. The horse was also restless in pain due to his strong pull, and jumped back and forth in front of the city gate.
"The eunuchs have exclusive power. I lead the army to serve the king. Why do you want to kill my children?"
Li Guangbi's scroll was still hung on the tower, but two eunuchs, Yu Chaoen and Cheng Yuanzhen, held crossbows in their hands and poked their heads out from behind the parapet. They laughed wildly and wildly: "Li Siye, look who this is, he was originally
He is the consort of the Tang Dynasty, but he ended up like this because he had a traitorous father. After we catch you as a traitor, we will cut you in half and hang you on the wall of Tongguan City for those who pass by.
Take a look at the feudal officials and governors here, those who covet the Tang Dynasty cauldron will eventually die without a burial place!"
Yu Chaoen turned around and looked at Guo Ziyi's tent in the Guanxia camp. He suddenly remembered a clever trick and laughed loudly: "Li Siye, it was Guo Sikong's work to kill your son. Before he left the army, he used your son to
Let’s sacrifice our blood to the flag and heaven! In this way, God will bless us and wipe out you and your remnants.”
Li Chongbao followed his father and roared, drew the horned bow in his hand and shot toward the top of the city. The two eunuchs were frightened and hurriedly squatted under the female wall. The arrow passed over their heads and pierced into the pillar behind them.