Taimeng used the trick to lure the enemy back, led Tian Kai into his ambush circle, and defeated Tian Kai again. Tian Kai had no choice but to lead the remaining troops, turned around and fled south to his hometown of Xuanzhou. As soon as Tian Kai entered the city, Tai Meng and Wang Maozhang When they arrived at the city, they immediately surrounded Xuanzhou.

Tian Kai sent an envoy to sneak out of the city quietly and send an order to Guo Xingtai, Wang Tan, Wang Jian in Wuhu, and other Xuanzhou troops stationed in various cities in Ningguo Town, ordering them to abandon their base and move closer to Xuanzhou to fight against Taimeng. However, Guo Xingtai, Wang Tan and others have surrendered to Li Shenfu, and Xuanzhou garrison troops in other places have also laid down their weapons.

Tian Kai had only a small number of troops left, and was trapped in an isolated city in Xuanzhou. Seeing that Tian Kai was no longer a threat, Yang Xingmi ordered Wang Maozhang to lead his troops to Runzhou and besiege An Renyi. At this time, Pinglu Army Wang Shifan attacked Zhu Wen. The resistance was completely over, and Wang Shifan surrendered to Zhu Wen.

In December of Yihai, hundreds of Tian Bo's soldiers went out to fight, and Tai Mengyang retreated to show weakness. Tian Bo's soldiers crossed the country's ditch and came to fight, but Tai Meng rushed out to meet them. Tian Bo could not win, and the whole army was defeated again. He When returning to the city, unexpectedly the bridge collapsed and Tian Bo fell under his horse. Tai Meng hurriedly caught up with his horse and beheaded Tian Bo with a knife. Tian Bo was forty-six years old. After his death, his subordinates and cronies still fought hard. Continue until everyone is killed.

Tian Kai's head was sent to Yangzhou, and Yang Xingmi stood up. He opened the wooden box himself, and Tian Kai's bloody head appeared in front of his eyes. Yang Xingmi looked at it for a long time and sighed: "I have been with you in Jianghuai for decades, and we have been as close as each other." Brothers, I planned to share the wealth and honor, but why did we end up here today?"

After saying this, Yang Xingmi burst into tears and everyone booed. Yang Xingmi pardoned Tian Kai's mother, the Yin family, and treated her as a descendant. Yang Xingmi originally wanted to appoint Li Shenfu as the governor of the Ningguo Army, but Li Shenfu thought that Du Hongwei was not in peace. Unwilling to accept, Yang Xingmi had to appoint Tai Meng as the governor. When Tian Bo wanted to kill Qian Chuanguan, he was protected by Yuhou, the capital of Xuanzhou, and Tian Bo's brother-in-law, Guo Shicong. After Tian Bo was defeated and killed. , Guo Shicong sent Qian Chuanwan back to Hangzhou, and Qian Liu appointed Guo Shicong as the Marquis of Yu, the capital of Zhendong.

Tian Bo was defeated and died, and An Renyi was suddenly left alone, trapped and fighting. Until the first month of 905, Runzhou City was still unable to be captured. Yang Xingmi finally lost his temper and sent someone to recruit An Renyi and said to him: "I If you don't forget your official duties and can return home, you should be reinstated as deputy marching envoy." Yang Xingmi means that it is impossible for you to be assigned such an important position as the training envoy of the Runzhou regiment, but as long as you surrender, you can be appointed as deputy marching envoy without military power. It's okay. After hearing this, An Renyi, who had been trapped in the isolated city for more than a year, was a little shaken, but he hesitated for a while.

Taking advantage of An Renyi's hesitation and hesitation, Wang Maozhang took the opportunity to dig a tunnel into the city and occupied Runzhou. When An Renyi realized that the city of Runzhou had been controlled by the Wu army. An Renyi held a bow and arrow and led his whole family up the tower, but there was no one in the Wu army. If he dared to get close, he had no choice but to curse at the bottom of the city tower. The generals started to curse and curse so filthy that the women upstairs could not bear to listen anymore. At this time, only Li Decheng, the commander of the Jiangnan Horse Infantry Army, did not curse. Li Decheng's character was just like his name. Very humble, profound and generous.

An Renyi saw a lot of curses on the tower, but only Li Decheng did not do so. So he called Li Decheng to go upstairs. Li Decheng was really a generous man, and he went upstairs after hearing the greeting. When he saw him coming up, An Renyi said to him: "As long as you are not rude when you see me, and you have the appearance of a strange person, you will definitely be very noble in the future. Today I will give you my concubine, and I will make it a gift for you to achieve success." After saying that, he threw away the bow and arrow, and The earth is bound.

Li Decheng carried An Renyi downstairs and was escorted to Yangzhou. An Renyi and his son were beheaded and abandoned in the city. Yang Xingmi immediately appointed Li Decheng as the governor of Runzhou. Soon he was moved to the governor of Jiangzhou, and then transferred to the governor of Fuzhou.

Envoy. Later he was granted the title of General Pingnan, Zhongshu Ling, and soon he was appointed as the Military Envoy of the Baisheng Army. During the Taihe period, he was promoted to the Military Envoy of the Zhennan Army.

After Yang Xingmi quelled the rebellion of Tian Bo and others, he once again sent Li Shenfu as commander and Liu Cun as deputy commander to attack Du Hong. Soon Li Shenfu came to Ezhou City, but Du Hong was no match and hurriedly asked Zhu Wen for help. At this time, Zhu Wen was busy

Forcing Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang aroused the dissatisfaction of Li Keyong and Wang Jian. He encountered a joint attack from several vassal towns and had no time to take care of Du Hong. Of course, Zhu Wen did not ignore Du Hong. After all, Ezhou is a strategic location and cannot be missed.

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Zhu Wen wanted to defeat the enemy without a fight, so he wrote to Yang Xingmi, hoping to make peace with Yang Xingmi and ask Yang Xingmi not to attack Du Hong again. Yang Xingmi replied: "You first release the emperor and let him return to Chang'an, and then stop the army and repair it!"

"Zhu Wen naturally would not agree, so he issued an edict in the name of Zhaozong, sent military envoys to Wuchang, E, Yue, Qi, Huang and other prefectures to observe and deal with the situation.

The king, Du Hong, who had a settlement of 3,000 households, added a settlement of 1,000 households, and was granted the title of 200 households; his wife was also granted the title of Mrs. Qin by the lady of Jin.

Zhu Wen expressed the court's support for Du Hong and gave Du Hong spiritual encouragement. Of course, in addition to spiritual encouragement, Zhu Wen did not do anything. He still sent Cao Yanzuo with 10,000 people to Ezhou to join forces with Wu Zhang who had been sent earlier.

He sent troops to rescue Du Hong. At the same time, he issued an edict to Ma Yin, the governor of Wu'an Army, asking him to send troops to rescue Du Hong.

Although Zhu Wen was angry that Ma Yin attacked Jiangling, resulting in Cheng Ru's defeat and death, he was beyond the reach of the whip. Besides, Ma Yin was on his side after all, so he could not force him too much, lest he fall to Yang Xingmi.

Zhu Wen had no choice but to hold back his anger and not pursue the matter. At the same time, Zhu Wen issued an edict to Zhao Kuangning, the governor of Shannan East Road, asking him to also send troops to help.

After receiving Zhu Wen's edict, Ma Yin convened everyone for discussion. Gao Yu said: "I think Yang Xingmi is determined to win this time. We don't need to fight for Ezhou and Yang Xingmi. It's better not to send troops." Ma Yin nodded in agreement and said

: "But we have to be on guard against Yang Xingmi's attack on Yuezhou, so we should focus on strengthening Yuezhou's defense. However, Zhu Wen did not pursue my attack on Jiangling this time, and still wanted to give him face. I will go out for Du Hong.

An idea can be regarded as helping him."

Ma Yin then transferred Wang Huan to the north to assist Xu Dexun in defending Yuezhou. He also sent an envoy to Ezhou. Du Hong received the report and hurriedly received him and asked: "Your envoy, where are your reinforcements?" The envoy said to Du Hong: "Du Hong

Commander, my commander is gathering troops. Once the preparations are complete, he will naturally send troops to help. But it will take some time. However, my commander came up with a strategy for Commander Du to deal with the Huainan army. He said that the Huainan troops are going deep and rely on

It’s Yongxing who comes to help. If Marshal Du sends out surprise troops and captures Yongxing, then they will retreat without a fight.”

Du Hong accepted Ma Yin's suggestion, that is, he sent his capable general Luo Yin to lead his elite troops and take a detour with the Bianzhou soldiers out of the city. With Luo Yin as a guide, Wu Zhang's troops from the Bianzhou army opened the way for the vanguard, and Cao Yanzuo's troops from the Yunzhou army were in the middle.

, went to sneak attack Yongxing.

At this time, Li Shenfu, the commander-in-chief of the Huainan Army, was seriously ill and could not govern. Li Shenfu had to hand over the command to his deputy commander Liu Cun, and returned to Yangzhou to recuperate. He soon died of illness. After Liu Cun took over, he actively dug trenches and besieged the city. He often only led a few

Ten cavalrymen patrolled along the city, resting and drinking at a high place. They looked happy and did not take the defenders of Ezhou City seriously at all.

Du Hong sent troops to sneak attack Yongxing, but Liu Cun found out about it because he was not secret. Liu Cun immediately arranged for General Fang to send an edict, and Miao Lin led his troops to intercept him halfway. Miao Lin sent people to capture several Bianzhou soldiers and returned. These prisoners said

: "Among the troops that attacked Yongxing, Cao Yanzuo's Yunzhou army was weaker, while Wu Zhang and Luo Yin's troops who were responsible for clearing the way were stronger and unstoppable."

The generals believed that the weak Yunzhou Army should be defeated first, but Miao Lin disapproved and said: "Kill the strong ones, and the weak ones will naturally retreat." So he personally led troops to attack Wu Zhang and Luo Yin's Kaidao Army. The Kaidao Army was caught off guard.

, was defeated and fled. Miao Lin captured more than 300 Bian soldiers from the Kaidao Army alive and quickly returned to the Ezhou City. Liu Cundang immediately ordered Miao Lin to take 300 prisoners of war to the Ezhou City and beheaded the demonstrators.

, the Ezhou defenders were discouraged.

Liu Cun took the opportunity and ordered people to persuade Du Hong to surrender, but Du Hong believed that Zhu Wen's Bianzhou army was strong and could serve as his backing, so he refused to surrender. When persuading him to surrender was ineffective, Liu Cun could only continue to attack the city. Bianzhou Army in Ezhou City

Seeing that the situation was not good, the state army hurriedly rushed out of the city gate, trying to break out of the encirclement and escape. The officers and soldiers of the Huainan army were eager to fight, hoping to wipe out this army.

But Liu Cun disagreed and said to the generals: "If we launch an attack now, they will naturally return to the city. Then the city will be stronger. Let them leave and the city can be captured." So under Liu Cun's deliberate arrangement

, the Bianzhou Army successfully broke through. The Bianzhou Army's escape greatly shook the morale and confidence of the Ezhou defenders. That day, Liu Cun launched a general offensive and burned the Ezhou city tower. There was chaos in the city and Ezhou fell. Liu Cun captured Du Hong.

Father and son, Cao Yanzuo sent them to Yangzhou.

When Yang Xingmi saw Du Hong, he asked: "I'm good to you. I remember when you asked me to borrow troops, I sent troops to help you without saying a word, but you colluded with the traitors and went against me. What are you going to do now?"

What to do?" Du Hong said: "I can't bear to betray Duke Zhu." Yang Xingmi said no more and ordered his men to push Du Hong and Cao Yanzuo out and behead them. Yang Xingmi appointed Liu Cun as the guard general of Ezhou, and he once again expanded his territory.

Bring Ezhou into your own territory.

Besides, after Zhao Kuangning, the governor of Shannan Province, received Zhu Wen's edict, he did not send troops to rescue Du Hong, but set his sights on Jiangling. This Zhao Kuangning had a majestic appearance, a rigorous temperament, liked to modify his appearance, and was quite knowledgeable about poetry.

His father, Zhao Derui, followed Qin Zongquan in his early years and was appointed as the governor of Shenzhou. When Huang Chao's uprising occurred, the world was in chaos. Qin Zongquan took the opportunity to recruit troops, plotted separatism, and ran rampant in the Central Plains. Zhao Derui was appointed as the governor of Shannan East Road. Zhu Wen, the governor of Xuanwu Festival, led his troops to attack Cai.

In the prefecture, Qin Zongquan suffered repeated defeats. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhao Deqian surrendered to Zhu Wen with the land of seven prefectures on the east road of Shannan.

Zhu Wen was the commander-in-chief of the four-sided camp in Caizhou at that time, and proposed to Zhaozong to accept the surrender of Zhao Deyi, and appointed Zhao Deyi as his deputy general in the war against Qin Zongquan. Zhaozong changed Shannan East Road to Zhongyi, and appointed Zhao Deqin as the military envoy and the deputy commander-in-chief of the four-sided camp in Caizhou. Qin Zongquan was destroyed

Later, Zhao Deqi was awarded the honorary title of Prime Minister Zhongshu Ling and was granted the title of Prince of Huai'an County. In 892, Zhao Deqi died, and his eldest son Zhao Kuangning took over as the governor of Shannan Road.

By 904, Zhao Kuangning had occupied Shannan East Road for twelve years, but his territory was not large. Shannan East Road was located in Xiangzhou, and it only had five prefectures: Xiangzhou, Fuzhou, Yingzhou, Fangzhou, and Junzhou. Zhao Kuangning naturally felt that

Unwilling to give up, they have been waiting for the opportunity to expand their territory. Now that Ruijingnan is in chaos, it is the opportunity.

After Cheng Ru's death, Lei Yanwei captured Jiangling. However, Lei Yanwei was not capable enough and failed to capture the prefectures of Jingnan. Most of the prefectures and counties were still controlled by Cheng Ru's remaining troops. Cheng Ru had a general named Hou Ju who came from Junshan.

He narrowly escaped death in the battle, returned to Kuizhou, and appointed himself as governor. Since Hou Ju was the strongest among the remaining troops of Cheng Rui, the remaining troops of Cheng Rui recommended him.

Leader, fight against Lei Yanwei.

After learning that Cheng Ru was dead, Wang Jian, who had just been named King of Shu, accepted the suggestion of his adopted son Wang Zongben to send troops to Jingnan. Wang Jian immediately made Wang Zongben the commander of the capital and sent his troops eastward to the Three Gorges. Since the main force of the Jingnan army had been lost,

Therefore, the Shu army did not encounter any decent resistance and advanced rapidly. They even defeated Zhong, Wan and Shi three states and arrived at the gate of Kuizhou city. Hou Ju knew that he was outmatched and surrendered voluntarily. He was adopted by Wang Jian as his adopted son and renamed Wang Zongju.

As soon as Hou Ju surrendered, all the places under the jurisdiction of Chengru, except Jiangling, surrendered to Wang Jian. With this opportunity, it would not be difficult for Wang Jian to capture all Jingnan. However, all the counselors in Shu believed that the Qutang Gorge was the link between Jing and Shu.

The greatest natural danger was the prefectures and counties east of Qutang, which were easy to obtain but difficult to defend. It was better to concentrate the army to guard Qutang to protect Chang'an in central Sichuan. So Wang Jian gave up the two prefectures of Guizhou and Xiaxia and locked the border at Kuizhou.

Seeing that the Shu army had stopped advancing, Zhao Kuangning immediately ordered troops to attack Jingnan. Jingnan was in danger again, so Lei Yanwei had to leave Langzhou and go to Jiangling to supervise the battle. However, he did not expect that it was his younger brothers Lei Yangong and Zhao Kuangning.

He conspired to let Zhao Kuangning send troops to attack Jingnan, and Lei Yanwei would definitely resist. He took the opportunity to rebel and seize control of Langzhou. After the incident was completed, he gave Zhao Kuangning half of the property stolen from Jiangling.

Lei Yanwei was attacked from both sides and naturally had no ability to resist. He was soon expelled from Jiangling and his whereabouts are unknown. Zhao Kuangning did not stop there and ordered his younger brother Zhao Kuangming to continue using troops to seize Guizhou, Xiazhou and Jiangling until Lei Yanwei was captured.

Yan Gong rushed back to Langzhou. In this way, Jingnan was divided between Wang Jian and Zhao Kuangning. The Lei family's bamboo basket in Langzhou was empty, only some gold and silver treasures were grabbed, but not a piece of land. After Zhao Kuangning captured Jiangling,

That is to say, he went to the imperial court and requested that Zhao Kuangming be appointed as the post-employee in Jingnan.

At this time, Zhu Wen's general Yang Shihou defeated Wang Shifan and captured Wang Shifan's younger brother Wang Shike. Wang Shifan was afraid that his brother would be killed, so he had no choice but to surrender. Yanzhou guard Liu Wei was personally ordered by Wang Shifan to surrender to Bianzhou. Yanzhou then raised

After the city surrendered to Ge Congzhou, Zhu Wen appointed Liu Wei as Baodaliu, and Wang Shifan was appointed as the governor of Heyang. Later, Zhu Wen usurped the throne, and Zhu Youning's wife came to Zhu Wen crying and said: "I have foreseen hardships for a long time. I'm rough."

I was determined to do my best, but unfortunately Wang Shifan rebelled and his dead husband was found dead on the battlefield. The grudge is still with the court, and he was favored by the court, so what is his crime?" Zhu Wen said sadly: "I almost forgot about this thief." He immediately sent people to Luoyang to general Wang Shifan's clan.

After the death, more than 200 children and nephews were killed, and none of them survived.

After Zhu Wen received Zhao Kuang Ning's petition, although he was dissatisfied with him for not saving Ezhou, he wanted to win over Zhao Kuang Ning as he was about to do something big, so he agreed to his request. After Zhu Wen pacified Wang Normal University, he learned

Zuo Pu shot Zhang Jun and wrote to Wang Shifan, urging him to raise an army against him. Zhu Wen was worried that Zhang Jun would cause trouble and ordered Henan Yin Zhang Quanyi to hunt down Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun's second son Zhang Ge escaped alone and entered from Jingnan

Shu, defected to Wang Jian.

At this time, Wang Jian had been promoted to King of Shu, and he and Zhu Wen were not compatible, so he kept Zhang Ge as his nephew. In order to prevent Li Maozhen from kidnapping Zhaozong again, Zhu Wen led his army to station in the river. Zhu Wen wanted to take advantage of the situation to usurp the Tang Dynasty.

He often exchanged secret letters with Cui Yin, secretly revealing his thoughts.

Cui Yin couldn't help but realize in his conscience that although he was still close to Zhu Wen on the surface, he was secretly resisting Xu Tu. Cui Yin told Zhu Wen, but said: "Chang'an is close to Li Maozhen, so we must be on guard. The Sixth Army and the Twelve Guards have a false reputation. I want to recruit troops to make up for it."

, so that Duke Zhu will not have to worry about going west." However, Zhu Wen saw through Cui Yin's intention and pretended to agree. Zhu Wen secretly ordered the reliable soldiers under his command to enlist in the capital and infiltrate Cui Yin's army in order to find out the secret.

Cui Yin didn't know anything about it, and he was in high spirits every day with Jingzhao Yin, Zheng Yuangui and others to organize military battles. At this time, Zhu Youlun, the envoy of Suwei, fell from his horse and died of serious injuries. Zhu Wen suspected that it was Cui Yin who did it.

Zhang Tingfan, Wang Yin, and Jiang Yuanhui were ordered to find out Zhu Yourun's companions during the attack and killed more than ten people. Zhu Wen also sent his brother Zhu Youliang to take charge of the guard. As soon as Zhu Youliang arrived in Chang'an, he immediately strengthened the palace security. Zhu Wen also followed

He set off from Bianliang and led his army westward.

Chang'an suddenly became nervous, but no one told Zhaozong and Cui Yin the news. Just after the Lantern Festival, Baisi opened the seal. Cui Yin was happy to see that the new army was well prepared. He went to the palace to have wine with Zhaozong and talk about state affairs.

Pretending to be beautiful in the future, Cui Yin did not retire until the next watch. Zhaozong was about to enter the palace, and the little palace lady showed off a tightly sealed secret memorial. Zhaozong opened it and was stunned. It turned out that the secret memorial was Zhu Wen's impeachment of Cui.

Yin, this is undoubtedly a thunder. The memorial reads:

"Situ was also an attendant, judged the guards of the six armies, sent salt and iron envoys, judged Cui Yin, held a drama position, monopolized power to disrupt the country, and alienated the monarch and his ministers." A lot of official titles are connected with these eight-character charges.

Together, there is a shocking feeling. Some facts are also listed below, and then a direct request is made: "Your Majesty, please punish him immediately, and include his party and his party. Notice to the world." Then a list of facts including Zheng Yuangui was attached.

List.

Zhaozong felt like his eyes were flashing with gold, his world was spinning, and he fell slumped on the couch. The attendants quickly helped him into the palace, which alarmed the queen. The palace was brightly lit all night. The next morning, Zhaozong was awake, but he just closed his eyes tightly.

Reluctant to open it. It seemed that as long as he remained silent, everything would stop and disappear. He knew that as long as he agreed to deal with Cui Yin, he would be in a worse situation than in Fengxiang. He was determined not to follow Zhu Wen's wishes
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