Yelu Deguang, who had just ascended to the throne, received a request for help from the king capital. The Khitan emperor, who had the ambition to enter the Central Plains, felt that this was a good opportunity to enter the Central Plains. He immediately ordered the Xi Wang Tuo Neng, who was closest to the Central Plains. This Khitan veteran who had followed Abaoji to fight with Li Cunxu in Dingzhou, led 10,000 cavalry and rushed to Dingzhou.

In early May, Tuo Nie's cavalry crossed the border and rushed to the city of Dingzhou. Wang Yanqiu did not expect that the Khitan army would come so quickly. In order to avoid being attacked from both sides, he took the initiative to lift the siege of Dingzhou and temporarily retreated to Quyang, which was 60 miles west of the city.

Seeing that the Tang army retreated without fighting, Tu Nie thought that Wang Yanqiu was a cavalry who was afraid of the Khitan. It seemed that after Li Cunxu died, the people of the Central Plains were not afraid! In excitement, Tu Nie reported the victory in Dingzhou to Yelu Deguang, and then met with the army of the royal capital in the city to take advantage of the victory to pursue it.

Tu Nai didn't expect that Wang Yanqiu had already assembled his army and was ready to fight in Jiashan west of Quyang. As soon as he and Wang Du chased him, they hit the iron plate. Wang Yanqiu set up a crane wing formation to lure the Khitan cavalry to attack the center of the Tang army. Wang Yanqiu did not use a crossbow, and led the infantry to only use short weapons to arrange the central army, while the elite Longwu cavalry lined up the two wings. When the central army withstood the charge of the Khitan cavalry, they attacked and encircled.

In order to prevent soldiers from escaping in the battle, Wang Yanqiu issued a death order: "Those who dare to turn back will not be punished!" After a moment, the Khitan and Yiwu coalition forces arrived. Seeing that the Tang army had only short weapons, they thought it was a soft persimmon, and immediately started charging. Wang Yanqiu led the soldiers and fought on the front line in person. Everyone fought to death, so that Tu Nie could not break through. Taking advantage of Tu Nie, the king concentrated all the elite troops in the center. The two brave generals of the Tang army, Fu Yanqing led the left-wing cavalry, Gao Xingzhou led the right-wing cavalry to attack at the same time, and quickly defeated the Khitan in front of him like a destruction. The two wings of the Yiwu coalition forces were opened, forming a three-sided attack on the coalition forces!

In a moment, Tuo Nie, the king capital was defeated, and he only led two thousand cavalry to open a bloody road and fled back to Dingzhou. Wang Yanqiu took advantage of the victory and surrounded Dingzhou again. Tuo Nie, the king capital saw that the situation was not good, closed the city and defended it while sending warriors to take advantage of the siege of the Khitan Emperor Yede Deguang.

In the letter of help, Tuo Nie refused to say that he had lost the battle, and he only said that because of the large gathering of Tang troops, he was outnumbered and needed reinforcements. Perhaps because the situation shown in the letter of help was not urgent enough, and the powerful Shuluping was not very interested in the Central Plains. Although Yelu Deguang sent reinforcements again, he was only led by Ti Yinnirigon and the commander Chala, 7,000 cavalrymen. Since there was no famous general, the number was less than the last time.

Nerigon and others crossed the border, avoided the city along the way, and came straight towards Dingzhou. When Wang Yanqiu heard the news, he ordered some of the troops to continue to siege the city, leading the main force to the north and faced the second Khitan reinforcements north of the Tang River. As soon as the battle was fought, the second Khitan reinforcements, which were not strong enough, lost more simply. Wang Yanqiu took advantage of the victory and pursued until Yizhou. It was raining heavily, and the rivers in Hebei rose sharply. A large number of defeated Khitan soldiers who fled were drowned when crossing the Yishui River, and more than 2,000 cavalry who failed to cross the river were captured.

The defeated Khitan soldiers who finally escaped Yishui were intercepted by Zhao Dejun, the governor of Lulong, and were defeated again. Nerigun and Chala were all captured by the Tang army, and the rest of the people were dispersed and no longer formed an army. The people in the countryside in Hebei were not polite when they saw the defeated Khitan soldiers who were defeated and fled alone. They often gathered people, picked up a hoe, and beat the dogs in the water when they were hurt.

In the end, the second group of 7,000 cavalrymen of the Khitan escaped back to the Khitan, and the entire army was wiped out!

Since Yelu Deguang ascended the throne, he ended with a complete defeat in the Central Plains. After receiving the report of the remnants' escape, Yelu Deguang felt deeply regretful. It seems that Jiang Huan Lao is so sexy that he is not fully prepared, and the Central Plains cannot be easily touched. Yelu Deguang gave up the idea of ​​using troops to the Later Tang again in the short term. As for Tu Nie and Wangdu who were still surrounded in Dingzhou City, he had to leave it to God to bless him.

However, God obviously had no interest in interfering with this slight matter of mankind. Tuo Nie and the capital's situation became worse and worse as time went by. Wang Yanqiu discovered that Dingzhou City is worthy of being the base camp run by Yiwu Jieshang in all dynasties. The city defense was very strong. After a round of strong attacks failed, he built facilities and surrounded the city, waiting for its food to die.

So, the king thought of a solution that was not a solution. Li Cunxu had a less important adopted son named Li Jitao. After Li Cunxu died, he went into exile to Dingzhou. The king asked him to put on the imperial robe, sit on the city tower, and then shouted to Wang Yanqiu: "This is the beloved son of Emperor Zhuangzong, and now he has inherited the throne and ascended the throne as emperor! Prince, you have received the kindness of the previous dynasty, don't you want to serve me?"

Wang Yanqiu scoffed at the call of the capital and said, "It's still the case now. What's the use of playing these tricks? I'll give you two choices: one is to mobilize the entire army and fight to the death with me. The other is to tie your hands and surrender out of the city! Choose any one."

The king capital was not chosen, and continued to trap the city with Tu Nie, and lived one more day. Some people in the Yiwu army wanted to turn against each other and respond to the siege of the imperial court outside the city. However, the king capital, Tu Nie was very cautious and asked the Khitan soldiers to monitor the Yiwu army. Many attempts to change mutiny were strangled by them. After seeing that Li Siyuan saw that the war in Dingzhou was still too late to end. He was consuming the central government's money and food every day, and was a little anxious, so he sent people to the front line to urge Wang Yanqiu to take Dingzhou as soon as possible.

Wang Yanqiu rode alongside the envoy sent by Li Siyuan, took him to see the besieged Dingzhou City, pointing to the city and said, "The walls of Dingzhou are so tall and steep. Even if the defenders don't fight back, it will be difficult for us to use ladders and rush to attack the city. Instead of letting the soldiers die in battle in vain, in exchange for very limited damage to the defenders, and collecting grain from the city, temporarily consuming taxes from the three states. Pacify the people, rest the army, and wait for the opportunity. I can guarantee that they will definitely collapse from the inside in the future!

Li Siyuan agreed to Wang Yanqiu's strategy and continued the siege. Wang Dunnei tried to break through and flee to Khitan several times, but it also ended in failure. Four months after Wang Yanqiu predicted that Dingzhou would definitely be breached from within, the commander of Yiwu Du Ma Rangneng finally launched a successful mutiny, opened the Quyang Gate, and let the imperial siege into the city.

Seeing that the city was broken, the king's army was defeated and he was defeated in the streets. He knew that the end of the world was coming, so he rode back to the mansion and gathered his family and his elders in a crazily place. Then he set himself on fire and set himself on fire. He turned into ashes together with the 30,000 books, hundreds of calligraphy, paintings, and antiques he collected! The king's four sons and a younger brother did not want to die, so he ran away before the fire, but was captured by the Tang army. The King of Xi of the Khitan, Tuo Nie, together with one of his sons, and two thousand remaining troops, were captured. The rebellion of the king's capital was thus quelled, and Yiwu Town ended its long-term semi-independence.

Soon, Wang Yanqiu and other generals returned to Beijing triumphantly and offered prisoners to the court. The burned skulls of the capital were sacrificed to the Taimiao, while his son, younger brother, and Tuo Nie and his son, were both executed by prisons in the downtown area! Nerigon and Chala, the chief generals of the second group of Khitan reinforcements, were relatively lucky. They were pardoned by Li Siyuan and organized into "Khitan Zhi", which was specifically responsible for standing outside the hall when holding court meetings in the Later Tang Dynasty and acting as guards of honor. The two wars that occurred in the Later Tang Dynasty since Li Siyuan ascended the throne, ended the battle of Pingwangdu.

However, the war against Gao Jixing in Nanping has not ended yet. It is not because Gao Jixing is very strong, but because his existence involves many interests. Every force much stronger than him wants to use Gao Jixing's existence to achieve the goal that cannot be said publicly.

First of all, of course, the Later Tang court, the most powerful initiator of the war. If Li Siyuan was willing to take away Gao Jixing at all costs, Gao Jixing would not have been spared. However, on the Western Front, the Tang army recovered Kui, Zhong, Wan Sanzhou, and Guizhou, and the Tang army captured Fuzhou on the Eastern Front, and Gao Jixing's territory was only one prefecture and one state, the Tang army basically stopped attacking Nanping and shifted its focus to the war against the royal capital and the Khitan coalition in the north. Li Siyuan wanted to use Gao Jixing to kill two birds with one stone. After all, the local forces that worried Li Siyuan the most were neither Gao Jixing nor the royal capital.

The one who really made Li Siyuan feel most at ease was Meng Zhixiang in Xichuan. For Meng Zhixiang, who was strong and capable, the cautious Li Siyuan did not dare to easily speak out. First, he hoped to use the policy of politeness to strive for Meng Zhixiang not to rebel. For this reason, Li Siyuan agreed that Li Yan was killed and would not be investigated.

At that time, Meng Zhixiang sent someone to pick up his wife Princess Qionghua, Li's family, and her son Meng Renzan, who was born to Li's family, to Sichuan. When he arrived in Fengxiang, he was detained by the governor Li Cong-chung. Li Siyuan ordered the release of the people and sent them to Chengdu to reunite with Meng Zhixiang. To express his gratitude, Meng Zhixiang also repaid his favor in a place where no matter what. On the Holy Day, Li Siyuan's birthday is coming soon, Meng Zhixiang sent five monks, bringing the Buddha teeth that are said to be brought by Emperor Xizong when he was in Shu, and presented them to Li Siyuan to Luoyang to wish the emperor a long life.

But in important places, Meng Zhixiang did not allow him at all. Li Siyuan learned that Zhao Jiliang, sent by the court, became Meng Zhixiang's right-hand assistant, so he took advantage of the seemingly harmonious relationship between the two sides and issued an order to transfer Zhao Jiliang away and sent He Zan as deputy envoy of Xichuan Jiedu to replace him. Meng Zhixiang received the imperial edict and directly detained it, as if it was nothing. Li Siyuan had to pretend that he had not issued an order, and the matter was left unresolved.

The war to attack Gao Jixing started, and this war was largely intended to defend Shu. Meng Zhixiang used to say that the taxes in Shu should be used to support the soldiers in Shu, and the soldiers in Shu should protect the safety of Shu. Raising troops for a thousand days is now timely, right? Li Siyuan ordered that in order to prevent Gao Jixing from invading Shu, all towns in Shu would send troops, money, and food to support Ye in the West.

Meng Zhixiang is the most powerful town in Shu, and of course the amount of money and grain should be the largest. In this regard, Meng Zhixiang could not find a suitable reason to refuse, so he ordered the commander Mao Chongwei to lead 3,000 troops to Kuizhou to guard the border. Li Siyuan finally won a small victory against Meng Zhixiang. Since this is the case, Gao Jixing would let him live, and it would be good to hold up some of Meng Zhixiang's troops and grain for a long time.
Chapter completed!