The first strong enemy Li Chong encountered was Guo Wuti, the county magistrate of Wushui (now Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province).

When the old man heard that the King of Langya was coming to seek death, he quickly strengthened the city and sent people to the nearest Weizhou (now Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province) for help. Ma Xuansu, the county magistrate of Shen County (now Shen County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province) led 1,700 troops to intercept Li Chong in the middle. After the failure, he led his army to retreat into Wushui County and defended with Guo Wuti.

Li Chong was not stupid either. He didn't want to use the tactics of the sea of ​​people to attack the city. He arranged a batch of cars filled with dry firewood, and then blocked the south gate of Wushui County, and set fire to the city tower as the south wind roared. Everything went smoothly. In a few minutes, the city gate could be broken, but at this moment, the wind direction suddenly reversed.

The tragedy happened like this. The soldiers who were charging forward were immediately surrounded by fire, and many people were burned to death. When the rear army saw their comrades burning in the fire, they all retreated in fear. Before they could get out of the army, they died first. The disastrous defeat in Wushui County cast a shadow on the hearts of the soldiers of the entire army.

Any army, if they win a battle during the day, they will drink and eat meat at night, and summarize their experience in victory. If they lose a battle during the day, they will talk around the fire at night, complaining about the coach's fault.

As night fell, soldiers gathered together to talk nonsense. A general named Dong Xuanji said: "The confrontation between the Langya King and the court was a naked rebellion, so they could not receive the protection of God, so they would be defeated!"

Think about it, it is so stupid to overthrow Wu Zetian's rule with an army of 5,000 people. If the soldiers still had a glimmer of hope when they set off, the disastrous defeat in Wushui County made them completely awake.

Li Chong executed Dong Xuanji, but the price was that the soldiers in the army fled in scattered and only dozens of slaves from the Li Mansion followed Li Chong. Li Chong was in grief and angry, and fled back to Bozhou with his remaining troops, preparing to make a comeback. As soon as he stepped into the city gate, the door stabbed him from behind. At this time, it was only seven days before Li Chong raised his army.

Li Chong is a lonely dancer, an innocent prince.

If five thousand mobs could be used to seize the country, I'm afraid anyone could be the emperor. After Li Chong was defeated and killed, no princes had been touched before. Li Chong's father, King of Yue, Li Zhen, raised an army almost on the day Li Chong's defeat. Such tacit cooperation gave Wu Zetian great encouragement.

On August 23, 688, Qiu Shenjie arrived in Bozhou City.

According to historical records, Bozhou officials cheered and cheered at Qiu Shenjie's arrival, as if nothing had happened. They smiled and welcomed Qiu Shenjie to the government office to sit down. However, Qiu Shenjie was not very interested. When the wine was halfway, Qiu Shenjie waved his hand and the imperial guards followed him took down all the officials in Hecheng.

What else do you dare to do if even the prince dares to kill? Without asking Wu Zetian for an order, Qiu Shenjie confiscated more than a thousand officials and households in Bozhou City and then executed them all.

At the same time, King Li Zhen of Yue announced his rebellion in Yuzhou. In terms of seniority, Li Zhen was Li Shimin's eighth son and the uncle of Emperor Ruizong of Tang, Li Dan, and the degree of threat was incomparable.

On the first day of the September 1st of the fourth year of Chuigong (688), Wu Zetian issued an edict: General Zuo Baotao Qu Chongyu was appointed as the chief general of the central army, Cen Changqian was appointed as the chief general of the rear army, and led 100,000 troops to attack King Yue Li Zhen, and ordered Zhang Guangfu to be the governor of the army.

However, Wu Zetian seemed to overestimate Li Zhen. This man was rich and land, but his troops were very small. When the conscription mobilization order was sent to Yuzhou City, he only recruited thousands of mobilizations. This was not even a drop in the bucket for Li Tang's rebellion. When the news of his son Li Chong's defeat came, Li Zhen understood that the situation was hopeless. At this time, the 100,000 troops of the court were already on the way to Yuzhou. If he forced his resistance, he would eventually burn all his eyes. Li Zhen thought for a long time and finally decided to go to Luoyang and apologize.

On the way to Luoyang, Li Zhen met Fu Yanqing, the magistrate of Xincai County. This man was a confidant sent by Li Zhen to recruit soldiers and was very loyal to him. Fu Yanqing told Li Zhen that he had recruited two thousand heroes, plus the thousands of people under Li Zhen, and his reputation was quite strong, and he might be able to compete with the court.

With like-minded comrades, Li Zhen is no longer so lonely even though he is timid.

In order to boost the morale of the army, Li Zhen took advantage of the information closure and spread a rumor: "Langya King Li Chong has already captured Weizhou and Xiangzhou, and has 200,000 troops under his command, and will come to meet soon!"

Subsequently, Li Zhen forcibly recruited 5,000 troops in various counties of Yuzhou and divided them into five battalions. In order to win over the powerful Runan County Magistrate Pei Shoude, Li Zhen ordered him to be named General and also married a daughter! He also gave him a large number of officials, with only a few thousand people fighting. As a result, in the end, more than 500 officials above the ninth rank were awarded.

Obviously, this is a mob with no combat power. Except for Li Zhen himself, the others were all tied to his self-immolation chariot because of threats. Poor Li Zhen knew nothing about placing troops. Facing the fierce official army, he actually prayed for divine talismans from monks and Taoists, so that the soldiers could not get in.

Li Zhen didn't want to die, so he could only rely on these illusory things to seek comfort.

Qu Chongyu came, and 100,000 tribes were displayed in the east of Yuzhou City. Li Zhen resisted symbolically for a while, and then ended the farce with his youngest son Li Gui, son-in-law Pei Shoude and his family in the Hefu ended the farce by suicide.

This end was Li Zhen and Li Chong, and it was actually the end of Li You and Li Ke. Li You and Li Ke's conditions were even worse. This is reality, so Li You could only choose to endure because he could not fight Li Shimin. Of course, if Li You and Li Ke were fighting with Li Shimin together in the late Sui Dynasty, or even Li You fought with Li Shimin alone.

It is definitely unknown who will win, but it won't work. This is the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. The people's hearts are determined. Even if Li You and Li Ke join forces, the fate will be destined long ago.

Li You understood, and Li Ke also understood that this was also the reason why Li Ke did not choose to rebel, because he knew that there was no chance at all, and only stupid people would do such useless efforts.

Time is like an hourglass. On October 20, 19th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin returned to Chang'an. All officials in Chang'an were kneeling to greet him. The people were happy. The Goguryeo people believed that the Tang Dynasty had failed, but the fact is that the results of the Tang Dynasty this time were far greater than the losses and consumption.

This time, the Tang army conquered Goguryeo, captured Xuantu, Hengshan, Gaimu, Momi, Liaodong, Baiyan, Beisha, Maigu, Yinshan, Houhuang ten cities, moved 70,000 people from the three prefectures of Liao, Gai and Yan to Datang, Xincheng, Jian'an, and stationed in three major battles, eliminated a large number of Goguryeo troops, and captured more than 40,000 first-level Goguryeo Army (usually, the number of enemies killed is far greater than the number of beheadings. For example, in the Battle of Pyongyang, the Ming army beheaded 800, but the loss of Xiaoxi First Army exceeded 10,000).

Nearly two thousand soldiers died in Tang army soldiers and eight thousand horses died.

When Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, the Tang army won many great victories. The Tang army alone eliminated Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's 150,000 troops, the Tang army also seized 50,000 horses, 50,000 cattle heads, 10,000 iron armor, and a large number of other equipment.

Therefore, this time Li Shimin personally fought against Goguryeo, and the results of the Tang Dynasty were far greater than the losses.

The people cheered, and Li Shimin returned to Chang'an with a hint of pride. The only thing that made Li Shimin feel bad was that some crises in his body began to appear.

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