Chapter 39 Chapter Thirty-ninth: Xu Jingye’s Yangzhou Uprising

The person Xu Jingye mentioned was Li Xian.Yes, Li Xian, he was persecuted by Empress Wu and exiled to the end of the world, but he did not die as the history said, he lived in Yangzhou City, and asked me, Xu Jingye, to raise troops to attack the Wu clan.That's right, Li Xian, the former prince, is among our rebel army, if you don't believe me, look!Everyone was astonished, but under everyone's suspicious eyes, Xu Jingye really pulled Li Xian out, and even let Comrade Li Xian speak, and said a few heartfelt words. Therefore, the rebel army's "support for the return of the King of Luling" became "listen to the words of the former prince and don't let him get hurt".

In fact, in the 100,000 Yangzhou Army, the guy who looked exactly like Li Xian was just a puppet. Because he had appeared in front of Mr. Xu Jingye, he was discovered by Xu Jingye, and he released the above information with great joy.Therefore, Li Xian was already dead, and Xu Jingye caught someone similar to Li Xian, which could only be regarded as shooting himself in the foot. This move was too bad. The Yangzhou army greeted the suppressing army sent by the imperial court with full confidence. The chief officer of the army, Zuo Yuqian, General Li Xiaoyi, had already led an army of 300,000 troops to suppress it.

Li Xiaoyi couldn't beat Xu Jingye, so Xu Jingye stationed troops on the south bank of the Huaihe River, blocking Li Xiaoyi's way.In order to test Xu Jingye's combat level, Comrade Li Xiaoyi sent General Lei Renzhi to cross the river, but Xu Jingye beat him back to the barracks with a bruised nose and a swollen face.Li Xiaoyi seemed to be scared, he stood still and started a confrontation with the rebel army. Seeing that Li Xiaoyi was trembling with fear, the supervisor and imperial servant in the palace encouraged him and said: "The world has been peaceful for too long, and now a group of rebellious thieves suddenly appear. I think the people must want to hear the news that the rebellious thieves have been wiped out. Now the army is squatting Staying by the river was disappointing far and near, and chilled the hearts of the common people. If the court gets angry and orders another general to replace you, don’t tell me, after you go back, you have to think about your own future!"

Li Xiaoyi followed Wei Yuanzhong's suggestion, and after this time, the two armies fell into a tug of war, almost evenly divided. At the beginning of November, the arrival of a person announced the end of Xu Jingye. General Zuo Yingyang and Hei Chi Chang Zhi led the army to help out. According to Wei Yuanzhong, there are Wei Chao's rebels on the dangerous Duliang Mountain;It is indeed a difficult question to decide who to fight first.Everyone had a heated discussion on this issue, and agreed that the nest should be destroyed first. But Wei Yuanzhong didn't think so. He analyzed: "The thieves are all mobs. What they need most is a decisive battle. If we go to the decisive battle now, I'm afraid it's in their favor. As far as I know, Xu Jingyou was born as a gambler. Xi's military strength is not enough, and people's hearts are the most loose. Our army is forcing him, and he can be conquered by stationing in Ma! Although Xu Jingye is strong, but if he wants to save Xu Jingyou, he must not have enough time. No matter how powerful the army is, it cannot stop our progress."

Li Xiaoyi looked at Wei Yuanzhong approvingly, and then he ordered the army to attack Wei Chao directly. Wei Chao was terrified and fled overnight. The army attacked Xu Jingyou directly, and Xu Jingyou escaped for several days. A few days later, Xu Jingye led his troops to occupy Xikou (this is a big river), preparing to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers.A quick battle is beneficial to the rebel army, and if it is delayed, the rebel army will definitely be overwhelmed.This point, Xu Jingye knows best. Unexpected accidents like to happen to Xu Jingye. Before Xu Jingye could make any move to seduce him, Comrade Li Xiaoyi began to display the plan he had made - night attack!

As the leader of the night attack plan, Su Xiaoxiang, the commander of the rear army, expressed that he was under a lot of pressure.But looking back, Comrade Li Xiaoyi, the commander-in-chief, was looking at himself with cold-blooded and expectant eyes; looking forward, the clear water at the mouth of the stream in November, the cold air was threatening.It doesn't matter if the water is cold, but the river is surprisingly fast. Although the flow speed is not as high as that of a high-pressure water gun, it feels similar. So, in the middle of the night, with a feeling of melancholy, Su Xiaoxiang led five thousand surprise raiders across the river and killed Xu Jingye.At this time, Xu Jingye had already set up a net of heaven and earth, waiting for the officers and soldiers to drill into it.

The surprise attack army didn't even cross the river, the boat they were on was surrounded by Xu Jingye, they were defeated, and Su Xiaoxiang died in battle. What was even more frightening was that the soldiers at the back saw that the front was defeated and wanted to turn around and run away, but they were hacked to death by a burst of knives.Xu Jingye's strategy of outflanking the boats was a great success, and there were more than 2,000 enemy troops who fell into the river and were drowned.Su Xiaoxiang died, Zuo Baotao, Wei Guoyi and Cheng Sanlang continued to fight, but was also captured alive by Xu Jingye.Shi Tang Zhiqi, the commander of the rebel army, is a man who thinks he is very handsome.

On a whim, he asked someone to tie Cheng Sanlang into twists, and early in the morning, he called soldiers to watch the excitement.He pointed at Cheng Sanlang's head and shouted: "See, this is Li Xiaoyi, he was captured alive by us!" Tang Zhiqi was very proud of his statement, he waved his hand and asked Cheng Sanlang to be pulled out and beheaded.I reckon Tang Zhiqi is a big-headed character. You can call Cheng Sanlang Li Xiaoyi, but at least you have to plug his mouth with a rag! Not only did Tang Zhiqi not shut up his mouth, he also gloated and yelled at Cheng Sanlang making a fool of himself.

During the struggle, Cheng Sanlang yelled out such a sentence: "I am Guoyi Cheng Sanlang, not General Li! The officers and soldiers have arrived on the other side today, and it is easy to destroy you. If I die in battle, my wife Ronghua; if you die in battle, my wife will be gone .You are not as good as me, hahahaha! Not as good as me!)" Everyone heard it right, so everyone's hearts began to beat drums. Tang Zhiqi slapped his thigh and shouted that it was not good, so he hurriedly ordered Cheng Sanlang to be chopped off, and insisted that he was lying.But what is more obvious is that everyone doesn't trust Tang Zhiqi much anymore.

After experiencing this disastrous defeat, Li Xiaoyi quickly adjusted his strategy, preparing to disrupt Xu Jingye's deployment by interfering from multiple angles.Li Xiaoyi was terrified by the fact that his own army would lose every battle against Xu Jingye.Li Xiaoyi wanted to retreat again, so he held a meeting to ask for opinions. "The main content of this meeting is, let's discuss whether we should retreat, retreat, or retreat?" Everyone was silent, only Wei Yuanzhong, the military supervisor, and Liu Zhirou, the military officer, strongly opposed it.Wei Yuanzhong gave his own strategy, "Today, the wind is smooth, the grass is dry, there is fire, and there are boats."

Li Xiaoyi looked at Wei Yuanzhong in ecstasy, and asked, "How?" "decisive battle!" Tang Zhiqi would not have imagined that his inadvertently ruined behavior would make the entire army listless. What's more serious was that Xu Jingye had been here for too long and had set the security factor too high, and the army was already very tired.When Li Xiaoyi led the army, crossed the river with the fire, and came to Xu Jingye's army, Xu Jingye's army was already exhausted.As a result, the officers and soldiers ignited with the wind, and the rear army took the opportunity to attack fiercely. Xu Jingye was defeated and was beheaded by more than 7,000 levels, and countless people were drowned. The Yangzhou uprising failed. Taking advantage of the chaos, Xu Jingye and others fled with their wives and Qingqi, went to Runzhou via Jiangdu, and then went straight to Korea by sea.After Li Xiaoyi's victory, he led his troops to Jiangdu, and asked them to lead a small army to chase Xu Jingye.It's also a capital offense, Xu Jingye wants to go to Korea, what's the general not happy about? The answer is yes. Didn't it say that there are officials who sue for treason, and those who don't sue for treason are treason? Then let's sue! Empress Wu's methods are very vicious, and her strategies make people have no trust at all, but everything is good for her.The general Wang Naxiang figured it out, and if he didn't do it, he wouldn't stop. He killed Xu Jingye first, then Xu Jingyou, and defected to Li Xiaoyi with his head up.Yu Dang Tang Zhiqi and Wei Siwen were arrested and imprisoned, their heads were beheaded and sent to Luoyang. Some people say that King Luo Bin died with Xu Jingyou.Others said that King Luo Bin did not die, he disappeared from everyone's sight, and since then he has been traveling all over the world without his name. When Xu Jingye raised his army, Song Zhiwen, the eldest son of the Hercules Song Lingwen, was honored to be the academic leader of the Chongwen Museum, and his reputation became more and more famous (both good and bad).Yang Jiong, who lived in Chongwenguan and was praised by people, was pitifully implicated because his cousin Yang Shenrang actively participated in the rebellion. He was demoted to Zizhou (Santai, Sichuan), and he was only a judicial officer to join the army. Song Zhiwen was very proud, he was used to this kind of complacency. Song Zhiwen originally wanted to become a Beimen scholar, but Wu Zetian refused to let him in.Song Zhiwen thought about this question for several years, but he couldn't figure out why.You see, when others flatter, I also flatter.The flattering articles written by others are not as good as mine. Why do they sing the praises of the peaceful and prosperous times, and praise the grace of the Queen of Heaven to be able to get promoted, but I can't? Song Zhiwen really couldn't figure it out, and the courtiers around Wu Zetian couldn't figure it out even more, so some people dared to ask Wu Zetian a question. Wu Zetian chuckled, and said disgustedly: "Nothing else, he has bad breath." If Song Zhiwen knew that he was neglected by Wu Zetian because of his bad breath, he would be very angry.He has always wanted to be favored by Wu Zetian, but he has more than enough flattery and no way to donate his sperm, so he has no choice but to regret it.I guess this guy doesn't know how to use wicker to brush his teeth. The ancients could brush their teeth with certain conditions. After brushing, their teeth will be white and clear.The prostitutes in the Tang Dynasty knew how to use it, but he, a dignified writer, couldn't use it (or was too lazy to use it). In short, Song Zhiwen is a very cheap person. In order to be famous, he can cheat his father and even kill his mother.Fortunately, neither his parents had anything worthy of his use, so he had no choice but to grab his nephew and force Liu Xiyi to delete the line "Flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year" in "Desire for Pulsatilla" and changed it to It became his original creation of Song Zhiwen.Classmate Liu was not happy, but he was afraid that Song Zhiwen would get mad, so he reluctantly gave up his love to him. Later, Liu Xiyi became more and more angry when he thought about it, and told about his tragic experience outside. After talking a lot, Song Zhiwen knew about it. Song Zhiwen went crazy, dug a big hole, and buried his nephew alive to death. Song's bad breath doesn't mean any remorse, and he can still live in this world afterward.He also wrote a self-recommendation letter to Wu Zetian, saying: "How can a humble minister climb the king's laurel tree? (The humble minister can achieve today's achievements entirely because of the king's credit. I really don't know what to say.)" Wu Zetian didn't know what to say, she hated Song Zhiwen's cheap look, even if she favored a man, she wouldn't favor him like this.Song Halitosis's behavior of "I'm cheap, so I'm here" is really looked down upon by people all over the world, so even if he wrote good poems, people don't think he wrote them. "Lingyin Temple Records" records such a story: One day, twenty years after Xu Jingye's rebellion, Comrade Song Zhiwen, who was famous all over the world, came to Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou to relax. Seeing the moon and stars, and the lonely mountains and rivers, his poet's feelings were aroused. He urgently needed to express his feelings, so he sang Said: "Juling is full of rocks, and Longgongsuo is lonely." Then he couldn't continue.After holding back for a long time, he chanted again, but still couldn't take the next sentence. "Jiuling is full of rocks, and Longgongsuo is lonely. When the mountain flowers are in full bloom, will she laugh in the bushes?" "Jiuling is full of rocks, and Longgongsuo is lonely. Others laugh at me so crazy, but I laugh at others too much?" No, it's too much. Song Zhiwen swallowed a mouthful of stinky and bitter saliva, feeling a little sad, he chanted these two lines repeatedly, and walked to an ever-burning lamp.There was an old monk who looked at him indifferently after listening to him chanting non-stop.Seeing his aggrieved face, the old monk asked, "Why are you struggling to recite these two poems?" Song Zhiwen said, "I can't catch up!" Day, the door to Zhejiang Chao' what's next?" Song Zhiwen was taken aback. He thought that he was invincible in what he had learned in his life. Why did he lose to an old monk today?Surprised, he asked who the old monk was.Under the ever-burning lamp, the old monk calmly uttered three words - King Luo Bin.Song Zhiwen talked with the old monk for a long time. After daybreak, he came to Lingyin Temple again, but the old monk disappeared, and he has never been seen again. I always think that instead of believing that King Luo Bin was defeated and killed, it is better to believe in such a fabulous story.What's wrong?