The Summoning of the Troubled Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 547 Time flies
Following the ensuing battle, it fell into a fierce match.

Among them, Li Shimin, the Tiance General who stayed in Luoyang, opened a mansion in Luoyang, recruited talents, and managed Luoyang.

There is no idea of ​​​​continuing to expand, but it has calmed down.

As for Xue Rengui, who expanded his territory, he also obeyed Gao Qi's will and wantonly built a defense line in southern Henan.

Tang Jun is also in peace with Qi Jun!

As for the west, Bai Qi continued to lead the army to contend with Li Guangbi and Li Yuanji, while Zhuge Liang actively dispatched food and grass and was responsible for logistical support.

But in the direction of the Western Regions today, the Xixia founded by Li Yuanhao is fighting fiercely with Genghis Khan, fighting for the ownership of the Western Regions.

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In 621, at the beginning of spring and March, as the temperature rose, the situation in Shandong suddenly changed.

In the land of Shandong, Huang Chao and Zhu Wen have always been at the helm.

But in recent years, the conflict between Huang Chao and Zhu Wen has become more and more intensified, to the point of incompatibility.

After the Liaocheng incident, Huang and Zhu, who were already on opposite sides, completely turned against each other.

In fact, the cause of this matter lies in the plan of the shadow commander Zhan Zhao.

At the beginning, Gao Qi was assassinated outside the palace. After investigation, he learned that it was the assassin sent by the Li family in Liaocheng.

This made Gao Qi extremely angry, so he sent Zhan Zhao secretly to Liaocheng to destroy the Hu family and the Li family.

However, after Zhan Zhao arrived in Liaocheng and investigated the results, he found that the situation in Shandong was even more chaotic than expected.

This also prompted Zhan Zhao not to act immediately, and wiped out all the powerful families in Liaocheng.

Instead, they adopt the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, observe secretly, and look for breakthroughs.

It turned out that at that time, the Li family, the Hu family and other families sent killers to Jiangling to carry out the assassination.

It was because Hu Yi, with the cooperation of Zhu Youyu, Zhu Wen's son, learned that Qi Jun was the one who killed his son.

Therefore, after Hu Yi heard the news, he immediately became angry and called on all the families to send assassins to kill him.

It's a pity that the assassination operation that was originally planned to be foolproof ended in failure!
Later, Hu Yi and other families took advantage of their official power to secretly unite with Zhu Youyu to obtain Xia Jun's military information.

After waiting for this, Zhan Zhao has been silent in Liaocheng for several years, and has never made any ambitious plans.

It wasn't until Li Shimin captured Dou Jiande alive at Jindiguan and defeated Xia's army that the opportunity came quietly.

It turned out that after Dou Jiande was captured, the various forces in Hebei became complicated, and all places were ready to move.

At this time, Zhu Youyu also saw the opportunity to seize Hebei, so he immediately went to Liaocheng to contact Hu Tai and other families.

Let the families accumulate strength next time, wait for the arrival of their own army, and then take the opportunity to attack the Hebei area.

Of course, Huang Chao also saw the opportunity to seize Hebei, and sent his son to contact Hu Tai and other families.

It's a pity that the plan was spotted here by Zhan Zhao, who was always watching secretly, until it was completely destroyed!

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It only said that after Huang Chao's son met Hu Tai, he was rejected without even entering the gate.

After all, Hu Tai has already decided to support Zhu Wen, so how can he continue to double-decker and help Huang Chao?
However, before the son of Huang Chao left Liaocheng, he was ushered into a sparsely populated street by dozens of black-clothed swordsmen and assassinated here!

This black-clothed swordsman is exactly the shadow member led by Zhan Zhao.

After assassinating Huang Chao's son, Zhan Zhao made a decisive decision, made a big publicity, and pushed the assassination to Zhu Youyu.

As the news came out, it spread widely among the people.

However, in the past few days, the news has spread around Liaocheng!
Of course, Huang Chao must have received the news that Zhu Youyu secretly arranged for a killer to kill him, so he couldn't care less about grief.

He directly dispatched the army to attack Zhu Wen, but he didn't care about the northern expedition to Hebei and the seizure of territory.

Because, Huang Chao is now over forty years old, but there is only one seedling.

Now that his death is at the hands of Zhu Youyu, even if he can make a fortune, so what?
However, the fact is that after hearing about the assassination, Zhu Youyu didn't bother to investigate the truth.

It is guessed that after Huang Chao knows about it, he will definitely vent his anger on his own side. With the long-standing grievances and grievances between the two sides, a war will inevitably break out.

Therefore, following Zhu Youyu's reminder, Zhu Wen has already gathered an army to guard against Huang Chao's army at all times.

Suddenly, the two armies fought in Beihai County, near Linzi.

Due to the deterioration of the relationship between the two parties, the two had split long ago.

Huang Chao was originally a general of the Yellow Turbans. After receiving the strength of the Yellow Turbans, he has always used Qi County as a base.

As for Zhu Wen, he led the army to pacify Gaomi, Langya, Donglai and other places.

Here, Zhu and Wen's army's prestige rose greatly, so after the split, the two armies took Linzi in the North Sea as the boundary.

However, in order to prevent him from rebelling against the king's idea of ​​attacking Shandong, Huang Chao and Zhu Wen both declared to the outside world that there was no split.

It's a pity that now, with Zhan Zhao's separation, the two forces have to fight!
After the plan was successful, that night, Zhan Zhao ordered the shadow members to sneak into the families of Hu, Li and others to execute the beheading operation.

Overnight, almost all the families in Liaocheng were wiped out!

Among those who slipped through the net, only Hu Tai from the family escaped.

After Zhan Zhao successfully completed his mission, he quietly took away all the shadow forces here.

Judging from the current situation, this place is already in chaos, and there is no news worth inquiring about.

Secondly, Zhan Zhao had been silent in Liaocheng for a long time, and within a few days he did two earth-shattering events.

Zhan Zhao and Zhu Youyu have fought against each other, knowing this person's ability cannot be underestimated!
If the shadow information point is not transferred, it is inevitable that clues will be discovered, and then Zhu Youyu will follow the clues and catch them all.

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It's just that when Zhu Wen and Huang Chao were fighting, the situation in the rest of the land was also quietly changing.

Among them, Liu Bei, who defeated the Manchus in Liaodong and fled to Shandong, was arranged in Gaomi County.

At this moment, after discussing with Wenwu under his command, Liu Bei decided to assist Zhu Wen and help him win.

The reason why Liu Bei did not help Huang Chao was because Liu Bei also participated in the suppression of the Yellow Turban chaos.

However, when Liu Bei was conceiving the plan, the Liangshan Army led by Song Jiang was also established to assist Huang Chao.

In 621, in early summer and early April, the Liangshan army was preparing to attack from Shouguang and attack the grain road behind Zhu Wen.

But before the plan was implemented, Liu Bei's army had already approached the city and entered the city.

It's just that Liu Bei's army is all Liaodong athletes, and their combat power is sturdy, how can they be compared with the Liangshan army who was born as a bandit?

Therefore, the Liangshan army fell into a disadvantage within a short time of fighting.

After fighting for a long time, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other generals directly attacked the Liangshan Zhongjun.

After a fierce battle, the Liangshan army was defeated, and its military adviser Wu Yongzai died in the rebellion. Song Jiang was knocked off his horse by Zhang Qingfei, the son of Zhang Fei, who had no feather arrow, and was trampled to death by the horse.

As for the winged tiger Lei Heng, he also met Zhang Fei in the army and was killed with a spear.

Zhu Dian, who claims to be a beautiful bearded man, also met Guan Yu who was attacking at full speed. Qinglong Yanyue held it high and gave him the head with a single blow!

As a result, the Liangshan Army, which had been active for a long time, completely dissipated under the attack of Liu Beijun.

So far, after Liu Beijun wiped out the Liangshan Army, he also took the opportunity to attack several places in Shandong, set up a separate regime and stand on his own, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight.

With the development of the war situation to such an extent, the land of Shandong also showed a three-legged ending.

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Time is like a white horse passing by, blowing the wind and Buddha, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye!
Within five years, the State of Qi built water canals in its territory, raised soldiers, operated agriculture, and formulated national policies.

After five years of precipitation, the state of Qi has now been reborn, with millions of armors and sufficient food and soldiers!
Of course, Li Tang has secretly accumulated strength over the past few years, and even the land of Henan is under the management of Li Shimin, which is as solid as gold.

In the past five years, Gao Qi also took concubines one after another, such as Mu Guiying, Zhang Ning, and even Lu Lingqi was brought into the harem with Diao Chan's help.

Among them, Yang Yuhuan gave birth to a son for Gao Qi, named An, and Mu Guiying also gave birth to a son for him. Gao's mother saw that his face looked like Gao Qi's when he was young.

Gao Qi followed Gao's mother's will and named him Qi, and Da Qiao also gave birth to a son named Bai.

Lu Lingqi and Zhang Ling each gave birth to a daughter, and Gao Qi named them Juan and Xing respectively.

Not only that, but the eldest grandson Wugou gave birth to a second child for Gao Qi. Gao Qi was very happy and named him Tan.

Zhang Ning and Lu Lingqi thought they would be alienated by Gao Qi if they didn't give birth to a son.

But the fact is that Gao Qi not only didn't alienate her, but had an inexplicable love for her daughter.

In fact, this is Gao Qi's modern thinking. He feels that whether it is a son or a daughter, they are all his own flesh and blood.

Of course, this is what happened in Qi State in the past five years, and there were also changes in Li Tang's internal affairs.

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In the spring of 623 A.D., as Li Shimin opened a mansion in Luoyang to absorb talents, his military prestige became even stronger.

With this move, not only Prince Li Jiancheng felt threatened, but even Li Yuan felt jealous involuntarily.

Therefore, Li Yuan unknowingly alienated Li Shimin and favored Prince Li Jiancheng.

In 624 AD, Li Yuan recalled Li Shimin on the grounds of discussing state affairs, and then prohibited Li Shimin from continuing to manage Luoyang, and kept him in captivity in Chang'an.

In the following time, Li Shimin had no contact with any government or military affairs except in the mansion.

Even the generals under his command were either broken down or exiled, and their power was greatly reduced in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jiancheng, instigated by Li Yuanji, followed the advice of his adviser Wei Zheng and others in order to permanently avoid the disaster, and wantonly suppressed Li Shimin.

In a blink of an eye, Li Shimin had been under house arrest in Chang'an for half a year, and his situation became more and more critical.

Fortunately, Li Shimin married Cai Rong's daughter Chai Ruyi as his wife, thanks to Chai Shao's constant support.

That's why Li Shimin has a bit of status in the court.

As Li Yuan became worse day by day, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were persecuted day after day.

Li Shimin's life has been threatened at this moment.

Therefore, Changsun Wuji, Du Ruhui and other confidants secretly entered the Qin Palace to urge Li Shimin to act as soon as possible!

Finally, in 626 AD, Li Shimin secretly lured the palace guards to surrender and set up an ambush at the gate of Xuanwu Palace.

Catch Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji who are about to go to the court!
Among them, Li Shimin shot and killed Li Jiancheng himself, and his general Hou Junji also killed Li Yuanji.

Immediately afterwards, Li Shimin continued to lead the guards straight into the palace without stopping, threatening Li Yuan to make himself the crown prince.

In desperation, Li Yuan wrote an edict to make Li Shimin the prince with tears in his eyes, and informed all officials.

Immediately after Li Shimin became the crown prince and moved to the East Palace, Chai Ruyi also became the crown prince logically.

Immediately, everyone in the court followed Li Shimin's order!
A few months later, Li Shimin directly moved the court to the East Palace to handle political affairs.

Li Shimin seems to have become the actual emperor of Tang Dynasty.

This palace chaos was also called "Xuanwu Gate Incident" by later generations.

(End of this chapter)