Hebei Road, Yuzhou, Yaoerling,
A general with gray beard and weathered face appeared in the misty mountain road with an isolated and unconcealed fatigue and fatigue.
He is the general who once officially worshiped the governor of Yuzhou, the guardian of Yunzhou and the recruitment of the camp of Taiyuan, and the army envoy of the three tribes of Shatuo, Li Guochang, also known as Zhu Xiechixin. Now he is carrying his only spare son, nickname. Li Keyong of "Flying Tiger" flees lifelessly on the road of exile.
Although he led the Shatuo athletes to make the first contribution in the suppression of Pang Xun’s rebellion as a city general in the past, Tang Yizong Xiantong ten years {869}, was given the national surname by Tang Tingjia official Jinjue Li, named Guochang in the Han Dynasty, with the word Dexing, bestowed on the official residence of Qinrenli in the capital city; he worshipped Shanyu Daduhu, Jiedu Envoy of Zhenwu Army, and Xuzhou Observation Envoy, and became one of the new forces in the Hedong system.
But only three years later, because Sha Tuo Su was strong, there was a gap between the neighbors, and Li Guochang relied on his merits, and was relocated by the imperial court to become Yunzhou Governor and Datong Army defensive envoy. Li Guochang claimed that he was sick and refused to order. In Daibei, the de facto self-employment side. It was only because of the subsequent collapse of Tang Yizong that national affairs were in turmoil, and Tang Ting had no time to take care of it for the time being.
Then in the third year of Emperor Qianfu of the Tang Dynasty {876}, his son Li Ke used to kill the Yunzhou defense envoy Duan Wenchu and asked himself to stay for the Datong defense envoy; this time he finally angered the declining Tang Dynasty with the last bit of majesty and confidence. .
As a result, in October of the following year, the fourth year of Qianfu, {877}, the long-awaited conquest from the imperial court came out suddenly, for the reason and reason that he was increasingly arrogant and refused to accept Wang Hua; he appointed Lu Jianfang, a servant Zhenwu Jiedushi, together with You and the soldiers of the two states, defeated Shatuo. When Lu Jianfang arrived in Lanzhou, the local army was disintegrated, so Shatuo took the opportunity to occupy the Shuzhou area north of Daizhou, which was called the border trouble of the Tang Dynasty.
In the fifth year of Qianfu {878 AD}, Shatuo first defeated the Captive Army and then the Kelan Army. The Tang Army was defeated several times, and Shatuo's power became stronger and stronger. The north occupied Wei and Shuo states, and the south invaded Xin and Dai. , Lan, Shi and other places, directly to Taigu.
Until the sixth year of Qianfu, under the three-way attack of Zhaoyi Jiedu Li Jun, Lu Long Jiedu Li Keju, and Tuyuhun Governor Helianduo, Li Guochang’s younger brother Li Youjin surrendered to Li Zhuo with Wei and Shuo. Li Keyong, who took the initiative to lead the headquarter to fight, was defeated;
From then on, the tribes and foundations he was relying on were almost completely empty. Except for the eldest son who was killed with him, his other wives, concubines, children, and tribe’s subordinates have almost all fallen into the siege of three soldiers and horses.
This incident also made many people, including Li Guochang, realize one thing again. Although Datang was already in decline and it was difficult to conceal its decline, it was obviously not a matter of tidying up the leader of Fanluo in this area.
Therefore, at the end of his journey, he had to cross the mountains north of Yanmen on the way of exile, and went to one of the nine Tatar surnames west of Yinshan Mountain, where he was related by marriage, in order to seek temporary shelter and a place to live.
Of course, he also stayed in the wind, frost, rain and snow outside the Great Wall by fate, and he never had a chance to step into the Central Plains until he died.
As his most proud eldest son, Li Keyong, after several years of living together and dormant in the future, he will also bring the re-recruited athletes outside the Great Wall and the borrowed soldiers and horses to return to the place where he was spared. With a different look, he stepped onto the stage of history, and started a new journey and history.
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In the newly renovated Jingshan Pavilion in Runzhou, Jiangdong Road {now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu}, the precious incense curls and sings around.
As one of the few imperial generals and famous marshals in the late Tang Dynasty, he came to prominence many years ago when he put down Fengzhou Barbarian in order to regain the land of Annan Jiaozhou {now Hanoi, Vietnam} occupied by the Nanzhao Army, and also because he was based in Xichuan. Nanzhao defeated Nanzhao in the Dadu River and forced him to invite and retreat, and the famous Tang humerus and pilaster ministers,
Silkworm eyebrows, thin eyes, silver hair, cream beard, and a bit of a fairy wind, at the age of fifty-eight years old, but still like a slack knot, the extraordinarily strong Zhenhai Jiedu Shi Gao Pian, also in a kind of convincing expression, listen to the front The alchemist used the elegant voice and accent of the Taoist school to practice qi and health, and consulted and discussed from time to time, which is known as the method of internal and external Dancheng of Xiuxian.
He was born in the famous "Bohai Gao clan" of Shandong. His ancestors can be traced back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Gao clan of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He is also the grandson of Nanping Jun Wang Gao Chongwen, a famous general in Tang Xianzong period.
Therefore, in adulthood, he used Men Yin, the capital Yuhou of the army, the governor of Qinzhou, and the protector of Annan. He was transferred to Tianping, Xichuan, Jingnan, Zhenhai, and other towns Jiedu. It can also be said that in terms of seniority and merit, they are among the few middle-class figures in the country.
In addition, although he is a martial artist and good in literature, he was called the "Luo Diao Shi Yu" by the time, and his famous works of "Poetic sentiment is upright and good is Zhuang language", and he is listed as one of the contemporary poets;
In addition to regaining Annan, Dingxichuan, and expelling Nanzhao's martial arts in his life, he also has many local cultural achievements; one of the most famous achievements is the establishment of the first and only connecting sea canal-the Tanpeng Canal. . From Annan Jiaozhou {now Hanoi, Vietnam} to Yongzhou and Guangzhou, there were many hidden reefs on the sea route, which caused the ship to hit the reef and sink. At that time, Jinghai Jiedi asked Gao Pian to recruit artisans to scavenge the hidden reefs, so that sea transportation would not be blocked.
But compared to his methods of governance and the use of troops, the same famous method of ghosts and gods in the army.
It is said that before he started the army in his early years, he had to wear robes and open the altar to defend his anger, and set the paper man and paper horse as a spiritual soldier. He could only leave the camp after reciting a few words of blessing. Therefore, it was passed down word of mouth by the subordinates and the people under the rule as "Gao Laoxian" and "Gao Xian Weng".
It's just that as the years get older, the way of ghosts and gods that used to be mysterious in the army has been replaced by the way of the immortal family's practice of prolonging life and seeking blessings that seems to be more prominent;
It’s just that Gao Pian has been nearly sixty years old and feels more and more mentally insufficient. The accumulated wounds and old illnesses left over from the past have also begun to trouble his body. Even acupuncture and moxibustion can only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, but emphasizes calm and calm conditioning. .
And Xiuxian asked Dao gradually became an important sustenance under the increasingly aging mentality. For this reason, he did not hesitate to search ancient books for appreciation, and widely accepted contemporary strange alchemists to follow him.
As a result, he used this to show the imperial court a certain intention to avoid suspicion, as well as dissatisfaction and indirect protest in disguise, as well as the willingness to temporarily escape the harassment of the world and disputes with the court. After all, as a commander who guarded the imperial court’s wealth and wealth in the southeast and only had the ability to conquer, his every move also affected the attention of the imperial court, as well as the trend of many followers and interest groups.
And what he is most dissatisfied with is undoubtedly that after he had just defeated the grass thieves headed by Huang Ni and suffered countless surrenders, he was suddenly ordered by the imperial court to ensure the southeast heavy ground, and strictly restrained his subordinates from continuing to cross the Great Yuling Mountains. And went south to pursue it.
This time, it was no surprise that he got the news that Guangzhou had fallen. He only slightly rolled his slender and irritable eyebrows, and his neat and snowy beard was slightly blown up; he deserved it in some kind of invisibility. Under such complex emotions that were so irritating, after wandering and entangled for a while, he threw it aside, sighing "I was disturbed by foreign objects again", and then continued to immerse and invest in the so-called path of detachment. In the middle.
Of course, his heart is not as calm and unwavering as it seems. In fact, he still has a bit of complicated mood as if the gangster went south to Guangzhou; there are both the tragic regrets and regrets of the rabbit and the dead fox, but also It was a little bit relieved to be gloating.
Regrettably and regrettably, the death and thieves of Li Zhao, who was the culprit of the Lingdong Jiedu. In terms of the friends and colleagues he can think of more in his military career, even if he is one of the few, he is still in the protection of Annan. The governor became familiar with him, and he was also an important coordinator and coordinator of the grass thieves strangling strategy he pursued.
Although his previous claim was to ask the court to recruit Huang Ni, the leader of the grass thieves, but in fact it was only to preserve the Lingnan land and dispatch troops for the court, and he carried out a delaying strategy of delaying troops. It was also the original division of the king {仙The wisdom of the two thieves, Zhi, Huang {Nest}, was dictated by their wisdom; but in the end, they were martyred for the country because of the party disputes of the court and the selfishness of some people.
But for the result of Guangzhou's fall, there is a faint attitude and meaning of being happy to see it happen;
After all, when Wang rebelled against Changheng in the Central Plains, Henan, the neighboring towns almost sat on their own and did not support each other, unless the grass thief came to the door and took the initiative to ask for the attack, so that it originally started in one place. The grass thieves of the land were able to control nearly the eastern capital with great difficulty, and caused Gyeonggi to shake and spread the decree that the localities would suppress them.
As a result, there was another Pinglu Jiedu envoy Song Wei who was very happy with his accomplishments. All the soldiers and horses attacked arrogance and took credit. After several victories, he claimed to have killed the grass thief and rebelled against the king, and dismissed the imperial court. Finally, the soldiers and horses gathered together were strictly ordered, so that the rest of the grass thieves fled to the sky and raged across the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty.
It was not until the Prime Minister Wang Duo offered an order to divide the King and Huang Erni, and then took the Prime Minister Zeng Yuanyu as the deputy commander of the army and the army. He was able to coordinate and control the soldiers and horses of various places, and the Wang Ni, who was gradually desperate, would wipe out the land of Huangmei in Jingnan. Then the yellow thief and its remnants rose again, crossing the Yangtze River and raging in Jiangdong, Liangzhe and other roads, where they could not be controlled.
In these days, he is the only veteran who is still loyal to the country and is in danger, regardless of his age, he still follows the imperial orders to run north and south, and tries his best to kill the king and Huang Erni all the way. The flames and chaos have been broken repeatedly and many have been brought down.
The cadres of the country who are so loyal to the king’s affairs, but before the completion of their achievements, because of the will of the court, they were forced to restrain themselves to the thieves. They could only sit and watch the fall and the thieves outside the ridge. This could not help him. The old man who has been fighting for many years without changing his mind at first also feels cold and eccentric.
"My heart to hear the Tao is still not strong enough."
Therefore, after a long time, Gao Pian stood up and said with feelings
"It's been messed up by the thief's inquiry"
"Ling Gong always has national affairs in mind, it is the blessing of Li Shu in the world"
The gentle and elegant Taoist who is talking is an exhortation.
"The method of seeking the Taoist immortal class is also supplemented by Xu's great merit and great virtue..."
"But you might as well delay Gao Gong at this time..."
After Gao Pian sighed helplessly and temporarily left this solemn and elegant place, it was too late to undress and summoned him privately downstairs. His most trusted confidant now attacked Zhang Lin.
To say that he had a lot of effective generals in his early battles, but the most important thing is the one in front of him, especially after he is getting older and it is gradually inconvenient for the army to work hard, the love general Zhang Lin gradually He served as the incarnation and important role of the will to act in front of the army. A few months ago, he defeated the battle of Da Yu Ling under Huang Chao's tribe, and it was also completed under his actual leadership.
"The grass thief is below Guangzhou..."
Gao Pian gave such an understatement, as if he was telling an ordinary household trivial matter.
"You must also keep an eye on the movements of the newly arrived teachers in Runzhou, Jinshan, and Jiaping..."
"He is a scorpion, a snake, a stinging beetle for a long time, and occasionally orders to turn and return to vote. If you can use it, you must not prevent it..."
"Therefore, as long as there are a few rumors and actions, Xu Yiya's former army has the right to be cheap."
"It's time to catch or kill, needless to say something..."
"Whether it is Mo Xie Du or Knock Du, they are not for display."
"But please rest assured."
Zhang Lin, who was sturdy and dignified, raised his hands and looked like a wolf, and suddenly raised a gift in reply.
"When you live up to your trust..."
At the same time, in Zhenjiang City, a down-and-out middle-aged alchemist named Lu Yongzhi also moved into the Taoist Temple Chonghua View funded by the Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy under the introduction of his fellow villagers, and began an important life transition after his life was lost. . (End of this chapter)