Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 505 The Army of Beifu Attacks and Kills Li Jing (Subscribe)

Although there is no detailed record, we can make a side inference.

Compared to what you have seen, with the contributions of several ministers and Li Shimin's wisdom, Hou Junji should have done something that was almost as important to him as the Xuanwumen Incident.

The effect of the Xuanwumen incident was to resolve the threat from Prince Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin had no rivals for power succession.

When Li Shimin takes over the power, is it enough to get rid of the brothers who are direct competitors? It is still a little bit worse, that is, the current controller of power has not reached the time when he must hand over power.

If Li Yuan did not hand over the position of emperor, then this operation would not be considered a success, and no one could guarantee whether he would do anything to Li Shimin.

But the ending we saw was that Li Yuan became the Supreme Emperor, and Li Shimin succeeded in ascending the throne.

Then when Li Yuan handed over the throne, someone must have played a role in it, and he forced Li Yuan to make the choice to abdicate.Li Shimin himself just cut off the competitors, but this person helped to bring the matter to an end, and his contribution is as great as that of Fang Xuanling, Wei Chi Jingde and others.

Therefore, the author believes that it is very likely that Hou Junji was the one who persecuted Li Yuan, and it was his actions that made Li Shimin's road to power transfer finally realized.

Of course, because of this incident, it was not a glorious experience for Li Yuan and Li Shimin, and it is not convenient to record in the history books. This may be the secret of Hou Junji's superficial meritorious service, but was listed as a first-class hero.

It was precisely because of this that Li Shimin introduced Hou Junji as his confidant, and it was precisely this kind of confidant's promise that made Li Shimin always favor Hou Junji, even if he rebelled, Li Shimin would still give Hou Junji Set a way to survive.

"Hou Junji, look at you. Are you still human? Even now, His Majesty still wants to save your life. Why don't you want to repay His Majesty's kindness to you?"

Cheng Yaojin said that he was extremely angry.

However, looking at Hou Junji under the palace wall, he looked at the people on the palace wall with a disdainful expression and said: "I, Hou Junji, have fought all my life and made great achievements in the Tang Dynasty.

From the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he followed you Qin Wang Li Shimin to fight in the east and west, and made outstanding achievements.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing attacked Tuyuhun, and I, Hou Junji, served as the marching commander of Jishi Road.

At the beginning of the war, due to Tuyuhun Khan Murong Fuyun's defense policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, several Tang troops surrendered to Shanzhou due to insufficient supplies.

At this time, Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, the general manager of the Shanzhou Road, proposed, "Bohai is near the source of the river, and there has never been one in ancient times. Fu Yun went west, and he didn't know where it was. Fang Ma was short of food, and it was difficult to go far. It is better to follow the army in Shanzhou. , Xu Ma Zhuang plans more."

Again, it was I, Hou Junji, who thought it was wrong, and it was I, Hou Junji, who advocated pursuing the enemy with elite soldiers while they were not paying attention.

This proposal was supported by coach Li Jing.Sure enough, Li Daozong quickly caught up with Fu Yun and returned after defeating Fu Yun.Later, Li Jing's army was divided into two groups, and Li Daozong and I were in charge of the southern battlefield.

Finally, Li Jing, Li Daliang and others went north, and Li Jing's troops chased Xue Wanche and others to the depths of Toulon (now the Taklamakan Desert), successfully ending the war.

This war is the greatest force that I, Hou Jun, have put together.

In addition, Ju Wentai, the king of Gaochang, caused chaos on the border, often detaining merchants and tribute envoys from the Western Regions who went to the Tang Dynasty through Gaochang, and secretly colluded with the Turks to attack Yiwu, another Western Region vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

Soon, he and the Turkic company attacked Yanqi, another vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and took three cities, and took all the men and women captive.

King Yanqi filed a complaint, and then you, Li Shimin, were furious.

In the 14th year of Zhenguan, I, Hou Junji, was the general manager of Jiaohe Road, and led the Zuotunwei General Xue Wanjun and others to conquer the Turks and other Western Regions with tens of thousands of attached troops.This is Tang's first large-scale long-distance deep-penetration operation in the Western Regions, and the difficulty of supplying it can be imagined.

But I, Hou Junji, overcame all obstacles for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, and made the impossible possible. Afterwards, I went to the city of Gaochang and marched forward with the whole army in full gear.

The soldiers of Gaochang gathered in Tiandi City, and the walls of the city were strong and thick. At first, the people of Gaochang still fortified the city for self-defense.

But it was quickly broken by me, and more than 7000 men and women were captured.Then, the army moved forward and approached the capital Gaochang.Ju Zhisheng had no choice but to write a letter begging for mercy, saying, "The one who committed the crime against the Son of Heaven is the former king, and now he died without punishment.

I wrote back: "If you can repent, you should surrender!"

But who knows, Ju Zhisheng still refused to surrender, so I immediately dispatched troops to attack the rest of the city and destroy Gaochang, and returned with the captive King Gaochang, soldiers, and carved stones.In this expedition, 3 counties, 5 counties, and 22 cities of Gaochang were visited, with a population of 3.77 and 4300 horses. The country is 800 miles from east to west and 500 miles from north to south.

Exterminating Gaochang, I opened the door to the Western Regions for the Tang Dynasty. But what I got in exchange was indeed something. The army returned to Beijing, and the censors reported the impeachment memorial early. No matter how great the credit, rewards and punishments should be divided. Not red carpets and triumphal tunes, but the National Hell.

Li Shimin. I have done my utmost to you. You are the one who has been killing donkeys. Today’s battle is inevitable. I miss you, my master and servant. Go and kill yourself. I will leave you a whole body. "

After finishing speaking, Hou Jun gathered his horses and turned around and shouted: "In the time of a stick of incense, Li Shimin's body can't be seen. The whole army attacked and slaughtered [-]% of the palace!"

Li Shimin sighed slightly, then shook his head: "It turns out that I am so unbearable in your heart!"

Your Majesty, Cheng Yaojin looked gently at Li Shimin who was on the side. After hearing Cheng Yaojin's voice, Li Shimin showed a wry smile on his face and said, "Knowing the festival, send a signal. After a stick of incense, surround the rebels, but don't Too much killing, I don't want to see cannibalism."

"Follow the order!"

Cheng Yaojin bowed, and then Cheng Yaojin saw Li Shimin leave the palace wall in a daze. To be honest, it was the first time Cheng Yaojin saw Li Shimin's dazed look at this time.

Because the Li Shimin that Cheng Yaojin saw before were all high-spirited, when did he see Li Shimin in such a mess, after all, Li Shimin was really heartbroken.

The time for one stick of incense is about 10 minutes. Once the time for one stick of incense is up, Hou Junji saw that Jiucheng Palace was still closed and knew that Li Shimin would not kill himself. Ordered to attack the city.

The city wall of Jiucheng Palace is not very high, that is, about five or six meters, because this is not a military important place, but a place to escape from the summer heat, so it is useless to build a high city wall, and the five or six meter high city wall is really short.

Hou Junji sent 1 people to attack directly for the first attack, and Hou Junji also knew that 1 people would not be able to attack, so he organized 5 people into a team of [-] people.

A team of 3 people will attack for half an hour, and after half an hour, the second team will go up again, and after another half an hour, the third team will go up again. With this wheel tactic, the [-] people in Jiucheng Palace will be consumed.

And at the same time, Hou Junji also began to cut down trees to make siege equipment, vowing to capture Jiucheng Palace before dawn.

Of course, if there were no accidents, Li Shimin's 3 people would not last until dawn in the face of such a wheel battle. Hou Junji had already determined that he was very sure of this battle.

However, when Hou Junji's [-] troops were preparing to attack Jiucheng Palace, a [-] army led by Li Jing appeared around his [-] troops. Holland's [-] troops have been secretly wiped out.

Among them, Yin Hongzhi's army has to resist for a while. After all, Yin Hongzhi's army and Datang's army are not many. Most of them are Yin Hongzhi's private soldiers and some reckless borrowed by Yin Hongzhi, so they will resist, but This resistance lasted for a while.

Li Jing directly dispatched his strongest cavalry to massacre, and killed less than 1000 people. Yin Hongzhi's people all surrendered. As for the [-] Eastern Palace Six soldiers led by Du He, after seeing Li Jing, they turned their backs.

Most of the soldiers in the sixth rate of the East Palace were Tang soldiers who used to follow Li Jing. Li Jing used to be their coach, so after seeing the coach Li Jing, who would have objections and surrendered directly.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin is a little afraid of Li Jing. This army is led by you, and it is a terrible thing to betray you when you see it.

Of course, that's another story.

After Yin Hongzhi and Du He were arrested, Li Jingyi was bold enough to directly incorporate 2 of their troops into his own army, so now Li Jing has about 9 people, and he directly recruited Hou Junji's army Surrounded.

Unlike Hou Junji, Li Jing's army has a complete range of weapons, armor, and long-range weapons, all of which are several times more expensive than Hou Junji's army, because Hou Junji's army was able to go into battle lightly. , did not attract too much attention, so the amount of weapons and armor carried was very small, and even siege equipment had to be temporarily built.

But Li Jing is different, the army is fully armed, it is like two middle-aged men confronting a young man, at this time Hou Junji has no chance of winning at all, and Hou Junji is also very straightforward, when he knows that he has no chance of winning, Directly let his [-] Beifu troops rush to kill Li Jing's Chinese army, and they will kill Li Jing before they die.

The Beifu army was also brave, directly protecting Hou Junji and killing Li Jing's central army tent, the 200 Beifu soldiers died and less than [-] remained. At this moment, two people walked out from the side of Li Jing's tent, One was named Xue Rengui and the other was named Su Dingfang.

The two generals each brought 3000 people to besiege and kill them.

This scene made Hou Junji smile miserably, and then he picked up the sword in his hand and prepared to kill himself, but at the critical moment, Xue Rengui knocked down the sword in his hand with an arrow, and was then captured by Su Dingfang.

At the moment when Hou Junji was captured, the rebellion finally ended officially, but it just ended here at Jiucheng Palace, and then Li Shimin issued an imperial edict to return to Chang'an.

Five hours after the imperial decree was issued, Fang Xuanling led a large number of troops to surround the Chang'an Palace, and then Fang Xuanling and Li Junxian walked into the Ganlu Hall.

(End of this chapter)