Chapter Thirteen: The Great Hero Wang Junkuo
The fish talisman is also the tiger talisman, because it is necessary to avoid the taboo of Li Hu, the ancestor of the Li family. The tiger talisman was changed to a fish talisman.
Since ancient times, the tiger talisman has been a military talisman for dispatching troops. It is made of bronze or gold to form a token in the shape of a subduing tiger. It is split into two halves, half of which are handed over to the generals and the other half is preserved by the emperor. Only two tiger talismans are used together at the same time. The talisman holder will obtain the power to dispatch troops. As the commander of Youzhou, Li Yuan is responsible for guarding the northern border and also holds the fish talisman in his hand. He handed the fish talisman to Wang Junkuo, which is tantamount to entrusting the military power of Youzhou.
Wang Jungu, who held military power, was floating and had military power in his hands. I had the spirit of the world. He said loudly: "My father-in-law seized Cui Dunli. Although this incident has not been reported, Chang'an will not receive news about Cui Dunli for a long time. He will be alert and respond and send troops to the east. If the court moves troops, we will lose the first move. Now, taking advantage of the court's institution, the uprising is urgent and unprepared. It is possible to succeed. Jungu is not talented and is treated well by his father-in-law. He is willing to act as a front-runner, smash it to pieces and die before he dies."
Li Yuan was very moved by Wang Junkuo's words and sighed: "I am entrusting my life to my son-in-law with my life... It depends on my son-in-law."
"Son-in-law is going to cook Cui Dunli now, mobilize the troops, don't worry, father-in-law." Wang Jungu said with high spirits, glanced at Wang Lishi, and strode out of the hall.
Li Yuan also looked at Wang Lishe and said, "You have seen it too. It's not that I want to rebel now, but that Li Shimin's yellow-mouthed child is narrow-minded and unable to tolerate me... I have to rebel."
Wang Lishe sighed: "At this point, it's as General Wang said. It's true that the arrow is on the string. But his subordinates think that General Wang is brave and brave, but his nature is repetitive and unreliable. He is not calm enough in dealing with people. It is too dangerous to entrust all the soldiers and horses to him. It's better to divide half of the soldiers and general Wang Shi. One of them is calm and the other is brave, and they can make up for each other. What Wang Junkuo said is indeed desensive, but how much strength can we fight hard with the court?"
Li Yuan was timid by nature. She was forced to "rebel". Faced with Wang Jungu's righteousness, she regarded it as the only life-saving straw. She entrusts everything.
Now that I think about it carefully, I regret it and quickly agreed: "It's reasonable that I was confused for a moment. I turned around and asked Wang Junkuo and General Wang Shu to take charge of the troops to deal with the current crisis. The strength of the court is ten times that of us, but I don't know what can I do to deal with it?"
Wang Lishe pondered for a while and said, "Your Highness's uprising, despite the cause and effect, did not obey the imperial edict and sent large troops. In the eyes of the people of the world, it is undoubtedly a rebellion. Not to mention the response of others, even the prefects in Youzhou may not obey the orders. The first thing we must guard against is not the court far away in Chang'an. But the commanders in Youzhou who are unwilling to initiate a rebellion with Your Highness."
When Li Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but feel worried.
Wang Lishe continued: "For the current plan, we can only win over Shandong heroes. Most of the Shandong heroes were used by Dou Jiande and Liu Heita in the past. Dou Jiande and Liu Heita were defeated. Most of them were dereliction of duty for the people, and it was difficult to show their ambitions and were resentful. If the prince spoke in a letter, he would like to regain their old positions and entrusted them with important tasks. They would be willing to drive in order to win the hearts of the people and make Shandong respond. They could also order Wang Shi to connect Goguryeo and two to occupy half of the Hebei region of Youzhou and Hebei, and then to plan other things. This is the strategy of peace, rather than advancing rampantly and attacking Guanzhong to confront the Tang Dynasty head-on."
When Li Yuan heard this, he felt relieved and said loudly: "Wang Zongjun is really my son's house. I will now send Wang Junkuo to let him act according to his plan."
When the order was conveyed to Wang Jungu, he was arranging people to imprison Cui Dunli and torture him strictly.
He himself did not show up, but he ordered the torture person to be severely punished and asked Cui Dunli about Chang'an. He sat leisurely in the secret room next to the torture room, enjoying the refreshments, playing with the tiger talisman in his hand, listening to the miserable screams next door, and feeling like listening to the wonderful music on his face. Thinking of his step-by-step plans, gradually realizing them, and his whole body became more and more excited.
Thinking of becoming a great hero who is about to seek rebellion, I am admired by thousands of people and named a marquis and generals, the feeling is truly supreme and wonderful.
"Sir, that Cui Dunli's mouth is so tight that she has fainted!"
The door opened, and a middle-aged fat man with a ferocious face and a deep scar on his face walked in.
Wang Junkuo said, "I am not nervous, but I am in a dilemma. Go, wake him up with water and torture him with all means. Remember, don't let him die, he will be of great use to me... If he can't stand the torture and intends to compromise and reveal the news, then he will be incredible. By the way, there is a hundred-year-old ginseng here, which I specially bought from someone in Northeast China. Your mother will be sick for a long time and use him to replenish her body."
"Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you." The fat middle-aged man knelt on the ground with gratitude, kowtowed three times, carefully hid the ginseng in his arms, and said ferociously: "Torturing people is my strength. I promise that this man surnamed Cui can't survive or die." As he said that, he licked his chapped lips and walked out.
At this moment, Wang Junkuo received Li Yuan's latest appointment.
When he sent off the messenger, Wang Junkuo's originally proud face instantly became ferocious: "Wang Lishe, it must be Wang Lishe who convinced Li Yuan... The bastard has ruined my good deeds and will never forgive you! No, you can't let the military power be handed over to Wang Shu. That guy has a slight rift with me. If he has a scourge to give half of the military power to him, he will make a mistake and will become a rebellious at that time..." Thinking of being an enemy of Li Shimin, Wang Junkuo felt chilling: he has followed Li Shimin for many years and knows how terrifying the ability of the Qin King in the past and the current crown prince in military strategy are.
"I have to start first!"
Wang Junkuo said to himself, a hint of sharpness flashed in his eyes. He was decisive and ruthless in his work, and did whatever he thought of, without any drag. He gathered the generals of Youzhou with the military talisman in his hand, and used more than a thousand confidant soldiers as a backup.
Wang Shi had just arrived in Ji County, Youzhou and was about to visit Li Yuan, but learned that Wang Junguo led the crowd and hurriedly came to greet him.
Because of the military power, he and Wang Junkuo had some gaps between them, but Wang Shu was ordered to rush to the palace. The letter did not write down the reason in detail, but repeatedly expressed the urgent situation, thinking that something unpredictable had happened, and did not think about anything else, and wanted to understand the situation earlier.
"General Wang..." Before he could finish his words, he saw that the big knife around Wang Jungu's waist had been unsheathed and was drawn into the air.
Wang Junkuo was known as the Wang Dadao, and was second only to Luo Shixin, Yuchi Jingde, and Qin Qiong in the Tang Dynasty. This big sword broke through the sky and was extremely powerful.
Wang Shi claimed to be a Confucian general and joined the army with his literary skills. His martial arts were inferior to ordinary soldiers. How could he resist Wang Dadao's big sword... His huge head soared into the sky, and blood sprinkled.
Even if he died, Wang Shi didn't know why he died or why he died.
Wang Junkuo's confidant soldiers looked as usual, but Wang Junkuo, a group of generals from Youzhou, actually killed the meritorious governor in public, and immediately got uproar and spoke in shock. The bravest one even shouted and asked: "Wang Junkuo, are you crazy?"
Wang Jungu ignored his shouts and raised his bloody sword and said: "I found out that the King of Lujiang colluded with Wang Shi to seize the imperial envoy Cui Dunli, a communist of the court, and secretly mobilized his troops and planned to rebel. My Wang Jungu was born in the Tang Dynasty and died as a ghost of the Tang Dynasty. He would never be a member of the traitor and rebel king of Lujiang. Now Wang Shi has been punished by me, and only Li Yuan is left, so it is difficult to do anything. Are you willing to follow the Li Yuanju family to be killed, or follow me to gain wealth and loyalty to the Tang Dynasty?"
When the generals around him heard this, all of them looked dissatisfied.
Especially the general who said Wang Junguo was crazy, when he heard that Wang Shu was actually a thief, he was so scared that he knelt on one knee and said, "I am willing to follow the general to protect my Tang Dynasty and fight against the thief."
More than a thousand soldiers and horses sharpened their swords, and the generals in Youzhou still hesitated at all. They all expressed their intention to fight against the rebels with Wang Junkuo.
Wang Junkuo led the generals and entered the dungeon first.
He kicked open the door of the cell!
The middle-aged fat man was carving a scarlet soldering iron on Cui Dunli. Hearing the inhuman scream, he suddenly heard the sound of being kicked at the door. He was so scared that he was frightened. He was about to be furious, but he turned around but saw that it was Wang Jungu. He was happy on his face and was about to speak, but he felt a suffocating breath coming...
Another head soared into the sky.
Wang Jungu looked at Cui Dunli's whip marks, his fingers were covered in blood, and his flesh on his body exuded a pungent burnt smell. Tears as big as beans rolled down, and he called out with emotion: "Mr. Cui, I'm late."
Cui Dunli was weak and half open his eyes, and said intermittently and weakly: "How is the situation..."
Wang Junkuo said: "I have instigated most generals in Youzhou and killed Wang Shen, and now Li Yuan is the only one left."
The surrounding generals saw the envoys coming to the court who really made Li Yuan torture like this, and they were all filled with righteous indignation, saying that they would not be with Li Yuan.
"Okay, it's great! Hurry, don't worry about me, go and capture the leader of the thief, so as not to... go and make trouble." Cui Dunli also looked at Wang Junguo excitedly and said with his remaining strength.
Wang Junguo looked at Cui Dunli cautiously and said, "Sir, rest with peace of mind. Even if I, Wang Junguo, fight to the death, I, must do my best to prevent civil strife." As he said, he stalked up and led more than a thousand people to the Lujiang King's Mansion with righteousness.
Li Yuan, the king of Lujiang, did he expect that his most trusted son-in-law was an ungrateful wolf. Before he could cause trouble, he had planned the way to betrayal...
In the end, Li Yuan was confused and asked Wang Junguo to lead the generals of Youzhou, rush into the palace, strangled Li Yuan, the King of Lujiang, and killed Wang Lishe. Under the witness of the envoy Cui Dunli and the generals of Youzhou, Wang Junguo became the most important contributor to quell the rebellion and made a great achievement that shocked the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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