Nu Yalang of Tang Dynasty

He obviously won the battle and received no reward at all, but he was beaten with a military stick in vain, was deprived of military power, and even almost lost his life.

No one else would be able to swallow this breath, let alone Li Tingxiao, who was born in a clan and was arrogant.

Li Tingxiao, who hated Lai Ai very much, secretly found a group of generals in the army. They all gathered together to discuss, and they all believed that Lai Ai was too afraid to fight, which caused the Southern Tang Dynasty to lose the best chance of victory.

So, a group of generals jointly wrote a memorandum, describing the war in Baling and everything that happened in the army, and asked a captain named Jiang Pu to ride a fast horse and send him to Jiankang. city.

Before leaving, Li Tingxiao told Jiang Pu that after entering the capital, he should first contact the clan and the Xian clan, and after gaining their support, he would go to the palace with the memorial to meet the saint.

Jiang Pu knew that the matter was of great importance, so he set off from Baling and rushed all the way without stopping, and arrived at Jiankang as soon as possible.

Jiang Pu first went to find people from the Zongfu and Xian clan and told the truth about everything that happened in Baling.

The clan and nobles in Jiankang City were furious when they heard that Lai Yi was not only afraid of war, but also wanted to execute meritorious ministers, and they denounced him one after another.

Speaking of the clan and the Xianmen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, why are we so disgusted with Lai Yi? We have to turn the time back to the time when King Yong Li Lin rebelled.

When Prince Li Heng fled to the south of the Yangtze River, King Yong Li Lin not only did not dislike him, but also generously gave him money and food. Li Heng was grateful for this.

Later, Yong Wang Li Lin held the letter of appointment given by Li Longji and planned to go to Jiangnan to proclaim himself emperor. Tang Suzong Li Heng refused to give up the throne and sent Lai Ai to lead troops to encircle and suppress him.

As a result, Lai Yi defeated Yong Wang Li Lin's rebels, but before they had time to surrender, Yong Wang Li Lin fled with his whole family out of fear, and finally died in the evil miasma in Lingnan.

As a result, the clan and Xianmen of the Southern Tang Dynasty placed all the blame for King Yong Li Lin's death on Lai Yi, believing that King Yong sent troops for a reason, and Lai Yi forced King Yong to death.

Lai Yi himself was also in trouble, and if he wanted to blame it, it was because King Yong's army was defeated too quickly. Before he even sent an envoy, his subordinates had already defeated the enemy army.

Under this premise, the clan brought Jiang Pu to the palace and asked to see the Holy One.

The current emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty is Tang Daizong Li Yu, who is the eldest son of Tang Suzong Li Heng.

When Li Yu was young, he had fought many victorious battles and was an emperor who knew the military. He knew Lai Yi's abilities, so he had great trust in the latter.

Therefore, when Li Yu first saw the memorial, he didn't care about the criticism of Lai Yi.

However, when Li Yu saw the long list of signed Southern Tang generals behind the memorial, he could not help but pay attention to it.

The fact that so many generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty were dissatisfied with Lai Yi showed that there was indeed a major conflict in the army, which was extremely detrimental to the subsequent war.

Finally, Li Yu decided to adopt the old method used by Li Tang and send a consolation envoy from the palace to Baling to investigate the cause of the matter and appease the generals' emotions.

As for this consolation envoy, Li Yu still inherited the fine traditions of Li Tang and chose an eunuch named Cao Qingfan.

Cao Qingfan was Li Yu's eunuch in charge of inkstones. He was usually responsible for the clerical matters in the imperial study and won the emperor's trust.

This person is smart and eloquent, but he also has many shortcomings of the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty - he is greedy for money and power, relies on his merits to defeat himself, and is afraid of others.

Cao Qingfan took Jiang Pu and the imperial consolation group to Baling Camp.

When Laiyi heard that angels had come from the court to investigate the chaos in the army, his first reaction was that someone had complained to the emperor.

Before setting off, the eunuch Cao Qingfan, who had been in touch with the clan and the Xianmen, came to the Baling camp. The first thing he did was to speak in an official tone, always asking questions about his fear of war.

If you were a "sensible" person, facing the angel from the court, the first thing you have to do is to be submissive, and then you have to send a large amount of wealth to make the eunuch happy, and then nothing will happen.

But who is Lai Yi? His nickname is "Lai Chew Iron". His specialty is his iron head.

After hearing Cao Qingfan's accusation, Lai Yi not only did not admit his mistake, but instead refuted the so-called fear of war based on the current war situation, which made Xuan Weishi embarrassed and unable to step down.

Li Tingxiao, who was listening on the sidelines, suddenly became more courageous when he saw the Xuanwei envoy coming to the army. He stood up and confronted Lai Yi, arguing whether the Southern Tang army should fight Guo Ziyi at this time.

At this time, no matter how stupid Lai Yi was, he could still see that it was Li Tingxiao who reported his case to the court.

It was also from this time that Lai Yi really became murderous towards Li Tingxiao.

After a dispute, the generals who supported Lai Yi and Li Tingxiao each took half.

Some people think that Guo Ziyi should be pursued immediately, forcing him to rush to the battle; others think that the situation of the battle is still unclear and should wait.

After the dispute was fruitless, Cao Qingfan had no choice but to find a way out on his own, comforted the generals, and discussed the matter another day.

In the days that followed, Cao Qingfan frequently met with Li Tingxiao and other generals, seeming to be colluding with the party.

Lai Ai saw that more and more generals in the army supported the decisive battle, and knew that if the situation continued to develop, it might be out of control. At this time, he could no longer hesitate, so he made up his mind and did a big thing.

Lai Ai first ordered Li Tingxiao to resume his duties and lead the troops on the grounds of going on patrol.

While Li Tingxiao was out on inspection, Laigui sent troops to capture him, concluded that Li Tingxiao was guilty of embezzlement of food and wages in the army, and executed him on the spot.

After Li Tingxiao died, no one in the army dared to confront Lai Yi. The original proposal of a decisive battle with Guo Ziyi was completely evaporated.

However, the consequences of Lai Yi's unjust killing of Li Tingxiao were extremely serious.

More and more generals in the Baling Army were dissatisfied with Lai Yi, and many began to write memorials and sue Lai Yi to the court.

As for the Xuanwei envoy Cao Qingfan, he was also frightened by Lai Yi's thunderous method. He almost escaped from the Baling camp and rushed back to the palace to report to the emperor.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing Cao Qingfan talk about what happened in the Baling camp in an exaggerated manner, Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yu also began to doubt Qi's ability to manage the army.

First they were afraid of fighting, then they argued, then they killed their subordinates in vain. In the end, the conflicts within the entire Baling Army had intensified to the point where they were about to break out.

With the testimony of the eunuch Cao Qingfan, the memorial of the general of the Baling Army, and the support of the clan, Li Yu began to believe that Lai Yi was no longer suitable to lead the army.

Therefore, Li Yu immediately issued an imperial edict, removing Lai Yi from his command and requiring him to immediately return to Jiankang City to face the Holy Spirit.

When this imperial edict arrived in Baling, Guo Ziyi's army had already retreated to Jiangcheng and began to cross the river. Under the command of Lai Yi, the Southern Tang army began to regain the land once occupied by the Northern Tang army and pushed the front towards Jiangcheng.

In other words, the war situation has reached its most critical moment.

At this juncture, Lai Yi suddenly received an imperial edict from the imperial court, requiring him to immediately hand over his military power and go to Jiankang to meet the Holy Spirit.

Lai Yi thought about the court's order for a long time and made perhaps the most wrong decision in his life.

He wrote a memorial explaining the current war situation, and said that Guo Ziyi was using his troops in a deceitful way. Although he was withdrawing his troops, he most likely had backup, so a temporary change of commander might not be conducive to the subsequent war.

This memorial contains more than a thousand words.

Lai Yi thought he had clearly written down the current predicament and the reasons why the commander should not be changed due to the urgent war. However, after the memorial arrived in Jiankang, Emperor Li Yu read the entire letter and only saw four words - refuse to hand over military power.

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Whether he is afraid of fighting or does not get along with his subordinates, in Li Yu's opinion, these are all trivial matters.

However, disobeying the decree and refusing to hand over military power completely violated the emperor's bottom line.