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

Compared to what you have seen, the contributions of several ministers and Li Shimin's wisdom, Hou Junji should have done something similar to the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

The role of the Xuanwu Gate incident was to resolve the threat from Prince Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin had no competitors in the inheritance of power.

Is it enough to take over power only by solving the brothers of direct competitors? It is still a little bit worse, that is, the current controller of power has not reached the time when power must be handed over.

If Li Yuan did not hand over the position of emperor, then this action would not be successful. No one could guarantee whether he would attack Li Shimin.

But the ending we see is that Li Yuan became the Supreme Emperor and Li Shimin succeeded in taking office.

Then, when Li Yuan handed over the throne, someone must have played a role. He forced Li Yuan to make the choice to abdicate. Li Shimin himself just cut off the competitors, but this person helped to make the final settlement. The great contribution would not be lower than that of Fang Xuanling, Yuchi Jingde and anyone else.

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

Of course, because of this matter, it is not a glorious experience for Li Yuan and Li Shimin, and it is not convenient to record it in historical books. This may be the secret that Hou Junji had no great achievements on the surface, but was listed as a first-class meritorious official.

It is precisely because of this that Li Shimin attracted Hou Junji as his confidant. It is this confidant's commitment that Li Shimin always favored Hou Junji, and even rebelled, and Li Shimin would give Hou Junji a way out.

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"Hou Junji... Look at you, are you still human? Even now, Your Majesty still wants to save you a life. Why don't you want to repay your kindness to you?"

What Cheng Yaojin said was extremely angry.

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

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

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing attacked Tuyuhun, and my Hou Junji served as the general manager of the Jishi Road.

In the early days of the war, due to the defensive policy of Murong Fuyun of Tuyuhun Khan, several Tang troops were withdrawn from the insurance of Shanzhou due to insufficient supplies.

At this time, Li Daozong, the head of the military commander of Shanzhou Road, proposed, "The cypress sea is near the source of the river, and there has never been anybody who has arrived in ancient times. Fu Yun walked west and was not known to be there. The horses were short of food and could not enter far away. It was better to follow the military state of Shanzhou and need to update the horses and horses to make a plan."

It was me, Hou Junji, who thought it was wrong, but it was me, Hou Junji, who advocated pursuing elite troops while the enemy was not paying attention.

This proposal was supported by coach Li Jing. Sure enough, Li Daozong quickly caught up with Fu Yun and returned with great defeat. Later, Li Jing divided his troops into two groups, and Li Daozong and I were in charge of the battlefield on the southern front.

Finally, Li Jing, Li Daliang and others went north, and Li Jing's general Xue Wanche and others followed Yun to the depths of the Toulon Moraine (now the Takramakan Desert), successfully ending the war.

This war is the greatest force that I, Hou Jun, gathered.

Also... Gaochang King Ju Wentai was in chaos on the border and often detained merchants and tribute envoys from the Western Regions who went to the Tang Dynasty through Gaochang. He secretly colluded with the Turks to attack Yiwu, another Western Region vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

Soon, he and the Turks attacked Yanqi, another vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, conquered the three cities, and captured all the men and women.

King Yanqi submitted a complaint, and then... you, Li Shimin, was furious.

In the 14th year of Zhenguan, Hou Junji, my general of Jiaohedao, led Xue Wanjun, the general of Zuotun Guard, and others to conquer tens of thousands of troops from the Turks and other Western Regions to conquer. This was the first time that the Tang Dynasty fought in a large-scale long-distance battle in the Western Regions, and the difficulty of its supply can be imagined.

However, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, I, Hou Junji, made the impossible possible, and then fought to the city of Gaochang, and the entire army was in a state of decoration and advanced.

Gaochang soldiers gathered in Tiandicheng. The city was strong and the walls were thick. At first, the Gaochang people returned to the city to defend themselves.

But I soon captured more than 7,000 men and women. Then, the army advanced forward and headed towards the capital Gaochang. Ju Zhisheng had no choice but to write a letter to beg for mercy, saying, "Those who are guilty of the emperor are the former kings, and now they are dead without punishment. I am not guilty, so I hope the minister of the Hou and the Minister of State will be merciful.

I replied to the book: "If you can regret it, you should surrender!"

But who knew that Ju Zhisheng refused to surrender, so I immediately dispatched troops to defeat the other cities and destroy Gaochang in a moment, and defeated Gaochang. He took the captured King Gaochang and his soldiers to carve stones and earned merits and returned. This expedition went to 3 counties, 5 counties, and 22 cities in Gaochang, with a population of 37,700, with a horse of 4,300, and a country with 800 miles east and west and 500 miles north and south.

After destroying Gaochang, I opened the door to the Western Regions for the Tang Dynasty... But what did I get? The army returned to Beijing, and the censors had already reported the impeachment memorial. No matter how great the merits were, the rewards and punishments should be divided. What we welcomed to Hou Jun was not the red carpet and triumphal music, but the national prison.

Li Shimin... I have done your best to you. It is you who have been killing the donkey. Today's battle is inevitable. I think of you and my master and servant. Go and commit suicide... I will leave you a whole body."

After saying that, Hou Jun gathered his horse and turned around and shouted, "In a time of incense, Li Shimin's body cannot be seen. The whole army attacked and slaughtered all ninety-year palaces...!"

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

Your Majesty, Cheng Yaojin looked at Li Shimin gently on the side. After hearing Cheng Yaojin's voice, Li Shimin smiled bitterly and said, "You know the truth... send a signal... After a stick of incense, surround the rebels, but don't kill too much, I don't want to see each other killing each other."

"Abide by the order..."

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

Because the Li Shimin that Cheng Yaojin met in the past was full of energy. When did he see Li Shimin so embarrassed? After all, it was Li Shimin who was really heartbroken.

It took about ten minutes to make a stick of incense... When the time for a stick of incense came, Hou Junji saw that the palace gate was still closed and knew that Li Shimin would not commit suicide by himself, so Hou Junji did not take into account the feelings of the monarch and his subjects and directly ordered the city to be attacked.

The city wall of Jiucheng Palace is not very high, which is about five or six meters. Because it is not a military place or a place to escape the summer heat, it is useless to build a high city wall. The city wall that is five or six meters high is really short.

Hou Junji directly sent 10,000 people to attack for the first time, and Hou Junji also knew that 10,000 people could not be captured, so he organized 50,000 people into a team of 5,000 people.

A team of ten thousand people attacked for half an hour. After half an hour, the second team would go on again. After another half an hour, the third team would go on again. Using this wheel tactic, it would consume 90,000 people in the palace.

And at the same time, Hou Junji also began to cut down trees to build siege equipment, vowing to take down Jiujing Palace before dawn.

Of course, if there were no accidents, Li Shimin's 30,000 people would not last until dawn in the face of such a wheel battle. Hou Junji had already confirmed that he had a great grasp of this war.

But man's plan is not as good as God's plan. Just when Hou Junji's 10,000 army was about to attack Jiucheng Palace, a 70,000 army led by Li Jing appeared around his 50,000 army, and at this time, Yin Hongzhi and Du He's 20,000 army had been secretly annihilated.

Among them, Yin Hongzhi's army had to resist. After all, Yin Hongzhi's army had not many troops in the Tang Dynasty. Most of them were Yin Hongzhi's private soldiers and some wild soldiers borrowed by Yin Hongzhi, so they would resist, but this resistance lasted for a while.

Li Jing directly sent his strongest cavalry to massacre, killing less than a thousand people, and Yin Hongzhi's men surrendered. As for the 10,000 soldiers of the East Palace led by Du He, they turned against him after seeing Li Jing.

Most of the soldiers led by the Sixth Army in the East Palace were Tang soldiers who had followed Li Jing before. Li Jing was their head coach, so after seeing the head coach Li Jing, who would have the intention to surrender directly?

This is also the reason why Li Shimin is a little afraid of Li Jing. You are the one who leads this army and you will turn against you when you see it. This is a very terrifying thing.

Of course, this is a later story.

After Yin Hongzhi and Du He were arrested, Li Jingyi was brave and directly organized 20,000 of their troops into his own army. So now Li Jing has about 90,000 troops, and directly surrounded Hou Junji's army.

Unlike Hou Junji, Li Jing's army had complete weapons, weapons, armor, and long-range weapons, which were several times more than Hou Junji's army. Because in order to be lightly equipped and not attracting much attention, 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 young men fighting a young man. At this time, Hou Junji had no chance of winning at all, and Hou Junji was also very straightforward. When he knew that he had no chance of winning, he directly let his 800 Northern Prefecture Army charge Li Jing's central army and kill Li Jing before his death.

The Northern Palace Army was also brave and directly protected Hou Junji and killed Li Jing's central army tent. Less than 200 soldiers of the Northern Palace died. At this time, two people walked out of Li Jing's tent, one was named Xue Rengui and the other was named Su Dingfang.

The two generals each brought 3,000 people to surround and kill.

This scene made Hou Junji smiled miserably, then picked up the sword in his hand and prepared to commit suicide. However, at the critical moment, Xue Rengui knocked down the sword in his hand with an arrow, and then was captured by Su Dingfang.

The moment Hou Junji was captured, finally... the rebellion officially ended, but it was only over at Jiucheng Palace. Then Li Shimin issued an imperial edict and returned to Chang'an.

Five hours after the imperial edict was issued, Fang Xuanling and a large number of troops surrounded the Chang'an Palace, and then Fang Xuanling and Li Junxian walked into the Ganlu Palace.
Chapter completed!