Zhao Kuangyin claimed to be the empress, and many local festivals with heavy troops were in a wait-and-see state. For Zhao Kuangyin, it was enough time for them to wait and see. While they were watching and weighing, Zhao Kuangyin had been sitting on the emperor's throne for more than a hundred days. Finally someone couldn't hold back and jumped out. Does this person have the ability to pose a threat to Zhao Kuangyin?
Zhao Kuangyin
Li Jun's logic
The first person to jump out and express disobedience to Zhao Kuangyin was Li Yun ( 李筠 ) , a native of Taiyuan , Hezhou ( present-day Taiyuan , Shanxi ) . Li Yun had been guarding the northwestern border of Later Zhou on the seat of the Zhaoyi army's envoy, repeatedly fighting against the Northern Han and the Khitan who supported the Northern Han, and frequently winning great victories, successively conquering Liaozhou (辽州, in present-day Zuoquan County, Shanxi) and Changqingzhai, capturing hundreds of assassins and generals, and becoming a powerful barrier on the northwest border of the Later Zhou court.
In terms of seniority, when Li Yun was serving as the commander of the Zhaoyi Army to guard Luzhou and enjoy high-level treatment, Zhao Kuangyin was still under Zhang Yongde who had just become the head of the eastern and western classes before the upper temple. In the blink of an eye, it seems that in a blink of an eye, Zhao Kuangyin became the founding prince of the Great Song Dynasty and the supreme ruler of the new dynasty. Will Li Yun, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, and even Zhou Shizong had to let him score three points, be balanced in his heart? He claimed to be the same brother as Zhou Shizong, and the world of the Chai family was gone, so as a brother, would he make any unusual moves because of this?
Immediately after Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he announced to the world, and sent emissaries to various places to make a notice, and the edict of the festival made the envoy maintain his original post, and won the hearts and minds of the people in the form of promotion to maintain local stability. When the emissaries of the imperial court came to Luzhou and proclaimed Li Yunjia and Zhongshu Ling (正二品), Li Yun's reaction was to refuse to be ordered. Left and right bitterly persuaded each other, Li Jun was impatient before he had to bow down.
Li Jun
However, this is only the beginning.
At the banquet for the envoys of the imperial court, Li Yun suddenly took out the portrait of Guo Wei, the grandfather of Zhou, and hung it on the wall of the hall, and prayed and prayed to the portrait, and burst into tears. Openly mourning the former emperor in front of the emissaries of the imperial court is a big problem. There were also wise people in the attendants, who came out in time to round the field: "Ling Gong was drunk, out of regularity, fortunately not strange."
Some rejoice and some are worried. It was Li Yun who was worried, whether to be loyal to Zhou Chamber or to the new lord, Li Yun still had not made up his mind at this time. Happy was The Northern Han Emperor Liu Jun. Liu Jun learned of Li Jun's scene at a banquet to receive emissaries from the Imperial Court of the Great Song Dynasty, and knew that Li Jun was dissatisfied in his heart and did not want to be a vassal of Zhao Kuangyin, feeling that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He hastily wrote a letter and sent people to Luzhou, where he tried to encourage Li Yun to unite with the Northern Han Dynasty and jointly raise an army against the Great Song.
Li Yun always behaves so differently. On the one hand, he learned that the Northern Han dynasty was willing to send troops to assist and jointly deal with Zhao Kuangyin, which strengthened his confidence in standing against the court of the Great Song Dynasty; on the other hand, he forwarded the secret letter of Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty to Zhao Kuangyin, was he demonstrating to Zhao Kuangyin, or did he want to reassure Zhao Kuangyin, or did he paralyze Zhao Kuangyin's vigilance? We don't know about this, but what is clear is that Li Yun is about to start acting, because his son, who is more sensible than him, has cried and advised many times, but with Li Jun's personality, where can he still listen to it?
Zhao Kuangyin, Li Yun
The temptation to fight for the first time
Li Yun's various behaviors had already aroused Zhao Kuangyin's dissatisfaction. However, Zhao Kuangyin could not use troops against him now, on the one hand, he tried his best to avoid using force to solve the incident; on the other hand, Li Yun was not rebelling now, and the division was unknown. Therefore, he specially gave the edict himself, and reassured Li Yun in a serious manner, and at the same time summoned Li Yun's son to Beijing to serve as an envoy to the imperial city.
Li Yun was not stupid, he knew Zhao Kuangyin's intention in this move, he wanted to test him through his son as a hostage, he also beat his own xiaojiujiu, so he made a plan and sent his son into Beijing, so that he could accurately grasp the movements of the imperial court, and then wait for the opportunity to raise an army, and the grasp would be greater.
As soon as Li Shoujie entered Beijing, Zhao Kuangyin's split head and covered his face made Li Shoujie chaotic: "Prince, why did Ru come?" "Zhao Kuangyin is superior in the end, why did he come?" Didn't you let it yet? But Li Shoujie did not dare to say that a single "prince" had already scared him to death, because this sentence was telling him that his father's wolf ambition had long been clearly seen by Zhao Kuangyin.
Li Shoujie panicked and kept prostrating his head: "Why did Your Majesty say this?" Someone must have torn the father's relationship with His Majesty." Zhao Kuangyin said very calmly, "No need to argue, I have long heard that you have advised many times, and your father will not listen." Your father sent you here just to get me to kill you, and then he sent troops under the pretext of sending troops. I will not kill you, go back and tell your father, I am the Son of Heaven, Ru Du can not let me yay? ”
Li Shoujie went back to the original local area to learn what Zhao Kuangyin said to his father, and he tried to advise him. Instead of listening, Li Yun also thought that the bottom cards were all lit up, and there was no need to hide them, but instead accelerated the pace of rebellion. Zhao Kuangyin's purpose was like this, and he also accelerated the deployment.
Lee Shou Festival
Li Yun was silly and naïve
In April of the first year of Jianlong (960), Li Yun ordered the shogunate to draft a crusade against Zhao Kuangyin, which was nothing more than a list of Zhao Kuangyin's crimes, based on his crimes of rebellion, and his words were fierce and his words were not inferior. Second, he sent his cronies to the Northern Han as hostages and asked the Northern Han to send troops to support. Finally, troops were sent to attack Zezhou and occupy the military stronghold. Zezhou is known as the Barrier of the Central Plains.
In May, Li Yun and Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty met at Taipingyi. Li Yun put all his hopes on the assistance of the Northern Han Dynasty, but the common anti-Song alliance between Li Yun and the Northern Han Dynasty had inherent defects and was not a magic weapon for victory at all.
1. Interests are contradictory
The Northern Han Dynasty had a feud with the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Li Yun fought with the Northern Han more than once in the position of Zhaoyi Jiedushi. Therefore, Liu Jun had doubts about Li Junshang. However, it was true that Liu Jun joined forces with Li Yun to achieve the ambition to destroy the Song Dynasty, and the reason why they were able to reach a covenant was also a helpless move under the strength of the common enemy.
2. Unequal relationships
There is a fatality in their alliance, where the status of the two sides is unequal. Unlike the historical Sun Liu Alliance, although they each had their own small calculations, they were basically equal; and Li Yun met with Liu Jun's Taiping Yi, and Li Jun, on the one hand, met Liu Jun as a courtier and was crowned the King of Xiping, on the other hand, he said that he was loyal to the Zhou Dynasty and did not dare to submit to Song.
Of course, if the party of the alliance is not Li Yun, but a person who is willing to tolerate submission, the alliance can continue, but at that time, the Northern Han Dynasty did not take into account Li Jun's personality factors.
Northern Han Dynasty
3. Internal mutual suspicion
When Taipingyi met, Li Jun was very disappointed, he overestimated the strength of the Northern Han Dynasty, originally thought that he could rely on the Army of the Northern Han to help him achieve a great climate, but he did not expect that the Army of the Northern Han Dynasty was "weak in defense", liu Jun was not like a person who could achieve things (not like the king), and this trip down, Li Jun "regretted it inside".
What made Li Yun even more angry was that Liu Jun did not trust him at all and sent Lu Zan to accompany the army to monitor him. Lu Zan repeatedly asked to discuss military information with Li Yun, and the arrogant and self-imposed Li Yun did not pay any attention to him at all, and the two of them had friction. When Liu Jun learned of this, although he sent Wei Rong, the chancellor, to mediate, the facts later proved that their alliance was vulnerable.
Zhao Kuangyin is sophisticated and shrewd
After the news of Li Yun's rebellion reached Kaifeng, Zhao Kuangyin immediately summoned the Privy Counsellor Wu Tingzuo. Wu Tingzuo analyzed Li Jun's strengths and weaknesses. In terms of objective geographical advantages, Luzhou's terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if Li Yun goes west down the Taihang Mountains and occupies Mengzhou, Luoyi and other places, with tiger prison pass as a barrier, it is enough to compete with the Great Song; the disadvantage is in Li Yun's character, he is brave and unscrupulous, arrogant and wanton.
Therefore, in view of Li Yun's advantages and disadvantages, the Great Song should first occupy the fortress leading to Taihang, cut off his rear road, and then lead him out of the hole and annihilate it on the spot. Zhao Kuangyin agreed to this plan and made a deployment, in which there was a seemingly inconspicuous and important deployment: Ling Han Lingkun Tun Bing Heyang.
Tunbing Heyang garrisoned troops in Heyang, but did not participate in direct battles. Zhao Kuangyin's military ability was undoubtedly revealed in this battle, and it is needless to say that the victory of this conquest is not necessary, in case the division is unfavorable, It can make Zhao Pu divide his troops to hold Heyang, make long-term plans, and make a comeback. This is the first stop of the founding of the country, Zhao Kuangyin can only win and cannot be defeated, and he must fight quickly, otherwise more people will jump out to resist him.
On the other hand, Li Jun, with different hearts and interests, felt that the situation was unfavorable and immediately turned against him, and Liu Jun also smeared oil on the soles of his feet, leaving Li Yun alone to retreat to Zezhou City for the battle of trapped beasts. Zhao Kuangyin arrived at Zezhou City to personally supervise the battle, the Great Song generals plucked up enough courage to attack Zezhou, and Li Yun threw himself on fire, and since then, Zhao Kuangyin has quelled the turmoil for two months.
brief summary
Li Jun's subordinate, named Lu Qiu Zhongqing, had already seen clearly the serious consequences of the alliance with the Northern Han Dynasty, and he analyzed the situation with Li Yun and said: "Lord, you are a lone soldier, and the situation is very passive; Liu Jun's assistance is probably of little use; Zhao Kuangyin has many generals and elite armor, and it is difficult to confront him directly." ”
"At this point, it is better to go west to Taixing, go straight to Huai, Meng, Saihu Prison, according to Luoyi, and fight for the world in the east."
Lu Qiu Zhongqing's analysis of the situation and geographical advantages was very accurate, which was exactly what Zhao Kuangyin was worried about, but Li Yun, who was self-conscious, did not listen to this suggestion, and he overestimated his influence: I am a veteran of the Zhou Room, and Zhou Shizong is like a brother, and the Forbidden Army is full of friends I am familiar with, and when he sees me, he will immediately turn against me.
Analyzing Li Jun's situation, it is undoubtedly correct to occupy the military stronghold of Zezhou, which can be used as a buffer zone for Luzhou or can also be used to go west to Taihang. But he did not heed the advice of his subordinates and prepare for the next step. It is really naïve to first pin hopes on the Northern Han Dynasty, and then to hope that the Northern Han Dynasty has no hope, and then to the old knowledge of the Forbidden Army, hoping that they will turn against each other before the battle.
Liu Jun
Li Yun's innocence was in stark contrast to Zhao Kuangyin's sophistication. Li Yun's impulse was right in the middle of Zhao Kuangyin's heart, and Zhao Kuangyin gained an immediate effect after quelling Li Yun's rebellion, which is the so-called "killing chickens and making monkeys". Li Yun disappeared too quickly, and the monkeys were all frightened and stupid, and one by one obediently entered the capital and accepted the arrangements of the imperial court and submitted to Zhao Kuangyin.
References: Continuation of the Zhizhi TongjianChang, Vol. 1
"Song Shi · Biography of Wednesday Chen"
The Biography of Song Shi Wu Tingzuo