As the saying goes, a chaotic world produces a hero, and the number of brilliant Datang has been exhausted, but It has been surviving for more than twenty years. Until Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, history officially entered the second era of great turmoil - five dynasties and ten kingdoms.
The reason why the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is an era of great turmoil, you can imagine that in just fifty years, a single Central Plains region sang and sang on my side, and the city head changed the banner of the king, and disturbed and experienced five dynasties.
The southern region was even more small, with more than ten princely regimes emerging.
The chaotic world is the hardest time for the people, and they only want their lives to be fulfilled. The domestic population has gone from more than 80 million in the Tianbao years, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Huangchao Rebellion and the Five Dynasties of Chaos, to Zhao Kuangyin's establishment of the Song Dynasty, there are only more than 30 million left.
At the end of the fifth dynasty, the chaotic world was also an era of heroes, and many haojie carried three-foot swords to achieve immortal achievements.
In history, there are Li Cunxiao, one of the thirteen Taibao, Gao Siji, who is known as the first shot of the five generations, and Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty.
Wang Yanzhang was a native of Shouzhang, Shandong, a famous general under zhu Wen of later Liang, who was brave and good at war, often as a pioneer of attacks, and rode alone with an iron spear to gallop through the front, which was called "Wang Iron Gun" by people at the time, and successively served as an envoy to assassinate and defend until Jiedushi.
Because of the inheritance of the state dynasty, Zhu Wen was assassinated by his own son Zhu Youjue in a coup d'état, and later Liang's political situation was unstable, and the imperial court was centrifugal and the monarchs were jealous.
At this time, the Later Tang Dynasty was growing stronger under the leadership of Emperor Zhuangzong Li Cunxun, and was even more determined to seize the opportunity to destroy Liang. Later Liang's collapse of the political situation led to Wang Yanzhang's radiant attack on Desheng City.
Desheng City is located in the current Puyang City, Henan Province, divided into Desheng South City and Desheng North City, is a military town across the Yellow River, the era is a little later, Song Liao also signed the "Alliance of Yuanyuan" in Desheng North City.
Let's continue with Wang Yanzhang's Battle of DeshengCheng.
When the Later Tang army marched to Desheng City, the panicked Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Liang thought of Wang Yanzhang and asked him to lead his troops to resist the Tang army.
However, in the face of the aggressive Tang army, Emperor Liang's trust in Wang Yanzhang was lacking, and when Wang led the army on the expedition, he probed his tone and asked Wang Yanzhang: "I don't know how long you can defeat the Tang army with your troops?" ”
Wang Yanzhang blurted out: "Three days."
At this time, everyone laughed, and the frightened ministers of the Manchu Dynasty ridiculed Wang Yanzhang for not measuring up to his own strength, but he could only use the dead horse as a living horse doctor and pin his hopes on Wang Yanzhang.
Wang Yanzhang was quite dismissive of Li Cunxun, believing that Li Cunxun lacked wisdom and was "a cockfighting child, useless."
When Wang Yanzhang led his troops to Hua Prefecture (now Huaxian County, Henan Province), he camped and set up a banquet, posing as if he wanted to fight a protracted war.
However, as an offensive general, at the same time as setting up a banquet to stop the army, Wang Yanzhang first secretly sent six hundred axemen to attack Deshengkou by boat, and then used Zhang Fei's story to change clothes with the banquet, personally leading thousands of martial pawns to attack Desheng Nancheng.
In three days, Wang Yanzhang's former army burned the pontoon bridge between Desheng City and cut off the iron lock connecting the north and south, and the rear army attacked the southern city of Desheng, which was less than three days before Wang Yanzhang left the dynasty.
In fact, when Li Cunxun learned that Wang Yanzhang was leading the troops, he suspected that Wang would send troops to raid Desheng City and immediately let the cavalry reinforcements, but the Tang army's cavalry had not yet arrived, and the southern city of Desheng had already been occupied by Wang Yanzhang.
In the face of this situation, Li Cunxun also helplessly said: "This person is fearsome, we need to avoid his sharp edge."
Later, Wang Yanzhang recruited people to frame the defeat of the army and was captured, preferring to die rather than surrender to Later Tang.
Ouyang Xiu's "History of the New Five Dynasties" once had a record, saying that although Wang Yanzhang had no culture and did not read much, he always said that "leopards die and leave their skins, and people die and leave their names", and Wang Yanzhang's death from Liang's feng lu after eating Liang is also considered to be his death.