How could no one rebel against him?
During Chai Rong's lifetime, the Later Zhou Dynasty was under the joint jurisdiction of more than a dozen jiedushi envoys. Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it is easiest to form local separatist forces, although in the early years of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Taizu Guo Wei weakened the power of some unscrupulous jiedushi, but the jiedushi still had some strength, and when he had the opportunity, he would emerge to make waves.
Zhao Kuangyin himself was also an emissary of jiedushi, and when Chen Qiao mutinied, the strategist Zhao Pu had already reminded him to be careful of the jiedushi of other divided parties.
Immediately after Zhao Kuangyin plotted to usurp the throne, two emissaries of jiedushi appeared to resist. They are Li Jun, Li Chongjin.
I. Li Yun,who colluded with the Northern Han Dynasty but had no battle plan, rebelled
(1) The causes of Li Yun's rebellion
Li Yun, a native of Taiyuan in later Zhou, was personally strong and good at riding and shooting. He successively served as the commander of the Later Tang Dynasty, the commander of the Later Han Bo Prefecture, the commander of the Later Zhou Vanguard, and the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army. Zhaoyi Junjie commanded the three prefectures of Later Zhou Lu Prefecture, Ze Prefecture, and Qin Prefecture, and the seat of government was in the strategic area of Lu Prefecture, and if Lu Prefecture was lost, the Northern Song Dynasty was in danger. It is equivalent to Li Yun pinching the lifeblood of Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Li Yun's rebellion can be called a whim.
After Zhao Kuangyin plotted to usurp the throne, in order to prevent the jiedushi envoys in various places from doing things, he adopted a policy of appeasement to the jiedushi envoys, and for Li Yun, he was crowned as zhongshu ling.
However, Li Yun was not very impressed with Zhao Kuangyin's arrangement, and when the emissaries sent by Zhao Kuangyin arrived at Li Yun's office, Li Yun actually wanted to turn him away. It was only after the efforts of his right and left confidants that he reluctantly agreed to receive the messenger.
However, on the way to meet the emissary, Li Yun made another moth, and he actually hung up the portrait of Guo Wei, the grandfather of Zhou, and cried bitterly. This kind of action caught his henchmen off guard and quickly explained to Zhao Kuangyin's emissaries: "Li Yun is drinking and going crazy, and I hope not to blame him."
This matter was heard by liu jun, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, who was at odds with later Zhou, and Liu Jun immediately contacted Li Jun privately and jointly raised an army against Zhao Kuangyin, and Li Jun gladly agreed.
This matter was known to Zhao Kuangyin, who sent emissaries to Li Yun and said, "When I was not emperor before, whatever you did, now that I am emperor, can you give me a little face and accommodate me a little?"
As soon as Li Yun heard this, he knew that his plan had been leaked.
In April 960, Li Yunguang issued a document listing Zhao Kuangyin's sins. Then he sent an envoy to the Northern Han Dynasty, requested the Assistance of the Northern Han Dynasty, and officially announced the start of the army.
(2) Zhao Kuangyin's coping methods and combat process
When the news of Li Yun's rebellion reached the imperial court, Zhao Kuangyin, in order to prevent the world from wavering, immediately made a decision, on the basis of stabilizing the rear and ensuring military food. With Shi Shouxin, the Western Route Army led by Gao Huaide took the lead in attacking, and then sent the Eastern Route Army to assist, and the North Road Northwest Road Army to contain it. East and west are caught between the two sides, and a battle is down.
On the fifth day of the first month of May, Li Yun was defeated at Changping and beheaded more than 3,000 people. On May 19, Zhao Kuangyin announced the imperial conquest, and arrived in Huaizhou on May 28, when the army entered the Taihang Mountains, due to the narrow and rugged mountain road and the large number of stones, the speed of the march was greatly reduced. Zhao Kuangyin personally dismounted and lifted stones to fill the mountain road, and the generals followed suit, filling in the mountain road on the same day.
On the 29th, Zhao Kuangyin and Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide's army met the division. In the south of Zezhou, Li Yun was once again defeated, killing more than 30,000 Li Jun, and thousands of Surrendered Northern Han reinforcements were also beheaded.
Li Yun retreated to Zezhou, the Song army besieged Zezhou City, and on the first day of June, Zhao Kuangyin personally went to battle to oversee the army, but The defense of Zezhou City was strong and could not be attacked for a long time.
On June 12, the city of Zezhou was about to be destroyed, and Li Yun's concubine persuaded him to immediately take his men to break through to Hedong for help. But he was persuaded that if you left the city and the soldiers who followed you abducted you and surrendered, it would be too late to regret it. Li Yun was undecided, and in the end he did not choose to break through.
On June 13, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the advice of Ma Quanyi, the governor of the Left Wing of the Crane. Personally take the battle and lead the soldiers to attack the city. Ma Quanyi was the first to climb the city wall, and was penetrated by the enemy's arrows through his arms, pulling out the arrows and continuing to fight. Morale was boosted, and he successfully attacked Zezhou City.
Li Yun threw himself into the sea of fire and committed suicide, declaring that Li Yun's rebellion had been put down.
(3) Li Yun made two fatal mistakes in the rebellion, which made himself doomed
The first mistake was the lack of a mature operational strategy. Li Yun's rise was a momentary outrage. He mistakenly believed that the courtiers of the Northern Song Dynasty were all old ministers of later Zhou, and the people's hearts were still in Hou Zhou, and if he raised an army, many people would definitely respond. Therefore, he did not adopt a relatively mature strategy proposed by his engagement Lu Qiu Zhongqing.
The second mistake was that he did not maintain a good alliance with the Northern Han Dynasty. The Northern Han Dynasty had always had a huge contradiction with later Zhou, and when Emperor Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty and Li Yun met with the army, Li Yun actually talked about Emperor Houzhou's kindness to him in front of the Emperor of Northern Han, and said that he would not hesitate to go to The Tang Dynasty for Emperor Later Zhou.
Such remarks made the Northern Han Emperor dissatisfied, and the reinforcements sent in the later period were also treated negatively.
Second, Li Chongjin, who had a long-standing grudge with Zhao Kuangyin, hesitated before the rebellion, and was isolated and helpless during the rebellion
(1) The causes of Li Chongjin's rebellion
Li Chongjin, the emissary of the Later Zhou Dynasty Huainan Province, and the nephew of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, occupied the Huainan region, which was of great strategic importance in the economy but was difficult to attack and difficult to defend in terms of terrain.
Li Chongjin initially took charge of military power in the Later Zhou Dynasty together with Zhao Kuangyin. The reason why Li Chongjin wanted to raise an army against the Northern Song Dynasty was, on the one hand, his dissatisfaction with Zhao Kuangyin's plot to usurp the throne. On the other hand, Zhao Kuangyin's distrust of him caused him to be full of doubts.
When Li Chongjin and Zhao Kuangyin were in the same palace as courtiers, there were already some frictions and contradictions. After Zhao Kuangyin plotted to usurp the throne, Li Chongjin was flustered in his heart, afraid that Zhao Kuangyin would settle old accounts. Moreover, Zhao Kuangyin's subsequent behavior also aggravated the worries in his heart. When Zhao Kuangyin ascended to the throne, he deprived Li Chongjin of the post of commander and envoy.
In order to dispel Zhao Kuangyin's jealousy of him. Li Chongjin chose to apply for a pilgrimage, but Zhao Kuangyin refused him, and soon transferred him to Qingzhou, where he was guarding Huainan.
Li Chongjin did not dare to expect zhao Kuangyin to be kind to him, so he secretly gathered outlaws and prepared to raise an army.
At this time, it was the day that Li Jun's army was raised, and Li Chongjin knew that it was absolutely impossible to successfully rebel with the strength of only a few thousand of his own people. So he made a plan to tie the knot in the north and Li Yun in the south and join the southern Tang in the south, hoping to succeed in attacking Zhao Kuangyin from the north and the south.
Li Chongjin sent his close subordinate Zhai Shouxun to Luzhou to unite with Li Yun, but what he did not know was that Zhai Shouxun had been acquainted with Zhao Kuangyin in his early years. When Zhai Shouxun was passing through Kaifeng, he secretly asked to see Zhao Kuangyin and told Zhao Kuangyin that Li Chongjin wanted to rebel.
In order to prevent the two places from causing chaos at the same time, Zhao Kuangyin on the one hand gave Zhai Shouxun a promotion and a knighthood, asking him to persuade Li Chongjin to start an army later, and on the other hand, he released news to give Li Chongjin danshu iron coupons to alleviate Li Chongjin's doubts. Li Chongjin actually did not raise an army in the plan, which allowed Zhao Kuangyin to win time, and after he quelled Li Jun's rebellion, he immediately intervened to clean up Li Chongjin.
On September 11, 960, Li Chongjin was moved by Zhao Kuangyin to be an envoy to Pinglu Jiedushi, and two days later, Zhao Kuangyin sent emissaries to give Li Chongjin the Danshu iron coupon. Li Chongjin was confused by this kind of delaying tactic and did not know what Zhao Kuangyin really wanted to do. However, he was still stepping up the preparation of weapons, and at the same time sent emissaries to the Southern Tang to request an alliance. Unexpectedly, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, rejected the alliance on the grounds that Li Chongjin was weak.
(2) Zhao Kuangyin's battle process in quelling Li Chongjin's rebellion.
Li Chongjin wanted to tie li jun in the north, and the plan of the southern tang had been put down because of Li Yun's rebellion, and the reason for the southern tang's refusal was over before it began.
Li Chongjin fell into a state of isolation and helplessness, and at the same time, an Yougui, the governor of Yanzhou and the general of the Right Tun Wei, had a premonition that Li Chongjin was about to rebel, so he immediately fled. Li Chongjin, fearing the defection of his generals, actually imprisoned dozens of officers, and then killed them in a fit of rage. This is really a lone soldier.
On September 22, 960, Zhao Kuangyin raised an army against Li Chongjin, and Zhao Kuangyin once again marched in person. On November 11, the city of Yangzhou was undefendable and easily breached. Li Chongjin's family set themselves on fire and died.
At this point, the internal rebellion after Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was declared over.