After killing his father Liu Yilong of Song, liu Yilong ascended the throne, Liu Shao considered himself stable. However, Liu Yilong's third son, Liu Jun, believed that Liu Shao had killed his father, and gathered a rebel army to fight Liu Shao, and many local officials also responded, and a fierce contest began.
At first, Liu Shao still had a certain advantage, after all, he was now the emperor, holding great power and having the elite troops of the capital, while Liu Jun and others only had local troops.
But Liu Shao's fatal point is that he did not get the right position, he obtained the throne by killing his father, if everyone in the world knows about this matter, Liu Shao will be finished sooner or later.
Liu Jun seized on this point and sent a message to Jiankang, the capital of Liu Song, in which he exposed Liu Shao's crimes of killing his father and called on the military and the people to oppose Liu Shao.
In the face of Liu Jun's accusations, the cheeky Liu Shao naturally would not admit it. At that time, Liu Jun's son was still on Liu Shao's territory, and Liu Shao sent someone to supervise his son as a chip, and then asked someone to return a letter to Liu Jun.
The letter blew Liu Shao into a wise monarch, saying that Liu Shao's army was ready, and now he specially gave you a chance to give Liu Jun a chance, and if he knew him, he would quickly withdraw his army. The letter specifically mentioned that Liu Jun's son was still in Liu Shao's hands.
It was a threatening letter, and Liu Jun ignored it and continued to lead his troops in the direction of Jiankang.
After all, the role of public opinion warfare is limited, and the key lies in the battle of real knives and guns. On the key issue of how to fight, Liu Shao's camp was divided, with some proposing to attack and some proposing to defend.
The man who proposed the defense was Liu Shao's uncle, Liu Yigong. Liu Yigong, born in 413, was Liu Yu's fifth son.
Liu Yigong was very smart and handsome when he was a child, and Liu Yu liked this son the most. Because Liu Yu was born poor, he developed a frugal habit in life, and his sons were not allowed to eat more than five dishes, but there was no such restriction on Liu Yigong, which showed how much Liu Yu loved him.
During Liu Yilong's reign, he was also good to Liu Yigong's younger brother, let him hold some relaxed clerical positions, and gave him a lot of money every year, and Liu Yigong has always been a happy prince.
However, the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck. In 453, Liu Shao staged a coup d'état and killed Liu Yilong and took control of Jiankang, and Liu Yigong was also in the city at that time.
At that time, the situation was very chaotic, many people were executed by Liu Shao, and Liu Yigong was also very dangerous as a royal family. Fortunately, Liu Yigong was very calm, and he handed over all the weapons in his mansion to reassure Liu Shao about himself, and then superficially supported Liu Shao, so he was not killed.
Man for knife tricks, I for fish meat. Liu Yigong was forced to join Liu Shao's camp, and he was very disgusted with Liu Shao, who killed his father, and was in Cao Ying's heart in Han, bent on helping Liu Jun's rebel army win.
Therefore, when Liu Shao inquired about the combat countermeasures, Liu Yigong was afraid that the rebels were not ready, so he came up with a bad idea and deliberately delayed time.
Liu Yigong said to Liu Shao: "We should let the troops wait in Jiankang and stick to Jiankang, if you send troops to attack Liu Jun, Jiankang may be attacked by other enemies." "
Sounding very reasonable, Liu Shao listened to it and nodded frequently.
The veteran general Xiao Bin believed that the enemy should not be underestimated, and now that the situation was urgent, he should quickly send troops to fight Liu Jun while his own army was not scattered, and it was not advisable to stay in Jiankang.
This also makes sense, but Liu Shao does not want to take the advice of these veterans, why? It turned out that Liu Shao had won the throne by killing his father, and he was also weak-hearted, believing that these veterans did not necessarily really support themselves, so they did not trust them, and finally decided to stick to Jiankang.
If the veteran generals are unreliable, who will bring the army? Liu Shao thought of Lu Xiu, a general who had fled from Northern Wei, and rewarded him with a generous reward for leading the troops.
Soon after, Liu Jun's rebels reached Xinting (新亭, in present-day Yuhuatai District, Nanjing), and a decisive battle was imminent.
The general used by Liu Shao was Lu Xiu, while the general used by Liu Jun was named Liu Yuanjing.
When Liu Jun raised an army against Liu Shao, Liu Yuanjing was appointed by Liu Jun as the champion general, leading the troops as the forward force of the rebel army.
At that time, the rebels took a boat along the Yangtze River to attack Jiankang, and due to the suddenness of the incident, Liu Jun's side was not fully prepared. The rebels were sitting in small boats, and if Liu Shao led the water army to take the initiative, the rebels were likely to be defeated in the water battle.
Fortunately, the "undercover" Liu Yigong was in a hurry and persuaded Liu Shao to stick to Jiankang, so Liu Yuanjing's troops did not encounter any obstacles on the Yangtze River and easily arrived at Jiankang.
After arriving in Jiankang, many people advised Liu Yuanjing to attack immediately, but Liu Yuanjing did not agree. He believed that the enemy still had strength and could not be easily ventured forward, and the first thing he did after arriving in Jiankang was to order the soldiers to quickly build a barrier in the military stronghold of Xinting as a fortification, while another general, Cheng Tianzuo, did not attach much importance to this, so his troops did not build much of the barrier.
Everything is predetermined, and if it is not predetermined, it is abolished.
After learning that Liu Yuanjing's troops had arrived in Jiankang, Liu Shao quickly sent people to attack.
Liu Shao estimated that in such a short period of time, the rebels should not have repaired the barrier, and did not let people bring the tools to attack the stronghold, and as a result, after arriving at the new pavilion, they found that Liu Yuanjing's troops had built a complete barrier, there was no way, they had to rush up with their scalps.
The enemy's attack was crazy, but Liu Yuanjing was very rational. He ordered his side not to beat the drums frequently to prevent morale from losing.
Cheng Tianzuo's troops did not repair the barrier in advance and had to fight with the enemy, resulting in many casualties. When Liu Yuanjing was struggling to support himself, he also divided some of his troops to support Cheng Tianzuo, helped him build a barrier, and stabilized his position.
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Finally, after a period of frenzied attack, the offensive of Liu Shao's troops began to weaken. Liu Yuanjing keenly grasped this and immediately ordered the barrier to be opened, beating the drums of war, and the whole army attacked!
Without the tools to attack the stronghold, Liu Shao's troops had to fight for half a day to attack the fortified battle, and they were already exhausted, and then they were so shocked by the rebels that they were immediately defeated and fled.
After this, Liu Shao, who was not willing to lose, collected the remnants of his troops and attacked the barrier again, only to be defeated by Liu Yuanjing's troops, and Liu Shao fled in a daze.
After this, Liu Shao was defeated again and again, and Lu Xiu and others surrendered to Liu Jun, and Liu Shao fell into a situation of rebellion.
In the face of defeat, Liu Shao once again staged a strange performance, and his first thought was not to fight again with the whole army, but his old hobby - to seek immortals.
He asked people to place a statue of a deity in the palace, personally bowed down, prayed for blessings, and then sent troops to fight again.
However, the idol did not appear, and Liu Shao's troops failed again.
With one defeat after another, Liu Shao's camp began to collapse, more and more people surrendered to Liu Jun, and soon after, the rebels attacked the city gate, Liu Shao was captured alive, and then executed by Liu Jun's orders.
As a result, the Liu Song regime ushered in the fifth emperor Liu Jun, known as Emperor Xiaowu of Song.