#文化历史解析#
01 Heroes cherish each other
At the end of the late Tang Dynasty, the original social order collapsed under the heavy blows of the Huangchao Uprising, and heroes from the bottom of society were able to overthrow vested interest groups and magnificently transform into a new ruling class.
This article tells the historical facts of the first large-scale collision between Yang Xingmi, who dominates Huainan, and Zhu Quanzhong, who is powerful in the Central Plains.
These two legendary figures born in the late Tang Dynasty have many things in common, such as:
They are the same age. They were all born in Tang Xuanzong
They come from similar families. Both lost their fathers at an early age, and their families were poor, although Zhu Quanzhong's father was a scholar, he had never been an official and was not rich.
They have similar experiences. They were all forced by life to join the peasant uprising, and then turned into Tang generals in accordance with the situation; They have all traveled south and north, seen the world, and experienced life and death.
They have similar abilities. They were all strong men of that era, through hard work, relying on stoic will and personal wisdom, became temperate envoys and supported the army with self-respect. Although they have different styles of doing things, they are all good leaders who are supported by subordinates and supported by the people.
Judging from the appearance time given by "Zizhi Tongjian", Zhu Quanzhong appeared a little earlier, and as soon as he appeared, he was already a general under Huang Chao. Emperor Yuzong of Tang, Zhu Quanzhong returned to the Tang Dynasty, and was first appointed as the envoy of Tonghua Jiedu, and then as the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu (Zhisho Bianzhou, in present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Henan has since become his dragon treasure land!
And Yang Xingmi's official appearance is in. Yang Xingmi, who was the assassin of Luzhou (Hefei, Anhui) at the time, in order to avenge the lord Gao Biao, led his army to defeat the rebel generals Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan, and Zheng Hanzhang, captured Yangzhou, executed three charlatans who had bewitched Gao Biao, and was appointed by the imperial court as the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, and began to move towards hegemony.
One of them killed all sides in the Central Plains, and the other fought endlessly in Huainan, plus the transportation was inconvenient in troubled times, and there was originally no intersection. But they are both heroes of troubled times, they must have heard of each other, and heroes cherish each other is a true portrayal of their relationship at this stage.
The first intersection between the two should also be attributed to Qin Zongquan, the remnant of the Yellow Nest. Qin Zongquan was in Caizhou (Runan County, Zhumadian, Henan), adjacent to Zhu Quanzhong. After Huang Chao's death, he used Huang Chao's influence to desperately expand his power.
But to the north and west, the clans and towns there are all battle-fighting divisions, and their strength is strong, and it is difficult to win. To the south, Hubei, Hunan and other places have been ravaged by war and have long been dilapidated. To the east, through Anhui to Jianghuai (Jiangsu, Zhejiang), where there is more grain, few soldiers, and good fighting, it is a rich place and a gentle hometown under the world.
Therefore, the determined Qin Zongquan appointed powerful generals Sun Ru, Liu Jianfeng, and Ma Yin to lead troops into Huainan, and he continued to fight with Zhu Quanzhong in the Central Plains.
Yang Xingmi was beaten by this fierce and powerful army that suddenly emerged from the north and could not find the north for a while, and even the "thirty-six generals" under him who had won hundreds of battles were defeated one after another, and had no choice but to abandon Yangzhou and transfer to Xuanzhou (Xuanzhou District, Xuancheng, Anhui).
At the critical moment, Zhu Quanzhong, who had eliminated Qin Zongquan, sent the general Pang Shigu to lead an army of 100,000 to come to the rescue.
, Pang Shigu set out from Yingshang (Fuyang County, Anhui) and went straight to Huainan; On the 20th, he entered and occupied Gaoyou and approached Yangzhou; On the 23rd, he fought with Sun Ru at Lingting (thirty miles south of Xinghua, Taizhou, Jiangsu), and Pang Shigu was defeated and withdrew from Huainan.
He was born in the Zhongwu Army (zhisho Xuzhou, that is, Xuchang City, Henan Province), and was one of the generals of the unified army that Zhu Quanzhong relied on the most.
This kind of superficial attack and failure to hold responsibility for defeat is completely different from Zhu Quanzhong's previous style. We can only guess that as Zhu Quanzhong, who is determined to swallow the world, this attack is likely to be preparing for the next step of running Huainan, but it objectively helped Yang Xingmi a lot.
Yang Xingmi took advantage of Sun Ru's concentration of main forces against Pang Shigu, regained the initiative on the battlefield, and dragged the war into a protracted war in his favor, and finally broke through Sun Ru's Guangde camp (Guangde County, Xuancheng, Anhui), beheaded Sun Ru, and completely eradicated this "demon army" that was engaged in "cannibalism".
02 Competing interests
As mentioned earlier, the two heroes cherished each other, not because they had similar temperaments, but because they had not yet produced a direct conflict of interest. As their respective forces expanded, contradictions naturally arose.
Zhu Quanzhong conquered Xuzhou (Xuzhou, Jiangsu). His second opponent, Wuning Jun, caused Shi Pu to set himself on fire.
The Wuning Military Command is located in Xuzhou, under the subordinates, at the intersection of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Shandong provinces, and has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
Zhu Quanzhong eliminated Shi Pu, and while sending envoys to receive the prefectures and counties to which he belonged, he focused his attention on his third opponent, the brothers Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin, who occupied Shandong.
The general of the Xuanwu army, Zhang Congxi, was ordered by Zhu Quanzhong to go to Shouzhou (Shou County, Huainan City, Anhui Province) to pacify. Shouzhou is located in central Anhui and belongs to the genus. Yang Xingmiyin had just recaptured Yangzhou and had not yet had time to send people to station, and at this time he was in a semi-independent state, and Xingshi presided over military and political affairs.
Zhang Congxian felt that he was powerful and superior in the background, and after entering the city, he insulted Jiang Yanwen at will, and gathered some of the Shouzhou generals at night to drink and have fun. Jiang Yanwen suspected that they were plotting to kill him, and the next day he executed all the generals involved in drinking, wrote a letter of accusation to Zhu Quanzhong and committed suicide.
This incident had a bad impact and seriously damaged the image of the Xuanwu Army. In order to save the situation, Zhu Quanzhong publicly beheaded Zhang Congxi, who caused trouble.
The envoy of the Xuanwu Army, who was responsible for receiving the entire territory of Wuning, arrived in Sizhou (Si County, Suzhou City, Anhui Province), and after looking down on people, he committed another old problem, and even publicly tortured Shi Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan did not lose his life in vain with death like Zhang Congxi, but resolutely led the whole state to return to Yang Xingmi.
This incident deeply stung Zhu Quanzhong, he was a person who did not talk about feelings, and his appearance was just a "technique" pretended to be under the command of the courtiers.
It happened that Yang Xingmi sent officials to escort more than 10,000 jin of tea to Bianzhou and Song Prefecture (under the jurisdiction of Xuanwu, in present-day Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, Henan) for trade. For Xuanwu and Huainan, trade is undoubtedly a good thing for people's livelihood. But Zhu Quanzhong sent someone to snatch the tea and detained it for no reason.
This banditry angered Yang Xingmi, who reported Zhu Quanzhong's crimes to the imperial court and asked Emperor Zhaozong to join Yi Ding, Yan, Yan, Yan, and Hedong soldiers to fight Zhu Quanzhong.
This paper trick naturally ended in vain, how dare the weak imperial court provoke the strongest clan town!
As a result, the two heroes of the north and south have changed from sympathizing with each other to competitors on the road to domination!
03 Zhu Quanzhong attacked and destroyed Gong and Hao
After destroying Pu and occupying Xuzhou, Zhu Quanzhong sent the general Pang Shigu to lead his army from Xuzhou to attack Yanzhou (Gunzhou District, Jining, Shandong Province).
After reading the post-Tang history, I think that compared with Li Keyong, Zhu Quanzhong is a very battle-minded commander, taking one step to see three steps, and each step is well thought out, so it is often more effective with half the effort.
Li Keyong, on the other hand, is only a tactical commander, good at fighting hard battles and unprepared battles, and often counts wherever he goes. So the two of them fought each other, and from the perspective of the situation, Li Keyong seemed to win more than lose, but it was always Zhu Quanzhong who took advantage.
In eliminating Qin Zongquan, Shi Pu and the Zhu brothers, there is also a logical order of who comes first, which is not taken for granted.
Taking Xuzhou, the strategic turning space is larger, not only can it be clamped from the south and north to attack Yan (Yancheng County, Heze City, Shandong) and Gon, thereby capturing the entire Ludi; It can also pave the way for the next step of competing for Jianghuai.
Pang Shigu did not live up to Zhu Quanzhong's entrustment, and after arriving in Gunzhou (Gunzhou District, Jining City, Shandong), he repeatedly defeated Zhu Jin, the envoy of Jiedu (southern Shandong, ruling Gunzhou).
Zhu Quanzhong led his army from Bianzhou and stationed in Yushan (southwest of Dong'a County, Liaocheng, Shandong) to attack Zhu Xuan (Jiedu Jun 郓州, present-day Heze Yancheng, Shandong).
Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin joined forces to fight, but due to the containment of Pang Shigu in the direction of Gunzhou, the Zhu brothers were defeated and killed more than 10,000 people. In order to break the morale of the enemy army, Zhu Quanzhong built the corpses of the enemy soldiers under Yushan to show the public.
Panicked, Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin asked Li Keyong, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu (Taiyuan, Shanxi), for help.
At this time, Li Keyong and the Tuyuhun leader Helian Duo were fighting in Yunzhou (Datong, Shanxi), and only sent two brothers, An Fushun and An Fuqian, the cavalry generals, to cross the river with 500 jing.
Zhu Quanzhong's righteous son Zhu Yougong entered the siege of Gunzhou. Zhu Xuan sent troops from Yanzhou to the rescue, but was defeated by Zhu Yougong in Gaowu (in present-day northern Yancheng County), losing all his grain and grass, and the Hedong An brothers who came to support were also captured by Zhu Yougong.
Zhu Quanzhong went to the settlement of his father (Hezeshan County, Shandong) to support Zhu Yougong.
Zhu Quanzhong's troops defeated Zhu Xuan at Liangshan (Liangshan County, Jining, Shandong), and Zhu Xuan had to give up the rescue of Gunzhou (Gunzhou District, Jining, Shandong) and retreat to Yanzhou (Heze Yancheng, Shandong).
Seeing that Gunzhou could not be attacked for a long time, Zhu Quanzhong sent the general Ge Congzhou to strengthen his strength and personally lead the main force to reinforce. On the 20th, the Xuanwu army surrounded Gunzhou.
The two states of Gong and Gon are interdependent. Seeing that Gunzhou was in danger, Zhu Xuan sent his generals He Gui and Liu Cun, together with the Hedong general Xue Huaibao, to lead more than 10,000 men south to attack Cao Prefecture (Heze, Shandong), hoping to reduce the pressure on Gunzhou by encircling Wei and saving Zhao.
When Zhu Quanzhong heard the news, he personally led an army from Zhongdu (Wenshang County, Jining, Shandong) to chase after him overnight, and at dawn he caught up at Juye (Heze County, Shandong), and after a fierce battle, he captured this army, and He Gui, Liu Cun, and Xue Huaibao were captured.
He Gui and the others were escorted to the city of Gunzhou to march, and Zhu Quanzhong sent people to shout to Zhu Jin: "Your brother has been defeated, don't fall early!" ”
Zhu Jin sent an envoy to blackmail, and Zhu Quanzhong personally went to the city to negotiate with Zhu Jin. Zhu Jin said, "I am willing to offer talismans and seals, and I beg to send my brother Zhu Qiong into the city to receive them." ”
Zhu Qiong was Zhu Jin's cousin, who was the assassin of Qi Prefecture (Licheng District, Jinan, Shandong) at the time, and had already surrendered to Zhu Quanzhong in the early period.
Zhu Quanzhong saw that he was willing to surrender, so he agreed to his request. Who knew that as soon as Zhu Qiong arrived in the city, he was captured into the city by the fierce general Dong Huaijin who set up an ambush in advance, and soon Zhu Qiong's bloody head was thrown out of the city. Zhu Quanzhong was furious, and immediately beheaded Liu Cun and Xue Huaibao. Because He Gem has a reputation, he will be included in his service.
Zhu Quanzhong left Gunzhou, and Liuge continued the siege from Zhou. Zhu Jin closed the door without a fight, and stood firm and waited for help.
Ge Congzhou's attack was fruitless, and let the artificial rumor that Zhu Xuan and Li Ke's rescue troops would arrive immediately, and Ge Dashuai had led troops to the northwest to intercept it. In order to make the rumors seem true, he left part of his troops to garrison the camp and personally led the main force to the northwest with great fanfare. Later, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, he quietly returned in the middle of the night.
This move perfectly deceived Zhu Jin, making Zhu Jin make the wrong judgment that Ge Congzhou had left, and immediately went out of the city to attack the Xuanwu army camp. As a result, it can be imagined that Ge Congzhou, who had long been prepared, returned from beating, and more than 1,000 people were killed and injured.
Under the continuous blows of the Xuanwu army, the entire territory of Yan and Gon could not be cultivated, and their financial resources were exhausted, so they had to ask Li Keyong of Hedong (Taiyuan, Shanxi) for help again.
Li Keyong had defeated Helian Duo at this time, and wielded his commander King An Qin, and destroyed Wang Xingyu, the envoy of Ningning Jiedu, who had coerced Emperor Zhaozong, and was in the midst of satisfaction. Receiving the urgent warning from the Zhu brothers, he immediately sent the generals Shi Jian and Li Chengsi as the vanguard, led thousands of cavalry, and borrowed a road from Wei Bo (one of the three towns of Heshuo, in present-day southern Hebei, governing Weizhou, that is, northeast of present-day Handan Daming County) to support first.
Both Shi and Li were famous generals in Hedong, fighting bravely, and You Shan's cavalry assault. Li Keyong sent them, and from the point of view of attitude, he took it seriously.
Li Keyong sent a second wave of reinforcements, under the command of the general Li Cunxin, into the territory of Weibo, and stationed in Xin County (located at the junction of Hebei and Lu, now part of Liaocheng, Shandong, and returned to Weibo during the Tang Dynasty).
Zhu Quanzhong sent people to warn Wei Bo's envoy Luo Hongxin: "Li Keyong is determined to annex Heshuo, and when they win victory and return to the division, you will be in danger." In addition, Li Cunxin was not strict in controlling the crowd, and allowed the Hedong soldiers to mess around in Weibo's territory, which annoyed Luo Hongxin.
Luo Hongxin took advantage of the night to attack the camp, and the defenseless Li Cunxin's entire army collapsed and retreated to Huozhou (Handan Yongnian Guangfu Town, under the jurisdiction of Zhaoyi during the Tang Dynasty, which was Li Ke's territory), and the soldiers under his command were killed and wounded, and the discarded grain and grass were innumerable.
This battle completely cut off the passage from Hedong (Taiyuan, Shanxi) to Yan and Gon.
Luo Hongxin has since severed relations with Li Keyong and concentrated on catering to Zhu Quanzhong. Zhu Quanzhong was attacking the Zhu brothers with all his might at this time, and he was also worried that Luo Hongxin would attack from behind, so he treated Luo Hongxin with great courtesy.
Zhu Quanzhong saw that Gunzhou had been suppressed and unable to fight again, decisively adjusted the direction of his attack, and sent Pang Shigu to attack Yanzhou.
Ge Congzhou was also ordered to join forces with Pang Shigu to attack Yanzhou.
Zhu Xuan no longer fought in Yanzhou, so he only sent people to dig deep trenches outside the city to divert water into the defense and strengthen the defense. Pang Shigu set up camp in the west of the city to manufacture pontoon bridges; The pontoon bridge was caused, and a general attack was launched at night. Zhu Xuan abandoned the city and fled to Zhongdu (Wenshang County, Jining, Shandong), where Ge Congzhou led his army in pursuit, capturing Zhu Xuan alive on the way.
Zhu Xuan was captured, and Zhu Jin's situation was equally grim. He asked the general Kang Huaizhen to stay in Gunzhou, and he and the Hedong generals Shi Jian and Li Chengsi led their troops to Xuzhou to seize food supplies.
When Zhu Quanzhong heard the news, he immediately sent Ge Congzhou to attack Gunzhou. Kang Huaizhen heard that Yanzhou had no intention of fighting again and went out of the city to surrender.
Zhu Quanzhong took a fancy to Zhu's wife's young beauty, took her as a concubine, and returned home happily. His original partner went to Fengqiu (Fengqiu County, Xinxiang, Henan) to greet him, and although Zhu Quanzhong was strict with his subordinates, he respected his wife very much, so he told Mrs. Zhang about the concubinage.
Mrs. Zhang called Zhu Jin's wife and cried in front of Zhu Quanzhong: "Your father-in-law has the same surname as my husband, and he was still worshiped as a brother back then. Just because of a little thing to attack each other, let the sister-in-law be humiliated here. In the future, if Bianzhou loses, I'm afraid I will be like your sister-in-law today!" ”
Zhu Quanzhong's face was red and ashamed, and he immediately sent someone to send Zhu's wife to a Buddhist temple to become a nun, and escorted Zhu Xuan to Bianqiao to be beheaded.
As a result, only Wang Shifan's Zichuan (Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong) and Qing (Weifang Qingzhou, Shandong) prefectures were retained, and Wang Shifan had also surrendered.
Zhu Quanzhong became the most powerful clan town during the late Tang dynasty.
The unfortunate Zhu Jin, the old nest was occupied and had nothing to rely on, so he had to lead everyone with Shi Jian and Li Chengsi all the way east to Yang Xingmi. Yang Xingmi was overjoyed and personally greeted Gaoyou.
The Huainan Army is good at water warfare and does not know how to ride and shoot at all. Got the cavalry of the three towns of Hedong, Tianping and Taining from the north, and the army was shocked.
Li Keyong sent messengers to greet Shi and Li and entrusted Yang Xingmi with their use. Yang Xing answered with a full mouth, and also sent an envoy to Hedong to reconcile with Li Keyong.
Let's first remember the three names of Zhu Jin, Shi Jian, and Li Chengsi, who influenced the outcome of the direct collision between the two major forces in the north and south in the late Tang Dynasty.
04 Yang Xing mi-dwelling finger shou and light
While Zhu Quanzhong was expanding in full force, Yang Xingmi was not idle.
His sphere of influence covers most of the Soviet Union and Anhui provinces, and for him,
There are no cavalry in the southern domain, and once they break away from the dense water network of Jianghuai and compete with the northern clan town on the vast plain, the odds of victory are usually not great. Developing in these two directions is tantamount to attacking the enemy's strengths with one's own weaknesses.
At that time, Jiangxi was occupied by (zhisho Hongzhou, in present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi) Jiedu envoy Zhong Chuan, while Zhejiang was occupied by Qian Yong (Zhisho Zhejiang Hangzhou). Zhong and Qian are both heroes who have been killed with real knives and guns, and they are not good at their peers. In particular, Qian Yun's general Gu Quanwu, who won hundreds of battles and was invincible, defeated the Huainan army many times.
In addition, Yang Xingmi's strength does not have an absolute advantage in the southern domain, so there is not much room for development that can be used!
Yang Xingmi is very clear-headed,
The so-called unknown realm refers to those small forces that have not yet been annexed by larger forces and are still in a semi-independent state
There were still many such small forces in the late Tang Dynasty, and whoever could seize and hold them belonged to whom.
For example, it was broken by Zhu Quanzhong, and of the four prefectures to which it belonged, Xu and Suzhou were occupied by Zhu Quanzhong; Sizhou (Si County, Suzhou City, Anhui Province) surrendered to Yang Xingmi because of the arrogance and rudeness of the envoys sent by Zhu Quanzhong; Haozhou (Fengyang County, Chuzhou City, Anhui) is still blank.
For example, Gwangju (Xinyang Xianchuan, Henan) and Shouzhou (Shou County, Huainan, Anhui) at the junction of the three provinces of Yu, Hubei and Anhui are also temporarily independent because the old owner was destroyed and the new owner has not arrived.
, Yang Xingmi went to Sizhou to comfort the newly returned soldiers and civilians. The defense envoy put on the highest standard of reception, and Yang Xingmi was very unhappy. But he was lenient and didn't say anything.
After leaving, Tai Meng found a set of patched clothes in the room where Yang Xingmi lived, and immediately sent someone to catch up and return the clothes. Yang Xingmi smiled and said, "I came from a poor background, so I dare not forget my roots!" Tai Wei was deeply ashamed after hearing this.
Coming out of Sizhou, Yang Xingmi commanded his army to conquer Haozhou in one fell swoop and captured Zhang Xu.
His soldiers robbed a child named Li in the city, who had just turned eight. Yang Xingmi saw that he was born cute, so he accepted him as a righteous son, but because his eldest son Yang Wu strongly objected, he had to entrust the child to the general Xu Wen, and repeatedly told Xu Wen to take good care of the child. Xu Wen named the child Xu Zhixuan, loved him very much, and regarded him as his own.
Yang Xingmi was not mistaken, Xu Zhixu later became the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, restored the surname Li, and changed his name to Li Yu. His grandson is Li Yu, the great lyricist who wrote the famous sentence of """, Li Yu, and Li Houzhu.
Yang Xing's secret army besieged Shouzhou.
After a fruitless onslaught, Yang Xingmi withdrew his troops and returned. At this time, the general Zhu Yanshou took the initiative to ask Ying to fight, and as soon as the drums of war sounded, he had already attacked the city and captured Shi Jiang Congxuan.
Yang Xingmi appointed Zhu Yanshou as the training envoy of the Shouzhou regiment and presided over the military affairs of Shouzhou. Zhu Yanshou was Yang Xing's close wife and brother, only twenty-five years old at this time.
Shouzhou (Shou County, Huainan, Anhui) has always been an important hub from north to south, and the "Battle of Shuishui" was fought here. Zhu Quanzhong was naturally unwilling to give up this "bridgehead" to Yang Xingmi.
Not long after, tens of thousands of Xuanwu troops rushed over. The troops in Shouzhou City were thin, and the soldiers and civilians were fearful.
Zhu Yanshou ordered captain Li Hou to lead out of the city to face the battle.
The banner is an organizational title set up by Zhu Yanshou in the army, with 25 cavalry in one banner and only 250 cavalry in ten banners.
After Yang Xingmi defeated Sun Ru, he selected 5,000 people from the soldiers who returned and formed an army alone, each of whom was wrapped in black armor, known as the "Black Cloud Capital". The soldiers were basically from Caizhou (Zhumadian Runan, Henan), brave and good at fighting, and were the sharp knives of the Huainan army.
Li Hou was ordered to fight, fighting tens of thousands with two hundred and fifty horses, but was unsuccessful. Zhu Yanshou ordered him to be beheaded, but Li Hou was not convinced and asked for an increase in his forces to fight again, and if he was not victorious, he would also intercede for him.
Zhu Yanshou allocated an additional one hundred and twenty-five to him. Li Hou swung his knife and re-entered the enemy position, fighting to the death. The Xuanwu army was frightened by the deadly fighting style of this iron horse, and its position gradually loosened.
Chai Zaiyong led his troops out of the city to help in the battle, and the Xuanwu army retreated. Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhu Yanshou devoted all his troops to kill. The rapid charge of these three waves completely crushed the Xuanwu army, and tens of thousands of troops withdrew in a hurry.
Yang Xingmi also took advantage of the victory to send troops to attack Lianshui County (now under the jurisdiction of Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province) in Haizhou (Lianyungang, Jiangsu), and looked south for an opportunity.
In the name of the Zhen Navy envoy Qian Yong (Zhisho Yuezhou, that is, Shaoxing, Zhejiang) Dong Chang, he secretly ordered the generals Tian Yan and An Renyi to attack Hangzhou.
Dong Chang also sent his general Xu Shu to besiege Jiaxing with the Huainan general Wei Yao. Qian Hao asked Gu Quanwu to come to the rescue, and Gu Quanwu broke through the two camps of Wudun (Wuzhen, northwest of Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang) and Guangfu (southwest of Wu County, Suzhou, Jiangsu).
An Renyi led his boat division to Huzhou (Huzhou, Zhejiang), intending to cross the river to meet Dong Chang, but was rejected by Gu Quanwu at Xiling (Hubeibei, Zhejiang).
The two armies of Huainan and Zhenhai fought at Huangtiandang, the Zhen navy was defeated, and Yang Xingmi took advantage of the victory to surround Suzhou.
In the face of Yang Xingmi's aggressive posture, Zhejiang Qian Yun, Jiangxi Zhongchuan, and Du Hong, who served as the envoy of Wuchang in Hubei, were deeply feared and jointly asked Zhu Quanzhong for help.
Zhu Quanzhong was attacking Yan and Gong with all his might at this time, so he pulled Zhu Yougong out of the battlefield, let him lead more than 10,000 troops across Huai to support, and gave him the power to deal with it at random.
The Suzhou city defense general Lu Ying captured Shi Chengji and surrendered the city to Yang Xingmi.
Zhu Yanshou defeated the Xuanwu army in Shouzhou and did not take the credit for it. Instead, it continues to advance west, south.
He first led his army to attack and besiege Huzhou (under the control of the envoy Wuchang Jiedu, located in Huchun, Huanggang, Hubei), and the defender Jia Gongduo persuaded Shi Feng Jingzhang to surrender to Yang Xingmi.
He then captured Gwangju (under the control of the envoy Wuchang Jiedu, located in Xinyang, Henan), and killed Liu Cun.
The Wuchang Festival, which made Du Hong unable to curb Zhu Yanshou's offensive, sent another messenger to plead with Zhu Quanzhong to send troops.
Zhu Quanzhong sent his general Nie Jin from Xuzhou to plunder Sizhou (Si County, Suzhou, Anhui), and sent Zhu Yougong to attack Huangzhou (Huangzhou District, Huanggang City, Hubei).
Yang Xingmi asked Heiyundu to command Ma Xun to support Huangzhou, and Qu Zhang, the assassin of Huangzhou, heard of Zhu Yougong's arrival and abandoned the city and retreated south to defend Wuchang Village.
Zhu Yougong attacked Wuchang Zhai and captured Qu Zhang, Huangzhou fell, and Ma Xun fled to his army.
05 The fierce collision between the two major forces of the North and the South
Zhu Quanzhong captured Yan and Gon, and his strength was even stronger. Seeing that Yang Xingmi was getting stronger and stronger, he had the intention of annexing Huainan.
The troops of Xu, Su, Song, and Huan, totaling 70,000 people, assembled at (southwest of Huaiyin District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu) and attacked in the direction of Yangzhou.
The forces of the four prefectures of Gong, Yan, Cao and Pu were assembled at Anfeng (southwest of Shou County, Huainan, Anhui) and attacked Shouzhou.
Zhu Quanzhong led the army to garrison Suzhou and commanded the response in the center.
, Yang Xingmi summoned the generals to discuss the deployment of Zhu Quanzhong's troops. Yang Xingmi's opinion was to fight Shouzhou Ge Congzhou first, and then Pang Shigu.
Li Chengsi believed that Pang Shigu's lone army penetrated deep into Huainan, the northern soldiers did not know the customs of Huainan, and Pang Shigu was arrogant and arrogant, and should first concentrate his forces to annihilate it in Huainan.
After unifying the opinions, Yang Xingmi quickly made a deployment:
The general Zhu Yanshou held Shouzhou and refused Ge Congzhou, preventing Ge from crossing Shouzhou.
Yang Xingmi and Zhu Jin led 30,000 troops to garrison Chuzhou (Huai'an, Jiangsu) to block Pang Shigu, and Lianshui (Huai'an County, Jiangsu) garrison Zhang Xun as the forward.
Pang Shigu's camp was built in Qingkou, and someone reminded him: "The camp is low-lying, it is not suitable for a long time", Pang Shigu did not listen.
He prided himself on pacifying Gong and destroying Wuning, fought in the south and the north, and made countless meritorious achievements, but did not pay attention to the Huainan Army and Yang Xingmi, and often played chess with people in the camp for fun.
Zhu Jin sent people to dam the upper reaches of the Huai River to block the water, but was discovered by a scout of the Xuanwu army and reported to Pang Shigu. Pang Shigu, however, thought that his rumors had confused the public, and not only did he not accept them, but beheaded the responsible scout.
Zhu Jin, together with the Huainan generals Hou Zan and Zhang Xun, led 5,000 cavalry to quietly cross the Huai River, and then under the banner of the Xuanwu Army, went straight from the north to the Pang Shigu Chinese army. The Xuanwu Army mistakenly believed that it was his own people who moved to the defense, and did not attract attention. Before the Huainan army reached the camp, Zhang Xun took the lead in climbing over the fence to attack, and the Xuanwu army rushed to meet the battle.
Not long after, Zhu Jin's soldiers remaining in the upper reaches of the Huai River dug a dam, and the water of the Huai River surged sharply, and the Xuanwu army camp in the low-lying area was in chaos. Yang Xingmi personally led the main force to cross the river as agreed in advance, and fought back and forth with Zhu Jin. The Xuanwu army was defeated, Pang Shigu and more than 10,000 soldiers were killed in battle, and the rest of the people were dispersed.
When Ge Congzhou heard the bad news, he immediately pulled out the camp and retreated. Yang Xingmi, Zhu Jin, and Zhu Yanshou pursued with victory. Chasing to the Weishui (i.e., the Wei River, which is the main tributary of the right bank of the Huai River, flowing into the Huai River at Zhengyang Pass in Shou County), coinciding with Ge Congzhou's crossing of the river. Yang Xingmi immediately launched a fierce attack, and the half-crossing Xuanwu army was unable to organize an effective defense, and the soldiers who had not yet crossed the river were killed and drowned.
Ge fled with the remnants of Zhou in embarrassment, and when it was snowing heavily, most of them starved to death in the frozen zone along the way, and when he returned to Bianzhou, there were less than 1,000 people.
Seeing that the general trend had passed, Zhu Quanzhong had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return. Yang Xingmi sent someone to send a letter to Zhu Quanzhong: "Pang Shigu and Ge Congzhou are not opponents, you should personally rush to Huainan to fight me to the death." ”
The victorious Yang Xingmi held a grand military parade to celebrate, and he sincerely said to Li Chengsi: "When I wanted to fight Shouzhou, you proposed to attack Qingkou first, which made Shi Gu take the lead and flee from Zhou, and the situation was exactly as you expected!" ”
Yang Xingmi was very good to Li Chengsi and Shi Yan, letting them live in the best house and marry the most beautiful concubine, so the two were also grateful to Yang Xingmi and tried their best to assist in repeated battle merits. Yang Xingmi thus took a strong position between Jiang and Huai, intercepting Zhu Quanzhong's forces north of the Huai River, so that he did not dare to invade Huainan for the rest of his life.
In this battle, Yang Xingmi won more with less, thanks to his good use of personnel. Whether it is Zhu Yanshou who sticks to Shouzhou, or Zhu Jin, Li Chengsi, and Shi Jian who defect to him, their own abilities have been fully released, which is undoubtedly inseparable from Yang Xingmi's super personal charm.
On the other hand, Zhu Quanzhong, from the point of view of the arrangement of troops, there was nothing wrong with it, and the only mistake was that he lacked a clear understanding of the arrogance that was generally bred throughout the army after the successive destruction of strong enemies such as Qin Zongquan, Shipu, and the Zhu brothers, so that the boat capsized in the gutter, and the great opportunity to unify the south was lost.
Not letting go when you are in good times and not giving up when you are in bad times is the fundamental guarantee for achievements from ancient times to the present!
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