There were gains and losses: Li Jing did not expect Chai Rong to be so difficult to deal with, and hurriedly sent Zhong Mo, a servant of the Household Department, and Li Deming, a servant of the Ministry of Works, to Xia cai (present-day Fengtai, Anhui), expressing their willingness to pay tribute every year, and to be called a vassal at an old age, with an additional offering of 5,000 taels of gold, 2,000 horses of Shangjin, 500 heads of fat cattle, 2,000 stones of good wine, and some rare ancient leeches, hoping that Chai Rong would quickly withdraw his army. Chai Rong ordered the warriors to stand on both sides with arms, and Chai Rong sat on the Chinese military tent and asked Zhong Mo and Li Deming in a loud voice: "Li Jing now knows that he is afraid, so why did he know now that he was in the first place?" Why collude with the Khitan to conspire against my Great Zhou? Moreover, Li Jing claimed to be a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, how could he be so ignorant of etiquette? Now if you want me to retreat, it's not so easy, come and fight from there, go back and tell Li Jing, let him personally meet Yuan, otherwise, Yuan's will give Jinling to the end! The two were also southern Tang eloquents, but when they saw Chai Rong in such a posture, they did not dare to say a word.
In 956 AD, that is, in February of the third year of Xiande, tan Ma Lai reported that Yangzhou was lax in defense, Chai Rong was very happy, Yangzhou was once the capital of the State of Wu, its status was equivalent to the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty Luoyang, taking Yangzhou, can scare Li Jing to death, in addition, it can also greatly inspire the hearts of the army, quickly order the guards Ma Bujun to command Shi Han Lingkun and Zhao Hongyin and other troops to rush to attack Yangzhou, when the city was broken, the Southern Tang Eastern Capital Tun Camp made Jia Chong, a historical sinner, a big fire to Yangzhou, the ancient capital of Yangzhou is a famous historical city in China, Jia Chong, this historical sinner between the thoughts, Yangzhou was reduced to ashes. Then, slip away on your own. Chai Rong arrived, saw the broken walls and rubble, a ruin of Yangzhou, Chai Rong was full of spirit, the current sketch blueprint, decided to build a new Yangzhou city in the southeast of Yangzhou after the war, you can demolish I can build, in this and other ways not only won praise, but also won the hearts of the people! The Eastern Capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty stayed behind Feng Yanlu (the younger brother of the great poet Feng Yanmi), and before he could escape, in a hurry, he became a monk and took refuge in the temple. Zhou Jun searched around, and finally pulled Feng Yanlu out of the temple and brought him to Chai Rong, who raised him first. After a short rest, he sent troops to Taizhou (present-day Taizhou, Jiangsu), which was immediately over, and the defender Fang Ne fled back to Jinling. Li Jinglian was connected to the defeat report, anxious like an ant on a hot pot, helpless, and sent Sikong Sun Sheng to see Chai Rong, at this time, Gwangju (present-day Huangzhou, Henan), Shuzhou (present-day Qianshan, Anhui), Puzhou (present-day Puchun, Hubei), Huangzhou (present-day Huanggang, Hubei, Lin Biao's hometown), Sun Sheng rushed to Xia cai, indicating that southern Tang was willing to cede Shouzhou, Haozhou (present-day Fengyang, Anhui, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown), Sizhou (present-day Xuyi, Jiangsu), Chuzhou (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu, the hometown of Premier Zhou), Haizhou (present-day Lianyungang, Jiangsu), and Six Prefectures of Gwangzhou. He was blessed with a million gold and begged Chai Rong to return to his teacher. Most of the land in Huainan was taken by Chai Rong, and it was not cost-effective to withdraw at this time, and Chai Rong did not agree to Li Jing's request for peace.
Li Deming, who had previously remained in the Zhou camp, advised Chai Rong: "Please your majesty give the subjects five days, the ministers rush back to Jinling, and ask the lord of the country to cede Huainan as much as possible." Chai Rong agreed. Shouzhou has always been a major problem for Chai Rong, and the only one who can embarrass Chai Rong so much during the Five Dynasties period is probably Liu Ren. Chai Rong asked Tang to send Sun Sheng to the city of Shouzhou to persuade Liu Renzhen to surrender, and Sun Shengsu said that the Southern Tang loyalists, even if they were willing to do such things that were detrimental to their reputation, Liu Renzhen saw Sun Sheng, and Chongjia bowed down to Sun Sheng, and Sun Sheng said loudly to Liu Renzhen: "General Liu! You only have one way to die now, don't want to live to see the Jinling Holy Lord, if you can't kill the enemy, then kill yourself! If the week of the lost festival is a thousand years old, it is not enough for the general! Liu Renzhen wept bitterly in the city. After Chai Rong found out, he scolded Sun Sheng, and Sun Sheng righteously said: "I am the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, where in the world there is a reason for the prime minister to let Shou Mu bend his knees to surrender to the enemy, and His Majesty's god Wu Mingli, how can he tolerate the generation of the negative country buyers?!" Chai Rongli was short of gifts and had to give up. Southern Tang Wen has sages, martial arts have fierce generals, but unfortunately not used by Li Jing, a big word person, Chai Rong cherishes talents in his life, and there is no shortage of talents under his hands, but the wise monarch will not feel that there are many talents, if people like Liu Renzhan and Sun Sheng can be used by Chai Rong, it is really like a tiger, but unfortunately, the Southern Tang Dynasty is full of talents, but he met Li Jing, such a faint king, he only has those big words in his eyes, and he does not look at these loyal generals at all, if it is Chai Rong, let alone lose the fourteen states in jiangbei, the northern expedition is not a problem. Li Jing claimed to be a descendant of Li Shimin, but he did not know how Tang Taizong used Ma Zhou? It is a kind of sadness that such a literary scholar was born in the imperial family, and Li Yu is a typical example. Li Deming returned to Jinling and urged Li Jing to cut Huainan quickly, so as to prevent the Zhou army from crossing the river and burning the jade. Li Jingzhi scolded Li Deming for misleading the country, and the Southern Tang eunuch Song Qiqiu and the Privy Counsellor Chen Jue both accused Li Deming of being greedy and afraid of death, and the seller sought glory, and Li Jing, in a rage, quickly beheaded Li Deming in Jinling City.
Zhao Kuangyin
The defeat of the Southern Tang Dynasty had been decided, killing Li Deming could not be exchanged for the defeat of Jiangbei, the decline of the Southern Tang had already appeared in 951 AD, when the Chu State Ma Clan was eliminated, and the five ghosts and one demon in the middle of the dynasty (Feng Yanmi, Chen Jue, Feng Yanlu, Cha Wenhui, Wei Cen, and Song Qiqiu) were in charge, political corruption, and it was already good luck not to let Chai Rong take it with one drum. Li Jing summoned the ministers to discuss, and finally decided not to enslave Yan and kneel, and decided to make a desperate bet, dividing the troops into two routes, one way to repel Wu Yue's sneak attack, and the other way to send the imperial brother Li Jingda as the commander and Chen Jue as the overseer, leading the army north to defend the Zhou army. Nominally Li Jingda is a marshal, but the military power is in the hands of Chen Jue (this kind of collocation is many in history, the reason is that the people in power are afraid that their brothers and close relatives will become bigger, threatening their own throne, and would rather let outsiders hold the power, they are not willing to personally enlist, afraid of sending their lives to the battlefield), Chen Jue is a good thing don't look for me, bad things I am good at, is a famous Southern Tang courtier, Li Jing sent a living treasure, really got amnesia. Forgotten ten years ago, how did Chen Jue falsely preach the Holy Will in Fuzhou, and how did he achieve Qingyuan County in the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms? There are five ghosts and one demon, and the Southern Tang Qi is innumerable. Of course, now, there were still some loyal generals, and the Right Guard general Lu Mengjun led 10,000 Tang troops from Changzhou across the river to the north to retake Taizhou. The Zhou army in Taizhou fled from the battlefield (this is the soldier brought out by Chai Rong?). After Lu Mengjun's "Taizhou Victory", he marched into Yangzhou, and Han Lingkun, who was sitting in Yangzhou, was also ready to slip away, and when Chai Rong learned of it, he was furious: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong general, how did he raise such a group of nests?!" Hurriedly dispatched Zhang Yongde to raise troops to rescue, Han Lingkun put his mind at ease, Chai Rong was still a little worried, and then urgently dispatched Zhao Kuangyin (it can be seen that Chai Rong's trust in Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde is a level) to lead troops to garrison Liuhe (now Liuhe, Jiangsu), Zhao Kuangyin knew the severity of this, and specially stated: "If you find deserters, break the dog's leg!" Han Lingkun knew Zhao Kuangyin's temper, and said that the state law was not tolerated! Lu Mengjun and Zhao Kuangyin and others launched a fight in Shugang (near The Slender West Lake in Yangzhou), the Zhou army was afraid of breaking their legs, and after the battle, the Southern Tang army was defeated, Lu Mengjun was captured, just as Han Lingkun's concubine and Lu Mengjun had a vendetta against the clan, there was no suspense, Han Lingkun sent Lu Mengjun to the paradise world. Two days later, the Southern Tang commander Li Jingda led 20,000 soldiers to Liuhe City, Zhao Kuangyin led 2,000 fierce soldiers, without waiting for the Tang army to gain a firm foothold, using lightning raids to kill the Tang army, like a tiger into the flock, the Tang army was defeated, 5,000 killed in battle, the rest grabbed ships by the river, trampled on each other, and suffered heavy casualties, Li Jingda and Chen Jue fled back to Jinling like lost dogs.
Water warfare
Shouzhou could not be taken for a long time, Chai Rong was a big husband who could bend and stretch, and the Yue King practiced ten years of lying down and hiding his guts, and the ten years of life and life and lessons were finally destroyed. Chai Rong considered it for a moment and set up a "Zhenhuai Army" at the vortex mouth, allowing Li Chongjin to continue the attack. In May 956 (the third year of Xiande), he returned to lead his army back to Bieliang. In July, Zhou Xingfeng of Changsha destroyed Pan Shusi, sat on the first golden chair in Hunan, and immediately played an emotional card to declare himself a vassal to Chai Rong, who was not yet ready to use troops against Hunan, so he took advantage of the situation to seal Zhou Xingfeng as an envoy to the Wuping Army and take charge of the military and politics of Hunan. After Chai Rong left, the Generals of the Zhou Army who remained in Huainan, seeing that the emperor was absent, began to scatter again, plundering the people's property everywhere, and the people of Huainan were greatly disappointed and gathered to defend themselves. The Zhou army rushed to conquest and suppression, and was beaten by the common people with a blue nose and swollen face (it can be seen that the strength of the people is huge), the Tang army saw that the situation improved, and immediately went north to attack Shuzhou, Puzhou, Hezhou and other places, and the Zhou army went up again to request withdrawal from Yangzhou and besieged Shouzhou with all its strength, and after Obtaining Chai Rong's consent, the Zhou army began to attack Shouzhou in general. This time, Zhou Jun was a good person and did not dare to harass the people, and the people of Huainan saw that Zhou Jun was a new person, so naturally they relaxed their hearts and began to assist Zhou Jun. In July 956 (the third year of Xiande), Chai Rong's second beloved wife Fu Died of Illness, and Chai Rong cried and died (this was the first factor affecting Chai Rong's health), posthumously honored as Empress Xuanyi.
Chai Rong and Fu Shi
The Tang army fought several victorious battles, and its mood was high, and they all wanted to go north to fight a decisive battle with the Zhou army. Song Qiqiu stopped: "Chai Rong did not come to attack us, he has already given us face, now we do not attack him, presumably he will also be grateful to us, it seems that the siege of Shouzhou can also be solved", Li Jing actually agreed with Song's suggestion, did not really support Shouzhou, leaving only Liu Renzhan alone to defend the isolated city! When the Zhou army saw that the Tang army did not take advantage of the victory to relieve the siege of Shouzhou, it intensified its attack on Shouzhou, and Li Jingda and Chen Jue led 50,000 Tang troops under the emperor's false pretense to support Shouzhou, because Li Jing had the will not to fight, so they only had to watch the battle. The Huainan Tun camp should help Lin Renzhao is a bloody man, because he has a tiger stabbed on his body, the Jianghu people send the nickname "Lin Huzi", Lin Renzhao's lone army came to relieve the siege of Shouzhou, Zhang Yongde stopped the way in Xiacai, Lin Renzhao attacked with fire, the wind force suddenly turned back, the Tang army was almost burned to death, had to retreat, Zhang Yongde was fixed to several thousand giant trees with iron chains near the pontoon bridge, intercepting the water of the Huai River, Lin Renzhao had to look at the river and sigh. Zhang Yongde had more courage and strategy than Zhao Kuangyin (this is why Chai Rong later replaced Zhang Yongde with Zhao Kuangyin), and a general must have courage and strategy to be called a good general. The Southern Tang army once again attacked and fought a decisive battle with the Zhou army, and Zhang Yongde sent soldiers who could swim and let them swim under the Southern Tang warships at night and connect them with iron chains. Subsequently, Zhang Yongde launched the Zhou army to attack the Southern Tang ships, and the Southern Tang warships did not move, and the soldiers were surprised, and they were shot and drowned by the Zhou army. Chai Rong continued to receive good news, and his mood improved,
Sun Sheng
Sun Sheng, who had previously followed Chai Rong to Bieliang, secretly sent intelligence to the Southern Tang Dynasty and was caught squarely, and it happened that Chai Rong was grieving, and was furious and asked Sun Sheng again, sun Sheng protested and asked for death: "The subject of the Tang Dynasty for decades, can not save the country from water and fire, what is the use of leaving this body?" Your Majesty please give death to the Feast of all subjects! Chai Rong saw that he was loyal and brave, secretly admired, knowing that Sun Sheng would not bend down to do his own thing (reminding us of the story of Cao Cao and Xu Shu, never setting up a conspiracy for Cao Cao for life), so he sent the capital to promise Cao Han to give Death to Sun Sheng, Cao Han came to Sun Sheng's apartment, first drank wine with Sun Sheng, did not drink two cups, Cao Han got up and smiled: "Under the will, Xiang Gong is guilty of my dynasty, and now Xiang Gong is dead." Sun Sheng laughed loudly: "I knew there was today!" Sun Sheng sorted out the Tang Dynasty's submissions, and held the wat and wept bitterly in the direction of Jinling: "Chen Sheng failed to become His Majesty's affair, when he dies to thank His Majesty, may Heaven bless me Tang, and there will be no regrets in death!" Cao Han ordered that Sun Sheng and his party be killed at the Dongxiangguo Temple. After Sun Sheng's death, Chai Rong had some regrets, although Sun Sheng was a literati, he was loyal and righteous, and everyone was respected. We can't help but think of October 1282 AD, when Wen Tianxiang, an orphan minister of the Song Dynasty, left behind "Kong Yue Chengren, Meng Yue taking righteousness." But his righteousness is exhausted, so he is benevolent. "The absolute pen, horizontal knife swallow city. Sun Sheng and Wen Tianxiang are also literati, and they are also heroes, and the purity of personality is easy to create heroes. Heroes regard death as a homecoming, life is short, there will eventually be a death, save the honor, what regrets to die!
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