Member of Shandong Writers Association Zhang Dingcai
Zhu Wen jianliang declared himself empress, and the north was not at peace. The area around Shanxi was the territory of Li Keyong's father and son, and the area around Hebei was occupied by Liu Shouguang and others. Hou Liang's fierce enemy was Li Keyong, and the two sides constantly fought each other for Hebei.
Zhu Wen
In 911, Li Ke defeated liang forces at Baixiang (陳乡, in present-day Hebei Province). In 915, a mutiny occurred in Weizhou, and Li Ke took control of the Youyan region by chance. Since then, a large area of land in the north has been established under the heavens of Li Keyong, and the focus of contention between the two sides has moved south to the junction of Jilu and Yu.
Li Ke used
In 915, the Later Liang general Liu Haotun (劉郇屯兵南樂) (present-day Henan Province). Liu Hao was a native of Anqiu, Mizhou (in present-day Shandong Province), and was first appointed as a general under Wang Shifan of Qingzhou and served as a marching sima (司馬). Later, Suishi Fan surrendered to Zhu Wen.
Liu Shouguang
Zhu Wen declared himself empress dowager, and successively made Liu Hao the general of Longwu and the envoy of Yongping Jun (永平軍, in present-day Hua County, Henan).
Li Cunxun
In June 915, Li Keyong sent his son Li Cunxun to lead his troops into Wei Prefecture (魏州, in modern Daiming, Hebei), while Liu Hao took advantage of Li Cunxun's transfer of troops to secretly march his troops into Wei County (present-day Hebei Province) and use the river jungle to set up an ambush. Li Cunxun was ambushed and struggled to break through, and the army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to his original garrison, while Liu Hao attacked Wei Prefecture.
A few days later, seeing that Li Cunxun had not moved, Liu Hao wanted to lead troops to sneak into Taiyuan, Li Keyong's old lair. In order to prevent Li Cunxun from detecting it and pursuing it, he let the soldiers tie up many straw men, plant small flags on them, ride them on donkeys, and walk back and forth on the city wall. By the time Li Cunxun realized that liu hao's army was gone.
Liu Hao's army from Huangzeguan (in present-day Zuoquan County, Shanxi) to Leping (present-day Xiyang, Shanxi) encountered continuous rain, and for more than ten days it was not sunny, it was difficult for the flat land to accumulate water and horses, grain and grass were not gathered, the soldiers were sick, and they had no choice but to abandon their plan to sneak into Taiyuan and return the same way.
Ancient grains and grasses
At that time, Linqing under the jurisdiction of Wei Prefecture was a place of grain storage, and Liu Hao wanted to occupy Linqing to replenish grain and grass. Arriving at Zongcheng, he happened to encounter Li Ke's troops led by Zhou Yang from Youzhou (present-day southwestern Beijing).
Zhou Yang's cavalry was very brave and changeable, and Liu Hao did not dare to engage, so he bypassed Linqing and wanted to run to Bei Prefecture (present-day Wucheng, Shandong), but unexpectedly met Li Keyong's troops at Tangyi. Liu Hao led his troops to rush, and Li Jun fled south in defeat. Liu Hao pursued for more than 50 miles, so he was stationed in Xinxian County to rest.
Ancient transportation of grain and grass
In order to prevent Li Ke from attacking with a large army, Liu Hao ordered the city walls to be strengthened, the moats to be deepened, and a road to the south-east to lead directly to the Yellow River docks (at that time, the Yellow River was more than ten miles southeast of Xinxian County) to rush grain and grass, just in case. Just when he was ready, Li Ke arrived with his army.
Li Ke encamped with his army in the west of Xinxian County, and within 30 miles there was a lot of fireworks. Unaware of the strength of Li Jun, Liu Hao went out of the city to fight several battles, but did not take advantage of it, so he collected his troops and returned to the city to hold firm.
Zhu Youzhen
Zhu Youzhen, the late Emperor of Liang, sent emissaries to Xinxian and asked Liu Hao how he was going to break the enemy. Liu Hao said: "I don't have any high tricks, as long as the imperial court sends me 10 cartons of grain each, after eating these grains, I can break the enemy." There is a long-term persistence in these words. When the messenger returned the favor, the last emperor was furious and said, "He wants so much grain, do he want relief, or do he want to break the enemy?" So he sent emissaries to Xinxian County to supervise the battle.
The emissaries came to Xinxian County over and over again to urge Liu Hao to fight, and his subordinates also actively asked for battle. Liu Hao did not answer, but summoned the messengers and generals to the tent, placed a basin of river water in front of each of them, and ordered them to drink it. The crowd did not know what they meant, and some did not drink, and some drank a few sips and put them down, saying that they could not drink so much. Liu Hao said: "It is so difficult for you to drink a basin of water, let me drink the river water dry, can I do it?" "The crowd will be speechless.
Li Ke could not attack for a long time, so he sent troops to cut off Liu Hao's grain and grass. Liu Hao's army was cut off from food, so he had no choice but to break out of the city and run to Wei Prefecture. Intercepted by Li Ke's army around Yuancheng, Liu Hao was defeated and led his remnants to flee south, crossing the Yellow River from Liyang (present-day Jun County, Henan) to Hua prefecture (滑州, in modern Hua County, Henan), and was appointed as the envoy of Hua Prefecture.
Li Cunzhen
Later, Li Keyong sent Li Cun to guard Xinxian County.