On October 6, 905, Zhu Wen led a large army from Xiangzhou (襄州, in modern Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and surged toward Huainan.
Zhu Wen estimated that he had a vendetta against the Dragon King, and it was because of a continuous rainstorm that he failed, and this time Zhu Wen's army had not yet reached the battlefield, and it encountered a heavy rain, and was drenched in a shower, and the morale could be imagined. However, this did not extinguish Zhu Wen's passion for pacifying Huainan, and he continued to order the whole army to advance, but there were no surprises in the battle situation.
The Fen army besieged Gwangju and Shouju successively, but did not make a breakthrough, so Zhu Wen had to decide to withdraw his troops.
On october 2, Zhu Wen led his army across the Huai River north to return, and the Gwangju Assassin Shi Chai, who had received the news, was determined to send Old Zhu a journey to let him keep some souvenirs, so he led his troops to cut the back road of the Bian army, killed 3,000 soldiers, and captured tens of thousands of weights. This march of Huainan was thus recorded in Zhu Wen's conquest history with a tragic defeat.
For Huainan, Zhu Wen's defeat and retreat was undoubtedly a very encouraging news, but everyone did not show a trace of joy and excitement. Because on the day of November 26, the supreme commander of the Huainan Army, Yang Xingmi, the King of Wu, was fifty-fourth year old and wuzhong.
Yang Xingmi finally completed his legendary life, from the peasant son who lost his father at an early age, to the hero of the majestic side, even Zhu Wen had to fear the hero of the first generation, and the wonderful twists and turns of this story were really amazing and admired.
Although he was mixed up in a complicated and chaotic world, he did not follow the tide and became a rogue warlord; although he was familiar with power and tricks, he could be sincere with those around him. He is not afraid of power, not afraid of threats, principled, responsible, during his tenure of office, he lightly dispensed with thin endowments, persuaded nongsang, and when there was a war, he could share weal and woe with the soldiers, without any suspicion, so that under the world of the ancient people's hearts, people felt even more precious, of course, Yang Xingmi such a fierce man could not be perfect, he also had a dark side, he would also act as a false and calculating person, and he could not be beyond blood and kinship.
Therefore, Yang Xingmi is a person with flesh and blood, a three-dimensional and real person, a person who has not left the times but can stand at the head of the tide, a person who is beneficial to the country and the people.
The ancients made this evaluation of this "first man of the Ten Kingdoms" in the historical records:
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the strong clans were divided, and the clouds in the sea were disturbed. Taizu started from The Grass with thirty-six heroes, annihilated Sun Ru, Bird Zhao Qi, Broke Du Hong, destroyed Tian Fu, sounded the crime of The Frontier, Yao Bing crossed the border, and jianghuai was flattened in the north and south. It can also be said to be a very good and unworldly person. The "History of the Five Dynasties" says that he was a man of generosity, benevolence, and faith, and could win the hearts of a soldier, and he founded the Guangling Tomb of the Nation, passed down the four lords, and covered with Yi Yefu.
Very good, not born! He deserved it.
Yang Xingmi is indeed a world master, after watching him, and then looking at his eldest son Yang Wo, you simply have the impulse to throw Yang Wo away in minutes. But among the six sons of the old master, this Yang Wo has grown up, and the second son, Yang Wei, is still an eight-year-old child, and he can't take care of himself, so no matter what, it is him.
Therefore, at the joint request of Yang Xingmi's generals, Xuan Yu made Li Yucheng appoint Yang Wo as the envoy of Huainan Jiedushi and the governor of the southeastern provinces, and also served as the king of Shizhong and Hongnong County.
Yang Wo was worthy of Yang Wo, and within a month of his succession, he and Wang Maozhang, a general sent by Yang Xingmi to guard Xuanzhou, completely fell out. After tearing his face, he sent Ma Budu to command Li Jian and others to lead 5,000 troops to attack Wang Maozhang.
As soon as he provoked the civil war of the Huainan Army, Ma Yin of Hunan took advantage of the funeral in Huainan and fought. However, this time Ma Yin's surprise attack was only a surprise, because Yang Biao, who commanded Yang Biao in Huainan, had already made preparations to repel the Hunan army for Yang Wo, so Yang Wo's seat was finally secured. Wang Maozhang, on the other hand, faced Li Jian's troops who attacked Xuanzhou, and knowing that it would be difficult to hold the city, he took the initiative to abandon the city and led his men to defect to the two Zhejiang Provinces.
Affected by Wang Maozhang's sudden surrender, Tao Ya, who had already captured Muzhou, was afraid that wang Maozhang would cut off the back road, so he had to take the initiative to abandon Muzhou and lead his troops back to Shezhou, and Qian Wei recaptured Muzhou. Soon, Chen Zhang learned that Tao Ya had withdrawn his troops, and he also took the initiative to abandon Wuzhou and surrender to Quzhou. Wuzhou was thus reoccupied by fang Yongzhen, a general of the two Zhejiang armies, and Quzhou became a new focus of contention between the two Zhejiang and Huainan, and the opportunity for Huainan to annex the two Zhejiang no longer existed.
The eastern front of the Huainan Army was unfavorable, but Yang Wo was not worried, because he found a more suitable object for his own meritorious service.
It is also very coincidental that in April of this year, Zhennan Jiedu caused Zhong Chuan to die, and the army supported his son Zhong Kuangshi as the queen of Zhennan, and his adopted son Zhong Yangui (who was said to be Zhong Chuan's second son, named Zhong Kuangfan) who was then the assassin of Jiangzhou was furious when he heard the news, because he did not receive the inheritance, he sent an envoy to Huainan to ask Yang Wo and ask Huainan to send troops to help him fight for the family property.
For this request, Yang Wo naturally had no reason to refuse, so he appointed Shi Qin Pei of Shengzhou as an envoy to the southwestern capital, leading troops into Jiangxi and attacking Zhong Kuang.
Qin Pei did not fail in his mission, and after only a month, he attacked the city of Hongzhou, and when zhong Kuang and his soldiers were captured, a total of 5,000 people were victorious, and the land of Jiangxi was put under Yang Wo's control. Therefore, Yang Wo himself announced that he would concurrently serve as the envoy of Zhennan Jiedushi, and at the same time appointed Qin Pei as the envoy of Hongzhou.
Yang Wo achieved an unprecedented huge victory on the western front, but he was a little unable to hold back on the eastern front, and The Quzhou assassin Shi ChenZhang was besieged by two Zhejiang armies one after another. Although Yang Wo sent Zuo Xiang MaBuDu Yu Waiting Zhou Ben to lead troops to rescue Chen Zhang's men, Quzhou was inevitably accepted by Qian Biao. The borders between Huainan and Zhejiang, or rather, the future Southern Wu and Wuyue, were basically fixed. I don't know how Yang Xing will feel about such a result.
Yang Wo should not care much about the feelings of others, let alone his dead father. After the annexation of Jiangxi, this benevolent brother began to personally practice the old saying that Jiangshan is easy to change and difficult to change, recreating his original appearance of loving chaos, becoming more and more arrogant and extravagant, and messing around. In fact, relatively speaking, this is still a small thing, and the reason why he developed a small thing into a big thing is because he killed a person.
The benevolent brother he killed was Zhou Yin, who had previously preferred to let Yang Xingmi wait until he lost his breath than run errands to Xuanzhou to recall Yang Wo's successor. It is said that Yang Wo's crime of killing Zhou Yin is a sentence: "Why do you betray our country and see me again?"
In this way, Zhou Yin, such a festival judge, went down to accompany Yang Xingmi in minutes. As soon as Zhou Yin died, there was an uproar in the Huainan army, and many people panicked. The reason we have said before is that there were very few people in the military who could look up to Yang Wo before. Probably only one person is an exception, and this person is Xu Wen, the founder of the later Southern Tang Dynasty.
In such a depressing environment, some generals of the Huainan Army began to be unable to stand it. For example, Lü Shizhou, who was the commander of Hei yundu at the time, was one of them. This Lü Shizhou was a very good general, he had fought with the Hunan Army many times, and he had won many battles and made great achievements, so Yang Wo was a little jealous of him.
Lü Shizhou was not a kind of warrior with thick lines, Yang Wo was jealous of him, he knew very well, so he was very afraid, so he ran to Hunan Ma Yin to seek political refuge.
Although Yang Wo was jealous of Lü Shizhou, Lü Shizhou defected, and Yang Junwang did not take any countermeasures, and did not even send people to investigate these basic work. The reason is simple, he is not available. Because Yang Wo was busy drinking and having fun.
Yang Wo has been working day and night for this activity for a long time, according to relevant historical records, during the period when he was still serving the funeral of his father Yang Xing, he was already addicted to it and could not extricate himself. Sometimes the car can not be braked (such as when playing polo), in order to solve the problem of no lighting at night, Yang Wo ordered someone to light a giant candle to help him illuminate the goal and improve the probability of hitting the ball.
Of course, those giant candles are expensive, a candle will cost tens of thousands of dollars, and to support Yang Wo to the fullest, if the full field, this cost is an astronomical amount.
Yang Wo's chaotic places are more than these, he also likes to travel alone, but also on a free trip, often leaving his entourage in the middle of the road, he does not even have a shadow, so that no one knows where he ran and is mad.
I think it is also true that if Yang Wo encounters a robbery when he is running outside alone and lets people chop it up, these guards will not be a problem of losing their jobs, it will be a matter of losing their heads, and even connecting to the entire family. Therefore, every time there was a need for duty, Yang Wo's bodyguards were like falling into hell, and many people had to have a mental breakdown.
After a long time, Yang Wo's left and right close subjects could no longer bear it, and the left and right tooth commands made Zhang Hao and Xu Wen unable to look at it any longer, so they cried and advised Yang Wo, hoping that he could restrain his behavior, at least not to bring misfortune to himself. These two were old ministers left behind by Yang Xingmi, and they were in charge of the tooth soldiers, and their speech should be very weighty; but Yang Wo obediently closed their mouths with only one sentence, and did not dare to talk about it again. Yang Wo's sentence goes like this:
"You think I'm not talented, so why don't you kill myself as an emissary?"
Zhang Hao and Xu Wenwan could not have imagined that it would be such a reply, not only did not scare Yang Wo, but also were frightened by Yang Wo in a cold sweat.
In fact, Yang Wo was not completely scaring people, he had actually been secretly planning to replace all the tooth soldiers up and down and build his own pro-army. Therefore, he recruited strong men to form an armed force known as the "East Courtyard Horse Army" and appointed his own cronies as commanders at all levels of this new army.
With Yang Wo's trust and military power in hand, the commanders of this group of "Eastern Courtyard Horse Army" naturally did not keep a low profile, and soon after they took office, they did a lot of things to bully people.
The Huainan Army was made into this virtue, Zhang Hao and Xu Wen were angry, thinking that it was they who refuted Zhou Yin and resolutely supported Yang Xingmi in choosing his son to succeed him, so it is conceivable that not to talk about the pressure of public opinion outside, even their own mental pressure is also very large. So after several contacts, the two benevolent brothers decided to launch a rebellion to take out Yang Wo and choose the marshal of Huainan. At that time, Yang Wo moved thousands of pro-army troops originally stationed in Yacheng out of the city and used the vacated open space as a training ground for riding and shooting, which provided them with a good opportunity.
When Zhang Hao and Xu Wen were engaged in conspiracies, Yang Wo did not always play without heart and lungs, although this person seemed cynical and extremely unreliable, but if he carefully analyzed it, everyone could find that everything he did was likely to be a smoke screen bomb he released to the outside world, which was used to confuse the public, and the purpose of his doing this was to get rid of the threats that his father did not have time to deal with before his death.
I am not saying this in a casual way, but I have a historical basis. According to the New Book of Tang, before Yang Xingmi's death, he summoned Yang Wo to his sickbed and instructed his sons: Zuo Ya will all have Zhang Hao, Wang Maozhang, and Li Yu as people with anti-bones, and they are likely to rebel, but unfortunately they did not have time to get rid of them for my son.
Since Dad didn't have time to do it, he had to do it himself. At this time, Wang Maozhang had already been beaten away, and it was inconvenient for Li Yu to lead the troops outside, so if Mr. Ouyang Xiu had not fooled us descendants, it would indeed be Zhang Hao's turn to take charge of the tooth soldiers. In addition, there is another theory that after Yang Xingmi's death, Zhang Hao had urged that the capital be handed over to Li Yu, an envoy sent by the imperial court, to let him perform the duties of the envoy, so he was hated by Yang Wo, so he later tried to get rid of him.
Whatever the reason, a bloody infighting between the top brass of the Huainan Army was inevitable. Yang Wo recalled from Xuanzhou Zhu Sixun, Fan Shicong, and Chen Yong, three of his confidants, and the three thousand pro-army they commanded, while Zhang Hao and Xu Wen gathered a group of tooth soldiers and guards who were dissatisfied with Yang Wo, and both sides were already arrows on the string and had to be sent.
In the first month of the fourth year of Tianyou (907), Zhang Hao and Xu Wen preemptively started to do it. They had already found an opportunity to send Zhu Sixian and the other three generals out to follow Qin Pei in attacking Jiangxi, isolating Yang Wo and his close generals, and then taking advantage of the opportunity of the three generals to defend Hongzhou, they gave them a charge of treason, and sent the general Chen Youqianli to rush to Qin Biao's army to kill Zhu Sibo, Fan Shicong, and Chen Jun.
Yang Wo soon received the news that Zhu Sixian and others had been beheaded in Hongzhou, and he realized that Zhang Hao and Xu Wen would soon attack him. His instincts were accurate, indeed very fast.
In the early morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, when Yang Wo began to deal with the affairs of the army, Zhang Hao and Xu Wen suddenly led two hundred tooth soldiers to rush in. Seeing this posture, especially the sword dangling in the hands of the tooth soldier, Yang Wo knew that it was time for a showdown.
"Do you really want to kill me?"
At the critical moment, as Yang Xingmi's son, Yang Wo did not embarrass his father in his momentum
Of course, the last general did not dare to do that, but just wanted to get rid of the people who were in chaos around you!
After speaking, Xu Wen waved his hand, and the soldiers brought More than a dozen of Yang Wo's cronies to Yang Wo's face, and Xu Wen prepared their charges on the spot, and then ordered these people to be dragged into the court and killed with iron rafters.
After this so-called military advice, Yang Daquan lost all power, zhang Hao and Xu Wen actually grasped the military and political power of the Huainan Army, and after that, they tried to kill the generals in the Huainan Army who did not listen to the greeting one by one, and Yang Wo became a puppet of the two men in commanding the Huainan Army.
Although the historical Southern Wu had not yet been truly established at this time, and there were still thirty years of enjoyment of the country on the books, the cause founded by Yang Xingmi had now been completed. After this, the fate of Yang Xingmi's later family is the tragic experience of bolding the first number if it is described in two words, and its experience is simply unbearable to read.
Watching him rise up the Zhu Lou, watching him entertain guests, watching him collapse the building. The changes in the world are not Yang Xingmi, nor can we influence them.
Although Yang Wo was deprived of power, he never yielded, which made Zhang Hao and Xu Wen very uneasy, so the two of them combined, simply killed Yang Wo, divided Huainan, and surrendered Liang.
In this way, Zhang Hao came forward and sent the general Ji Xiang to bring weapons into the palace, cut down Yang Wo, and beheaded him. Subsequently, Zhang Hao and Xu Wen announced to the outside world that the twenty-three-year-old Yang Wo had died of a violent illness.
Soon, the old drama was staged, and Zhang Hao and Xu Wen had infighting. Xu Wen, under yan Keqiu's advice, took the lead and sent his confidant Zhong Taizhang to attack and kill Zhang Hao, and gave the black cauldron for the crime of killing Yang Wo to his old partner. Xu Wen killed Zhang Hao, which can be said to be a combination of the power of the Huainan Army, but the clever Xu Wen did not intend to establish himself as a jiedushi like Zhang Hao, he chose to continue to play the puppet game, and found Yang Xingmi's second son Yang Longyan (real name Yang Wei) to succeed him.
However, this benevolent brother's psychological quality was not strong enough, and after being bullied by Xu Wen for twelve years, he died of depression at the age of only fourteen, so Xu Wen had to find Yang Xingmi's fourth son Yang Pu to continue to control it in the front desk. At Xu Wen's request, the King of Wu finally bravely established himself as Emperor of the State of Wu.
Although Xu Wen, the chancellor Xu Wen, died of illness shortly before Yang Pu became emperor, his adopted son Xu Zhihuan (徐知诰) who remained behind was a more powerful courtier, so Yang Pu declared himself emperor for only ten years, so he let Xu Zhihuan go through Zhu Wen's procedures, and the Throne of Southern Wu was ceded to Xu Zhihuan, the King of Qi. It is said that before being adopted as an adopted son by Yang Xingmi and then transferred to Xu Wen to become Xu Zhiyu, Xu Zhihuan was originally surnamed Li and was called Li Pengnu. And their ancestors were Li Ke, the son of Tang Xianzong, so Xu Zhihuan himself changed his name to Li Fu, and the country name was changed from Qi to Tang.
In the second year of abdication, Yang Pu died like the Tang Emperor Li Yu (said to have died in seclusion) As for Yang Xingmi's descendants, they were imprisoned by the Xu family in the Yongning Palace in Hailing for twenty years, and finally when Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was preparing to conquer Huainan and issued an edict to appease Yang Xingmi's descendants, Li Jing ordered the Yang family to be exterminated in order to prevent someone from taking advantage of the opportunity to rebel.
A generation of tyrants Yang Xingmi was clever and confused for a while, and the Huainan foundation he had worked so hard not only did not bring brilliant glory to the family, but also brought about a catastrophe, which was really a pity!