When Zhao Kuangyin attacked Shouzhou City, it was like a rain of arrows, and Zhao Kuangyin just fainted after being hit by an arrow in the leg. According to historical records, it was Zhao Kuangyin who had a subordinate who replaced life with death, and Zhao Kuangyin was hit by a few arrows before rescuing Zhao Kuangyin back to the shore.

In the second year of Xiande (955 AD), Zhou Shizong personally conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the strategic goal was to seize the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Huainan and drive its forces south of the Yangtze River. Liu Renzhan, a famous general of the fifth generation, was never conquered by the Zhou army. Zhou Shizong sent someone to recruit Liu Renzhan to surrender, only to get a string of merciless laughter. However, the Southern Tang reinforcements were very uncompetitive and were defeated by the Zhou army. First of all, the Later Zhou Wuxin Army made Li Chongjin defeat the elite "horse spleen" in the Huai River, and beheaded Liu Yanzhen, the Shenwu Army;

According to historical records, after Liu Yanzhen's army defeated Zhengyang Town, the Southern Tang Dynasty troops north of the Yangtze River fled to the Huangfu Hui Department at Qingliu Pass, and only more than 10,000 sailors wandered near Haozhou.

Therefore, in addition to continuing to besiege Shouzhou City, Chai Rong came to a conclusion after careful consideration, and sent troops to completely sweep away the above southern ** and cut off Shouzhou's external contacts, and Shouzhou could be conquered. The task of sweeping away the ** forces in the upper reaches of the south was handed over to Zhao Kuangyin, a famous general of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Chai Rong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the 5,000-year-old Zhou army to attack everywhere, and the task was to clear the Southern Tang reinforcements around Shouzhou. But what Chai Rong didn't know at this time was that the reinforcements from all walks of life in the Southern Tang Dynasty had arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River one after another. There are more than 50,000 in Bozhou alone.

At this time, a total of 20,000 southern ** teams were stationed at the mouth of the vortex river north of Shouzhou, which not only had a strong barrier on land, but also had a naval army in the water, which could be attacked and defended. Zhao Kuangyin wants to defeat him, but it's not easy. But Zhao Kuangyin did it. At this time, we have to talk about what kind of country the Southern Tang Dynasty is, and what is the military and national strength of the Southern Tang Dynasty. If they really wanted to be the army of the later lord Li Yu at that time, it is estimated that Zhao Kuangyin would not need 5,000 people, and 500 Zhao Kuangyin would dare to fight the mouth of the vortex. But the question is, is Nantang really weak?

But the fact is that Nantang is really not weak. The Southern Tang Dynasty is not only a big land, a lot of money, and a lot of people, but also has a high-minded emperor Li Jing. Li Jing took advantage of the civil strife in the Later Zhou Dynasty to continuously send troops to expand his territory, and successively conquered the Fujian and Chu countries, and expanded his territory to the territory of 35 states. The area of the country is no longer smaller than Hou Zhou, and even more than Hou Zhou in terms of national strength and population. So now, Chai Rong is like an underworld gangster who has just learned to cut people, and Li Jing has been the underworld leader for many years. Under such circumstances, when Zhao Kuangyin led 5,000 people to attack the mouth of the vortex river, was he really reliable?

We can guess the mood of the South ** team when they saw Zhao Kuangyin, they must be thinking about the Hou Zhou people who don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they dare to fight with such a few people, brothers, and kill these Hou Zhou people who don't know whether they are alive or dead. I actually didn't introduce it clearly here, Zhao Kuangyin is a very individual person, Zhao Kuangyin brought 5,000 people, in fact, at the beginning of the battle, Zhao Kuangyin only launched an attack with more than 100 cavalry. Zhao Kuangyin was like this, and rushed to the camp of the Southern Tang Dynasty with more than a hundred cavalry. **At a glance, Zhao Kuangyin rushed over with only such a few people, and he was overjoyed, and immediately rushed out of the barrier and killed the Hou Zhou people. Zhao Kuangyin saw the Southern Tang people rushing over, and immediately ordered a retreat. Then more than 10,000 southern ** teams pursued Zhao Kuangyin under the leadership of He Yanxi, the commander of the soldiers and horses. When Zhao Kuangyin ran to the west of the mouth of the vortex river, he didn't run, but arrived at the place.

Although there were only 5,000 people, Zhao Kuangyin completely defeated more than 10,000 people at the mouth of the vortex river, beheaded He Yanxi, the commander of the soldiers and horses, and then immediately returned to the southern village, smashed the Southern Tang Dynasty barriers, and captured more than 50 southern ** ships. This is the first time Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to fight alone, not only did he complete the order given by Chai Rong without discount, but also tore apart the anti-encirclement circle of the Southern Tang Dynasty. returned to Shouzhou City, and Chai Rong met Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin was given an even more difficult task, attacking Qingliu Pass and taking Chuzhou City.

The next day, Chai Rong praised Zhao Kuangyin fiercely in front of the generals, and said to Zhao Kuangyin: "Now the threat from the north has been lifted, but the threat from the east is still relatively serious, can you solve them?" As soon as these words came out, the surroundings were immediately silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on Zhao Kuangyin. Everyone expected that Zhao Kuangyin would say something reasonable at this time: "Your Majesty, I just came back with the troops, can you give me two days off." However, Zhao Kuangyin was expressionless at this time, just like last time. Okay, Your Majesty, I will lead my troops to break through Qingliu Pass and take Chuzhou. Chai Rong was overjoyed and asked Zhao Kuangyin: "How many people do you want?" Zhao Kuangyin said: "It doesn't need too much, it's still 5,000 people, it's enough." "You must know that Chuzhou is the northwest gateway of Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and an important town in Jiangbei. In the hearts of the Southern Tang people, this is an important town second only to Shouzhou. What's more, Chuzhou is an important town that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is tens of thousands of times more dangerous than Shouzhou, which is not a joke. There are two mountains outside the gate of Chuzhou City, Chushan Mountain and Stone Mountain, the mountain is extremely steep, there is a pass among the two mountains, called Qingliu Pass. That is, if you want to take Chuzhou City, you must face the natural danger of two mountains and one pass. But this is nothing, you must know that humans can repair the pass on it, are you afraid that you won't be able to take it? But the problem is, you have to see who is guarding the gates and how many people are guarding them.

At this time, the Southern Tang Jiangzhou military festival made Huang Fuhui lead 150,000 troops to garrison the Qingliu Pass in the north of the city, this Huang Fuhui is not simple, Huang Fuhui was originally a soldier of Weizhou in the Later Tang Dynasty, Tongguang four years (926), he instigated the Weizhou army to launch a rebellion, and Li Cunxuan sent Li Siyuan to lead the troops to quell the rebellion, but Li Siyuan was called the emperor under the support of the rebels, that is, Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty. Huang Fuhui was later appointed as the Assassin of Chenzhou. After the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, he served as the assassin of Mizhou. This is a fierce general who specializes in playing with the Khitans, and it is because he is not used to seeing such a finished thing as Shi Jingjiao that Huang Fuhui led his troops to defect to the Southern Tang Dynasty. He couldn't be as easy to deal with as the generals Zhao Kuangyin faced before. What's even worse is that this kind of character still has more than 100,000 troops to meet Zhao Kuangyin in the sky, how many people are there in Zhao Kuangyin? 5,000 to 100,000, this record cannot be said to be unprecedented, but also unprecedented. Open the history books and take a look, the previous disparity in strength was the Battle of Weishui, Xie Xuan confronted Fu Jian's overwhelming army of 900,000 with 80,000 troops, and it was only twelve to one at that time. What's more, at that time, Xie Xuan still had the Yangtze River natural danger, but Zhao Kuangyin was going to attack the natural danger. Just when Zhao Kuangyin left, everyone was silently saying in their hearts, yes, it's a good thing to take a look at it more, but unfortunately there is no way to take a group photo. They are very sure that Zhao Kuangyin will go back this time, 5,000 to 100,000, Zhao Kuangyin will definitely die, there is no way. It is estimated that Zhao Kuangyin offended Chai Rong, so Chai Rong deliberately sent him such an impossible task, which was deliberately playing with him.

Zhao Kuangyin took 5,000 people on the road this time, and all the people who followed him lamented in their hearts: After this time, it is estimated that we have no way to break out in silence this time, so we can only go on the road in silence. Everyone was silent, but Zhao Kuangyin seemed very happy and in a very good mood. Zhao Kuangyin found a lot of clothes, constantly changing new clothes on the road, everyone stared at Zhao Kuangyin, and said in their hearts: We are about to go to the execution ground, what do you mean, one set of clothes for one set of clothes, what are you going to do here? Planning to dress up for your funeral? But Zhao Kuangyin ignored them, and found a large number of new saddles, put new clothes on his war horse, and saw that he was shining in the team of five thousand people, like another shining sun, dazzling more than everyone else.

Finally, some people couldn't stand it anymore, some kind-hearted people, like Zhao Kuangyin reminded, General, you are too dazzling. Don't we haven't even gotten to the place, Nantang will recognize you and send an archer to shoot you with an arrow, then it's a big deal. Zhao Kuangyin was disdainful of this, I just wanted to let the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty know who I Zhao Kuangyin was. Everyone doesn't believe Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin, what are you going to do.

Kuang Yin was ordered to gather 5,000 men and horses and gallop towards Qingliu Pass overnight. At that time, the Zhou army was 200 miles away from Qingliu Pass, and it took two days to reach it according to the normal marching speed, but the Zhou army was all cavalry, and it was fast forward overnight, and when it was almost dawn, the Zhou army had already arrived at the pass. Zhao Kuangyin gave an order, and the Zhou army surrounded a clear stream pass. The defenders were still sleeping, and it was not until the rooster crowed three times and the sun rose that the defenders got up and sent people out of the pass to reconnoitre. Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, the cavalry of the reconnaissance had not yet gone out, and suddenly a general poured in, roared violently, jumped on the horse and crossed the sword, and killed everyone he wanted, which was unstoppable. The Zhou soldiers who followed him closely followed and rushed into the pass and killed the defenders. These defenders didn't expect the Zhou army to arrive at Qingliu Pass so quickly, they were all at a loss, their souls were frightened, where did they dare to resist, they just scattered and fled like rats.

Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng had just gotten up, and when they heard that Zhou Bing had entered the customs, they hurriedly left the house, flew on their horses, and fled to Chuzhou. Pity these 100,000 ** were killed by the Zhou soldiers so drastically that there was no way to escape, no way to dodge, more than half of them were killed and injured early, only a small half escaped quickly, and they were lucky to leave their lives, and fled to Chuzhou City with their boss, and there were only 40,000 people left in 100,000 **.

Zhao Kuangyin knows that soldiers are fast. When the Zhou army captured the vortex, the Zhou army was faced with the next decision-making choice - the decision choice of attacking Qingliu Pass. According to the situation at that time, the Nan** team guarding Qingliu Pass speculated that even if the Zhou army did not stop to rest, it would take two days to reach Qingliu Pass, so they thought that they still had two days to make decisions. It was the negligence of the decision-making of the South ** team that gave the Zhou army the opportunity to attack quickly.

Let's assume that after Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng arrived, the southern ** team immediately prepared for battle and began to actively defend, such as sending people around to reconnoiter the activities of the Zhou army, stationing troops outside the city, etc., which could avoid the sneak attack of the Zhou army. However, due to the slackness of the southern ** team, Zhou Jun was finally given an opportunity. The goal of the Zhou army was to capture the Huainan region, but after capturing the vortex, the goal was not achieved, and it was necessary to take the Qingliu Pass to continue advancing, so it can be seen that it was part of the goal to take the Qingliu Pass. Zhao Kuangyin was keenly aware that the longer the attack on Qingliu Pass dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for the Zhou army. If they hesitate, then the South ** team will have enough time to operate Qingliu Pass.

Zhao Kuangyin is indeed a master of leading troops, he fought a time war with the enemy, and suddenly descended on Qingliu Pass overnight, and used 5,000 soldiers and horses to capture the Xiongguan guarded by 100,000 southern ** teams.

Zhao Kuangyin captured Qingliu Pass, but Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in their hands, as well as Chuzhou, a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how should Zhao Kuangyin capture Chuzhou City? How should Chai Rong capture Shouzhou City, which is also easy to defend and difficult to attack? We'll talk about that next time.