Originally, Zhao Kuangyin's original plan was to wipe out all Huang Fuhui's troops at Qingliu Pass, but he didn't expect to be run away by Huang Fuhui, who had extremely rich experience in escaping. Zhao Kuangyin chased Huang Fuhui with his life, and Huang Fuhui made a decision immediately and demolished the bridge on the moat of Chuzhou City, which stopped Zhao Kuangyin, who was chasing after him. This is to tell Zhao Kuangyin clearly: Yes, you are powerful, I can't beat you, but I will completely close the door, and you won't want to come in.

Huang Fuhui was defeated and retreated into the city of Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin continued to attack Chuzhou City. We can believe that the crazy Huang Fuhui is definitely in a hurry. Huang Fuhui actually shouted in the city: "You and I are our own masters, don't be so desperate, your cannonballs are uncomfortable coming in, why don't you give up some space and let me go out of the city to fight?" Under the city, Zhao Kuangyin, who was attacking, laughed and agreed.

Of course, we can responsibly say that Huang Fuhui is definitely not a fool. Just like Huang Fuhui was strong and clear the wilderness before Qingliu Pass, it is absolutely correct to stick to the practice of waiting for help. It's a pity that he didn't expect Zhao Kuangyin's army to kill so quickly. It's a pity that Huang Fuhui made the biggest and last mistake in his life in Chuzhou City. In fact, as long as Huang Fuhui is like in Qingliu Pass, the walls are clear, and he is stubbornly waiting for help, and the newcomers of the Later Zhou Dynasty will definitely be pressed to the ground by the Southern Tang people who are familiar with the terrain. But it's a pity that Huang Fuhui didn't implement his own combat policy after all, and Huang Fuhui took people out of the city in a rage to fight a decisive battle. But the problem is that Huang Fuhui still has tens of thousands of people under his hands. Zhao Kuangyin still has only a few thousand people under him.

The gate of Chuzhou City was wide open, and the Southern Tang people came out of Chuzhou City, and the Southern Tang people were very few in number, and when they were arrayed, Zhao Kuangyin did not attack. It wasn't until Huang Fuhui lined up in formation that Zhao Kuangyin rushed forward, rushed out of the ** formation, and slashed Huang Fuhui's head with one sword! **chaos, Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng were captured, and the Zhou army was stationed in Chuzhou. Later generations said that the Song Dynasty army was poor and weak and could not fight, but this army was still a very strong army in the hands of Zhao Kuangyin.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin almost became the captain of Chuzhou's firefighting, there are things to report everywhere, Chuzhou has just been conquered, and the big Chuzhou City has endless things to do, Zhao Kuangyin deals with a lot of trivial things every day, so Zhao Kuangyin, who is used to doing big things, is very uncomfortable. But soon, the trusted governor of Chuzhou arrived, this person is famous in history, his surname is Zhao Mingpu, and later generations are known as the Banbu Analects to rule the world. This is a young man who is slightly older than Zhao Kuangyin, just like his name, he looks like an ordinary young man, and he can't see any talent. His resume is also very simple, he used to be a staff member of General Liu Ci, and all the work was carried out behind the scenes, and there were no outstanding features. Liu Ci was quickly promoted to the rank of knight after the Battle of Gaoping because of his great merits, but unfortunately he died soon after, and before he died, Liu Ci solemnly recommended Zhao Pu to the emperor. But the problem is that Chai Rong now has too many talents under his hands, so he sent Zhao Pu to Zhao Kuangyin as a staff member. History proves that when Zhao Pu saw Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin was upset, Zhao Kuangyin had just caught more than 100 robbers who took advantage of the fire to rob, and he was beheaded. Think about it, if more than 100 people are examined one by one, when will they be tried? Zhao Pu suspected that there were innocent people among them, so he said: "General, many of the robbers arrested in the chaos must be wronged, and I ask to interrogate them." "Please ask Zhao Kuangyin to interrogate them, and many of them survived later.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin began to look at Zhao Pu with admiration, and since then, Zhao Pu has weight in Zhao Kuangyin's heart, which is extraordinary. This is a bit like the feeling of Li Yunlong and his inner political commissar in "Bright Sword". I thought that he was a weak scholar and looked down on others, but later when they got things done, they treated them with courtesy. In the city of Chuzhou, there are too many memories of Zhao Kuangyin here, and later, his children and grandchildren built a big hall for him here. To commemorate the glorious years when Zhao Kuangyin was here that "the great cause has been made since then, and the royal industry has started since then". It was also the time when Zhao Kuangyin and his chief minister Zhao Pu met together. At that time, the historians also tried their best to avoid recording the second incident that happened here, which was Zhao Kuangyin's lifelong hatred, and he couldn't forgive himself because of this incident anyway, so that a year before his death, he also went to the grave of Mr. Zhao Hongyi in Luoyang and cried bitterly.

What's going on here? We still have to go back to the night when Chuzhou City was just breached, and that night, Zhao Hongyin led reinforcements to arrive and call the door under the city. Originally, Zhao Hongyi should not have come to Chuzhou, his task was to attack Yangzhou with Han Lingkun. But halfway through, Zhao Hongyi became seriously ill and had to return to the rear to recuperate, passing by Chuzhou. Let's take a look at Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin replied in the city: "The father and son are not intimate, but I led the troops to garrison the city, and it is late at night, and the military situation is unknown, so I can't open the door." Zhao Hongyin was helpless. They had to sleep outside the city, and they were released into the city after dawn. In this way, Zhao Hongyin, who was seriously ill, was locked out of the door by his son, and in this way, Zhao Hongyin's already weak body was even weaker, and he could no longer travel as scheduled, so he had to stay in Chuzhou to recuperate. It was also at this time that Chai Rong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to gallop with soldiers and horses to aid Han Lingkun's troops in Yangzhou. In this way, Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to abandon his father and rush to Han Lingkun's aid.

Yes, it is this style of military governance that forged the later brave and fierce, vertical and horizontal iron-blooded Song army. In less than three months, more than 50,000 fresh troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty were completely annihilated by the Zhou army, and Li Jing was naturally trembling.

Zhao Kuangyin captured Chuzhou, an important town in Jiangbei, which changed the situation in Jiangbei in one fell swoop, and Shouzhou, the throat town of Southern Tang, has been isolated. No matter how much Liu Renzhan still had the unbreakable determination in Shouzhou City, the soldiers began to lose confidence in Shouzhou. Come to think of it, Shouzhou has been stubbornly resisting for so many days, and now it is the end of the crossbow. Later Zhou poured the power of the country to besiege Shouzhou, the Later Zhou Emperor came in person, and all the surrounding cities fell. How could they still believe that Shouzhou City would not be conquered. Of course, not only the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were desperate, but also the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Jing. He began to wonder if he could win the battle.

History proves that Li Jing is definitely different from Chai Rong, Li Jing has never reached the front line in these years of expanding his territory. Compared with Chai Rong's stubbornness, Li Jing's taste is much higher. Li Jing is more like a master of strategizing, and he will never be as brave as Chai Rong who only fights for one knife and one gun. So Li Jing did a very necessary thing at this time, we admire Li Jing very much, Li Jing is not too early or too late. What did he do? Li Jing demanded immediate negotiations. At this time, Li Jing is at the right time. If Li Jing had negotiated before the form had deteriorated to such a point, he would probably have grown the prestige of his enemies and destroyed his own morale. Then the situation of the war could deteriorate rapidly, eventually leading to a very serious consequence. But if it is later, once Shouzhou is lost, Jiangbei will all fall into Chai Rong's hands, then it will be too late to say anything. Chai Rong may ignore Li Jing at all and sweep it directly.

Therefore, he hurriedly sent envoys to bring a large amount of goods to ask for peace, and expressed his willingness to serve Zhou Shizong Chai Rong as a brother. Li Jing sent Hanlin scholars and high-ranking officials to the city of Shouzhou, and said to Chai Rong: "Congratulations, Your Excellency, you seem to have won the battle, I congratulate you first." But we might as well stop fighting, let's strike on both sides. Based on the fact that you are fighting to grab money, I will give you some money, so we might as well stop fighting. What do you think? "If it is the practice of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Chai Rong should be happy to agree, and then the two sides will call off the troops, and each will go back to his own house to find his own mother. Because you Chai Rong has the ability, you can't eat all the Southern Tang in one go, and you are careful to break your teeth, so you will take it when you see it. It's a pity, the communication technology in that era was too poor, and Li Jing couldn't get in touch with the Northern Han Dynasty, otherwise he would know what kind of person Chai Rong was if he could exchange feelings with Liu Chong. Chai Rong will never give up if he doesn't achieve his goal. I don't eat the Lianghuai region, I want to negotiate peace, but there is no way. Seeing that it didn't make sense, the two Hanlin gentlemen didn't leave, and continued to take them there. Chai Rong didn't say yes or disagree, but asked how the treasury of the Southern Tang Dynasty was. "Where is your Southern Tang treasury? How much money is there? After asking these questions and making sure that his subordinates had heard clearly, the two Hanlin scholars said puzzledly: "It's in Jinling City." After Chai Rong listened, he turned to the surrounding soldiers and said to them: "Everyone, listen clearly, take Jinling City, and the money in the treasury of the Southern Tang Dynasty is your bonus." The soldiers of the Hou Zhou, after listening, suddenly broke out with a flood of "long live" voices, the soldiers shouted long live, this is not a question of money or not, but the soldiers feel that with such an emperor, there is hope for life, and the Hou Zhou will win.

Chai Rong saw through Li Jing's plan to delay the army, first sent someone to detain the envoy, and then sent the general Han Lingkun to attack Yangzhou City, the economic and trade center of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and cut off the passage for the Southern Tang waterway reinforcements to go north. A negotiation can be considered a breakdown. Chai Rong's order to Han Lingkun was very simple: "I heard that Yangzhou has a lot of money and grain since ancient times, so as not to make the Southern Tang Dynasty laugh at us for being poor." Han Lingkun was obviously stimulated by Chai Rong, not only won Yangzhou in one go, but also beat Taizhou by the way. For a time, almost all the important towns in Jiangbei were taken by Hou Zhou, and the war was about to end.

Han Lingkun captured Yangzhou, the Southern Tang Dynasty sent troops to take it, Han Lingkun advocated retreating, and Chai Rong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead 2,000 troops to Liuhe. Zhao Kuangyin ordered: "Yangzhou soldiers dare to have Liuhe, cut off their feet." "Han Lingkun stuck to Yangzhou.

What's going on? Li Jing was unwilling to lose several important military towns such as Yangzhou and Chuzhou one after another, and quickly ordered the crown prince Li Jingda, the king of Southern Tang Qi, to quickly cross the river and attack Yangzhou, wanting to recapture the important town of Yangzhou. Quickly led 60,000 troops to cross the Yangtze River and marched into Yangzhou. The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

Can Zhao Kuangyin keep Yangzhou? How will the Shouzhou War end? We'll talk about that next time.