When Chai Rong arrived in Jinju, Liu Chong was no longer there. What about Liu Chong? Liu Chong learned the lesson of the last siege of Jinju and was defeated by Wang Jun. This time, he specially bypassed Jinju and headed directly to Kaifeng. He knew what he wanted, and that was Chai Rong's life. But he never expected to encounter Chai Rong's army. When Liu Chong marched to Gaoping County, Zezhou, Liu Chong encountered Chai Rong.

Chai Rong rode his horse up the hill of Gaoping, and in front of him was his enemy, the enemy who dared to despise him and dare to attack him while his father was dead. Thinking of this, Chai Rong's heart was no longer full of pride, but a raging anger. I, Chai Rong, will destroy all enemies, make the world tremble, and let you understand what the real Chai Rong looks like.

Chai Rong gave a new order at this time, and the forward attacked. But someone immediately stopped Chai: "Your Majesty, the encirclement has not yet been formed, and the large army behind has not yet arrived, so it is not time to attack." Chai Rong didn't answer his subordinates' questions, he just said lightly: "My order has been issued, and it can't be withdrawn." Whether I win or not is my problem, and whether I carry out orders or not is your business. The subordinate gritted his teeth, but still passed the order downward.

Liu Chong was very excited at this time, since he entered the Houzhou Kingdom, he was like a bamboo along the way, and he had no opponent in the vertical and horizontal gallop. It seems that this time he made the right bet, after Guo Wei's death, Zhou will have no more opponents, and revenge for Liu Yun is just around the corner. Even the restoration of the territory of the Later Han Dynasty is just around the corner.

But something happened to him unexpectedly, Hou Zhou's army didn't know when to rush to the opposite side. Even preemptively launched an attack. But he immediately discovered Chai Rong's loophole. The troops in the latter week are insufficient. At this time, Liu Chong immediately figured it out. As a veteran of the battlefield, Liu Chong seized the opportunity and quickly ordered to retreat. Liu Chong knew very well that he couldn't fight for a moment, and he wanted Chai Rong to not even know how he died. Chai Rong ordered the army to begin a rapid march to pursue Liu Chong of the Northern Han Dynasty.

But Chai Rong didn't expect that Liu Chong, who had been retreating, suddenly stopped in a plain and stabilized his position. Chai Rong also stopped, but saw that the killing sound was shocking at this time, Chai Rong chased too fast and had left the large army behind him far behind, Liu Chong seized the opportunity to send two elite soldiers to move to both sides of Chai Rong, Chai Rong was actually played by Liu Chong. Everyone's eyes fell on Chai Rong, but Chai Rong was not afraid, and issued extremely clear orders: Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan were the left wing, Fan Aineng and He Hui were the right wing, and Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao led the elite cavalry in the center, ready to assault Liu Chong at any time.

Soon, the world will know a name, the military god Chai Rong.

In the spring, the cold wind in Gaoping was biting, and the two armies faced each other, and a major war was about to break out. But Chai Rong did not attack immediately, because now it was blowing a north wind, and the cold wind was blowing towards Hou Zhou's army, and Hou Zhou's charge or archery was not good for them, so Chai Rong needed to wait for a better time to attack.

Liu Chong saw that there were not many people in the Later Zhou, and he thought that he could defeat the Zhou army without the Khitan people, so he decided to put aside the Khitan reinforcements and only use the Han army to defeat the Zhou army, and at the same time let the Khitans see the strength of the Han army. The generals of the Northern Han Dynasty also agreed. Yang Gon observed the formation and appearance of the Later Zhou army before the battle, and put forward different opinions on Liu Chong. Liu Chong disagreed and did not adopt it. Yang Gon chose to remain silent.

At that time, the northeast wind was very strong, and suddenly it changed to a southerly wind. Wang Yansi, the deputy privy envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty, sent Si Tianjian Li Yi to advise Liu Chong to attack. Wang Dezhong, a privy councillor, thought that the wind was unfavorable and it was not suitable to attack, Liu Chong did not listen, and ordered the eastern army to attack first, and it turned out that this Liu Chong was by no means incompetent. Launching an attack under unfavorable weather conditions caught Zhou off guard.

Zhang Yuanhui, the first fierce general of the Later Zhou Dynasty, personally led more than 1,000 elite cavalry to attack the right army of the Later Zhou Dynasty. The commanders of the right army of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Fan Aineng and He Hui, originally had a cowardly mentality, and soon after the battle, they saw that the Northern Han army was coming very fiercely and could not resist, so they surrendered to the enemy in front of the battle. This situation caught Chai Rong off guard, the right army of the Later Zhou was defeated, and then there was another thing on the battlefield that Chai Rong couldn't believe when he died, and thousands of infantry of the right army of the Later Zhou army disarmed and surrendered. I can't even hold on to this once. The army of the Later Zhou Dynasty was shaken on all fronts, and the already unstable military spirit was even more shaken. At this time, Chai Rong's most fatal flaw was exposed, he had no prestige, and the soldiers didn't listen to him. Chai Rong reached the moment of life and death, and the Zhou army was on the verge of defeat, and Chai Rong personally led his own soldiers on the left and right to brave the arrows and stones to supervise the battle. At this time, Liu Chong leaked a smile, he knew that he had no chance to turn over if he won Chai Rong. Desperate, Chai Rong made a decision that stunned Liu Chong, and Chai Rong led his guards to charge Liu Chong. Chai Rong broke through Liu Chong's first line of defense, but at this moment, Chai Rong's heart was indeed sad. Because at this moment, Chai Rong didn't hear much of the sound of horses' hooves. That is to say, when their emperor launched an attack, there were not many people in the Later Zhou Dynasty following him, and everything was harmed by the abominable prestige.

Seeing Chai Rong charge, Zhao Kuangyin, who was still the general of the Later Zhou Forbidden Army at the time, first beckoned his companions to charge forward, and then asked Zhang Yongde to lead the army to attack from the left flank, and he led the army to attack from the right flank. Zhang Yongde analyzed the battlefield, he found that although the right army had been defeated, but they still had the left army and the middle army, as long as they let go, there was still a chance to win, and the two of them each led 2,000 men and horses to attack with Chai Rong. Zhao Kuangyin took the lead in the bloody battle against the enemy, the main general fought bravely, and the soldiers fought desperately, all of them were one hundred, and the Northern Han soldiers could not resist. The inner temple Naoma Renyu also inspired his companions to attack, and he himself jumped on his horse and shot fiercely, killing dozens of enemy soldiers in a row, and the morale of the Later Zhou army was even higher. Ma Quanyi, the head of the right line in front of the palace, also led hundreds of cavalry under his command to attack forward.

After Liu Chong knew that Chai Rong personally went to battle, he ordered someone to reward Zhang Yuanhui and urged Zhang Yuanhui to take advantage of the victory to attack. Zhang Yuanhui advanced, and history records that Chai Rong only followed more than 50 cavalry at this time, but that's it, Zhang Yuanhui's war horse was shot down by Chai Rong, and Zhang Yuanhui himself was killed by the Later Zhou army. At this time, everyone saw that the Chinese army tent of the Northern Han began to retreat, and Liu Chong ran away. The Northern Han general Zhang Yuanhui was beheaded, the emperor fled, and the morale of the Northern Han army, which had the upper hand, plummeted, and the Zhou army took advantage of the stronger and stronger south wind to attack fiercely, and the Northern Han army was defeated.

At this time, Liu Chong reacted, and the Northern Han Dynasty was about to end. However, even if Liu Chong personally waved the flag, he could not stop the rout of the Northern Han army. Yang Gon saw that the Hou Zhou army was so brave that he did not dare to rescue, and hated the Northern Han lord for not listening to his advice, so he led the Khitan cavalry to retreat first. Fan Aineng and He Hui, who were defeated from the battlefield, led the rout army to rob the baggage all the way, spread rumors, and tried to stop the advance of the rear army Liu Ci. Liu did not listen to the words, led the army forward, and joined the front army at dusk, when the Northern Han soldiers still had more than 10,000 soldiers, and they were arrayed across the mountain stream, trying to resist. After the Zhou army received reinforcements, and launched a fierce attack, the Northern Han army collapsed, Wang Yansi was killed, and the Later Zhou army pursued all the way to Gaoping City in Zezhou, the corpses of the Northern Han soldiers were all over the valley, and the discarded military equipment was everywhere, and thousands of Northern Han soldiers surrendered. Liu Chong only led more than 100 cavalry to escape in disarray. In the Gaoping battle, Chai Rong won a complete victory in the first battle.

Liu Chong finally realized what he had in mind when he started the war, and he was so confused that he didn't even know how to lose.

Looking at the entire battle situation, the reason why Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was able to achieve victory was not unrelated to his heroic martial arts, and he was still able to be calm and calm in the face of his generals and surrender to the enemy in front of the formation, which made the loose military spirit cohesive again. Just imagine if Chai Rong was cowardly at that time, the only ending would be death. On the other hand, Liu Chong's pride underestimated the enemy, he did not understand the dangers of fighting against the wind, and his inability to listen to opinions were undoubtedly the fatal factors that led to his final defeat.

The Battle of Gaoping is a very famous battle in history, and after this battle, the Central Plains Dynasty began to turn from weak to strong. It laid the foundation for the great unification that followed.

What will Chai Rong do after that? We'll talk about that next time.