This golden opportunity is when Yelu Deguang broke through Kaifeng, but died in the blink of an eye to kill Hu Lin, and Liu Zhiyuan became the emperor without hindering it. If the Southern Tang Dynasty launched the Northern Expedition at this time, it is still unknown whose the world is.

And during Liu Chengyou's period, the north was also chaotic, but Li Jing didn't have the strength to go on the Northern Expedition. And Li Jing has already thrown something to the north expansion at this time, and now Li Jing focuses on his art all day long, in the final analysis, Li Jing is a person who is vigorous, and then declines, and exhausts, his early hard work is like a unique battle of young people, I am young, how can I do some big things, work hard. When he actually met his opponent, he was deflated and didn't want to do it again. But in any case, it is enough to live, and this terrible character has undoubtedly been passed on to his son, and it has been carried forward in his son. Chai Rong is retired, but will Chai Rong just stand idly by? Sure enough, only half a year later, Chai Rong made a comeback again.

So what happened to the Northern Han and Khitan? That's right, the Khitan is very powerful, but then it is also divided into who will be the emperor, the Khitan emperor at this time is the Yelu Shulu, this guy is a wonderful person, Chai Rong already wants to communicate with him further at this time, but Chai Rong's main task at present is to completely solve the power of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Jiangbei. Thoroughly consolidate their big rear.

There is nothing to say about the next thing, Chai Rong is like a bamboo along the way. Successively conquered the important towns of Haozhou, Lianshui, and Bozhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, especially in the battle of Haozhou, the Southern Tang Dynasty completely regarded the Later Zhou people as monsters, because the Later Zhou people broke through the water village of the Southern Tang Dynasty and did not use warships, and they killed the Yangtze River on horseback. Not to mention the ancients, even we don't believe that this land animal can be a ship. Along the way, Li Chongjin, Xiang Xun, Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin and other generals broke the enemy one after another along the way, and the southern ** team was defeated for thousands of miles, and in two days, countless important towns were captured one after another.

In a panic, Li Jing once again sent the general Li Jingda to rescue Haozhou, to be honest, the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty have worked very hard. It's a pity that Li Jingda was completely defeated at the vortex, Chai Rong killed 3,000 South ** team and captured more than 300 warships, Chai Rong continued to sweep south, pursuing the Southern Tang Dynasty rout, until the pursuit reached Sizhou, an important town in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and encountered resistance again. At this time, there was nothing left to stop Chai Rong, Sizhou did not support for long, and the Sizhou defender Fan Zaiyu surrendered. Chai Rong did not repair after breaking through Sizhou, he forced himself and his soldiers to take the initiative to find fighters, this time it was the Southern Tang Dynasty water army catastrophe, the only hundreds of warships left in the Southern Tang Dynasty hurriedly retreated, but unfortunately Chai Rong found out, Chai Rong immediately sent the navy to pursue, in addition to himself and Zhao Kuangyin led the two armies to pursue along both sides of the strait, until they chased to the coast of Chuzhou, right here, the Southern Tang Dynasty Navy Division was devastated, the history records, "the captured warships burned and sank more than 300 ships, and the soldiers drowned more than 7,000 people." The Tang warship was in Huaishang, so it was gone. Since then, the sailors of the Southern Tang Dynasty have never appeared in the water system of Jiangbei.

Next, Chai Rong was ready to attack Chuzhou, but it was in this place that Chai Rong encountered stubborn resistance. The defense of the Chu army made Zhang Yanqing swear not to surrender, and he, like Liu Renzhan, killed his son who was about to surrender, and then there was a city to live and die together. Zhang Yanqing did what he said, after the city was broken, Zhang Yanqing led more than 1,000 soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty to fight with the Hou Zhou people, and finally all of them were killed, and no one surrendered. Therefore, Chai Rong's army suffered heavy losses, Chai Rong was furious, and ordered the slaughter of the city, according to records, "pull it out, behead the pseudo-guard Zhang Yanqing, etc., the six armies plundered, more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians died in the city, and the house was burned." "This is the only recorded atrocity of this recognized first Ming Jun of the five generations, we can't know whether Chai Rong regrets it, we can only conclude that Chai Rong has a flaw, impulsiveness. This impulse gave Chai Rong strength, and it was Chai Rong who was brave and resolute in doing things, sharp and difficult, but it also made Chai Rong anxious. I believe that Chai Rong never had any intention of slaughtering the city before, and it is also like Chai Rong in the Battle of Gaoping, although Chai Rong drove the expedition in person, but he definitely had no intention of charging in person, this impulse was formed by Chai Rong's extraordinary bravery and Chai Rong's extraordinary talent. Impulsiveness keeps Chai Rong in extraordinary action, but impulsiveness is also a double-edged sword, which soon causes Chai Rong to fall into hell. When the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, Chai Rong's short life is not that God is unfair to him, but that he has not mastered the rhythm of life.

After the bloodbath in Chuzhou, no matter how the history books recorded and evaluated, at that time, no one dared to resist Chai Rong. At the very least, it is on the land of the Southern Tang Dynasty south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River. After the Zhou people are invincible, it is really boiling soup and pouring snow, in February, the car drove to Chuzhou to the south, broke Yangzhou, and continued to expand the results. In March, Xingtaizhou, Guangling, and Yingluan River Estuary defeated the enemy army. The important towns of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the north of the Yangtze River were lost one after another, and Chai Rong's troops reached Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Chai Rong ordered the people of the surrounding counties to be requisitioned to dredge the canal, for which Chai Rong also ordered to break through Yangzhou, an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, so that his own sailors could enter the Yangtze River from the Huai River. In March, Chai Rong's sailors finally succeeded in entering the Yangtze River, and Chai Rong personally walked on the bow of the battleship. At this point in life, what regrets are there.

Then, Chai Rong led the sailors to continue forward, and defeated the Yangtze River sailors of the Southern Tang Dynasty again at Guazhoudu. In Dongpeizhou, Chai Rong personally commanded, broke the Southern Tang Dynasty Naval Army, Zhao Kuangyin, Li Chongjin, Xiang Xun and other fierce generals were extremely brave, and even broke through the Southern Tang Water Village, killed the land south of the Yangtze River, and burned the camp of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then Chai Rong Mingjin withdrew his troops and withdrew to Jiangbei. Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was afraid of Zhao Kuangyin's prestige, and used the discord plan in Chai Rong, and sent an envoy to send Zhao Kuangyin a letter and a gift of 3,000 taels of platinum.

Emperor Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty was really desperate at this time, all the cards were lost, the Yangtze River was lost, and this battle had no to be fought. Li Jing then sent someone to Chai Rong to bring back the following conditions: to offer tribute, forced to condemn people to sacrifice the land of Sizhou, draw the river as the boundary, lose 100,000 tributes per year, and include a reward of 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 horses of silk, 100,000 yuan of money, 500,000 jin of tea, 100,000 jin of rice, remove the title of the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, change it to the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, remove the name of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and use the Later Zhou Dynasty year instead, in order to rest the soldiers. All of the above, as long as Chai Rong quits the army, it will take effect immediately.

Chai Rong was silent, at this time, the soldiers were strong and strong, and even the Yangtze River was taken down, so what reason was there not to kill the Yangtze River? What's more, Wang Pudu has already set the basic policy, first the south and then the north. Only when the Jiangnan region is mastered will troops be used to the northwest and northeast. So what are you waiting for? Could it be that Chai Rong will suddenly change his sex now? But the history is that Chai Rong suddenly changed his character, stopped there, returned to the north, and the third southern expedition ended in such a hurry.

Chai Rong had already retracted his gaze from the steamy Jiangnan at this time, and turned to the north, his gaze skipped over the sixteen states of Yanyun, where is the Xiongguan Mandao, the desert grassland with thousands of miles of yellow sand, and his thinking is very long-term: first turn back to recover the sixteen states of Youyun to stabilize the northern defense line, and then go south to unify the countries without any worries.

Therefore, after forcing the Southern Tang Dynasty to cede the 14 states of Jianghuai, Sejong did not excessively humiliate the Southern Tang monarchs.

In April 958, Zhou Shizong led his army back to Daliang after withdrawing the troops along the river and repatriating the captured Southern Tang soldiers.

Chai Rong returned to Kaifeng, and at this time, the spies sent by Chai Rong had also brought back the information that Chai Rong wanted, the information about the Liao State and Yelu Shulu.

Knowing that the other side can win a hundred battles, Yelu Shulu is also known as Yelu Jing, he is the second son of Yelu Deguang, the emperor of Liao, but there is another emperor between him and his father, Yelu Ruan, Liao Shizong. His father was the famous Yelu Abaoji, and it turned out that his deeds even surpassed his father's generation, becoming a rather accomplished emperor of the Liao State. But he was such a good emperor, he was forgotten by his clansmen as soon as he died, which also laid the groundwork for the turmoil in the Liao State later. Yelujing was not the initiator of the civil strife, but he became the biggest beneficiary. In September of the fifth year of Tianlu (951), Yelu Cha launched the Huoshendian Rebellion and killed Yelu Ruan, the emperor of Liao. Yelu Jing accompanied the expedition, after killing Yelu Cha, he officially ascended the throne, honored the title of Tianshun Emperor, and the year name should be calendared, so that the emperor returned to the line of Liao Taizong again. Immediately after Yelu Jing became emperor, he launched a series of revenge, purging all the ministers of his predecessor Yelu Nguyen, and from then on, began a colorful and exciting nightlife. From now on, I don't care about anything, just have fun. He only knows drinking, hunting, and sleeping every day, and is known as the Three Absolute Sleep Kings.

As the saying goes, a tiger father has no dog, but even if Yerod, who has been dead for more than ten years, wakes up, he would never have thought that his son would be such a piece of material. Under the leadership of this treasure of Liao, he found a golden opportunity for the Han nation, which has been bullied for more than a century, what are you waiting for, Chai Rong, who is like a fire, will never let the opportunity be lost in vain again, Chai Rong issued an order, all mobilize, and the northern expedition to Liao. At this time, Chai Rong, the goddess of fate had already put away her smile at him. But no matter what, the war still has to go on, and the war machine has rumbled and no one can stop it, so everything is ready.

In January of the sixth year of Xiande (959), Chai Rong said to many generals of all sizes in Kaifeng City: "This time to the north, I will not win and return, and the target is the sixteen states of Yanyun." Let's go. ”

Can the specific tasks of the Northern Expedition be successfully completed? What will be Chai Rong's fate? When did Zhao Kuangyin have the heart to win the throne? We'll talk about that next time.