Guo Wei died, and Chai Rong ascended the throne. But Chai Rong is facing a complete death.

When almost everyone faces Chai Rong, they will think of a guy who has been dead for a long time, Mr. Liu Chengyou, the Yin Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty. And Chai Rong is facing a desperate situation that is no worse than Liu Chengyou. Liu Chengyou has the same advantage Chai Rong has, and his crisis is even greater than Liu Chengyou.

First of all, it is the military spirit. You must know that Liu Chengyou's father, Liu Zhiyuan, has led the army to fight for many years, and the people he brought into Kaifeng City are all descendants. After Liu Zhiyuan's death, almost all of these horses were loyal to Liu Chengyou and obeyed Liu Chengyou's command. On the other hand, Chai Rong, his soldiers were not surnamed Guo a few years ago. How could he listen to Chai Rong's command. This almost made Chai Rong hang.

The second point is that Liu Chengyou had no mortal enemies at the beginning of his succession, of course, we can't count the mortal enemies he created himself. And Chai Rong has a mortal enemy who is not in the same place. When everyone sees Chai Rong, they will think of Mr. Liu Chong, who was staring at Hou Zhou in Taiyuan at this time. At this time, Liu Chong was vigorously marching southward at any time.

There is another point that is Chai Rong's most fatal flaw, Chai Rong does not have the prestige necessary to be an emperor. There is no prestige, and no one in the civil and military officials listens to Chai Rong. But prestige is not something you can have if you want to have it, you can only have prestige if you win wars and crises and convince everyone of you. And this, Chai Rong did not have the time and opportunity to obtain.

Soon, Chai Rong's first crisis came. Guo Wei died on New Year's Day of that year. In February, Liu Chong led his soldiers and horses to kill. There was a panic in the next week, and everyone was arguing in the court. But no one came to ask Chai Rong what to do, and regarded Chai Rong, the emperor, as air. There was no way, Chai Rong had no choice but to shout: "Stop for me, I want to drive the expedition in person and go to attack the Northern Han Dynasty." "Everyone, pay attention, Chai Rong is not talking about resisting the Northern Han, but going to break through the Northern Han. It turns out that in Chai Rong's dictionary, there has never been the concept of defense, he is always on the offensive, constantly attacking. Of course, Chai Rong's rhetoric was not exchanged for admiration, but in exchange for ridicule and ridicule from the ministers. In the final analysis, Chai Rong still lacks prestige. The deadly prestige made Chai Rong feel hopeless.

Chai Rong looked down the stairs, and he was surprised to find that the most exaggerated laugh in the audience was actually Mr. Feng Dao, who was the most offending and slippery in the past five thousand years. Feng Dao also walked up to Chai Rong with a smile and said to Chai Rong: "Yes, Liu Chong is nothing. Liu Chong was neither strong nor heroic. In front of the first emperor, Liu Chonglao suffered defeat. But now that the first emperor has just died, you can just send a general to go, why do you want to talk big here? There was a chorus of echoes below, and there were many people who supported Feng Dao. But Chai Rong's face was blue and purple for a while, he endured it and endured it, but he still couldn't hold back, and said loudly to his courtiers: "Back then, Tang Taizong, he must personally lead the troops in every battle, and he was invincible. Why should I settle down in the capital and not go out in person? As soon as these words came out, the stone broke the earth, a fledgling hairy boy actually compared himself to the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty Taizong? Everyone burst out laughing. Feng Dao smiled even more happily, and he said the following even more earth-shattering words: "You may not be Tang Taizong." It's over, Chai Rong was dumbfounded, and after being silent for a while, Chai Rong said his chances of winning: "Liu Chong is just a rabble, I can crush him like Mount Tai crushing an egg." Feng Dao didn't seem to see Chai Rong's embarrassment, and replied even more elegantly: "I don't know what Your Majesty can do?" "You say you're Tarzan, are you really? In this way, Chai Rong was completely refuted by his courtiers. This is the "love" and "support" that the emperor of a country receives in his base camp in the face of the dilemma of life and death. But Chai Rong didn't do nothing, and soon, Chai Rong found a reason to remove Feng Dao.

Liu Chong's advance was very fast, and he was now at war with the Later Zhou Barrier Zhaoyi Jiedu Envoy. Zhaoyi Jiedu made Li Yunmu not an idle person, but Li Yunmu was defeated in battle, and in the end he could only retreat to Luzhou. But Li Yunmu bought enough time for Chai Rong. Moreover, it attracted Liu Chong's main force of the Northern Han Dynasty, and led a large-scale enemy army to retreat towards Luzhou.

But the situation soon turned unfavorable to Chai Rong, the Khitan general Yang Gon led more than 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 or 60,000 infantry, known as 100,000, to Jinyang, the Northern Han Dynasty took Zhang Yuanhui as the vanguard, led 30,000 troops, and jointly entered Ze and Lu Erzhou, and the size of the coalition army soon exceeded Chai Rong's strength in Ze and Lu (in fact, Chai Rong only had 2,000 troops in this area).

After Chai Rong dismissed Feng Dao, he quickly issued a series of orders, led by Hu Yanqing to copy the back road of the coalition army, Chai Rong finally set out from Kaifeng, so that Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan were the left wing, Fan Aineng, He Hui were the right wing, Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao led the elite cavalry in the center, and confronted the coalition army, Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin led the forbidden troops to follow Sejong. Chai Rong accurately predicted that the coalition forces would definitely open a gap from Jinju and advance to Kaifeng. He moved to Jinju with a small number of main forces in advance. The famous Battle of Gaoping is about to begin.

Just now we saw a name in the list that shouldn't have appeared, Zhao Kuangyin. He was supposed to lead his headquarters to his original garrison. But Chai Rong kept Zhao Kuangyin before leaving. Zhao Kuangyin took the opportunity to stay by Chai Rong's side. Chai Rong didn't explain much. But no one did it, and it was this small move that saved the entire battle of Gaoping.

What was the outcome of the Battle of Gaoping? How will Chai Rong deal with his courtiers? We'll talk about that next time.