Chapter 74: Soldiers enter Quanzhou
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Seeing that Ma Yun quietly took out a letter, Li Jingda beat a drum in his heart, but he didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly took it. Unfolded it, this heart fell back into the stomach, not for anything else, the content of this letter has nothing to do with them Li Tang, this letter is a table of surrender written by the Qingyuan Jiedu envoy to the king of Chu. He had also heard of the matter of Liucongxiao's killing of Quanzhou's assassination, but first, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou had never been really beaten down, and Liucongxiao, the local emperor, the eldest brother Li Jing never really wanted to do anything to him, and secondly, the most important thing at the moment was how to persuade the Chu army to retreat, rather than entangled in Liucongxiao. His eyes rolled: Ma Yun is the idea of fighting Quanzhou?
Li Jingda said: "Great King, this stay is capricious, he is by no means a good person, this person is a minister to my Tang Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is a minister to Dachu, and his purpose is nothing more than to be a wall grass, and to curry favor between our two countries, so that he can benefit from it and dominate one side." If your country intends to punish it, we Datang have no opinion! ”
Hearing that Li Jingda bought it in a blink of an eye, Ma Yun smiled and nodded. He wants to do something to Liucongxiao now, firstly, because Liucongxiao's strength is weak, and he has no more than 10,000 horses, and it is estimated that the army will drive over and put on a show, and he may surrender. More importantly, he valued the place of Quanzhou, which is directly east of Ryukyu (Taiwan), if the Chu State occupies Quanzhou, and then occupies the opposite Penghu, then it is equivalent to blocking the entire Taiwan Strait, which is equivalent to directly strangling Wu Yue's neck. Now among the Jiangnan countries, the richest is Wu Yue (Li Tang has been tortured). The reason why Wu Yue is rich is that Wu Yue's overseas trade occupies a large proportion. Ma Yun knew that the Great Song Dynasty was not good militarily, but economically it could be said to be the best in all dynasties, and a large part of it benefited from overseas trade, and the overseas trade of the Song Dynasty was actually the foundation laid by Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty. Third, although Li Tang's plan to sneak attack Xingwangfu failed, if he dealt with Wu Yue in the future, he would be attacked from both sides by water, so that Wu Yue could not be defended. And Quanzhou has a natural harbor, which can be used as a naval base.
Listening to Li Jingda's words, Sun Sheng glared at Li Jingda fiercely on the side, he didn't have a good impression of Liucongxiao, but Datang has now begun to decline, if he can retain Liucongxiao, maybe it will also be a constraint for Chu State. Besides, no matter how bad this retention is, it is also a subservient to Li Tang, and it will not have a good impact on Li Tang if he is sold like this. However, although Sun Sheng was unwilling in his stomach, he did not dare to stand up against it, it seems that the King of Chu is just threatening and intimidating Li Tang, but no one dares to pack the ticket, if he keeps the effect, Ma Yun will not be angry.
Weak countries have no diplomacy, and Sun Sheng had to swallow this breath.
After Chu and Tang signed an indemnity agreement, Ma Yun led the army around Tingzhou and went straight to Quanzhou.
Liu Congxiao had just killed the Quanzhou assassin sent by Li Tang, and drove away hundreds of soldiers stationed in Quanzhou to claim sovereignty, and on the one hand he declared himself a vassal to Li Tang, on the other hand, he also proclaimed himself a vassal to the state of Chu, and on the other hand, he also sent people to Fuzhou to prepare to claim vassal to Wu Yue. He wanted to live in the slit, but he didn't expect that just half a month later, the army of Chu arrived in Nan'an County in Quanzhou, and in the Zhang Wenbiao Department of the Chu army in Chaozhou, he also pounced on Zhangzhou with great momentum. He suddenly realized that he was wrong. He thought that Chu Guo was going to turn his face with Li Tang, so he happened to be cruising between the two countries and playing the wall-riding scheme. Unexpectedly, Li Tang sold him completely, and Chu Guo had no intention of fighting Li Tang to the death at all. I knew that it was better to continue to take Li Tang's subordinates, and it was a big deal to continue to pretend to be sick. Anyway, now that Li Tang has lost his troops, he won't really drop himself.
So he hurriedly summoned Zhang Hansi, the general of Quanzhou, and Chen Hongjin, the commander of the army, to discuss with the two of them how to retreat from the enemy, and discussed to discuss, there was no way. This Fujian is already poor, coupled with the fact that the two brothers Wang Yanzheng have fought for more than ten years, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are also poor, with only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the population has been recruited for a long time, and it is only 100,000. If it weren't for Quanzhou, which is also a big port, he wouldn't have been able to raise so many soldiers and horses.
If you don't have the strength, you can't use any clever plan. There is no way, Liu Congxiao came up with an idea to enter the hostage, he has no son, so he wants to give his eldest nephew to Ma Yun as a hostage. So he sent his staff Liu An to take his eldest nephew Liu Shaochi, as well as some gold and silver treasures, to Nan'an to surrender.
After Ma Yun arrived in Nan'an, he ordered a temporary rest for a day, and then attacked Quanzhou the next day. At this moment, Liu Shaochi came. Ma Yun met with the two of them in a hurry, he still thought that his face was big enough, and he would surrender without a fight? summoned Zhou Xingfeng, Pan Chongche, Shi Da and others who came with the army, and wanted these people to feel their domineering anger together. Unexpectedly, after Liu An explained his intentions, Ma Yun's face sank, his two eyes went up, looked at the ceiling of the hall, and ignored them anymore.
Zhou Xingfeng on the side glanced at Ma Yun's expression, and knew that his leader was very dissatisfied, and he couldn't help sneering: "Our army has arrived in Nan'an now, and what kind of person is it to stay in the army, does he think that he is Li Jing, even if it is Li Jing, I am the north finger of the Great Chu Banner, and he will not apologize for the compensation." Quanzhou, is it also worth bargaining with us? ”
Shi Da said: "If you don't get out of here, tell Liu, either surrender quickly, or prepare a coffin for yourself!" ”
Liu An also begged bitterly: "King, you are a Dao Mingjun. My lord is willing to serve the king as a father, and pay tribute every year.
Ma Yun said coldly: "Hahaha, today my army has arrived in Nan'an, only ten miles away from Quanzhou, do you think that with just one person and a few words, you can make the widow retreat?" You're too whimsical. ”
Liu An saw that he couldn't do it, so he had to have the courage to ask: "What is my lord's crime, the king is so pressing!" ”
Ma Yun sneered: "Staying in the effect is not guilty? Since he surrendered to me, why did he still want to surrender to Li Tang and Wu Yue! Hehe, is this the work of a loyal minister! My army has arrived here, there is nothing more to say, two roads, either fight or surrender, the widow gave him a night's consideration, tomorrow he does not come, the widow can only go in person! ”
Liu An broke out in a cold sweat, but he was helpless, he ran back to Quanzhou overnight and told him the bad news of Liu Congxiao. The whole person was stunned, he glanced at his generals lifelessly, and was silent for a long time before saying, "That's it, let's come down." ”
Zhang Hansi couldn't bear it in his heart, and said: "My lord, we might as well ask Fuzhou for help, maybe Wu Yue will help us!" ”
Liu Congxiao smiled bitterly: "The Chu army broke the Han State first, and then defeated **, even a big country like Li Tang would not dare to easily turn his face with the Chu State, how could Wu Yue be willing to offend the Chu State at this time?" Besides, Li Renda's lessons from the past, have you forgotten? **Attacking Fuzhou, Li Renda invited Wu Yue's army, and indeed defeated**, but what about Li Renda? In a different place, Fuzhou fell into the hands of Wu Yue instead. Even if Wu Yue is willing to come, when Wu Yue defeats the Chu State, don't we have to follow in the footsteps of Li Renda? We don't have more than 10,000 soldiers, and we can't do more than the two states of Zhang and Quan, so what qualifications do we have to fight against the Chu army? I think that when the king of Chu was the governor of Yuezhou, the soldiers of just one state could capture Nanping, and now the state of Chu crosses Jingchu, covers Lingnan, and has more than 100,000 elite soldiers, how can we fight against it? Forget it, let's go down. Surrender is still rich, if it is a while later, I am afraid that I will not even have to be a rich man. With that, he let out a long sigh. Since he ruled Quanzhou, he has appeased the exiles and rested with the people, which is also quite popular, but his own strength is really insignificant, and Chu Guotie is determined to come, how can he resist?
The next day, before Ma Yundian would send troops, he came to Jingjing and presented a topographic map of the population of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to express his surrender. Ma Yun was overjoyed, and immediately sealed and retained Congxiao as the Duke of Shunguo, this grade is lower than that of Li Tang and the King of Jinjiang, but there is no way, Li Jing is the emperor, Ma Yun is just the prince, these two people have different grades.
Ma Yun arrived in Quanzhou, and after accepting the army and the treasury, he once again sent a capital guard to send the Congxiao family to Changsha, while Zhang Hansi and these people were disrupted again and arranged to other places.
In the first month of the first year of Qianyou, the four-month-long military operation on the southern front of Chu finally came to an end. It officially includes the Lingnan region. On the basis of the original four armies, the state of Chu reorganized the Han army and the Qingyuan army to establish the Fifth Army, and at the same time expanded the number of men and horses of the Guards from 10,000 to 15,000. At the same time, Lingnan Road was renamed and split into Quang Nam West Road and Quang Nam East Road. Xu Wei, the former deputy commander of the Second Army, was appointed as the commander, and Ma Guangmeng was transferred to the commander of the Fifth Army. At the same time, he also established the Second Army of the Navy in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and appointed Shao Tingxuan, the former assassin of Yingzhou, as the commander of the Second Army, while the backbone officers below the Navy were drawn from the First Army of the Navy at Dongting Lake, and the middle and low-level officers of the Han Navy took most of them to Changsha to participate in military academy studies, which was brainwashing to put it bluntly.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the division of warlords, the distinction between civil officials and military attaches was not large, like this Shao Tingxuan, although he was the assassin of Yingzhou, but he was a good hand in water warfare, and Li Tang's sneak attack on Guangzhou was commanded by him. At Zhong Yunzhang's suggestion, Ma Yun still reused Shao Tingxuan.
Shao Tingxuan really lived up to expectations, and after two months of rectifying the naval division in Quanzhou, he mobilized his army to carry out a devastating crackdown on the pirates entrenched on Penghu Island. After Ma Yun sent people to inspect Penghu Island, especially the pirate camp, he decided to establish a naval port in Penghu and completely blocked the Taiwan Strait. At the same time, he sent people to the island of Taiwan to prepare for the opening of Taiwanese immigrants.
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