Chapter 41: Du Fuwei and His Man
After the change in Jiangdu, Yu Wenhua led all the capable warriors and hundreds of thousands of troops to the north, and only Chen Ling's weak brigade was left in Jiangdu.
At this time, Jiang Du is like fat in the eyes of a group of vicious dogs, who can think of taking a bite.
The first to bite was Hailing Li Zitong, who led tens of thousands of people to attack Jiangdu. Chen Ling couldn't hold on, so he had to ask Du Fuwei and Wu Junhaoqiang Shen Faxing for help.
Both of them did not want Li Zitong to occupy Jiangdu, so they both sent reinforcements, Du Fuwei personally led the troops, and Shen Faxing sent his son Shen Lun. If only one side sent reinforcements, maybe things would have been much simpler, but since both sides came, the result was that no one did anything, and everyone watched each other.
Li Zitong seized the weakness of mutual distrust between Du and Shen, and sent a small army disguised as Shen to attack Du Fuwei at night. Li Zitong was able to attack Jiangdu with all his strength, but Chen Ling was unable to support it, abandoned the city and fled, and went to Du Fuwei. (Later killed by Du)
After Li Zitong occupied Jiangdu, he attacked Shen Lun with a victorious army, and Shen's troops were defeated and fled. Among the three major forces, Du Fuwei had the strongest troops, but instead let Li Zitong occupy Jiangdu, Du Fuwei hated this, but the overall situation was decided, and he had to withdraw his troops angrily.
Sui lost its deer, and the world chased it. At this time, it was the last year of the great cause, the general trend of the world was at the most critical moment, Emperor Yang of Sui was killed, the biggest princes in the world were inseparable, and the general trend could not be seen at all, Du Fuwei actually asked the Li Tang regime to surrender!
Although this surrender was only nominal, it was impossible for Li Yuan to interfere in Du Fuwei's affairs at this time, and Du Fuwei was still an independent force. But it can be seen from this that Du Fuwei has no ambitions in the world, and his uprising is only forced by the form, and what he wants is to protect one side in the troubled times like Zhai Rang.
After that, there was a wonderful melee of the JAC triumvirate. Li Zitong took the lead in attacking, attacked Shen Faxing with all his might, crossed the river and conquered Shen's important town of Jingkou, and killed Jiang Yuanchao, the general sent by Shen to meet the attack, Shen's main force was lost, so he had to give up Danyang and Biling, and fled back to his hometown in Wu County.
Taking advantage of the battle between Li and Shen, Du Fuwei took Fu Gongyou as the main general, Kan Ling and Wang Xiongtan as deputy generals, and led thousands of elites to attack Danyang, which Li had just captured. But the timing was not mastered, Shen Faxing was defeated too quickly, and Li Zitong was able to personally lead the main force of tens of thousands to meet the battle, and the army was extremely prosperous. Seeing that the people were outnumbered, Fu Gongyou was in a hurry, and divided the upper recruitment into three parts, selected a thousand people with long knives as the vanguard, followed by a thousand people, and led the rest of the troops to follow closely behind, and declared that the front formation had retreated to the latter, and the rear formation was cut off. The Jianghuai army is already fierce, and with such a harsh military method, naturally everyone moves forward bravely, especially the long knife formation of the forward.
As soon as the two sides fought, Li Zitong was angry and immediately retreated. Of course, Fu Gongyou was so happy that he personally pursued the brigade. Unexpectedly, Li Zitong reorganized the army and fought again, and defeated the recruits without any array.
That night, Li Zitong underestimated the enemy because of the victory, and camped unguarded. Wang Xiongdan strongly persuaded Fu Gongyou to attack at night, but Fu Gongyou did not dare to attack because of the great loss during the day. Wang Xiongdan simply led hundreds of people to attack on his own.
Wang Xiongdan set fire to Li Zitong's camp, Li Zitong was caught off guard, and was defeated and dispersed, and tens of thousands of people scattered overnight. This battle was a decisive battle between Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, which was related to the hegemony of Jianghuai, and the thousands of elites under Du Fuwei's department won first and then lost and finally won all, dramatically breaking Li Zitong's main force ten times his own.
After defeating Li Zitong, Du Fuwei has become powerful in Jiangnan. Li Zitong did not dare to fight Du Fuwei's tiger whiskers, collected the remnants of 20,000 people, and turned to blast Shen Faxing, seized Shen Faxing's territory (after Shen Faxing lost his territory, he defected to Wenren Sui'an and was killed by him), and continued to oppose Du Fuwei.
After that, Du Fuwei sent Wang Xiongdan to attack Li Zitong in order to prevent future troubles, and the two fought fiercely in Dusongling. Wang Xiongtan saw that Li Se was very inward-looking, and sent people to design and create more flamboyance, but at night he set up false lights, trying his best to create the illusion of hundreds of thousands of troops.
It may be that the last night attack left a serious psychological shadow, Li Zitong actually burned the camp tent by himself and retreated overnight. Wang Xiongtan led the army to pursue to the city of Hangzhou, Li Zitong's whole army collapsed, surrendered poorly, and was captured by Du Fuwei to Li Yuan, where he was placed under house arrest in Chang'an.
After the elimination of Li Zitong, various local forces such as Wang Hua and Wenren Sui'an surrendered one after another, and Du Fuwei completed the unification of Jianghuai, and all the land of Huainan and Jiangdong was owned. But Du Fuwei began his autistic career from then on, sitting back and watching the world's heroes be eliminated one by one by the Li Tang regime without indifference.
Eventually, Wude five years, Xia. Li Shimin led his troops to pacify Dou Jiande's remaining Liu Heimin and Xu Yuanlang, and Xu Yuanlang's territory bordered Du Fuwei.
Du Fuwei naturally understood Li Shimin's intentions, and was very uneasy in his heart, worried that he would become Li Tang's next target. In order to avoid suspicion, Du Fuwei simply wrote to Li Yuan and asked to enter the court. Li Yuan was naturally happy after receiving the report and approved Du Fuwei's entry into the court.
So, Du Fuwei, a Muggle, handed over the Jianghuai army, which had been painstakingly operated for many years, to the commander of the Yizi Wang Xiongdan, and brought a few cronies such as Kan Ling to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan in July of that year. From the moment he set foot on the road to the court, Du Fuwei was certain to die.
He didn't understand that since the day he rebelled, he was fighting against fate, and since the day he became famous, he was fighting against destiny. If you just fight with your own fate, there is still a way to survive if you surrender, but since you are fighting with the sky, then naturally there is no way out, and if you don't advance, you will die!
Not to mention that because Du Fuwei seized the military power of Fu Gongyou, the relationship between the two was broken from then on, and after Du Fuwei left, Fu Gongyou designed to outwitt Wang Xiong's birthday, pulled the flag and rebelled, and forced Du Fuwei to death.
It is simply said that when Du Fuwei saw the heroes who surrendered to Li Tang, such as Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Xiao Miao, Li Rail, Xue Rengao, Dou Jiande and other princes successively ambushed him, when he understood Li Yuan's bearing and his own fate, he still decided to hand over the power of his life and death to others, and gave away the foundation he had worked hard for many years, and finally died and was ruined, and he was the laugher of the world!
It can be seen that this Du Fu is brave and brave, although he has the talent of a general and the power of the princes, but his vision is too shallow, his ambition is short-sighted, and he only seeks to stabilize the party, and has no emperor's heart to fight for hegemony, but he is just a reckless hero created by the times.
Therefore, in Yang Guang's view, Du Fuwei is a prince who can be appeased.
At this time, Wuxing County Shou Shen Faxing has not yet pulled the flag to rebel, if the Jiangdu side rashly dispatches, whether it is to fight Du Fuwei or Li Zitong, or to fight other thieves, it will give people an opportunity to take advantage of, and it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive to eliminate one by one, and it will be too troublesome.
We should learn more from Jiang Gong's methods, learn to take advantage of the situation, use various means to deal with all forces, try to win over those who can be co-opted, and resolutely eliminate those who cannot be co-opted, and become a big fat man step by step!