Chapter 45: Capture Taizhou and Rescue the Yang Family
(Ask for a collection at the end of the month, there was a typo in the previous chapter!) )
On April 11, Han Lingkun's army captured Yangzhou, and three days later, the good news was transmitted back to Guo Rong's army.
April 14, early in the morning
Guo Rong sat in the camp outside Shouzhou City, at this moment in front of the marching map, secretly in his mind, rehearsing the changes in the battle situation, suddenly heard the Yangzhou battle report, on the morning of the 11th, Han Lingkun's army took Yangzhou land.
Immediately Guo Rong laughed, and at this moment Fan Zhen was also by Guo Rong's side, celebrating the great victory in Yangzhou.
"Wensu, what do you think we should do next?" Guo Rong asked, looking at the map.
"Your Majesty, now Yangzhou has been captured, it is reported that the Yongning Palace in Taizhou City is the residence of the Yang and Wu royal families, and in the past year and the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (938), Wu moved the emperor to the Danyang Palace in Runzhou, and soon sent people to kill him. And in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (939), he moved Wu to let the emperor's family in Taizhou Shuining Palace, and ordered Taizhou Assassin Shi Chu Ren to strictly defend it, not to let the descendants of the Yang family intermarry with outsiders, and they are not allowed to leave the palace, and the palace is a marriage match for each other. When he was five years old, the Li court sent an envoy to the palace to give the Yang family a child's court dress and an official title, and then gave him death and buried him in the children's grave.
And Taizhou is not far from Yangzhou, all in Jiangbei, this time under the city of Yangzhou, why not your majesty issued an edict to appease the descendants of the Yang family, condemn the Xu family's traitorous usurpation of the throne. ”
After listening to Fan Zhen's suggestion, Guo Rong laughed: "Wensu, this is wonderful!" The ugly behavior of the Tang royal family, the indignation of heaven and people, as soon as this edict came out, the ugly behavior of the Li family, the ugly behavior of the Tang royal family, the scandalous behavior of the Tang royal family, the reputation of the Li family was ruined, and the internal chaos was chaotic! ”
"Your Majesty, the minister heard that Wu Yueguo did not respect my Da Zhou's order this time, and he has already gone to war without authorization, is the minister worried about this?"
"Wensu, in fact, it's okay, Wu Yue has already gone to war, which can reduce the Tang State's offensive against our Jiangbei Zhou army, so that the land captured by Jiangbei can slowly be in the hands of the Great Zhou."
"By the way, Your Majesty, now that Yangzhou City has been captured, why not let Han Lingkun lead the army to attack Taizhou."
"Wen Su said very much!"
Then Guo Rong asked Fan Zhen to draft an edict to appease the Yang royal family of Wu State, as well as an edict to attack Changzhou, and sent soldiers to escort the edict to Han Lingkun in Yangzhou City, and at the same time let Zhao Kuangyin garrison Yangzhou City.
Two and a half days later, Guo Rong's edict had arrived in Yangzhou.
At this moment, in Yangzhou City, Han Lingkun accepted Guo Rong's edict and led the army to the direction of Changzhou.
At this moment, Wu Yueguo's army also swung north and reached the city of Changzhou.
Soon after, Han Lingkun successfully conquered Changzhou City, and Tang Guotaizhou Assassin Shi Fangne ran back to Jiangning Mansion.
Afterwards, Guo Rong appointed the senior defense in the matter as the governor of Taizhou.
At the moment when Changzhou City was captured, Han Lingkun waved his army into Changzhou City, and then issued an edict from Emperor Guo Rong to appease the Yang family of the former Wu State.
The city of Changzhou was broken, and half a day later, the news was transmitted back to Jiangning Mansion.
At this moment, Li Jing of Jiangning Mansion received a military report that Changzhou City had been captured, and when he heard that Guo Rong of Zhou State had issued an edict to appease the royal family of Wu State, he immediately sent Yuan Yuan envoy Yin Yanfan to Taizhou, intending to move the descendants of the Yang family to Runzhou.
And Jiangning Mansion has always been the nest of Changchun Hall, Yang Meng has been lying in Jiangning Mansion for more than 20 years, and the forces under him have taken root here.
Back then, he had rescued his own people three or four times, but the plan failed, but fortunately, the Xu family imprisoned them in Yongning Palace in Taizhou City.
Yang Meng also heard about the cruelty of Yongning Palace, and he vowed to take revenge and kill Xu Shun.
After receiving a letter from his father-in-law Yang Meng, Zhao Dezhao immediately began to act, he instructed Lao Jiu to dispatch the Changchun Hall warriors of Jiangning Mansion, and then rushed to Taizhou to support the secret agents in Taizhou City.
But at this moment, Zhao Dezhao's Changchun Hall has already entered Taizhou City, and their task now is to rescue Yang Meng's relatives, the Yang clan of Wu State, and then send these people to Kaifeng City safely.
It is said that these royal families were all locked up in the Yongning Palace in Changzhou City, and at this moment these royal families have been transferred to a secret place by the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom.
After that, Yin Yanfan of the Tang State rushed to Taizhou a day later, and then temporarily transferred these Yang Wu royal families in the Yongning Palace to the post station.
And the secret agents sent by Zhao Dezhao have been following him all along, waiting for an opportunity to act.
into the night, into the sub-hour. The more than 200 samurai quietly entered the post station, and then used drugs to release them to the soldiers of the night vigil.
"Who are you, come on—that!" But before the night watchman could finish this sentence, he was killed by the samurai of Changchun Hall.
In 956 AD, Zhou Shizong's troops attacked Huainan, issued an edict to appease the descendants of the Yang family, the Southern Tang lord Li Jing (Li Nose) was afraid, and immediately went to the middle of the way, Yan Fan worried about the change, the excuse was that the road was chaotic, and more than 60 men of the descendants of the Yang family were killed, and more than 20 women crossed the river. ”
On that day, Yin Yanfan was worried that these people above the middle of the road would make trouble, and he was planning to kill more than 60 of these Yang men above the middle of the road, and cross the river with more than 20 women.
Behind a dense forest, the executioner was about to carry out the execution, when the samurai sent by Zhao Dezhao in the dense forest were already waiting for an opportunity.
They rushed forward and slashed Yin Yanfan. As soon as Yin Yanfan died, the other officials and soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty around him were hacked to death by the warriors of Changchun Hall without resisting.
Originally, he planned to kill him, but he let one person go, so that he could send back the news to Li Jing, which was also ordered by Zhao Dezhao, in order to make Li Jing worry day and night in Jiangning Mansion.
Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top, the Yang Wu royal family has always been a hurdle in the heart of the Li family, Zhao Dezhao's plan is to make Li Jing frightened, it is really vicious.
And those Yang men saw this situation and didn't know whether the other party's people were here to kill them or to rescue them.
"Who are you...... Was it sent by Li Jing? A Yang man asked in horror.
"Don't worry, the Lord and the Young Master sent you to rescue you, and now that you are safe, our brothers from Changchun Hall will take you to a safe place."
"Who is your lord?" An older man in the crowd asked.
"Our lord is the son of King Wu of Wu, and the king of Linchuan is also known as Yang Meng?"
"It turned out to be the prince of Linchuan, but the prince of Linchuan didn't die a long time ago." The Yang man recalled.
"The prince is not dead, and now he is in Kaifeng, Zhou State."
"Really?"
"That's true, but for now, you follow our brother for the time being, and visit the young master in Chuzhou City."
After saying that, the warrior prepared the letter and flew to Chuzhou City, and soon after, Zhao Dezhao received the letter from the warrior.
After that, the men and women of the Yang family of Wu Guo, a total of eighty or ninety people, rushed to Chuzhou City after Qiao Zhuang's meeting.
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Inside the city of Chuzhou
Zhao Dezhao received the letter from the samurai, his heart was relieved, he heard that he was rushing to Chuzhou City, he suddenly felt that he had changed history, and his father-in-law would be very happy to do so, and he would also help his father-in-law fulfill a wish.
Zhao Dezhao immediately flew to Kaifeng by letter and informed Yang Meng of the matter.
Two days later, in Kaifeng, Liangcheng Inn, Yang Meng has been unable to sleep recently, worried about his righteous son.
At this time, the flying pigeon entered the house, and Yang Meng knew that Zhao Dezhao from Chuzhou must have some information, so he directly untied the letter and read it.
After reading the letter later, he felt very relieved in his heart, although he couldn't repay the hatred, but he was able to rescue his own people, which was also the fulfillment of a wish.
Immediately, he replied to the letter, asking Zhao Dezhao and Lao Jiu to take the Yang clan back to Kaifeng together.
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meanwhile
On 16 April, Wang Kui conquered Changshanzhai in Ezhou, captured the guard Chen Ze and others, and handed over the prisoners of war to Guo Rong.
On April 17, Zhao Kuangyin played the Tang Tianchang system to make Geng Qian surrender and captured more than 200,000 military rations. Immediately escorted the military rations and went back to Guo Rongjunzhong under Shouzhou City.
Soon after, Yin Yanfan was dead, and the news of the escape of the Wu royal family reached Jiangning Mansion.
At this moment, Li Jing was waiting for news in the palace, and when he heard about it, he stumbled and fell off the throne.
He got up from the ground, his face was as pale as earth, and at this moment he suddenly remembered the Liao Kingdom in the north.
When Taizhou was captured a few days ago, he had sent people to Liao to seek rescue, but soon after, on April 18, he was intercepted by He Jixian, the envoy of the Jing'an army.
Li Jing's luck was also bad, but God didn't help him.
A day later, on April 19, Wu Yueguo sent Shangzhidu to command Lu Yanbai to attack Xuanzhou, while Luo Sheng led Wu Yue's naval army to garrison on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
The Southern Tang Dynasty Jinghai made Yao Yanhong lead tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to defect to Wuyue.
On 19 April, Zhao Kuangyin escorted the military rations back to Shouzhou City.
On the afternoon of the next day, Guo Rong's army once again fought with the Tang army in Shouzhou City.
On that day, when Guo Rong passed by the bridge, he carried a large stone to the water village of his army on the opposite bank and used it as a shell for the stone cannon of the Later Zhou army.
The officials who crossed the bridge with each other also carried one piece each.
Zhao Kuangyin took a kayak to reconnoiter in the moat of Shouzhou City, and the city used crossbow arrows to intercept Zhao Kuangyin continuously.
Zhou Junya used his body to block Zhao Kuangyin's arrow, fainted after being hit in the thigh, and woke up by himself after a while. The arrow was inserted in the thigh bone and could not be pulled out, and Zhang Qiong drank a large glass of wine and let people smash the bone to take the arrow. Zhang Qiong lost a lot of blood, but she still looked calm.
On April 20, those people from the Yang clan, Qiao Zhuang, disguised themselves, entered Chuzhou City and went to a house arranged for them by Lao Jiu.
It's remote and safe.
At midnight on April 20, Zhao Dezhao received a message from the secret agent, and at noon on April 21 the next day, he went to that place and met with the Yang clansmen.
That night, after receiving a message from his father-in-law Yang Meng, he felt that he wanted to bring his grandfather back to Kaifeng City, but could he go back to his grandfather.
PS.1. Refer to the "General Guide to Information Governance"
2. Yan Fan killed Wu Wu of the Yang clan and let the emperor die in Danyang, and his clan still lived in Taizhou. The ancestor has returned the meditation since he received it, and he has not had time to take measures. After the death, Fang instructed Fu Heijun to say: "The state monarchs are all owned by the Yang family, and the changes in heaven and earth are occasionally moved to me, but the trend of obedience and rebellion is not constant." I pity the orphans and women sent to the hometown, and ordered to go to Taizhou to gather the Yang people, settle in Jingkou, and raise them by Zhou, and there is no place to lose, and the marriage of men and women is given by the officials. "Jing Yu left the ring, and sent the garden to make Yin Yanfan adjust the boat and car fee, and go to Thailand to protect him. At that time, the royal family was in trouble, and the road was chaotic. Yan Fan was worried about his change, and killed all 60 of his children, but carried women to cross the river. Jing was furious, beheaded by Yanfan, and still punished his clan in the city to comfort his grievances. There are more than 20 daughters of the Yang family, and the scholars are selected to marry them, and they are not abnormal.