Chapter 33 [Great Liang Empire]
People say that the richer people are, the more they pick the door, whether others believe it or not, at least here in Zhu Youzhen, I believe it. After the war was fought for a period of time, Zhu Youzhen's boss thought that Liu Cheng was only consuming resources there and not creating any value, and he was very unhappy, so he waved his pen and issued a holy decree to let him fight quickly.
Liu Cheng was very aggrieved, and said: "Weichen originally wanted to smash Taiyuan with a strange army, and then turn back to attack Zhending Erzhou, and originally expected to pacify Heshuo in about ten days, but the sky did not fulfill his wish, and it rained for days, and the plan was miscarried. Later, he planned to occupy Linqing to cut off the enemy's grain and grass, but Zhou Yangwu suddenly killed it again, like a divine soldier descending from heaven.
Now we are retiring from Shen County and training soldiers, hoping to wait for the opportunity to move. Besides, there are many enemy troops and their combat effectiveness is strong, which should not be underestimated.
If there is an opportunity, how dare the minister steal to support the enemy! Zhu Youzhen asked him about the strategy of defeating the enemy, and Liu Cheng said embarrassedly: "This is really not, now I only hope that Your Majesty will give us ten hundred grains per person, as long as we live, there is hope, and we will definitely be able to break the Jin army at that time." ”
When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he was furious and said: "The general is storing grain wantonly, does he want to break the thief, or does he want to fill his stomach?" And he sent messengers to oversee the war. Liu Jun summoned the generals and said: "The emperor lives in the palace, and he doesn't know the situation in the army, but he only knows how to plot with the young and new ignorant people.
Fighting a war is about adapting to the situation, and in many cases, you can't make a plan in advance. Now the enemy is still very strong, and it will definitely be unfavorable to fight them in a decisive battle, so what do you say? ”
The generals said, "There is always a battle to win or lose, so why wait for a long time?" Liu Yan couldn't help but feel sad when he saw that everyone was not cooperating. He was silent, then turned back to his own soldiers and said, "The Lord is confused. The ministers only know flattery and arrogance as a general. The laziness and war-weariness of the soldiers, if we continue like this, we will surely die without a place to bury! ”
The next day, Liu Jun summoned the generals again, placed a bucket in front of each of them, filled it with river water, and ordered them to drink the water dry, and the people did not know why.
Liu Cheng said sadly: "A bucket of water is still difficult to be like this, how can you drink the water of a river in one gulp!" "Everyone is overshadowed. A few days later. Liu Yan led more than 10,000 people to attack the military camp in Zhending, and the chaos in Zhending was in chaos.
Li Cunxuan ordered Li Cunxuan to lead 2,000 cavalry to attack Liu Jun's army, and the Weizhou Silver Spear Army also had thousands of people to help in the battle, and Liu Cheng was defeated. The Jin army chased to the city, and the Liang army lost more than 1,000 people, and Liu Cheng closed his door without fighting.
The front line was exhausted, and Liu Cheng had no choice but to have another plan, using a bitter trick to send henchmen to deceive the Jin army, and plotting to bribe Li Cunmiao's chef with a lot of money to poison Li Cunmiao. As a result, Li Cunqiao was successfully cracked, and the strategy failed again.
In the blink of an eye, the time came to 916, and Zhu Youzhen still repeatedly urged Liu Cheng to fight. Liu Jun still kept his door closed. Li Cunmiao also had no way to force Liu Jun to fight, so he left Li Cunxuan to guard the camp, and said to the earthlings in a high-profile manner: "I'm leaving." It's really gone, I'm really really gone." Then the class teacher returned to Taiyuan.
Liu Cheng was urged by Zhu Youzhen to have no choice, so he wishfully believed it. So he invited to attack Weizhou, and Zhu Youzhen said happily: "Now to recover Weizhou, success or failure is here, I hope the general will fight well and fight to the death!" "Liu Yan ordered Yang Yanzhi, the assassin of Lanzhou, to lead 10,000 troops to fight Weizhou.
Yang Yanzhi rushed to the south of Weizhou in the middle of the night, and was preparing to set up camp, but he was afraid that Weizhou sent five hundred strong men to launch a surprise attack, and the Liang army was suddenly in chaos.
After dawn, Liu Cheng personally led the army to the east of Weizhou City, and joined Yang Yanzhi's remnants, Li Cunxian led the army one after another, and Li Siyuan, who was stationed in Weizhou City, also led the army to join the melee.
When Liu Jun saw Li Cunxuan, he couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "This is the King of Jin!" Then he hurriedly led his troops to retreat, and Li Cunmiao pursued closely.
Before he had gone far, he encountered Li Cunxian's follow-up troops. At that time, Li Cunxuan was arrayed in the northwest of the Liang army, Li Cunxian was arrayed in the southeast of the Liang army, and Liu Cheng was attacked on all sides and set up a circle formation to support it. The Jin army besieged on all sides, breaking through the defense line of the Liang army, the Liang army was defeated, and Liu Cheng saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to lead dozens of horsemen to break through the siege.
The 70,000 infantry of the Liang army, under the siege of the Jin army, were defeated and retreated, many soldiers rushed to hide in the trees, and even the trees were crushed, and the Jin army pursued and killed all the way, until they reached the edge of the Yellow River, and then collected their troops and returned to the city, and the Liang army was almost killed and wounded. Liu Cheng collected some stragglers to cross the river from Liyang and surrendered to Huazhou.
At the time of the battle between Liu Jun and Li Cunxuan, Wang Tan, the envoy of Kuang Guo of the Liang Dynasty, secretly asked Zhu Youzhen to send Guanxi soldiers and horses to attack Taiyuan, and Zhu Youzhen thought it was feasible.
So Wang Tan led an army of 30,000 from the Yin Pass to the city of Taiyuan, attacking the city day and night. At that time, Datong Jiedu made He Delun still have some of the original Wei soldiers, heard that the Liang army attacked Taiyuan, many people took the opportunity to secretly run back to the Liang army camp, Zhang Chengye was worried that He Delun would also rebel, so he simply killed him.
Because Li Cunmiao's troops were on the front line of Weizhou, and Taiyuan was unguarded, Zhang Chengye was worried that the city would not be protected, so he mobilized the people to go to the city to refuse to defend it, and many times he was almost broken by the Liang army.
At this critical moment, an old general who retired at home stood up, this person was An Jinquan, who was enjoying his old age in Taiyuan and did not want to be disturbed by Liang Jun's happy life.
An Jinquan said to Zhang Chengye: "Jinyang is the foundation of the country, if it is lost, then the general trend will go, although I am old and sick, but I am often worried about national affairs, I ask you to hand over the inventory of armor and weapons to me, I am willing to repel the enemy." "It's better than nothing, the old general is also a general, and Zhang Chengye agreed.
In this way, An Jinquan led his family and more than 100 people from his family to participate in the battle, they helped defend the city during the day, and secretly went out of the city to carry out a sneak attack at night, which made the 30,000 Liang troops exhausted and panicked, and they were so frightened that they retreated for dozens of miles, greatly weakening the siege strength.
The military report of Taiyuan reached the surrounding Zhaoyi army, and Li Sizhao immediately sent 500 elite cavalry to the rescue, and the reinforcements arrived in Taiyuan in one day. They shouted under the city: "Li Sizhao's army has arrived!" Liang Jun was shocked. Taiyuan was still able to protect itself without an army, and now there are 500 new troops, which is even more powerful.
At night. The rescue army and An Jinquan and others went out from each city gate to attack the camp of the Liang army, and the Liang army was in chaos. Killed and cannibalistic accounted for two or three percent of the total. After dawn, Wang Tan saw that there was no hope of victory. had to lead the army to rob all the way back.
Because Li Cunmiao likes to boast by nature, and this incident was not planned by himself, he refused to reward An Jinquan and others for their merits.
Zhu Youzhen heard the news of Liu Yan's defeat, and learned that Wang Tan had returned in vain, and lamented: "My big event is over!" ”
Battle of Huliupi
After the Battle of Weizhou, in March 916, Li Cunqiao attacked Weizhou and assassinated Shi Mizhao to surrender. Attacking Huizhou, assassinated Shi Jin Shao and fled. April. Capture the city.
In May, attacking Xingzhou, Baoyi Jiedu made Yan Bao stick to wait for help, Zhu Youzhen sent Zhang Wen to rescue, Zhang Wen went, but after arriving, instead of carrying out rescue work, he led the crowd to throw himself into the arms of the enemy.
In August, the Jin army attacked Xingzhou, a critical moment. Xingzhou held on, but he fought cattle across the mountain, knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger, and Zhaode Jiedu made Zhang Yun hear that Li Cunqiao was coming. When he ordered to pull his legs and run, Xiangzhou was self-defeating.
Li Cunmiao told Yan Bao that Xiangzhou had been taken, and sent Zhang Wen to the city with the surrendered Liang army to stimulate Yan Bao and say, "We have surrendered." There are no more reinforcements", Yan Bao saw that the general trend had gone. So he opened the door and surrendered. Yan Bao, the word Qiongmei. A native of Yunzhou.
When he was young, he was Zhu Jin's general, and after the loss of Yanzhou, he returned to Bianliang with Hu Gui and Kang Huaiying. The Jin army besieged Beizhou for more than a year, Zhang Yuande heard that the states of Hebei had been owned by Hedong, and planned to surrender, and discussed with the generals, everyone thought that the situation was embarrassing before surrendering, I was afraid that it was inevitable to die, and they did not approve, so they killed Zhang Yuande and continued to hold on, and then the city ran out of food,
There was a phenomenon of cannibalism, and the defenders had no choice but to say to the Jin generals: "We want to surrender, but we are afraid that we will be killed by you after surrendering, now please let us wear armor and weapons out of the city and surrender, after the matter is decided, we will disarm." ”
The soldiers are too naïve, they don't know that if a person wants to hack a person, he will definitely find an opportunity, it's just a matter of time or time, and after the matter is decided, he can kill him as such. The Jin general agreed to their request, and after more than 3,000 Liang troops surrendered out of the city and disarmed, the Jin army surrounded them and killed them all.
At this time, Hebei had all fallen into Li Cunqing's pocket, and only Liyang was still supported by Liu Jun's persistence, becoming an isolated island in the vast sea of the Jin army.
In September 917, Liu Jun put aside the war in front and returned to the court to deal with the crime, and after several discussions, the court demoted him to the position of Bozhou regimental training envoy. When Li Cunqiao heard that Liu Cheng had been transferred, he was very happy and took advantage of the freezing of the river and waded through the ice. At that time, the Liang army had 3,000 armor soldiers to fortify by the river, but they were all taken by Li Cunqiao in one fell swoop. Subsequently, Li Cunqiao attacked Yang Liucheng.
Yang Liu is located in Yangliu Village, Dong'abei, Shandong Province, and was an important ferry port of the Yellow River in the Tang and Song dynasties. Li Cunqiao ordered the soldiers to cut off the antlers and other fortifications, and filled the trenches with reeds on his back, and launched an attack from all directions, and took the city on the same day, and the defender of the city, An Yanzhi, was captured. Li Cunqiao left his troops to defend the city and returned to Weizhou by himself.
Previously, Zhu Youzhen's original partner Zhang Defei died. King Kang Zhu Youjing was born with a double pupil, the double pupil is a eye with two eyes, that is, there are two pupils in one eye, ancient physiognomy believes that the double pupil is a kind of out-of-phase, auspicious phase, symbolizing auspiciousness and wealth, often a symbol of the emperor.
There are only eight people recorded in Chinese history books: Cangjie, Yu Shun, Chong'er, Xiang Yu, Lü Guang, Gao Yang, Yujuluo, and Li Yu. Cangjie was a word-making saint in the era of the Yellow Emperor; Yu Shun is a saint of Chan, a saint of filial piety, and one of the three emperors and five emperors; Jin Wen Gong Chong'er is one of the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period; Xiang Yu is the "Overlord of Western Chu";
Lü Guang was the king of Houliang who swept through the Western Regions during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period; Gao Yang was the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty; According to legend, Yujuluo was a famous general of the Sui Dynasty who designed to kill the Tang Dynasty's fierce generals Zhao Wang Li Yuanba; Li Yu was the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a famous lyricist and writer.
However, after the explanation of modern medicine, this is actually not an auspicious phase, but the out-of-phase is true, it belongs to the adhesion distortion of the pupil, from O-shaped to ∞-shaped, also known as the pair of eyes, which is considered by medicine to be a phenomenon of early cataract.
If it is a disease, he will be treated, but Zhu Youjing obviously does not think that he is sick, he took it for granted that he believed the former explanation, so he planned to make a mess, and when Concubine De was about to be buried, he sent several henchmen to hide in Zhu Youzhen's bedroom.
Zhu Youzhen found out in time, and was so frightened that he climbed over the wall barefoot, and immediately summoned the guards to enter the temple to search, so the assassin was caught in a net and killed on the spot.
Of course, Zhu Youjing did not become emperor in the end, and he was killed the next day. From then on, Zhu Youzhen began to alienate the clan, and only trusted Zhao Yan and Concubine De's brothers Zhang Handing, Zhang Hanjie, Cong's brothers Zhang Hanlun, Zhang Hanrong and others. Although Jing Xiang and Li Zhen were still serving in the DPRK, their strategies were not adopted.
Zhao Yan said to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty has not sacrificed to heaven since he ascended the throne, everyone thinks that this is no different from the princes of the feudal town, and will be looked down upon by the countries of the Quartet. Xuanling is the place where Zhu Wen lived after his death, located in Yichuan County, Luoyang City.
In fact, whether to sacrifice to the sky or not to open the Olympic Games is not the best way to publicize the national prestige, the country is rich and the people are strong, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, which will naturally attract the envy of all countries. Of course, everyone Zhao Yan said was actually a few people such as Zhao Yan and his friends.
Jing Xiang advised: "Since the defeat of Liu Yan, both the court and the people are very poor, and the people are panicked.
Then this is because of the greed for vanity and the actual scourge, and now that the strong enemy is on the Yellow River, how can His Majesty's frame move at will, I think it is not too late to come and worship the heavens and ancestors after the enemy in the north is calmed. ”
Of course, his heartfelt words Zhu Youzhen still regarded them as air as always. On November 24, Zhu Youzhen went to Luoyang, prepared the frame dress, decorated the palace, and set the day of the suburban festival.
However, the east wind did not arrive in the end, but the northwest wind was blowing, and then the news came that Yang Liu had lost, and there were rumors that the Jin army had attacked Daliang and held the water.
The officials who followed him began to worry about his family and cried relatively bitterly, Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry, so he had to extend the matter of worshipping the heavens indefinitely, and he quickly fled back to Daliang. (To be continued......)