Shixiong Rebellion
But the rebellion in Shu will not be quelled with the death of Meng Chang, the spiritual leader. This matter was started by Wang Quanbin, and whoever did the evil would clean it up. Of course, they are still responsible for pacifying the Shu Rebellion.
What kind of person is Quan Shixiong? Before he was honored to be the new hope of the Shu soldiers and the people of Shu, there was only one place of origin recorded about him: a native of Chengdu; An official position: Later Shu Wenzhou Assassin History. There is also a comment that sums up the first half of his life: there is prestige. And for what is prestigious, there is no mention of it.
When the angry Shu soldiers marched to the vicinity of Mianzhou, finally couldn't bear it anymore, killed the escort officials, occupied Mianzhou, and unveiled the pole uprising, they found that there was no one with prestige in their ranks. They urgently need someone who can guide them in the direction and lead them in the siege of the city and plunder, and they urgently need a man who will preside over the spoils of war. To put it bluntly, they urgently need a leading big brother. So they thought of Quan Shixiong.
Quan Shixiong is actually just a soy sauce player. He obeyed Zhao Kuangyin's call, set off from his station, went to Bianliang to see his new master, and by the way made a bottle of soy sauce (Zhao Kuangyin's reward is not an ordinary generosity) is passing by Mianzhou now. But he didn't expect that his prestige would spread far and wide, and the rebels would push him to be the boss.
Quan Shixiong didn't want to come out, he knew that the truth of becoming a king and defeating a king had fallen, and what were the chances of winning if he turned back? And he had no reason to do the opposite. At present, Shu is in chaos, but this is just a redistribution of interests between the new nobles and the old nobles. And Quan Shixiong is not qualified to be robbed, and his family has not been harassed. So his first instinct was to run away, not wanting to be held hostage as a bird. He put on a people's uniform and hid in a people's house. It's a pity that he didn't hide from the cats well, and the gang of rebels were more handsome than Liu Bei, so they found him in a remote thatched house. Qiang put him in the position of coach.
Quan Shixiong was helpless, and at this time, he couldn't help himself. But he still had the idea of being able to get out of the way and get rid of it. Aren't these rebels just because their pensions have been deducted, as long as they have a good talk with Wang Quanbin, the commander of the Song soldiers, there should be room for maneuver.
Wang Quanbin sent a man named Zhu Guangxu to talk to him. But this Zhu Guangxu didn't understand the boss's intentions at all, but took this appeasement action as another opportunity to make a fortune, recruited all the wealth of the whole division into his pocket, and caressed the whole division of the male beloved daughter into his arms. Kill all the Shixiong clan. At this time, Quan Shixiong, who was still wavering, was completely forced to the opposite side of the Song Dynasty. History said: There is no return.
Whether the 100,000 Xingguo Army will rejuvenate Shu or not is still secondary, and it has become the revenge army of the whole division. In March, the enraged Quanshi Xiong led troops to attack Mianzhou. At this time, there were only more than 100 guards in Mianzhou City. Seeing that the city is broken, it is only before it is over. Reinforcements are coming. Liu Fu came from the south and Tian Shaobin from the northwest with the elite forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty. Under the attack, the whole division was defeated and more than 10,000 people were beheaded.
Liu Tian and the two people should not lead too many soldiers, never more than 10,000 people. How can the whole division and 100,000 troops be defeated? Because what they led was the elite forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the 100,000 people in the whole division were just inflating the establishment and bluffing. If you can have 50,000, it will be up to the sky. And there are not many professional soldiers in it, many of them are estimated to have been arrested while playing mahjong and drinking tea, and were forced to revolt. History said: robbing the people of the state is chaos.
The whole division could not defeat Mianzhou, so it turned to attack Pengzhou. Finally took his first base. Cui Yanjin and Gao Yanhui's Song army suffered the loss of being unfamiliar with life, and was ambushed by Shu soldiers, and Gao Yanhui died in battle. The people of Shu were encouraged. It turned out that the Song army was not invincible either. The 46 states of Shu suddenly reversed 17 states! The whole division then divided its troops to attack Mianzhou and Hanzhou, cut off the road to Jianmen Pass, and set up villages along the river to defend the waterway. The door of Shu Dao, which had just been opened by the Song soldiers, was closed again. Chengdu has been wrapped into a dumpling.
And this time, Wang Quanbin finally woke up, and of course they were not willing to make dumpling filling.
Liu Guangyi and Cao Bin led the army to fight with Quan Shixiong in Xinfan, capturing more than 10,000 people. The whole division retreated to Pizhou, and was attacked by Wang Quanbin and Wang Renzhen. Quan Shixiong had no choice but to flee to Guan Kou Village. Wang Renzhen transferred to Lingzhou, captured Yuan Tingyusheng, the commander of Lingzhou who responded to the whole division, and escorted him to Chengdu to show the public.
The combat effectiveness of this group of robbers of the Song army is really powerful, and I am afraid that the rebellion of the whole division will be calmed down in the near future.
But at this critical juncture, something happened that caught Wang Quanbin off guard. Song Jun was coaxed. In June, Lu Han of Jiazhou defected to the enemy and occupied Jiazhou. Wu Huan and Sun Jin also coaxed, and they joined up with the Shu general Liu Ze, gathered 50,000 people, and captured Puzhou. For a time, the Song army abandoned the light and turned to the dark, and Shu really became a pot of porridge.
But why did the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty make a rebellion? The reason given in the history books is that coach Wang Quanbin is arrogant and rude and disrespectful to them. But I guess it's not rude, it's mostly the uneven distribution of spoils that leads to internal commotion, right?
Cao Bin and Wang Renzhen led their troops to Jiazhou. Jiazhou's Lu Han thought that he was not an opponent and decided to go for it. Lu Han fled, but it didn't take long for him to make a comeback. I don't know where he gathered a group of like-minded people, killed a horse pistol, and surrounded Jiazhou. Agreed: At the time of the third watch, we will attack Jiazhou.
It's a pity that their plan was informed by Cao Bin.
More and more people gathered near Jiazhou City, including Shu soldiers, rebellious people, Song army rebels, and even some people who watched the excitement and wanted to take advantage of it. They were all encouraged by Lu Han: the city of Jiazhou was empty of air, but the treasury was not empty at all. There were mountains of silver in it. These people are looking forward to the looting operation that is about to begin. Prick up your ears and wait for the exciting three sounds.
One more passed. The drums of the second watch have already sounded. But time passed little by little, and the exciting drum of the third watch never sounded. waited until the group of people were weak in their feet, and waited until the red sun rose in the sky. On this day, there is only midnight, and there are no three watches! Because Cao Bin had already instructed the husband: stop beating the second drum!
The brothers outside the city were trustworthy and obedient, and none of them moved until three drums sounded. Finally there was a voice, but not the sound of a drum, but the crowing of a rooster. Midnight? has slipped away from their waiting. So they dispersed. Maybe they think: they missed last night, they can come back tonight.
But the people of the city were so hospitable that they came out to see them off. Sent it straight to these people crying dad and calling their mother, and sent their lives to the West to stop. Lu Han rode fast and fled into the city of Yazhou. Those who couldn't run fast were killed by tens of thousands.
And no one expected that the heroes of quelling the chaos were not Wang Quanbin, Wang Renzhan, Liu Guangyi, or Cao Bin, who had just made meritorious service and was the only one who maintained the fine style of not taking a stitch from the masses in this extermination of Shu. This person is Kang Yanze.
On August 12, the emperor issued a new appointment: transfer Kang Yanze to Puzhou as an assassin. This is a strange appointment, because Kang Yanze was originally the supervisor of Xichuan Soldiers and Horses, in charge of the training of soldiers in Chengdu City, and he lacked experience in leading the army to fight. He shouldn't have been sent to the front lines. And there is another thing that makes us strange and Kang Yanze angry: Kang Yanze asked Wang Quanbin to send troops to escort him, but Wang only gave him 100 people.
The Tang Emperor in Journey to the West was a bad guy, he only gave Tang Seng a horse, a piece of clothing, and a guy to beg for food, so he invited the unarmed monk out of Chang'an and sent him to the goblin-infested westward road. And Wang Quanbin and Li Shimin had a good idea, gave Kang Yanze a company, drove him out of Chengdu, and asked him to go to the most chaotic Puzhou to be the governor.
At present, thousands of rebels in Shu are wandering. With only these 100 people, it is a big question whether Company Commander Kang can reach Puzhou. Not to mention that Puzhou will be the hardest hit area for the rebels, and the Shu general Liu Ze has tens of thousands of people robbing homes and houses in this area. Perhaps this is a death trap set by Wang Quanbin for Kang Yanyi. When the king of Japan booby-trapped nearly 30,000 Shu troops, Kang persuaded his men to show mercy. After this incident, the two of them may have already thought about it. Wang Quanbin may be more afraid that Kang Yanze will expose the matter to Zhao Kuangyin after returning to Beijing. So he strongly recommended Kang Yanze to go to Puzhou as a assassin and gave him a piece of his own land. A piece of land in a volcanic crater. But Wang Quanbin didn't expect that this plan to kill people with a knife would instead fulfill Kang Yanze.
Looking at Kang Yanze's resume, he is just a rich second generation, because his father was a festival envoy, so he borrowed light to be a worship official in the capital. The main job is to go on business trips, inspect places, and find out some information.
Kang Yanze, who was helpless, had to lead more than 100 people to Puzhou. Maybe when he leaves Chengdu, he will feel the sadness that the strong man is gone.
But gradually, Kang Yanze discovered something unusual. Although there were many chaotic soldiers along the way, many of them were full, and many of them didn't even have military uniforms, and they completely took advantage of the chaos to fish in the muddy waters and grab things to make a windfall. When they saw the people, they robbed, and when they saw the officers and soldiers, even if they were superior in numbers, they often avoided them. Kang Yanze was relieved. In his eyes, these rebels are not only robbers, but also recruits who can be used as recruits. When Kang Yanze arrived in Jianzhou, he began to set up tables and recruit employees for his Puzhou. More than 1,000 people were recruited at once. And training recruits is Kang Yanze's old job. After a period of intensive military training, this rabble has also become an elite army that should not be underestimated.
Wang Quanbin only gave Kang Yanze a company of troops, but Kang collected it while walking, and before he arrived in Puzhou, he pulled up an independent regiment.
The test of the results of Captain Kang's training will come soon. A group of 5,000 rebels came to challenge. The independent regiment of the head of Kang showed its strength, repelled the incoming enemy, and captured 700 people. Kang Yanze showed great grace, only beheaded the 100 people who led the way, and released the rest. And the 600 people who were released became Kang Yanze's free advertising propagandists, and recruited more than 3,000 people for Kang Yanze.
At this time, Regiment Commander Kang became Brigade Commander Kang. And Liu Ze's 30,000 soldiers and horses were waiting for him in front.
One against ten? There are not many soldiers. Most of Liu Ze's soldiers were composed of displaced people. As soon as they engaged the regular army carefully built by Kang Yanze, they all fled in all directions.
On November 1, Kang Yanze was stationed in Puzhou. Liu Ze is convinced, the golden moment of being a rebel is over, and he has already made enough money. So he led his men to surrender. And Brigadier Kang has become Master Kang.
Of course, this is what we say, according to the official appointment letter, Kang Yanze was promoted to the Dongchuan Seven Prefectures Recruitment Security Inspector. On January 21, the 4th year of Qiande (966), Ding Deyu was appointed as the inspection envoy of the Xichuan Metropolitan Governor, and together with Kang Yanze, he took on the important task of countering the rebellion.
Wang Quanbin didn't expect that his bad intentions would do good things, and of course he didn't dare to relax. Commander to commander, he is going to capture the rebel king Quan Shixiong. In June, he broke the whole division in Guankou Village, captured more than 2,000 people, and the whole division retired from Jintang. In leap August, Lu Han in Yazhou was captured by Wang Quanbin. In December, after more than a year of fierce fighting. Quan Shixiong is dying. In the battle of Xinfan that day, he was wounded by an arrow. Now his wound is inflamed and he is sick and dead. But Quan Shixiong may not have figured it out until he died: who is to blame for the 2-year-long Shu Rebellion? Alas! If you want to blame this world, blame it! This is not the cup of Quan Shixiong alone, but also the tragedy of this troubled world.
66 days to destroy Shu? No! It's been 2 years! Since then, the Shu people and the Song people have formed an indissoluble enmity. The land of abundance is no longer a natural haven for the royal family in the Central Plains when it is in danger. Just 28 years later, a larger-scale popular uprising broke out in Shudi, which terrified the entire Great Song Dynasty, making Sichuan truly a nightmare for the Northern Song Dynasty! In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Wu brothers fought against Jin here, Yu Jue and Wang Jian fought against Mongolia here, and Shu became a protective umbrella for the Southern Song Dynasty people to survive.
At the same time, we can also judge the truth of a legend that has been widely circulated in history. That is, the great name, which was written into the history of the "Song Swinging Jade Axe" of the Daguanlou Changlian: After Meng Chang surrendered, Wang Quanbin once sent the Yungui map into Kaifeng quickly, and asked the emperor for instructions on whether to continue to march south. The emperor waved the jade axe on the map around the Dadu River with the jade axe in his hand for a moment, saying, "Beyond this line, I don't have it", so the Dali Kingdom was legal, and a large area of China's homeland south of the Dadu River was thrown out of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty!
After that, the Song people greatly appreciated this. said that the death of the Tang Dynasty was because Yang Guozhong sent troops to recruit Nanzhao. Therefore, for the long-term stability of the Great Song Dynasty, it should not be Nanzhao at all.
What a profound theory, how wise a choice. At least I don't understand it at all. Maybe this is also the logical starting point of the Song people when the alliance of Lanyuan and Shaoxing collegiate in the future? But I think that the destruction of Hou Shu was followed by the rebellion of the Shu soldiers. Wang Quanbin or Zhao Kuangyin are always standing on the blade, and they dare to think about fighting Dali again? Crazy? What's more, there were still large tracts of land in the Central Plains that had not been conquered at that time: the Northern Han, Yanyun, Southern Tang, Southern Han, and Wu Yue, which one was not more important than the small Nanzhao country Dali? Therefore, "Song wielding a jade axe" is indeed wise, but it also needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and cannot be generalized.