Focusing on the Southern Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin became unusually angry. If he still has three points of pity for Li Yu, then he can only have extreme contempt and disgust for the Liu family of the Southern Han Dynasty. It was a filthy and ugly snake that was so hard to see that it was impossible to describe. Taking advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains, he hid in the southernmost part of the hot and remote country to do all kinds of evil, but no one had time to take care of it, but it thought that it was highly poisonous, and everyone avoided it.

In 904, Liu Yin was appointed by Tang Zhaozong as the envoy of the Qing navy, and began to divide the southernmost part of China. He died in March 911 and was succeeded by his younger brother Liu Zhi (renamed Liu Yan after being called emperor, and renamed Liu Yan after taking the meaning of the flying dragon in the sky) and proclaimed himself emperor in August 917. In November of the following year, the country was renamed Han, and it was known as the Southern Han Dynasty in history. In April 942, Liu Zhi, who was self-conscious, extravagant, and tortured, died. Under the circumstance that the contradictions within the ruling class were extremely acute, Liu Hongdu ascended to the throne. However, before one year arrived, in March 943, his brother Liu Sheng killed Liu Hongdu and established himself as emperor. In order to avoid repeating his brother's mistakes, he went on a killing spree and sent all 15 younger brothers to Huangquan Road. From 948 onwards, he continued to send troops to the state of Chu. And in 951, the Southern Tang Dynasty took advantage of the battle to destroy Chu, and won the land of 10 states such as Yi and Lian, and the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty was greatly expanded, and there was all the land of Lingnan. In August 958, Liu Sheng died and was succeeded by his eldest son Liu Gang, and state affairs were decided by the eunuch Gong Chengshu and the female official Lu Qiongxian. Liu Gang inherited the consistent employment policy since his grandfather Liu Zhi, and also created a unique eunuch kingdom in Chinese history. Please look at the high statement of his first minister, Gong Chengshu (this is a eunuch): "Your Majesty, all the ministers have families, so they have their own selfish intentions." Only eunuchs who are unconcerned and clean can serve His Majesty loyally" Such a high argument made Liu Gang greatly overwhelmed. He nodded again and again, and immediately implemented it. So the government and the opposition in the Southern Han Dynasty became Liu Gang's **. 100% of the central officials were castrated without a single retention. From then on, the high-ranking officials of the Southern Han Dynasty had only two ways to go, either to send their heads to Liu Gang's knife, or to send their lives to Liu Gang's knife. And those who rush to take the exam should pay more attention. From now on, when you only have the title of the gold list, there will be no more candle nights in the cave room. Fame and fortune and glory can only be chosen. Liu Gang also built the legendary 18-story hell, and all kinds of torture that he has never seen or heard of are all here in Liu Gang. And his family life is also overwhelming. The thousands of beauties in the south are too common, and his concubine comes from mysterious ancient Persia. She is fat, she is black, which is completely different from China's fair lady, which made Liu Gang fall in love at first sight and give her the name "Charming Pig"

In this way, ** there are charming pigs, officials are eunuchs, and the country's supreme spiritual leader is a witch named Fan Beard. With such Liu Gang and such a country, Zhao Kuangyin's attack this time was completely to hang the people and fight for the people. Maybe his excuses for collecting Jinghu and Pinghou Shu before, and then destroying the Southern Tang Dynasty are far-fetched, but this time when Yu Yanye and Wang Jixun reported all this to him, Zhao Kuangyin didn't even find an excuse, so he said "I will save the people of this side"

But Zhao Kuangyin did not choose to send troops at first, but only asked Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to write a letter to Liu Gang and ask him to hand over the land of Hunan first. And Li Yuzhen wrote it and persuaded Liu Gang to surrender to Zhao Kuangyin. Is this his stupidity? A few years later, when his Southern Tang Dynasty was threatened by the Song Dynasty, he wrote to Wu Yue, the content of which changed: "Without me today, how can he have a king in the future", but what if it is a great irony and insult at this time? As long as the war does not immediately burn in front of your house, you can continue to make a commotion and feel sorry for yourself. I don't know if Lu Dao was very happy in his heart when Li Yu wrote a letter to Liu Gang that Zhao Kuangyin ordered him to write to Liu Gang instead of ordering Liu Gang to write such a letter to him...

The first letter did not receive any response from Liu. Li Yu wrote a second letter, and Liu Gang exploded. It has been more than half a century since the days of their Liu family being the only one to do whatever they want, and no one has ever dared to do this to him! And since Liu Yan, they have always looked down on the barbaric and boring northerners. When the Shatuo people were at their peak, Liu Yan dared to call the Later Tang Emperor as the envoy of the Luoyang Festival. What's more, at this time, a little Zhao Kuangyin, and an even smaller Li Yu, they actually dared to despise him like this? Liu Gang detained Gong Shenyi, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and wrote a reply letter to Li Yu. With the quality of the tyrant Liu Gang, it is conceivable what was written in the letter. How can a literati like Li Yu stand it? So he handed over the letter to Kaifeng intact, so that Zhao Kuangyin could also share some of the scolding.

Zhao Kuangyin was also angry. On September 1, the 3rd year of Kaibao (970), Pan Mei, the first brave general of the Northern Song Dynasty, was appointed as the chief general of the Southern Han Dynasty. Wang Jixun was the other way, and led 10 state soldiers and horses to meet Pan Mei under the city of Hezhou.

Pan Mei destroyed the first battle of Fuzhou in the Southern Han Dynasty and took it. The second battle of Baixia was won. On September 15, the third battle was held in Hezhou, an important town in the Southern Han Dynasty. At this time, the urgent document of Chen Shouzhong, the assassin of Hezhou, finally reached the court of the Southern Han Dynasty, but Liu Gang was helpless. The famous generals on the battlefield and the royal clan were all killed by the cooperation of the three generations and four emperors of the Liu family, and it was the great eunuch Gong Chengshu who stepped forward, who said that he personally went to Hezhou and went with the holy decree... Condolences. Gong Chengshu received an unprecedentedly warm welcome in the city of Hezhou, and the soldiers spontaneously surrounded him. Deeply moved, he read out the emperor's condolence edict with emotion, and everyone listened attentively, unable to take their eyes off it, and was still unsatisfied, and surrounded him for a long time and was reluctant to leave. Gong Chengshu was looked at, "You... Is there anything else?" the soldiers stopped talking, but finally said, "Money!" Our military pay! It's been backlogged for so many years, how many have you brought" Eunuch Gong was stupid, he only had the edict he had just read in his hand. The very unhappy soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty have been deceived again and again, and now they are actually here again. They scolded and dispersed, leaving only Gong Chengshu and Chen Shouzhong alone in a daze at Liu Gang's edict.

At this time, the forward of the Song army has arrived in Fanglin, and it will be in Hezhou immediately! Gong Chengshu immediately went out of the city, and before fleeing, he told Chen Shouzhong: You must defend! The imperial court will soon send reinforcements! Trust me, that's right!

All the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Han Dynasty thought of a veteran Pan Chongche. Back then, Pan Chongche made great contributions. But it's a pity that firstly, he is not a eunuch, and secondly, the Southern Han does not need soldiers. As a result, he has been at home for many years. When Liu Gang urgently sent someone to invite this veteran, the answer he got was, "Your Majesty, I'm old." And my eyes have been bad lately. You look for someone else" Liu Gang was furious, "Why do you need to Chongche, Wu Yanrou has no way to be evil" Wu Yanrou quickly led the troops to the battle. I don't know what the mood of Pan Chongche, who stayed at home at this time, in fact, everyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that the veteran Pan's initial refusal was just a temporary complaint, and it was a grievance after being left out in the cold for so many years. As long as Liu Gang comforts him a little, Pan Chongche will definitely put on his robe again and give his life to the Liu family. But Liu Gang, who is used to being the only one who is used to respecting, has made up his mind, even if the Southern Han Dynasty dies, I will never whisper to those humble courtiers!

On September 20, the Song army heard that Wu Yanrou led troops to help, took the initiative to retreat 20 miles, and set up an ambush in Nanxiang. The Song army ambushed in all directions. In a simple battle, Wu Yanrou was beheaded, and the Southern Han reinforcements were all wiped out. After that, Pan Mei carried Wu Yanrou's head to the city of Hezhou to "surrender" but did not respond. At this time, a group of professional soldiers led by Pan Mei hesitated. Now what? Assault? Will it be too costly? Only a civil official named Wang Ming said, "There are still reinforcements in the Southern Han Dynasty, and they should be attacked urgently", and he gathered more than 100 logistics people to escort the baggage and rushed to Hezhou City. The following scene is estimated to make Pan Mei embarrassed. The city of Hezhou has a moat. These Dingfu took out all kinds of guys who had their own hand, shovels and shovels, and a rush of chaos, and the trench was filled. So they rushed to the gates... Next, the gates of Hezhou were opened, and they entered the city. Pan Mei watched the battle from behind. Oh, my God! Is this the resistance of the Southern Han people?

After seeing the combat effectiveness of the Southern Han army, Pan Mei threatened that the Song army would directly get on the warship driven by Wu Yanrou and follow the original route of the Southern Han army to attack Panyu, the capital of the Southern Han Kingdom. Liu Gang panicked, he personally went to invite Pan Chongche, gave him 30,000 horses, and asked the old general to stop being angry, as long as you hold Hejiang, you can say anything.

This time, Pan Chongche didn't make any excuses to refuse, which made Liu Chongche feel a little relieved. But at this time, it is estimated that only Pan, an experienced veteran of the battlefield, knows in his heart that the Southern Han is finished. A He River, dozens of boats, how many troops did Zhao Kuangyin give Pan Mei, and Pan Mei dared to do this? Where is the real gateway of the Southern Han Dynasty? In Shaoguan! The importance of Shaoguan to Panyu is like Jianmen Pass for Chengdu, Tongguan for Chang'an, and Shanhaiguan for Daming. It's ridiculous that Liu Gang and Gong Chengshu don't even know this, do they still want to lose the country? After that, Pan Chongche tried his best to defend He Jiang, and he could swear to Liu Gang's father and his old leader Liu Sheng in the spirit of heaven, and He Jiang was as stable as a rock and indestructible under his defense. Of course, that was also because Pan Mei's Song army did not come to Hejiang at all.

In October, Pan Mei destroyed the fourth battle of the Southern Han Dynasty: opened the village, won a big victory, and the guard Jin Hui was captured. The 5th and 6th battles: Zhaozhou, Guizhou. These two states assassinated Shi Tian Xingchou and Li Chengqi directly abandoned the city and fled, and the two states went down without a fight. 7th battle in November: Conquer Lianzhou.

At this time, there was no obstacle in front of Pan Mei, and Shaoguan was in front of him. It's ridiculous, at this time, Liu Gang in Panyu City suddenly said these words: "Don't panic, everyone. The four prefectures of Zhao, Gui, Lian, and He were originally the land of Hunan, and those northern Yankees came for them. With these, they are satisfied and will not go south again"

Let Pan Mei destroy the Southern Han Dynasty in advance. There is sufficient information to show that Zhao Kuangyin was most concerned about the war in the north during this period. In November, the Khitan suddenly gathered 60,000 horses and attacked Dingzhou, an important town in the north of the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin quickly sent a man named Tian Qinzuo north to Yuliao.

The emperor, as always, gave full play to the strength of his chief of staff, and gave Tian Qinzuo a 16-character policy: "I am outnumbered, I am outnumbered, I will fight against the city, and the enemy will fight immediately, do not chase with him" and Tian Qinzuo No matter how unknown he was before, how he was bastard and hated later, he was brave and resolute at this time, impeccable! Because Zhao Kuangyin only gave him 3,000 men and horses, and the Khitan iron cavalry he had to face was 60,000! The city was full of battles, but the result was actually a small Liaoqi. Tian Qinzuo perfectly implemented the first 3 sentences and 12 words of Zhao Kuangyin's 16-character policy, but after Liao Qixiao, he began to pursue. 3,000 men pursued the large force of 60,000 men to Suicheng. The Battle of Suicheng begins! The Liao soldiers were like rain of arrows, and Tian Qinzuo turned over and fell off his horse. But in the next moment, he quickly jumped up from the ground. There was a false alarm, and it turned out that he was hit by an arrow. Immediately, a knight named Wang Chao gave his horse to him, and then the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and the history called "from Dan to Sun, killing and wounding many people" Dan is 5-7 o'clock in the morning, and Xi is 15-17 o'clock in the afternoon, that is, 3,000 Song troops did not enter the city next to their border fortresses, and chose to fight with the 60,000 Khitan iron cavalry who dominated the field for nearly 10 hours! After nightfall, the Song army entered Suicheng, and the Liao Corps besieged the city. A few days later, the conundrum arose. Suicheng is short of food, and it is impossible to hold on like Taiyuan City. One night, Tian Qinzuo opened the southern city gate, broke out of the Khitan encirclement, and came to another nearby stronghold to protect the village. Because of his swiftness and surprise, history called this breakthrough "immortal", and the Khitans retreated. Tian Qinzuo also had a great reputation, and it was rumored in the north that "three thousand to sixty thousand"

On November 25, the good news reached Kaifeng. Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed, and said to the left and right, "After Pingshu, I will build a sealed pile warehouse, and when the storage is full, I will redeem the 16 states of Yanyun to the Khitan." If not, the gold will be scattered to recruit warriors. Buy 1 Khitan head with 20 horses of silk. Its elite soldiers are only 100,000, and if they stop spending 2 million silk, the enemy will be wiped out."

This is a rare majestic and brave martyrdom of the Song generation. Are the Song people really cowardly? The answer is no! Throughout Chinese history, the vitality of the Han Chinese has always been suppressed by their own system. Especially the Song Dynasty. A careful reading of the history of the Song Dynasty reveals that behind the countless times of being insulted by foreign enemies, there is an extremely shocking but helpless historical fact.

For the Khitan, the Great Song Dynasty had a legend of 3,000 and 60,000; For the party, the Great Song Dynasty had the success of opening the Xihe River; For the Jurchens, the Great Song Dynasty had the joy of Zhu Xianzhen's victory; And for the invincible Mongolia, the Great Song Dynasty had the glory of letting God break the whip... What does this mean?

We can fight! Just don't put a shackle on us at all times!

Return to the battlefield where Pan Mei destroyed the Southern Han. In December, Pan Mei attacked Shaozhou, the gateway to Panyu. This time, he faced a somewhat strange enemy: Li Chengwu's more than 100,000 soldiers and horses and a secret weapon that only belonged to the Southern Han Dynasty: hundreds of war elephants.

The battle began at the foot of Penghua Peak outside the city. Li Chengwu threw out his trump card at the first time. What elephants! There were more than a dozen Southern Han soldiers riding on each end, and they rushed towards the Song army's position. I don't know how Pan Mei and Song Jun reacted to this scene. He did not prepare some natural enemies of elephants in advance, such as rats or superhuman weapons such as fire and water. Pan Mei's response was extremely rough and lacked any technical content.

He first ordered all the rejected horses to be moved out, and they were stacked in front of the position, so that they could hold up for a while. Then he ordered all the crossbowmen of the whole army to stand in the front row, one word - shoot!

To use an analogy. An arrow is compared to the tonnage of an elephant as the ratio of a hornet's tail needle to the volume of our body. But if a whole nest of hornets stabbed at you, how would you react? Forgive the elephants. They really can't help themselves.

The elephants turned their heads and ran back, so fast that the history called "all the passengers fell" and plunged into Li Chengwu's Southern Han army, and continued to run with their lives. Pan Mei's Song army followed this group of elephants and rushed into the enemy formation, and then rushed out of the enemy formation, until they rushed into Shaozhou City, and there was no enemy all the way. This is how the gateway to the Southern Han was opened. Lee Seung-woo was spared. Shaozhou assassin Shi Xin Yanwu was captured. Pan Mei then asked Xin Yanwu to write a letter to persuade Liu Gang to surrender.

Liu Gang did not accept the persuasion to surrender, he thought of the most traditional and classic defense method of the Han nation in the face of foreign invasion - the Great Wall! He wanted to build a fortress and dig a trench in Maji to stop Pan Mei's Song army! Think about it, how high should you base it? How deep do you want to dig? And all of this must be done before Pan Mei launches an offensive to be effective. Is this possible? First of all, Liu Gang encountered a problem: who to send to Ma Ji to do this? Looking around at the generals, none of Liu Gang were eye-catching. The palace maid surnamed Liang recommended her adopted son Guo Chongyue. Liu Gang was relieved this time, and asked Guo Chongyue and another general named Zhi Tingxiao to lead an army of 60,000 to guard the horses. After Guo Chongyue arrived at Maji, he only did two things: one was to repair the fence that the emperor asked him to do, and the other was what he wanted to do, praying to the ghosts and gods day and night, and never slacking off.

At the beginning of the first month of the 4th year of Kaibao (971), Pan Mei destroyed the 9th and 10th battles of the Southern Han Dynasty: conquering Xiong and Ying 2 states, Pan Chongche, a veteran of the Southern Han Dynasty, saw that the general trend had gone, and took the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

After that, Pan Mei unexpectedly received the first suggestion that Liu Gang took the initiative to make to the people of the Song Dynasty since the start of the war - not to talk about war, nor to surrender. Is it okay for us to make peace? Pan Mei's response was to immediately detain the envoy, and the army continued to advance towards the horse. In front of the horse is Takitou, a real treacherous mountain and water. Pan Mei had always suspected that the Southern Han would set up an ambush here. Thanks to this messenger, he led the Song army all the way through safely and quickly. On the 28th, he came to Guo Chongyue's fence.

As long as he breaks through Ma Ji, Pan Mei can kill under Panyu City within 1 day. At this time, Liu Gang in the city was still very calm, he just found a dozen big boats and loaded them with his favorite women and treasures. He's on the run! But very sadly, he was betrayed again. The eunuch Le Fan, who thought that he had no selfish intentions because he had no family background, and the more than 1,000 soldiers who escorted the ship did not hesitate at all in the face of so many women and treasures, and went directly to the ship and sailed into the sea. This group of people has since disappeared from the historical record.

Liu Gang was really scared this time. Once again, he sent messengers to Pan Mei. The price was forced lower, and for the first time there was a mention of surrender.

At this time, a historical mystery appeared. Liu Gang asked to surrender, and Pan Mei also saw the messenger. But he didn't know what to do, he didn't agree or reply, but directly escorted the two messengers, Xiao Yi and Zhuo Weixiu, to Kaifeng and handed them over to Zhao Kuangyin, who was thousands of miles away. Is it that Pan Mei does not have the authority to accept surrender? Or is there something else going on? I don't know, but the consequences of doing so are serious, and a few days later I even made Pan Mei scold her mother loudly.

On 1 February, Liu sent his younger brother Liu Baoxing, who had achieved great results under his guillotine, to reinforce Ma Ji with a barely patchwork force. On the 4th, Pan Mei fought a battle after destroying the Southern Han Dynasty. After Zhi Tingxiao asked Guo Chongyue to make the palace, he led the army out of the horse, lined up according to the water, and challenged the Song army. Pan Mei couldn't ask for it. In a vicious battle, Zhi Tingxiao died in battle. And Guo Chongyue, who was behind his palace, saw that his own people were dying on the battlefield, so he went back to the fence. It's like that fence is sacred, and it keeps him safe from any harm. But Pan Mei didn't give him any chance. Wang Ming led the Ding Fu of the logistics team to each hold two torches, rushed to the fence, and burned the fire. Ma Ji's fortifications, the army of the Southern Han Dynasty, and Guo Chongyue were all burned to the ground.

Pan Mei did not delay and set off overnight, with Panyu City in front of her, the end of the battle. He knew that the Tao had to be fast. But on the night of February 4th, he was destined to run a little slower, so he had no time to save the things that were about to be destroyed and his own fate.

On this night, Liu Gang, Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu and others had already thought about countermeasures and the future, "The reason why the Great Song army will come is because there are too many good things in our country." So if we burn it down, Song Jun will naturally go back, right? Then we are still the masters here" So that night, there were fires everywhere in the treasury and palace of the Southern Han Dynasty, and everything that could be burned was burned overnight. It is estimated that Pan Mei can see the skyrocketing fire on the way to the hurried.

The next day, on February 5, Liu Gang opened the city gates, surrendered to the Song army, and told the benevolent brother who was still running slowly in the end - you have won. There are 214 counties in 60 states in the Southern Han Kingdom, and 170263 households belong to your Great Song Dynasty.

But Pan Mei wanted to cry without tears. Everyone understands that invading a country is for the sake of land and population, but it is all hidden wealth. And the wealth accumulated by the 3rd and 4th emperors of the Southern Han Dynasty was burned in vain? How can this make you account for Zhao Kuangyin? Compared to now, I'm not even as good as Wang Quanbin. No matter how many sequelae Pingshu left behind, Meng Chang's gold and silver treasures are now being transported to Kaifeng, hidden in Zhao Kuangyin's private safe called the Sealing Pile Warehouse. Every day, Zhao Kuangyin sees people doing things, sends troops to fight, and relies on so much money to feel down-to-earth. And the treasures of the Southern Han Dynasty have long been classified into the book of the sealing warehouse, but now... What am I going to do?

There was no way, Pan Mei had no choice but to continue to leave herself in the humid and stuffy Lingnan and thoroughly clean up the scene for Zhao Kuangyin. There are more than 100 eunuchs dressed up to come down, Pan Meizheng is not happy! Don't even look at it, drag it down and cut it!

In April, Liu Gang and his group were taken to Kaifeng. The emperor first asked him about the crime of burning the treasury, and Liu Gang pushed it all to Gong Chengshu and others. On May 1, Zhao Kuangyin dragged Liu Gang and a group of high-ranking officials of the Southern Han Dynasty to Taimiao like dogs to offer prisoners, and then asked him about the crime of being powerful and blessed in the Southern Han Kingdom. In everything, the minister is not free. When he was in the country, the minister was the minister, and Chengshu was the lord of the country" Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu and others were silent, not denying or refutating until they were beheaded by the Song Dynasty.

And Liu Gang, a slut, was pardoned by Zhao Kuangyin. On June 18, he was made a marquis of mercy. After Zhao Kuangyin was talking about the martial arts hall banquet of the ministers, Liu Gang was the first to arrive, and the emperor saw that he was really well-behaved, so he rewarded him with a glass of wine. Unexpectedly, this slut immediately cried in fright, kowtowed and begged for mercy, which made the emperor confused. Let him explain that when this slut was in the Southern Han Dynasty, as long as he saw which courtier was not pleasing to the eye, he would be rewarded with a cup of poisoned wine on the spot. Zhao Kuangyin Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled, "I treat people with a naked heart, and I have this matter" took the wine and drank it all. Instructed to pour Liu Gang another cup left and right. The slut Liu was full of shame, so he dared to drink.

10 years later, when Zhao Guangyi wanted to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty, he held a banquet in the palace. Liu Gang attended with all the kings. The slut suddenly stood up and said, "The court is far away, and the kings of the four directions are here today." In the evening, Taiyuan Liu arrived again. The minister took the lead in coming to the court, and asked for the whip to be the chief of the king" Zhao Guangyi smiled, how good this auspicious is! Slut Liu got a lot of rewards on the spot...