Chapter 2 The momentum is like a bamboo

Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty and a group of close ministers were not fools, and at the same time as the secret edict to remove Guo Wei and his family, he urgently ordered Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, Guo Congyi, Murong Yanchao, Xue Huairang, and the defense envoys of Zhengzhou Wu Qianyu and Li Gu, the assassin of Chenzhou, to immediately lead their troops into the Weijing Division. For a time, there was a tense atmosphere around Beihan Tokyo and the northern part of the country.

On the morning of November 14, Li Ye, the inner servant, Zhongshu Shilang, and Su Fengji, the Pingzhang Shi of the Tongzhongshu Menxia, obtained the consent of the Hidden Emperor Liu Chengyou in the court, and killed the political opponent Zhongshu Shilang and the official Shangshu and Tongping Zhangshi Yang Wei on the spot, and the guards and pro-army Ma Bujun were all in command of the envoy, the envoy of the German Army, Shi Hongzhao of the Pingzhang of the Tongzhongshu Men, the Taiwei of the Inspectorate, and the Wang Zhang of the Tongping Zhang.

After the bloody early dynasty, Li Ye led a wolf-like forbidden army to break into the mansion of the above three ministers and Guo Wei in Bianjing, and killed the three people's whole family, as well as Guo Wei's concubine Zhang, young son Qingge, Brother Yi, and more than 60 large and small slaves.

However, Li Ye and Su Fengji were actually only proud for one morning.

From 14 November, Guo Wei and Lin Feng staged their own battles in the Guiguan area of Lingnan in the north of Bianjing.

At noon on the 14th, Guo Chongwei led the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army to kill in Lanzhou, and Li Hongyi immediately led his troops to surrender and join the uprising army.

At the same time, the commander of the Tang Infantry Army made Wu Hong and the Mengzhou Assassin allow Qiongbu to raid the 5,000 Southern Han troops under the city of Mengzhou. The unprepared Southern Han army was defeated, with thousands of dead in the battle, more than 3,000 soldiers surrendered on the spot, and less than 1,000 soldiers successfully fled to Wuzhou.

In the evening of the same day, Lin Feng led his troops to raid Hezhou, and the Southern Han defenders, who thought that Lin Feng would lose troops in Zhaozhou, were caught off guard, and Lin Feng concentrated his forces to break through the western wall of Hezhou City, and the 3,000 Han troops who resisted stubbornly were slaughtered.

On the morning of the 15th, the Tianxiong cavalry, who crossed the river overnight, encountered the 20,000 cavalry forbidden army led by Yin Houyi of Kaifeng, Murong Yanchao, the envoy of Taining Jiedu, and Wu Qianyu, the defense envoy of Zhengzhou, on the south bank of the Yellow River.

On the morning of the 16th, the Tianxiong infantry army met together and killed at Baima, the seat of Huazhou (now east of Huaxian County, Henan), and Yicheng Jiedu made Song Yanwu open the city to welcome Guo Wei and led his troops to Tokyo.

On the morning of the 17th, Lin Feng led an army of 20,000 to besiege Wuzhou, and after persuading him to surrender, he ordered the army to feint on three sides, concentrate the elite to break through from the northern city, and capture Wuzhou in the evening. Lin Feng lamented the nearly 3,000 casualties in this battle, and angrily ordered all the Han troops in this battle to be killed. Wu Huaien only had to lead dozens of guards to escape.

On the 19th, Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty sent Yuan Zhi, the commander of the Zuo Shenwu Army, and Liu Chongjin, the former envoy of Dengzhou Jiedu, to lead the forbidden army to meet Hou Yi and Murong Yanchao, and respectively lined up in Chigang (now north of Kaifeng City, Henan) and Qilidian (now north of Kaifeng County, Henan).

On the 20th, Lin Feng personally led the Chu State Navy down the Lishui River, and directly killed Yining County, the Fengzhou Governor's Office on the border of the Southern Han Dynasty (now the southeast of Xinxing County, Guangdong, and the west of Kaiping County), and immediately attacked the city, swept away the population and property in the state, set fire to the city, and then built all the heads of the Han army killed on this trip into a huge human head "Jingguan" in the east of the city and the south of Lishui, which was used to warn the Southern Han Dynasty before leading the troops to retreat.

On the same day, Guo Wei led his army to Fengqiu (present-day Fengqiu County, Xinxiang City, Henan) and met Murong Yanchao at Liu Zipi (present-day Fengqiunan, Henan). The two sides lined up and held each other, and they did not fight.

On the 21st, Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty personally went to the army to reward the army, and Murong Yanchao on the front line was brave and brave, leading the light cavalry to attack directly. Guo Wei ordered He Fujin, Wang Yanchao, Li Yun and others to lead the cavalry to meet the battle.

During the fierce battle, Murong Yanchao's mount suddenly fell, and the unknown rear army commanded the withdrawal of the troops in a hurry, and Murong Yanchao, who was re-mounted on the horse, also lost his courage under repeated defeats, and led more than ten horsemen to the east in the direction of Yanzhou Zhisuo (now Yanxian County, Shandong) and fled.

Guo Wei immediately led the army to rush and kill with all his might, and the troops of the Beijing Division in front of the battle were suddenly angry, and they either fled or surrendered. Hou Yi and Liu Chongjin surrendered to Guo Wei, and Wu Qianyu and others fled.

On the same day, the Tianxiong army swept all the way south, and the Jingshi army fled in disarray. Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty and his ministers hid dozens of officials in the people's houses, and were killed by the rebellious army of the Beijing Division.

On the evening of the 21st, Guo Wei led the army into Tokyo, strictly prohibiting his troops from burning and plundering, Guo Wei entered the palace to serve the Empress Dowager, and asked the Empress Dowager to set up a new monarch of the Liu family. However, that night, there were still many soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who disobeyed the military order and plundered privately, and Kaifeng City was in chaos overnight.

On the morning of the 22nd, Guo Wei "led a hundred officials to the Empress Dowager in Mingdemen, please set up an heir", and Liu Yun, the son of Liu Chong, the most powerful Wuning Jiedu envoy (stationed in Xuzhou), was selected as the emperor, and the new dynasty immediately sent a large team of men and horses to Xuzhou to meet him.

At this time, although it was the era of war and chaos in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the world generally regarded the north as Zhengshuo, and the news of the great changes within the Han Kingdom was transmitted to the surrounding countries at the fastest speed, which immediately triggered different shock waves.

When the news reached the northern Liao State, Liao Shizong Yelu Ruan was overjoyed when he learned that the mortal enemy Tianxiong Army was heading south, and immediately ordered the Liao army to gather cavalry, cross the Baigou dividing line, and attack Neiqiu (now Xingtai Neiqiu, Hebei) and Raoyang (now Raoyang, Hengshui City, Hebei) at the same time.

When the news reached Jinling in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Jing and Li Jing, the king of Qi, urgently discussed countermeasures behind closed doors in the imperial study after hearing the news. During the conversation, the two recalled that Lin Feng had said that there would be great changes in the north in the near future, and they couldn't help but look at each other in shock, and unanimously turned their eyes to the western Chu State, and guessed in their hearts how the war between Lin Feng, Liu Renzhen and the Southern Han Dynasty was progressing.

The news reached Tanzhou in the Chu State, but it did not cause much reaction, because the entire Tanzhou City was shrouded in an extremely shocking news of defeat: on the evening of the 23rd, a damaged warship from Guizhou rushed to report that Lin Feng and Liu Renzhen were ambushed under the city of Guizhou, and both died in battle; The city of Guizhou was surrounded by the army of the Southern Han Dynasty and was in danger! Request the rear to send troops and horses to the rescue!

It was Zhou Xingfeng's deputy commander who came back to report the news, and the letter asking for help was stamped with the military seals of Wang Kui and Zhou Xingfeng and the seal of Ma Xiyin, the deputy commander of Guizhou City.

What to do? How to face the anger of the Southern Tang Dynasty? What about the Guiguan area? How to face the sharp edge of the Southern Han army? These heavy questions weighed on Ma Xicao and Ma Xichong, making these two unlucky brothers almost cry in fright.

After urgent discussions, the civil and military forces of the Chu State decided to continue to "tap potential" in Tanzhou City, sent soldiers and horses to the whole city to force donations and grain again, arrested Minzhuang, and prepared to escort all of them to the front line in Guizhou. For a time, the city of Tanzhou was full of complaints again, and the people's grievances were boiling.

In the midst of this chaos, two more Guizhou rescue boats rushed to Tanzhou City. Three rescue boats, dozens of black shadows took advantage of the night to sneak into Tanzhou City.