"In March of the ninth year of Baoda, because of the bloody battles that occurred at the same time in Jinzhou, Wuyue, Fuzhou, Qingyuan, and Chudi, Guiguan, this March is called 'Bloody March'."

——Excerpt from "The Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty? Lin Feng's Memorabilia was just when Wuyue and Qingyuan were troubled by the approaching war, and the Hou Zhou in the north had to be idle.

After the start of the Jinju War, Guo Wei has been feeling a little anxious. First of all, the accident of the rapid fall of Jinju City made the Minister of Later Zhou Wenwu, who believed that he had strong national strength, suffer a blow, and the subsequent development of events made them feel even more depressed.

More than 100,000 people fled from the four prefectures of Jin, Xi, Ci, and Jiang, and they scattered into the surrounding prefectures and counties, making all parts of the country cry bitterly, and the concerts of asking for money and food in various places continued day and night; And those refugees who had no food and clothing even began to cross the Yellow River to Luoyang, Beijing, and even Kaifeng, Tokyo, and things were showing signs of getting out of control.

The most depressing thing is that in the past month, three batches of troops totaling more than 10,000 have been dispatched to Jinju, all of which have been defeated without exception, and the latter group with the best record has only broken through the three earthen walls and trenches on the periphery of Jinju City, and they have as many as 3,000 soldiers who have fallen in one morning!

Under the three-dimensional protection of the small trebuchet temporarily erected on the city wall and behind the earthen wall, the crazy Northern Han soldiers made the Later Zhou soldiers realize what it means to be difficult to move an inch:

Want to cross the trench? It was full of wooden thorns with pointed upwards, and the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty hid behind the earthen wall to shoot wooden arrows, throw stones, and clods of earth, and if they accidentally fell, they would definitely die! Finally a wooden bridge was built over the trench, and the defenders would pour hot oil into the trench and set fire to the enemy. If you're going to fill in the earth to extinguish the fire, they'll dig up the Fen River and fill the trenches with water, so that the river can hold back the enemy......

Wang Yan, who was ordered by Guo Wei to make meritorious contributions, was about to go crazy, and after his third attack failed, he finally caught a seriously injured soldier of the Northern Han Dynasty and was about to torture him, when the soldier who vomited blood said a few words that made him frightened: "Come on, the master will let you kill at will!" Anyway, I have already killed three Zhou soldiers, my family can get twenty-four acres of land in Sanzhou, they have a life for the rest of their lives, it is worth my death, I hate only hate, I can't fight for them a few more acres of land! ”

Dividing land for the soldiers guarding Jincheng is the most ruthless move that Lin Feng secretly made to Liu Chong's father and son in the Northern Han Dynasty! Anyway, if you want to drive away all the residents of the four states, it is better to give the land to the soldiers defending the city in advance, with the stimulation of money and land, no matter how weak the soldiers are, they will burst out with huge energy. The facts also proved how effective Lin Feng's ruthless moves were!

Wang Yan watched the soldier cough for a while and then passed away with a smile, stunned for a long time, and immediately sent an eight-hundred-mile fast cavalry to report this amazing information to Guo Wei, and ask for reinforcements, more reinforcements!

Guo Wei got this document for help, but he was at a loss, even if the general Guo Chongwei reported the rebellious Xuzhou to take it easily, successfully killed Gong Tingmei, the capital of Liuyou, and captured the victory news of Yuancong's coach Yang Wen, it still didn't make him happy.

It has always been a blessing, and a disaster is not a one-way street. Since then, two more things have happened one after another that made Guo Wei scratch his head.

The first thing was caused by a secret letter from Chai Rong, the envoy of the Lanzhou Festival. Chai Rong complained that Wang Jun, the privy envoy and subordinate of the Tongzhongshu Sect, often intercepted his own recitals, and that the ministers he sent to Beijing were often troubled by Wang Jun, and other ministers also reported this matter to him, asking the Holy Lord to restrain Wang Jun well.

It's definitely a bad thing to do!

Who is Wang Jun? Guo Wei's brother is two years older than Guo Wei, and the two have worked together in the army for many years. At the beginning, all the family members of the two were killed by Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty in the capital, and the two mutiny together and entered Kaifeng; When Guo Wei's yellow robe was added, Wang Jun, who was then a privy envoy, cooperated with Guo Wei in the capital Kaifeng, and sent two generals, Guo Chong and Ma Duo, to Songzhou and Xuzhou respectively to stabilize the situation for Guo Wei. It is precisely because of such great achievements that Wang Jun was appointed by Guo Wei as a privy envoy and a subordinate of the Zhongshu Sect, that is, the prime minister, and became the premier minister of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

However, as soon as the situation in the Houzhou period stabilized, Wang Jun, who was impatient and sloppy, began to become arrogant, and many times he even disobeyed Guo Wei's intentions. If Guo Wei followed him, he would leave happily, and if he didn't agree, he would immediately be angry, and the foul words in his mouth would come out. Moreover, the more tolerant Guo Wei treats him, the more he has to be inch by inch and unscrupulous.

This big brother is very tricky! Before Guo Wei could vent the complaint in his abdomen, a letter from Gunzhou made him crooked his nose again - Mu Rongyan said that since last winter, Gunzhou has suffered a heavy snowstorm, and he is afraid that many places will not receive grain this year, so he asked for exemption from the rent of Gunzhou this year and timely release grain for disaster relief.

Mu Rongyanchao was originally a member of the Tugu Hun Shatuo tribe, and was the half-brother of Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty. Because of Liu Zhiyuan's iron relationship, he successively served as the envoy of the Zhenning Army and the envoy of the Gunzhou Festival.

At the end of last year, when Guo Wei rebelled, Liu Chengyou summoned Murong Yanchao and other generals to Beijing to escort him. When Guo Wei's army attacked the Beijing Division, Murong Yanchao and Kaifeng Yin Houyi resisted in the northern suburbs, and Liu Chengyou personally sent out the labor army, but Hou Yi surrendered, Murong Yanchao was defeated and fled to Yanzhou, and Liu Chengyou was killed. After Guo Wei became emperor, he gave an edict to comfort Murong Yanchao and called him his younger brother to envelop him.

Since last winter, Yanzhou has indeed had heavy snowfall, but it should have melted long ago, and snow is often conducive to the growth of crops, how can it become a disaster? This is clearly mischievous with Emperor Guo Wei!

Guo Wei hadn't finished getting angry about his own affairs, and the news of the Southern Tang Dynasty attacking Wu Yue made him completely dumbfounded.

When the Later Zhou Dynasty urgently discussed countermeasures, Qian Hongyu, the king of Wuyue, was so anxious that a big bubble appeared at the corner of his mouth, all of which were forced by the sharp offensive of the Southern Tang Dynasty - alarms had come from all over the country, and the troops of Jiangyin, Ningguo, and Anhua in the Southern Tang Dynasty had all gathered at the border, and they could go straight to the hinterland of Wu Yue at any time; The mixed Chu and Tang naval armies were pressed by Mount Tai, starting from the Jiangyin Army (now Jiangyin), as long as it was a Wuyue ship, regardless of warships or merchant ships, those who surrendered without raising the flag were all sunk and captured, and never divided the troops, regardless of the dead and wounded, swept along the Wuyue coastline, and from time to time also sent a large number of soldiers to raid the border towns, replenish fresh water, food, and rob money, and the Wuyue warships that were inferior in the number of warships could only retreat one after another, and the war at sea had the tendency of rout and spread.

Regarding this section of the naval war, Hu Yan Chengrui, the "immortal soldier" who successfully mixed from the infantry to the sailors before the war, once borrowed the idiom in "The Brilliant Army of a Small Soldier", saying that they "swept thousands of troops at sea, the corpses were full of eyes, and the oars floated in the sea", and proudly used these words many times.

At this time, Qian Hongyi, the envoy of the Zhangwu Army and the assassin of Fuzhou, reported an urgent military situation: more than 50 Southern Tang warships went down along the Jianyang River (that is, the Min River), and 30,000 Jianzhou troops went east along the south bank of the Jianyang River, echoing by land and water, forcing towards Fuzhou; At the same time, there are unknown ships patrolling the sea at the entrance of Jianyang Creek, and no ships are allowed to pass.

For a while, Wu Yue, who had an army of 100,000, felt a little overstretched in the arrangement of troops. Wu Yue court discussed and discussed, and finally came to a decision: keep the current arrangement unchanged and wait and see how the situation changes; Then urgently send envoys to ask for help from the Hou Zhou and Qingyuan armies.

At this time, the Southern Han Dynasty, which had already learned the news of the Southern Tang Dynasty's dispatch of troops to Wu Yue, also began a big discussion on how to take the opportunity to seize the Guiguan region.