Potato flour dragon hammer Tao Shuchun is the milk name, Sanchun is the common name, the third in the family.

Tao Sanchun's real name and surname is Tao Stork, because it is homophonic with the clay pot, so few people call him his real name.

What's more, in ancient times, even calling oneself by one's real name was an impolite act to others. Others call themselves, and no one calls them by their names, they are all called characters or large numbers. Her two words "three springs" are undoubtedly a household name.

The year when Tao Sanchun married Qingyou Banlong Zheng En was February of the year of Zhou Shizong's succession to the throne (954), Tao Stork, the brave wife of Yipin, and Zheng En, the king of Beiping, were both twenty-six years old.

In the three years after marriage, Tao Sanchun gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Zheng En, two sons Zheng Zunzhi and Zheng Jingzhi are twins, and a daughter Zheng Yuanzhi. The three concubines given by King Chai, the Gao family gave birth to a daughter, Zheng Meizhi, who was born a few days earlier than Tao Sanchun's child and was the eldest daughter. Chen gave birth to a son, Zheng Xiongzhi. Dong gave birth to a son, Zheng Dengzhi.

The children will run away, Tao Sanchun finally breathed a sigh of relief. She has been in business since she was a child, running around, suffocating in the house every day, and almost blowing up?

In fact, even during pregnancy, I didn't stop running around. The maids accompanied and traveled around many states and counties outside Bianliang, Tokyo. The children will run away, and they will have to find something to do to go out.

The opportunity came, on February 12 of the fourth year of Xiande (957), Zheng Ziming went home in the morning, passed on the oral message of the eldest brother Chai Rong, Xuantao Sanchun, and went up to the arch hall tomorrow morning, and went out to listen to the order.

Big brother ordered me Tao Sanchun's general, it is estimated that it will be a tough battle, who is this going to fight against?

The next day is to make an early pilgrimage. Since the wedding, although the eldest brother has allowed himself to participate in court politics, it has been three years, but he has really not been to the court.

That night, the three concubines and sisters were called to come to the staff office, and they had to go up to the hanging arch hall to see how to make a good deal?

We can neither show the bad breed of female generals, nor can we show the roughness of male generals. I changed dozens of clothes, and in the end, I still dressed according to the phoenix crown.

Since the order is to go on the expedition, the sword must be indispensable, so I still choose the sword cast by the famous craftsman Lei Mo in Puxian County, my hometown. This Thunder Demon Sword, in the Great Zhou World, is very likely to have only three swords. Why?

The Thunder Demon must take advantage of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth days of the month to forge a sword, and these three days coincide with the rain, and the flood furnace fire cannot be raised. Depending on the minerals that need to be added, the number of times of forging is also different. Therefore, it takes anywhere from one to three years to forge a sword.

Potato flour dragon hammer Tao Sanchun, waiting for the clear oil Banlong Zheng En for eight years, in order to get married, to give Zheng En the best weapon in the world, after thinking about it, he fell in love with the Thunder Demon Sword. However, the Thunder Demon forged a sword, and it took so much effort, and of course a sword would be very expensive, requiring as much as three thousand.

So I got up early every day and stepped up the sale of watermelons, potato flour, persimmons, dates, and walnuts. Potato flour can be bought all year round, so later only potato flour was sold, and it also got a large "potato flour dragon hammer". Before the eldest brother issued an edict to complete the marriage, he happened to get two handles. The 7,000 yuan he had earned over the years had almost been spent.

When he got married, the sword given to Zheng Ziming was loved by his eldest brother Chai Rong and couldn't put it down. Zheng Ziming was refreshing, and he gave it to his eldest brother.

Now I have a stalk in my hand. It is said that there is also a Thunder Demon Sword, which fell into the hands of the Southern Tang Dynasty generals, but the world does not know whether it is true or not. There are only three known thunder demon swords.

Thunder Demon has been forging swords since he was thirty years old, and there are more than just three swords. It's just that the three Thunder Demon Swords known to the world are owned by these three famous people.

In the middle of the night, Tao Sanchun looked in the mirror repeatedly, and he was satisfied with the dress of the previous dynasty.

At the end of the 13th of February, when they arrived at the court, they all went to the governor's office and signed their names. Then stand on shift and wait for the play.

Thirty-six-year-old Chai Rong, the young emperor, has long been sitting upright, with hard wings spread on his head. The square jaw and the green beard are sparse and float down. The chamberlain shouted: "Hundreds of officials have a morning play, and they have no book to retreat." ”

Wei Renpu, the deputy privy envoy, went out and said: "The minister has a copy. ”

Bai Diefei Long Chai Rong looked at him and roughly guessed what was going on, because the privy envoy and deputy envoy were in charge of the military, so they naturally said that the matter of conquest of the Southern Tang Dynasty had already discussed the preliminary opinions yesterday. Chai Rong slightly relaxed his tense face a little and asked, "Wei Aiqing." ”

Wei Renpu said: "The minister thinks that this expedition to the Southern Tang Dynasty, according to Wang Taibao's plan to unify the south and then the north, attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, and focus on Shouzhou. The capture of Shouzhou requires four simultaneous strategies.

"First, train the water army. Last year, a plan was set for advancing both land and water, and shipbuilding and water warfare must not be slackened.

"Second, Shouzhou must be taken. Today, because of the commander of the Huainan Dao camp, Li Chongjin surrounded Shouzhou to the death, seeing that the food in the city was exhausted. And Li Jingda, the king of Qi in the Southern Tang Dynasty, sent Xu Wenzhi, Bian Hao, Zhu Yuan, etc., and 50,000 rescue divisions of the Tongzhou Division, stationed in the Purple Mountain. repaired the road to transport grain and grass, but was fortunately attacked by Li Chongjin. If Shouzhou cannot be decisively captured, from then on, the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty will fall into a north-south confrontation, and the conquest of the Southern Tang Dynasty will be far away.

"Third, be lenient to the people. They will not be prosecuted for capital crimes, but they will be told to go home and resume their work. Open warehouses to help the hungry and encourage them to start businesses. The scientific examination was opened, and the yellow coat grass was allowed to participate in the examination. So that the people of Jiangbei are willing to be the emperor, and the people of Jiangnan will gradually be inspired, and the great cause of reunification can be accomplished.

"Fourth, go all out to help. The plan of besieging the city and sending reinforcements is also an established strategy, and it must be further exerted to attract as many reinforcements as possible and annihilate more of its new forces, so that the Southern Tang Dynasty will be greatly damaged by the first battle of Shouzhou. ”

When Wei Renpu said Wang Taibao, he meant Wang Pu, the privy envoy and the inspector Taibao. Chai Rong discussed military affairs with him, and he often said the same method with the right idea, which was regarded as a bosom friend by Chai Rong.

Wei Renpu heard about it, and Chai Rong, the white stacked flying dragon, expressed his approval: "Wei Aiqing's four strategies are extremely important. With Wei Aiqing as the military advisor, I also hope that the senior officer will follow suit. Anyone who violates the order shall be subject to military law. This time, I will drive the expedition in person, and Shouzhou will want to take it. My deployment is called Wei Aiqing to announce. ”

All the civil and military officials shouted: "The ministers must obey the holy decree and make no mistakes." ”

Chai Rong pushed an edict and handed it to Wei Renpu. The order of the Son of Heaven to conquer the south is:

This time to conquer Nanzhao, he led 30,000 forbidden troops and approached the city of Shouzhou. The regiments of Henan and Huaibei 20 states trained envoys, and each of the headquarters gathered at the front line in Shouzhou.

Zhang Yongde, the former commander of the palace, was the commander of the capital.

With the commander of the front division of the palace, Zhao Kuangyin, the inspector of the Taibao, and the commander of 5,000 troops as the commander of the forward.

With the guards and the pro-army and the horse army all commanding the envoys, Zheng En, the inspector Taibao, and commanding 5,000 troops as the commanders of the palace.

With the brave lady Tao Stork as the royal camp, he followed me and was in charge of military law.

With the enlistment of 30,000 soldiers, there are the left and right compartments of the Iron Cavalry Army of the Front Division of the Palace, the left and right compartments of the Crane Infantry, the left and right compartments of the Longjie Horse Army and the left and right compartments of the Hujie Infantry of the Guard Division.

Each has three generals, including the commander, the deputy commander, and the three generals, and the twenty-four generals such as Hu Yanzan and Gao Huaide are all used by the vanguard officer and the palace officer. Under the twenty-four generals, there are commanders, training martial arts, capital heads, team leaders, etc., and the Son of Heaven will not be named.

When the troops arrived in Shouzhou, Li Chongjin, commanded by the Huainan Dao camp, was the commander of all the armies, and listened to his command except for me.

I drove the expedition in person, and stayed in Tokyo with Wang Pu, the privy envoy and inspector of the school, and engaged in it cheaply.

Privy envoy Wang Pu, privy deputy envoy Wei Renpu, and dozens of generals shouted one after another: "The ministers must obey the edict, move forward, and never give up." ”

On the seventeenth day of the first month, the Son of Heaven led the army from Daliang, passed through Chenzhou, and went straight to Xia Cai.

On the third day of the first month of March, the Son of Heaven led the army to Xia Cai, crossed the Huai River south at night, and arrived at the foot of Shouchun City.

To capture Shouzhou, you need to go southeast through Purple Mountain, Kip Stone Mountain, and Bagong Mountain to reach the city of Shouzhou. The geographical situation of Shouzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

To the north of Shouzhou is the Huai River, which runs from west to east. The northeast of the city is tightly protected by the water, which comes from the northwest through the Kip Stone Mountain and goes to the southeast. It turned to the southwest not far from the southeast, and tightly protected the southeast and south of Shouzhou City. And the north of the city is Bagong Mountain and Kip Stone Mountain as the gateway.

Eighty miles to the east, there is the Purple Mountain where Xu Wenzhi, Bian Hao, Zhu Yuan and other Southern Tang generals were stationed.

Such topographical characteristics make Shouzhou a strategic location.

The unification of Jiangnan by successive dynasties must experience the tragic Battle of Shouzhou. Otherwise, it will not be possible to obtain Luzhou. And even if you make a detour to Haozhou in the east and take Luzhou first, Shouzhou will definitely be able to attack and respond. In this way, for the plan to unify the south of the Yangtze River, we can only sigh across the river.

Therefore, as long as Shouzhou is taken, Jiangnan will inevitably be shaken. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shu didn't call himself the emperor by virtue of Shouzhou, but it's a pity that this person is too far behind Cao Liu Sun and other three heroes, and even Zhang Xiu is not as good.

In the nineteenth year of the former Qin Dynasty (383), the famous Battle of Weishui was here. Fu Jian, the ancestor of the former Qin dynasty, launched a battle of unification, and his 800,000 army was defeated by the 80,000 army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which made the prime minister Xie An, the famous generals Xie Xuan, and Xie Shi go down in history.

Therefore, above the court, the privy deputy Wei Renpu repeatedly reminded the emperor that Shouzhou must be taken.

This time, although Chai Rong did not command too many men and horses, they were all personally guarded by the forbidden army, the Iron Cavalry Army, the Crane Control Infantry, the Longjie Horse Army, and the Hujie Infantry, which were personally inquired by the eldest brother Chai Rong, and the four brothers Zhao Kuangyin, the third brother Zheng En, the eleventh brother Li Chongjin, and the sixteenth brother Zhang Yongde were personally formed and trained.

These forbidden troops not only have very brave generals, but also have very high selection standards for ordinary soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

They are not usually located in one place, but are scattered in various prefectures and prefectures within 800 miles of Tokyo. Once the Son of Heaven decrees, day and night, he will be in front of the Son of Heaven within two days.

The key to attacking Shouzhou is not how brave your soldiers are, but how to rush through the water that surrounds Shouzhou City on three sides. As long as you can pass through the water, rush to the root of the city gate, and try to attack, you can only have half the chance of winning. As long as the bones of the city defenders are hard, you are still helpless.

Since the first month of last year, Chai Rong drove his own expedition, and fourteen months have passed, and Shouzhou City is still in the hands of Liu Renzhan, a famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the envoy of the Qinghuai Festival.

The Southern Tang Dynasty reinforced 50,000 boat divisions, and the three commanders and generals were: Xu Wenzhi, the envoy of the Yong'an Festival, the overseer of the army, Bian Hao, and Zhu Yuan, the envoy of the north, and their boat division was stationed in the Purple Mountain. Lined up into fourteen walled cities, like pearls connected in series, echoing with the defenders in the city, it is called Lianzhu Village.

Xu Wenzhi and others commanded the people and soldiers to dig Yongdao in the first month of the year to deliver grain and grass to Shouzhou City.

Yongdao dug more than 40 miles, and when it was about to dig outside the city of Shouzhou, Li Chongjin found out about the Lushou recruitment of the Later Zhou Dynasty and launched a surprise attack, beheading more than 5,000 people. Li Chongjin took advantage of the situation and killed and captured two military villages.

However, the large army of the three generals Xu Wenzhi is still entrenched in the Purple Mountain, and it is still a difficult problem to solve the reinforcements of the Purple Mountain.

Shouzhou of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Qinghuai Festival Envoy, Jiangxia Hou Liu Renzhan, the word Shouhui, Pengcheng people. Chai Rong was fifty-eight years old when he conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty and was the absolute pillar of the Southern Tang Dynasty. is loyal to the Southern Tang court, so it seems that this bone is not easy to gnaw.

Fortunately, his immediate boss, Li Jingda, the king of Qi, resolutely refused to allow Liu Renzhan to fight and asked him to wait for help. Maybe Li Jingda is right, it is no problem for Shouzhou City to hold on, but if you go out of the city to attack the Zhou army, the Tang Ting army is probably not an opponent.

However, Li Jingda, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Tang Dynasty, also took 50,000 sailors and was stationed in Haozhou, because Chen Jue, the deputy privy envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the envoy of the supervising army and monopolized the power, Li Jingda was overhead, and a total of 100,000 reinforcements never came to Shouzhou, which made Liu Renzhan very passive.

The city of Shouzhou has been exhausted, but fortunately, there are still a little fish in the reed pond and the port in the city, which can barely be supported.

In the imperial tent under the city of Shouzhou, Chai Rong, the white flying dragon, gathered all the generals to discuss how to break the reinforcements of the Purple Mountain, completely isolate Liu Renzhan, and force changes within Shouzhou.

At this time, Ge Mingjiang, the general secretary in front of the army, came in in a hurry and knelt down to the emperor: "Your Majesty Chenqi: The Southern Tang Yongdao was dug up again, and last night it began to deliver grain to Shouzhou City. Although the transportation is small and slow, it is difficult to meet the needs of the military and civilians in Shouzhou City, but the Shouzhou garrison is bound to be more determined. ”

Chai Rong was very shocked: "Who is going to break the Yongdao?"