Chapter 3 Liu Yilong's Second Attempt

Tuoba Tao, the lord of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Liu Yilong, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, were not willing to be only the lords of partial peace. Tuoba Tao's ideal is to drink the Yangtze River; Liu Yilong, on the other hand, never forgot to seal the wolf Juxu. The two are destined to collide again.

In February 450 AD, the Northern Wei Dynasty gathered troops in Liangchuan (now Shangqiu, Henan) in the name of hunting, Liu Yilong keenly smelled the smell of war, and immediately issued an edict to the counties on the national border: if the enemy has few soldiers, they will go to the city and refuse to defend, and if the enemy has many soldiers, they will lead the people to retreat to the south of the Huai River.

Unfortunately, there were no mobile phones at that time, let alone a WeChat work group, and the news to the border was unpredictable, and the local governor was at a loss. On February 20, Tuoba Tao's 100,000 iron cavalry roared in, and the momentum was huge, connecting several cities in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the soldiers pointed directly at a military important place on the north bank of the Huai River.

Hanging Gourd City, now Ruyang, Henan.

This is 100,000 iron horses, the magistrates of Nanton and Yingchuan counties in the north of the Hanging Gourd, I don't know if they have received Liu Yilong's edict, anyway, the retreat part of the implementation is very thorough, the two did not hesitate, immediately abandoned the city and left, exposing the small Hanging Gourd City to the blade of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

At the moment of the great enemy, what are the plans of the defenders in the city?

Unfortunately, there is no official keeper. Although the city is not big, it is the seat of the state government of Yuzhou, since it is the seat of the state government, the direct military and political governor should be the assassin of Yuzhou. At that time, he was the assassin of Yuzhou, and he was the fourth son of Emperor Liu Yilong and the king of Nanping. Where is Liu Shuo? ran to Shouyang on the south bank of the Huai River.

At this time, the highest military and political chief in the Hanging Fortress City was called Chen Xian. Office? Joining the army, he is still a deputy, at most a deputy chief of staff at the deputy regimental level. Authority? Ordered to act as the county guard. Soldiers? Less than a thousand. It's okay to send a regiment with 800 strong men to guard a warehouse (salute!) Let them hold a city and talk about it all night.

Tuoba Tao detected the intelligence in the city, sneered at Shouyang on the south bank of the Huai River, and gave an order to surround the Hanging Fortress City.

1,000 infantry against 100,000 cavalry, no one has to pee their pants, unless there is a Maxim heavy machine gun. Chen Xian in the city, but he was not in a hurry, and ordered the soldiers and civilians to put down their work and do one thing.

Tear down all the door panels in the city and fill the army.

All the soldiers and civilians were puzzled in their hearts, and they all came to ask Chen Xian what he meant, and Chen Xian smiled: I have my own usefulness.

Outside the city, the army of 100,000 tigers and wolves of the Northern Wei Dynasty began to attack the city. The siege tool is mainly a large building cart, on which the archers stand and shoot arrows into the city. For a time, the arrows in the city were like flying locusts, and the military and civilian operations were blocked.

Without waiting for Chen Xian to explain, the soldiers and civilians understood Chen Xian's real intention of asking them to remove the door panel. They walk in the city with the door panel on their backs, which can block the rain of arrows, and they can also "borrow arrows from the door panel" to replenish the ammunition for defending the city.

The Wei army shot wildly for a while, and found that the gains outweighed the losses, so they stopped shooting arrows. Then, another large siege tool was introduced.

Rush the car. The car can slide freely, and there is a big iron hook at one end, after the iron hook is thrown out by the impulse, it hooks the city wall, and then the big iron hook is dragged by the car to hook the city wall.

With the strength of ten oxen and three tigers, which lasted many days, the Northern Wei army finally hooked down a large piece of the city wall. I was about to rush in through the gap, but I didn't see it right.

Inside, there's actually a wall!

It turned out that Chen Xian commanded the defense of the city while directing people to build another wall within the city wall to meet the deadline, and in addition, a layer of wooden fence was built for protection.

I wanted to make a quick decision and swallow this small city in one bite to prevent the Southern Song Dynasty reinforcements from arriving, but I didn't think that the defenders in the city could still do big projects, do you have construction qualifications? The Northern Wei army was furious and sacrificed the tactics of gathering people to climb hard.

The human sandbag war has begun. The Wei army first filled the trenches on all sides of the city with toad carts filled with earth. The toad cart is a large flatbed cart, covered with cowhide on top to resist bows and arrows, and the overall appearance looks like a big toad, so it is called.

The ditch outside the city was filled, tens of thousands of Wei army locusts climbed up the city wall, Chen Xiandu led the army and civilians, with bows and arrows, javelins, rolling wood thunder stones, hot oil, desperately down to greet ......,.

Outside the city, corpses were piled up. On the city wall, the dead had no time to carry down, the wounded screamed again and again, the living had sallow cheeks and lead on their legs, and both sides had reached the limit of physical and psychological strength.

However, there is one exception, Chen Xian. History records that its "sharpness is getting more and more excited", and the remaining defenders are inspired by it, and they are all blocking hundreds. After holding out until the hanging gourd was surrounded for forty-two days, reinforcements from all over the Southern Song Dynasty rushed one after another. Tuoba Tao, a famous general in a hundred battles, naturally did not use his own tired troops to confront the opponent's fresh army, withdrew from the siege and returned to the north, and accepted a humiliating battle in his military career.

The battle of Hanging Gourd City was the prelude to the Great War between the North and the South, and both sides had an attitude of trying it out, and came up with an appetizer, similar to the battle between Zhang Gufeng and Nuomenkan between Su and Japan in the later generations. After the war, Liu Yilong basically punished the civil and military officials of the Southern Song Dynasty involved in this battle, with one exception, that is, Chen Xian.

Chen Xian, who created a brilliant defensive record comparable to the Battle of Thermothermal Pass in Greece and Persia (300 warriors of Sparta) and the Battle of Tang Suiyang (Zhang Xun), went from being a deputy regimental deputy to the army at most, and became General Long Xiang, the third rank and the regular army level. At the same time, it is also the county guard of Runan and Xincai, the deputy provincial level, and the seat of the county government is still located in the hanging city where he guarded each other. It seems that in ancient times, there was no limit on the length of service, and there was no provision that exceptional promotions could not be crossed by two levels at most, but focused on actual performance.

In the battle of defending the city, the Song army defended for more than 40 days with 1,000 troops, and successfully repelled tens of thousands of Northern Wei troops who were besieging the city, creating a miracle in the history of the world's city defense war. This is a great boost to one's confidence.

Liu Yilong. Liu Yilong's confidence was greatly boosted, and he believed that the so-called Northern Wei Iron Cavalry was not like this, and in July 450, he issued an order that greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the south.

Fight across the Yangtze River and liberate the whole of China. This is to counterattack the Northern Wei Dynasty and start the second Yuanjia Northern Expedition.

Tan Daoji had been unjustly killed for 14 years at this time, and the Song army lacked a commander to unify the army, and Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, Liu Yilong, made the following arrangements for the Northern Expedition army:

1. The East Route Army was led by Liu Yigong, the king of Jiangxia, to Pengcheng (Xuzhou), led by Xiao Bin to Shen Qingzhi, Shen Tan and other generals, with Wang Xuanmo as the vanguard, from Jiangsu to Shandong by water.

This Xiao Bin is a member of Liu Yu's stepmother Xiao Wenshou's mother's family, the kind-hearted Xiao Wenshou pulled Liu Yu up, Liu Yu called the emperor and respected him as the queen mother (this is the first Empress Dowager Xiao in Chinese history, earlier than the Liao State), and the children of the Xiao family are also soaring.

2. The Western Route Army was led by Liu Yilong's sixth son, Liu Dan, who was the king of Xiangyang, with Liu Yuanjing as the main commander and Xue Andu as the vanguard, and went north from Xiangyang into Henan.

3. Liang Tan, Liu Kangzu and other teachers made a response.

The Western Route Army marched into Henan, and the Central Plains people along the road responded one after another, attacking the city and conquering the territory, and the progress was very fast. Liu Yuanjing first conquered Hongnong (now southwest of Sanmenxia, Henan), and then marched into Guanzhong, with Xue Andu leading the army to attack Shaanxi County.

Xue Andu slammed a general, killed sexually, threw down his helmet, took off his armor, wore only a short shirt, held a spear and took the lead, the person was invincible, his body was still fighting to the death by several wounds, the spear was broken and the spear was replaced and fought again, and he personally stabbed to death Zhang Shilianti, the main general of the Wei army. The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted and they conquered Shaanxi County in one fell swoop.

Hedong (now Yuncheng) Xue family, a fierce general in the past dynasties. This Xue Andu, there is a sixth grandson who is more famous than him, three arrows to set Tianshan, Ping Liaodong, and conquer Goryeo. Yes, it is the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Li and Xue Rengui.

After Shaanxi County was taken, Liu Yuanjing's army attacked Tongguan, and the guards of Tongguan in the Northern Wei Dynasty abandoned the city and fled, and the Song army took this gateway to Chang'an without blood.

The Western Route Army was progressing smoothly, and Liang Tan, Liu Kangzu and other armies on the middle route also captured Changshe and entered the Tiger Prison, and the situation of Liu Song's Northern Expedition was very good for a while.

However, there was a problem with the Eastern Route Army.

The East Route Army took the Yellow River and went straight into Shandong, connecting several cities such as Le'an. The main general Xiao Bin ordered the vanguard Wang Xuanmo to attack Huatai (now east of Huaxian County, Henan).

Wang Xuanmo, the Wang family of Taiyuan, took refuge in Liu Yu in his early years. In this Northern Expedition, Wang Xuanmo was 62 years old. It is not uncommon for veterans to be pioneers in history. Zeng Tianyang, the "flying general" of the Taiping Army in later generations, was nearly 70 years old and personally charged into battle on a single horse, although he was hung up on the spot, but it proved that the combat power of the elderly is not a problem. However, as people age, they tend to add a disadvantage.

Avarice. People are greedy for money when they are old, it is the law that the people have summed up according to their life experience, and what is the reason, Lao Wang does not know, it may be that he relies on the growth of wealth to increase his sense of psychological security when his body is getting weaker.

There are few small soldiers in Huatai City, which is not difficult to attack, and Wang Xuanmo's general will see that there are many thatched huts in Huatai City, so he suggested using rockets to launch a fire attack. However, Wang Xuanmo vetoed this highly feasible plan.

Because he wants to enter the city and plunder the property, you have all burned it and I will rob something.

As a result, the slide was attacked for several months and was not captured. When Wang Xuanmo wanted to attack with fire again, the soldiers and civilians in the city had already dug holes in the ground and removed the thatch on the roof, so they couldn't attack with fire.

Greed for money is enough to drag his feet, but Wang Xuanmo has a more fatal shortcoming, suspicious. He doesn't trust the Central Plains Righteous Army who joined the Northern Expeditionary Army, the same race, the Xianbei people of the Northern Expedition, what is there to distrust? But Wang Xuanmo was suspicious and suspicious, which made the army disheartened.

In October 450, Tuoba Tao personally led a large army to force a force across the Yellow River to rescue the slipway. The Wei army was strong and strong, and the morale was high, and Wang Xuanmo's army was disheartened. The Song army was defeated, losing more than 10,000 soldiers, and all weapons, grain and grass were lost.

Tuoba Tao ordered the Wei army to block the Yellow River with iron locks, and the Song army broke through the siege with great strength before escaping.

After being stubbornly resisted by the Song army, Tuoba Tao was worried about repeating the mistakes of the Battle of Xuancheng, so he led his army to bypass Pengcheng and arrived at the foot of Xuyi City. After being resisted, he bypassed Xuyi and reached Guabu (now Liuhe, Jiangsu) on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and was already across the river from Liu Song.

The Eastern Route Army was defeated, the Northern Wei Army approached Jianghuai, and Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong was shocked and urgently ordered the Western Route Army to come to the rescue. The Western Route Army had no choice but to give up the results of the battle and return to the army to rescue.

The enemy army has counterattacked to the mainland, and the Song army desperately gathered forces to blockade the Yangtze River.

There was a small episode on the way back to the north of the Northern Wei army.

When the army passed through Xuyi, Tuoba Tao suddenly had the spirit of entertainment, relying on his own soldiers, sent envoys into Xuyi City, and asked the Song general Zang Zhen who was defending the city for a few jars of wine, and wanted to drink the delicious Xuyi lobster.

Zang Zhi readily agreed, and happily gave the messenger a few wine jars to take back.

Tuoba Tao slapped the sealing mud of the wine jar, and was about to tilt his neck to drink, when a fishy smell rushed to his brain.

It turned out that the jar was filled with Xuyi brand urine yellow song.

Tuobatao, who was almost choked on urine, had his liver and lungs blown up, and he ordered the army to immediately attack Xuyi City. After more than a month, he did not take it, so he had to give up and lead the army to the north.

Last time it was Hanging Gourd City, this time it was Xuyi City, Tuoba Tao lost a few battles, but achieved a strategic victory.

However, although the Xuyi Suourine incident was small, Lao Wang believed that it was this incident that directly led to the disappearance of an extremely important figure in the Northern Wei Empire. As for the content of the death of this important minister, I will discuss it later.

This large-scale Northern Expedition launched by Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong ended in failure. "Yuanjia is grassy, seals the wolf Juxu, and wins the northern Gu of the cang", Xin Qiji's "Eternal Happiness" has made the best annotation for this period of Northern Expedition history.

When Tuoba Tao led his army to the Jianghuai region, a strategic place in Liu Song, Liu Yilong faced a fierce enemy across the river, watched the Xianbei soldiers chase and kill the Song soldiers with great strength, and sighed: If Tan Dao Ji is here, how can Hu Ma come here!

The machine collapsed, and I thought of the value of being a dismissed technical cadre. At this time, a generation of famous generals Tan Daoji has been unjustly killed for 14 years.

706 years after Tan Daoji's unjust death, a god of war who had a fate similar to Tan Daoji's was also unjustly killed. This person is Yue Fei, the national hero of Yuema Heshuo, Changqi Yiluo, Jiankang, Xiangyang, Kedongting, and his fame and exploits in the north and south.

Throughout their lives, there are many similarities:

1. The name of the imperial court where Tan Daoji served was Song, and the name of the imperial court where Yue Fei served was also called Song.

2. The countries defended by Tan Daoji and Yue Fei were all regimes in the south of the Yangtze River.

3. Tan Daoji and Yue Fei are both famous in the north and south, experts in the civil war, and nomads who fought in the north in foreign wars are even more insiders, and they are all famous generals of the Northern Expedition.

4. Both fought a controversial civil war on the water. Tan Daoji led the naval army to take Xie Hui in Jingzhou, and Xie Hui was originally his ally, so the significance of this battle is quite controversial. Yue Fei led the army to suppress the peasant uprising led by Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo at Dongting Lake.

5. Both were unjustly killed by the imperial court in their own capital. Tan Daoji threw himself to the ground in anger when he was executed in Jiankang, and said: It is to restore the Great Wall of your thousands of miles! Yue Fei wrote angrily before Lin'an's execution, "Every day is Zhaozhao, every day is Zhaozhao".

6. Tan Daoji was killed at the same time as Tan Daoji's eleven sons, as well as Xue Tong, Gao Jinzhi and other confidant generals. was killed at the same time as Yue Fei, as well as Yue Fei's eldest son Yue Yun and his confidant Zhang Xian.

7. The reasons for the murder of the two, in addition to the high merit of the lord, all have factors that interfere with the succession to the throne. Tan Daoji was one of the masterminds of the abolition of Emperor Shaodi of Song, and Yue Fei angered Gaozong of Song for interfering in the establishment of Song Gaozong as the crown prince.

8. When Tan Daoji was killed, the generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty celebrated: Daoji is dead, and the descendants of Wu are not enough to recover! When Yue Fei was killed, the people of the Jin Kingdom also celebrated, glad that the Song army was no longer worried.

9. Fourteen years after Tan Daoji was killed, Emperor Wen of Song of the Liu Song Dynasty carried out the Northern Expedition, which ended in failure. Twenty years after Yue Fei was killed, Song Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty also carried out the Northern Expedition, which also ended in failure.

History is always strikingly similar! A certain cycle of history is so emotional and helpless.

Liu Yu was wise and martial all his life, and he was ruthless for a while, and the emperor alone killed six, which can be called "the death of the six emperors", and he died at the age of 59. Unexpectedly, this is the longest life expectancy among the 10 emperors of the Liu Song Dynasty, and the longevity of the descendants of the 9 emperors behind him:

1. Liu Yifu was 18 years old when he was killed by the abolished imperial group;

2. Liu Yilong was killed by his son Liu Shao, 46 years old;

3. Liu Shao was killed by his younger brother Liu Jun at the age of 29;

4. Liu Jun died well, but he was not more than 34 years old;

5. Liu Ziye, together with Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty, can be called the TOP2 among the emperors, and the degree of obscenity is even greater than that of Gao Yang. When this little brother was 17 years old, he had already messed around with his aunt, aunt, sister, sister, aunt and other relatives and women, and he would feel that he had stained Lao Wang's pen and ink when writing his life, so he would not write in detail.

Historians deliberately exaggerated and smeared it? The motives of later historians to discredit an emperor were generally done under the instructions or acquiescence of the emperor of the current dynasty, in order to confirm the necessity of a change of dynasty. For example, Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the strategic commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition to the Southern Dynasties, can be described as talented, wise and martial, after ascending the throne, for the security of the imperial border, he used troops against Goguryeo for many years until the state finances were dragged down, leading to a series of popular uprisings, and thus died at the hands of Quan Chenyu Wenhua. However, the Tang Dynasty historian who replaced him handled a big package for him to kill his father and brother, adulterate his stepmother, and harm his loyalty. And Liu Ziye is not the king of the fallen country, and later historians did not deliberately discredit him, so the credibility of his absurd life record is extremely high. Fortunately, this son died at the hands of Liu Yilong's son Liu Yu at the age of 17.

6. Liu Zixun, who died at the hands of Liu Yu not long after he ascended the throne, was 10 years old.

7. Liu Yu, who killed two emperors in a row, died well, but he was only 33 years old. His massacre of the clan eventually cheapened the powerful minister Xiao Daocheng and paved the way for him to establish the Southern Qi.

8. Liu Yu, who was 10 years old when he ascended the throne, was only 14 years old when he was slaughtered by Xiao Daocheng. The "Yu" in his name is exactly the same as the modern pronunciation of his father Liu Yu's "Yu" and great-grandfather Liu Yu's "Yu", which is very interesting.

9. Liu Huai, Xiao Dao established him as the emperor, and only 3 years later, he was killed by Xiao Daocheng at the age of 12. The Southern Song Dynasty perished, and the Southern Qi Dynasty was established.

Liu Yu slaughtered the Sima clan, and the Liu Song Dynasty, which was established with great difficulty, only existed for 59 years, and Liu Yu was alive at this time, only 116 years old. Of the nine emperors and descendants behind him, only two died well, with an average life expectancy of less than 24 years.

Including Liu Yu, none of the 10 emperors has survived to the retirement age of ordinary people, interesting?

However, in any case, Liu Song was the first dynasty established by the Hanmen Shu clan in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and a political situation emerged during this period. In terms of culture, Xie Lingyun, Bao Zhao, Liu Yiqing, Fan Ye, Pei Songzhi, Zu Chongzhi, He Chengtian and other cultural masters have also emerged, as well as classic classics such as "Shishuo Xinyu", "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", "Notes on the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", "Daming Calendar", "Theory of Nature", and Jiankang literary history has also developed to its peak in this period.

After talking about the military confrontation and conflict between the north and the south, let's take a look at the matter of integration.