As expected by Emperor Xiao and Liu Ling, the envoys from Daliao arrived in Taiyuan the next morning. After meeting Emperor Xiao, the envoys from Daliao first expressed their respect, and then expressed regret that Sui Gong was robbed and burned by "horse thieves"
He expressed regret over the matter, but did not mention Xixia at all. His Majesty Yelu Xiongji graciously stated that there was no need to collect any more annual tribute this year. Although the things were gone, Daliao had received the sincerity of the Han State.
Then the envoy reported the treatment of Ying Yanglang General Haili and the imperial envoy Xiao Luan. Haili was beheaded for serious dereliction of duty, but Xiao Luan was beaten with twenty military sticks but was a blessing in disguise and was left by His Majesty Yelu Xiongji.
Both Emperor Xiao and Liu Ling were very happy with this decision. After all, they had an "acquaintance" beside Yelu Xiongji.
The envoy only stayed in Taiyuan for one day before returning north to Youzhou. When he passed through Dingzhou, he had read out Yelu Xiongji's decree in advance, appointing Liyao Nayan as General Guo Yilang to replace Haili in stationing in Dingzhou.
As soon as Daliao's envoy left, the first thing Liu Ling asked him to do was to collect information about Li Yao Nayan in the shortest possible time. He knew nothing about this newly rising general, which made Liu Ling very uneasy.
Who would have thought that before Guo Yilang had collected the news about Li Yaonanayan, an even more shocking news came from the south.
Just fourteen days ago, that is, the day Liu Ling designed to deceive all the tributes back. Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, who had just defeated the Han Dynasty, actually raised troops again, mobilizing an army of 160,000 to go south to attack the Tang Dynasty.
General Zuo Wuwei Han Geng was the vanguard, and Chai Rong personally led the army out of Suzhou and fought with Li Yangming, the Qinghuai Jiedu envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in Shouzhou. They defeated Li Yangming and killed more than 40,000 enemies. The troops were directed towards Luzhou.
Three days later, Zuo Wuwei General Han Geng led more than 20,000 troops to defeat Tang Baoxin Jiedushi Xu Liang sixty miles north of Luzhou. He defeated more than 70,000 Tang troops with 30,000 men and killed more than half of the enemy. Xu Liang retreated to Luzhou behind closed doors.
Without getting out, the Zhou army besieged Luzhou City. On the fourth and fifth days, Zuo Wuwei's army showed off its power under Luzhou City. On the sixth day, the Zhou army suddenly retreated. Xu Liang sent someone to inquire about the news and learned that Zhou
Sejong Chai Rong has personally led an army of 100,000 people all the way to the east to kill the capital Jinling like a broken bamboo.
Xu Liang joined forces with Li Yangming, the Qinghuai Jiedushi envoy who was also defeated, and hurriedly sent troops to rescue the capital. As a result, the two were ambushed by Zuo Wuwei on the way. Han Geng led his army to defeat the coalition forces of the two Jiedu envoys.
The formation beheaded Li Yangming. Xu Liang fled back to Luzhou with less than 3,000 remaining soldiers, never daring to leave the city again.
On the twelfth day, the Zhou army had successively conquered Sizhou, Haozhou, Chuzhou, Fengzhou, Yangzhou, and more than 100,000 Tang Jianwu troops north of the Huaihe River were wiped out by the Zhou army. The Huaihe Navy of the Southern Tang Dynasty was completely annihilated, and Jinling was in danger.
Because General Meng Hu of Youweiwei led his army to guard Jinzhou and strictly prohibited the Zhou army from conquering the Tang Dynasty, the news spread to the Northern Han Dynasty, so it was not until Zhou Shizong and Chen Bing that the shadow guards on the north bank of the Huaihe River sent the collected information to Taiyuan Prefecture. Liu Ling read it
Surprisingly, the Zhou army advanced so fast that in just over ten days, several important state capitals north of the Huai River in Tang Dynasty were captured by the Zhou army.
In addition, the Tang Dynasty's navy on the Huaihe River was destroyed, and Jinling, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was right under the nose of the Zhou army on the north bank of the Huaihe River. It is no exaggeration to say that it was in danger. Liu Ling knew that the Southern Tang Dynasty focused on construction but not on military affairs. The country was rich but its military strength was not very good.
.It is okay to deal with small countries like Fujian and Wu Yue, but it is obviously not enough to deal with the great Zhou Dynasty.
According to this battle situation, I am afraid that within ten days, Emperor Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty will either withdraw from the capital Jinling to avoid the Zhou army, or he will mobilize a large army to fight the Zhou army north of the Huaihe River. But according to Liu Ling's
Understand that this Li Jing is not a courageous person, and the probability of a decisive battle is not high.
In just more than ten days, the total number of Tang soldiers who were defeated by Chai Rong was no less than 200,000. The Zhou army advanced at a speed that was almost overwhelming, and they did not encounter fierce resistance at all. Tang Genji was already shaken by the beating.
, the most speechless thing is that 200,000 troops could block the Huaihe River for a mile even if they filled the river to commit suicide, but died on the battlefield without even a splash of water.
Later, news came from the Later Zhou Dynasty that Emperor Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty was really afraid and sent Li Deming to Zhou Shizong's tent to sue for peace and was willing to cede territory and pay compensation. However, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong refused and ordered Li Deming to be beaten with sticks.
Emperor Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to ask his younger brother Li Jingda, King of Qi, to lead 60,000 elite troops across the Huaihe River to fight the Zhou army.
These 60,000 elite soldiers were the most elite troops in the Tang Dynasty. Under the leadership of Qi King Li Jingda, they crossed the river and attacked Yangzhou. After Zhou Shizong captured Yangzhou, he accepted his fate and left Han Lingkun in Yangzhou with only two thousand soldiers and horses. He did not dare to fight, so he went to capture Yangzhou.
Zhou Youwuwei General Liu Ji came to Chuzhou to ask for help. However, Youwuwei General Liu Ji and Zuowuwei General Han Geng joined forces and were fighting with Tang Huangfuhui in Dingyuan, less than 200 miles north of Chuzhou.
Yao Feng's tribe fights with no time to clone.
Han Lingkun had no choice but to ask Zhou Shizong for help, but the messenger met Zhou Huben's cavalry on the way!
General Luo Xu of Huben led 10,000 cavalry, and fought against 60,000 elite Tang troops led by Li Jingda at the gates of Yangzhou City. Who would have thought that 60,000 of the most elite Tang soldiers could not stop 10,000 Huben!
Under the command of Luo Xu, 10,000 tiger and sharp cavalry were like lions attacking rabbits, and Li Jingda was defeated. Luo Xu sent two thousand elite cavalry to pretend to attack the left flank of the Tang army, and he personally led a thousand elite cavalry to charge directly into the center of the Tang army.
The Tiger and Ben cavalry on the left wing, which was originally a feint attack, accidentally smashed the left wing of the Tang soldiers. The Tiger and Ben cavalry wielding sabers drove the defeated troops on the left wing towards the center of the Tang army. The classic tactic of rolling the bead curtain was used with great proficiency by the Tiger and Ben cavalry.
, on one side was his own defeated army, and on the other was a thousand cavalry led by Huben General Luo Xu himself, Li Jingda immediately became in a panic.
The retreat of his own team was far greater than the impact of the Tiger and Ben Jingqi. No matter how brave the 1,000 Tiger and Ben Jingqi attacked the Tang army, they would never be able to defeat the 60,000 Tang army. However, the successive defeats had made the Tang soldiers fearful.
The prestige of the iron cavalry is even more difficult to resist. Besides, the elite soldiers drawn from various armies are far inferior to the smooth coordination of the tiger and sharp cavalry, so Li Jingda was defeated without any suspense.
Ten thousand tiger warriors drove the Tang army along the river, fighting intermittently for more than a hundred miles. When Li Jingda cleaned up the defeated army, he counted the number of people and found that there were still 11,000 people in the 60,000 Tang army. Every tiger warrior knight
There were at least three heads of Tang soldiers hanging on the back of the saddle of the horse, and the blood dyed the north bank of the Huaihe River red.
Li Jingda and his army did not dare to return to Jinling, so they fled southwest along the Huaihe River. Just after passing Chuzhou, they defeated the Tang army and captured two generals, Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng alive. Han Geng and Liu Ji's men and horses attacked them diagonally, carrying the victory.
The powerful left and right military guards killed the Tang army until they cried for their fathers and mothers. When Li Jingda escaped, he was left with only three to five hundred soldiers.
After detouring for more than a hundred miles, Li Jingda gathered about three to five thousand Huangfu, Hui, and Yao Feng's defeated troops along the way. Li Jingda grabbed civilian boats and crossed the river back to Jinling. The 60,000-strong army that set out from Jinling only returned less than 5,000 old and weak soldiers. The scene is so desolate that it makes you want to cry.
In desperation, Emperor Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty wrote a letter of surrender and declared himself a minister to the Zhou Dynasty.
Li Jing abdicated to the throne and claimed to be the Lord of the Jiangnan Kingdom. He proclaimed himself emperor to the Zhou Dynasty and paid Chai Rong the title of emperor, and paid an indemnity of more than millions in gold, silver, cloth, grain and grass. Chai Rong, who had been aggrieved by Liu Ling's attack during the Northern Expedition to the Han Kingdom, thought nothing of it. He wanted to devour the entire Southern Tang Dynasty, but an urgent report came from Yingzhou in the north that Liao Bazhou Lang General Pu Nu led an army of 20,000 to attack Cangzhou, and Dingzhou Lang General Li Yao Nayan led an army of 20,000 to attack Yingzhou. Newly added The new Qianning Army recruits are difficult to resist, and the two northern states are in danger.
Chai Rong had no choice but to accept Li Jing's declaration of vassalship, ceded all the territory north of the Huaihe River in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then led his army. At the same time, he ordered the left and right leading armies of Qingzhou and Gunzhou to go north to fight against the enemy. General Yue Le, the leading army of the left, and General Yue Le of the right The leading general of the Wei army, Mi Huang, had already sent out troops. As soon as the Liao troops came into contact with the two sides, they retreated to Dingzhou and the direction of Bazhou. Afterwards, Chai Rong ordered the commander of the Qianning army, Zhao Tieguai, to lead his army to move south, while the 60,000 troops of the leading army guards on the left and right moved separately. He was stationed in Yingzhou and Cangzhou.
The Great Zhou Dynasty invaded the Southern Tang Dynasty and fought a magnificent battle. In just over a month, the main force of the Tang army was almost wiped out. After the Southern Tang Dynasty ceded territory and paid compensation, the national treasury was empty, and it was no longer able to resist the Great Zhou cavalry. The Southern Tang Dynasty Lord Li Jing ordered the capital to be moved to Nanchang to avoid disaster. Due to its military weakness, the Southern Tang Dynasty hardly dared to fight easily.
On the fourteenth day of the Great Zhou Dynasty's expedition to the Tang Dynasty, Liu Ling received the news. At that time, Zhou Huben's general Luo Xu defeated 60,000 elite Tang soldiers with 10,000 elite cavalry. After receiving the news, Liu Ling solemnly wrote: Luo Xu's name was hung in his study, always reminding himself that Luo Xu should not be underestimated. But what surprised Liu Ling was that in history, Chuzhou was clearly captured by Zhao Kuangyin, and he was also the one who rescued Yangzhou, and defeated Tang Yi The war can be said to be an extremely glorious chapter in Zhao Kuangyin's life, but why have we never heard that there is such a general as Zhao Kuangyin in the Zhou army today?
The Southern Tang Dynasty and Daliao Dynasty had good relations with each other and brought many benefits to Daliao through water every year. In order to allow the Southern Tang Dynasty to continue to contain the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom sent Dingzhou Lang General Li Yao Nayan and Bazhou Lang General Pu Nu to lead The Liao soldiers harassed the northern part of the Zhou Dynasty. Originally, the Liao Dynasty did not want to start a war with the Zhou Dynasty prematurely, so Liyao Nayan and Purnu led the army and retreated after a slight contact with the Zhou army, but they have been stationed in the north of Yingzhou. , it was not until Zhou Shizong's Chai Rong army returned to the court that the Liao army returned to Dingzhou and Bazhou.
Originally, Emperor Xiao also received the order from Emperor Yelu Xiongji of the Liao Dynasty to send Han troops out of Tanzhou to attack Jinzhou. Unfortunately, the messenger from the Liao Kingdom had not yet left Taiyuan. The biggest political crisis since the founding of the Han Dynasty was in Taiyuan. broke out. Even Daliao's messengers were trapped in Taiyuan Mansion and could not leave the city, let alone Emperor Xiao's will. Therefore, the Han army was training in Tanzhou, and Jinzhou's Youweiwei General Meng Hu Finally breathed a sigh of relief.
On the fifteenth day of the Great Zhou Dynasty's attack on the Tang Dynasty, 300,000 Zhou troops who entered the Southern Tang Dynasty came to Jinling City. The navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty blocked the Huaihe River until not even a bird could pass through it. Taiyuan Prefecture, the capital of the Han Dynasty, Someone waved the flag to rebel.
For a time, flags were flying wildly in Taiyuan City, flames were blazing, and the shouts of killing were deafening. The rebel people were fighting fiercely with the people of the Gyeonggi Camp, and about 4,000 people from the Forbidden Army blocked the retreat of the people of the Gyeonggi Camp.
Blood flowed all over the streets of Taiyuan. While suppressing the rebellion of the people, the Gyeonggi camp freed up its hands to severely beat the four thousand rebels of the imperial army who had no idea what a bloody battle was.
But soon news came that thousands of thugs stormed the Forbidden Palace. The rebels opened the palace gate. The thugs burned and killed all the way, and had already besieged Emperor Xiao of the Han Dynasty in the Chengxian Hall. (To be completed.)
