The Southern Han Dynasty was shrouded in a layer of gloom and gloom, and no one felt confident that they could win this defensive battle. Six months ago, the two hundred thousand elite troops of the Southern Han Dynasty were completely lost in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and a large number of generals died in the battle. Today, the Southern Han Dynasty
What could Han do to resist the menacing 200,000-strong Han army?
Emperor Liu Yuan was disheartened, so he casually appointed his elder brother Liu An as the Grand Marshal of the Army to mobilize all the troops in the country to resist the invasion of the Han army.
Liu An rushed to Xiongzhou with the golden seal of the Marshal of Soldiers and Horses, only to find that the total force assembled was less than 50,000, and most of them were recruits who had never been on the battlefield. The Northern Han Dynasty General Hua Ling led
The army sent troops from Guiyang and invaded Chenzhou. The chief general of Chenzhou, He Dongqi, fled the city, and the Northern Han army easily captured the important town of Chenzhou. Outside Xiongzhou City, a 150,000-strong army led by Liu Ling, the king of Han Dynasty, was waiting in full formation. Liu An felt uneasy
A little confidence.
The first attack by the Northern Han army made Liu An a complete fool. Sixty gunpowder trebuchets began to roar, and the entire Xiongzhou City was shaken to the point of collapse. After a round of bombing, the Han army swarmed over
Above. The Southern Han army was almost all new recruits. I had never seen such a formation before. It was also the first time for Liu An to lead an army. He was so frightened that he peed his pants. The ladders were set up, and the Han army rushed to the top of the city crazily. They were defeated.
The huge power of the gunpowder catapult frightened the Xiongzhou defenders so much that they did not even organize a large-scale defense.
After the organized Han army climbed to the top of the city, the Xiongzhou defenders who had hardly experienced battles quickly collapsed. Liu An abandoned the city under the protection of his own soldiers, and the soldiers quickly gave up.
The desire to resist. A group of new recruits who have never killed anyone, how can they win this battle when they face a group of murderous demons? War is cruel, and nothing will happen if you rely on strength.
It sounds like a miracle.
A fifteen-year-old Xiongzhou garrison soldier was trembling with tears streaming down his face. He stooped and backed away step by step with weapons in both hands, wailing at the top of his lungs: "Don't come over! Don't come over! I'll kill you..."
I will kill you!"
A Han army soldier looked at him expressionlessly, and then slashed the young man's neck with a cold knife. He covered his throat with his hands in fear, and there was a clicking sound in his throat, like a broken bellows.
. He tried hard to block his throat, his eyes were extremely panicked. But he couldn't stop the blood pouring out like a waterfall, and the blood flowed down from the gaps between his fingers like a stream.
He looked at the Han soldier who attacked him, but found that he didn't pay attention to him at all. The soldier strode forward, then swung his knife and cut off half of the head of another shivering Xiongzhou soldier.
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The boy's tears mixed with blood, and then his vision gradually blurred.
When he fell to the ground, he didn't even feel a Han soldier stepping on his head. The following Han soldiers were like a group of bloodthirsty beasts, killing those Xiongzhou soldiers who resisted or did not resist.
Kill them all.
A centurion of Xiongzhou Army knelt on the ground, tremblingly threw his weapon on the ground and shouted loudly, "I am willing to surrender."
Countless Han soldiers rushed past him, and he lay on the ground without daring to raise his head. Suddenly he saw a pair of feet stopping in front of him, and the centurion raised his head in horror. A Han soldier looked ferocious.
He smiled at him and said, "The King of Han has an order not to take prisoners in this battle!"
Then, he saw a horizontal knife flashing in front of his eyes.
He felt like he was flying up and spinning, and then he seemed to see a headless corpse kneeling in front of him. He didn't know where the head had flown to, but the corpse was still spraying blood. He looked at the setting sun through the blood mist.
, actually has a different kind of tragic beauty. Why...that corpse spurting blood looks so familiar?
The head with closed eyes was kicked open, and the soldiers of the Han army swarmed down from the city wall, driving the defeated army of Xiongzhou to flee. The soldiers opened the gate of Xiongzhou City, and a large number of cavalry of the Han army rushed into the city. Within three hours
, all the people with weapons in the city were slaughtered. The people were told that anyone who resisted would be killed without mercy.
The large group of Han troops began to clear the battlefield, and those Xiongzhou Army soldiers who were still alive and pretending to be dead were stabbed to death. The burnt Southern Han flags were thrown down from the cleared city wall, and the fiery red Han war flags were erected on the wall.
At the top of the city, the common people were organized to carry the corpses, and tens of thousands of corpses were spread out outside the city. Then the middle-aged men among the common people were picked out and started digging pits. It took three days to dig out enough to bury tens of thousands of corpses.
A large pit of corpses. Bodies were thrown into the pit and sprinkled with lime.
What surprised the frightened young people was that after finishing their work, they were not tricked and killed. Instead, each of them was given a copper coin. Of course, it was the money made by the big man. But it doesn't matter, it won't take long for the currency here to be
Unite.
The middle-aged laborers looked at the bright yellow money in their hands and didn't know what to say.
They had seen the cruel and murderous side of the Han army a few days ago, and they had spent these days in fear. Who would have thought that the Han army did not make it difficult for them, but instead each of them was given a piece of money! Although it was not the currency of the Southern Han Dynasty, the common people
I know that Nan Han’s currency will be abolished soon.
The Han army did not stay in Xiongzhou for too long. Three days later, the rested army set off.
Liu Ling left 5,000 troops to guard Xiongzhou, and then led the army to attack the palace with a domineering attitude like a lion attacking a rabbit.
Ten days later, the Han army captured Shaozhou.
On the twelfth day, the Han army captured Yingzhou.
Liu Yun had no choice but to move his capital to Yizhou to avoid the attack of the Han army.
In June of the sixth year of the reign of the Han Dynasty, the Southern Han army garrison who stayed in Prince Xing's Mansion surrendered. The Han army from the north set out from Guiyang, captured Chenzhou, and then moved to the southwest, conquering Lianzhou and Hezhou all the way. The army of the Southern Han Dynasty was like a broken bamboo.
The civilian warriors recruited had low combat effectiveness and fled all the way. The Han army on the northern route encountered little resistance and marched under Fengzhou City, which was only a hundred miles away from Yizhou, the new capital of the Southern Han Dynasty.
The main force of the Han army led by Liu Ling divided into two groups after conquering Duanzhou. The vanguard Zhao Er led 50,000 troops to attack Xinzhou, while Liu Ling personally led the army to conquer Kangzhou. In this way, Hua Ling's northern route army and Liu Ling's east route army
The armies are only less than a hundred miles apart. The two torrents are about to merge together and conquer Fengzhou. After Kangzhou, they will point directly at Yizhou!
The Han army was aggressive. Emperor Liu Su of the Southern Han Dynasty came to the court again and expressed his willingness to accept the title of disobedient marquis given to him by the King of Han and to submit to the King of Han for generations. He was willing to cede half of the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty and donate a large amount of food, grass and baggage as a labor force for the Han army.
He was even willing to send his youngest son to Jinzhou as a hostage.
Liu Ling smiled as he looked at the thick gift list presented by the envoy and Liu Yuan's humble memorial.
"I felt pain, and then I thought of giving in."
Liu Ling smiled and shook his head and said: "It is not Gu who is cruel. The Central Plains and the north and south of the Yangtze River must be unified. Since Liu Yu accepted the title of Gu, he will move his family to Jinling. I will set aside a large estate for him.
From now on, he will fly my Great Han Dynasty Fire Dragon Flag in the territory of the forty-eight states of the Southern Han Dynasty, and hand over the jade seal to protect him in peace for the rest of his life."
The envoys did not dare to make the decision and retreated in fear.
After receiving Liu Ling's reply, Liu Yun sat blankly on the dragon chair without saying a word. After a long time, Liu Yuan burst into tears and wailed: "I, a great Han Dynasty, have gone through four dynasties since the founding of the country by Emperor Gaozu. How can I be buried here?"
In my hand?"
He pointed at the silent civil and military officials of His Highness and cursed: "I treat you well on weekdays, why do you abandon me today? I know! The Han Dynasty is destroyed, and my throne is not guaranteed, but you
You are still ministers, whether you are my ministers or the ministers of King Liu Ling, you have lost nothing!"
He stood up suddenly and roared: "I am the one who lost the world!"
"I'm not willing to give in!"
Liu Yuan shouted loudly and slumped down on the dragon chair.
In September of the sixth year of Datong in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Yuan of the Southern Han Dynasty led hundreds of civil and military officials out of Yizhou City thirty miles away. Holding jade seals and books in hand, they knelt down to welcome Liu Ling, the king of Han Dynasty. In addition to the hundreds of civil and military officials who came out to greet him at the same time,
There were also the heads of the wealthy families in Yiju City. Tens of thousands of people gathered at the city gate to watch the Han army enter the city. From then on, there was no Southern Han Kingdom in the world.
Liu Ling jumped down from the Black Panther and walked slowly to Liu Yuan who was kneeling on the ground. He stretched out his hand to help Liu Yuan up and said: "The two Han Dynasties share the same origin. What you did today was also done for the unification of our great Han Dynasty."
Gu will not treat you badly, and you can rest assured that Gu will ensure that your descendants will have good food, clothing, and a worry-free life for generations to come."
Liu Yuan was lying on the ground, trembling all over and not daring to speak.
Liu Ling smiled, took the jade seal book and handed it to the guard behind him and said: "The Han Dynasty has unified the world and is unstoppable. I am very happy that you can make the right choice. The people of the forty-eight states of the Southern Han Dynasty will not suffer from the war, and they will also
I am grateful for your kindness. I once said that if you were willing to grant you the title of Disobedient Marquis, I will today, in recognition of your kindness to the people, make you the Duke of Lingnan, and your descendants will inherit it."
Liu Yuan fell to the ground and cried bitterly, but did not thank his ministers.
The Han army occupied Yizhou, pacified the people, raided the treasury, and captured the traitors, without committing any crimes against the people. The people of Yizhou praised the Han army as a benevolent and righteous army, and did not drink blood like the legend.
On September 14, Liu Yuan and his family, totaling more than 400 people, went to Jinling under the protection of a thousand people from the former Southern Han Dynasty Imperial Army. When they passed Prince Xing's Mansion, they cried loudly, calling themselves unworthy descendants and unworthy of their ancestors.
Hundreds of people from Prince Xing's Mansion went to see him off, and Liu Yuan couldn't help but sigh.
When a thousand forbidden troops arrived near Jizhou in the former Tang Dynasty to protect Liu Yuan, they were attacked by rogue bandits. The imperial army collapsed immediately and abandoned Liu Yuan and his family before fleeing in panic. The bandits killed Liu Yun's family and took away all their belongings. Liu Yuan's family numbered more than 400 people.
Mouth, no one survives.
To the west of the Southern Han Dynasty is the Nanzhao Kingdom, which has been closely related to the Southern Han Dynasty for generations. When Liu Ling's army went south, Liu Yuan sent an envoy to the Nanzhao Kingdom to ask the Nanzhao King to send troops to rescue. At the time of the civil strife in Nanzhao, the Nanzhao King changed its owner several times.
There was no time to send troops to help. After Liu Ling destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty, Duan Siping, a white barbarian noble of Nanzhao Kingdom, won the war and changed Nanzhao Kingdom to Dali. (Note 1)
After hearing that the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed, Duan Siping sent an envoy to the Southern Han Dynasty to meet with Liu Ling, the king of Han Dynasty, and submitted an obedient statement that he was willing to become a vassal of the Han Dynasty. The Nanzhao Kingdom had been in chaos for many years and the people were in dire straits. Duan Siping's actions were not a perfunctory one, but a perfunctory one.
It was a sincere surrender. There was Tubo in the north, and Duan Siping's move was to find a strong backer for Dali.
Liu Ling received the Dali envoy and used the seal of the King of Han to confer Duan Siping as the King of Dali.
After Duan Siping was promoted to the king of Dali, he went to the Prince Xing's Mansion to meet the King of Han in person. However, the King of Han had already left the Prince Xing's Mansion and headed to Wu'an Mansion of the former Chu State. Duan Siping rushed to Wu'an Mansion again. After arriving at Wu'an Mansion, the King of Han had already left and was setting up arrangements in Xizhou.
Duan Siping's entourage persuaded him to return to the Dali Kingdom. After much consideration, Duan Siping decided to go to Xizhou and finally met the King of Han in Xizhou.
After seeing the military camps stretching for tens of miles and the mighty army of the Han Dynasty that was undefeated in a hundred battles, Duan Siping finally had a more intuitive understanding of the power of the Han Dynasty. He told his followers that the might of the Han army was unrivaled in the world.
All my subjects must not quarrel with the Han Dynasty and cause the disaster of destroying the country.
Although I don’t know what Liu Ling, the king of Han, said when he met Duan Siping in the big tent, Duan Siping returned to Dali with satisfaction.
Hundreds of years after Duan Siping became a minister, there was no disaster in Dali, and the people were happy and prosperous.
Before his death, Duan Siping told his son Duan Siying about the scene of his audience with the King of Han Liu Ling that day, and sighed: "Fortunately, my father chased him and met the King of Han. At that time, my father was still thinking of sending troops to the north.
But after seeing the strength of the Han Dynasty, I realized that it was just a dream. The King of Han... is so talented, who can match him in this world? Surrendering to the King of Han is not a shame, it can ensure that our country of Dali will never have to worry about it. Remember, remember!"
Note 1: This description of Duan Siping’s establishment of the Dali Kingdom is seriously inconsistent with historical facts, so please laugh it off. (To be continued)
