Chapter 1893 Jianghuai changed its flag, easy to get it
Compared to Lei Heng, who still had a grudge, Li Ying seemed much more generous. He immediately got off his horse, stepped forward to help Li Qiong up, and said: "Your Majesty is extremely happy to have all the generals surrender to our court, and it is inevitable. This is a gracious order and a generous reward for your merits. However, since General Li and you all have recently surrendered, our troops and horses stationed on the east road of Jingjing have also come under the imperial edict. When the troops and horses are lured to surrender, General Li and you will not have to The troops are eager to advance north, but they have other unparalleled achievements, waiting for you to take them easily..."
Li Qiong was slightly stunned when he saw this, and then looked at each other with Wang Shizhong and Jin Sai, and then immediately said: "The young general and a few others also hope to achieve great achievements to show their loyalty, but they don't know what imperial edict has been passed down by your majesty. Let all of you lead your troops out and teach me how to assist you?"
Li Ying smiled slightly and replied: "Because General Li and you are willing to lead his troops to surrender, the defenses of a large area of the Song Dynasty's Jianghuai provinces are now empty. If we take advantage of the opportunity to advance southward, we have a well-versed knowledge of the key points around the provinces. General Li, who was preparing the army, led the way and cooperated with him to capture the east and west roads of Huainan. Is it not easy to control the state capital? Now you have such an opportunity to achieve great success as soon as you surrender. You will be awarded officers and titles according to your rewards, and your future will be bright. There is no limit to it. Could it be that His Majesty has great trust and intends to entrust General Li and all of you with important responsibilities?"
It turned out that Li Qiong encouraged Wang Shizhong, Jin Sai and other Song generals to lead their tribes to mutiny and rebel, and took the commander Lu Zhibei hostage to surrender to the Qi Dynasty. It would have been a long night and many dreams. Naturally, he had to evacuate the original station as soon as possible, and exchange messages with the Qi Dynasty troops on both sides of Jingdong. , and to avoid being blocked by other Song troops who had reacted. However, the Qi Dynasty responded so quickly. They immediately dispatched elite troops and horses from various ministries to respond. Even if the troops moved quickly, they would immediately attack them. The finger points were pointed at the various state capitals in the Jianghuai area whose defense forces suddenly fell into a state of emptiness.
In order to teach the Qi Dynasty to believe in the sincerity of tens of thousands of their own soldiers and horses who had defected and came to surrender, it would inevitably have been delayed for some time. During this period, the Song Dynasty learned that a large number of the main military forces guarding the Jianghuai region had been killed by the rebel general Li. Qiong instigated a rebellion and had already gone north to surrender to the Qi Dynasty of the Xiaotang Dynasty. He would definitely try his best to make up for the situation and mobilize the troops and horses of the surrounding army to quickly fill the gaps in the defense of Huainan's East and West Second Road, which controlled a large area of state capital. But now the Qi Dynasty did not give Whenever the Song Dynasty cleans up the mess, it will inevitably attack the weak points of the territory. Isn't it possible to maximize the fatal impact that Li Qiong's mutiny will have on the Song Dynasty? And Li Qiong also knows very well, as Li Ying said He said that because of the mutiny planned by him, the Qi Dynasty would be able to take advantage of the situation to swallow up a large area of the Jianghuai region. With such a ground-breaking achievement, how could he be worried about being rewarded by Xiao and Tang!?
So Li Qiong was overjoyed when he heard what Li Ying said, but he still couldn't help but be a little puzzled. He was muttering in his heart: It's rare that Xiao Tang would believe that I was sincerely willing to follow him, and he also built such a ruined building for me. The opportunity of Tian Da Gong is just that... the soldiers and horses of the Qi Dynasty from the north came to support the march. They moved so fast, as if they were foretelling the unknown. They had already expected that I would definitely lead the Song army to guard the Jianghuai area and surrender sincerely... ....
According to the official history, Li Qiong, the commander of the Southern Song Dynasty who was originally subordinate to Liu Guangshi, incited Wang Shizhong, Jin Sai and other Song generals to mutiny and rebelled. He first detained and then executed the new general Lu Zhi, and led more than 40,000 Song troops to threaten them. More than 100,000 people in the area where the forces of the two sides met, but the Huaixi mutiny that defected to the puppet Qi and Liu Yu had serious consequences. The Jianghuai area, where the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, and the puppet Qi Dynasty were facing each other, were suddenly in a state of disarray. The extremely empty state not only made it difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty to take the initiative to attack the Jin Kingdom and regain its homeland for a long period of time, but in the end it was still under the attack of the Jin army that the main battlefield of the two countries was pushed to the Jianghuai area. Huaihe River Basin.
Now that Xiaotang Jianguo proclaimed himself emperor, the Song court immediately took the initiative to attack. The result was Li Qiong's defection and betrayal, which almost caused the Song Dynasty's defense force equivalent to a large military region to be completely undefended.
Xiao Tang also immediately decided to use this opportunity to expand southward. Compared with the soldiers and civilians of the southern states, who were more resistant to the Jurchen Jin people, Xiao Tang took advantage of this opportunity to invade the state and seize land.
, but it made the Qi army under the control of the east and west roads of Huainan, with the assistance of Li Qiong's defecting soldiers and "leading party", almost all the prefectures, counties and towns wherever they passed were defeated.
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Seven days after the Huaixi Mutiny, on the official road under Guangzhou's rule on Huainan West Road leading to Gyeonggi and Jingxi Road, thousands of Song army's elite cavalry were running around in panic. Most of the soldiers in the queue looked depressed and defeated, and it was obvious that there were no more soldiers.
The thought of fighting to the death. But General Wang De, who was leading this group of cavalry to flee to the northwest, suddenly pulled the reins, turned around and looked over. His eyes were wide open with anger, and his eyes still seemed to be about to spit out fire, and he was gnashing his teeth.
He said in a hissing voice: "Li Qiong, you guy... you and I have always looked down upon each other, and we have been friends with our colleague Pao Ze for a long time... I never thought that you, a thief, would commit such a heinous crime of treason.
, defected and surrendered, killed Shangguan without mercy, and also attracted the rebels and thieves to occupy the territory of the two Huaizhou Prefectures! Although I am not as powerful as you now, when the imperial court sends another army, I will definitely take your dog's head and eliminate the thieves for the country!
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However, Wang Deshi also knew very well that although he was far better than Li Qiong in terms of charging and killing on the battlefield, it turned out that Li Qiong was not only good at fighting, but also good at socializing with colleagues in the army. Let him be the king
No matter how fierce and brave De is, his ability to organize, coordinate various departments, and make decisions according to the situation seems to be a little inferior to Li Qiong's anti-thief. Otherwise, it would not be the directly-affiliated troops that originally only had five.
Li Qiong, who had more than a thousand soldiers, was able to incite more than 40,000 Song soldiers to mutiny. However, he could only lead three to four thousand of his direct lineage elite cavalry to flee and evacuate, waiting for the imperial court to transfer them. The rest were originally under the command of Liu Guangshi.
Almost all of the Imperial Guards of the Zuohu Army surrendered to the Xiao, Tang and Qi Dynasties...
Even if he risked his life and fought to the death, facing the Qi army which had an absolute advantage in military strength, and a large number of Song army soldiers who had been instigated to rebel, Wang De knew that it would be impossible to save the overall situation, so the only solution for now was to lead the army quickly.
The remaining troops and horses quickly evacuated to the capital. Under the rule of Jingxi and other roads where the Song court's control was relatively stable, they quickly reported the emergency to the court. After their troops and horses were transferred to other military commanders, they would make long-term plans on how to regain the rapidly declining Jianghuai area.
A large territory.
However, Wang De and the soldiers and horses who followed him had two legs and four hooves. Although they could escape, they could not escape in the city walls of the state capital under the control of Huainan East and West 2nd Road. For a time, a large number of Qi Dynasty soldiers and horses were in Li Qiong and even everywhere.
Under the leadership of all the surrendered soldiers, it spread like a spider web over the vast area of the Jianghuai region. Often in a county or town, it only took a hundred troops to arrive in front of the city, state their intention, and issue an edict to appease them.
All the soldiers and civilians in the city surrendered. Within seven days after the Huaixi Mutiny, almost all counties under the rule of Haizhou, Chuzhou, Bozhou, Suzhou, Sizhou, Shouzhou, Haozhou... and many other military prefectures were
The town changed its banner and surrendered. It seems that the Xiaotang and Qi Dynasties took advantage of the mutiny planned by Li Qiong to occupy all the prefectures, counties and towns in the Jianghuai region. It was only a matter of how many days earlier or later.
The civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty who were originally stationed in various prefectural offices were shocked to hear that the Qi army was invading. Most of the Song army officers and soldiers who were originally guarding the key passes of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers turned their guns and instead attacked Xiaotang. Some of the leading troops in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas abandoned the city and fled, intending to return to the Song Dynasty to express their feelings and return their orders. When the Qi army approached the city, they simply opened the city gate and led a group of officials from the Siya Mansion to present the city. Some surrendered... The overall situation is like this. The city under the rule has been completely isolated by the Qi army. What's the use of stubborn resistance?
Of course, in addition to the vast majority of Song Ting Prefecture officials who fled and surrendered, there will inevitably be a few defenders in the Jianghuai region. Upright ministers who thought they were loyal and worthy of the country were in such a desperate situation, but they still held on to the city. Determined to die with the city destroyed and people killed, he still tried his best to organize the soldiers and civilians under his rule to defend and resist the Qi Dynasty's aggressive enemy forces...