The post-Zhou Dynasty was the last generation in the historical period of the Five Dynasties in China, and it was a country established on the basis of the post-Han countries. By the time Zhou Shizong and the second emperor Chai Rong arrived, the Hou Zhou had owned all of Shandong and Henan provinces, as well as parts of Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, Hubei, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Shaanxi. Zhou Shizong has the ambition to level the world and unify the whole country. In the second year of Xiande (955), he sent troops to capture the four states of Qin, Cheng, Jie and Feng in Houshu, adopted the suggestion of Prime Minister Wang Pu, and formulated a unified national policy of defending the north and attacking the south, first conquering the southern Tang Dynasty. In a.d. 165438+ 10, Guli was the former army headquarters of Huainan Road, and the governor led 12 troops to attack Shouzhou City, a strategic place in Huainan Nantang. In the first month of the second year, when Zhou Shizong saw that Coulee had been unable to attack for a long time, he sent a letter to personally go to war, and ordered the Guards to command Li Zhongjin to lead the troops to Zhengyang first, and then lead the troops out of the beam.
In the face of the offensive of the later Zhou Dynasty, the monarchs and subjects of the Southern Tang Dynasty panicked. In the Five Dynasties, Nantang was a big country in the south of China, occupying most areas in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas. Later, Chu (Hunan) was destroyed in the west, and Fujian (Fujian and most parts of Guangdong and Guangxi) was occupied in the east, with more than 30 states and thousands of miles of Fiona Fang, which was rich in products and developed in economy. Especially after the destruction of the civil strife in Chu, the monarch and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were once complacent and thought that the world could be full of waves. However, in the face of the rise of the northern forces, Li Jing, the master of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty, not only gradually lost his dream of annexing the world, but even surrendered to the Northern Zhou Dynasty with grievances. In particular, when he led his troops to Shouzhou, he ordered an army to besiege him, and collected hundreds of thousands of people from Dingfu in Song, Bo, Chen, Ying, Xu, Su, Xu and Cai. Excavate even panicked. He sent envoys to the later Zhou Dynasty, asking the rest of the soldiers to fix it, so that they could serve the emperor like brothers. At the age of 20, they lost their assets and helped the military. The next week is not allowed Li Jing once again made him an official, offering 2000 pieces of royal clothes, tea and gold, 5000 pieces of silver, 2000 pieces of brocade, 500 cows and 2000 bottles of wine. Chai Rong still refused. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, Feng Biao was sent to the later Zhou Dynasty to lose his gold and silver, defected to the emperor, and ceded territory for a truce, but Chai Rong refused. When peace could not be reached, Southern Tang had to send troops to reinforce it in order to protect Shouzhou.
Why are both sides obsessed with Shouzhou? As the later Zhou Dynasty, according to the established national policy of defending the north and attacking the south and unifying the whole country, Zhou Shizong should not only completely incorporate the vast area from Huainan to Jiangbei in the southern Tang Dynasty into its own territory, as an outpost to attack the south of the Yangtze River and seek the world, but also seize the Huaiyang salt wealth base; If Shouzhou, the strategic fulcrum of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is lost, and the ground in Jiangbei is not guaranteed, not only the salt tax in Huaiyang is not guaranteed, but also the capital Jinling will be directly exposed to the enemy soldiers, and there is no power to protect itself. Therefore, the offensive and defensive of Shouzhou City is of vital strategic significance to the later Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Shouzhou's strategic position is so important that according to common sense, Nantang should send a right-hand man as a commander to lead the troops to help. As a result, Li Jing chose the name of history. Are you arrogant? 、? No talent? 、? No practice? Liu thought the commander in chief. Then, why was Liu, who had never led troops and was not good at leading troops to fight, chosen to shoulder such a heavy responsibility? There are two reasons. The first is Li Jing, the master of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He is gentle and submissive by nature, loves literary grace and rhetoric, and is an accomplished poet. But his greatest weakness is that he likes others to flatter him very much, so some courtiers who are good at flattery are reused by him, while some courtiers who tell the truth are either killed or demoted by him, which leads to more and more confusion in state affairs.
Followed by Liu, although he doesn't have any real talent and learning, he has one? Really? When I was a big official in Fanzhen, I plundered the wealth of the people and accumulated it quickly? Billion? Furniture. He paid a lot of money to bribe the powerful people in North Korea. The powerful ministers who benefited from him, as they claimed? Five ghosts? People like Qin Wei, for him? Fight for fame and fortune? Praise him for governing the people like Gong Huang (Gong Sui, Ba Huang, a good official in the Han Dynasty) and fighting like Han Peng (a good official in Han Xin, Peng Yue and the Han Dynasty), and gradually form the conclusion that Liu is the best minister in the Southern Tang Dynasty and even in the world. Therefore, when the invasion, Li Jing, a prized power minister, naturally thought of Liu first, and entrusted him with this military responsibility without hesitation. And Liu? He believes that money can connect the gods, and always takes a downwind boat in speculative drilling. Coupled with the praise of the powerful ministers, he really thought himself great and regarded the enemy as dirt, so he became a commanding general and led the troops across the river to Shouzhou in a big way.
Liu led twenty thousand chosen men, plus hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of military forces led by other generals, which suddenly changed the contrast between the soldiers on the battlefield in Shouzhou. Li Guyi, commander-in-chief of the Zhou Dynasty who besieged Shouzhou, did not see through Liu's hollow and useless nature. He was afraid that Liu's army would break the pontoon bridge, so that the Zhou army crossing the Huaihe River would be caught between Scylla and Charybdis, and there was no way out. So, he took the initiative to shrink his troops from Shouzhou to Zhengyang, handed over the pontoon bridge and waited for the arrival of other attacking troops.
After the Zhou Dynasty, the army withdrew before the war, which made Liu and his lieutenant Xian overjoyed. They thought that Zhou Jun was really vulnerable and decided to immediately lead an army to Zhengyang to attack Zhou Jun. At this time, Liu Ren, the commander-in-chief of Shouzhou and a famous southern Tang Dynasty, tried to dissuade him. Liu Ren said? The enemy retreated before your troops arrived, which shows that they are very afraid of your prestige. Where is it necessary to make a quick decision with them? You are in such a hurry to fight a decisive battle, and if you lose, the affairs of state will be over! ?
Liu Ren's words are very appropriate. Does he know Liu? Are you arrogant? , arrogant personality, deliberately said that the enemy is afraid of him, in order to satisfy Liu's vanity and flattery, but at the same time hinted that in the grim situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, it is not appropriate to underestimate the enemy and bring about self-defeat, suggesting that this war is related to the overall situation of the country and should be carried out cautiously. But? Are you arrogant? Liu regards war as a joke. How can he listen to Liu Ren's good advice? He proudly led the army to Zhengyang.
Looking at the distant army, Liu Ren sighed. If you meet Zhou Jun, you will surely fail! ? I had to reorganize the army myself, further strengthen the defense of Shouzhou City and get ready.
In fact, Liu refuses to do anything except her own personality? Are you arrogant? Besides, he still has a secret that he doesn't show to others, thinking that his own business is ok? Wondering? This is a monster carved out of some wood with teeth exposed, painted to look like a real beast, with wheels under it, and suddenly unfolding this horrible image when fighting the enemy? Monster? Trying to scare off the enemy's horses to break the enemy. Liu said these wooden brands? Mager brand? (that is, the brand that wins the horse). In the face of the powerful team of Zhou generals, Serina Liu ordered people to launch these? Mager brand? . General Zhou Jun, who was charging, began to wonder what these brands were for. But Zhou Jun's war horse has no artistic cells, and he doesn't ask what these brands are. He knew nothing about fear, but he still rushed forward with his head held high. Monster? Passing by. Love at first sight? Mager brand? It didn't work at all. Liu didn't know that the big thing was bad, and he panicked, but he was rushed over and waved two paragraphs with a broadsword. In this battle, more than 10 thousand troops of Nantang were killed and their bodies were buried three miles. Zhou Jun collected more than 300,000 pieces of military equipment. ..
The battle of Zhengyang not only killed Liu and his tens of thousands of innocent soldiers in vain, but also made Shouzhou an isolated city that Nantang could no longer help. Shoujiang Liu Ren was exhausted, and Shouzhou City was finally conquered by the Zhou Dynasty in the fourth year of Xiande (AD 957). Then the Southern Tang Dynasty lost Si, Hao, Yang and Tai states, and the 14 states and 60 counties in the north of the Yangtze River were all owned by the Zhou Dynasty. South Tang lost the northern barrier, it is difficult to protect themselves, so Excavate had to go to the emperor's desk and say? Lord? With Zhou zhengshuo, he changed his name to avoid the taboo next week? Scene? The Southern Tang Dynasty officially belonged to the week after the destruction of Jiangnan and the unification of China, and the barriers were removed.
Judging from the overall situation of unifying the whole country, in the battle of Zhengyang, the fatuous ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty sent mediocre people to unify the army, and the commander-in-chief Liu refused to remonstrate and made his own stupid move, but he made a decision. Work? ; But from the country of Nantang, if Nantang was not so corrupt, money would not be so smart; If the top decision-maker Li Jing is not so flattering, there will be some officials around him who dare to tell the truth, and they can also pay attention to the level and performance of the candidates, rather than trusting them. If Commander-in-Chief Liu is not arrogant, he can understand the grim situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and he can listen with a little democratic style. Noise? And you can condescend to do some research or practice, such as is the horse afraid of those made of wood? Monster? ? Then, the result of the battle of Zhengyang may be rewritten. Of course, history is serious, war is cruel, there is nothing to regret, nothing. Hypothetically? . However, as later decision makers, we can still learn something from it.