According to incomplete statistics, during the decades of war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, about 140 generals of the Southern Song Dynasty rebelled and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. Two of them played a very important role in surrendering, which directly led to the eventual demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. These two people were Lu Wenhuan and Liu Zheng
Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cunxiao", and this nickname can tell that Liu Zheng himself is extraordinary in martial arts.
Strictly speaking, Liu Zheng is not a Song person, but a Jin person. However, at the end of the Jin Dynasty, he went south to the Southern Song Dynasty and served under Meng Gong.
When Meng Gong led his army to attack Xinyang, Liu Zheng and twelve men sneaked into the city, and Yi Shengbo guard general killed them out.
When Meng Gong learned about it, he was shocked and said: "Li Cunxiao, a famous general in the Five Dynasties, led 18 cavalry to capture Luoyang. Now Liu Zheng leads an even smaller army and captures Xinyang." He called him "Sai Cunxiao", and so he came into being. title
But later, Liu Zheng was framed by a traitor because of his outstanding ability. With no way to complain, and fear of persecution by the traitor Jia Sidao, he was eventually forced to demote Yuan Dynasty and became the founding hero of the Yuan Dynasty.
The reason why Liu Zheng's demotion to the Yuan Dynasty directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty is because Liu Zheng was the founder of the Yuanmeng Navy. He helped the Yuan Dynasty form a powerful navy, and he also proposed the strategic plan of Xiangyang first. , and these all had a significant impact on the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Liu Zheng in the official history was forced to demote the Yuan Dynasty, but now he takes the initiative to become like the Yuan Dynasty because of his status.
Liu Zheng was a mysterious figure from the Song and Yuan Dynasties who was randomly summoned. After his birth, he was implanted into a Han clan clan and became a general under Liu Chemo of the Northern Han Dynasty.
Liu Che committed suicide and died. After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Zheng had no choice but to pretend to surrender with Zhao Chongguo and others. However, when the Dongchuang Incident occurred, Zhao Chongguo was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Liu Zheng defected while being escorted.
Liu Zheng originally wanted to go south to surrender to Liu Xiu or Liu Ji, but Datai's arrest was too tight, and he narrowly escaped death before escaping into the grasslands.
Finally, under the persuasion and recommendation of his old acquaintance Sun Yanyu, Liu Zheng sought refuge with Maodun, the Xianwang of Zuo in Yuanmeng.
Liu Zheng thought very simply. There was a feud between Qin and Yuan. Even Temujin died at the hands of Qin. The current friendship is just a matter of spring. When Yuan and Meng recover, conflicts between the two countries will break out sooner or later.
And if he can help Mao Dun become the next Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Meng can contain a lot of Qin's troops, giving the Shu and Chu countries in the south an opportunity to take advantage of.
Mao Dun was thirsty for talents. Seeing that Liu Zheng was extraordinary in martial arts and not good at using soldiers, he naturally thought highly of him and appointed him as a school captain.
After receiving Mao Dun's trust, Liu Zheng has been working diligently and brilliantly in the two civil wars. He defeated many Yuan Zheng mad generals and even saved Mao Dun's life. Therefore, he took charge of the military.
As for why Liu Zheng betrayed him this time?
There are three reasons:
One is because of the cooperation between Maodun and Dachun.
As a member of the Han clan, Liu Zheng was incompatible with Suan Han's Da Zuo, so he naturally could not accept the alliance between Mao Dun and Da Tai.
Even Liu Zheng knew that Mao Dun had no other choice, but if Mao Dun succumbed to Chun and even had to give way to Shengle City, then the fight with Kublai Khan would only become more fierce in the future, and it would be even less possible for him to fight with Da Tai. Enemy
The second point is that because of the failure of two civil wars, Liu Zheng realized that Maodun was not Kublai Khan's opponent.
In this case, instead of assisting Mao Dun in a thankless manner, it would be better for Wei Panjie to be aware of current affairs and invest in Kublai Khan as soon as possible, so that the unification of Yuan and Meng can be faster.
As for the third point, it was Kublai Khan who took the initiative to contact him.
Kublai Khan saw that Zhang's reinforcements were coming, but he was still unable to break the city, so he listened to Yelu Chucai's suggestion, used spies in the city to instigate Liu Zheng, and made an offer that he could not refuse.
Kublai Khan promised Liu Zheng that as long as he surrendered, when the Yuan and Mongolia were completely unified in the future, he would form an alliance with the Shu and Chu countries in the south, and fight against each other from the north to the south to help the Han Dynasty recover.
Kublai Khan's words were purely false. Even he himself might not believe them, but they touched Liu Zheng's heart.
It is precisely because of these three points that Liu Zheng decided to rebel against Mao Dun even if Mao Dun treated Liu Zheng well. But after all, he only had a battalion of 3,000 soldiers and horses, so it was obviously not easy to capture Chifeng City.
Liu Zheng did not dare to rebel alone, so he raised the banner of Yuanmeng and led Sun Yanyu, Li Qi, Chen Youding, Liu Bolin and other Han generals to rebel together.
Sun Yanyu, Li Qi and other generals were either from the wealthy families in Hebei that were wiped out, or were rebel generals who destroyed the three kingdoms of Zhao and Han. Their hatred for Taipei was no less than that of Liu Zheng. The two sides hit it off and agreed to launch an army together.
But even with the help of these people, Liu Zheng still only has 5,000 troops in his hands, which is far inferior to Chifeng City guard Qie Tuanhou. Unless he can directly kill Qie Tuanhou and other Yuanmu senior officials, the possibility of success is unlikely.
Liu Zheng wanted to secretly get rid of Qie Xianhou, but Qie Yinhou had always hated the Han people, and was alienated from Han generals like them. He was very defensive and would not give Liu Zheng any chance at all.
In this regard, Yelu Chucai had already thought of a way. After Zhang Liao arrived, the reinforcements outside the city would abandon the siege, concentrate all their forces, and pretend to eat Zhang Liao's troops.
Although Chifeng City's Qie Tuanhou hated the Han people, he also wanted to protect Datong. If he did not want Zhang Liao to fight alone after his defeat, he would definitely go out of the city to assist Zhang Liao.
Therefore, Liu Zheng could pretend to be ill and stay in the city, waiting for Marquis Tuan to leave the city and think of ways to seize the city.
Liu Zheng followed Yelu Chucai's plan and stayed in the city on the grounds of an old injury. He rebelled after Qie Xianhou left the city.
After Qie Tuanhou learned that the Han generals in the city had rebelled, he no longer cared about Zhang Liao and immediately slaughtered his troops and returned to support him. However, it was still a step too late and Liu Zheng had already taken the opportunity. He was ambushed after entering the city and died in the end. whole hands
When Zhang Liao learned about the civil strife in Chifeng City, he also wanted to help Hu Hanxie, but Kublai Khan, his father-in-law, was staring at him with eager eyes. If he really dared to move, a decisive battle would break out immediately.
Zhang Liao is not afraid of a decisive battle with Kublai Khan, but the situation is not clear yet, and it is inappropriate to fight a decisive battle at this time.
Zhang Liao didn't move, and Kublai Khan didn't dare to move either. After all, the Qin army had already proven its combat power in the recent Shengle battle.
Although Kublai Khan did not think that his 60,000-strong army would lose to Zhang Liao's 20,000-strong Chun Army, but even if he wanted to, the fighting power of the Thai army would probably break his bones.
Kublai Khan's purpose was only to destroy Maodun and unify Yuanmu. There was no need to fight with Qin at this time. After he captured the three cities, the Qin army would retreat, so he did not directly fight Zhang Liao and waited for Chifeng. Results within the city.
The civil strife in Chifeng City ended with the victory of Liu Zheng and others. Deputy General Hu Hanxie fled with nearly 10,000 remaining soldiers and went to join Zhang Liao.
After Zhang Liao and Hu Hanxie's armies joined forces, although the total strength was 30,000, Maodun's strength also reached 75,000.
The gap in military strength between the two sides has further widened.
Just when Mao Dun thought that Zhang Liao would be self-aware and would take the initiative to retreat after knowing the gap, Zhang Liao did the opposite.
Zhang Liao pretended to withdraw his troops in order to get Kublai Khan to relax his vigilance, but instead took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Yuan army.
Maodun's military advisor Yelu Chucai had already anticipated this, but Zhang Liao's surprise attack could not be prevented by anticipation.
With the support of the five sons working together and the surprise attack, Zhang Liao's command attribute reached an astonishing 105
Even if Kublai Khan has the blessing of the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons", the commander is still lower than Zhang Liao
Temujin's mother, Hoelun, adopted many adopted sons, and the four most famous among them are collectively known as the four adopted sons, namely: Shi Ji, Bald Hu, Bo Hu, Qu Chu, Kuo Hua Chu.
Among the eighty-eight heroes of Temujin's enfeoffment, Shijihuduhu ranked sixteenth, Quchu ranked seventeenth, and Kuokuo ranked eighteenth;
As for Borhu, he died early in the battle with the Tumat tribe, so he is not included in the rankings.
Lost Ji Kuduhu, Qu Chu, Kuo Kuo Chu, and Wang Gu'er are all figures born from the alien race, and they were all implanted in Kublai Khan's body. They were left by Temujin and Tuo Lei. Kublai Khan's confidant
Since Bohu in this life had also died under Qin Qiong's gun in the battle at Yanmen Pass, it stands to reason that the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons" is destined to be unable to be fully used.
But Kublai Khan awakened the new skill "Original Ancestor". One of its effects is to allow generals with matching attributes to activate combo skills on behalf of generals who have died in battle, so all the effects of "Four Adopted Sons" are still activated.
But even with the increase of four adopted sons, Kublai Khan was still not as good as Zhang Liao in terms of command, and there was also a gap in the lineup of generals. As a result, Zhang suffered heavy losses in a surprise battle.
Zhang Liao took advantage of Kublai Khan's delay in responding in time and used 30,000 Qin and Hungarian troops to attack Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army.
In this battle, Zhang Liao ordered Gao Shun and Xu Huang to cooperate with each other to prevent their retreat from being cut off by Kublai Khan.
Gao Shun used 2,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry to defeat 4,000 Yuan Mongolian cavalry head-on, and beheaded General Wang Gu'er.
Xu Huang also blocked reinforcements that were three times his own, and in a fierce battle, one against two, he singled out Kuokuo and Shi Zhongzhi, and even won.
After the two sides fought for a whole day and night, in order to prevent further casualties, Kublai Khan had to choose to temporarily avoid the front line and led his army to retreat to Chifeng City.
After the war, an inventory showed that the reinforcements had lost 10,000 troops, while the coalition forces only suffered 4,000 casualties, of which nearly 3,000 were from Mauduna.
Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army was forced back by Zhang Liao's 30,000 troops. Not only did he lose nearly 10,000 elite troops, but he also lost one of his four adopted sons, Shi Guhu, Khan Gu'er, who ranked thirteenth among the eighty-eight meritorious officials. and many other fierce soldiers were also killed in the battle, which can be said to be a heavy loss.
However, this loss was quickly replenished by Liu Zheng's surrendered troops after Kublai Khan entered Chifeng City.
The Yuan army occupied Chifeng City and could defend the city. However, Zhang Liao's army had all the cavalry and no siege equipment. It was obviously impossible to break the city, but they were unwilling to retreat, so they sent Xu Huang The leader went to provoke Kublai Khan to fight.
Kublai Khan naturally turned a deaf ear to Zhang Liao's scolding, but he didn't care, and that didn't mean that his generals didn't care either, especially Liu Zheng, who had just surrendered.
Liu Zhengcai defected to Kublai Khan and was eager to perform meritorious service. When he saw Xu Yi coming to arrange a battle, he also wanted to use this to express himself, just like Kublai Khan asking for a battle.
Kublai Khan knew Liu Zheng's abilities. After all, he fought Liu Zheng more than once during the two civil wars. Even Zhebie, the most powerful general of Yuanmeng, could not defeat Liu Zheng.
Although Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cunxiao", this nickname can be traced out. Compared with the real Li Cunxiao, his character is very different. After all, he means "Sai Cunxiao" and "Sai Cunxiao". Nicknames like "Little Wenhou" are originally meant to set off the power of this person.
As a martial arts leader of his era, Liu Zheng was not weak in strength, but he still did not reach the level of God of War.
He is just Shunfeng Divine General. The reason why he was able to face the war-god-level Fei Bie without defeat was because Zhe Bie gave up what he was good at.
Fight him in close combat with his bow and arrow.
Seeing Liu Zheng's confidence, Kublai Khan could not dampen his enthusiasm, and Lu Bu was not among the challenging generals, so he agreed to Liu Zheng's request to fight.
When Xu Huang saw the Yuan army coming out, he did not go out to fight in person. Instead, he sent Yang Yanding to fight first.
Among the many brothers of the Yang family, Erlang Yang Yanding's strength is second only to Yang Zaixing and Yang Qilang. Now his base strength has reached 102(+), but he is obviously no match for Liu Zheng who has 104.
After fifteen rounds of fighting between the two sides, Yang Yanding began to fall into a disadvantage. After thirty rounds, he was dwarfed by the opponent, so he was recalled by Xu Huang.
Later, Xu Xian went to fight in person, but he only lasted fifty rounds and was also defeated by Liu Zheng, so he decisively chose to retreat and sent Yang Yanpeng to continue the fight.
Qilang Yang's delayed Shenwu is only 103 (+2). In terms of hard power, it is naturally not as good as Liu Zheng.
However, Liu Zheng had already fought against Xu Huang and Yang Yanding, and the physical exertion was naturally considerable. Facing Yang Qilang, who was still at his peak, he was naturally unable to cope.
The two sides fought for a full hundred rounds. Yang Qilang became more and more courageous as he fought, but Liu Zheng was exhausted and had to retreat.
But before leaving, Liu Zheng also dropped his harsh words and made an appointment with Qilang to fight again in three days.
[Ding dong, Yang Qilang (force 103) drew with Liu Zheng (104), breaking his own bottleneck, force +1:
Currently Yang Yanyong: Commander 83 (+3), Force 104 (+3), Intelligence 60, Politics 60 (+1), Charisma 85 (+3).
