[Jianghuai Beacon Fire]
In the Jianghuai area, the battle between Yang Xingmi and Qian Liu never stopped. Just before the eunuch Han Quanhui kidnapped Zhaozong, Yang Xingmi received gossip: Qian Liu was assassinated.
God-given opportunity! Yang Xingmi immediately ordered General Li Shenfu to lead his army to attack Qian Liu's headquarters in Hangzhou.
Qian Liuai set up eight camps with Gu Quanwu to resist with all his strength. The two sides entered a stalemate stage.
Gu Quanwuwei's reputation spread far and wide, and his reputation spread across the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. If you want to defeat Gu Quanwu, you must use a cunning strategy. Li Shenfu thought of "counterintuitive tactics".
Li Shenfu deliberately selected a few prisoners from Hangzhou and arranged them to be at his disposal, giving them the opportunity to enter and exit his sleeping quarters.
One day, Li Shenfu held a meeting with the generals. At the meeting, Li Shenfu couldn't hide his disappointment, and told everyone with a sigh that Hangzhou's military was strong, and the gains would outweigh the losses if he persisted. I ordered a retreat tonight!
After the meeting, the generals went to each camp to pack up their belongings and hurriedly made preparations for withdrawal, making a mess.
The prisoners took advantage of the chaos to escape and reported this important information to Gu Quanwu.
In the evening, Li Shenfu counted his attendants and found that there were fewer captured soldiers. He was overjoyed and immediately ordered the old, weak, sick and disabled to be the vanguard and retreated backwards. He personally led the main force to the rear and ordered his generals to stand in Qingshan (today's Qingshan). Qingshan Town, Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province) set up an ambush, waiting for the big fish to take the bait.
Li Shenfu was one of Yang Xingmi's "founding fathers". At that time, Luzhou was attacked by bandits. The governor of Luzhou asked Yang Xingmi for help. However, Yang Xingmi did not have enough troops. Li Shenfu took a few people and set up a false flag. Suspecting the soldiers, they took a small road and sneaked into Luzhou. They stood on a high place and pointed and shouted, as if commanding thousands of troops. Finally, they scared away the bandits and saved Luzhou, so that Yang Xingmi occupied Luzhou and had a place to establish himself.
Later, during the decisive battle with Sun Ru, Li Shenfu reminded Yang Xingmi not to fall into Sun Ru's trap of a quick victory, but to strengthen the walls and clear the country, drag the war into a protracted war of attrition, and lure the enemy by feigning defeat to defeat Sun Ru.
However, these glorious achievements can hardly be compared with Gu Quanwu under Qian Liu. He has already surpassed all the heroes just by pacifying Dong Chang.
Gu Quanwu looked down on Li Shenfu very much, thinking that his so-called brilliant achievements were just low-level conspiracies and tricks, relying on deception.
Arrogant soldiers are bound to be defeated. Gu Quanwu never expected that he would also fall to Li Shenfu's insignificant skills.
Gu Quanwu detected signs that Li Shenfu was withdrawing his troops and immediately ordered the entire army to attack. Pursuing to Qingshan, they were suddenly ambushed and lost thousands of people. Gu Quanwu himself was also captured alive.
Li Shenfu took advantage of the victory to attack Lin'an.
When the news came, Qian Liu was horrified and cried loudly: "I have lost my good general!"
At the gate of Lin'an City, Li Shenfu received accurate news - Qian Liu was not dead. The city of Lin'an was strong and heavily guarded, and Li Shenfu could not surround it for a long time.
This time, Li Shenfu really wanted to withdraw his troops. However, withdrawing troops would inevitably lead to a counterattack, so he made preparations in two aspects.
The first is to win over people's hearts and spread kindness.
Li Shenfu sent troops to protect Qian Liu's ancestral tomb to prevent it from being dug up and destroyed by rebel soldiers. Even the cutting of surrounding trees was prohibited. At the same time, he allowed Gu Quanwu to write a safe letter to his family.
War is bloody and cruel. Compared with the cunning Shandong battlefield, the Jianghuai battlefield is more like a war between gentlemen. There is a touch of warmth behind the cruelty. Touching scenes of heroes cherishing heroes are often staged, such as interceding for the enemy general ( Gu Quanwu protects Qin Pei), such as protecting the ancestral graves of enemy commanders, such as providing relief to enemy victims...
War is cruel, but the people who control it are flesh and blood.
The second is to show off force and skillfully set up suspicious troops.
Li Shenfu erected many flags on the traffic thoroughfares. From a distance, they looked like continuous camps, which made Qian Liu think that Huainan reinforcements had arrived in large numbers and were ready to respond, and that Gu Quanwu was captured because of his blind pursuit. , Hangzhou soldiers did not dare to trip on the same stone twice.
Finally, Li Shenfu generously informed Qian Liu of his troop withdrawal plan and agreed to call off the troops.
Qian Liu sent someone to express his gratitude to Li Shenfu and sent a large number of gifts to reward the army.
Li Shenfu accepted Qian Liu's kindness, then set up camp and led the troops back safely.
At this time, the eunuch Han Quanjie had forced the emperor to move westward, and Zhu Wen was powerful in Guanzhong. Fengxiang sent Li Yan, Jianghuai special mediator (Jianghuai envoy), to read the imperial edict to Yang Xingmi.
Li Yan's father, Mr. Zhang, is a great man. He is the former prime minister Zhang Jun. Zhaozong gave him the national surname, so his surname was Li, which had nothing to do with ethics. Ever since the eunuch Liu Jishu launched the "Shaoyangyuan coup", Zhang Jun has been leaning towards the eunuch group. It is not surprising that his son is willing to be a lobbyist for the eunuch party.
Imperial edict: Appoint Yang Xingmi as Commander-in-Chief of the Zhengdong Front Army (Capital Commander of the Eastern Front Camp), add the title of Envoy Xianger, confer the title of King of Wu, and command Zhu Wen; appoint Zhu Jin as the envoy of Pinglu Festival in Qingzhou; appoint Feng Hongduo as the envoy of Wuning in Xuzhou Jiedu envoy; appointed Zhu Yanshou as Caizhou Fengguojun Jiedu envoy; and awarded Tanzhou Wu'an Jiedu envoy Ma Yin the title of prime minister (Tongping Zhangshi).
Then it was announced that as the commander-in-chief, Yang Xingmi had the right to appoint and remove meritorious officers on behalf of the emperor, as long as he reported to the court afterwards.
At first glance, it seems generous; upon closer inspection, it appears to be a generous expense.
The title given to Yang Xingmi was all empty and had no real benefits at all. Looking at the rest of the people, they are even more generous and can't bear to look at them in detail: Qingzhou Pinglu Jiedushi is Wang Shifan, Xuzhou Wuning Army and Caizhou Fengguo Army are also under Zhu Wen's control, so Zhu Jin , Feng Hongduo, and Zhu Yanshou all received empty promises. Wouldn't it be better if you directly appointed them as the governor of Xuanwu Army in Bianzhou?
As for allowing Yang Xingmi to exercise the power of the emperor and appoint and remove personnel, this has long been a fait accompli. Not to mention Yang Xingmi, who in the world is not like this? A certain warlord "reported" that so-and-so was a certain military envoy and stayed behind, and then the emperor ordered a book to be made to go through the motions.
Even so, Yang Xingmi was still happy with his position. After all, his expansion of territory to the north was supported by the imperial court and was justified.
Therefore, Yang Xingmi took the initiative to release Gu Quanwu, showed his favor to Qian Liu, and eased the conflict.
Qian Liu was overjoyed and in response, released Qin Pei, a righteous soldier from Huainan. The two heroes of Jianghuai and Jianghuai once again turned their hostility into friendship.
Before Yang Xingmi went north, he had to resolve an internal conflict that was not an internal conflict - Shengzhou Feng Hongduo.
Feng Hongduo first served in Xuzhou Shipu. Later, he was suspected and fled to the Jianghuai area. After many years of hard work, he finally gained a foothold in Shengzhou and was appointed as the governor of Shengzhou.
Although he was only a small provincial governor, Feng Hongduo was good at water warfare and had a huge surface force in his hands. He was said to have more than a thousand ships and should not be underestimated.
Shengzhou (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, sandwiched between Yangzhou and Xuanzhou, and embedded in the hinterland of Yang Xingmi's power. Feng Hongduo relied on his invincible fleet and was still unwilling to surrender to Yang Xingmi.
Yang Xingmi wanted very much to pull out this thorn in his flesh.
Yang Xingmi's beloved general Tian Bo paid a lot of money to hire the craftsmen who built Feng Hongduo's ships to build ordinary warships for himself. The craftsman shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Admiral Feng sent people to far away places and spent a lot of money to buy the strongest wood, so his ships are strong and durable, and you don't have this kind of wood here at all."
Tian Kai smiled slightly and said, "Just once."
Tian Kai's surface arms race aroused Feng Hongduo's vigilance. He expected that Tian Kai's move must be aimed at him. His subordinates suggested a preemptive strike. Feng Hongduo also had this intention, so he led the invincible fleet up the Yangtze River and declared to the outside world that he was attacking Hongzhou. (today's Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province), the actual target was Xuanzhou where Tian Kai was located.
Yang Xingmi sent envoys to dissuade mediation, but Feng Hongduo ignored it.
The two sides met near Geshan in the southwest of Xuanzhou. Regarding this battle, there is very little relevant historical data. It is only briefly mentioned that Tian Wei defeated Feng Hongduo's invincible fleet.
A few words leave a lot of room for our imagination. Obviously, Tian Kai should have launched a method similar to a "suicide attack", most likely through a fire attack. Because Tian Kai did not have strict quality requirements for newly-built ships, he clearly told the craftsmen that they could be made only one-time and not durable.
The preset battlefield for the war was not the main stream of the Yangtze River, but a tributary near Geshan, surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is conceivable that the river here is complicated and should not be conducive to the maneuvering of large ships. Sending fuel-filled boats close to, ramming, and setting fire to a fleet of flat-floor ships should work wonders.
Artists can completely carry out in-depth artistic processing and add some plots such as "bitter meat trick", "borrowing the east wind", "borrowing arrows from straw boats", "Chiang Kai-shek steals books", etc. It should be very exciting. This book is a serious official history and will not be expanded upon.
Feng Hongduo gathered the remaining defeated troops, commanded the remaining ships, and sailed eastward along the Yangtze River, intending to enter the East China Sea.
Once Feng Hongduo escapes to the sea, he will become a feared pirate group in the Jianghuai area. It can not only rob trade and transport fleets, but also wait for opportunities to invade coastal counties. For Yang Xingmi, it can be said that there will be endless troubles.
So Yang Xingmi sent an envoy to Laojun with gifts, and told him: "Your tribe is still strong, why do you want to exile yourself to the sea? Although my territory is small, it is enough to accommodate your tribe, you and your My subordinates can do whatever they want, why not?"
Feng Hongduo's left and right generals cried with joy and expressed their willingness to accept the amnesty. So Feng Hongduo led his troops to Dongtang (east of Yangzhou).
Yang Xingmi was wearing casual clothes, without armor or weapons. He took a small boat and boarded the ship to greet him personally, taking only a dozen guards with him.
The two parties had an in-depth conversation in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Yang Xingmi appointed Feng Hongduo as deputy envoy of Huainan Festival and rewarded him with mansions and countless gold and silver treasures.
Previously, Feng Hongduo's general Shang Gongnai was ordered to meet with Yang Xingmi and request the cession of Runzhou, but Yang Xingmi refused. Shang Gongnai threatened: "Our Armada will help you change your attitude!" Now, Yang Xingmi smiled and asked Shang Gongnai, "Do you still remember the request for Runzhou?"
Shang Gongnai had no fear on his face and said: "Each one is his own master, but he only regrets that he did not succeed at that time."
Yang Xingmi smiled knowingly and said, "It would be great if you could be as loyal to me, Old Man Yang, as you are to Marshal Feng!"
Regarding the record of Yang Xingmi's words, the original text of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" is "You are like Mr. Feng, and you have no worries." Many scholars, including many authoritative and famous scholars, habitually believe that " The subject of "No worries" is still "er", and the general translation is that Yang Xingmi said to Shang Gongnai, as long as you are loyal to me, you will have no worries.
Such a translation is somewhat hasty and imprecise, seriously inaccurate, very irresponsible, and has misled many readers.
I personally think that the subject of "无 worry" should be the omitted "I". It should be literally translated as: If you can do to me as you do to Feng Gong, then I will have nothing to worry about.
Yang Xingmi said this, which is equivalent to praising Shang Gongnai to a very high status, just like Liu Bei praised Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao praised Guo Jia, "I have so-and-so, I own the world." Such a meaning.
And if we follow the previous translation, it becomes a naked threat, "If you are loyal to me, you will have nothing to worry about. Otherwise... you should think carefully about it."
According to Yang Xingmi's consistent style, he would definitely not embarrass or scare Shang Gongnai at this moment, but rather express his admiration and appreciation for Shang Gongnai, even if it was just for show.
"Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" provides documentary support for my analysis. "You can serve Yang Sou as well as Mr. Feng, so I have nothing to worry about."
As the saying goes, it is better to have no books than to believe in books. Even "authoritative" such as "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" sometimes has disdain and laxity, especially when it comes to small people and small events. This book cannot say that it has discovered all the details that have been ignored in the past. The ability is limited, so just try your best, because this is the selling point of this book.
Of course, to talk about the matter, "I" is omitted here in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian". This is not a clerical error, let alone an error, but a habitual grammar.
Yang Xingmi appointed Li Shenfu as the governor of Shengzhou. Finally, he combined kindness and power and pulled out Feng Hongduo's thorn.
