After Huang Renxi heard the news that his family had been killed, he turned his grief and anger into combat power, opened the city gate, took the initiative to attack, defeated Zhang Hanzhen's troops in one fell swoop, captured the general Zhang Hanzhen alive, took him into Fuzhou City, and beheaded him in public.
Monk Zhuo Yanming never dreamed that he would become a monk by shaving his hair, practicing with bells in the morning and drums in the evening, playing the ancient Buddha with green lanterns, practicing seriously, and accidentally attaining enlightenment, and he would become an emperor. Zhuo Yanming quickly adapted to his new identity. During his reign, he did two things:
The first is to send people to his hometown of Putian to welcome his father to Fuzhou to become the emperor. "You may not believe it, but it was Dragon Chair who made the first move."
The second is the practice of burning incense in the Jinluan Hall. According to him, he has the ability to scatter beans to form soldiers, conquer ghosts and drive away gods, and call for wind and rain. By the way, isn’t this the professional skill of a Taoist priest?
After Li Renda supported Zhuo Yanming, he took overall military power (judged the guards of the Sixth Army), and then ordered Huang Renxi to garrison the west gate and Chen Jixun to garrison the north gate. These two people were Li Renda's most trusted comrades, because they had all betrayed Wang Yanzheng, especially Huang Renxi, who had just been executed by Wang Yanzheng.
But he miscalculated.
There are only two reasons why a traitor would betray his old master, either to seek greater interests or to avoid greater disasters. The benefits and disasters depend on the relative strength of the two camps, as well as people's expectations.
Although Huang Renxi was wiped out from his entire family, after he calmed down, he no longer resented Wang Yanzheng. Instead, he was filled with shame and self-blame, thinking that all this was due to his own confusion.
One day, Huang Renxi was chatting with Chen Jixun. Huang Renxi said: "The reason why people are called people is nothing more than loyalty, trustworthiness, benevolence, and righteousness. I had made meritorious service under Wang Yanzheng before and was trusted by him, so I was chosen." He appointed him as the guard general of Fuzhou, but what about me? But I betrayed him, which is disloyalty; he entrusted his nephew to me, but I killed him, which is disloyalty; Fujian and Jiannan fought internally, causing the Fujian people to commit suicide. Killing each other, this is unkind; not caring about your wife, children and children, and letting your family members be slaughtered because of your own confusion, this is unjust!"
Huang Renxi became more and more sad as he talked. Finally, he beat his chest and feet and cried bitterly, "Am I still a human being? I am just a big bastard who deserves to die!"
Chen Jixun covered his mouth with gratitude and consoled him: "If you don't care for yourself, you will be punished by heaven and earth. When a man pursues fame, what kind of wife, children, and children will he care about? The matter has come to this, stop thinking about it, and stop talking nonsense!"
There is no airtight wall in the world. Li Renda, who was guilty, had eyes and ears all over Fuzhou City, and Huang Renxiao, who was out of control, stamped his feet, beat his chest, and cried loudly, so these words were quickly known to Li Renda.
Li Renda then framed Huang Renxi and Chen Jixun for treason, beheaded them, and took back their military power. From then on, Li Renda took control of all the armed forces in Fuzhou.
The next month, Li Renda held a grand military parade in Fuzhou on the grounds of boosting morale, and invited "Emperor" Zhuo Yanming to come to the scene to review the troops.
Zhuo Yanming was in high spirits and extended his lofty greetings to the troops participating in the review, "Hello, comrades, thank you for your hard work, comrades!"
Suddenly, several warriors who were inspected rushed out and assassinated Zhuo Yanming on the spot with lightning speed.
Li Renda on the side was "shocked" and turned around to run away. Of course he was stopped by the soldiers. The soldiers were furious and forced Li Renda to sit on Zhuo Yanming's throne, intending to make him the emperor.
Li Renda struggled "desperately", "No, no, no..."
Everyone knows about the "Chanzhou Mutiny".
After killing Zhuo Yanming, he sent people to kill the "Tai Shang Huang".
Li Renda said that he had low moral character and insufficient prestige, so he did not dare to call himself emperor in vain, so he sent envoys to Huainan to express his vassal status. In the memorial of surrender, Li Renda claimed that he had stayed in Fuzhou's mighty army, and he used the Huainan era name - "Baoda Three Years"; but at the same time, he also paid tribute to the later Jin Dynasty.
Faced with Li Renda's surrender, Li Jing of Huainan readily accepted it and immediately appointed him as the governor of the Fuzhou Mighty Army, added Tongping Zhangshi, named him Li Hongyi, and incorporated him into the royal family. Li Jing's son was named "Hong", but later changed to "Cong" to avoid a taboo in the Song Dynasty, and was named Li Hongyi, indicating that Li Jing recognized him as his nephew.
The reason why Huainan accepted Li Renda was, of course, to form a north-south attack with him on King Yanzheng of Jianzhou. After Li Renda was accepted by Huainan, he sent people to visit Wuyue State to seek to establish friendly relations.
In terms of diplomacy, Li Renda completely defeated Wang Yanzheng. Wang Yanzheng offended all his neighbors, while Li Renda established friendly and cooperative relations with all his neighbors.
Wang Yanzheng's life was difficult.
After Huainan won the first battle, they took advantage of the victory to attack the city, surrounded Jianzhou, and defeated the Quanzhou reinforcements (Wang Zhongshun, Dong Si'an, etc.) several times. In order to further reduce Wang Yanzheng's resistance, Huainan pulled out all the stops and divided his forces to attack the back gardens of Jianzhou such as Tingzhou and Tanzhou to disintegrate the power of Jianzhou Wang Yanzheng.
In Tingzhou, Huainan suffered a defeat and was defeated by Xu Wenzhen, the governor of Tingzhou; but Huainan general Bian Hao conquered Lanzhou and broke the power of Jianzhou.
Jianzhou was besieged and Fuzhou rebelled... Wang Yanzheng had just "unified" all of Fujian for a few days. Unexpectedly, after thirty years of hard work, he returned to the pre-liberation period overnight. He was beaten back to his original shape by Huainan with a heavy punch, and he could only control Jianzhou. This lonely city.
Wang Yanzheng was on the verge of a mental breakdown. He did two things:
Great Purge of the Army:
When Fuzhou surrendered, Wang Yanzheng mobilized 15,000 Gongchen and Konghe troops to reinforce Jianzhou. Now, Li Renda in Fuzhou rebelled, and Wang Yanzheng began to be suspicious of these Fuzhou reinforcements. So Wang Yanzheng ordered them to turn in their weapons and armor, lied to them that he would return to Fuzhou, and then set up an ambush halfway, slaughtered them all, cut off their meat, marinated it into dried meat, and brought it back to Jianzhou to serve as Military rations.
Improving the suffocating diplomatic environment:
Wang Yanzheng sent an envoy to Wu Yue to profess his vassalship and request for troops to be rescued. Thirty years ago (916), Wang Shenzhi and Qian Liu intermarried, and Wang Shenzhi's second daughter married Qian Yuanjue, Qian Liu's son. In terms of seniority, Wang Yanzheng is the uncle of Qian Hongzuo, the current king of Wuyue Kingdom.
Faced with his uncle's request for help, how would Wu Yue's foreign nephew react?
There was no time to react, because within a month, Jianzhou fell.
Under the siege of the Huainan army, the Jianzhou defenders were distraught and their morale collapsed.
People kept reminding Dong Si'an, Quanzhou's aid general, that the matter was over. The situation of Jianzhou was over, and the fall was only a matter of time. You'd better make good plans for yourself.
Dong Si'an replied resoundingly, "I have been greatly favored by the Wang family and have served the kings of the Wang family for several generations. If I betray him at the most critical moment of the Wang family, who else in the world can tolerate me?"
Dong Si'an vowed to live up to the Wang family, and his subordinates were deeply moved. There were a large number of deserters from all walks of life in Jianzhou, but no one in Dong Sian's army fled.
