Among the five Fujian states, Fuzhou failed to be incorporated into the Huainan territory in the end, while Quanzhou and Zhangzhou were also left to follow the separatist rule. Huainan drained the treasury and felt lonely.
In March 947, Wu Yue State also sent additional reinforcements to Fuzhou, led by General Yu An, and arrived in the south of Fuzhou City by sea.
A rare landing battle in history is about to take place:
The coast of Fuzhou is so muddy that a layer of bamboo mats must be laid before people can walk on it. The Huainan army fired thousands of arrows, and the Wu and Yue reinforcements could not get close at all.
We can refer to the famous "Normandy Landing". Without air fire support, forcing a beach landing is tantamount to suicide. Shore-based forts and crossbows are the reapers of death for the landing party.
At this time, Feng Yanlu, one of the "Four Evils" in Huainan, took a unique approach and proposed a bold idea: the reason why the Fuzhou defenders refused to surrender was because they were waiting for these reinforcements. Simply, we let them land and annihilate them in one fell swoop. In this way, the defenders in the city gave up and surrendered.
Meng Jian, his subordinate, quickly objected, saying that the Wu and Yue reinforcements were now in a dilemma and would soon retreat due to logistical supply problems. If we put them ashore, how could we be 100% sure to kill them all?
Feng Yanlu was very unhappy. How could he not kill them all with me here?
The official level crushed people to death, but Feng Yanlu insisted on going his own way, ordered to stop shooting, and waited for the Wu and Yue reinforcements to land ashore.
The Wuyue reinforcements successfully landed and then launched a fierce attack on the Huainan army. Feng Yanlu could not resist it and fled first. Meng Jian was killed in battle, and the Huainan army collapsed and was defeated.
The defenders in the city also went out to fight in cooperation with the Wuyue reinforcements, and defeated all the Huainan troops in the south of Fuzhou City. At the critical moment, the commander-in-chief Wang Chongwen personally led a personal guard of 300 people to resist, and the rest of the troops gathered behind him, and the Wuyue reinforcements Then they stopped pursuing and retreated to Fuzhou.
Li Renda of Fuzhou handed over all command of the army to Yu An, commander of the Wuyue reinforcements.
At this time, a rumor spread among the Huainan army: Wuyue Kingdom was preparing to abandon Fuzhou and move all Li Renda and his troops back to Wuyue Kingdom.
It is said that this is the news brought by the surrender of troops in Fuzhou. Huainan general Liu Hongjin and others reported this information to deputy commander Wang Jianfeng and suggested that Wang Jianfeng set up an ambush and enter the city as soon as possible after the Wuyue army withdrew.
This unreliable information detonated the Huainan siege troops, and the generals made their own calculations.
Liu Congxiao already wanted to separatist power, and he was well versed in the cat-and-mouse game. Fuzhou was isolated outside Huainan. Whether it was separated by Li Renda or belonged to the Wuyue Kingdom, it was the basis for Liu Congxiao to separate Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Therefore, Liu Congxiao Do not want to see Huainan occupy Fuzhou;
Wang Jianfeng became a rookie in the Huainan military circle because of his "first arrival". He was suppressed and excluded by the "Four Evils" and "Five Ghosts" everywhere. This battle in Fuzhou was dominated by the "Four Evils", so he did not want to Seeing that Fuzhou was occupied by Huainan.
Liu Congxiao and Wang Jianfeng hit it off immediately, and they spoke in unison to the outside world, saying: "We have been defeated (referring to the landing battle) and are too busy to take care of ourselves. How can we still have the strength to fight for the city?"
That night, Liu Congxiao and Wang Jianfeng set fire to the camp and retreated. The rest of the troops did not know the truth, and when they saw the friendly troops burning their camps and retreating, they also collapsed. For a time, the army was defeated like a mountain, and the troops besieging the city of Huainan were flowing like a flood.
Seeing that the situation was over, Feng Yanlu collapsed emotionally. He pulled out his sword and was about to commit suicide. He was stopped by his cronies, and then fled in embarrassment.
At this point, the Fuzhou War ended with Huainan's defeat. In this battle, more than 20,000 Huainan troops were killed, more than 100,000 pieces of weapons and baggage were lost, and the national treasury was depleted.
After Liu Congxiao returned to Quanzhou, he told the generals stationed in Huainan: "To the south of Quanzhou is the Lingnan area. It is wild and smoky, the land is barren, the people are poor, and their financial resources are limited. They have been caught in successive years of war, and production has almost come to a standstill. In fact, There is no extra money to supply the army, everyone, please go back." The order to expel the guests was issued, and the garrison generals had no choice but to return to Huainan to resume their orders.
Without the garrison, Quanzhou was completely left to follow the separatist rule. Li Jing no longer had the ability to suppress Quanzhou, so he asked Liu Congxiao to inspect the school in order to win people's hearts.
After the war, Huainan's liquidation of war criminals led to a series of internal struggles. These topics will be discussed in the special topic on Huainan.
But he said Li Renda from Fuzhou. Li Renda ordered his younger brother Li Hongtong to take charge of Fuzhou affairs temporarily, while he went to Hangzhou in person to meet with Qian Hongzhu of Wuyue Kingdom. Qian Hongzhu made him a concurrent servant and renamed him "Li Ruyun" and his younger brother Li Hongtong "Li Rubin". After living in Hangzhou for a period of time, Li Renda regretted that he had fallen into the tiger's mouth, so he bribed Hu Jinsi, an important official of the Wuyue Kingdom, with a large sum of money and asked to return to Fuzhou. Qian Hongzhi approved.
After the Wuyue Kingdom won the battle to defend Fuzhou, Yu An and other generals returned to the court and sent General Bao Xiujang as the southeast pacifier to stay in Fuzhou.
It is said that according to Bao Xiurang, Li Renda wanted to kill Bao Xiurang and then profess his vassalship to Huainan. Bao Xiurang noticed this and eventually killed Li Renda's entire family and sent Li Renda's head to Hangzhou.
At this point, Fuzhou was completely controlled by Wu Yue.
However, the ripples of the destruction of Fujian were not over yet. Hu Jinsi, an important minister who interceded for Li Renda, had a tense relationship with Qian Hongzhu. He had just accepted a bribe and persuaded Qian Hongzhu to let Li Renda go back to Fuzhou. Li Renda conspired to rebel, and Qian Hongzhu blamed him for this. Hu Jinsi was very frightened.
Qian Hongzhuo planned to get rid of Hu Jinsi, but Hu Jinsi had full wings, huge power, and deep roots. At the end of this year (December 30, 947), Qian Hongzhi hosted a banquet for civil and military officials. Hu Jinsi suspected that this was a Hongmen Banquet aimed at him, so he teamed up with his party members to launch a coup.
Qian Hongchu hid in the backyard. Hu Jinsi ordered people to close the backyard door and falsely conveyed an "imperial edict", saying that Comrade Qian Hongchu had a sudden stroke and was unable to perform his work. His younger brother, Comrade Qian Hongchu, took over the leadership position.
Forced by the powerful minister Hu Jinsi, Qian Hongchu made a final resistance and put forward a condition: Hu Jinsi must promise not to kill his brother Qian Hongchu before he could ascend the throne, otherwise he would rather die than obey.
Hu Jinsi was forced to agree, so Qian Hongchu, who was only 19 years old, took up the leadership position of Wu Yue Kingdom. Hu Jinsi also killed those who opposed him, including Shuiqiu Zhaoguan.
The country of Fujian was destroyed. Even the people of Fujian themselves could not imagine that the small country of Fujian had brought down two powerful neighbors. Huainan was greatly damaged by it, drained the national treasury, and triggered an internal political struggle centered on the "four evils and five ghosts"; during the civil war in Fujian, the Wuyue Kingdom changed its monarch three times, Qian Yuanguan-Qian Hongzuo ——Qian Hongchu——Qian Hongchu, although the previous replacement was not directly related to the civil war in Fujian, the fact that Qian Hongchu was imprisoned in the coup and Qian Hongchu came to power was directly related to the resistance to Huaihe and aid to Fujian.
