Chen Jue and Feng Yanlu came to Fuzhou City. Both sides won each other. Reinforcements from Wang Chongwen and Wei Cen arrived. The Southern Tang army worked together to conquer the outside of Fuzhou and temporarily gained the upper hand.
Li Renda was forced to retreat to the interior, and then sent envoys to the Central Plains to report to the Central Plains Dynasty (Later Jin Dynasty), in the hope that the Central Plains could contain the Southern Tang Dynasty in the north.
At that time (September 946), the Later Jin Dynasty won two consecutive battles against the Liao Dynasty. Shi Chonggui of the Later Jin Dynasty was also immersed in the dream of becoming a great power. He allowed the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had been against him for a long time, to easily annex Fujian. This was obviously not in the interests of the Later Jin Dynasty. Since Fuzhou was loyal No, the Later Jin Dynasty was happy to let him become a regional wedge. Even if Fuzhou could not contain the Southern Tang Dynasty, it could at least disgust the Southern Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Later Jin Dynasty readily accepted Li Renda's offer of surrender and appointed him as the Governor of Fuzhou's Mighty Army. Added the title of Prime Minister (Tongping Zhangshi, in charge of the affairs of Fujian).
The water is far away and the water is close. Thousands of mountains separate the Later Jin Dynasty from Fuzhou. It is impossible to send troops directly to the battlefield in Fuzhou. Moreover, the Later Jin Dynasty is at the beginning of the third "Sin-Liao War" at this time, and it is impossible to "encircle Wei and save Zhao". Attack the Southern Tang Dynasty in Huaibei. Li Renda was like drowning, not letting go of any life-saving straw, but he finally found the right way out - Wu Yueguo.
Part of Fuzhou's defenders rebelled and led the Southern Tang army to attack the city. Li Renda's cronies only led more than a hundred people to resist, but they were ultimately outnumbered. Following the fall of the outer city, the second line of defense was lost, leaving only the last line of defense - —Inner city. Li Renda then urgently called Wu Yueguo and asked for reinforcements to be sent quickly.
Fuzhou was already in danger. At this time, troops broke out in Zhangzhou. The governor of Quanzhou Liu Congxiao sent troops to the town to expel the rebels. Then he reported to the Ministry of General Dong Si'an as the governor of Zhangzhou, and Li Jing approved it. Dong Sian's father's name was Dong, and "Zhang" was the same as "Zhang". Therefore, Dong Sian firmly rejected it, and Li Jing changed the name of Zhangzhou to "Nanzhou. Only then did Dong Sian accept the appointment as the governor of Nanzhou. For the convenience of narration, this book will It has always been called "Zhangzhou".
Li Jing ordered Dong Si'an and the Liu Cong Efficiency Department to reinforce Fuzhou.
On October 946 AD, soldiers and horses from all walks of life in the Southern Tang Dynasty gathered together with great momentum.
At the same time, Wu Yue, who received Li Renda's urgent request for help, fell into a heated discussion. The civil and military ministers unanimously opposed sending troops. There were two main reasons: First, the mountains were high and the roads were far away, and the army was running freely. Who dared to stand up with a sword? We don't have General Peng; secondly, the Southern Tang army is approaching the city, and Li Renda is only left in the inner city. He may have been lost before our reinforcements arrive, and I'm afraid it's too late.
Only Shuiqiu Zhaoguantong, the governor of the inner government, insisted on sending troops to rescue.
Finally, Comrade Qian Hongzuo, the supreme leader of the Wuyue Kingdom, was far-sighted and told the ministers not to be limited to the immediate situation, we also have poetry and a distant future. We must take a long-term view. Wu Yueguo and Fuzhou are inseparable. Saving Fuzhou means saving ourselves. The discussion at this meeting closely resembled New China’s great decision to “resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.”
With Qian Hongzuo's vigorous promotion, the "Resist Huaihe and Aid Fujian" operation showed amazing execution. Two days before Li Renda's envoy arrived in Hangzhou, the 30,000-strong Wu Vietnamese army was already divided on land and water, rushing to rescue Fu, racing against time.
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In late November, Wu Yue's reinforcements arrived in Fuzhou and met with Li Renda, but Fuzhou was still surrounded and the situation was not optimistic. \./hand\./machine\./version\./first\./issue\./update\./new~~
However, it has been a full month since the Southern Tang Dynasty successively captured the outer city and the second city and compressed Li Renda into the small inner city. If we refer to the comparison of military strength and the previous battles, then this month has been nothing. The progress seems quite strange, and it is obvious that it is an act of friendly forces.
Don't be afraid of opponents who are like gods, but be afraid of teammates who are like pigs. Li Renda may not be real, but the friendly forces of the Southern Tang Dynasty are real pigs.
Before Fuzhou, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Southern Tang army was Wang Chong, the governor of the Yong'an Army in Jianzhou, but the friendly forces did not listen to his orders at all:
Chen Jue, Wei Cen, and Feng Yan, despite the reputation of the "Five Ghosts and Four Evils", did not obey Wang Chongwen's command at all;
Liu Cong, the former Min Kingdom surrendered, the new governor of Quanzhou, and secretly controlled Zhang. At this time, he wanted to use the Fuzhou Rebellion to attract the elite of the Southern Tang Dynasty, so as to separate Quanzhou and Zhang, so he deliberately let go and raised the bandits. The development is also as he imagined;
When Wang Jian, General Tanxin, captured Jianzhou and captured Wang Yanzheng, Wang Jianfeng made the distinction of being the first to climb to Jianzhou City. At this time, he was arrogant and unruly and refused to be disciplined...
Wang Chongwen was unable to control each other at all. Although the Southern Tang army was scattered, each one acted in his own way, each with his own power, and each fought like a wolf.
Dogs don’t get on. What's more, there are those who stay and follow suit, holding back their bad intentions and deliberately giving them away, trying their best to make the friendly forces lose.
Therefore, the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty besieged one of them, but failed to make any progress. Li Renda stayed in the inner city, waiting for the help of Wu and Yue countries, and waited for hope.
The Southern Tang army spent one battle under Fuzhou City, and another, and another month... until February of the following year (947).
In these few months, a major event occurred in the Central Plains: the Khitans won the third "Sin-Liao War" and invaded Bian in one fell swoop. Shi Chonggui was captured in the north, and the Later Jin Dynasty was destroyed.
This incident had a huge shock to Huainan.
First, the Southern Tang Dynasty was extremely passive in its foreign policy towards the Khitan. The two countries have maintained close and friendly diplomatic relations for a long time, and have always used the north and the south to attack and carve up the Central Plains as the basis for cooperation. When the Khitan went south to destroy the Jin Dynasty, they sent a sincere invitation to the Southern Tang Dynasty, asking Li Jing to fulfill his promise. Mountains and seas, hand in hand, meet each other in Bianzhou.
However, Nan Tang is like all scum, "Next time I will do it."
To be honest, it was not that Li Jing did not want to fulfill his promise, but that the Fuzhou War involved most of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was really unable to divide his time. But no matter what, the Southern Tang Dynasty played a bystander role in the Khitan's destruction of the Jin Dynasty.
Now, the Khitan succeeded, and the Southern Tang lost first morally, and was at a disadvantage in future diplomacy.
In particular, the friendly relationship between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Khitan was based on a common enemy. The Central Plains Dynasty was not only a strategic buffer for both sides, but also a bond of friendship and intimacy. For example, the two countries lost the basis of friendly cooperation, but increased their interests. Risks of conflict, military friction, and political confrontation. The transformation between friends and enemies is happening quietly.
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The Khitan sent envoys to visit South China to announce the destruction of Jin. There are many different records of this diplomatic visit in historical records, all of which are very interesting:
"Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn": "In February 947, the Khitan came to announce the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, and invited the alliance to meet in the country, but refused to go."
"Meeting an alliance on the border, translate it, what does "meeting an alliance on the border" mean? Give me the translation of "Meeting an alliance on the border", what does "meeting an alliance on the border" mean?
The ancients were very reserved. Whether it was threats, intimidation or slander, they should also pay attention to Confucianism. Even if they were proclaimed, they would not be rude to their parents. For example, when Cao Cao annexed Jingzhou, he wrote to Sun Quan, "Now the navy is controlled by 800,000 people. I will hunt with the general in Wu."
We have sorted out the diplomatic passivity and military and political crises of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then look at the sentence "the alliance will be on the border," and appreciate it carefully.
However, "Jiangnan Unofficial History" and Ma Ling's "Shu of the Southern Tang Dynasty" have unique records of this "Meeting and Alliance":
"The Khitan sent two envoys to tell them that the young master of Jin had betrayed his orders and reneged on his promise... He would be registered as the king of the Central Plains. The heir said: 'Guarding alone on the river, the country has been consolidated...' He sighed and said, 'Fujian is exhausted, how can it compete with China?' "
The general idea was that Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty Yelu Deguang sent two envoys to explain to Li Jing that the reason for the destruction was because Shi Chonggui was a big scumbag, and he actually really wanted to restore the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Khitan. Since Comrade Li Jing was the sect of the Tang Dynasty, , then please ask Li Jing to be the winner and restore the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty... Then Li Jing modestly said that he would be satisfied if he could govern Huainan well. If Yelu Deguang really does not forget to do good things first and cherish the memory of the Tang Dynasty, please treat him well. As for the hundreds of things in the Central Plains, I don’t dare to expect anything else. Then he lamented that he was actually unable to aspire to the Central Plains because he was caught in the Fuzhou War.
Needless to say, this is to forcefully put gold in Li Jing's face. Without further explanation, if you take a look at authoritative histories such as "History of Liao" and "Zizhi Tongjian", you will know how absurd and narcissistic this record is! It simply stinks. Not only does it stink, it simply stinks.
Li Jing politely thanked the Khitan for the invitation to "meet an alliance on the territory" and sent Zhang Yi, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry ("Jiangnan Wild History" records that he was Jia, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the Ma Ling edition of "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" recorded that he was Jia Tan, the Minister of the Ministry of War). , first expressed his congratulations to the Khitans for destroying the Jin Dynasty, and then made a small request: As Li Tangzong, please allow me to send people to Chang'an to repair the imperial mausoleum.
As Li Jing felt, he was caught up in the Fuzhou War and was unable to aspire to the throne, but he could brush his existence in the Central Plains in this way and tell the old and young in Chang'an and even the entire Central Plains: The Tang Dynasty was not destroyed! Li Tang's clan has established a firm foothold in Huainan. Today he will come back to repair, and tomorrow he will come back to sit in the palace!
Khitan flatly refused this request.
The destruction of the Khitan made those who had offended the Khitan feel free and they chose. w_/a_/p_/\_/.\_/c\_/o\_/m
Those who chose to escape, such as Huangfuhui, the governor of Mizhou, and Wang Jian, the governor of Dizhou, fled across Huaihe and went south. Many militiamen and guerrillas on the north bank of the Huaihe River who were unwilling to surrender to the Khitan also expressed their willingness to accept the Southern Tang's offer.
As a result, a large number of "war factions" emerged within the Southern Tang court. They were represented by Han Xizai. Han Xizai once said that now is the best time to revive the Tang Dynasty, because although the Khitans were eliminated, they lacked a mass base in the Central Plains and lacked civil and military generals. The resistance of the common people is high, and the Khitan will not be able to last long. At this time, the Northern Expedition will comply with the will of the sky, and it will be a great cause. If the opportunity is missed, an anti-Liao leader will definitely emerge in the Central Plains. He will integrate the anti-Liao forces and finally unify China. Then, the Southern Tang Dynasty will face another powerful enemy from the north. No\./Error\./Update\./New`.w`.a`.p`.`.c`.o`.m
Han Xizai's prophecy was very accurate. In February, Liu Zhiyuan, the governor of Hedong Jiedu, promoted anti-Liao rebellion and took control of Bianzhou four months later.
Li Jing and other ministers agreed very much with Han Xizai's theory, but the war in Fuzhou made them unintentional and missed the opportunity.
When the time came to 3, Wu Yue State sent reinforcements to Baixiapu south of Fuzhou.
I like the past events of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
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