The second year of Shaoming, 947 AD, March 13th.
Zhang Zhao sent Daibei and Hedong elders, as well as Zuo Shenwei Army general An Shuqian, to Hedong in person to persuade Liu Zhiyuan to abandon the separatist regime and go south from Taiyuan to Tokyo to meet with him.
Liu Zhiyuan was extremely angry and cursed An Shuqian as a traitor, and detained An Shuqian and more than 30 people accompanying him.
On March 20, after receiving the news that Liu Zhiyuan had detained An Shuqian.
Zhang Zhao appointed Hotan County Duke and Pingzhang Liu of Shannan Province as Shannan's capital deployment, and he was the commander-in-chief of Shannan to supervise the armies of Shannan to guard against any changes in Nanping and Southern Tang Dynasty.
Jiuquan County Duke, Jianghuai Province Pingzhang, and Xuzhou Prefecture Wuning Army Jiedushi Ma Zhaoyuan (Ma Yaozi) were deployed for the two Huaidu capitals.
The commander-in-chief of Chijie supervised the armies of the two Huaihe Rivers, and guarded against the Southern Tang Dynasty, especially against the Huaibei thief Li Renshu and Liu Renzhan, the military governor of Qinghuai Army in Shouzhou during the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Qiao Guogong, Guanzhong's governor Pingzhang, and Chang'an's left-behind Cao Yuanzhong were deployed as the capital of Guanzhong, and the governor of Zhijie supervised the troops in Guanzhong to defend Meng Shu.
Yin Zhengqi (Yin Yaozi), who had just arrived in Tokyo, was ordered to serve as the commander of the guard and military capital, and the envoy of Tokyo's seven soldiers and horses. He led three thousand elite Zuo Longxiang guards to guard Luoyang, the sacred capital, and Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.
Shangshu ordered Zhang Xichong to join Tongzhongshu's subordinates Pingzhangshi and Zhili Pingzhang to take charge of the affairs of the country and stay behind.
Zhang Zhao then transferred 3,000 horse infantry soldiers, camel artillery troops, and Jin Rui soldiers from Hanshandu and Shenjiying.
There are 18,000 elite soldiers in the six guards including the left and right Yulin guards, the left and right Jinwu guards, the right Longxiang guards, and the right Qianniu guards.
The Forbidden Army has 20,000 people in Hanhai Town, Yucheng Town, Yingyang Town, Feng'an Town, and Shenwei Town.
The Zhongwu Army of Xuchang Prefecture, the Guide Army of Guide Prefecture, the Taining Army of Jining Prefecture (Yanzhou), and the Tianping Army of Yunzhou Prefecture each had a thousand soldiers, totaling 4,000.
This pro-army army has six guards and one capital, five towns of the forbidden army, and four towns of the tooth soldiers, with a total of 45,000 infantry and cavalry mobilized.
Among them, the personal guard You Qianniuwei and the forbidden army Shenwei Town were integrated with the original imperial army of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Then he recruited 3,000 Yi Cong cavalry from Hexi, 1,000 Yi Cong cavalry from Guanzhong, 2,000 United Archers from Hexi, 2,000 United Archers from Guanzhong, and 5,000 United Archers from Henan, for a total of 13,000 people.
There are a total of 58,000 people, plus more than 20,000 auxiliary troops led by the pro-army and imperial guards, their nephews and brothers, for a total of 80,000 troops.
And 130,000 Henan civilians were recruited to participate in transportation, a total of more than 200,000 people, known as the 300,000-strong army.
Zhang Zhao then ordered Fu Yanqing, the envoy of Zhangde Army in Pingzhang and Changshan Prefecture of Hebei Province, to go north to the Wei, Bo, and Bei areas to recruit Hebei martyrs, blocking Liu Zhi's possibility of entering Jiaodong from the Far East, and also to prevent the Khitans from going south.
Gao Xingzhou, the governor of Pingzhang of Youyun Province and Fan Yangjun of Beiping Prefecture, sneaked into the Cangzhou area and recruited Youyun athletes while gathering the Cangzhou Hengjun naval officers and generals who had nominally taken refuge with Liu Zhiyuan.
Huangfu Yu's nephew, Zuolongxiang Weidu Yuhou Huangfuchong, Dutou Du Zhimin and others were ordered to lead an elite team to cooperate with the Jinyi guards to summon righteous men to Changshan Mansion and even Yi, Ying and Mo areas, ready to help Liu Zhiyuan and the Khitan people at any time. Put a knife in the back.
Zhang Shengren's good son-in-law, the Marquis of Beiping and the military governor of Hezhong Prefecture, Zhao Kuangzan, was transferred to the military governor of the three towns in Heyang.
He led the National Guard Army and Baoyi Army's tooth soldiers with two thousand troops, and Yuhou Wu Xingde, the capital of Feng'an Town, with one thousand forbidden troops to guard Huaizhou (Qinyang).
Prevent Liu Zhiyuan from attacking Luoyang from Luzhou and Zezhou, which later became Changzhi and Jinyang in Shanxi Province.
At the same time, Cao Yuanzhong was ordered to send Cao Yuanzhong, the governor of Pingzhang in Guanzhong, to send Yuhou Wuguoer, the capital of Xiongwu Town who was staying in Guanzhong, to lead a thousand Xiongwu Town forbidden troops out of Tongguan to Hezhong Prefecture to guard against Liu Zhiyuan's Jinzhou Jianxiong Army Jiedushi, and to go south along the Yellow River to attack Hezhong Prefecture. .
In the northwest, Zhang Zhao ordered Ningxia Province Pingzhang and Datong Marquis Zhe from far away. Wu Luan, the defense envoy of Ningxia Province and the commander-in-chief of Datong Town, and Yang Hongxin, the governor of Linzhou and the military supervisor of Linzhou and the new Qin Bo, sent troops. Fifteen thousand.
Threaten Hedong from the flank, contain Liu Zhiyuan's power, and wait for an opportunity to seize the Shengzhou (Yulin) area.
He ordered Shuofang Provincial Pingzhang to defeat Deku and Shuofang Provincial Defense Commander Yao Yuanfu to send 3,000 troops and 30,000 civilians down the Yellow River to attack the Khitan tribe occupying Zhenwu Army and Fengzhou, and to recruit and surrender the nearby nomadic tribes to restore the state. Farming.
For this reason, Zhang Zhao specially sent his adopted son, Zhe Congyuan's second son Zhe Deyuan, back to Ningxia to convey Zhang Zhao's will.
Finally, Zhang Zhao ordered Guo Tiance to mobilize elite civil and military officials to form the commander-in-chief staff officer corps and the logistics support group-Wang Yi Division, and Guo Tiance served as the secretary in charge of Wang Yi Division.
Li Gu was appointed as Wang Yisi's army transport envoy, responsible for the overall transportation of the army's food and grass.
Zhang Lie was appointed as Wang Yisi's army investigator, responsible for comprehensive intelligence analysis and summary.
Yan Jin was appointed as the commander of the northern capital and was fully responsible for the confrontation between the army on the Yedu-Fushui line.
Murong Nobunaga was appointed as the vanguard of the army, and Li Cunhui was the deputy envoy. He commanded the left and right Yulin Guards, the left and right Jinwu Guards, Yingyangzhen, and two thousand Hexi Yicong as the vanguard of the army.
Gao Huaide, Zhao Kuangyin, Hu Guang, Feng Jiye, and Hou Renbao were the vanguard soldiers and horse envoys who went north from the Guantao area of Weizhou to explore and harass.
This can be regarded as the largest troop dispatch by Zhang Gao in the past fifteen years.
Zhang Shengren himself led an army of 90,000, plus 15,000 from Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and others, 15,000 from Zhe Congyuan, Wu Luan, and Yang Hongxin, and 3,000 from Zhe Deke. An army of 113,000.
Including the more than 200,000 civilians mobilized, it is actually conservative to say that there are 300,000 troops.
Of course, such a large battle was not just to deal with Liu Zhiyuan. There were only 50,000 people in Hedong Town. Zhang Zhao did not need to mobilize all the elites from all over the country. Zhang Zhao wanted to sweep across the country together with the Khitans, first regaining Yanyun, and then taking down Yanyun. The Khitans were uprooted.
On the first day of April, Zhang Zhao built a platform by the Bian River in the north of Kaifeng City to reorganize his army. After the generals of all the armies arrived, Zhang Zhao rewarded the army by killing 10,000 cattle and sheep, and swore an oath of loyalty with 90,000 elite troops by the Bian River.
He also ordered Feng Dao, the Minister of Political Affairs, Rites and Punishment, to draft an appeal against the rebellion and spread it throughout the world.
Zhang Zhao listed Liu Zhiyuan's three major crimes in his appeal.
First, when he was the military envoy of Hedong Yameni, he failed to dissuade Shi Jingtang from treason, so that the land of Yanyun was seized by the Khitan, and Shi's traitorous country was betrayed. Liu Zhiyuan was one of the culprits.
Second, Liu Zhiyuan led the elite troops of the Shi Jin court to guard the country's gates. When the Khitan troops approached the Yellow River, Liu Zhiyuan was still delaying, watching from left to right, sitting back and watching the Khitan harm the Central Plains, showing his disobedience.
Thirdly, after Shi Jin destroyed the country, Liu Zhiyuan did not think about avenging his master. Instead, he colluded with the Khitan and betrayed the people of Hebei. He tried to follow Shi Jingtang's example and use the power of the northern captives to seize control of the Central Plains and become the emperor again.
Finally, Zhang Zhaokang expressed passionately that he should first defeat Liu Zhiyuan and recover Hedong, and then defeat the Khitan. He would not only recover Yanyun, but also Liaodong and Liaoxi, so that Jin Ou would be intact.
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Liu Zhiyuan, who had already left Jingxingguan and arrived in Hengzhou, received the message, but he was almost angry to death because he was the one who tried his best to dissuade Shi Jingtang from betraying his country.
Later, when Yelv Deguang entered the Central Plains, it was entirely the result of Du Chongwei's surrender. Liu Zhiyuan only had 30,000 troops at that time, and there were more than 10,000 Khitan people suppressing him in the Xukou area, making him unable to move.
It's not that he doesn't want to save, it's that he doesn't dare to save. Although he does want to sit back and watch, it's not as Zhang Zhaoxiu said in his article. He has a lot of troops and just refuses to save him.
What's more, judging from this statement, it seems that he, Liu Zhiyuan, was the biggest reason for the collapse of the Jin Kingdom.
Liu Zhiyuan immediately became angry and ordered Guo Congyi to lead 10,000 troops to reinforce Guo Wei.
Li Wanchao, the governor of Luzhou Zhaoyi Army, led an army of 5,000 sheep to attack Huaizhou.
He himself mobilized 30,000 horse and infantry troops from Hedong and went south from Hengzhou, intending to first defeat Fu Yanqing who came from Beizhou, and then outflank the Zhou army in a roundabout way.
At the same time, Liu Zhiyuan ordered Bai Wenke to urge the Tuyuhun people in Hedong to send at least 7,000 cavalry to follow the Hedong soldiers and horses southward.
As for the most important foreign aid to the Khitan, Liu Zhiyuan ordered his confidant Wang Jun to go to Youzhou to urge the Khitan leader Yelu Ruan to immediately send troops and go south from Cangzhou to join him in Beizhou.
Gritting his teeth, Liu Zhiyuan also asked Su Fengji to draft a crusade against Zhang Zhao.
However, Su Fengji was not as good as a literary elder like Feng Dao.
Feng Daoneng wrote the article extremely sharply, writing Liu Zhiyuan, who was originally opposed to Shi Jingtang's treason, as the biggest accomplice and the biggest sinner who brought trouble to the world.
But Su Fengji couldn't do it. In addition to explaining that Zhang Zhao was originally invited by Jin leader Shi Chonggui to join the Central Plains to help boxing, but refused to leave, he could only curse people.
In his message, he scolded Zhang Zhao for actually being a Tibetan slave, a Tubo slave, and a Tibetan thief. After pretending to be loyal to the dynasty, he said he was reviving the Tang Dynasty, but in fact it was a Tibetan thief who trapped China. He was even more shameless than the Khitans. .
However, when Zhang Zhao received this message when he was crossing the Yellow River, he almost smiled.
The damage done by Su Fengji's message to Zhang Zhao was actually limited, because the Zhang family not only had a genealogy, but also had large banners, banners, and tokens given by emperors of the Tang Dynasty as proof.
Moreover, Zhang Zhao's father, Zhang Chengfeng, founded the Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty and became the emperor in white. Of course, the birth of a prince like Zhang Zhao must be solemnly recorded in the golden book.
After the Cao family replaced Zhang, they also sent someone to record Zhang Zhao's every move. It can be said that his status was very strong.
But these confidants under Zhang Zhao are either people who don't even know their parents or even their birth date, or people whose identity is questionable because they were born in Liugu Amo.
They did not have such detailed evidence as Zhang Zhao. After Zhang Zhao led them back to the country in righteousness, they became more sensitive to their national identity.
Su Fengji's letter was like stabbing their hearts with a spear and a big knife!
Every word like Tubo slave or Tibetan thief deeply hurt the hearts of these Hexi warriors, stripping off their aura and throwing them into the cesspit.
As soon as the proclamation arrived that day, people on both sides of the Yellow River became excited, and morale and murderous intent exploded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Countless soldiers were howled and kept coming to Commander Zhang Zhao's tent to plead for orders. They were willing to be the rebels and must kill Liu Zhiyuan and Su Fengji.
Well, the text of the statement is used to enhance one's own combat power and undermine the opponent's will.
But Su Fengji's scolding was simply a divine assist, more effective than Zhang Zhao's throwing money and passionate speeches.
