In April of the 14th year of Jingxi, Emperor Yongwei of the Ming Dynasty re-activated Lan Shaoqun, Minister of the Ministry of War, as the Fengzhou manager. He commanded the 20 Ming Dynasty troops to lead the southern strategy, preparing to turn Fengzhou near Lizhou into the possession of the Ming Empire in another time and space. The third province!
On the ninth day of May, after arriving at Yangqu County, Yangjun County, a border city between Li Feng and Li Feng Prefectures, the Ming army marching south was unexpectedly attacked by local regiment training soldiers. After losing dozens of people, Luo Fang, the commander of the forward guard, was furious. He ordered his subordinates, Qianhu Maqi, to set up cannons and bombard Yangqu County. After only one and a half hours, the thin rammed earth wall of Yangqu County was destroyed by the Ming army's cannons. Seeing the Ming soldiers swarming in, the Yangqu County magistrate fled in disguise with his family members, while the county government officials, without a leader, could only surrender with their seals in hand! Therefore, people lamented that even if Yangqu fell, no one in the entire county would die for Xia Ting. It was true that the country was about to end, and Xia was about to be destroyed!
Xianmuling is less than thirty miles away from Fengzhou City. It is a place with beautiful scenery and important geographical location. In addition to setting up an inspection department on the ridge, the Great Xia court also set up an inspection department at the entrance and exit of Xiandu Mountain. He entered the military stronghold and hoarded a small number of soldiers. Therefore, the officials and gentry of Fengzhou, who are well aware of its important geographical location, call it the "Key of Fengzhou"!
However, this 'Fengzhou Key' turned into an out-and-out flesh and blood mill in June of the 14th year of Jingxi! Ming general Luo Fang led an army of 5,000 to knock on the pass at the beginning of the month, but he did not expect that the Fengzhou garrison had already prepared. More than 20,000 Xia troops, who were waiting for work, set up a heavy ambush in Xiandu Mountain. Scatter and surround! After more than three hours of bloody battles, the elite of the Ming army were completely lost. Ming general Luo Fang could only lead three to four hundred remaining troops to break through the siege and escape from Xiandu Mountain at night!
But it didn't end there.
In June of the 14th year of Jingxi's reign, after hearing that their advance had suffered a setback, the Ming army's follow-up troops rushed in and invested more than 70,000 people from the 15th Guards on this dangerous battlefield. Their opponent, the Xia Army's Fengzhou garrison, The entire Fengzhou Army, Yanzhou Army, and Eight Min Army were also dispatched (Ba Min and Yanzhou were originally desolate and rough places, filled with endless trees, wild beasts, and savage and powerful natives, so even if In view of the vast territory of the Xia Dynasty and the strong national power, it took decades and countless blood to barely establish more than a dozen strongholds, cities, and more than 90,000 people on this wild land. The bloody battle on the dangerous battlefield lasted for half a month, and they refused to stop until the blood of soldiers on both sides turned the ground under their feet into a quagmire!
In this battle, the opponents, the Han and the Chinese, experienced for the first time the vigorous fighting spirit of the other side, and also understood that the war between the two sides in the Ming and Xia would not end in a short time. Therefore, the Ming army was disgraced. After retreating to Lizhou, the Xia army, unable to catch up, had to retreat to Fengcheng to regroup. What was left on the Xiandu Mountain battlefield were nearly 80,000 corpses from both sides in Mingxia, as well as countless large and small earthen graves!
Since then, the war between the two sides has entered a stalemate stage. The Ming army has a small population and cannot withstand heavy losses, while the Xia army also needs defense because the front is too long. Therefore, both sides temporarily stopped fighting and hid in their hometowns to lick their wounds. !
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Mr. Master, you said that since things have developed to this point, then no matter how bad the two sides are, they can establish a separate government across the river tomorrow! However, luck is sometimes a bit unclear. Everyone in the world takes it for granted, but fate refuses to let things develop like this!
In September of the 14th year of Jingxi, Xia Sizong summoned eight aristocratic families to the palace to discuss matters. The Taiwei played a memorial to the emperor in Yue Longguang, and wanted to establish a new government in Fengzhou, Bamin, and Yanzhou in the south of the Yangtze River (south of Fengzhou, the southernmost part of the Xia Dynasty's rule). ), Yunzhou (south of Lizhou), and Baizhou (west of Yunzhou) are places where Miao, Li, Dong and other ethnic minorities who came from different time and space mix with the indigenous Qidani and Tamulun people. The folk customs are very fierce. , the village chiefs and chiefs all had very great power and independence. They controlled the military, judicial, civil affairs, and financial powers in the state. At the same time, they also took over the governors, garrison envoys, etc. sent by the Xia Dynasty. Official) Liuzhou (north of Baizhou, it was originally the fiefdom of Liu Guogong granted by the Xia Dynasty. In the fourth year of Xuanyuan ① by Xia Sizong, Liu Guogong was suspected of participating in the rebellion of King Li ② and was deposed by Sizong. Later, he was sent by the central government to be a exiled official and Mu Shou) Kunzhou (the southwestmost state of the Xia Empire, was originally a feudal state of the Yongcheng ③ prefecture. In the sixth year of Xia Xizong’s ④ Daxing reign, the Yongcheng prefecture and lord died out, and was repatriated by the central court and became an outlying state of the Xia Dynasty) and Zhu Zhou (Liuzhou, north of Kunzhou, the land of abundance, a battleground for military strategists, was originally a state granted by the Xuncheng County Prince. In the 14th year of Emperor Guangzong's reign, it was abolished due to the eighth generation Xuncheng County Prince being involved in the ritual case ⑤, and was later changed to The imperial court sent exiled officials and pastors, but Zhuzhou's exile did not last long. In the 13th year of Daxing, Xizong decreed that his nine sons were kings of Huanjiang and established the Huan Kingdom. However, the status of the Huan vassal was respected, but there was nothing power, so Xia Ting also set up a governor in Zhuzhou, and sent the governor Sasuke to handle military and political affairs!) and other seven states and one county increased taxes to fight against the increasingly powerful Ming Dynasty and bandits, but the representative of the southern family, the censor Dongguo Yun However, Qing firmly expressed his opposition, and even tit-for-tat proposed to Sizong to increase taxes in more than ten states in the northern part of the empire to cope with the increasingly fierce war!
Note: ①Xuanyuan, Xia Sizong's first reign name, has ten years before and after. The 16th year of Xia Xizong's rise is the first year of Xuanyuan.
②During King Li's Rebellion, Xia Guangzong (Xizong's uncle) had no heirs for five years after he ascended the throne. Therefore, he appointed his younger brother Prince Yunmeng as the emperor's younger brother, and planned to make Prince Yunmeng the new king of the empire after the great war.
However, things took a new turn in the 13th year of Guangzong's reign. Zhu Neng, who was the governor of Leizhou at the time, presented a beauty to Guangzong who was patrolling in Leizhou incognito. Then by coincidence, this beauty came to Guangzong when he returned. She was actually pregnant in Beijing, so the overjoyed Guangzong immediately issued an edict to make the beauty a noble concubine after returning to the capital, and also prepared to make her son Anyang County Prince (non-emperor's eldest son cannot be granted the title, and once he is granted the title of Anyang County Prince , then it means that this person will inherit the rule and become the next emperor after the death of the old emperor Long Yu)!
Faced with this situation, the ministers who were unwilling to have Xia Guangzong appoint this son of unknown origin as the crown prince came to the gate of Changqing Palace and knelt down to beg the Supreme Lord to take back his life. At the same time, the crown prince's brother who got the news was also unwilling to get it. The emperor's throne changed hands, so he united with the queen and relatives to go to Changqing Palace to force Xia Guangzong to give up the idea of conferring a royal concubine and canonizing a county king!
However, the emperor's brother, the queen, and the officials at the time all underestimated Guangzong's determination. In March of the 14th year of Taiping, Xia Guangzong, regardless of the opposition of the court and the harem, forcibly conferred the title of Li on the beauty who gave birth to his dragon son. The imperial concubine, whose son is the Prince of Anyang County, and the little Prince who has just turned one year old has been given the title of Guanglu Shaoqing and the Lieutenant General of the Forbidden Palace, allowing him to control the imperial army of the Forbidden Palace (actually, the crown prince was given the title His mother, Imperial Concubine Li, took charge of the imperial army to consolidate and enhance her and her son's power)!
The ensuing etiquette reform case was initiated by Prince Yunmeng and his cronies who were unwilling to lose power, instigating Queen Guangzong, because they were so scheming that they did not resist Guangzong's imperial edict, but took Concubine Li and Anyang County into account. The king's parentage made a big fuss, and he hoped to get help from the princes of the clan.
Concubine Li was hanged to death, the young prince was strangled to death, and even Zhu Neng, the governor of Leizhou who presented the imperial concubine Li, was impeached and dismissed from office. Then the whole family died tragically on the way back home... As the supreme emperor of the empire, Xia Guangzong never expected that the queen, Prince Yunmeng and the eight great families would move so quickly, and by the time he reacted, all that was left in Changchun Garden, where people had been laughing and joking all day long, were only cold corpses. And Xia Guangzong's heart had already died with the death of Concubine Li!
After the abolition, Prince Yunmeng was demoted to Prince of Licheng (summer year, the closer the fiefdom is to the capital, the more respected the status of the prince), and the dismounting stones and memorial arches given to the eight aristocratic families by Emperor Taizu were removed... There is no greater sorrow than the heart. The dead Xia Guangzong quickly attacked the nobles, and more importantly, he, the supreme emperor of the empire, had begun to systematically replace court officials. He was weakening the cornerstone of the royal family and the family's rule. It turned out that he He has never forgotten to avenge his beloved woman and child!
In the fifteenth year of Taiping, the Licheng County Prince, who was completely under the supervision of Guangzong's cronies, could not leave the vassal domain, so he could only send his retainers to contact Leizhou in early February. Two hereditary marquises in Qingzhou who were also dissatisfied with Guangzong rebelled in the hope of fighting with the inner court. The ministers responded internally and externally, forcing Guangzong to abdicate and make way for others!
However, he overestimated the fighting power of his two allies, and at the same time underestimated the influence and control of Emperor Guangzong. In March of the 15th year of Taiping, the Leizhou garrison envoy Su Yue followed Guangzong's secret edict to capture the rebellious Shangguan. Gao Yuhu, the defense envoy with the hereditary title of marquis; and another rebel marquis was killed by Zhonglang General sent by the court during the battle. Therefore, in April of the fifteenth year of Taiping, a war was launched by King Li and his cronies. The riot was completely extinguished by Xia Guangzong, but the culprit, Guangzong's brother Licheng County Prince, escaped because he did not directly raise an army. He was only removed from all positions and titles by Guangzong, and was imprisoned in the Prince's Mansion!
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In the 19th year of Taiping, the talented and powerful Xia Guangzong died of illness. To the surprise of both the court and outside the court, the 49-year-old emperor actually left a legacy, appointing his younger brother's son (Xia Xizong) as the emperor's emperor. An emperor will continue to rule the world for him.
King Li also took advantage of the opportunity of the new emperor's accession to the throne and the general amnesty to return to the capital. However, after more than ten years, he had lost the opportunity to compete for the throne forever, and was arranged by the new emperor Xizong to stay idle in the mansion, completely becoming an idler. king.
For twenty years, King Li had been dormant in the capital for twenty years, and he finally waited for the news of the death of Emperor Xizong Long Yu again! At this time, he was no longer young and went into battle again for the Kowloon throne that made him salivate. This time he also joined forces with the equally ambitious Liu Guogong, Yongcheng Hou, Imperial Army Captain Tang Cong, and Chamberlain Guo Yue. , Wan Qi Junyi, the general of the city defense army Zuo Lang, acted as an internal agent, and together they raised troops to bully his grandnephew, Emperor Sizong of the Great Xia Dynasty!
In the fourth year of Xuan Yuan of Xia Sizong, the cholera war caused by King Li affected almost half of the northern land. The rebels took advantage of the lack of precautions of the court and advanced all the way, catching the court completely off guard!
However, this was only the beginning of the war, because Sizong, who had come to his senses, quickly re-appointed Taiwei Xiyushan as the commander-in-chief of Pingni on the advice of his ministers, and appointed the son of Taiwei Xiyu, Mr. The army was spearheaded by General Zhonglang, who led 30,000 imperial troops and 30,000 local garrison troops, a total of 60,000 troops, to go south to put down the rebellion!
Then, in the battle of Xuandu Mountain, the counter-rebellion army used its powerful combat power to push back the Li (King) and Yong (Cheng Hou) coalition forces with 90,000 troops, completely shattering King Li's dream of becoming emperor! King Li himself was also captured by Mao Zhigao, the captain of the imperial army, and escorted to the capital, where he was eventually poisoned! And his alliance, Liu Guogong, only lasted three months longer than him. In the Battle of Sand Dunes, he was defeated by the Xia army's Zezhou cavalry garrison Nangong Jianxiong. In the end, he set himself on fire in despair due to betrayal and separation!
③ Yongcheng, an important town in Kunzhou, was specially built by Xia Taizu, the founding emperor of the empire, to consolidate the southwestern frontier of the empire. It was initially guarded by the famous founding general Yongcheng Hou, and then the Yongcheng Hou died, and it was changed to the third son of the great emperor.
④Xia Xizong, whose reign name was Nancheng Zhiguo, Daxing, was the son of Guangzong’s youngest brother, and his mother was the legitimate daughter of the Xiyu family (Xiyu was one of the eight aristocratic families)!
