Chapter 2562 Sai Cun Xiao Liu Zong VS Qilang Yang Yansi
Chapter 2559: Sai Cun Xiao Liu Zong VS Qilang Yang Yansi
According to incomplete statistics, in the decades of war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongol Yuan, about 140 Southern Song generals rebelled and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. Two of them surrendered were very important, which directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and these two were Lu Wenhuan and Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Guan Xiao", and from this nickname, we can see that Liu Zheng is extremely brave.
Strictly speaking, Liu Zheng could not be considered a Song Dynasty person, but a Jin Dynasty person. However, in the late Jin Dynasty, he went south to join the Southern Song Dynasty and served under Meng Gong.
When Meng Gong led his army to attack Xinyang, Liu Ji led twelve people to sneak into the city and captured the defending general alive and forced him to kill him.
Meng Gong was shocked when he learned about it and said, "Li Cunxiao, a famous general of the Five Dynasties, led 18 cavalry to attack Luoyang. Now Liu Ji led even fewer troops to win Xinyang." He called him "Sai Cunxiao", so he got such a title.
But later, Liu Zheng was framed by a traitor because of his outstanding ability. When he had no way to complain, he was afraid of the persecution of the treacherous minister Jia Sidao. He was eventually forced to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty and became a founding hero of the Yuan Dynasty.
The reason why Liu Zheng''s surrender to the Yuan Dynasty directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty was because Liu Zheng was the founder of the Yuan Meng Navy. He helped the Yuan Dynasty form a powerful naval army and also proposed to first mention the strategic structure of Xiangyang, which had a significant impact on the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In official history, Liu Zheng was forced to surrender to Yuan, but now he takes the initiative to look at Yuan because of his identity.
Liu Zheng was a hidden figure in the Song and Yuan dynasties. After his birth, he was implanted into a general under the command of Liu Che, a member of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Che committed suicide. After the demise of the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Zheng had no choice but to surrender together with Zhao Chongguo and others. However, later, the story was revealed and Zhao Chongguo was sentenced to imprisonment for life, while Liu Zheng defected on the way to escort.
Liu Zheng originally went south to surrender to Liu Xiu or Liu Ji, but Daqin pursued him too closely and he escaped into the grassland for a lifetime.
In the end, under the persuasion and recommendation of his former acquaintance Sun Yanyu, Liu Zheng defected to the Zuoxian King Maodun of Yuanmeng.
Liu Zhi was very simple. Qin and Yuan had a feud. Even Temujin died at the hands of the Qin Dynasty. Now his friendship is just a big Qin situation. If Yuan and Meng recover, conflicts between the two countries will sooner or later break out.
If he could help Maodun become the next Yuan Emperor, Yuan Meng could restrain a lot of Qin''s troops and give Shu and Chu the southern countries to take advantage of it.
Mao Dun was eager to seek talents. Seeing that Liu Zheng was extremely skilled in martial arts and was good at using troops, he naturally valued him very much, so he allowed him to be appointed as the captain.
After being reused by Maodun, Liu Zheng has been diligent and shining in the two civil wars, defeating many Yuan Meng generals, and even saving Maodun''s life, so he took charge of military power.
As for why Liu Zhong betrayed Maodun this time?
There are three reasons:
First, it is because of the cooperation between Maodun and Daqin.
Liu Chi was a relative of the Han Dynasty and was incompatible with the Qin Dynasty that usurped the Han Dynasty. Naturally, he could not accept Maodun and the Qin Dynasty.
Even Liu Zheng knew that Maodun had no other choice, but even Maodun surrendered to Qin and even had to ced Shenglecheng, he would only fight Kublai Khan in the future, and it would be even more impossible to be an enemy of Qin.
The second point is that the failure of the two civil wars made Liu Zheng realize that Maodun was not Kublai Khan''s opponent.
In this case, instead of thankless assistant Maodun, it is better to know the current affairs of Wei Junjie and surrender to Kublai Khan as soon as possible, so that the Yuan and Mongolia unification can be faster.
As for this third point, Kublai Khan took the initiative to contact him.
Seeing that Zhang Liao''s reinforcements were coming, but he was unable to break the city for a long time, Kublai Khan listened to Yelu Chucai''s suggestion and activated the secret spies in the city to instigate Liu Zheng, and promised conditions that he could not refuse.
Kublai Khan agreed to Liu Zheng that as long as he surrendered, when the Yuan and Meng were completely unified in the future, he would form an alliance with the Shu and Chu countries in the south, attack the Qin Dynasty from the north and the south, and help the Han Dynasty restore the country.
Kublai Khan''s words were purely a cake, and he might not believe it himself, but it hit Liu Jin''s heart.
It is precisely because of these three points that even though Maodun was not bad at Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng still decided to rebel against Maodun. However, after all, he only had one battalion of three thousand soldiers, so it was obviously not easy to capture Chifeng City.
Liu Zheng didn''t dare to rebel alone, so he raised Yuan Meng''s banner and pulled the Han generals such as Sun Yanyu, Li Qi, Chen Youding, and Liu Bolin to rebel together.
Generals such as Sun Yanyu, Li Qi, and others, who were either from Hebei clans, or were rebels from Yan, Zhao and Han, had no less hatred for the Qin Dynasty than Liu Zheng. The two sides hit it off and agreed to launch a joint army.
But even with these people help, Liu Chi still only has 5,000 troops, far inferior to the ward of Chifeng City, the ward of Qie Shihou. Unless he can directly kill Qie Shihou and other Yuan Meng seniors, there is little chance of success.
Liu Zheng wanted to secretly get rid of the Han people, but the Han people always hated the Han people and were very distant from them, so he was very cautious and would not give Liu Zheng any chance at all.
In this regard, Yelu Chucai had long thought of a solution. After Zhang Liao arrived, the reinforcements outside the city would give up the siege and concentrate all their troops, and act as if they would eat Zhang Liao''s troops.
Although the Marquis of Chifeng City hated the Han people, they were also a person who took the overall situation into consideration. If he did not want Zhang Liao to fight alone after his defeat, he would definitely go out of the city to help Zhang Liao.
Therefore, Liu Zhengda could be considered sick and stayed in the city. When the Marquis of Dun left the city, he was trying to find a way to seize the city.
Liu Zheng followed Yelu Chucai''s plan and stayed in the city with the old wounds as a pretext, and then rebelled after the Marquis of Qieji left the city.
After learning that the Han generals in the city rebelled, the Marquis of Duke didn''t care about Zhang Liao anymore and immediately led his army back to support him, but he was still one step too late. He had already been robbed of the opportunity by Liu Zheng and was ambushed after entering the city, and eventually died at the hands of Liu Zheng.
When Zhang Liao learned that the civil strife in Chifeng City was in chaos, he also wanted to help Huhanye, but Kublai Khan was staring at him with great enthusiasm. If he really dared to move, the decisive battle would break out immediately.
Zhang Liao was not afraid of fighting to the death with Kublai Khan, but the situation is not clear yet, and it is obviously inappropriate to fight the decisive battle at this time.
Zhang Liao did not move, and Kublai Khan did not dare to move. After all, the Qin army had proved its combat power in Shengle''s battle not long ago.
Although Kublai Khan did not think that his 60,000 army would lose to Zhang Liao''s 20,000 Qin army, even if he could win, with the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, he would probably hurt him. Kublai Khan''s purpose was to eliminate Maodun and unify Yuan Meng. There was no need to fight with the Qin Dynasty at this time. After he captured the three cities, the Qin army would retreat, so he did not go to war directly with Zhang Liao and wait for the result of the situation in Chifeng City.
The civil strife in Chifeng City ended with the victory of Liu Zheng and others. Deputy General Hu Hanye led nearly 10,000 remaining troops to flee and went to meet with Zhang Liao.
After the two armies of Zhang Liao and Huhanye met, although the total force was 30,000, Kublai Khan''s force also reached 75,000.
The gap in military strength between the two sides has also widened.
Just when Kublai Khan thought Zhang Liao would know himself and would retreat voluntarily after knowing the gap, Zhang Liao did the opposite.
Zhang Liao pretended to withdraw his troops, hoping to make Kublai Khan relax his vigilance, but took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Yuan army.
In this regard, Kublai Khan''s military advisor Yelu Chucai had long anticipated, but Zhang Liao''s surprise attack could not be prevented.
With the help of the five sons and the raid, Zhang Liao''s commander attribute reached an astonishing 105.
Even if Kublai Khan is blessed with the combination of skills, the commander is still lower than Zhang Liao.
Temujin''s mother Hoelun has adopted many of them, and the four most famous people are collectively called the four adopted sons, namely: Shijihutuhu, Boerhu, Quchu, and Kuokuochu.
Among the eighty-eight heroes of Temujin''s enfeoffment, the silly Jihuhuhu ranked sixteen, the singly seventeen, and the singly eighteen;
As for Boerhu, he died early in the battle with the Tumati tribe, so he is not in the ranking.
Shiji Hudu, Qu Chu and others were all figures from the alien race, and were all implanted under Kublai Khan''s command. They were left to Kublai Khan by Temujin and Tolei.
Because Boerhu in this life also died at Qin Qiong''s gun in the battle of Yanmen Pass, the combination skill "Four Adopted Sons" is destined to be unable to fully open it.
But Kublai Khan awakened the new skill "Yuanzu". One of the effects is that he can enable the generals under his command who have matched attributes to launch a combination of skills for the generals who have already died in battle, so the effects of the "Four Adopted Sons" are still activated.
But even if Kublai Khan had the increase of his fourth adopted son, he was still not as good as Zhang Liao in terms of command. In addition, there was a gap in the lineup of generals, and he suffered heavy losses after being beaten by Zhang Liao in a surprise attack.
Zhang Liao took advantage of Kublai Khan''s untimely response and raided Kublai Khan''s 60,000 troops with 30,000 Qin and Huns coalition forces.
In this battle, Zhang Liao ordered Gao Shun and Xu Huang to help each other to prevent the retreat from being cut off by Kublai.
Gao Shun defeated the 4,000-yuan Meng Iron Cavalry with two thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and killed the general Wang Guer.
Xu Huang also blocked three times his reinforcements, and fought against Kuokuo and Shi Bingzhi in a fierce battle, and won.
After a full day and night of battle between the two sides, Kublai Khan had to choose to temporarily avoid the edge in order to prevent further expansion of casualties and led his army to retreat to Chifeng City.
After the war, the Yuan army lost 10,000 troops, while the coalition forces only suffered 4,000 casualties, of which nearly 3,000 were Maodun County.
Kublai Khan''s army of 60,000 was forced to retreat by Zhang Liao''s 30,000, not only did he lose nearly 10,000 elite troops, but even Wang Guer, who ranked 13th among the 88 heroes, and many other powerful generals were also killed in battle. He suffered heavy losses.
However, after Kublai Khan entered Chifeng City, he soon replenished the surrendered army, and he also gained many powerful Han generals such as Liu Zheng, Sun Yanyu, and Chen Youding, and their talents increased instead of reducing.
The Yuan army occupied Chifeng City and was able to defend the city. The entire Zhang Liao army had all cavalry and had no siege equipment. It was obviously unlikely to break the city, but it was unwilling to retreat like this, so they sent Xu Huang to lead the battle to provoke and swear, trying to incite Kublai Khan to go out of the city to fight.
Kublai Khan naturally regarded Zhang Liao''s verbal war, but he didn''t care, which did not mean that his generals didn''t care, especially Liu Zheng, who had just surrendered.
Liu Zhengcai surrendered to Kublai Khan and was eager to make contributions. When he saw Xu Huang coming to challenge him, he also wanted to show himself through this, so he was like Kublai Khan asking for a fight.
Kublai Khan knew Liu Zheng''s skills. After all, he had fought with Liu Zheng more than once in the two civil wars. Even the most powerful general of Yuan Meng, Zhebe, could not defeat Liu Zheng.
Although Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cun Xiao", it can be seen from this nickname that he is obviously very different from the real Li Cun Xiao. After all, nicknames such as "Sai Cun Xiao", "Sai Rengui", and "Xiao Wenhou" are not just to highlight the strength of the deity.
As a martial arts leader in an era, Liu Zheng is not weak, but he is still not at the level of the God of War. He is just a peak **** general. The reason why he can fight against Zhebi at the God of War is that Zhebi gave up his good bow and arrows and fought with him in close combat.
Seeing that Liu Zheng was confident, Kublai Khan was not good at damaging his enthusiasm, and Lu Bu was not in challenging the generals, so he agreed to Liu Zheng''s request for the battle.
When Xu Huang saw that the Yuan army had come out, he did not go to fight in person, but sent Yang Yanding to fight first.
Among the many brothers in the Yang family, Erlang Yang Yanding''s strength is second only to Yang Zaixing and Yang Qilang. Now Jiwu has reached 102 (+), but Liu Zheng who faces 104 is obviously no match.
After the fifteenth round of battle between the two sides, Yang Yanding began to fall into a disadvantage. After thirty rounds, he was already dwarfed by Xu Huang.
After that, Xu Huang went to fight in person, but only lasted for fifty rounds, and also lost to Liu Zheng. So he chose to retreat and sent Yang Yansi to continue the battle.
Qilang Yang Yansi''s Kiwu is only 103 (+2), so his hard power is naturally inferior to Liu Zheng.
But Liu Zheng has fought against the two great generals Xu Huang and Yang Yanding, and his physical strength is naturally consumed considerably. Facing Yang Qilang, who is still at the peak, he is naturally unable to match his strength.
The two sides fought for a full hundred rounds, and Yang Qilang became more and more braver as he fought, but Liu Zheng was exhausted and had to choose to retreat.
However, before leaving, Liu Zheng also made a harsh statement and made an appointment with Qilang to fight again in three days.
[Dingdong, Yang Qilang (Military 103) draws against Liu Zhong (104), breaking his own bottleneck, and Martial power +1;
Currently Yang Yansi: Commander 83 (+3), Force 104 (+3), Intelligence 60, Politics 60 (+1), Charm 85 (+3).
(This chapter ends)