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- "When the dead return to the earth, what will happen to the Taiping Army?"
In the backyard garden of his residence, His Royal Highness Liu Yan, a descendant of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was drinking wine alone at the stone table in the garden, muttering the words that made the dry sheep smack the taste for a long time.
As Liu Yan said before, his feelings for the Taiping Army are indeed very complicated and cannot be explained clearly in a few words.
Thirty years ago when the Great Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Southern Tang Dynasty, most people thought that all the Liu family of the Southern Tang Dynasty were wiped out except for the princess Liu Qian and her husband who escaped. They were brutally killed by the Emperor Li Ji of the Great Zhou Dynasty in Hulin in the south of the Yangtze River. , but in fact, the Liu family still has a trace of blood left in the world, and that is Liu Yan, who was only a few years old at the time.
About thirteen years after the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xue Ren, an old general of the Southern Tang Dynasty who was loyal to the Liu family, raised an army in Jiangnan Taiping and proclaimed himself a general. He openly rebelled and wanted to restore the Liu family of the Southern Tang Dynasty. However, he did not want to suffer the crazy encirclement and suppression of the Zhou Dynasty. In the end, the army was defeated in Wuhu and the entire army was almost annihilated.
Afterwards, Xue Ren¡¯s deputy general, Wu Heng¡¯s father Wu Wei, inherited this legacy. However, because he felt that his ability was not enough to lead the Taiping Army, he tried his best to find the descendants of the Liu family of the Southern Tang Dynasty who were living abroad.
Finally, Wu Wei found Liu Qian and asked her to take charge of the overall situation. You must know that the first-generation Taiping soldiers at that time were frightened by Dongzhen Hou Liang Qiujing. If there was no respected leader to lead the entire army, I am afraid that the entire Taiping Army would be shattered. After all, the Taiping Army at that time did not yet have Liang Qiuhao, an unparalleled hero in the country, in charge, and the younger generation of generals such as Yang Yu and Wu Heng had not yet grown up to the point where they could stand alone.
It is undeniable that although Liu Qing's biological mother Liu Qian was just a weakling, she was quite strategic and far-sighted. She prevented the first-generation Taiping Army from using the frequent rebellions to retaliate against the Zhou Dynasty, and taught them to keep a low profile and wait for the opportunity. As a result, the aggressive and ruthless first-generation Taiping Army gradually became tolerant and lurked underground, gradually transforming into the second-generation Taiping Army led by Liu Qian. At the same time, the Taiping Army was regarded as a cancer-like existence by the Zhou court. Desperate to eradicate.
Compared with the sharp-edged first-generation Taiping Army, the second-generation Taiping Army has more strength but less aggressiveness. After all, the leader with overall power is Liu Qian, a modest woman. Therefore, during the years when she held power, the Taiping Army almost never The conflict with the Great Zhou Dynasty was so calm that people within the Taiping Army even thought that they would give up their ambition to restore the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Finally, by chance, Liu Qian pulled Liang Qiuhao, a descendant of the Liangqiu family of the Great Zhou Tiger General, into the Taiping Army. Finally, the second-generation Taiping Army, which had gradually become accustomed to peace, lurked in the shadow of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The forces finally got a leader with unparalleled courage and unparalleled force. Like a sleeping beast, it gradually showed its fangs and quickly penetrated Jiangnan.
Conquering those who are willing to submit, removing those who are unwilling to submit, and gradually eroding the power of the Zhou Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, these are the three generations of the Taiping Army led by the great hero Liang Qiuhao.
However, few people know that before and after Liang Qiuhao succeeded Liu Qian and became the commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army, Wu Wei, the first deputy commander of the Taiping Army, also found Liu Yan by chance and found the Liu family of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The only man in the world.
Why was Liu Yan not surprised that Wu Heng could find him? The reason is simple, because Liu Yan had previously met Wu Heng's father, Wu Wei, the first deputy commander of the Taiping Army, and at that time, Wu Wei persuaded Liu Yan to take over Liu Qian's team, but Liu Yan refused. .
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Taking a sip of wine, Liu Yan slowly closed his eyes, and scenes from the past appeared in his mind.
According to his understanding, on the night when the country was destroyed, the imperial guards and eunuchs in the palace were looking for a way out for many princes, including him, Liu Yan, and fled the palace.
Unfortunately, however, there was an extremely brave young general who was ordered by the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty, Li Ji, to pursue and kill him.
Who is that young general?
That was the eldest son of Liang Qiu Gong when he followed the order of Emperor Li Ji to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty. He later became the former Duke of East Town and a fierce border general. The grassland tribes feared him for more than 20 years, even several years after his death. Years ago, the peerless general who dared not act rashly even when he saw his flag flying was also the biological father of Liang Qiu Hao, the Tiger of Northern Xinjiang Liang Qiu Gong.
The generals with the blood of the Liangqiu family are all unparalleled warriors in the country. This sentence is suitable for Liang Qiu Hao and Liang Qiu Wu, as well as for Liang Qiu Gong and his younger brother Liang Qiu Jing, who was studying martial arts in Jijing at that time. Also suitable.
The brothers Liang Qiu Gong and Liang Qiu Jing, one participated in the overthrow of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the other personally destroyed almost the entire Taiping Army of the first generation, making the Liang Qiu family famous even in Jiangnan, and even in Jiangnan decades later. , there are still people who make calligraphy and paintings of these two men and hang them on the door as door gods to beg for protection.
And facing a fierce general like Liang Qiu Gong, thenHow could the guards and eunuchs in the Southern Tang Palace resist? In the end, more than ten sons of Emperor Liu of the Southern Tang Dynasty were all killed. Among them, only a few old ladies guarding the youngest thirteenth prince, Liu Yan, escaped the pursuit. They wandered and finally crossed the Yangtze River and came to Guangling. Because Guangling was one of the many cities captured by Liang Qiu Gong, the strict military discipline of the Eastern Army Shenwu Camp prevented the people in the city from being bullied, and the security of the entire city was basically the same as before. To be blunt, apart from the fact that the emperor to worship has been changed, there is not much difference.
So, those old eunuchs took Liu Yan to settle down in Guangling. While teaching the young master in literature and martial arts, they also inquired about the emperor Liu Sheng to whom they were loyal. A few months later, they learned that the emperor Liu Sheng they were loyal to was forced to die in Hulin by Emperor Li Ji of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The country is destroyed, the king is destroyed, and the mountains and rivers are shattered!
Several old eunuchs died one after another due to worries and illnesses, and eventually only Liu Yan was left.
Liu Yan was only seven or eight years old at that time. Children of seven or eight years old didn't know much about making a living. They were just living on nothing, relying on the money they got from pawning the treasures they brought out of the Southern Tang Palace.
It wasn¡¯t until Liu Yan was around fifteen years old and all his money ran out that he gradually realized the difficulty of life.
At that time, Xue Ren, the first commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army, had already raised troops in Taiping to rebel against the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, he was also frantically encircled and suppressed by the Zhou army. Moreover, the entire Jiangnan also began to suffer a catastrophe that lasted for a full ten years: the furious Emperor Li of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He ordered the Taiping troops to be hunted and killed.
It is better to kill the wrong person than to let it go!
This was the style of the entire Jiangnan government at that time. In order to please the emperor and get promoted and make a fortune, many local officials framed innocent people as members of the Taiping Army. As a result, in that decade, the population of Jiangnan dropped by 10%.
What a shocking number this is!
In order to deceive others, Liu Yan gave up the noble surname Liu and changed his surname to the Mohist character Mo. Because during the years he lived in Guangling, Liu Yan was also comparing the national strength of the Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty.
In Liu Yan¡¯s view, the reason why the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated by the Northern Zhou Dynasty was that the Confucian academic style prevailed in the country and suppressed other schools of thought.
It¡¯s not that Confucian scholarship is bad, if that is true Confucian scholarship. The problem is that the academic atmosphere in the country at that time was too exaggerated, and all the literati were thinking about how to write the most gorgeous words to win the favor of the emperor. At that time, officials from all over the country could write books, but they were asked to fight against the invasion of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Sorry, the Southern Tang Dynasty had lived in a comfortable life for so long that it no longer knew how to resist the powerful troops of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
The Southern Tang Dynasty, which was born in sorrow and died in happiness and never experienced first-hand what it means to be prepared for danger in times of peace, was finally destroyed. It was defeated by the overlord of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Li Ji, who had great talent and strategy. The two countries merged into one, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty also From then on it was renamed Dazhou.
But all of this is far away for him, Liu Yan. Even after gradually reading more and more historical records, Liu Yan increasingly feels that the fall of his Southern Tang Dynasty is inevitable because his country has already been destroyed. I got used to peace and lost my vigilance. They forgot that the world had not yet been unified, and that north of the Yangtze River there was still a ferocious tiger like the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who played and sang every day and was extravagant and luxurious. On the other hand, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, despite the ferocious Rong in the north and the powerful Qiang in the west, the emperors of all dynasties But he still worked hard to govern, always hoping to open up territory one day and take over a large area of ??land south of the Yangtze River.
With this comparison, Liu Yan felt that his country's defeat was not unjust, because it was not a defeat at the hands of many powerful soldiers and generals in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but a defeat at his own hands.
But then again, as a descendant of the royal family of the Southern Tang Dynasty, did Liu Yan never think about restoring the country one day?
In fact, Liu Yan did think about it at first. Because he was the last male member of the Liu family of the Southern Tang royal family, he felt that he had to shoulder the responsibility of being the king of the country. After all, when his father, Emperor Liu Sheng of the Southern Tang Dynasty, passed away and many of his brothers died unexpectedly, only he was qualified to decide the direction of the country.
However, Liu Yan gave up.
"The people of the Southern Kingdom are under the rule of the Northern Kingdom, but their livelihood is still better than before. Do you want to invade the Northern Kingdom with thousands of innocent people and bring about the loss of life? ¡ª¡ªDon¡¯t cause trouble and create chaos! ]
This is what Liu Yan said in turn when Wu Wei, the first deputy commander of the Taiping Army, came to Liu Yan to persuade him to take over Liu Qian's team.
In Liu Yan¡¯s view, since the people of his Southern Tang Dynasty lived better under the rule of the Li family of the Great Zhou royal family than they did under the original rule of the Liu family of the Southern Tang Dynasty, what reason did they have to rebel against the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Is it necessary to sacrifice the lives of countless innocent people and fight against the Great Zhou until all life is ruined and the people are uneasy?
Liu Yan¡¯s attitude was very resolute at that time. Not only did he refuse Wu Wei¡¯s request for him to intervene,He pleaded for the overall situation and even persuaded Wu Wei to disband the Taiping Army and end this senseless catastrophe so that the people in Jiangnan could live in peace and contentment. After all, if no one took the lead, the people would not have the courage and strength to resist the Great Zhou Dynasty. Of the imperial court.
In fact, to be honest, although the Taiping Army was founded by an old official of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu Yan did not have a good impression of it. After all, Liu Yan lived among the people in the south of the Yangtze River and was used to seeing too many officials being implicated in the Taiping Army. Innocent people imprisoned or even executed. Compared with the two generations of heavenly ladies held in the palm of the Taiping Army, namely Liu Qian and his daughter Liu Qing, Liu Yan is more able to understand the lives of the people, whether it is joy or sorrow, otherwise, he would not have told Wu Wei He said things like "Don't cause trouble, cause chaos and drag down the people."
After several attempts to persuade him to no avail, Wu Wei had no choice but to retreat. Shortly after returning to the Taiping Army, he suffered from heart disease and died. Before he died, he told his son Wu Heng the secret of Liu Yanshang, the Thirteenth Highness of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
So when Wu Heng felt desperate and angry at Liu Qing's partial trust in Liang Qiu Hao, he even gave up Liu Qing as his object of allegiance and invited Liu Yan, a descendant of the Southern Tang royal family who lived in seclusion among the people, to come out and use his A semi-forced approach.
The night was deep, but Liu Yan was not sleepy at all.
It should be said that he had no intention of sleeping, because all his attention was focused on the places in Guangling City where endless shouts of fighting could be heard.
"In the final analysis, he is just Wu Heng's puppet. Although he is the current leader of the Taiping Army, he has no authority at all. The only thing he could do was to watch quietly and see whether the Taiping Army would be destroyed tonight.
Ah, he didn¡¯t think Wu Heng could win at all. In his opinion, Wu Heng was undeniably a powerful and powerful leader, but he was too ruthless and inhumane. And generally, if a guy like this cannot climb to the highest place, his end will be extremely miserable.
This kind of thing happens frequently in history.
Standing up, Liu Yan, who was already drunk, staggered towards the tallest building in the city guard's mansion. Because he was a puppet, it was impossible for Wu Heng to give Liu Yan absolute freedom. Therefore, when Wu Heng initially asked him where he wanted to live in the city, Liu Yan chose the tallest pavilion in the city guard's mansion.
Because it has the best view there, you can roughly see the entire Guangling, which is what is called a panoramic view. Now, the top floor of that attic has undoubtedly become the best place to watch the confrontation between the two armies.
"Heh, there's a fight at the South City Gate"
When Niuzhu's army of thousands, Wu Jiu, was pretending to attack the south gate on Kuyang's orders, Liu Yan had already climbed up to the high building, where he drank and watched the entire battle. It's the only thing he can do because he's nothing more than a puppet.
"Huh? The west city gate is also being fought Is this a plan by Ku Yang to attack the east and attack the west?" After taking a sip of wine, Liu Yan frowned and thought to himself, secretly wondering why Wu Heng's strategy was used by the still young and immature people. The dead sheep succeeded in the sneak attack.
It wasn¡¯t until Liu Yan noticed the movement of guards on the east, west, and north walls of the city that he suddenly realized it.
"I see It turns out that Wu Heng planned to use the dead sheep to lure the Zhou army into the army, so that he could catch them all in one fell swoop? - Huh? That army is"
Liu Yan watched quietly from a high place, from when Wu Jiu, a thousand-man Niuzhu army, pretended to attack the south city gate, to when Niuzhu army general Wang Jian pretended to attack the west city gate again, to when Ku Yang personally led the main force of Niuzhu army to capture the south city gate. Finally, Wu Heng ordered the guards on the east, west and north city walls to storm the south gate.
"Wonderful! It's really wonderful!"
With a bitter smile on his face, Liu Yan praised as if he was enjoying the pain. Although he didn't know the frightening conspiracy between Wu Heng and Ku Yang, he could somewhat understand the danger involved.
One wrong step and you will die without a burial place!
Suddenly, his eyes froze slightly.
"The Zhou armyhas entered the city?"
Narrowing his eyes, Liu Yan watched in surprise as the cavalry led by Liao Li entered the city and killed everyone in the city.
"Can it finally end?"
Liu Yan sighed slightly. After all, in his opinion, once the Zhou soldiers were called into the city, it meant that the Taiping Army had lost the advantage brought by the walls of Guangling City.
"anyway¡¡"
After carefully looking at the situation in the city, Liu Yan's eyes showed a little doubt, which was quickly replaced by surprise.
"Nothing has changed from beforethis situation. - That guy Wu Heng"
It was obviously Liao Li who led thousands of cavalry and infantry into the city. Logically speaking, Zhou Jun should have taken the lead. Why did Liu Yan say that there was no change from before?
Perhaps, only Wu Heng can explain this.
"Zhang Hongdied in the battle? - Who killed him?"
On a street outside the city guard's mansion, Wu Heng and many guards stood on the street on horseback, questioning the messengers who came to report the news.
"Reporting to Commander Wu, Lord Heavenly General was killed by an assassinAccording to what Lord Heavenly General said before he died, it should be Mo Fei from the Dongling people!"
"Oh? Is it that Mo Fei instead of that woman Jin Ling'er?" Wu Heng glanced at the messenger with some surprise, and said with a half-smile, "I thought earlier that since Xie An is here, Those evil bitches of his should probably be here too It turns out to be Mo Fei! - Zhang Hong was so careless!"
[Too imprudent A member of the Five Directions Heavenly General died in battle. Did Commander Wu just say this about it? ]
From the side, a Taiping Army general looked at Wu Heng in shock. He seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but stepped forward to remind him, "Commander Wu, it has been reported that General Liao Li of the Zhou Army has entered the city No." Let this person cause trouble in the city!"
"What's the rush?" Glancing at the general, Wu Heng said calmly, "Liao Li's troops only have a few thousand men. We have 60,000 to 70,000 powerful troops. Are you afraid that we won't be able to capture and kill him?"
"But" the general said anxiously after hearing this, "But the South City Gate is still in the hands of the Zhou army and the rebels of Niuzhu army! - If we can't recapture it as soon as possible, when the Zhou army's backup arrives one after another, our army may "
"Hey!" Wu Heng shook his head and chuckled when he heard this, "I hope more Zhou troops will crash into the city and die!" As he said that, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the south city gate.
[Kuyang, Kuyang, I really underestimated you kid I didn't expect you to be able to understand my plan and act according to his plan. It's a pity Do you really think you defeated me? ridiculous! ¡ª¡ªEven if you are lucky enough to beat me, the battle situation will not develop as I hope? Didn't Zhou Jun enter the city because of this? Fool! This commander is just planning to trap the Zhou soldiers in the city. No matter which side the Zhou soldiers enter the city from, there is no difference at all! ]
Thinking of this, Wu Heng sighed and murmured with some disappointment, "I want to hunt a tiger, but I don't want to accidentally shoot a deer! - That's all, after all, Liao Li can be regarded as a general of the Zhou army As of now, it's just Let¡¯s deal with Ku Yang and Liao Li first!¡±
With that said, Wu Heng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Send the signal! - Close the southern city gate!"
¡°It¡¯s an order!¡±
Several guards clasped their fists to accept the order, and shot five fire arrows into the sky, rising through the air.
"This is¡¡"
Because of Liao Li's arrival, Ku Yang, who finally had a chance to rest near the south city gate, immediately noticed the five fire arrows that shot through the air.
And just when he was thinking about the meaning of these five fire arrows, suddenly, there was a clicking sound behind him.
"This is" Kuyang looked around, looking for that weird voice.
Suddenly, his expression changed drastically, because he discovered that the suspension bridge that had been lowered was actually put back up, and then, the South City Gate, which had been opened, slowly closed.
¡°Boom¡ª¡ª!¡± After a very thick sound, the South City Gate finally closed again.
"How is it possible?!" Kuyang's eyes widened in disbelief, because he discovered that the city gate was not closed by the Taiping Army, but the soldiers of Niuzhu Army under his command.
?????????????His Niu Zhug soldiers, who had been fighting to the death with the Taiping Army just now, actually changed sides and surrendered the city gate to the Taiping Army. During this period, some soldiers who did not want to do so were mercilessly killed by the traitors.
"How could there be traitors among the soldiers under my command?" ! ]
Kuyang was shocked and angry. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed.
[Commander, I think Wu Heng is deliberately trying to win over you. If not, why did you expand the Niuzhu Army to 20,000 men? Isn't this a disguised form of co-optation? ]
The words of Wang Jian, the then general, suddenly appeared in Kuyang's mind.
"Oops¡¡"
In an instant, the withered sheep's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and there was no blood on his face.
At the same time, Wu Heng seemed to have heard the loud noise from the closing of the south city gate, and there was a bit of a sneer on his face.
"Because he is a former subordinate of our good brother Wei Hu, and he loves his family as much as he loves his family, so he has a lot of trust in him, right? - This trust will cost you your life right now, Kuyang!"
After all, Wu Heng is superior! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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