Vol 2 Chapter 2563: Kotosei VS Shichiro Nobutsugu
Chapter 2563 Sai Cunxiao Liu Zheng VS Qilang Yang Yansi
Chapter 2559: Sai Cunxiao Liu Zheng VS Qilang Yang Yansi
According to incomplete statistics, during the decades of war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, about 140 generals of the Southern Song Dynasty rebelled and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. Two of them played a very important role in surrendering, which directly led to the eventual demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. These two people were Lu Wenhuan and Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cunxiao", and from this nickname, we can see that Liu Zheng himself is extraordinary in martial arts.
Strictly speaking, Liu Zheng cannot be considered a Song person, but a Jin person. However, at the end of the 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 Zheng and twelve men sneaked into the city, captured the guard alive and forcibly killed him.
When Meng Gong learned about it, he was shocked and said: "Li Cunxiao, a famous general from the Five Dynasties, led 18 cavalry to capture Luoyang. Today, Liu Zheng leads an even smaller army and captures Xinyang." title.
But later Liu Zheng was framed by a traitor because of his outstanding ability. With no way to complain, and fear of persecution by the traitor Jia Sidao, he was eventually forced to demote the Yuan Dynasty and became the founding hero of the Yuan Dynasty.
The reason why Liu Zheng's demotion to the Yuan Dynasty directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty is because Liu Zheng was the founder of the Yuanmeng Navy. He helped the Yuan Dynasty form a powerful navy, and he also proposed the strategic plan of Xiangyang first. , and these all had a significant impact on the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Liu Zheng in the official history was forced to demote the Yuan Dynasty, but now he takes the initiative to become like the Yuan Dynasty because of his status.
Liu Zheng was a hidden figure in the Song and Yuan Dynasties who was randomly summoned. After his birth, he was implanted as a clan member of the Han Dynasty and a general under Liu Che's command in the Northern Han Dynasty.
Liu Che committed suicide and died. After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Zheng had no choice but to surrender along with Zhao Chongguo and others. However, when the Dongchuang Incident occurred, Zhao Chongguo was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Liu Zheng defected while being escorted.
Liu Zheng originally went south to join Liu Xiu or Liu Ji, but the Qin Dynasty pursued him too closely, and he escaped into the grassland only after narrowly escaping death.
Finally, under the persuasion and recommendation of his old acquaintance Sun Yanyu, Liu Zheng sought refuge with Maodun, the Zuoxian king of Yuanmeng.
Liu Zheng’s thinking was very simple. There was a feud between Qin and Yuan. Even Temujin died at the hands of Qin. The current friendship was just because Qin was stronger. When Yuan and Meng recovered, conflicts between the two countries would break out sooner or later.
And if he can help Mao Dun become the next Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Meng can contain a lot of Qin's troops, giving the Shu and Chu countries in the south an opportunity to take advantage of.
Mao Dun was already thirsty for talents. Seeing that Liu Zheng was extraordinary in martial arts and good at using troops, he naturally thought highly of him, so he appointed him as a school captain.
After receiving Mao Dun's trust, Liu Zheng has been working diligently and brilliantly in the two civil wars. He defeated many Yuan and Mongolian generals and even saved Mao Dun's life, and thus took charge of the military.
As for why Liu Zheng betrayed Modun this time?
There are three reasons:
One is because of the cooperation between Maodun and Daqin.
Liu Zheng was a member of the Han clan and was at odds with the Qin who had usurped the Han Dynasty. Naturally, he could not accept the alliance between Maodun and the Qin.
Even Liu Zheng knew that Mao Dun had no other choice, but if even Mao Dun surrendered to Qin and even had to cede Shengle City, then the fight with Kublai Khan would only become more fierce in the future, and it would be even less possible for him to become an enemy of Qin. .
This second point is because of the failure of two civil wars, Liu Zheng realized that Maodun was not Kublai Khan's opponent.
In this case, instead of assisting Maodun in a thankless manner, it would be better for Wei Junjie to be aware of current affairs and join Kublai Khan as soon as possible, so that the unification of Yuan and Mongolia can be faster.
As for the third point, it was Kublai Khan who took the initiative to contact him.
Khubilai Khan saw that Zhang Liao's reinforcements were approaching, but he was still unable to break the city, so he listened to Yelu Chucai's suggestion, used spies in the city to instigate Liu Zheng, and made an offer that he could not refuse.
Kublai Khan promised Liu Zheng that as long as he surrendered, when Yuan and Meng were completely unified in the future, he would form an alliance with Shu and Chu in the south, attack Qin from the north and south, and help the Han Dynasty recover.
Kublai Khan's words were purely untrue, and even he himself might not believe them, but they hit Liu Zheng's heart.
It is precisely because of these three points that Liu Zheng decided to rebel against Mao Dun even though Mao Dun treated Liu Zheng well. However, after all, he only had a battalion of 3,000 soldiers and horses, so it was obviously not easy to capture Chifeng City.
Liu Zheng did not dare to rebel alone, so he raised the banner of Yuan and Meng and led Sun Yanyu, Li Qi, Chen Youding, Liu Bolin and other Han generals to rebel together.
Generals such as Sun Yanyu and Li Qi were either from prominent clans in Hebei that had been wiped out, or were rebel generals from the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Han. Their hatred for the Qin side was no less than that of Liu Zheng. The two sides hit it off and agreed to launch an army together.
Even with the help of these people, Liu Zheng still only had 5,000 troops in his hands, which was far inferior to Chifeng City defender Qie Tuanhou. Unless he could directly kill Qie Tuanhou and other high-ranking Yuanmeng officials, the possibility of success was unlikely.
Liu Zheng wanted to secretly get rid of Qie Tuanhou, but Qie Tuanhou had always hated the Han people, and was also alienated from Han generals like them. He was very defensive and would not give Liu Zheng any chance at all.
In this regard, Yelu Chucai had already thought of a way. After Zhang Liao arrived, the reinforcements outside the city would abandon the siege, concentrate all their forces, and pretend to eat Zhang Liao's troops.
Although Chifeng City's Ji Tuanhou hated the Han people, he was also someone who had the overall situation in mind. If he didn't want Zhang Liao to fight alone after his defeat, he would definitely go out of the city to assist Zhang Liao.
Therefore, Liu Zhengda can pretend to be ill and stay in the city, waiting for Marquis Tuan to leave the city and think of ways to seize the city.
Liu Zheng followed Yelu Chucai's plan and stayed in the city on the grounds that an old injury had occurred. He also raised an army to rebel after Qie Tuanhou left the city.
After Qie Tuanhou learned that the Han generals in the city had rebelled, he no longer cared about Zhang Liao and immediately led his troops back to support him. However, it was still a step too late and Liu Zheng had already taken the opportunity. He was ambushed after entering the city and was eventually killed by Liu Zheng. hand.
When Zhang Liao learned about the civil strife in Chifeng City, he also wanted to help Hu Hanxie, but Kublai Khan stared at him eagerly. If he really dared to move, a decisive battle would break out immediately.
Zhang Liao is not afraid of a decisive battle with Kublai Khan, but the situation is not yet clear, and it is obviously inappropriate to fight a decisive battle at this time.
Zhang Liao did not move, and Kublai Khan did not dare to move. After all, the Qin army had already proven its combat power in the recent battle of Shengle.
Although Kublai Khan did not think that his 60,000-strong army would lose to Zhang Liao's 20,000-strong Qin army, but even if he could win, the Qin army's combat effectiveness would probably frustrate him. Kublai Khan's purpose was only to destroy Maodun and unify Yuan and Meng. There was no need to fight with Qin at this time. After he captured the three cities, the Qin army would retreat, so he did not directly start a war with Zhang Liao and waited for Chifeng. Results within the city.
The civil strife in Chifeng City ended with the victory of Liu Zheng and others. Lieutenant General Hu Hanxie fled with nearly 10,000 remaining soldiers and went to join Zhang Liao.
After the armies of Zhang Liao and Hu Hanxie joined forces, although the total strength was 30,000, Kublai Khan's strength also reached 75,000.
The gap in military strength between the two sides has also widened further.
Just when Kublai Khan thought that Zhang Liao would be self-aware and would take the initiative to retreat after knowing the gap, Zhang Liao did the opposite.
Zhang Liao pretended to withdraw his troops in order to make Kublai Khan relax his vigilance, but instead took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Yuan army.
Yeluchucai, Kublai Khan's military advisor, had already anticipated this, but Zhang Liao's surprise attack could not be prevented by anticipation.
With the support of the five sons working together and the surprise attack, Zhang Liao's command attribute reached an astonishing 105.
Even if Kublai Khan has the blessing of the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons", his commander is still lower than Zhang Liao.
Temujin’s mother, Hoelun, adopted many adopted sons, and the four most famous ones are collectively known as the four adopted sons, namely: Shijihu Tuhu, Borhu, Quchu, and Kuokuchu.
Among the eighty-eight heroes of Temujin's enfeoffment, Shijihuduhu ranked sixteenth, Quchu ranked seventeenth, and Kuokuo ranked eighteenth;
As for Borhu, he died early in the battle with the Tumat tribe, so he is not included in the ranking.
Shiji Kuduhu and Quchu were all figures born from the foreign race, and they were all implanted under Kublai Khan. They were the confidants left by Temujin and Tuolei to Kublai Khan.
Since Borhu in this life had also died under Qin Qiong's gun in the battle of Yanmen Pass, it stands to reason that the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons" is destined to be unable to be fully activated.
But Kublai Khan has awakened the new skill ‘Original Ancestor’, one of its effects is to allow his generals with matching attributes to activate combo skills on behalf of generals who have died in battle, so all the effects of ‘Four Adopted Sons’ are still activated.
But even with the increase of four adopted sons, Kublai Khan was still not as good as Zhang Liao in terms of command, and there was also a gap in the general lineup. As a result, Zhang Liao suffered heavy losses in a surprise battle.
Zhang Liao took advantage of Kublai Khan's delay in responding in time and used 30,000 Qin and Hungarian troops to attack Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army.
In this battle, Zhang Liao ordered Gao Shun and Xu Huang to help each other to prevent their retreat from being cut off by Kublai Khan.
Gao Shun used two thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry to defeat four thousand Mongolian cavalry head-on, and killed the general Wang Guer.
Xu Huang also held off reinforcements that were three times his own, and in a fierce battle with one against two, he singled out Kuokuo and Shi Bingzhi, and won the battle.
After the two sides fought for a whole day and night, in order to prevent further casualties, Kublai Khan had to choose to temporarily avoid the front line and led his army to retreat to Chifeng City.
After the war, an inventory showed that the Yuan army suffered a loss of 10,000 troops, while the coalition forces only suffered 4,000 casualties, of which nearly 3,000 were from Maodun County.
Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army was forced back by Zhang Liao's 30,000 troops. Not only did he lose nearly 10,000 elite troops, but Wang Gu'er, who ranked 13th among the 88 heroes, and many other fierce generals were also killed. It can be said that It was a heavy loss.
However, after Kublai Khan entered Chifeng City, he quickly replenished this loss from the surrendered troops, and also gained many powerful Han generals such as Liu Zheng, Sun Yanyu, Chen Youding, etc., and the number of talents increased instead of decreasing.
The Yuan army occupied Chifeng City and could defend the city. However, Zhang Liao's army had all the cavalry and no siege equipment. It was obviously impossible to break the city, but they were unwilling to retreat like this, so they sent Xu Huang The leader went forward to provoke Kublai Khan into a fight, hoping to provoke Kublai Khan out of the city to fight.
Kublai Khan naturally turned a deaf ear to Zhang Liao's scolding, but he didn't care, and that didn't mean that his generals didn't care either, especially Liu Zheng, who had just surrendered.
Liu Zhengcai defected to Kublai Khan and was eager to achieve great results. When he saw Xu Huang coming to challenge him, he also wanted to express himself, so he asked for a battle just like Kublai Khan.
Kublai Khan knew Liu Zheng's abilities. After all, he fought against Liu Zheng more than once during the two civil wars. Even Zhebie, the most powerful general of Yuan and Mongolia, could not defeat Liu Zheng.
Although Liu Zheng is known as 'Sai Cunxiao', it can be seen from this nickname that he is obviously very different from the real Li Cunxiao. Nicknames like "Wenhou" are originally meant to set off the power of this person.
As a martial arts leader of his era, Liu Zheng himself is not weak, but he is still not at the level of God of War. He is just a peak general. The reason why he was able to face Zhebie who was at the level of God of War without losing is because Zhebie gave up what he was good at. Fight him in close combat with his bow and arrow.
Seeing Liu Zheng's confidence, Kublai Khan could not dampen his enthusiasm, and Lu Bu was not among the generals to challenge him, so he agreed to Liu Zheng's request to fight.
When Xu Huang saw the Yuan army coming out, he did not go to battle himself, but sent Yang Yanding to fight first.
Among the many brothers of the Yang family, Erlang Yang Yanding's strength is second only to Yang Zaixing and Yang Qilang. Now his base strength has reached 102 (+), but he is obviously no match for Liu Zheng who has 104.
Fifteen rounds into the battle between the two sides, Yang Yanding began to fall into a disadvantage. After thirty rounds, he was already dwarfed, so he was recalled by Xu Huang.
After that, Xu Huang went to battle in person, but he only lasted fifty rounds and was also defeated by Liu Zheng, so he decisively chose to retreat and sent Yang Yansi to continue the battle.
Qilang Yang Yansi’s base strength is only 103 (+2), so his hard power is naturally not as good as Liu Zheng’s.
But Liu Zheng had already fought against the two great generals Xu Huang and Yang Yanding, and his physical exertion was naturally considerable. Facing Yang Qilang, who was still at his peak, he was naturally unable to cope.
The two sides fought for a full hundred rounds. Yang Qilang became more and more courageous as he fought, but Liu Zheng was exhausted and had to retreat.
But before leaving, Liu Zheng also dropped harsh words and made an appointment with Qilang to fight again in three days.
【Ding dong, Yang Qilang (force 103) drew with Liu Zheng (104), breaking his own bottleneck, force +1;
Current Yang Yansi: Commander 83 (+3), Force 104 (+3), Intelligence 60, Politics 60 (+1), Charisma 85 (+3).
(End of this chapter)