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In the Tang formation, Huang Fu Hui's head was cut off and captured him with Yao Feng. His father Zhao Hongyin was the deputy commander of the horse army at that time. He led his army to the city in the middle of the night and called for the door to open. Zhao Kuangyin said: "The father and son are indeed close relatives, but the city gate is open and switched, which is the country's business." It was not until dawn that Zhao Hongyin was able to enter the city. Han Lingkun, the governor of Dingwu Army, captured Yangzhou, and the Southern Tang army came to fight again. Han Lingkun advocated retreating, and Chai Rong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead 2,000 troops to Liuhe. Zhao Kuangyin ordered: "If Yangzhou soldiers dared to have any Liuhe, cut off their feet." Han Lingkun defended Yangzhou. Zhao Kuangyin soon defeated Li Jingda, the King of Qi of Southern Tang, on the east side of Liuhe, and killed more than 10,000 people. After returning, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the commander of the front palace, and was soon appointed as the governor of the Dingguo Army. [7]

In the spring of the fourth year of Xiande (957), Zhao Kuangyin followed Chai Rong to fight Shouchun, conquered Lianzhu Village, and seized the opportunity to capture Shouzhou. After returning to the army, Chai Rong appointed him as the governor of the Yicheng Army, the Taibao, and was still the commander of the palace. In the winter of this year, Zhao Kuangyin followed Chai Rong to conquer Haozhou and Sizhou, serving as the current commander. At this time, the Southern Tang Dynasty set up a camp at Shibalitan. When Chai Rong had just discussed using camels to ferry the army, Zhao Kuangyin had already taken the lead and crossed the alone, and his cavalry followed him to cross the river, thus breaking the Nantang Army. He also used the captured Nantang warship to conquer Si.

The Southern Tang Dynasty stationed troops in Qingkou. Zhao Kuangyin and Chai Rong divided their troops along the Huai River and rushed eastward. They chased to Shanyang overnight, captured Chen Chengzhao, the governor of the Baoyi Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and thus captured Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin took advantage of the victory and marched to the Southern Tang army at Yingluan River mouth, and went straight to the south bank, burning down his camp. He also captured the Southern Tang army in Guabu, and Huainan was finally pacified. Li Jing, the middle lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, feared Zhao Kuangyin's reputation and sent envoys to send Zhao Kuangyin a letter, giving him three thousand taels of platinum, attempting to use the strategy of platinum. After Zhao Kuangyin received it, he sent all the platinum to the inner palace. The strategy of platinum failed.

In the fifth year of Xiande (958), Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the governor of Zhongwu Army. [8] The following year, Chai Rong fought in the north and Zhao Kuangyin served as the land and land deployment. When he arrived in Mozhou, he first went to Waqiao Pass, and the guard Yao Neibin surrendered; he also repelled thousands of Khitan cavalry and pacified Guannan. Chai Rong reviewed the documents from various places on the way to the marching, and obtained a leather pocket with a three-foot-long wooden board in the bag, which read "Inspection and the Emperor". Chai Rong felt that this was very strange. At that time, Zhang Yongde was appointed as the chief inspector of the palace, and Chai Rong returned to Beijing to be ill and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to be the chief inspector of the palace and the chief inspector of the palace to replace Zhang Yongde. In the same year, Chai Rong died, and Chai Zongxun (Emperor Gong of the Later Zhou Dynasty), who was only seven years old, succeeded to the throne, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the governor of the Guide Army and the chief inspector of the chief inspector. [3]

The main imperial guards generals guarding the capital, Shi Shouxin, Wang Shenqi and others were all "communications brothers" of Zhao Kuangyin. After learning that the mutiny was successful, they opened the city gate to respond. At that time, among the imperial guards in Kaifeng, only Han Tong, deputy commander of the cavalry and infantry, had to lead the troops to resist, but before the army was summoned, they were killed by Wang Yansheng, the military academy. The soldiers of the Chenqiao mutiny controlled the capital Kaifeng without bloodshed.

At this time, Fan Zhi and others knew that they did not know the truth or falsehood of military affairs, so they rushed to send their generals to abdicate, but they had no choice but to lead all officials to obey the orders. Tao Gu, a Hanlin scholar, took out a pre-prepared Zen edict and announced that Chai Zongxun abdicated. Zhao Kuangyin then officially ascended the throne, easily seized the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and changed Chai Zongxun to King Zheng. Since Zhao Kuangyin was the vassal state where the governor of the Guide Army in the Later Zhou Dynasty was Songzhou (now Shangqiu, Henan), he used Song as the country's name, established the capital of Kaifeng, and changed the reign to "Jianlong", which was known in history as the "Song Dynasty" and "Northern Song". [9]

Attack Jinghu

Main entry: Battle of Jinghu

After Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty, he successively quelled the rebellion launched by Li Yun, the governor of Zhaoyi and Li Chongjin, the governor of Huainan, and consolidated the regime. Seeing that the world was full of separatist forces, he said to Prime Minister Zhao Pu: "I can't sleep because I am outside of bed." With the help of Zhao Pu, Zhao Kuangyin strengthened centralization, reformed the military system, developed production, and consolidated his rule. After two years of preparations in politics, economy, and military aspects, he determined to create a unified situation through war.

Jingnan and Hunan are located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, adjacent to the north and south, and also facing the Southern Tang Dynasty in the east, Houshu in the west, and the Southern Han in the south. Observing Jing and Lake in the south, you can divide the countries in the south of the Yangtze River and create conditions for each defeat. For this reason, the Song court decided to find an opportunity to send troops to Jing and Lake. In September of the third year of Jianlong (962), Zhao Kuangyin deployed troops to guard the west and the northern border to prevent Liao (Khitan) and the northern Han plunder in the south; while choosing Jing and Lake as the breakthrough point, he led his troops south to prepare for the war of unity.[10]

In October of the third year of Jianlong (962), Zhou Xingfeng, the governor of Wuping Army, died of illness. His eleven-year-old son Zhou Baoquan succeeded to the throne. Zhang Wenbiao, the governor of Hengzhou, took an air to mutiny and occupied Tanzhou (now Changsha, Hunan), and threatened Langzhou (now Changde, Hunan). [11] In order to fight Zhang Wenbiao, Zhou Baoquan asked Song for help. Zhao Kuangyin decided to use the strategy of "fake Tao to destroy Guo" to go to Hunan and pretend to be Jingzhu, so as to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone.

In the first month of the first year of Qiande (963), Murong Yanzhao, the governor of Shandong East Road, was appointed as the former army of the Daoying in Hunan. Li Chuyun, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, was appointed as the chief supervisor, and led troops from ten prefectures to assist Hunan in the fight against Zhang Wenbiao, and took over Jingnan. [12] On the ninth day of the second month, Murong Yanzhao secretly sent Li Chuyun to lead thousands of light cavalry to capture Jiangling (now Hubei), forcing the governor Gao Ji to surrender, and Jingnan was then destroyed. [13] At that time, Zhou Baoquan had already settled civil strife and knew that the Song wanted to visit Hunan. In order to prevent the Song army from going south, he ordered the commander Zhang Congfu to lead troops to intercept it. At the end of February, the Song army advanced by land and water, broke through Sanjiangkou (now north of Yueyang, Hunan), seized 700 warships, and occupied Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan). On the tenth day of the third month, he occupied Langzhou, Zhou Baoquan was captured and Suiping in Hunan[14].

Conquer and destroy Houshu

Main entry: The Battle of the Song Dynasty to destroy Later Shu

After the Song Dynasty pacified Jingchi, he immediately deployed an attack on Shu. When the Later Shu Emperor Meng Chang heard the news, he wanted to rely on the dangerous terrain of Sichuan and Shaanxi, so he refused to defend the troops. At the same time, he sent an envoy to ask the Northern Han to jointly rebel against the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin was arrested by the rebel general Zhao Yantao of the Later Shu. When he learned that the Shu army was deployed, he ordered troops to be sent.

In November of the second year of Qiande (964), Zhao Kuangyin ordered two troops to be divided into two groups:

North Road: Wang Quanbin, the governor of Zhongwu Army, deployed the troops and horse capital of the front army in Xichuan Xingying, and Cui Yanjin, the commander of the guards and infantry, deployed the deputy capital, and led 30,000 infantry and cavalry out of Fengzhou (now Fengzhou Town, northeast of Fengxian County, Shaanxi) and headed south along the Jialing River;

East Road: Liu Tingrang, commander of the guards and horse army, deployed as the deputy chief, led 20,000 infantry and cavalry out to return to the prefecture (now Zigui, Hubei), and advanced westward along the Yangtze River.[15]

The two groups advanced and attacked together, and they agreed to attack Chengdu. Meng Chang learned that Wang Zhaoyuan was appointed as the commander of the north camp, leading tens of thousands of troops to the north to guard Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan), Jianmen (now northeast of Jiange, Sichuan). In December, the Song army on the north road occupied Lizhou.[16]
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