Besides, after Ma Xiyin fled from Guizhou to Quanzhou, he was surrendered by Bian Hao. Later, he went to the Southern Tang Dynasty and followed Ma Xichong into the Later Zhou Dynasty and served as the marching Sima. Tuoba Heng, an old minister of Chu State, followed Ma Xichong to the Southern Tang Dynasty and died of illness soon. Peng Shihao followed Ma Xie to the Southern Tang Dynasty and was named Yuhou of the Palace Capital. After Liao Yan arrived in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he received special commendation from Li Jing and was named the Left Palace Army Envoy, responsible for garrisoning Daozhou.

After Ma Xichong and Ma Xie were moved to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the generals and officials of Chu went to the Southern Tang Dynasty to pay homage to Li Jing. Wang Yun did not leave for a long time. Li Jing was very dissatisfied with this, so he found an excuse to poison Wang Yun.

Bian Hao successfully occupied Changsha, took Ma Xichong and Ma Xie, and surrendered Ma Xiyin. Most of the states and counties of Chu State expressed their support. However, less than two months, Bian Hao was surprised to find that the original territory of Chu State had been occupied by three forces respectively. The largest area was of course the Southern Tang Dynasty. Bian Hao had already controlled the capital of Chu State Changsha, as well as the nearby six states such as Shao, Heng, Yong, Dao, Chen, and Yue, occupying the center of Chu State.

The second is the Wuping Army in Langzhou headed by Liu Yan and Wang Kui. The Wuping Army controlled the four prefectures of Lang, Li, Xi and Chen. Liu Yan and Wang Kui maintained a cold-eyed attitude towards the invasion of Chu State by the Southern Tang Dynasty. The second is the Southern Han, who suddenly came out to disrupt the situation, took advantage of the situation and seized several states in Guiguan in one breath and annexed about a quarter of the territory of Chu State.

According to Bian Hao's original plan, after successfully surrendering Ma Xichong and Ma Xie, his next step was to surrender Liu Yan. However, the sudden disruption of the Southern Han Dynasty completely disrupted Bian Hao's plan. This was similar to the situation of the Fujian Kingdom seven years ago. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty destroyed the Fujian Kingdom, and there were the old ministers of the Fujian Kingdom, Liu Congxiao, who was the former minister of the Fujian Kingdom, and Li Renda, who was also the sudden disruption of the Wu Yue Kingdom, which led to the failure of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Could the tragedy in the Fujian Kingdom seven years ago continue to happen in the Chu Kingdom? Li Jing did not believe it, and Bian Hao did not believe it.

In any case, the Southern Tang Dynasty had occupied Changsha, the capital of Chu, and occupied the most prosperous area of ​​Chu. This advantage was obviously stronger than the Fujian Kingdom. Bian Hao had strong enough self-confidence and believed that the Southern Tang Dynasty could defeat the Southern Han, surrender Liu Yan, and successfully annexed all the territory of Chu.

Due to the sudden dispatch of troops from the Southern Han Dynasty, the plan to annex Chu State had to be readjusted. After some consideration, Bian Hao decided to turn the direction of the march towards the Southern Han Dynasty. As long as he repelled the Southern Han Dynasty, he could recover the Guiguan area and also shock Liu Yan and others who were hesitating and waiting.

But before Bian Hao could take action, Nan Han took the initiative to attack. After Liu Sheng seized Guiguan, he felt very good, so he planned to seize food from the tiger's mouth from the Southern Tang Dynasty, seize Chenzhou in the north of Lingbei, and expand the territory of Nan Han to the center of Hunan. Since Nan Han took the initiative to provoke, Bian Hao would certainly not be polite and immediately sent troops to reinforce Chenzhou.

In December of the ninth year of Baoda, the Southern Tang army encountered the Southern Han army near Chenzhou, and the two armies immediately launched the first war in history. The Southern Tang army's military strength was originally slightly better than the Southern Han. However, Bian Hao did not really understand the strength of the Southern Han, and the number of soldiers brought in this expedition was not enough, and they were running from afar, and the division was exhausted.

In order to capture Chenzhou, the Southern Han Dynasty mobilized a large number of troops and sent famous generals Pan Chongche and Xie Guan to the expedition, plus tens of thousands of soldiers. The two sides encountered each other in Yizhang and launched a fierce battle! Nan Tang

The famous general Bian Hao lost to Pan Chongche, a famous general in the Southern Han Dynasty, and fled in great defeat. Pan Chongche took advantage of the victory and seized Chenzhou.

The defeat in Chenzhou made Bian Hao re-recognize the strength of the Southern Han Dynasty. This famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty instantly turned into a mediocre general. He quickly reported to Li Jing and asked to send troops from Daozhou and the two states of the state as soon as possible to help him resist the attack of the Southern Han Dynasty.

The Battle of Chenzhou and the disastrous defeat of the Southern Tang made Li Jing very nervous. In order to avoid repeating his mistakes in Fujian, Li Jing quickly appointed the surrendered general of Chu Liao Yan as the governor of Daozhou, and the commander of Heiyun Zhang Luan as the governor of Quanzhou, and made every effort to defend the military threat of the Southern Han. The Chu State had just been destroyed, but he had to strictly guard the attack of the Southern Han. The prospects of the Southern Tang army in Chu seemed to be very bad. Bian Hao fled back to Changsha in a hurry, and the horror had just been decided. Before he could formulate a new plan to annex the Chu State again, something happened within the Southern Tang army.

In February of the second year of Qianyou, rebellions in Huaibei continued and thieves rose. Xian Shilang, the Mengcheng town general of the Later Han Dynasty, led his troops to surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and his subordinates were adapted into Fengjiedu by Li Jing. When Bian Hao led his army into Hunan, the soldiers of Fengjiedu also followed the war. The generals led by Fengjiedu commanders Sun Lang and Cao Jin. Sun Lang and Cao Jin, who were originally from Huaibei, even if they surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty, they still did not change their rebellious, arrogant and barbaric nature. The kind and generous Bian Hao was unable to restrain these arrogant soldiers and generals at all.

After the Southern Tang army entered Changsha City, they unceremoniously transported almost all the gold, silver and treasures, rare treasures, warehouses and grain, boats, pavilions, flowers and fruits in Changsha City to the Southern Tang Dynasty. However, after taking away all the items in Changsha City, what should they use to support the defenders of Changsha City? Li Jing specially arranged for the Chief Minister Yang Jixun to come to Hunan, preparing to collect taxes from the people to support the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Changsha City. At the same time, the Southern Tang Dynasty appointed Wang Shaoyan as the grain envoy of the camp, and was responsible for the distribution of military pay, food and grass for the soldiers.

But it was precisely because of these two appointments that Hunan was in chaos again. After Yang Jixun arrived in Changsha, he took Li Jing's feathers as a command arrow and imposed heavy taxes on the people in Hunan, causing complaints from the people in Hunan. Soon, he destroyed all the people's hearts that Bian Hao had finally won over before.

Wang Shaoyan's work was even more outrageous. He even deducted the food and pay of the Southern Tang army at will, but he treated the soldiers of the Yuan Chu State very favorably, which caused complaints and anger among the Southern Tang army. After all, the other soldiers of the Southern Tang lived in the Southern Tang year after all, and knew very well about the domestic situation of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Therefore, no matter how much they complained, they would not do anything excessive.

However, for the foreign soldiers of Fengjiedu, this situation is absolutely intolerable. The rebellious, arrogant and barbaric nature began to breed again in the hearts of Sun Lang, Cao Jin and others. Sun Lang and Cao Jin actually led their troops to kill Wang Shaoyan. Fortunately, Wang Shaoyan learned the news in advance and hid in the barn before evading the disaster. After a farce, the officials under Bian Hao suggested that Wang Shaoyan be killed immediately to calm the anger in the hearts of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty and avoid civil strife.

However, Bian Hao, who has a Bodhisattva mind, usually cannot even kill his soldiers, so how could he kill a high-ranking official sent by the court? So Bian Hao once again adopted a strategy of being in harmony: to unite everyone, not cause trouble and internal friction, and to ensure that there will be no more deductions in military pay in the future.

The side pick

This kind of mixed method can be done with ordinary soldiers, but if you want to deal with Sun Lang and Cao Jin's arrogant soldiers, Bian Hao obviously found the wrong partner and made the wrong plan. Since Bian Hao covered up Wang Shaoyan, Sun Lang and Cao Jin planned to simply choose to rebel and kill Bian Hao and Wang Shaoyan together.

So Sun Lang and Cao Jin encouraged their soldiers and said, "In the past, we followed Xian Gong to the Southern Tang Dynasty and received the treatment that was not as good as the soldiers of Chu. We made contributions in fighting, and not only did not increase the salary and rewards, but we also suffered deductions. This kind of life is simply impossible. Why not kill Bian Hao and Wang Shaoyan together, occupy Hunan, and join the Later Zhou Dynasty, and glory and wealth are just around the corner."

Most of the soldiers of Fengjiedu were born in Huaibei thieves. They were originally used to rebellion and killing. After Sun Lang and Cao Jin's instigation, everyone had no objection and decided to rebel in the Southern Tang Dynasty!

Late at night on the third day of the first lunar month of the 10th year of Baoda, Sun Lang and Cao Jin led the soldiers of Fengjiedu to officially rebel. They first piled up a large amount of hay at the door of Bianhao's Jiedu, preparing to burn the Jiedu Mansion and burn Bianhao to death. However, when they were preparing to ignite the fire, they were too lucky and did not ignite it several times, but were discovered by the soldiers who attacked Bianhao.

In a critical moment, Bian Hao, who had rich combat experience, was not panicked and calmly commanded. Bian Hao sent his subordinates to attack Sun Lang's rebels fiercely, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to beat drums and whistle, making a big noise and disrupting the morale of the rebels. Although Sun Lang's rebels were strong, most of them had no brains. When they heard the drums and trumpets, they thought that the generals were about to break the dawn and were afraid of being surrounded by the Southern Tang army, they rushed to break the pass and fled.

A rebellion was instantly quelled, and Bian Hao was very glad that the fire was not ignited, otherwise it was unknown whether he could still stand in Changsha City. However, the consequences of Sun Lang and Cao Jin's rebellion to the Southern Tang Dynasty were still quite serious. Changsha City was damaged by war again. After Sun Lang and Cao Jin's remaining soldiers fled Changsha City, they chose to escape in Langzhou. It was obvious that they wanted to join forces with Liu Yan.

At this time, Liu Yan and Wang Kui were paying attention to the latest situation in Changsha City with caution and careful attention. Bian Hao occupied Changsha City, Ma Xichong and Ma Xie were moved to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Ma Xiyin was defeated by the Southern Han Dynasty and lost Gui Guan. Bian Hao was defeated by the Southern Han Dynasty in Chenzhou and lost Chenzhou. All the information was controlled by Liu Yan and Wang Kui. They have been carefully analyzing this information.

The arrival of Sun Lang and Cao Jin is an excellent opportunity for Liu Yan and Wang Kui to investigate the situation in Changsha. They enthusiastically accepted the remaining soldiers of Sun Lang and Cao Jin, and then began to test Sun Lang and others. Wang Kui said to Sun Lang: "I followed King Wumu Ma Yin to fight against Huainan in the past and won many times. The Huainan army is easy to deal with. I plan to use Langzhou's troops to seize Hunan. Do you think it is feasible?"

Sun Lang has completely turned against Nan Tang, so of course there is no need to say good things for Nan Tang. At the same time, in order to retaliate against Bian Hao, Sun Lang has to persuade Wang Kui to send troops to Changsha like fire. Sun Lang immediately said: "I have been in Jinling of the Southern Tang for many years and are very familiar with the political affairs of the Southern Tang. At present, the Southern Tang Dynasty has no wise ministers in the court and no good generals in the army. Emperor Li Jing is loyal and does not distinguish between treacherous and slanderous, and the rewards and punishments are not appropriate. Like them, it is good that the country can survive, and there is no ability to annex prefectures and counties. If a general intends to attack Changsha, I am willing to be your vanguard. Seizing Changsha is as simple as picking up grass and trees." After hearing this, Wang Kui laughed and rewarded Sun Lang very much.
Chapter completed!