Zhao Kuangyin asked Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu and Guangzan had the same opinions. Zhao Kuangyin then divided his troops to garrison Luzhou and returned to the capital. The following year, Daozhou Governor Wang Jixun wrote a letter to Zhao Kuangyin, saying: "The ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Yu, was cruel and unkind, and repeatedly sent troops to invade the border. Please send a large army to the emperor to punish the people." Zhao Kuangyin did not want to send troops, so he issued an edict to the Southern Tang Dynasty, ordering the Tang Dynasty to tell Liu Yu to tell him to the Song court.

At that time, the Lord of Southern Han was already Liu Yu. Liu Yu was the eldest son of Liu Sheng of Southern Han. His original name was Liu Jixing. When Liu Sheng was reigned, he was named King of Wei. In the fifth year of Xiande in the Later Zhou Dynasty, in 958 AD, Liu Sheng died. Liu Yu succeeded to the throne as his eldest son. He was only seventeen years old at that time.

Liu Yu was foolish and weak by nature. He entrusted all the state affairs to the eunuch Gong Chengshu, the female attendant Lu Qiongxian, and he played with the palace maids and the Persian women every day. The eunuch Chen Yanshou said to Liu Yu: "The reason why the late emperor was able to pass the throne was because he killed all his brothers." Liu Yu advised Liu Yu to eliminate the kings, and Liu Yu took it as right. So he killed his younger brother, King Gui Liu Xuanxing, and therefore the whole family resented.

The court's discipline was severely damaged.

The eunuch Xu Yanzhen slandered and killed the Shangshu Youshi Zhong Yunzhang, and worked with Gong Chengshu. The two fought for power. Someone happened to report that Xu Yanzhen had an affair with Li Liji first, and Gong Chengshu was about to investigate the matter. Xu Yanzhen was afraid and conspired with his son to kill Gong Chengshu. Gong Chengshu instructed others to report Xu Yanzhen to rebel.

He was also imprisoned and punished, and killed the entire clan.

Liu Yu also regarded Li Tuo as the inner tuo, and the six army inspected the military appearance envoy. The Southern Han lord married Li Tuo's eldest daughter as the imperial concubine and the second daughter as the beauty. From then on, the country's political affairs must first report to Li Tuo and then implement it.

Liu Yu also believed that court officials had families, families and descendants, and could not be loyal to the court wholeheartedly. Only those who were castrated and entered the palace would be confused by the court because they had no worries. Therefore, he ordered that all scholars who were preparing to enter the government must be castrated before they were reused. Therefore, the number of eunuchs increased from more than 1,000 in the previous dynasty to more than 7,000, and at the highest reached more than 20,000.

The eunuch Lin Yanyu and others introduced the witch Fan Huzi to the palace. Fan Huzi claimed to be possessed by the Jade Emperor, and Liu Yu believed it without any doubt. He set up a tent in the inner hall, Chen Baobei. Fan Huzi wore a long-distance travel crown and purple skirts, and sat in the tent to preach the disasters and blessings of national affairs and personnel. She called Liu Yu the "Crown Prince Emperor". The people in power in the palace, such as Gong Chengshu, and Lu Qiongxian, all came to flatter Fan Huzi. The witch said to Liu Yu: "Gong Chengshu and others are all angels to assist the Crown Emperor, and they cannot be questioned!" Liu Yu obeyed the order one by one. The Southern Han regimes were all in the hands of eunuch Lin Yanyu, Gong Chengshu, Chen Yanshou, Fan Huzi, Lu Qiongxian and others. The national affairs were decided by the few of them.

In the second year of Qiande, that is, in 964 AD, Song generals Pan Mei and Yin Songke led their troops to attack Chenzhou in the Southern Han Dynasty and conquered the city of Chenzhou in one fell swoop. After learning the news, the Inner Han Dynasty, Shao Tingguan, the Inner General, said to Liu Yu: "Lingnan took advantage of the civil strife in the late Tang Dynasty. It has been more than 50 years since the founding of the country. Fortunately, the Central Plains countries have been in trouble and the war has not arrived. Lingnan is becoming more and more arrogant and has no war. Nowadays, soldiers do not know the military flags and drums, and the monarch does not know the survival of the country. The world is in chaos for a long time. If the chaos is long, we will be punished. Please rectify the military and send people to be friendly with Song Tong."

Liu Yu, the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, was confused and ignorant and did not think so. When the Song army came to attack, he realized his fear and appointed Shao Ting-wen as the envoy.

Stop the harbor.

At this time, the Song army had conquered Chenzhou, captured Yu Yanye, the eunuch of the Southern Han Dynasty alive, and sent him to the capital. Yu Yanye was very short. After seeing the food, Zhao Kuangyin was very curious and asked, "What official do you work in Lingnan?"

Yu Yanye twisted the waist of the water snake, raised his fingers with orchids, and said in a coquettish voice: "I am the archer of the archer." After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin almost lost his composure. The archer of the archer of the archer of the emperor is the archer who protects the emperor. Even if you do this, can you protect the emperor? So Zhao Kuangyin ordered someone to give Yu Yanye a archer and let him practice it. As a result, Yu Yanye used his strength to pull the bow and still couldn't pull the bow. Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help it now, and laughed loudly.

Zhao Kuangyin calmed down and continued to ask about the state affairs of the Southern Han Dynasty. Yu Yanye said: The Southern Han Dynasty was responsible for torture, boiling, peeling, picking, sword mountain, sword tree and other tortures, or to make sinners fight with tigers and elephants. The taxes in the country were heavy, and each villager had to pay one qian when entering the city, and each qianzhou had to pay four or five qian taxes for every dou of rice. He was sent to the sea to collect pearls and the palaces where he lived were decorated with pearls and tortoiseshell. The inner official Chen Yanshou made various techniques and spent tens of thousands of gold a day. There were dozens of palaces around the palace city, and traveling often cost more than a month or more. The rich people were the households with taxpayers and provided the fees for banquets and rewards.

When Zhao Kuangyin heard that the Southern Han lord was so extravagant and cruel, he was very shocked, so he said, "I should save this people." But he was planning to pacify Western Shu at that time and had no time to inquire about this matter.

After the Southern Han recruitment envoy Shao Tingqin was stationed in Xikou, he actively prepared to resist the Song army. He recruited and comforted the fugitive rebels, trained soldiers, and renovated the war preparations, and the country was relieved. Some people submitted anonymous letters to falsely accused Shao Tingqin of being plotted against him. The Lord of the Southern Han believed it and sent envoys to commit suicide. Shao Tingqin's soldiers pushed the door to pay homage to the envoy and told him that Shao Tingqin had no rebellion. Please investigate and verify it, but the envoy refused. After Shao Tingqin was killed, the soldiers set up a temple for Shao Tingqin to worship him.

After receiving a letter from the Southern Tang Lord, Liu Yu imprisoned the envoys of the Southern Tang Dynasty and ordered the post station to send a message to the Southern Tang Lord, saying rude. The Southern Tang Lord handed the letter from Liu Yu to Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he was told that he immediately appointed Pan Mei as the deployment of Guizhou Daoxing Capital, Yin Chongke as his deputy, and sent troops to attack the Southern Han Dynasty. This Pan Mei is the prototype of Pan Renmei, the treacherous minister in the Romance of the Yang Family. Of course, he was not that bad.

At that time, most of the veterans in the Southern Han Dynasty were killed by slander, and the royal brothers were eliminated. Only eunuchs were in charge of military power. Since Liu Sheng, the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, he has been addicted to entertainment, city walls and moats have been rebuilt into palaces and ponds, all warships were destroyed, and weapons were rotten.

When he heard that the Song army had arrived, the court was frightened inside and outside the court, so he sent Gong Chengshu to Hezhou to plan a defense method. Gong Chengshu had just grasped the military power and could not shirke it, so he had to go to Hezhou. As soon as he reached the middle of the journey, he heard that the Song army had arrived in Fanglin, only thirty miles away from Hezhou. He was shocked and hurriedly led his troops back. Pan Mei sent troops to besiege Hezhou.

The ministers of the Southern Han Dynasty asked to appoint veteran Pan Chongche, but Liu Feng refused to obey and sent Wu Yanrou to lead troops to help Hezhou. Pan Mei learned that Wu Yanrou was about to arrive, so she secretly lie on the shore of Nanxiang with a surprise weapon. Wu Yanrou led the navy to the outside of the city, which happened to be late at night. By dawn, Wu Yanrou landed on the shore of Hu's bed.

At this time, the ambush suddenly started, and Wu Yanrou's troops were in chaos, and seven or eight out of ten died. Pan Mei captured Wu Yanrou alive, beheaded and showed the soldiers to the city guarding the city, and then captured Hezhou City. Pan Mei personally supervised the battleship.

He threatened to go straight to Guangzhou. The Southern Han ruler was worried and could not think of a way to resist, so he appointed Pan Chongche as the commander-in-chief, led 30,000 troops to guard Hejiang.

It happened that Pan Mei led her troops straight to Zhaozhou, and Pan Chongche was just holding troops to protect himself. Pan Mei took advantage of the victory to conquer Zhaozhou and then advanced to capture Guizhou and Lianzhou. After Liu Feng learned about it, he said to the people on both sides: "Zhao, Gui, Lian, and Hezhou originally belonged to Hunan. Now that the Song army has taken over, their wish has been fulfilled, and I know they will not march south again."

Liu Yu also took Li Chengwo as the commander-in-chief and led more than 100,000 troops to form a formation under the Lianhua Peak. The Southern Han trained elephants to form formations. Each elephant carried more than ten people and held weapons. Every time he encountered a battle, he would definitely put elephant soldiers in front of the formation to strengthen the army's might. Pan Mei concentrated on strong crossbows to shoot elephants, and the elephants ran, and the soldiers riding on elephants fell down, and instead trampled on Li Chengwo's army. The Southern Han army was defeated, and Li Chengwo escaped alone. Pan Mei marched to capture Shaozhou, which was the gateway to the northern part of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Liu Feng heard that Shaozhou was captured.

Confused and wondered what could be done, he began to repair the Guangzhou moat. Huanyi left and right, and no one could use it. The old woman in the palace, Liang Yangzhen, recommended her adopted son Guo Chongyue. Liu Qing ordered him to be the envoy to recruit the envoy and commanded 60,000 troops with the general Zhi Tingxiao to station Majing and resist the Song army. Guo Chongyue was not brave or scheming, but just prayed for ghosts and gods to protect him all day long.

In February of the fourth year of Kaibao, Pan Mei conquered Yingzhou and Xiongzhou in Southern Han, and Pan Chongche led the people to surrender. Pan Mei entered Taktoo. The Southern Han Lord sent envoys to request peace and requested a temporary marching. Pan Mei refused and marched into Matong, only ten miles from Guangzhou City. She set up a village at the foot of Shuangnu Mountain. When the Southern Han Lord heard about it, he used more than ten ships to carry Jinbao and concubines, and wanted to escape into the sea. Before he could set off, the eunuch Le Fan and more than a thousand guards.

The stolen ship escaped.

The Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty was frightened and sent the left servant Xiao Han to surrender to Pan Mei's army gate to request surrender. Pan Mei immediately sent Xiao Han to send him to Yujing. The Lord of the Southern Han Dynasty wanted to send his younger brother Liu Baoxing out of the city to greet Pan Mei, but Guo Chongyue stopped him. So he prepared to defend the city and sent Liu Baoxing to lead the soldiers from the country to resist the battle.

Zhitingxiao said to Guo Chongyue: "The Song army was riding on the situation of sweeping the clouds, and its edge was unstoppable. Although we had many soldiers, they were all disabled and tired. If we don't drive the troops forward, we would also wait for death." Zhitingxiao led the front army to form a formation in the water and ordered Guo Chongyue to come behind the palace. After a while, the Song army crossed the river. Zhitingxiao fought hard, but could not win, and died in the formation. Guo Chongyue retreated into the village.

Pan Mei said to the generals: "They weave bamboo to make fences. If they burn them with bonfires, the enemy will inevitably be in chaos. Taking advantage of this, they will send troops to attack each other. This is a perfect solution." So they sent out the strong men, each with two torches, and approached the village from the small path. It happened that there was a strong wind in the sky at night, and thousands of torches were lit together, and smoke and dust filled the sky. The Southern Han army was defeated and Guo Chongyue died among the chaos.

Gong Chengshu and Li Tuo said: "The Song army came to seize the treasures in our country. If they were burned now, they would only get an empty city, and they would not be able to stay here for a long time." So they set fire to the treasury and palaces, which turned into ashes overnight. The next day, Liu Yu went out of the city to surrender, and Pan Mei led his troops to the city, captured the royal family and officials of the Southern Han Dynasty, and sent them to Zujing together.

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