Chapter 12 Qian Liu Destroys Liu Hanhong
Of course, Qian Liu was unwilling to admit defeat, so he quietly came to the Fuchun River, held up a hand of the river and swallowed it into his mouth, and then prayed to the gods: "I use righteous soldiers to fight against the thieves. God will help you. I hope the clouds will cover the moon and help my teacher!" Qian Liu was lucky. After he finished praying, a miracle happened. The sky began to rise and fog, surrounded by haze. He could not see his five fingers. The best time to cross the river finally appeared.
Qian Li immediately led his soldiers to cross the Fuchun River quietly. Due to the cooperation of heavy fog, the Zhejiang East Army on the other side did not notice. After successfully crossing the river, Qian Li ordered his troops to replace the banner of the Zhejiang East Army, then sneaked into the Zhejiang East Army camp, set fire everywhere, disrupting the morale of the enemy. As soon as the fire broke out, Qian Li led his elite troops to launch a fierce crack attack on Liu Hanyou's military camp, attacking the Zhejiang East Army, which was in chaos.
Liu Hanyou had not experienced too many cruel combat experiences and could not organize effective resistance at all. Fire attacks and sneak attacks completely disrupted the formation of the Zhejiang East Army. Everyone rushed to flee, but tens of thousands of Zhejiang East Army drowned and died!
However, the head coach Liu Hanyou and Xin Yue had good escape skills and successfully escaped from the battlefield, but the price of escape was extremely high, and they were basically wiped out and were exempted only by themselves.
In this battle, Qian Liu and the Eighth Du Army in Hangzhou won the most with few defeats, and they won a great victory, killing 20,000 Zhejiang East Army. However, Liu Hanhong, who was defeated in the first battle, was not willing to fail because he could not believe that a small Hangzhou Prefecture and a small military commander Qian Liu could actually block the attack of the entire seven prefectures in eastern Zhejiang. Perhaps the first battle between Xiling was because his brothers Liu Hanyou and Xin Yue underestimated the enemy. As long as the Zhejiang East Army could perform its combat power normally, it would be no problem to defeat Qian Liu and Dong Chang.
In October of the second year of Zhonghe, Liu Hanhong gathered 70,000 troops again with extremely high efficiency. He led by Wang Zhen, the general of Denggao Town, stationed troops in Jianggan, and once again threatened Hangzhou Prefecture.
Qian Liu learned the news and knew that he had a head-on battle. He had little chance of winning, so he decided to still use a sneak attack. When the night was dark and windy, Qian Liu ordered the town general Xu Jing and the Zhejiang Youyi envoy Ruan Jie to lead his troops to travel with him, crossing the river at night, and once again, he was elusive. Without any investigation, he came to Wang Zhen's barracks, and then sneak attacks and kills!
Wang Zhen did not learn from the lessons of Liu Hanyou and Xin Yue's defeat, and was successfully attacked by Qian Liu again, and fled to Zhuji with great defeat. The 70,000 troops disappeared instantly!
Qian Liu fought against Liu Hanhong again, and the results of the battle became even more brilliant and fruitful. He seized more than 200 fake edicts signed by Liu Hanhong, captured more than 10,000 people, captured a lot of soldiers and armor, rescued hundreds of wives and daughters of the people who were looted by Liu Hanhong, and was named the Censor of the imperial court.
However, Liu Hanhong's desire to covet western Zhejiang will never die. Despite suffering two crushing defeats, Liu Hanhong still has quite strong military strength. In his tenacious spirit of repeated defeats, Liu Hanhong gathered heavy troops to march into western Zhejiang three times.
In March of the third year of Zhonghe, Liu Hanhong divided his troops into three towns, including Huangling, Yanxia, Zhennu, etc., and launched an army of 93 caves, with more than a thousand people in each place, and launched a large-scale attack on Hangzhou.
Qian Liu, who won twice, successfully gained enough self-confidence, so he became Liu Hanhong's nemesis. He once again led the Eighth Capital Army of Hangzhou to cross the river from Fuyang, and successively captured Huangling, Yanxia and more than 30 caves, and successfully captured the Zhennu Town General Yang Yuanzong and Yanxia Town General Shi Bian.
Liu Hanhong was furious. A small amount of money actually became his heart.
If you don’t go to the horrible nightmare, then take the initiative yourself. In April, Liu Hanhong personally led his troops to station on Gupuling, Tingshan and Guishan, Zhuji, preparing to teach his younger generation Qian Liu a lesson.
Qian Liu was not afraid and led his army to fight. He first captured Zhuji, obtained more than 20,000 hu of grain, and then broke Gupuling, Tingshan and other villages. Liu Hanhong led his men to defeat and fled.
In May, Liu Hanhong sent his generals He Su and Huang Gui to lead troops to Xiaoshan, Zhuji and other places, but Qian Liu still defeated him and captured the capital Yuhou Zhang Gongzhi alive.
In just one year, Qian Liu defeated Liu Hanhong five times, and beat Liu Hanhong up to a blue face every time. However, Liu Hanhong was still unwilling to fail. He decided to use frequent and continuous wars to consume Qian Liu's military strength. Of course, Liu Hanhong seemed to have forgotten a fact: in addition to consuming Qian Liu's military strength, frequent and continuous wars also consumed his own military strength.
In October of the third year of Zhonghe, Liu Hong arranged the strongest lineup since the war started: he served as the head coach, Liu Hanrong, Xin Yue, Bali, and Li Wandi as generals, and mobilized more than 100,000 troops from Wenzhou and other states to travel from Xiaoshan and Xiling on warships, preparing to follow Qian Li's night crossing the Fuchun River.
But unfortunately, Qian Li is the best at the Yedu sneak attack, so naturally he will not allow others to imitate it. Qian Li led his army from Xinsha to attack He Su, killing He Su, and heading towards Xiaoshan. In the Xiaoshan area, Qian Li encountered Liu Hanhong's main army. This time there was no conspiracy or sneak attack. Everyone set up a formation and launched a fierce battle, from noon to evening.
In the end, Qian Liu won a big victory again. Liu Hanhong hurriedly changed into a soldier's clothes and fled in a panic look. However, Liu Hanhong's actions still attracted Qian Liu's Hangzhou Army's attention, but the pig-killing knife that Liu Hanhong temporarily saved his life. He shouted loudly: "My gentlemen, don't be nervous. The youngest is just a chef from the Zhejiang Army. Please give me a fart!"
Everyone was not very interested in the chef, so Liu Hanhong successfully escaped again and escaped from the chaos. Liu Hanhong, who escaped from death, refused to learn from the lessons, and had a stubborn habit. He gathered up 40,000 defeated soldiers and launched an attack on Qian Liu again.
Since he was a defeated general, he naturally did not have much fighting spirit or military spirit. Qian Liu took advantage of the victory to pursue Liu Hanhong again, and killed Liu Hanrong, Xin Yue, Bali, Li Wandi, Tan Sheng and other generals, seized Liu Hanhong's Huaihai recruitment seal, five hundred warships, four thousand horses, ten thousand soldiers, and thousands of prisoners.
However, Liu Hanhong successfully escaped again. Although Liu Hanhong was not dead yet, he had completely lost the capital to compete with Qian Li. He had no choice but to stick to eastern Zhejiang and make small moves from time to time to harass Qian Li, and it was the end of his strength.
Just as Qian Rong was preparing to launch a large-scale attack and completely ended Liu Hanhong, the Tang Dynasty emperor Li Yan, who was taking refuge in Chengdu, began to speak. Although Li Yan was already in extreme tragedy, he was nominally the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Not long ago, Emperor Huang Chao of the Great Qi was just killed by the Tang army in the Langhu Valley of Mount Tai. Li Yan once again became the only emperor in the entire Tang Dynasty with a formal and legal status.
However, before the emperor died, the vassal states below began to fight inwardly. Li Yan was naturally unhappy. No matter who is right or wrong, please stop the confrontation immediately and make peace immediately.
In July of the third year of Zhonghe, Li Yan sent Jiao Jufen as the envoy of Hang Yuetonghe, asking Dong Chang and Liu Hanhong to stop their troops and accept mediation from the court.
Li Yan was nominally the legal emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact he had lost all his prestige and few generals of the vassal states took him seriously. Dong Chang and Qian Liu were quite polite. After all, he was the emperor and he still had to give him face, so he temporarily ceased the battle.
For the ambitious Liu Hanhong, Li Yan was just a child who loved to play games. He didn't take the emperor's mediation seriously at all, but he was ravaged by Qian Liu and was seriously injured. So he had a favor and agreed to stop the army. However, neither side had the intention to stop. Liu Hanhong agreed to stop the army on the surface, but secretly contacted Wenzhou Governor Zhu Bao, and went out to Wanghai to fight in the warship, waiting for the opportunity to prepare to advance to east Zhejiang.
Qian Liu had already learned about Liu Hanhong's conspiracy, but due to the emperor's face, everyone was still polite on the surface. However, as long as Liu Hanhong did not die, he would sooner or later become a major concern in Hangzhou and eastern Zhejiang!
In the first month of the second year of Guangqi, Qian Liu formally asked Dong Chang for battle: "Eliminate evil and get rid of the root cause, and you should not be a problem for future trouble. I am willing to fight it with the whole army!" It has been more than a year since the troops were stopped, and it has given Li Yan enough face. Kill Liu Hanhong earlier so that everyone can sleep well! Dong Chang naturally also was extremely disgusted by Liu Hanhong. Since Qian Liu has the ability to handle it, let him deal with this annoying Liu Hanhong!
Qian Liu, who was approved by his superiors, dispatched all the troops in Hangzhou. Ruan Jie, the commander of Zhudu, guarded Mei City, Qian Shuang, the commander of the commander of the formation, and ordered Luo Tuan to guard Pingshui. The commander of surrendered general Zhang Kezhou, Tang Sheng, Wang Gongbei and others to guard Lantou. Cui Ze, the commander of Jianghai Youyi, guarded Yangshi. He personally led the main force from Zhuji to Pingshui, guided the mountain road to Cao'e's, and launched the last and fierce attack on Liu Hanhong.
At this time, Liu Hanhong had already become a serious camel and was no longer bigger than a horse! In Cao Etai, Qian Liu beat Liu Hanhong's alliance Zhu Bao to a confused manner, burned the warships and drowned countless people. At the foot of Fengshan, Liu Hanhong's general Meichengzhen Jiang Shi Jianshi directly tied up the right-hand general Zhang Shihe and surrendered Qian Liu.
Three days later, Qian Liu led the victorious army to easily break through Liu Hanhong's old nest Yuezhou Prefecture and directly occupied the mansion of the Zhejiang East Observer. Liu Hanhong fled into Taizhou in the chaos.
Before Qian Liu could do it himself, Taizhou Governor Du Xiong took the initiative to present his superior Liu Hanhong as a generous gift to Qian Liu. In December of the second year of Guangqi, Liu Hanhong, who had been struggling for four years, finally came to the end of his life and was beheaded in Kuaiji.
Liu Hanhong, who was about to die, was still very stubborn and shouted, "Since ancient times, how could a country be destroyed?" When Liu Wuzi was preparing to execute the execution, Liu Hanhong left his last words and said, "I, Liu Hanhong, is a dignified observer, how can you and the unknown juniors be punished? I once dreamed of holding money in my hand, so I asked Qian Liu to send me the last journey in person." Qian Liu satisfied Liu Hanhong's final words and personally ended Liu Hanhong's life.
Liu Hanhong was finished. According to the practice of the strong in the late Tang Dynasty, the beauty of the Zhejiang East Observer who was vacant after Liu Hanhong's death should naturally fall on Qian Liu. The officials and people in Zhejiang all thought so and hoped so much. However, Qian Liu made an incredible move again! He attributed all the contributions to the eradication of Liu Hanhong this time to Dong Chang, and suggested giving the position of Zhejiang East Observer to Dong Chang.
Finally, Dong Chang obtained the Mei Chai of the Eastern Zhejiang Observer. At the strong request of the official surname of the western Zhejiang officials, Zhou Bao, the western Zhejiang Jiedushi, followed the situation and asked Qian Liu to inherit Dong Chang's original position, served as the governor of Hangzhou, and the commander-in-chief of Hangzhou, and was appointed as the Secretary of the Procuratorate of the Procuratorate.
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Chapter completed!