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Chapter 83 The Southern Tang Army Destroys Fujian

When Jianzhou City was broken, the Jianzhou army, which had been guarding for half a year, was no longer interested in fighting. Everyone either surrendered or fled to death. No one was willing to fight for the Min Kingdom and the Wang family. The only choice to insist on resisting was the Quanzhou army led by Dong Si'an and Wang Zhongshun!

At the moment of the siege of Jianzhou, Dong Si'an's subordinates began to disperse. A general persuaded Dong Si'an to say, "We should prepare to leave Jianzhou as soon as possible!" Dong Si'an said to them righteously: "I, Dong Si'an, served the Wang family for generations. Now it is a critical moment. If I betray the Wang family, who else in the world can tolerate me? I swear to live up to the Wang family!"

Everyone was moved by Dong Si'an's sincerity, and no one dared to leave Jianzhou City without authorization.

When the city was broken, Dong Si'an and Wang Zhongshun chose to fight bloody battles for the Min Kingdom and the Wang family. In the end, Wang Zhongshun died in the battlefield, and Dong Si'an led the remaining defeated generals in Quanzhou to withdraw to Quanzhou. The city of Jianzhou was broken, and Wang Yanzheng had no good choice. He either committed suicide to add some blood to the demise of the Min Kingdom, so that he could still get a trace of respect from future generations after his death. Or he raised his hand to surrender and became a prisoner of the Southern Tang Dynasty in humiliation!

But the bloodiness of Wang Yanzheng has long been wiped out in countless internal chaos and chaos. When the city was broken, he chose to surrender. With Wang Yanzheng's surrender, the rule of the Wang family in Fujian was over. Liu Qiong, who was the general of Yongping Town at the time, was always an unknown general in Fujian. But at the last moment of the demise of Fujian, he staged a tragic and tragic story.

Liu Qiong's ancestral home is Gushi, Guangzhou, and was a fellow villager with Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi. When he was young, Liu Qiong followed the Guangshou army to move thousands of miles to Fuzhou to live. As an adult, Liu Qiong was brave and good at fighting and made many military achievements. He was named General by Wang Shenzhi. He served in Tingzhou for a long time and loyally guarded the western border of Fujian for decades.

In the third year of Tiande, the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty besieged Jianzhou City, and Liu Qiong was ordered to lead the army to rescue Jianzhou City. When he marched to Yongzhou, Jianzhou City was broken and news that Wang Jianzheng surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty came. Liu Qiong and his subordinates were confused and confused! Surrendering to the Southern Tang Dynasty should be the choice of most people, but some soldiers planned to support Liu Qiong as the new Emperor of Fujian, leading everyone to continue to fight against the Southern Tang Dynasty and carry the banner of reviving the Fujian Kingdom.

If Liu Qiong surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he felt unfaithful and unrighteous. He was sorry for his former senior Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi. If he chose to proclaim himself emperor in Yongzhou to fight against the Southern Tang Dynasty, it would bring war and disaster to the people of Yongzhou, and would also put himself in a state of unkindness and filial piety. After a fierce ideological struggle, Liu Qiong finally made a choice, and he committed suicide to his country. Taking advantage of everyone's attention, Liu Qiong committed suicide!

The subordinates were very sad about Liu Qiong's death, so they buried Liu Qiong's body and buried it in the foothills. After hearing about Liu Qiong's death, the local people in Yongzhou were very moved and spontaneously built temples and sacrificed their lives in the local area!

The time when the Fujian Kingdom was enjoying the country was counted. If Wang Chao served as the Fujian Observer in the second year of Jingfu, to Wang Yanzheng surrendering to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Wang family ruled in the Fujian Kingdom for fifty-two years. If Wang Shenzhi was named King of Fujian in the third year of Kaiping, and to Wang Yanzheng surrendering to Jianzhou, the Wang family ruled in the Fujian Kingdom for thirty-six years.

Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi's brothers worked hard to conquer the country of Min Kingdom, and were tortured by their four descendants, and were riddled with holes, and eventually destroyed themselves.

The real reason for its demise was not the Southern Tang Dynasty's robbery, but the endless, frequent internal coups and internal conflicts between the brothers and nephews of the Wang family!

After surrendering to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wang Yanzheng was lucky. He was not threatened by his life or treated with humiliation. On the contrary, Li Jing treated him very well.

Wang Yanzheng and other members of the Wang family were taken to Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jing made Wang Yanzheng the General of Yulin. Later, Wang Yanzheng was named the governor of Anhua Army and the King of Poyang, guarding Raozhou. Soon afterwards, Wang Yanzheng died of illness. He was the only one among Wang Shenzhi's eight sons. After his death, he was quite glorious and was posthumously named King of Fu by Li Jing.

Although the Wang family's Fujian Kingdom ended, the land of Fujian was still in chaos! The Southern Tang only occupied the land of Jianzhou, and Li Renda was in separatist position in Fuzhou, Tingzhou was still under Xu Wenzhen's control, Wang Jicheng of the Wang family occupied Zhangzhou, and Wang Jixun of the Wang family was stationed in Quanzhou. As long as the four states join forces, the Southern Tang Dynasty could not gain any advantage. Unfortunately, after Wang Yanzheng announced his surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Wang family had no more people to stand up and turn the tide.

Wang Jicheng and Wang Jixun were both mediocre people. Before the Southern Tang army could launch an attack on Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, they could not wait to surrender to the Southern Tang army in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. The speed was astonishing! Xu Wenzhen of Tingzhou was originally a man who was good at turning to the rudder, and his ambition was not that strong. In this case, Xu Wenzhen's choice was of course to surrender. As for Li Renda, Fuzhou, had already surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Since Jianzhou had been defeated, Li Renda naturally chose to surrender.

The situation was very beneficial to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Just by capturing the land of Min State’s founding state, the Wang family of Min State disappeared. The rulers of the other four prefectures surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty without any resistance. They thought that they would have to go through a bloody battle to settle the Min State. Now, they can easily obtain the entire Min State without a single soldier. Even Li Jing could not expect such a result!

Under such a great situation, Li Jing and his generals of the Southern Tang commanders began to make unscathing moves and make mistakes! Before the Southern Tang army attacked the State of Min, the people who were deeply imposed and bribed and were in dire straits were excited for a long time. Everyone was hoping that the Southern Tang could end the rule of the State of Min, and the great hope was that a new wise lord could be welcomed, so that everyone could live and work in peace and live a peaceful life.

The civilians in the troubled times did not have high requirements, and they did not expect to be delicacies, wealth, peace, quiet, and food and clothing! The civilians of Jianzhou welcomed the arrival of the Southern Tang Dynasty! However, the performance of the Southern Tang army after the capture of Jianzhou disappointed the civilians of Fujian!

Before sending troops to attack the Min Kingdom, Li Jing was full of thoughts on how to expand his territory, destroy the Min Kingdom, and how to make unparalleled achievements in glorifying his ancestors. As for how to appease the people, restrain the army, and stabilize the situation after the demise of the Min Kingdom, he did not seriously consider it. In addition, none of the commanders of the Southern Tang Dynasty were truly excellent commanders who could stand alone and control the overall situation.

After the Southern Tang army captured Jianzhou City, they began to burn and kill and rob, burned palaces and houses wherever they went, and robbed people's property, causing many Jianzhou people to be displaced. Unfortunately, it was very cold that winter that year, and countless wandering people died of frozen death along the way.

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The bad and shameless behavior of the Fujian State was extremely disappointed, and his favor for the Southern Tang Army disappeared! The burning, killing, robbing, and venting frantically was over. It was time to stabilize the situation and control the Fujian State! Li Jing also realized this problem and set up the Yong'an Army in Jianzhou. He appointed Wang Chongwen, the envoy of the Yum Army, as the new governor of the Yong'an Army. Wang Chongwen was a relaxed and kind official. After he took office as Jianzhou, the people of Jianzhou were slightly calmer and the people's hearts were slightly safe.

But just getting a Jianzhou is far from enough. Many generals from the Southern Tang Dynasty therefore suggested to Li Jing that they should take advantage of the victory and quickly send troops to Fuzhou to seize the city of Fuzhou!

Fuzhou City has always been the capital of the Min Kingdom. Only when Fuzhou City is truly controlled can it be considered to be truly occupied and controlled by the Min Kingdom. As long as Fuzhou City is controlled, the other three states will be no problem. Under the circumstances at that time, this suggestion should be a very reasonable suggestion. Li Renda has become a well-known figure in the Min Kingdom, but it is not a good reputation.

Most generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty believed that although Li Renda surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty on the surface, he actually wanted to seize Fuzhou and dominate the country. He suggested taking advantage of the current high morale of the soldiers and taking over Fuzhou City in one go, and completely solve Li Renda's problem. However, Li Jing was a little hesitant on this issue. I don't know if it was Li Renda's extremely humble attitude and confusing Li Jing, or if Li Jing did not take Li Renda seriously at all. After conquering Jianzhou, Li Jing did not attack Fuzhou for a long time.

Not only did he not attack Fuzhou, but even Zhang, Quan, Ting and Li Jing did not send troops to the Southern Tang generals to station in time. Zhang, Quan and Ting were still managed by the old ministers and generals of the Fujian State! The root of chaos in the land of Fujian was firmly planted!

Since the Min Kingdom had actually perished, the reign of Tiande became history, and the Min Kingdom nominally belonged to the Southern Tang Dynasty. In February of the fourth year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty, war broke out again in Bamin, which had been calm for half a year!

Jianzhou was occupied by the Southern Tang Dynasty and was renamed the Yong'an Army. The Southern Tang Dynasty sent Wang Chongwen as the governor of the Yong'an Army to control Jianzhou. At the same time, the Southern Tang Dynasty established Jianzhou in Yanpingjin, which was managed by the Yong'an Army. Pan Chengyou, who was driven home by Wang Yanzheng, was asked to leave the mountain by Wenhui.

Pan Chengyou was appointed by Li Jing as the Weiwei Shaoqing and the Hongluoqing, who was responsible for the talent selection of the former Fujian Kingdom. Pan Chengyou did not disappoint Li Jing's trust and recommended Chen Hui, the sons of Chen Hui, Chen Decheng, and Lin Renzhao, and other famous Fujian Kingdom generals, to Li Jing, who were under the former Fujian King Yanzheng, to Li Jing, and made outstanding contributions in talent selection. A few years later, Pan Chengyou retired as the Minister of Rites and retired to Xishan, Hongzhou.

Tingzhou is still managed by Xu Wenzhen. Tingzhou is the most backward and weakest among all the five prefectures in Fujian. However, Xu Wenzhen's defense ability is quite good. Since becoming the governor of Tingzhou, Xu Wenzhen has almost never suffered any losses in Tingzhou's defense battles.

In June of the fourth year of Yonglong, Wang Yanzheng and Wang Yanxi fought hard, and Wang Yanzheng sent troops to launch several fierce attacks on Tingzhou. Xu Wenzhen calmly responded to the battle and successively repelled Wang Yanzheng's attacks. In May of the third year of Tiande, the Southern Tang army also launched an attack on Tingzhou. Xu Wenzhen performed well, repelled the attacks of the Southern Tang army and captured Shi Houqing, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty alive.
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