Besides, Li Tinggui, the commander of the camp of the Later Shu, led his troops to Weiwu City, and happened to meet Hu Li, the platoon of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and led more than 100 cavalry to patrol. Li Tinggui immediately led his army to kill and surrounded Hu Li. Hu Li led too few troops and had no troops to support him. The Later Zhou army could not come out, and Hu Li was shot down by the Shu general and was captured alive. Most of Hu Li's subordinates were captured, leaving only dozens of people to escape back to the Zhou camp. Li Tinggui achieved this small victory, but reported a great victory. He also ordered the military uniform to embroider the shape of an axe, and the title was Pochai Du. Because the Later Zhou lord was surnamed Chai, he won this title.

When the Later Shu Lord Meng Chang received the good news, he was naturally very happy and quickly sent envoys to the Southern Tang and Northern Han to make an appointment to attack the Later Zhou Dynasty. However, there were few things to be proud and many things to be disappointed. Not long after the good news, the defeat soon came. Li Tinggui's front army was defeated by the Zhou general and more than 300 soldiers were captured. The Shu Lord then sent the Privy Councilor Yi Shenzheng to the camp to express condolences and supervise the battle at the same time.

Yi Shenzheng came to the front line and discussed a plan with Li Tinggui. They sent vanguard troops to seize the way of the Zhou army. Then they sent guerrillas from the side to the Xigu and Baijian as a side division. At the same time, they ordered the Ranyuan envoy Wang Luan to lead his army out of the north of Fengzhou City, to Tangcang Town and Huanghuagu, and cut off the food route of the Later Zhou army.

After the three armies of the Later Shu army came out, Yi Shenzheng, Li Tinggui and others selected places to camp, waiting for news, and preparing to respond. Wang Luan led 3,000 troops and headed straight to Tangcang. After arriving, he ordered the whistle cavalry to enter Huanghua Valley and find out the traces of the enemy. The whistle cavalry quickly returned, and there were Zhou troops coming and going outside the valley, all transporting supplies. It seemed that they were preparing to support the Zhou camp, but there was no general commander.

Wang Luan said happily: "I'll take his baggage, food and grass together. Let them teach them that the food is interrupted and the entire army will naturally collapse." So he led his army forward and rushed into the Huanghua Valley. The valley was long and narrow, and the soldiers could not walk side by side, so they had to go in one by one and slowly walk over.

Knowing that the Zhou army had already been ambushed at the entrance of the valley, they immediately rushed out when they saw Shu soldiers leaving the valley. They immediately defeated one, captured one alive, two alive, and captured a pair alive. Wang Luan was supervising the battle in the back team, so he naturally could not know the situation of the front army. He only urged the army to move quickly. When the front army had been captured and captured more than a thousand people alive, Wang Luan learned about the situation outside the valley, and then he hurriedly sent an order to retreat. However, another Zhou army appeared at the entrance of the valley behind. Wang Luan fought desperately, and only more than a hundred cavalry were left under his command. The rest of the soldiers were trapped in the valley, and were searched by the Zhou army and captured together.

Wang Luan and more than 100 people fled to Tangcang in a panic. They wanted to return to the camp after taking a few steps. However, they had just escaped to the vicinity of Tangcang Town, but they saw a pair of people standing in front of them, very majestic. The general was wearing a sling and iron armor. He immediately rushed to the point of shouting: "I am General Zhou Zhang Jianxiong! I will get off the horse and be tied up to prevent me from taking action."

Wang Luan complained, and he had no way to advance and retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and fight. The two battles took only four or five rounds, and Wang Luan was covered in sweat and could not resist it. Zhang Jianxiong shouted loudly, knocking Wang Luan off his horse, and the Zhou army stepped forward to capture Wang Luan. There were only more than a hundred cavalry in Shu, so he naturally had no ability to regain the main general, so he had to beg for surrender.

Zhang Jianxiong ordered the soldiers to tie up all the Shu soldiers and still returned from the same route. At that time, the Zhou army captured all the Shu soldiers in Huanghua Valley.

After careful examination, a total of 3,000 people were captured, one was a few, and one was not many. Zhang Jianxiong brought these captured soldiers from the Later Shu to return to the camp to repay his merits.

It turned out that Wang Jing, Xiang Xun and others had been on guard against the Sichuan soldiers robbing food, so they were ambushed at the entrance of Huanghua Valley. Wang Luan happened to be trapped, and the entire army was wiped out. After Li Jin, the vanguard of Later Shu, was in Maling Village. After receiving this news, he was so scared that he thought that the Zhou army had the help of a god and could keep the enemy's armor.

Li Jinan wanted to escape, but he had the best choice to leave. So he gave up Maling Village and ran back to the camp. After hearing the news, the Houshu soldiers and horses in Baijian fled in all directions. Yi and Li's plan failed. They knew that they could not stand, so they decided to retreat as soon as possible. Therefore, they also abandoned the camp and fled back, retreated straight to Qingniling, and then set up camp again as the dangerously.

The governor of Xiongwu Jie, Han Jixun, also fled in a hurry. He followed suit and fled directly back to Chengdu. The Qinzhou Observer Zhao Qi hurriedly summoned his subordinates and said, "Now the enemy's troops are very sharp and invincible. The soldiers and generals sent by our country have always been called brave. However, when the two armies are fighting, our army will either die or escape. We can only wait for death and be safe if we want to get out of danger. Today, I think it's better to surrender to the Zhou army. I wonder what you are thinking?" The public were afraid of death. After hearing his words, they agreed in unison and immediately opened the city to welcome the Zhou army.

After Wang Jing and others entered Qinzhou, they divided their troops to attack Cheng, Jie Erzhou, and he led his army to besiege Fengzhou. Cheng, the governor of Jie Erzhou heard that Qinzhou had been lost, so he immediately opened the city to surrender. Only Fengzhou governor led his troops to defend the city, but was not captured for a while.

After Han Jixun fled back to Chengdu, the Shu Lord Meng Chang was furious and immediately deprived him of his position, and changed to Wang Huan as the mighty Jiedushi and Zhao Chongpu as the chief magistrate to rescue Qinzhou. On the way to march, the two generals and Zhao received news that Qinzhou had surrendered to Zhou. The two hurriedly led their troops to Fengzhou. As soon as they entered Fengzhou City, Wang Jing led their troops to attack. The two had no time to rest and hurriedly climbed the city to defend.

Wang Jing attacked from all sides, but was repelled by Zhao Chongpu. Seeing that Wang Jing was anxious and could not break through the city, he built a barrier to cut off the connection between the city and the outside world, otherwise firewood and drinking water would enter the city and try to make them thirsty.

At this moment, Han Tong, the governor of Caozhou, came to help Wang Jing with the order of Chai Rong. Wang Jing was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered him to go to Chenggu Town to block the reinforcements that might have been sent from Shu. Soon after, the food and grass in Fengzhou City were about to be exhausted, and there were no reinforcements, so gradually they could not support it. Every night, soldiers secretly ran out of the city to surrender.

Seeing this, Wang Jing knew that the morale of the army in the city was in chaos, so he ordered an opportunity to attack. The Zhou army made a concerted effort and climbed the city wall. The defenders on the city were invincible. Wang Huan and Zhao Chongpu still had the intention of fighting, and they led the crowd to prepare for street battles. However, the soldiers had long lost their fighting spirit and fled to their lives.

In the end, only Wang and Zhao were left with two bare generals, and had no way to escape, and were both captured by Zhou generals. Zhao Chongpu was so angry that he died of hunger strike, while Wang Huan was imprisoned. At this point, Qin, Feng, Cheng, and Jie were all occupied by the Later Zhou Dynasty. Wang Jing then issued a good news to the court and waited for Chai Rong's order.

Chai Rong was naturally overjoyed when he received the good news and hurriedly sent an order to reward Wang Jing and others. At the same time, Chai Rong ordered the pardon of the soldiers of Houshu captured by the four prefectures. Those who were willing to go back would be sent back to Yu Yinliang. Those who were willing to stay would be rewarded with salaries and organized into Huai'en Army. Chai Rong ordered the surrendered general Xiao Zhiyuan to be surrendered.

He led these voluntarily stayed auspicious soldiers temporarily stationed in Fengzhou. Later, because of the army to fight south, Chai Rong gave up his plan to expedition the west, so he sent Xiao Zhiyuan to lead his army to return west.

After this battle, the Later Shu army was defeated and lost four states, which naturally shocked the whole country and panic. Yi Shenzheng, Li Tinggui and others submitted a petition, and the Lord of Shu did not blame them, but ordered them to accumulate food and grass in Jianmen, Baidicheng and other places, and prepare for long-term defense.

The Lord of Shu ordered the cast of iron coins and prohibited the people from using iron tools privately. The people in the country naturally felt it was very inconvenient, so they blamed Li Tinggui and other soldiers. Meng Chang's mother, Mrs. Li, also repeatedly said that the generals who led the army were not capable. Except for Gao Yanqi's loyal and reliable nature, other generals should be placed in another place, but Meng Chang refused to obey.

Meng Chang only removed Li Tinggui's military rank and ordered him to be the chief lieutenant. Later, Xiao Zhiyuan and others came back, and Meng Chang also released more than 80 captured Zhou general Hu Li and others. The Later Shu Lord asked them to bring the letter of the country and asked Chai Rong to reconcile. Hu Li and others returned to Bianliang and presented letters from the Shu Lord Meng Chang.

Chai Rong opened the letter and saw that the beginning of the words was that the Emperor of Great Shu wrote to the Emperor of Great Zhou, and he couldn't help but furiously said, "Do he still dare to be an enemy of me?" Chai Rong did not answer. The Lord of Later Shu became more and more panicked and recruited many soldiers to guard against the Zhou army's attack.

The front line won a great victory, and all civil and military officials came to the court to congratulate him. Chai Rong held a banquet to celebrate his achievements, raised his glass and said to Wang Pu: "The achievements of the frontier's military achievements are all based on the ability of your beloved to choose the commander!" Wang Pu said humbly. Chai Rong also said: "Two days of great cold, I ate delicious food in the palace, and I have no contribution to the people, but I feel deeply ashamed to enjoy the position given by God. Since I cannot work hard and eat, I can only go to the danger of flying arrows and flowing stones to eliminate harm for the people, so I can comfort myself." Chai Rong had such an idea, so he was very diligent.

Chai Rong often personally checked the prisoners' files to see if there were any unjust cases. A commoner from Ruzhou named Ma Yu, whose father and younger brother were wronged and killed by officials. After repeated verification and trial, he could not appeal. After Chai Rong saw the case file, he interrogated it in person before he could find the real situation. Everyone thought it was magical. From then on, all the heads of various departments personally examined criminal proceedings.

Soon, Chai Rong appointed Zhang Mei as the general of the right-leading army, and was in charge of the three departments. When Chai Rong was in Chanzhou, Zhang Mei was in charge of the money and grain of the three departments. Chai Rong sometimes made some private requests, and Zhang Mei tried every means to provide him with satisfaction. Guo Wei was very angry when he heard about this, and was afraid of hurting his relationship with Chai Rong, so he just transferred Zhang Mei to the Duke of the Mass and Infantry Army of Puzhou. Zhang Mei was very smart in managing the finances, and few people could do it at that time. Therefore, Chai Rong granted him the power of fiscal revenue, but thinking of his actions in Chanzhou, he would never treat him as a fair and loyal person.

Because the court had not cast copper coins for a long time, many people among the people destroyed coins to make utensils and Buddha statues, and there were fewer and fewer copper coins. So Chai Rong ordered the establishment of institutions to collect copper to mint coins. Except for the court's ritual vessels, weapons, bells, chimes, cymbals, bells and bells in temples and temples, the rest of the people's bronze utensils and Buddha statues were sent to the government within fifty days, and the court paid the equivalent amount of money. Those who had exceeded the deadline and were hiding and did not pay, and were sentenced to death if the weight was more than five kilograms. If the sentence was less than five kilograms, they would be sentenced to different crimes.
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