There is nothing special in Luo Youdu's letter, it is just a simple chat about family matters and playing emotional cards.
Luo Youdu did not learn from Zhu Yunwen and asked Cao Bin to show mercy to Chai Kehong.
He didn't want to become the laughingstock of the ages.
After all, there are really not many people who can lose with a king bomb, four twos and four points.
He just wrote a letter to Cao Bin to persuade Cao Bin to surrender when Chai Kehong Mountain was running out of water.
After all, he was one of the few elders of the original owner. Even outside Luzhou City, Luo Youdu could feel the care of his elders. It was naturally the best thing to save his life.
Cao Bin did not intend to let Chai Kehong's Jiangnan navy continue to involve their land and sea troops. This attempt to persuade them to surrender was an ultimatum and also confused the enemy's mind.
But in the eyes of Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen, the meaning is completely different.
Luo Youdu used his dignity as an emperor to persuade them to surrender by playing emotional cards. Even if they persisted to the end, his generals would not agree.
They were already in a desperate situation without food and help, and the core area of Jiangnan, Jinling City, fell.
What's the point of continuing to fight in this situation?
Thirty thousand of Jiangnan's most elite navy troops surrendered in the Jiangnan camp.
It was not until after the surrender that Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen realized that Jinling had only lost the outer city, and that the inner city and palace were still in the hands of Li Hongji.
There are still a group of loyal people in the Jiangnan court who are holding on to the city.
But at this point, Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen had no way to save the situation.
Cao Bin has completed the recruitment of the Jiangnan navy, disbanded their establishment, promoted low-level generals, promoted Chai Kehong and Sun Zhenming to secretly demoted, and transferred them to the Central Plains infantry to attack cities and territories.
Chai Kehong was the governor of Jiangnan and the first person in the military. In the past, when Jiangnan was repeatedly defeated by the Zhou Dynasty and morale was at its lowest, it was Chai Kehong who saved Jiangnan's face with a hearty victory.
In Jiangnan, Chai Kehong is a flag and a belief in Jiangnan.
Just like Lin Renzhao in history.
Is it true that Zhao Kuangyin was afraid of Lin Renzhao because the Northern Song Dynasty could not defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty?
of course not.
The gap in national power is difficult to change by just one person.
But with the flag of Lin Renzhao in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians in Jiangnan would feel that there was hope for victory.
Where there was hope, there was motivation for resistance. The whole Jiangnan region gathered under the banner of Lin Renzhao and gave the Northern Song Dynasty a fierce counterattack with faith.
The Northern Song Dynasty may win, but the price paid will be heavy.
Now the great governor, Chai Kehong, is the leader of Jiangnan's faith. His surrender directly caused the collapse of Jiangnan's faith, which was fatal to Jiangnan.
Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin surrendered directly.
But there is a small episode here.
At Cao Bin's invitation, Qian Hongchu of Wuyue responded to the call from the Central Plains and led troops to attack Changzhou to contain the forces in the eastern part of Jiangnan.
The combat effectiveness of the Wuyue Kingdom was almost at the bottom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
When Qian Liu founded the country at the beginning, Wu Yue still had a certain fighting capacity. He had eight soldiers in his hands and fought bravely.
Among them, the Wuyong soldiers were formed from the soldiers surrendered by the warlord Sun Ru at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The Wuyong soldiers were centered on Caizhou soldiers. The soldiers were brave and had fought for a long time. Their combat effectiveness was extremely terrifying. However, the biggest problem was the corruption of military discipline and their predatory nature.
Qian Liu himself was almost killed by the backlash from the brave soldiers.
As a result, Qian Liu discovered that the stronger the army was, the harder it was to control it, so he began to suspend the army and govern the people to avoid conquests. Throughout several dynasties, Wu and Yue did not conduct large-scale conquests, which was a strange thing in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
.But the people of Wuyue are undoubtedly the happiest in this era.
When Su Shi demoted Hangzhou and punished it, he lamented: "Their people have grown old and died, and do not know the war. They travel around all the time, and the sound of singing and drums can be heard. It has not been abolished to this day. Their virtues are very rich in the people."
This was a miracle in the most turbulent Five Dynasties.
But Wu Yuebing is really weak because of this...
Li Yanshe, the governor of Runzhou, Sha Wanjin, the military envoy of Changzhou, and Liu Cunzhong, the military governor of Jiangyin, were responsible for resisting the invasion of Wuyue soldiers and horses.
Changzhou is on the first front, Runzhou is on the second front, and Jiangyin Army is in the rear.
The Wu Yue soldiers did not break through the first front line. The two sides were like novices pecking each other, fighting back and forth.
After learning about Chai Kehong, Sun Zhen returned to the Central Plains, and Jinling fell...
The three of them lost their fighting spirit and thought they might as well surrender.
Together, the three of them felt that surrendering to Wu and Yue was too cheap, so they mustered up the courage to gather their troops and horses together, and in a sudden burst, the Wu and Yue soldiers were hung and hammered for fifteen miles, and then they surrendered to the Central Plains.
Wu Yue reacted and looked at Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin, which were already friendly forces, a little confused.
The decision has been made, so why give me a beating?
Wronged!!!
With the surrender of Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin, the core areas of Jiangzuo were all controlled by the Central Plains.
Faced with this situation, Cao Bin did not continue to waste time in Jinling, letting Shu Yuan and Zhao Kuangzan show their confidence, and at the same time dispatched Han Chongyun to capture Xuanzhou.
Taking Xuanzhou is equivalent to surrounding the entire Jinling.
Jinling will completely become an isolated city.
Cao Bin did not hide all these changes from Li Hongji and took the initiative to send an envoy to inform him in detail.
"What nonsense!"
Li Hongji was furious. The situation was already bad enough.
Now the entire Jiangzuo has fallen, and only Jiangyou is still under Jiangnan's control.
However, since Li Jing asked Li Hongji to supervise the country, the Jiangnan regime seemed to be divided into two.
Jiangzuo belonged to Li Hongji, while Jiangyou was under Li Jing's personal control.
Now that Jiangzuo has fallen, it means that all his efforts over the years have vanished.
Li Hongji couldn't believe this fact and roared: "Come here, chop this bastard who spreads rumors, chop it, chop it..."
He shouted three cuts in a row.
"No..."
His chopped tail sound has not dissipated yet,
Immediately, someone knelt on the ground and shouted, "No, Your Highness!"
Zhang Jie, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, said: "When two countries are at war, you should not kill the envoys who come from another country. You should not kill the envoys of other countries out of personal anger."
Xu Xuan also said: "Your Highness, what Shilang Zhang said makes sense. Even if you are in a situation of life and death, you should not take out your anger on the envoy."
Xu Xuan was the loyal man who would rather break his leg than seek help from Bashu.
It's not that he has bad intentions, it's just that he has read a lot and has his own insistence on etiquette.
After the two of them, Han Xizai, Xu Kai, Gong Li, Zhang Mi, Tang Jing, Zhu Nao and other temple ministers also came out to intercede for the envoy, asking Li Hongji to calm down and withdraw the order.
In an instant, Li Hongji realized that he was truly alone.
In fact, among the people who persuaded him, there were still some loyal people who wanted to live and die with Jinling Jiangnan.
Such as Xu Xuan, Xu Kai brothers, and Han Xizai...
But they have the stubbornness of literati.
Etiquette and law are more important than anything else. If you shouldn't kill, you shouldn't kill.
But these stubbornnesses became evidence of disloyalty in Li Hongji's eyes. He felt that everyone wanted to leave a way out for himself, so he spoke for the envoy.
Faced with a series of bad news of "betrayal" and at the end of the rope, Li Hongji did not resist the pressure. Now he sees everyone as a traitor.
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