The scene that happened outside the Zhou family ancestral hall in Yangzhou Zicheng spread to the entire Southern Tang Dynasty at an extremely fast speed, and even caused a nationwide discussion in the Southern Tang Dynasty to some extent.
The reason for this happening is that firstly, the news that Zhang Jiale and Shi Yanran even obtained the title of Tian Khan began to spread to the land of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Heavenly Khan! Although this was originally just one of the honorable Khans on the grassland, when the person who owned him was Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who shocked the past and the present, he had a new name for both the grassland tribes and the people of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.
unusual meaning.
For the grassland tribes, Tian Khan represents another heroic emperor in the Central Plains. As long as the people on the grassland follow the will of this heroic emperor, respect him as Tian Khan and fight for him, they can get basic benefits.
Peace and abundant rewards.
For the people of the Han Dynasty, the name Tian Khan brought that great country that had drifted away and even begun to disappear in their minds back to their memories.
The unification of the world and the integrity of the country are already the memories engraved in the genes of every Han Chinese.
Even in the most chaotic times, no one would doubt this truth. At most, they would lament when this troubled world would end, but they never doubted that it would not end.
The title "Tian Khan" is the most obvious signal that the world is about to be unified.
Secondly, Yangzhou was of special significance during the period of confrontation between the North and the South, because since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Healthy City, Yangzhou, Jiangdu Prefecture, has become a symbol of Jiangnan.
He is the most representative city in the entire Jiangnan and the weather vane of the entire Jiangnan. Whether it is Jiangningfu, the western capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, or Hangzhou, the western capital of Qian Yue, they cannot compare with him. What happened in Yangzhou is destined to begin.
Spread rapidly.
In Huaiyin Mansion, Li Cunhui immediately issued an order after receiving the great success of Guo Zhao's operation in Yangzhou.
He ordered Lin Weiying, the right feather, to attack the capital, the imperial army at Pinglu Town, and the left and middle guards at Huaiyin, a total of 15,000 troops. Pan Mei was the commander, and Zhang Xiong, the military supervisor of the Huaiyin Prefecture, was the deputy commander. He immediately marched westward.
Sizhou supported Fu Zhaoxu and prepared to attack Shouzhou.
Li Cunhui knew that his adoptive father Zhang Yan would definitely attack Shouzhou first.
Zhang Yanze had already determined that the battle against the Southern Tang Dynasty would focus on attacking the heart.
It's very simple. If they originally attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty could already crush them militarily.
To destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, it only took three battles. In the first battle, the troops started from Huainan and went all the way to the west to capture Shouzhou, all the way to the south to capture Yangzhou, and captured all the land north of the Yangtze River in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The second battle can start almost at the same time as the first battle. Let Ma Zhaoyuan lead Zhao Yanjin, Zhao Kuangyin and others to send troops from Jiangling and Yueyang, take the Yangtze River waterway, first attack the Wuchang Jiedushi in Ezhou of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then go to Fenghua Jiedushi in Jiangzhou (Jiujiang)
and Hongzhou Zhennan Jiedushi (Nanchang).
In the third battle, both the land and water routes will be able to move directly into Jiangning Mansion.
With Zhang Zhou's current strength, there is basically no possibility of failure in these three battles. There will be at most some minor reversals. The destruction of the Southern Tang Dynasty is almost a 100% certainty.
However, these three wars are easy to talk about, but they will take at least three years to carry out, and the number of troops, horses and civilians mobilized will be at least 250,000 to 300,000.
Among them, Shouzhou, Luzhou, Yangzhou, Ezhou, Jiangzhou, etc. are likely to experience wars. Just like what happened in the history of the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is not impossible to reduce Yangzhou to ruins.
If we put this price in history, it would be nothing to pay for destroying a big country like the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Zhang Yan still didn't want to bear it.
The Southern Tang Kingdom, what a great territory! Even if half of it was destroyed and then rebuilt, the amount of manpower and material resources lost would be astronomical.
It would be great if these wealth could be used to develop overseas.
Zhang Yan now wants to fight against Wang's Gaoli in the northeast, Duan's Dali in the southwest, and the traitorous Guo family, Li family, and even Saktu and Samanbos, as well as Jing Haijun's territory in Suiye.
Also need to recover.
But the total population of the whole country, including the Southern Han Dynasty, should not reach 30 million even if we find out the hidden gangsters and the "savages" who fled to the mountains, forests and swamps.
With such a small number of people and such a small amount of national power, how can they still fight each other?
Of course, Zhang Gao's greatest asset in launching a psychological war was his ability to see Li Jing clearly.
He has some ability, but not much in running the country. He likes enjoyment, luxury, and good words. At the same time, his mental endurance is not very good. He is easily knocked down by external factors. He is a person who can be overwhelmed.
On the contrary, in history, Li Houzhu, the subjugated king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was not as capable as his father, but his will was much stronger.
At least Li Houzhu dared to scrape the ground among the people, and he also had to prepare materials to fight with the Northern Song Dynasty. It was just that his craftsmanship was too rough and his ability was not good enough, but his determination was absolutely firm.
But Li Jing couldn't do it. After being forced to surrender to Zhang Jing, this Li Jing wanted to work hard for a while, but often when he got to the beginning, he saw that it was too difficult and there was a lot of resistance from all sides, so he became discouraged and even wanted to give up.
Then he would try his best to curry favor with the people around Zhang Gao, hoping to use this method to dispel Zhang Gao's desire to annex the Southern Tang Dynasty.
After a while, he may have felt that it was impossible to stop Zhang Zhi simply by flattery, so he quickly tried to strengthen his armaments.
Going back and forth, over and over again, the tossing up and down was unspeakable, which proved that Li Jing was not a mentally strong person.
Therefore, Zhang Yan's countermeasures were very simple. He carried out psychological warfare against the entire Southern Tang court and Li Jing, then mobilized a large army to attack Shouzhou, and used Liu Renzhan as a chicken to scare the monkeys. Finally, he led his troops to the Yangtze River or simply attacked Jiangning City.
Otherwise, just force Li Jing to surrender.
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Jiangning City, Ziwei Palace, Li Jing looked at the man in front of him, Yue Zhi Yuanting, with a resolute temperament, and could hardly believe that this was his fourth brother Li Jingda.
He took Li Jingda's hand and saw that it was covered with mottled marks left by wind and snow erosion, and the skin on his originally fair face had become rough and dark.
Logically speaking, Li Jing should feel that Li Jingda has become a lot uglier, but inexplicably, he feels that Li Jingda looks very attractive now.
Queen Zhong looked at Li Jingda and sighed with emotion, "It's really hard for Shiro. He went thousands of miles across the desert to fight against those ferocious barbarians, but he didn't even have a good piece of skin on his hands."
Li Jing and Li Jingda have a very good relationship. When they were playing in the past, Li Jing fell into the water. Li Jingda, who didn't know the nature of water, jumped out of the boat and miraculously rescued Li Jing. It was a life-saving grace.
At the same time, Li Jingda's wife is the sister of Queen Zhong, and she is also very close to Queen Zhong.
Hearing what his sister-in-law and sister Zhong said, Li Jingda grinned and shook his head quickly.
"The barbarians were ruthless, but they could not be fierce. The army marched out from Hexi and fought dozens of battles, large and small, without any defeat.
The sage personally led us across the Yanran Mountain, and the corpses of Hulu were scattered all over the fields. When we reached the enemy's stronghold of Kedun City, the Hulu were frightened. Even a non-valiant man like Lien Di, holding a horizontal sword, killed three people.
people."
Li Jing and Mr. Zhong exclaimed at the same time. Li Jingda in the past did not have such courage. Li Jing asked Li Jingda with a somewhat ugly face.
"Shiro, are you saying that after leaving the fortress in Hexi and traveling across the desert for thousands of miles, the Emperor of Shao will be with you all the time?"
Li Jingda nodded, "Not only were we together, the saint also charged directly into the enemy's lines with us. My sister-in-law said that I didn't even have a good piece of skin on my hands. In fact, this is pretty good. The saint's hands are even better than my."
Li Jing was stunned. He originally thought that Zhang Yan was waiting for the army to defeat the enemy somewhere in Monan, and then went to Fengchan. Unexpectedly, he was following the army from the beginning to the end. As the supreme emperor, he could actually do it with
There is no difference between ordinary military generals.
Thinking about his extravagant enjoyment in Jiangnan, Li Jing felt ashamed for no reason. For the first time, he felt that the gap between him and Zhang Yan was so huge.
Seeing that Li Jing was shaken, Li Jingda took the opportunity to say: "Brother, on this mission, I saw with my own eyes how powerful the Great Zhou Dynasty was. With just one order from the saint of Helong, he could pull out tens of thousands of fine knights. They regarded him as a saint.
For God, everyone is willing to die for him.
The saint was also a British lord, and he personally conquered Mobei as an emperor, which was unprecedented in ancient times.
When he hears about talents, he is happy, because the Duke of Zhou expresses his gratitude, and when there are brave men who have done meritorious service, they are willing to give them to them even if they have thousands of brocades and silks and are of stunning beauty.
When worshiping the 70,000 tiger and wolf warriors of the Han Dynasty who were killed by Li Guangli at the foot of Yanran Mountain, even an outsider like this was moved to tears.
When Feng Chanlang lived in Xu Mountain, tens of thousands of Hulu bowed their heads and regarded him as the incarnation of Tengger."
With that said, Li Jingda knelt on the ground, wept in front of Li Jing and urged: "Brother, before the war begins, you can still call the saint's mother your mother-in-law, and pay tribute to her.
The sage is so magnanimous that even Meng Chang and Shi Chonggui can be rich men. He will not treat my family poorly.
When my brother went south, the sage personally told me that if my brother could obey nature and respond to people, he would accept land and contribute to a country of thousands of chariots like the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The saint can be crowned King of Wu, all the gold and silver belongings in the Ziwei Palace in Jiangning can be taken to Luoyang, and his father's shrine can be entered into the temple of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an to feast on blood.
I am also willing to confer the title of Princess Qiying, the third daughter born to Concubine Cao Def, to the Princess of Wu and marry her to Congjia. From then on, the two families have become brothers, which is the best of Qin and Jin."
Queen Zhong's eyes lit up. This treatment can be said to be quite good.
With the title of King of Wu and millions of wealth at her side, her son could still be the consort of the princess of the great dynasty.
I, Zhang Shengren, have a very outstanding reputation. As Li Jingda said, even people like Shi Chonggui and Meng Chang can live a stable life. After the Li family contributes to the Southern Tang Dynasty, their wealth will be guaranteed.
However, Mr. Zhong was a little confused. His eldest son Li Hongji was decisive in military and military affairs, and his second son Li Hongmao was both talented in both civil and military affairs. Why did Emperor Shaoming choose his sixth son Li Congjia, who was twelve years old and loved calligraphy, painting, and poetry?
This kid is so tired, he doesn’t look like anything special!