Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 465
There is nothing special in Luo Youdu's letter, it's just a simple chatter about family affairs and playing the emotional card.

Luo Youdu did not learn from Zhu Yunqi, and asked Cao Bin to show mercy to Chai Kehong.

He didn't want to be the laughing stock of the ages.

After all, there are not many people who can lose with Wang Bo, four twos and four points.

He just wrote a letter for Cao Bin to persuade him to surrender when Chai Kehong was at the end of his life.

After all, he is one of the few elders of the original owner. Luo Youdu could feel the love of the elders when he was outside the city of Luzhou. Naturally, it is 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 water troops. This persuasion to capitulate is an ultimatum and a disorder of the enemy's mind.

But in the eyes of Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen, the meaning is completely different.

Luo Youdu used the emperor's honor to persuade them to surrender by playing the emotional card. Even if they persisted to the end, the generals under him would not agree.

They had already fallen into a death situation with no food and no aid, and Jinling City, the core of Jiangnan, had fallen.

What's the point of continuing to fight this situation?
Thirty thousand Jiangnan's most elite navy troops surrendered at the Jiangnan Camp.

It wasn't 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 Miyagi were still in Li Hongji's hands.

There are still a group of loyal people in the Jiangnan court who stick to the city.

But at this point, Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen have no way to save the situation.

Cao Bin has completed the recruitment of the Jiangnan navy, dismantled their establishment, promoted low-level generals, and secretly surrendered Chai Kehong and Sun Zhenmingsheng, and transferred them to the Central Plains infantry to attack the city and conquer the territory.

Chai Kehong is the governor of Jiangnan, No. 1 in the military.In the past years in the south of the Yangtze River, he was repeatedly defeated by Da Zhou, when 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 the belief of Jiangnan.

Just like Lin Renzhao in history.

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 strength cannot be changed by only one person.

However, with the banner of Lin Renzhao in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians all over the south of the Yangtze River would feel that there was hope of victory.

Where there is hope, there is the motivation to fight. Jiangnan 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 Chai Kehong, the governor, is Jiangnan Faith. His surrender directly caused the collapse of Jiangnan's beliefs, which was fatal to Jiangnan.

Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin surrendered directly.

But here's another little hiccup.

At Cao Bin's invitation, Wu Yue Qian Hongchu responded to the call of the Central Plains and led his troops to attack Changzhou in order to contain the troops in the eastern part of the south of the Yangtze River.

Wuyue Kingdom's combat effectiveness was almost at the bottom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

When Qian Liu established the country at the beginning, Wu Yue still had a certain combat effectiveness, with eight capital soldiers and Wu Yong soldiers in his hands.

Among them, Wuyongzu was formed by the descendants of the warlord Sun Ru in the late Tang Dynasty. Wuyongzu took Caizhou soldiers as the core.

Qian Liu himself was almost killed by Wu Yong's backlash.

Ever since, Qian Liu discovered the truth that the stronger the army, the harder it is to control, and began to rest the army to rule the people to avoid conquest.For several dynasties, Wu Yue did not conduct large-scale conquests, which is 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 and punished Hangzhou, he said with emotion: "The people are old and dead, and they don't know how to fight.

This is the most turbulent Five Dynasties, it must be said that it is a miracle.

But Wu Yuebing is really weak because of this...

Li Yanshe, governor of Runzhou, Sha Wanjin, envoy of soldiers and horses of Changzhou, and Liu Cunzhong, envoy of Jiangyin army, 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.

Wu Yue's soldiers did not break through the first front line, and the two sides fought back and forth like chickens pecking at each other.

Knowing that Chai Kehong and Sun Zhen have returned to the Central Plains, Jinling has fallen...

The three lost their fighting spirit, so they thought about surrendering.

Together, the three of them felt that surrendering to Wu Yue was too cheap, so they mustered up their courage, gathered the soldiers and horses together, and hung Wu Yue's soldiers for fifteen miles with a sudden burst, and then surrendered to the Central Plains.

Wu Yue came to his senses, looking at Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin who were already allies, he was a little confused.

It's all decided to surrender, why give me a hammer?
Wronged! ! !

With the surrender of Runzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin, all the core areas of Jiangzuo were controlled by the Central Plains.

Faced with this situation, Cao Bin did not continue to waste time in Jinling, let Shu Yuan and Zhao Kuangzan play confidently, and at the same time dispatched Han Chongyun to take Xuanzhou.

Winning Xuanzhou is equivalent to encircling the entire Jinling in all directions.

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 tell them all in detail.

"What nonsense!"

Li Hongji was furious, the situation was already bad enough.

Now that the entire Jiangzuo has fallen, only Jiangyou is still under the control of Jiangnan.

However, since Li Jing let Li Hongji oversee the country, the Jiangnan regime has faintly divided into two.

Jiang Zuo belonged to Li Hongji, while Jiang You was under Li Jing's personal control.

Now that Jiangzuo has fallen, it means that his hard work over the years has vanished.

Li Hongji couldn't believe this fact, and roared: "Come here, cut this bastard who spread rumors to Gu, cut it, cut it..."

He shouted three chops in a row.

"No..."

His slashed tail has not dissipated,

Immediately someone knelt down on the ground and shouted: "No, Your Highness!"

Zhang Ji, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, said: "When two countries are at war, don't behead the envoy, and don't kill the envoy of another country out of private anger."

Xu Xuan also said: "Your Highness, what Zhang Shilang said is reasonable. Even if you are in a situation of life and death, you should not vent your anger on the messenger."

Xu Xuan is the loyal man who would rather break his leg than seek help from Bashu.

He didn't have two minds, it's just that he had read a lot, and he had his own insistence on etiquette.

After the two, Han Xizai, Xu Kai, Gong Li, Zhang Mi, Tang Jing, Zhu Yu and other ministers of the temple also came out to intercede for the envoy, so that Li Hongji could calm down and withdraw the order.

In an instant, Li Hongji realized that he was really alone.

In fact, there are still some loyal and righteous men who want to live and die with Jinling and Jiangnan among the people who persuaded them.

Such as Xu Xuan, Xu Kai brothers, and Han Xizai...

But they have the stubbornness of the literati.

Etiquette is more important than everything else, if you shouldn't kill, you shouldn't kill.

But these stubbornnesses have become evidence of infidelity in the eyes of Li Hongji now, and he feels that everyone wants to leave a way out for himself, so he will speak for the messenger.

Faced with a series of bad news about "betrayal", Li Hongji did not resist the pressure at this time of desperation. Now he looks like everyone is a traitor.

(End of this chapter)