Chapter 15 8. Conquer Huainan again

Conquering Shouzhou is the key to completely defeating Huainan.This time, Li Gu did not stop Chai Rong, but strongly suggested that he should join forces to attack Shouzhou. If there is love, perhaps Chai Rong and Empress Fu can be regarded as a touching and sad story. If the royal family really has family ties, perhaps this legend between Chai Rong and Empress Fu is enough to move the ages. Chai Rong lived with his aunt and uncle in his early years and was fostered at Guo Wei's home.Although Guo Wei has a deep affection for Chai Rong and his son, and loves Chai Rong's diligence and seriousness, he is not his biological father after all.Judging from the few historical materials and information, Chai Rong and his father Chai Shouli seem to have a bad relationship. Even after Chai Rong became emperor, he did not publicly recognize his ancestors.Chai Rong still lacks something in the family atmosphere.Due to the civil strife in the late Han Dynasty, the family members of Guo Wei and Chai Rong who stayed in Kaifeng were copied and beheaded by treacherous officials. It is indeed a great misfortune in life for Chai Rong to lose his wife and two sons.

Chai Rong has three wives.One is Mrs. Liu, who was ransacked and wiped out by treacherous officials in Kaifeng.The second wife is the daughter of General Fu Yanqing, Mrs. Fu we mentioned in the previous documents.The third is also Fu Yanqing's daughter, the younger one.Mrs. Fu gave birth to Chai Zongxun and other sons for Chai Rong, which was a major contribution to Chai Rong and enabled Chai Rong to continue the incense. After Chai Rong became emperor, Mrs. Fu became Queen Fu. Chai Rong has a serious and impatient personality. He is a typical workaholic. He especially pursues efficiency, is picky about the quality of work, and has strict requirements on people.He is so energetic, and the urging tasks are so urgent that the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs is so exhausted that he can't keep up with Chai Rong's rhythm.When reporting work to Chai Rong, civil and military officials often trembled and dared not rebel.Because of Chai Rong's impatient temper, he thought that his subordinates were inefficient and of low quality, so he often lost his temper and became angry.Almost no one in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty had not endured Chai Rong's criticism and reprimand.Although Chai Rong's way of working is conducive to improving the efficiency of government operations and urging officials to fulfill their duties and do their best, there are also negative problems.Because Chai Rong's decision-making in such a state of impatience may not be completely correct and thoughtful, cursing and cursing make the ministers highly nervous all day long, and they have a sense of fear of Chai Rong emotionally and psychologically, and it is almost impossible to establish cronies and friendship. Close affection.

At this time, Empress Fu acted as an important mediation buffer.Generally, she would not directly intercept Chai Rong's anger, but first continued to make statements along Chai Rong's line, subtly adding explanations and euphemisms during the statement process.After being lubricated by Queen Fu, Chai Rong also realized the crux of the problem, and quickly eased from his rage.After calming down and thinking about it seriously, Chai Rong respected Empress Fu's insight and loyalty even more.Before Chai Rong was widowed in Chanzhou and continued to marry Empress Fu, he had heard that Empress Fu was wise and knowledgeable, and he already had a crush on her.After marriage, Empress Fu had a deep affection for Chai Rong, and the two had deep feelings and depended on each other.

At first, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong refused to listen to Li Gu's advice and decided to conquer Huainan himself.Not only did Li Gu disapprove of Chai Rong's aggressive advances, but Empress Fu also disapproved of Chai Rong's personal conquest.Empress Fu tried her best to dissuade Chai Rong. She believed that the road to Huainan was dangerous and long, and it would not be possible to conquer it overnight.Chai Rong refused to listen to Empress Fu's advice, and made up his mind to conquer in person.He always feels that if he doesn't do it himself, things are always uneasy.Later, as expected by Empress Fu, the Zhou army fell into the protracted Huainan War. Although the east and west were making rapid progress, the Huaihe River towns on the front line of Shouzhou and Haozhou could not be attacked for a long time. .Not only Chai Rong was worried about the war, but Empress Fu was also worried about the war day and night in the capital.Empress Fu has a strong personality and is not easy to tolerate tolerance.Under the day and night anxiety and the exhaustion of raising the prince, Empress Fu became sick from worry and could not afford to fall ill.In July 956 AD, one month after Chai Rong's class teacher returned to the capital, Empress Fu died of illness at the age of only 26 years old.

The death of Queen Fu was another heavy blow to Chai Rong.Chai Rong was widowed again.He and Empress Fu have always had a good relationship, and they depend on each other.Empress Fu passed away suddenly, and Chai Rong was deeply saddened, and felt very sorry for his wife Shaohua's early death.In the palace where Empress Fu's coffin was parked, Chai Rong sat on the ground, looking at Empress Fu's coffin with dull eyes and frozen body.Just like a sculpture, Chai Rong sat there all night.Judging from the development of later events, the death of Empress Fu was also a great loss to Chai Rong.In the Hou Zhou Empire, there was no second person who could advise Chai Rong, and no second person could have a heart-to-heart talk with Chai Rong.The political style of the Zhou Empire, which was too quick for quick success, lacked an important balancing force.

Because Chai Rong had a deep affection for Empress Fu and thought deeply about her, two years later, Chai Rong married Fu Yanqing's youngest daughter, who was Empress Fu's younger sister, and made her queen.Empress Xiao Fu is very similar to her sister in appearance and expression. This Empress Xiao Fu is also known as the "Queen of Xiao Zhou" in folklore. After the Zhou army withdrew, Southern Tang continued to study the strategy of defending against the enemy and recovering. Zhu Yuan, a member of the driving department in the Southern Tang Dynasty, proposed a strategy for using troops to Li Jing. Li Jing thought that Zhu Yuan was quite capable.In the embarrassing situation where all the generals of the country were defeated one after another, Li Jing activated the little-known Zhu Yuan, named him Grand Marshal, and sent troops to recover Jiangbei Prefecture and County.The counterattack troops sent by the Southern Tang Dynasty were stationed in Zijin Mountain, echoed with Shouzhou, and supported each other. They built an echelon offensive and defensive layout, with more than a dozen camps dotted around the mountains.In the Southern Tang Dynasty, a war preparation tunnel was built from Zijin Mountain to Shouzhou to supply grain and grass for Shouzhou.

After Chai Rong's class teacher, he evaluated the achievements of the Huainan campaign, rewarded civil and military officials for their merits, and carried out a major adjustment of cadres.For meritorious personnel, those with low official positions will be promoted, and those with small feudal towns will be replaced with big places.Personnel who are disadvantaged in their work or lack of ability may be dismissed or punished.Caozhou Jiedu envoy Han Tong was appointed as Xuzhou Jiedu envoy, and he was added to the school as the Taiwei; Xuzhou Jiedu envoy Wang Yanchao was promoted to Yongxing Jiedu envoy; he was appointed as the regular servant of the right cavalry in the middle and high defense; Xijing stayed behind Wang Yan was Fengxiang Jiedu envoy; Zhao Kuangyin was Tongzhou Jiedu envoy and commander of the palace; Zhang Yongde, the commander of the palace, was the commander of the palace; Guo Lingtu, who had abandoned the city and fled, was demoted to regiment training envoy; Wang Pu was the deputy envoy of Pingzhangshi and the privy secretary; Zhang Mei was the envoy of the third secretary.Because the trial was not detailed and serious, Yang Zhaojian, the censor Zhongcheng, Zhao Li, the censor of Zhiza, and Zhang Jiu, the censor of Zhiza, were dismissed.

The country has achieved major military victories. When Chai Rong was conferring civil and military affairs, some courtiers suggested that several little princes should also be promoted to rank, which is also in line with the practice of the previous dynasty.But Chai Rong vetoed this proposal. He believed that the princes were still children, with no responsibilities and achievements, so they were not qualified to enjoy these honors.This shows that Chai Rong has a relatively calm mind. He insists on the concept of performance-oriented rewards and punishments, and further declares this proposition to the world with such vivid examples, so as to unite and inspire people.At the same time, Chai Rong also deliberately delayed the prince's conferment to show the sincerity of respecting the virtuous and capable to the civil and military.

Chai Rong's squadron returned to the court. Although some troops remained to continue fighting, the main force withdrew after all, the supply of troops and food and grass was insufficient, and the battle line was too long and neglected to defend.Moreover, some generals of the Zhou Dynasty did not conscientiously implement the laws and regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, did not care about the common people, and wantonly plagiarized and robbed, which aroused the resistance and resistance of the Huainan people. Under the joint counterattack of the army and the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the territory originally occupied by Hou Zhou fell one after another. Tang general Zhu Yuan attacked and occupied Shuzhou and Hezhou, and the governor Guo Lingtu was driven away again.Tang general Li Ping captured Qizhou.

Xiang Xun, the newly appointed Huainan Jiedu envoy in the following week, decided to adjust the strategic deployment based on the actual combat situation.He suggested to Emperor Chai Rong that the Zhou army from Yangzhou and other places should be brought back to join forces with Shouzhou's army, concentrate their forces to attack Shouzhou, and then attack other places after Shouzhou was captured.Chai Rong, who was originally determined to forge ahead and ambitious, learned from his experiences and lessons, and agreed to Xiang Xun's suggestion. When the Zhou army withdrew northward in Yangzhou, Chuzhou and other places, disagreements arose again among the senior leaders of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Some advocated chasing and ambushing the Zhou army retreating northward, but Song Qiqiu, a great counselor, believed that the Zhou army should be let go instead of resolving enemies. , Convince people with virtue, so the war can be quelled.It is really ridiculous through the ages that this great strategist who has been in the ups and downs of his official career for decades came up with such a fallacy.Southern Tang missed a rare opportunity to deal a heavy blow to Zhou Jun.There is another person as stupid as Song Qiqiu, that is, Chen Jue, one of the "five ghosts" of the Southern Tang Dynasty.As Li Jingda's supervising army, although Chen Jue had 50,000 troops stationed in Haozhou, he did not dare to go out to help Shouzhou, and just watched from the other side.

Tang Jun's hesitation created an opportunity for Zhou Jun to encircle Shouzhou. The entire Zhou army surrounded Shouzhou with water. The deployment of Zhou's army was as follows: Xiangxun sent people to stay in Yangzhou and sit on the front line of Shouzhou, Li Chongjin stationed troops in the east of Shouzhou, Zhang Yongde sent troops to Cai control to control the west of Shouzhou, and Wu Xingde stationed troops in Haozhou to confront Li Jingda, king of Qi in the Southern Tang Dynasty. In order to establish a military base to attack Shouzhou, Hou Zhou decided to build Xiacai City.Zhou Shizong mobilized hundreds of thousands of civilians to build Xiacai City and the Huaihe River Floating Bridge in Xiacai.Xiacai gradually gathered the main force of the Zhou army, and at the same time became the Zhou army's grain and grass warehouse. When Xiang Xun dispatched troops to prepare to besiege Shouzhou, a crisis occurred within the Zhou army.The two generals on the front line in Shouzhou had a conflict. Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin were suspicious of each other, and they were at odds.Zhang Yongde wrote a secret letter to Chai Rong, accusing Li Chongjin of having ulterior motives.Chai Rong didn't believe that this matter would happen, so he pressed the matter to deal with it coldly.Zhang Yongde is Guo Wei's fourth aunt, and Li Chongjin is Guo Wei's nephew, both relatives of the emperor. They each command tens of thousands of troops, and they have important responsibilities outside the army.What does it mean for these two heavyweight generals to have a conflict?mutiny?Infighting?rebel?Surrender?Handicapped?disagree?Once the relationship breaks down, the consequences are unimaginable. One morning, Li Chongjin rode alone to Zhang Yongde's camp in Xiacai and visited Zhang Yongde.The two have their own concerns, and on the surface they have to be polite to each other.Zhang Yongde hosted a banquet in honor of Li Chongjin, Li Chongjin didn't mind, he sat in and drank generously, with a calm expression.After drinking for three rounds and eating five flavors, Li Chongjin said to Zhang Yongde: "You and I are close relatives of the royal family. We are fortunate to be trusted by the emperor and take on important military tasks. We should work together and be loyal to the king. Why should we be suspicious of each other?" Zhang Yongde heard Li Chongjin so calmly. Sincerity, but also moved by it, from then on, the two settled their suspicions and lived in harmony. The news of the discord between Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde was not only widely spread within the Zhou army, but also the Southern Tang Dynasty learned of this information.The Southern Tang Dynasty resorted to a divorce plan, wrote a wax letter to Li Chongjin, offered generous conditions to Li Chongjin, and invited Li Chongjin to rebel against Hou Zhou.This kind of anti-interpretation letter has always been extremely lethal. Many loyal ministers and good generals in the past dynasties were brought down by this trick, and their chastity and reputation were ruined for a lifetime, and their reputations were ruined.Li Chongjin was not guilty of being a thief, and frankly reported these secret letters of instigating rebellion to the court.Fortunately, Chai Rong is also a wise king and has no doubts about Li Chongjin.This former enemy crisis was properly handled.This passage can also be described as a good story through the ages. Southern Tang envoys Sun Sheng and Zhong Mo were brought to Kaifeng by Chai Rong.Chai Rong treated them very generously and courteously.But the two never said a word for Hou Zhou Jin, nor did they reveal any confidential information about Nantang.Despite all kinds of persuasion, Chai Rong still didn't get any valuable information.Chai Rong was furious and ordered Sun Sheng to be killed.Not long afterward, Chai Rong came to his senses, respected and sympathized with Sun Sheng's integrity, and regretted killing Sun Sheng.In order to compensate for this repentance, Chai Rong named Zhong Mo as Wei Wei Shaoqing as a commendation. When the country is in trouble, loyalty is seen, and death shows righteousness. It has existed in all dynasties, and it has been lacking in all dynasties. Lack is especially precious. While Southern Tang mobilized the army and the people to fight against the Zhou army, it also strongly invited the Khitan to send troops to attack Hou Zhou.However, the Khitan Emperor at this time was the famous "Sleeping King" Yelujing, who had no intention of making progress at all. He rewarded the envoys from the Southern Tang Dynasty who had crossed the sea with a few bottles of horse milk and a few lumps of milk, which was perfunctory. After Xiang Xun mobilized heavy troops to besiege Shouzhou for several months, he still failed to win.The time has come to the first month of 957 AD.At this time, there were also disagreements within the court of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Many people believed that the army was out, the consumption was too great, and the fatigue and casualties were serious, so they advocated a complete withdrawal of the army.Chai Rong also began to waver at this time.In order to fully understand the situation and optimize the decision-making plan, Chai Rong sent several confidants Fan Zhi and Wang Pu to Li Gu's house to discuss the next strategic deployment. Why do you want to go to Li Gu's house?Because Li Gu was ill. Li Gu suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. He has been paralyzed in bed for more than a year.Li Gu is particularly afraid of getting sick, once he gets sick, he feels like the sky is falling.Previously in Guo Weichao, when Li Gu broke his arm, he applied to recuperate at home for several months.After falling ill this time, Li Gu wrote many times to ask for retirement and recuperation, but Chai Rong was busy with military and state affairs and needed the help of a capable minister like Li Gu.Even though Li Gu was seriously ill and suffered from pain, Chai Rong still insisted on asking Li Gu to go to work. Whenever there were important office meetings, the emperor ordered people to carry Li Gu to the court to discuss matters.It can be seen from this that what a workaholic Chai Rong is, how strict he is with himself and his subordinates, and how unreasonable he is for public affairs and personal interests. When meeting such a leader, even though you have a rare opportunity to display your talents in a career and get a place to use them, if you don’t have a good body and can’t bear the heavy work pressure, you must become exhausted, beaten, and starved to death. Scold the Iron Man, Superman and even the God-man who can't run away from the disease. This time Li Gu did not persuade Chai Rong to stop the army, but instead persuaded Chai Rong to go to the army again.Because Li Gu believed that under the continuous siege and blows of the Zhou army, Shouzhou City was already on the verge of collapse, and only the final blow was needed.This last blow had to be done by Emperor Chai Rong himself.Only when the emperor comes to the front line can he gather strength, boost morale, and launch a fatal blow to destroy the fortress. Analyzing from an objective point of view, Li Gu changed his negative attitude from last year this time, not because he catered to the emperor's psychology, but because he made a judgment based on a deep understanding and grasp of the battlefield situation.Chai Rong agreed with this suggestion very much, and made up his mind to go to Huainan again. As expected, the military situation of the enemy far ahead was in line with Li Gu's expectation at home.After nearly a year of siege in Shouzhou City, food and grass were cut off, and weapons were scarce.At the time of desperation, the guard Liu Renshan fought against the trapped beast, planning to lead his troops out of the city to fight the Zhou army to the death, but Qi Wang Li Jingda disagreed.Unable to fight, but seeing that he could not defend, Liu Renshan was so sad and angry that he finally fell ill. Just when Liu Renshan fell ill, to make matters worse, something happened that caused a fatal blow to Liu Renshan.Liu Chongjian, Liu Renshan's youngest son, sneaked out of Shouzhou City one night and fled to Huaibei in a small wooden boat, seemingly intending to surrender to the Zhou army.As soon as Liu Chongjian crossed the river, he was discovered by the patrolling Huai army and sent back to Shouzhou.As the chief general of Shouzhou, when the army and the people were struggling to defend the city, his son secretly surrendered to the enemy. This was a great shame to Liu Renshan.Liu Renshan ordered Liu Chongjian to be cut in half in the downtown area to rectify the law.When Liu Renshan made this order, everyone was shocked.Although the generals in Shouzhou City were shocked, no one came forward to intercede, because they were afraid of angering the angry Liu Renshan.The army supervisor Zhou Tinggou was on the same rank as Liu Renshan. He cried bitterly in front of the gate and persuaded Liu Renshan to let the child go, saying that the child was too young and naive to be treated like ordinary soldiers.Liu Renshan firmly refused. Zhou Tinggou saw that begging Liu Renshan was futile, so he hurriedly stumbled to beg Liu Renshan's wife, and asked his wife to come forward to give the child a chance.Unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu also firmly disagreed with letting Liu Chongjian go!With tears in her eyes, Madam Liu said with a sad tone: "It's not that I don't love Chongjian this child, but military orders are like mountains, so don't abolish the public for personal reasons. For people, reputation and integrity must never be defiled. If Liu Chong is lenient Remonstrance, then the Liu family will become disloyal ministers. What face do I and the general have? See you again, soldiers!" In the end, Liu Chongjian was cut in half, and Yu Gong used the Ming army discipline.After the execution, there was a funeral for him, and the private Liu's family mourned for him.This incident greatly inspired the soldiers of the Huai Army in Shouzhou. Everyone was moved and vowed to live and die with Shouzhou.But this incident dealt a huge blow to Liu Renshan, who was already sick from overwork, and the pain of losing his son could only be held in his heart, making it even more uncomfortable. In February 957 AD, Wang Pu, the deputy envoy of the privy council, served as the stay in Tokyo and sentenced Kaifeng, Zhang Mei, the envoy of the third division, inspected the inner capital, and Han Tong, the guard of the capital, inspected both inside and outside the capital.After arranging the affairs behind the capital, Chai Rong led his troops out and rushed to Xiacai. There is a big difference between Chai Rong's expedition this time and last year's, an additional unit, the navy.Since the Zhou army is not familiar with water warfare, when they faced off against the Huai army last year, Zhou's army always suffered losses on the water, but they were helpless.Chai Rong is well aware of the truth that if you fall behind, you will be beaten. After the teacher returned to Kaifeng last year, he made up his mind to run his own navy.The Zhou Empire built a dock on the Bian River and built hundreds of warships. The captured Tang Dynasty was invited as a coach to teach the Zhou army how to fight on the water.A few months later, this emerging navy can already appear freely and freely.At the same time that Chai Rong marched from land, he ordered General Wang Huan of You Xiaowei to lead thousands of water troops from the Min River to the Huai River along the Ying River.The appearance of Zhou Jun's navy shocked the people of Tang Dynasty.This Wang Huan was the general of Shu captured by Chai Rong when he conquered Shu.Since Wang Huan was beaten to nowhere by Zhou Jun and captured without a fight, Chai Rong not only did not despise him, but entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. This time, Chai Rong adopted the strategy of encircling the points to fight for aid, first annihilating the peripheral reinforcements, and finally storming Shouzhou.He led Zhao Kuangyin and other generals to attack the southern foot of Zijin Mountain (southeast of Fengtai County, Anhui, this Zijin Mountain is not Nanjing Zijin Mountain).In the first battle, Zhao Kuangyin broke through two camps of the Huai army, destroyed the grain road leading to Shouzhou, and cut off the military layout of Zijin Mountain and Shouzhou's beaded long snake array, making it impossible to look at each other from head to tail.After winning the first battle, Chai Rong returned to his division under Cai. Marshal Zhu Yuan of Tang Er Road has made many military exploits since he left the army, and he feels good about himself.Chen Jue was narrow-minded and could not tolerate Zhu Yuan. He wrote a letter to Li Jing and said a lot of bad things about Zhu Yuan.Li Jing listened to Chen Jue's words and ordered Zhu Yuan to be transferred away.Zhu Yuan suffered from being dumb, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the more he thought about it, the more useless he became.At a critical moment, Zhu Yuan was stopped by his subordinate Song Yi.Song Yu said: "There is no place to stay here, but there is a place to stay. A man can't seek wealth wherever he goes, so why should he be as anxious as a woman?" Zhu Yuan suddenly realized, and he stopped playing with the fatuous Nantang.Zhu Yuan took a group of brothers and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to surrender to Zhou Jun. After Zhu Yuan surrendered, the morale of the Huai army fluctuated.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chai Rong launched a war of annihilation against the Zijin Mountain Huai army.For this battle, Chai Rong made careful arrangements. He first sent Zhao Chao, the commander of Hujie's left wing, to lead the three thousand Zhou army sailors down the Huaihe River and lie in ambush downstream.Then Chai Rong moved his army to Zhaobu and ordered all the generals to launch a fierce attack on the Tang army's Zijinshan camp.This fierce battle completely destroyed the remaining camps of the Tang army, killed and wounded more than 10,000 enemy troops, and captured the Southern Tang generals Xu Wenzhen, Bian Hao, and Yang Shouzhong alive. Zijinshan Dazhai was breached, the general was captured, and the remaining Huai army fled downstream along the Huaihe River like a lost dog.Seeing that the defeated Southern Tang army had entered the ambush he had set up, Chai Rong ordered to pursue them closely and follow them to kill them.Chai Rong himself led 500 cavalry troops along the north bank of the Huaihe River to bite the Huai army, shooting bows and arrows while chasing them.Zhao Kuangyin and other generals pursued them on the south bank of the Huaihe River.Zhou Jun's navy pursued them from the Huaihe River.Tang Jun had no fighting spirit, and was chased by the three groups of Zhou Jun behind him until his butt was smoking, and he just ran away with his head in his arms.Tang Jun was running, and suddenly a Zhou Jun navy came out head-on and stopped in the middle of the Huaihe River. A battle of encirclement and annihilation broke out. No less than 40,000 Tang soldiers died in battle, drowned, scared to death, and surrendered. The Zhou army captured hundreds of thousands of warships, grain ships, and weapons and equipment.The tens of thousands of Tang troops supporting Shouzhou were wiped out. After the Zijinshan Huai army camp was broken, only the Haozhou navy was left to take over Shouzhou.Chai Rong ordered thousands of people nearby to be recruited to build a city on the Huai River between Haozhou and Shouzhou. The two cities in the north and south faced each other across the river.After the city was repaired, Chai Rong ordered people to move Xiacai's floating beam bridge here, and it became a water fortress that controlled and cut off Haozhou and Shouzhou.This time, it is a way to defeat each other, cutting off the connection between Haozhou and Shouzhou. The navy stationed in Haozhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty saw that the Zhou army was blocking the upstream, and the situation was very unfavorable to Haozhou, so Guo Tingwei, the governor of Haozhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, planned to surprise the Fuliang Bridge in Xincheng to destroy the Zhou army's fortifications.The Huai Army's surprise attack plan was leaked and was uncovered by Zhao Kuangzan, the commander of Youlongwu in the Later Zhou Dynasty.Zhao Kuangzan waited for work with ease, and laid an ambush to wait for Guo Tingwei.Guo Ting said that he led several thousand Huai troops up the river at night, and had just arrived near the Fuliang Bridge, when suddenly a cannon rang out, and the Zhou army ambushed everywhere, and the flames shot into the sky.Thousands of Huai troops fell into flames in an instant and were wiped out by the Zhou army. The Haozhou camp collapsed, and Qi Wang Li Jingda and the supervisor Chen Jue fled from Haozhou back to Jinling. After breaking through the Zijinshan camp and the Haozhou camp, Chai Rong handed over the command of the attack on Shouzhou to Xiang Xun, and he returned to Xiacai to take charge. After another psychological battle, Shouzhou City, which was isolated and out of ammunition and food, was shaken.Liu Renshan, the Qinghuai Jiedu envoy and attendant in the Southern Tang Dynasty, was dying of illness, unable to identify the person, and was in a trance and coma.In the name of Liu Renshan, Zhou Tinggou, the military supervisor of Shouzhou, and Sun Yu, the deputy envoy of Yingtian, wrote a letter of surrender to Chai Rong in the name of Liu Renshan. Chai Rong mobilized all the elite troops to line up in the north of Shouzhou City to accept Shouzhou's surrender.Chai Rong did not make things difficult for Liu Ren.Liu Renshan was carried out of the city, and after Chai Rong saw him, he allowed him to return to his home in Shouzhou to continue recuperating.Because Liu Renshan was loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty and never gave up on the isolated city, Chai Rong also respected him very much, and granted Liu Renshan the title of Tianping Jiedu envoy and Zhongshuling.But Liu Renshan was already dying of illness.On the day when Chai Rong issued the reward order, Liu Renshan died of exhaustion.In order to affirm Liu Renshan and commend him for his dedication to his country, Chai Rong posthumously bestowed upon him the title of Prince of Pengcheng, and bestowed the title of Zhongzheng Army on the surrendered army of Shouzhou.When Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty heard the news of Liu Renshan's death, he also made him a grand master.Liu Renshan and others were rewarded and affirmed by both the enemy and their own people, and they are truly unprecedented people. Shouzhou is really too difficult to fight, Shouzhou is really a steel fortress.In order to avoid future troubles, Chai Rong moved the government of Shouzhou from Shouchun to Xiacai, a city newly built by Zhou Jun. Great victory in Shouzhou. In April 957 AD, Chai Rong's class teacher returned to the court.