After the war, Zhou Shizong beheaded more than 70 famous schools such as Fan Aineng and He Hui to rectify the military law. Zhao Kuangyin performed well in this campaign, and kept up appearances before entering the temple, thus rising rapidly and becoming a general that Chai Rong relied on in the future.
The Battle Background The Battle of Gaoping was a key battle between Hou Zhou and the allied forces of Northern Han and Qidan. It was also the most important decisive battle during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It ended in Zhou Shizong's total victory.
After the death of Liu Zhiyuan, the founding monarch of the Five Dynasties, Han Yin Di acceded to the throne. A few years after Yin Di acceded to the throne, he was dissatisfied with several ruling ministers, and the emperor's minions also took the opportunity to advise in front of Yin Di and killed all these ministers. Regardless of the Queen Mother's dissuasion, he worked in the later Han Dynasty for three years. When the minister appeared before him, he was ambushed and killed Vencent Yang and Shihe. Then announced that these ministers intended to rebel, and sent messengers to search for relatives and friends of several ministers and slaughter them.
Guo Wei is also one of the life ministers. At that time, he was an envoy and assistant of the Tang Dynasty, and the commander-in-chief was stationed in Yedu to defend the Khitan. Yin Di sent someone to kill all Guo Wei's family in Daliang, even the baby. He also sent messengers to the generals in the army, asking them to kill Guo Wei. However, the news leaked, and Guo Wei returned to Li's position with a great army. Due to Yin Di's improper handling of this matter, most generals expressed sympathy for the experience of Guo Wei and others, so all the defenders along the way went up against the wind. Guo Wei smoothly entered the periphery of DouLiang. Yin Di once again ignored the Queen Mother's dissuasion and insisted on going out to fight Guo Wei himself. As a result, the striker Murong Yanchao lost, and most of the generals led the army to surrender. Yin Di fled hastily and was killed by pursuers on the way. A country can't live without a master for a day. The Queen Mother consulted with her ministers to establish Hedong Wei Liu, the son of Emperor Gaozu Liu Chong, as the adopted son, and Wuning Liu Bin as the emperor. Then Guo Wei got up and went into the capital, regicide the insurrection. No matter how wronged he is, this crime can't be cleared. Guo Wei took advantage of the opportunity that the imperial court sent him to guard the Khitan, and staged a farce of wearing a yellow robe in Iraq, and his subordinates acclaimed him as the emperor. And Liu Bin has arrived in Songzhou, but was imprisoned by the Ministry of Guo Wei. Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor, changed his title to Zhou, and Guo Wei was Mao of the Zhou Dynasty. Soon, Guo Wei killed Liu Bin in Songzhou.
After the Han Dynasty, Hedong made Liu Chong know that Liu Bin had been killed. The emperor is located in Jinyang. Still use the name Han, which is the northern Han in history. As soon as the Northern Han Emperor ascended the throne, he immediately sent messengers to Qidan for help. In October of the first year of Guangxu in the later Zhou Dynasty, the Khitan sent 50,000 troops and the Northern Han allied forces to the south to besiege Jinzhou. Shoujiang in the later Zhou Dynasty resisted tenaciously. At the end of the year, the reinforcements of the Later Zhou Dynasty approached, the Khitan army retreated first, and the Northern Han army failed to retreat, so it was pursued and suffered heavy losses. This war made the Northern Han dare not go south for a long time.
Campaign-related campaign name: Gaoping Campaign
The warring parties: the allied forces of Hou Zhou, Northern Han and Qidan.
Battle time of Gaoping: April 954, 16.
The result of the battle: a total victory in the last week.
Combat significance: it is the beginning of the Central Plains Dynasty from weak to strong during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Three years after the Allied attack in the campaign, Guo Wei died, and his adopted son Chai Rong ascended the throne, namely Zhou Shizong. At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, in the first year of Xiande, the Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty was very happy after learning the news, and immediately invited soldiers to Qidan. Zhou Yang, an ambassador of Wuding in Qidan, led more than 10,000 cavalry to join forces with Jinyang in the Northern Han Dynasty, and the Northern Han Lord personally commanded 30,000 troops to join forces with Qidan. Weeks later, Mu was sent to lead two thousand soldiers to meet the Northern Han Army, and he led the main force to camp behind. Northern Han strikers ordered me to make Zhang lie in ambush by Wuning, pretending to be defeated and luring the enemy. As a result, Mu Ling was ambushed and killed, and his foot soldiers lost thousands. Li Jun returned to Luzhou and held fast to the city. Zhou Shizong got a vacation and went to war himself. However, the ministers agreed that the emperor had just acceded to the throne, and the people's hearts were not yet stable, so it was not appropriate to personally levy. The following generals should be sent to resist. However, Zhou Shizong has his own opinion. He thinks that Liu Chong will look down on my youth and inexperience and will come in person when he takes advantage of the huge losses in our country. If he wants to annex our country in one fell swoop, I have to do it myself. Prime Minister Feng Dao and Zhou Shizong argued repeatedly. Feng Dao believes that after the fiasco in Jinzhou, the Northern Han master never dared to go out in person again. Zhou Shizong compared himself to Emperor Taizong, but Feng Dao disagreed.
Chai Rong decided to personally expedition Zhou Shizong, so he set out from Kaifeng, the capital, to command the imperial army. On the way, the imperial army commanded Zhao Chao to send someone to persuade Zhou Shizong to discourage personal expedition. Zhou Shizong was furious and imprisoned Zhao Chao in Huaizhou. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty didn't know that Zhou Shizong dared to go out in person. Seeing that Luzhou was strong and difficult to capture for a while, he did not attack Luzhou and took the lead. The striker of the Northern Han Army met Zhou Jun in the south of Gaoping, and was repelled by Zhou Jun. He was afraid that the Northern Han Army would retreat, so he stepped forward. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty lined up to meet him in the Eight Palaces. I personally led, Zhang led the army in the east and led the Qidan cavalry in the west, which was extremely prosperous. The vanguard of the army advanced too fast in the last week, and the rear army led by Liu Ci was left behind by our time in Heyang. Faced with this situation of being outnumbered, Zhou Jun soldiers are inevitably afraid. On the contrary, Zhou Shizong was more calm and determined to defeat the enemy. He made Bai Zhongzan and bodyguard Ma Jun command Li Zhongjin Zuo Jun in the west, Fan Aineng and He Hui command the right army in the east, Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao led the fine riding in the middle array, and both commanded Zhang Yongde to lead the imperial palace. Zhou Shizong dressed himself. He rode to the front to bid, and both sides were ready.
Seeing that there were not many troops in the later Zhou Dynasty, Liu Chong looked down on the Northern Han Dynasty and thought that Zhou Jun could be defeated without the troops of the Khitan. His generals said, I can defeat Zhou Jun with the Han army, but I don't need the Khitan. Today, we will not only defeat Zhou Guo in one fell swoop, but also show the Khitans the strength of our Han army.
Northern Han generals also agreed. Before the war, Zhou Yang observed the position and strength of the army in the later Zhou Dynasty, and said to the commander of the Northern Han Dynasty, Zhou Jun is a strong enemy, so we should not attack rashly.
The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty said disapprovingly, Now is the critical moment, General, so don't say anything more. Let's watch me defeat the enemy.
Zhou Yang was silent. He wanted me to see how you defeated the enemy of Northern Han. At that time, the northeast wind was very strong, and suddenly it turned south. Wang Yansi, the deputy Tang envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty, sent Li Yi, the supervisor of the Ministry of Heaven, to persuade the Northern Han Dynasty to attack. Wang Dezhong, a bachelor of Tang Dynasty, thinks that the wind is unfavorable and it is not suitable to attack. Northern Han refused to listen and ordered the Eastern Army to attack first. Zhang personally led more than 1000 elite riders to attack the right army in the Zhou Dynasty. Fan Aineng and He Hui, the commanders of the right army in the later Zhou Dynasty, were already afraid of fighting. Soon after the battle, they saw that the northern Han army was menacing and could not resist, so they led the cavalry to escape first. The following week, the right army was defeated and thousands of infantry surrendered. Zhou Shizong saw that the war was urgent, and after he was on the verge of rout, he personally led Qin Bing around him to bid.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, a bloody battle in the Zhou Dynasty, was the imperial general of the Zhou Dynasty at that time. He first called his companions to charge forward and asked Zhang Yongde to lead the army to attack from the left, while he led the army to attack from the right. Zhang Yongde agreed, and each of them led two thousand troops to attack Zhou Shizong. Zhao Kuangyin took the lead in a bloody battle to meet the enemy, the master fought bravely, and the foot soldiers fought to the death, all with one enemy and one hundred soldiers, and the northern Han soldiers could not resist. The horse who is in the inner temple also encourages his companions to attack. He jumped up and shot himself, killing dozens of enemy troops. After that, Zhou Jun's morale was even higher. Ma Quanyi, the leader of the right line in front of the temple, also led hundreds of cavalry to storm forward. Knowing that he had to go out in person, the Northern Han Lord ordered Zhang to be rewarded and urged Zhang to attack. When Zhang advanced, his horse was shot dead by the army in the following week. Zhang, the hero of the Northern Han Dynasty, was beheaded by the array, and the morale of the Han army was low. Later, Zhou Jun violently attacked in the increasing southerly wind, and the Northern Han Army was defeated.
Northern Han rout Although the Northern Han master personally waved the flag and shouted, it could not stop the rout of the Northern Han army. Seeing that Zhou Jun was so brave, Zhou Yang didn't dare to save him. He hated the Northern Han Lord for not listening to his advice. He led the Qidan cavalry to retreat first. Fan Aineng and He Hui, who were defeated from the battlefield, led the defeated soldiers to rob the trench, spread rumors and tried to stop Liu Ci's progress. Liu Ci refused to listen, led the army forward, and joined the former army at dusk. At that time, there were more than 10 thousand soldiers in the northern Han Dynasty, deployed across the mountain stream in an attempt to resist. After Zhou Jun got reinforcements, he stormed again. The Northern Han Army collapsed and Wang Yansi was killed. After that, Zhou Jun chased Gao Ping all the way. Northern Han soldiers were covered with zombies and abandoned military equipment everywhere, and thousands of Northern Han soldiers surrendered. The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty only led hundreds of cavalry to flee in panic. After the Battle of Gaoping, Zhou Jun won a great victory.
After the Battle of Gaoping, Zhou Shizong beheaded more than 70 famous generals such as Fan Aineng and He Hui to rectify military discipline. Reward the heroes in Gaoping War. Zhang Yongde recommended Zhao Kuangyin to Zhou Shizong and spoke highly of his wisdom and courage. Zhou Shizong promoted Zhao Kuangyin to Hou Yu, dismissed from the temple, and cited Yanzhou as the secretariat. Since the First World War in Gaoping, Zhou Shizong has realized the disadvantages and weaknesses of the Imperial Army. So we set out to rectify the imperial army, select the elite, eliminate the old and weak, recruit all the strong men in the world and enrich the imperial army. After this reorganization, the fighting capacity of the imperial army has been greatly improved.
The battle of Gaoping is directly related to the rise and fall of the later Zhou Dynasty. Under the crisis situation that the right army has been defeated, Zhou Shizong's personal appearance greatly inspired the morale of Zhou Jun, thus saving the precarious war situation. Zhou Shizong's actions, courage and courage are no less than those of Emperor Taizong. If he can't make a decisive personal expedition or escape first in an emergency, history will be rewritten.
After the First World War in Gaoping, Zhou Shizong promoted a group of brave and resourceful generals, reorganized the imperial army, and made great efforts to conquer the land in the northern part of the Southern Tang Dynasty, conquered the Khitan in the north, recovered several counties in succession, enhanced national strength and expanded the territory of the later Zhou Dynasty. It laid a good foundation for the reunification of the Song Dynasty. Zhou Shizong was a rare and successful emperor in the Five Dynasties. As far as the performance in Gaoping World War I is concerned, few people can match it. Unfortunately, he has been in office for too little time, otherwise he could have done more. Because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Gaoping, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin became a senior general of the Imperial Army in the Later Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Shizong is diligent in politics, and can influence the generals with outstanding achievements. Zhao Kuangyin has always been loyal to the Zhou Dynasty, and has made many achievements. Then, after Zhou Shizong's death, Zhao Kuangyin was able to mutiny in Chen Qiao, become a yellow robe, usurp the regime of the Later Zhou Dynasty and establish the Song Dynasty. With the foundation laid by Zhou Shizong, he, Song Taizong and Zhao Guangyi finally ended the division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Countries.