Chapter 2559: Sai Cunxiao Liu Zheng vs Qilang Yang Yansi

According to incomplete statistics, during the decades of war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, more than 140 generals of the Southern Song Dynasty rebelled and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. Two of them played a very important role in surrendering, which directly led to the eventual demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. These two people were

Lu Wenhuan and Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cunxiao", and from this nickname, we can see that Liu Zheng himself is extraordinary in martial arts.

Strictly speaking, Liu Zheng cannot be considered a Song person, but a Jin person. However, at the end of the Jin Dynasty, he went south to join the Southern Song Dynasty and served under the Mongolian Communist Party.

When the Mongolian Communists led their troops to attack Xinyang, Liu Zheng and twelve men sneaked into the city, captured the defender alive and forcibly killed him.

When the Communist Party of Meng learned about it, they were shocked and said: "Li Cunxiao, a famous general from the Five Dynasties, led 18 cavalry to conquer Luoyang. Today, Liu Zheng leads an even smaller army and captures Xinyang." So they called him "Sai Cunxiao", and this is how he came to be.

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But later, Liu Zheng was framed by a traitor because of his outstanding ability. With no way to complain, and fear of persecution by the traitor Jia Sidao, he was finally forced to demote Yuan Dynasty and became the founding hero of the Yuan Dynasty.

The reason why Liu Zheng's demotion to the Yuan Dynasty directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty is because Liu Zheng was the founder of the Yuanmeng Navy. He helped the Yuan Dynasty form a powerful navy, and he also proposed the strategic plan of Xiangyang first.

, and these all had a significant impact on the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Liu Zheng in the official history was forced to demote to the Yuan Dynasty, but now he takes the initiative to become like the Yuan Dynasty because of his status.

Liu Zheng was a hidden figure in the Song and Yuan Dynasties who was randomly summoned. After his birth, he was implanted into a clan member of the Han Dynasty and became a general under Liu Che of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Liu Che committed suicide and died. After the fall of the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Zheng had no choice but to surrender along with Zhao Chongguo and others. However, when the Dongchuang Incident occurred, Zhao Chongguo was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Liu Zheng defected while being escorted.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to go south to join Liu Xiu or Liu Ji, but the Qin Dynasty pursued him too closely, and he escaped into the grassland only after narrowly escaping death.

Finally, under the persuasion and recommendation of his old acquaintance Sun Yanyu, Liu Zheng sought refuge with Maodun, the Xianwang of Zuo in Yuanmeng.

Liu Zheng's thinking was simple. There was a feud between Qin and Yuan. Even Temujin died at the hands of Qin. The current friendship was just because of Qin's power. When Yuan and Meng recovered, conflicts between the two countries would break out sooner or later.

And if he can help Mao Dun become the next Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Meng can contain a lot of Qin's troops, giving the Shu and Chu countries in the south an opportunity to take advantage of.

Mao Dun was already thirsty for talents. Seeing that Liu Zheng was extraordinary in martial arts and good at using troops, he naturally thought highly of him and appointed him as the school captain.

After receiving Mao Dun's trust, Liu Zheng has been working diligently and brilliantly in the two civil wars, defeating many Yuan and Meng generals, and even saving Mao Dun's life, thus taking charge of the military.

As for why Liu Zheng betrayed Mao Dun this time?

There are three reasons:

One is because of the cooperation between Maodun and Daqin.

Liu Zheng was a member of the Han clan and was at odds with the Qin who had usurped the Han Dynasty. Naturally, he could not accept the alliance between Maodun and the Qin.

Even Liu Zheng knew that Maodun had no other choice, but if even Maodun surrendered to Qin and even had to cede Shengle City, the fight with Kublai Khan would only become more fierce in the future, and it would be even less possible for him to become an enemy of Qin.

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The second point is that because of the failure of two civil wars, Liu Zheng realized that Maodun was not Kublai Khan's opponent.

In this case, instead of assisting Zuo Maodun in a thankless manner, it would be better for Wei Junjie to be aware of current affairs and join Kublai Khan as soon as possible, so that the unification of Yuan and Mongolia can be faster.

As for the third point, it was Kublai Khan who took the initiative to contact him.

Kublai Khan saw that Zhang Liao's reinforcements were approaching, but he was still unable to break the city, so he listened to Yelu Chucai's suggestion, used spies in the city to instigate Liu Zheng, and made an offer that he could not refuse.

Kublai Khan promised Liu Zheng that as long as he surrendered and Yuan and Meng were completely unified in the future, he would form an alliance with Shu and Chu in the south, attack Qin from the north and south, and help the Han Dynasty recover.

Kublai Khan's words were purely false, and even he himself might not believe them, but they touched Liu Zheng's heart.

It is precisely because of these three points that Liu Zheng decided to rebel against Mao Dun even if Mao Dun treated Liu Zheng well. However, after all, he only had a battalion of 3,000 soldiers and horses, so it was obviously not easy to capture Chifeng City.

Liu Zheng did not dare to rebel alone, so he raised the banner of Yuanmeng and led Sun Yanyu, Li Qi, Chen Youding, Liu Bolin and other Han generals to rebel together.

Sun Yanyu, Li Qi and other generals were either from prominent clans in Hebei that were wiped out, or were rebel generals from the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Han. Their hatred for the Qin side was no less than that of Liu Zheng. The two sides hit it off immediately and agreed to launch an army together.

But even with the help of these people, Liu Zheng still only had 5,000 troops in his hands, which was far inferior to the Chifeng City defender Qie Tuanhou. Unless he could directly kill Qie Tuanhou and other Yuanmeng senior officials, the possibility of success was slim.

Liu Zheng wanted to secretly get rid of Qie Tuanhou, but Qie Tuanhou had always hated the Han people, and was alienated from Han generals like them. He was very defensive and would not give Liu Zheng any chance at all.

In this regard, Yelu Chucai had already thought of a way. After Zhang Liao arrived, the reinforcements outside the city would abandon the siege, concentrate all their forces, and pretend to eat Zhang Liao's troops.

Although Chifeng City's Qie Tuanhou hated the Han people, he was also a person who had the overall situation in mind. If he did not want Zhang Liao to fight alone after his defeat, he would definitely go out of the city to assist Zhang Liao.

Therefore, Liu Zhengda could pretend to be ill and stay in the city, waiting for Marquis Tuan to leave the city and think of ways to seize the city.

Liu Zheng followed Yelu Chucai's plan and stayed in the city on the grounds that an old injury had occurred. He then rebelled after Marquis Qie Tuan left the city.

After Qie Tuanhou learned that the Han generals in the city had rebelled, he no longer cared about Zhang Liao and immediately led his troops back to support him. However, it was still a step too late and Liu Zheng had already taken the opportunity. He was ambushed after entering the city and was eventually killed by Liu Zheng.

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When Zhang Liao learned about the civil strife in Chifeng City, he also wanted to help Hu Hanxie, but Kublai Khan stared at him with eager eyes. If he really dared to move, a decisive battle would break out immediately.

Zhang Liao is not afraid of a decisive battle with Kublai Khan, but the situation is not clear yet, and it is obviously inappropriate to fight a decisive battle at this time.

Zhang Liao didn't move, and Kublai Khan didn't dare to move either. After all, the Qin army had already proven its combat power in the Shengle battle not long ago.

Although Kublai Khan did not think that his 60,000-strong army would lose to Zhang Liao's 20,000-strong Qin army, but even if he could win, the fighting power of the Qin army would probably break his bones.

Kublai Khan's purpose was only to destroy Maodun and unify Yuan and Meng. There was no need to fight with Qin at this time. After he captured the three cities, the Qin army would retreat, so he did not directly go to war with Zhang Liao and waited for Chifeng.

Results within the city.

The civil strife in Chifeng City ended with the victory of Liu Zheng and others. Lieutenant General Hu Hanxie fled with nearly 10,000 remaining soldiers and went to join Zhang Liao.

After Zhang Liao's and Hu Hanxie's armies joined forces, although their total strength was 30,000, Maodun's strength also reached 75,000.

The gap in military strength between the two sides also widened further.

Just when Mao Dun thought that Zhang Liao would be self-aware and would take the initiative to retreat after knowing the gap, Zhang Liao did the opposite.

Zhang Liaoyang pretended to withdraw his troops in order to make Kublai Khan relax his vigilance, but took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Yuan army.

Kublai Khan's military advisor Yelu Chucai had already anticipated this, but Zhang Liao's surprise attack could not be prevented by anticipation.

With the support of the five sons working together and the surprise attack, Zhang Liao's command attribute reached an astonishing 105.

Even if Kublai Khan has the blessing of the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons", his commander is still lower than Zhang Liao.

Temujin's mother, Hoelun, adopted many adopted sons, and the four most famous among them are collectively known as the four adopted sons, namely: Shiji, Tuhu, Borhu, Quchu, and Kuokuchu.

Among the eighty-eight heroes of Temujin's enfeoffment, Shijihuduhu ranked sixteenth, Quchu ranked seventeenth, and Kuokuo ranked eighteenth;

As for Borhu, he died early in the battle with the Tumat tribe, so he is not included in the ranking.

Shiji Kuduhu, Qu Chu, Kuo Kuo Chu, and Wang Gu'er were all figures born from the foreign race Baizhao, and they were all implanted under Kublai Khan's command. It was Temujin and Tuo Lei who left Kublai Khan.

A fierce confidant.

Since Bohu in this life had also died under Qin Qiong's gun in the battle at Yanmen Pass, it stands to reason that the combo skill "Four Adopted Sons" is destined to be unable to be fully activated.

But Kublai Khan had awakened the new skill 'Original Ancestor', one of its effects was to allow his generals with matching attributes to activate combo skills on behalf of generals who had died in battle, so all the effects of 'Four Adopted Sons' were still activated.

But even with the increase of four adopted sons, Kublai Khan was still not as good as Zhang Liao in terms of command, and there was also a gap in the general lineup. As a result, Zhang Liao suffered heavy losses in a surprise battle.

Zhang Liao took advantage of Kublai Khan's delay in responding in time and used 30,000 Qin and Hungarian troops to attack Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army.

In this battle, Zhang Liao ordered Gao Shun and Xu Huang to help each other to prevent their retreat from being cut off by Kublai Khan.

Gao Shun used 2,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry to defeat 4,000 Yuan Mongolian cavalry head-on, and killed General Wang Guer.

Xu Huang also held off reinforcements three times his own, and in a fierce battle with one against two, he singled out Kuokuo and Shi Bingzhi, and won.

After the two sides fought for a whole day and night, in order to prevent further casualties, Kublai Khan had to choose to temporarily avoid the front line and led his army to retreat to Chifeng City.

An inventory after the war showed that the Yuan army suffered a loss of 10,000 troops, while the coalition forces only suffered 4,000 casualties, of which nearly 3,000 were from Maodun County.

Kublai Khan's 60,000-strong army was forced back by Zhang Liao's 30,000 troops. Not only did he lose nearly 10,000 elite troops, but he also lost one of his four adopted sons, Wang Gu'er, who ranked thirteenth among the eighty-eight heroes, and

Many other powerful generals also died in the battle, which can be said to be a heavy loss.

However, this loss was quickly replenished by Liu Zheng's surrendered troops after Kublai Khan entered Chifeng City.

The Yuan army occupied Chifeng City and could defend the city, but Zhang Liao's army had all the cavalry and no siege equipment. It was obviously impossible to break the city, but they were unwilling to retreat, so they sent Xu Huang

The leader went forward to provoke Kublai Khan into a fight, hoping to provoke Kublai Khan to leave the city and fight.

Kublai Khan naturally turned a deaf ear to Zhang Liao's scolding, but he didn't care, and that didn't mean that his generals didn't care either, especially Liu Zheng, who had just surrendered.

Liu Zhengcai defected to Kublai Khan and was eager to make meritorious deeds. When he saw Xu Huang coming to challenge him, he also wanted to express himself, so he asked for a fight just like Kublai Khan.

Kublai Khan knew Liu Zheng's abilities. After all, he had fought against Liu Zheng more than once during the two civil wars. Even Zhebie, the most powerful general of the Yuan and Meng Dynasties, could not defeat Liu Zheng.

Although Liu Zheng is known as "Sai Cunxiao", it can be seen from this nickname that he is obviously very different from the real Li Cunxiao. After all, people like "Sai Cunxiao", "Sai Cungui" and "Xiao Xiao"

Nicknames like "Gentle" are meant to set off the power of the person.

As a martial arts leader of his era, Liu Zheng himself is not weak, but he is still not at the God of War level. He is just a peak general. The reason why he was able to face the God of War level Zhebie undefeated is because Zhebie gave up what he was good at.

Fight him in close combat with a bow and arrow.

Seeing Liu Zheng's confidence, Kublai Khan was not able to dampen his enthusiasm, and Lu Bu was not among the challenging generals, so he agreed to Liu Zheng's request to fight.

When Xu Huang saw the Yuan army coming out, he did not go to battle himself, but sent Yang Yanding to fight first.

Among the many brothers of the Yang family, Erlang Yang Yanding's strength is second only to Yang Zaixing and Yang Qilang. Now his base strength has reached 102 (), but he is obviously no match for Liu Zheng who has 104.

After fifteen rounds of fighting between the two sides, Yang Yanding began to fall into a disadvantage. After thirty rounds, he was dwarfed by the others, so he was recalled by Xu Huang.

Later, Xu Huang went to fight in person, but he only lasted fifty rounds and was also defeated by Liu Zheng, so he decisively chose to retreat and sent Yang Yansi to continue the fight.

Qilang Yang Yansi's basic martial arts is only 103(2), so in terms of hard power, he is naturally not as good as Liu Zheng.

However, Liu Zheng had already fought against the two great generals Xu Huang and Yang Yanding, and his physical exertion was naturally considerable. Facing Yang Qilang, who was still at his peak, he was naturally unable to cope.

The two sides fought for a full hundred rounds. Yang Qilang became more and more courageous as he fought, but Liu Zheng was exhausted and had to retreat.

But before leaving, Liu Zheng also dropped his harsh words and made an appointment with Qilang to fight again in three days.

[Dingdong, Yang Qilang (force 103) drew with Liu Zheng (104), breaking his own bottleneck, force 1;
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