Yang xingmi

Yang xingmi

Yang xingmi (852-905) was born in Hefei, Luzhou (now Changfeng County, Anhui Province). The founder of Wu state power in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is known as Taizu of Southern Wu in history.

Yang Xingmin, a former general of Luzhou, paid homage to the governor of Luzhou in the third year of Zhonghe (883) and returned to gaopian, the governor of Huainan. In the second year of Guangqi (886), he changed his name to Yang xingmi because of the requirement of Gao pian. In the second year of qianning (895), he was granted the title of Hongnong. Qian Liu, king of Wuyue, sent troops to attack Yang xingmi and entered Suzhou. Yang xingmi ordered Zhou ben to resist the enemy, but he lost the battle and lost Suzhou. After full preparation, Yang xingmi sent Li Shenfu to attack Qian Liu, defeated Qian Liu's army in Hangzhou and captured his general Gu Quanwu alive. After a long period of scuffle, Yang xingmi had a foothold in Jianghuai area. In the second year of Tianfu (902), he became king of Wu. Yang xingmi held up the banner of separatist rule in Jianghuai to stop Zhu Wen's advance to the south, and successfully avoided greater turmoil in the whole country. The foundation of the state of Wu was the transformation from a vassal town to a kingdom. The coexistence of the southern separatist forces and the northern Central Plains regime was realized, which laid the foundation for the Southern Tang Dynasty and started the political integration and the southward spread of the economic and cultural center at the turn of the Tang and Song dynasties.

In 905, Yang xingmi died at the age of 54. In the Tang Dynasty, he was named king Wuzhong. During the reign of Wuyi in the state of Wu, he was renamed King Xiaowu. His son, Yang Pu, was named emperor Wuzhong and the temple name was Taizu. One of his essays is recorded in Quan Tang Wen.

Life of the characters

Separate rule of Luzhou

Yang xingmi was originally named Yang Xingmin, whose father was a farmer. Yang xingmi lost his father when he was young and his family was poor. He is tall and powerful. He can walk 300 Li a day by lifting a hundred jin object. During the Qianfu period of emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty (874-879), the rebel forces in Jianghuai region rose up. Yang xingmi was arrested after he failed to participate in the peasant uprising in Jianghuai region. Because of his peculiar appearance, the governor Zheng Zhen untied his rope and released him.

After that, Yang xingmi enlisted as a state soldier and defended Shuofang (now Lingwu in Ningxia). He was soon promoted to captain and returned to the frontier after the period. The local military officials hated him very much and asked him to go out again. Before Yang xingmi's departure, military officials pretended to care and asked him what he needed. Yang xingmi said loudly, "just take your head!" He immediately cut off the head of the military officials and took them out. Taking advantage of this, he started to fight for chaos. He claimed that all the eight battalions knew the soldiers and horses. Yang xingmi then occupied Luzhou (now Hefei City, Anhui Province).

Enter Yangzhou

In 883, the Tang Dynasty worshipped Yang xingmi as the governor of Luzhou. Huainan Jiedu envoy Gao Pian was attacked by Bi Shiduo. The emperor of Gao Pian asked Yang xingmi to be the marching horse. Yang xingmi led thousands of troops to help. When he came to Tianchang (today's Tianchang City, Anhui Province), Bi Shiduo had imprisoned Gao Pian and called Xuanzhou Qin Yan into Yangzhou (now Jiangsu Province). Yang xingmi failed to enter Yangzhou, so he stationed troops in Shugang.

Bi Shiduo led tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Yang xingmi. Yang xingmi pretended to be a failure and gave up his camp to escape. Bi Shiduo's soldiers had no military provisions and were very hungry. They took advantage of the victory to enter the camp to collect military funds. When Yang xingmi saw this, Bi Shiduo was defeated. He fled to Yangzhou City and killed Gao pian. When Yang xingmi heard that Gao Pian was dead, he ordered the whole army to wear white mourning clothes and cry to the city for three days before attacking Ximen. Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo fled to Dongtang, so Yang xingmi was able to enter Yangzhou.

Abandon Yang and seize Xuan

When Yang xingmi invaded Yangzhou, the warehouse in Yangzhou was empty. The hungry people slaughtered each other to satisfy their hunger. The husband sold his wife and father to the slaughterhouse. The people who were sold were slaughtered by the butcher like sheep and pigs. Yang xingmi thought that he could not keep Yangzhou and wanted to leave. However, Qin Zongquan of caizhou (now Runan County, Henan Province) sent his younger brother Qin Zongheng to attack Huainan. Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo returned their troops to Dongtang and joined with Qin Zongheng. Yang Xing did not dare to leave the city. Soon after, Qin Zongheng was killed by sun Ru, a partisan general. Sun Ru broke Gaoyou, and Yang xingmi was even more afraid. Yuan Chong, a disciple of Yang xingmi, said: "we guard the empty city with newly recruited troops, and most of the generals are subordinates of Gao pian. They must have kindness, faithfulness and strong control to be convinced. Now the sun rujun army is in full swing. It's time for the generals to hold both ends, choose the strong and the weak, and choose the opposite direction. I think that Gao Ba, the envoy of Hailing Town, is an old general of Gao Pian, and certainly can't be used for me. " Yang xingmi then called Gao Ba by military order, and Gao Ba led his troops to Guangling (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province). Yang xingmi wanted Gao Ba to guard heaven. Yuan Chong said, "we called Gao Ba because we suspected that he had two hearts. Can we reuse him now? Besides, if we can defeat sun Ru, we don't need to use Gao ba. If we are too defeated, how can we have it! It's better to kill Gao Ba and annex his troops. " So Yang xingmi rewarded the army, captured and destroyed Gao Ba, and got thousands of his subordinates.

Soon after, sun Ru killed Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo and annexed their troops to attack Yang xingmi. Yang xingmi wanted to go to Hailing (Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province). Yuan Chong said, "Hailing is hard to defend, but Luzhou is our old place. The city is intact and the food and grass are abundant. It can be used as a base for future planning." So Yang xingmi retreated to Luzhou.

After a long time, Yang xingmi didn't know which direction to go. He asked Yuan Chong, "I want to go all the way. Is it OK to take Hongzhou (now Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province) to the west?" Yuan said: "Zhong Zhuan has recently acquired Jiangxi, and the momentum is booming. When Qin Yan entered Guangling, he called Chizhou governor Zhao Ying to entrust Xuanzhou. Now that Qin Yan is dead, Zhao Ying has lost his trust. It's not his intention to guard Xuanzhou. Moreover, he is not a public enemy, so Zhao Ying can attack. " Yang xingmi led his army to attack Zhao Ying. The two armies defeated Zhao Ying in the battle of Heshan, and then besieged Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng City, Anhui Province). Zhao Ying abandoned the city and was caught up and killed. Yang xingmi then entered Xuanzhou.

Defeat sun Ru

In the first year of Longji (889), the Tang Dynasty canonized Yang xingmi as Xuanzhou observation envoy. Yang xingmi sent Tian Kai, an Renyi and Li Shenfu to attack Jiangsu (now Jiangsu Province), Chang (now Jiangsu Province) and Runzhou (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province) in Western Zhejiang.

In 891, Yang xingmi captured Chuzhou and Hezhou. In the first year of Jingfu (892), Yang xingmi captured Chuzhou (now Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province). Since Sun Ru drove away Yang xingmi and entered Guangling, he was unable to defend it for a long time. So he burned the city, killed the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, paid for the army, drove the troops across the river, and attacked Yang xingmi. Tian Kai, Liu Wei and other generals were defeated by sun Ru's army, so Yang xingmi wanted to withdraw the bronze officer. Dai Yougui, one of his disciples, said: "Sun Ru is fierce and has a large number of troops. His momentum is irresistible, but it can frustrate them first. He has too many troops to fight. But after a long time, the troops will be tired, and the morale will be frustrated. If we abandon the city at this time, won't we be caught with all our hands? " Liu Wei also said: "back to the city to stick to, you can not fight to make it tired." Yang xingmi thinks what they said is very correct.

After a long time, sun Ru's soldiers were short of food and grass, and there was a great plague. Yang xingmi did his best to attack sun Ru, who was defeated and captured. When he was about to die, sun Ru looked up at Liu Wei and said, "I heard that you put forward the strategy of avoiding war. If I have a general like you, how can I fail?" So he died. Yang xingmi collected thousands of Yu soldiers who came down to sunru and covered their armor with black clothes, which was called "black cloud capital" as a pro army.

A separate regime in Huainan

In August of the first year of Jingfu (892), Yang xingmi entered Yangzhou again. In the Tang Dynasty, Yang xingmi was granted the title of Huainan Jiedushi. In the second year of qianning (895), Tang Tingjia paid homage to Yang xingmi as the censor Taifu and Tongzhong Shumen Xiaping Zhangshi. Yang xingmi guarded Xuanzhou with Tian Kai town and Runzhou with an Renyi town. Because of Yang xingmi's growing influence, Feng hongduo, the governor of Shengzhou, came to join him. Yang xingmi also sent Tian Kai and others out to attack and plunder, and all the States south of the Huaihe River and east of the Yangtze River were captured. Moreover, he attacked Qian Liu's Suzhou and captured Suzhou assassin Shi Chengji.

In the fourth year of qianning (897), Zhu Jin was attacked by Zhu Wen and asked Li Keyong for help. Li Keyong sent Li Chengsi and thousands of elite cavalry to rescue Zhu Jin. Zhu Jin failed, so he and Li Chengsi rushed to Yang xingmi. Most of Yang xingmi's troops were from Jianghe and Huaihe. Huaihe was weak. With Zhu Jin's elite cavalry, Yang xingmi's army was stronger. In the same year, Zhu Wen sent Ge from Zhou and Pang shigu to attack Shouzhou (now Huainan City, Anhui Province), where Yang xingmi defeated Zhu Wenjun in Qingkou and killed Pang shigu. Ge fled from Zhou and chased him to Fuhe, and then defeated Zhu Wenjun.

In the fifth year of qianning (898), Qian Liu attacked Suzhou and fought with Yang xingmi general Zhou Ben in baifanghu. Zhou Ben was defeated and Suzhou was returned to Qian Liu. In the first year of Tianfu (901), Yang xingmi sent Li Shenfu to attack Qian Liu and fight in Hangzhou. He defeated Qian Liu's army and captured Qian Liu's general Gu Quanwu. When Feng hongduo was defeated by Feng hongduo, he sent his troops to Changhai to fight against him? Although my house is small, it can accommodate you. " When Feng hongduo was moved and weeping, Yang xingmi led more than ten riders to Feng hongduo's army, with Feng hongduo as the Deputy envoy and Li Shenfu as the governor of Shengzhou.

The king of Wu

In March of the second year of Tianfu (902), Emperor Zhaozong of Tang Dynasty was trapped in Fengxiang, the residence of Li Maozhen, the king of Qi. He sent Li Yan, the Xuanyu envoy of Jianghuai, to worship Yang xingmi as the commander of all the roads in the East

King Wu

. He asked for Zhu Quanzhong. In addition, Zhu Jin was appointed as the governor of Pinglu, Feng hongduo as the governor of Wuning, and Zhu Yanshou as the governor of Fengguo

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