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Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of Sun Rujun's return to rescue, Yang Xingmi readjusted his deployment and captured Runzhou (now Zhenjiang), Changzhou, and Suzhou (now Suzhou).

However, the toughness of Caizhou's Diao Bing is really not in vain. After driving away the obstructive Pang Shigu army, Sun Ru launched an attack again. His powerful offensive made Yang Xingmi's hard-earned defense line collapse like a mino card as fast.Runzhou, Changzhou, and Suzhou all fell again.

There is a reason why Sun Ru always chooses to attack the east first.Runzhou, Changzhou, and Suzhou are all big states, and it's no joke for Yang Xingmi to take root.Moreover, crossing the river from Yangzhou can transport troops and supplies along the canal, and the army can wait for work at leisure.

Once the Eastern Front is resolved, Yang Xingmi will become the turtle in the urn.Because from the perspective of terrain, Gucheng Lake, Shibai Lake, and Nanyi Lake to the east of Xuanzhou blocked his escape route to the northeast. The only two remaining roads in the middle of the three lakes are as long as Lishui (now southeast of Nanjing) is controlled, Dangtu (now part of Dangtu County) is enough; if you withdraw to the southeast, you can choose to go through Xuanzhou-Ningguo-Hangzhou, but Qian Liu in Hangzhou is enmity because Yang Xingmi captured Changzhou before. They will not show mercy; they can enter the Yangtze River via Xuanzhou-Chizhou in the west, and then go to Huangzhou in Hubei or Jiujiang to enter the hinterland of Jiangxi. It is just that Du Hong who ruled Wuchang and the Zhong Chuan of Hongzhou are not good men and women. Things out of ten will not be missed.

After completing the offensive on the eastern front, Sun Ru's army swept past like a whirlwind, and the city garrisons all over the country collapsed. The former army has entered the Lishui-Huangchi (now Dangtu County, Anhui) line.Fortunately, General Li Shenfu commanded well, taking advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to attack the Lishui enemy village at night, this barely blocked the advance of Sun Rujun.

In short, Huang Chao established Daqi at that time, and the country was named Dashun. The second year of Dashun was a year full of disasters for Yang Xingmi.Several battles have failed this year.Liu Wei and Zhu Yanshou led [-] troops to a decisive battle with Sun Ru in Huangchi, and were defeated and fled back.It was only luck that Sun Ru, the god of plague, was able to withdraw from all Sun Ru's barracks thanks to the Meiyu drift in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the battle of Guangde (to the east of today's Xuancheng), if it hadn't been for the manpower battle of the general Li Jianshuai, Yang Xingmi's life would have been lost, and the battle for hegemony in Huainan might have ended.With such an unfavorable situation, even a true hero would be short of breath.Yang Xingmi persisted with tenacious perseverance, expecting the enemy to reveal his fatal weakness.

In the Five Dynasties, Sun Ru, who was also ranked among the top five in brutality, issued a completely inhumane order in order to completely defeat Yang Xingmi.He burned down all the houses in Yangzhou, adopted the policy of turning them all into soldiers, and forcibly conscripted all young men and women into the army.

In order to make up for the lack of military rations, he followed Qin Zongquan's example and killed the elderly and the weak as military rations, and then left Yangzhou.This dehumanizing behavior finally brought Sun Ru's beast soldiers to an end (you can compare Yang Xingmi's actions, I believe no one will support a beast like Sun Ru. Yang Xingmi's department sneaked Zhang Xun and Li Decheng into Yangzhou, Extinguish the remaining fires and collect hundreds of thousands of hu to help the hungry people, which won the hearts of the people. Zhang Jian, the governor of Sizhou (now Sizhou), asked for food to relieve the hunger in the army, and Zhang Xun helped him according to Yang Xingmi's order. Tens of thousands of dendrobium.

In the eyes of the warlords at that time, food was the lifeblood. The so-called borrowed food was often borrowed but not repaid. It was hard to say that it was difficult for their own subordinates to get food, even father and son, and brothers would fight for food.Yang Xingmi donated so much food to Zhang Jian, who was not his subordinate, and Zhang Jian couldn't help but burst into tears of gratitude.

This incident laid the groundwork for the subsequent war of clearing mouths.Let’s talk about Sun Ru again.Dying things always have a flashback for a while.This time, in order to ensure that there are enough elite troops on the forward line, he transferred the troops of Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin who were guarding Changzhou, and attacked along the Su, Chang-Xuanzhou line with a wide front.His beast attack was always very fierce at the beginning, and he came straight to Xuanzhou again, and successfully surrounded Xuanzhou for the first time in December of the second year of Dashun.

However, Yang Xingmi listened to the correct opinions of Liu Wei, Li Shenfu, and Dai Yougui, and defended the strongholds, fortified the walls and cleared the fields. He used his old teachers to send out light cavalry to copy their pay and capture them. He escorted the people of Huainan back to their hometowns and resumed their normal lives. , Psychologically disintegrated Sun Rujun's fighting spirit; in addition, he sent Li Shenfu as the envoy of Youyi in Xuanchi, Tao Ya guarded Runzhou, Zhang Xun attacked Chuzhou (now Huaiyin), and then attacked Changzhou with light troops.

Sun Ru's battle plan was clearly a one-shot deal. If it succeeded, Huainan was in his hands. If it didn't succeed, he would die without a place to die.He was acting recklessly based entirely on his strength, he didn't care about the flanks or the rear, and he didn't even have a reserve team.

This way of fighting, once the battle is stalemate under Xuanzhou City, supplies and reinforcements will become a problem, and morale will definitely drop.His rogue style is too serious, too serious, how can the local people support him when he burns, kills and loots a place?On the contrary, his opponent Yang Xingmi attaches great importance to the construction of base areas. Although he is often at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Sun Ru, he can always rely on the base areas to launch counterattacks, and he also pays great attention to winning the hearts of the people in various places during the campaign (even if it is an image project. Really rare).

In the four years of Zhonghe, the long battle for hegemony in Huainan finally came to an end, and the battle of Wang Mandu had ended for three months. At this time, Duan Mingyu had already properly formed his Shence Army Youjun in Chang'an, and Huang Chao had already given the leadership.In May, Sun Rujun was in a predicament. They had no way out under the double blow of Yang Xingmi's military and politics. It can be said that Yang Xingmi was already sure of victory, but as a hero in Jianghuai, what he wanted was a real status.At this time, Yang Xingmi issued an emergency document to the imperial court, requesting the imperial court to increase its troops. He knew that the imperial court was unwilling to intervene in the Jianghuai affairs.

Sure enough, as he expected, not long after, Sun Ru suffered repeated defeats at the Xuanzhou city, and the Guangde camp was broken, and Zhang Xun settled in Anji again, cutting off the grain road.In June, Sun Ru couldn't even think about retreating. In this situation, the Jiangnan was raining heavily in June, and the original road was muddy. The original Su, Chang, Run, and Yang strongholds were all taken by Yang Xingmi and Qian Liu. The weakness of attaching importance to the base area was finally fully exposed.

Because there were too many troops in the camp, Sun Ru's troops not only ran out of food, but also broke out of malaria due to hygiene problems.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Xingmi broke Sun Ru's camp and beheaded him.Most of Sun Ru's troops surrendered to Yang Xingmi, and only Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin led 7000 remnants to escape. After several years of turmoil in Jianghuai, it was finally settled, and Yang Xingmi became the biggest winner.