Yang Xingmi, formerly known as Hang Cheng, comes from an ordinary peasant family. Be generous and trustworthy, be good at winning people's hearts, be both wise and brave, and lift 300 Jin. After the start, he claimed that the Eighth Battalion was well known, and Gao Pian, our time in Huainan, took his place in Huainan. Soon, the secret service led the troops to attack Luzhou, and Cishilang abandoned the city and fled, and the secret service occupied Luzhou. Gao Pian named him Luzhou Secretariat and renamed him Secret.
In the third year of Guangqi (887), Gao Pian ordered Bi Shiduo to call himself the battalion commander, and contracted Zheng He Gaoyou Town to suppress Zhang rebellion. They quickly captured Yangzhou and imprisoned Gao Pian. Lu Yongzhi, a confidant of Gao Pian, escaped from Yangzhou, appointed emissaries as marching Sima in the name of Gao Pian, and ordered his troops to speed up the crusade against Yangzhou rebels. Yuan, the counselor, said to Xing Mi, "Heaven has given Huainan, so go quickly." Realizing that this was a godsend opportunity, the spy immediately mobilized all his troops, borrowed thousands of soldiers from Sun Duan, the secretariat of Hezhou (now Anhui County), and quickly set out for Yangzhou. In May, I went to Yangzhou Tianchang to see Lu Yongzhi. Hailing (now Taizhou, Jiangsu) town prevented Gao Ba, Qu, Jia and others from coming. At this time, the rebel Zhang Excalibur and Bi Shiduo had conflicts. In a rage, they left Yangzhou and went to secrecy. The secret team quickly expanded to more than 17 thousand people, and they rushed to Yangzhou.
At the same time, Tudor, a rebel in Yangzhou, felt that his strength was too weak to compete with the secret service, so he quickly sent someone to Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng, Anhui Province) to observe Qin Yan for help. Qin Yan has long been interested in Huainan. Today, the time has come. Zhao Yong, the secretariat of Chizhou, was ordered to be an observer, claiming to know Huainan's frugality, and led more than 30,000 soldiers down the river to Yangzhou by raft.
On the second day of Qin Gui's arrival in Yangzhou, the Secret Service also arrived with troops and stationed troops outside the city. At first, seeing that the number of secret armies was far less than that of Yangzhou, Qin Yan held his head high and gnashed his teeth to lead Qin Chou to fight against 8,000 soldiers. As a result, Zhou died in battle and the soldiers were injured several times. After that, the two sides fought many times, but Yangzhou was defeated repeatedly. Since then, Qin Yan has closed the city to a truce. The two armies were at loggerheads for six months. Yangzhou has become an isolated island, with internal and external troubles. There was a serious famine in the city. The rice bucket was worth 50 mu, and all the bark and plants were eaten up. The residents had to use Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger. Later, the phenomenon of cannibalism appeared. At that time, there was an exclusive market for sellers, butchers and butchers (also called Tumen) in the city. Many people were plundered by soldiers and sold in the market, and even some couples, fathers and sons were tied together and slaughtered at Tumen. In Yangzhou City, only half of the people died of hunger, and only a few hundred residents went hungry. In October, the secret army captured the west gate of Yangzhou. Qin Yan and Shi Duo abandoned the city with beaten soldiers. The secret army stationed in Yangzhou, claiming that Huainan stayed behind.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty invited the envoys from Huainan and Southeast China. Quan Zhong named Sima Xuanwu as Huainan's posthumous wife, and took the secret as Huainan's Covenant. Faced with the letter of appointment sent, he was furious and refused to accept it. He secretly sent troops to cover Jeff Lee in Xuzhou, which prevented him from taking office in Huainan. Zhu Quanzhong is now moving to the Central Plains, unable to take care of the south, so he had to lead the secret to Huainan.
After half a year's war, Yangzhou was devastated and hungry. Seeing this scene, the Secret Guard thinks this place is unfavorable for attack and defense. A few days later, they sent the troops and the trench back to Luzhou and Hezhou. It happened that Qin Zongquan's lieutenant Sun Ru and Cai Zhou led the troops to compete with the Guards for Yangzhou, and the Guards left Yangzhou and returned to their base areas. After Sun Ru occupied Yangzhou, he claimed that Huainan stayed behind, killed Qin Yan and Bi Shiduo who defected to him, and merged with his soldiers, which greatly increased his power.
In August of the first year of Wende (888), Cai Wei, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, defended Luzhou and led troops to attack Xuanzhou. After months of siege, Xuanzhou ran out of food and grass and was unable to resist. After observation, Zhao Yong escaped, and Tianqi was chased, captured and killed by the secret service. Xuanzhou surrendered and secretly entered Xuanzhou. Soon, the Tang Dynasty made Guan Mi an observer.
When secretly attacking Xuanzhou, Yang Xingmi was introduced, and Sun Ru of Yangzhou also launched an attack. He first sent troops to capture Luzhou, his rear, and then captured Changzhou and Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). In the first month of the first year of Dashun (890), Zhu Quanzhong sent Pang Shigu to cross Huai River to attack Huainan, claiming that reinforcements were secret. When Shigu was at war with Sun Rubing, he took the opportunity to capture Changzhou and Runzhou and stationed troops. In August, after Sun Ru's defeat, he went all out to deal with secrets. Has regained Chang, Run and Suzhou. In the first month of the following year, Sun Ru tried his best to raise talented soldiers to cross the river, and went all the way south from Runzhou to compete with the secret service for the declaration place, and the secret service would be defeated repeatedly. In autumn and July, he secretly met with Zhu Quanzhong to jointly deal with Sun Ru. Relying on its military strength, Confucianism distributed anti-Zhu and anti-Yang denunciations to various buffer regions, listing the crimes of secrecy and full loyalty, claiming to destroy Yang and lead troops to the side of the Qing army, "then burn Yangzhou Lusheng, kill the old and weak, drive Dingzhuang women across the river, and then burn Suzhou and Changzhou. Burning and looting along the way, crying. Sun Ru personally led the troops, and the standard stretched for hundreds of miles, claiming to be 500,000, and entered Xuanzhou. On the one hand, keep secrets with soldiers to resist Sun Ru; At the same time, troops were sent to capture Suzhou, Changzhou and Runzhou to cut off the rear roads; Zhang Xun was sent to Anji to provide food. It was the sixth day of midsummer, and it rained for several days. Sun Ru's camp is absolutely helpless, and epidemics are prevalent in the army. Many infantry died. Sun Ru also suffered from malaria and was bedridden. He was ambushed by the soldiers, and he broke at the first attack. Sun Ru was beheaded.
After attacking Sun Ru, the Tang Dynasty appointed Yang Xingmi as our envoy to Huainan. He had no big rivals in Huainan, and began to develop his power outside Huainan, constantly colliding with Zhu Quanzhong in the Central Plains and Qianliu in Liangxi.
In the first year of Ganning (894), Zhang Jian, the secretariat of Sizhou (now Xuyi North, Jiangsu Province) under Zhu Quanzhong, went to Yang Xingmi, and the contradiction between the spring and Hangmi began to surface. This winter, Yang Xingmi sent Tang to take more than 10,000 Jin of tea to Bianzhou for trading. Quanzhong grabbed the order and took all the tea away. In a fit of pique, Yang Xingmi went to Tang Zhaozong to report Zhu Quanzhong and asked Zhao Sect to go to Hedong. The soldiers of Yanzhou, Yi and Ding fought against Quanzhong together with those of Huainan.
In March of the following year, Hangmi personally led the troops to battle, and successively captured Haozhou (governing Haozhou, now Fengyang East, Anhui Province) and Shouzhou (governing Shouchun, now Shouchun, Anhui Province), repelling Quanzhong's reinforcements. Zhaozong made the secret the king of Hongnong County. In the fourth year of Ganning (897), Yanzhou Zhu Jin was defeated by Zhu Quanzhong and defected to Huainan. Before that, many of Yang Xingmi's troops were Jianghuai people, who were good at water warfare but not good at riding and shooting, while Yanzhou soldiers were good at riding and shooting on land. Therefore, the investment of Yanzhou soldiers greatly strengthened Huainan's military strength.
Facing the expanding influence of Yang Xingmi, the separatist forces around Huainan are very uneasy. Qian Liu from Zhejiang, Zhong Chuan from Jiangxi and Du Hong from Wuchang sent envoys to Chang 'an in succession, demanding that Zhao Zong take Zhu Quanzhong as commander in chief to jointly crusade against Huainan.
In September this year, Zhu Quanzhong's army attacked Huainan in three ways. On the left, Pang Shigu led 70,000 soldiers, including Xu, Su, Song and Slip, to Qingkou on the north bank of Huaishui River (now north of Qingjiang River in Jiangsu Province, facing Chuzhou across the river), ready to take the simple quotation of Yang Xingmi in Yangzhou directly. On the right, Ge led soldiers from Yanzhou, Yun, Cao, Pu and other places to Anfeng (now south of Shouxian County, Anhui Province). The middle road is led by Zhu Quanzhong himself, ready to meet both sides. At that time, Huainan was overcast and the soldiers were terrified. Yang Xingmi can only use more than 30,000 troops flexibly. He adopted the strategy of divide and conquer. First, he arrived in Chuzhou with more than 30,000 soldiers led by Zhu Jin to fight with Pang Shigu. Pang Shigu is an expert under Zhu Quanzhong, but he is foolhardy and arrogant. Seeing that Huainan had only more than 30,000 troops to fight, he suddenly let his guard down. Playing chess and drinking all day, thinking that the enemy would be defeated. One of Zhu Jin's soldiers once went to Shigu and told him that Huainan would block the upper reaches of Huaihe River and fill the camp of Pangshigu with water. Shigu thought he had shaken the morale of the army and ordered him to be beheaded.
In November, Zhu Jin led 5,000 cavalry to cross the Huaihe River quietly, put on the flags and costumes of the Bian army, and went around Pang Shigu's army. He pretended to be reinforcements sent by Quan Zhong. When approaching the enemy camp, he suddenly launched an attack, and Pang Shigu led his foot soldiers to fight hastily. At this point, the Huaihe River, which was blocked by the upper flow, was released and rushed into the border army barracks, and the border army soldiers were even more alarmed.
At this point, GeZheng rate army to HaoZhou, heard the news, hurried back. Yang Xingmi and Zhu Jin led a great army day and night to catch up with Ge and defeat his army. Ge fled alone. With a genial smile, Zhu Quanzhong did not dare to rescue and quit Bianzhou. Yang Xingmi sent a letter saying, "Pang Shigu and Ge are no match for us. Why don't you come to Huaishang for a decisive battle?" Arrogance is beyond words.
In the following years, because of the lessons of this defeat, Zhu Quanzhong was busy pacifying Ziqing and competing for Hedong, and there was no big war with Huainan.
Yang Xingmi also concentrated on rectifying internal affairs and advised farmers and farmers to avoid direct confrontation with Zhu Quanzhong.
At the end of the retrocession (90 1), he was hijacked to Fengxiang by eunuch Han, and announced that he would send troops to crusade against Li Mao. Welcome back. In March of the following year, Zhao sent Li Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, as the messenger of Jianghuai, appointed Yang Xingmi as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Camp, made him the prince, and asked him to send troops to crusade against Zhu Quanzhong. Yang Xingmi only symbolically drove his troops to Suzhou (now Suxian County, Anhui Province) and quickly withdrew.
Yang Xingmi adopted different strategies to several separatist forces around him. Zhu Quanzhong is powerful, so he is not in a hurry to fight it. Although Qian Liu and Zhejiang and Jiangxi fought side by side with him in wartime, it was impossible to annex him at once. So he married his daughter to Qian Liu's son and sought temporary stability in the East. Du Hong in Wuchang is a small force. Wuchang is located in the upper reaches of Huainan and used to be the site of Huainan Road. After a little internal stability, Yang Xingmi began to take large-scale military action against Wuchang.
Three years later (in 903), in the first month, Yang Xingmi appointed Li Shenfu, the secretariat of Kaizhou, as the March Sima of Huainan, and made Liu Cun as Zhou Shuying's permanent deputy, leading a water army of 10,000 people to go up the river and crusade against Du Hong in Wuchang. By March, Wuchang area was successfully captured. Du Hong surrounded Wuchang in Ezhou, stuck to the city and asked Zhu Quanzhong for help. At this point, Zhu Quanzhong is leading an army to fight a decisive battle with the purple soldiers in the East, and he has no time to look south. He only sent Han Han to lead 10 thousand troops to reinforce. However, when Li Shenfu defeated Han Han's reinforcements. When preparing to attack the city, there was a problem inside Huainan.
In August of this year, Yang Xingmi's two old masters, Tianqing and Runzhou Yong ying, simultaneously ordered AnRenYi Rebel Army and Li Shenfu to be secretly recalled, so that they led the army to crusade against the rebels. And asked Qian Liu for help. After three months of fierce fighting, the Vietnamese army was finally pacified.
Four years later, at the beginning of 904, Zhu Quanzhong forced Zhao Zong to move the capital to Luoyang and put Emperor Taizong under his control. Zhao Zong sent a secret edict to Yang Xingmi, asking him to crusade against Zhu Quanzhong with Li Keyong in Hedong and Wang Jian in surprisingly. However, Yang Xingmi was not interested in imperial edicts. What he cares about is how to expand his territory. Therefore, after receiving the imperial edict, I did not say anything, regrouped the army, and once again crusaded Du Hong.
In May this year, Li Shenfu once again surrounded Ezhou City. In August, Shenfu returned from a serious illness. Zhou Shu Yong ying asked Liu Cundai to recruit and make an appointment. Continue to besiege Wuchang. Du Hong turned to Zhu Quanzhong for help. This time, Zhu Quanzhong is no longer worried. He crossed the Huaihe River, attacked Huainan and sent troops to rescue Ezhou. Although Zhu Quanzhong retreated after being frustrated in Shouzhou, reinforcements from Hubei entered Ezhou. Liu Cunxian defeated the Hubei army and beheaded 300 captured soldiers at the city gate. Du Hong's soldiers were demoralized and fled. In February of the second year of Shenzong (905), Liu Cun captured Ezhou, and Du Hong was captured and beheaded in Guangling.
After occupying Ezhou, Yang Xingmi fixed his eyes on Zhejiang Province. Since the late Tang Dynasty, Zhejiang Province has been an important financial source of the Tang Dynasty, which was rich in fish and salt. Yang Xingmi has been drooling over it. Before the fall of Ezhou, Chen Xun, the two secretariat of Zhejiang, and Zhang Chen, the secretariat of Quzhou, both went to Huainan. Yang Xingmi sent general Tao Ya to lead troops into Zhejiang Province to rescue Zhang Chen and Chen Xun. After capturing Ezhou, Taoyashe assembled troops from Mu and Qu and actively attacked Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang), which belongs to Zhejiang. After being captured, Yang Xingmi appointed Tao Ya as the envoy of the south of the Yangtze River, as the observer of Mu, Qu and Mu, and prepared to fight with them gradually. But in October this year, Yang Xingmi was seriously ill, and his son Yang W was appointed as Huainan's successor. 1 1 month, Yang Xingmi died at the age of 54. Gan Zhenyuan (927) was honored as Emperor Wu and buried in Lingxing.