Du Hong (?905), the word Xinye, a native of Wuchang, Hubei, was a warlord in the last years of the Tang Dynasty.
Du Hong, born as an official, makes a living from acting. On the stage of history, he ascended to the throne of the envoy of the Wuchang military festival with a grass people, with a strong will and extraordinary intelligence. He was entrenched in Eyue, supported his own troops, divided one side, and became the overlord of one side. However, his fate is full of ups and downs and twists and turns, like those ordinary officials. In that turbulent era, Du Hong relied on the support of Zhu Wen in Bianzhou, and he was in full swing. However, the rise of Yang Xingmi by Huainan Jiedu made his fate take a turn. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the Huangchao rebel army poured into the south of the Yangtze River like a flood and broke through the city of Ezhou. Cui Shao's recruitment of the people's health is called the Tutuan Army, the people are strong, thieves dare not invade, Du Hong joined the army at this time, because of the meritorious award as a tooth general. At that time, the Hangzhou Assassin appointed by the Tang Dynasty was rejected by the powerful Dong Chang and could not take office, so he had to live in Huangzhou. In 886, when he heard that Cui Shao had died, he recruited 3,000 soldiers to enter Ezhou, claiming to be the assassin. After Du Hong heard the news, he also concocted the same method, expelled the assassin history, and called himself the Yuezhou assassin history. In the second year of Guangqi, An Lu Haoqiang Zhou Tong gathered a crowd to attack Ezhou, escaped in the road trial, Du Hong led the army from Yuezhou to take advantage of the situation, occupied Ezhou, and claimed that the Wuchang army was recognized by the imperial court. His fate is like a rolling cloud, unpredictable. However, Duhon's brilliance did not last long. Soon after, he was replaced by an appointment from the imperial court. At this time, Yongxing (now Yangxin, Hubei) Wu attacked Huangzhou, Luo Yin was based on Yongxing, both of them were born in the Tutuan Army, nominally under the management of the Jiedu envoys, but in fact they did their own thing. Du Hong wanted to attack Wu and borrowed troops from Yang Xingmi, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu. Yang Xingmi sent the general Zhu Yanshou to help conquer Huangzhou, Luo Yin abandoned the city and left, Yongxing was occupied by Yang Xingmi, Luo Yin defected to Du Hong, was relied on as a confidant, and took the opportunity to recover Yongxing. In the fourth year of Qianning (897), the Ezhou guard general Du Hong betrayed and asked for help from Qian Biao, the envoy of the Zhendong Army in the Wuyue region, and Qian Biao ordered his subordinate general Gu Quanwu to come to the rescue, defeated Yang Xingmi's general Tian Bao, broke eighteen camps in a row, and broke Yang Xingmi's general Zhou Ben the following year. In the end, Gu Quanwu led his troops to besiege Suzhou and break the city, and the Suzhou assassin appointed by Yang Xingmi escaped, and the general Qin Pei was captured. In the first year of Tianfu (901), in order to redeem the defeat, Yang Xingmi had no choice but to send Li Shenfu to fight. Li Shenfu knew that Gu Quanwu was a strong enemy, so he set up a clever plan, he pretended to retreat from the army, let the old and weak go first, and personally led the elite soldiers to the rear of the palace, and secretly ordered the camp captain Lu Shizao to ambush the soldiers under the green mountain, Gu Quanwu planned to chase, Li Shenfu and Lu Shizao immediately sent troops to attack, broke it, beheaded 5,000 levels, and captured Gu Quanwu alive. When Qian Biao heard the news, he cried and said, "Lose my good general!.""In this war, the two sides are fighting wits and courage, and you come and go, like a fierce chess game. Gu Quanwu's defeat made Qian Biao deeply regret, and he lamented: "I have lost my good general!."In the second year of Tianfu, Feng Hongduo was defeated by Yang Xingmi, and Yang Xingmi appointed Li Shenfu as the assassin of Shengzhou. After the victory, Yang Xingmi decided to completely solve the rebel general Du Hong, so he appointed Li Shenfu as the Sima of the Huainan march and the envoy of the Eyue camp, and led his troops to attack Ezhou. Zhu Quanzhong sent the general Kang Huaiying to the rescue, and Jingnan Jiedu envoy Cheng Wei also came to the rescue at the same time, and Li Shenfu annihilated Cheng Wei's army of 100,000. In the third year of Tianfu, Yang Xingmi's important general, Ning ** Jiedu, made Tian Hao rebel. Taking advantage of Li Shenfu's absence, Tian Hao sent troops to attack Shengzhou, captured Li Shenfu's wife, and tried to coerce Li Shenfu into rebellion. However, Li Shenfu was not moved by his wife's capture at all, and still came to crusade on the orders of Yang Xingmi, defeated Tian Bao, captured his generals Wang Tan and Wang Jian, Tian Hao was defeated and fled, and was killed by the general Tai Meng, and the rebellion was completely quelled. In order to reward his military exploits, Yang Xingmi appointed Li Shenfu as the envoy of the Ningguo Festival, but Li Shenfu refused to worship on the grounds that Du Hong was not peaceful. After four years, Li Shenfu led the army to attack Ezhou again. When the city of Ezhou was about to be breached, Li Shenfu had to return to Guangling due to serious illness, leaving the general Liu Cun to continue the siege. A few months later, the city was finally breached, and more than 1,000 soldiers of Du Hong and Cao Yanzuo, the general of Zhu Quanzhong who assisted in the defense, were escorted to Guangling and all executed.