Chapter 63: The Opposite of Two Evils
Three hundred and forty, in the three days they were stationed in Yewang's territory, the number of people who were driven out of the army by the epidemic and fled overnight was one-third of the total number of the entire army of Ma Yue. The morale of the remaining sergeants was even lower than it had ever been since the soldiers were led, and several generals slept together at night and did not dare to separate, for fear that the trusted attendants would wipe their necks.
There was no enemy, and the Jizhou army was just guarding the main transportation routes, and they didn't even realize that Yewang was an empty city.
The rebels in Henan also failed to move north, and it seemed that Dong Zhuo could still hold on to Luoyang for a while. However, today, Ma Yue no longer cares whether the rebels will come to the city to force the court to depose him. No one is his enemy, only the sky.
These days, rumors spread among his subordinates like an epidemic, and the sergeants poked him in the backbone and scolded him, saying that he had done something that was angry with heaven and people so that everyone was punished and cursed by heaven.
Ma Yue didn't have much to say, the sergeant became like a few years old after being infected by the epidemic, and for him, this was indeed a punishment from heaven.
Zhao Jin fell, on the day he entered the city, he took the lead in cleaning up the streets, and went straight to the county to clear the resting place for Ma Yue, and came into contact with a lot of things and corpses in the county, and held on for four days, but finally collapsed, and was sent to the sick soldier station by Ma Yue with tears.
These days, Ma Yue's popularization of infectious diseases, everyone understands that the epidemic will be pervasive in the surroundings, and it is basically impossible to get out alive when they enter the wounded and sick station.
Grain, grass, and water sources were all cut off, and more than 30 war horses were killed in one day, and Ma Yue did not give the order to leave.
Some people were reluctant to kill Ma to death, but Ma Yue did not give the order to leave.
Even when his general Zhao Jin fell to the ground due to the epidemic, he still did not give the order to leave.
The auxiliary generals of the Han Empire, the Marquis of Meiyang, Kaifu Yi and the Third Division, made up their minds to live and die with his nine hundred horsemen in the wilderness outside Yewang County, Hanoi County, Bingzhou.
This year, it was the great epidemic in Hanoi, and ten rooms were empty.
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All the means that could save their lives were used, but the children who were sick did not get much better, and the robes died one by one, and soon they stinked, maggots, and rotted in the dog days, and there would be more plagues. Ma Yue ordered the corpses of the sick and dead soldiers to be gathered together, and a large fire was lit on a starless night of the month, burning out the ashes that covered the entire earthen pit.
It was late September, when the Central Plains was in turmoil, the captain of Jizhou Montenegro found the traces of the auxiliary general Ma Yue crossing the river, blocking all the traffic arteries east of Hanoi, Chu Yan had changed his name to Zhang Yan, he was Zhang Niujiao's righteous son, and the deep hatred for the name Ma Yue was always in mind. Under the rule of the Jizhou Thorn Shi, it was just a boat pushing down the river, and there were more than a million Montenegrin people under his rule than a county, not to mention that tens of thousands of Montenegrin troops were not placed there.
In the final analysis, the raising of troops is only for revenge, and it is impossible to rise to the imperial court dispute, and it is impossible to lead a large army into Hanoi to pursue Ma Yue.
Who in the world doesn't know that the former powerful general of the auxiliary country has been proud of the court for a short time, and now he is a dry bone in the grave of the last years of the wind and candles, leading more than 1,000 steps to ride headlong into the plague-ridden Hanoi County, and no letter has appeared in Luoyang for half a month, and most of them have died well. Why should the Montenegrin army make up this bad luck, and then bring the plague back to Montenegro when the time comes, how beautiful it is.
Although the Montenegrin army did not have the courage to cross the Yellow River south, the situation in the Central Plains, or the world, was still turbulent. The battle situation in Liangzhou showed that the Han army was defeated, and could only block the rebels outside Longguan, so Han then rampaged with a large army, and Ma Teng cleared the field in the west of Longxian, and the four hundred miles east of the Yugu Valley turned into a scorched earth. Han Sui killed 4,000 men and horses, but in exchange for the ruined city, he was even more angry, and attacked Longxian, and Liangzhou assassin Shi Gaixun and school captain Yang Qiu were killed. The war within Liangzhou developed to a fever pitch.
The eastern Xianbei Lord Mica gathered his troops in the spring, raided Yuyang in August, Liu Bei Zhang Fei led his troops to defend Yuyang on the 27th, Gongsun Chan refused to send reinforcements from Liaoxi, this battle was a complete victory, not only attacked Xianbei Baili, but also entered the hinterland of Karasuma, plundered more than 100 cars outside the pass to communicate with each other, Gongsun Chan and the state pastor Liu Yu The rift is getting bigger and bigger, but the military power is in the hands of Gongsun Zhan, so he had to impeach Gongsun to the Luoyang court, but because the Montenegrin army went out and delayed on the road. People of insight in Youzhou all said that Youzhou will fall into the same way as Liangzhou in the redress of the brotherly wall.
Huangfu Song and Bai Bojun have recovered the Hetao area, and set Xianping County in the name of Ma Yue, the general of the auxiliary state, and the administrative office is the first set of counties, located in the northwest of the source of the Yellow River. The land of the newly established Xianping County is also strange, the west is an endless desert, and the east is 200 miles of fertile fields, and the degree of cultivation fertility can be the highest in the Han Dynasty. At present, Xianbei has basically accepted the reality of losing his territory. The northern expedition to Xianbei more than 20 battles, the Xianbei people who originally lived here were slaughtered, not to mention, the reinforcements sent by the western Xianbei Lord Budugen were also defeated several times, and the Han army also lost nearly half of it, unable to advance north. Yang Feng became the Taishou of Xianping County as he wished, but when Huangfu Song waved his army to face the south, Ding Yuan's elite 6,000 and newly recruited troops totaled 14,000 troops were stationed in Jingbian, and the order was ordered by the Empress Dowager Dong and the hussar general Dong Chong to take over the Huangfu Song and Niu Fu Department.
Niu Fu refused to hand over the military power, and Huangfu Song also hated this move, but they couldn't help but disagree, Ding Yuan's scouts infiltrated Xianping County at night, bribes that should be bribed, deterrence that should be deterred, and assassination that should be assassinated. However, for more than ten days, he actually bought off Yang Feng, the Taishou of Xianping County, to send troops, and for a time the last army in the world that could assist Ma Yue faced the fate of defecting or disbanding on the spot.
The yellow scarves in the land of Qingzhou have revived, and the counties and counties have done all kinds of evil. After a few years, most of the reckless heroes who had followed the great sages and good teachers with enthusiasm fell into banditry, and they were surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court over the years, so they had to rely on the management of the sea and Xue Zhou in order to save their lives. In order to resist the invasion, Qingzhou asked the imperial court for reinforcements, but was helplessly surrounded by King Qin's army and could only support it with difficulty.
As for the Central Plains, it is even more unbearable. The 6,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Yu went east to rescue Ma Yue, tried to intercept Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, bit Yuan Shu's tail in Gong County, played a beautiful ambush and cut more than 1,000 ranks, and snatched a batch of armor. However, on the fourth day of the Gongxian ambush, the horse team that played like the wind fell into the encirclement of 4,000 soldiers and horses of the Qinwang army, and the Liangzhou army, which lacked soldiers and short armor, paid the price of 700 dead and wounded and more than 1,000 routs to break out of the encirclement.
Outside the White Horse Temple, these days the monks are running back and forth, collecting information from all sides in the name of fate, and at the invitation of the famous monk Zhenrong of Danyang, fasting and bathing to collect the whole medicine stone, and then take up the knife and gun, scatter small groups towards Hanoi County.
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Luoyang, Yongle Palace.
After Ma Yue set out on the expedition, Dong Zhuo killed the disobedient with his iron and bloody skills in a short period of time, and pocketed the entire imperial court, but at the same time, the Empress Dowager Dong and the scholar family led by Yuan Shao were not idle, but hid in the secret room that did not see the light of day all day long to prepare for what they had been thinking about for a long time.
"Queen Mother, there are enough wars, now Dong thieves are out of the city to fight against the Qin Wang Army, and the horse thieves don't know whether they live or die in Hanoi County, it is a good ...... for you to clear out the traitors" Yuan Shao said quite respectfully, Ma Yue went out of the city in Luoyang in the past few months, Luoyang has undergone earth-shaking changes, although Dong Zhuo suppressed it, but it is just a general's position, where can the influence in Luoyang be compared to the Yuan Mansion of the Fourth and Third Dukes, under Yuan Shao's activities, a large number of scholars poured into Dong Zhuo's mansion. Nowadays, the palace period, the four armies of the northern camp and most of the southern army are already biased towards them or the sons of the gate lords of the neutral court, and the entire Luoyang is under the control of Dong Gong on the surface, in fact, no wind can escape Yuan Shao's eyes.
And now, Yuan Shao is already a guard in the guard, encouraging the Empress Dowager Dong in the palace. The hussar general Dong Zhong sat on the side, the palace maid attendant on the side, the long fan shook slightly, and the ice cubes in the bowl were floating in the honey water, which was extremely leisurely.
Dong Chong couldn't help but sigh, Yuan Shao is a good friend, he doesn't have to ask about anything himself, it's so simple and easy to do, what Ma Yue Dong Zhuo, don't you have to get out of the way in the end?
Yuan Shao was talking endlessly, how did he know that Empress Dowager Dong waved her hand and frowned, although her eyes had long been unable to see things, her white eyes still stared at him as if she could see Yuan Shao, and said angrily: "The major affairs of the imperial court, can you and other juniors assert it?" How about Ma Junhao and Dong Zhongying, it's your turn? ”
Yuan Shao shut up when he heard this, the Empress Dowager of the Dong family is much more difficult to deal with than Dong Chong, and it is even more difficult to see through her heart if she can't see her eyes, and when she can't see her eyes, Empress Dowager Dong waved her hand, Yuan Shao had to bow down and retreat, and glanced at Dong Chong before leaving.
Dong Chong didn't know what was going on, and suddenly his aunt became angry, and hurriedly hunched over and crawled to the side of the Empress Dowager Dong and lowered her head and asked, "Auntie, but what Yuan Benchu said was not in your heart?" The original is also the righteousness of the world, after all, you are still young, don't go to your heart......"
"The old body is not angry with him, the old body is angry, you are not angry!" Empress Dowager Dong closed her eyes and said: "The dignified hussar general was led by the nose by a junior of the Yuan family, and the Yuan family wanted to expel Ma Yue Dong Zhuo, but you see now, which decree of Shangshutai must not pass through the Yuan family's mansion first?" You...... The erector is misguided! ”
"Huh? Auntie, the Yuan family has no ambitions, so they won't steal ......"
"Alas, the Yuan family is dominant today, and Ma Yue is still in Luoyang, but I am afraid that I will not be able to turn the tide." The Empress Dowager Dong shook her head and said: "But it's okay, since Dong Zhongying entered Beijing, someone has come to the palace every day to complain, and within a few days of going back, the Liangzhou soldiers will definitely raid the family and exterminate the clan, and the lesser of the two evils...... You can do this thing, and you should cooperate with the outside according to the meaning of the Yuan family. Well...... The old body is tired, you go. ”