Gaoping-gun, Chang-eup.

Changyi is the county of Gaoping County, located on the south bank of Jishui, from the east gate of Yanzhou, Kangfu County of Rencheng County is only more than 60 miles, in the west of Kangfu, only separated by Jinxiang County of Gaoping County. It can be said that Changyi is the solid backing of Kang's father.

However, the two counties of Gaoping and Rencheng, when they were under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, were originally "countries" and were divided into the clans of the Tang family, but after they were acquired by the Murong family, they were changed to counties. In fact, Yanzhou is a densely populated place that is quite wealthy, not only Gaoping and Rencheng, but also Dongping, Jibei, Lu, Puyang, etc., which are now counties, and in the Western Tang Dynasty, they were all vassal states. In the entire Yanzhou, except for the two counties of Jiyin and Chenliu, the taxes of the other counties were distributed proportionally to the Tang family's clan. From this point of view, the Tang family is really much more generous to their clan than the Wei lord is to their clan; It's just that this generosity did not bring any benefits, the destruction of the Western Tang Dynasty, the rebellion of the kings was an important reason, and the rebellion of the kings of the year, not to mention the kings who took the lead, only the vassal states of Yanzhou also had quite a participatory. This is off-topic and does not need to be further said.

In the barracks outside Changyi County, in Murong Zhan's handsome tent.

At the beginning of March, on this day, the decree of Murong Yan, the lord of Wei, arrived.

This is the fourth time that Murong Yan has given an order to Murong Zhan in just three days.

The content of the decree is the same as the first three, except that the wording has been changed, and it is more severe than the first three. The general content of the decree is: "He Hun led 50,000 horsemen, bypassed Rencheng County, passed through Lu County to the north, has entered Dongping County, and will attack Jibei." Dongping and Jibei are frequently in emergency. If these two counties are lost, the slaves will invade Zhongzhou, pass Guixiang County in the west, and reach Yecheng for a hundred miles, then the Beijing division will be in danger! "If the first three edicts are still inquiries, this edict is a question, questioning Murong Zhan, "Da Sima is trusted by the imperial court, and now he is leading the country's elite to station in Gaoping, but he sits back and watches the slaves go north and does not immediately intercept them, what is his intention?" ”

After reading this decree, Murong Zhan respectfully put the decree on the table, rubbed his forehead, looked at the sky outside the tent, and sighed.

"Why is Father sighing?"

The questioner was a young man of twenty-four or five years old.

Although this young man is sitting on a hu sit, it can also be seen that he is tall, judging by his appearance, his eyebrows are slender, his eyes are bright, the bridge of his nose is straight, his lips are like a knife, and his skin is fair. This person's name is Murong Mei, and he is Murong Zhan's eldest son.

Murong Zhan's age is not very old, he is forty-two or thirteen years old this year, but he married early, and he married a wife when he was thirteen or fourteen, and although he was a concubine, but probably because he was a young son, he was loved by his father, so his wife was not from an ordinary Xianbei aristocratic family, but the daughter of the Duan clan of the Xianbei family, and had their first child at the age of eighteen, that is, Murong Mei.

Unlike his father's preference for the youngest son, Murong Zhan loved his eldest son the most.

There were no outsiders in the tent, only his father and son.

Murong Zhan motioned for Murong Mei to come over and see the order.

Murong Mei got up and went to the front of the case, picked up the decree, read it cursoryly, frowned, and said, "Father, didn't the book be sent to the court the day before yesterday?" Father explained the reason for not sending troops to intercept He Hun evil in the previous book.

"The reason why He Hun Xie bypassed Kang's father and entered Dongping north was because he was blocked by his father's serial horse formation and couldn't beat Kang's father, so he came up with this plan, obviously to attack Jibei and threaten Yedu, and his real purpose was to transfer our army to the north to pursue, and he won the field battle. If our army had taken the liberty to chase him, wouldn't it have fallen into his trap?

"As for Jibei's emergency, there are 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed by my father in Jibei County, so that there are thousands of people, the attack is insufficient, and the city is more than enough, so why worry about the safety of Jibei? No matter what the safety of Yedu is! With this 10,000 people guarding the north of Ji, He Hun has no way forward, he has to retreat, and when that time, my father will send troops again, take the opportunity to attack it, and win a battle!

"These things that Father explained in the above book are simple and understandable, why can't the princes of the court and the central government understand them?"

Murong Zhan sighed again and said, "It's not that the princes of the court can't understand it, Mo Helang, it's that the Lord doesn't trust me." ”

"Mohe" is a Xianbei language, which means "big", and Mohe Lang is Dalang.

Murong Mei is the longest among Murong Zhan's sons, because it is a small character Mohe.

Murong Mei said angrily: "On the day the first emperor was alive, the lord couldn't get along with his father again and again,...... The queen and her mother can't get along, and she has framed her mother! Fortunately, the first emperor was wise and did not listen to the queen's words and did not punish his mother.

"That's all there is to it, but when is it now? There is Hehun evil in the chaos, there is a prisoner in the west, several summons Tuoba troops to help me, and Tuoba double Jin to support the troops without moving, as if with different aspirations, is the east, west, north three sides of the enemy, Tang Er is also very likely to take advantage of the gap to go north, this is true that I Wei survival autumn also! But how can the Lord still make something out of nothing, doubting the father? ”

When Murong Yan was the crown prince, he was indeed very bad with Murong Zhan.

This is not to blame Murong Yan, if you want to blame, you can only blame Murong Clan for occupying the Central Plains for decades, but the progress of its Tang Dynasty has been tortuous and difficult, the Wei lord before Murong Zhan wanted to carry out Tang Dynasty in a big way, but in the end he was pushed down because he violated the interests of the mainstream nobles of Xianbei, which also led to the old customs of his former nomadic Mobei until the next half of Thailand has been preserved, one of which is "establishing a king to be strong" and "brother to brother".

Although as far as the royal family of Wei is concerned, at least in the past twenty or thirty years, there has been no more brother-to-brother and brother-to-brother in the normal transmission, but this phenomenon is still relatively common among the various Xianbei tribes in its country, that is, the tradition of "brother-to-brother and brother-to-brother" is still recognized by the majority of the "countrymen" of Wei, that is, the Xianbei people.

Murong Zhan joined the army at a young age, and in his more than 20 years of military career, he has almost no defeat in defeating Rouran, destroying Fuyu, and conquering Goguryeo, and when it comes to his prestige in the Wei army and among the people, he is much higher than Murong Yan. - It's Murong Hui, before he died, whether he was sincere or fake, didn't he also say in person that he wanted to pass on the throne to Murong Zhan?

Facing such a prestigious uncle, how could Murong Yan not be suspicious.

Murong Yan didn't trust Murong Zhan because Murong Zhan's prestige was too high, and his wife Ke Zuhun framed Murong Zhan's wife Duan for another reason.

The Xianbei Duan Division, to which the Duan clan belongs, is a first-class tribe among the many tribes of Xianbei, although it has become a vassal of the Murong clan due to defeat, but the momentum of its subordinates back then was actually stronger than that of Murong and Tuoba, and the Duan clan can be described as a noble birth, in comparison, the tribe of Zuhun is far inferior to the Duan Division. Duan's seniority is higher than Ke Zu Hun's, and he is Ke Zu Hun's uncle, so in the past years, Duan's inevitably despised Ke Zuhun from time to time, thinking that Ke Zuhun is a dignified princess, which is unbearable, and can't bear this idleness, so there is a thing that frames Duan's family, fortunately, as Murong Mei said, Murong Wei knows the inside story, and does not accept Ke Zuhun's false accusations, and does not punish Duan's crime, but he also does not pursue Ke Zuhun's false accusations.

Murong Zhan said in his heart: "Mo Helang is right, there is no need to mention all the things in the past, but now that my Great Wei is in turmoil, I should work together, but the Lord is still the same as before, and he is suspicious of me." Alas, internal and external troubles, internal and external troubles! ”

He held on to the desk, stood up, walked to the tent door, his eyes swept over the big banner outside the tent, looked at the white clouds in the blue sky, looked at it for a long time, I didn't know what I was thinking, I didn't know what I thought.

Murong Mei, who was standing beside Murong Zhan, only saw his expression, first concentrated, then longed, and then lowered, and finally raised his sword eyebrows, and Murong Mei, who was familiar with his father, knew that this was Murong Zhan's decision.

Sure enough, Murong Zhan turned around and said to Murong Mei: "Order the three armies, leave 10,000 people to guard Kangfu and Changyi, and the rest will go north from me tomorrow." ”

Murong Mei was shocked and said anxiously: "Father, since I already know that He Hun has invaded Dongping just to transfer our army north, how can he still fall into his plan?" ”

Murong Zhan said: "In three days, there were four decrees, which shows how resolute the Lord's intention is to order our army to go north. Mo Helang, as a human minister, the Lord's decree cannot be violated. ”

Murong Mei said: "Father, why don't you go to the book again?" Try to see if you can change the mind of the Lord? ”

Murong Zhan was silent for a moment and said, "If I write again, I am afraid that the fifth decree of the Lord is to take away my military power." The third time he sighed and said, "I don't care if I have military power, but in my country today, I ask myself, there is no one who uses soldiers to defeat me!" You just said that Fang Jin is the autumn of the survival of my Great Wei, which is very true, and someone else is in charge of the army on my behalf,...... Mo Helang, I can't believe it! He Hun evil is a good use of soldiers, the high force under his account, dare to fight bravely, once our army is defeated, it is not only Yanzhou and Qingzhou that will fall, but I am afraid that Luoyang will also be because of the army's heart floating, and Luozhou will not be protected. In this way, I am afraid that my Great Wei will fall apart! ”

"That can't ...... either"

"There's nothing you can't do!"

"Father, you are so wronged!"

Murong Zhan's tone was firm, and he said: "Compared with the country's major affairs, what is it that I am personally wronged? ”

"If, as Father expected, He Hun is in ambush in the Dao, or arrayed in the field, forcing our army to fight in the field, how to deal with it?"

"Let's be cautious when we march, and he will set up an ambush, which is useless. If you are in the field......, Murong Zhan looked resolute and said, "Although the high power of the Gaohe Hun Evil Sect is strong, as long as I deploy it properly, it is not impossible to win. ”

That being said, if it was really a field battle, Murong Zhan, who had already seen the combat power of He Hun's subordinates, really didn't have much certainty of victory. He felt bitter in his heart, and unconsciously thought: "My Murong clan started with a bow horse, but now I let that high force show off his might, I am really ashamed of my ancestors and ancestors." ”

The next day, Murong Zhan personally led the main force out of the camp and went north to Dongping Kingdom.

……

He Hun's troops had passed through the Dongping Kingdom and advanced to Jibei.

Jibei is generally located on the south bank of the Yellow River, with a trend from southwest to northeast as a whole, and there are five counties in the territory.

From southwest to northeast, these five counties are Linyi, the county of Dong'e and Jibei, Gucheng and Lu County in the south of Linyi, and Snake Hill in the south of Lu County. Jishui runs through the northern country of Jishui, Dong'e and Linyi counties are on the north bank of Jishui, and the remaining three counties are in the south of Jishui. Dong'e, Gucheng, and Snake Hill all border Dongping.

Just when Murong Zhan's troops entered Dongping and were about to arrive in Gucheng.

In Gucheng County, outside the Hehun Evil Camp, which covers an area of several miles, and above the field, the Hehun Evil Sect and the Hehun Leopard Unit, which had just arrived, were conducting a drill in array under the command of officers at all levels and accompanied by the orders of banners and war drums.

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