Chapter 11: The Establishment of the Later Han Dynasty (II)

"Drive! Drive! ”

On the official road from Daizhou to Hengzhou, a cavalry suddenly appeared, the horse bell was crisp, the hooves were clattering, and this group of people was dressed in white, which was extremely eye-catching in the open field...... The two people at the head, one of them had a white face and a short beard, and his eyes were not big, but he was strangely godlike, about thirty years old, and the other had eyes like stars and eyebrows like distant mountains, and he was quite handsome. Baidu search: 78 .// But it is Guo Rong and Zhao Kuangyin. I only heard Zhao Kuangyin say behind him: "Third brother, I've been running for a whole day, let's rest." ”

Guo Rong turned his head sideways at Zhao Kuangyin and smiled: "What? Seventh brother, do you feel tired? I usually see you training in the army, and I can't run so much every day. ”

Zhao Kuangyin said with a smile: "Third brother, when I was training, there was still a target or something, but now I am bare, and I have been running for a long time, and I am really a little tired." ”

"Okay, look, there's a village over there, let's go to that village and rest for a while, and we're on our way." Guo Rong said.

"Did you hear that, General Guo has an order. Go to the village in front of me to rest, everyone will give me some energy. Zhao Kuangyin turned his head and shouted at the sergeants behind him.

"General Xie Guo, General Xie Zhao." All the sergeants said in unison.

Guo and Zhao laughed, brandishing their whips to urge the horses to speed up.

After Wang Jun returned from Bianjing, Liu Zhiyuan, the king of Taiyuan, began to gather soldiers and horses and hoard grain and grass. Some people took the opportunity to persuade Liu Zhiyuan to ascend the throne as emperor and called on the world's heroes to crusade against the Khitan. As a result, Liu Zhiyuan scolded him for his bloody head, and he took the wooden crutch given by the Khitan Emperor and said: "Your Majesty is dusty, I am a courtier, I should learn Fan Li, literature, ten years of cultivation, ten years of life, ten years of military training, and then avenge the country, and restore the rivers and mountains of the Great Jin, how can I be a chaotic minister and thief?" ”

Later, I heard that Yelu Deguang was going to move the household registration of Shi Chonggui's family to Huanglong Mansion, and Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly sent someone to inform Guo Rong of Daizhou to personally lead troops to meet Shi Chonggui in Hengzhou, and bring Shi Chonggui to Taiyuan, become emperor again, and hold high the banner of the Great Jin Dynasty again. When Xingwen arrived in Daizhou, Guo Rong and Zhao Kuangyin ordered 500 white-clothed cavalry and ran all the way, ready to rescue the driver.

And so it began, the scene at the beginning of the article.

From a distance, this village still looks like it, but after entering, even these elite soldiers who often go in and out of the battlefield of death can't bear to look at it anymore. In the twilight, between the ruins and broken tiles, there were dead bodies everywhere, young and middle-aged men, all of whom died very miserably, some of their heads were cut off, some of their stomachs were opened, and their intestines were left on the ground; And those women, most of them were naked, their eyes were wide open, and they were obviously dead.

"Fuck, Shi Shouxin, you take a team of people to see if there are any Khitan dogs, catch them for Brother Qi, I'm going to scrape them alive." Zhao Kuangyin said hatefully to Shi Shouxin, the last of the team.

Shi Shouxin was also furious and took a team of people and galloped away.

Guo Rong's chest breathed sharply, obviously angry, he said, "Old Seven." You take some people into the village and search them carefully, and see ...... Let's see if there are any alive. ”

After a while, an exclamation suddenly came from the left corner of the village, Guo Rong didn't know what was going on, and hurriedly walked over with a team of people. Before he could get there, he saw Zhao Kuangyin clenching his fists, his eyes wide, and the green tendons in his neck bulging, originally a handsome young man, like a demon crawling out of hell.

"Old Seven, are you alright? What happened? Guo Rong asked with some concern.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at it coldly, a little distracted in front of him, and didn't hear Guo Rong's words at all.

Guo Rong was about to ask again, when he suddenly saw a sergeant following behind Zhao Kuangyin, pointing to a well not far away. Guo Rong hurried over with two steps and looked into the well. The well has been dry for a long time, but ...... But there were more than a dozen old people and children, and these people had more than a dozen washbasin-sized stones on their bodies. Presumably, the Khitans drove the old man and the child into the dry well, and then found stones and stoned them to death. Guo Rong suddenly felt inexplicably angry, and couldn't help but raise his foot and kick the dry well hard, a pain came from his toes, he snorted but didn't snort, as if only in this way could he apologize to the people in the village who died in vain, he regretted it...... Why don't you go faster, if you go faster, you can'......

"General Zhao, you're going there......" a sergeant shouted.

Guo Rong turned back heavily, and saw Zhao Kuangyin riding on his white horse, like crazy, rushing towards the outside of the village. He took a deep breath, the rich smell of blood came to his nose, and he said with a silent face: "Let him go, and after a while, he will be back." Gather the corpses in your village and bury them. ”

The night was dark, Zhao Kuangyin finally came, he jumped off the horse, did not look at Guo Rong with a concerned face, but asked Shi Shouxin and said, "Have you ever caught the Khitans?" ”

Shi Shouxin shook his head silently.

Zhao Kuangyin clenched his fists, "Gababa" made a bone sound, saw a bang, hit the wall, a burst of loess cut down the wall, Guo Rong reached out behind him and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Seven, don't be too sad." This blood debt will definitely be found back on the Khitans in the future. ”

"Third brother......" Zhao Kuangyin glanced at Guo Rong and said: "Third brother, let's go back, this stone is to blame, and saving it is in vain, let's go back and follow the King of Taiyuan to kill the Khitans." ”

Guo Rong glanced at the vast night, and said in a low voice: "Tomorrow morning, we will return, this stone is expensive, I'm afraid it has already passed Hengzhou." ”

This voice was very small, only Zhao Kuangyin heard it, he was stunned for a moment, the order of the king of Taiyuan arrived the day before yesterday, and the third brother delayed a day before setting off, this ...... He felt a little bitter in his heart, and a name suddenly jumped out in his heart - Wang Pu.

Guo Rong did not receive the message of Emperor Shi Chonggui and soon spread to Bianjing, after Liu Zhiyuan got it, in front of the officials, he cried bitterly, and the officials persuaded Liu Zhiyuan to establish himself as the emperor, but Liu Zhiyuan refused again-

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"The heavenly general is about to drop pie, why doesn't General Guo hurry up and prepare to take it?" Wang Pu couldn't help but smile when he saw Guo Rong reading a book in the study.

Guo Rong didn't know why, stood up, and asked, "Sir, I came so early today." You may be seated, you may be seated. But where does this pie thing begin? ”

"General Guo. You haven't been able to pick up Shi Chonggui, so what do you think King Taiyuan should do next? Wang Pu asked with a smile, with a little more taste of the school examination in his eyes.

Guo Rong pondered for a moment, rolled his eyes, and asked, "What does Mr. mean, but do you want me to write a persuasion form?" But I'm a humble position, I'm afraid I can't do anything. ”

Wang Pu laughed and said, "General Guo, you are too sincere. At present, the Khitan is brutal, and the people are already unbearable, this Henan and Hebei are like a bundle of dry firewood, and a random spark has become a prairie fire. The Khitan army of 200,000, plus the surrendered Jin soldiers of 200,000, the consumption of grain and grass in this army must be astronomical. In my opinion, if it is slow, it will be a month, and if it is fast, it will be half a month, and there will be changes in the Central Plains. The king of Taiyuan is scheming and will not fail to see this. Now, it is the best time to enter the persuasion table, and when others start to enter the table, we will not be able to show anything under our position. This matter should be taken advantage of early. Guo Rong nodded heavily.

Suddenly, Guo Rong asked again: "Sir, between you, what is the chance of success in this operation of the King of Taiyuan?" ”

Wang Pu said with a smile: "If within half a month, the king of Taiyuan is called the emperor, and Li Tang does not exhaust the troops of the whole country and drive the northern expedition, then the king of Taiyuan will definitely be able to determine the Central Plains." ”

Guo Rong pondered for a moment and said: "When I wandered the rivers and lakes in the past, I heard that Li Jing was a good poet and a singer, and these vain things were empty-headed, I'm afraid he didn't have that vision, nor did he have the courage to go on the Northern Expedition." Besides, Jiangnan Feng Yansi and others are also vassals and elegant people, and they don't have much knowledge...... Kindness...... Sir, what if my twelfth brother goes on a northern expedition from Gangneung? ”

Wang Pu said directly: "General Guo, Brother Ling's vision is good. His Northern Expedition is probably inevitable. However, he will not be able to make a big deal this time. ”

Guo Rong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Please make it clear to Mr. Shang." ”

Wang Pu said: "The state of Chu has two weaknesses, first, the king of Chu Ma Xifan was extravagant during his reign, and this state of Chu probably does not have much grain to support them to complete the great cause of the Northern Expedition. And the younger brother is more than benevolent, but he ...... The people of the Central Plains were poor, and he would certainly not adopt the strategy of taking food from the enemy. Without food, how long can they sustain themselves? Second, if the state of Chu only takes Xiangzhou, presumably Li Tang will not have any reaction, and if the state of Chu wins one after another, then Li Tang will definitely not sit idly by and watch the state of Chu become strong and ignore it. This point must be clear in the hearts of the people of Chu State. Therefore, the target of Ling Di's Northern Expedition is probably only Xiangzhou, Suizhou, and Anzhou, which are the states and counties south of the Huai River. At most, it is to take Dengzhou, and it will definitely not go further north. ”

Guo Rong sighed: "Hey, the world is in turmoil. I don't know when I'll settle down. Although he said this, his tone involuntarily revealed a hint of envy.

When Guo Rong's persuasion table arrived, Liu Zhiyuan was only his buddy Guo Wei alone, Liu Zhiyuan read the letter, handed it to Guo Wei, and said, "Isn't Ling Lang going to roast me on the fire?" At present, the Khitans are strong, and we are probably not the opponents of the Khitans. ”

Guo Wei replied with a smile that was not asked: "A mere history of thorns, the weight is indeed not enough." Although the Khitan was brutal, the situation was not bad. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Three days later, Hedong Jiedu envoy Sima Zhang Yanwei persuaded him to advance. Five days later, the peasants of Cizhou revolted, and Liang Hui, the leader of the rebel army, captured Xiangzhou to drive out the Khitans, and sent people from afar to join Liu Zhiyuan. After that, the peasant uprising was in full swing, and in order to suppress the people, Yelu Deguang made Dewey, Li Shouzhen, Gao Xingzhou, and Gao Xingzhou, who were captured during the Battle of the Jin Dynasty.

After the news arrived, Guo Wei hurriedly found Liu Zhiyuan and persuaded him: "Yelu Deguang is brutal and unpopular, and the world is mostly headed by the king, and now the king can no longer push it." You are pushing, in case someone else takes advantage of the hypocrisy to replace the king, then it will be too late to regret it. "To put it bluntly, you have to take the lead in this great cause of protesting against the Khitan.

Liu Zhiyuan pondered for a long time and asked: "Now the Khitan strength is not weak, the soldiers and horses are strong, if the widow raises the army of Hedong to attack Hebei, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with the Khitans, right?" ”

Guo Wei smiled: "Why should the king avoid the truth and be real? Our army can first send troops to the south, seize the land of Henan, stabilize the world, determine the ranking, and then gather all the soldiers and horses to go north together. In fact, as long as we capture Henan, then the Khitans' desire to return north must be much stronger, that is, we are sending troops to the north, and it will be easy to drive them out of Yizhou. ”

At this time, Liu Zhiyuan's doubts were alleviated, his loyal ministers also pretended, and he endured the humiliation and burden, saying that he was tired of being the emperor and said it several times, and he confessed that he should confess, and the play that should be sung was basically finished. He threw away the wooden stick that bullshit Yerod gave him, gathered hundreds of officials, and officially proclaimed himself emperor. He called the emperor but did not change the yuan, but he did not use Shi Chonggui's lucky year name, and used Shi Jingjiao's Tianfu year name, which was called the twelfth year of Tianfu. To put it nicely, that's because he and Shi Jingjiao's buddies have a deep relationship, and the results are not good, that is to make full use of Shi Jingjiao's last remaining influence.

He appointed Yang Wei as the privy envoy, Guo Wei as the deputy envoy of the secret secret, Su Fengji as the Zhongshu Shilang, and Su Xugui as the Pingzhang Shi of the Tongzhongshu Men. Liu Zhiyuan became the emperor, so he naturally wanted to reward the three armies so that they could make them die. But Lao Liu was shy, so he was ready to learn from Yelu Deguang, and also went to the common people to borrow some money and collect some protection money. As soon as he put forward this idea, the new queen mother, his wife persuaded: "Your Majesty has just established a foundation, and the people may not be convinced, go and loot the people's wealth now, the people will be disappointed, this is not what Renjun should do." The concubines still have some savings here, which is not much, but it is enough to gag the mouths of the soldiers and prevent them from departing from His Majesty. Liu Zhiyuan couldn't stop bowing to his wife at that time, and his wife took out all her private money and divided it according to the head, and sure enough, the soldiers were happy to call long live the emperor.

At the end of February, the Jinzhou general Yao Ke killed Zhao Xi, the assassin of Jinzhou, Zhao Hui, the queen of Shaanzhou, and Wang Shouen, the queen of Luzhou, and the commander of Danzhou, Gao Yanxun, returned. The situation in the struggle against the Khitan is very good.

So, Liu Zhiyuan once again convened his henchmen Yang Wei, Guo Wei, Shi Hongzhao, Su Fengji and others to discuss the matter of sending troops. Liu Zhiyuan hasn't sent troops yet, and Ma Yun, the king of Chu, can't wait for the Northern Expedition.