In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Xiu "dismissed the provincial county soldiers" five times, and the counties and counties in various places had county soldiers, and some did not have county soldiers. Not to mention those who do not have county soldiers, there are two types of county soldiers, one is that there are fewer county soldiers, and the other is that there are more county soldiers. Under the Taishou, those with more county soldiers were placed in the county Sima, and those with fewer county soldiers were placed in Cao. Bing Cao Peng is the commander of Bing Cao, who is in charge of the county soldiers.

"Wait? Who does this guy say he is? Xu Rong? Liu He's mind was stunned, and he tried to recall this familiar name - when he played the Three Kingdoms game, it seemed to have appeared......

"Ahh That's right. Bianshui defeated Cao Mengde once, and Liang Dong defeated Sun Wentai twice" Liu He remembered: "This will pick up a treasure, think of a way to recruit." [Note 1]

Liu He immediately straightened his body: "In the Lower East China Sea Liu He, the word is smooth." Currently white. ”

"Brother Shun is polite!" Xu Rong returned the salute.

"You are from Youzhou, you should know about Youzhou, can you tell me in detail." As Liu He spoke, he beckoned the postman to serve wine and food.

"Brother Shun is polite." Xu Rong smiled innocently and took off the felt hat.

"Brother Boyu, please!" Liu He raised his glass and drank it all.

"Brother Shun, please!" Xu Rong also drank it all.

After three cups and two glasses, Xu Rong, an iron man, turned into a deep resentful woman, and has been lamenting the erosion of the situation in Youzhou. Liu He frowned tightly when he heard this-Youzhou now has no people, and there is no money and grain for money, and the land areas of Daijun, Shanggu, Yuyang, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuansu, and Lelang counties have all been eroded and occupied by Xianbei, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Sanhan and other Yidi.

"It's too much of a deception! These Yidi really deserve... Hum! Those who are not of my race will have different hearts! Liu He couldn't help but want to open Smecta.

"Brother Shun is angry! As long as the emperor is willing to give some money and food, I, Yan Zhao Hushi, should throw my head and spill my blood to restore the glory of my great man. Xu Rong admonished.

"Brother Boyu really doesn't hide it, this time I intend to go north to Youzhou, put pen to paper, Mu Weihuo's merits, and seal the wolf." Liu He held Xu Rong's hand and said.

"Brother Shun, if you don't give up, you can join the army in my right Beiping! For my brother, I must cover you! Lao Tzu is the same thing in Xu Wucheng. Xu Rong got drunk and began to be nonsense.

"Brother Boyu, don't hide it, the new assassin Liu Jun you said is my father." Liu He looked at Xu Rong's eyes and said.

"Ahh Xu Rong seemed to suddenly wake up: "Shunzhi, you don't have to joke." ”

"How dare you joke Brother Boyu, or you can visit your father now, so that you don't have to go to Jingshi." Liu Hedao.

"Good!" Xu Rong promised.

Later, Liu and Xu met with Liu Yu, and after Liu Yu showed the letter of appointment of the festival and the imperial court, Xu Rong saluted Liu Yu.

"Cao Rafter, a soldier of the right Beiping, met Liu Tingshi. This is a border emergency, please take a look. Then Xu Rongfeng sent a letter.

After Liu Yu finished reading it, he frowned, and immediately asked Liu He to invite Tian Feng and Fu to discuss the matter.

It turned out that Xu Rong's urgent report said that the Han army was lurking in Xianbei's secret report: Wuyan, the king of Wuhuan Khan Lu of Beiping County, had met with the great chieftain of Xianbei in the east many times at the border, and determined a verbal agreement to capture Lulongsai before the autumn harvest came. Now Xianbei's 5,000-strong army has secretly entered the border of the Han Dynasty and is hidden in the Bailing Ranch of the Wuhuan tribe. Uyan's 3,000 men were assembled in the Red Flower Valley, a hundred miles away from Lulongse. At present, they still lack siege tools, and they are urgently transported from Baitan City by the Murong Tribe, a large tribe of Xianbei in the central region. It is estimated that the attack will be at the beginning of next month at the latest. However, Lulongsai's border army only had two troops, a total of 1,600 men, and it was indeed very difficult to deal with the attack of 8,000 troops.

Liu Zheng, the Taishou of the Right Beiping, asked the imperial court to rescue the money and grain.

After hearing this, Liu He felt extremely sick to his stomach: "If you are not from my race, your heart will be different." These Wuhuan people are really not cleaned up. ”

The Wuhuan people were attacked by the Xiongnu a few decades ago, and had to abandon their homeland and migrate to the Han Dynasty one after another. The major tribal kings of the Wuhuan tribe immediately asked the Han Emperor to allow them to live in the desolate Biansai. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was very generous to these Hu people who were willing to submit to him, and he made a promise. The language life and customs of the Wuhuan people are the same as those of the Xianbei people, and it is difficult to recognize them if they are not carefully distinguished. There are more than 800 Wuhuan tribes living in Youbeiping County, and the chief leader is Wuyan, the king of Khanlu.

However, the result of the discussion between Liu Yu, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu is that this attack is an attack in a harassing mode or a premeditated large-scale military activity?

At this time, Liu He spoke: "I think that Xu Rong has a lot of military strategy, why don't you call him in and ask about the specific situation in the border county." ”

Liu, Tian, and Fu looked at Liu He and felt that it made sense.

Then Xu Rong came in, and at this moment he was completely sober.

Xu Rong took a deep breath and said, "Some time ago, the grassland Xianbei was turbulent, and the competition for royal power was fierce. The leader was unable to suppress the tribes, but fortunately, the great chief of the Murong Department successfully stabilized the situation by turning the tide at the most critical time. However, the Xianbei tribes have been severely damaged, and more tribes have turned a blind eye to the royal power of Danhan Mountain. They are all vigorously exerting their tribal power, and the annexation between the tribes has intensified, and it is only a matter of time before the Xianbei tribal alliance falls apart in the long run. ”

"What Boyu means is that they are trying to divert attention and stabilize the unity of their own forces." Frustrated with a frown.

"I'm right." Xu Rong took a chopstick and squatted down at this time, sketched the situation on the ground and said: "Everyone, please see, Xianbei suddenly attacked my Han at this time, which is nothing more than for the stability and unity of the Xianbei tribes. Its purpose is very clear, through war, to consume the strength of some big tribes, and at the same time to tell those tribal chiefs who are ready to make a move that Xianbei is still a whole now, and whoever wants to rebel will not have any results. The war was won, and the plundered booty was abundant, which was beneficial to the unity and prosperity of the Xianbei tribes. The defeat of the big tribe was damaged, but it did not affect the overall interests of the Xianbei Alliance, but it was of great benefit to the stability of the Xianbei. Therefore, it is imperative to attack the big Han, and it is better to fight early than late. ”

Tian Feng sighed: "What's more, the situation of my Han is very bad now. This spring, locust plagues or epidemics have been carried out in various parts of the Central Plains, which have seriously shaken the financial foundation of the Han Dynasty. His Majesty also ignored the government and government, most of the local officials were corrupt and exploited the people, and the Han was already terminally ill and on the verge of death, which was a great opportunity to seize the four counties in the frontier. How could he let go of such a good opportunity from that Murong tribe. ”

Liu He looked at Xu Rong and silently pondered in his heart for a while: "According to the situation mentioned by Brother Bo Yu, if the other party can defeat and control Lu Longsai before the autumn harvest, it will have a decisive impact on whether his subsequent attack is successful. Lulongsai is the barrier of the eastern frontier of the Great Han Dynasty, and once the northeast of Youzhou is captured, it will become a racecourse in Xianbei, and there will be no defense line against invasion. If Luronsai is captured before the autumn harvest, then until next spring, Luronsai will be firmly controlled by Xianbei. ”

Xu Rong looked at Liu He with a confidant look: "That's right! Once the autumn harvest came, the Han army was unable to support it at all. Even if reinforcements arrive in the ice and snow, how will Lu Longsai attack in the face of the impregnable Luronse? When the heavy snow closes the mountain, how will the grain and grass of the Han army reinforcements be solved? The opponent had a winter to rearrange the defense in Lulongsai and accumulate strength, and in the spring, his troops divided into two routes, one route was Baitan City, and the first route was to attack Yuyang; All the way out of Lu Longsai to attack the right, the two armies of Beiping met in Jicheng. If this is the case, then a large part of the land of Youzhou will be ravaged by its iron horses, and the people will suffer and their lives will be ruined. ”

After sending Xu Rong away, Liu Yu immediately lay down on the desk and wrote a book. He felt that Xu Rong, Fu Zhu, and Tian Feng's analysis was very reasonable. This Xianbei collusion with the Wuhuan people attack is no longer just a harassing attack, but a premeditated and planned military operation.

When looking at problems, we should look at and analyze the situation from a higher level, and we should start analyzing the overall situation. In this way, the problem will be analyzed more thoroughly and thoroughly, and the solution to the problem will be more comprehensive and more secure. Liu Yu felt that he should tell the court about the current situation and the upcoming battle.

He wrote two letters. One letter was sent to the court of Luoyang, requesting support; One letter was sent to Liu Zheng, the Taishou of Youbeiping County, telling him that reinforcements were already on their way.

Then he wrote another order to let Liu He and Xu Rong in.

"The situation in Youzhou is critical, and things are simple. Youzhou Assassin Shi Ling: Liu He, a student of Wentai, is good at knowing military strategy, and specially commissioned his 'Sima of other departments', together with Cao Rafter Xu Rong, a soldier of Beiping on the right, and Huang Zhong, a soldier of the shooting battalion, led 500 troops to rush to Lulongsai with light equipment. ”

"No! Commanded. Liu He took the letter of appointment.

Other Sima, a bit similar to the head of the independent regiment in later generations.

[Note 1]

Cao Gong's army entered Xingyang Bianshui, met with glory, and battled, the public army was defeated, and the soldiers were killed and wounded. Xu Rong broke the Yanzhou army: Bao Xin and Cao Cao were wounded by arrows, General Bao Tao was killed, and Wei Zi was killed. Cao Cao still escaped at night when Cao Hong gave way to the horse. The Battle of Bianshui, Cao Cao's first defeat, had a great impact on him, so much so that the Battle of Bianshui was repeatedly mentioned in his later letters.

Changsha Taishou Sun Jian led the troops of Yuzhou to fight for Zhuo. Zhuo sent Rong and Li Meng out to plunder. Rong Yu is strong in Liang, fights, breaks the strong, and the raw poultry Yingchuan guards Li Min too much, and cooks it. If it is said that the defeat of Cao Cao is that Cao Cao is a fledgling soldier, then when the number of troops is less than that of Sun Jian, he defeated the long-famous Jiangdong Tiger Sun Wentai twice, how can he be a mediocre talent? !

Later, the Liang and coalition forces fought infighting, and Wang Yun and Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, and Lu Bu persuaded Wang Yun to kill Dong Zhuo's subordinates, Wang Yun said: "This generation is not guilty, no." Later, Dong Zhuoyu rebelled against the warlords Li and Guo of Liangzhou at the instigation of Jia Xu, and Wang Yun hurriedly dispatched Hu Zhen and Xu Rong to organize the defense of Chang'an in Xinfeng (now northeast of Lintong, Shaanxi).

It's a pity that because the imperial court had just quelled the civil strife, Wang Yun and Lu Bu were out of harmony again, and they couldn't effectively resist the Liangzhou army in a desperate battle in a hurry. The government army was defeated, Xu Rong was killed in Xinfeng, and Hu Zhen led the crowd to surrender to the enemy.

The strange thing is that Fan Chou, Li Meng, Hu Zhen and others were all subordinate to Dong Zhuo, but Xu Rong did not defect and died at the hands of his former colleagues. It can be seen that this general can still understand etiquette, maybe in his eyes, whether it is Dong Zhuo or Wang Yun, whoever controls the imperial court, he will serve whomever he wants. In the end, he died on the battlefield for the imperial court, and he did not lose his military reputation.

At the same time, he recommended Gongsun Du to serve as the Taishou of Liaodong, and the recommended performance lived up to expectations, and it was also considered a meritorious person, which was not comparable to ordinary martial artists.

Xu Rong was a lieutenant general of the imperial court in the early peace period, and it can be seen that he is very capable, at that time, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were only lieutenants of the forbidden army.

Xu Rong is not a political figure, and he did not leave a sentence and a half, so it is difficult for us to see what kind of personality he is, but his tragedy is that he is not only a general who came out of the world, is despised by scholars, but also defeats Cao Cao, Sun Jian and other later "first emperors", so it is inevitable that he is ignored and forgotten. Therefore, "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", "Book of the Later Han", and "Zizhi Tongjian" did not give him a single independent biography.