Chen An is a native of Longxian County, Qinzhou, and was originally the commander of Sima Mo, the king of Nanyang, and after Sima Mo was killed, he belonged to his son Sima Bao. Sima Bao allocated 1,000 people to Chen An and ordered him to conquer the rebels, and Chen An won many battles and won Sima Bao's trust.

But who would have thought of this, but it aroused the jealousy of his colleagues, and Sima Baobu General Zhang Chun and others repeatedly slandered, saying that Chen Anxin had different ambitions and would not be able to stay in place for a long time, and asked to send troops to eradicate him to prevent future troubles. Sima Bao was not stupid, and insisted on refusing to agree, and Zhang Chun secretly sent assassins to assassinate Chen An. Chen An was badly injured and narrowly escaped his life, so he fled back to his hometown of Longcheng and sent an envoy to ask Sima Bao for his guilt.

From then on, Chen An seized Longcheng and did not listen to the dispatch, but because of the small number of generals and weak soldiers under him, he still held high the banner of the Jin Dynasty and paid tribute to Sima Bao. This time, after receiving Pei Gai's letter for help, Chen An suggested that Sima Bao send troops eastward to attack the north.

For Chen An himself, he has an enmity with the Pei family - he was the vanguard of Sima Bao, defeated Pei Bao, the assassin of Qinzhou, and there are legends in the world, and in the end Pei Bao was killed, and it was not the Liangzhou soldiers who really took his life in front of the battle, but Chen An - so when he heard that Pei Gaixi was coming, he had the intention of sending troops to rescue to redeem the past. After all, the Pei family is a high-ranking family, and Pei should become a servant again, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, this enemy Chen An doesn't want to continue to tie up......

As for Chen An's reason for persuading Sima Bao, it is: If he doesn't help Pei Gai, then Pei Gai will be a party with Suo Qi, and he may not be good for the king in the future, so why not take the opportunity to sell Pei Gai, maybe there will be a chance to join Pei to attack Suo.

Sima Bao received the letter and felt that what Chen An said was reasonable, so he sent the general Yang Ci to lead his troops to meet Chen An and conspire with Beidijun. After Chen An received the letter, he immediately led his troops to go first, but he had entered Beidi County, but he waited for reinforcements to arrive, and he didn't hear from Yang Ci on the right......

In fact, Yang Ci and Zhang Chun were originally a party, and they had always hated Chen An, so they led the troops to go around in the field for a few days, and then replied to Sima Bao that Hu's army was powerful, and if he went to the north, he would definitely lose his army...... He immediately retreated and returned to Shangqi.

At this time, in Beidi County, in addition to the guards of each city, there were still 5,000 soldiers and horses of Hu General Liu Shu. Chen An's troops were only more than 1,000 people, and they were forced to build a fortress and defend it, and fought against Liu Shu for seven days, suffering heavy casualties - but Chen An had always been brave and fierce, and he looked forward to Yang Ci's reinforcements, so he fought to the death.

Fortunately, at this time, Liu Yao's retreat order and the second battalion of Xuzhou's "Qiji" and "Thunder" almost arrived on the front and back, Liu Shu was defeated by Beigong Chun and Guo Mo's attack, and left in defeat, and Chen An turned the corner. Guo Mo saw Chen An holding a seven-foot broadsword in his left hand and dancing eight snake spears in his right hand, stepping on the fortress and fighting. However, Chen An said: "The king of Nanyang treats me very well and does not dare to carry it. He led the remnants to retreat back to Longcheng.

Pei Cai received a letter from the north, and couldn't help but secretly say: "Why can't you bear to carry it? However, the situation is unclear, so I hesitate to go. ”

Chen An is really a guy who has no loyalty - at least he is not loyal to Sima Bao who can't protect him - in the original history, soon after the fall of Chang'an, he surrendered to Liu Yao, called himself the assassin of Qinzhou, and sent troops to attack Shangqi - if it wasn't for Liangzhou to send troops to rescue him twice, maybe Sima Bao would have been beheaded by him "under Keshang".

However, in the end, Sima Bao was still "down", killed by Yang Ci and Zhang Chun, and Zhang Chun did not set up Sima Zhan as the prince of Nanyang, claiming to be a general, and separating one side. After Chen An heard the news, he immediately asked Liu Yao for orders, sent troops to break Zhang Chun, sent Sima Zhan to Liu Yao to be beheaded, captured Yang Ci, and cut off his head to sacrifice Sima Bao - is this a remembrance of the feelings of the old master, or is it pretending to be a good person in order to collect the remnants of Sima Bao?

He took advantage of Liu Yao's serious illness to contact Di and Qiang, with more than 100,000 people, turned his back on the former Zhao, changed to Cheng Han, and seized Qinzhou, claiming to be the governor of the capital, the fake Huang Yue, the general, the Yong, Liang, Qin, Liang four states pastor, Liang Wang. Liu Yao mobilized troops and horses from all walks of life, and it took a whole year to finally quell Chen An's rebellion and capture and behead him.

However, although Chen An rebelled and impermanent, he was very popular in Longshang, and when he heard the news of his death, the people of Longshang once made "The Song of the Strong Man" to mourn him, and the song said:

"The strong man in Longshang has Chen An, although the lower abdomen is wide and the lower abdomen is wide, he loves to raise the soldiers' concentric liver. The father of the horse is an iron flawed saddle, the seven-foot sword is like turbulence, and the eight snake spears are left and right. At the beginning of the war, I lost the snake spear and abandoned me? Jumping up and down, hanging his head for my foreign aid. The water that flows west flows the river in the east, and it will not be returned once it is gone! ”

At that time, when he received a letter from the north in Liangshan, Tao Kan sighed and said: "In troubled times, loyalty is rare. Pei Gai nodded yes. However, Tao Kan's meaning is that Chen An is rare, but Pei Gai's meaning is: It is really rare to be inferior to Chen An's generation, such as Chen An's so-called "loyalty", which is probably the case at the time, but there is no need to be harsh.

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After Pei Gai returned to Dalicheng, he immediately devoted himself to his busy work.

When the battle is over, it doesn't mean that you can sit back and relax, and you don't have to work hard. For Pei Gai, on the contrary, when the two armies were facing each other, he had Tao Kan to help him, and he could only grasp the outline, without actually participating in the command; However, after the war, from rewarding meritorious deeds and appeasing survival, to re-examining the situation in Guanzhong, there was a lot of desk work that he needed to personally plan and arrange.

The most important task was to conduct a census throughout the army to see who was willing to move to the Si and Yan - it is not necessary to be the Si and Yan natives, and many soldiers from Hebei and other prefectures also expressed their willingness to bring their families to the country through repeated preaching. Because Pei Du Governor promised the land of Si and Yan, the lord of these two states, the grandfather, and the governor are friends with the governor, and Li Shihui has made a package ticket in advance, and I believe that the land is at your fingertips. As for the and, Ji and other places, I don't know which year and month to be able to kill back, although Wangmei can quench thirst, it is not as close as the clear spring.

Not only the regular soldiers, but also many auxiliary soldiers also asked to stay in the division and Yan farming. Because the Sima of each battalion has preached, those who are willing to stay can get the ownerless wasteland in Zusizhou and become a household of the imperial court, and there is no need to go back to Xuzhou Juntun or Mintun. The idea of small peasant producers working alone is very strong, and after all, they can pass on their own land to their children and grandchildren.

Not only Li Ju agrees with this matter, but I believe that Zu Ti will not oppose it. Si and Yan have no one or two household registrations, and Zu Ti is having a headache about where to kidnap people to farm, if there are no people to pay taxes, he will not be able to maintain an army of tens of thousands for a long time. Pei should just at this time, proposed to exchange the population for land - in fact, the land was not exchanged, and he still needed to pay taxes to the local government - how could Zu Shizhi not like it?

Pei Gai, with the assistance of You Yao and others, quickly sorted out the relevant documents, and occasionally he also summoned Wang Gong, saying that my next plan is like this, and you need to do secret work in advance-"Is Qing willing to do it, maybe not?" The prince replied without thinking: "Since you are serving the Ming Gong, how can you say that you are willing to do it?" And in this matter, I am afraid that only Wang can do it. "He is actually very happy in his heart, Pei Gong is finally under my influence (in his opinion), and he wants to carry out this deceitful scheme, then my future under his play is limitless.

After Wang Gong went, Pei should continue to sort out the documents, and after finishing sending someone to Huayin, he handed it to Lu Zhi's father, and attached a long letter to reveal his plan. Because Pei Gai did not ask for some land casually, he left the soldiers and their families alone in Si and Yanzhou, he demanded that every hundred households occupy an area of 100 hectares or so, and form a settlement of their own, appointing a retired veteran—either because of old age or disability—as the village head, to organize the whole village, and to cultivate and train. The caliber of the soldiers is that because Hu Kou is still there, Si and Yan are not stable, and there are still bandits ravaging the countryside, if they do not unite and defend themselves, I am afraid it will be difficult to protect their families and industries.

Naturally, the same is true for Zu Ti, but in fact, the real intention is not only to protect the heart of the soldier, but also to set up multiple sources of military service for himself in advance. By the time these villages, which were actually the locations of Xiaotunbao, were built, Pei should climb the heights and call out, and he could recruit tens of thousands of soldiers—all of whom were usable pawns who had been trained in farming. Since the veterans of the original Xuzhou Army are managed and co-ordinated, do you say that these households will be more inclined to recruit from Sizhou or him in the future?

If there is no such measure, Pei Gai is in Guanzhong, and there is a lack of a stable source of supplementary troops nearby, I am afraid it will be difficult to last—he will not be able to recruit troops from Xuzhou every year.

After all, in these years, it costs a lot to maintain a large number of professional soldiers, and it is estimated that the scale of Pei Gai's current 12 battalions of about 20,000 regular soldiers is sky-high, and a large number of compulsory soldiers are needed to replenish at any time.

Besides, there are Shile in the north, Wang Dao and Wang Dun in the south, who knows when they will reach out to Xuzhou?

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Before Shile solved the Hebei problem, he naturally would not go south to Xufang...... Moreover, there is Qingzhou Cao Wei in front of him. To say that he is in Xiangguo, there are two big enemies beside him, one is Liu Kun of Bingzhou, and the other is Wang Jun of Youzhou, like a sword hanging above his head, which makes it difficult for Shi Shilong to sleep and eat. Fortunately, the two families restrained each other, so that Shile gradually gained a firm foothold in Hebei, and also sent three troops to shoot Liu Yan away.

The reason why Liu Yan was beaten first was because Linzhang and Santai were too close to Shi Le's heartland, although there was a covenant, Liu Yan was lying high, and Shi Le didn't dare to relax his vigilance at all - because he himself didn't take the oath seriously, how could he expect Liu Yan to obey it for a long time?

Second, it is because Liu Kun is taking advantage of the opportunity of Pei and Zu's Northern Expedition to plot to attack Pingyang, and he can't take care of the area east of Taihang for the time being.

However, Liu Yueshi was always only preparing and training, and did not really send troops south, mainly because of the shortage of grain. On the same day, Yilu was killed, and his general Weixiong led 30,000 headquarters and Wuhuan families, nearly 200,000 people in the south of Liu Kun, but the sudden increase in population caused a great food shortage in Jinyang and other places. Liu Yueshi exhausted his efforts, repeatedly demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and finally settled down the people's hearts, according to his estimates, good cultivation, accumulation for three years, can be rapid and unstoppable, in one fell swoop down Pingyang!

Before that, even if his nephew was expelled by Shi Le, Liu Yueshi had no choice but to watch and dare not move. Therefore, Shi Le listened to Zhang Bin's plan and wrote a letter to Liu Kun, first apologizing for the capture of Santai, and falsely claiming that Wang Jun had instigated him to do it...... He immediately claimed that he had the intention of returning to Jin, and said that he planned to move his army north in a year or two to attack Wang Jun. Liu Kun was overjoyed to receive the letter and immediately sent people to distribute it.

Of course, Liu Kun is not stupid, the so-called distribution is just to send his nephew Wen Qiao to inform Sizhou Zu Qi and Chang'an Suo Qi and others, this matter cannot let Wang Jun get the news. However, he didn't know that at the same time, Shi Le also sent Wang Jun to express his willingness to submit to his fate, and groveled to ask Wang Jun to "go further".

Wang Jun sent an envoy to report, Shi Le ordered all the elite soldiers to be hidden, and deliberately showed the envoy that the treasury was empty, as if he wanted to be the big backer of Wang Pengzu because he was too poor to live. Wang Jun gave Shi Le a tail, Shi Le did not dare to use it, hung it on the wall, worshipped day and night, and said: "I am not allowed to see the prince, but when I see what the prince gives, it is like meeting." ”

To tell the truth, this play is too much, even if Pei Cai doesn't know what will happen next, if he sees this play, he will definitely sneer: "This must be fake, and there is hidden malice!" It's a pity that Wang Jun eats this very much, plus Cheng Yao suggested that Shi Le bribe Zao Song and help say good things in front of Wang Jun, Wang Pengzu did not doubt Shi Le, and spent all his energy on how to build momentum, and he was looking for an opportunity to call himself lonely in the south.

But before that, did you solve Duan's problem first? However, although he sent people and spent money to arm Murong and Yuwen, those two families did not seem to be the opponents of the Duan clan......

Shi Le took advantage of this opportunity, under Zhang Bin's plan, under the pretext of sending an envoy to pay tribute, and sent light cavalry to attack Youzhou. The department successfully arrived in Yishui, and Wang Jun's subordinate superintendent Sun Wei told Wang Jun on the one hand, and on the other hand, he planned to lead his troops to resist, but was blocked by Fan Yang's Taishou You Tong, who had actually been bought by Shi Le.

reported to Jicheng, all the generals said that the comer was not good, and asked to send troops to resist, but Wang Jun said: "Shi is here, and he wants to serve me, and there are those who dare to speak up to attack - behead!" He also ordered people to prepare food and drink, and intended to entertain Shile. Shi Le arrived outside the city of Jicheng, fearing that there would be ambushes in the city, so the pioneers drove thousands of cattle and sheep into the city to block the streets and alleys, and then killed into the city, and directly pulled Wang Pengzu off the couch, tied back to Xiangguo and beheaded.

At the same time, Shi Le also beheaded Zao Song and many other Wang Jun's favored ministers, and even the You Tong did not fall well, Shi Le accused him of being disloyal, and he also stabbed two paragraphs. For Pei Xian, Xun Xuan and other celebrities, he gave the carriage and horses generously, and recruited them wholeheartedly, Pei and Xun surrendered - just kidding, the bloody heads of Zao Song and others are right in front of them, and they don't dare to pretend to be any loyal martyrs at this time!

This was in April of the fourth year of Jianxing, Pei Gai still resisted Liu Yao in Dalicheng, and Shi Le easily killed one of his two enemies, Youzhou Wang Jun. However, Shi Le did not annex the entire Youzhou, Duan Piyan contained the remnants of Wang Jun and sent troops south, and Yuwen and Murong also raised divisions to get a piece of the pie. Eventually, Shi Le was forced to abandon Jicheng, which was in the possession of the Duan clan, and retreated to Xiangguo.

After killing Wang Jun, Shi Shilong immediately summoned all the generals to discuss the next plan of action - should we fight to the death with the Duan clan, or go west, or go south? All the generals said that the Duan clan and I swore an alliance, although there was a slight friction this time, but it did not completely tear the skin, and it was still possible to strictly guard the border and maintain harmony, and it was not appropriate to send troops to Youzhou again. Why don't you go south to fight Cao Wei and Pei Gai, or go west to attack Liu Kun?

Zhang Bin immediately proposed: We should wave our troops to the south and seize Qing and Xu!