Chapter 34: The Thief of Destiny
Zhen followed the hard work of guarding Hechi City, and was basically forced to fight by Yang Nandi, and he had no power to fight back. After all, the disparity between the forces of the two sides is too great, and Hechi City has just changed hands, and the city fortifications are full of flaws, if it were not for Yang Nan's fear of Zhen Sui's brave name, he did not dare to go all out, so as not to uselessly lose his soldiers, maybe it would not take five days, and General Zhen would have only abandoned the city and fled.
In fact, in this offensive and defensive battle, the other two played a greater role than Zhen Suilai, one was Yang Jiantou, and the other was Xin Huaiyuan. Yang Jiantou originally had a young son, who had unfortunately been separated on the way to escape, and when he followed Zhen Sui back to Hechi, he heard that this son had been killed by Yang Nandi...... Yang Jiantou cried on the spot and fell to the ground, swearing to the sky that he would not stand with his brother - after all, it is your own nephew, can you really be so ruthless? I will cut off your head in the future and pay for my son's life!"
Yang Jiantou's tribe was bloodily purged by Yang Nandi after the city of Hechi was broken, and it can be said that every family in the city was crying, and every household wore filial piety, all of which hated Yang Nandi to the bone marrow, so under the instigation of Yang Jiantou, they rushed to the city head desperately and started a vicious fight with the attackers. Although due to the lack of training, the exchange ratio was not good, but it also caused considerable damage to the attacking army, making it difficult for Yang Nandi to succeed.
As for Xin Pan, this person is not a pure weak scholar, he also has a certain understanding, cognition and even experience of military affairs, when he wanted to stay in his hometown to manage clan affairs, he once organized the people to be strong, and repelled bandits, rebels and even Qiang attacks many times. Therefore, he is better at defensive battles, and it is with his assistance that Zhen Sui was able to repel Yang's attacks many times.
As far as Zhen Sui himself is concerned, his character has always been to rush forward, he does not like defensive battles, and he lacks the experience of commanding a city defense battle alone. Zhen Sui was depressed, he said in his heart Since I followed the Metropolitan Governor, except for the fact that I escaped in Jiangjigang because the Metropolitan Governor was frightened and suffered a defeat, when did I fight so badly? But the enemy and the enemy are in such a situation, and he is not stupid, and he does not want to die, so it is impossible to open the city gate and rush out again.
Yang Nandi is also a qualified military commander, a heroic man, and in terms of flexibility and rigor in the use of soldiers, he is even more superior to Zhen. Before being attacked at night, it was purely "sitting at home behind closed doors, and disaster came from the sky", something that was not expected at all, but after eating a trench and growing wise, Yang Nandi camped under the city, fighting fiercely, and the defense was tight, and it was impossible to repeat the mistakes of the past. Zhen Sui wanted to repeat the old trick and carry out a night attack again, but there was no gap at all.
Zhen Sui has no religious beliefs, neither believes in Taoism nor Buddhism, but he has the traditional Chinese habit of worshiping heaven and ancestors, so during the siege, he always prayed to the heavens and ancestors, hoping that he could escape this calamity. He sometimes can't help but think, my family has been a thief for generations, is it because he disobeyed the law of his ancestors and became an officer and soldier, so his ancestors punished him for this?
This is also something that can't be imagined, if it weren't for the fact that the cottage was broken by the officers and soldiers, and the tribes were scattered, how could he be a slave to Wang Dao, and then get on Pei Gai's ship? Now there is no barbarian of his own clan under his hands, all of them are Chinese soldiers who admire Pei Gai, he wants to return to his old business, and he does not have this condition!
Zhen Sui is looking forward to the rear army arriving as soon as possible, but counting the time, there are not ten days and half a month, I am afraid that he will not think about it...... Because the rear army still carried a considerable amount of grain and materials, they would take the path from the old road to the river, and it would inevitably be as Xin Pan said, "only twenty miles a day." Can you carry it for ten days and half a month? Xuan......
At the same time, Zhen Sui was also worried that even if the rear army arrived, I am afraid it would be useless. It's not that there is no fierce general like him in the rear army, but the main thing is the quality and level of the soldiers, which is too far from bringing these 300 people by himself. When the "Robbery Fire Camp" left Xuzhou, there were only about 1,000 people, and after entering Chang'an, it quickly expanded to two or three thousand, and when Pei should stay in Taiguanzhong, he began to explode troops again, and the quota was full to 5,000 in an instant.
Among these 5,000 people, the number of veterans is actually not very large—many of them have been transferred to other battalions, and some have gone to Henan to farm—although the new soldiers have undergone nearly half a year of rigorous training, they have not seen much of a major battle after all, and their fighting spirit and organizational strength have been greatly reduced. Zhen then chose the elite to rush and leave the rear army far away, and there was also a reason why he did not have much hope for the ability of those soldiers.
He said in his heart that he didn't want the rear army to come, he was tired and confused, but he asked Yang Nandi to make dumplings. It doesn't matter if I lose a battle, if I fold the entire "Camp in the Robbery Fire", how can I still have the face to see Governor Pei? And will I still be able to hold my head up in front of the generals in the future?
Rather than that, I might as well die here!
He was guarding the city once, and after repelling a round of enemy attacks, he collapsed to the ground and casually asked his cronies beside him: "How do you plan to die in the future?" ”
Some people replied that they would go back to marry a wife and have children, and then die of old age. Some people also say that they don't want to be old and frail, and when they live to forty and have full children, they simply wipe their necks with a knife; Some people even took the opportunity to show their loyalty, saying: "I am willing to die for the general!" ”
Zhen Sui smiled slightly bitterly and said, "Man's husband, how can you end up in old age and illness, or die in battle." I will carry a hundred arrows, dozens of swords and spears, and die before the battle without falling, this is the true nature of a man! ”
Fortunately, God still favors this barbarian, Yang Nandi stormed Hechi City for nine days, seeing that the city was about to be broken, Zhen Sui was hesitating whether it was better to flee or simply die in battle, but he suddenly retreated, and overnight, there was no trace of the west. Xin Pan and Yang Jiantou couldn't help but kneel down and bow to the heavens, thanking them for the grace of heaven, but Zhen Sui was stunned and thought: Is it because I don't have children to inherit it, so my ancestors refuse to let me die?
So why did Yang Nandi retreat? First, it was found out that reinforcements from the officers and soldiers were about to arrive.
When Yang Nandi thought that the officers and soldiers would come to save Hechi, there would not be just two or three hundred people, but there would be a large army behind, I am afraid that it would be difficult for Hechi City to defend for a long time, so Zhen followed this barbarian to take the risk of leading the elite first. So once reinforcements arrive, do I still have any hope of winning? It was with this in mind that he refused to attack Hechi with all his might, but wanted to preserve his strength.
He sent a lot of spies to the east to reconnoitre, because he got the news, a large number of officers and soldiers came to the aid of Hechi through the small road, it is estimated that it will arrive in two or three days, and is urgently preparing a countermeasure, suddenly another news came, so that he could not help but sigh at the city, and was forced to return with a feather.
This news is: Danchangqiang sent troops to the east, and there was an intention to attack his old nest.
Tangchang is in the west of the lower debate, located in the upper reaches of the Qiang River, inhabited by the Qiang people, and there are dozens of species. In the early years of Yongjia, these Qiang tribes gradually united to form a large tribal alliance, with as many as six or seven thousand victories. However, the chieftain of Tangchangqiang is not of the Qiang race, but a Jin person, surnamed Liang Ming, and his native is Wushi - that is to say, he is of the same clan as Liang Fen, and he can be regarded as Liang Fen's nephew.
Liang Yi was the first generation to move to Tangchang, and gradually won the support of Jin and Qiang, and gradually became a trend. He himself has no ambitions, he just wants to protect his family and hometown, but because of the contradictions of his family, he inevitably formed a deep enmity with Qiu Chiyi. In the original history, the reason why Yang Nandi was unwilling to attack Hechi with all his strength was also because he was worried that Danchang would attack his back road. This time, if Yang Ci hadn't brought thousands of Qinzhou soldiers to strengthen his momentum, he would not have rushed to hit his brother Yang Jiantou.
originally thought that since his family was powerful and had found Sima Bao as a backer, the Liang family of Danchang did not dare to act rashly. Who would have thought that Liang Yan had been paying attention to the movements of the next debate, and when he heard the news of Yang Nan's defeat of the enemy in Hechi, he was bold and began to move. When Yang Nandi heard the news, he didn't dare to delay more under Hechi City, and was forced to retreat and go back to prevent the blockade of Tangchang.
Zhen Sui escaped in this way, and soon after Hu Yan also led the rear army to arrive, so he jointly went to Chang'an, reported the battle, and asked for further instructions.
According to Yang Jiantou's meaning, since the official army came to help in a big way, he should take advantage of the victory to pursue, take down the argument, and cut off my eldest brother's dog's head. He repeatedly begged Zhen Sui and the others for this, but this time Zhen Sui didn't dare to take any more risks, and rejected his proposal in one bite.
Zhen Sui's meaning, now that the grain in the wild has not been harvested, these stored grains in the city have been ruined by Yang Nandi, how much is left? How can we finance the westward advance of our entire army? Besides, there are no less than 10,000 enemy soldiers in Yang, and I only have 5,000 people, and I am tired from afar, once the attack and defense change the situation, the chances of victory are not very great. The key is that the people under your command may barely be used to defend the city, and they will go out on the expedition...... I don't really have much faith in them.
However, Hu Yan and Xin Pan both persuaded him not to reject Yang Jian's head in one go, so as not to hurt the hearts of the people, so they asked Chang'an for instructions under the pretext of asking for instructions and put it perfunctory for the time being-we are here to save you, but the Metropolitan Governor did not say that he would take the initiative to attack Yang Yan's enemy.
When the news arrived in Chang'an, Pei Wei couldn't help sighing: This barbarian's luck is too good, right, can this allow him to keep the river pool? In the past, it was the same in Meiyang, obviously it was a desperate rush, but it was a success...... What do you say Yang Nandi is retreating, with more effort, isn't this barbarian over?
Pei Gai couldn't help but wonder: Who is the protagonist? In fact, this barbarian is the traverser, and he actually carries the destiny of the child of destiny......
He asked Pei Wei how to reply. Pei Wei replied: "According to what they said, from the old road to the river, the road is dangerous and narrow, and it is not easy to transport, once the enterprising argument fails, there is no rescue in Guanzhong, but it will become a snake's foot." And the Yang family has been in Wudu for a long time, and it is bound to become a separation, but fortunately his brothers are fighting, and the court has the opportunity to intervene. If you help Yang Jian kill Yang Jian's enemy, I am afraid that he will create another king. It is better to maintain the balance of power, wait for Ming Gong to lead his division to Long, seize Shangqi, and then go south from the north road, so that the military capital can be determined in one fell swoop, so as not to make wedding clothes for others. ”
The last metaphor was originally a later language, but because Pei Gai often talked about it, Pei Wei also learned it.
Pei Gai ordered to leave a part of the "Robbery Fire Camp" in Hechi to help Yang Jiantou defend the city, and Zhen Sui and others led the main force to immediately return to the old road to defend it, so as to wait for the army to go up.
This time, Yang Ci was also tied up with the letter, and Pei Shu and others hated this person, so they asked Pei Gai for his life and escorted him to the execution ground, and he was sentenced to the Ming Dynasty.
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In the autumn of this year, the Heshuo locust - the so-called "feng shui is passed in turn, and today comes to your house"...... For this reason, Shile was forced to suspend the attack on the Yanci, and made every effort to pacify the existing territories of You, He, and Ji Prefectures.
In comparison, Guanzhong is still smooth, it is an ordinary year, and the tax income is even higher than the ordinary years of previous years.
Mainly in today's Guanzhong, there are very few yeoman farmers, nearly half of the output comes from the estates of the big families, and more are supplied by the military and Mintun directly controlled by Liutai. The tuntian system plays an obvious role in restoring the productive forces as soon as possible, and this unnatural form of economy can form a certain division of labor and coordination in production, and it is also conducive to the circulation of commodities in distribution. The most important thing is to completely bring the function of expanding reproduction under the government, which will greatly facilitate the collection and distribution of materials.
China's traditional small-scale peasant economy was very primitive, in a sense, not as good as the manor economy of the European Middle Ages, but it also ensured the stability of the central power to a certain extent, which helped to maintain the form of a large empire. Pei Gai admits that, in theory, the introduction of a Western-style manor economy in China might lead to the budding of capitalism earlier, and that the Industrial Revolution might take the lead in the East rather than the West, but that it would come at the cost of the loss of a large unified Chinese empire and the brutal wars of the First World War, so he did not dare to take the risk.
Moreover, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the concept of great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it may be difficult to completely change the domestic economic form with Pei Gai's ability alone. The estate economy of the family, which prevailed in the Six Dynasties, was seriously damaged in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and since then it can only be used as a supplement to the natural economy, and cannot stand in the foreground again, which is a clear example.
But he can eventually take advantage of the war to weaken the estate economy of the family and temporarily develop the national estate economy, that is, Tuntian. To a certain extent, it is conducive to the division of labor and cooperation, the expansion of agricultural production, more than half of the income is transferred to the state treasury, and the tax revenue has more than doubled compared with the natural economic state. However, there are also many harms of tuntian, first of all, the management cost of government investment is too high, which is very impractical in ancient times when the level of communication and transportation was low, and it is even more difficult to maintain it for a long time, and secondly, with China's social soil, it is impossible for the peasants to be oppressed by the state manor for a long time and still maintain their vitality.
Therefore, it can only be used as a temporary measure, and Pei Gai promised the tunhu that as long as they work hard for the state for five years, they will be eligible to divide the land and restore the family-style small-scale peasant economy to a certain extent. I hope that before then, the old bureaucratic system and management system can be reformed and improved, and that in the future, we will be able to maintain a certain degree of rural cooperation instead of clan power.
Pull back and say that this year's harvest in Guanzhong is good, and after the warehouse is full, it is natural that it is time to use troops externally. According to the original plan, Pei Gai personally raised an army of 40,000 to conquer Qinzhou in the west. After all, Sima Bao reused Zhang Chun and Yang Ci, causing people's hearts to be lost, and no one was willing to save him. Not only that, but in the Yuyu Transmission Office, Liangzhou Mu Zhang Wei also sent Sima Han Pu and Furong General Zhang Lang to lead an army of 10,000 to the south and enter Nan'an.
The only one who was willing to come to the rescue of Sima Bao was Chen An of Longcheng, who, together with Yang Man, Wang Lian and others, led a Jin Rong coalition of 4,000 and went straight to Shangqi......
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