49. Kanto and Kansai

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After a winter of recruiting troops and buying horses, the Kwantung Prefecture finally officially and openly erected the banner of crusading against Dong Zhuo's rebels in Luoyang, and Yuan Shao, the new head of the Bohai Taishou and the new head of the party, was respected as the leader of the alliance by all walks of life, and nominally began to lead the people of Kanto to confront the Luoyang court controlled by Dong Zhuo.

Because most of the people who participated in the uprising were assassins and taishou in various states and counties, Yuan Shao commanded all walks of life in order to justifiably lead all walks of life, and also to make the people and horses who rebelled against Luoyang in the Kwantung uprising famous, so he called himself the general of the chariot cavalry, and at the same time awarded the titles of other generals of Taishou and Assassin Shiza.

Yuan Shaohe and Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuangtun troops in Hanoi threatened Luoyang from the north, Yuan Shu garrisoned Luyang in Nanyang County and threatened Luoyang from the south, while Yuzhou Assassin Shi Kong Ling led troops to garrison in Yingchuan County, Yanzhou Assassin Shi Liu Dai, Chen Liutai Shou Zhang Miao, Guangling Taishou Zhang Chao, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao, Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yi, Jibei Xiang Bao Xin and Cao Cao were stationed in Yanzhou Chenliu County Sujuju, threatening Luoyang from the southeast and east respectively.

The number of people from all walks of life is claimed to range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, although not the entire Kwantung Prefecture and counties are crusading against Dong Zhuo together, and the attitudes of the counties and counties in Xuzhou, Youzhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou are ambiguous, but the coalition led by Yuan Shao is still huge.

As the leader of the coalition, Yuan Shao's limelight is even more unparalleled for a while, and many scholars and heroes have gone to defect, as if there is a grand scene of "great volunteers, famous heroes, rich families, fluttering clouds, and thousands of miles together".

In the face of such a huge movement in the Kanto prefectures, the actions of the imperial court in Luoyang were a little quiet.

Dong Zhuo also wanted to send troops to Kwantung to quell the rebellion, but was opposed by many courtiers, including Zheng Tai, who believed that Dong Zhuo had the potential to win, and there was no need to fight the Kwantung coalition at this time.

Zheng Tai talked eloquently at the court meeting and pointed out three points for the inevitable defeat of the Kwantung coalition army.

The first point is that the official positions of the Kwantung Coalition Army were all sealed by themselves, and they were not appointed by the imperial court, and there was no order of respect and inferiority. It's just that for a while, they relied on the strength of the army to fight against the court of Luoyang, and after a long time, these people will each preserve their strength, watch success or failure, restrain each other, and refuse to work together.

The second point is that Dong Zhuo rose in Kansai, became a general when he was young, and was familiar with military affairs. But Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were only the children of the Gongqing and grew up in the capital; Zhang Miao is a loyal elder in Dongping County, and when he sits in the hall, his eyes will not look around; Kong Ling can only talk highly, praise and dispraise; These people have no military talent at all, and they can never be Dong Zhuo's opponents when they are in battle.

The third point is that the people in the Kanto region have become accustomed to the peaceful days of the Qiantou, and the soldiers are not familiar with combat, while the Qiantou and soldiers in the Kansai region are constantly resisting the invasion of this Qianghu, and even women can bend their bows to fight against the enemy in critical moments. The soldiers and horses of the Kwantung are unbearable, but Dong Zhuo's men have the elite soldiers of Liang and the two states, and once the battle is fought, no one in the Kwantung region can resist.

With these three points of victory, why bother to send troops to fight the coalition when the coalition is in the limelight.

Dong Zhuo accepted Zheng Tai's suggestion, but it was not entirely because of the three points that Zheng Tai said, but the envoys that the Kansai side had just sent out to recruit Huangfu Song and Gai Xun to return to the dynasty.

Dong Zhuo's jealousy of Huangfu Song is far greater than that of Yuan Shao and others, and only by removing Huangfu Song's military power, Dong Zhuo can fully integrate the strength of all parts of Guanxi and confront the states and counties of Kanto, Hu Zhen and Yang Ding's Liangzhou soldiers and horses are still stagnant between Yulu and Wangxian, because they are afraid of Huangfu Song's military might, they dare not cross the jurisdiction of Sanfu and march east to Luoyang and Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses.

For a time, although Dong Zhuo, who was fighting against Dong Lianjun and Luoyang, was fighting each other, there was no war in all parts of the Kanto region, because this time the focus and pioneer of the east-west confrontation was in Chang'an and Sanfu.

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The sound of cars and horses roared, and a group of cars and horses walked on the official road where the road surface was still a little wet and soft because of the ice and snow thawed.

From Luoyang to Chang'an, this way, the envoy's itinerary is very urgent, but the entourage still has to pretend to be calm, although now the Kwantung army is rising, the situation in the Luoyang court is extremely unfavorable, but for Dong Zhuo's side, it is not the slightest cowardice or anxiety can be exposed.

Yan Xing rode his horse and looked at this large area of the somewhat familiar Sanfu Plain, as well as Chang'an, the famous capital of the country, and sighed suddenly in his heart, when he first entered Sanfu, he was full of troops and high spirits, and when he left Sanfu, he was under the fence and had to hide and hibernate.

The pattern change in this troubled world is so unpredictable, seeing him rise a tall building, watching him feast guests, and seeing his building collapse. Countless heroes and heroes wanted to gallop across this fertile land, but in the end they collapsed and sank in the sand, leaving this blood-stained land forever.

Thinking of the mission he is carrying now, and then connecting with the current trend, it can be said that he will affect the whole body, and he can't help but deal with it without caution.

Thinking of this, Yan Xing not only looked at one of the carriages in the entourage, although the windows of the carriage were blocked by curtains, and he could not see the people sitting inside.

But Yan Xing's mind still came to mind Jia Xu's appearance of a clear-looking elder with a goatee under his chin, talking and laughing calmly, and his eyes revealing the appearance of a wise and profound elder.

These days, no matter how urgent the itinerary is, Jia Xu can still be calm and calm, when he encounters a difficult road, in order to reduce the burden of the carriage and horse team, he will also abandon the car and change horses, like Yan Xing and others, ride a horse and rush to Chang'an.

And from his calm face, it was difficult for Yan Xing to guess whether Jia Xu knew in his heart how important the task of his trip was, and whether he was completely sure that he could successfully persuade Huangfu Song to enter Beijing.

Jia Xu's casual and peaceful words and deeds, although they made people feel uneasy because of their unfathomability, but the calm confidence he showed himself made Yan Xing admire, after all, this kind of person who collapsed in front of Taishan and did not change his face, if it is not extremely ignorant, it is a sign of confidence and victory.

For Jia Xu, although Yan Xing couldn't see through it, he still chose to believe in his prophet and believed that Jia Xu was the latter.

Because the Liangzhou rebels have suffered a great loss in strength since the first battle of Chencang, after returning to Liangzhou, Han Sui's soldiers and horses attacked and killed each other in Hanyang County and the remnants of the kingdom, and finally succeeded in killing the former leader of the coalition army and the kingdom of the general of the United States.

Although Han Sui once also supported Yan Zhong of Hanyang, trying to use his name to regather people's hearts, Yan Zhong saw through Han Sui's sinister intentions, although he was coerced, but he was always unwilling to cooperate, and the various families in Liangzhou also had a deep fear of Han Sui's embezzlement and annexation, and suddenly became the same enemy, and joined forces to resist the infiltration of Han Sui's forces in all parts of Liangzhou.

Among them, Ma Teng, who re-raised the banner in Guzang and gathered soldiers and horses, developed the fastest momentum, he has the blood of the Han and Qiang ethnic groups, and is known as the famous general of this dynasty, General Fubo, after Ma Yuan, plus he is fair and tolerant, for a while, many Han and Qiang people have come to defect, and they have begun to rise to become a new force in Liangzhou.

The various families in Liangzhou restrained each other, and the threat to the west of the Sanfu Land was temporarily lifted, but the east was controlled by Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses in Luoyang, which became the top priority, so Huangfu Song withdrew the main force of the three auxiliary soldiers and horses stationed in Youfufeng to the Jingzhaoyin jurisdiction, and Gai Xun in Chang'an was in the horns of each other, and sat and watched the success or failure of Dong Zhuo's camp in Luoyang.

In the face of this envoy from Luoyang, the reactions of the left general Huangfu Song and Jingzhao Yin Gaixun were unexpectedly calm, and the two said at the same time that they were sick and did not receive the envoys from the imperial court, and after Yan Xing and his party resisted Chang'an, they were received by Huangfu Song's nephew Huangfu Li.

Huangfu Li has both civil and military skills, and is agile, he is the leader of the young area of the Huangfu family, and he is the recipient of the envoys, the process is naturally leaky, and inadvertently, he also deliberately revealed that the soldiers and horses of the three auxiliary people are strong, and there is no lack of side knocks in the words, wanting to test the bottom line of the Luoyang court controlled by Dong Zhuo.

Because Huangfu Song was ill, he was temporarily unable to receive the confessors from Kyoto, and the purpose of Yan Xing, Jia Xu and others was to come to Huangfu Song, so the envoys of Yan Xing and his party could only settle down in the military camp of Huangfu Song first, and wait for Huangfu Song's condition to improve slightly, and then meet with the envoys from the imperial court.

As soon as the convoy of the envoys arrived in the barracks, Huangfu Li immediately sent several times the number of men and horses to surround the periphery of the envoys' camp in the name of protecting the safety of the envoys, prohibiting the envoys from interacting with all other outsiders.

For this kind of behavior called protection, but in fact house arrest, the personnel in the envoy's team are naturally anxious, but they all know that this matter is very important, everyone's family members and children are still in the sun, and the mission of this trip cannot tolerate negligence or failure.

The more urgent the moment, the more we must calm down, and not be able to expose the threats and crises that the Luoyang Imperial Court is currently facing.

With this mentality, the people in the camp were able to be calm and calm at first, but on the third day, Huangfu Song still did not mean to meet with the court, and at the same time, the news of Huangfu Song's intention to raise troops with Jingzhao Yin Gaixun began to spread in the camp, and the people of the mission were suddenly panicked.

Yan Xing saw that the situation was gradually deteriorating, and he gradually couldn't sit still, so he had to quietly go to Jia Xu's tent on the night of the third day, seeking a secret meeting with Jia Xu.