24. Troubled times
The heavy snow did stop soon after, and Yan Xing excused himself from the banquet he had not attended later under the pretext of occasionally feeling the wind and cold, and redevoted himself to the training of soldiers and horses in winter, because of the heavy snow in winter, the training in the camp was also about to change. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
First of all, Yan Xing personally led the team to inspect the military camp to check whether his soldiers were hungry and cold, and took the time to visit the recovery of the wounded who infiltrated Sanfu with him.
A few days ago, he did not immediately start these military affairs because of the banquet, but fortunately, Yan Shun has been doing a good job in these things, not only is he serious and responsible for the things that Yan Xing handed over to him for joint training before leaving, but also has no favoritism, after the winter, the winter clothes and bedding of the soldiers under him, he also distributed them in time after getting them from the quartermaster in the Xuanfeng Army, and properly arranged the two hundred newly transferred horses Yan Shun treated them equally, and appeased the army's heart.
However, the rest of the matter has to be done by Yan Xing himself, first of all, the newly transferred 200 men and horses are re-arranged, because there are two more tun troops, so Yan Xing, who has always paid great attention to cavalry, set up a front tun again, the whole cavalry establishment, from the newly transferred soldiers and horses and the original army selected a hundred skilled cavalry soldiers.
Then the old and young mixed in the newly transferred people and horses were separated and separated, and they were organized into a rear tun, because the number was less than sixty, and it was temporarily handed over to Yan Shun to lead the deputy, and a deputy was selected from the newly transferred people.
As for the original Santun to make up the number, the left tun is still led by Yan Shun, the right tun is handed over to Ma Lin, Yan Xing personally led the Zhongtun and fifty guards to ride, Yan Xing was also taken by Yan Xing to teach the experience.
At this point, Yan Xing's song can be said to be officially formed, and what is lacking is the run-in and training of each tun.
The queue and march, which Yan Xing attached the most importance to, did not carry out most of it because of the snow in winter, and only trained on the day when the snow stopped, and at night he still summoned his soldiers to give lectures, this time the scope was expanded to the level of team rate.
Of course, in his spare time, Yan Xing would also bring the good wine bought from the city, and invited Li and Zhao to walk in the snow to find plums and drink and have fun.
The snow has been falling, but Yan Xing has never forgotten the expectations of his father and little sister and his ambition when he left home, the difficulty of his horse falling down and the blue wisps of the road when he crossed the Longshan Mountain, nor the danger of being in the enemy territory after sneaking into Sanfu, and sleeping on his pillow, let alone the Han army Hu Qi who shouted and rushed towards him in the wasteland.
All this is prompting Yan Xing not to dare to relax, sit back and wait, and wait for the coming spring of the next year.
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As time passed, the Han Empire soon entered its fifth year after the Taiping Rebellion. With the advent of spring in the fifth year of Zhongping, what brought the Han Empire was not a mild spring, but an aggressive crisis and war.
First of all, the Yellow Turban thief Guo Da and others rose in the Baibo Valley in the east of the river, and entered the counties and counties in the area of Kou Taiyuan and Hedong, causing the shaking of the capital and Yang, and the imperial court hurriedly ordered the counties to send troops to suppress it, but it was not pacified. Immediately afterwards, as early as the fourth year of Zhongping, the Xiongnu Tu Gehu rebelled again to attack and kill the assassin of Bingzhou Assassin Shi Zhang Yi, the cavalry of the Huns once again ravaged all parts of Bingzhou, and the counties were ruined everywhere they went, and the Han court had to order the counties of Bingzhou to defend the city on the one hand, and send envoys to appease these fierce Huns.
And in this series of events, this is the second letter of the martyrdom of Fang Bo in Yizhou received by the Han court after Liangzhou.
However, it seems that God did not intend to let the Han Empire, which was already full of diseases, breathe a little longer, and at the end of May, Yizhou came to Yizhou, and the Yizhou thief Ma Xiang, Zhao Yi and others raised troops in Mianzhu, called themselves the Yellow Turban, killed the Yizhou Thorn History, attacked Ba County, Qianwei, and destroyed the three counties between the ten months, and there were tens of thousands of people, claiming to be the Son of Heaven.
This is the third copy of the Han court received a piece of the assassination of the history of the state, and the "Son of Heaven" in Youzhou in the north has not yet been pacified, and another "Son of Heaven" has emerged in Yizhou in the south.
However, the "Son of Heaven" in the south is easy to deal with after all, after all, it is only the remnants of the Yellow Turbans at best, and hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans in the first year of Zhongping were wiped out by the army of the imperial court, and they were built into one after another Jingguan showing off their martial arts.
But the "Son of Heaven" in the north is much more difficult to deal with, in the second year of the middle of the middle of the year, Zhang Wen took charge of the Liangzhou rebels, ready to levy 3,000 Wuhuan cavalry from Youzhou, but when the Wuhuan troops arrived in Jixian County, the Wuhuan cavalry was not paid because of the arrears of food, and most of them defected and returned to the Wuhuan tribe. And Zhang Chun, who accompanied the army, held a grudge because Zhang Wen did not let him lead the Wuhuan soldiers, so he fled with the same county and the former Taishan County Taishou Zhang Ju into the Wuhuan tribe and the leader of the Wuhuan tribe, Qiu Liju, and other alliances, and sent troops to rob Jixian County, all the way like a bamboo, killing the Wuhuan captain Gong Qichou, the right Beiping County Taishou Liu Zheng, Liaodong County Taishou Yangzhong and others, and the coerced subordinates claimed to have more than 100,000 people, stationed in Feiru County.
Later, Zhang Ju was called the emperor, and Zhang Chun was called the general of Mitian and the king of stability. They issued official notices to the states and counties, declaring that Zhang Ju would replace the Eastern Han regime, demanding the abdication of today's son, ordering officials from all over the country to welcome Zhang Ju, and leading the Wuhuan cavalry Kou Luoqing, Xu, You, and Ji Prefectures to lure wolves into the house, burn and loot. In the face of the fierce Wuhuan cavalry, in addition to urging the cavalry governor Gongsun Zan to speed up the attack, the Han court also had to secretly order Liu Yu to use thick gold to lure the Wuhuan tribe and accelerate the trend of division within the rebels.
Of course, relying purely on the states and counties to pacify the rebels and thieves who swarmed in various places, the Han court had completely lost this confidence. Although Liu Hong, the son of Han Tianzi who has been sitting in the Ming Hall for 20 years, has done a lot of foolish things, but when it comes to this crisis node of internal and external troubles, he can no longer be willful. So Liu Hong made up his mind and used the money obtained from selling his official beard in the West Garden to form a central army independent of the five schools of the Northern Army, and set up eight captains, headed by the military captain Liu Hong's intimate henchman Xiao Huangmen Jian Shuo, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the two heroes who will dominate the north and south of the river in the future, are also among them.
After forming the new army, Han Tianzi was also full of ambition for a while, fantasizing about "holding the sword of the Son of Heaven and pacifying the thieves in the world", so he carried out a large-scale review of the new army in Pingxing, Luoyang. Looking at the new army in Xiyuan, which had bright armor and strong armor, Liu Hong suddenly got carried away, and under the flattery of the eunuchs, he was even more fluttering to fly into the sky, pointing at the army to show off to the ministers of the DPRK and China. Fortunately, there are still people who know the soldiers in the court, and Gai Xun, who is begging for the school captain, saw this and played, "The minister heard that 'the first king Yide did not watch the soldiers'." Today's Kou is far away and set up near Chen, not enough to show Guoyi, only Wu Er", the saying advised Liu Hong, the son of heaven, to this foolish behavior purely for the sake of showing off
And the fact is indeed as Gai Xun said, this ostentatious behavior of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, did not show his martial virtue at all, and as soon as the parade ended, the bad news immediately spread to the imperial court.
Qingzhou, which was originally caused by the rebellion of the Tang and Zhou dynasties in Taiping Road, was not large-scale because of the successive blows of natural and man-made disasters in these years, and the long-suppressed volcano finally and inevitably erupted. The yellow turbans in Qingzhou were everywhere, rampant in the prefectures and counties, and the turmoil also spread to Xuzhou, causing the yellow turbans in Xuzhou to take advantage of the situation to respond, so several states in the east of the empire immediately fell into turmoil.
Of course, compared with these turmoil one after another, the most headache for the Han court was the rebels from Liangzhou. With the beginning of autumn, the kingdom and Han Sui led the troops to invade Sanfu, and the Yulu flying horses from Chang'an to Luoyang were endless, looking at each other, and this time the scale and momentum of the rebels were much larger than the previous ones, and it was already impossible to resist with the strength of Sanfu alone, if you can't send troops to support in time, let the rebels' soldiers and horses capture Chang'an or destroy the imperial tomb, then it will really be the last fig leaf of the Han family.
But who will be used as the commander when sending troops? Taiwei Zhang Wen was impeached and deposed as early as last year when there was another chaos in Liangzhou, and it is extremely difficult to select a suitable candidate from the DPRK now. You must know that there are many proud generals in the Han army stationed in the right Fufeng, in the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen, who was born in a famous family and ranked in the third duke, was promoted to gather generals with the respect of the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the power of the fake festival Yue, which of the generals under the bottom is not obedient and obedient to the general's orders. Only Dong Zhuo, who was the general at the time, did not give Zhang Wen a good look, and implied ridicule of Zhang Wen, who did not know soldiers, and thus Dong Zhuo's reputation in the Sanfu Han Army rose sharply, and he was known for his arrogance and domineering.
And the development of the latter just confirmed Dong Zhuo's ridicule, the Han army that entered the city was cut off from grain and grass, and was pursued by the Qianghu cavalry in the middle of the hasty retreat, but Dong Zhuo's army returned with all the troops.
Therefore, the person sent must be good at fighting, and be able to subdue Dong Zhuo and other fierce generals, think about it, the emperor and the magnates in the court can only use the Huangfu Song, who was demoted in the second year of Zhongping, and be crowned as the left general, and recruit more than 20,000 soldiers and horses from the five colonels of the Northern Army, the knights of the three rivers and the state and county, and on the same day he was ordered to crusade against the Liangzhou rebels who invaded Sanfu, and at the same time, Dong Zhuo, who was crowned as the former general, was returned to the command of Huangfu Song.
And just when the Han court was distressed about the selection of the leader, the Liangzhou coalition army that invaded on a large scale continued to attack the city when it entered Sanfu, and successively captured the cities of Wangxian, Qianyang, and Yongxian, and the soldiers went directly to the city of Chencang, and the rangers of the coalition army went deep into the Meiyang and Wugong line, and the scouts of the Han army had a short engagement, and Dong Zhuo, who was stationed on the right side of Fufeng, decisively gave up the city in the west. While shrinking his forces to defend various military positions, he sent a series of messengers to the east calling for help.
In the face of this imminent crisis, there was a doomsday scene in Sanfu where prices soared and families fled eastward.
It was really Sanfu who was shocked, and Chang'an City was shocked three times a day!