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Section 68 War

In mid-June, with Liu Bei's occupation of the entire territory of Jizhou, the war in the north seemed to have been extinguished briefly. Under the blow of Xu Rong, most of the Yellow Turban Army that entered Yanzhou surrendered to Cao Cao, and a small part fled across the river. Since the nest of the Black Mountain Army has been occupied by Liu Bei, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, under the leadership of Zheng Gu, surrendered to the party and guarded the publicity, but at the same time, the war in the south was raging.

First, Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha in Jingzhou, rebelled, and then, Nanyang rebelled again, and the bandit leader Mao Du entangled 50,000 displaced people, known as 300,000, and preded everywhere in Nanyang. The five counties of Yan, Deng, Xinye, Yiyang and Pingchun are in flames.

Then, Xuzhou also began to be in turmoil, and Xiapi Hao Qiang Xuan gathered thousands of people, proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, and rebelled against the imperial court.

Nanyang is the place where Liu Xiu made his birth, and there are many high-ranking officials and nobles in the past dynasties, with more than 100,000 domestic household registrations and abundant wealth. However, it was the uncontrolled annexation of land that made the people of Nanyang the poorest. When the Yellow Turbans first started up, the Nanyang Yellow Turbans had the strongest troops, and the rebellion was extinguished after being suppressed by Huangfu Song. Then Yuan Shu was arrogant and indulgent, greedy and insatiable, which made the people complain. Because Yuan Shu was fighting for Jingzhou with all his might, he transferred part of Nanyang's troops, so the Nanyang rebellion revived.

However, these rebellions have nothing to do with the Yellow Turban Army, they don't even fight the banner of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand", and directly proclaim themselves the Son of Heaven. But the imperial court at that time was too lazy to distinguish - it was all about subverting the regime anyway, and continuing to call them "Yellow Turban bandits", yes.

"This world is really chaotic" Liu Bei received the news in Yecheng and sighed repeatedly: "If you gather thousands of people, you dare to call yourself the Son of Heaven." The people want to be emperors, but they are so immeasurable? ”

Tian Feng has arrived in Yecheng at this moment, taking over the preparatory work of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, hearing Liu Bei's emotion, he suggested: "My lord, the main channel for the export of our goods is Xuzhou, Xiapi ****, the trade route is not smooth, and there will be a loss of tax revenue this year." Can we ask Tao Qian and Liu Biao about our army's willingness to help quell the rebellion? ”

Tian Chou reminded: "Jizhou has only been decided, and the officials have only been arranged, and the township guards (public security police) have not yet been fully formed, the martial arts halls and school houses are being prepared, and the judicial officers are partially in place, and the county elders are being elected, and the household registration statistics have not yet been completed." Do we have the spare power to help Tao Qian and Liu Biao? ”

Liu Bei smiled and nodded Tian Feng, and said, "Fu Hao, you have been a great minister for a few years, but you are still so upright that you can't get through accidents." Our army annexed Jizhou, and the southern heroes are fearful, you ask to go south to suppress bandits, I think Tao Qian may hesitate and refuse, Liu Biao, I don't think about it. ”

Guo Tu, the new squire of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, echoed with a smile: "Yes, the lord is right, we haven't discussed the matter with Bo Gui (Gongsun Zhan) yet, so we should wait for Bo Gui to reply to the letter before making the next plan." ”

The squire Xin commented: "My lord, in my opinion, we still draw out the elite people, don't be an army, let them end their rest." In addition, it is necessary to organize armaments and materials and prepare for contingencies. ”

Not long ago, Zhao Fu, the county guard of Hejian, Geng Wu Guanchun, the county guard of Bohai, and Cheng Lian, the guard of Qinghe County, went to Chenliu to greet Han Fu, thinking that no matter what, they kept one-third of Jizhou for Han Fu, and under Liu Bei's wing, they could live happily, but they didn't expect Han Fu to commit suicide. Zhao Fu and the others cried and returned, stayed in Yecheng for a few days, and couldn't get used to seeing the faces of the newly descended Guo Tu and others, so they went back to each county to be their own Taiping county guard.

Liu Bei also despised Xin Ping and others, as Han Fu's confidants, they first secretly fornicated with Yuan Shao, and then joined forces to fall to Yuan Shao and forced their lord Han Fu to cede the state. In history, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, Xun Chen and others surrendered to Cao Cao, and they were full villains. However, this villain is very old-fashioned in speculating about the dark psychology of others.

Liu Bei nodded in appreciation: "Order the Second Army Corps (Zhang Fei's Legion) to end its rest and enter a state of alert; ordered the Thunder Cavalry Wolf Cavalry Regiment to be stationed in Hejian County to fill the gap after Zhang He left; ordered the Guards Corps to prepare for battle; ordered the First Army Corps (Guan Yu Corps) to move from Donglai and stationed in Guangrao; The Fourth Army Corps was ordered to assemble, and all three divisions entered Mount Tai; ordered the entire Fifth Army Corps to be stationed in Jinan County to monitor the movement of the plains; The Third Army Corps was ordered to pay attention to the movements in Yanzhou and be on guard. ”

Guo Tu and the other attendants immediately began to be busy writing orders, and Tian Feng summoned heralds and assigned tasks. Tian Chou looked at the busy crowd and said worriedly: "Lord, everything in Jizhou is complicated, I can't be busy alone, you can give a few people." ”

At present, Liu Bei's four major military divisions, the right governor of the capital is in charge of daily military affairs in Guangrao, Xu Shu is rushing to Yecheng to accept the appointment of the governor of the post, the former governor Tian Chou is busy forming the county and township guards of Jizhou, each is busy with all fours to the sky, only Yuan Shao's old ministers are a bunch of idlers. Therefore, Tian Chou's words made their eyes shine.

Liu Bei didn't want to assign directly, so he asked, "Zitai, who do you want to help?" ”

"Du Wei (commander of the Qingzhou Township Guard) Gao Ran is idle at the moment, how about letting him come?"

"Yuan Zhi (Xu Shu) came to Yecheng, Mount Tai is empty, I was about to send him to Mount Tai, Zitai asked him to come, who can go to Mount Tai?"

"Huang Hansheng (Huang Zhong) first entered Yecheng, and he should be a school official in terms of merit, how about sending him?"

"Also, who will take over the position of Gao Lan?"

"Chen Zhi, the general accepted by the lord Runan, has been studying at the military academy for a year, and he can be ordered to study while taking on the post of captain."

Liu Bei was silent for a moment and nodded in agreement. Let Gao Ran serve as an inconsequential lieutenant because he is worried that he will collude with Yuan Shao, and now that Yuan Shao is gone, it is no longer appropriate to let this general, one of the four pillars of Hebei, serve as a lieutenant.

"Fu Hao (Tian Feng), what do you mean?" Liu Bei asked.

"Huang Zhong Huang Hansheng, I have been in contact with him, he is steady, skilled in bows and horses, and the rescue of Dian Wei under the city of Yecheng, it can be seen that this person is bold and careful, and he is alone. Gao Ran, I haven't been in contact with it, but Zitai has a good eye for people, even if the lord also approves of it, I have no opinion. Tian Feng replied.

Qingzhou military system: the governor does not lead the army, and will not transfer troops. This means that the power to mobilize the army is in the overseer, but the overseer cannot lead the army himself, and it is the general who leads the army, but the general does not have the right to move the army. Gao Ran went to Jizhou and worked under Tian Chou, which meant that he became the chief general of Jizhou. Gao Ran, this little man who was just a cavalry governor under Yuan Shao, actually climbed to such a high position, which shocked Yuan Shao's old ministers, and he couldn't help but sigh that the world is impermanent.

In the next few days, Liu Bei and others were dazzled by the changes in the military situation in the south.

First, Tao Qian gathered his army and pounced on Xiapi Que Xuan. Then, Liu Biao was ruthless, and sent six troops to attack the five counties of Xu, Deng, Xinye, Yiyang, Pingchun and Changsha County. The flames of war seem to be getting bigger and bigger. However, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse. Xia Pi Que Xuan was easily defeated by Tao Qian. The Nanyang Yellow Turban Army collapsed at the touch of a button and turned north.

And Yuan Shu's competition for Jingzhou was unfavorable, and he also intended to get involved in Yanzhou, so he made way for the Yellow Turban. After the Yellow Turban went north, he captured the state of Chen and attacked Chen Liu. Yanzhou assassin Liu Dai faced the battle, and was defeated and died. The yellow scarf then retreated to Yingyang, bringing tens of thousands of people, and the barriers were connected, and it seemed that it could not be insulted. Soon, Cao Cao successfully entered Chenliu County in the name of cracking down on Yingyang Yellow Turbans, and accepted the recommendation of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao and Taishan Xiang Bao Xin (Taishan County belonged to Yanzhou, and Huang Zhong did not arrive at Taishan at that time), and officially became the history of Yanzhou Thorn.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Cao entered Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, and the Yingyang Yellow Turban fell at the touch of a button. It's ridiculous that Yuan Shu originally planned to move eastward, but he didn't expect that the yellow scarf wrapped more than 100,000 people in Nanyang cheapened Cao Cao. How can Nanyang County, which has no young and strong labor, still have vitality?

After Cao Cao defeated Yingyang Yellow Turban, Xiapi Que Xuan also died under Tao Qian's blow. Not long after the emperor was declared, he only served as the emperor in the wilderness for more than 30 days, and his family was wiped out. The war in the south ended in mid-July, with Cao Cao as the last beneficiary.

After the Yellow Turban conquered the Chen state, the king of the Chen state, Liu Chongguo, who called himself the "general of the auxiliary Han Dynasty", was killed, and the last clan king of the Han family disappeared in the storm, and after that, the Han court never appointed a new king, and the reign of the Liu family was shaky.

Regarding Xiapi Que Xuan, Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", once fabricated that Tao Qian was "subordinate" to him, but that was just a lie, Tao Qian was the shepherd of a state, with 100,000 armor, how could he form an alliance with a grass coward with only a few thousand people? Sima Guang, the author of "Zizhi Tongjian" and a great historian, did not believe this, and pointed out: "Humility is based on Xuzhou, the king of Yiqin, why do you use Que Xuan to proclaim thousands of people and obey them? ”

Que Xuan went from rebellion to defeat and was killed, less than a month before and after, and it did not cause ripples in Xuzhou, which shows that Tao Qian's all-out killing. And the Nanyang Yellow Turban turned to fight for thousands of miles, which also reflects Liu Biao's intention to beggar-thy-neighbor.

The war in the entire south was extinguished in mid-July, and before Liu Bei could understand what was going on, the war in the north ignited again. At this time, the Han court was like a big fire yao barrel, smoking everywhere.

At the beginning of July, Liu Yu's former subordinate in Youzhou, Xian Yufu, the captain of the guard Karasuma (Wuheng), raised troops in Baitan (now Miyun) and announced revenge for Liu Yu. Xian Yufu and Liu Yu's son Liu He commanded 8,000 people from Liu's family, and recruited tens of thousands of Karasuma cavalry, and Yu Yang Taishou Zou Dan, appointed by Sun Zhan, the prince of Beida, Lu County. This victory encouraged Gongsun Zhan's opponents, and the Youzhou Mutiny ensued. Xian Yufu turned his troops and attacked Jixian directly.

Gongsun Zhan had just sent his appointed Jizhou Mutian Kai to receive Tang County, but after being attacked by Xian Yufu, he had no time to transfer back Tian Kai's army, so he hastily led troops to attack and confronted Xian Yufu at Baoqiu on the north side of Ji County.

At the same time, the direction of Bingzhou also began to be unstable, and Zhang Yang's general Yang Chou led troops to reinforce Shexian County on the border between Wei County and Shangdang County, and began to recruit troops in Shangdang County.

Previously, Zhang Yang received a letter from Cao Cao reminding him of Liu Bei's threat, but Zhang Yang was careless. Soon, Zhang He's Jieshi Corps broke through to the north of Bingzhou, occupied Yanmen County and Xinxing County, and continued to advance into Taiyuan County, and the advance had reached the city of Jinyang. Yanmen, Xinxing, Taiyuan three counties all belong to the borderlands, perennial by foreign raids, at that time, together with Shuofang County, has been abandoned by the Han Dynasty, the local no official management. The people of these three counties are fierce and have always been regarded as difficult places by the Han court. Liu Bei, who is sure to claim profit, took down these poor three counties, if he wants to say that it is just to be kind and adopt the people of these three places, who believes it?

Zhang Yang became serious at this time, and convened the strategists to discuss countermeasures, and everyone smiled bitterly.

The Qingzhou soldiers have been fighting for many years, and the fierce and abnormal, and the party soldiers have been slacking off for many days, how can they be the opponents of the brave Qingzhou soldiers, and the state is unable to resist at this time.

When he was worried, Tanma reported: The whereabouts of a Qingzhou soldier were found in Pingyang County, Sili. Everyone was terrified, this was clearly a three-sided attack, Liu Bei was really going to make a move on Shangdang County?

Zhang Yang was immediately furious and announced that he would recruit sergeants in Shangdang County, preparing to fight to the death. In addition, relying on his friendship with Lu Zhi, he sent a letter to Lu Zhi, asking the Qingzhou soldiers to surround them on three sides, what is their intention?

Of course, knowing that Lu Zhi was in Luoyang, Zhang Yang sent the letter to Yecheng and handed it over to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei received the letter, understood the meaning of Zhang Yang, smiled indifferently, opened the letter in front of the messenger to read, and then personally wrote the letter on behalf of the teacher, to the effect that: There is news that the Zuo Xiongnu Department robbed the Han ladies in Luoyang, Qingzhou master mother Huang Ying and the late Zhang Sikong's daughter Yan'er, Cai Yong's daughter Zhao Ji (Cai Wenji) are kind, and want to go to Bingzhou to inquire about their whereabouts, those Qingzhou soldiers are just exploring the way for the main mother.

"Investigate Binh Duong County, I don't remember sending troops there. Zhang He advanced layer by layer in Bingzhou, originally to seek stability, this team that suddenly appeared in Pingyang County, exposed the strategic intentions of our army, check out, who transferred troops without authorization, or someone pretended to be Qingzhou soldiers. After Liu Bei sent the messenger away, he became angry and immediately ordered a thorough investigation.

"Qingzhou soldiers are not good at pretending", Tian Feng replied: "It's not good, someone really transferred troops without authorization?" ”

Although Cao Cao's army adopted a similar military system, the special plate hard armor, sabers, emblems, helmets and helmets of the Qingzhou soldiers made all those who tried to impersonate it daunting - not to mention whether they could buy these equipment, even if they could, a full set of equipment would be astronomical.

"The Third Army Naval Division is patrolling the Yellow River, asking them to send an army to Luoyang, and then search and advance to Pingyang County, in addition, to find out the situation of the Gucheng army, my lord, now that Jizhou has been decided, can we increase the army in the name of deploying winter clothes for Gucheng." Xu Shu suggested.

Seeing Xu Shu speak, Liu Bei suddenly remembered Huang Zhong: "Whether Huang Hansheng has reached Mount Tai, Yuan Zhi, can we stabilize Mount Tai." ”

Xu Shu was confident, and replied: "The lord can rest assured, the southern part of Taishan County has been operated by Zitai (Tian Chou) for many years, since last year, the officials in the northern part of Taishan are all selected from Qingzhou, and Bao Xin's general Liu Pigong is still in Guangrao, ready to participate in the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Festival, Pei Yuanshao is now in charge of the Taishan military, I have already explained to him, as soon as Huang Zhong arrives, he can take over." Moreover, the captains of the Taishan Regiment are all graduates of the Qingzhou Military Academy, and as soon as our army's military horn is blown, Bao Xinla will not leave a single soldier. ”

Liu Bei sighed: "Bao Xin, straight people too!" Recognize a friend for a lifetime, never abandon or leave. He elected Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou, and he had no other meaning. It's just that Taishan County is too important to Qingzhou, the largest steel base in the Central Plains (Mu County) is there, and the only high mountain on the land of Qilu is also there. in, can continue to harass Qingzhou. Therefore, no matter who is the pastor of Yanzhou, Taishan County must be in our hands. All along, I have sent a military division to guard the place, just to prevent accidents. ”

Tian Feng smiled and said, "Bao Xin is a friend, he is too anxious. He hurriedly recommended Cao Cao, probably because he was worried that we would recommend him as the pastor of Yanzhou, so that Cao Cao would have no future. ”

Liu Bei looked inside the room, and at this moment, only the three military advisors Er Tian and Xu Shu were by his side. Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief and advised: "This is not enough to be humane to outsiders. ”

"So, does Gongsun Chan need assistance? Fu Hao, what do you think? Liu Bei then asked.

Although there are 100,000 troops in Qingzhou, there are no troops available at this moment - Zhang He is attacking Taiyuan with all his might, and Izumo's thunder and wolf cavalry army has already been dispatched, and if you want to send troops again, you can only use reserve troops.

"Now that the autumn harvest is being carried out in various places, labor is tight, and the conscription in Jizhou has not stopped, Tian Kai is leading the army into Jizhou, and we still need to be on strict alert. The lord can send a letter to Lejin and ask him to deal with it at his discretion. "Tian Feng has just returned from Izumo and understands the significance of the battle in Youzhou very well. With the connivance of Xian Yufu, the Karasuma army began to loot on a large scale again, in the troubled times, robbery is the lowest investment cost, the most profitable business, once the Karasuma civilians taste the sweetness, the northern defense line of the Han will be attacked day and night. Unfortunately, when the autumn harvest came, labor was tight, and the standing army was dragged to the death by successive crises.

Soon, in Shangdang County, Bingzhou, Zhang Yang received the letter and understood what Liu Bei meant. At the same time, under the manipulation of well-intentioned people, the rumors leaked, and the Huns were the first to attack, and Yu Fuluo hijacked Zhang Yang and rushed back to Zishi City, Xihe County, and summoned the left Xiongnu subordinates to prepare for a counterattack.

After Zhang Yang was kidnapped, the dragons of the state were leaderless, and they were newly surrendered, and they had no heart to rescue Zhang Yang, so Yang Chou had no choice but to ask Liu Bei for help and asked Liu Bei to send troops to rescue Zhang Yang.

Zishi City (Fenyang) in the west of Xihe Lake (the big lake formed by the Fenshui Basin), around the West River Lake, is the Han Dynasty demarcated the Xiongnu tribe residential area, the north of the West River Daling is the middle Xiongnu residential area, the east of Qicheng is the right Xiongnu residential area, Zishi is the left Xiongnu tribe living area. If further north, the west side of Jinyang City is the residential area of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General.

The West River was originally named the West River Meiji. The Han court assigned this anointed land to the Southern Xiongnu to live in, and it was here that they cultivated and recuperated, were able to defeat the Northern Xiongnu tribes, and further began to plunder the Han court's Shangdang, Fufeng, Tianshui, Shanggu, Zhongshan, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Daijun and other counties.

In fact, at that time, according to the Confucian moral idea of "the benevolent are invincible", the Han court assigned the four prefectures of Liang, Yong, and Youzhou to the inhabited alien settlements. north of the lower reaches of the Qiang and Zahu Jujing and Weishui; The Di people live on both sides of the upper reaches of Weishui and the south bank of the lower reaches; The Xiongnu people live in the Xihe Lake in the upper and lower reaches of the Fenshui River, and the Xiongnu people live in the upper reaches of the Shuzhang River; The Xianbei Karasuma lives in the delta area of Raoleshui, Mahou Qinshui and Qingshui, which are sandwiched between three waters. It was in this anointed land that this Wuhu fattened itself, and then began to brutalize the people of the Central Plains.

"I can't draw troops," Tian Feng complained bitterly: "At present, except for the Guards Corps, all the people in the army who are meritorious people have been transferred to local official positions. The newly graduated lieutenants had not been in office for a long time and had not yet become familiar with the situation in the army. Only the Guards Legion is still fully combat. But the Guards are our only mobile force, and we must not move lightly. ”

Liu Bei replied resolutely: "There is a second army in Yecheng, who dares to move lightly?" At present, Gongsun Chan is fighting in the direction of the state, and what needs to be guarded against is Cao Mengde, our third army is in Pingyin, the fourth army is assembled in Taishan, and the fifth army is in Jinan, and there are four army corps on the front line. On the second line, the First Army Corps was stationed in Hejian County in Guangrao and Lei Cavalry, and could assist at any time. After the Guards Legion is transferred, the Tyrant Bear Legion is still there, which can be used as a mobile force.

The most important thing is that Yu Fuluo's hijacking of Han officials coincided with Karasuma's rebellion in Youzhou, and we must not sit idly by. It is necessary to make the alien race show respect for the authority of our Han dynasty. The land of Xihe Meiji, occupied by the Xiongnu for many years, now has such a good excuse to extend their power into the Xihe area, and they must not let it go. The four military advisors have worked for me for many years, and there is no fief yet. I went and took this beautiful land, and rewarded four military advisors. ”