Chapter 574: The Fourth Han-Qiang War in Liangzhou
Shocking the world, the Taiping Road chaos that stirred up half of the Han Dynasty was pacified, and after Huangfu Song sent Zhang Bao's head to Beijing Luoyang again, the Han Dynasty was completely stabilized.
For this reason, Emperor Liu Hong and the Hundred Officials and Ministers took the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Moth Thief as the reason that they were pacified, and issued an edict to the world to change the name of the year from Guanghe to Zhongping, and since then this year has become the first year of Zhongping.
Fuquan first heard about this, but shook his head and smiled bitterly, although the meaning of Zhongping is good, it means that Zhongzheng is peaceful, it is a good name to calm the chaos in the world and hope for the health of the world, but the fact is that since the Taiping Road was pacified, the Han Dynasty began to compete among various factions step by step, and went to the abyss.
The soldiers of the counties who participated in the pacification of the world gathered in Jizhou, waiting for the reward from the imperial court, but because of the great chaos, among the Han army, there were many soldiers and soldiers who were rewarded for meritorious service, so it naturally took more time for the imperial court to send people to verify the merits.
This has led to the delay in the reward that should be given, and among the Han army, the only one who has a reward is the Han army's chief general Huangfu Song. Because of his command of the Han army to quell the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves in Taiping Road, this immortal achievement, of course, he should be the first to be rewarded.
On the one hand, the court exerted power to help it control the Han army gathered in Jizhou, on the other hand, it was because of Huangfu Song, a famous general who can be civil and martial, before the imperial court has not selected the ruler of Jizhou for the time being, he will govern Jizhou that has just gone through the war, so that this land of glory and martial arts will resume production and reappear prosperous.
Of course, the real reward is later, Liu Hong personally named Huangfu Song as the Marquis of Huaili, and the two counties of Huaili and Meiyang are eight thousand households, and since then Huangfu Song has become a new upstart in the Han army.
After receiving the decree, Huangfu Song first went to the imperial court and asked for a one-year exemption from land rent in Jizhou to support the hungry people, and Liu Hong agreed. Therefore, after the war, the people of Jizhou do not have to worry about paying taxes because of no money and grain, and the people are grateful to Huangfu Song for what they have done, and even sing for this: "The world is in chaos, the city is in ruins, the mother does not protect the son, the wife loses her husband, and the emperor Fu Xi regains peace." ”
In the days of waiting for the imperial court's reward, the soldiers and horses of the Han counties gathered in Jizhou, there were many homesick people, for them, the Taiping Road chaos has been calmed down, they should go home now to see their relatives at home, how can they stay here because the imperial court is too slow to review military merits?
Although there was no scandal of military discipline in Jizhou, it was enough to make the battle-hardened Huangfu Song jealous, so in addition to inspecting the production of the counties and counties in Jizhou, it was to enlighten the soldiers and generals in the army, so that they could rest assured that as long as the court verified the merits, they could receive the reward and go home to reunite with their relatives, which greatly stabilized their morale.
Aside from Huangfu Song's desire to give up the interests of the Liangzhou people in order to quell the chaos, Huang Fu Song suffered from the resentment of the Liangzhou soldiers, but Huang Fu Song treated the soldiers very well.
Therefore, in this matter, it was no one else who first supported Huangfu Song, and it was none other than the Liangzhou soldiers who were thousands of miles away from their hometown and came to the Central Plains to quell the chaos. There is an army that supports and understands Huangfu Song, and soldiers and horses from other places have also been appeased by Huangfu Song, and continue to wait for the imperial court to reward them with peace of mind.
Hearing this, Fu Quan couldn't help but admire Huangfu Song, just by virtue of his past affairs, he could make those soldiers who only had money and officials in their eyes abandon their past suspicions, which shows his excellent personality charm.
Thinking that along the way, Huangfu Song was more sympathetic to the soldiers than himself, and was very loved by the soldiers and generals in the army, Fu Quan was relieved why he was not afraid of him betraying the interests of the people of Liangzhou, no matter how it was, with the prestige he had accumulated in the past, there were indeed people who resisted, but they did not dare to touch him.
Along the way, every time the army marches and is stationed, it must wait for the camp tent of the whole army to be set up, and Huangfu Song will have his own camp tent. The sergeants all eat, he eats, the officials have bribes for things, Huang Fu Song will reward him with money, the officials are ashamed, and some even commit suicide, so, it can be seen why Huang Fu Song has such a personality charm, even if it is wasteful, others will only talk in private at most.
Time went by and stopped, and in the blink of an eye, it was half a month, and the Han army camp finally returned to normal with the efforts of Huangfu Song, and the soldiers of all departments no longer had the previous sense of despair, but it was also gratifying.
It's just that the soldiers of all the counties in the world never dreamed that the Qiang people of Liangzhou, since the Hundred Years of the Han-Qiang War, rebelled again when the world was about to restore stability......
When Fu Quan learned of this, he was naturally a messenger in Luoyang City, and sent the letter to Yecheng. After reading the battle report, Fu Quan realized that the Qiang people who rebelled in Liangzhou were the first Lingqiang of Beidi County, and he immediately hated it.
If that's the case, I'm afraid that the Lingqiang people will see the opportunity of the Han Dynasty to rebel now, and I'm afraid they won't have enough troops, because most of the Qiang soldiers either died directly in the battle of Dingxianbei, or the few remaining survivors of the war were also completely absorbed by Fuquan and fully integrated into the cavalry under his command.
Now, they colluded with the bandits of Caohan and Heguan to establish Huangzhongyi from Hubei Gong Boyu and Li Wenhou as generals, and killed the Qiang captain Ling Zheng, which caused chaos in Liangzhou. Then, there are Jincheng people Bian Zhang, Han Sui two, both known as the famous Xizhou, a group of thieves lured and robbed, so that the full-time military and government, kill Jincheng Taishou Chen Yi, attack and burn Zhou County, Liangzhou caused chaos, and until now, Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang, Anding, Beidi five counties are all opposed, only a few counties of the five counties are still holding on, and Wudu County and Hexi four counties are still under the control of the Han Dynasty, but because of the transfer of troops into the Central Plains to fight the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Moth thieves, the troops are insufficient, more than self-defense, and the attack is obviously insufficient.
In the Han army camp outside Quyang, all the soldiers of the Han army heard the news, and they all trembled, and the excitement after just pacifying the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves in Taiping Road suddenly disappeared, and they didn't know how to deal with it.
Among them, the soldiers of the counties and counties in the north and south of the Central Plains are not a big problem, after all, this matter is too far away from their hometown, and their own interests are not greatly affected, and it is a big deal that the battle of Jizhou may end, and they will not be able to return to their hometowns, so they will continue to go to the northwest to quell the rebellion.
Soldiers and horses in other states and counties can do this, but only the Liangzhou people in the northwest can't, and the originally fierce Liangzhou people are now in danger for everyone, among them, except for a few Han soldiers, the rest of the Han and Hu soldiers are all in danger.
Among them, at the order of the Han court, the recruited Qiang soldiers, naturalized Qiang, Han-Qiang mixed-race children, etc., were all in danger at this time.
There is no other reason, the mastermind of this rebellion is the first Qiang people, and these soldiers who have direct or indirect blood relations with the Qiang people, even if they are sincerely loyal to the Han Dynasty, but at this time, who dares to trust them?
And the Liangzhou Han soldiers, except for the recruitment of good families, most of the other generals, almost without exception, were all from Liangzhou Haoqiang, which directly led to their fear, and even fear.
Because among the rebels who plotted rebellion in Liangzhou this time, there were those who were Han people and Heguan bandits. The reason why Liangzhou Haoqiang became Haoqiang is naturally black and white, they can not learn enough scriptures from their families, but the family strength must be enough, after all, they are in a place where there may be military disasters at any time, and they don't prepare a little more, so what should they do?
In these unknown preparations, they were more or less connected with local thieves. Originally, in times of peace, this is understandable, even the local government office, will not punish these powerful people for this, after all, the environment dictates, these are necessary, and even the local government office, the wise officials, have colluded with those thieves.
However, now it is different, the group of thieves in Caohan and Heguan are rebelling, and they are making trouble with the Qiang people, how big is this chaos? I'm afraid that it is no less than the Han and Qiang Centennial War in the past, this kind of consequence, once the imperial court blames, not to mention those officials who are in collusion with the Caohan and Heguan bandits, they can't eat and walk around, even they are the Liangzhou Haoqiang who helped the Han Dynasty pacify the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Taiping Road, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape punishment, so at this moment in the Liangzhou army, all the soldiers and generals who have something to do with Liangzhou Haoqiang are all panicked, for fear that suddenly in the Han army, there will be a fratricidal "Zhulian" battle.
It can be said that the entire Liangzhou army is filled with an ominous atmosphere, from morning to night, in addition to the outsiders who are vigilant into their own military camp, there are people from time to time who look at the northwest, as if they hope to see through time and space, and see what happened to their hometown thousands of miles away? And their own future is very bleak.
Of course, the battle-hardened Liangzhou generals are no better than the Central Plains mud legs who are still thinking about joining at the moment, and most of them are panicking, most of them guess how many soldiers does the Han have now? If the Liangzhou turmoil can't be pacified and succeeded, whether the Han believe them or not, do they still want to be loyal to the Han?
After all, their hometown, their green bamboo, and their roots are in Liangzhou, if the Han can't calm down this chaos, will they really have to die in a foreign land?
Moreover, since the Centennial War of Han and Qiang, Liangzhou has made great military achievements, and unlike the clans that have repeatedly produced generals, most of them have not had a strong sense of belonging and loyalty to the Han and the Son of Heaven because of the Confucian classics.
In the Hundred Years War between the Han and Qiang, they continued to develop under the control of the Han and Qiang people, knowing that the family is their root, and without roots, it is like drifting without roots, and I am afraid that they will be slaughtered wantonly. To a certain extent, with the current development of events, these Liangzhou military heroes and heroes have also given birth to something wrong, that is, they are risking death and preparing to return to their hometowns.
If the root is there, there is still a chance to rise, and if the root dies, even if it becomes the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries, it is possible to die in the political struggle once!
In fact, it is not unreasonable for these Liangzhou generals to think that this rebellion is difficult to govern. Think about the three large-scale Liangzhou Qiang uprisings that occurred in the Han-Qiang Hundred Years War since the founding of this dynasty, which one of the three large-scale Qiang uprisings in Liangzhou did not take a lot of time, financial resources and manpower to solve?
The Hanqiang Hundred Years War, which one was not protracted, especially the third battle, if it wasn't for the later Liangzhou Sanming, if it weren't for Duan Cheng Duan Jiming holding up the butcher's knife at the last moment, killing the Qiang people's vitality and greatly hurting, I can't say that the Qiang chaos is still undecided now.
In these long wars, generation after generation of famous generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty, one after another, fought in the Hexi Corridor, and won or lost with the Qiang people, while countless Han men spilled blood in Hexi, and their souls returned to other places.
But what was the result, the Qiang people had just settled down for a few years, and then they pressed the gourd and scooped up, and this side was pacified, and the other side began to rebel again, and they were never able to completely subdue them and make them sincerely submit.
For more than 100 years, the long land of Hexi can be described as a beacon fire, the Han people were killed, displaced, and plundered by the rebellious Qiang people, countless people, money, and the Han Dynasty is even more for this, a total of more than 24 billion money was spent before and after, a number of Taishou were killed, many generals were killed in battle, and the tragedy was unimaginable.
However, of course, the Qiang people paid a greater price, because of the war, many rebellious tribes were wiped out by the Han Dynasty, but the signs of rebellion were like leeks in the ground, just cut a stubble, but then round after round of crazy growth, the Pingqiang War, which has been the heaviest burden in the hearts of the Eastern Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers in the past dynasties, until the emergence of Duan Cheng.
Now, the fourth Qiang rebellion is coming again, and this Han-Qiang battle is different from the past.
In the past, it was the Qiang people who made trouble themselves, and the impact was not great, and the Qiang people's weapons and equipment were all problems, and the harm to the Han army was not great. Don't do it now, now even the Han people themselves have been added, making the problem a hundred times more complicated, who knows what kind of assistance those Caohan and Heguan bandits who are in deep collusion with Liangzhou Haoqiang will give the Qiang people?
And now, in order to pacify the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Taiping Road, the Great Han State first transferred the world's elite soldiers, among which the Liangzhou Army, as the world's best soldiers, was transferred a lot, and the Great Han State consumed countless money and manpower in order to pacify the Taiping Road. If the Great Han State deploys troops and horses to quell the rebellion now, will it still have enough money and manpower to deal with it?
No one can say clearly about this problem, because the treasury of the Han Dynasty has been tight since the Hundred Years War between the Han and Qiang, even if the emperor opened the West Mansion and put the original unspoken rules of money and power trading on the table, thus obtaining a large amount of money, but compared to making up for the financial deficit left by the previous Han emperors Pingqiang, it is still stretched.
Of course, in their hearts, there is one most worrying concern, that is, Liangzhou Sanming is dead, who can now calm this battle in Liangzhou that is more harmful than the previous three wars?
Looking at today's Han Dynasty, there are few people who know the soldiers, and there are very few people who can be compared with "Liangzhou Sanming".
For example, in the face of the Xianbei people, the number of Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian and others who have military exploits is obviously not enough, because this not only requires you to have force, but also to have considerable tactical command ability. And Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi and others, although they all have the experience of suppressing thieves, and Huangfu Song is the chief general of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves in Taiping Road.
Moreover, even if Huangfu Song has the merit of destroying Qiang can prove that he can take on this position, will the emperor and the ministers of the hundred officials tolerate this first hero who has just pacified the Taiping Dao to suppress Liangzhou?
You need to know that the merit is high, the most taboo for the emperor, and even the matter of Yan Zhong, I am afraid that the emperor will not be at ease, and then hand over all the military power to the hands of Huangfu Song, right? If you want to hand it over, you have to test that Huangfu Song really has no heart.
From this point of view, the only person who is most likely to be in charge of Dingliangzhou is Fuquan, a young famous general, but there is no problem with his ability and qualifications. However, now that the court is in the situation, will the party members and the political enemy of Song Fu's relatives, He Shi, be willing to let Fuquan lead the troops?
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ps:This chapter is a headache.,I was going to finish it in the morning.,But it's still delayed in the afternoon.,Because it's been deducing.,After all, what I'm going to write below may be something that hasn't been written in the entire starting point of the online text.,I also have to fill in a lot of readers who wonder why I didn't let the protagonist do the pit of pacifying the Yellow Turban General.,Seriously,I feel like I'm really on the basis of the online article.,Create a history......
Song Fu and Julu guarded Feng Yi and Guo Dian to attack the corner brother Bao in Xia Quyang, and then cut it. For the first time, more than 100,000 people were built in the south of the city. That is, Bai Song is the general of the left chariot, leading the Jizhou pastor, sealing the marquis of Huaili, and eating Huaili and Meiyang counties, totaling 8,000 households.
The yellow scarf is flat, so the year is changed to the middle level. Song Song asked Jizhou for a year's land rent to support the hungry people, and the emperor obeyed it. The people sang: "The world is in chaos, the city is in ruins, the mother does not protect the son, the wife loses her husband, and the emperor is restored to live in peace." "Song Wen has compassion for the soldiers, and he is very favored by the people, and every army stops, and the camp must be erected, and then the tent will be abandoned. The sergeants all eat, but they taste the food. If there are officials who accept bribes for something, Song will give them money and things, and the officials will be ashamed, or even commit suicide.
Excerpt from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty