Chapter 43: Qianghu Comes to Attack
It was already very cold in October in 189 A.D., and the people of Luoyang City lived the cat winter early, the so-called cat winter is to store food in advance, hide at home in the cold winter, and live a warm winter.
It was a little deserted in the thin morning light, and the shops on both sides of the street were also closed, and only the patrols on duty patrolled the empty streets.
On the enemy tower of the Luoyang City Gate, a Xiliang soldier leaned his spear against the wall and stretched his waist for a long time, the long and cold night had finally passed, and it was almost time for the changing of the guard.
"Dada~"
Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves shattering the silent long street, a horse galloped from the north, and the post man was in the dust, and the crotch of the mount sweated like rain, and suddenly, the post man had run to the front of the city tower, and shouted loudly, and the terrible shout alarmed the guards on the city gate~
"Sanfu urgent, open the city gate quickly~"
"Sanfu 800 miles urgently, open the city gate quickly~"
The guards did not dare to delay, immediately pulled the winch, the heavy city gate in the efforts of several soldiers, "squeak" slowly opened a gap, the post guard had already blown into Luoyang City like a gust of wind, until the rapid sound of iron hooves from the long street gradually drifted away, the gate guards began to recover from the shock, began to whisper~~
After a while, the post man galloped all the way to the palace, because it was strictly forbidden to ride horses in the palace, so he galloped all the way into the Chongde store, "Sanfu urgent, eight hundred miles urgent~"
"Huh!?" Dong Zhuo, who was kneeling on Liu Xie's side, looked stunned for a moment, and immediately said loudly: "Present it." ”
"No!"
A little eunuch immediately stepped forward to take the parchment scroll from the post guard's hand and hurriedly sent it to Dong Zhuo's hand.
"Ladies and gentlemen." Dong Zhuo glanced at the ministers of the court with a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice: "Seeing that winter is about to begin, Qianghu raised 50,000 troops to plunder Kou Sanfu, how do you think you should deal with it?" ”
In this era, like most foreign races, the Qianghu lived by grazing, and every winter when the heavy snow covered the grasslands, a large number of cattle and sheep starved to death.
Lang Zhong made Li Ru's heart move, a fine light flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly got up and said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, the left chariot cavalry general Huangfu Song still has 30,000 elite soldiers stationed in Fufeng County, it is better to mobilize the left chariot cavalry general to encircle and suppress Qianghu." ”
As soon as Li Ru's voice fell, Taiwei Yang Biao secretly said in his heart that Huangfu Song's 30,000 elite soldiers were veterans who survived the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and they were also important chess pieces against Dong Zhuo.
"What Lang Zhongling said is very true, and Huangfu Song commanded 30,000 troops to encircle and suppress Qianghu~" Dong Zhuo didn't give everyone a chance to speak at all, and then said: "In addition, Dong Man will protect Han'an, and the president will do all things in the West." ”
Yang Biao and Yuan Kui glanced at each other, and the two of them understood in their hearts that Dong Zhuo's hand completely disintegrated the power of Huangfu Song, Huangfu Song was originally the official position of the captain of Fufeng, and the general commander of the three auxiliary military powers, and now Dong Zhuo has placed Han'an to protect and lead all affairs in the west, wouldn't it be that even Huangfu Song's military power has been taken away.
"Your Majesty~ The old minister has something important to say to Your Majesty!"
Dong Zhuo looked at Yang Biao with a calm gaze, and said coldly: "What's the matter, the captain wants to oppose the old man's arrangement?" ”
"The old minister doesn't dare~" Yang Biao confessed to Dong Zhuo: "Xiangguo is Jiang Shang's rebirth, how dare the old minister point fingers at Xiangguo's military planning, what the old minister played is another matter." ”
"Xiangguo is angry, and listen to what the captain is doing!"
Seeing Dong Zhuo's anger, Liu Xie hurriedly appeased Dong Zhuo, and then turned to Yang Biao and said: "Xiangguo has suppressed Qianghu all year round, and I can trust Xiangguo's military arrangements. ”
"No!" Yang Biao sighed secretly, his Hongnong Yang family is different from the Yuan family of the third prince of Yuan Kui, the Yuan family has long been detached from Liu Xie, but he Yang Biao watched Liu Xie grow up, so he naturally has a deeper affection for Liu Xie, but unfortunately Liu Xie really disappointed him~
"Your Majesty, the first emperor's internal decrees in the world were all received by eunuchs, and now there are many vacancies in internal decrees, and the old ministers think that they should select talented people to fill the vacancies."
Liu Xie glanced at Dong Zhuo, but seeing Dong Zhuo's gloomy face and nodded, he turned his head to Yang Biao and said, "What the Taiwei said is very true, and the Taiwei has full authority to deal with this matter." ”
Yang Biao bowed deeply: "The old minister has the order!" ”
During the period of Emperor Ling, the internal decrees were known to be eunuchs, and since Yuan Shao punished the eunuchs, the scholars have been reinstated as the internal decrees and officials, which can also be regarded as the result of the exchange of rights between Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung scholars~
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Right Fufeng County, Huangfu Song big tent.
Huangfu Song's word is true, when he was a teenager, he had a good poetry and book, and he was familiar with bow and horse, and was initially investigated as filial piety and Maocai. For Langzhong, he moved to Baling and Linfen County, but he left due to the death of his father, and later Chen Fan, the chief lieutenant, and Dou Wu, the general, hired him as an official one after another, but they did not respond to the call.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty used the bus to recruit him as a squire and moved to the northern land as the Taishou.
In the seventh year of Guanghe, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Huangfu Song and Lu Qiang Shangshu asked to lift the party ban, appointed Zuo Zhonglang General, and Zhu Jun led the army to suppress the rebel army.
Later, he led the army to conscript the rebellion of the Xiliang Kingdom, and in a desperate situation, he defeated the 50,000 Qianghu rebels of the kingdom with 7,000 people, and chased him to the head of the kingdom in Rat Mountain.
"Alas~" Huangfu Song sighed, pointed to the book on the handsome case and said to Gai Xun: "Yuangu, Qianghu has come to invade Sanfu again, and the people of Sanfu will suffer again this year, but I don't know how the imperial court will deal with it?" ”
"Nine times out of ten, the imperial court will send Huangfu Gong to resist Qianghu~" Gai Xun pondered: "The 30,000 elite soldiers in Huangfu's hands have always been a thorn in Dong Zhuo's side, and this time Dong Zhuo will definitely take this opportunity to weaken Huangfu Gong's troops." ”
Huangfu Song narrowed his eyes slightly, he had always known Dong Zhuo's thoughts clearly, a few days ago Yuan Kui wrote to tell him that the plan was going smoothly, but the Qianghu attack was indeed beyond their expectations, but the Qianghu attack was really a bit of a coincidence, and it is unknown whether there was fraud in it.
But what Gai Xun said was right, Dong Zhuo would definitely transfer him to fight the enemy, after a long time, Huangfu Song opened his eyes and said loudly: "No matter what Dong Zhuo thinks, the people of Sanfu are innocent, so Song decided to send troops to fight the enemy!" ”
"Now that the general has an idea, he should take the general's head as the leader."
Gai Xun thought for a while and said: "The Qianghu people are predatory, once they invade, the supplies they need are all looted, if the food is insufficient, it is not a new thing to use the preserved flesh and fruit of the Han people, so I think that the people should be moved into the city first!" ”
"What Yuan Gu said is very true!" Huangfu Song Huoran got up and said: "Yuan Gu first moved the people into the city, and the old man reorganized his troops and horses to prepare for battle. ”
"No!"