Chapter 350: Liu Yan wants to be the emperor
However, Liu Yan is nearly seventy years old, and he still doesn't know self-love, he loves Zhang Lu's bewitching mother, fights day and night, and finally can't afford to be seriously ill, so he has to give up the plan to be the emperor, and ask Dong Zhuo to send his son Fengche Lieutenant Liu Zhang back to Yizhou from Luoyang, originally Liu Zhang was a proton in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo refused to return Liu Zhang, Liu Yan sent 200,000 stone grain to Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was willing to let go. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Jin Liang received the secret security from Chengdu, and secretly said in his heart, if it wasn't for Liu Yan's serious illness, maybe he would have become a rebellious minister and thief who was called the emperor earlier than Yuan Shu, this Liu Yan, named Liu Han clan, is actually a thief of the chaotic Han, if he hadn't proposed the state pastoral system, there would not have been so many secessions,
Since Jin Liang is the first auxiliary minister of the Xiangyang court, he naturally wants to maintain the majesty of the Xiangyang court, and wants to use troops against Xishu, how can he be remote in Xishu, and there are Dong Zhuo and Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and the whip is beyond his reach, so he can only let Liu Yan and his son temporarily serve as dogs to guard the household in Xishu.
However, Jin Liang took this opportunity to print and distribute the newspapers of the Han Dynasty on the basis of public opinion, which had been very mature after more than a year of continuous improvement in papermaking and printing, to expose Liu Yan's evil form and evil state of wanting to be emperor.
Jin Liang did this, the biggest purpose is to let people see the ugliness of the Liu Han clan, but also in order to abolish the privileges of the Liu Han clan in the future to prepare for public opinion, Liu Yan wants to be the emperor The news stimulated the Empress Dowager He Lian and the Son of Heaven Liu Bian, they issued an edict to strictly investigate the Liu Han clan in various places, this is in Jin Liang's arms, Jin Liang in Jizhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, Qingzhou four places to those clan children to carry out an inventory, the honest and love of the people will be the Han Xun newspaper, the rampant will be the Han Xun newspaper will also be confiscated family property, many counties, The counties were abolished and converted into normal tax-paying counties.
Jin Liang especially praised some friendly or neutral forces such as Liu Yu, Liu Bei, and Liu Ye of Youzhou Mu of the Han Dynasty in the Han Xun Newspaper, in order to win them over, and not to offend them at the worst, but for those Han clans who were rampant and opposed to Jin Liang, Jin Liang followed the holy decree of Liu Bian, the Son of Heaven, and swept them away with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.
As for Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Jin Liang never considered that he would be loyal to the Xiangyang court, but instead sent envoys to Jincheng to guard Han Sui and Wuwei to guard Ma Teng, so that they could raise troops to fight against Zhang Lu.
Zhang Lu, the word Gongqi, is said to be the tenth grandson of Zhang Liang, the Marquis of the Western Han Dynasty, and the grandson of Zhang Ling, the ancestor of Wudoumi Taoism, after the death of Zhang Ling, his son Zhang Heng continued his way. Heng died, and Zhang Lu succeeded as the leader. His mother is good at health, "has little tolerance", "and coerces ghosts", and goes to and from Liu Yan's house in Yizhou, in fact, she is Liu Yan's mistress, Zhang Lu has gained trust through the special relationship between his mother and Liu Yan. In 191 AD, that is, the year when Jin Liang was now, Liu Yan appointed Zhang Lu as the governor of Sima, and together with Sima Zhang Xiu of other departments, he led troops to attack Hanzhong Taishou Sugu. After Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu again and captured his soldiers.
Jin Liang's actions in Hebei will not affect the situation in the southwest, and the situation in the southwest will develop like history.
Two or three years later, after Liu Yan's death, his son Liu Zhang took his place and killed Lu's mother's family because Zhang Lu did not obey his dispatch. Zhang Lu then seized Hanzhong, because of the attack on Zhang Xiu's teachings, he called himself "Shijun", and those who came to learn the Tao were initially called "ghost pawns", and they were believed in by the Tao, so they were called "sacrificial wine", and the leaders and subordinates; Those who lead a large number of people are "the head of the big sacrificial wine", and they do not place long officials, and manage local government affairs with sacrificial wine. Inheriting the teachings of his ancestors, the people are honest and do not deceive, so that the sick will surrender themselves; The offender is lenient three times, and if he repeats the offense, then the punishment is increased; If it is a minor offense, then build a hundred steps of the road to atone for your sins. In accordance with the "Lunar Decree", slaughter is forbidden in spring and summer when all things grow, and it is forbidden to drink alcohol. He also founded the righteous house, which included righteous rice and meat for passers-by to eat for free, and declared that if he obtained too much, he would offend the ghosts and gods and become ill. Guanzhong was in turmoil, and many people fled to the relatively stable Hanzhong area, such as tens of thousands of people in Guanxi who fled to Hanzhong from the Meridian Valley, and Zhang Lu also got the support of Du Hao, Pu Hu, Yuan Yue and others from Bayitou, and became a major force in the west.
Han Sui and Ma Teng, who were pinned on by Jin Liang, are now fighting for territory, friction and guarding each other, although they received the edict of the Xiangyang court, but no one raised troops to deal with Zhang Lu, and Liu Yan, the emperor of Western Shu, was seriously ill, although he was very dissatisfied with Zhang Lu, but he remembered that Zhang Lu's mother served him, and he did not raise troops to crusade against Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu then dominated Hanzhong alone.
Jin Liang stared at the flag on the sand table in the middle of the council hall, as his power expanded, the friendly forces represented by the white flag would either submit or transform into the hostile forces represented by the black flag, while most of the neutral forces represented by the gray flag and the hostile forces represented by the black flag would continue to be hostile until they were annihilated by themselves.
Among these forces, such as Dong Zhuo, Liu Yu, Liu Dai, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Liu Xuan, and Bao Xin, they will all be dealt with by their opponents without having to do it themselves, and they will all be destroyed one after another in the next few years; For example, Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Du, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Zhang Lu, Liu Yan and other people who dominate one side, Jin Liang may spend some means, but it is not difficult to cut off; The only ones left that Jin Liang feared the most were Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce.
The most ridiculous thing is that Jin Liang is still supporting Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce, and now the original purpose of supporting Cao Cao is to deal with Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, and the ultimate purpose is to deal with Yuan Shao, the assassin of Jingzhou, and the original purpose of supporting Liu Bei is to deal with Xuzhou Mu Taoqian's covetousness of Qingzhou, and the ultimate purpose is to deal with Yuan Shao, the assassin of Jingzhou, and the original purpose of supporting Sun Ce is to pacify the small and medium-sized forces in Jiangdong, and the ultimate purpose is to deal with Yuan Shao, the assassin of Jingzhou.
Why did Jin Liang support Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce to deal with Yuan Shao, because Jin Liang and the strategists had calculated Yuan Shao's future development.
Now nearly half of the Han dynasty is represented by Yuan Shao as the family power, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou many seemingly neutral but ghostly family figures have fled to Jingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Sili, Yangzhou all over the family also look at the scenery, Yuan Shao has 150,000 soldiers and horses in Jingzhou in two years, Jin Liang to pacify Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Du, Dong Zhuo and other forces. In order to be able to raise the southern expedition, it will not be until at least five or six years later, and Yuan Shao at that time is more likely to expand his troops and horses to three or four hundred thousand.
Yuan Shao's three or four hundred thousand soldiers and horses were not like a rabble like the Yellow Turban Army, lacking food, clothing, armor, weapons, and training. The family was the richest group of people in the Han Dynasty, and with their help, Yuan Shao's army might even catch up with Jin Liang's central army after that.
Yuan Shao is not short of talents. The family at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not as decadent as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of the talents in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, especially the Wenchen strategists, were from the family, Yuan Shao occupied Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and most of the talents of the family in these two places defected to him, especially the Kuai family and the Cai family in Jingzhou, so that Yuan Shao was like a tiger with wings, and now Yuan Shao's subordinates have judgement, Fengji, Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xin Bi, Xun Chen, Xu You, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Zhu Han, Geng Bao, Hua Yan, Kong Shun, Yin Kui, Han Heng, Zhang Jin, Zhang Jue, Linghu Shao, Han Fan, Tao Sheng, Song Zhong, Yi nationality, Pang Ji, Liu Xian, Yuan Mai and others, military generals include Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gao Gan, Chun Yuqiong, Cai Mao, Cai Zhong, Cai He, Cai Xun, Wang Wei, Zhang Yun, Zhang Hu, Chen Sheng, Huang Zu, Zhang Nan, Ma Yan, Jiao Touch, Han Meng, Jiang Qi, Han Xun, Han Juzi, Wei Yuanjin, Jin Weihuang, Zhao Rui, Yan Chang, Wang Mo, Xia Zhao, Feng Li, Deng Sheng, Guo Yuan, Meng Dai, Jin Jie, Su Fei, Chen Ying, Han Xuan, Wen Ping and others.
Although the overall quality of the generals under Yuan Shao's command is not high. But the victory lies in the number of people, there are many middle-level civil and military generals, once a county is captured, you can find a suitable person to serve as the county commander, Jin Liang is not as good as Yuan Shao at this point, not many families are willing to defect to Jin Liang, Jin Liang has to cultivate talents by himself. However, it takes five to ten years to train talents on your own.
While Jin Liang asked Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce to curb Yuan Shao's development, he sent people to pay close attention to Cao Liu Sun's development, and once the tail was too big, he immediately contained it, so as to prevent them from taking advantage of the situation to become bigger than in history. But Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce are heroes after all, and they are not people who have lived under the people for a long time, and there will inevitably be some dragon and tiger battles between them and Jin Liang in the future, but now it seems that these three forces must also rely on Jin Liang in order to develop.
In the chain of Jin Liang's blockade of Yuan Shao's power expansion, Jin Liang had great expectations for Cao Cao's Dongjun, Bao Xin's Jibei County, and Liu Bei's Taishan County, hoping that they could curb the northward expansion of Yuan Shao's and Liu Biao's forces. But now Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Liu Bei are rampant in the Yellow Turbans, and they are all busy crusading against the Yellow Turbans, and they are unable to leave the country to attack Yuan Shao and Liu Biao.
What disturbed Jin Liang the most was that Cao Cao and Liu Bei did not kill them like the original Huangfu Song after the crusade against the Yellow Turbans, it was like Jin Liang who chose the elite to reorganize and enlist in the army, and chose the old and weak to join the army, so that their strength became stronger and stronger in the crusade against the Yellow Turbans, fortunately, for the time being, their strength has not grown enough to threaten Jin Liang, Jin Liang still chose to temporarily support Cao Cao and Liu Bei in order to fight against Yuan Shao, who was sitting in Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and could not survive, of course, Jin Liang still asked the Military Intelligence Department to pay close attention to Cao Cao and Liu Bei's movements, If any of them colluded with Yuan Shao or became hostile to Jin Liang, Jin Liang would annihilate them with thunder.
Since Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Liu Bei can't be relied on for the time being, Jin Liang has to find another way to contain Yuan Shao's forces, and he can't just count on Sun Ce, Yuan Shu, and Tuxie to contain them in the east and south, Jin Liang also has to do something.
Jin Liang and the strategists checked the map sand table in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and Jin Liang felt that he could not let Yuan Shao and Liu Biao develop freely and freely, so he sent the two to go deep into the hearts of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao.
The first person is Huang Gai, who is both wise and brave, Jin Liang showed him as the governor of Yingchuan County, and asked him to take a thousand elite soldiers of the Central Army, break them into pieces, pretend to be refugees, sneak back to Yingchuan County, gather Sun Jian's scattered old department, and collect the bandits on the Songshan Mountains near Yingchuan County, use the local complex terrain to attack Yuan Shao, and follow the sixteen-character policy taught to him by Jin Liang, "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase", and then strides forward and retreats to lure the enemy deep, and concentrate forces to break through, Annihilate the enemy in a campaign war.
Jin Liang knew that guerrilla warfare in the era of cold weapons was very different from guerrilla warfare in the period of hot weapons in later generations, and that guerrilla warfare in the era of cold weapons was limited by the social background at that time and the equipment and training limitations of the entire army, and it was not enough to achieve the results that could be achieved by guerrilla tactics in later generations, and the number of guerrillas was small, not enough to attack fortified positions, not enough to hold on, not enough to threaten the enemy's rear, and could not pose a relatively large threat to the enemy to attract the enemy to mobilize troops, and the operation required a considerable amount of combat time and the number of enemies that could be killed and wounded was extremely limited. After all, it is an activity in the heart of the enemy, and even if a certain force in later generations relies on guerrilla warfare to make its fortune, it is not the success of guerrilla warfare, but the success of that force's administrative program and political work.
After thinking about it again and again, Jin Liang sent dozens of students from the Central Daxuetang Military Academy who specialized in guerrilla tactics to the military academy, and sent dozens of them to join the army to publicize the policy of "exempting Juntian from military service" in the Yingchuan Mountains, and at the same time carried out all the actions to win the hearts and minds of the people stipulated in the Central Army's military regulations in accordance with local conditions, worked hard to win over the poor people around the mountainous areas, and relied on the support of the local poor people in Yingchuan to carry out guerrilla tactics. In this way, they can hold out until the arrival of Jin Liang's army.
Because Yingchuan is close to Luoyang City and Xingyang County in Henan County, there will be changes in Luoyang City in the next year, and then Jin Liang will be able to take Luoyang City lightly, and once Luoyang City is taken and Henan County and Xingyang County are controlled, Huang Gai's guerrilla force of four or five thousand people will be able to get a steady stream of support.
Jin Liang told Huang Gaiqian to let him persist in the mountains of Yingchuan County for half a year, and after half a year, the clouds and fog would disperse, and everything would be bright.
Huang Gai was naturally unwilling to work for Jin Liang at first, but this was Jin Liang's hard condition, Sun Ce had to beg Huang Gai to stay in Xiangyang to serve Jin Liang, Huang Gai had no choice but to serve under Jin Liang temporarily, but he made up his mind, once the time was ripe for the young master to seek self-reliance, he Huang Gai led the troops to the south and joined the young master, Huang Gai's idea was very good, but the system of the Central Army was very rigorous, even the guerrilla teams were in accordance with the brigade, battalion, team, two, and army formation, The appointment of all officers in it must be reviewed by the military officers at all levels, and the middle and upper level officers must be approved by the Xiangyang Military Affairs Yuan, and the military police under the command of the military officers at all levels are not only responsible for military discipline, but also responsible for the security of generals at all levels.
Jin Liang believes that one day, Huang Gai will die for himself.
The second person is Wei Yan, who is both wise and brave, he is a native of Runan, Jin Liang called him the lieutenant of Runan County, and ordered him to lead a thousand strong soldiers, sneak back to his hometown, and contact the Yellow Turban thieves Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Liu Pi, Pei Yuanshao, He Yi, Huang Shao, He Man and many other poles in Runan County.
The Yellow Turban remnants ravaged Yuan Shao's hometown Runan County, robbing and killing many family figures, so Yuan Shao spared no effort to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, and at the same time, because there were many families to support, Yuan Shao did not lack manpower, so unlike Jin Liang and Cao Cao, the Yellow Turban Army was incorporated into the Yellow Turban Army and selected its elite to enlist, and its old and weak Tuntian, Yuan Shao only had one word to kill, just like Yuan Shao broke the Black Mountain Army in history, slaughtered its Tunbi and killed on a large scale, making the Yellow Turban people in Runan endanger themselves, temporarily avoiding its peaks.
When Wei Yan returned to his hometown, the 1,000 central army soldiers who had infiltrated Runan into pieces were turned into pieces and gathered in Yiyang, and Wei Yan recruited villagers who were not subject to Yuan Shao's rule, gathering more than 2,000 people.
When Yuan Shao sent troops, Wei Yan led the men and horses to the area of Funiu Mountain, took the edict of the Xiangyang court, met with Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Liu Pi, Pei Yuanshao, He Yi, Huang Shao, He Man and other large and small yellow turban leaders, according to the number of their men and horses, they were awarded the position of lieutenant general, school captain, and generously rewarded with gold and silver, these yellow turban commanders felt Jin Liang's kindness, and hated Yuan Shao's tyranny, all expressed their willingness to attach to the Xiangyang court, respect Wei Yan as the commander, gathered forty or fifty thousand horses, relying on Tongbai and Funiu mountains, Frequent and targeted attacks were carried out on Yuan Shao's forces.
Wei Yan gathered Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Liu Pi, Pei Yuanshao, He Yi, Huang Shao, He Man and other Yellow Turban generals, all of whom experienced a lot of twists and turns, because these Yellow Turban generals were very distrustful of the imperial court, and at the beginning they all refused to be appointed by the Xiangyang Imperial Court, and even refused to be attached to the Yuzhou Corps under the rule of the Xiangyang Imperial Court.
The first to bear the brunt is Zhou Cang, because among these Yellow Turban generals, Zhou Cang has the highest force value, followed by Liao Hua and He Man, as long as they win Zhou Cang and subdue Zhou Cang, the other Yellow Turban generals will also be convinced, and they will calm down and listen to Wei Yan's words, and they will not listen to anything like they heard before that it was a general from the Xiangyang Imperial Court.
Zhou Cang is a tall black face and bearded Kansai Han, born poor, arrogant, decisive, sincere, Zhou Cang was forced by life in his early years, often picked and sold smuggled salt, so he practiced a pair of iron feet, two scuds, a good martial arts, after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zhou Cang joined the Yellow Turban Army, as the general of the local general Zhang Bao, after Zhang Bao's death, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, who was also the Yellow Turban Army, led the crowd to Woniu Mountain, Woniu Mountain is actually Funiu Mountain, at the junction of Runan County and Nanyang County, more than 800 miles from east to west, Zhoucang, Pei Yuanshao entered Funiu Mountain, Wuthering Mountains and forests for more than six years, and the local officials and soldiers were helpless.
Wei Yan led a thousand strong soldiers, turned into bandits, touched the cottages of Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, and wanted to appease the two in the name of the Xiangyang court.
Pei Yuanshao couldn't listen to it at all, so he stepped forward to fight Wei Yan, and was cut off by Wei Yan in one round.
Pei Yuanshao's soul was not possessed by the body, and he did not dare to fight. Zhou Cang brought a knife to fight Wei Yan. Zhou Cang's strength was infinite, wielding a big knife like a storm. The fight became tighter and tighter, and at the beginning, Wei Yan only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back.