Chapter 191: Risking Your Life

The general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. This is not just about the big man, it is appropriate to put it anywhere. The Hu people in the northern grasslands have always been a great disaster for the Central Plains Dynasty, and it is difficult to eradicate them. Fortunately, Tan Shihuai died early, otherwise a unified Xianbei would be more difficult to deal with than now.

Different from the inheritance method of the Central Plains Dynasty from father to son, Xianbei people pay more attention to speaking with strength. After the death of Tanshi Huai, although Xianbei was succeeded by his son and Lian, but Lian Zhi was sparse, so that Xianbei stood side by side, and now the most powerful is Kebineng, Budugen, Putou, Suli four people, as for the son of Tanshi Huai who has the blood of Tanshi Huai, and Lian's son Jian Man, who has been weak, can only rely on Kebi to survive.

Kebineng is extremely ambitious and wants to become the second Tanshi Huai, and compared with Kebineng, Budugen, Putou, and Suli are content with the status quo. This time, Sui Kebi can join the state for trouble, and it is only because there is a advantage to take advantage of, but as the news that the Han Dynasty raised 100,000 troops to prepare for the crusade reached Taiyuan, the four of them had different opinions on this matter.

Budugen didn't want to meet the Han swordsmen, he ran away after grabbing, relying on the vast grassland, it is estimated that the Dahan can't help him, and the eastern Xianbei Suli has similar ideas to Budugen. However, Putou of Xianbei in the west disagreed with the opinions of the two, after all, Xianbei in the east and the current Han are not next to each other, and the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if the Han wants to find trouble with them, it will take a while. But his western Xianbei is a neighbor with the Han, and the Han army's army can come over with its feet, not to mention that the excuse for sending troops this time is to retaliate against the Han for meddling in Xianbei's internal affairs and secretly supporting Tuoba Xianbei.

Now Tuoba Xianbei has been solved, but who dares to guarantee that the big man will not be annoyed and angry and find trouble for himself. If it was before, Putou was not afraid of the big man, but after seeing the sharp weapons used by the Tuoba Department, Putou was really worried that he would not be able to bear it. And once you fight against the Han alone, the loss is conceivable, Ke Bineng, Budugen, and Su Li are not good kinds, and when they are strong, they will call you brothers, but when they are weak, they will probably show their fangs. With the idea of dying together, Putou supported Kebineng's proposal to fight a decisive battle with the Han army and eliminate the main force of the Han army.

Four people, two different opinions, in the case of each having its own territory and its own people, no one could convince anyone, and no one dared to act rashly, so the matter was delayed until the Han court sent troops to cross the Yellow River and recapture Shangdang.

"Build a temple outside the city for me to pay tribute to the people who died in the city." Liu Xie commanded calmly.

As soon as this order came out, Cao Ang, Cao Zhang, and Guan Ping beside Liu Xie couldn't help but look horrified. The raw material of Jingguan is human heads, and there is no shortage of them now, but they have never experienced this kind of brutal thing, even if they slaughter the city, they will let people collect and bury the corpse afterwards, how can it be like Liu Xie who still intends to make people not be able to live after death.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Do you think I'm brutal? Liu Xie turned his head to look at Cao Ang and the three asked.

Cao Ang and the others bowed their heads and were silent, not daring to look at Liu Xie at this time. But Liu Xie didn't intend to let the three of them go, and said slowly: "Remember, this time I came here in order to return a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood, how those Hu people treated my Han people, then how can I Han people return it, and throw away the little mercy in your heart to me." If you can't figure it out, go and see for yourself the people we have just rescued from the Hu people. ”

There have been many disasters and difficulties in the state over the years, and natural disasters can be understood, but the key is man-made disasters. Because the Han Dynasty took in the weak Huns, the current state has suffered a lot from the Huns. Shangdang can be said to be the most concentrated place of Han people in the whole state, after the city was broken, the Han people in the city were also slaughtered by the Hu people, except for some young women who were left alive, the rest of the old and weak were killed, and those who passed the car were beheaded, that is not a casual talk.

After Liu Xie's army defeated the Hu people who camped outside the city, they took advantage of the situation to save the Han people who were captured by the Hu people, and from the mouths of those women who were humiliated, Liu Xie also knew the situation inside the party, and there were no Han people in the city anymore, only the Hu people who were not used to living in houses remained.

Of the hundreds of thousands of Han people, only a few thousand women were left who were humiliated by the Hu people in every way, which made Liu Xie furious. The Son of Heaven was angry and bled thousands of miles, since the Hu people are easy to kill, then let them taste the taste of being killed this time.

Cao Ang, Cao Zhang, and Guan Ping were not by Liu Xie's side before, and when they attacked the city, they took the lead and led their men and horses to fight fiercely with the Hu people, and they did not know about the Han prisoners they rescued. But when they came out of the camp where the prisoners were rescued, their eyes were red and they found Liu Xie.

"Figured it out?" Seeing this, Liu Xie asked.

"Holy Lord, I don't know when to leave?" Cao Ang asked in a deep voice.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Hold back the fire in your heart, this time the Hu people are huge, the battle of the party is just an appetizer, and when the news here comes back, the Hu people will inevitably come to retaliate, and then it will be the time for you to be angry. ”

"......" Cao Ang and the three of them did not speak, but nodded heavily.

At this moment, Cao Ang and the three of them have no estrangement from the different camps before, and the three of them have only one thought in their minds, revenge! Kill all those Hu people! Avenge the tragic death of the Han Chinese!

Sometimes, silence is also a strength. What else is there to say, you kill me, I slaughter yours! If you can only speak with a sword, then it depends on whose sword is better.

Long before the army, Liu Xie got a report on the current situation of the Han people in Bingzhou, the specific losses are not clear, but the losses must be huge, so after the army crossed the Yellow River, Liu Xie had already made up his mind to defeat the Hu people a few times, and then decided on the strategy against the Hu people after understanding the specific situation.

But after learning about the specific situation of the party, Liu Xie changed his mind. Compared with other states and counties, there are not many Han people in Bingzhou, and the successive natural disasters and military disasters have made most of the people who originally lived in Bingzhou choose to go to other places to find another way to make a living. But even so, there are more than 300,000 Han people still living in Bingzhou.

Shangdang is the city with the largest number of Han people, but after the city was broken, the Han people in the city were almost slaughtered, so you can imagine what kind of fate the Han people living in other places will be after encountering the Hu people.

The Hu people have many cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and this time Ke Bineng and others have already made a plan, and they will first surround the city but not fight until the army approaches the Yellow River, which also leads to the Han people in the city even if they want to flee south. The people of Shangdang could have taken refuge in the east through Huguan, but Tian Feng gave an order and opened his jaw and did not open and close the door, so that the people could only hide in the mountains, but how could two legs run more than four legs.

Liu Xie hated the brutal killing of the Hu people, and hated the Hebei Yuan clan for standing by and watching, and at the same time ordering people to spread the tragic experience of the people of Shangdang to the world, he also spread the evil deeds of the Hebei Yuan clan to the world. Hebei Yuan's family, the fourth generation and the third duke, protΓ©gΓ©s are all over the world, but as Liu Xie's general of the party spreads, people who have an old relationship with the Yuan family in the past have spoken out to draw a clear line with the Yuan family.

When people all over the world were talking about it and hated the Hu people to the core, some people applauded Liu Xie's order to build a Beijing view with the head of the Hu people.

There are two sides to everything, and because of the different positions, the viewpoint of looking at the problem has changed accordingly. If the Hu people did not mention the massacre of the Han people, I am afraid that many moral gentlemen in the Han Dynasty would despise Liu Xie's decision to build a Beijing Temple, and even accuse Liu Xie of being cruel.

But with the disclosure of the Hu people's massacre of the Han people, there was a reason for the incident, and Liu Xie's order to build a view of Beijing became reasonable in the eyes of most people. Why do you allow people to kill my people and rob my people's wealth? Confucius also said that he repaid his grievances with directness, why didn't I allow my big man to return a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.

If Liu Xie used the heads of the Han people to build the Jingguan, he would lose the hearts of the people, and his subordinates would be even more detached, but now he is taking revenge on the Hu people, then there is no problem. You do the first year of junior high school, I do the fifteenth, just see who is ruthless.

The Xianbei people had never learned the fierceness of the Han people, so when they learned that the Han people used the heads of their people to build a Jingguan in Shangdang, they clamored for revenge one by one. But the Huns are different, although it was more than a hundred years ago, but think about the powerful Xiongnu split into two under the blow of the Han people, one moved west, and the other bowed, the Huns were afraid.

When the Han did not react earlier, the Huns followed behind the Xianbei people and caused disaster to the Han people, but when the Han people sent troops to retaliate, the Huns were instigated.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei did not act together, the stronghold of Kebineng, Budugen and others was in Jinyang, while the stronghold of the Xiongnu was in Hexi. After the news of Shangdang's reconquest by the Han people came back, the three main figures of the Huns gathered together to discuss the next step.

The previous Xiongnu died in Yu Fuluo, and was succeeded by his brother Hu Chuquan, and Liu Bao, the son of Yu Fuluo, is now the left king of the Xiongnu, and the right king is to be humble, and the result of the discussion of these three people will directly determine the fate of the Huns. It's just that the three of them have discussed for several days and still haven't come up with a result.

Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, was the main battle faction and believed that he should cooperate with the Xianbei people and fight the Han people to the end, while the right Xianwang Qubei was a peace-seeking faction, believing that the Han people were invincible and that it was better to maintain friendship. Although many Han people have also suffered disasters with the Xianbei people before, according to the custom, as long as they ask the Han people for their guilt, they can generally get forgiveness, and maybe they can get some other benefits. As for Hu Chuquan, he felt that what the two of them said had a certain amount of truth, and he was undecided, unable to make up his mind, and couldn't make up his mind.

The Huns did not know how to make a decision at this time, on the other hand, the Xianbei people had the same attitude, after learning that the clansmen called the Han emperor to order people to build a Jingguan, the previous escape faction Bu Dugen and Su Li were unusual, and firmly stood on the side of Kebineng. And after Kebi Neng received the support of the other three, he also decisively ordered to send troops to the south to fight to the death with the main force of the Han army in the north.

Before the Xianbei army set off, Kebineng sent someone to inform the Huns, hoping that Hu Chuquan could fight side by side with him, but Hu Chuquan hesitated, and in the end, only Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, came with his troops to join Kebi Neng.

On the one hand, there is the Han army that wants to avenge the dead compatriots, and on the other hand, there is the Hu army that wants to take the opportunity to completely defeat the main force of the Han army and turn the state into their Hu racecourse.

Liu Xie did not leave the party, after retaking the party, he ordered to strengthen the city defenses, waiting for the Hu people to come, and after learning that Kebineng led his troops south, he mobilized troops and horses to prepare for the battle. By the time Kebi Neng arrived outside the city, the party had been repaired and had become stronger than before.

Looking at the tall city wall, Kebi Neng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the Hu people were not good at attacking the city, and they were able to break through the Shangdang before, because there was an opportunity to incite in the city, so that the Han people lost their sense of proportion, and tried to open the city in a panic to escape, so that Kebi Neng was able to break the city. But now, the Hu people in the city have already told the Han people to kill all the people, and Shangdang is already a military city, so it is not easy to shake people's hearts.

The city gate opened, a team of Han troops from the city to kill, as the leader of the general golden helmet and gold armor majestic, the big knife in the hand pointed at the Xianbei people, scolding.

Seeing this, Kebi immediately sent his general Suonu to fight, hoping to take the opportunity to break the spirit of the Han army first. It's just that I didn't expect that the lock slave, who is known as the Xianbei warrior on weekdays, did not perform well in the face of the Han generals, and the general was beheaded before the battle, but unfortunately it was the side that was beheaded. Seeing that the lock slave asked Han to divide a knife into two parts, and the war horse that had lost its owner was wailing in place, Kebi couldn't help but gasp.

The slave was killed, which surprised the Xianbei people, who had thought that the Han people were weak and could be bullied, but they didn't expect that there were warriors among the Han people. In order to save the situation, Kebi Neng had to send another general, Yu Zhujian, not to ask Yu Zhujian to kill the enemy general, as long as he could resist the enemy general's attack and make a draw, it would be enough.

Yu Zhujian is Kebineng's son-in-law, skilled in arching and horse, and he is better than locking slaves in terms of bravery.

"Han people, leave a name and surname, so as not to be a lonely ghost." Yu Zhujian opened his mouth to say to the enemy.

"Humph! Hu people are also only etiquette? Ben General Pound, today I want to repay the blood debt from you and other beasts for the people who died in my Han Dynasty. ”

"I'm Yu Zhujian, you have to have that ability, just let the horse come." Yu Zhujian held the knife in his hand against the big knife that Pang De had chopped over, gritted his teeth and said.

The second general dismounted and circled in Shangdang City, fighting fiercely for nearly Lily, and in the end, Kebineng was worried that Yu Zhujian would lose, and ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Liu Xie stood at the head of the city, watching Kebi collect his troops and return to the camp, Cao Zhang, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask: "Holy Lord, didn't you say that you wanted to avenge the people before?" Why are we not allowed to go to war today? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Ziwen, Hugh is rude, and the saint must consider it. Cao Ang hurriedly scolded when he heard this.

Liu Xie glanced at Cao Zhang, then at Cao Ang, who was looking nervous, and suddenly smiled, "Zixiu can enter the center of the imperial court in the future, and Ziwen can only be a general." Zi Xiu is not worried, Ziwen is straightforward and fast-talking, and I will not worry about him. Ziwen, you ask me why I don't fight? Then do you know where Zhang Liao and Xu Huang led their troops? ”

"I don't know." was reminded by Cao Angyi, Cao Zhang also woke up to who he was talking to, and his attitude became more respectful.

"If you don't know, I'll tell you, I ordered the two of them to lead their troops to raid the Xianbei people's nest. If you just want to defeat the Xianbei people in front of you and gather the strength of our army, I am confident that I can do it. But that would only knock them away, and after twenty or thirty years, the Xianbei people would be able to make a comeback, and that's not what I wanted to see. ”

"The Holy One wants to do it once and for all?"

"Well, the only way to stop the troubles of the Hu people is to cut off the roots. Only by turning it into a rootless wanderer, then we can divide and disintegrate it like we did with the Qiang and the Southern Barbarians. ”

"Isn't the Holy Lord afraid that he will not lose his tail like he did to the Huns before?"

"The merits and demerits of the previous court are not mentioned, and it can only be said that the previous court missed an opportunity. But this mistake I don't intend to continue. ”

"But Holy Lord, can we keep the party alone?"

"Why can't you hold it? The grain and grass in the city are enough for the army for a year, and the city is also equipped with equipment to defend the city, as long as no one colludes with the Xianbei people inside and outside, then they can defend it. I don't believe that Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao can't solve the old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the rear by the Xianbei people in a year. Once the Xianbei people learned that the rear was attacked, the morale of the army would be in turmoil, and at that time, it would be the time for us to attack. Ziwen and Dingguo, if you two can't bear it, then you two will go out of the city tomorrow to face it. ”

"Holy rest assured, tomorrow I will make Xianbei people look good." Hearing this, Cao Zhang hurriedly promised.

"Shengshang, I don't know where my Uncle Xiahou and Yu Wenze are now?" Cao Ang asked after thinking for a moment.

"Zixiu, are you confused? It was not only the Xianbei people who had plagued me and the people of the state before. Liu Xie replied casually.

Now Cao Ang understood, and at the same time, he had to admire Liu Xie's boldness, using himself as bait to lure the main force of the Xianbei people to besiege Shangdang. In addition to sending the three main forces of the Han army, Han'an, Xie Fu, and Youyi, to raid the Xianbei people's nest, he also asked Fubo Jun Ma Chao to take Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban to settle accounts with the Huns.

At this time, in Shangdang City, in addition to Liu Xie's Son of Heaven's pro-army of 30,000, there were only five generals: Pang De, Dian Wei, Guan Ping, Cao Ang, and Cao Zhang.

Kebineng didn't know the reality of Shangdang City, otherwise he would have attacked the city at all costs. Today, I will fold a general first, so that Kebi can have to be cautious. Send the generals back to the camp to stabilize the morale of the army, and leave Kebi to reflect on himself in the tent.

For the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Kebineng has heard of it earlier, but Kebineng has not attracted attention, in his opinion, Liu Xie can have today mostly relying on the help of the capable people around him, not that he really has the ability. But when he broke the lock slave today, Kebineng realized that he was very wrong, and what could impress the fierce general was probably not only the identity of the emperor.

Kebi, who realized that he was underestimating the enemy, decided to fight steadily, but he didn't know that this was in Liu Xie's hands. Liu Xie stayed in Shangdang in order to hold back Kebi to buy time for Zhang Liao and Xu Huang who went out on the expedition, and the longer Kebi could stay in Shangdang, the more completely the rear of the Xianbei people would be destroyed.