Chapter 101 Marching into Hanzhong
Kong Rong and other Confucian scholars clung to the fact that King Xia was no longer alive, and the current King Xia forged Emperor Wu's gold medal and edict, and used Taoism to deceive the king. wxs520.com At the same time, Kong Rong and others also denied the existence of the Huaxia Kingdom, and even more so, Kong Rong actually described the Huaxia Kingdom as a hell on earth, and Hu Yi was not enough to govern the country. Ouyang Xuan didn't say a word in the court, he coldly watched these people jumping up and down there, just placing the sword that flashed with cold light on the desk.
Liu Xie is also powerless now, the edict left by Emperor Guangwu is not allowed to be faked, and there are detailed records of King Xia and Huaxia in the annals of Guangwu's autobiography. He also knew why Kong Rong and others criticized King Xia so much, and he also knew that there was still Cao Cao's power among the current courtiers. In fact, Ouyang Xuan and Liu Xie both knew that they were gambling, betting that Ouyang Xuan would not dare to kill Confucianism, and this time they won the bet. Cao Cao's cronies were silent when they saw Ouyang Xuan, and they jointly suggested that Cao Cao be invited back. This touched Liu Xie's scales, and now Liu Xie, who is strong in blood, has just regained his freedom and has some of the rights of the emperor, so he directly ordered these people to be taken down and punished by his three clans. These soldiers under Liu Xie naturally hated Cao Cao, and without saying a word, they arrested more than 30 people on the spot, pressed them into prison, and prepared to be beheaded at noon on the second day.
Kong Rong stood up at this time and said: "Your Majesty, King Xia is like Dong Zhuo back then, holding troops to coerce Your Majesty, and holding the power of life and death for us." It is the head of the country, and it must be discussed by the people of insight in the world, and when Prime Minister Cao Cheng governs the country, the world is stable, and the Quartet submits to it, which can be a great responsibility. It's not like this person who bullied the sect and destroyed the group, the immortality of people, Emperor Qin is not allowed, and Emperor Wu has also asked for it many times, but it is also in vain, and the powerful in history are not allowed, let alone a mere child? ”
After Ouyang Xuan listened, he didn't speak, but after bowing to Liu Xie, he withdrew from the court with his subordinates, and at the same time withdrew the Qingzhou army stationed in the city from Luoyang, camped thirty miles southeast of Luoyang, and sent Peng Fei back to Qingzhou overnight to replace Tang De here. Ouyang Xuan's affairs in the court are not unresolved, but he really doesn't want to entangle with those self-righteous people anymore, if Huang Tingzhong and Tang De do this again, I'm afraid the situation will be better. Therefore, letting Tang De lead 100,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in Luoyang and join forces with Liu Xie to sort out the government is Tang De's strength.
Tang De also came in a hurry that night, inquired about the specific situation in detail, and then said with a slight smile: "The lord is falling for Guo Fengxiao's plan, it's okay, haha." The lord only needs to enter Hanzhong, and this matter of Luoyang will be carried out by virtue." Ouyang Xuan nodded and said, "Wen Shang is here, I feel very relieved, and the matter of Luoyang will be entrusted to Wen Shang with full authority."
"The lord should go to Hanzhong first, confront Cao and kill the formation, and when the war in Hanzhong breaks out, Luoyang can be decided." Tang De said confidently. After taking a sip of tea, he continued: "The lord needs to leave a wise general here, and this matter can be done." Ouyang Xuan thought for a moment and ordered Zhao Yun to lead the army into Luoyang and obey Tang De's arrangement. "Those who know me, the lord is also", Tang De said with a smile.
Ouyang Xuan believed that Tang De could handle the affairs of Luoyang, Tang De had been in Han for many years, and he also hated the hypocrisy and arrogance of Confucianism. Early in the morning of the second day, Ouyang Xuan went to Luoyang and introduced Tang De to Liu Xie, Liu Xie was also very happy, and named Tang De as the lieutenant of Sili School, and at the same time named Zhao Yun, who had not yet arrived in Luoyang, as the general of Biaocai, leading Henan Yin.
Handed over the affairs of Luoyang to Tang De and Zhao Yun, Ouyang Xuan set out at the south gate of Luoyang, and the momentum was very huge, and the 400,000 troops stationed around Luoyang gathered here. Ouyang Xuan ordered 200,000 infantry, 100,000 cavalry, and 50,000 Yulin troops, and ordered Hu Zhang, Zou Heng, Tai Shici, Li Dian, Le Jin, Yu Ban and others to be generals. Young generals such as Li Cheng, Huang Mu, and Shang Lang were sent to various places to clear the remnants of Cao's army, and they were unified under the command of Tang De.
Ouyang Xuan took Tai Shici as the front army, Ling Hu Zhang led the men and horses of the headquarters as the Chinese army, Ouyang Xuan led the Yulin army to follow the Chinese army, and Zou Heng led Li Dian, Le Jin, and Yu Ban as the rear army, responsible for the transportation of grain and grass. The brigade set off from Luoyang, crossed Tongguan Ruliangzhou, and met Li Mu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other generals in Chang'an, this is also the first time that Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Ma Chao and other generals have seen Ouyang Xuan, and they are also deeply impressed by this young lord, not to mention anything else, that is, the kind of imperial momentum cultivated in the past three hundred years is not comparable to ordinary people, not to mention the majestic atmosphere exuded from the body.
Ouyang Xuan and the generals repeatedly discussed the offensive route and plan in front of the huge sand table in Zhongnan Villa, and the final result was that the Qingzhou army, which was good at plain operations, fought in the mountains, and the chances of victory were very small, except for the Meridian Road Cao Army did not set up passes, several other ancient roads were set up with several passes, and it was quite difficult to enter the army, according to their ideas, only through Nanyang to attack the Han side by taking the official road had a chance of winning.
Ouyang Xuan saw that everyone had finished expressing their opinions, and then said: "Since Lone is the King of Xia, you also know that Lone still has a divine army, so naturally Lone's divine army will go out at this time."
Ouyang Xuan pointed to the Meridian Road and the Bao Slope Road and continued: "Lone sent troops from these two places, since Cao Mengde thinks that our army is good at plain warfare, let him understand it, Lone's mountain warfare."
Zhang Liao looked at the terrain of these two ancient roads, and said to Ouyang Xuan: "Lord, other roads are okay, but this meridian road mountain road is steep, the weather is thousands, and there are three changes every day, which is very difficult." Please think twice."
"What Wen Yuan said is extremely true, since the pre-Qin period, there has been no successful sneak attacker on this path. Therefore, this road was rushed by the personal soldiers under the command of the lone leader, and the Baochu Road was feinted by General Li and Wen Yuan's leading army. After speaking, Ouyang Xuan made a detour route on the sand table to every pass on the slope. After reading the line drawn by Ouyang Xuan, Li Mu also nodded frequently, and made his own additions in some places.
How to go on the meridian road, Ouyang Xuan knew in his heart, after all, his base of Zhongnan Mountain was not far from this ancient road. This time the Meridian Road was also for a field training for the Yulin Army, and Ouyang Xuan had walked this ancient road many times in his later generations, and he was also very familiar with this ancient road.
Ouyang Xuan reassigned his troops, Li Mu and Zhang Liao, led 50,000 infantry as the first echelon, sent troops from the Baochuan Road, encountered the pass and detoured to the back to capture, and this detour route was carefully examined by Ouyang Xuan and the UFO squadron. Ling Hu Zhang and Tai Shi Ci led 100,000 infantry as the second echelon, each carrying ten days of dry food according to the requirements of mountain training in peacetime, a pair of folding aluminum alloy trekking poles, a rucksack made in China, and a light moisture-proof mat and down sleeping bag. Ouyang Xuan took 50,000 Yulin troops and Zou Heng led 30,000 infantry to walk the Meridian Road. The remaining Qingzhou soldiers were led by Linghu Zhang, as a logistics team, to transport materials to the two groups of people and horses on the Baochuan Road.
After the distribution of men and horses, Ouyang Xuan ordered a three-day rest, and he took Yulin Jun and Zou Heng into the Meridian Valley first. But the backpack Ouyang Xuan gave a death order, he couldn't put it on the horse's back, he had to carry it himself. Needless to say, the Yulin Army knew the rules of mountain marching and fighting. It's almost two Yulin troops with a Qingzhou soldier, crossing the mountains and mountains. This ancient road was still quite difficult to walk two days ago, and it can be said that it was simply difficult. Fortunately, the Yulin Army is all perennial to receive this kind of training, which is naturally very easy, but the Qingzhou soldiers are miserable one by one, and even some soldiers put their backpacks on horseback, and were beaten and scolded by the Yulin Army around them and put them on their backs again, until a soldier fell from the hillside, and the heavy backpack saved his life as a cushion, and there was no more unloading of the backpack. On the third day, the road was much better, which was also due to the fact that Wang Mang dug and repaired this meridian road in order to find Ouyang Xuan's mountain base, all the way to the Qiligou Pass in Ningshan County, and had to cross the meridian pass on the way. Meridian Pass is located in a valley sandwiched between cliffs on both sides, and there is no other road to detour. Only by capturing the Meridian Pass can we continue to move forward.
On the third day of entering the valley, the army marched to the meridian pass, this pass is as high as dozens of zhang, the gatehouse arrow buttress is readily available, the gate is two heavy stone gates, a river flows through the water hole of the gate, through the reflection of the weapon after the arrow battlement, there are hundreds of Cao army guards in the meridian pass. Ouyang Xuan did not give the order to attack, but found the military captain of Yulin Zhong and ordered him to find three hundred good rock climbers, climb the cliffs on both sides of the Meridian Pass along the mountain walls on both sides, and launch an attack on the cliffs at the right time.
They are all disciples taught by Ouyang Xuan, and they are naturally masters of the outdoors, and each of them has a pair of mountaineering pickaxes and a set of ropes in their hands. Under the gaze of the Qingzhou soldiers with a surprised expression, they used their hands and feet together, and quickly climbed the steep cliff, nailed the rope anchor while climbing, fixed the rope, and in less than half an hour, the three hundred Yulin army climbed to the top of the cliff with a height of 100 zhang under the attention of everyone inside and outside the pass, fixed the rope, and quickly moved to the cliff top on both sides of the meridian pass. Ouyang Xuan didn't hide it from the Cao army in the pass, all the actions were completed in front of them, and with the first batch to reach the top, more than a thousand Yulin troops climbed to the top of the cliff. As a wisp of yellow smoke rose from the top of the cliffs on both sides, Ouyang Xuan also gave the order to attack, this attack did not involve the Qingzhou soldiers, but the crossbow arrow offensive launched by the Yulin army, and more than 10,000 crossbow arrows flew towards the head of the Meridian Pass by curve shooting. At this time, hundreds of ropes hung down on the cliff walls on both sides of the Meridian Pass, under the cover of the crossbow arrow rain at the top of the pass and the cliff top, the Yulin army that climbed to the top of the cliff quickly descended to the wall along the rope one after another, took off the crossbow and formed a battle formation to cover the subsequent rope Yulin army. As the last Yulin army descended to the city wall, green smoke rose, and the rain of crossbow arrows suddenly stopped, and the sound of fighting came from the pass.
Half an hour later, the door was wide open, and the war was over. Ouyang Xuan led the army through the Meridian Pass smoothly, and the lieutenant of the Chinese military reported the results of the battle in a timely manner, and there were 230 guards of the Cao army on the Meridian Pass, all of whom had been annihilated, and there was no casualty in the Yulin Army. Zou Heng witnessed the whole process, and admired Ouyang Xuan's army so much that he threw himself to the ground, this is no longer a category that people can achieve, climbing a cliff is like walking on the ground, killing the enemy invisibly, and the upper and lower cooperation is seamless, Zou Heng and the Qingzhou soldiers have been scorched and tender, and looking at the Yulin Army around them is a kind of extreme admiration. The rest of the journey is quite easy to walk, it is all the official road that has been repaired, Ouyang Xuan thanked Wang Mang in his heart.
When Ouyang Xuan walked to Qiligoukou for three days, he encountered a thunderstorm on the road, and took a short rest, and when he arrived at Qiligoukou, Ouyang Xuan ordered a day of rest. Through the communication guards, it was learned that Li Mu and Zhang Liao were progressing smoothly in the Bao Chuan Road, and they had pulled out three passes in a row. Liuba County has been captured, and the second group of people is waiting for the second group to come immediately, straight out of the Baochuan Road, and enter Seoul.
Ouyang Xuan was very satisfied with this, and after resting for a day, he ordered the whole army to leave the Meridian Road and enter the Chi River. When Ouyang Xuan's two-way army appeared at both ends of the Hanzhong Basin, Cao Cao was really startled. He never imagined that Ouyang Xuan would send troops from the Meridian Road, and urgently summoned his generals and staff to discuss countermeasures.
"Lord, now Hanzhong is no longer able to stay for a long time, and it is necessary to go south to Yizhou and seize Shu to confront the Zou family", Guo Jia spoke first. Xu You and Jia Xu also very much agreed with going south to take Shu. But these generals under Cao Cao didn't want to go anymore and asked for a battle. Without him, the mountain road is difficult to travel, and now the army's morale is unstable, so it is necessary to poke the enemy's morale and stabilize the morale of the army by fighting a victory. Cao Cao also had this idea, but no matter how he was measured, Cao Jun was not the opponent of the Qingzhou Army. Don't look at Ouyang Xuan just walked out of the Meridian Road, but they are all all-powerful divine troops, Cao Cao has read the records about King Xia in the palace, he is not like Guo Jia and others, he just makes judgments through rumors, he really knows the existence of King Xia, Zou Yuan is King Xia, he doesn't doubt it at all. The reason why he chose to follow Guo Jia's advice was also because he wanted to compete with Ouyang Xuan, but now it seems that everything is wrong. The battle is only defeated, and there is a little way to survive.
Cao Cao didn't speak for a long time, looking at the map on the silk cloth in a daze for a while. Only then did he say: "The soldiers of the King of Xia, we can't fight with them, only by taking advantage of Yizhou, taking the land of Jingxiang, taking the river as a risk, and confronting Liu Xuande, the king of Xia, as for Jiangdong, it is still difficult to protect itself, I am afraid that it will also fall to the king of Xia." Order, immediately assemble soldiers and horses and Xicheng. Zilian led 100,000 soldiers and horses to resist the city and hold on to the front line of Nanzheng and Anyang, blocking the enemy for ten days. Yan Liangwen Chou obeyed the order and ordered the two of you to lead 100,000 soldiers and horses each to resist the city of Chihe and Maling Pass to block the enemy. Xu Huang was the vanguard, taking the Golden Bull Road to seize the sword gate, and the whole army took advantage of Yizhou".
With the orders of the generals to prepare one after another, Cao Cao left Guo Jia alone and said: "This time, I will take advantage of Yizhou, and please ask Fengxiao to go to Chengdu as soon as possible, and make it clear to Liu Zhang, so as not to damage the soldiers and horses when the sword gate is closed and delay the trip."
"Can the lord have the intention of seizing Yizhou as a place to rise?"
"Let's talk about it after this catastrophe first, now Liu Bei and Sun Ce have accepted the appeasement of the imperial court and returned to Beijing to take up their posts, only Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Liu Zhang in Yizhou are still indecided. Judging from the operation, the crusade is also near."
"My lord, I think that Xuande and Bo Fu are just fake Fushun, and there are other plans that are true. The lord only needs to endure for a while, and it will be seen."
"It can only be like this, in fact, there is still a place to go, so that the map will rise later." As he spoke, he took out a paper letter from his bosom and handed it to Guo Jia.
Guo Jia hurriedly read the letter and handed it back to Cao Cao, "Lord, according to what the letter says, are these Huaxia Kingdom and King Xia both true?" ”
"Well, that Huaxia country, Cao also got confirmation from the correspondents. The wealth of the country, the high wisdom of the people, and the benefits of the instrument are far beyond the comparison of our Han land. Compare it with heaven and earth, like the ratio of kings to exiles. The reason why you don't want to believe in the country that is close at hand is only because Confucianism has been blocked and bordered, and they slander it. Cao also knows, but now Huaxia is indeed around the Han land. You think that the trick of obscenity and ingenuity is now the foundation of the Chinese people and the reliance of the country. Today's king of China, is the empress, the daughter of the king of Xia, the survival of the white ninety-four years, for the people to see, the king of Xia also often has the face of the capital at noon, the people treat it like a god. Feng Xiao didn't know, when the blood edict of the prince of Xia, the people were all happy, and the statue of the king of Xia set up by Emperor Xuan worshipped, and in one fell swoop, many ways to march into several states, the responders were Yingdao, and there were countless people who donated money and food. It can be seen that its status in the hearts of the people of Shandong is better than that of Confucius and Mencius."
"It's just that the lord, with this popularity, is enough to determine the world in one fell swoop, why do you have to spend so much time? Harvest is unknown".
"Feng Xiaoming was confused for a while, and now it is still the Han family, and it has the promise of the two emperors of Jingwu, how can it take it for itself? If you want to take it, I am afraid that in the early years of Emperor Wu, when the soldiers came to Chang'an City, they would have taken it."
"Is there such a thing? Why don't you see the history books? Guo Jia also looked at Cao Cao suspiciously.
"The history of the world is not determined by the king. The humiliation of the Xia king's soldiers under the city, how can it be recorded in the book? The country of China is just a vassal of the Han Dynasty, but Emperor Jing was kind for a while, and the establishment of this country has today's trend. drove the Xiongnu, the Western Regions, and the Southern Yi, opened up the territory and expanded the territory and overseas Juzhou desert islands, established the country for more than 300 years, and has been extremely prosperous so far." After Cao Cao finished speaking, he took out a brocade box from the bookshelf, opened it carefully, and handed a very thick copy of "The History of Huaxia" to Guo Jia, and went back to take a good look. Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can you have some chance of winning. Alas, sitting in the well and watching the sky, Yelang is arrogant. Take a good look, these two words are also derived from this book."
"Yelang is arrogant, Jiazhi is from Taishi Gong's "Historical Records: The Biography of Southwest Yilie", but this sitting in the well and watching the sky is quite interesting."
"Haha, compared to Yelang Hou, you can't wait for the current Yelang Houer. Go down and prepare."
Ouyang Xuan was under the Chihe Pass, he was not in a hurry to attack, he was also waiting. Under the operation of Tang De, Liu Bei and Sun Ce successively accepted the imperial court's appeasement, Liu Bei had already returned to his hometown, with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang who had been in Nanyang and looked at the thatched cottage, leading more than 10,000 elite soldiers to Luoyang to take up their posts. Although Sun Ce agreed to appease, he did not move, and at the last moment chose to attack Shaxian in Jingzhou to the west and defeated Huang Zu. At the same time, he wrote a letter to express his exploits in pacifying the southeast, and at the same time sent Zhang Xun to Luoyang to lobby the courtiers. According to the original history, in order to pacify Jiangdong, Sun Ce also killed many Jiangdong heroes, but still did not encounter the assassination, which shows that Sun Ce's assassination in history may be related to Cao Cao, Yu Ji because of Ouyang Xuan's appearance, which affected Zuo Ci's life, was also spared.
Now the history of the Three Kingdoms has completely departed from the original trajectory, Liu Bei is still the same down-and-out image, Sun Ce is still alive and completely controls Jiangdong, Liu Biao controls Jingzhou, Liu Zhang controls Yizhou, and Cao Cao is driven by Ouyang Xuan's soldiers and flees in all directions. The rest of the regions were under Ouyang Xuan's control, and Ouyang Xuan became Cao Cao's role instead.
Zhao Yun rushed to Luoyang with 100,000 cavalry and starry nights, and Tang De, who had just been in office for less than a month, was promoted to the rank of Grand Sima Lingshang because of his merits. Zhao Yun, a cavalry general who had just entered Beijing, succeeded Tang De as the lieutenant of the division, and at the same time crowned Tang De as Pingshou Hou and Zhao Yun as Lingshou Hou.
According to Tang De's deployment, Ouyang Gui sent an envoy of 100 people, on ten helicopters, to land in Luoyang East City, which was the first time that Huaxia sent a helicopter to cross the Great Wall, giving Luoyang officials a strong psychological deterrent. And the demeanor of the Chinese envoys made Kong Rong and others even more ashamed. When the envoys presented the Empress of China to celebrate Liu Xie's return to power, the eunuchs who were accustomed to seeing rare treasures also opened their eyes.
Then came the huge caravan of Huaxia, in Luoyang City turned around, saw that there was really nothing to exchange, the letter to the mission and the emperor Liu Xie, the book said: Han land is really nothing to exchange, copper coins and Huaxia have long been abandoned things, gold Han land is in urgent need. The materials of the Han land are also abandoned things in China, which are not enough to exchange, and the Chinese civilian goods and Shaofu are specially left to be Chinese merchants to congratulate the Han Emperor."
Liu Xie took a group of officials of all sizes in the DPRK and China to visit the materials left by the merchants, and the fine porcelain that belonged to the high-end materials in the Han region was only the outer packaging here, and the inside was more exquisite glass products, countless jade jewelry, and exquisite packaging of all kinds of food, and the silk that the Han was proud of was the difference between heaven and earth. It turned out that there were also fine porcelain and exquisite glass products in the Han region, and Ouyang Xuan also left behind many craftsmen when he left, and later these people were squeezed out by the Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty, and finally they were all exiled to China, where they became a generation of great craftsmen. Throughout the Han Dynasty, only Cao Cao really attached importance to science and technology, and he was also the most criticized by later generations of Confucian and Taoist scholars.
The core idea of Confucianism is to promote officials and make fortunes, so as long as it is related to promotion and wealth, it will be greatly developed in society, such as dividing social hierarchies, for the sake of the top, intrigue, the golden mean, and other tricks will prevail. As for things that are beneficial to social development, they do not consider it, and even refuse education for all on the grounds that teaching peasant children to read is insulting to the sages, and only the social elite can get a good education, and the education of the people is thanks to craftsmen, which is why they are denounced by the Confucian authorities.
Looking at these goods, the eyes of these officials are already worth it, and what they are thinking about is not how to make these goods, but how to keep them for themselves, and then let themselves climb to a higher position through the exchange of courtesies. I was not ashamed of the caravan's letter, but thought that it had taken a great advantage. Tang De carefully observed everyone present, only Zhao Yun and Kong Rong were not interested in these items, the two of them talked without a match, and the conversation was very pleasant. Tang De smiled slightly, revealing a hint of cunning. This is the reason for transferring Zhao Yun into Luoyang, first, Zhao Yun is a native of Handi, second, Zhao Yun is generous and resourceful, and third, Zhao Yun is loyal. It is precisely with this characteristic of Zhao Yun that he unites people from all walks of life in the DPRK and China, and Zhao Yun has brilliantly completed the task assigned to him. The whole court praised Zhao Yun, if it weren't for Zhao Yun coming from Ouyang Xuan's command, I'm afraid the position of the general would be his.
After these two moves, the rejection of King Xia from the top and bottom of the court was also weakening, and when Liu Bei came to Luoyang with his people, everything changed dramatically.