Chapter Twenty-Six: The Great General of the Thieves
Light and seven years, January. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The imperial court arrested Tang Zhou and split the **** righteousness, and Zhang Jiao, the head of Taiping Dao, learned of the leak and claimed to be the general of Tiangong, the second brother Zhang Bao was called the general of the earth, and the third brother Zhang Liang was called the general of the people. Zhang Jiao rebelled with the Yellow Flag and sent people to gallop through the Taiping Road in the starry night, agreeing to oppose the Han Dynasty.
For a time, it was from Youzhou in the north to Jingyang in the south, and Yizhou in the west to Qingxu. Taiping Taoists all over the world wiped their foreheads with yellow scarves, shouting 'the sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand', and rushed to their respective counties and towns with a tsunami-like terrifying momentum. At this time, most of the county guards in many places in the Han Dynasty were officials who were bought with money, and in the face of the overwhelming wave of yellow turbans rushing towards them, it was already great to be able to ensure that they would not be scared to pee their pants immediately, and how many were willing to sacrifice their lives to defend the city for the Luoyang court? For a time, the Yellow Turban army even conquered more than 100 townships and counties, and after breaking the city, they forcibly recruited local people to join them, and the momentum became even more vast, and there was a faint image of swallowing the sky.
Liu Hong, the son of heaven, who originally thought that Taiping Dao was just a disease of scabies, was almost frightened in the face of the mountain of military reports on the imperial case.
"The Taiping Dao thief suddenly attacked, such as today, there are reports for reinforcements everywhere, do you Aiqing have a good plan to teach me?" After all, Liu Hong, the son of heaven, has been the emperor for decades, and he has experienced a cruel struggle between the party and the government. Although he was frightened by the rapid offensive of Taiping Dao for a while, he still forced himself to calm down and inquire about the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty after relieving himself.
Yuan Feng, who was promoted to Sikong because of his previous meritorious service in raising thieves, stood up on the train at the time of the Son of Heaven's inquiry: "Back to Your Majesty, the first horn of the moth thief, it is indeed eye-popping that the hard work that the people have spent decades accumulating has exploded today, but the foundation inherited by my Han Dynasty for more than 400 years is by no means something that can be shaken by a few moth thieves." The minister implored His Majesty to send a general to lead his troops to fight the thief, and a general will be able to win the victory! ”
Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, was overjoyed when he heard this, and set his eyes on He Jin, who was at the top of the Wuchen queue: "Can the general solve my worries?" ”
He Jin's heart was broken at this moment, if He Jin was killed with a knife and a shot to reach the position of the general today, he must have the ability and courage to agree. But he was originally just a butcher who sold meat, if it weren't for his sister-in-law Meiruo Tianxian who was presented to Liu Hong, the son of heaven, by the Ten Constant Servants, how could he He Jin ascend to the sky in one step and become the head of the military ministers of the dynasty and the position of a general?
'This damn old thief Yuan Feng, you have the ability to go and beg the thief yourself, what are you doing to bring me out!' He Jin glared at Yuan Feng fiercely, but Yuan Feng gave him a meaningful smile in return.
Just when He Jin was about to admit it, Lu Zhi, who was standing behind him, quietly pushed He Jin's waist with the jade wat in his hand. He Jin looked back, but found that Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song, Cao Cao, Wu Kuang, Yuan Shao and others behind him were all looking at him with eager eyes. Although He Jin has no ability, he has been a general for so many years, even a pig understands at this time that although he has no ability to deal with those vicious moth thieves, in the eyes of these people behind him, those moth thieves are the treasure of their promotion and fame!
"Return to Your Majesty, I am willing to beg for your Majesty!" He Jin straightened his waist, as if he was strategizing, and the moth thief was just a thief.
"Good! Good! When Sheji was in danger, he knew that the general was mighty!! I will hand over the military power to defeat the Taiping Dao thieves in the hands of the general, and today the general can write a recital to me when he returns home, and I will promise to do anything if he needs ordnance, money and food! With a wave of his hand, Liu Hong, the son of heaven, handed over the heavy task of deciding the survival of the Han to He Jin, and this heavy burden was pressed on his body, and He Jin felt that he was even having some difficulty breathing.
After retiring from the early dynasty, He Jin invited a group of ministers to the General's Mansion.
"At the beginning, General Ben thinks that he is not thin on your Yuan family, why did he suddenly attack General Ben in the court today?" The guest and the host sat down, and He Jin took the lead in taking Yuan Feng's son Yuan Shao to open the knife.
Yuan Shao is Yuan Feng's concubine, but not only is he handsome and chic, but he is better than Yuan Feng's son-in-law Yuan Shu, so Yuan Fengli is exclusive and takes out a large amount of resources in the family to send him to serve under the command of the general He Jin.
Seeing He Jin's question, Yuan Shao arched his hand unhurriedly and said: "General Rongyu, although the moth thief is powerful at this moment, it is just a short-term advantage when the local government has just passed the New Year and is defenseless. And my Han Dynasty does not say much, there are nearly 100,000 elite troops who have just completed Pingqiang in the Guan, although they cannot all be transferred, but they only need to take the elite as the backbone, and then recruit some county soldiers around Luoyang as flesh and blood, and a crusade army can be achieved overnight. With this army of soldiers and horses, coupled with the sophisticated weapons and armor in the Luoyang arsenal, why worry about the Taiping Dao'e thief? ”
Lu Zhi next to Yuan Shao looked down on He Jin, who relied on women to take the throne, but his old friend Chen Yu had already written a letter about the dangers of Taiping Dao, and now Taiping Dao was unexpectedly raising the flag to rebel, at this time it was natural to focus on the community: "Taiping Dao thieves seem to be all over the world, but it is based on the disaster victims, and the most seriously affected in these years are the five prefectures of Hebei, Qing, Yan, Henan, and Yang, although the rest of the states and counties also have thieves but it is difficult to become a climate because of the small number of victims." Fortunately, because of an old friend's warning, most of the states and counties in Yanyu and Yu Prefecture have taken precautions, so although there are many thieves in the area, they have not lost many cities.
If the general wanted to raise troops to suppress the Taiping Dao'e thieves, the old man suggested that the general's soldiers should divide into three routes, all the way out of Wuguan to attack Zhang Mancheng's department that occupied Nanyang, and all the way out of the tiger prison to suppress the Bocai department that was ravaging Yanyu Erzhou. The last way is the main force, going to Jizhou to attack Guangzong, where the first horn of the Taiping Dao thief is located. The armor of our army is far superior to the moth thief force that uses wood as a soldier, as long as we concentrate on fighting a large-scale battle with the thief, the shortcomings of the thief's negligence in the battle formation will be infinitely magnified. Although there are many thieves, they can be wiped out in a few formations. ”
Huangfu Song stroked his palms and smiled: "Lu Zigan is worthy of the great Confucianism of the world, and hundreds of thousands of thieves actually look at it as nothing. If the general can act according to this policy, then the thief can be leveled and the world can be determined. ”
The hundreds of thousands of Taiping Dao Yellow Turban Army, who originally felt that they were invincible, now seemed to be easy to eliminate them in Lu Zhi's words. And no matter who won this battle, as the emperor's hand-picked thief commander, He Jin must be the one with the greatest credit. In this case, He Jin naturally would not be jealous that Lu Zhi had stolen the limelight, but humbly asked: "This general wants to sit in Luoyang to coordinate the overall situation, but I don't know that the three-way army that Zigan said, can there be a commander in his heart?" ”
He Jin's greed for life and fear of death naturally made Lu Zhi despised, but when it came to the position of the commander of the three-way army, Lu Zhi was unwilling to let He Jin take on such a straw bag. As the so-called incompetence has affected the three armies, although the Han Dynasty can easily form a strong army, if this strong army is buried in the hands of Taiping Dao, there will inevitably be a vacuum period of troops, which will also put the whole world in trouble. Therefore, when He Jin asked about the choice of commander, Lu Zhi said aloud: "The old man is not willing to lead one army and horses to Guangzong, and the other two army old men recommend General Huangfu Song and General Zhu Jun to take command. ”
Although Cao Cao and Yuan Shao both coveted this commander, firstly, these two people's qualifications were still shallow, and secondly, Lu Zhi was a great Confucian in both civil and military affairs, and even He Jin was unwilling to refute what he said. In addition, the idea of dividing troops to fight thieves was originally proposed by Lu Zhi, and He Jin naturally would not fail to give Lu Zhi this face if he adopted this opinion.
The next day, He Jin played Lu Zhi's strategic layout to Liu Hong, the son of heaven. Liu Hong approved He Jin's recital.
Liu Hong chose an auspicious day of the zodiac, worshiped He Jin as the general of the thief after sacrificing heaven and earth, worshiped Lu Zhi as the general of Beizhong Lang, Huangfu Song as the general of the left Zhonglang, and Zhu Jun as the general of the right Zhonglang, gathered the soldiers and horses to distribute armor and distributed grain and grass, and the soldiers went out of Luoyang in three ways, and were ordered to beg for the thief!