Chapter 289: Fu Hong's Choice
Yongzhou, Anding County, the upper reaches of Lushui, the blue sky, a round of red sun hanging high, swaying the brilliance. On the endless prairie, a top felt tent, like a leaf of white boat, fills both sides of the Lu River, and tens of thousands of felt tents surround the king's tent in the center like the stars holding the moon.
Lu Shuihu people are skilled in bows and horses, brave and good at fighting, and the warriors in the tribe for a hundred years often serve as the commander, centurion, and commander of the thousand with the Han army to fight in all directions. In the name of mercenaries, they participated in a series of military operations of the Han army in Hexi and the Western Regions, and the name of Lu Shuijingcai resounded in the northwest.
However, since Peng Dangzhong succeeded as the leader of the tribe, he saw the decline of the Jin dynasty and the barbarians in all directions claimed to be self-proclaimed, so he fantasized that one day Lu Shuihu could also achieve a hegemony. Under the careful planning of Peng Dangzhong's father and son, Lu Shuihu secretly accumulated strength and intended to take refuge in the powerful Huns.
It's a pity that just as the situation was developing as Peng Dangzhong's father and son expected, Peng Dangzhong was killed by Jia Kai due to the leakage of the conspiracy.
Fortunately, Peng Tianhu's son inherited his father's business and held high the anti-flag, separating Chaona and Dulu counties to continue to dream of being the king and hegemonic.
However, when the Liaodong army defeated the main Xiongnu force in one fell swoop, Peng Tianhu realized that everything he had planned before was just a pipe dream. In the face of the fierce Liaodong Iron Cavalry, Peng Tianhu knew that he was invincible, so he sent troops to resist while asking for help from the neighboring Luoyang Fuhong.
Historically, most of those who can achieve hegemony have broad minds. Fu Hong has a generous personality since he was a child, quite scheming, and when he grows up, he is "good at charity" and "multi-power", very kingly, and "good at riding and shooting", he is a master of civil and military all-rounders, so he is "afraid of the group", and has a high prestige in the tribe.
The fierce folk customs and the ability to fight well are the common characteristics of the Di people. It's not uncommon for a good rider to shoot well. Fu Hong's special features are more reflected in the "good charity" and "multi-power strategy", he relied on "good charity" to start a business, and relied on "multi-power strategy" to finally become the leader of the Luoyang Di tribe.
At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the funeral was chaotic, and the Wuhu surging was stationed in the Central Plains, and the heroes rose together. War continues.
Fu Hong "is to scatter thousands of gold, summon heroic people", and soon pulled up a team of more than 10,000 cavalry with the Di people as the core, becoming the largest local real power faction in Luoyang.
However, Fu Hong was not satisfied, he knew that he was only a reckless barbarian after all, and he did not have much strength, and he would definitely not succeed if he took the initiative. Therefore, Fu Hong was not optimistic about Peng Tianhu's father and son who dared to raise the anti-flag from the beginning, on the contrary, he was very patient and had been waiting for the opportunity.
This time the Liaodong Army defeated Liu Yao. Let Fu Hong see the opportunity for the tribe to expand its power. He did not take the liberty of surrendering to Liaodong, but instead sent an envoy to Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, who was stationed in Shangtai, to claim his vassal.
I was very happy to learn that Fu Hong had come to join Sima Bao, and I was very happy to canonize Fu Hong as the captain of the school and the Duke of Luoyang, and the governor of the military and government of Luoyang. After receiving Sima Bao's appointment, Fu Hong was overjoyed, he knew that even if the Liaodong army took Longdong, he would not dare to attack Luoyang County, which was only separated by a mountain.
At this time, Peng Tianhu's envoy arrived at Lüyang, but as soon as he entered Lüyang, he found that the atmosphere was a little weird. It seems that the city of Luoyang has just undergone a celebration. Everyone had a smile on their faces, but there was malice in the eyes that looked at him.
In the king's tent. Dozens of Di generals took their places, or drank wine in large bowls, or whispered to the left and right, or looked at the envoy casually, but everyone exuded a fierce aura from the outside. Among the wolf-like generals, the middle one is the most conspicuous. Even if he sat cross-legged on the chair, he couldn't hide his majestic body.
This person is about thirty years old, with thick hair and thick eyebrows, and a square face with a bit of majesty. It's no one else. It was Fu Hong, the chief of the Luoyang Di tribe, and there were two henchmen sitting on the left and right: Pu Guang and Pu Tu.
After reading Peng Tianhu's handwritten letter, Fu Hong only glanced at Lu Shuihu's envoy under the tent, and then ignored the other party, he had no intention of caring about Lu Shuihu's life or death.
"Leader Fu, before I came, the head of my family specially told the small one, let me tell you that as long as the leader of Fu is willing to send troops to help Lu Shuihu repel the invading Jin army, and in the future, Guanzhong will be conquered, and the territory will be divided equally between the two families. Moreover, the leader of my family is willing to show the Han Emperor of Pingyang that the leader of Fu is the assassin of Qinzhou! ”
Peng Tianhu's conditions immediately moved many Di generals in the big tent, and they looked at Fu Hong with burning eyes. Unexpectedly, Fu Hong was not moved at all, but he drank all the wine in the wine glass, and then raised his head and looked down at Lu Shuihu's envoy for a long time.
Suddenly, Fu Hong looked up to the sky and smiled: "Hahahaha...... Laugh to death too! Laugh to death too! I think that Peng Tianhu is a young hero, famous in the northwest, and a certain one, Yang Nandi, Yao Yizhong and called Haojie! Now it seems that his people are far away from Yao Yizhong and Yang! ”
"Didn't he think he would end up where he is today? Hum! He died by himself, but he wanted to drag me to accompany the burial, didn't he deceive me and have no one? Who is Zhenbei General Wei Shuo? That is the great hero who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Huns and Xianbei people! ”
"With Lu Shuihu's elite cavalry of less than 10,000 people, how can he be the opponent of tens of thousands of soldiers in Liaodong? Although I have ambitions, I am not arrogant enough to be self-conscious. Go back and tell your leader, if I had better surrender early, maybe he would have been able to save a life, otherwise when the Jin army came to the city, I was afraid that it would be too late to regret it! ”
Hearing this, the envoy laughed dryly and said, "Leader Fu, you also underestimate my Lu Shuihu too much!" Since the leader of my family led Lu Shuihu, the population under his rule is not less than nearly 100,000 people, in addition to having more than 10,000 Lu Shuijing cavalry, there are tens of thousands of tribal cavalry as wings, if you add the Di elite cavalry, you will definitely be able to defeat the Liaodong people! ”
Fu Hong kept playing with the wine glass in his hand, and although he had a smile on his face, his eyes became colder and colder. This envoy began to talk nonsense in order to fool the Di tribe into sending troops, if there are tens of thousands of cavalry in Lushuihu, will they eagerly run to Lüyang for help? Unless the three major Lu Shuihu tribes unite, this battle will be settled and Lu Shuihu will lose.
"What's more, the behavior of General Guanzhenbei over the years, there are traitors in Zhuhu, such as the Xianbei of the Duan clan in Liaoxi, Murong Xianbei in Changli, Tuoba Xianbei in Hetao, and the Huns in Hedong, etc., most of the captured Hu captives were killed, and even those who survived were also denounced as slaves and engaged in extremely dangerous labor in various places!"
From this, it can be seen that this person is extremely hostile to the Hu people, more precisely, any Hu people who are disrespectful to the Jin people will be brutally retaliated against. If Wei Shuo gains power in the future, wouldn't it be dangerous for the people of Luoyang? It's not a small alarmist, unless the Di people are willing to accept the reorganization of Liaodong, otherwise Lu Shuihu's today is the tomorrow of the Luoyang Di people! ”
"The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, that's the reason! Please think about it, Chieftain! ”
"Hehe, who are you? also dare to make a big statement in front of someone, what to say! Fu Mou told you very responsibly that the lips will definitely die, but the teeth will not necessarily be cold! The envoy doesn't have to bother to speak, I won't send troops to help! ”
After driving the messenger away, the whole tent suddenly became lively.
I saw Fu Guang come to Fu Hong and said with a little puzzlement: "The leader knows that Liaodong is invincible, but why didn't you surrender to Wei Shuo, but chose Sima Bao?" Although Sima Bao is a Jin clan, his strength cannot be compared with Liaodong, which represents the Son of Heaven of Chang'an! ”
Fu Hong explained with a smug smile on his face: "It is precisely because Sima Bao is weak that he knows that I am going to take refuge, and Sima Bao will pay more attention to us because of this." And after Wei Shuo occupies Longdong in the future, even if he has intentions in Longxi, considering that we are Sima Bao's subordinates, he will also be scruples. ”
"I see, the leader is so far-sighted, it is really a blessing for me!"
In fact, for Liaodong to take Anding County, Fu Hong has his own worries. But after all, Lüyang and Anding are separated by Longshan, and Lüyang is nominally under the jurisdiction of Sima Bao, the governor of Qinzhou. He believed that Wei Shuo dared to attack Anding unscrupulously, but he did not dare to attack Lüyang without authorization, but if he intervened in Lu Shuihu, he would definitely leave a pretext for Wei Shuo to attack Lüyang.
Fu Hong's refusal completely made Peng Tianhu realize that the situation was not good, and in order to save the fate of Lu Shuihu's destruction, he organized all the knights in the tribe, plus Lu Shui's elite cavalry before a total of 20,000 cavalry, hoping to use this to fight against the Liaodong army (to be continued). )