Section 12 Surprise Attack on the Soil [4]
To justifiably hand Huangfu Song into the hands of Zhang Mad, all you need is an edict. With Huangfu Song's attitude towards the Han family, he would not easily refuse the appointment of the Han family.
At the beginning of February, at the same time that Zhang Mad sent troops to Jizhou from Bingzhou, a generation of famous generals Huangfu Song embarked on a journey to Jizhou by way of Merge Prefecture with the appointment of Jizhou pastor issued by the Son of Heaven. The people who accompanied him, except for his nephew Huangfu Li, were a team of Han Sui's cronies.
Huangfu Song, who embarked on this trip, just thought that Han Sui would not dare to kill him, and he did not want to stay in the court by himself, which became Han Sui's hidden worry, so he sent himself to Jizhou. And Huangfu Song once served as the pastor of Jizhou and was known for his prestige in Jizhou. Even if Yuan Shao has a preconceived idea, he may really be able to make a career when he goes this time.
After all, Huangfu Song would never have imagined that Zhang Qiang would be plotting to kill him......
After setting foot on the land of Hedong, Huangfu Song was immediately imprisoned by Xie Xun, who was responsible for seizing and guarding Hedong. Xie Xun's father, Bocai, died at the hands of the Han army under the command of Huangfu Song. There is such a wrongdoer, and the only ending waiting for Huangfu Song, a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, is to pass on the first day to the world and comfort those Taiping Daoists who are still alive!
So, killing the world-famous Huangfu Song, will it bring any trouble to the arrogance?
This point has long been thought of by arrogance. He is a remnant of the Yellow Turban, and he can't get along with the corporal of the world. Besides, he killed Huangfu Song to avenge his father. With the revenge custom of the Han Dynasty, although it is illegal to do so, it can barely be accepted by the world.
Before Han Sui and Zhang Mad reached a detailed peace agreement on the principle of coexistence between the two sides, the army that attacked Jizhou had already set out. For this large-scale attack, Zhang Qiang can be said to have used all his strength. Even if Han Sui did not come to the peace talks, Bingzhou would not have the strength to deal with him.
And Han Sui suffered because he knew too little about the news of the state, so he sent it to the door in vain. There is no need to sign the next agreement. Although Zhang Mad did not have anything to be proud of this, he used it as a good omen to encourage the senior generals in the army.
In order to give full play to the power in his hands, before this battle, Zhang Arrogant greatly transferred the positions of the generals of the state. After seizing the entire annexed state in the first year of Chuping [190], Zhang Jing quietly recuperated for nearly three years. has been holding back, just to complete the Jizhou strategy at this moment, so as to truly have the capital to dominate the world.
In the past three years, Zhang Qiang has also gradually adjusted the official positions and military establishment of his subordinates. In addition to the three old battalion heads of Lejin's "Zhenbei Battalion", Zang Ba's "Shanqian Battalion", and Yu Ban's "Zhechong Battalion", Zhang Qiang successively asked Zhou Cang to set up the "Taiji Battalion", Xie Xun to set up the "Wudang Battalion", and Zhang Yan to set up the "Flying Army Battalion" to suppress the excessive military power in the hands of some generals. Avoid the phenomenon of a large tail in advance.
As for Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Bao Chu, He Yi, He Man, Xu Sheng, Han Dang, Liao Hua, Chu Feiyan and other rising stars in the army, they have also been appointed by arrogant permission to build a separate army, and each has received hundreds to more than 1,000 soldiers. In this way, the military power of the entire annexed state was not concentrated in the hands of a few generals.
In addition, Zhang Qiang formed a "General Staff Headquarters" in the Assassin's Mansion to manage the dispatch of the army. In his arrogant assumption, more than 500 people in all his territories will be dispatched in the future. All of them must be approved by the "General Staff Headquarters". As for the candidates for the "General Staff Headquarters," they were single-handedly promoted by Zhang Qiang. And so it goes. Except for Zhang Mao, the rest of the generals could not command other generals, ensuring that Zhang Mad was the only leader in the state army.
Of course, today's General Staff Headquarters is still in its infancy. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the so-called "generals are not subject to military orders abroad," and the General Staff Headquarters wants to play a real role. It will have to wait until the arrogance has roughly calmed down the world.
As for the candidates for the county guards in the counties under his jurisdiction, Zhang Qi has also made a lot of changes. In some counties where security could be guaranteed, Zhang Arrogant tried to separate the political power from the military power in order to change the excessive authority of the county guards in the Han system. However, there are too many border counties in the state. and the upcoming battle for the world, making it difficult for the idea of insolence to succeed at present. However, the prototype is already in place, and Zhang Qi will definitely work hard to promote this system in the future.
Along with Huangfu Song, he was sent to Zhang Mad and the edict appointing Zhang Mad as the assassin of Jizhou. After Zhang Qi accepted the title of Jizhou Assassin sent by Han Sui, this invasion of Jizhou was automatically put on a legal coat. Therefore, at the same time as the army was launched, Zhang Qi was also very generous to his subordinates and generals to wholesale a bunch of official positions belonging to Jizhou, on the one hand, to stimulate the morale of the army, and on the other hand, to declare their own righteousness in righteousness.
Zang Ba, who was in charge of the southern front, was appointed as the Taishou of Wei County, and led the "Shanqian Battalion" of the headquarters and Han Dang's cavalry of 1,000 people, and went out of the "Fukou Fortress" of the "Taihang Eight Mountains" to surprise Yecheng.
Zhou Cang on the middle line, with the headquarters of the "Taiji Battalion" and Bao out of the thousand-man team, came out of the "Jingcheng" of the "Taihang Eight Mountains" and attacked Changshan and Zhao State's territories to the south. For this reason, the official position that Zhou Cang held this time became "Zhao Guoxiang".
The northern line was the main force of Zhang's army, which also came from Jingcheng, but the advance route was all the way to the east, straight to Zhending, and joined Dong Zhao's army to defeat Yan Liang and Wen Chou's army in Xiaquyang. As the vanguard of the army, Yu Ban's official position is not "Changshan National Minister", but "Julu County Guard". Thinking about it, Dong Zhao would not be reluctant to give up the position of Julu County Guard after getting a higher level of merger and state assassination.
Of course, the handover of this Julu County guard needs to wait until the main force of Zhang Qiang defeats Yan Liang and Wen Chou's subordinates and takes Julu County.
Speaking of the relationship between Dong Zhao and Zhang Qiang, it is also difficult to describe.
Dong Zhao was one of the secret believers of Taiping Dao a long time ago. Born in a poor family, he obeyed the political concept of Zhang Jiao, a "great sage and good teacher", and wanted to eradicate many eunuchs around the Son of Heaven, and return the Han Dynasty to a clear politics. For this reason, after receiving Zhang Jiao's secret support and successfully being promoted as "filial piety", Dong Zhao took the opportunity to blend into the ranks of the imperial court officials and became a hidden Taiping Dao internal response.
Due to the good concealment of ordinary times, when Tang Zhou rebelled and Ma Yiyuan was killed, Dong Zhao still avoided revealing his identity and became one of the few Taiping Daoists who still exist in Luoyang City. As the highest-ranking Taiping Daoist in Luoyang City, Dong Zhao's identity became more and more important in the eyes of the three Zhang Jiao brothers. Lu Zhi was sent to prison that year, including Dong Zhao's contributions.
Just two months before Zhang Jiao's death, because Dong Zhao had provided valuable information to the Taiping Dao headquarters many times, Zhang Bao was appointed and promoted Dong Zhao to "master", codenamed "Master Ren", in charge of the intelligence of the imperial court.
After the news of the death of the three Zhang Jiao brothers reached Luoyang, Dong Zhao once thought that Taiping Dao, as a political force, was over. Disheartened, he decided to give up his hidden identity and make a good way in the court.
According to the historical records of another time and space, Dong Zhao first took refuge in Yuan Shao and later in Cao Cao. Cao Cao's appointment as Duke of Wei and King of Wei all began with Dong Zhao's public proposal. Especially in the process of forcing Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate after Cao Cao's death, Dong Zhao played a very active role.
Unexpectedly, in this time and space, not long after the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Dong Zhao was told by the contact person of Taiping Dao that Taiping Dao did not end there, and Zhang Bao, the "Digong General", was actually cheating to death.
Zhang Bao assumed the name "Earth Master" and sent his cronies Wei Xiao and others to restore the Taiping Dao spy network that had collapsed for a while. After Dong Zhao learned that several Taoists who tried to break away from Taiping Dao had been cleaned up, he decisively accepted Zhang Bao's dispatch again, and as a "Master Ren", he transmitted many confidential information reports from the imperial court.
However, after all, Zhang Bao cheated to death once, which greatly reduced his control over the Taiping Dao spy network. At this time, Huang Shao, who belonged to the rest of the Runan marshal Zhang Mancheng, found a way to connect with Dong Zhao. Dong Zhao, in line with the same Taiping Taoist origins, secretly supported Huang Shao from the intelligence to see what big things he could do.
However, the ending was disappointing. Huang Shao is obviously not a figure who is good enough to do great things, and the Gepi Yellow Turban Army failed as Dong Zhao expected. After visiting the leaders of the Taiping Dao in various places, Dong Zhao's eyes once again fell on the arrogance of the Southern Xiongnu who had already pacified the Southern Xiongnu at that time.
As Zhang Qi won many battles in Bingzhou, his power became stronger and stronger, and Dong Zhao's optimism about him also increased. When he became the magistrate of Julu County, Jizhou, he took the initiative to strengthen his ties with the arrogant forces.
Because Dong Zhao and Zhang Zhao have always had Zhang Bao as a connection between Dong Zhao and Zhang Mad forces, Dong Zhao is also regarded as an old man in the insolent forces. This makes both parties feel at ease about the cooperation. And when he learned that there was such an important person lurking in Jizhou in Taiping Dao, he was ecstatic, at least happy for a few days.
After the meeting, Zhang Mad directly handed over the position of the history of the Bingzhou Assassin to Dong Zhao, also to declare to the Taiping Daoists in the world that he inherited Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao orthodoxy and would not treat those Taiping Dao old people who were willing to defect to him.
was entrusted with a heavy task by Zhang Mad and became a state assassin, but Dong Zhao did not get carried away because of this, but was more polite to Zhang Mad and other generals of the state army.
He saw very clearly that the reason why Zhang Mad arranged him to Bingzhou was because Jizhou was extremely important, which could be described as the capital of the world's kings, and Zhang Mad was unwilling to leave a non-descendant of people in Jizhou. On the other hand, it is also a trial of Dong Zhao by Zhang Zheng. Bingzhou is the foundation of insolence, and the power is deep, if Dong Zhao wants to do something in Bingzhou, it is also quite difficult.
And if Dong Zhao shows enough ability and loyalty in Bingzhou, Zhang Qi will consider promoting him to a more important position in the future, and then truly become an important minister under Zhang Qi.
Gossip aside, after Zhang Qi and Dong Zhao joined forces, after a little rest, they commanded the superior forces and launched a huge attack on Yan Liang and Wen Chou's troops stationed in Xiaquyang. (To be continued......)