Chapter 46: The Yongjia Rebellion

In the following period of time, Cao Hong fell into a confusion of thinking, and a question has been haunting him: What are the children of the family left besides eating, drinking, and having fun?

He saw in Wei Shuo a completely different attitude from the mainstream values of the Wei and Jin dynasties: when the emperor and the family monopolized educational resources and pursued elite education, Wei Shuo preferred to impart knowledge to the general public and actively promote universal education; The big families often disdain craftsmen, merchants, and common people, but Wei Shuo just took these untouchables as a treasure.

Cao Hong couldn't figure it out at first, but after days of reality devastation, he completely woke up. It turns out that the family is really a parasite attached to the common people in Wei Shuo's mouth, and without the wealth created by the common people, the children of the family are really useless except for knowing a few words.

After coming to this conclusion, Cao Hong decided to break with his old self and start a new life. Next, Cao Hong swept away the decadence of the past and actively participated in military training. The tasks assigned to Wei Shuo can also be completed more carefully. Unconsciously, Cao Hong gradually integrated into the big family of the New Army.

The time slowly came to the middle of May, and the news from the north was more and more shocking to the people of the world. Since the Xiongnu Dadan in March Liu Congji's army to attack Jin, it can be said that the attack is invincible, first in Yecheng, Hebei Province gathered and annihilated the remnants of the East China Sea King, killing hundreds of thousands of ministers, scholars and subjects from Wang Yan below.

At the end of April, Liu Cong personally led an army of 300,000 to besiege hundreds of imperial ministers such as Emperor Huai of Jin in the city of Luoyang. At that time, Luoyang had no troops to defend, and for Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of Jin, the only card that could be played was surrender.

No one expected that the Western Jin Dynasty, which had just been founded for a few years, would come to an end so soon.

For Sima Chi, who had experienced the glorious era of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, he also fantasized about reviving the majestic style, but it was a pity that the flowing water fell and the flowers went in spring, and he was in heaven and earth. The situation in the world collapsed so quickly that he couldn't react.

In fact, Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai had the opportunity to escape from Luoyang, but it was a pity that he failed to seize the opportunity. Not long after the death of Sima Yue and Wang Yan, Gou Xi, the general of the Eastern Expedition, sent people with dozens of ships, hundreds of soldiers, and 1,000 grains to welcome the Son of Heaven, and proposed to move the capital to Cangyuan (now Kaifeng, Henan, controlled by Gou Xi).

But at that time, the ministers' brains were flooded, and they were reluctant to leave the big city of Luoyang and move to a remote town. In the end, Gou Xi had to take the soldiers to disappoint, and the last lifebuoy drifted away like this.

A few days later, Liu Cong and his army surrounded Luoyang, and it was only then that Emperor Huai of Jin and his ministers regretted it. By now, there has even been cannibalism in Luoyang City, and a large number of officials have begun to flee.

After a few more days, Sima Chi, who could no longer hold on, also decided to take the risk and escape. However, this is not a one-time walk, when Emperor Jin Huai led people out of the palace, passing through the north-south Tongluo Street, he quickly retreated.

Because this once bustling and noisy street has long been deserted, only thieves remain, and when they see them in luxurious clothes, they come up and rob them. Even if someone shouted that this was Your Majesty, it would be useless, and Sima Chi had no choice but to turn back to the palace in fright.

In mid-May, just when Sima was hiding in Luoyang City in fear, Liu Cong outside the city was tired of the endless siege games and was finally about to strike a fatal blow at Luoyang.

Before the siege of the city, Liu Cong told the generals, "Luoyang City is only broken sooner or later, why bother with tricks and plots, lose the lives of the soldiers in vain, and delay the sun and the moon." If Gou Xi joins forces with Chang'an, You, Hebei, Liao, and others to rescue, can he not give up his previous efforts? ”

"Now the generals are only trying to attack, so the more afraid the city becomes, and when the people in the city panic, the city will collapse itself."

So the generals Shi Le, Liu Yao and others personally came to the city, and Wang Mi and Jiang Fei each led a large army to attack Luoyang from all directions.

At this time, the Jin army in Luoyang City was already at the end of its strong crossbow, how could it be possible to resist such a strong attack by the Hu people? After a while, the city wall was in a hurry one after another, and the scholars and people in the city listened to the earth-shattering shouts of the Hu people outside the city, and their faces changed abruptly.

Not long after, Liu Yao, the king of Shi'an, the general of the Huns, first conquered Pingchang Gate, and the generals of the Jin army, Qiu Guang and Lou Li, were killed in battle. The Pyeongchang Gate was lost, and the Jin army in the city was even more panicked. Caught off guard, Wang Mi and Xu Miao attacked Guangyang Gate again, and the fire in the city was even greater at this time.

Seeing that Luoyang was about to be destroyed, the ministers of Jin Sikong Xun Fan and Guanglu Dafu Xun Group could no longer take care of Emperor Huai of Jin in the palace, so they took advantage of the chaos to escape from Luoyang and went straight to Yan Yuan (that is, Yanshi). The ministers all fled, not to mention the others, because no one thought about defending the city anymore, and they scattered and fled.

After the Jin army gave up resistance, the Xiongnu army successively broke through the other gates of Luoyang, Liu Wei entered the Ximing Gate, Shi Le captured the Dongming Gate, and then Liu Cong led the army into the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty - Luoyang. This is since the Western Zhou Haojing was broken by the dog Rong, the capital of the Chinese Great Unification Dynasty was once again broken by the grassland people.

When the Huns burned and plundered in Luoyang City, Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, was hiding in the royal garden and hiding from the Huns. Unfortunately, there was too little space for him to play a game of hide and seek, and the Huns soon found Sima Chi. Because Sima Chi did not have the courage to commit suicide, he had to obediently become a prisoner of the Huns.

The Huns burned Luoyang, killed tens of thousands of Luoyang people, and returned to the north with countless treasures and Han women. Before Liu Cong left, he took Liu Yao, Liu Wei and others to prepare to deal with the Jin army in Guanzhong, leaving only Shi Le and Wang Mi to continue to clear the local resistance forces in Jizhou, Hebei, and guard against Wang Jun, the assassin of Jin Youzhou.

Sima Chi, the emperor of Jin Huai, who was a prisoner, did not end well, and his queen Yang Xianrong was not only snatched away by Liu Cong, but he himself was also taken to Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi), the capital of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. After arriving in Pingyang, in order to humiliate Sima Chi, Liu Cong specially appointed him as the third secretary of Yitong and the title of Huiji County Duke, all of which were false names and had no real position.

It's really feng shui in turns, and the world is impermanent! The old incident of the ancestor of the Sima family, Sima Zhao, who settled the queen Liu Chan, happened to the descendants of the Sima family again, if this matter was known by Sima Zhao underground, I don't know how to feel?

At this time, Liu Cong, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, reached the peak of his career, not only accepting the queen of the Jin people as a concubine, but also capturing their emperor. Looking at the people who used to be high at his feet, Liu Cong was triumphant.

In fact, don't look at the prosperity of the Xiongnu and Han countries on the surface, in fact, the interior has long been full of hidden dangers. First of all, since Liu Cong broke through Luoyang to establish immortal feats, his enterprising spirit is no longer what it used to be. Since seeing the prosperity of Luoyang, Liu Cong has gradually indulged in pleasure under the tenderness of Queen Sheep.

Secondly, several generals of the Han State who held military power gradually had the heart to support the army and stand on their own. This time, in addition to Liu Yao, Wang Mi, Shi Le and others refused to go to Pingyang and chose to stay in the Central Plains, which is very revealing.

When Liu Yuan was alive, these three people did their best to the affairs of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdoms, and since Liu Yuan died of illness last year, Liu Cong usurped power and succeeded to the throne, and the ambitions of these three people gradually expanded. If there is a big chaos today, Liu Cong relies on the Huns to establish a hegemony, why can't he rely on the Xiongnu to succeed?

Moreover, the cavalry of the Xiongnu nationality under the command of Shi Le is the most powerful cavalry of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, and even the elite of the Xiongnu under Liu Cong cannot be compared. Not to mention Wang Mi and Liu Yao, one of them is a rebel leader, and the other is Liu Yuan's appearance, and they are not characters under the Ganju people.

In the end, the Xiongnu burned, killed and plundered in Luoyang this time did not intimidate the Chinese people, but the brutality of the Hu people further inspired the people's determination to resist, and more and more heroes spontaneously threw themselves into the battle against the Hu people.

Among them, there is a great hero who is staring at the ruins of the Luoyang capital at this time, and secretly vows to fight the Hu people to the end, this person is Yan Zhao's good man - Zu Li!

Zu Ti originally planned to lead his relatives to King Qin of Luoyang, but he didn't expect to be a step too late. By the time he arrived in Luoyang, the Hu people had already evacuated, leaving only ruins and the corpses of hundreds of people. As a last resort, Zu Ti had no choice but to personally lead thousands of troops to protect a large number of refugees to the south.

Along the way, Zu Ti personally led his troops to defeat the Hu cavalry who came to pursue many times, and although many of his relatives died in battle, Zu Ti and his entourage still arrived safely at the border of Yuxu.