Chapter 301: The Emperor
In 184 A.D., in the sixth year of Han Guanghe, on the seventh day of the ninth month, Gao Shun broke the embankment and released water, the entire Xiaohuang County was submerged, the Yellow Turban Army suffered heavy losses, preliminary statistics, the death toll was as high as more than 50,000, without waiting for Gao Shun to consult, Jia Long led the remaining more than 500,000 troops directly to Junyi County, and entered the last stop of Sizhou.
In 184 AD, in the sixth year of Han Guanghe, on the eighth day of the ninth month, Liu Tai's 300,000 troops arrived at Baimajin on the south bank of the Yellow River by sailor warship, and then the army rushed to Yan County non-stop, preparing to take a small road into the Sizhou area.
The news of Jia Long's escape, Liu Tai also received, now the main forces of the Yellow Turban Army are concentrated in the Sili and Sanfu areas, in addition to the Guanhai of Qingzhou, the major states and counties of the Central Plains and both sides of the Huai River have been empty, Liu Tai gave Gao Shun an order, requiring Gao Shun's army to rush to Qingzhou to pacify Guanhai, and strive to occupy all the areas on the north bank of the Yellow River in Qingzhou.
At the same time, Liu Tai also issued a royal edict to Zhu Jun, who had not long entered the Yanzhou area, asking Zhu Jun to give up the pursuit of Jia Long, recover the major counties of Yanzhou, the entire territory of Xuzhou, and the areas on both sides of the Huai River, and strive to pacify cholera in the Central Plains before the year.
Although Liu Tai's edict is a bit overstepping, but now is an extraordinary time, Zhu Jun will not disobey Liu Tai's edict, after all, Liu Tai is the most important person in quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it is also the most powerful banner of the Liu royal family today!
Of course, Chen Wang Liu Pet's 150,000 soldiers and horses, Liu Tai will not forget, after all, Chen Wang Liu Pet has been waiting for Liu Tai's Wang Zhao, after entering Yan County, Liu Tai sent a letter to his nominal uncle Liu Pet, the content of the greeting is not much to say, the document requires Liu Pet to immediately lead the 150,000 army to Jing County, and strive to keep Jing County, if Jing County has been lost, it must be snatched back, because the geographical location of Jing County is related to the victory or defeat of the entire Sili war.
Jingxian and Tiger Prison Pass choked the Kwantung Army's main route to Luoyang, as long as these two places were not lost, the Kwantung Army could not meet with the Bocai under Luoyang City, and Liu Tai had time to quell the rebellion of the Kwantung Yellow Turban Army, although the disparity in strength between the two sides, but Liu Tai had made up his mind to fight a hard battle and completely wipe out the Kwantung Yellow Turban Army before October.
Time is running out, Liu Tai knows that in history, Zhang Jiao died of illness around October, and now Liu Tai is not a fledgling child at the beginning of the year, in order to compare with Zhang Jiao, Liu Tai originally wanted to put Zhang Jiao into Si Li, but thinking of the destructive power of the Yellow Turban Army, when the time comes to enter Si Li, it will bring terrifying disasters to the people of Si Li, and he can only give up this unrealistic idea in desperation, so Liu Tai plans to destroy the Kwantung Yellow Turban Army, and rush to Chang'an as soon as possible, and kill Zhang Jiao in Zhang Jiao's capital.
It must be said that when I heard that Liu Tai had crossed the Yellow River and was already on the edge of Sili, there was a lot of mutiny in the Yellow Turban Army under the Tiger Prison, and the soldiers who escaped were as many as 100,000 in just three or four days, and this trend became more and more intense. Self-collapse without a fight?
To put it nicely, the Yellow Turban Army is an insurrectionary army, but in fact it is just a refugee camp composed of ordinary people. That is the regular army of Northern Xinjiang that will not be able to find the north by beating the foreigners, and Cheng Yuanzhi, who has an army of 700,000, will be beaten into ashes in the rest of the month!
Not only the soldiers were panicked, even some of the high-level generals of the Yellow Turban Army who became generals with their bravery, one by one could not sleep because of the arrival of the God-given army, and the first thing every day was to ask where Liu Tai's army had arrived.
It must be mentioned that during this period of time, there is a new star that is very bright, in the area of Sili, as many as tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops have been killed, and this person is Lu Bu Lu Fengxian! Because of their fast speed, Lu Bu's 8,000 wolf cavalry continued to wander around Sili, and not only the Yellow Turban Army under the Tiger Prison Pass suffered heavy losses, but also Bocai, who besieged Luoyang, suffered great losses.
Because Lu Bu's army acted like the wind, Lu Bu was known as a flying general, and his eight thousand wolf cavalry was also called the Flying Wolf Army by the Yellow Turban Army.
In 184 A.D., in the sixth year of Han Guanghe, on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the Double Ninth Festival, the Ling Emperor in Luoyang City saw that Jia Long led the army into the division, the situation became more and more chaotic, and after learning from the pain, he issued an edict on the Chongde Hall of Nangong, stopped all the blame on himself, and ordered the rod to punish the ten permanent servants twenty, and the ten permanent servants were confined in their respective mansions, although the punishment was a little light, but it was also very happy, and the people's hearts in Luoyang City improved greatly for a while.
In 184 AD, in the sixth year of Han Guanghe, on the tenth day of the ninth month, Tian'an City, the capital of the Dajin Dynasty, Zhang Jiao issued an edict that made people speechless, and the content of the edict was not to reward the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, but to the generals of the Han Army! Who is sealed? is the commander of the current Han army, among which Dong Zhuo was named the king of Liangzhou, Huangfu Song was the king of Han, Zhu Jun was the king of Runan, Ding Yuan was the king of Xiangyang, Sun Jian was the king of Wu, and Lu Bu was the king of the flying wolf!
It is worth mentioning that when the name of Liu Tai was spread all over the world, Zhang Jiao gave Liu Tai another title, that is, the king of one word side by side, gave the title of the emperor, and gave Liu Tai all the major states and counties in the Central Plains, including the entire northern Xinjiang, and even stated in the edict that Liu Tai could call himself me, and he used the son of heaven to drive in and out, wearing a four-clawed dragon robe and a single-bead crown on his head!
Zhang Jiao's move is very obvious, just to separate Liu Tai and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the name of an emperor is not painful, although the Central Plains is still nominally in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but the main force is in Sili, and sooner or later it will be taken away by the Han Army, so why not give it to Liu Tai? Zhang Jiao was very smart, so smart that Emperor Ling of Han and the officials of the imperial court in Luoyang were at a loss, and they didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of them.
The title of the god king is already the limit given by the Han court, and then sealed, unless the throne is passed to Liu Tai, there is nothing to seal at all, and now Liu Tai, in the Han court, is already a real extremely human minister, Liu Tai with the Chixiao Sword in hand, even if the Spirit Emperor nominally does not dare to offend Liu Tai, after all, the Chixiao Sword has the ability to abolish the monarch and behead the ministers, what is better than the Chixiao Sword?
There are no two heavens, no two people, such as today, there are two emperors, one emperor! It can't be said to be funny, but just after everyone thought that Liu Tai might accept Zhang Jiao's "compromise", Liu Tai, who had just entered Sili Yuanwu County, announced in public that Northern Xinjiang and the Dajin Dynasty were incompatible, and Liu Tai himself and Zhang Jiao were endless, and resigned the title of god king of the imperial court, and even said that he would return the Chixiao Sword to the imperial court!
Although Liu Tai's move was just a gesture, it made Luoyang Baiguan and Emperor Ling breathe a sigh of relief, of course, Emperor Ling and Baiguan didn't think about taking back the title of God King and Chixiao Sword, if these two things were taken back, who could guarantee that Liu Tai would be completely loyal to the Han family? Will he establish himself as emperor? In this matter, even Yuan Kui absolutely did not agree with the revocation of Liu Tai's Chixiao Sword and the title of God King.
Not long after Liu Tai publicly announced, Emperor Ling issued an edict again, confirming Liu Tai's title of god king, and giving Liu Tai the extremely high privilege of "praising and worshipping the nameless, entering the dynasty and not tending to the palace, and going to the palace with a sword", and allowed Liu Tai to wear a four-clawed dragon robe and wear the emperor's crown.
Liu Tai did not express any opinion on Emperor Ling's reward again, as if he acquiesced to this fact, in fact, it was not that Liu Tai did not want to refuse, but he could not refuse, if he refused, he would definitely be considered dissatisfied with Emperor Ling's reward, and when the time came, Emperor Ling could only be sealed higher and higher, so that Liu Tai could not come to the stage.
Yuanwu County is only three or four days away from the Tiger Prison Pass, after the Yuanwu repairs overnight, Liu Tai immediately set off to order the army to rush to the Tiger Pass, and at this time Jia Long's 550,000 troops have just arrived at the Tiger Pass, and the Central Plains Yellow Turban Army convergence, because Jia Long's title is the highest, the more soldiers and horses the commander has, and all the Yellow Turban Army commanders are raised as the "alliance leader" to become the supreme commander of nearly two million Yellow Turban Army under the Tiger Pass.
Million! Two-thirds of the soldiers and horses of the entire Dajin Dynasty! One-thirtieth of the population of the Han Dynasty, in order to capture Luoyang before Liu Tai, Jia Long divided the two million army into ten teams, each team of 200,000, the first five teams kept attacking the Tiger Prison Pass day and night, and the last five teams dug the peaks around the Tiger Prison Pass and the foundation under the Tiger Prison Pass, putting on a posture of not breaking the Tiger Prison Pass and not giving up, making the situation of the Tiger Prison Pass critical.
Although Wei Jie said that he was very good at defending the city, the situation of the Tiger Prison Pass at this time was too bad, all kinds of materials were almost exhausted, the soldiers were exhausted, and the military food was almost superfluous except for the half-month rations brought by Wei Jie, but fortunately, now Liu Tai has passed the original Wu County, and he can reach the Tiger Prison Pass in three or four days at most, of course, Wei Jie does not know the news, after all, the Tiger Prison Pass has been surrounded.
Two days after the Yellow Turban Army attacked the Tiger Prison Pass, the city head of the Tiger Prison Pass has been captured many times, fortunately, Wei Jie commanded properly, and beat the Yellow Turban Army like a tide again and again, but unfortunately, the Tiger Prison Pass has no ability to hold on anymore, Wei Jie brought 60,000 horses, 20,000 dead and wounded in just a few days, and Liu Tai's army has not appeared until now, if it continues like this, 60,000 elite soldiers must all die in the Tiger Prison Pass.
After discussing with Cao Ying, Wei Jie decided to break through, not that Wei Jie wanted to be a deserter, but that Wei Jie didn't want his brothers to die under the Tiger Prison Pass, there is also a Xingyang City behind the Tiger Prison Pass, although Xingyang is not a big city, but the facilities in the city are good, if there are rules, the Yellow Turban Army can also be contained on the southern line of Xingyang, and wait until the arrival of Liu Tai's army.
There is no difficulty in breaking through, after all, the Yellow Turban Army only arranged the siege of the city, and did not prepare any formation to defend against the enemy, and Jia Long, who can really fight, is still in the east of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Yellow Turban Army across the west of the Tiger Prison Pass cannot be effective at all.
If Wei Jie is still guarding the Tiger Prison Pass, there will naturally be no problem, but tens of thousands of troops rushed out of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Yellow Turban Army attacking the city scattered and fled, with heavy casualties, according to Wei Jie's visual observation, this time the breakthrough at least killed more than 10,000 people of the Yellow Turban Army, of course, this death and injury, in the face of the Yellow Turban Army's terrifying number of two million, is just a pediatric.
(To be continued)