Chapter 456: Northern Emperor
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In the second year of Tianxi, on June 26, because of the fear of the siege crossbow of the Tianci army, the Anxian did not continue to attack the city of Shule, and Vologis V ordered to attack the city wall with throwing weapons to increase the damage of the Tianci army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Zhao Yun, who can't think of how to solve the heavy cavalry for the time being, can only defend passively, and the situation is a little bad.
At the same time, there was a huge cholera outbreak in the Central Plains.
Yuan Shao and Cao Ying, the two overlords of the Central Plains, finally couldn't help but start a war.
After a long period of friction, the Tianci Army did not make any moves, and the two sides naturally could no longer bear it. After all, in troubled times, the most important thing is to strengthen yourself. Including Cao Ying and Yuan Shao, everyone actually has the desire to dominate the world in their hearts, although the spark of this desire is very small.
At the beginning of the war, there was nothing surprising about it, the two sides were just trying to test each other's strength, and did not press all the hole cards, so naturally after some fighting, the two sides retreated and prepared for the next larger-scale battle.
However, although there was nothing exciting about the first battle, the situation in the Central Plains was very worrying, and now Lu Bu fled from Yanzhou and sent troops to Nanyang, and there is no accurate news. In the entire Central Plains, only the two princes of Cao Ying and Yuan Shao remain, if one side wins, then the overlord of the Central Plains will be produced, but the question is, will Liu Tai watch the birth of the overlord of the Central Plains?
In the second year of Tianxi, on June 28, Lu Bu, who had not moved for a long time in attacking Nanyang, suddenly came out with the news that he wanted to make peace with Yuan Shao!!
It is said that in order to avoid a bloody conflict with Lü Bu, Yuan Shu not only ceded half of the territory of Nanyang, but also prepared to let his son take Lü Bu's daughter, and at the same time, Lü Bu's army of more than 100,000 troops had already settled in the eastern part of Nanyang. However, there seems to be a little problem in the middle, that is, Lu Bu did not agree to Yuan Shu at the first time, I heard that it was because Lu Bu's daughter was too young and it was really not suitable to marry!
How old is Lu Bu's daughter?
This has always been a difficult question to answer. According to historical records, in the third year of Jian'an (198), Cao Ying's army pressed into Xuzhou, and Lü Bu married his daughter to Yuan Shu's son in order to ask for reinforcements, and Lü Bu's daughter was only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time. Of course, this girl can't be born to Diao Chan, because Diao Chan and Lu Bu have not been as long as thirteen or fourteen years.
It's 192 A.D., which means that Lu Bu's daughter is only seven or eight years old? Depressed, even if Lu Bu wants to find a piece of land and avoid Liu Tai's edge, he doesn't have to marry off his seven or eight-year-old daughter, right? So this piece of news is questionable.
It is worth mentioning that before this, Lu Bu did attack Yuan Shu, and more than once, Yuan Shu's army was defeated and retreated under Lu Bu's troops, and was almost disabled, as for Yuan Shu's general Ji Ling, he was almost split in half by Lu Bu.
In this way, Yuan Shu's words of taking the initiative to cede the city are untenable, and it can be seen from here that it is very likely that Yuan Shu wants to seek peace, but he can't pull down the identity of the head of the world's first family to admit defeat, so such rumors will be spread!
In the second year of Tianxi, June 30th.
The rumors were self-defeating, and Lü Bu led an army of 80,000 to besiege Wancheng. Wancheng was shrouded in the last words, and there were nearly 100,000 troops under Yuan Shu's command, but he didn't dare to order to go out of the city to face the battle. In fact, it is not that there is no possibility of marriage between the two parties, but because Lu Bu is still at such an arrogant age, how can he easily compromise with Yuan Shu?
Fortunately, there was plenty of food and grass in Wancheng, and Lu Bu's soldiers and horses were not good at attacking the city, so the situation in Nanyang was stalemate.
Yuan Shu did not think about resolving the war between the two sides peacefully. In order to lift Lü Bu's siege, Yuan Shu sent an envoy to Lü Bu's camp to sue for peace, but was killed by Lü Bu's halberd. Yuan Shu also has a temper, Lu Bu doesn't take Yuan Shu in his eyes so much, is it still necessary for Yuan Shu to use a hot face to stick a cold butt?
The third day of the siege is said.
Yuan Shu sent hundreds of elite soldiers out of the city in search of foreign aid, but these elite soldiers were almost completely wiped out under the pursuit of Lu Bu's wolf cavalry. Fortunately, there was a small team of five people who broke out of the encirclement and went south to ask for help.
The objects of Yuan Shu's request for help were Liu Biao and Sun Jian. After all, the princes of Jingzhou can be regarded as a family, and now that the enemy is coming, if Yuan Shu is destroyed, how long can Liu Biao and Sun Jian last?
It's a pity that no matter what Yuan Shu's envoy said, Liu Biao didn't take care of it at all, and just said lightly: "If you have trouble to start the Son of Heaven, the old man is physically and mentally exhausted, and he can't manage so much." ”
Liu Biao is a pastor of Jingzhou! At present, Liu Biao is the master of Jingzhou.
But the problem is that Liu Biao, the master, can't raise his head at all under the pressure of the two strong dragons. Yuan Shu said that with the identity of this big family, he would not do anything to oppress Liu Biao, but Sun Jian in the south would have no scruples.
Xiangyang has long been a place coveted by Sun Jian, if it weren't for the small number of soldiers in Jingnan, who couldn't directly face the major princes of the Central Plains, I'm afraid that Xiangyang would have been eaten a long time ago. Sun Jian doesn't care if Jingzhou is a pastor or not, if he is in a hurry, Emperor Lao Tzu can pull him down.
Fortunately, Sun Jian went south to conquer Jiaozhou, and the results were not bad, and the leopards in Jiaozhou were not the opponents of Sun Jian, the general, at all. Countless cities fell into the hands of Sun Jian, which greatly increased Sun Jian's strength. However, so far, Sun Jian has no plans to be a class teacher, because many county towns such as Panyu in Jiaozhou are still in the hands of the Shi family.
It was not that the messenger did not ask the Sun family for help.
However, the Sun family doesn't seem to be very willing to deal with Yuan Shu, and the most ineffective thing in Sun Jian's life is Yuan Shu. Back then, the princes jointly crusaded against Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shu owed Sun Jian grain and grass, which almost made Sun Jian "starve to death" on the battlefield, but now Yuan Shu came over for help?
No way! Where did it come from, get out of here.
Very decisively, Yuan Shu's messenger was swept away.
In desperation, the envoys could only follow Yuan Shu's last arrangement and go to Shuzhong to ask the Son of Heaven Liu Miao for help.
But the problem is, Shuzhong is not so easy to go
In the second year of Tianxi, at the beginning of July.
Another large-scale battle took place in Xuzhou. In this battle, Cao Ying and Yuan Shao respectively invested 50,000 troops, and the two sides were inseparable, but in the end, Cao Ying was slightly superior. After all, the Lianghuai Legion was established long before Yuan Shao, and in just a few years, even if Yuan Shao had infinite resourcefulness, it was difficult to cultivate an iron army.
At the same time, Cao Ying, who saw the emptiness in the central part of Yanzhou, turned his thief's eyes and sent his general Xiahoudun to lead 30,000 troops from Xuchang to attack the territory of Yanzhou Lu Bu. Because Lu Bu's original intention was to abandon the Yanzhou region, Cao Ying easily occupied these places.
In this way, the huge Central Plains region was really occupied by the two princes of Yuan Shao and Cao Ying. But the two princes who occupied the entire Central Plains were not very satisfied, why? Because their turf is so messy.
In today's Central Plains, the city occupied by Yuan Shao, who traveled dozens of miles or could be seen, may be a city with the banner of Cao Zi planted in it for dozens of miles. In such a chaotic situation, if you can't tell who is the overlord of the Central Plains in a short period of time, the Central Plains region will definitely become a pot of porridge at that time.
But the question is, the current Central Plains region is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, in this case, can it be a little more chaotic? What's the mess?!
In the second year of Tianxi, Liu Tai, who had recovered Luoyang for nearly a year in mid-July, once again embarked on the steps of unifying the world. However, this time Liu Tai did not deal with the two major male lords of the Central Plains, nor Yuan Shu and Lu Bu of Nanyang, but Liu Xuan, who fled into Shuzhong, and Zhang Lu, his watchdog Hanzhong!
The soldiers pointed directly at the land of the three rivers!!
At the same time, Liu Tai summoned four legions to be stationed around Luoyang on standby, and appointed Huang Zhong, the general of the Heavenly Sword, as the marshal of the expedition to the west, and the fierce generals Dian Wei and Wen Chou as their deputy generals to lead the army.
The Battle of Shuzhong is about to break out!!
In the second year of Tianxi, on July 16, there was a secret news of the explosion surname in Luoyang, and Liu Tai ordered to weave a five-clawed purple dragon robe, wanting to prepare for the emperor.
At the same time, Liu Tai ordered the repair of the Luoyang Palace and the Chang'an Palace.
Liu Tai renamed the Luoyang Imperial Palace as the Eastern Capital Palace, referred to as the East Palace.
The Chang'an Imperial Palace was renamed the Western Capital Palace, referred to as the West Palace.
In the second year of Tianxi, July 20th.
Four legions, 120,000 Tianci troops swore in Luoyang, Liu Tai personally gave Huang Zhong a sword and loyal soul, and asked Huang Zhong to use this sword to kill Zhang Lu and other rebellious courtiers.
At the same time, the army marched to Sanfu, and was accompanied by hundreds of thousands of loads of grain and coachmen transferred from northern Xinjiang, as well as some foreign slaves. This battle is a mountain battle, which is extremely difficult and dangerous, and food must be prepared sufficiently, otherwise, when the time comes, it will be trapped in the mountains and have no food, which will form a fatal threat to the army.
Liu Tai didn't want Zhuge Liang's seven Northern Expeditions to happen.
In the second year of Tianxi, July 22nd.
When Zhang Lu got the news of the westward expedition of the Heavenly Army, he was immediately panicked.
At the suggestion of his staff, Zhang Lu sent an envoy to Chengdu to ask for help from Liu Xuan, after all, the gains and losses in Hanzhong were related to Liu Xuan's life, and Zhang Lu did not believe that Liu Xuan was a fool who did not know the seriousness.
At the same time, Zhang Lu also sent an elite army to the Qiang tribe and asked the Qiang tribe to send troops to rescue. For many years of occupying Hanzhong, Zhang Lu has been committed to repairing relations with the Qiang people, in order to resist the possible southern invasion of the northern army, and he has paid so much, and now it can be regarded as coming in handy.
In the second year of Tianxi, on July 25, Liu Tai, who was in Luoyang, suddenly announced an edict.
This edict is very scary.
Be a king!
Liu Tai actually announced the change of yuan!!!!
On the 25th of the early dynasty, Liu Tai suddenly issued an edict to change the Yuan Huaxia. From the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the first year of A.D. was changed to the first year of Huaxia, and now it is 192 A.D., that is, the 192nd year of Huaxia, and it was announced that the name of the year is not allowed to be changed from now on!
In the 192nd year of Huaxia, on July 30, Liu Tai wanted to proclaim himself the Northern Emperor at the suggestion of a hundred officials, and the edict was the decree, wearing a purple five-clawed dragon robe, calling himself I. And announced that Liu Miao's death was the time when Liu Tai ascended the throne and became the emperor, that is, he no longer recognized the court of Liu Miao, who was in Shu.
At the same time, Liu Tai, who succeeded to the throne of the Northern Emperor, asked all the princes of the world to come to Luoyang to worship. Because the Central Plains and southern Xinjiang had not yet been unified, Liu Tai did not rush to set Huacheng as the Beijing division, which was also to better command the unification war.
In the 192nd year of Huaxia, at the beginning of August, Liu Tai in Shu was extremely angry about Liu Tai's self-proclaimed Northern Emperor, and issued an order to insult Liu Tai as a thief in a chaotic country, and the princes of the world should ask for it together. In order to kill Liu Tai, Liu Miao made a big reward, whoever can kill Liu Tai, then the court will crown him as the king of Shenwu and cede the territory of a state to its autonomy!
The world is shaken!!
Liu Miao is crazy!!
Everyone thinks that Liu Miao is crazy, although Liu Xuan, the emperor, does not have any real power, and the actual territory of governance is also very limited, but after all, Liu Miao was born in the Han family, and as the emperor of the Han family, he actually issued an assassination order, what is this?
The shame of the Han family, a great shame.
In the 192nd year of China, Liu Xuan's holy decree in mid-August was more terrifying than the shock caused by Liu Tai's self-proclaimed Northern Emperor.
The Han clan relatives who couldn't stand it came forward to accuse Liu Tai of not being like this, and many clan relatives openly supported Liu Tai as emperor. Now that Liu Tai has once again started to unify the world, fools know that the Han family must be prosperous because of Liu Tai, and now who dares to come forward to oppose Liu Tai as emperor?
The clansmen of the Han family, who originally supported Liu Xuan, were also disheartened when they saw that Liu Xuan was so irrational and issued such a holy decree that would lose the face of the Han family. Although the struggle for power and profit in the Han family is very fierce, after all, they are all descendants of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, how can a character like Liu Miao be allowed to sit on the throne of the emperor?
Huaxia 192, early September.
Huang Zhong led 120,000 troops to approach Yangping Pass.
Earlier, Zhang Ren wanted to take Yangping Pass to open the way for the future expedition of the Tianci army to the west, but due to the danger of Yangping Pass, the troops could not take it in a short time, and the plan was leaked for some reason, resulting in the short and expected arrival of Hanzhong reinforcements, resulting in a complete failure of the operation. Now Yangping Pass has become the first difficulty for the Tianci army to enter Shuzhong.
However, Huang Zhong was not worried about Yangping's natural danger.
At this moment, Huang Zhong was thinking about how to make Zhang Lu surrender on his own initiative!
As the saying goes, the soldier is the best in attacking.
Now the famous people of the Shuzhong court know that there is no hope, if they still resist stubbornly, it will be a bit stupid, and the reason why Zhang Lu still has to defend Hanzhong is because of the Qiang reinforcements, as long as Huang Zhong can repel the Qiang reinforcements and show terrifying combat power, then with Zhang Lu's courage, it is impossible to dare to fight with the Tianci army!
Huaxia 192, mid-September.
On the one hand, Huang Zhong sent his soldiers to attack the checkpoint without hurry, and on the other hand, he personally commanded 30,000 cavalry to prepare to intercept the Qiang cavalry.
According to reliable sources, the Qiang people accepted Zhang Lu's invitation and jointly sent 30,000 iron cavalry to relieve the siege, and now they have passed Wudu, and it is less than half a day's journey from Huang Zhong's camp stationed outside Yangguan Ping. If Huang Zhong could ambush the Qiang people at the right time at this moment, it would definitely bring great panic to the hearts of the Qiang soldiers.
In the 192nd year of Huaxia, dozens of miles away from Yangping Pass on September 16, Huang Zhong fought against the Qiang cavalry and won a great victory.
The Qiang tribes suffered heavy losses under the heavy blows of the cavalry of the Tianci Army. had no choice but to retreat to their respective territories. can only love Zhang Lu's crisis. Of course, this battle is not without losses, as the main general Huang Zhong was almost killed by several arrows, it seems that the Qiang people can become the century-old enemy of the Han Dynasty should not be underestimated!
Huang Zhong's victory in this battle was not very glorious, because Huang Zhong actually ambushed the Qiang people with the same strength, which is really worthy of the prestige of the heaven-given army. But in Huang Zhong's opinion, it's nothing, as long as you can win, who cares what method you use?
(To be continued)