Chapter 111: The Fall

After Du Luozhou occupied Yanzhou, life was not good, for tens of thousands of troops, the vast and sparsely populated Yanzhou could not provide sufficient military food, so everyone had to starve.

Like the beggar army in the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Du Luo Zhou's rebel army actually fought to fill his stomach, Du Luo Zhou himself did not have much appeal in politics, as a town soldier, his cultural level was limited, and even the year name followed the true king of the six Han Baling, as for the title of the commander under his command, it was even more ridiculous, the leader He Ba Wuxing was named the king of Wuchuan from the Wuchuan clan, and the general Hou Mo Chensheng, who was also from Wuchuan, was named another marshal, and as for the person who was in charge of the market, he was named the king of the city, and the person who was in charge of the post station was named the king of the post, If you don't have culture, you can't do it.

Gao Huan, the eldest brother of the young heroes circle in Huaishuo Town, endured and did not move in the first turmoil in Beizhen, and now he has also defected with his family, but unfortunately Du Luozhou does not attach importance to Gao Huan, who is also from the town soldiers, Gao Huan, Duan Rong, Cai Jun and others are very disappointed in Du Luozhou, you must know that their ideal is not as simple as living, and making contributions is their pursuit.

In fact, Gao Huan and others did not empathize, under the influence of war and famine, it was by no means easy to solve the problem of feeding tens of thousands of people. There was no way, only to go to Youzhou to rob it, Fanyang County in Youzhou was built and built water conservancy under the leadership of the local hero Lu Wenwei, so the famine did not affect Fanyang's year. The constant scene of Jicheng is not easy to deal with, and Du Luo Zhou decides to take a different approach.

Soon, Du Luo Zhou sent the governor Cao Suzhen and Ma Qijin to bypass Jicheng and go south, leaving the city to rob the grain and people in the vast countryside. In time for several days of heavy rain, the soldiers dragged their baggage and marched in the mud. Everyone was tired.

After Chang Jing got the information, he ambushed near Su Guo with the governor Yu Rong and the assassin king Yannian. The rebel army was attacked and crushed in the first battle, and Cao Suzhen also lost his life. Nai Du Luo Zhou had no choice but to personally lead the crowd south to Fanyang, and was defeated by Chang Jing. Chang Jing saw that Du Luozhou was constantly attacking Fan Yang, and decided to focus his defense on Fan Yang.

Xingtai Langzhong Lu Wenwei was born in the Lu family of Fanyang, a big family from all over the world, he himself hoarded a large amount of rice in his hometown, and the people in the vicinity who ran out of food were often helped by the Lu family, so the Lu family's mass foundation was good. Fanyang is Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Youzhou, because Youzhou is in the middle of the Taihang Mountain and Yan Mountain. Fanyang became the gateway from Youzhou to the Northeast.

There are food and people, Fanyang is more suitable to be the capital than Jicheng, and more importantly, Fanyang is the gateway to the south of Youzhou, since the Lulongsai defense line is over, only by keeping Fan Yang can cut off the passage of Duluo Zhou to the south.

Chang Jing ordered the relocation of the state to Fanyang, however, this decision was wrong. The ancestor of the Fanyang Lu family was Lu Zhi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a master of scripture. He had a famous student named Liu Bei. Lu Zhi started from Buyi and was the general of Beizhong Lang, his son was an official in Cao Wei to Sikong, and his grandson was in the Jin Dynasty and was a servant of Shangshu. After three generations of operation, the Lu family has become a famous family in the world. After the Yongjia Rebellion, the descendants of the Lu family may have lived in the south of the Yangtze River. Or stranded in the North. Fan Yang also has another big family ancestral family, and the ancestor who smells the chicken and dances is from this family.

The two families are generations of in-laws. Supporting each other, this situation continued until the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Houyan. Because of the difference in political opinions. The ancestral family supported the emerging Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Lu family supported the declining Houyan. A vendetta began, and the ancestral family was destroyed. But no one can stop the historical wheel of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so the Lu family became the object of respect and distance in the new dynasty, and in the early period of the Northern Dynasty, almost no one in the Lu family came out to be an official. Later, implicated in the Cui Hao case, the Lu family was purged again.

But Rao is like this, the status of the Lu family's four surnames has not been shaken, and when Emperor Xiaowen and the clan were restructured, it was still the head of the four surnames. According to the system, as long as the Lu family is not a fool, they can find a job as a civil servant in the imperial court, without exams, as long as they hand over their ID cards. The Lu family gradually became more and more officials.

After the Six Towns Rebellion, the Lu family was also divided, and there were those who supported the rebels and supported the imperial court, such as Lu Wenwei helped Chang Jing to guard Youzhou, while Lu Yong sympathized with the rebels and secretly accepted the Yan King crowned by Du Luo Zhou. Du Luo Zhou followed Chang Jing to surround Fan Yang, and it was time for the Lu family army to play, however, since Chang Jing sent the children of the Hao clan with Fan Yang as the third chief to the army, he had actually lost Fan Yang's mass base, and no one had any intention of working for Chang Jing.

However, something unexpected happened, the state and county soldiers who moved to Fanyang with Chang Jing defected, and they captured Wang Yannian, Chang Jing, Lu Wenwei and others and sent them to the Duluo Zhou army.

Du Luo Zhou put everyone in the army, and the battle in Youzhou came to an end temporarily, and the rebels won the first round. When Chang Jing and Du Luo Zhou clashed in Hebei, Yuan Yuan, who was far away in Hengzhou, also encountered an unprecedented crisis. Encouraged by Du Luozhou's rebellion, the descendants of Hengzhou were also ready to move, and they planned to support Yuanyuan to rise up. How could Yuan Yuan accept it, in order to get rid of suspicion, he hurriedly wrote to the imperial court to ask to return to Beijing.

In view of the growing prestige of Yuan Yuan after the Six Towns were pacified, and Yuan Hui had been making trouble behind his back, the court appointed Yang Jin, the general of the Left Guard, to replace Yuan Yuan as the governor of the Northern Province and take over the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Yang Jin was born in Hongnong Yang and was the third brother of Yang Chun, the former servant. As for Yuan Yuan, in order to take care of the feelings of the heroes of the north, he was promoted to the general of the middle and right guards, and was transferred to the Dingzhou Assassin History, and the Hengzhou Assassin History was concurrently served by Xingtai Yuanshu, and the generals under the Yuan Yuan account were faced with the choice of going and staying, and the three brothers chose to stay in Hengzhou, and Yu Jin continued to follow Yuan Yuan to Dingzhou.

Yuan Yuan took Yu Jin to take office, however, what was waiting for Yuan Yuan in front was not flowers but daggers. In 526 A.D. (the second year of Xiaochang), the soldiers of Rouxuan Town, Xian Xiuli, led the Beizhen households in the Dingzhou area to rebel against Zuorencheng (now the west of Tang County, Hebei).

Dingzhou Prefecture City bore the brunt of the rebels' first target, and the Dingzhou Assassin History Department was located in Zhongshan County, at this time Zhongshan Taishou Zhao Shulong was under investigation by the Taiwanese envoy Liu Zhen, because it was unfavorable to crusade against the rebels during the Six Towns Rebellion.

Yuan Yuan saw that the enemy was at present, and he didn't care about asking the imperial court, and directly liberated Zhao Shulong to organize the defense, which made Liu Shen very embarrassed. had to return to Luoyang in disgrace.

Liu Zhen was not idle when he arrived in the capital, he wanted to let out this evil breath. He found Yuanhui, the king of Chengyang, and Yuanhui had been looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Yuanyuan. The two hit it off and immediately joined forces to sue Yuan Yuan for a black slap to the emperor, saying that he had overstepped his authority to interfere with the work of the Taiwan envoy and despised the imperial court. The facts are in front of him, although the emperor did not fully believe in Yuan Hui, but he was not very satisfied with Yuan Yuan's unauthorized interference with the work of the imperial history platform, so he ordered someone to summon Yuan Yuan back to Beijing, and when he came back, he was a good comrade. The emperor personally entertained him. beckoned the two princes to sit together, and talked about wine, which was not harmful, but let the opponent be promoted, Yuan Hui was very annoyed.

The Great Wei Dynasty sent Sun Zhi, the chief doctor of Zuo Guanglu, as the governor of the capital, and together with Wang Yuanchen, the governor of Hejian, to crusade against Xianyu Xiuli. Explain the background of the eldest grandson. The eldest grandson of Zhizu came from the Tuoba family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Emperor Xian of the Northern Wei Dynasty divided the tribe into eight and sent his seven brothers to lead each other, so as to form the Xianbei Eight Divisions. Among them, the Babashi is one of the eight departments, and the Babashi was later changed to the eldest grandson.

The eldest grandson has been an important minister of the imperial court for generations, and the family has produced many talents, and Emperor Taiwu's eldest grandson Song and eldest grandson Daosheng's uncles and nephews are all three dukes. Spoiled. The eldest grandson Daosheng great-grandson is the eldest grandson.

The eldest grandson, the word inheritance, inherited his father's title at the age of six. Later, the former general marched south from Emperor Xiaowen, and when Emperor Xuanwu was the assassin of Yangzhou, the general of the fake town of Nanda, and the governor of Huainan Zhujun. The commander-in-chief of the southern soldiers and horses, and the sons of Chengye are brave and invincible. The number is Iron Child. This northern expedition took the eldest grandson Chengye as the commander and Wang Yuanchen of Hejian as the deputy, and the worst combination of the Great Wei Dynasty made its debut.

It turned out that when Changsun Zhi fought the Liang Dynasty in Huainan, Yuan Chen, as the second marshal, asked to take the initiative to start a war, but Changsun Zhi was unwilling to send troops because of the heavy rain for several days, and Yuan Chen was defeated. Yuan Chen did not review his mistakes, but instead blamed all the qiē on Changsun Zhi, and the two have been grudges since then.

Although the imperial court sent troops this time with the intention of letting them contain each other, the disagreement between the generals and commanders on the march and the war buried huge hidden dangers. As soon as the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Yecheng, the imperial court relieved Changsun Zhi's military power and appointed Yuan Chen as the governor of the capital. Changsun Zhi knew that it was Yuan Chen's ghost, so he refused to obey the order, on the one hand, he wrote to Luoyang to explain, and on the other hand, he continued to lead the army north.

Yuan Chen also did not listen to the command, the army marched to Wulu, Changsun Zhi was attacked by the army of Xian Yu Xiuli, Yuan Chen stood by and watched, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was defeated. The imperial court dismissed the two at the same time and investigated them.

Yu Wenhong, who led the clan to take refuge in Zhongshan, joined the camp of Xian Yu Xiuli, the court was too disappointing, because he supported the government and took a son himself, but the court led the wolf into the house, and the Rouran people ransacked their homes. Counterinsurgency is because we want to protect our homeland, and rebellion is forced by life.

Xian Yu Xiuli is no stranger to the Yuwen family. As a former soldier of Huaishuo Town, Xian Yuxiu knew the name of Yuwenhong, so he let him continue to lead his subordinates and target the state with him. How the local troops in Dingzhou are the opponents of the heroes of Beizhen, seeing that Dingzhou is about to fall. The emergence of the Taiwan military turned things around. After receiving the information about the military crisis in Dingzhou, Yang Jin, who was stationed in Lingqiu, immediately led the army to the rescue.

Lingqiu and Dingzhou are separated by Taihang Mountain, Taihang Mountain stretches for more than 1,000 miles, extends from the current Beijing to the north cliff of the Yellow River in Henan, divides North China into two halves, the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties says that Shandong refers to the current Beijing, Shandong, Hebei area, and says that Hebei is mainly north of the Yellow River, including Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei.

There are eight valleys in Taihang Mountain from south to north, becoming the passage from Shanxi to Shandong, which is the military capital in turn, Puyin Mountain, Flying Fox Mountain, Jingcheng Mountain, Fukou Mountain, Baiyuan Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and Zhiguan Mountain.

From Lingqiu to Zhongshan to pass through Puyin, Emperor Xiaowen had levy 50,000 people to build Lingqiu Road, which became an important passage from Datong to the North China Plain. When Yang Jin arrived in Dingzhou, the defenders of Dingzhou had just been defeated by Xian Yu Xiuli, and the people were panicked and demoralized. Yuan Yuan was succeeded as the assassin of Dingzhou by the Zhenbei general Yuan Gu, who was born in the Tuoba royal family and was the sixth son of King Sun Ruyin, Emperor Jingmu.

Yang Jin ordered the army to set up camp under the city, the camp has not yet been built, and the sky is about to get dark, Yang Jin suddenly had a thought in his heart: the morale of the rebel army is greatly boosted, and the Taiwan army is tired from afar, once the thieves attack at night, they will definitely not be able to resist, it is better to enter the city first and then make plans.

Yang Jin calculated well, but he ignored a question: whether the defenders of Dingzhou were willing to let him enter the city. When Yang Jin informed Yuan Gu of his intentions, Yuan Gu's first reaction was to disagree, Yang Jin as a North Road Xingtai, and once did the history of Dingzhou Assassination, once he entered the city, it meant that he would take over the people of Dingzhou, which meant that he would also be under the command of others, how could Yuan Gu be willing.

It's okay to think about it or even talk about it in private, but it can't be put on the table, Yuan Gu found a reason to refuse: the enemy has already come to the city, if the regular army of the imperial court comes, hide in the city, isn't this a show of weakness to the enemy? Yuangu refused to open the city.

Yang Jin was very angry, the second stunned temper came up, he swung his knife and slashed at the city gate, seeing that if the door was not opened, he would come in, Yuan Gu saw that this benevolent brother turned his face and did not recognize people, the enemy is indeed not suitable to engage in nest fighting at present, and after thinking about it again and again, he finally ordered the city gate to be opened and Yang Jin entered the city.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, the rebels really came to attack, and when they arrived at Yang Jin's camp, they found that they had entered an empty camp. There is often such a scene in romance novels, when the sneak attack team enters the empty camp, with a "bad", the sound of killing all around, and the ambush soldiers make dumplings for the people who steal the camp.

The fact is that the frightened rebels calmly withdrew from the empty camp and did not see the shadow of the ambush. The next day, the rebels began to attack the city from the east, the Dingzhou city gate was composed of three city gates, the city gate hole, the urn city, and the Luocheng city, and the moat passed between the second city gate and the third city gate, and the rebels soon hit Luocheng, and Yuan Gu ordered the city gate to be closed. Yuan Gu's order was no longer good, because Yang Jin had already taken his command.

Yang Jin ordered the defenders to open the city to meet the enemy, he wanted to personally lead the charge of the team, Shi Xu, the governor of Dingzhou who guarded the door, was unwilling to obey and ignored the order, Yang Jin once again played a stunned temper, waved his sword and cut Xu was slashed, so frightened that Xu was run away.

Yang Jin led his men to rush out and started a desperate battle with the besieging army, Yuwenhong and his second son Yuwenlian were killed, hundreds of Beizhen soldiers were killed, and the rest of the people retreated under the leadership of Yuwen Luosheng, and the people of Dingzhou were a little calm. Yang Jin gained a lot, the rebels retreated in a hurry, and the families of the army were taken prisoner.

Yuwen's family suffered heavy losses, the old man and the second child were killed, except for Yuwen Luosheng and Yuwentai who escaped, the whole family was captured, Yuwen Hao's wife Yan and his son Sabao, Yuwen's wife He Bashi and his son Yuanbao, Yuwen Luo's wife Shu Su and his son Bodhi, Yuwenhong's daughter and other old and weak women and children were all captured in Dingzhou City, Yang Jin ordered Tangcheng guard Yuanbao to escort the prisoners of war to the capital.

That night, the escort team borrowed from Ji Kugen's house, a big household in the south of Dingzhou City, and Yuwenhong's Ruru slave saw the campfire that was rarely in Xiuli, and secretly escaped all the way to the camp of the righteous army, and happened to see Yuwen Luosheng, who commanded Yuwenhong's troops, Yuwen Luosheng knew the whereabouts of his family, mixed with joy and sorrow, and immediately led his troops to ambush on the road.

The ambush of the officers and troops was dispersed, and Yuwen Luosheng brought the family into the camp. The good news of Dingzhou was transmitted to Luoyang, and the rewards came one after another, plus Yangjin Weiqing, the general of the town army, the governor of the capture capital, and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, the North Road Xingtai, and the Dingzhou Assassin History, Yuan Gu was left aside, Yuan Gu was soon killed in the battle with the rebels, and it was not considered to have insulted the ancestors of the Yuan family. After Xian Yu Xiuli retreated, Du Luo Zhou, who occupied Yan and You, began to attack Dingzhou and Yingzhou. (To be continued......)