Chapter 160: A Long Song of Troubled Times
On April 11, the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Hong died and was nicknamed Emperor Xiaoling.
Two days later, with the assistance of the general He Jin, the emperor's eldest son, Liu Wei, ascended the throne and became the emperor, changing the Yuan Guangxi, and the prelude to the troubled times was slowly opened!
In the previous four years, the Yellow Turban of Chen Defeat's Department not only digested Kyushu Island and excavated a large amount of precious metals such as gold, silver, copper, etc., but also won the Samhan region and the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
Coupled with the population plundered from the coastal counties, the number of Han Chinese under his rule has exceeded three million!
Since the Liaodong Peninsula was occupied by Zhao Kong a year ago, Liu Hong has repeatedly wanted to send troops to conscript.
It's a pity that with the outbreak of natural and man-made disasters, the civil unrest in various places has become more and more intense.
The Yellow Turbans of Chen's defeated army only plagued the eastern coastal areas, and the threat was far worse than that of the Qiang coalition army that entered Sanfu and approached Chang'an.
Even the brothers Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, who colluded with the Hu people in the north and became emperors in the western part of Youzhou, are far more threatening on the surface than the Yellow Turban of Chen Zhibu who is immersed in farming.
Therefore, the idea of recapturing Liaodong, Liu Hong can only suppress it temporarily.
In the end, under the impetus of some people from the family, he was canonized and defeated as the county guard of Liaodong.
I want to use this to appease the other party, and after the turmoil in various places has been quelled, I will slowly clean up these yellow turban thieves.
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It's a pity that Liu Hong didn't expect that he would die so quickly, and he didn't make a clear posthumous photo, and now Luoyang is in chaos.
Courtiers, eunuchs, and relatives were in a mess, and no one was in the mood to care about a border place like Liaodong.
"The situation in the world is getting more and more chaotic, Wenhe, what do you think?"
After Zhao Kong finished reading the information that Jia Xu had just sent, he turned around and asked him.
Since Jia Xu took over Jinyiwei, Zhao Kong has spared no effort to support him in the past few years, asking for money for money and people for people.
And Jia Xu did not live up to Zhao Kong's expectations, as long as the thirteen states of the Central Plains have a little value, almost all of them are under the monitoring of Jinyiwei.
The key point of the Luoyang Palace is the focus of Jinyiwei's strategy, and even Guo Sheng, one of the ten permanent servants, has become Jinyiwei's intelligence officer under Jia Xu's silver bullet offensive.
So as soon as Liu Hong died, Jin Yiwei received detailed news.
"At present, all forces are still intriguing in Luoyang, obviously not a good time for us to do it, the lord might as well take Liaoxi Wuhuan first, so as to test the reaction of the imperial court."
Jia Xu squinted his eyes and pondered for a moment, then whispered to Zhao Kong.
After a few years of getting along, Jia Xu also figured out Zhao Kong's character and knew that this lord did not have much desire for power.
Although Jia Xu has never understood why Zhao Kong came out to dominate the world, the lord of this character will basically not be jealous because of the strong ability of his subordinates.
Therefore, Jia Xu is still low-key even if he is a person, but in front of Zhao Kong in private, he will no longer deliberately hide it.
"It's okay, Qiu Liju is a slippery head, always swaying left and right between me and Liu Yu, it's time to make him pay!" Zhao Kong nodded and said, "Tomorrow, let Huang Tiantieqi assemble, and take advantage of the fact that Wuhuan still doesn't know the news that Liu Hong is dead, and quickly take down the three Wuhuan divisions!" ”
Since occupying Liaodong, Zhao Kong began to form cavalry units.
Especially after the Xianbei Tuoba Department went south last year and was killed by Xun You's design pit of 30,000 people, the entire eastern grassland became honest.
Zhao Kong had a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, not only traded grain from Xianbei to a large number of war horses, but also instigated the Xianbei tribes, which were already hostile to each other, to fight and fight.
With enough horses, the formation of cavalry is naturally faster.
And with Yu Ban and Gao Shun unable to bear the loneliness, they successively invested under Zhao Kong, and there was no shortage of people to train soldiers in Liaodong.
Although Gao Shun is better at training infantry, he is a general who grew up in Bingzhou, and he is also handy at training cavalry, at least there is no problem in training a group of recruits.
However, the 30,000 Huangtian Iron Cavalry, after all, has just been formed not long ago, although it is well-equipped, but the overall combat power may not be stronger than the Wuhuan Elite Cavalry.
Although the riding skills of the Wuhuan people are not as good as those of the Xianbei people who grew up on horseback, they are far superior to the Huangtian Tie cavalry, which is dominated by southerners.
In addition, in order to win over Wuhuan and fight against the increasingly powerful Liaodong Yellow Turban, Liu Yu equipped them with a lot of Han army equipment.
Therefore, for the three Wuhuan of Liaoxi, Zhao Kong really didn't dare to underestimate it, and he would never die head-on if he could sneak attack.
"By the way, how is that kid Zilong mixing in the Yellow Sky Iron Ride?" After discussing the matter, Zhao Kong asked Jia Xu with a smile.
Last year, Liu Hong canonized him as the Taishou of Liaodong, and Zhao Kong neither admitted nor objected, but with such an official identity, it was much more convenient to recruit Wenchen generals in the Central Plains.
Even though many people know that this is just an expedient measure of the imperial court, for many people from poor families, what they need is just a fig leaf.
Including Zhao Yun, who had just left the division, was persuaded by the squatting Jinyiwei, so he came to Liaodong with the mentality of trying it out and joined the Huangtian Iron Cavalry.
For Zhao Yun, a famous warrior through the ages, Zhao Kong is naturally very interested.
But now Zhao Yun has no experience in leading troops, in order to prevent the seedlings from growing, Zhao Kong did not let him immediately occupy a high position, and only mentioned the position of a hundred generals.
But even so, it also surprised Zhao Yun, who had just joined the army, and faintly became loyal to Zhao Kong.
"The lord is really a good eye, although Zhao Zilong is young, he has the demeanor of a general. Previously, he was directly mentioned to the hundred generals, which caused some people's dissatisfaction, and even repeated provocations. ”
"But Zhao Yun is not arrogant or impatient, and he does not refuse every time someone challenges him, but he will leave three points of leeway when defeating his opponent, and in just a few months, he has been recognized by many colleagues."
Speaking of Zhao Yun, even Jia Xu is also praised, this almost perfect young man is indeed easy to make people feel good.
Zhao Kong smiled and nodded, quite satisfied with Zhao Yun's performance.
The fierce generals of this era have their own characteristics, Lu Bu's unruliness, Guan Yu's pride and conceit, Zhang Fei's irritability, Dian Wei's loyalty and uprightness, and Tai Shici's promise of a daughter......
Compared with the generals of the late Han Dynasty, Zhao Kong admired Zhao Yun the most, because such a person was easy to use.
Loyal and courageous, outstanding ability, charging ahead, retreating behind, not fighting for merit or blame, and not killing innocents indiscriminately.
Zhuge Liang's summary of the five virtues of good generals is almost based on Zhao Yun.
If it weren't for the current Zhao Yun's lack of experience, Zhao Kong would dare to hand over the Huang Tian Iron Horse to him.
In this raid on Wuhuan, in order to reduce the vigilance of the other party, Huang Tiantieqi did not kill from the junction of Liaodong and Liaoxi.
Instead, he mobilized a large number of sand ships to land near Jinzhou in later generations, avoiding the Wuhuan tribes along the way, and directly attacking Liucheng, where Qiu Liju was stationed.
Huang Tiantie's cavalry was one man and two horses, and he ran for nearly two hundred miles in just one day, and at dawn the next day, 30,000 troops arrived at the outskirts of Liucheng.
Although there is a city character in the name of Liucheng, because of the living habits of the Wuhuan people, there is no city wall at all.
Tents are set up along the river, mixed with some wooden houses, which look very messy and do not have the appearance of a city at all.
Because before approaching Liucheng, Huang Tiantie rode under Gao Shun's order, and the war horse was wrapped in hooves.
So when the Wuhuan people found out about Huang Tiantie's cavalry, it was too late to organize a counterattack, so they were rushed into the station by Huang Tiantie's cavalry and killed in pieces.
Qiu Liju rushed out of the tent in disheveled clothes, originally wanting to gather troops and horses to fight against the raiding enemy, but when he saw the chaotic situation in the Liucheng garrison, he gave up the idea of struggling, and quickly fled to the north with some cronies and nobles.
However, for the big fish of Qiu Liju, Gao Shun had already arranged for someone to keep an eye on him.
As soon as these Wuhuan nobles escaped from the camp, they were intercepted by Zhao Yun with five hundred cavalry.
In the face of the three Wuhuan fierce generals who rushed over, Zhao Yun's spear was like a dragon, the cold light flickered, and in the blink of an eye, the three of them were stabbed off the horse one after another, making the besieged Qiu Liju completely lose the courage to resist.
After capturing Qiu Liju, the Wuhuan people in Liucheng quickly gave up resistance and honestly became prisoners.
There are about 300,000 Wuhuan people in Youzhou in total, and most of them are gathered in Liaoxi County, which makes the number of Wuhuan people in Liaoxi County even several times that of the local Han people.
Nearly 200,000 Liaoxi Wuhuan, half of which are concentrated in Liucheng.
This time, Huang Tiantie took Liucheng, which was equivalent to bringing most of Liaoxi County into Zhao Kong's control.
In the face of the aggressive Yellow Turban Army, Liu Yu, a helpless Youzhou pastor, could only ask the Luoyang court for help.
It's a pity that this is the critical moment when He Jin is fighting with the Ten Standing Servants, and he doesn't have the heart to care about things thousands of miles away.
And Zhao Kong was also very patient, after taking Liaoxi County, he did not continue to expand westward, but first sorted out the Wuhuan people in the county.
Some of the close tribes that intermarried with the Han people were directly naturalized and given the Han surname as Han people.
The remaining Wuhuan people were forced by the butcher's knife to be sent to the northwest area of Dongying Honshu Island, so that the already chaotic Wa Kingdom wars broke out more frequently.
When Zhao Kong cleaned up the hidden danger of Wuhuan, the situation in the world also reached a critical turning point.
He Jin is dead, Dong Zhuo has entered Beijing!
Now everyone's eyes are focused on Luoyang City, a border place like Youzhou, no one will pay attention to it for the time being.
However, this does not mean that Zhao Kong can expand wantonly, because he is also in trouble now, that is, Gongsun Zhan, the general of Fenwu who is stationed in Youbeiping!
With Zhao Kong occupying Liaoxi County, Liu Yu, who originally had great opinions about Gongsun Zhan, had to put aside the contradictions between the two and work together to resist the Liaodong Yellow Turban.
And there are also some personal contradictions between Zhao Kong and Gongsun Zhan.
When he took Liaodong last year, because he was too lazy to fight with the local family, he forcibly sent all the larger families to Shikoku Island in Dongying.
And Gongsun Chan himself is from the Gongsun clan of Liaodong.
Although the relationship between Gongsun Chan and the family is average because he is a concubine, there are very few people in this era who can completely ignore the family.
So when he learned that the entire Gongsun clan was actually sent to Dongying, Gongsun Zhan's impression of the Liaodong Yellow Turban was naturally extremely bad.
Although because of the difference in strength between the two sides, he did not rashly lead the army eastward, but now with Liu Yu's support, Gongsun Chan will definitely not succumb to Zhao Kong.
"This White Horse Gongsun is not an easy character to deal with, his personal strength is not low, and the level of commanding the cavalry is the top in the world, and the White Horse Righteous Servant under his command is also extremely difficult to deal with, and it is really not easy to take him down."
Personally led the army into Youbeiping, looking at the towering city wall in the distance, Zhao Kong sighed to Xun You who was following him.
Gongsun Zan at his peak, even Yuan Shao's old nest Bohai County was won, if it weren't for the mistake of the first battle of the boundary bridge, the four northern states would almost be in his pocket.
A character like Gongsun Chan is definitely the focus of attention on the plane consciousness.
Even during this time period, his own realm luck was not under Cao Cao, and it was stronger than Liu Bei and Sun Quan combined!
Zhao Kong can defeat him and take away his luck, but he must use conventional means.
Now that the Three Kingdoms World has been eroded more and more by the Western Fantasy World, the dimensional consciousness is becoming more and more sensitive.
If Zhao Kong dared to use an off-the-plate move to deal with Gongsun Zhan, it was very likely to cause a strong backlash from the plane consciousness.
"Gongsun Chan abandoned the speed and flexibility of the White Horse and chose to defend the Tuyin City, which has already fallen behind, as long as the lord advances steadily step by step, the Tuyin City will be broken within three months!"
Xun You was silent for a moment, and said calmly to Zhao Kong.
When he first joined Zhao Kong's command four years ago, Xun You was unhappy from the bottom of his heart, and he was even ready to live his whole life without making a plan.
But with the deepening of his understanding of Zhao Kong and the prosperity and happiness of the people under his rule, Xun You's thoughts were still shaken.
Coupled with Xun Zhan's persuasion from the side, this is the official worship of Zhao Kong.
Although Xun You has only planned for Zhao Kong twice in the past few years, the results are extremely good.
For the first time, the Samhan Civil War broke out, and the Yellow Turban Army took the southern part of the Korean Peninsula without much effort.
The second plan was even more ruthless, luring the strongest tribe in the eastern steppe, the 50,000 cavalry of the Xianbei Tuoba clan to the south, but they fell into his trap, and more than 30,000 people were killed alive!
With the help of these two brilliant achievements, Xun You completely sat in the position of military advisor, even Wu Xu and others, who followed Zhao Kong at the earliest, were respectful when they saw him.
However, out of fear of the Yingchuan Xun clan, Zhao Kong has been reducing Xun You's chances of making a move.
It's just that the situation in Luoyang has changed recently, and Jia Xu is also a little difficult to be distracted, so this time to deal with Gongsun Zhan, he had to let Xun You go out with the army.
"It is true that I can take Tuyin City in three months, but something big will happen soon, and I don't have so much time to spend in Youbeiping, so I also ask Gongda to think of a way to break the city as soon as possible."
Zhao Kong shook his head and said to Xun You with a little anxiety.
Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City half a month ago, and with his unscrupulous character, it would not be long before the princes would break out against Dong.
Zhao Kong must participate in such a big event, which is of great significance for the growth and stability of his own luck.
No matter which side Zhao Kong chooses to help at that time, as long as he personally participates, he will be able to completely replace Gongsun Chan and obtain the initial recognition of the plane consciousness.
Zhao Kong could not care about the power and status of this realm, but he needed to be recognized by the plane consciousness, and only in this way could he get the opportunity to return to the earth star.
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