Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Tree Falls Away
On March 29, the Battle of the Five Kings, which took place south of Yecheng, came to an instant end.
It ended with Yingchuan Wang Er Zhu Zhao, Changshan Wang Er Zhu Dulu, Pengcheng Wang Er Zhu Zhong, Longxi Wang Er Zhu Tianguang scattered and fled, and Bohai King Gao Huan gathered everywhere and surrendered.
Erzhu Zhao returned to Jinyang from Taihang Mountain, and Erzhu Zhong went to Dongjun.
And Erzhu Tianguang, who led the light cavalry to escape back to Guanzhong, finally caught up with Erzhudu's law firm, which had evacuated the battlefield early.
Although his stomach was full of resentment towards Erzhu Dulu, but Erzhu Dulu was powerful, Erzhu Tianguang could only swallow his anger and did not dare to accuse.
The defeated army of Luoyang and Guanzhong fled all the way to Shiji (Yanjin, Henan) before resting.
Hu Sichun and the two brothers, Jia Xiandu and Jia Xianzhi, who were also under the command of Erzhu Dulu, secretly met.
"The defeat of the Erzhu clan is imminent, and Tsubaki thinks that we should prepare early."
Hu Sichun, who failed to revolt before going into battle on the battlefield, was eager to make meritorious contributions to become the core level of the Gao Huan Group.
"Brother Fashou has any ideas, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
Jia Xianzhi obviously didn't want to stay on the ruined ship of the Erzhu clan for a long time.
Although the Jia brothers are from Dingzhou, Hebei, their father Jia Daojian was the mayor of Woye Town, and the family has lived in northern Xinjiang for a long time, so Jia Xianzhi is good friends with Gao Huan at the end of the year.
Hu Sichun whispered to the two of them:
"Now that the team is moving slowly, I might as well lead the troops to take the lead and seize Luoyang to welcome the king of Gao, with this feat, we can maintain our wealth."
Jia Xianzhi was a little hesitant, with his relationship with Gao Huan, if he wanted to be rich, he didn't need to do such a dangerous thing, but his brother Jia Xiandu on the side had already responded:
"What Brother Fashou said is very true."
It is Jia Xianzhi who is good friends with Gao Huan, but it is not him Jia Xiandu, there is no meritorious service, even if Jia Xianzhi protects him from being liquidated, but how can he keep his current dignitaries.
Under the gaze of Hu Sichun and his brother Jia Xiandu, finally, Jia Xianzhi gritted his teeth and nodded:
"Good! How our brothers act, we are all under the orders of Brother Fashou. ”
He wanted a greater riches.
After the Gao Huan uprising, in order to eliminate the insecurity, the ridiculous Erzhu clan slaughtered the Hongnong Yang clan and drove Gao Huan's old friend, Sima Ziru, who had no military power, out of Luoyang, but left Jia Xianzhi, who had military power, by his side.
After Hu Sichun swore an oath with Jia Xiandu and Jia Xianzhi under the mulberry tree, they each returned to the camp and led their subordinates to leave secretly at night.
Erzhu Tianguang, Erzhu Dulu and others found that they had already gone far.
The first day of April.
Er Zhu Yanbo, who stayed in Luoyang, got the news of Han Ling's defeat, and hurriedly found Er Zhu Shilong, who presided over the Luoyang Dynasty, and informed him of the matter.
"Rongzong (Erzhu Shilong), let me lead the army to garrison the river bridge."
Erzhu Yanbo proposed.
But Erzhu Shilong did not allow it, not because he was not suspicious, Erzhu Yanbo was the same brother as him and Erzhu Zhongyuan.
"Brother led Luoyang's army to garrison Heqiao, once the thieves came from Henan, wouldn't Luoyang be empty?"
"How's that to be?"
Er Zhu Yanbo was in a hurry, he couldn't have imagined that the 200,000 coalition army would be defeated in a daze.
Erzhu Shilong pondered for a moment and said:
"The army collapsed suddenly, there will be many defeated soldiers returning to the west, I should order people to go out of the city to review, arrange for the defeated army to enter the city in turn, so that Luoyang's defense can be enriched, and Luoyang will not be troubled by the chaos."
"That's very good."
Erzhu Yanbo agreed.
This time he didn't take the initiative to ask for help, who knows what the situation of the defeated army is now, and once it mutinies, how the people who go out of the city to inspect will get out.
Sure enough, on this day, Hu Sichun, Jia Xiandu, Jia Xianzhi and other departments arrived under Beizhong City
And Erzhu Shilong sent foreign soldiers to inspect the defeated army to join the army Yang Shuyuan, who was in Beizhong City at this time.
Hu Sichun knew that Erzhu Dulu, Erzhu Tianguang and others were behind him, so he didn't dare to delay time, and hurriedly said to Yang Shuyuan:
"The army of the king of Longxi (Erzhu Tianguang) is coming, they are all from Guanxi, they are going to sack Luoyang, kidnap the Son of Heaven and go to Chang'an, you let us enter the city quickly, so as to guard against the Guanxi army."
When the disaster of the Erzhu clan was approaching, it was time to resist Gao Huan with one heart, but Hu Sichun's words, Yang Shuyuan was convinced, and he could only say that the internal grievances of the Erzhu clan were too deep.
Yang Shuyuan was worried that Erzhu Tianguang would attack Luoyang, so he immediately opened the gate of Beizhong City and let Hu Sichun, Jia Xiandu, Jia Xianzhi and other troops enter.
Hu Sichun and others immediately defected, wantonly killed the Lierzhu clan in Beizhong City, and occupied the Yellow River Bridge before the arrival of Erzhu Dulu, Erzhu Tianguang and others.
Erzhu Dulu and Erzhu Tianguang's return to Luoyang was cut off, coinciding with the fact that the heavens were not beautiful, the heavy rain did not stop day and night, and the city could not be attacked.
However, most of the Erzhu Dulu army were Luoyang people, and when they arrived at Lei Bojin, the soldiers had been scattered to the point that there were few left, and Erzhu Dulu and Erzhu Tianguang were captured by the troops and sent to Husi Chun.
Erzhu Tianguang's subordinates fled to Guanzhong, which was already occupied by He Bayue.
After Erzhu Tianguang went east to Hebei, He Bayue led the army out of Longshan, attacked Yongzhou, and captured the younger brother of Erzhu Tianguang who stayed in the pass, Erzhu Xianshou.
Yu Jin returned to the command of He Bayue.
Let's talk about Luoyang.
Hu Sichun took advantage of the poor information and ordered his chief Sun Zhi to go to Luoyang, and when he was deceived into opening the city gate, Jia Xianzhi, who had already been ambushed, led the cavalry to quickly enter the city with Zhang Huan, the ex-husband of Yuwentai, and captured Zhu Shilong.
At this time, Erzhu Yanbo was on duty in the palace.
The eldest grandson Zhi reported the news to the palace, saying that the Erzhu clan had been defeated, and Erzhu Dulu, Erzhu Tianguang, Erzhu Shilong and others were captured, and asked the Son of Heaven to arrest Erzhu Yanbo.
However, Yuan Gong remembered the merits of the three brothers Shilong, Yanbo, and Zhongyuan, and couldn't bear to do harm, so he ordered Guo Chong to tell Zhu Yanbo the news.
When Erzhu Yanbo heard the news, he ran away in embarrassment, but he was still captured.
Hu Sichun beheaded Er Zhu Shilong, Tianguang, Yanbo, and Dulu outside the gate, and sent the heads of the four people to Yecheng to Gao Huan.
Yuan Gong, the son of heaven in Luoyang, also sent Lu Wei, a scholar from the middle school, to Yecheng to comfort Gao Huan.
In the past, the Erzhu clan was monstrous, but now only Jinyang Erzhu Zhao and Dongjun Erzhu Zhongyuan are left.
As early as March 13, before the Battle of Hanling, Yuen Long, the son of heaven in Hebei, had moved the capital to Yecheng.
At the same time, Gao Cheng was appointed as the general of the hussars, and he was in the middle of the service.
Hu Sichun's envoy carried the heads of Erzhu Shilong, Tianguang, Yanbo, and Dulu and Lu Wei, the envoy of the Son of Heaven, and was received by Gao Huan.
Gao Huan ordered Lu Wei to go to meet Yuen Long, the son of heaven in Hebei.
However, Lu Wei was quite dignified, and he would rather die than go, so Gao Huan gave up.
said that Gao Cheng left from Gao Huan, one in one hand, mentioned Erzhu Shilong, Erzhu Tianguang and the two heads, and went to find Yang Su.
"Zunyan, look, what I brought you."