Chapter 31: Taiping is courteous for the princes
How many princes came to King Qin?
This is what everyone in the world wants to know, and it is also what Luo Xiao wants to know the most, he wants to know how many heroes and heroes he can meet.
He believed that these princes who came to King Qin were the ones who would make great achievements after the collapse of the Han court.
As the person who broke the Mandate of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, Luo Xiao thought that these people should give him a knock, after all, without him, if these people want to achieve great things, it is just a dream.
After these princes came to Xingyang, they each began to meet the alliance, such a big event naturally has a historian next to the record, who participated in the alliance, how many soldiers and horses brought, words and deeds, can not be left behind.
The princes of King Qin, it is not that they can be regarded as princes if they take a few hundred people casually.
First, be famous!
If you don't have a reputation, even if you bring thousands of elites, you have to sit in the back obediently and mix with a famous person.
This is not discrimination, but the Qinwang Alliance, which is actually a kind of political guarantee between each other, and what is important is a political credibility.
Who would dare to vouch for someone who has no heels and does not know each other?
If something wrong is done, will the princes just kick it out all the way?
Isn't the rest of the princes a joke?
Famous people such as Yinghou Luochuan, among the princes along his way, he is a well-deserved alliance leader, no one can compete with him, even if his strength is stronger than him, he still has to be obedient.
Second, it is necessary to have strength, not only by force, but also by official position.
For example, Wushuang Hou Luokong, his reputation in the Central Plains is not high, but along the way, not many people dare to stop him.
Tens of thousands of iron cavalry is one of the reasons, and the cavalry general on his body is also the reason, among the generals in the world, there are no more than three official positions higher than him, which is called famous and well-equipped.
As soon as the princes summed it up a little, they found that the number of people who came to King Qin was terrifying, a total of twenty-eight routes.
On the first road, Yinghou Luochuan was the leader, and the five major Jinling county marquis, including Zhang An, Yuhou Xiao Ding, Anyang Hou Han Li, and Huaiyin Hou Han Zhang, a total of five princes, came to King Qin with the heroic warriors of ten counties.
On the sixth road, the Wushuang Marquis, the cavalry general Luokong, and the 30,000 iron cavalry, in addition to Dong Zhuo, the strength of the princes of King Qin is the first.
Dong Zhuo's strength is because Li Ru has long had a heart of disobedience, and he built it according to the specifications of rebellion early, and the worst outcome is to separate Liangzhou and Sili, and the imaginary enemies for more than ten years are all Han Ting, and his strength is naturally not ordinary.
The seventh road, the capital of the country, the general of the car riding Huangfu Song.
Eighth Road, Xincheng Township Marquis, Zhengnan General Zhu Jun.
From the ninth road to the twenty-second road, they are all county guards, kingdom ministers and miscellaneous generals, basically the head of a county of about 2,000 stones, or a general with a large number of troops.
For example, Hongnong, Nanyang, Runan, Yingchuan, Sanfu, Jiujiang, Jiangxia, etc., such as Jiaodong Guoxiang, Liang Guoxiang, Chu Guoxiang, etc., and then such as General Baima, General Huwuhuan, etc.
These princes were either the sons of famous families in the sea or the warriors under the command of the two thousand stones of the border county.
Led by Yuan Chenxun, Wang Meng, Liu Kong, etc., under the concept of taking the county as the country and guarding as the king, Taishou is the easiest to gather heroes and heroes.
Gongsun Chan is among them, and Liu Bei is under Gongsun Zhan, after all, Liu Bei's position as a county commander is still operated by Gongsun Chan, and he is not qualified to be a prince all the way.
Although Gongsun Zhan's reputation is not high, his strength is considered strong among the princes, and only three thousand elite white horse Yicong has already made Gongsun Chan stand out.
The sons and daughters of Youzhou have good equestrian skills, Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei are two heroes, not counting the world's elite white horse righteous servants, Liu Bei recruited from Zhuo County, recruited 2,000 cavalry for Gongsun Zhan, 10,000 foot soldiers, and he himself got thousands of men and horses, and his strength was very strong.
These taishou came from different directions, so they divided into alliances, relying on the prestige of their families and individuals, as well as the strength of their own strength, to determine the superiority of the master.
Outside the Taishou is the history of thorns, there are six roads, namely Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou Thorn History, Liu Yan of Youzhou Thorn History, Liu Dai of Yuzhou Thorn History, Lu Zhi of Yanzhou Thorn History, Han Fu of Jizhou Thorn History, Tao Qian of Xuzhou Thorn History, and Ding Yuan of Bingzhou Thorn History.
The princes each led their troops and horses, and the treacherous ones such as Dong Zhuo falsely claimed to be 20,000, but in fact there were 80,000 soldiers behind.
This has almost emptied the entire Liangzhou family, this practice of exhausting the water and fishing is because Li Ru is planning to control Luoyang with absolute strength, if you say that among the countless people of King Qin, who has the most backbones, Li Ru recognizes the second, absolutely no one recognizes the first, Dong Zhuo can't do it, maybe until now, Dong Zhuo just wants to be a powerful minister at the peak of power, he himself didn't expect Li Ru to think about pushing the Han family off the cliff directly.
On the bright side, except for the imperial court general Huangfu Song, the princes' strength is claimed to be twenty or thirty thousand, but the gap between the combat effectiveness is very large, Luokong's thirty thousand Western Regions iron cavalry is a well-deserved leader, if the tactics are appropriate, not to mention fighting ten princes, there is absolutely no problem in fighting five.
All of a sudden, millions of troops were stationed in this cramped land to confront each other.
The princes were full of confidence.
Although the vast majority of these million-strong troops were newly recruited recruits, weren't the Taiping army also farmers?
Among this million army, there are 150,000 elite soldiers who can fight the most, and Wushuang Hou alone occupies 30,000, and if you count the soldiers wearing leather armor, I am afraid that there are 500,000 armored soldiers.
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Blood and corpses everywhere, the tails of the arrows on the corpses no longer tremble, the white bones of the forest and even the colorful juice and slurry, the broken armor is everywhere, the smoke of gunpowder is gradually dissipating, the sound of clattering horses' hooves is running back and forth, checking whether there are any missing living people on the battlefield, these corpses are almost all dressed in the costumes of the Han army.
"But that's it!"
With a heavy swing of the knife, he cut off the head of a well-dressed general, threw it casually, and said lightly: "Marinate it with lime and send it to the princes of King Qin." ”
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The princes from the Kanto region met in two ways, one led by Luo Zichuan, the world's model and the other led by Yuan Benchu, the world's handsome man.
The Yuan family began to become famous from the ancestor Yuan Shen who stopped the frame of Emperor Xiaoxuan to intercede for the teacher, and finally became a great Confucian in the sea, and after more than 100 years of development, it finally became the world's leading wealthy family.
On the road of the Jingxue family, the Yuan family has come to an end.
At the age of Yuan Shao's establishment, he became the leader of the alliance all the way, fully demonstrating the foundation of Yuan's years of hard work, and he said with high spirits: "The Qinwang army has at least 150,000 elites in a hundred battles, how many elites are there in the Taiping army?"
It won't be more than fifty thousand!
Fierce generals are like clouds, strategists are like rain, and millions of troops are gathered, how can there be any reason to be invincible?
All the armies will fight together to destroy the enemy and destroy the city, just in the evening! ”
This is not Yuan Shao's arrogance, but the princes here all think so, as soon as everyone's words fell, they saw a scribe in a Confucian robe hurriedly walked in, with a panicked look on his face and holding a box, and after entering, he made a straight gesture and said in a panic: "Ben Chu Gong, all Ming Dukes, just came the news that the king of Jiaodong died in battle, this is the head sent by the thief army." ”
"What?"
Yuan Shao stood up and asked urgently, "What's going on?" ”
The princes in the hall all looked at this scribe in surprise, the king of Jiaodong, all the way the princes died before the war started?
The scribe replied with a slight calmness: "Ben Chu Gong, the king of Jiaodong left the cantonment county and led a large army to join the alliance, but he encountered the Taiping army on the way, and the king of Jiaodong resisted desperately, but the thief army was too brave.
According to the grassroots officers who fled back, the officers and soldiers were suddenly ambushed, and they could only hear the cries that shook the sky, and the head of the thieves had broken into the enemy formation and directly took the king of Jiaodong.
It was completely too late for them to come to the rescue, all the battalions were divided, and they couldn't even protect themselves, and the whole battle didn't even take more than a stick of incense, and 20,000 people had already been killed or fled.
The king of Jiaodong couldn't make a single move, and he was directly killed. ”
This scribe doesn't understand war, but just listening to him, you can feel the tension, there have always been many bandits in that area of Qingzhou, and the king of Jiaodong served as the king in the country of Qingzhou, and he was able to write and fight.
But he didn't even manage to make a move in the hands of the thief leader, and even if he was ambushed, he was completely defeated in just a stick of incense, and he couldn't even organize an effective counterattack.
All the princes in the hall who often fought, such as Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei, had already frowned deeply, the martial artist knew best whether the martial artist was strong or not, and the two glanced at each other, and they both saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.
Yuan Benchu didn't understand war, but when he had just met the alliance, he suffered this kind of morale blow, and when a prince came to join him, he had an accident, so he couldn't sit idly by.
If it weren't for Luo Zichuan, he would be a model in the world, but the world's handsome Yuan Benchu should always let everyone in the world see why I, Yuan Benchu, can break through this great reputation just by virtue of a false name.
Thinking of this, Yuan Shao was furious and said loudly: "Gentlemen, the king of Jiaodong came to meet the alliance but was killed, this is an unfortunate thing, but it is not, he was loyal to the Han and died well."
Didn't we gather here from Kyushu just to use this blood to serve the Han Society?
The king of Jiaodong is one step ahead, and the Taiping thief army wins first, can it make me wait for the slightest retreat?
Beat the drums and gather the generals to avenge the king of Jiaodong.
Be loyal to Your Majesty, destroy the peace, and prosper the Han family!
Isn't this right now? ”
Yuan Shao's voice was deafening, his face was full of righteousness, Liu Xuande looked at the majestic Yuan Benchu in front of him, he really felt that he was a rare hero in the world, and couldn't help but say loudly: "The original justice is high and righteous!" ”
"The original justice is high!"
No matter what kind of thoughts everyone had in their hearts, but at this moment, the hall shouted in unison, "Destroy the peace and prosper the Han family." ”
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The emperor issued an edict, it is to lift the 28th road princes Qin Wang, together with Xingyang, a million soldiers, the momentum shook the Han Dynasty after a hundred years of not seen the grand scene, the horn slightly did not panic, but led the army to advance, hit the king of Jiaodong, out of the army to sacrifice incense, kill the king of Jiaodong to return, the incense is not extinguished, still probe the bag to take things, nothing more than that. - "Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty"
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