The outbreak of war began with the conscription order of the Emperor of Yan!

Murong Ke recalled almost all the infantry and cavalry of the Yan State stationed in Hedong, Taiyuan, Liaodong, and the grassland back to Jicheng, and a large number of siege equipment were pushed to the front of the city, and the whistling cavalry was crisscrossing Hebei, and the Yan army attacked in three ways, aiming directly at the only important city of the Han State in Hebei, Yecheng.

All the defenses of the Han State in Hebei were carried out by relying on Yecheng, and the only outcome of the Han army was to go to the Yellow River to feed the fish and make the fish and shrimp in the coming year more fatty.

The Han State is different from the Wei State, the ruling foundation of the Wei State has been corrupted, just like a castle piled up with sand, Murong Chui directly disperses with a violent push, even if he still has strength, but it can no longer be gathered.

Han is a relatively stable country, although there are various problems now, but it is not a push that can be overthrown, of course, this is all theoretical.

An incompetent king can greatly accelerate the demise of a country, while a virtuous king can delay the destruction of the community.

Murong Chui's battle in the first battle of Guanzhong had a lot to do with the Wei army, which was an important factor that could not be ignored.

Yan has coveted the complete Jizhou for too long, has been waiting for too long, although Yan has been fighting field battles here, but the siege war has been practiced countless times, especially the attack and defense of Yecheng.

From the very beginning of a war, the Yan State almost used all its strength, and the armor people transferred from Liaodong, the most elite Yan State infantry armor, were crumbling under the attack of countless siege equipment.

Murong Ke sat in the camp of the Chinese army, commanding the attack, his order was very simple, "Break through Yecheng within a month, if you can't break it, then flood it with water, we can only spend a maximum of three months here!" ”

Murong Ke initially hoped to be able to move the capital to Jinyang in the future, but now it seems that it will not work, Du Jinyang is somewhat inconsistent with the situation of competing with Liang Guo in the future, but is against Guanzhong.

The alternative is Yecheng, Jicheng is too remote to control the large area of land north and south of the Yellow River, from this point of view, Murong Ke is unwilling to destroy Yecheng, once it is flooded, at least for a few years, Yecheng will no longer be able to be the capital.

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The offensive of the Yan State was urgent and fierce, and the Liang State of the Southern Dynasty also attacked with a large army, so that the Han State suffered from the enemy, and the ministers of the Han State immediately felt that the two countries were not good.

And the emperor of the Han State himself cut off his own ears and eyes, eunuchs and concubines, etc., all followed him and did not talk to him about these military affairs until he had to go to the court meeting.

Yecheng was besieged by the elite army of Yan State, and there was a steady stream of troops rushing to Yecheng, which could reach tens of thousands of troops, and he only knew the news that Yecheng was in danger.

Emperor Han asked in disbelief: "I have only been in the palace for half a month, why did these things happen?" ”

Yinghou Luo Zhenye immediately stood up and pointed at the Han Emperor and shouted: "The ancient holy king ruled the world with all his heart, and he was still worried that he could not let the people of the world be stable, and the supreme Su Wang didn't even have time to eat in order to listen to the opinions of the sages.

Is there just one thing in the world?

Do all the kings and ministers of the world have nothing to do every day?

Ten days, there are 100 things in one day, there are more than 1,000 things in total, there are 1,000 things in a day, there are more than 10,000 things in total, this world is so big, how can there be more than a thousand things a day?

The reason why the ancient holy kings were able to govern the world was to take the initiative to listen to the voices of the Quartet to prevent partiality and belief.

How ridiculous.

If you don't think about your mistakes, you can still ask these words here, is it worthy of Emperor Xuanlie's difficult entrepreneurship? ”

Luo Zhenye's voice resounded in the hall, the emperor was a little angry and full of shame, Luo Zhenye was his teacher, he could only be scolded in vain, and some of the other ministers were equally angry, the emperor's matter was too outrageous, and some people were silent, just watching this scene silently.

The emperor could only cover his face helplessly and said: "Yinghou, don't say these words anymore, now Yecheng is in danger, and Liang Guo has two troops pointing directly at my Qingyan land, what should I do, what plan do you have?" ”

What strategy can there be now, it is nothing more than to send reinforcements to support Yecheng, and then send reinforcements to resist the attack of Liang State.

The emperor was full of panic and said: "Zhuqing, Yan State and Liang State are coming together, can my Han break the enemy?" ”

Who knows?

Qunchen, look at me, I'll look at you, no one dares to play this package ticket, and in the end, it was Luo Zhenye who said loudly: "Although the alliance of Yan and Liang is strong, they are the attacking side, and my Han is the defensive side, and their soldiers lose twice as much as my Han."

They are laborers on expeditions, and our army waits for work, they have to maintain the grain route, and our army can get food on the spot, which is the victory of our army.

As long as our Han guards can hold the city, victory will be ours. ”

Although Luo Zhenye was full of anger, he still said a bunch of nonsense to appease the emperor, as long as he held the city, he would be able to win, quite correct nonsense, but the problem was that he couldn't keep it.

What should I do if I can't hold it?

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If you can't hold it, you will lose the whole of Jizhou!

The long-term confrontation between Yan and Han in Jizhou gradually changed from evenly matched to Yan strong and weak, Yan State's wanton military attack, and lived under Yan State Iron Cavalry for a long time, and a whole generation of people saw the invincibility of Yan State Iron Cavalry, which destroyed Jizhou people's confidence in the victory of Han State.

This kind of collapse of confidence is not obvious in normal times, but when Yan decided to launch a full-scale attack on Han and indeed swept Hebei, the hearts of the entire Hebei people suddenly collapsed.

Resistance is futile, this kind of thinking is everywhere, the so-called solidification of the country does not take the risk of mountains and streams, the world does not take advantage of the war, although there are limitations, but it is profoundly put forward that the people's hearts are the fundamental factor that determines the victory or defeat.

Hebei can only be described as invincible, where the Yan iron cavalry arrives, the battle line will be pushed to where, the Han army is almost collapsed, this is not a day's work, but the effect of Yan on Jizhou for many years.

But this scene frightened the Han magnates in Feng High School, Luo Zhenye looked at the battle report over and over again, couldn't believe his eyes, and the emperor happened again, sighing "what can I do".

Even Xiao Yan, who presided over the Liang State's offensive against the Han Dynasty, was taken aback by the speed of Murong Ke's war, according to this speed, Hebei would soon fall completely into the hands of the Yan State, and the Yan State at that time would definitely drink the Yellow River and compete with the Liang State for the land of Qingzhou and Yanzhou.

Xiao Yan could only speed up the attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, let Luo Xianzhi send more troops to support the attack on both fronts.

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With one country against two countries, especially big countries like Yan and Liang, the money, food, army and generals are not as good as the two countries, and the Han State can only retreat one after another.

The Han army was defeated and retreated in Hebei, died by the Yellow River, and retreated in Yanzhou, and the army that rushed out of Xingyang was no longer an ally, but a rushing death, and was defeated and retreated in Huaisi, and the Han completely lost here.

This scene is quite a bit of the old Bang Zhou, when all the countries joined together, and no matter how strong any country was, it would be defeated in the face of the alliance of all countries.

The Han State was able to survive relying on the population, but there was no means of countermeasures, this was just a slow death, and even if there was an accident, someone would be like the destruction of the Wei State, and he would be directly beheaded Feng Gao, and he would die directly.

Things are interconnected, cause and effect can be transformed into each other, and military is a continuation of politics, but military successes and failures will in turn affect the direction of politics.

If the Han State had won the war with Yanliang, then Fenggao would not have fallen into such a silent situation now, and successive military defeats had left Fenggao's political situation out of control.

The current Han State is no longer the time when it was just established, when Liu Bei was there, even if he had a failure, he was still able to maintain internal stability, but now it is different, after the failure, no one will take responsibility, all of them are dumping, mutual accusations, and the trend in secret.

The emperor lamented and said: "The Yan army is powerful and difficult to resist, now it can be said that it is the time for my Han to live and die, why is this happening, is it the fate of my Han?" ”

Luo Zhenye said expressionlessly: "Where in this world is there anything in this world where fate can decide everything?"

A virtuous monarch can seize those fleeting opportunities to prosper a state that has fallen into ruin, and restore the lost system of etiquette to normal, but what about a dumb monarch?

He didn't know the difficulties of his ancestors' entrepreneurship, believed in an ethereal fate, ignored the virtues of the ancient holy kings, pursued extravagance and gorgeous palace costumes, and was unwilling to listen to the advice of loyal ministers, and was surrounded by those treacherous villains.

Indulged in beauty and sensuality, unable to restrain himself cautiously, and never satisfied.

How ridiculous is it to do this and still want a prosperous country?

The army has been abolished, the hearts of the people have collapsed, you have not suffered the rejection of fate, but you have given up on yourself, the calamity that fell from heaven can still live, but the sins created by man himself cannot be remedied.

The minister has repeatedly advised His Majesty to tell you these truths when His Majesty is studying, but in the end, His Majesty has turned a deaf ear and thought that these are useless words.

As a result, when the enemy army has broken through the city, subdued the people and the army, and the soldiers have pointed to the neck, death is just around the corner, the shrine is about to be overturned, and the temple is about to be destroyed, you realize your mistake and have a trace of remorse, which is ridiculous. ”

Luo Zhenye is the top in this aspect of piercing the heart, his words should have been told to the emperor as advice, but the emperor did not accept his advice, since ancient times, there were wise kings, and only then did they have virtuous ministers who could advise.

At this time, the emperor said with some self-defeat: "If it is too late now, then I know to surrender, what are I doing if I continue to fight like this?" ”

The emperor's words instantly frightened the ministers, although the Han State was in danger, it was not enough to completely return to the sky, so if he surrendered directly, wouldn't it be a laugh for the world.

Luo Zhenye was completely disappointed in his eyes, when people are in a desperate situation, whether psychologically or physically, they usually burst out with unprecedented strength, and even the clay people have three points of fire.

An emperor, the most inseparable thing should be his throne, anyone who wants to seize his throne, the emperor should have the courage to draw a sword.

People's abilities are naturally high and low, but this qi in his bones cannot be missing, but what is he hearing now?

Surrender?

Having said that, Luo Zhenye already thinks that there is no point in the Han Kingdom to turn the tables.

In life, we always have to expect miracles.

Only by believing in miracles can people create an infinite future, and in many battles in history in which the weak defeated the strong, it was the people who were at a disadvantage who did not give up and dragged on until the enemy himself had problems, so that he could achieve great things.

But now the emperor has given up so simply.

Luo Zhenye said angrily: "Your Majesty the Emperor, you don't like to read, let alone read history books, and I only feel ashamed as your teacher, I failed to teach a king who can revitalize the country."

The minister will teach you one last time today, what a monarch should do when he comes to the end.

It is recorded in the historical records that when the state and Zhou perished, Zhou Tianzi said, 'I would rather die in the torrential rain than live in silence', a king, when he comes to the end, must remember a sentence, he would rather die in battle and lose his society, and never give up the country.

If you surrender like this, you are ashamed of Emperor Xuanlie, and I am ashamed of the Yinghou of the past dynasties.

I will not surrender.

If you see Emperor Xuanlie one day above the nine heavens, you will be a descendant of the Liu family.

That's all there is to it.

The emperor will surrender if he wants to, and I will leave Fenggao to go to the front today, and since I can't advise you, then it is useless for me to stay here. ”

After saying this, Luo Zhenye turned around and left, he didn't want to see the emperor again.

Where in this world is there a king who does not accompany the state to be buried?

Did he think he was the king of Zen?

Luo Zhenye sprayed wildly at this section of the emperor, stunned the courtiers in the palace, and after the guards in the palace reacted, they hurriedly blocked Luo Zhenye's way, Luo Zhenye frowned and roared: "Do you want to stop me?" ”

Although he is no longer young, he still has a loud voice, not to mention that no one in the Han Kingdom knows Yinghou, after those guards looked at each other a few times, they slowly pushed it away, Luo Zhenye was about to leave, and the emperor finally recovered from the stunned feeling that he was sprayed.

Then the emperor cried directly.

The crying was quite miserable, and he said while crying: "Teacher, who in this world is not afraid of death?" Why do you have to die, Emperor Hansheng is still alive. ”

When he said this, most of the ministers in the palace had their eyes flashing, whether they could live or not want to die, especially if the emperor was ready to surrender, it would be even more unnecessary, but there was also a group of people who raised their heads.

Luo Zhenye turned around and looked directly at the emperor, then swept over the ministers in the palace, and said calmly to the emperor: "If my Han can win this game, everything will be fine."

If you can't win, as long as Your Majesty is willing to die, the minister is willing to give Your Majesty a funeral, so that the title of Marquis of Ying will disappear with the disappearance of the Han Emperor. ”

After that, Luo Zhenye didn't look back at all, and left here, leaving only a group of people who looked at each other, and some people followed Luo Zhenye to leave, and the emperor opened his mouth to leave Luo Zhenye behind, but he didn't know what to say.

Where is it so simple to talk about the dead society?

If the emperor really has such a strong will, he can't come to this point, he just wants to have fun, dance and ink, indulge in the sound of dogs and horses, life in the world, isn't it just to enjoy?

Luo Zhenye walked out of the hall and looked at the blue sky, he seemed to see his father, and his memory was already very vague, his father went to the grassland when he was very young, and never came back.

He walked in the palace, the buildings here are not very majestic, in several countries, it may be a relatively poor palace, so the emperor has always wanted to build a better palace.

None of the emperors of the first and later Han dynasties ever visited this city, and it was never the center of the Han Dynasty.

But he stepped on this piece of bluestone slab, looking at the traces of those years, but his footsteps only felt more and more heavy, the last trace of the Han Dynasty, is it about to end with this city?

There are three generations of emperors here, five generations of heroes here to cheer up, and there are some glories here after all, so how can I bear it?

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Regarding the Yinghou family, when Xiao Yan led the army to leave Jianye, he had an open and honest conversation with Luo Xianzhi.

If it was other families, it would have been separated for so long, and Xiao Yan didn't care, but he knew that the Luo family was different, and this family's emphasis on family affection was far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Xiao Yan once asked Luo Xianzhi what to do with Yinghou if he led the army to break through Fenggao.

Luo Xianzhi was silent for a long time at that time, and then said slowly: "Your Majesty, you won't see a living Yinghou in Fenggao, the title he carries on his back is bound to the name Han, the Han Kingdom is broken, the Yinghou is dead, that's all." ”

Luo Xianzhi's tone was deeply depressed, Xiao Yan had hardly seen Luo Xianzhi's expression, and he asked again: "Then why are you still presiding over the attack on the Han Kingdom?" You can obviously choose to attack Shuzhong. ”

Luo Xianzhi put his hands on his back and thought for a long time before he said: "The minister only does the right thing, and Yinghou's loneliness is doomed, but it is just a little later, a little earlier."

Attacking the Han State is the right thing for the Liang State, and eliminating the secession is the right thing for the world, since we are on the right path, then we can move forward with the banner of our hearts.

If I can really attack Fenggao first, it will be a good thing, at least I will be able to keep the Yinghou lineage.

There is no need to worry about their displacement in the war, or even misfortune, one misfortune will bring luck, this is the truth on which misfortune and blessing depend.

Your Majesty, you will protect the safety of the Yinghou family. ”

Xiao Yanlang laughed loudly: "Of course it will, it is your clan, as long as they are not hostile to my Daliang, why should I make a special target for such a world-famous wealthy clan?" ”

Luo Xianzhi bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

A fruitful conversation.

The only question is, can Xiao Yan attack Fenggao City first?

Will you be able to maintain the military discipline of the army after entering Fenggao Fortress?

In this era, except for the temple army and the dare soldiers, no army has good military discipline, and the difference is only that it is rotten and worse.

Even if Xiao Yan can restrain it, what if it is Yan Guo who advances in the city?

Who is stronger Yan or Liang?

This doesn't seem to be a problem, because everyone knows the answer to this question, of course, it is the Yan Kingdom, especially in terms of the speed of the attack, the Yan Kingdom, which has a large number of cavalry, has long been able to lead a large army to gallop across Qingzhou.

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Luo Zhenye is not the kind of person who has to let the whole family follow him to seek death, and the Yinghou family is not prosperous, Luo Zhenye barely had a son in his old age, but he died the year before last.

The previous daughters were all born, two of whom were married, and one was not married, and he was too young to be married.

The two daughters who have been married, he can't interfere at will, but the younger daughter is different, he wrote a letter to Luo Xianzhi, asking Luo Xianzhi to send someone to take his little daughter to Gusu.

As for the retainers in the Yinghou Mansion, those who should be disbanded were disbanded, and those who were unwilling to leave followed the three Houfu ladies to different places.

No matter what the future holds, the Yinghou Mansion is about to disperse.

The most cruel thing in the world is probably that the new era has arrived, and it is clear that the new era is even in front of you, but you have to bear the shackles of the old era, and the new era is not something that can be pursued.

In the war that is now all over Zhuxia, the decline of a wealthy nobleman is nothing, in this war of 100,000 troops, countless families have risen every moment, and countless families have declined.

Those powerful clans entrenched in the locality, in front of the soldiers, are like paper paste, and the slightest carelessness is to be pushed over, especially when the city is broken, basically there will be many big people who die, and many of them are even famous people who move the state party.

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The Yan army under the command of Murong Ke and the Liang army under the command of Xiao Yan hung up the Han State with a discouraged heart, this is the general trend, not a person can resist, the collapse of the Han army is not as exaggerated as the Wei State, but the huge rift in the court will definitely affect the middle and lower classes of the country.

The generals who defend the city, if they don't know why they want to defend the city, they won't have the spiritual will to defend it, a city, a war, victory is this group of people, defeat is also when this group of people are vigorous, they can win, and when morale is declining and confused, they will fail, if there is no such will, the city is doomed.

This is the biggest problem that the Han State is encountering now, that is, the emperor's own resistance is not strong, which makes other officials and generals at all levels very passive.

There are only a very small number of officials in this world who have their own ideas, they are not loyal to the emperor, but to their own ideas, and they submit to the emperor only to carry out their ambitions, and if the emperor disobeys these ambitions, they will even oppose the emperor.

The rest of the officials are all grass on the wall, and they will change with the changes of the imperial court, and these people have flexible moral bottom lines.

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After Murong Chui, who was far away in Guanzhong, received Murong Ke's letter, he read it and clenched it, then lit it on the candle flame and burned it to ashes, and then his eyes looked at Guanzhong and the surroundings.

On the surface, he has two choices: Shuzhong and Hexi Four Counties, but in fact he has only one, and that is the Four Counties of Hexi.

He had just unified Guanzhong, and the foundation of his rule here was still quite weak, and the current stability was entirely based on military victories, and this kind of rule was quite fragile, and if one was not careful, not to mention the defeat of the war, even if it was a little unsmooth, it could cause a collapse.

The image of invincibility is the key to maintaining the entire Guanzhong for the current Murong Trai.

So when he picks his opponents, he has to pick those who are softer persimmons.

No matter what the combat power of Shuzhong is, but that place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is likely to fall into a long-term tug-of-war, and it is really unimaginable to attack the city in Shuzhong.

Especially the Cao clan who rules Shuzhong, as the person who destroyed the Wei State, Cao Lu will definitely fight Murong to the death, in this case, it is a completely impossible task to quickly capture Shuzhong.

Since this is the case, then Murong Trai will not choose Shuzhong as his opponent.

Moreover, for a famous general like Murong Chui, siege warfare is really not cost-effective, and field warfare and siege warfare are two completely different wars.

Most of the ancient famous generals are super masters of field warfare, because only field battles can reflect the resourcefulness and bravery of a famous general, and siege battles and city defense battles, the bonus of a city and dangerous passes is too great.

At the beginning, the terrain of Hangu Pass was a one-man pass and ten thousand people could not be opened, even if the ancient famous generals went to attack, any second-rate general could make him bleed under the city.

There is no such problem in the four counties of Hexi, where there is a flat river, which is the most suitable place for cavalry to cross and horizontally, and the strongest under Murong Chui is the Yan State Iron Cavalry, and the four counties of Hexi generally have no strong cities, and there are not even high mountains and dangers.

Fighting there is completely the internal strength of the general, and Murong Chui is not afraid of anyone in this regard, he firmly believes that he is the strongest general in the world.

In the past, Luo Wujian set out from Chang'an and traveled thousands of miles into the Hexi Corridor, and now Murong Chui also set off from Chang'an, leading more than 10,000 cavalry to Hexi, while Guanzhong, he left Wang Meng to govern, and Yang Cheng was taken to the front line by him.

From this arrangement, it can be seen that Murong Trai still has some political ability, and Wang Meng's only reliance is on him Murong Trai, so among the two, Murong Trai uses Wang Meng more.

Of course, Wang Meng is indeed better, which is also a very important reason.

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There are two wars going on in this world at the same time.

The battle of Murong Trai's annexation of Liangzhou.

The battle of Yanliang to destroy the Han.

The behemoth is getting bigger and bigger, and this is the principle that it will be combined for a long time.

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In this world, the old things are always replaced by new things, when the era of the late Han Dynasty is completely gone, when the Wei State and the Han State died in the disgraceful succession, we all know that the era of heroes is already the rain and the wind blows, we use the new history books to name this era, it is called the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a regime that unifies the north, and a regime that unifies the south, telling the world that this is the era of Yan and Liang. - "Zhuxia: Northern and Southern Dynasties"

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