The Battle of the Two Rivers in March of the 6th year of Kowa ended.

In this battle, the Taishan Army broke two counties and three armies before and after, and Weihe was unrivaled for a while. Yanyu's Taiping Dao was so imposing that they thought that the time for the incident had come, and sent a letter to the head priest of Jizhou, suggesting that they should take advantage of the weakening of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty to launch an uprising. On the one hand, the head priest of Jizhou criticized the adventures of the Taiping Dao of all parties, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to Ma Yuanyi and Tang Erren in Kyoto to intensify their contact with the palace and the inner response, and at any time to listen to the order and launch a beheading of the palace concubine. It seems that Taiping Dao can't wait either, and the uprising is just around the corner.

But at this time, the officials of the Han Court did not know that an upheaval was just around the corner, and they still had a headache with this rising Taishan thief.

After the end of the March offensive, the Taishan army did not continue the offensive, but chose to hibernate.

At that time, Yang Xu, the chief general of the three southern counties of Taishan County, immediately saw that most of the Taishan thieves were going to take a defensive posture, so he went to Chen Qi of the northern country of Jiji, and the letter said:

"Previously, the thieves entered Bo County and Liang Fu from Fenggao, and they seemed to be enterprising, but they were still guarding against danger. Our army had ordered many doors and divided into many ways, and they were broken by thieves. It is better to guard the Mengshan Pass with courage and heroism, so that the thieves will not be haunted and plundered, so that they will have no food and salt, and they will be trapped. After the GI specializes in Fenggao, he can be annihilated with one drum."

Yang Xu's suggestion to Chen Qi hit the nail on the head, pointing out that the biggest advantage between Han Ting and the Taishan thieves now is not war, but the gap in materials. Now the Taishan thieves obviously plan to entrench in the southeast of Taishan County, so take this opportunity to hold on to various points, and then cut off their food and salt, when the thief army is short of food and weak, and then send troops to directly attack the thief's nest Fenggao, and the thief can be leveled at once. It can be said that this suggestion is quite sophisticated, not to make a battle merit a priority, but to carry out a long-term siege, using the greatest advantage of the Han court, it can be said that the old man seeks the country.

But Yang continued to send a letter to Chen Qi, and Chen Qi couldn't receive it, because he died of illness not long after he was sent to Snake Hill, and the whole city was vegetarian.

Before he died, Chen Qi dragged his sick body and trembled to give the country Liu Hong a letter of pleading, in which he wrote:

"Fu Ji Ji Beiguo Jing bravely 4,000 went south to suppress thieves, fought in March, and died in one day, all because of the courage of Fu Zi and his husband, greedy for merit and defeat, so that the overall situation was frustrated, and it was difficult to recover."

Subsequently, he recounted the bloody battle that took place in the east of Wenshui on the third day of the first month of March:

"On the thirteenth, Li Chen, the lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, and the thieves fought in the east of Wenshui and the northwest of Bo County. In this battle, our soldiers and thieves fought in front of the battle, three formations and three defeats, and all departments were depressed, especially the two hundred snake hill soldiers in the front part were defeated first. When we went out of the battle, we heard that these disloyal and unfilial people rushed forward with 200 soldiers wielding swords and urging them to rush back, but they had already lost their courage, cowardly as chickens, like sheep wrapped in feet, and none of them moved. Li Chen, a lieutenant of the Chinese army, stabbed two people with his hand, raised his bow and shot two people with arrows, but there was no response. When it was, I came out of the crowd and inspired the conscience of the whole army, saying: 'The man and the thief do not stand together, and today there is no other than me.' , the GI was agitated and turned back to fight. But there was an unforeseen circumstance, and it rained heavily, and our soldiers were unable to fight any longer, and when they retreated before the battle, they were taken advantage of by the thieves and retreated back to the camp, and I was also struck by the thieves, and the success was lost."

Here he embellishes and reconstructs the events of the war a little, because this is not the point. The point is that Chen Jue took all the responsibility for this battle on himself. ….

On the one hand, this can calm the anger of many heroes in Jibei. In the first battle of March, the essence of Jibei was exhausted, and how many clothes were covered with dust, he Chen Qi did not take this responsibility on his body, who could carry this responsibility?

More importantly, on the other hand, he Chen Qi has to think about his children and grandchildren. After he returned to Snake Hill, he knew that his life was short, and now he was a dying man who took all the responsibility for the defeat, how many people needed to inherit his kindness, of course he Chen Qi couldn't use these feelings, but his son Chen Deng could use it. Deng'er is already one in twenty, if you want to be promoted to filial piety, it will be these few years. With these feelings, Deng'er can also be much smoother in the officialdom later.

And Chen Qi knows the temperament of Liu Hong of the country, and he is still honorable to the old ministers, although he lost his troops and lost his troops in this rebellion, he fought hard and died, and the country will most likely sympathize with his son. This is Chen Jue's calculation.

But in order to make this a reality, Chen Jue wrote his own theory of peace and thieves on the song, and the image of such a loyal minister who is loyal to the country and has died has jumped on the paper.

Don't blame Chen Qi for acting when he is dying, in this officialdom, which one can be distinguished

How much of yourself is acting, and how much is your true face. When you always have to show people with a mask, often some truths also need to be told with a mask, and at that time, who still thinks that the mask is not the real face?

At least Chen Qi didn't feel that it was a mask, because the theory of thieves he wrote on the song was indeed written sincerely, and he did his best to suppress the thieves in the future.

The strategy proposed by his people in the treatise coincides with what Yang Xu wrote to him, but it is more systematic:

"The Tarzan thief is cunning and not afraid of death, and he is victorious and self-defending, so he can't fight in a hurry. Be perseverant and take every step of the way. Even if the thief is hungry, he can succeed in one go. The servant summed up the need to suppress the thief in three words, which is 'blocking,' 'sitting,' and 'fighting.'"

After that, Chen Jue summed up the combat characteristics of the Taishan thieves, approaching for a hundred miles, like the wind in an instant, because of the food to the enemy, to fight to feed the war. He believed that to fight these rogues, it was necessary to block the roads that flowed in all directions, and cut off the supply of their soldiers and grain. Then it is to sit, and to sit is to give each side of the theater a main general, who is in charge of this side of the garrison. The Lord will demand that he must be serious, and he cannot waste his time in battle. As long as the thief comes, he will strike him, and if he goes, he will lure him; Eliminate the other food road, scatter the thief gang. That's what it is. And in the end, it is a battle, when the thieves of Mount Tai are trapped and the army is lacking, and the combat strength is lost, the main force of the two armies of the north and south directly attack Fenggao, once and for all.

It can be said that Chen Qi is worthy of being the top capable minister of the Han Court, although he was anxious to use troops at the beginning, so that he lost his division and lost his brigade, but the main reason is not that Chen Qi's ability is not good, but that Zhang Chong is too strong and the Taishan army is too strong.

The Taishan Army was originally a thief who shouldn't exist. If you ask Han Ting to think about it, you can't think of it, how can there be thieves who use the division of the economic system to organize the thieves, and how to choose all the warriors who are good at fighting to form an army. The most outrageous thing is its thief, where did he learn the art of war? Is it really as talented as Han Xin?

But putting aside the factors of the Taishan Army, Chen Qi is worthy of the level of his Han family's capable ministers, and his strategy can be described as the standard tactics of suppressing thieves. For example, the method of "four positive and six corners" used by Yang Sichang in the late Ming Dynasty to suppress the Liukou, and the bunker battles used by Lao Jiang and the Japanese Kou are all the births of this tactic.

But all of these tactics ultimately failed. Why? All because there are too many preconditions for this kind of strategy, and we have to block, sit, and finally fight. If none of these things are met, the strategy will fail. And the biggest failure is this block, you must know that when you catch a turtle in the urn, the turtle will still work hard to run around? When the Taishan army is hungry, it will definitely fight to break through, and then it will be up to Hanting to see if it can be blocked. ….

But what about this old Chen Jue?

He also wrote about this situation in the strategy of leveling the thieves, he said that the key to this strategy is that the Taishan thieves will be transferred because of lack of food, and the newly defeated three-way Han soldiers are unable to intercept them, and the three sides are far apart, the battle line is long, and the troops are insufficient, so it is easier for the Taishan thieves to break through.

So he wrote in his policy:

"The Taishan thieves have been entrenched in the northeast of Taishan County for more than half a year, and they have harvested a batch of autumn grain, and the grain is not in danger. The method of sitting and trapping will only take effect in March, when the thieves have robbed the corn and eaten it. Its exit is on three sides, the east is the direction of Qingzhou, and it is necessary to guard the Tailu Pass and the Yi Mountain Pass with the generals. The south is Xuzhou, and the generals must guard the Nimeng passage to prevent thieves from going south to Xuzhou to eat. The north is Yanzhou, this is a flat river, the most difficult to prevent, it is necessary to connect with the beacon of the dock fort, the thief will light the beacon fire, and then encircle. And once the thieves come out of the nest and plunder, the armies of all walks of life can immediately attack, cut off their food, herbs, salt, and medicines, and make them trapped, which is the way to win."

Suddenly, Cheng Cheng, Chen Qi also died in the temple of Sheqiu County.

Subsequently, the officials of the county bureau cried together, because the Chen Qi they saw was worthy of being a child of the Han family, and he really did his best and died. What a great scene this is, how difficult it is to prosper the country, and Bandang knows loyal ministers.

Everyone saw Chen Qi with a yellow scarf wrapped around his head, his face withered, and he was so thin that he couldn't see his human appearance. But before he died, the brush in his hand slipped to the ground, leaning on the couch with his back and looking peaceful.

This is really a loyal minister of the Han family, and it is precisely because of these loyal ministers from generation to generation that my Han dynasty will not fall in virtue. They believe that this time is the same, the Taishan thief is no more than a clown, and the victory will definitely belong to the Han Court.

In the end, on the one hand, the secretary sent a letter to the Chen family in Xuzhou to ask his son to come to Snake Hill for funeral, and on the other hand, he sent Chen Qi's last letter to Kyoto in the name of the chief of the country's central government Cao Cao.

The prime minister's strategy of leveling the thief, who can say that it is not them

What about the collective wisdom of many Cao Chang in Jibei Kingdom? It's not too much.

In this way, this letter written by Chen Jue, but representing the collective wisdom of all the officials of Jibei Kingdom, was sent to Kyoto all the way through Jishui.

Later, the officials gathered Chen Jue and put it into the coffin, and then the new patriarch of the Gong Cao, Cheng and Confucian families in the country personally carried the coffin and sent it to the ice cellar in the county.

Gong Cao must be here to carry the coffin, because after the Jibei Kingdom is over, according to the Han family system, he will preside over the affairs of the country, and he will not come to carry the coffin for the old chief.

Along the way, all the officials thought of Chen Qi's voice and smile, and they all sighed:

"It's really a good minister of state, a good chief. I have carried it myself, and I have merit and people, and I am really an elder."

After sending Chen Qi off, the Zhucao Temple of Jibei Kingdom is still working in Snake Hill under the suggestion of Gong Cao, because there are too many things that they need to solve on the spot. In this big defeat, just the matter of bereavement, merit, and mourning will keep them busy, how can they have the energy to move the shogunate of the prime minister of Jibei again.

However, in their busyness, the officials deliberately forgot about Liu Yan, who died on the east bank of Wenshui, and his 500 soldiers.

Why is that?

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