Chapter 604: Heavenly Dao
But I heard Xun You say worriedly:
"Wang Wendu's ambition is not the same as that of Zhonghuang Taiyi, I am afraid that there will be future changes."
Zhang Chong laughed, he was happy to hear the words "Zhonghuang Taiyi" from Xun You's mouth for the first time.
Previously, when Xun Yu joined Guan Yu's shogunate and participated in the first Northern Expedition of the Taishan Army, Guan Yu had said such a thing to Xun You.
That is to hope that Xun You can live up to the Taishan Army.
But Zhang Chong never doubted this, he knew that Xun You was the kind of typical scholar doctor, who ate the king's luck and was loyal to the king's worries.
But Zhang Chong knew that people like Xun You would not really agree with their Taishan Army concept from the heart. In other words, Xun You joined the Taishan Army because of Zhang Chong, and he thought that Zhang Chong was the one who could bring a new order to the world.
There are not many people like Xun You, and most of the scribes from the scholar clan in the Taishan Army think so. They no longer expect an order that they want, but just an order.
Because no matter how bad order is, it is better than no order.
But now, from Xun You's words, Zhang Chong heard another meaning. That's when he began to identify with and even convert to Zhang Chong's philosophy.
In fact, this is also the state of most people.
They always believe because they see it. When Zhang Chong used his own ideas to plan the blueprint for the development of Hebei, they saw with their own eyes that when the infinite Qianshou was stimulated with enthusiasm, what a huge force it was.
In fact, this is also a very simple truth.
That is why a person should be poor, why a person can live without dignity.
And if only a small part of the world lives like people, and the vast majority of people live in the same state as livestock, then how boring the world is.
Therefore, when society can give these people a chance, give a fair life to the majority of society, and allow more people to enjoy basic material life, then more people's hearts can be reunited.
Because even if they are numb to life, in the final analysis, these people are still people, and they have a desire to be human in their hearts.
And when Xun You and others live and participate in this society where everyone works, what he can see is infinite enthusiasm and expectation for the future, which is too comfortable compared with the backwater society of the past.
As a result, Xun Yu and their hearts also began to reflect:
"If a society can make more people live well, even if it sacrifices a small number of people's drunken money, it is still just."
So Zhang Chong is pleased with this, at this time, the Taishan Army has begun to be more widely recognized, not only by the past Qianshou, but also gradually recognized by some children of enlightened families.
They all understood that the Taishan Army was really doing the right thing for heaven.
What is the Way of Heaven? That is, when everything begins to twist to the extreme, the heavens will send calamity to destroy. But on the ruins of destruction there will be new life.
This is not broken, not standing, breaking and standing.
And the Taishan army is to uphold the will of the sky, to the world to raise a sword, sweeping away the degeneration of the world, and after the Taishan army swept across the universe, in the destruction, a new, full of infinite vitality of the world will appear.
This is the concept of Xun You, who has really begun to realize the mission of the Taishan Army.
In this way, Zhang Chong was relieved.
So Zhang Chong said to Xun You:
"Gongda, there are very few true like-minded people in this world. To put it a little radically, it can be said that there is no at all. Because people are different in the end, no matter how close people are, they will have their own opinions. Therefore, to pursue the absolute Tao is to seek fish from the wood. So I prefer to think of people's relationships as peers. On this part of the road, we walked together. Then on the next part of the road, we walked with different people again. Therefore, it is really important for Wang Wendu to be in the future, but this does not prevent him from wanting to go with us now, and we also need him, which is enough. β
Xun You was silent, he was digesting the meaning of Zhang Chong's words.
He was pondering the analogy of his peers that Zhang Chong said. The more he pondered, the more alert he became.
This statement can be used on Wang Yi's body, and of course it can also be used on the heads of other people in the Taishan Army.
Since they are peers, who is the team leader? There is no doubt that this is the king. When Zhang Chong walked in front, would anyone in the team fall behind, would anyone part ways, would someone run in front of the king again, trying to be the team leader?
At this time, Xun You seemed to see the future, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore.
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The rest of the matter was simple, and when Wang Yi learned that Zhang Chong wanted to see him, this person immediately realized that his opportunity had come.
So in the subsequent meeting, Wang Yi knew everything and told Zhang Chong about the situation in the annexed state.
Therefore, Zhang Chong had Wang Yi to lead the way, and left Yanmen Pass on October 15, first breaking through Dai County after Yanmen Pass, and then dividing his troops to attack Fanzhi and Fanzhi.
Fanzhi is located in the northeast of the Yiding Basin, in the middle of Heng Mountain and Taihang Mountain, and has always been an important passage between Bingzhou and Jizhou.
From Dai County after Yanmen Pass, go northeast along the basin passage to Fanzhi, and then through Fanzhi you can reach the Wutai Mountain area.
And from here to Lingqiu, there is a natural danger that is the Pingxing Pass. This pass is in a throat road in the northeast of Shanxi, with peaks and peaks on both sides, steep and steep. In front of the pass, there is only a narrow ditch that runs from southwest to northeast.
Previously, it was precisely because of the existence of this pass that Zhang Chong gave up his plan to enter the Flying Fox from Yixian County, Jizhou, and then enter the Yiding Plain of Bingzhou.
He knew too well how famous Pingxingguan was.
And now, once Zhang Chong takes Yanmen Pass and Daixian in its rear, he will immediately divide his troops to attack Fanzhi, and after taking Fanzhi, he can directly attack Pingxing Pass from the rear, and then completely open up the passage to Lingqiu.
At that time, the Yu Forbidden Front Army, which has already set off from the Flying Fox Pass and entered Laiyuan, can fight with Zhang Chong left and right and take Lingqiu.
At that time, the 20,000 Zhonghu army led by Yu Ban will be able to join Zhang Chong.
This not only means that Zhang Chong will have an abundant army of 50,000 troops in Bingzhou at that time, but also means that Hebei will be completely connected with the battlefield of Bingzhou.
At that time, the manpower and material resources in Hebei can flow into the Yiding Plain along the Feihukou Passage in a steady stream.
At this point, you can also see Zhang Chong's way of using troops. That is, he is very good at grasping the key node in the battle, and then opening up this node to give full play to his advantages.
In the end, with the overwhelming momentum of the majestic Mount Tai, he went south in one fell swoop.
What the Huns, Taiyuan Hao, are all powder under such a huge force.
It is also the importance of this task, so Zhang Chong made Le Jin a general, and ordered him to lead a thousand iron cavalry troops to raid Fanzhi.
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Fanzhi has a wealthy family, for the Guo family.
His family is a branch of the Guo family in Taiyuan, which is actually the branch of the Guo family that stayed in Fanzhi to deal with the Hengshan industry.
The head of the Guo family is called Guo Xun.
After the Taishan army broke through the Yanmen Pass, they expected that the situation would be dangerous. When the other clansmen persuaded him to do his best in Hengshan, he was unexpected and retreated to Hengshan with the whole clan.
The clansmen didn't understand it, and felt that Guo Xun's move was to give away the ancestral tombs and the land pioneered by the past dynasties. But Guo Xun explained:
At this time, the Taishan army had just broken through the Yanmen Pass, and the elite soldiers were fierce, and the salty gathered. However, the army of his generation was deep and the supply route was far away, so he could only use the plunder as a fund, and the advantage was to fight quickly. And I first avoid its sharpness, and when its food is exhausted, I should go out of Heng Mountain, and Taiyuan face the north and south. When waiting for this opportunity, it is better to avoid than to fight. β
The clansmen suddenly felt that Guo Xun was scheming.
But they didn't know that Guo Xun had something he hadn't said. It all depends on whether Taiyuan can withstand it, if the Taishan army easily takes Taiyuan in the end, he has no chance of counterattacking in Hengshan, it is better to be in the mountains.
This step by step, Cheng Nai immediately responded, but after all, it was inconvenient to talk to the clansmen.
So, with the dream of counterattacking the mountain in the future, the whole clan retreated to Hengshan.
And the Guo family is a prosperous crown family, and they fled without a fight, which made more local tyrants learn one after another. As a result, the Fanzhi side could no longer stop the attack against Lejin.
On October 17, Lejin was lightly armed. On the 18th, he captured the unguarded Pingxing Pass. On the 19th, he crossed the mountain road through the Lingqiu.
At this time, Yu Ban, who had already received the news, also entered Lingqiu with 20,000 Zhonghu troops from the Laiyuan Basin. The winding mountain road was full of officials, packmen, mules and horses of the Central Protector Army, and there was no end in sight.
And with Le Jin in the west to attract the attention of the Lingqiu Han army, the 20,000 Zhong Protectors easily crossed the Taihang Mountain Road and entered Lingqiu.
When the last 20,000 Chinese guards appeared under Lingqiu City, Lingqiu Chief Zhang Zhi surrendered to the city.
And when the city of Lingqiu was broken, the 20,000 central guards poured into the Yiding Basin like a tide, and they converged with the main force of the 30,000 southern expeditions left there in Yuanping.
For a time, 50,000 Taishan troops appeared in the Yiding Basin, unstoppable.
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In fact, when the Taishan army went west from Jizhou to the area of Yanbei Pingcheng, Ding Yuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, had already sent the book to Kyoto.
On the one hand, he was telling the current situation that the situation was critical, and on the other hand, he asked the Taishi Dong Zhuo to return his Bingzhou Legion.
It's a story.
In the Second Battle of Kunhan, Liu Hong really couldn't withstand the fierce attack of the Kwantung Army. So he finally dispatched the border army of the state and the corps of the Western Regions, Hexi, and Liangzhou to Chang'an.
It was in this context that Ding Yuan, then the Taishou of Jiuyuan, led 6,000 border troops to the south of King Qin. At first, they joined Dong Zhuo in Hedong.
It was also at that time that Dong Zhuo fell in love with this iron army that fought in the grassland.
At the beginning, Dong Zhuo also tried to cut off the connection between Ding Yuan and Chang'an so that he could control this legion. But after Wang Yun rushed to Chang'an and told Liu Hong about Ding Yuan's situation, Liu Hong directly ordered the confessor to enter Ding Yuan's camp by bicycle.
After seeing Liu Hong's touching handwriting, Ding Yuan was greatly aroused by his loyalty to the king, and he wept bitterly three times in the direction of Chang'an in the southwest of the country, and then led the whole army to cross the river to the south to participate in the Battle of Cuihan.
In this battle, he also broke Yuan Shao's army in Heyang, making the prestige of the Bingzhou Army spread throughout the two capitals for the first time.
After that, Liu Hong used this army in the Battle of Cuihan.
It was also here that a large number of fierce generals emerged in the state legion.
Such as Lu Bu, Wei Xu, Wei Yue, Cheng Lian, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Liu He, Qin Yi, Pang Shu, Hou Hui.
Later, the Qiang Rebellion occurred in Liangzhou, and the Liangzhou Army was transferred back to the Western Front by Liu Hong. At that time, there was only the Bingzhou Army left on the front line of Cuihan, and it can be said that this army relied on the strength of an army to resist the Kwantung Army at its peak.
Until Liu Hong's death, there was infighting between the Guanxi scholars and eunuchs in Chang'an, and finally Dong Zhuo took advantage.
And after the court gave Dong Zhuo the power to control all the armies and horses in Guanxi, Dong Zhuo immediately expressed Ding Yuan as the assassin of Bingzhou.
At that time, Ding Yuan thought things simple. I feel that the history of the state is the lord of a state and a well-deserved prince.
So Ding Yuan took office, even though he knew that the price was that his Bingzhou Legion would stay on the Cuihan front. But he agreed.
Because he doesn't feel that there is anything irreplaceable for people like Lu Bu, and warriors like this are not in the state of Bingzhou?
It's no wonder that he thinks of Lu Bu like this, because Lu Bu was the master bookkeeper before, and this is a civil servant. A civilian can perform military exploits on the battlefield, is it difficult to find such a person again?
Finally, when he arrived in the state, he realized that it was really difficult.
LΓΌ Bu and the other states are irreplaceable.
Ding Yuan ignored one point, that is, this generation of the Bingzhou Legion may be the last afterglow of the Han Dynasty.
The total population of the state is roughly less than one million, and it is not even as large as the population of the first county in Runan. In terms of the population structure of the Han family, more than 400,000 of these millions are women. Then among the remaining 600,000 people, about 100,000 are old men over 40 years old, about 200,000 children, and finally about 300,000.
The military losses of Bingzhou are almost transported by the central government, so the supply ratio of Ding soldiers is very high, and it can reach the level of two Ding for one soldier.
So theoretically, the state can send 100,000 troops.
But don't forget, almost half of the 300,000 chengding belong to the Taiyuan heroes, and these people are outside the Han family's levy system.
In other words, the actual number of troops that can be mobilized in the state is about 50,000.
Previously, there were 50,000 soldiers, which was actually quite a lot. But in the Northern Expedition in the sixth year of Xiping, 20,000 border troops from Bingzhou all died outside the Saiwai.
Although this happened 20 years ago, the blow to the armament of the state was fatal.
It can be said that the Northern Expedition in the sixth year of Xiping made a generation die in Bingzhou. Now people like Lu Bu and Zhang Liao have grown up in the past 20 years, and their total number is 50,000.
And the original 8,000 Bingzhou Legion led by Ding Yuan was the elite of these 50,000 people, and the elite is not like wheat, cutting a stubble and growing a stubble.
Every samurai was poured with food, meat, sweat, and blood.
So when Ding Yuan returned to Bingzhou, he found that he recruited and formed the Bingzhou Legion, no matter how it was equipped, it was only a second-rate combat legion.
At this time, he remembered Lu Bu and others, so he specially asked for Lu Bu on the letter with Dong Zhuo.
It's a pity that he really doesn't know people like Dong Zhuo.
In fact, when Ding Yuan walked on the front foot, Dong Zhuo on the back foot transferred the elite soldiers and fierce generals of the Bingzhou Legion on the grounds of forming the Huya Battalion.
Dong Zhuo obviously coveted the Bingzhou Legion for a long time, and when he was recruited, there was a special list of people who were recruited.
Such as Lu Bu, Zhang Yang, Zhang Liao and others.
Then as soon as these people left, Dong Zhuo understood that a large number of Liangzhou and Hedong generals would enter the Bingzhou Army. It was by relying on a simple pump and plug that Dong Zhuo completed the digestion of the Bingzhou Legion.
At this time, do you Ding Yuan still want to return to the state legion? Who are you Ding Yuan? Our old father?
But the problem that Ding Yuan said does exist, the Taishan army has reached the door of Bingzhou, you can't help others?
So Lao Dong did such a thing.