Chapter Seventy-Two: Zhou

Zhang Hedu, Duan Qin, Liu Guo, and Jin Dolphin will meet in Changcheng and will attack Zhen. Wei lord Min will attack it, fight in Cangting, He Du and other defeats, 28,000 dead, chase Jin Dolphin in Yin'an, capture all of them and return. Min Rong died more than 300,000 people, and the flags and cymbals and drums stretched for more than 100 miles.

--Excerpt from the introduction

The news of Liangzhou's assassination of Shi Ganrui's defeat of Yiyang and Huangchi immediately shocked Guan Long and the Jin Dynasty. When the news reached Yewang, Fu Jian couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately sent his cousin Fu Jing to lead 12,000 soldiers and horses from Yiguan into Hedong, and marched along the Yiguan Trail to Pusaka, another dangerous pass ferry in Guanzhong, thinking that it was the north road. And he led a large group of men and horses from Mengjindu to the south, first stayed in Luoyang for two days and then marched west to Hongnong Hangu Pass, thinking that it was the middle road, and renamed the governor of the capital, the general, the great single Yu, and the king of Sanqin.

Fu Jian accepted Zhang Yu as the left Sima and Zheng as the right Sima, collected all his troops, stayed in Luoyang, changed to worship Fu Xiong as the general of the expedition to the west, and the history of Luozhou's assassination, led 20,000 soldiers and horses out of Yiyang, and directly took the Lu family and Shangluo into Lantian Pass, thinking that it was the south road. Then worship Yuzun as the general of the expedition to the south and the history of Yuzhou, and lead 15,000 soldiers and horses to Xuchang to pacify Yuzhou. Stay in the thunder weak child for the long history, the town of Luoyang.

At one time, the east side of the right side of the pass drew a crossbow and a beacon fire broke out. When General Anbei and Sima Xun, the assassin of Sizhou, who were stationed in Nanxiang, heard that Gan Rui was defeated, he immediately felt that the opportunity had come, and quickly moved his troops to Yunxiang and Changli County to peep into Weixing County.

And Gan Rui cleaned up for two days after the defeat, and then retreated to Lu City under Yao Jin's escort. Gan Rui rectified while writing to Chang'an to ask for guilt.

Hearing the news of Gan Rui's defeat, Zeng Hua was so angry. He did not expect that he, a sworn brotherhood who had always acted steadily and prudently with his troops, would make such a reckless mistake. It seems that his subordinates are used to winning battles with the wind, and they already feel that they are invincible in the world, which is really dangerous! Moreover, the intelligence of Fu Jian's forces going south to Henan had already been detected by the Horse Exploration Division and the Reconnaissance Cavalry Department, and they had already been sent to him, but Gan Rui didn't know it. As a result, he hit his head on the head. It is understandable for him to test Sizhou's actions, knowing the details of Luoyang, once the official king of the imperial court is in the Northern Expedition, he will have the bottom in his heart, and he should know what to do, in this regard, Gan Rui and Wang Meng and Zhen Pu all know their own thoughts.

It seems that he must bear part of the responsibility for this failure, and in the future, this military information must be shared with the front-line generals, otherwise he is a person who understands, while the generals who led the army in front of him are "touching" with black eyes. Due to the problem of its own organizational set-up, all the military, political, and economic information to the outside world is in the hands of the three yamen, namely, the Horse Exploration Division, the Reconnaissance and Cavalry Department, and the Wind Observation and Reporting Bureau. The generals leading the frontline can only obtain tactical information in a local area by themselves, and major strategic information can only be obtained once in two or three months, so this lack of information is also the reason for the failure.

After Zeng Hua received Gan Rui's petition, he first removed him from the post of Liangzhou Assassin, and Feng Yue officially took over the post of Liangzhou Assassin. Then Gan Rui was demoted from the general of the former army to the general of the light car, temporarily led the Shangluo County Guard, and guarded the Lu City, while the right guard general Zhang Qu moved to Wuguan. Zeng Hua worshiped Wang Meng as the general of Wuwei and supervised the military of Shangluo and Weixing counties. Immediately led the four-compartment soldiers and horses from Lantian Pass out of Shangluo.

Then Zeng Hua pleaded guilty to Jiankang, saying that he did not understand the military and was a light enemy, which resulted in such a fiasco, and 7,000 Liangzhou men slept in Sizhou, so he asked the court to deal with the punishment. Set an example. While waiting for the punishment of the imperial court, Zeng Hua appointed himself as the envoy and the general seal of Zhenbei, and only issued orders as the governor and the assassin of Yongzhou.

After Zeng Hua received the information of Fu Jian's abnormal movements, he immediately dispatched troops to deal with it. Wang Meng was sent to Shangluo. dealing with Fu Jian's Southern Route Army; The Northern Route Army was stationed in General Ning Shuo of Pubandi and Feng Yijun to guard Xie Ai to deal with it; And he personally led the army out of Hongnong to deal with Fu Jian's middle route army.

Before leaving Chang'an, Zeng Hua ordered the establishment of a new official office, the Privy Council, which was in charge of the Privy Council. They first gathered the military information obtained from various channels, then analyzed it, distinguished the authenticity and importance, and finally presented it to Zeng Huahe and distributed the relevant military information to the front-line commanders to help them make correct tactical and strategic decisions. Set up left and right to sign the affairs of the hospital, with Liu Gu (in the funeral) and Rongye Wang to share. The former military secretary and the army commander were transferred to the local staff officers to discuss and analyze various military intelligence, and then sorted out and summarized them one by one, and put forward suggestions, and finally signed by the left and right to sign the court and distribute it to the Zhenbei General's Mansion and the leading generals.

In Zeng Hua's mind, this Privy Council has the prototype of the staff of later generations, which is much more useful than his previous loose military service.

When Zeng Hua led the army to Hangu Pass, Fu Jian's 50,000 army had been here for three days.

Accompanied by Zhao Fu, Di Pu, Yao Jin, and Jiang Nandi. Zeng Hua waited for Hongnong County.

The entire Hongnong City is bordered by the Yellow River in the north. The south is close to the Kunshan Mountain, and the throat is locked to guard a deep and dangerous valley road. Look far away. The valley road winds for dozens of miles, rugged and narrow, the car is not square, the horse is not parallel, and the valley is more hollow and deep, and people walk in it, such as in the letter; On both sides of the pass, the cliff is steep, the peaks and rocks stand in a forest, the terrain is treacherous, and the landform is clear. And Xiongcheng is located on this dangerous terrain.

"This letter Guguan is a one-man pass, and ten thousand people can't open it!" Zeng Hua couldn't help but sigh that this was a heroic pass for the ages.

"My lord, this Hangu Pass is actually not here, but east of Xin'an. As soon as Zheng Pu's words came out, everyone was taken aback, isn't this Hangu Pass or where?

"This is actually the Qinhan Valley Pass, which was set up in the previous Zhou and Qin periods. Since the rise of the Han Dynasty, Guanzhong is the imperial capital, the east of Hangu Pass is called Guanwai, and the west is Guanzhong, and the people are proud of being Guanzhong. Lou boat general Yang Fu, originally from Xin'an County, east of Hangu Pass, others say that he is a foreigner, he is deeply unhappy, so he donated his family funds, in the former Han Wu Emperor Yuan Ding three years (114 BC) in the east of Xin'an County also built a majestic city, and then everyone slowly called it Hangu Pass, and this did the former Qin Hangu Pass became Hongnong City. Zheng Pu explained.

"I see, but after having that new pass, then Yang Servant has also become a person from Guanzhong. Speaking of this, Zeng Hua couldn't help laughing.

But Fu Jian in front of the gate couldn't laugh at all.

50,000 horses fought for three days and three nights in this dangerous pass, leaving thousands of corpses behind, but there was nothing they could do. In this dangerous and narrow place, even if you have an army of 100,000, you have to line up to rush up, and people can cut you down with kitchen knives even if they only have a few hundred people standing in the city gate, not to mention that people's weapons are not only many times more advanced than kitchen knives.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Fu Jian, who was sitting in the big tent, heard this voice and knew that it was the forward officer Duan Chun who was cheering up the sergeant in front again. Prepare for a new offensive. Fu Jian could no longer sit still, hurried out of the big tent, turned over and mounted his mount, and rode his horse towards the front line, so panicked that the generals and guards hurriedly followed.

There were still seven or eight miles ahead, and the sound of a breaking wind came from afar, sweeping like a biting cold wind on a snowfield. Lu Polou, "Mao" Gui and others, who had suffered this hardship, couldn't help but change their faces.

Fu Jian, who looked at his subordinates' faces turning white, couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect the equipment of the Guan You Jin Army to be so domineering!" Hundreds of screams suddenly sounded in front of him, as if in response to Fu Jiandi's words.

Fu Jian's face suddenly turned pale, and he couldn't help but move his mount and continue to walk forward.

Tens of thousands of Fu family troops gathered in a small open space. Slowly rushing forward in a dense formation, like a nest of ants moving. In the middle of the procession were hundreds of ladders, surging forward with the rushing crowd. But the sky is like a dark cloud covering the sun, and like a locust covering the sky, countless arrows have fallen one after another, and the huge and continuous sound can no longer be heard whether it is a buzzing or whirring, only the screams of the sergeant of the Fu family army who keep falling from the arrows are the clearest. And in it, thousands of huge arrows fell from the sky like javelins. In an instant, it pierced the sergeant's body and pinned them to the ground. The offensive of the Fu family army is like a "tide" of water, but Hangu Pass is as immobile as a boulder, and the most terrifying thing is that it can actually send out an overwhelming counterattack.

The ladder at the front finally leaned under the city wall, and the few soldiers who rushed to the bottom of the city divided half of the men and stretched their bows against the city wall, which was a burst of "chaos" and "shooting". I hope to suppress the Jin army above. The other half leaned the ladder and began to climb up the ladder. The three-zhang high city wall makes the ladder long and "thin", and the soldiers of the Fu family climb on it for a while and then shake it badly, and then a stone or wood is thrown on the city tower casually. The ladder was smashed in an instant, and the sergeants on it fell to the ground in a burst of screams.

The sergeant of the Fu family was angry and hateful, but there was nothing he could do. The top of the city is more than two zhang high, and these Guan Right Jin Army actually repaired Hangu Pass to more than three zhang high, and this cloud ladder is connected to two together, and there is no way not to be thin and long.

Seeing that his own soldiers who were frustrated in the city were "shot" to death by the Jin army on the city tower one by one, or burned to death one by one by throwing firewood and setting fires, Fu Jian's eyes widened. His face turned blue and black, and he clenched his fists tightly, gritting his teeth and saying nothing. In the end, Fu Jian suddenly asked, "Zeng Hua has really arrived in Hongnong City?" ”

"Yes, the king, this morning Hongnong City hung up the banner of "Du Du Yong, Qin, Liang, Yi Four Prefecture Military Zeng", Hongnong City Shangdi Jin Army does not need to cheat, it should be Zeng Xuping to Hongnong. The 'Mao' Gui next to him hurriedly replied.

"Tell Duan Chun to stop attacking. I want to shout to Zeng Hua! Fu Jian said.

Of course. It was impossible for Fu Jian to rush to the Hangu Pass to shout, and the "shooting" range of the Jin Army's Divine Arm Crossbow and Bed Crossbow had already made all the soldiers of the Fu Family Army feel that any corner of the battlefield was not safe. Fu Jian's shouting was that he was hiding behind the army. A sergeant with a loud voice rode back to the city to deliver the shout.

"The king of my family dares to ask your lord, my homeland is in Guanlong Sanqin, why don't you let me wait for the west to return to my hometown?"

"Put down your arms, accept the formation, and I will ensure that you all return to your hometown to live and work in peace and contentment!" Zeng Hua's answer was straightforward, since Fu Jian didn't want to come forward by himself, Zeng Hua sat in the city tower, drinking tea and listening to the shouting, and at the same time asked the loud sergeant to convey the reply.

"The king of my family has been ordained by heaven, and there should be three Qins, why don't you obey the will of heaven?" Fu Jian shouted out a crooked reasoning again.

"Since your Lao Fu family has the mandate of heaven, then please call God to shout twice, and I will let you pass the test when you shout out!" Zeng Hua's answer was even more crooked.

"My family led hundreds of thousands of people, gathered the power of three states and ten counties, once the attack will have the wrath of thunder, you are still about to descend, don't do the stupid thing of blocking the car with the mantis arm again. ”

When Zeng Hua heard this, he immediately laughed angrily, then turned his head to Zhao Fusen and asked, "Is the stone cannon ready?" ”

"Back to my lord, the one hundred and twenty stone cannons brought by my lord from Chang'an have been lined up and set up, and they have been waiting for a long time. Zhao Fu hurriedly replied.

"Then let them see what Thunderrage is, and give me all fire bombs, with a ruler of three to five miles. There is no need to try "shooting", ten rounds in a row. Zeng Hua shouted loudly.

There was silence on the city tower, and no one from the Jin army came out to convey the answer. Of course, Fu Jian and the others would not think that such a few empty words could scare Zeng Hua and the others, if they had intimidated them a few days earlier, they would have been scattered, and there would be no need to fight the corpses here.

At this time, there was a strange whistling sound from behind Hongnong City, which was more thrilling than the chaotic sound just now, and at this time, more than a hundred orange-red fireballs appeared in the sky. Like a meteorite, it flew towards the Fu family army.

"Mao" Gui and Wang Yuan immediately knew that it was not good, and hurriedly grabbed Fu Jiandi's mount and ran back.

Fu Jian and the others were running when they only heard a fluttering sound of falling to the ground behind them, the mountain shook, and then the sound of whirring was flying everywhere, and then countless screams were shouting wildly. Fu Jian couldn't help but turn his head to look, only to see more than a hundred places as if the sky was falling to the ground, and dozens of hundreds of sergeants nearby were splashed with sparks and quickly circled, and after a while, he only saw hundreds of fire men screaming there.

It's not more than thirty breaths. I saw more than 100 fireballs flying in the sky. Fu Jian couldn't help shouting again and again: "Withdraw the troops!" Withdraw troops! ”

Returning to the camp thirty miles away, Fu Jian, who sat down, still had palpitations, and he said to Mao, Jiang Bozhou, Wang Fall and others who were sitting on both sides: "I didn't expect that the Guanyou Jin army had such a domineering weapon. At first, we thought that it was a fluke for Zeng Zhenbei to take Guanzhong, but now it seems that ten Chang'an cities have also been destroyed by him. It seems that not only will we not be able to go back to Guanzhong. If they go all out to the east, I'm afraid this Luoyang will not be able to protect it! ”

Wang Cheng was the first to speak: "What the king said is that none of us thought that this Zeng Zhenbei would be so strong. Coupled with his danger, I'm afraid we really didn't return this time. Can't go back to the right. But adults don't have to worry, according to his subordinates, Zeng Zhenbei will not fall into Heluo in the east, at least in the past two years, he will not go out of Heluo. ”

Fu Jian was stunned for a moment, and only after a while came back to his senses and asked in surprise, "Why is this?" ”

"If Zeng Zhenbei wanted to send troops to Heluo, he would have sent troops a long time ago, and he wouldn't have waited until now, he just didn't want to send troops. And the reason why he did not send troops was nothing more than two, first, he occupied the place of the four battles in Heluo. The north may be invaded by us and Yecheng Wei Min and Yao Gezhong, the south has Yuzhou Zhang Yu, and the east has Qingzhou Duan Shrine, all kinds of forces will surge up, that is, Zeng Zhenbei no matter how capable he is, he does not have three heads and six arms, and he cannot resist this round of melee, so once he is trapped in it, not only Heluo is not protected. And it is also possible that even Guan Long will be unstable due to the war. In the end, the strength was lost, but both ends were lost. He made a wedding dress for someone else. ”

Wang Cheng analyzed them one by one in detail, and Fu Jian and the others listened quietly and attentively.

"The second is that this Heluo land is afraid that it is inconvenient for Zeng Zhenbei to send troops to recover, and it can only be recovered by the Jiankang Imperial Court, otherwise the south will be suspicious of Zeng Zhenbei, how can Zeng Zhenbei do this thankless thing?" After saying this, Fu Jian and the others nodded again and again, the merit was high, and the old master Fu Hong was not like this in Shihu? is because the credit is too high, as a result, Shi Hu attaches great importance to the old master Fu Hong on the surface, but secretly he is very suspicious, and in the shadows people kill several brothers and nephews of the Fu family who have a bit of promising, leaving only these brothers.

"An Sheng (Wang Falling), how do you think we can not make other people's wedding clothes?" Fu Jian asked eagerly after listening.

"King, we are different from Zeng Zhenbei. Our occupation of Luoyang is the will of God. This northern Yecheng has been in a scuffle, and the war in Yuxiang Kingdom will not be finished for one or two years, as long as we don't mess with Yecheng, how can Ran Min Xiao'er have the energy to take care of us. Zhang Yu in Yuzhou in the east has surrendered, and we only need to entrench in the rich land of Si, Henan, and Yanzhou, and work hard for one or two years, and then whether it is the Northern Expedition of the Jin Dynasty or the Northern Eastern Expedition of Zeng Zhen, or the southward march of Wei Min, who can help us? And we have a deep roots in Guanlong, just send more detailed spies, instigate the powerful families around the country to raise troops, stir up the "chaos" place, and then Zeng Zhenbei internal and external troubles, we will take advantage of the "chaos" to take Guanlong in one fell swoop, at this time we are connected to Guanlong, Heluo, try to ask who in the world can be the enemy? ”

Fu Jian couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and suddenly stood up and walked in front of Wang Yuan, grabbed his hand and said gratefully: "An Sheng's words save my Fu family and hundreds of thousands of Guanlong refugees." ”

On the second day, Fu Jian ordered to stop the attack on Hangu Pass and began to prepare to return to Luoyang. Within a few days, news came from the north and south one by one, Fu Jing was defeated by the new general Ning Shuo and Feng Yijun guard Xie Ai, and she couldn't find the north anymore, so she had to lead the remnants of the army to retreat to Dayang, east of the river. Fu Xiong had no way to do anything under the dangerous Lu City, Gan Rui, who was fighting at home, with more than 10,000 defenders to defend Lu City like an iron bucket, and a few days later, the newly appointed Wuwei general Wang Meng led the four-compartment infantry army to come, and a series of counterattacks made Fu Xiong unable to parry, so he had to lead his troops back to Huangchi City.

Hearing these two bad news, Fu Jian became even more determined in his thoughts, and he left Xin to lead more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to Shaancheng (now west of Sanmenxia City, Henan), and led the army back to Luoyang.

At the end of August, Fu Jianzuo Changshi Jia Xuanshuo and others asked Fu Jian to call the story of the king of Hanzhong according to Liu Bei, and presented himself as the military governor of Heluo, the general, the great single Yu, and the king of Zhou. Fu Jian couldn't help but be furious: "Can I only be a great general Shan Yu?" What is the destiny of heaven, you dare to speculate! Secretly, he secretly asked Liang An and others to be honored, and Fu Jian resigned again and again, and finally allowed it.

In September, Ding You, Fu Jian was in Luoyang, that is, the king of heaven, Da Dan was on the throne, the country was called Da Zhou, amnesty, and the beginning of the Yuan Emperor. posthumously honored his father Hong as Emperor Wuhui, and the temple name was Taizu; He set up his wife Qiang as the queen of heaven, Zichang as the prince, Liang as the prince of Pingyuan, born as the Duke of Huainan, Mao as the Duke of Changle, Fang as the Duke of Gaoyang, Shuo as the Duke of Beiping, Teng as the Duke of Huaiyang, Liu as the Duke of Jin, Tong as the Duke of Runan, Di as the Duke of Wei, Wu as the Duke of Yan, and Young as the Duke of Zhao. With Fu Xiong as the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, prime ministers, leading chariots and riding generals, Sizhou pastors, and Donghai dukes; Fu Jing is the general of Wei, the Duke of Pingchang, and the second palace of the guard; Lei Qiao'er is the Tai Lieutenant, "Mao" Gui is Sikong, Jia Xuanshuo is the Zhongshu Ling, Jiang Bozhou is the Shang Shu Ling, Liang Leng is the left servant "Shot", Wang Fall is the right servant "Shot", Yu Zun is the prince and the prince, Qiang Ping is the Taifu, Duan Chun is the Taibao, and Lu Polou is the free rider and regular attendant.

Then he sent the general Fu Xiong to Yanzhou. Within a few months, Liu Qi, the assassin of Zhao Yanzhou, descended to Juancheng, and Wei Tong, the assassin of Wei Prefecture, descended to Xiaqiu. So far, Zhou Zhu Fu Jian has all the bases in Sizhou Henan, Hanoi, Ji County, and Hedong County; Yingchuan, Xiangcheng, Chenjun, Liang County and Puyang, Chenliu, Jiyin County and other eleven counties in three prefectures in Yuzhou were not strong for a while.

Zeng Hua led the army back to Chang'an, and also sent a letter to Jiankang, saying that he was beaten by Fu Jian in Huangchi and Hongnong.