Chapter 5: The Decisive Battle

In the first month of 352, Ran Min conquered Xiangguo and eliminated the remnants of Later Zhao's forces, and it can be said that he achieved a major military victory.

However, at this time, the Central Plains has become a scorched earth, with waste production and industry, and people's livelihood withering, which is more affected than the five-year new crown epidemic. Feeding has become the biggest problem facing Ran Min's troops.

It is very dangerous to only grasp the revolution and not engage in production. Ran Min had to lead the army to travel in Changshan, Zhongshan and other places to eat, and the daily diet was gradually unsustainable.

To add insult to injury, the strong enemy in the north, Murong Xianbei's former Yan was eyeing him. In April 352, the former Yan king Murong Jun (儁) sent troops to attack Ran Wei, and the commander of the army was none other than Murong Ke, the first general of the Sixteen Kingdoms and a genius boy.

In April 352, when the grain and grass of Xiangguo were exhausted, Ran Min distributed the military rations in the city to the people, and led 10,000 horses to fight for grain outside the city alone. The general Dong Yan and the general Zhang Wen advised: The Xianbei people are now sharp and should be avoided for the time being. After they are proud and slack, they will increase their forces and take the opportunity to attack.

You're still thinking about these when you're running out of food? Ran Min smiled bitterly in his heart, but he still had to fight for the short and long: I am preparing to lead the army to pacify Youzhou and kill Murong Jun, the lord of Yan. Now I am frightened when I meet Murong Ke, what should the people think of me!

The most important thing for a person to live a life is to have a strong and brave heart, so that he is not afraid of any wind and rain. Ran Min took the initiative to lead the army out of the city, garrisoned Yu Anxi, and Murong Ke led the troops to follow. Ran Min led the army to Changshan again, and the Yan army pursued closely until Liantai in Weichang County.

Previously, Ran Min and the Yan army had fought ten times, ten battles and ten victories, and the Han army under his command had experienced a hundred battles and was extremely strong in combat.

In order to boost the morale of the Yan army, Murong Ke personally inspected the army formation to do ideological mobilization and fight chicken blood: Ran Min has courage and no strategy, and can only take one as one. Now the Han army is hungry and tired, and although the weapons and equipment are excellent, they are actually useless, and it is easy to defeat them!

Yes, no matter how powerful it is, it's a group of carbon-based creatures, how can you fight when you're hungry? The Yan army's heart is determined.

Most of the 10,000 Han troops led by Ran Min were infantry, while Qianyan was all cavalry. Since ancient times, the infantry of the agrarian people and the cavalry of the nomadic people have basically only been beaten - they can't fight if they want to, and they can't escape, and it is a world-class problem in the military world to suppress the cavalry with foot. Of course, this problem was finally solved in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the cracker, Yue Fei, a generation of war gods.

Seeing the Yan cavalry approaching, Ran Min led his army into the jungle. In the jungle, the cavalry cannot be used when they come in, and they are the living targets of the infantry. Moreover, wood is ready-made, and trees can be cut down, sharpened, and crossed vertically and horizontally as a tool to reject horses.

Murong Ke, of course, could see through Ran Min's intentions, and quickly adjusted his strategic deployment. The prelude to a battle of wits and courage and ruthlessness between Hu and Han was slowly opened.

Tens of thousands of Han infantry, all with solemn faces, were rushing towards the jungle. No matter how fast he advanced, his legs couldn't outrun four hooves, and a group of Yan cavalry suddenly caught up quickly. In order to avoid being chased and killed, the Han army urgently stabilized its position and turned around to fight with the Yan army.

For a while, the dust was flying, covering the sky and the sun, people called the horses to neigh, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Ran Min took the lead, wielding a bloody double-edged spear, creating red ink paintings like splashing ink in the air. The commander was brave, the Han army was high-spirited, fought bravely, and the strength was superior, and the Yan army gradually lost its support and began to retreat. Ran Min was killed for a while, and led the army to pursue closely.

The Han army, which was originally pursued, became the pursuing Yan army. The two-legged infantry and the six-legged cavalry were already very strange, but Ran Min was red-eyed and pursued all the way.

When the pursuit reached an open area, the cavalry of the Yan Army, like mountains and seas, with helmets and armor, like a blocked steel wall, appeared in front of the Han army.

Real hunters are in the form of prey.

Hit the trick! Ran Min's mind suddenly cleared up at this time, however, it was too late to turn around and retreat to the jungle.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the thief captures the king first. The only chance is to go straight to the Chinese army and capture the commander of the Yan army. Ran Min pushed the helmet up, looked around, and spotted a big banner with the word "Yan" fluttering on the pole. This is Murong Xiao'er's command center! He immediately made a decision, urged the Zhu Longma under his crotch, held a two-edged spear in his left hand, and a hook halberd in his right hand, roared, and led the army to attack the Yan army like a tiger.

The battle flag danced wildly, the war drums beat wildly, the people were like wild beasts, the blood was like a wild spring, and the 10,000 Han infantry bravely rushed to kill, and they were about to be close to the flag tent of the Yan army.

Suddenly, about 5,000 heavily armored cavalry flashed out in front of the Yan army, and the horses were all half-armored and connected with iron chains to form a phalanx, blocking in front of the Chinese army's flag tent.

This may be the prototype of the Jin Bing Kidnapper Horse in later generations.

The 5,000 heavily armed cavalrymen were armed with hard crossbows, and the arrows were like flying locusts, and the Han soldiers advanced with arrows, and people continued to fall down with arrows. Fortunately, the advantage of the Han army is that it is well-equipped, with strong bows, hard crossbows, armor, and shields. The two sides began to fight knife to knife and spear to spear, and they fought each other in close combat.

Ran Min, who was dressed in blood armor, surrounded by his own soldiers, was brave and invincible, and he beheaded several Xianbei cavalry in a row, and went straight to the banner tent of the Xianbei Chinese army. Ran Min knew that there was the person he was looking for in the flag tent - Murong Ke. Capture the thief first capture the king, capture Murong Ke, and the battle can be over.

The battle was in full swing, and suddenly, pieces of dust rose from the left and right wings, accompanied by the muffled sound of the huge hooves of the Xianbei war horses galloping on the ground. The two wings of the Han army were suddenly attacked by a large group of cavalry and began to rout.

It turned out that Murong Ke used the flag tent of the Chinese army as bait to lure Ran Min to attack, and he had already ambushed the superior heavy armored cavalry on the left and right flanks. The Xianbei cavalry came and went like the wind, killing in an instant.

This is actually a very simple method of combining the side and the middle, and Ran Min is not unaware, however, his infantry has been lured to an open area, in this case, there is no other way than to rush the Chinese army to capture and kill the enemy chieftain.

The Han army only has 10,000, and the Xianbei cavalry? That's 140,000!

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer soldiers around Ran Min, and in the end, he couldn't even see the personal guards. Ran Min tried his best to break through the encirclement, and rode east for more than 20 miles, Zhu Longma ran straight and foamed at the mouth, grabbed his head on the ground, and used his last strength to glance at the master he had followed for many years, and slowly closed his eyes......

The sunset is gradually fading like coals about to burn out, and the remnant sun, which is still like blood, turns the whole body of Ran Minying, who is covered in armor, red, and the blood stains on the armor are also obliterated by red...... Ran Min held his spear on the ground, his eyes were wide open, and he was not afraid in the face of the Xianbei soldiers who surrounded him layer by layer. Come on! He wants to maintain the last dignity of a Han lord, just like the overlord of Western Chu on the edge of the Wujiang River back then, but he is more lonely than the overlord of Western Chu......

The spears danced wildly, the wind roared, the severed limbs flew sideways, and the screams were repeated. One after another, the Xianbei soldiers fell, and one after another they surged up even more crazy and hideous. After all, to capture the glory of a generation of God of War, everyone wants ......

War is the feast of death, and the god of war cannot escape the call of death after all. Ran Min was eventually captured by Murong Ke and escorted to Jicheng, and his son Ran Cao fled to Lukou.

Murong Jun, the former lord of the Yan Kingdom, carefully looked at Ran Min who was escorted in front of him. Although his face is indistinguishable and bloodstained, the noble head under the golden helmet is still high-spirited.

In the face of his defeated generals, people always despise and self-confidence, Murong Jun stared at Ran Min: You, only the talent of a slave, dare to call yourself the Son of Heaven?

Ran Min was dumbfounded: The world is in turmoil, Er Cao Yidi, with a human face and a beast's heart, still wants to usurp. I am a hero for a while, why should I not be an emperor!

National pride is palpable.

Yidi? Yidi still wants your life! Murong Jun was furious, and he whipped Ran Min three hundred, sent him to Longcheng, and beheaded him in the Containment Mountain.

A generation of battle stars has fallen.

In history, after the death of Ran Min, some strange phenomena appeared in the Central Plains. First of all, the grass and trees around the martyrdom site were all withered, and the locust plague rose greatly. Moreover, from May to December, there was no rain or snow in the Central Plains.

In fact, this is also a natural phenomenon, which can be explained by an old saying - after the Great War, there will be a year of disaster.

However, Ran Min's prestige was violent in the Central Plains, and his military exploits were both in the north and south, Murong Jun couldn't help but be secretly frightened when he saw this phenomenon, and sent a special person to Ran Min's righteous place to worship, and posthumously crowned Ran Min as the king of martial mourning.

On that day, it snowed heavily, knee-deep.

After dying in battle, he can be posthumously crowned as the king by his opponent, which is the only case in ancient and modern times. And those who have the title of martial mourning or the nickname, the man is the only one. There is also a woman, that is, the queen Yang Zhi, who was persecuted to death by Jia Nanfeng, and her posthumous nickname was Queen Wumourning.

After the death of Ran Min, most of the courtiers of Ran Wei committed suicide for observing festivals, and a small number fled to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and none of them surrendered to Qianyan, showing unyielding national integrity. Hundreds of thousands of Han people in Ran Wei were unwilling to suffer the humiliation of losing their country again, and fled to Jiangnan and defected to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Due to the failure of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to respond in time, hundreds of thousands of people were intercepted by foreign armed forces and died. Jin will commit suicide to apologize.

A generation of war god Ran Min perished. However, Ran Min, who remained in the history books, was full of controversy. Is he the hero of the Han family who saved China, or the butcher of troubled times who stirred up the storm? Mixed reputation. ruined, maybe a little more. The reasons are manifold:

1. The existence of the Ran Wei regime was too short, and the ministers were either killed or committed suicide, and their deeds could no longer be passed down from their own mouths.

2. Since the death of Ran Min, North China has been ruled by the Di people, Xianbei and other foreign races, and naturally he will not say good things about Ran Min's history when he issued the order to kill Hu.

3. The Han regime in the south pays attention to the so-called orthodoxy, because Ran Min is the emperor, and in their eyes he is an out-and-out rebellious minister and thief.

4. Today's historical circles are full of historical pragmatism, which prevents many historical facts from being seen on the grounds of influencing the so-called national unity. You don't see it, the Qing palace plays, the pigtail plays, and the dramas of the servants and slaves are flying all over the sky, Shi Lang can go to the middle vision, Genghis Khan can go to the middle vision, but Wen Tianxiang and Yue Fei have been ignored or even rejected for a long time. Fortunately, the TV series "Jingzhong Yue Fei" starring Huang Xiaoming was staged a few years ago, and Lao Mouzi's "Man Jianghong" has also met with the public, which is believed to be in line with the theme of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as a cultural power.

It is necessary to look at history in two parts, face up to its essence, and discard its dross, and the premise of this is to let everyone have a comprehensive understanding of history. What's more, our nation urgently needs to reshape and show more hardcore genes in today's turbulent world.

So, how should we objectively evaluate this generation of war gods in the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, which has mixed reputations and is full of controversy? My point of view:

1. From the subjective aspect. Ran Min slaughtered Hu not out of national righteousness, but because of his participation in the struggle on the issue of the heir to Later Zhao. He himself wanted to be the Emperor of Later Zhao, but later found that the aliens did not accept him as an atypical Qian, and the aliens could not be used for him, so he set off a bloody storm of slaughtering Hu. It is undeniable that its ideology is a bit ultra-leftist, and its motives are not as pure and noble as some self-media people claim.

2. From an objective point of view. The Caucasian empire that had successfully ruled the entire Yellow River valley had been an iron-blooded policy towards the Han since Shi Hu, believing in Zoroastrianism and using Buddhist forbearance to paralyze the Han people, in an attempt to change the proportions of the northern ethnic groups and make the flame of Ahuramazda shine in the Central Plains. It was the sword-wielding of the Han warlord Ran Min that destroyed the Caucasian empire established by the white-skinned Qiang people from Central Asia, avoided the extinction of the Han people in the north, and also deterred other foreign regimes. Since then, the foreign regimes in the north, because they have seen the horror of the bloody revenge of the Han people, do not dare to persecute the Han people on a large scale, but deliberately attract the Han people to participate in the high-level management of the regime. Among the people, the Han people were engaged in farming, while the Hu people fought in the army, reducing ethnic antagonism.

In the later period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Hu people died in a large number of battles due to their specialization in military affairs, while the Han population engaged in agriculture continued to recover and grow, and the Han landlords became increasingly powerful, and the foreign regimes were insufficient to supplement the military resources, especially during the Eastern Wei and Western Wei dynasties ruled by Xianbei, they had to start using a large number of Han troops, and the Xianbei lords also married the princesses to these Han landlords, which eventually caused the Han people to recover the Central Plains, which is described later.

Population is productivity, population is comprehensive national strength, the three-child policy has been liberalized, cram schools have been banned, housing prices have been held, for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, in order to realize the great Chinese dream, everyone is at ease to give birth.

Wang, me? I'm old, I've already given birth to two, and I'm powerless.

In short, to evaluate Ran Min's historical status, we should evaluate it from the perspective of the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, and we need to adhere to an objective, neutral, and impartial attitude. But in any case, no one has an opinion on calling Ran Min the god of war of the Chinese nation, right?

And if Ran Min's personality is evaluated separately, as mentioned above, like Shi Hu, they all belong to the group of "impulsive personality disorder". And the biggest root cause of their personality disorder is the lack of "love" in childhood. Wandering, sending people under the fence, bloody rain, living in an unfriendly environment, and never safe, have become accustomed to being in a state of confrontation at any time, and are always ready to meet challenges to protect themselves. They are both the darlings of the times and the tragedies of the times. This also provides a great lesson for us to educate our children, that is, never let them lack love when they grow up.

Of course, this love should also be moderate, too much, too much doting, can also cause impulsive personality disorder, for example, the child born to the famous singer couple. Children who grow up in an overly doting environment are angry with the surrounding environment and the people around them when they are slightly unsatisfactory, and even do not hesitate to destroy everything to pay for their own unsatisfactoryness.

Love and hate are in a moment.

Former Yan Murong Jun, who eliminated Ran Wei, was complacent and became the biggest winner in the north. However, will his mind be empty because of his complacency?

One night in 359, Murong Jun dreamed that a big man was holding his arm and biting, and when he looked closely, it was Shi Hu! Woke up in shock, sweating through his underwear. I turned my arm, and it hurt a lot.

Murong Jun was both angry and palpitating, and ordered someone to find Shihu's tomb, dig out the coffin and open it, but it turned out to be empty.

It turned out that Shi Hu knew that he had countless enemies, and he was afraid that he would be liquidated after death, so he made a grave of doubt for himself.

Murong Jun posted a notice and offered a huge reward for Shi Hu's true tomb. Under the heavy reward, there are not only brave husbands, but also brave women. A woman named Li Su in Yecheng came out to unveil the list and told Murong Jun Shihu's true tomb where it was.

The real tomb is under the Dongming Temple. Dongmingguan, located in the southeast of Yecheng, mentioned above, in the autumn and August of 348, Shi Hu's son Shi Tao and his subordinates had a night banquet in Dongmingguan, and stayed in the Buddha's house, and were made into black dahlias by the killers sent by his brother Crown Prince Shi Xuan, which opened the prelude to the cannibalism of father and son of the Shihu family. Today, Shi Hu is buried here.

Murong Jun personally led people to dig up Shi Hu's body, and when he saw that it was not completely decomposed (the corpse was not rotten), he went up and kicked it with his flying feet, and scolded: Dead clamour, even if you are dead, you dare to scare the living true destiny! (Dead Juan dares to dream of giving birth to a son of heaven).

After kicking and still relieving his hatred, Murong Jun ordered Lieutenant Yang Yue of the Imperial History to whip the corpse while counting his crimes, and the maggots and flies that hit him were everywhere and the carrion flew sideways. After that, the corpse, which was riddled with holes and unrecognizable, was thrown into the Zhanghe River.

As a result, Shi Hu's corpse turned in the air for three and a half weeks, with a difficulty coefficient of 1.0, and fell into the river with a thud. The splash did not hold down, nor did it sink underwater, but leaned against the bridge pillar in the turbulent water and did not move (the corpse leaned on the bridge pillar and did not flow). And this bridge is the Zimo pontoon bridge built by Shi Hu in the eleventh year of Later Zhao Jianwu (345).

Others are Tongque Chun Shen Lock Second Bridge, you are a tiger, and you were whipped and leaned on the Purple Bridge. Is it a bridge that you build by attachment? Or are you demonstrating with Murong Jun? Anyway, after that, Murong Jun couldn't afford to be sick, and he had nightmares after nightmares.

What a wicked tiger star!

Later, the former Qin of Fu Jian, a member of the Di nationality, destroyed the former Yan, and Wang Meng, an important minister of the Han nationality under Fu Jian, out of the righteousness of the Han Dynasty, let Shi Hu's body be collected and buried. Moreover, Wang Meng also ordered to kill the girl named Li Su.

What do you think of this so-called righteousness?