Chapter 102: The Great War Ends
In just one month, Chu Yun completely occupied Beidi County, of course, there are reasons for tricks, but the war only depends on the victory or defeat, no matter what means you use, Chu Yun on the one hand sent the Qiang army under his command to Liangzhou and Anding County to create the illusion that the Xiongnu army also controlled Beidi County, and on the other hand, selected sergeants from Xihe County and the captured Xiongnu army. Chu Yun was originally going to let the Qiang people pretend to be the Huns, but his subordinates did not agree, in the eyes of the Huns, the difference between the Qiang and the Huns is the same as that between the white race and the black race, which can be seen at a glance, so Chu Yun had to use the Huns.
The tens of thousands of Huns who were captured back then, in the use of the slaves of the Iron and Blood Army, at least half died, and the ones who could be picked out were more than 20,000, but this was enough, plus the more than 10,000 people selected by Chu Yun from the Huyanmo army, adding up to 30,000 Huns, which was enough to support Liu Yi's signboard. These Huns had long been erased from their bloodiness in the enslavement of the Iron and Blood Army, and Chu Yun was not afraid that they would be disobedient.
Chu Yun was preparing to drive Liu Yi's army to attack Anding County, and now the defense of Anding County was very empty, and it should be able to fight in one battle. Then let Liu Yi be a vassal to the Chang'an court, and force the Chang'an court to accept Liu Yi, so as to control the important land of Anding County. The Chang'an Imperial Court is not in danger, and it will definitely accept Liu Yi's surrender, Liu Yi's identity is the imperial brother of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, even if it is to boost the morale of the imperial court, the imperial court will agree. And he will continue to "fight" with Liu Yi, for the safety of the imperial court, the imperial court will definitely accept the fact that he occupies Beidi County.
Chu Yun asked Cui Zhen to stay by Liu Yi's side with 3,000 elite iron-blooded divisions to prevent him from making any moths, and allocated the Qiang First Division and the newly recovered 10,000 Qiang cavalry into a new attached division to Cui Zhen to accept his control, and also let Ma Liang's eldest son Ma Rui stay by Liu Yi's side to deal with government affairs.
Seeing that Liu Yi led tens of thousands of cavalry towards Anding, Chu Yun immediately returned to Fuping, and he also had a lot of things, not only to report to the imperial court about his recovery of Beidi County, but also to report to the imperial court about the appearance of Liu Yi, the younger brother of the Xiongnu Emperor, in Beidi County. In addition, there is also the need for the captives to build the walls of the two big cities in Beidi County to stabilize the hearts of the people in Beidi County, in short, Chu Yun can't be idle.
"Newspaper, newspaper. "In the depressed Chang'an Palace, Suo Lin, Liang Fen and other important ministers kept receiving letters of help from Ju Yun in front, where were there any troops in Chang'an, and everyone fell into despair about the current situation. Although Liu Kun dispatched a large army, he could not quench his thirst from far away, and the situation in Chang'an was still dangerous. And the shouts of the eunuch who delivered the letter made everyone nervous, could it be that Ju Yun was defeated?
"Your Majesty Wu'anhou sent a good news, Wu'anhou commanded an army of 30,000 to defeat the Xiongnu army by surprise and recover the entire Beidi County. "It was the eunuch Cao Miao, who was bribed by Chu Yun, and the little emperor Sima Ye and everyone were overjoyed.
"Bring it up, bring it up quickly. Sima Ye ignored the emperor's prestige, stood up directly and took the battle report from Cao Miao's hand, Sima Ye, who was full of joy, saw half of his face and became heavy again, Suo Lin and the others anxiously waited for the emperor to read it, Sima Ye finished reading all of Chu Yun's recitals, and sat back heavily.
Solene ignored the etiquette and urged Cao Miao to give him Chu Yun's recital, and Sima Ye hurriedly asked Cao Miao to show the recital to the ministers, and Suolin and the others became solemn after reading it.
Chu Yun wrote that the leader of the Xiongnu's attack on Beidi County was Liu Yi, the emperor's younger brother who had been captured by Chu Yun, and after Chu Yun captured Liu Yi, he wanted to escort him to Chang'an, but he was robbed, which was the news that Chu Yun told the imperial court that year. Of course, the Hun Liu Cong announced that Liu Yi was sick and died, which also helped Chu Yun from the side. Therefore, except for the Huns, no one knew that Liu Yi was still in Chu Yun's hands.
This time, the Huns were 20,000 troops controlled by Hu Yanmo on the surface, but in fact they were 50,000 troops, controlled by Liu Yi, the emperor's younger brother, and they wanted to send troops from Beidi County to attack the rear of Chang'an. As a result, he was defeated by Chu Yun by mistake, and now although Chu Yun has recovered Beidi County, Beidi County is not calm, Lu Shuihu and Ma Lanqiang are ready to move, and although Liu Yi was defeated, there are still tens of thousands of troops, and now they are going to Anding to kill and ask for support from the imperial court.
At this moment, the hope of the imperial court to transfer the iron-blooded army eastward to fight against Liu Yao's army was completely shattered, and there were tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops behind Chang'an, and the situation in the imperial court was even worse. As the letter of help from the county guard of Anding County also came to Chang'an, the imperial court completely believed Chu Yun's performance.
The imperial court hurriedly discussed, and finally appointed Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, as the hussar general to lead the Qinzhou army north to prevent the Xiongnu army from attacking Chang'an, and then appointed Chu Yun as the general of the chariot cavalry, the capital governor of Yongzhou, and the state military, and the Xiongnu Zhonglang general, holding the festival, so that he must stop the Xiongnu army.
And Mo Han, Zhang Tong and Ma Liang, who Chu Yun requested to appoint, were appointed as the county guards of Shangdang County, the county guard of Xihe County and the county guard of Beidi County respectively, and no one knew that Shangjun was controlled by the Iron and Blood Army. and appointed Liu Bi, Guo Shuzi and others as generals. Almost whatever Chu Yun says, the court will give it, in order to let Chu Yun serve loyally, as for Sima Bao, the court does not have much expectations, after all, the Qinzhou occupied by Sima Bao is still very unstable, and Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, is ambitious, if he is allowed to grasp more power, the court will not be able to control him.
Liu Yi's army occupied three of the seven counties of Anding County like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and still surrounded Linjing County, the seat of Anding County, and the troops under the guards of Anding County were all evacuated by the imperial court, so in the face of Liu Yi's army, they could only be forced to surrender.
Liu Yi did not accept the surrender of the officials of Anding County, he was ordered by Ma Rui to massacre the officials of Anding County, and Chu Yun would never keep this group of officials in order to prevent the news from being leaked. Of course, the Han people could not be killed, and with the cooperation of the Supervision Department, a large number of Han people poured towards Beidi County.
Anding County was originally Lu Shuihu's lair, after Liu Yi occupied Anding, Lu Shuihu and a large number of Hu people took refuge, Cui Ning directly organized them into an army, and ordered Chu Guiyi to lead this new annexed army to attack the counties west of Anding County.
When Chu Yun received the appointment from the imperial court, the entire Anding County had been completely occupied by Liu Yi.
After receiving the order of the imperial court, Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, convened his subordinates to discuss, and the officials around Sima Bao said: "After being bitten by a pit viper, the strong man cut off his wrist to prevent the spread of snake venom." Now that the morale of the Hu people and thieves is high, they should temporarily cut off the road to Longdi to observe the changes in the situation. Sima Bao really did not send a large army, but let a partial general lead more than 1,000 people to Anding County, after the annihilation of the whole army, he continued to describe to the court the strength of the Xiongnu army, completely blockaded Qinzhou, cut off the support for Chang'an.
In the third year of Jianxing, the five forces of the Xiongnu Han State, the Chang'an Jin Dynasty, the Iron Blood Army, the Qinzhou Sima Bao and the Tuoba Xianbei launched a tug-of-war around Chang'an for several months.
Chu Yun's battle with Liu Yi in Anding was also in full swing, Chu Yun took this opportunity to begin to emigrate to Shangjun and Beidi County, and the seat of the Iron and Blood Army was moved from Shangdang County to Lishi City in Xihe County, which drove a large number of Han people in Shangdang County to leave on their own.
Moreover, Chu Yun ordered the formation of the Iron Ninth Division and the Iron Tenth Division, and expanded the Iron Blood Division to 20,000 people, in addition to 15,000 cavalry, plus 5,000 infantry.
Chu Yun, the commander of the Iron Ninth Division, ordered Mao Yu's father, Mao Qing, to become the commander of the Iron Ninth Division, and appointed Lu Sheng, a Hun who had defected to Chu Yun very early, as the commander of the division, he had been serving as the deputy commander of each brigade a few years ago, and his qualifications and merits were enough, but Chu Yun had always been afraid that too many Hu people under his command would cause turmoil, so he had been pressing his position, and now he finally became the commander of the first division. Back then, he killed the little marshal of his tribe and took refuge in Chu Yun, not for the sake of glory and wealth, so when Lu Sheng was appointed by Chu Yun, he actually knelt on the ground and kissed Chu Yun's boots, which made everyone nauseous, but Chu Yun was very satisfied.
It's not that Chu Yun likes people who are so sloppy, but to set a benchmark and tell all the soldiers of the Iron and Blood Army that as long as they have the ability, Chu Yun will even be reused by the Huns, although Lu Zhong and Chu Guiyi and others are also Hu people, but Lu Zhong is a miscellaneous Hu, and Chu Guiyi and others are Qiang Hu, which is far less convincing than an authentic Hun.
There are more and more Hu people under Chu Yun, and he can only change some of the previous slogans, Chu Yun can't let his Hu people feel the rejection of the Iron and Blood Army, but should completely integrate them.
In the end, the Huns could not hold on to the war in the third year of Jianxing, Liu Kun was worried about the safety of Chang'an, so he killed around Pingyang, you must know that the families of the Huns are in this area, and more and more Hun soldiers are worried about the safety of their families outside the city and become deserters, which makes Liu Ji's men overstretched. The Xianbei army surrounded Pingyang, Liu Cong's orders could not be transmitted, several Xiongnu reinforcements were defeated by the Xianbei people, and Pingyang, the most prosperous tax-paying place of the Xiongnu, was beaten into a pot of porridge. Of course, Chang'an's imperial court did not please him, and Liu Yao believed that if he was given a few more months, Chang'an would be able to be completely captured.
Because Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, cut off the grain and grass in Chang'an, and Xiliang also completely lost contact, the grain and grass of the army were basically exhausted, and even the civil and military officials in the court were hungry and poor, and they survived by collecting wild millet.
Liu Cong, who did not go out easily in the harem, finally convened a court meeting, and he ordered to negotiate peace with Liu Kun and the Xianbei people, in fact, the Xianbei army and Liu Kun also reached the point of exhaustion, and in a few months, the grain and grass of more than 100,000 troops were robbed, how could Liu Kun support so many people to eat and drink? Liu Kun's 30,000 headquarters were almost disabled, and Tuoba Liuxiu also thought that it was not worth the consumption with the Huns, if it were not for Tuoba Liuxiu's concern about the relationship between Liu Kun and his father, he would have withdrawn long ago.
This time he robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, he went back to explain to the clansmen, Liu Kun asked Tuoba Liuxiu to wait for another twenty days, Tuoba Liuxiu only promised Liu Kun to wait for another ten days, and now half has passed, Liu Kun's hair is all white.
The Xiongnu prince Liu Wei and Liu Kun and Tuoba Liuxiu officially met, both sides agreed to the truce, Tuoba Liuxiu wanted to get some more benefits, but Liu Wei sternly refused, but Liu Wei promised to let the army besieging Chang'an return to the division, and this year will not move troops. Hearing that the Xiongnu withdrew Liu Kun was already very satisfied, which made Tuoba Liuxiu very angry, and he withdrew his troops directly without waiting for news from Chang'an. But fortunately, the Huns did not break their word and became fat.
A big melee involving hundreds of thousands of people came to an end, although the Huns did not bargain, but they tested the reality of Chang'an, they were confident that next year would be the time to break through Chang'an.
Although the Xianbei people got a lot of gold and silver treasures, they were still very worthless compared to the 20,000 horses they lost, after all, money was worthless in troubled times.
Although Liu Kun saved Chang'an, but he wiped out almost all of his men, if it weren't for the iron-blooded army on the way to attack and merge the state, it is estimated that when the Xianbei people left, it would be when the Hun army broke through the state.
Only Chu Yun's iron-blooded army reaped the fruits of the victory in the war, and the iron-blooded army firmly controlled Beidi County and Anding County, completely kicked Xiliang out of the stage of fighting for world domination, and obtained a large number of people and land in the two places, and the strength of the iron-blooded army increased greatly.
In order to avoid the conscription of the imperial court, Zhang Yu went to Dunhuang for a stroll and came back, he found that the intersection between Liangzhou and the outside world was blocked, Zhang Yu was shocked, so he immediately met with the imperial envoy who had been waiting in Liangzhou for several months. and announced the dispatch of 30,000 troops to attack the stable Hun army.
Liu Yi, the younger brother of the Xiongnu Emperor, dispatched an army of 70,000 to meet Zhang Yu's general Song Pei, and under the tactics of the Qianghu people, the Liangzhou army was defeated and evacuated from Anding, and Zhang Yu knew what he had missed in the past few months.
Chu Yun's iron-blooded army fought with Liu Yi for several months, and although they won repeatedly, they could not completely defeat Liu Yi, and at this time Liu Yi's envoy came to Chang'an. Chang'an was overjoyed to get Liu Yi's letter of invitation, and Sima Ye, Emperor Han of Jin, named Liu Yi as the king of Zhao and the Xiongnu Dadanyu, and regarded Anding County as Liu Yi's fief. The imperial court named Liu Yi as the king of Zhao, and it did not have good intentions, after all, now Liu Cong's Xiongnu Han Kingdom changed its name to Great Zhao, and Liu Yi was the king of Zhao, which is not to recognize Liu Cong's orthodox status. In this way, Liu Yi became a thorn in the eye of the Huns, and Chang'an could be safe for the time being.
Liu Yao received the order, although he was helpless but could only order a retreat, but Hu Yanmo lost the news or made Liu Yao frown, but several waves of people he sent out were killed by the scouts of the Iron Army, and it was only a few months after Liu Yao's withdrawal that the Huns received the news that the emperor's brother Liu Yi had surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, and the next time Liu Yao's army came will be more ferocious.
In the last month of the third year of Jianxing, Chu Yun sent Zuo Changshi and Wang Lian, a side of the Langya Wang family, to Chang'an with a large amount of supplies to meet the emperor.
Although Chu Yun did not send many materials, but it was enough for the courtiers of Chang'an to have a good year, Sima Ye personally met with Wang Lian, and learned that Wang Lian was actually a member of the Langya Wang family, Sima Ye actually wanted to keep Wang Lian as an official. Although Wang Lian was very moved, but thinking about the current situation in Chang'an, Wang Lian had to refuse because he was too old, after all, his family was in Xihe County, and he was already sixty-three years old.
During this period, Ju Yun and others also asked Wang Lian about the situation of the Iron and Blood Army, Wang Lian basically told the truth, but when he encountered the strength of the Iron Army, Wang Lian dared to talk nonsense, the Iron Blood Army did not include the Qiang Hu newly collected by Liu Yi, and there were eighteen regular armies with a name alone, with nearly 300,000 troops. Of course, Chu Yun also faced many threats, Xiongnu, Shi Le, Liu Kun, Zhang Yu and many other Hu people, each of which should not be underestimated.
After Chu Yun captured Shangjun, the Hu people on the grassland often crossed the Great Wall to harass, Chu Yun was miserable, he was determined to enter the grassland, sweep away these Hu people who were looking for death, and grab some cattle and sheep from them, after all, the territory of the Iron Blood Army is large, the population is also large, and the grain stock in Shangdang County is already insufficient. At this time, if Wang Lian told the emperor that they had an army of 300,000 people, and the imperial court was hot and forced Chu Yun to attack the Xiongnu, what should Chu Yun do when the time came?
Therefore, Wang Lian told the little emperor Sima Ye that the fighting force under Chu Yun was more than 30,000 people, and the rest were rabble, and now the defender Zhao Wang Liu Yi and the current territory are already very difficult.
"Wang Changshi, what if Shangdang County is handed over to Liu Sikong?" Ju Yun suddenly said, this time Liu Kun wanted the Iron Blood Army to take advantage of the Tao to lead people to Shangdang County, which made several important ministers of the imperial court dissatisfied, and they were too unfamiliar with the Iron Blood Army to Chu Yun, so they took Shangdang County to test Chu Yun's loyalty. Wang Lian's ability is indeed average, but he is very good at observing words and expressions, and before others can speak, Wang Lian immediately speaks.
"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, there is no problem at all with what Lord Zuo Servant said just now, Liu Sikong was originally the assassin of the state, and the county guard of my lord's Shangdang County was still sealed by Liu Sikong at that time, and the imperial court wanted to take it back. To tell the truth, although the geographical location of Shangdang County is important, the land is too barren, and our iron-blooded army has to guard against the attack of the Huns, but also guard against Shile, and even had a bad time with Liu Sikong because of this matter. I beg His Majesty to order Liu Sikong to take back Shangdang County. After speaking, Wang Lian knelt on the ground.
Wang Lian's attitude made everyone look at each other, this iron-blooded army is really dedicated to the public? This attitude is too simple, they immediately thought about it.
Suddenly, Suo Lin said: "Your Majesty, Wu'anhou is loyal and capable, Liu Sikong has just experienced a big loss in strength after the war, I think let Wu'anhou continue to control Shangdang County, after all, those who are capable work hard, Wu'anhou who was personally promoted by Liu Sikong, there must be a misunderstanding between them, it is better for the imperial court to send someone to admonish Liu Sikong, so that their relationship can be restored as before." Let's work together, why worry about the injustice of the world, and the Huns will not be destroyed?"
After Solene finished speaking, everyone figured it out, Liu Kun's strength was basically consumed, and returning Shangdang County to Liu Kun wouldn't it be a casual strategy for the Huns?
After Wang Lian left Chang'an and returned to Xihe County, Chu Yun immediately ordered Guo Xuanzi to command more than 36,000 people from the 1st Cavalry Division, the 3rd Cavalry Division, the 2nd Qiang Division, and the 3rd Qiang Division, and go out of the Great Wall to attack the Qianghu, Tiefu, and Zahu on the grassland.
After Chu Yun personally sent Guo Shuzi away, he began the military adjustment of the new brigade, the iron-blooded army now occupies the land of the five counties, and there are many generals, this time Chu Yun is ready to upgrade the largest army structure to Wei.