Chapter 43: The Predators Reunite
Liu Kun, the assassin who wanted to save face, forced Li Jin and Guo Yong and others to stay for one night, and after wooing the two of them, Li Jin was a little moved, and even had the idea of following Liu Kun, after all, Liu Kun was the assassin and Chu Yun's chief. But his family was moved to the eldest son city by Chu Yun, and Liu Kun was forced to go to such a county as Yangqu, after thinking about it again, he still followed Mo Han and Guo Yong back, of course, Li Jin didn't know that he was looked at by Guo Yong here, which was not much different from what Chu Yun saw in person.
Not to mention Liu Kun's enthusiastic preparation to return to Jinyang, Mo Han and the others were already one step ahead, and Mo Han's family followed Mo Han to the eldest son city to take up his post. Mo Han, who was in his thirties, glanced back at Yangqu County behind him, and was in a very happy mood, he finally came out after so many years.
Half a month later, the group returned to the Eldest Son City, which has regained some of its prosperity as a county seat, after all, the population of the Eldest Son City is now tens of thousands of people. When Mo Han saw this scene, he was even more satisfied with his lord, you must know that the eldest son had just experienced the war, and now he has recovered some vitality, which shows that Chu Yun's ability is good.
When Chu Yun heard that Mo Han was coming, although he couldn't go out of the city to greet him, after all, he and Mo Han were still nominal enemies, but after Mo Han entered the city, he immediately invited him into the mansion, and the excuse was easy to find, after all, Mo Han was a county prince, and he was the first to do it, so he should come to the eldest son city to meet him first.
Chu Yun threw all the political affairs to Mo Han, Mo Han not only did not shout tired, but was grateful, he was not afraid of many things, he was afraid of having no power. After Mo Han took over the mess of political affairs, Chu Yun had time to practice martial arts in addition to training, and the cavalry had already been formed, so as long as the infantry was trained, and Liu Bi and others had a hand in this regard, so Chu Yun basically completely delegated power.
In addition to sending cavalry to find the traces of the migration of the Iron Blood Castle, Chu Yun was left to practice martial arts, and a few months ago he had sent several waves of people to inform them to come to Bingzhou to find him, and a few months had passed, and no news had been received at all, which made Chu Yun a little worried. But Chu Yun is confident that he will not be wiped out, after all, there are more than a thousand cavalry and thousands of infantry left in the Iron Blood Castle, and this force is not so easy even if Wang Jun and Wang Jun of Youzhou want to gnaw it down.
Chu Yun kept sending people to look for it, and after a month, a team of people and horses finally met the people of the Iron Blood Fort at the border of Taiyuan County, many of them were wounded, and the more than 2,000 horses left by Chu Yun were now only a small half, and Wang Lian, Zhang Tong and Fang Qing and others who were the leaders almost didn't cry when they saw the people who greeted them, they suffered a lot along the way, and they almost couldn't come back.
Although they did not pass through Youzhou, but because of the Taihang Mountain blocking the road, they still went around and passed through the territory controlled by Wang Jun, but they were taken by Wang Jun's people and took a fancy to their horses, and under the forcible robbery, the iron-blooded army of course refused to give in, and the big and small battles were fought more than a dozen times, and only 5,000 people were left in the population of 8,000, and more than half of the cavalry was lost, which was very miserable.
Of course, it was also to blame Chu Yun for not thinking about it at the time, he didn't expect that he would take Shangdang County so easily, otherwise the people of the Iron Blood Castle could have come to Shangdang County more quickly through Taihang Bacheng.
Chu Yun personally greeted everyone for a hundred miles, seeing everyone's miserable appearance, Chu Yun was furious, many people he was familiar with died in the hands of Wang Jun, Chu Yun swore in public in anger that he would definitely give Wang Jun a good look in the future, everyone was overjoyed when they heard Chu Yun's promise, Chu Yun is now the lord of a county, but they still miss the old love so much, they feel that they are not with the wrong person.
Since the descendants are here, Chu Yun began to reward him aggressively, Chu Yun appointed Wang Lian as the long history, although he is only a subordinate official, but he is the first subordinate official of Chu Yun's county guard, and the things he manages are similar to Mo Han's county officials, but he was not appointed by the imperial court, but Wang Lian also smiled.
Zhang Tong served as the army, Fang Qing served as the chief secretary, plus Mo Han, the county Cheng, as well as Chu Chenglin, the main Bo and Li Jin, the secretary, constituted all the civil official systems under the Chuyun County Guard, Chu Yun came to this world for two years, and he could be regarded as saving some family funds.
In terms of the army, Chu Yun directly canceled the county soldiers, except for a few geographically important counties, the rest of the counties in the rear Chu Yun are not prepared to garrison manpower, one is to let Chu Yun completely control Shangdang County, and the other is to save money.
Chu Yun has now become an official of the imperial court, and the former governor can't be called casually, but Chu Yun is still not ready to use the military attache official position of the Jin Dynasty, what is too mixed and chaotic for the left and right guards.
Chu Yun appointed Liu Bi as the lieutenant in charge of all the military affairs in Shangdang County, but because Chu Yun reformed, in fact, he couldn't control anything, because Chu Yun's subordinates were directly responsible for Chu Yun, but Chu Yun would not be blind to Liu Bi's talent, not to mention his training ability, he had to help with all other military construction.
In addition, Chu Yun's subordinates are divided into three arms: cavalry, infantry, and logistics soldiers, and their responsibilities can be seen from the name, Chu Yun's horses are now about 3,000, and many of the infantry of the original Iron Blood Fort have mastered the technique of riding horses after a bloody battle with Wang Jun, so Chu Yun took out 2,300 people to form the Shangdang cavalry, and the remaining hundreds of horses were kept for breeding. The cavalry is the king of a hundred soldiers, so Chu Yun also attaches great importance to it. The two thousand cavalry were divided into two parts, except for the three hundred people who were given to Chu Yun as personal guards, the leader was of course Guo Yong, who was awarded the guard cavalry by Chu Yun Chu Yun wanted to be named Hu Benwei, but this was definitely not in accordance with the rules, this was only appointed by the emperor. The remaining two thousand people were divided into two teams, led by Fang Dashan and Zhou Bin, who were brought out by Chu Yun, and the two of them followed Chu Yun to fight, which can be said to have taken advantage of it, and the angry Guo Shuzi and the others were not good, but it was much better than the missing Fu Yi.
In addition, Chu Yun's infantry has 6,000 people, half of them are former county soldiers, and half are the original infantry of the Iron and Blood Army, the latter being the elite of a hundred battles. Chu Yun divided the 6,000 people into three teams, each team of 2,000 people, served by Guo Shuzi, Zhao Hu and Liu Bi's cronies Liu Hai, this Liu Hai is Liu Bi's original servant Uncle Liu, this person is more than enough to be a school captain, you must know that he followed Liu Bi's father to fight on the battlefield before Liu Bi was born.
The cavalry is a cavalry captain, the infantry is an infantry captain, and then there is the battalion officer-team leader-even commander-captain, which is similar to the official position of the Jin Dynasty, but Chu Yun revoked those useless official positions.
An infantry lieutenant was in charge of 2,000 men, and there were four battalion officers, each of whom had 500 men. Some of these battalion officers were stationed in the county seats, and by the way, they also served as county lieutenants.
Several important county towns in Shangdang County next to the territory of the Huns were stationed with Chu Yun's army, such as Jincheng and Gaoping, Chu Yun sent one or two battalions to garrison them, and in those counties in the northeast in the rear, Chu Yun only let them recruit and capture quickly.
In addition, the logistics soldiers are those eliminated county soldiers, they have about 1,000 fixed people, the main thing is to transport grain and grass, build positions, repair the city wall, etc., anyway, they have to do any work, of course, they also have room to rise, do a good job, can become a soldier, if the soldier is not good, can also become an auxiliary soldier.
Their leader was Niu Gensheng, the first old Niu to follow Chu Yun, he was old, and he had worked as a mason before, he was happy to become an auxiliary captain, at least nominally like his old brothers. The first task given to them by Chu Yun was to go to Nie County to repair the city, Nie County was burned down, and the thousands of people in it had no place to live.
In addition, Chu Yun also appointed Feng Chengjia as the supervising captain, which of course is not something that Chu Yun can have as a small county guard, but the news that Chu Yun heard when he moved from the Iron Blood Castle made Chu Yun full of a sense of urgency, even if Chu Yun knew that it was not in accordance with the rules, he must establish an intelligence system. And Huang Kai, this kid, was appointed by Chu Yun as a deputy lieutenant, in some ways, Huang Kai is more suitable to be a lieutenant than Feng Chengjia, but he is too young, and his merits are not enough for him to be in charge.
The return of the Iron Blood Army, by the way, brought a news to Chu Yun, Shi Le has finally risen, in some ways, Shi Le's pressure on Chu Yun is greater than the pressure on the Huns themselves, Shi Le's subordinates are full of talents, and now with the stable territory of Yizhou, Shi Le's prospects are definitely the best among all the forces in the north.
When Chu Yun followed Liu Kun to Bingzhou, Shi Le had already defeated Xiang Bing and completely opened the road to Yizhou, and then Chu Yun completely lost the news of Shi Le, but Shi Le was not idle. Because Liu Kun withdrew Liu Yan's 15,000 troops in order to restore the annexation of the state at that time, Liu Yan could not resist Shi Le, so he could only give up Yecheng, the city of Yizhou Prefecture, and Shi Le took the opportunity to occupy Yecheng.
Liu Yan withdrew the army to Santai City, this Santai City was established by the Han Dynasty, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Chu Yun's Shangdang County is very similar, so Liu Yan stabilized the form with the danger of Santai, he still occupies most of Zhaoguo County, Leping County and part of Changshan County, but the strength is also greatly reduced, Liu Yan lost Yecheng, the morale of his subordinates plummeted, Liu Yan's subordinates Linshen, Mu Mu and others led their troops to surrender to Shile.
And Youzhou Assassin Wang Jun occupied the northern part of Yizhou, Guangping people You Lun and Zhang Jackal supported tens of thousands of soldiers and occupied Yuan Township, Wang Jun asked them to temporarily act as the original official there to exercise their powers, in order to contain Shi Le and Liu Yan, Wang Jun did not deal with Liu Kun, hated Wu and Wu, and he also hated Liu Kun's nephew Liu Yan.
However, after Shi Le occupied Yecheng, but unexpectedly did not set the capital of Yecheng, under the advice of his subordinate adviser Zhang Bin, he moved the governance to Xiangguo City in Guangping County, this hand completely paralyzed the Zhao Han Emperor Liu Cong and Youzhou Thorn Wang Jun, Yecheng has been the capital of the emperor since ancient times, Shi Le did not value Yecheng, and moved to Xiangguo, which was at the forefront of Liu Yan, which was clearly a decision without foresight.
Therefore, Shi Le was rewarded by Liu Cong, the emperor of Zhao Han, so he felt that Shi Le was loyal to himself, so that he dragged Wang Jun, Liu Kun and Liu Yan in Hebei, so that he could concentrate more on dealing with Chang'an. So Liu Cong Feng Shile served as the governor of Ji, You, and, and Ying, the military of the four states, the pastor of Jizhou, and was named the prince of the party.
Liu Cong completely set his sights on Chang'an, and because Liu Cong felt that the general trend had been decided, he treated Emperor Huai of Jin more and more humiliated, in the first month of the third year of Jiaping, Liu Cong ordered Emperor Huai to drink wine in Tsing Yi in the banquet with his ministers, and the old ministers of the Jin Dynasty, Yu Min and Wang Jun, couldn't help but cry with grief and indignation when they saw this, which made Liu Cong very disgusted. At that time, it was rumored that Yu Min and others would be Liu Kun's internal adviser to help him capture Pingyang, so Liu Cong killed more than a dozen former ministers of the Jin Dynasty, including Emperor Huai and Yu Min. This scene completely offended all the people who were loyal to the Jin Dynasty, and also made Shi Le breathe a sigh of relief, because of the death of Emperor Huai of Jin, Chang'an's violent resistance dragged most of Liu Cong's strength, and Liu Ji and Liu Yao and others were all transferred to Chang'an.
After the death of Emperor Huai of Jin, Shi Le immediately sent seven generals such as Kui'an and Zhixiong to attack You Lun and Zhang Jackal, who belonged to Wang Jun of Youzhou, these people were generals of Liu Bi's father's generation, and they had very rich battlefield experience, and they quickly broke through the camp on the periphery of You Lun and Zhang Jackal.
Wang Jun was furious when he heard that Shi Le did not deal with Liu Yan, but instead dealt with himself, and he sent Du Hu Wang Chang to lead tens of thousands of troops to unite 50,000 troops of Duan Ji Lu of Liaoxi Gongduan, Duan Ji Lu's younger brother Duan Pi, Duan Wenyang, cousin Duan Mo and others to attack Shi Le in Xiangguo.
The same as Liu Kun's reliance on Tuoba Xianbei, Wang Jun's ally is Duan's Xianbei, the leader of Duan's Xianbei back then, Duan Wu Bechen was Wang Jun's son-in-law, and the current leader of Duan's Xianbei, Duan Jilu, is Wang Jun's grandson, of course, not his own grandson, but because of this relationship, the relationship between Wang Jun and Duan's Xianbei is still very strong.
Duan Ji Lu was stationed in Zhuyang, and Shi Le sent a number of generals to attack, but they were all defeated by Duan Ji Lu Dependent. Shi Le adopted the strategy of Zhang Bin and Kong Chang, ambushed Duan Ji and his family, killed the corpses for more than 30 miles, and captured more than 5,000 armored horses.
Because he was defeated by Shi Le, Duan Xianbei saw that Shi Le was difficult to defeat, and Wang Jun was arrogant and treated them Duan Xianbei like a slave, Shi Le instead used a gentle strategy to win Duan Xianbei, there is no harm if there is no comparison, Duan Xianbei kicked Wang Jun away, and from then on, Duan was attached to Shi Le, and Wang Jun's power declined.
You Lun and Zhang Jackal are also villains who forget their righteousness, and when they saw Wang Jun's failure, they immediately abandoned Wang Jun and asked Shi Le to surrender. Shi Le broke through Xindu and killed a Jizhou assassin king elephant who had taken refuge in Wang Jun. However, because of the death of Shi Le and Wang Jun, Liu Yan got a chance, he occupied Yecheng from the beginning, and Shi Le did not continue to move troops.
This year, the land of the Central Plains was extremely chaotic, first the Huns fought with Liu Kun in Bingzhou, and then the Xianbei people fought with the Huns. In the winter, Wang Jun of Youzhou made a big deal with the Qian, and the final result was that the power of the Han people declined, and the power of the Hu people, whether they were Huns, Qian, Xianbei people, or people, increased greatly. Needless to say, Liu Kun also lost his wife and his army, not only almost lost Yizhou, but also killed tens of thousands of troops, and even his ally Duan Xianbei was lost.
Liu Kun is also a short-sighted person, Wang Jun's experience made Liu Kun overjoyed, he hated Wang Jun more than the Huns, he also thought about writing a letter to ridicule Wang Jun, but at this time the news of Emperor Jin Huai's killing reached Liu Kun's ears, followed by Sima Ye, the crown prince in Chang'an, was enthroned as emperor, and as soon as Sima Ye came to power, he was named Liu Kun's general, the governor and the state military, plus scattered cavalry, In fact, the main purpose was that Chang'an was attacked by the Huns, and Sima Ye wanted to let Bingzhou send troops to relieve the pressure on Chang'an.
But Liu Kun is now difficult to protect himself, he has gone through a winter and a spring of development, and has just recruited 3,000 people from all over Bingzhou, and now there are less than 4,000 people, and they are all recruits. Liu Kun set up a soul conjuring platform for Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty to summon the soul with great fanfare, a posture of a loyal minister, and even he let every household in Yangqu City wear linen and filial piety, but the people of Yangqu can't afford to eat, and there is that idleness, so many people in Yangqu have hung a white cloth at the door of their homes to deal with things, and it can be seen from this detail that the prestige of the Jin Dynasty has fallen to the freezing point. After some posture, Liu Kun found that it was difficult to complete the orders of the imperial court, and he was difficult to protect himself, where did he have the ability to attack the Huns?
"General, why don't you order Shangdang County to send troops?" Wen Qiao's words made Liu Kun's eyes light up, in the past few months, Liu Kun had sent people to Shangdang County many times to seek support, but Chu Yun gave some at first, and then refused because he was too busy to take care of himself, which made Liu Kun very unhappy, Chu Yun and Liu Kun quickly walked out of the honeymoon period. But the strength of Shangdang County Liu Kun sent his son Liu Ding to investigate, to be honest, one Shangdang County is stronger than the other four counties in the state combined. Chu Yun is now immersed in development, all affairs have been accomplished, and he is thriving, and Liu Kun doesn't want to offend, but jealousy is inevitable. But now Wen Qiao's words finally found an excuse for Liu Kun, which can not only weaken the strength of Shangdang County, but also complete the tasks of the imperial court. As long as Chu Yun still wanted to rely on the name of the imperial court to develop, then he could not disobey his will.
Because Liu Kun has now become a general and is on vacation, he is completely able to appoint officials by himself, Liu Kun sent Wen Qiao, who was promoted to the Zuo Changshi of the Great General's Mansion, to go to the eldest son city with the appointment documents of his appointment of Chu Yun as the Taishou of Shangdang County and the general of Jianwu, and asked him to lead people to attack the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.
Wen Qiao confidently took over the task, now that Liu Kun is already a general, Wen Qiao also wants to go one step further, and this time is the best opportunity for Wen Qiao to show his talent in front of everyone. However, life is not as good as expected, but what awaits him is Wen Qiao's unexpected treatment, and he even prefers that he has never taken over the task of this pit father.
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