Chapter 52: The Imperial Army Has Returned
Although the location of Tianjing Pass is important, it is not valued by the Huns, first of all, their capital is in Pingyang, which is far away from Tianjing Pass, they do not need Tianjing Pass guards, if they build the capital Luoyang, then it will be completely different. The second is that the Huns are confident, they never believe that someone will attack them from Bingzhou, and Liu Kun has been disabled by them, so the status of Tianjing Pass is naturally a chicken rib.
The guard of Tianjing Pass is called Guo Hu, his father is called Guo Yi, who once served as the Xinxing Taishou, and the current emperor Liu Cong did not become the emperor before he served under him and served as the lord. It is said that his father has such a close relationship with Liu Cong, he should get a better position, but his father later offended Liu Cong, because Guo Yi later relied on the old and sold the old, and often told others that Liu Cong also served as his subordinate, so Liu Cong was angry, so he demoted him. In this way, Guo Hu was sadly affected by his father.
He is a standard child of a family, good at eating, drinking and having fun, but he is just not good at doing business. Tianjing Pass is just a level, so how much entertainment can there be, he is more slack on business, but at the beginning of the year, a group of homeless people suddenly came to Tianjing Pass, and opened a small restaurant in Tianjing Pass, the daughter of the owner of the restaurant was coquettish and beautiful, and Guo Hu was completely fascinated, and this woman even reached the point of making Guo Hu obey. They also often rewarded Guo Hu's soldiers, who were all poor ghosts, so with a little currying favor, this guy was recognized by all the garrisons in Tianjing Pass. No one ever wondered why this guy would open a restaurant in a place like Tianjingguan, where birds don't.
That night, Guo Hu came to the Taihang Restaurant as usual, and ate and drank under the service of his good friend Cui Miao, Cui Miao thoughtfully picked fish bones for Guo Hu, there are many rivers here, and fish meat is not uncommon, but what Guo Hu cares about is his sweetheart's love for him. Guo Hu also looked at Cui Miao with pity, if it weren't for the big difference between the two family backgrounds, Guo Hu wanted to repair his wife and marry Cui Miao, of course, this idea is just thinking about it, he is a child of a family, how can he marry a poor woman as his wife.
"Guo Lang, this is the fish that my father personally went to the river to catch, it is very fresh, you can taste it. Guo Hu looked at the snow-white fish, ate it happily, and sighed again when he put down his chopsticks.
"Miao'er, I'm ashamed of you, I wrote to my father to marry you, but he just refused to agree. You are so good to me, I am sorry for you, you can rest assured that I will give you a name. You will always pay for me, but you never want to reciprocate, I am really a seven-foot man in vain. Guo Hu said and shed tears.
Cui Miao stretched out her little hand, Wei Guo Hu wiped away her tears, she looked at Guo Hu with tears in her eyes: "Guo Lang, don't you understand my intentions, as long as I can accompany you, then I am willing to do anything." The more Cui Miao said this, the more ashamed Guo Hu felt.
"Miao'er, I want to do something for you, but because I told my father that I wanted to marry you, he cut off my share of money, and now I don't have much money, and the power is only a small guard, if I have a higher status, I will definitely be able to marry you, but I am useless. Guo Hu's tears that had just stopped flowed out again.
"Guo Lang, there are still some slaves here, you can take them all when you leave in a while, I am willing to do anything for you. Guo Hu unceremoniously took the purse handed over by Cui Miao and checked it, he happily hugged Cui Miao in his arms, and after a cloud and rain, Guo Hu fell asleep deeply, and he didn't notice that the beauty in his arms left.
"My lord, I've got the token. Cui Miao came next door and handed Guo Hu's token to the man who was usually called his father, and the man looked at it carefully and was very satisfied.
"Five, you did a very good job, Lord Captain (Feng Chengjia) is not a ruthless person, you gave up your innocence for the Iron Army, and when you go back, your family will be properly arranged. You can also stay with this Guo Hu and become your real minister, what do you think?" The Supervision Department is still very kind internally, and Feng Chengjia is not an iron-blooded person, so its regulations are full of mercy.
But Cui Miao gritted her teeth and said: "My lord, no need, I don't need to be nostalgic for this person, as a Han person, I am willing to become a dog of the Huns." I wish I had killed him with my own hands. "Now that Cui Miao's attitude has been indicated, Guo Hu's fate is already doomed.
He didn't expect that the woman who had been sleeping with him for a long time hated him so much, of course, the reason was not like what Cui Miao said, it was for the sake of national righteousness, but because Guo Hu didn't write to his father at all, and he didn't divorce his wife and marry her, Guo Hu lied to her. Women's hearts are needles, women are ruthless, and they do more than men.
In the early hours of the next morning, the tavern men opened the gate of the patio with the guard's token, and the soldiers guarding the gate were too familiar with them to care. But today is different, after the city gate was opened, more than 10,000 troops swarmed in, this Xiongguan changed its owner in just half an hour, and no one ran out, and Guo Hu, the guard of Tianjing Pass, lost his life in his sleep. Chu Yun successfully got the Tianjing Pass, and the last piece of the puzzle of Shangdang County's impermeable defense was finally put together.
Chu Yun ordered Lu Di to lead a thousand people to garrison Tianjing Pass, while Chu Yun made a slight repair, waited for the news from Chang'an to be transmitted back, and prepared to set off officially.
Three days later, the message arrived. It's not that the news only took three days, but it was confirmed as early as a month ago, and what Chu Yun wanted to be sure of was that the Huns had not withdrawn their troops now, and were still entangled with the imperial army near Chang'an, so that he could rest assured that he would send troops.
In June of the third year of Jianxing, Chu Yun, the deputy governor of the Great Jin Dynasty, came out of Tianjing Pass and commanded an army of 10,000 to kill Sili Prefecture.
Yi County belongs to Hanoi County, Sili Prefecture, Chu Yun is the first stop when he comes out of Tianjing Pass, but Chu Yun is not ready to attack Yi County, he is ready to quickly attack Luoyang, and then turn around, attack all the passing cities from south to north, and finally whether it is population, property or grain and grass, Chu Yun is ready to bring all of them back to Shangdang County.
Don't look at the Xiongnu Han State has been founded for more than ten years, but it was only two or three years since they broke through Luoyang and other places, and Luoyang was burned into a scorched earth because of the disagreement between Liu Yao and Wang Mi, so the foundation of the Xiongnu Han State here is very not solid. Even in Yi County, there were only 1,000 servant troops stationed, and these servant troops were the Jin troops that surrendered. Moreover, before the Xiongnu Han State broke through Luoyang, the Huns had to attack Luoyang every year, and the vicinity of Luoyang suffered from it, so the people under their rule hated the Huns to the core. Even with many county orders and county officials, although they were afraid of the Huns and had to become officials, they disobeyed the orders of the Huns.
So when Chu Yun's troops appeared in the territory of Yi County, and were told by the people who saw it to Fu Ling, the county commander of Yi County, this strange county order forgot about it selectively, in his opinion, these must be Hun cavalry, as long as they don't come to ask for food and grass from themselves, they like to go wherever they like. However, Fu Ling felt that these Hun cavalry must be going to do something against Bingzhou, and Fu Ling, who still had a little conscience, was silent for Bingzhou for three seconds, and then what should he do.
Chu Yun ordered all the flags of all the troops to be put away, so the people they met completely regarded them as the army of the Huns, and after seeing them, they either fled in fear, or hid and secretly spit on them, anyway, they did not encounter the slightest problem.
They marched on the territory of the Xiongnu Han State for more than ten days, and they did not encounter a little resistance, which can be regarded as a miracle, Chu Yun saw this situation, and listened to the intelligence of Huang Kai's supervision department along the way, he felt that the founding of the Huns was like child's play.
Of course, Chu Yun felt that they were able to successfully establish a country, and even the ethnic minorities in later generations continued to build the country, which also had a lot to do with the Han nation's own incompetence. Chu Yun is a little arrogant, he has reached this era, no matter what he is here for, at least he has to fight for all the Han people, Luoyang is the first stop for his fame.
Luoyang belongs to Luoyang County, of course, in the Han Dynasty Luoyang is called Luoyang, because the Han Dynasty belongs to Huode, Liu Bang is considered to be the son of the Red Emperor, so Luoyang in the Han Dynasty is Luoyang, after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, in order to eliminate people's nostalgia for the Han Dynasty, but also to show that he Cao Wei is a water virtue, the destiny of heaven, so Luoyang was changed to Luoyang, and has continued to this day.
Luoyang was called the center of the world by the people at that time, Luoyang City is located in the north of Luoshui, the north of the water is called "Yang", so the name Luoyang, also known as Luoyi. The mountains and rivers in the territory are vertical and horizontal, the west is close to the Qinling Mountains, the east is adjacent to Songyue, the north is according to the Wangwu Mountain - Taihang Mountain, and according to the danger of the Yellow River, the south looks at the Funiu Mountain, since ancient times, there is a saying that "the capital of eight passes, surrounded by mountains on eight sides, and the five waters surround Los Angeles", so it gets the name of "the river and the mountain arch wear, the shape wins the armor in the world", and the name of "the thoroughfare of the ten provinces in the world".
Unfortunately, to now, has been dilapidated, in May of the fifth year of Yongjia (311) two years ago, the Han Emperor Liu Cong sent the former army general Hu Yanyan to attack Luoyang with 20,000 soldiers, to Henan, the Jin army was defeated in 12 battles, and more than 30,000 people died. The generals of the Han army, Liu Yao, Shi Le, and Wang Mi, will attack Luoyang together. In June, Liu Yao's army went to Ximingmen to enter the arsenal and killed more than 30,000 people, including the crown prince Sima Quan, the king of Wuxiao, Sima Yan, the king of Jingling, Cao Fu, the right servant, Qiu Chong, Shangshu, Luqiuchong, and Yin Liu Mo of Henan. Liu Yao accepted Emperor Hui as the queen of the sheep, and sent Emperor Huai of Jin and the seal of the country to Pingyang.
But the first merit of entering Luoyang was obtained by the general Wang Mi. Liu Yao thought that Wang Mi did not wait for his soldiers to arrive, so he entered Luoyang first, and he was resentful in his heart. Wang Mi once said to Liu Yao: "In the world of Luoyang, the mountains and rivers are blocked, the city and the palace are not pretending to be camped, and it is advisable for the white lord to migrate from Pingyang to the capital." Liu Yao burned Luoyang on the grounds that the world was undecided, Luoyang was attacked on all sides, and it could not be defended. Wang Mi scolded: "Tu Gezi, how can there be an emperor's intentions." ”
Because of the discord between Liu Yao and Wang Mi, the huge Luoyang was burned, and now two years have passed, Zhao Han does not have the idea of repairing Luoyang, and the county guard of Luoyang County does not have this idea, when Luoyang is the capital, he is not a bullshit of the county guard, a brick falling from the sky can smash a bigger official than him, and now although Luoyang is broken, but he is the only one, so he sent someone to clean up Luoyang City and live in part of it, and the rest will no longer care. Many of the people who had been uprooted in the war also returned, and although it was not as large as the hundreds of thousands of people in the past, it was much better than when it was completely burned down, and after two years of recovery, Luoyang now has a population of 20,000 or 30,000.
I have to say that Luoyang has amazing resilience, I don't know how many times it has been burned in history, and it has been broken a few times, but it will not take a few years to be able to rebuild.
Chu Yun's army came to the edge of the Yellow River, Chu Yun looked at the mother river of the descendants of China with a lot of emotion, whether it was in the past life or in this life, Chu Yun came to the Yellow River for the first time, looking at the boundless and still clear Yellow River, Chu Yun was full of emotion.
"The Yellow River, the mother river of my descendants of Yan and Huang, witnesses the rise of my descendants of Yan and Huang, and also witnesses the catastrophe of my descendants of Yan and Huang. I, Chuyun, want to recover the old capital today under the witness of the mother river, re-establish the glory of my Chinese nation, and make sacrifices, I want to sacrifice to the mother river. "Under the auspices of Chu Yun, nearly 10,000 cavalry sacrificed the Yellow River on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the boats that had been prepared early that morning were dragged out of the forest, and it took a lot of time for 10,000 troops to cross the Yellow River.
A group of people came to the north of Luoyang when it was getting late, here is the north gate of Luoyang City, the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, the branch of the Kuoshan Mountain, in the past dynasties are the north gateway of Luoyang, valued by the rulers, but now the checkpoints here are all deserted, and you can vaguely see the majestic fortifications of the previous dynasty, but unfortunately these fortifications did not prevent the fall of Luoyang.
As soon as Chu Yun gave the order, the Iron Blood Army was stationed in these abandoned fortifications, and after they rested for a night, they would attack Luoyang twenty or thirty miles away, with the broken city walls of Luoyang, they could not stop the Iron Blood Army at all, and then the Iron Blood Army would historically recover this ancient city that represented the center of China.
The Sun, Moon and Star Banner of the Iron Blood Army would also float over Luoyang for the first time, and Chu Yun personally restored the Sun, Moon and Star Banner that had appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period. The sun, moon and stars flag is the three-chen flag, the sun, moon and stars are called the three stars, painted in the flag, like the brightness of the sky. Sanchen symbolizes heaven, Haotian God, and the way of heaven, and is the most noble symbol representing the Chinese Son of Heaven since Emperor Shun.
Chu Yun believes that with the growth of the iron-blooded army step by step, the glory of the Sanchen Banner will shine again on the land of China, and even the Western Regions, the Northern Grassland, and the Southern Barbarians will be bathed in the Star Banner, Chu Yun has never been a loyal minister and filial son, whether it is the small court of the Chang'an Jin Dynasty or the so-called Eastern Jin Dynasty, in Chu Yun's opinion, it is a shame for China, even their predecessor Cao Wei can still expedition to Wuhuan and let the northern grasslands tie his hands, and the Jin Dynasty, the darkest dynasty in history, is not worthy of Chu Yun's allegiance at all.
In the early morning of the next day, Chu Yun's whole body was neatly draped, the sun, moon and stars, and the banner of Chu, the deputy governor of the prefecture, were all erected by the flag soldiers, and the entire iron-blooded army was all dressed in dark red robes, symbolizing the color of blood, of course, the military uniform of the Jin army was originally red, although Chu Yun's was dark red, but it was not exceeded. The red torrent rolled across the land, killing them towards their target. This represents the most powerful Han armed force of this era, showing his fangs.
Chinese people from ancient times to the present is the strongest ability to survive the nation, just two years after the war, Luoyang slowly began to recover, the villagers outside the city are still the same as before the war, with firewood, seasonal vegetables, game and other materials to sell in the city, every day hundreds of people from dozens of miles away or more than a dozen miles away from the place ants move to Luoyang City.
On this day, more than 30 men from Liujia Village were going to enter the city to sell firewood and game caught in the mountains, although when they entered the city, those hateful Huns would pay heavy taxes, but they also had to do so, because only in this way could they have the money to buy some salt and other necessities of life. More than 30 people pushed a few wheelbarrows towards Luoyang City, the wheelbarrow was invented by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, and it was a must-have for the poor people who did not have carriages and ox carts, and it was no wonder that Zhuge Kongming's name had been praised for thousands of years.
There is very little rain this year, and this year they all rely on the sky to eat, and there are more than thirty men, and their faces are full of sorrow, because no matter what the year, the taxes paid to the Huns will not be reduced, and they can only be monks for one day and hit the clock for a day, they have no courage to resist, even the court doesn't care about them, the emperor has been caught, what else can they do?
"Has the ground moved?" suddenly one of them said suspiciously, and the rest of the people also stopped, and everyone looked at the old man who thought he was in his fifties, this old man was their elder and village chief, and he was also a well-informed veteran who had participated in the army.
"It's not moving, it's like cavalry, a large number of cavalry, go quickly, leave the avenue quickly. After the old village chief finished speaking, although the rest of the boys were still a little suspicious, they were not slow, and they hurriedly pushed the cart into some rocks dozens of feet away.
"Look, it really looks like a person in the distance?" a young boy in his twenties stood on a rock and pointed to the north, he was the son of the old village chief, he was naturally outgoing and active, and the rest of the people hid as much as they could, but only he watched with interest.
"Sanwazi, you don't want to die, this must be the cavalry of the Huns, if you are seen by them, you will be finished, you forgot Liu Laoqi, you just looked at the Huns a few more times, and they were killed alive? According to my experience, this cavalry is at least close to 10,000 people. It's going to be a war, hey. After the old village chief finished speaking, everyone's faces were difficult to look at, once there was a war, they would either have to work or produce food, maybe their hometown would be affected by the war, which would be fatal to them.
"Red, Grandpa. It's a red uniform, it's the army of the imperial court. Sanwazi, the son of the old village chief, shouted loudly, he heard his father say that the military uniforms of the imperial court are red, and the military uniforms of the Huns are variegated and messy, so in his heart, red represents the imperial court.
"Lift me up, lift me up. The old village chief Liu shouted, the two juniors helped him up, and the army in the distance was getting closer and closer, like a cloud of fire surging all over the sky, and the old village chief Liu saw this familiar color, and tears welled up in his eyes at once.
He knelt heavily on his legs, and swallowed in his mouth: "The imperial court, the imperial army is back." The crowd knelt down.