Chapter 100: The Imperial Court Asks for Help
The two women of the Lin family and the Lu family plus Cui Ning, Chu Yun was originally going to marry the three of them, but the women of the Lin family actually bought off the director of the Governor's Mansion and several maids who served Su Jin, and came to the Governor's Mansion to provoke Su Jin, which Chu Yun would never forgive.
Lin Yu was originally the lord of the Governor's Mansion, just some time ago, Chu Yun switched positions between him and Lu Wang, the lord of Shangdang County, and the right of the lord of the first county and the lord of the Governor's Mansion could not be compared at all, after all, the future by Chu Yun's side was brighter.
It is also for this reason that Wang Lian, Fang Qing and others will choose Lin Yu's concubine as Chu Yun's concubine, this is a political exchange, of course, it is also to appease the Lin family, a very powerful family in Xihe County, Chu Yun did not object, anyway, whoever he marries is married. Who knew that the Lin family was looking for death by themselves, and it happened to hit Chu Yun's gun, Chu Yun immediately sent someone to the Lin family to take back the marriage letter, and Lin Yu asked to see him many times, but Chu Yun refused.
This time Lin Yu must have heard the rumors when he looked for himself, after all, Chu Yun married a new woman from the Lu family, which made Lin Yu see hope, but Chu Yun would never let the woman of the Lin family enter the door, didn't this make Su Jin ugly?
The children of the Lin family have been the king and hegemon in Shicheng in Xihe County for too long, and there are a lot of gentlemen, this time the Lin family had an accident by himself, although Lin Yu, the head of the Lin family, did not break the law, but he also had a great responsibility, although Chu Yun did not want to see it, but under the persuasion of Wang Lian, Chu Yun still let him in.
As soon as Lin Yu saw Chu Yun, he made a big salute, Chu Yun didn't value these forms, usually his subordinates met, except for the people in the army, all the civil servants only needed to bow, and the Lin family was a family of the upper three grades, which was simply stepping on the face of his Lin family on the ground, Chu Yun was noncommittal.
Lin Yu kept pleading, Chu Yun didn't speak, although this old fox Lin Yu is a talent, but his ability is not so outstanding, plus the children of the Lin family are too ostentatious, Chu Yun has long wanted to beat him well. Chu Yun didn't speak all the time, so that Lin Yu couldn't guess Chu Yun's thoughts at all, his clothes were soaked, could it be that the Lin family was going to be completely finished? The more he thought about it, the more scared he became, this tiger came and completely lost his sense of proportion, and even begged.
Wang Lian gave Chu Yun a look again and again, but Chu Yun turned a blind eye, and just when Lin Yu was trembling and was already scared to the limit, Chu Yun finally spoke.
"Get up, look at the good things you Lin family children have done, do you think that your Lin family is still the overlord of Xihe County?" Chu Yun threw the evidence of the Lin family's crimes collected by the Supervision Department in front of Lin Yu, Lin Yu picked it up tremblingly, and when he read it, he became even more scared. There are many children of their Lin family, and they have robbed the people's daughters and even forced them to die, and not one or two, this is simply his life.
"Your Lin family has hundreds of children in seven rooms, and it is really a big family, and it is really not easy for you to be the patriarch, there are a few people in the south who are not angry, and it is not entirely your fault. Your long house is still good, your sons are very good, I am still very optimistic about you, I don't want you to ruin your future because of a few uncompetitive children. Maybe these people will bring you a terrible disaster, and then you will regret it too late. I'll give you a chance now, what do you think you should do so that you don't get involved with them?" After Chu Yun finished speaking, Lin Yu was stunned.
"Ask the governor to make it clear. Seeing Lin Yu's attitude, Chu Yun was still very satisfied.
"I don't think it's as good as splitting up. After Chu Yun finished speaking, Lin Yu raised his head in surprise. In this era, it is simply a big ugly thing to say that the separation of the family, at this time, people feel that the family is more important than the country, and many people would rather commit treason than let the interests of the family be damaged, which is not a joke. And it was also in the Jin Dynasty, the era when the family gate valve was the strongest, if Lin Yu really did this, then he would be cut off from the world's family, and his Lin family would become the laughing stock of the family, but if he didn't do this, Chu Yun's threat was real.
Sure enough, Chu Yun spoke: "Since Master Lin Bo is unwilling, then please go back, I will let them handle it impartially." ”
Lin Yu knew that if he didn't agree, Chu Yun would definitely take action against their Lin family immediately, and the Lin family would be completely finished. But if the family is really separated, he will have to firmly follow the Iron Blood Army and follow Chu Yun, otherwise his Lin family will definitely die.
"I'm willing to split up. Lin Yu lowered his head deeply.
Chu Yun nodded, he had long seen that these families were unhappy, wasn't the destruction of the Sui Dynasty in later generations just because of the destruction of these families? Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goryeo again and again, wasn't it just to weaken the strength of these families? Although Emperor Yang of Sui was cursed by many people in later generations, he was indeed an emperor with great talents, such a person could not fight against the family lords, how could Chu Yun, as the leader of the forces, have a good impression of them?
Although there are not many families in the entire Iron Blood Army, there are only a few, but Chu Yun is still ready to set the tone first and break up all of their big families, so that they will not be able to condense the gate valve like the five surnames and seven families in the later generations. The Lin family was only the first one, and it just happened to hit Chu Yun's muzzle.
"Okay, Lin Master Bo, you are very good, my iron-blooded army will attack Shangjun, and when Shangjun is calmed, I will protect you as Shangjun's guard. In addition, the woman of your Lin family is too much, and she actually came to the governor's mansion to provoke my fiancée, I will not marry such a woman, but I see that Mao Yu is not yet married, your Lin and Mao families can be said to share weal and woe, you choose another woman to marry Mao Yu as a wife, I will personally officiate the wedding for them. After Chu Yun finished speaking, Lin Yu felt a lot better, he knelt down respectfully and saluted Chu Yun again, and then left with a complicated mood, Wang Lian and several other officials of the Governor's Mansion glanced at each other, and they obviously also saw Chu Yun's true purpose.
Chu Yun's big wedding was held as scheduled, although it was not a wife, but a few concubines were women from the families of the important ministers of the Iron and Blood Army, although Chu Yun did not claim the title of king, and the territory was not large, but he was also a prince, so except for a few generals who had important tasks and could not leave the station, the rest of the people came.
The iron-blooded army was full of civil ministers and military generals, and Chu Yun won four concubines according to the etiquette of marrying a wife, and also gave a few families enough face.
After a few days of commotion, Chu Yun officially ordered the troops to be sent to the county for the second conquest. Chu Yun ordered a new round of reserves for complete training to form a new 1st Brigade and a new 2nd Brigade. The new first brigade was led by Lin Yu's second son, Lin Hai, who was also the only son of the Lin family to enter the army, as the acting brigade commander, which was also a reward given by Chu Yun after the Lin family split up. The new second brigade was surrendered by Zhao Sigu as the brigade commander of the new second brigade, this person is a Hun captain who surrendered in Luoyang County, he is an old military brigade, he served as a captain of the Great Jin Dynasty ten years ago, the Huns were captured after breaking through Luoyang, and had to surrender to the Huns for the sake of his family, he is very experienced, he once served as a military master under Ma Hui, and Chu Yun was deeply impressed when he defended Zhongyang City, and this time it can be regarded as an exceptional promotion.
Chu Yun ordered the Qiang 1st Brigade, Qiang 2nd Brigade, New 1st Brigade and New 2nd Brigade to follow Chu Yun and march to Shangjun, after all, if Shangjun was defeated, it could not be defended by cavalry alone.
This time, Chu Yun took the Iron Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division, the 3rd Cavalry Division, the 4th Cavalry Division, and four independent brigades, with a total strength of more than 50,000 people, determined to completely take Shangjun.
Just when Chu Yun was about to capture Shangjun, Zhang Yu, the assassin of Liangzhou, got the news of the defeat of the Qiang people, Zhang Wei was furious, he didn't expect the iron-blooded army to be so strong. At that time, the tribes that invaded Xihe County were the tribes he had the strongest control, and they were almost wiped out in the first battle, which made him completely lose control of Shangjun.
Zhang Yu immediately convened his subordinates to discuss, Changshi Zhang Xi proposed to send troops directly, which was opposed by almost everyone, don't look at Liangzhou is located in the northwest, it seems to be very safe, but in fact, there are unstable factors around, especially Zhang Yu does not have the prestige of his father Zhang Liang, and the Taishou in many places do not obey his orders, so although Liangzhou has hundreds of thousands of troops, the army that can be taken out is tens of thousands, and Chu Yun is also an official of the imperial court. If the two sides made a move, what would the imperial court think? Zhang Yu still needed the name of the imperial court to be maintained, so the direct dispatch of troops was denied by everyone. In the end, Zhang Yu and others did not discuss the idea, so they could only sit and watch the changes. Because of the closed news, they still didn't know that Chu Yun had raided Shangjun, and even had the purpose of taking Shangjun in full, if they knew, they would definitely not have made such a decision.
At the same time, Zhangqi got the first batch of envoys for help from the Chang'an court, Zhang Yu was different from his father Zhang Liang, he did not have much reverence for the court, and the Xiongnu were very powerful, he did not want to get involved in the war between the court and the Xiongnu, if it was not for the bad face, he didn't even want to continue to supply materials to the court. So Zhang Yu decided to inspect Liangzhou, after he became a thorn, he did not inspect his territory, Liangzhou contains the entire Western Regions, very large, and it is impossible for the imperial court envoys to find themselves, so Zhang Yu felt good about himself and led the guards to leave the residence. When Zhang Yu came out again a few months later, the outside had been turned upside down.
Chu Yun is asking for a quick word, in June of the third year of Jianxing in the Western Jin Dynasty, Chu Yun's army of more than 50,000 people entered the upper county from the victory fort, under the leadership of the Qianghu tribe that had already been bought, it hit Gaonu (near Yan'an in later generations) in a month, Chu Yun selected more than 10,000 people from the Qiang cavalry who surrendered, and built them as the Qiang Third Brigade, Qiang Fourth Brigade, and Qiang Fifth Brigade, with them as the forerunner, to conquer the Qiang tribe that refused to return, and Chu Yun's army was stationed in Gaonu City.
Chu Yun ordered the Qiang captives to strengthen the walls of Gaonu City, and thousands of Qiang captives died in just two months, but the effect was significant, and the construction of Gaonu City was very fast, and it was basically completed in two months.
The two infantry brigades brought by Chu Yun were stationed in Gaonu City, while the cavalry of the Iron Blood Army scattered and attacked, sweeping away all the Hu people who could see it, and those who returned to obedience were all scattered and moved to other parts of Xihe County or Shang County, and those who refused to submit were reduced to slaves to help the Iron Blood Army build the city.
Shangjun was the territory of the Hu people when it was the strongest in the Western Jin Dynasty, and only Liu Kun once ruled here, so it was not the original territory of the Jin Dynasty, so Shangjun was like a blank piece of paper for Chu Yun to smear.
Chu Yun prepared to build the defense system of Shangjun based on Gaonu City in the center of Shangjun, and the original county town of Shangjun was completely abandoned because it was too far north, Chu Yun newly divided the southern part of Shangjun, that is, the territory south of the Great Wall, into five counties, namely Ganquan County, Dingyang County, Gaonu County, Zichang County and Fushi County, and these five counties established Jiancheng respectively. Gaonu County, Ganquan County, and Dingyang County were used to build a triangular defense system to guard against the Xiongnu from the south and Zhang Yu from the west.
In the following months, the Qiang tribe that had lived in Shangjun for decades or even hundreds of years was either exterminated by the Iron Blood Army, or forced to surrender, or crossed the Great Wall and returned to the grassland.
The Qiang people did not think about resisting, but in the face of the armed iron-blooded cavalry, they had no power to resist at all, and the 30,000 troops organized by the Qiang were defeated by less than 20,000 people of the iron-blooded division and the first cavalry division, and the Shangjun Qiang people completely became lambs to be slaughtered.
When Chu Yun was making waves in Shangjun, Chang'an City fell into a bitter battle, and with the support of Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, Chang'an reluctantly confronted the Xiongnu army. However, Beidi County was lost, and the connection between Chang'an and Liangzhou was completely blocked.
There were also a large number of Qianghu tribes in Beidi County, and the Huns forced Qianghu to send troops, and used the lives of Qianghu to consume the support troops from Chang'an. And Zhang Yu didn't send any reinforcements as if he hadn't seen this scene. Without the support of Liangzhou, Chang'an was in danger.
The envoys of the imperial court were constantly sent out, and Liu Kun of Bingzhou, Sima Rui of the South, Zhang Yu of Liangzhou, etc., all received requests for help from the imperial court, and in exchange for the support of various places, the imperial court promoted Sima Rui, the evil king of Lang, to the prime minister, the governor of the capital, and the military of China and foreign countries. Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, was the prime minister. The Xun group, which occupies Yuzhou, is the captain and the herd of Yuzhou. With Liu Kun as the commander, the governor of the three states, Hebei, and Youzhou. Expanded the fief of the acting king Tuoba Yilu and gave him the title of Changshan County. Of course, Chu Yun was also promoted, and Chu Yun was promoted to the general of the second-grade chariot cavalry, and in just over two months, the imperial court actually sent three waves of envoys.
Although Shangjun had not yet been completely conquered, Chu Yun had to return to Shangdang County, and he left Zuo Song of the Fourth Cavalry Division to lead the Fourth Cavalry Division and two Qiang brigades to continue to conquer and disagree, and then left Lin Yu to serve as the county guard of Shangjun to deal with Shangjun's affairs. The main thing was to disperse and relocate the Qiang tribes and accept the Han people who migrated from Shangdang County and Xihe County.
Chu Yun returned to the eldest son city with the Iron Blood Division, the First Cavalry Division, the Second Cavalry Division, the Third Cavalry Division and the newly built Qiang First Division and the Second Qiang Division, the Qiang First Division and the Qiang Second Division were composed of three Qiang brigades, two divisions of 20,000 people, and almost all the Qiang men in the prime of life in Shangjun were transferred, so Chu Yun was not worried that the Qiang people would rebel.
As soon as he returned to the eldest son city, Mo Han and the others immediately asked to see him, Chu Yun didn't even see Su Jin and the four concubines, so he began to discuss the rescue of the imperial court, and now the envoys of the imperial court and Liu Kun's envoys have come to the eldest son city, the imperial court is asking for help, and Liu Kun's envoy is here to borrow the way, Liu Kun is really anxious this time, he even wrote a letter to Chu Yun to give in, Chu Yun absolutely believes that if Chu Yun does not borrow the way, Liu Kun will definitely fight with himself.
"Governor, the imperial court must not fall, if the imperial court falls, our iron-blooded army will definitely bear the brunt, although we occupy Shangjun, but we need time to digest. And after all, we are courtiers of the imperial court, and for the sake of our reputation in the eyes of the world, we must also send troops. Why the father and son of the Zhang family in Liangzhou were able to live in Xiliang is not because of the reputation of Zhang Liang's loyal ministers that is convincing. The hearts of the court have not been lost. After Mo Han finished speaking, everyone agreed.
"Okay, what Mo Gong said is right, we must send troops, but how many troops we send and how we want to fight need to be considered. Chu Yun nodded.
"Dudu, Liu Tingshi has invited 100,000 Xianbei Iron Horsemen, we are sure of it, but we also have to prevent him from destroying him in a false way, Liu Tingshi is not friendly to us. Mo Han said again, Mo Han knows Liu Kun's character very well, so although he is temporarily soft this time, he will not easily change his opinion, Chu Yun thought so.
After a night of discussion, Chu Yun was ready to dispatch 30,000 cavalry to attack the partial division of the Xiongnu army, that is, the Xiongnu Zhendong general Hu Yanmo who captured Beidi County, there were only 20,000 troops on this road, although tens of thousands of Qiang cavalry were gathered, but these Qianghu who did not even have armor were soft persimmons, and Beidi County and Shangjun were next to each other, Chu Yun could also wantonly recruit troops from Qianghu, and the two sides competed for Qianghu cannon fodder, Chu Yun was not worried.
As for Liu Yao's army of more than 100,000 people, let Liu Kun and his good friend Xianbei people deal with it, of course, because of Mo Han's reminder, Chu Yun also has to strengthen the defense of Pingjin Valley and the surrounding areas. Because Chu Yun captured Shangjun, the Iron Eighth Division near Fort of Victory was temporarily withdrawn by Chu Yun with two brigades and headed to Pingjin Valley to prevent Liu Kun from turning his face.
Liu Kun's envoy was overjoyed after receiving Chu Yun's reply, in fact, the iron cavalry of the Xianbei people had already arrived in Taiyuan County, but Chu Yun's defense in the north of Shangdang County was too perfect, and the Xianbei people were not given a chance at all, and at this time, Liu Kun did not dare to turn his face with Chu Yun casually, so he could only send an envoy to come. The commander of the Xianbei army is Tuoba Liuxiu, the eldest son of Tuoba Yilu, the acting king, and he has been impatient to wait for a long time, if it weren't for Liu Kun's repeated dissuasion, maybe he would have fought with the Iron Blood Army first.
Chu Yun was silent as he watched the Xianbei Iron Cavalry galloping south in the Pingjin Valley, although the Iron Blood Army was developing rapidly, there was still a big gap compared to the Xianbei people. Liu Kun didn't see Chu Yun either, but just asked Liu Ding to come over, hoping that Chu Yun could fulfill the duties of a courtier, Liu Kun and Chu Yun missed the last chance to meet, and the two never met again.
Chu Yun also took action, he led a large group of cavalry to swarm westward, preparing to fight from Shangjun to Beidi County, a major war related to the rise and fall of the imperial court, bringing together hundreds of thousands of people, was about to break out.