24, troubled times
The heavy snow did stop soon. Yan Xing refused the banquet that he had not attended afterwards with the excuse of occasionally feeling the cold, and rejoined the training of soldiers in winter. Because of the heavy snow in winter, the training in the camp will also change.
First, Yan Xing personally led the team to inspect the military camp to check whether his soldiers were hungry and cold, and took time to visit the recovery of the wounded wounded by him.
A few days ago, he did not start these military affairs immediately because of the banquet. Fortunately, Yan Shun has always done a good job in these matters. Not only was he serious and responsible for what Yan Xing gave him to Hecheng before leaving, he was absolutely unbiased. After the winter began, he received the cold clothes and bedding of the soldiers under him from the military officers in the selection army and also distributed them in time. Yan Shun, the newly transferred two hundred men, properly placed them, treated them equally, and calmed the morale of the army.
However, Yan Xing had to do the next thing himself. First, he reorganized the newly transferred 200 troops. Because there were two more troops, Yan Xing, who had always paid great attention to cavalry, established a front garrison, and all the cavalry were organized. From the newly transferred garrison and the original team, he selected hundreds of soldiers with excellent cavalry skills to form.
Then, the young and old mixed with the newly transferred personnel were separated and formed into a Houtun. Because the number of people was less than 60, they were temporarily handed over to Yan Shun to take charge, and the deputy was selected from the newly transferred personnel.
As for the original Santun, the number of people was supplemented, Yan Shun was still in charge of Zuo Tun, and Ma Lin was handed over to Ma Lin, Yan Xing personally led Zhongtun and fifty guards to follow him, and Yan Xing was also led by Yan Xing to teach and train.
At this point, the song Yan Xing was officially formed, and what was lacking was the running-in and training of each town.
Yan Xing paid the most attention to the queue and marching, which did not carry out most of the queues and marches due to the snowfall in winter. He only trained on the snow-stop day, and at night he summoned his military officers to teach the troops. This time the scope was expanded to the level of team leader.
Of course, in his spare time, Yan Xing would also bring the good wine he bought from the city and invite Li and Zhao to step on the snow to find plum blossoms, drink and have fun.
The snow has been falling, but Yan Xing has never forgotten his father, his younger sister's expectations and his ambitions when he left home. He has never forgotten the horses that died when he crossed Longshan. He has never forgotten the difficulty of sneaking into the Sanfu. He has never forgotten the danger of sleeping with swords. He has never forgotten the Hu cavalry of the Han army who was shouting at him in the wasteland.
All of this prompted Yan Xing not to relax, wait for the coming of spring next year.
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As time passed, the Han Empire soon entered the fifth year after the chaos of the Taiping Road uprising. With the arrival of the fifth year of Zhongping, with the arrival of spring, what brought the Han Empire was not a gentle spring, but an aggressive crisis and war.
First, the Yellow Turban thieves Guo Da and others were invaded by the Baibo Valley in Hedong and invaded Taiyuan. The counties and counties in the Hedong area caused shock to the capital Luoyang. The court hurriedly ordered the counties and counties to send troops to suppress the city, but it was not pacified. Immediately after, the Xiongnu, who rebelled again in the winter of the fourth year of Zhongping, attacked and killed Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou. The cavalry of the Xiongnu once again ravaged all parts of Bingzhou. The counties wherever they went were destroyed. The Han court had to order the counties in Bingzhou to guard the city tightly, and while sending envoys to recruit these fierce Huns.
In this series of events, this was the second memorial of Fang Bo, a state-owned state, received by the Han court after Liangzhou.
However, it seemed that God did not intend to let the Han Empire, which was already full of diseases, breathe for a while. At the end of May, Yizhou reported that the bandits Ma Xiang, Zhao Zhi and others of Yizhou raised their troops to Mianzhu, called themselves the Yellow Turban, killed the governor of Yizhou, attacked Ba County, Jianwei, and within tens of thousands of people destroyed the three counties, claiming to be the emperor.
This was the third memorial received by the Han court of the death of the governor of a state. Moreover, the "Emperor" in Youzhou in the north has not yet been quenched, and another "Emperor" appeared in Yizhou in the south. This subsequent pressure forced the emperors and powerful people of the dynasty to be anxious. If the rebellions in various places cannot be quelled, I am afraid that the world will be divided into pieces and there will be kings and princes everywhere.
However, the "Son of Heaven" in the south is easy to deal with. After all, at best, it is just the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. In the first year of Zhongping, hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans were destroyed by the imperial army, building one after another of the Beijing people showing off their martial arts.
However, the "Son of Emperor" in the north was much harder to deal with. In the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen carried out the siege to conquer the rebels of Liangzhou and prepared to conquer 3,000 Wuhuan cavalry from Youzhou. As a result, when Wuhuan's troops arrived in Jixian, the Wuhuan cavalry defected and returned to the Wuhuan tribe because the food and salary were not paid, and most of them defected and returned to the Wuhuan tribe. Zhang Chun, who was with the army, held a grudge because Zhang Wen did not let him lead the Wuhuan soldiers, so he fled with the people of the same county. Zhang Ju, the former prefect of Taishan County, fled into the Wuhuan tribe and the leader of the Wuhuan tribe, Qiu Liju, and others, and sent troops to rob Jixian. The way was unstoppable, killing the Wuhuan school captain Gong Qi Chou, the Youbeiping County prefect Liu Zheng, and the Liaodong County prefect Yang Zhong and others. The troops they carried were claimed to have more than 100,000, and were stationed in Feiru County.
Later, Zhang Ju even called the emperor, Zhang Chun called General Mitian and King Anding. They issued official documents to inform the states and counties, claiming that Zhang Ju would replace the Eastern Han Dynasty regime, demanding that today's son abdicate, ordering officials from all over the country to welcome Zhang Ju, and leading the Wuhuan cavalry to Kou Luqing, Xu, You and Ji states to lead the wolf into the house, burn, kill and loot. Faced with the fierce Wuhuan cavalry, the Han court not only urged the cavalry commander Gongsun Zan to speed up the attack, but also had to secretly order Liu Yu to use thick gold to lure the Wuhuan tribes and accelerate the internalization of the rebels.
Of course, relying solely on various prefectures and counties, we wanted to pacify the rebels and bandits that were swarming everywhere. The Han court had completely lost this confidence. He must first strengthen the internal force. Although the Han emperor Liu Hong, who had been in Mingtang for twenty years, did a lot of confusion, he could no longer be willful when he reached the crisis of internal and external troubles. So Liu Hong made up his mind and used the money he obtained from selling official positions in the West Garden to form a central army independent of the Five Northern Army Schools, and set up eight school captains. The head of the military school captain was the close confidant of the emperor Liu Hong, Jian Shuo, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, two heroes who were in power in the future, were also among them.
The Han emperor, who had formed the new army, was also full of confidence and fantasized about "holding the sword of the emperor in his hand to fight against the thieves in the world", so he optimistically carried out a large-scale review of the new army in Pingyang. Looking at the new army with clear armor and strong armor, Liu Hong suddenly became proud. Under the flattery of the eunuchs, he was even more arrogant and wanted to fly to the sky and point to the army to show off his ministers in the court. Fortunately, there were still people in the court who knew the soldiers. Gai Xun, who was fighting against the captain, made a report to the report, "I heard that the 'the ancient kings were virtuous but did not observe the soldiers'. Now the enemy is far away and set up close Chen, which is not enough to show off, but only to be strong." He advised the emperor Liu Hong's foolish behavior of purely showing off.
The facts are indeed as Gai Xun said. Emperor Liu Hong's show-off behavior did not show any behavior of demonstrating martial ethics. As soon as the military parade was finished, the bad news spread to the court immediately.
Qingzhou, which was originally a small-scale rebellion due to the rebellion of the Tang and Zhou dynasties in Taiping Road, has finally erupted in a long time under the continuous blows of natural and man-made disasters over the years. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou were everywhere, rampant in prefectures and counties, and the turbulence also affected Xuzhou, causing the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou to take advantage of the situation to respond. Therefore, several states in the east of the empire were immediately in trouble.
Of course, compared to these chaos, the most troublesome thing in the Han court was the rebels from Liangzhou. After the autumn, the kingdom and Han Sui led their troops to invade Sanfu in large numbers. The feathered cavalry from Chang'an to Luoyang were successively launched, looking at each other. Moreover, the scale and momentum of the rebels this time were much larger than the previous few times. It was impossible to resist the troops alone. If the troops could not be sent to support in time, and the rebels' troops would be allowed to capture Chang'an or destroy the imperial tomb, then the last fig leaf of the Han Dynasty would be thrown away.
But who should I use to send troops? The Grand Marshal Zhang Wen was impeached and dismissed when Liangzhou was in chaos again last year. It is extremely difficult to select a suitable candidate from the court. You should know that there are many arrogant generals in the Han army stationed in Youfufeng. In the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen, who was from a famous family and ranked third, was the rank of the three dukes, and was promoted to the generals. Which generals under him were not obedient and obeyed the generals. Only Dong Zhuo, who was the general who defeated the enemy at the time, did not give Zhang Wen a good face. He also sarcastically sarcastically at Zhang Wen, who did not know the soldiers. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's reputation among the Three Auxiliary Han Army increased greatly and was known for his arrogance.
The subsequent development just confirmed Dong Zhuo's ridicule. The various Han troops who were advancing to fight were cut off their food and grass in Yuzhong City. They were chased by Qiang and Hu cavalry on the way, but Dong Zhuo's army returned.
Therefore, the person sent must be a good man in war, and can also suppress such a powerful general as Dong Zhuo. After thinking about it, the emperor and powerful people in the court could only re-activate Huangfu Song, who was demoted in the second year of Zhongping, and appointed him as the left general, recruited five Northern Army schools, Sanhe Knights and more than 20,000 soldiers from the prefectures and counties. On the same day, he ordered the rebels of Liangzhou who invaded Sanfu, and at the same time, he also brought Dong Zhuo, who was appointed as the former general, to Huangfu Song's command.
Just when the Han court was worried about the leader, the Liangzhou coalition forces, which had a large-scale invasion, continued to conquer the cities of Sanfu, successively captured the cities of Fengxian, Qianyang and Yongxian. The troops headed straight to the city of Chencang. The rangers of the coalition forces went deep into Meiyang and had a short battle with the scouts of the Han army. Dong Zhuo, who was stationed in Youfufeng, decisively gave up the city to the west. At this time, it was definitely thankless to leave the city and fight against the fierce Liangzhou soldiers and horses. While shrinking his troops to defend various military strongholds, he sent couriers to the east to ask for help.
Faced with this imminent crisis, the doomsday scene of soaring prices in Sanfu territory, and he fled east with his family.
Chapter completed!