Chapter 437: The Battle of the Central Plains (14)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 437: The Battle of the Central Plains (14)

More than three years later

The spring of the 146th year of Yanhou (356)

Qingzhou

Beihai County

Juxian

This was once the base camp of Zhang Bu's resistance to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. Now the county town has declined, with a population of only more than 20,000, and is being ruled by the new warlord niche.

Duan Kan was a descendant of the Duan Xianbei leader. After the Duan Xianbei was destroyed, he hid in Tibet and waited for opportunities. It was not until the civil war broke out in Jiezhao that he led the Duan Xianbei tribes into Qingzhou to conquer the city and establish the State of Qi, and he also sanctioned the Dajin in the south, and was crowned the King of Qi by the Dajin court.

Today, on the streets of Ju County.

"Everyone lined up and migrated immediately!"

Duan Qi's soldiers forced the people to move in the county town, preparing to sell all the people in the county town to Yan State, and then buy cavalry armor from Yan State to conquer the world.

Among the crowd, a young man was treated specially because he was studying and literate. Duan Qi's soldiers tied him up.

This person's name is Wang Meng, and he is a poor family member in Qingzhou.

Most of his friends took the initiative to go to Yan State in Liaodong and became a teacher in Yan State. Although they could not realize their ideals and ambitions, they would at least have a safe life and no worries about food and clothing.

But Wang Meng had great ideals and wanted to be famous in history. Therefore, he did not choose to be a teacher in Yan State in Liaodong, but instead demonstrated his talents in the Donglai area of ​​Yan State, and then waited for Yan Houxue to hire him and invite him to Yandu as a guest of honor.

However, how could Yan Houxue hire an ordinary poor scholar? Therefore, Wang Meng waited for the rest of the world, but he was unable to wait for the Yan State to treat the wise and nobles.

So, Wang Meng simply returned to his hometown in Ju County.

But he had just returned to his hometown for a few months, and the new ruler of Qingzhou cooperated with Yan State.

The ruler of Qingzhou, Duan Kan, captured humans in Qingzhou and sold them to Yan State, while the Yan State sold weapons and equipment to Qi State, which made both sides benefit and win-win.

This is unknown how many times Yan State cooperated with the rulers of Qingzhou. The locals in Qingzhou are no longer surprised, but Duan Kan, as a foreigner, naturally did not feel it deeply. Even if a local in Qingzhou reminded him that Yan State was not trustworthy, he did not care. Instead, he thought that he was special and could rely on his personal charm to subdue Yan State and let Yan State cooperate sincerely.

In order to distinguish between the Yan State established by the Wang family and the Yan State established by the Murong Xianbei, people in the world called the Yan State established by the Wang family "Liaodong Yan State" and the Yan State established by the Murong Xianbei "Murong Yan State".

Just when Wang Meng was tied up and was about to be sold to Yan State, there was a riot in Duan Qi's soldiers. I don't know who shouted "Yan soldiers are here", and then Duan Qi's soldiers fled in scattered.

Yan Bing? Does it refer to the Yan Kingdom in Liaodong or the Yan Kingdom in Murong? Wang Meng thought in his heart.

After a while, many Murong Xianbei soldiers came and the county magistrate abandoned the city and fled.

In the chaos, Wang Meng hid in the corner of the street and asked a beggar next to him to untie the tied rope for him.

Not long after, Wang Meng heard that King Duan Kan of Qi fled to Liaodong and wanted to seek asylum from the Yan Kingdom in Liaodong.

However, the Yan State of Liaodong cut off Duan Kan's head, and then the envoy of the Yan State of Liaodong took Duan Kan's head to Yecheng. The Yan State of Liaodong used Duan Kan's head as a gift to submit a tribute to Murong Yan State.

As a reward, Murong Yan State gave 50,000 young and middle-aged men and women to the Yan State in Liaodong every year to help the Yan State in Liaodong open up land and farm.

This process is simply not too familiar, so Wang Meng had already expected it.

At this time, an inspiring news came to Ju County, which was that the Grand Marshal Huanwen of the Great Jin court personally made an expedition to the north.

In the past two or three years, the Jin court launched many northern expeditions, and each time it allowed Yin Hao, who came from a noble family, to lead his troops.

However, Yin Hao only talked about metaphysics and did not know how to lead troops to fight. Huan Wen once asked him how to manage the army, but he replied: "Governing the army is to govern the army, so there must be an army to govern. If there is no army to govern, how can we govern the army? Therefore, we govern the army but not the army to govern!

Huan Wen asked him how to take care of the war horses in the army and how to understand how many war horses are born, old, sick and dead every day. This was originally a statistical question, but he replied: "How can you know death if you don't know life?"

When Huan Wen asked him how to inspire the morale of soldiers, he replied: "Moranna, the same form of Qi, Qi is the beginning of heaven and earth, the heaven and earth are the vast universe, and the vast universe are the origin of the great way. Therefore, to inspire morale, we need to explore the vast universe and find the illusory truth in the infinite great way."

Under the leadership of such a commander, the Northern Expedition of the Great Jin Dynasty can be imagined, and it is naturally a defeat and defeat. After losing Murong, after losing Di Qin, after losing Di Qin, after losing Qiang thieves, after losing Qiang thieves, after losing Qiang thieves, after losing Qiang thieves, if you lose, you will not lose.

Now, when hearing Huan Wen’s personal expedition to the north, the people of the Central Plains are very looking forward to it, and they are eager to get rid of the rule of the Hu people.

Wang Meng was also preparing to visit the Grand Sima Huan and test whether Huan Wen had the determination to conquer the Central Plains.

Another year later, Wang Meng came to Chang'an.

At this time, Huan Wen had recovered Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and the old capital Luoyang. He has now occupied Tongguan and his troops have reached Chang'an.

Now is the highest moment in Huan Wen's life. He is surrounded by the halo of the Revenger of the Central Plains. Who dares to disobey in the court?

Huan Wen's military account

Wang Meng has shown his talents in Chang'an for more than half a year and is already well-known. Therefore, when he took the initiative to visit Huan Wen, he was received by Huan Wen.

"Wang Meng, a rural village man, has seen the general." Wang Meng said respectfully to Huan Wen.

"The last one who was humble in the countryside was Zhuge Kongming." Huan Wen smiled slightly, and he was about to see if the famous scholar in front of him was really talented, or he was hyped up like the children of the aristocratic families in the Jin Dynasty.

Afterwards, Huan Wen asked Wang Meng: "The people of the Central Plains all look forward to the king's army's northern expedition, but when my troops arrived outside Chang'an City, why did the people in Chang'an City refuse to leave the city to greet me?"

Huan Wen remembered a few months ago when he just recovered Luoyang, the people of Luoyang wiped their tears and cried to him: "I never thought I could see the officers and soldiers again in my lifetime."

"The general arrived in Chang'an but refused to attack the city. The people did not know your determination, so they naturally did not dare to go out to greet him." After all, Wang Meng had been in Qingzhou for many years and had contact with the Liaodong Yan State, so he naturally understood the truth that "the people are just a group of mobs."

The people only follow the crowd, and they will help whoever wins. So as long as you show a winning situation, the people will naturally follow, but you stagnate and don’t even dare to attack the city. The people naturally don’t know whether you can win. They don’t know whether you can win, so they naturally don’t dare to follow you, for fear that if you go back, they will be punished by local tyrants for helping you.

"If the general attacks the city with all his strength, even if he cannot capture it for the time being, the people will naturally submit to you when they see your determination and strength to attack the city." Wang Meng continued to test Huan Wen.

But Huan Wen was in trouble. He had been away from the Jiankang court for too long, and Chit changed. What if the political enemies in the Jiankang court brought his nest? He was eager to go back to Jiangdong to continue to control the government, so how could he have the intention to continue to regain the Central Plains?

Moreover, the purpose of regaining is to make one's own power more stable. Regaining the Central Plains is just a means, and the goal is to stabilize the power. We cannot put the cart before the horse.

Continuing to recover Chang'an was only to increase territory to the Jin court, but not to bring him much benefit to Huan Wen. There was no need to consume his troops to expand the territory of the court.

Wang Meng looked at Huan Wen's expression and knew that Huan Wen's mind was mainly about controlling power. The Northern Expedition was just by the way, so he stopped talking about this topic, but discussed the general trend of the world with Huan Wen.

"Now the Central Plains are in constant war..."

After some discussion, Huan Wen felt that Wang Meng was a talented person and wanted to bring Wang Meng back to Jin State.

But Wang Meng had the ideal of making achievements. He knew that the Great Jin court could not tolerate poor families. If he went to the Great Jin court, he would never make a fortune in his life. It would be better to go to Yan State, Liaodong to be a teacher. So he shook his head and said, "The general does not want to regain Chang'an, how could Meng be willing to follow the general to Jin State?"
Chapter completed!