Shao Xun had been in Anping for a long time, and some of the shogunate's attachés and Shao's servants rushed over.
On the tenth day of October, Lu Zhi also arrived from Yecheng.
On the path covered with a thin layer of snow, several carriages stopped.
Shao Xun jumped off the carriage and looked around.
In the open wilderness, the grass is withered and yellow, and it is extremely desolate.
The north wind was blowing hard all the time, and the rotten thatch on the roofs of abandoned houses danced high.
The river water is cold, with broken ice hidden in it.
The red sun hung in the sky, without any warmth.
Seeing the big from the small, Hebei at this time is like this village.
"The situation in Youzhou has changed. Wang Jun, who was in great power for a while, suddenly fell to the ground, which makes people lament that things have changed." Shao Xun looked at Lu Zhi who was following him and said, "However, this saved the people from a military disaster.
I don’t know how many people died.”
It is said that in troubled times, human lives can be used to clear up the accumulated evil, but when you see no longer numbers, but living people, the feeling is completely different.
One is from the perspective of a bystander, and the matter has nothing to do with oneself.
One is from the perspective of a person who has experienced it, and feels the same way.
Youzhou can send troops to defeat it, even if the killing continues.
Youzhou can be offered by others to avoid wasting troops, money and food, or it can be accepted.
On the one hand, Shao Xun pitied the people for their difficult livelihood and wanted them to live a better life without so many deaths. For this reason, he did not hesitate to give up some of his own interests.
On the other hand, if necessary, they will not hesitate to harm the interests and even lives of the people.
Two thoughts coexisted in him at the same time. After all, people are not diodes, it is too complicated.
But if you continue to deconstruct, the conclusion will be very clear: he loves others, but he loves himself most, and the prerequisite for loving others is to love himself.
This is the ruler.
"Why doesn't Ming Gong lead Youzhou Shepherd himself?" Lu Zhi followed and asked.
Shao Xun did not answer but asked instead: "Zidao thinks how the governor and governor of Youzhou have arranged it?"
Lu Zhi thought for a moment and said, "It's very appropriate."
Although they are not the candidates he wants to recommend, Liu Han and You Tong are also good, and they are all related to him.
"Who should be appointed as the governor of Jizhou?" Shao Xun asked again.
Lu Zhi was silent.
Chen Gong's words were actually a polite rejection of official positions such as Youzhou Mu and Jizhou Mu.
He will not come to Hebei, at least not for the time being.
In addition, half of Jizhou was conquered last year, but the governorship has been vacant.
Lu Zhi never mentioned it, because he could not bring it up and had to avoid suspicion. If Shi Le and Liu Yao were defeated this year, then the entire territory of Jizhou would be taken, and it would be inappropriate to have no more governors.
Today, Duke Chen mentioned the governor and asked him to recommend him. The meaning of this is difficult to understand.
"Zidao." Shao Xun urged, "I need Zidao to teach me the overall situation of Hebei."
Lu Zhi felt unhappy and could only say: "Hua Heng, the regular servant of Sanqi, can be appointed as the governor."
Hua Heng is the son of the former Shangshu Ling Hua Ai, a prince-in-law, and a regular attendant on the cavalry.
The most important thing is that Hua Heng's mother was born in the Lu family of Fanyang and was Lu Zhi's aunt.
Mr. Lu really promoted the virtuous and never avoided relatives. Since the Northern Expedition, he had secured a prefect for the Pingyuan Hua Clan. If there was another governor, the Hua Clan's reputation would be greatly enhanced.
"Yes." Shao Xun agreed.
Lu Zhi was a little surprised, but then he realized that if Hua Heng was appointed as the governor of Jizhou, then Lu Zhi would probably return to the court.
This is exchange.
Mr. Chen is a kind man and very sober at the same time.
What else is he going to do? Lu Zhi thought for a while, and he probably had an idea: among the three men, Sikong happened to be vacant, so that was probably it.
I sighed silently in my heart, after working hard for so long, I still didn't get the results I wanted.
"Liu Yao has launched a full-scale counterattack and crossed the Hengshui River in a big way. What does Zidao think?" Shao Xun walked into the bare farmland, pushed aside the snow, picked up a piece of top soil, and looked at it carefully.
"Liu Yao wanted to attack with the Xianbei people from front to back and surround Governor Jin in the Gaoyang and Hejian area." Lu Zhi said.
Shao Xun nodded, Lu Zhi still understood the situation of the battle.
In fact, Kim Jong-da can hold on and not retreat. The rebel army will go back to protect the grain roads. Although the grain and grass supplies will be affected to a certain extent, most of them can still be transported to the front line. The biggest trouble now is that winter has arrived and the rivers have frozen.
This trend has greatly affected transportation. The grain and grass that were originally expected to last for two months may not last that long.
Of course, the Jin army was in difficulty, and so were the Huns.
Even if Shi Le had stockpiled a large amount of grain and grass in advance, even if the two counties of Changshan and Zhongshan were wiped out three feet, and even if the Huns had few soldiers, they could no longer support them and they wanted to fight quickly.
This is the big background.
Shao Xun made this judgment with basis, because just after Jin Zheng gave up the territory west of Hengshui and retreated across the entire line, the Xiongnu pursued them vigorously. As a result, Jin Zheng personally led his troops to the west of Zhongren City and attacked them halfway across the river, resulting in numerous casualties.
Three thousand, more people will be defeated.
But even after such a setback, Liu Yao still ordered the pursuit, which shows that they are also tired of this year's war and want to quickly decide the outcome.
So when the opportunity arose, they decisively deployed their troops.
For Shao Xun, fighter planes actually appeared.
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An overwhelming number of cavalry appeared in Wangdu and the Puyin area.
The Jin army that set up a stronghold on the road could only resist for half a day, and then collapsed under the siege of the Huns' cavalry.
The light cavalry from both sides caught each other and fought each other in the wild.
Liu Yao climbed to the high platform in the camp and looked carefully.
The infantry commanded by Liu Zheng and Zhang Zoupu marched forward bravely, chasing the defeated Jin soldiers.
The soldiers on both sides spoke with similar accents. One side came from Changshan, Zhongshan, and Zhaojun, and the other side came from Bohai, Qinghe, and Plains. The former were Han soldiers, and the latter were Jin soldiers.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the Jin soldiers who had been cut off from the rear could no longer hold on and dispersed.
The Han soldiers were as powerful as a rainbow and followed closely behind them, chasing and killing them endlessly.
The cavalry on both sides also took action.
One side wants to pursue the Jin army and defeat the infantry, while the other side wants to intercept it.
The accents of these two warring groups are complex, including Chinese, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Diqiang, Jie, and Wuhuan, which is similar to Xianbei.
Those who speak Chinese may not be fighting for the Han people, but they may be killing the Han people.
Speaking in Xiongnu language does not mean they are fighting for Liu Han. In fact, they from Anping are outflanking Liu Yao's Qingqi. Arrows are falling in the north wind, and the Xiongnu who are advancing are killed and injured.
However, the most active ones are the Jie people. They are the hardest working, and because they are good at melee combat, they are responsible for frontal interception, and their sword and shield skills are superb. They are two different styles from the Central Plains cavalry with spears and large spears.
"These gang thieves!" Liu Yao looked a little dissatisfied.
Just change the family. If you still work so hard after changing the family, that's too much.
The generals around Liu Yao also cursed after seeing this.
In fact, as the slave tribe of the Xiongnu, the Jie people have never been treated seriously by them.
In addition to their low status, their appearance and culture are incompatible with the Xiongnu.
Among them, except for a few who look similar to the Xiongnu, most of them have tall noses and deep eyes, and a small number of them even have blond hair. The language they speak is also a mixture of Western Region vocabulary, Xiongnu words, and Chinese.
The most important thing is that they believe in Zoroastrianism. Before going to the expedition, they collectively knelt down to worship "Hu Tianshen" (the name of Jin people, namely Ahura Mazda, the main god of Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia). Not only did the people of Jin couldn't stand it, but the Huns also felt disgusted.
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"Capricious people." Liu Yao thought to himself: "There are still a large number of Jie people on the Shangdang side, so we must find a way to eliminate hidden dangers."
"Dispersed!" A general said, pointing to the battlefield ahead.
Liu Yao looked around and saw a chaotic battlefield with people and horses intertwined. The horses on both sides slowed down and even stood still, waving weapons on horseback, hacking, stabbing and fighting each other.
Then, the Jin cavalry began to retreat slowly and collapsed backwards. The Xiongnu cavalry took advantage of the situation to pursue them, and they were extremely brave.
Liu Yao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We will spend the night in Puyin tonight."
This year's war was too torturous. It fought from July to October, and both sides were exhausted. From the perspective of the Jin army, the war started in May and the fighting lasted longer.
Unexpectedly, the final decision on the direction of the war was Shi Le's genius: using money to lure Duan Xianbei to go south and cut off the Jin army's retreat.
At this point in the war, there is nothing to hesitate but to pursue.
Chase the Jin army to pieces, defeat them, and chase them to death, until they no longer have the courage to turn around and fight, and completely regain the lost ground - it may be a little difficult, but as much as you can recover is what you need.
"Let's go." Liu Yao waved his hand, calling for the soldiers to follow him.
After leaving the camp, the soldiers brought the horses. Liu Yao jumped up, took out a bag of kumiss from under the saddle bag, drank a few mouthfuls of it, and laughed: "It's so happy!"
That's it, that's the feeling!
After drinking the wine, I suddenly felt a surge of blood all over my body, as if possessed by a god, possessing infinite power.
The Jin soldiers in front of him were no longer humans, but plants and trees that could be easily chopped down by him.
"Chase!" he shouted and ran out first.
The soldiers followed closely behind, shouting.
On the snowy field, the Hun cavalry was crowded with people, and the sound of hooves was like thunder, passing through the roads, fields, and wastelands, all the way east.
On the seventh night of the Lunar New Year, we arrived in Puyin.
On the tenth day of the lunar month, they pursued to the territory of Gaoyang.
On the evening of the 11th, they arrived at the gates of Gaoyang City. Three thousand plain soldiers were trapped in the battle and did not dare to fight.
Liu Yao was so high-spirited that he sent people to contact Duan Bu Xianbei on the spot to prepare for a flanking attack on the Jin army.
It was at this time that he received news of the changes in Youzhou.
Chapter completed!