Jiao Yong was indeed good, and the Heji Corps that Dong visited was also quite impressive, but in late June of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, the highlight of history was not on them, nor on the Taishan Army who was confronting Huang Wan of Yanzhou in Puyang, but You are Yingru in the world.
Since May, the left Zhonglang general Huangfu Song and the right Zhonglang general Zhu Jun went out to fight against Yingchuan Taiping Road for several consecutive battles, with each winning or losing. Especially in June, Huangfu Song directly seized the opportunity to fight and almost burned Ying who besieged Changshe. Taiping Road in Sichuan, instead of frequent heavy rains in summer, a sudden heavy rain extinguished the fire, and Taiping Road in Yingchuan was finished at this time.
But this battle finally exposed Yingchuan Taiping Road's trump card of not being good at military warfare. Huangfusong and Zhu Jun had the Five Schools, the Three Rivers Knights and the elite soldiers. They could be first-class capable divisions, so in After knowing the quality of Taiping Road, they finally showed the strength of the Han Dynasty and won several battles.
Especially in mid-June, another cavalry team also left the border and joined the Yingchuan battlefield. He was Cao Cao, who was the cavalry captain at the time. He led three thousand Yulin cavalry into Huangfu Song's tent to control, and then Yingchuan Taiping Road again Unable to compete for supremacy on the battlefield, they could only retreat westward to Yangzhai, with unclear intentions.
At this moment, Cao Cao was naturally high-spirited. As soon as he joined the battlefield, he made military exploits as the commander-in-chief of the area, and his future was naturally bright. The cavalry captain he was serving now belonged to Guang Luxun, and together with Fengche and Prince Consort, he was also called the third captain. It is important to know that the rank of Bi Erqian Shi is slightly lower than Er Qian Shi. He also wears a green ribbon, but is just a little bit lower in rank. And Cao Cao was released from Yilangwai when he was less than thirty years old. With this post, he would naturally be able to get a large county to be the governor of a large county due to his military exploits. He was a typical handsome man with a good family background and a willingness to work hard.
But at the same time, under the command of General Zhu Jun, the right middle man, there was a handsome man who was about the same age as Cao Cao and also worked hard. Moreover, he came from a poor family and had to rely on his own efforts to reach this point.
This man was Sun Jian, the commander of the auxiliary army who led thousands of Huaisi elite soldiers to recruit.
Sun Jian's father was from a poor family and made a living selling melons. Logically speaking, even if his son was not destined to sell melons, he would at best be a local tycoon. However, the excellence of some people is only as good as the money in their pockets.
Sun Jian encountered an opportunity to change his life when he was seventeen years old. Because of his courage that was beyond his peers, he was selected as an official by the county, and he was more important than the prefecture and county. Later, he suppressed the rebellion in the county and became Sima and county magistrate successively. Eight years ago, Sun Jian seized another opportunity. At that time, there was an uprising of monster thieves in the neighboring county of Kuaiji. Sun Jian raised his own troops and went south to join forces with the army of Kuaiji to defeat them. He was directly valued by the governor Zang Min. Yan Ducheng directly broke the ceiling, which means he has the possibility of becoming an official.
And by the time he was valued by Zhu Jun, the general of the right Zhonglang, and joined the army to make great achievements again, he had already achieved the important position of Xia Pi Cheng.
During Cao Cao's celebration banquet, he also met this majestic general named Sun Jian. During this time, he was ranked first in military merit by Zhu Jun, the right middle man. This man led his Jianghuai disciples to fight unparalleled and was the first to win every battle. , Zhu Jun valued him very much.
In fact, Zhu Jun recruited Sun Jian before, and it was only with the intention of not doing so. Zhu Jun was from Kuaiji, and Sun Jian noticed this person when he was pacifying the monster thieves in Kuaiji, and knew that another general had emerged from the land of Wuyue. But he also It was just second best. To Zhu Jun, Sun Jian was indeed dispensable.
There are countless people under Zhu Jun who are good at fighting, and the first ones are Fu Xie, the guard of the army, and Zhang Chao, the commander of the other troops. Fu Xie is from the North, a disciple of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan, and the son of a famous family. The same is true for Zhang Chao, the commander of the other troops. In this way, this person was a native of Hejian, after Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu. He was good at both civil and military affairs. He was not only good at military strategy, but also good at cursive calligraphy, which was brilliant. So Sun Jian naturally did not pay attention to him at first. But who knew he would pick it up.
When Zhu Jun first came out of seclusion, he split up with Huangfu Song, but he almost overturned. He was attacked and surrounded by Yingchuan Bo Cai Shuai's army. It was Sun Jian Shuai's thousands of Jianghuai disciples who fought for him to fight through the siege, and then he regrouped. The same happened in the following battles. In this way, if there is one word to describe Sun Jian, it would be Jiangdong Tiger.
There is a saying that Zhu Jun's military strategy ability can only be considered average. He used to suppress the rebellion in Jiaozhi. No matter whether he fought the rebels or the Wuhu barbarians, they were actually relatively weak enemies. In the land where the southern barbarians were transformed, iron weapons were hard to find. How could these rebels stop the Han army?
But the situation was different for the Yingchuan Bocai tribe that Zhu Jun faced. This side was one of the stronger ones in Taiping Road, and they were well prepared. Therefore, Zhu Jun suffered a big loss after making calculations deliberately and unintentionally.
But fortunately, everything has passed. Now he and Huangfu Song's soldiers are fighting on the Yingchuan Taiping Road. The victory of the war will be sooner or later.
So at the celebration banquet, he drank a lot and introduced Cao Cao to Sun Jian. This was also a kind of support. After all, everyone knew that Cao Cao's future was inevitable.
Sun Jian was a ferocious man, but his emotional intelligence was not low. He always spoke kind words to the son of a powerful man like Cao Cao. Cao Cao also valued Sun Jian's bravery and felt that this man would have a bright future in the future, so the two naturally became harmonious.
Cao Cao actually knew about Sun Jian, not because Sun Jian was already famous all over the world, but because he was regarded as a joke by his friend Zhou?
The three brothers of the Zhou family in Kuaiji, Zhou Xin, Zhou Ang, and Zhou Xi, all studied in Kyoto. Especially Zhou Xin was a disciple of Chen Fan, the leader of the Party. Therefore, the three brothers were basically latecomers to the Party. Although Cao Cao was a eunuch, But he is determined to get close to the party member Qingliu so that he can clear his name.
Among the three Zhou brothers, Zhou? is the most eager-tempered and has the best relationship with Cao Cao. Once when talking about people in his hometown, he mentioned Sun Jian, who was also from Wu and Yue. Of course, he was not talking about how brave he was, but he was mocking this melon field. The child's shallowness.
That was Sun Jian's marriage-robbing incident.
According to Zhou Jian's sarcastic remarks while drinking, when Sun Jian was in Kuaiji to quell the rebellion, he heard that Qian Tang had a daughter named Wu who was very talented and beautiful. She was originally from Wu County, so he wanted to marry her. But at that time, none of the Wu family members wanted to marry her. Agree, I think he is frivolous and not a good match.
Cao Cao was surprised when he heard the Wu clan's comment that Sun Jian was cunning. You must know that the word cunning is not a good word. Being cunning and incompetent are connected together, which means that this person is a gangster and a bandit. , and at that time Sun Jian had already served as a false captain in Fuchun, Kuaiji. How could he be evaluated like this with his dignity as a Han official? Could it be that he disliked him for being the son of a melon farmer?
But Zhou Jian shook his head and said that it was not true, but that everyone in the local village knew the details of Sun Jian. Sun Jian lived with his father in Fuchun, Kuaiji, in his early years, and he wandered around the lake and sea very early, attracting a group of refugees. Once, he followed his father. Going to Qiantang, he saw the Qiantang water bandits looting on the road. Sun Jian rushed up and chased the bandits. When the water bandits saw this man, they thought it was the Fuchun water bandits who were chasing him, so they all abandoned their goods and ran away. On the contrary, Sun Jian was appreciated by Fuchun County and appointed as a county official.
So even if Sun Jian was cleared and became a county official, how could the Wu family, who knew his details, be willing to let their daughter be given to such a ruthless person to cause trouble?
After hearing this, Cao Cao asked Zhou: "Are there many water bandits in Kuaiji? Can they still go ashore and become Han officials?"
This made Zhou?, who had always been reserved, silent. Although he did not want to discredit his hometown, he honestly admitted that the fierce folk customs in Wuyue were not groundless.
What is plagiarism? It means plagiarism. These mountain people and fishermen usually work for the people, but sometimes they are bandits. Then Zhou? He took the powerful family of Kuaiji County and the Shanyin He family as an example.
The He family produced two thousand stones. In this generation, there was a man named He Qi who temporarily replaced Yan County as a county official. At that time, there was a county official in Yan County who had the same background as Sun Jian, but he was attracted by Shan Yue. Shan Yue was
The Han people who escaped from military service entered the mountains and merged with the local Yue people, and this county official was one of these people.
When He Qi wanted to deal with this person, several county officials persuaded him, saying that if he were to be dealt with today, the bandits would come to attack Shan County tomorrow. He Qi was young and brave, so he did it immediately after hearing this.
. Sure enough, the county officials' tribe led thousands of people to directly attack the county town of Yan. Later, He Qi was really powerful and killed the thieves directly. It must have been a big chaos.
Therefore, Zhou? simply summed up his hometown with one sentence: "There are many young people who are light, chivalrous and cunning."
Knowing the situation in Yangzhou, Cao Cao understood the rejection of the Wu clan relatives. Who would promise his innocent girl to such people?
But then, Cao Cao became even more curious. How could he marry Sun Jian after he was rejected by others? It turned out that Sun Jian had directly threatened these relatives of the Wu clan. If they didn't make friends, big trouble would happen. At that time, the Gu Nian family of the Wu clan
, they had no choice but to follow Sun Jian. And this is exactly what Zhou? was ridiculing. Yangzhou was already on the edge of the empire and was generally considered immoral. Therefore, the Yangzhou scholars who studied in Kyoto valued etiquette the most. Since ancient times, the capital
In this way, the more something is lacking, the more emphasis is placed on it. Therefore, Sun Jian's behavior of robbing relatives like a barbarian directly caused the Yangzhou scholars to exclude him.
You, Sun Jian, are just a soldier.
With this in mind, at the Changshe celebration banquet, Cao Cao, who learned about Sun Jian's bottom line, looked at the broad and majestic Sun Jian, and then at his wife's brother Wu Jing who came with him to the banquet, and suddenly felt interesting.
In this marriage, the beginning is not important. What is important is that after the marriage, you are one of your own. Didn't you see that the Wu family was obviously the relative who was robbed, so why didn't someone come out to support Sun Jian now?
Cao Cao looked at Sun Jian here. A person as sharp as Sun Jian naturally noticed it, raised his face, raised his wine bottle and shook it to give Cao Cao a drink. Cao Cao also responded as if nothing had happened and gave Sun Jian a drink.
No matter how lively this celebration banquet was, it came to an end. After the wine was exhausted, everyone dispersed and all the officials went back to their respective posts. Sun Jian also took his wife and brother Wu Jing on the way back to the camp.
Sun Jian, who was under the moonlight and had drunk too much, staggered with the help of Wu Jing. But Wu Jing knew that his brother-in-law was definitely not drunk, so he told his doubts today:
"Brother-in-law, I think Cao Cao is lucky enough to come here to take credit. We followed the right middle man to chop thorns and thorns, and gained some merit in the bloody battlefield. This man only came here and gained great merit in helping to defeat Bo Cai. Really
It makes people angry.”
Sun Jian's cheeks were flushed at this moment. Although he was drunk, he was awake. He was not angry with Cao Cao in his heart, but in the end he still made it clear to his wife and brother:
"A Jing, you still have to understand some things. Even if you don't like it in your heart, you can't show it. Some people can't help you, but they can do anything bad for you. These sons of the public family all think that all good things should be done.
Yes, we don’t have to go against them. A Jing, you have to understand what it means to you and me to go out with You Zhonglang this time? So, let’s fight hard and take credit, and ignore the rest.”
Wu Jing understood what Sun Jian meant. Indeed, this pacification of Taiping Road, which was sweeping the world, was the most important turning point in life for both his brother-in-law Sun Jian and Wu Jing.
He and Taiping Road have been fighting for more than a month, and they know exactly what these people are like. In the eyes of front-line generals like them, victory must belong to Han Ting, and when the time comes to reward him for his merits, Sun Jian will definitely be the one in front.
The Han family also valued military merit. This kind of suppression of a major uprising that swept the world might only happen once in a lifetime, and as long as we caught it, it was not impossible to gain the title of marquis for military merit.
Brother-in-law Sun Jian's career has now reached a ceiling. Over the years, he has successively served as Yandu Cheng, Xuyi Cheng, and Xiapi City. Although each city is larger than the other, he has always been in deputy positions and has never been a chief official.
The reason is not complicated. It is because Sun Jian did not start his career as a filial piety and did not go to Kyoto to make a fortune, so he could only work in deputy positions. And if there had not been this Taiping Dao uprising, he might have continued to waste time.
Therefore, being able to participate in the suppression of the Yellow Turban Moth Bandits under the command of General You Zhonglang was an opportunity for the Sun and Wu families to change their lives.
In this way, Wu Jing supported Sun Jian all the way to their auxiliary army Sima Department. Gu Ming thought, this is still a deputy position, but because Sun Jian brought thousands of Jianghuai children to join the army, Zhu Juncai, the right middle man, gave him a separate battalion head
, otherwise we will continue to waste time.
After walking all the way, Sun Jian was almost sober. As soon as he reached the main tent, he heard the unique heroic voice of Yandi warriors coming from inside. Sun Jian knew who it was just by hearing it.
It was Beizhong Lang who he had captured the day before, and his warrior, Liaoxi Han, was sent to Han, and the person who spoke to him was Cheng Pu, a native of You Beiping.
The two of them were originally Zhu Jun's warriors, both from Youzhou. It stands to reason that they would have never met Sun Jian, a Yangzhou native. But that day Beizhonglang would be surrounded by Bo Cai, so in order to open a gap
, Sun Jian not only brought his own thousands of Jianghuai disciples to ascend first, but also borrowed Zhu Jun's account of hundreds of soldiers, including Han Dang and Cheng Pu.
It was thanks to Sun Jian's willingness to die and Zhu Jun's elite warriors that they successfully opened the encirclement. After the war, Sun Jian and Zhu Jun asked for Cheng Pu and Han Dang. Cheng Pu was a military official and already had some status.
, but he was rescued by Sun Jian in the breakout battle and voluntarily surrendered to Sun Jian. Sun Jian especially appreciated Han, and his skill with bow and horse made Sun Jian, a native of Yangzhou, beyond his reach. Now we are fighting in the vast land of the Central Plains, which is exactly what we need.
When he was a warrior with bows and horses. So after the war, Sun Jian approached Han Dang and asked if he was willing to switch to him.
Han Dang was just a warrior under the tent at that time, but a somewhat brave warrior. Although Sun Jian felt that he had reached the ceiling, he was still beyond Han Dang's reach. With the appreciation of this brave auxiliary army Sima, Han Dang could be proud of himself.
I had a bright future, so I agreed.
So when Zhu Jun wanted to reward Sun Jian for his merits, he directly killed these two warriors, but Zhu Jun let them go without much thought.
However, Han Dang and Cheng Pu still have a long way to go to integrate into Sun Jian's group. Since these two people are from Youzhou and cannot understand the Jianghuai dialect in Sun Jian's team, it will be much more difficult for them.
But Sun Jian is good at winning people, and after several tricks, Han Dang and Cheng Pu have already agreed with this team. As for the rest, it is a matter of fighting a few more battles. For these warriors, nothing can deepen the relationship between people than the battlefield. The bond between people.
At this moment, Sun Jian heard Han Dang's words outside the tent and smiled across the tent:
"Well, you righteous man, you started talking about me behind my back when I wasn't here. It seems I should practice military law."
As soon as these words came out, there was a silence in the tent, and then seven or eight generals were seen leaving the tent. Two of them were Han Dang and Cheng Pu from Youzhou. As soon as they came out, they crowded around Sun Jian and asked questions. The situation of the celebration banquet.
Han Dang was embarrassed at this moment. He was the one who just said that Sun Jian was unjust. He didn't take them to such a luxurious celebration banquet, but took his wife and brother with him. Really!
Sun Jian led the generals into the tent, sat on the bed at the top, and said to Han Dang with a smile:
"What a luxurious celebration party. I drank countless amounts of horse urine, and now I'm still dizzy. I should have called you before. After all, the people of Youzhou are better drinkers than the people of Yangzhou."
Sun Jian then explained that the celebration banquet was indeed quite good, with wine and meat indispensable. Even Zhu Jun originally coordinated a group of dancing maids from the Zhong family of Changshe to prepare to assist the army. However, they were later left behind by the real commander-in-chief of the army. Zhonglang dismissed Huangfu Song because he said that the war was not over yet and it was the time when the husband was dancing vigorously. How to talk about wine and beautiful women would hurt the heart of a strong man.
It seems that Huangfu Song knew that it was very inappropriate for the soldiers to live and die at the front while the beauties were singing and dancing in the tents.
Sun Jian had been with Zhu Jun before, and he and the other generals were fawning over Zhu Jun. When Zhu Jun heard that the music and dance had been canceled by Huangfu Song, his face turned red and he yelled at the soldiers who were delivering the order:
"The soldiers have been with me for more than a month, don't you want to enjoy it now? Are you really going to use big words to pressure me?"
But having said that, Zhu Jun finally listened to Huangfu Song's military order and canceled the dance music. Because Huangfu Song was the left Zhonglang general, who was taller than him, the right Zhonglang general. Originally, it was better for the two armies to divide their forces and each could make the decision, but Now that the troops are united, Huangfu Song will naturally become the commander-in-chief of the army.
Of course, the reason that is more important than his position is that Zhu Jun knows that he is not as strong as Huangfu Song. He, Zhu Jun, is from a poor family, while Huangfu Song is the queen of the generals, and his uncle Huangfu Gui is a famous general in the whole world. So once the Yellow Turban When the chaos broke out, Liu Hong went to ask Huangfu Song for countermeasures instead of inviting Zhu Jun to discuss matters. This was because in the eyes of the emperor, those who attacked the Qiang people in the west must be more knowledgeable than those who bullied the barbarians in the south.
Zhu Jun was not convinced at first, but as soon as he came out of seclusion, he suffered a huge defeat. As soon as Huangfu Song took action, he seized the opportunity and almost burned down the Changshe and annihilated the Yingchuan Taiping Road. Although Zhu Jun felt that this was not the case. It happened, but in the eyes of Liu Hong, the two of them were at odds. So Zhu Jun had heard from his friends in Beijing that the country wanted to dismiss him, but he didn't know why he didn't let it go.
In fact, Zhu Jun didn't know that the reason why he was still leading the troops was because Huangfu Song strongly recommended him and even gave Zhu Jun the credit for repelling the Yellow Turban Army several times, which made Liu Hong change his mind.
From this perspective, Huangfu Song is undoubtedly more virtuous than Zhu Jun. If Sun Jian could be subordinate to Huangfu Song, he might have achieved more credit.
But unfortunately, no matter what happened to Zhu Jun, Sun Jian had no choice. Although he was from Wu County, he was born in Kuaiji, so he was basically considered a Kuaiji native. In this era when the township party was the first fetter, Sun Jian could only seize Zhu Jun, the township party, to give him Opportunities arise, and compared to Huangfu Song's routine, Zhu Jun's approach makes outsiders like Sun Jian more comfortable.
Later, all the generals gathered around Sun Jian and talked about the banquet, and Sun Jian focused on talking about the Changshe Zhong family who was present this time. Then Sun Jian and a group of Jianghuai, Wuyue and other descendants sighed that the Central Plains was indeed rich in clothes and clothing, and for this small There are aristocratic families like the Zhong family and the Shen family in Changshe County.
The Zhong family is the surname of the county. They are good at criminal law. There are criminal judges in the family for generations. They can be said to be the first-class famous family in Yingchuan County. They also intermarried with the more influential Li family in Gaomen Xiangcheng, the same county, and became a famous family in the world. Sun Jian had already heard from other military officials that his generation Zhong's name was Zhong Yao. He was only thirty now and already held the important position of Huangmen Shilang. Don't look at this, he was the same as the county magistrate, which only cost 600 shi. .But that six hundred stones is specially used to serve the country and connect the internal and external dynasties. Is this comparable to that of a county magistrate?
Zhong Yao's situation once again made Sun Jian lament that his fate was too late. He thought about how many times he fought without stopping to quell the rebellion and bandits, but in the end he was just hanging around in the county magistrate. Zhong Yao, who was as old as him, had already gone straight to Tianmen. It's not because he belongs to the Zhong family in Changshe! And he heard that there are families similar to the Zhong family in every county in Yingchuan. It's really incomparable.
But Sun Jian was a hero after all, and what he saw in front of him did not frustrate him. Instead, it made him understand even more that this battle with Zhu Jun on the Taiping Road was the most important opportunity in his life.
In fact, whether it is Sun Jian, Cao Cao or Liu Bei, they are all indomitable characters, and these three people can make great achievements. Because no one is always successful. If there is no perseverance and perseverance, if you lose only once, you will be defeated. In the end, we can only lose. Yes, I am talking about Yuan Shao.
Sun Jian and the generals talked about Zhong's story, naturally to inspire them. Having a living example there would further stimulate them to make achievements.
Finally, Sun Jian said the most important thing this time, which was to retreat westward from Yingchuan Taiping Road to Yangdi, and gather on the northeastern bank of Yingshui River with Ma Yuanyi's tribe who was the first to retreat here, with unknown intentions.
Now Sun Jian is also discussing the intentions of the Yellow Turban Army with the generals in order to prepare for the following war. After all, he is also a general and needs to make his own independent judgment on the war situation.
But Sun Jian has obviously overthought it. His current members are basically all rough guys, either the evil boy from Jianghuai or the original water pirate tribe of the Sun family, and then there is Han Dang. Cheng Pu, who has no one in the north, all have their own ideas. There is no military strategy, just staring at Sun Jian, which means, whatever you say, we will do it!
Sun Jian was frustrated and lamented once again that the Sun family's military fortunes still need to continue to work hard!