As the Taishan Army crossed the river north, the Han Army regained Henan. For a time, good news came frequently on the post roads to and from Kyoto. But both General He Jin and many generals of the Han Army in Henan knew what was going on. The Han Army
The so-called big victory is just picking up the money box from behind, without any effort at all.
But unfortunately, everyone knew that Liu Hong was kept in the dark. After receiving these good news, he knew that the Taishan bandits had been defeated and had fled north to join the Hebei Taiping Army. So Liu Hong, who had regained his ambition, made some plans.
, so he asked the Han army in Henan to follow closely, insisting on annihilating the Yellow Turbans in Hebei, and truly accomplished their success in one battle.
However, there is a saying that although the Han army selectively reported the results of the war, they did not slack off in the war.
In fact, Zhang Wen had already taken countermeasures. He knew Liu Hong's great success, and Zhang Wen knew that Liu Hong would definitely let the Han army make persistent efforts if the victory was reported.
Because the Han Dynasty could not hold on any longer. A senior official in the imperial court who had participated in the Ping-Qiang war exclaimed that it was more expensive to quell the rebellion in a civil war than in a foreign war. The scope of the war with the Qiang people was roughly between Liang, Yong, and Yong.
In Bing and other places, these are not the focus of money and food, so the consumption is not large. The main battlefields of Ping Huangjin are all in Qing, Hebei, Yu, and Jing, which are the richest places in the world.
After half a year of suppressing the rebellion by the Han army, these places were destroyed. The Han Dynasty, which could not collect money and food, was facing an unimaginable collapse.
It was precisely with this understanding that Zhang Wen took decisive action after regaining Xingyang. Because the Taishan Army had requisitioned the tank ships on both sides of the Bian River and Jishui River, the Han Army lacked enough ships to intercept and pursue water.
So Zhang Wen, in the name of General Zhendong's shogunate, asked Li Min, the governor of Hanoi in the north, to lead the Hanoi River Boat Division in Huai County to block the Taishan Army from entering the river channel.
Huai County is the county seat of Hanoi, and it is also the waterway where the river branches off from the Bianshui River. Therefore, Zhang Wen's intention was to let the Hanoi Navy block the Taishan Army and prevent it from using the waterway of the river to go down the river.
Here Zhang Wen sent the message to the governor of Hanoi, and there Zhang Wen sent the message to Lu Zhi, the governor of Beizhong in the north of Hebei. Although Zhang Wen's rank is now higher than Lu Zhi's, his position as general of Zhendong does not govern the war in Hebei.
Therefore, Zhang Wen still worded his words appropriately in his letter.
He roughly said in his letter that the Taishan bandits escaped by chance and headed north to the Dahe River. He hoped that the Han soldiers in Hebei could mobilize elite troops to retreat to Hanoi and intercept the Taishan army together with Li Min, the prefect of Hanoi. At the same time, let the Liyang soldiers from Liyangjin downstream in the Dahe River.
Make pontoon bridge iron cables to block the Taishan Army's possible southward movement.
This was Zhang Wen's plan. In Hebei, the Hanoi Marine Division set up defenses and intercepted the important waterways, while he led the Han troops in Henan to pursue them northward, striving to annihilate the Taishan Army on the narrow waterway of Bianshui River.
Aren't your Taishan Army great in field battles? Aren't you victorious in every battle? But now that you are on the boat, let me see how powerful you are. Then I will come down on fire rafts from both sides and burn you for several miles to see if you die.
This move is really cruel. The Taishan Army's water combat capability is almost non-existent. If the Han army is really blocked at the entrance of the river and then attacks with fire from both sides, it may really be lost here. The risk here is real.
Yes, does Zhang Chong know? Yes, but Zhang Chong repeatedly considered the pros and cons and chose to take the water route. Why?
What has always been the most difficult thing in retreating and fighting? It is the non-combatants and baggage accompanying the army. This time, the Taishan Army has deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in eastern Henan, and has attracted at least tens of thousands of Guizhou people who sympathize with the Taishan Army to follow the army. Then Xingyang Dongchengcang and Ao
The warehouse's baggage piled up in the sea. In addition to scattering the poverty up and down the river, the Taishan Army also raised a group of the rest to provide aid to the Yellow Turbans in Hebei.
If you go north by land, the above-mentioned situation will be more serious. Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but you may also be harassed by local clans along the way. But now you can go by water, and it will be solved. In just two days, nearly 80,000 Taishan military officers and family members will accompany the army.
People can evacuate safely. This is the advantage of waterways.
And Zhang Chong didn't gamble casually? He would never risk his own life or the lives of tens of thousands of people. Even if he chose the waterway, Zhang Chong didn't just sit and bet on whether the Han army would intercept it. On the contrary, he first let Guan Yu lead the advance
The military commander took the lead in heading north, and his goal was to attack Guangwu City, the confluence point of the Bian River at the river.
Guangwu City was where Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu, once stationed himself. It was built on a mountain and was easy to defend but difficult to attack. If the Han army wanted to intercept it, the most convenient place would be to set up an ambush in Guangwu City.
It is indeed true that Zhang Wen, the commander-in-chief of the Han army in Henan, did order the chief of Guangwu City to guard it, but unfortunately, when he saw the magnificent scene of Guan Yu's boat division going north, he abandoned the city and left. This important pass was just like this.
The Taishan Army is in your hands.
Zhang Wen didn't know this. After laying out the strategy of blocking the north and pursuing the south, he made preparations for it.
He first asked the former Huangfu Song's staff to stay in Aocang and set up a new grain station to be responsible for the northward attack of Han troops in Henan.
At this time, after the Taishan Army bulk grain and a batch of Aocang millet were shipped, there was not much left. But it didn’t matter. As long as the grain was still in the hands of the Guizhou chiefs, there were naturally ten thousand ways to get it.
After returning, Huangfu Song's staff headed by Zhong Yao, Xun You and others were left behind to do this. Anyway, for Zhang Wen, these Yuzhou people were not easy to use, so it was better to keep them as food supply.
After that, Fu Xie, the guard commander, was also left in Xingyang by Zhang Wen as a defense outside the capital. Fu Xie was brave and resourceful, and his temper was calm enough, so he was suitable for this kind of thing. As for Sun Jian, Cao Cao, etc., Zhang Wen also
He will be relied upon to take on an important role in the war ahead.
Then Jianwei General Zhu Jun also led ten thousand Yuzhou Tuanlian Xiandao to separate from Zhang Wen. They wanted to march eastward to Liyang to Juan County, where they would cross the river and support the Hanoi army.
In this way, after Zhang Wen arranged many means, he set off on October 1, leading 20,000 Han soldiers from Henan to go overland, and hung up behind the Taishan Army Navy to adapt to the situation.
At this time, Lu Zhi, the Beizhonglang general in Handan, Zhao State, who was far away in Hebei Province, also received the letter of appeal sent by Zhang Wen four days ago.
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Handan, the capital of ancient Zhao, is where Beizhonglang is currently stationed.
Since Handan was the capital of Zhao State at that time, its geographical location is particularly advantageous. It has Taihang on the left, surrounded by Zhang River in the southeast, and connected with Yan and Zhuo in the north. With one city, it can control the entire central and southern Hebei Province.
Not only that, when Handan was the capital of Zhao, the Zhao people also built four small fortresses on the outskirts of Handan. They were Wu'an at the west gate, guarding the entrance to Taihang Mountain; Shaoyang at the south gate, near the Zhang River; Liren at the east gate,
To the west of Zhangshui. Finally, there is the North Gate Juqiao. There is a granary here called Juqiaocang, which is also the largest granary in Hebei. It was with the supply of Juqiaocang that the Han soldiers in Hebei were able to cut off the grain supply in Aocang in the south.
You can still keep fighting.
Precisely because it has food and is dangerous, Handan has always been a battleground for military strategists. The importance of this place can be understood by just one thing. In the eleventh year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Guoxiang Chen Xi rebelled, and Liu Bang led his army to put down the rebellion. Seeing Chen Xi
Xi did not occupy Handan, but went to defend Zhangshui. Therefore, he knew that he was an incompetent person.
Therefore, the same reason why the ancestors of the Zhao people chose Handan back then, Lu Zhi now also uses Handan as his headquarters. Last month, he even fought a battle with the Hebei Yellow Turbans here. Although the important reason for the victory in this battle was Hedong
Prefect Dong Zhuo's 4,000-strong army joined the battlefield in time to achieve victory. But a big victory is a big victory. In this battle, Zhang Liang, the Yellow Turban general of Hebei, was beheaded. It can be said that the Han army had an unprecedented victory in Hebei.
After that, the Han army continued to train in Handan, with a small banquet every three days and a big banquet every five days. Lu Zhi used this method to maintain the morale of the army at a high level.
When Zhang Wen's imperial edict was passed to Lu Zhi, the shogunate of General Bei Zhonglang in Handan City was continuing to sing and dance.
Zhao Guofeng has a heroic spirit. In men, it is characterized by being heroic and brave, and caring about justice. In women, it is characterized by being forthright and free-spirited, good at singing and dancing. The female dancers in Handan have always been the top dancers, and they only have the kind of true
Only Dingshi House can support a Handan dancer.
Cao Zhi, who lives in a different place in history, once commented on this. He said:
"There are many witches in the famous city, and there are young men in Beijing and Luo. The sword is worth a thousand gold, and the clothes are beautiful and fresh. There is a cockfight on the east suburban road, and the horses are walking among the catalpas. I will return to the banquet and have a good fight with ten thousand wines."
The name of the capital is Handan, Linzi. From this we can see that Handan is full of gorgeous singing and dancing.
At this time, in the hall of the shogunate in the city, General Bei Zhonglang, a group of military officers, and the officers and men of Dong Zhuo's regiment, the prefect of Hedong, were enjoying Handan singing and dancing.
I saw in the hall, accompanied by the harp and harp, the dancers raised their sleeves, tiptoed, and decorated their faces, which was pleasing to the eye. The moving dance postures, enchanting figures, and ambiguous atmosphere all made the Han soldiers intoxicated.
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The person sitting at the top was Lu Zhi. Amidst the graceful singing and dancing, he still sat upright. Compared with the dissolute behavior of the military officials sitting down, he could be called a gentleman. Although he was already forty years old at this time, he was still tall and strong.
, fully demonstrated the charisma of a Han Confucian who rose from general to prime minister. However, the gray beard under his chin showed how tiring it was to suppress the rebellion in Hebei this time.
Lu Zhi did not reject singing, dancing, drinking and having fun, because he believed that this was a means, and what he wanted was an end. When he was young, he sat down to study under the great Confucian scholar Ma Rong. Because Ma Rong came from the Ma family, a relative of his maternal relatives, he could travel around the world.
It is important for nobles to line up first. When he was giving lectures, there would be singing and dancing birds in front of him, students from his disciples in two rows, and beautiful concubines holding fans behind him. Only he himself always sat in the high hall with a gauze curtain.
Lu Zhi studied in such an environment when he was young, but he kept his eyes open and worked hard on Confucian classics for several years. Because at that time, Confucian classics was just a means, and singing and dancing would only affect his purpose.
But as Confucius said, food and sex are the same. Lu Zhi does not reject pleasure. He also agrees with his senior brother Zheng Xuan’s so-called determination of superiors and inferiors, which can be distinguished from these chapters, rituals and music. What kind of people can watch the dances and listen to the songs. Don’t
If we transcend, the world will not be in chaos.
Moreover, singing and dancing now are also his means of maintaining the emotions of military generals. For example, now, he is very familiar with this honest and honest governor named Dong Zhuo.
So Lu Zhi smiled and asked Dong Zhuo:
"Zhong Ying, what do you think of my Northern Song and Dance?"
This man named Dong Zhuo is not called Fei Fei nowadays, but he is a hero with extraordinary strength and can shoot the bow from left to right at once. He has almond-sized tiger eyes, thick beard, thick neck, muscular arms, and that
The semi-spherical waist and abdomen all show the terrifying force of a strong Kansai man.
Dong Zhuo listened to Lu Zhi's question and said one word:
"wonderful!"
Lu Zhi laughed loudly after hearing this. He liked the sincerity of people from the border areas. It seemed that Dong Zhuo was such a sincere person!
So, Lu Zhi asked:
"Zhong Ying, I also went to Kansai to study. I think the Qiang girls' dancing is even better than that of the Handan girls."
Dong Zhuo laughed loudly and even gestured to Lu Zhi, which meant that you are always a fastidious person.
Dong Zhuo gestured with his hands and said:
"In the past, my old director also visited Jinan, and he said that the scenery of Qi was no worse than that of Zhao. But unfortunately, we were busy with wars at that time. How could we have free time like today, where we can sing, laugh, and have wine and meat all the time? All this is thanks to Bei
General Zhonglang, come here! I suggest that everyone raise a glass to congratulate General Bei Zhonglang."
With that said, Dong Zhuo drank up the wine in his glass. Over there, his Hedong and Liangzhou generals raised their glasses and drank it all. The Northern Army officials also drank it up with cheers, and the atmosphere was cheerful and lively.
Lu Zhi, who was at the head, smiled and looked at the scene eagerly, and asked Dong Zhuo:
"Zhong Ying has also been to Jinan to quell the chaos?"
Dong Zhuo licked his lips, touched the wine stains on his beard, and said with a smile:
"Hey, old Dong was not sensible at that time. He became famous at a young age. I made friends with Qiang commanders when I was young. I was appointed as a military commander when I was not well-known. Later, I was appointed as a governor. Later, I went to Luo.
I became a Yulin Lang, followed Zhang Shuai in his fight against the Qiang, and went smoothly all the way to the rank of Wuji Xiaowei, a rank higher than two thousand shi. At that time, I was only in my twenties, so I can say that I can't do anything at a young age. But later on
The old Dong was in trouble. He committed a crime and was immediately deprived. He also became a criminal army and was subordinate to Duan Shuai. Twenty years ago, there was a rebel named Gongsun Ju in Taishan. I, the old Dong, fought in that battle.
Stand up again."
After saying this, Dong Zhuo paused obviously, as if recalling those days, when people.
That's right, our Dong Zhuo was the former Paoze of our Sun Tingzhang, Sun Xun. It was he who saved Sun Xun and influenced this grandma Sun. Twenty years later, Sun Xun was killed again for rescuing Zhang Chong outside Juye Ze.
Death, this is the unpredictable nature of fate.
Lu Zhi also paused. When he heard Dong Zhuo talking about the Taishan rebellion, he also paused, obviously thinking of the Taishan bandits who were currently causing trouble in the court.
Here, he was about to ask Dong Zhuo what he thought of the Taishan bandits, when suddenly a burst of laughter came from the hall. Lu Zhi turned around and saw that it was Tian Feng, a civil servant in the middle of the scene.
Lu Zhi was a little unhappy when he saw him wearing Ge Yi and sitting at the table. At this time, he saw him laughing and interrupting him, and he was even more unhappy. He asked in a muffled voice:
"Yuan Hao, why are you laughing like this?"
As soon as Lu Zhi said these words, the whole place fell silent, and everyone could hear the old commander's unhappiness.
But Tian Feng still went his own way. He seemed to not understand the meaning of the words. He suddenly stood up and laughed:
"I was laughing at this Handan dance, it's so demonic."
Demon?
This word is not a good word. What is a demon is a different one. In the prophecies of the Han Dynasty, people who dress inappropriately are usually called "submissive demons". Once a demon appears, it will be regarded as a precursor to chaos in the world.
Lu Zhi himself was a scholar, so he knew what Tian Feng was referring to as soon as he said this, so he asked with a gloomy face:
"I think you're not talking about the dancing demon, you're talking about the persuading demon."
Tian Fengyi twisted his head and bowed to Lu Zhi:
"Yes, my lord. I am trying to convince the demon. In the past, dozens of generations of generals passed through Luoyang, all dressed in women's clothes. When wise men saw this, they thought that if they failed to obey, they would be in trouble, and that they would be serving the demon.
Later, Gengshi was killed by Red Eyebrow. During the Yuanjia period of Emperor Huan, women in Kyoto imitated Liang Ji's wife, painted sad brows and put on make-up to cry. This was also a sign of subduing demons. Later, the entire Liang family was exterminated;
Later, in the Yanxi period, the dignitaries of Kyoto were wearing wooden clogs, which was also a sign of obeying the demon. Later, the party's imprisonment was rampant, causing trouble to their wives and daughters. These wives and daughters were also put in wooden shackles, which was the sign of wooden clogs;
Later, the state held a banquet in the Western Garden. As a merchant, this was also a form of subduing a demon. After that, Zhang Jiao rebelliously called the Yellow Turban, and the world was in chaos. Today, I saw that the Handan dancer was also subduing a demon, but she didn’t know what to do.
Who is it?"
Tian Feng's words were really unpleasant to hear. Everyone in the audience turned pale after hearing this, especially Lu Zhi, who was at the head of the group. His face was so dark that it was scary to see.
Lu Zhi cursed in his heart that Tian Feng was really a wolf in the mountains. Although this man had some talent and knowledge, he had also been recruited by the Taiwei Mansion and served as a censor. But before meeting him, this man had
He had long been a subordinate, but it was Lu Zhi who saw how talented this person was, so he did not despise him and simply promoted him to the background. You must know that if you can gain qualifications from this Hebei counter-rebellion, your future prospects will be brighter.
How can it be idle?
But this is how this person repays himself? When I raise a glass, you throw chopsticks, when I hold a banquet, you turn over the tables. You are really going against yourself. And wasn’t this person just cursing himself?
It had been a long time since Lu Zhi had been humiliated like this, but out of respect for his dignity, Lu Zhi still wanted to act humbly and accept remonstrance. He was suppressing his anger when suddenly a shout of anger came from a corner of the banquet.
This time Lu Zhi looked again and saw that it was his disciple Liu Bei.
At this time, Liu Bei's eyes were blood red, and his whole body was burning like fireworks. He cursed angrily at Tian Feng:
"What a pedant, how dare you humiliate my teacher? Are you still a monster? You and other scribes are the ones who really deceive the public with their evil words. You talk as if all the truth in the world is in your hands. But in fact? You
Have you ever been on the battlefield and killed thieves? While I was waiting for my brothers to bleed, I'm afraid you were hiding under the carriage and peeing, you rat."
Liu Bei's unique Youzhou accent and his vulgar words made the military officials below burst into laughter. Everyone patted the table and cheered.
Lu Zhi also looked at Liu Bei with relief.
In fact, Liu Bei was not a disciple he valued. In their lectures, according to the distance of the teaching space, the disciples were divided from distant to close, disciples outside the sect, disciples under the sect, disciples sitting down, and disciples entering the room.
Among them, the disciples outside the sect sit outside the door wall, and they are the disciples who are least considered. Every time a great scholar like Lu Zhi gives a lecture, there will be thousands of people around to listen. Most of them are like this.
disciple.
Those who are slightly closer than the outside disciples are the disciples, which means they sit in the courtyard during lectures. This type is like Liu Bei. Generally, his family has some relationship with him, Lu Zhi, and he teaches here for a long time.
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The ones who are more important than the disciples are the disciples who sit down. These disciples are already sitting in the monastery and have separate mats. Each of these disciples and those in the courtyard must have their names recorded on the door wall. Tell the successors,
What kind of disciples have been here?
But what is more important than the above is the disciples who enter the room. The entrance here is not to enter the dormitory, but to enter the teacher's private room. You can give orders at any time. The names of these disciples are recorded on the screen handed down by each master. These
He is the most important academic successor of this department.
The reason for this division is because the closer you are to the teacher during the lecture, the fewer mistakes you will hear and the more you will understand. Moreover, the disciples will naturally suppress the outside disciples academically. Because the former only needs to speak to the latter,
This is what I heard the teacher say. Did you hear it wrong because you were far away?
At that time, lectures did not give you the time or conditions to take notes. For example, when Duman was studying at Fu Shi Jingshe, he had classes during the day and took notes at night. Only with such hard work can you record what the teacher said during the day.
Even so, there are still mistakes, omissions, or even misunderstandings of the original meaning. Therefore, after the second morning, you must go to the teacher for advice, so as not to go astray.
Otherwise, almost all of them have followed their own evil path. For example, when the Buddha passed away, Kassapa, a sutra translator, once heard someone in a remote place misinterpreting the Buddha's sutras and became the leader of the local sangha, so he argued with him.
Kassapa's victory was due to the fact that he and the Buddha exchanged monastic robes. Kassapa is the authority in interpreting the Dharma.
Therefore, Lu Zhi's mood was still agitated at this moment. I treated Xuande as a disciple, but Xuande repaid me as a mentor. So he secretly kept this feeling in his heart.
It’s no wonder that Lu Zhi was grateful to Liu Bei. Because what Tian Feng said was indeed too much. In the ideology of the Han Dynasty, prophecy was the most important thing. If Tian Feng blamed this banquet for being a demon, then the subsequent battle would be defeated.
If he is killed, Lu Zhi will definitely be infamy for thousands of years. Everyone will think that he is the cause of the disaster that caused the demon-subduing disaster and brought chaos to the world.
In fact, is it really so magical to serve as a demon?
In fact, this is just the reverse effect. Indeed, whenever the world changes, the phenomenon of people obeying monsters is particularly common. But in fact, it is not the people who obey monsters that cause chaos, but the chaos that causes people to obey monsters.
In this world, service has been regarded as an important ritual in establishing order. Different levels are equipped with different clothes, so depending on what clothes you wear, you will know your identity. In other words, identity and service are integrated.
But this etiquette system will only be maintained when the imperial power has control. Once a court weakens, no one will restrain the etiquette it originally established. At this time, as people's love for beauty arises
, all kinds of unconventional clothes appeared. This was regarded as trespassing by orthodox scholars, and was falsely accused of serving demons.
But now, due to Liu Bei's commotion and the booing from the crowd, Lu Zhi retreated from Tian Feng. So after a round of laughter, Tian Feng ended up unwelcome by everyone except for some Hebei military officials.
The look is ambiguous.
In this way, a banquet that was supposed to be extremely joyful turned into a farce because of Tian Feng's trouble. Just when Lu Zhi was thinking of some excuse to end the banquet, the message sent from Xingyang four days ago finally arrived in the hall.