Huiyuan's eyes widened and he murmured: "Sima Guofan? I'm a little impressed by what you said. Didn't you say that Sima Guofan was the vanguard of Liu Yu's Northern Expedition and personally led the troops to Guangzhou?
Is he from Gucheng? Why did he later become a traitor, and then he came to your later Qin Dynasty and was protected and taken in?"
Kumarajiva said calmly: "To be honest, this matter is a coincidence. Sima Guofan was originally a member of the Jin Dynasty clan. After Liu Yu Jianyi, he got the position of leader of the Central Army and general of the Forbidden Army. He was in a high and powerful position. During the Northern Expedition to Southern Yan,
He was also one of the few people who took the initiative to respond to Liu Yu. He even fell out with Langya King Sima Dewen in court for this reason. It can be said that he also gave Liu Yu a lot of support. At that time, the whole court was against Liu Yu.
Yu, only Queen Wang, who was Liu Yu's fiancée and later became the Queen of Jin, issued an order in the name of the emperor to send troops to the Northern Expedition. In order to personally conquer the Northern Expedition on behalf of the emperor and increase the legitimacy of the Northern Expedition, Queen Wang personally accompanied the army. This Sima Kingdom
Fan escorted them as a general of the Forbidden Army, and that’s why he, a non-Beifu Army general, sent troops."
Huiyuan nodded: "I see, so to speak, this Sima Guofan does not have outstanding military achievements or outstanding abilities, but just came to protect him, or to gain some military achievements. Right."
Kumarajiva said seriously: "Yes, that's it. Originally, Jin's imperial army was just a decoration. Most of them were the princes of the Sima clan and the children of major aristocratic families in Beijing. They were arranged for them to serve as officials.
There is a quota for palace officers, and the soldiers are mostly filled by servants from major aristocratic families. Although there are some people with outstanding skills, compared with the Beifu army who have fought with real swords and guns for many years, they are a world away.
Don't."
"In view of this, Liu Yu originally just asked Sima Guofan and his men to protect the Queen and the Queen on the battlefield, and released other soldiers of the Beifu Army to meet the enemy at the front. As a result, during the Battle of Linqu, Sima Guofan's troops almost stayed in the center.
He was dissatisfied with his army and had no losses and no achievements, so he kept complaining in front of Liu Yu and Queen Wang, and even said that he deliberately did not give them the opportunity for Sima's generals and family members to make contributions. So Liu Yu
Yu had no choice. On the one hand, he had to consider a balance when others took the talking point. On the other hand, the Jin army suffered heavy losses in the battle of Linqu, and all the troops were unable to fight anymore. Only Sima Guofan's troops were still relatively complete and had sufficient physical strength.
And there were nearly a thousand cavalry, so Liu Yu asked Sima Guofan to lead 2,000 men and horses, supplemented him with more than a thousand horses, and used a full cavalry lineup to pursue Murong Chao and Heipao."
"Not only that, Sima Guofan also swore that he had an internal agent left by Sima Xiuzhi in the city at that time. He could take advantage of the chaos to contact the captured Eastern Jin people in the city, and combined with some Nanyan Han officials who would act according to the situation, to
At that time, he took the captured flags, golden drums, and even the throne used by Murong Chao and presented them to the Yan soldiers guarding the city, asking them to open the city and surrender, and the great cause of the Northern Expedition could be achieved in one fell swoop."
Huiyuan murmured: "You are really very fast, so why did this plan fail later?"
Kumarajiva sighed: "Because Liu Yu still underestimated the ability of the black robe, Murong Chao may have lost his position due to the defeat and dare not return to Guanggu, or he may not be able to return to the city as quickly as possible after escaping."
, but Murong Chui is the great demon king of the Tiandao Alliance, and he is also a half-human, half-demon, a flying Gu monster that can fly into the sky and escape from the earth. He sat on this monster and flew back to Guanggu first, stabilizing the hearts of the people in the city.
The morale of the army was to control the Xianbei soldiers who were guarding the city, and then they used a trick to let the Eastern Jin people and Sima Xiuzhi's party members out of the city, let them take the initiative to cause chaos, and then surrounded and killed them with the soldiers and horses that had been prepared long ago. What a pity for these two thousand people.
Instead of waiting for Sima Guofan's reinforcements, the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ended up dying."
"After Sima Guofan arrived, he saw the corpses of all the people in the city outside the city, as well as the few inmates whose heads were held at the city gate. He was so frightened that he did not dare to attack the city. He just turned around and ran away, returning to Murong on the way.
Chui sent troops to set up an ambush and lost more than half of them."
"After such a defeat, even Queen Wang could not speak for Sima Guofan. Liu Yu originally raised his army on the pretext of rescuing the captured people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but instead of saving the people, they lost their lives.
As a result, more than half of the achievements of Linqu's victory were lost, and he lost the possibility of seizing Guanggu in one fell swoop through internal responses. This made him put all the responsibility on Sima Guofan and dismissed Sima Guofan.
He was imprisoned, and even the Queen's intelligence spies were asked to interrogate him, forcing Sima Guofan to confess whether he had any collusion with Nan Yan. Huh, it's really funny. Back then, Liu Yu told those high-ranking families that he was a liar just because he married Murong Lan.
He collaborated with the enemy, was accused of treason and was thrown into the fighting ring for execution. In the end, he was killed to prove his innocence. Now that he is in power, he framed others for the same crime. What a joke."
Huiyuan murmured: "In this way, Sima Guofan was actually wronged. He didn't really want to betray the country and surrender to the enemy. It turned out that he was forced by Liu Yu."
Kumarajiva nodded: "Actually, although Liu Yu is a great hero in the eyes of the world and a loyal minister who revived the Jin Kingdom, in fact, after he gained power, he took revenge on those high-ranking families, such as the Wang family in Taiyuan and the Diao family in Bohai.
Such a famous family all suffered massacres because they offended him. In the end, they had no choice but to escape and join us in Great Qin. Even the Sima family, he also treated them as thieves and guarded them tightly, not allowing them to take over the army and take power. Now Sima Guofan was defeated.
It also gave him an excuse to create a major case that would lead to foreign countries and cleanse the Sima clan's powerful clan again to achieve his ulterior motives."
Huiyuan sighed: "This kind of routine of killing the clan and finally gaining the power has happened again and again in the past dynasties. When the Sima family usurped power and seized the throne, purged the Cao family, and killed dozens of big families in the bloody past,
Finally, retribution is upon me, so how did Sima Guofan escape? Could it be that you came to the rescue?"
Kumarajiva shook his head: "It was still when Liu Yuchu besieged Guanggu, and I had not yet gone on an envoy with the army. It was the black robe that let the flying monster Mingyue Feigu enter the military camp to assassinate Liu Yu or Queen Wang, and accidentally killed him.
It mistakenly collided and robbed Sima Guofan. It wanted to kill Sima Guofan and take his head back to report to the black robe. However, Sima Guofan said that if he could escape to Daqin and get reinforcements for Nanyan, he would
He was more useful than a head, so Mingyue Feigu let him go, and Sima Guofan came to submit, which was also the main reason why Qin Lord Yao Xing decided to send troops to save Yan." (End of this chapter)