Jiang Cong was not reconciled to defeat, and spent ten years vigorously renovating the military. In the fourteenth year of Tianxi, Yang Zheng, who had just left Qingyang Zhenren, joined the army. He started as an ordinary soldier, relied on his outstanding martial arts, and after three years of military service accumulation, he rose to the rank of
History of the commander of the battalion, stationed in Tanzhou at the foot of the Taihang Mountains. In the sixteenth year of Tianxi, the situation suddenly changed. A generation of powerful heroes, Helian Dadi, suddenly died of illness. The four sons of the Northern Zhou Dynasty kings seized the throne. There were many murders in the royal court, and the court was in turmoil. Jiang Cong saw a rare opportunity.
, once again led a personal expedition, driving 100,000 elite cavalry and 400,000 infantry, and fought without declaring it. The second Qi-Zhou War broke out.
At the beginning of the war, the sudden attack of the Qi army was as overwhelming as Mount Tai. Within a month, they successively recovered the five Youbei states and captured 17 passes. Only Zhenyuan Pass in the middle of Yanshan Mountain could not be conquered for a long time. It was the retreating troops who guarded this pass.
Xiao Tat, the veteran governor of Tiannan in the Zhou Dynasty, was there to prevent this. Zhenyuan Pass was managed by Xiao Tat for more than ten years. It built an inner city, an outer city, a barbican city, and a riding wall built on the mountain. The side walls were densely covered with arrow towers, and there were sufficient sources of food, grass and water in the city. It was said to be impregnable.
.In addition, Xiao Ta did not defend blindly. Whenever there was an opportunity, he launched a surprise cavalry attack. Within seven days, the Qi army abandoned tens of thousands of corpses, but still could not shake Zhenyuan Pass in the slightest.
After that, they could only trap without fighting. After the Qi army besieged it for five months, the heavily-armed Liao king Helian Chunshan inherited his elder brother Helian's great treasure, and the Zhou court made the initial decision. Helian Chunshan overcame all opinions and mobilized the power of the whole country to launch a campaign.
Two hundred thousand infantrymen each attacked from Zhenyuan Pass. The Qi army was defeated and retreated to more than ten large cities such as Yanjing, Fanyang and Zhuojun. However, this time the Zhou army was prepared for a protracted war and did not surrender any city or pond.
However, the defenders slaughtered all the men after breaking the city. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty captured two cities one after another, it shocked the Qi army, which had not yet established a stable foothold. Half of the city surrendered to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, while Yang Zhan's eldest brother, Zhuo County Guard General Yang Fayin, defended to the end.
If you don't surrender, you will die in battle on the day the city is broken. The only strong defensive city left in the original Northern Yan territory was still holding on after being besieged by 300,000 Zhou troops for four months. Qi Emperor Jiang Cong was also trapped in the city. Henan supplies
It was completely cut off by Zhou Qi, and the city was without food for six days. Emperor Qi had no choice but to abandon the city and break out of the siege.
At midnight that day, 500 Royal Guards cavalry and more than 100 royal guards exchanged military uniforms with ordinary soldiers and supported the Qi Emperor from the northwest gate. Another 6,000 cavalry broke out from the other eight city gates. The capital of Qi was originally located in Yanjing.
In the south, breaking out from the northwest was just a helpless move. The Zhou army was strong in the south of the city and had already surrounded and annihilated several Qi reinforcements. Jiang Cong could only choose to unexpectedly go out from the northwest gate, pass through the Taihang Mountains, and detour back to Luoyang. Nine routes to break out.
In the end, some people in the team successfully broke through. Unfortunately, Xiao Tat immediately judged the direction of Emperor Qi, because although the team breaking out in the northwest had the smallest number of people, the people who broke through were the most skilled. In the end, more than 200 people broke out of the encirclement.
The other roads with the largest number of people only have a few dozen people standing out.
Xiao Tat personally led nine groups of light cavalry to pursue and intercept them. On the day of the breakout, Yanjing City had 50,000 guards and 100,000 people surrendered. Besides, the Jiang family is a martial artist, and everyone in the royal family practices martial arts, and Jiang Cong himself is also a master.
In addition to the legacy of their ancestors, their heroic spirit, and the admiration of the officers and soldiers, the breakout team of more than 200 people, most of whom were high-ranking experts, swore their loyalty to the death, fought and retreated all the way, and after three days without sleep, the remaining 16 people escaped.
Arriving at the foot of Taihang Mountain in Tanzhou, just before entering the mountain, I was unfortunately surrounded by a tornado of 200 horsemen. What was even more frightening was that among these 200 horsemen there were actually three masters of the Eight Meridians, and a tantric protector was accompanying them.
Just when Jiang Cong was lamenting that he was destined to die, a group of more than a hundred cavalry rushed out from the mountain and started fighting with Zhou Qi. Their combat power was even better than that of Zhou Qi. In the end, only a dozen of the 200 cavalry pursuers were left.
Unfortunately, they fled back to report the news, and all four masters died at the hands of the rescuers. However, after a hard battle, only about 30 riders were left among the more than 100 rescuers, who protected Jiang Cong and retreated into the Taihang Mountains.
The man who led the team was Yang Zhan. After the Zhou army entered the pass, during the siege of Yanjing, the Qi army in the original Beiyan territory was basically eliminated. The commander of the Tanzhou garrison surrendered to Zhou without a battle. Yang Zheng
He led four hundred officers and soldiers in the camp to risk their lives to break through, and finally fled into the Taihang Mountains, waiting for an opportunity to gather the remaining soldiers, and attack the small Zhou army and the surrendered Qi army. Most of Yang Zheng's soldiers followed him to practice martial arts. Not only did they learn martial arts, but they were also infected
Because of his righteousness, Yang Zheng's team was extremely powerful and could have the upper hand against a tornado. Under Yang Zheng's escort, Jiang Cong traveled more than a thousand miles and finally returned to Luoyang.
The power of Helian Chunshan was by no means inferior to that of his brother Helian Da Di. After conquering the entire territory of Beiyan in one fell swoop, the Zhou army continued to move southward. No one within three hundred miles could challenge it. In one fell swoop, the entire Qi army was driven back to the south bank of the Yellow River.
The main force of the Zhou army faced Luoyang, the capital of Qi, across the Yellow River. Fortunately, the Qi army scuttled all the ships on the Yellow River five hundred miles away from the capital, and Luoyang was surrounded by mountains on three sides and faced water on one side, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. For a while, the Zhou army could not
It was impossible to cross the river. However, the government and the public in Qi were shaken at that time. Due to the uncertainty about Jiang Cong's life and death, officials moved the capital, negotiated peace, and established a new emperor. In addition, a large number of powerful people moved south. Luoyang seemed to be self-defeating for a while. Fortunately, Jiang Cong
Under the escort of Yang Zhan, Jiang Cong rushed back to Luoyang in time. Jiang Cong insisted on holding on and was willing to defend the country as the emperor. Within one day, he killed 13 ministers who were determined to move the capital or were preparing to flee south, finally stabilizing the situation.
Helian Chunshan was unable to move south for the time being, and the newly acquired large area of land and large population needed to be digested and managed, so he proposed peace. In this battle of Qi State, 100,000 cavalry, including the Royal Forest Army, were wiped out, and 400,000 infantry were reduced to just over 100,000.
After returning to Henan, with no chance of fighting anymore, Jiang Cong had no choice but to accept almost all of Zhou's peace terms.
After the war, in the northeastern part of the Qi territory, the two sides used the Taihang Mountains and the Yellow River as their national boundaries. The Qi State provided 500,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of silk every year, and set up a forgery market. The Qi Emperor called his brother the Zhou Emperor. After this battle, Jiang Cong
After learning from the painful experience, he recruited civilians to strengthen the defense line of the Yellow River, and at the same time opened up his voice to seek strategies against the enemy. At the same time, he issued an imperial edict to massacre the families of traitorous generals, and rewarded meritorious ministers. Yang Zheng was promoted from the seventh-rank captain to the fifth-rank captain for his meritorious service in rescuing the army.
A cavalry general, his brother Yang Fa died in battle and was posthumously awarded the third rank of Zhongwu General and the title of Marquis of the Countryside.
The reason why Yang Fa was granted an unusual posthumous title was mainly because the emperor was amazed by Yang Zheng's martial arts and wanted to re-employ Yang Zheng. After several days of court discussions, the cabinet sorted out the reasons for the defeat of the battle, and a total of ten victories were combined in the week.
Defeat is as follows: Zhou people are good at riding and shooting, Qi people are slow in walking; Zhou people are strong in physical fitness, Qi people are weak in physical fitness; Zhou people are good at martial arts, Qi people focus on imperial examinations; Zhou people are good at national warfare, Qi people like private fights; Zhou people have many soldiers and horses, but Qi people are
There is no pasture; the Zhou people are strong in the country, and the Qi people are warriors in the rivers and lakes; the Zhou people have experienced hundreds of battles, but the Qi people have been sparse for a long time; the Zhou people always follow each other, and the Qi soldiers form generals in battle; the Zhou people are willing to absorb the strengths of the Central Plains, but the Qi people despise them
The style of the Hu people; the Zhou people had strong military strength after their unification, while the Qi people's military generals withered after their unification.
During the Daliang period of the previous dynasty, the grassland tribes were not yet civilized, had no writing, few craftsmen, and many tribes. They fought their own battles. Although various tribes invaded the Central Plains from time to time, most of them were not in danger. However, in the late Daliang period, foreign relatives and internal officials caused chaos, and the reckless warlords separated their regimes successively.
Dozens of countries, large and small, were formed. In order to compete in the Central Plains, various countries competed with each other to use large sums of money, land, and population to attract tribes who were good at riding and shooting on the grassland. The Han people in the Central Plains became weaker and weaker as they fought, while the barbarians in the grassland rose one after another and turned against the foreigners.
, introduced the Central Plains monarchy and established political power in the Central Plains. The various Hu people's regimes continued to fight for more than 200 years, which was known as the Houliang Rebellion in history. Until the Jiang family drove out the Hu people, unified China, and established the Qi State.
The Jiang family is a prominent family in the Central Plains and has been established for thousands of years. During the Liang Dynasty, it was granted the title of Qi, so the country was named Qi. During the chaos of the Central Plains, the Helian family of the Xiang clan in the northwest grasslands rose quietly and went through hundreds of years.
In the remaining battles, from west to east, they conquered more than a thousand grassland tribes and established the Zhou Kingdom. Because the Helian family admired the prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains thousands of years ago, they regarded themselves as survivors of the Zhou Dynasty. They tried their best to imitate the Central Plains system and named their country Zhou.
The Zhou State reused refugees from the Central Plains; comprehensively promoted Chinese characters; and established an imperial examination system. Originally, the northern barbarians were successful because of their strong physiques and skillful bows and horses. However, since the Houliang Dynasty, a large number of martial arts people entered the Zhou State. The Tianlong Sect of the Zhou State tried its best to treat the Central Plains masters with courtesy and taught a large number of party disciplines.
Young martial arts; coupled with the influx of craftsmen from the Central Plains, the Zhou Kingdom's ability to smelt and forge weapons is no different from that of the Central Plains Dynasty. In addition, there are many iron mines in the territory, and in just a few decades, the small party's armor has flourished.
The grassland tribes stood out like chickens, and after unifying the grasslands, their momentum steadily surpassed that of Qi.
The Jiang family of Qi State was originally a powerful family that practiced martial arts. The Yunmen sect in Luoyang was outstanding in martial arts. It had been the private sect of the Jiang family since ancient times and only taught the children of the Jiang family. The success of the Jiang family during the Liang Dynasty was also closely related to this. At that time, the Qi State
There are many sects in the territory, and most of their unique skills are not passed on to the outside world. There are also unwritten rules. If you switch to another sect after becoming a disciple, you will be regarded as cheating your master and destroying your ancestors, and will be hunted down. As a result, the martial arts in the Central Plains is in decline. Due to the troubled times,
Over time, these sects despised the force of the government and only knew the rules of the world and ignored the laws of the court. Many sects had illegal sources of money. They taught martial arts openly, but secretly colluded with local officials to set up brothels, open gambling houses, bully the market, and smuggle.
Salt and iron; what's more, some even engage in acts of robbing homes and collaborating with the enemy to assassinate people; there are a large number of people in the world who violate the law but the court is unable to arrest them.
Yang Zheng, who was deeply favored by me at that time, suggested that Jiang Cong follow the example of the Zhou Dynasty in setting up a martial arts school, holding martial arts examinations, governing the rivers and lakes, and recruiting warriors for the use of the country. Jiang Cong deeply believed that this was true, so he promulgated the following national policy: Set up an armament hall under the Imperial Academy and administer four martial arts schools.
At the school, Yang Zheng was ordered to offer wine to the right of the Imperial Academy and lead the martial arts academy; Yang Zheng was ordered to rectify the rivers and lakes, summon the world's masters to be professors of the martial arts academy, and collect martial arts classics from all over the world as teaching materials; he opened the imperial sect Yunmen Sect's access control and recruited talents from all over the world.
For the use of the country; implement the ban on martial arts, seal the world, and set up a martial arts department under the Ministry of Justice. All sects and martial arts schools except the six major sects in the world must be controlled by the martial arts department, and must obey the government's dispatches during wartime.
As soon as this order came out, the world was boiling. At that time, Yang Zheng took the lead in persuading his senior brother, Yuantong Zhenren, the leader of Quanzhen Sect, the state religion of Qi, decided to strongly support the Armed Forces Academy; the Yunmen Sect also fully invested in it. Yang Zheng also brought five members of the Yunmen Sect and Huashan Sect.
According to the rules of the Jianghu, a master moved to the Jianghu, and with a little fame, all the Jianghu sects of a certain size were challenged by six people. The defeated sect must accept the supervision and jurisdiction of the court, pay taxes, and perform military service. Of course, no sect is willing to accept such a
According to the conditions, if they lose, most of them will break up. However, those sects that have a little success or contribute a lot to the armament hall are not subject to the control of the court, and are exempted from taxes and service. The court even allocates public funds to these sects based on their merits.
In the seventeenth year of Tianxi's reign, the army lost one ranger general, and the world gained six peerless masters, known as the Six Immortals of the Tianjia. These six people led by Yang Zheng, each time they challenge a sect, the opponent can choose to fight three times.
Five or one game determines the outcome. Within one year, he fought in sixteen provinces, more than two hundred sects, and experienced more than seven hundred fights. The Six Immortals of Tianjia only lost four games, and Yang Zheng was victorious in every battle, and he was famous.
Shocking the world.
Almost half of the large and small sects in Qi were shut down within a year. As a result, martial arts of all sizes were cut off and they all turned to other ways. At that time, folk songs spread in the world: first-rate warriors enter the temple; second-rate warriors enter the tiger hall; third-rate warriors enter the tiger hall.
Enter the execution hall; the fourth-rate warriors enter the escort hall; the fifth-rate warriors join the army; the last-rate warriors enter the bathhouse. It means that the first-rate masters are absorbed by the armament hall and Ouchi; the second-rate masters are recruited as officers; and the third-rate masters mostly enter the military training halls all over the world.
The martial arts bureau; the fourth-rate masters joined the escort bureau or guarded the homes of wealthy families; the fifth-rate warriors could only join the army to earn wages; the lower-rate warriors were ridiculed as having no strength, but could only be used as bathhouses.
Of course, many of the bathers went home to farm.
In the process of governing the rivers and lakes that year, many gangs and gangsters with bad deeds were truly wiped out. Tens of thousands of people were wiped out and arrested by the Six Immortals and the government behind them. Some of them went into the mountains to become bandits; some
The real masters, the individual people who do not want to be controlled by the court, will also choose to hide in the city and hide in the wild. Later, these six immortals of the Tianjia gradually became known as the Tianjia eagle dog, the court lackey, the Jiang family's six demons, etc., and Yang
While Zheng was regarded as the best master in the world, he was also called the best devil in the world.
In the eighteenth year of Tianxi, the governance of the rivers and lakes was initially completed. There were only six sects left in Qi that were granted the title by the emperor, namely the Quanzhen sect, the Yunmen sect, the Huashan sect, the Jinling sect, the Emei sect, and the Tianshan sect. These six sects also constituted the Armed Forces Hall.
It has contributed a large number of martial arts classics and teachers. The Yunmen Sect absorbed many elites in the process of cleaning up the world, and successfully surpassed the Jinling Sect and became the largest sect in the world.
After the liberal arts examinations held every three years, the imperial court held martial arts examinations the following year. Starting from the first session in the 20th year of Tianxi, more and more young people became officials through martial arts examinations, with the mission of restoring the Central Plains and expelling the barbarians.
Since then, the Arms Academy has become the dream place of every young warrior. He Qizhou's wish since childhood was to enter the Arms Academy, defeat the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and fulfill the last wish of his adoptive father Yang Zheng.