One hundred and fourteenth chapter and weak attack
"The administration of the military means managing border affairs, rectifying chaos, using force as the basis of government, and punishing violence and suppressing rebellion. Therefore, we have a plan to stabilize the country and the country."
After the war between Qing and Xu began, a war on a scale not smaller than that between Qing and Xu also broke out between Ji and Sili in northwest China. First, the powerful Hedong heroes Fan Xian, Cheng Yin and others rebelled against the government and expelled the prefect.
Wang Yi raised 50,000 troops and rebelled. Soon after, Hongnong Zhang Sheng and Zhang Yan also responded to the news and attacked the county. As soon as the war broke out, the court immediately fell into a disadvantage. Some powerful people in Zuo Fengyi to the west of Hedong and the scattered people
The Qiang and Hu tribes are also somewhat ready to take action.
According to the private plan in advance, Hongnong, Zhang Sheng and others went around to attack Huayin and Shaanxi counties. Fan Xian then divided into two groups with Cheng Yin on the premise of basically taking over Hedong. Cheng Yin led 30,000 troops.
He and Hou Xuan attacked Puban. Fan Xian led 20,000 people into Shangdang in an attempt to join Yuan Shao's army.
When the army approached, the Chen family, Feng family and other powerful people in Shangdang County asked the county governor Luo Jun, Zhang Liao and others to organize troops and horses to keep the rebels out of the county boundary. Some of them with ulterior motives also tried to encourage Luo Jun to transfer the Huguan garrison. However,
Luo Jun neither had the power to command Zhang Liao, nor was he confused about this matter. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the counties and cities in Shangdang were in dilapidated condition.
The county was defended by Fan Xian's offensive, not to mention that behind Huguan, there was an opponent who needed more vigilance than Fan Xian.
Therefore, Luo Jun supported Zhang Liao in transferring the county and garrison troops to Huguan, allowing the entire Shangdang party to be exposed to Fan Xian's rebels.
Huguan is sandwiched between two mountains. It is a towering and solid pass. Flags are fluttering after the gate is closed, and elite soldiers patrol along the wall. Countless civilians are climbing up and down, carrying wood and stones on their backs, busy reinforcing the city defense. Zhang Liao stood silently beside the female wall.
He stood up, holding his hands behind his back and looking into the wind. The setting sun slanted down his tall figure. He stood alone on the bank. From a distance, the whole person looked like an eagle standing on the cliff.
"The general is protecting the territory. Now that the Shangdang is in danger and the people are in danger, it is the time for the general to relieve the trouble! Why did he gather the troops to guard the city?" He fled here from his hometown in Wen County, Hanoi, and later conquered the county for the prefect Luo Jun.
When Chang Lin saw Zhang Liao in Huguan, he anxiously persuaded him, "I'm really puzzled!"
"Now tens of thousands of Black Mountain Moth thieves have fled westward and are heading towards Huguan along the mountain road." Zhang Liao was wearing armor, pressing the handle of the knife with his hand, and raised his sharp eyebrows, looking at the endless mountains in the distance like deep eyes.
Qun Shan: "If I abandon Guanxi, not to mention whether I can defeat Fan Xian with these county soldiers, I will defeat him. What if I turn around and find that the Black Mountain Army has captured Huguan? I didn't just kill tigers and leopards at that time.
Are jackals coming again? Focusing on one thing and losing another, this is not the way to use military force."
"Then why did the general transfer all the county troops to Huguan?" Chang Lin frowned. When he took refuge in Shangdang, he was greatly supported and favored by the Shangdang powerful men. Now he sees that Shangdang, which has finally been stabilized, will no longer be stable.
After being attacked by soldiers, he felt very unbearable and said: "Seeing the people of Shangdang being attacked by swords, is this what the general wants! If the imperial court finds out, how should the general deal with himself?"
"Shangdang's powerful surnames all have strong fortresses and excellent troops. The prince has gathered various tribes everywhere. I think Fan Xian can't do anything for a while." Zhang Liao turned his face coldly and looked at Chang Lin eagerly.
His face was quiet for a while, and then he suddenly smiled: "The Guan clan has endured many turmoils, and they must have their own reasons for surviving to this day. You don't have to worry about those high-ranking Guan clans. As a subordinate of the county government, you should
What I’m worried about are those innocent common people.”
Chang Lin felt a heavy blow in his heart, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale, with a few beads of sweat running down his forehead. He had been involuntarily equating the powerful with the common people, and thus intentionally or unintentionally ignored the common people at the lowest level.
, in his view, politicians should give top priority to the powerful. As long as the powerful are stabilized, the common people will naturally be stable. But now that Zhang Liao said this, Chang Lin felt that the principles he believed in in the past were suddenly shaken.
Zhang Liao ignored Chang Lin's complicated emotions, turned his head and looked at the vast mountains again, and said leisurely: "Master Luo really doesn't come to Huguan?"
Chang Lin said in a low voice: "The prince said that he has the responsibility to protect the land. As the chief of a place, he should coexist with the people under his rule."
After saying that, Chang Lin suddenly seemed to understand something, and immediately bowed his head to Zhang Liao and said: "I hope the general will retreat from the enemy at the pass and win the battle. I'll take my leave."
"Why, you won't stay?" Zhang Liao's eyes changed and he asked in surprise: "If you stay in Shangdang, your life may be in danger."
Chang Lin shook his head persistently, then retreated and left.
As the setting sun shone brightly, Chang Lin's figure looked extremely determined, almost like a strong man who would never return. Zhang Liao looked at Chang Lin's leaving figure and suddenly sneered.
Zhang Liao decided to defend Huguan and refused to support him. Even the well-known Chang Lin personally persuaded him to no avail. The powerful leaders of the Shangdang had no choice but to give up on this and made their own choices. Some people took refuge in Huguan with their families.
Some powerful men who had been in contact with Fan Xian for a long time saw that Zhang Liao did not fall into the trap, so they raised troops to respond to the rebellion. As for those who were neither willing to leave nor commit themselves to the rebels, they defended themselves under Luo Jun's organization.
As time went by, what Luo Jun, Zhang Liao and others were worried about finally came to pass.
Yuan Shao, the shepherd of Jizhou, led tens of thousands of troops with his generals Yan Liang, Zhang He and others as the vanguard. Finally, in early July, he completely defeated the elite main force of the Black Mountain Moth Bandits entrenched in Shangdang County and the Taihang Mountains. The leader of the Black Mountain Bandits, Zhang Yan, led his troops.
They retreated all the way to the west along the mountain trail, and some retreated to Taiyuan, Bingzhou, which caused quite a shock to Bingzhou. Most of them had no choice but to retreat to Huguan under Yuan Shao's pursuit.
In the name of pursuing the poor bandits and eradicating all evil, Yuan Shao ignored the warning of Luo Jun, the governor of Shangdang, and forcibly led his troops across the state border to pursue him to Huguan. At the moment of death, Zhang Yan, who was desperate, ordered his son Zhang Fang to take the imperial edict of Emperor Xiaoling with him.
The Pingnan Zhonglang who had given him the honor during the An Heishan Army entered Huguan with his seal and asked the Diannong Zhonglang to take Zhang Liao into custody. Zhang Liao worried that it was a trick and detained Zhang Fang.
Zhang Yan was very angry. After a tentative attack on Huguan failed, he turned to flee into the vast mountains in embarrassment. He thought it was over, but when Yuan Shao led his army to Huguan, he insisted that Zhang Liao was harboring Zhang Yan and asked to enter the pass.
After the search was rejected by Zhang Liao, Yuan Shao immediately impeached Zhang Liao and Luo Jun for dereliction of duty, and then ordered Yan Liang and others to storm Huguan.
This was one of the chain reactions caused by Fan Xian's rebellion. In addition, Yu Fuluo sneaked back to Bingzhou and summoned a group of Xiongnu tribes who were unwilling to submit and launch a rebellion. Liu Yu, the governor of Bingzhou, had to mobilize county soldiers for defense.
Therefore, the Xiongnu soldiers under Xia Yu, the commander of the Xiongnu Army, did not dare to move rashly.