Two arrows, one arrow seriously injured a vassal king, and one arrow killed a general of the begging army. Kui'an was so brave that the Jin army was so timid that they did not dare to pursue anymore. Kui'an personally cut off the rear and covered the army.

He retreated slowly and soon disappeared into the gradually lowering dusk.

At this point, the battle came to an end. The main force of the Jin army, which was surrounded at Tiemenguan, broke through the siege of Jiehu cavalry and broke out. Shi Le, who tried to devour the main force of the Jin army with a small fight and a big bite,

, suffered another defeat, losing nearly 7,000 troops.

The Jin army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the exchange ratio between the enemy and ourselves was two to one.

Fearing that the Hu army would attack again, Sima Yue immediately ordered the army to withdraw to the direction of Luoyang. He came to Bei Gongjing, looked at the young general, and remained silent for a long time.

Bei Gongjing also looked at the hero and was speechless for a long time.

After a long while, Sima Yue said: "Thank you, Major General!"

Bei Gongjing bowed and said: "The Lieutenant's words are serious. This is what a general should do."

Sima Yue smiled bitterly and said: "I have always regarded you father and son as a thorn in my flesh. If your father hadn't saved Luoyang and gained a great reputation, I would never have let him live until now... I never thought that in the end,

It was you who saved me!"

Bei Gongjing said: "The Taiwei is the Optimus Prime of the Jin Dynasty. You are in danger, how can the general not save you!"

Sima Yue mocked himself and said: "The Optimus Prime of Jin Dynasty? The young general has also learned to laugh at others!"

He knows how much he weighs. If he was really the Optimus Prime of Dajin, the country of Dajin would not be getting worse day by day after he took over the power, and Hu Ma would not be able to conquer the Jin Dynasty in just a few years.

The whole of Northern China was ravaged to a shambles, and even he himself almost died at Iron Gate Pass! The Optimus Prime of Jin Dynasty? This sounds ironic!

But this is not the place to talk. Sima Yue said: "I have to return to Luoyang City quickly to stabilize the situation. I will leave it to the Major General here... I will leave the alien force and the beggar army to help you guard Tiemenguan and Xin'an.

,how?"

The last words were said in a consultative tone, which was rare for this domineering hero.

Bei Gongjing bowed deeply: "Dare you disobey your orders?"

Therefore, Sima Yue left behind the foreign troops and the beggar army, and led the main force back to Luoyang quickly. Of course, the Jingzhou army that performed well in this battle also stayed, because Sima Fan was seriously injured and could not leave.

Can't leave.

The army quickly left the corpse-strewn battlefield, bypassed Xin'an City, and headed towards Luoyang. Bei Gongjing stood at a high place, watching the army leave one after another, silent.

Li Rui came over and asked: "What are you thinking about? You have won the battle, why can't you see a trace of joy on your face?"

Bei Gongjing smiled bitterly: "I don't know whether what I did was right or wrong... It seems that no matter what I do, it makes no difference. If we don't save this army, the Jin Dynasty will lose its last main force and will undoubtedly die; save this army

We have a large army, but when they return to Luoyang City, they will still have to fight to the death with Duke Dongping, and the Jin Dynasty will definitely die... No matter what choice you make, it is wrong!"

Li Rui sat down carelessly, pulled off a grass bone and bit it in his mouth, saying, "As long as you have a clear conscience, why do you think so much?"

Bei Gongjing was startled: "As long as you have a clear conscience?"

Li Rui said: "Yes, even if this damn Dajin is really dead, the responsibility is not yours. You can just do what you think is right. There is no need to worry about it."

Bei Gongjing also sat down, but she habitually sat with her back straight, as if sheathed her sword, which was in sharp contrast to Li Rui's laziness: "Have you always been so open-minded?"

Li Rui said: "I'm not open-minded, I just don't care."

Yes, he doesn't care. He doesn't care about the life and death of the Sima family, or the life and death of the already fragmented Western Jin Dynasty, so he is open-minded.

There are many things that you can't think about simply because you care too much.

Bei Gongjing was slightly surprised, but she was still calm and did not jump up and scold Li Rui for being treasonous, loyal and unjust. There was no way, as early as the late period of Emperor Wu of Jin, the entire Western Jin Dynasty, from nobles to poor families to scholar families, was filled with disgust.

Jin, the atmosphere of abandoning Jin or even destroying Jin, there are too many people who don't care about the life and death of this country, Li Rui is not the least of them.

Why is this happening?

Oh, do you still remember that when the Jin Dynasty was founded, a very fatal thunder was laid, called "class solidification"? The Jia family, the Yang family, the Sima family, the Yang family, the Wang family, etc., these aristocratic families are basically

They monopolized the channels for advancement and pushed the glass ceiling very low. It would be difficult for those families who were weaker than them to squeeze into the core of power. And the people who filled the court were also a group of sluggish old immortals.

, they occupy high positions, take medicine and talk about metaphysics all day long, and refuse to move away life and death. What do you ask those young people to do? Those young people find that no matter how hard they try, they can no longer achieve the same achievements as their parents. What they can achieve

The culmination is just the starting point for some children of aristocratic families. Do those desperate young people choose to endure in silence, or do they choose to break into Luoyang City to overthrow the noble ministers who occupy the latrines and do nothing but take medicine and pretend to be gods all day long?

This is true for the less powerful children of aristocratic families, let alone those from poor families. In the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, how many children from poor families have you seen who were able to climb to high positions through normal promotion channels? Not one of them, right? They are equally talented and passionate.

, how can they be willing to watch a bunch of trash who are far inferior to themselves firmly occupying the channels for advancement? You have set the ceiling so low and refused to give me a chance to get ahead, so I will lift the table for you and lift this ceiling.

Smash it to pieces and find your own opportunities to get ahead!

In fact, the most desperate group is the scholar family.

What is a scholar?

That's the military.

In the Han Dynasty, joining the army was a very honorable thing, and it was also the most convenient way for civilians to change their own destiny and transcend social classes. As long as they could make meritorious deeds on the battlefield, they would be rewarded greatly, and they might even be able to become officials. The most typical example

An example is Zhao Di, the Shanggui knight who was conquering Dawan. He was originally an unknown person, but because he and a few companions encountered wind and sand while escorting the captured King Yucheng, he was afraid that the guy would take the opportunity to escape, so he cut him off with a sword.

The head of King Yucheng finally performed extraordinary feats and was granted the title of Marquis. In the end, he was ranked among the Nine Ministers. Although this is a small probability event, as long as there is a chance, there is a chance. With such an example in front of you, everyone can join the army.

Not positive?

However, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, everything changed.

The initiator was Cao Cao.

Boss Cao is good at everything, but he is not good at two things, that is, he likes to massacre the city and pry the widow's door. In the second year of Jian'an, he pried the widow's door on the head of the Nanyang warlord Zhang Xiu. After Zhang Xiu surrendered, he took Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Xiu in.

Zhang Xiu, Ji's widow, was furious and immediately rebelled to kill the old pervert. After a melee, Cao Cao paid a heavy price for his immoral act of breaking into the widow's door. The fierce general Dian Wei, his eldest son Cao Ang, and his nephew Cao Anmin were killed.

Kill, he only saved his life by riding the horse Cao Ang gave him and running all the way out of Wancheng with his butt between his legs.

Of course, Boss Cao has an advantage, that is, he can reflect, but you don't expect him to find reasons in himself. After lifting his belt, he began to reflect: I am so good to Zhang Xiu, why does he say the opposite? Oh.

, it turns out that it’s because I didn’t control his family members, the family members of his army! If I could control their family members, they would kill the whole family if they dared to rebel. How dare they rebel? What a joke!

arrange!

The result of Boss Cao's reflection was the grand introduction of the evil and smoky scholar system, and ordered all troops to send their generals and subordinates to the rear areas for them to be firmly controlled by themselves. Which troops dared to rebel? Kill the whole family directly! Dare to surrender? Kill them directly.

The whole family! After the introduction of this system, Cao Jun created many jaw-dropping battles on the battlefield. For example, in Hefei, Wu Laoer fought back and forth many times without even breaking a piece of the wall; another example is

In the Battle of Xiangfan, Fancheng guarded by Cao Ren and Xiangyang guarded by Lu Chang were both driven to a desperate situation by Mr. Guan, but he gritted his teeth and refused to surrender. He did not dare to abandon the city and escape, fearing that he would surrender if he ran away.

It will kill the whole family!

This hostage system allowed Cao's army to unleash a jaw-dropping combat effectiveness.

But the backlash is also quite terrifying. Under this system, soldiers and their families are actually prisoners, and they cannot see each other a few times a year. This system is simply anti-human. The result of the implementation of this system is that the social status of soldiers has plummeted.

The decline in Liangjiazi's willingness to join the army has hit new lows: Who the hell wants to live a life where they are separated from their family for many years and can't see them a few times in their life? I won't do it! Moreover, the Wei and Jin Dynasties still played the military system, that is to say, one person

Joining the army means that the whole family will have to join the army for generations, unless the whole family dies, which means that generations will have to live this kind of painful life, which no one can bear.

Cao Cao implemented the scholar family system just for emergencies, because at that time the princes were fighting, and loyalty was really a luxury. If you want to control the army, you can only do this. But I don’t know that the successors and the Sima family who usurped the throne are cerebral palsy.

Can't think of a better solution or are they simply too lazy to implement reforms, and actually drink this strong medicine like water, and continue to play this game when the north has stabilized and loyalty is no longer a luxury, and then the fun will be huge

When the Western Jin Dynasty defeated Wu, they found that the number of troops they could use was far less than what was on the books. Scholars from all over the country could only collect 200,000 troops, and many of these 200,000 troops were gray-haired.

The gray old man and the childish child are not qualified soldiers at all. Why is this? The reason is very simple. The family either escaped or died, leaving only an old man or a childish child.

The famous general Wang Jun once dismissed thousands of child soldiers at one time. Considering that he only had tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, this ratio was shocking.
Chapter completed!