The imperial court promoted Liu Bei, the general of the war against the captives, to the general of Zhenxi, and ordered Liu Bei to suppress the rebellion in Xiliang.
Huangfu Song, the general of the left, was promoted to the general of chariots and cavalry, and commanded a 100,000-strong army in Jizhou to defend against the Thunder Lord in Bingzhou.
Yang Biao was promoted to Jizhou Mu, and he assisted the cavalry general Huangfu Song in providing food, grass and baggage!
After explaining all this, it seemed that the Ling Emperor had exhausted his last bit of strength.
On April 11, the sixth year of Zhongping (189), the emperor passed away.
Liu Hong was only thirty-four years old when he died, and he reigned for twenty-one years. He was one of the few emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty who lived a long life!
He was regarded as an incompetent emperor in this dynasty. He had all the shortcomings of a faint emperor. He was content with pleasure, was extravagant, favored eunuchs, and except for cruelty, he lacked nothing.
Under his rule, the Han Dynasty also experienced rebellions one after another, foreign invasions continued, the territory of the Han Dynasty continued to shrink, and the Han Dynasty also fell into a precarious situation. What made him better than Emperor Xiaohuan was that he gave birth to two sons and left behind descendants.
What's worse than Emperor Xiaohuan is that in his hands, the Han Dynasty already looks like the end of the dynasty.
The posthumous title given to him by the officials was "Ling"!
The meaning of "spirit" is that he indulges his nature, makes nonsense, behaves randomly, cannot think of others, and does not have any derogatory connotations such as political achievements. Of course, there is also a hidden meaning that the country is in chaos, but the roots have not been harmed yet.
Although those aristocratic families did not like Ling Emperor, they also admitted that Ling Emperor maintained the country. He was a difficult opponent. During the 20 years of Ling Emperor's reign, the wealthy and noble families did not take much advantage of him. Instead, he used various methods to
Way to weaken!
On April 15, the sixth year of Zhongping (189), the eldest prince Liu Bian ascended the throne at the age of fourteen and became the later Young Emperor.
The young emperor honored his mother, Empress He, as the Empress Dowager. Empress Dowager He came to rule the court. At the same time, she granted amnesty to the world and changed her reign to Guangxi.
The young emperor named his younger brother Liu Xie King of Bohai. Liu Xie was nine years old at the time.
The young emperor appointed the later general Yuan Wei as the Taifu, and he and the general He Jin jointly participated in the affairs of the Li Shangshu and handled the government affairs.
Soon, General He Jun reported and appointed Xun Shuang as Guanglu Doctor, Yuan Shao as Sili Xiaowei, Wang Yun as Henan Yin, Liu Biao as Yu Shi Zhongcheng, He Yong as Northern Army Zhonghou, Xun You as Huangmen Shilang, and Zheng Tai.
As the minister, the new emperor agreed one by one. He Jun's power in the court increased greatly and he became the well-deserved most powerful minister of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has since entered the era of the great general He Jun!
Mid-April, the sixth year of Zhongping (189)!
After Xu Wei heard the news of the death of Emperor Ling, he immediately returned to Taiyuan County from the Qiangyin front line!
Then he immediately summoned the top civil and military officials of the Tengjia Army and said, "With the death of Emperor Ling, what is the current situation of the Han Dynasty?"
Xu Wei was a little excited. Finally, when the princes challenged Dong, he could break the seal and fight.
Zhang Baiqi said excitedly: "After the death of Emperor Ling, General He Jin took charge of the power. However, it is said that the eunuchs and the general were at odds with each other, and were even incompatible. It is said that on the day Emperor Ling died, Jian Shuo was in the palace at the time, thinking
First, he killed General He Jin, the queen's brother, and then made Liu Xie emperor.
He pretended to be Queen He's order and told He to enter the palace to discuss things with him. He Jin didn't think much and took a car to enter the palace. Jian Shuo's Sima Pan Yin had long been friends with He Jin and greeted him with eyes.
Signaling. He Jin was shocked. He took a shortcut and ran back to the military camp under his control. He led his troops to the official residences of various counties in the capital. He claimed that he was ill and would not enter the palace again."
Wang Ge said excitedly: "The conflict between He Jin and the eunuchs has been made public. The two sides will definitely fight to the death. In the past few months or even years, the Luoyang court will definitely fall into chaos. This is our great opportunity.
Now, no matter whether we attack Jizhou or Youzhou, the Luoyang court has no way to mobilize troops to support these two places!"
"Commander Qu, there is no need to think about it. This is a rare opportunity. Now we gather the army and take a bite of the big man's flesh! No need to think too much, we will attack Jizhou. As long as Jizhou is conquered, we will completely surround Youzhou. Wait for us
Once Jizhou is digested, Youzhou will also be in our pocket!"
Obviously Zhang Baiqi and the others were very excited about the death of their enemy Ling Emperor, and they all wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to expand their territory!
But Xu Wei stopped him and said, "Do you think that the Han troops surrounding Bingzhou are just decorations?
Our Tengjia Army is a huge threat to the Han, but the Han is not a giant to our Tengjia Army. Look at the situation around us. Shangdang County has Dong Zhuo’s 60,000 troops, Jizhou has 100,000 troops, and Youzhou
There are 80,000 troops, who is easy to deal with here?"
"Yes, there are many conflicts within the Han Dynasty now, but as long as we dare to attack, all the forces in the Han Dynasty will definitely join forces to deal with us! Do you think our Tengjia Army is ready to deal with the attack of hundreds of thousands of Han troops?" Xu Wei
He persuaded with earnest words.
Just kidding, he has been waiting for several years and finally got the news that Emperor Ling is dead. Why can't he bear this little time?
Now it depends on when Dong Zhuo will enter Luoyang City. As long as Dong Zhuo enters Luoyang City, the disintegration of the Han Dynasty will be just around the corner.
When the time comes, the Tengjia Army will no longer face a behemoth of a big Han, but will be divided into small princes with only one or two counties. They will only have an army of 20,000 to 30,000 at most.
This is equivalent to playing a game, and instantly drops from the nightmare level to the simple level. Xu Wei has no other advantages. When playing games, he likes to play the simple level!
At this time, Old Man Wang also spoke out to persuade: "Although the situation of the Han Dynasty is not good, the situation of our Tengjia Army is not much better. Not to mention that this winter we have occupied thousands of miles of grassland territory. We don't want these places."
Thinking of ways to plan it? Things on the grassland alone are enough to keep us busy!"
Old Man Niu also followed up and said: "Commander Zhang Yan was killed by the Han army some time ago. Most of the Yellow Turban Army in the Taihang Mountains fled to our Bingzhou, which has a population of about one million. Later, the nobles and nobles in Jizhou were massacred in Jizhou.
There are probably millions of people who have fled to Bingzhou. Now the population of Taiyuan County has exceeded 2 million. You don’t want to solve the problem of these people, and you even tell me that you want to attack Jizhou. What are you doing?
Do you want to go all out with military force? Don’t even think about our food being able to sustain the army’s conquest!”
Wang Ge was startled by the old man Niu's roar, and then whispered: "I am also trying to find a way to resettle these people. Now the population of Bingzhou has increased sharply, and Bingzhou is mountainous. We don't have land to resettle the people."
, but Jizhou is different. Now Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhao State, and Wei County have been depopulated by the powerful gentry. We have occupied these places, and not only can we allocate the land in these places to the common people for farming
, this is not the best way to solve the problem of refugees!”
Gu Yan
"Zhang Yan, what a pity!" Xu Wei said a little guiltily.
He learned about Zhang Yan's death in battle when Qiang Yin was fighting against the Xianbei people. Especially when he knew that Zhang Yan died under Dong Zhuo's ceramic heavy cavalry, he felt extremely guilty.
Because he knew that Zhang Yan later defected to Cao Cao. Although "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" did not mention his fate, there was no war in the north after Cao Cao. Obviously, he should have a good result. His butterfly effect directly brought Zhang Yan to his death.
He was killed. What made Xu Wei feel most guilty was that the equipment that killed Zhang Yan was the one he sold to Dong Zhuo!
It's just that Xu Wei never expected that Dong Zhuo would go to Jizhou. He thought that Dong Zhuo would go to Hedong and finally to Luoyang City. He even didn't expect that with his support, Zhang Yan's 300,000-strong army could not hold out for even 10 days.
They were all wiped out by the Han Dynasty, so that Xu Wei had no chance to help Zhang Yan!
After thinking about it, Xu Wei felt that he had to do something, so he said: "Who is the commander-in-chief of the Yellow Turban Army on the Taihang Mountains now? We have to send people to pay homage to Commander Zhang Yan. After all, he is also an old friend of ours!"
At this moment, the entire audience was extremely embarrassed! Naturally, they knew that the ceramic heavy cavalry created by the Tengjia Army had tricked Zhang Yan to death! They didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Zhang Baiqi could only say in embarrassment: "After the death of Marshal Zhang, the Yellow Turban Army in the Taihang Mountains did not have a leader with high enough prestige. Now they have become a bit independent, and they also think that we assassinated Marshal Zhang Yan. The remaining channels
Shuai has a bit of hatred for us!"
In fact, after Zhang Yan died in battle, Zhang Baiqi immediately sent someone to pay homage to Zhang Yan, but his envoy almost didn't come back.
After Yang Feng and others escaped, they recalled the situation on the battlefield and discovered that Dong Zhuo's elite cavalry actually had ceramic armor from Mayi. Knowing that only the Tengjia Army had this kind of armor, they had to doubt that this
It was Lei Gong who wanted to use Dong Zhuo's help to assassinate Zhang Yan.
So when Zhang Baiqi's envoy went up to Taihang Mountain, Wang Dang pulled out his sword on the spot and wanted to kill the envoy to pay homage to Zhang Yan.
Friendship and Yang Feng's persuasion allowed Zhang Baiqi's envoy to escape. But their relationship with the Yellow Turban Army was completely broken!
Faced with the Yellow Turban Army's questioning, Zhang Baiqi didn't know how to refute. If the deal between them and Dong Zhuo hadn't been completed more than a year ago, he would have thought that Xu Wei was secretly borrowing a knife to kill people. After all, after Zhang Yan died,
Only the Tengjia Army can annex the entire Yellow Turban Army in the Taihang Mountains without too much trouble and continue to expand its strength!
When Xu Wei heard this, he looked helpless and couldn't explain it clearly.
Xu Wei asked: "Do they have any difficulties now? If so, we will help them. After all, this time we have been sorry to Marshal Zhang Yan!"
At this time, Wang Yong's novel said: "We didn't know that this situation would happen, but we just traded thousands of horse armors with Dong Zhuo. Who would have known that Dong Zhuo used them on Zhang Yan and the others!"
Old Man Wang said helplessly: "Actually, we should have thought that Dong Zhuo and we are enemies. He has armed ceramic heavy cavalry. If he doesn't use it on us, he will use it on other Yellow Turban Army soldiers. Could it be that Dong Zhuo would use these equipment to kill Han people?"
military!"
Xu Wei was really miserable. He really wanted Dong Zhuo to use these equipment for the Han army, so he sold them to Dong Zhuo. But he didn't expect Dong Zhuo to be playing tricks on him, so he couldn't explain it now!
Dong Zhuo! Dong Zhuo! Instead of going to Luoyang City, why don't you go to Jizhou? You have tricked me to death. Just wait, I will trick you back sooner or later, and I will make you pay several times the price!
Old Man Niu also complained a little: "Shuai Qu, armors, which are important weapons in the military, should not be sold. Even if they are sold, they must be sold to our allies. How can we sell them to the enemy? Now we are cheating our own people!"
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Xu Wei could only say helplessly: "At the beginning, we just wanted to form heavy cavalry. Without Dong Zhuo's help, we would have the Xiliang horses from there!"
This time he is trying to be an anti-dog. It seems that global arms dealers are not so easy to do!
That's not right! Hope Country is often cheated by its own weapons, but they just don't care. Anyway, no matter how they cheat, Hope Country is cheated, and they can't cheat their weapons dealers.
Old Man Wang said: "Forget it, it's useless to talk about it now. Let's find a way to resettle these 2 million refugees. If they don't leave, Taiyuan County will be overwhelmed by them!"
Zhang Baiqi said helplessly: "The population of Bingzhou now exceeds 10 million, which is five times more than the peak population of Bingzhou. Taiyuan County now has a population of more than 2 million, Yanmen County is also close to 2 million, and other counties
The county population also exceeds one million. It can be said that the population in the Jizhou Plain is not as dense as our Bingzhou.
We can feed so many people now, all thanks to the increased production of struvite. If the supply of struvite is cut off, the entire Bingzhou will collapse in an instant!"
Wang Yong thought for a while and said: "There are still Shangjun and Shangdang counties in Bingzhou that have not been captured by us. If we occupy these two counties, there will be land to resettle the refugees!
Especially since Shangjun is close to Xiliang, there doesn't seem to be much strong power. Even the Xianbei people are about to be wiped out now. Do we still need to worry about the Xiliang people and directly move the population to Shangjun? If we want to fill up the space, we can continue to move to Xiliang.
!In the future, we will also have Xiliang Dama, so we won’t need to rely on Dong Zhuo.”
After thinking about it, Wang Yong said: "Of course, I don't think this is the best way. If we send troops to Jizhou, not to mention occupying the entire Jizhou, as long as we occupy Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhao State and other counties, we can also resettle a lot of people! Especially
These counties and counties are strategically important places in Jizhou. After we occupy these places, there will no longer be any dangerous places in Jizhou, and Jizhou will become the fat meat in our mouths. We can eat it whenever we want!"
Xu Wei thought for a while and felt that now that Dong Zhuo had killed Zhang Yan, his influence as a big butterfly on the Han Dynasty was getting greater and greater, and he had killed Zhang Yan. It seemed that Dong Zhuo might not be able to enter Luoyang City, even if
After entering Luoyang City, as long as the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty did not go crazy, they would not continue to divide the Han Dynasty with him as a big threat.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei found that the possibility that history would follow the old path seemed very slim. Should he strike first and occupy the fertile Jizhou?
But he was worried that after he captured Jizhou, he would really change the script.
The eighteen princes were attacking Dong, and the eighteen princes were under the leadership of Dong Zhuo to attack thunder. The scene was not very good, and the heroes of the Three Kingdoms came to attack him, the Thunder Lord!
A simple copy instantly turns into a hell copy.
Even though Xu Wei had heavy cavalry, Modao Camp, and other ace troops around him, Xu Wei was not confident that he could defeat the entire Han Dynasty.
Xu Wei thought for a while and asked: "Who is defending Jizhou now?"
Zhang Baiqi gritted his teeth after seeing the information: "It's Huangfu Song, the thief, and he has returned to Jizhou again!"
Xu Wei slapped his head directly, Emperor Ling, you bastard, you have been a fool all your life, why should you be smart before you die!