Bingzhou Shangjun is a border county that is even worse than Beidi County, which was abandoned three times.
In the first year of Zhongping Emperor Ling's reign (184), it was plundered by the Qiang and Hu. Shangjun was no longer in name only, and the overseas Chinese were governed in Luoyang. In the 20th year of Emperor Xian's Jian'an (215), its name was officially abolished.
Therefore, Shangjun, which has been reduced to a paradise of Qiang and Hu, no longer a king, follows the law of respecting the strong and eating the weak.
Less than a hundred horses entered Qiaomen County (belonging to Shangjun), the source of Zoumashui, a tributary of Wudingshui. Litang Mang, a horse thief who calls himself the "Abandoned Living Army", has become famous in Shangjun and the southern part of Xihe County due to the unstoppable power of the Xiliang cavalry.
Far and near.
After attacking various horse thieves and bandits, and expanding the team to 300 people, the local Han family Li Shu also began to join forces with them to plunder the Qiang and Hu tribes wandering in Wudingshui. After a year of bloody
Through primitive accumulation, the abandoned army now has more than 2,000 horse thieves and is also the most powerful horse thieves in the local area.
This is attributed to Li Tang Mang's three actions.
One is fairness.
Those who join the Qihuo Army, regardless of whether they are Qiang Hu or descendants of the Han family, will be treated equally by Li Tang Mang.
When the war came, he and the Xiliang cavalry took the lead, but the proceeds from the plunder were divided equally, and there was no favoritism when dealing with internal conflicts.
This makes many people who have no choice but to join feel that life in the Qihuo Army seems to be better than before. At least they can share the blessings and share the hardships.
Secondly, he keeps his word.
For every person who joins the Abandoned Living Army, Li Tang Mang will make a promise: He will protect his family's children and property; and he will support the wives and children of those who unfortunately died in the war as long as the Abandoned Living Army survives!
Originally, no one believed this promise.
It has been reduced to a place of alienation, and the law of the jungle is preying on the strong. How many people can abide by benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, and trust?
But they soon changed their minds.
He was a newly attached man. His younger brother encountered Qiang and Hu riders heading south while shepherding sheep. Not only were the sheep robbed, but the man was also beheaded on the spot. After Li Tang Mangde heard about this, he personally took two hundred
Riding on a starry night and heading north for more than five hundred miles, we finally caught up with the group of riders in the Sheyanshui River Valley.
He fought with him, but he was no match for him, so he abandoned the plundered cattle, sheep, and horses and fled.
Li Tang Mang ordered everyone not to take the cattle and horses, and pursued him for more than a hundred miles. After four battles, he finally killed all the rangers and returned with his head to the newly attached man to pay tribute to his brother's spirit.
He traveled six hundred miles, sacrificed his life in five battles, and beheaded more than three hundred heads, just to fulfill his promise.
Naturally, after this incident, Li Tang Mang was like "getting a hundred catties of gold, it is better to get Jibu Yinuo" in everyone's mind.
The last reason is that Li Tang Mang banned slaves and maids.
Youbian Erzhou is the border area of the Central Plains Dynasty. It is inhabited by the Southern Xiongnu, other tribes of the Xiongnu (Jie people), Xianbei, Wuhuan and various miscellaneous Hu (Qiang) people. The rules of counties and counties have not been maintained since ancient times, and there are often Han families
Li Shu people were often robbed by barbarians and brought back to their tribes as slaves. Many wealthy families also sent caravans to purchase cloth, ironware, tea and other items to buy back captured Han Li Shu people and serve as slaves.
Among them, the wealthy families of Guandong are the most enthusiastic about this.
After the Qihuo Army gained a foothold and gradually became stronger, Li Tang Mang, with the support of surrounding Han forces, ordered that there should be no slave trade here.
Violators will be punished!
They also often sent troops north to rob Han slaves and maidservants from the southern Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes.
Most of these rescued slaves joined the abandoned army; the surrounding Han forces were also infected, and countless people came to serve as vassals.
Therefore, it was only a little more than a year since Tang Mang established his foothold here, and he already had a scale of two thousand cavalry.
The Qihuo Army also became famous. Even the caravans coming from Wei's Xihe County, Pingyang County and Zuo Fengyi voluntarily paid supplies to Litang Mang for smooth passage and protection.
This was also the opportunity for Li Tang Mang to learn about the battle in the Nishui Valley between the Han and Wei dynasties.
Four people from Gaonu County, Shangjun (now Yan'an) came to vote for him and made a special trip to bring him news.
Yes, this master and three subordinates know Li Tang Mang’s identity.
The person who made the decision was Deng Zhong, the son of the late Deng Ai, who was only fifteen years old!
However, it is said that in the past, Deng Ai was greedy for merit, and based on the idea that "if a husband does not have five pots of food to eat, he will have five pots of food to cook his ears when he dies", he insisted on promoting the war. Before that, he would also let several die-hard followers bring his eldest son Deng Zhong to Shangjun Gaonu.
He hid in the county in the hope that if the incident failed, Deng Zhong could escape being imprisoned in the Luoyang Temple of Wei State.
This is indeed the case.
He was defeated and died, and was judged to have brought disaster to the country. His wife and children were all moved to Shibian, a bitter and cold place in Liaodong. Deng Zhong, who had escaped the disaster, lost his youth almost overnight after hearing the news.
In other words, the way this world makes people grow up instantly is often a bit extreme.
Therefore, he also began to plan for the future and pay attention to the information around him.
When Li Tang Mang rose to power in Menqiao County, he knew that these horse thieves must be the Xiliang Iron Cavalry who had previously rushed into battle but could not return. At that time, his late father Deng Ai was still there, and he also lamented that there were more than a hundred Xiliang Iron Cavalrymen along the way.
She Yanshui fled to the east and could no longer pursue Yunyun. Therefore, after learning that the war between Han and Wei in the Nishui Valley ended, he persuaded three of his subordinates to come and defect to Tang Mang.
Yes, he did not bear any grudge against the Han Dynasty, nor was he angry with the Wei State.
Everyone is their own master, and death in battle is inevitable; and being blamed for defeat is a common occurrence. No matter how angry he is, it will not help.
Or, in other words, in the face of more important things, he had no choice but to let go of his hatred.
He wanted to rescue his biological mother and younger siblings from Liaodong who had been relocated.
This is the responsibility of the eldest son.
But if he wanted to do this, he had to defect to the Han army instead of the Wei state.
As a guilty minister, if he rushed thousands of miles to Liaodong by himself, it would be a way to die.
When he returned to Wei, he changed his surname and changed his name to join the army in civilian clothes. Under the nine-rank official system, he might have struggled all his life, but he would never have a chance to show his name again.
This is different for the Han army, which relies only on talents and has no distinction between family status.
If he defected, the big man would definitely take him in regardless of past grudges, and would give him the opportunity to accumulate merit and be promoted.
First of all, the Han Dynasty has always treated "Wei Jiangren" preferentially.
The other is that his identity and family encounters allowed the Han Dynasty to give "a thousand gold pieces of horse bones" to the Wei soldiers, so that the captured Wei soldiers were determined to contribute to the Han Dynasty.
With comparison, we can make judgments~
The Han Dynasty and Wei State were competing for the destiny of heaven, and the so-called destiny of destiny was the direction of people's hearts.
As for when the big man who has not yet entered Guanzhong will come to Youzhou and give him a chance to save his relatives, he can only resign himself to fate and go all out!
After all, he had no other choice.
Li Tang Mang was caught off guard by his arrival.
It is also difficult to decide whether to stay or leave this person who knows his identity and was once an enemy.
It was not that he questioned Deng Zhong's sincerity in coming to surrender, but that he was worried that the young Deng Zhong would inadvertently reveal his identity and be alerted by Wei. After thinking about it, when he returned from sending several Xiliang cavalry to communicate with Zheng Pu,
He also asked Deng Zhong and others to accompany him.
